1、2015 年对外经济贸易大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷及答案与解析一、Vocabulary1 If central banks maintain their anti-inflation policy and withdraw money from the system or raise interest rates, they could_a recession.（A）precipate（B） precipitate（C） precitate（D）presipate2 The Seller shall be liable for any damage of the commodity due to
2、 improper packing and for any rust_inadequate protective measures in regard to the packing.（A）attributing to（B） attributated to（C） attributable to（D）attributed with3 Our terms of payment are by confirmed, irrevocable letter of credit_against presentation of shipping documents.（A）payable at sight（B）
3、paid by sight（C） to be paid on sight（D）in sight payment4 If any damage to the goods occurs, a claim may _the insurance agent at your end, who will undertake to compensate you for the loss sustained.（A）be lodged to（B） lodge against（C） be filed with（D）be filled against5 Should the Seller fail to perfo
4、rm the contracted obligations 10 weeks after the aforesaid incident, the Buyer shall have the right to treat the contract as_.（A）legally valid（B） null and void（C） ineffective（D）default6 The new Treasury bill seeks to ensure the prosperity of all citizens, _simply supporting large corporations and th
5、e wealthy.（A）in spite of（B） in case of（C） as a result of（D）rather than7 While most experts_the idea that corporations could actually become human beings, most agree that punishing corporations for the crimes they commit will at the very least have a positive effect on the world.（A）scoff at（B） suppor
6、t for（C） scold on（D）stand over8 _in a time of shortage is wrong.（A）Profit-making（B） Non-profit-making（C） Profiteer（D）Profiteering9 _please find one set of the shipping documents covering this consignment.（A）The attached（B） Enclosure（C） Enclosing（D）Enclosed10 Steady interest and strong local _in non-
7、core shopping districts are backing retailers.（A）purchase power（B） purchasing power（C） power purchase（D）preference power11 This service should be available to everybody, _whether they can afford it.（A）irrespective（B） irrespective that（C） irrespective of（D）irrespective to12 Theoretically, lending rat
8、es have already been liberalized, with no floor on them; in reality, bankers say they still price loans off the_.（A）bottom line（B） benchmark（C） starting point（D）interest rate13 The company is reported to have_of nearly $ 90, 000.（A）debt（B） asset（C） responsibilities（D）liabilities14 He carried out ext
9、ensive research into the local real estate market before he decided to _a mortgage.（A）take out（B） take in（C） take off（D）take on15 We are looking forward to_your reply.（A）receive（B） receiving（C） accept（D）accepting16 He built up the business_his health.（A）at expense of（B） to the expense of（C） at the e
10、xpense of（D）on expense of17 The problem is that most local authorities lack the _ in dealing with the financial problems.（A）expert（B） expertise（C） profession（D）acknowledgement18 _ these conditions are fulfilled _ the application proceed to the next stage.（A）Not until.that（B） Only when.did（C） All.exc
11、ept for（D）Only if. can19 The President_reforming health care.（A）is obliged to（B） is committed to（C） promised to（D）is convinced to20 China is confident of meeting its 2030 goals for a peak in carbon dioxide_and lifting the share of non-fossil fuel to around 20 percent of energy use.（A）ejections（B） di
12、sposals（C） emissions（D）eruption21 Although economic ties between most Asia-Pacific economies have not yet suffered any fundamental damage.（A）choppy（B） correct（C） fragment（D）run on22 It had nothing to do with the environment, the cost of infrastructure, public transport or any other reason put forwar
13、d.（A）fragment（B） choppy（C） comma splice（D）correct二、Structure and Rhetorie23 WeChat has seen monthly active users grow to 468 million worldwide since its 2011 introduction , Chinese students who adopted WeChat while in their home country are now set to be the foundation of the apps US push.（A）correct
14、（B） comma splice（C） run on（D）choppy24 Perplexed by the rising rates of inflation and alarmed by the decline in major construction projects.（A）fragment（B） run on（C） correct（D）choppy25 Over the last year employment has grown at the fastest pace since 2006 the pace of hiring seems to be trending upward
15、.（A）correct（B） choppy（C） run on（D）fragment26 Global commodity prices are sluggish. Domestic demand is weak. Manufacturers do not have much initiative. They do not expand output in the short run.（A）comma splice（B） choppy（C） fragment（D）correct27 It might be the case that the economy is fundamentally u
16、nchanged from where it was a year or two ago, but has received a boost from the falling cost of petrol and other commodities.（A）correct（B） run on（C） comma splice（D）choppy28 In all the cities that have already banned smoking in public venues it is still very difficult to prohibit smoking in places su
17、ch as restaurants the owners do not want to offend their customers.（A）correct（B） run on（C） fragment（D）comma splice29 Climate is a scientific question. Climate is not a moral question. We should respond to what really happens. We should not respond to what happens in a novel.（A）run on（B） correct（C） c
18、hoppy（D）fragment30 Monthly job growth has picked up this year, factory output and business investment have advanced, consumer spending and the housing market have been mixed.（A）fragment（B） run on（C） correct（D）comma splice三、Reading Comprehension30 There comes a time when all monopolies falter. Think
19、of telecoms operators or utilities, for example. For Google, too, its near-monopoly on search ads will someday end. The company is nowhere near this point yet, of course. But recently there have been signs that Google is no longer quite as untouchable as it once was.Start with online ads. The market
20、 for digital advertising has weakened recently. According to IAB, US digital ad spend grew 14 per cent in the second quarter. Not bad. But that was the lowest rate of growth in two years. More concerning still for Google is that search ads share of the digital advertising pie has been shrinking sinc
21、e 2011.Google is still outgrowing the market revenues from its own sites, including YouTube, grew 20 per cent in the most recent quarter. But the move away from search is starting to hurt: Bernstein estimates that Google search revenue growth slowed to 17 per cent. Googles fastest-growing source of
22、revenue has become its lower-margin “ other“ category, which includes sales from Google Play and is growing at 50 per cent a year.As ad dollars move away from search, Google has been losing share of the overall online advertising market to Facebook. In the US, eMarketer expects Googles share of digi
23、tal ads to fall from 40 per cent(2013), to 38 per cent(2014), to 34 per cent(2016). Facebooks market share is expected to climb from 8 per cent to 11 per cent in the same period.Part of the problem is that search ads do not seem to be quite as successful on mobile(the fastest-growing part of digital
24、 ad spend)as on desktop. People do use search on phonessearch is about half of mobile ad spending. But these ads appear to have less impact than targeted social media ads, and could fall off quickly as more effective forms of mobile advertising are found. Face-book, which has a higher ad market shar
25、e on mobile than on desktop, has seen its click-through rate triple over the past year, according to Nanigans.Unfortunately for Google, mobile advertising is getting increasingly crowded. Snapchat, a popular photo-sharing app, is launching ads. And Yahoo is trying to boost its mobile ad offering wit
26、h its acquisition of Flurry. The search business naturally tends towards monopoly. But the advertising business, ex-search, does not.31 What does the word “shrink“ mean?（A）Thrive（B） Stable（C） Expand（D）Compress32 Why does the author mention IAB in the second paragraph?（A）To explain why the digital ad
27、vertising market has weakened recently.（B） To support the viewpoint that digital advertising market has weakened recently.（C） To argue the point that digital advertising market has weakened recently.（D）To counter-argue that the digital advertising market has weakened recently.33 According to this ar
28、ticle, Facebook and Yahoo might NOT be the competitor of mobile advertising for Google.（A）TRUE（B） FALSE（C） NOT GIVEN34 According to this article, Microsoft might be the competitor of mobile advertising for Google.（A）TRUE（B） FALSE（C） NOT GIVEN35 According to this article, Snapchat IS the competitor o
29、f mobile advertising for Google.（A）TRUE（B） FALSE（C） NOT GIVEN35 “Weapons of math instruction. “ That is what Beijings English-language mouthpiece, Global Timesnot normally much given to such witcalls a Sino-British plan to export Chinese maths instructors to the UK and to send British teachers to Sh
30、anghai to learn why China is so good at numbers.A scouting party of British teachers has been in Shanghai for the past week learning how to deploy those weapons in the gross domestic product wars. The logic is simple, not to mention simplistic; Shanghai tops the global league table in tests by the O
31、ECD, the Paris-based think-tank, of 15-year-olds maths skills. Now the UK wants to get its hands on some of that Shanghai magic for its own maths-free masses so they can end up as rich as the Chinese.Elizabeth Truss, then UK education minister, this year visited the Chinese financial centre and waxe
32、d lyrical about the advantages of giving the UK a maths education system with more Chinese characteristics. But quite apart from the rather breathless quality of her accolade, the logic is faulty.If Chinese schools are so fabulous, why are a staggering 85 per cent of Chinese parents thinking about s
33、ending their children overseas to study, according to a recent HSBC report? And why are more and more mainland parents eager to expatriate their children in time to finish their final years of secondary school overseas when they could just as easily stay at home and win accolades from the OECD?The a
34、pparent obsession of Britains Conservative party with the performance of one Chinese citys students on a single mathematics test is probably just a manifestation of a global angst about China taking over the world. But other countries dont seem to be importing Chinese teachers wholesale to show the
35、locals how its done.Of course, every education system can learn something from every othernot least about how not to do things. And there is much to be admired about Chinese students, their teachers and even their tiger parents.Theres plenty of academic debate about why exactly Shanghai tops the mat
36、hs charts on the OECDs programme for international student assessment tests. There are those who would have us believe its all geneticthough, as the mother of one ethnically Chinese child who flunked her last maths test and another who counts maths as her worst subject. I am not much swayed by that
37、argument.Then there are those who say that it makes no sense to compare the test results of one of Chinas richest, most advanced cities with entire countries where rich and poor school districts are combined. But that, too, is not all that persuasive since poor Chinese students in the hinterland hav
38、e, if anything, even more incentive to do well in maths exams.Australias Grattan Institute argues, in a recent study, that it is all about pedagogical strategies , such as mentoring and giving teachers more time outside the classroom. Grattan says, for example, that each new Shanghai teacher has two
39、 in-school mentors, one for classroom management and one for content. But an admittedly unscientific straw poll of a handful of teachers in Shanghai schools found that this was true for them only in their first year. How much difference can that make?And then theres the parenting: even Chinese cubs
40、who dont have a tiger mum usually have parents who spend a lot of time teaching them basic numeracy from infancywhen mums elsewhere are still mesmerising them with Baby Beethoven. And last we come to what is, for me, the most entertaining argument of all: that Mandarin is a better language to learn
41、maths in, foramong other thingsthe excellent reason that Mandarin speakers say “10 + 1“ and “10 +2“ , saving the effort of learning to say “eleven“ and “twelve“.So by all means, lets learn from each other. But the war on British innumeracy will not be won just with weapons of maths instruction from
42、a Chinese education system that has lost the confidence of much of its own population, at least when it comes to the immediate pre-university years and above. Chinese parents are voting with their pocketbooks to remove their children from Chinas schools. Maybe they know something we dont.36 Accordin
43、g to paragraph 1, what is the main purpose of the Sino-British plan?（A）To participate in the APEC CEO Summit 2014.（B） To learn why China is so good at numbers.（C） To help control Chinas air pollution.（D）To compare the maths education in China and Great Britain.37 What dose the word “Accolade“ mean?（
44、A）Neutral（B） Animadversion（C） Depreciate（D）Praise （E）Chinese are more keen on learning maths than the British. 38 According to this article, the following statements constitute the major hypotheses of the academic debate about why China is so good at numbers EXCEPT_and_?（A）Its all about genetic.（B）
45、Its all because of the pedagogical strategies.（C） Mandarin is a better language to learn maths.（D）Chinese spend most of their time learning maths.39 According to this article, the following statements constitute the major hypotheses of the academic debate about why China is so good at numbers EXCEPT
46、_and_?（A）Its all about genetic.（B） Its all because of the pedagogical strategies.（C） Mandarin is a better language to learn maths.（D）Chinese spend most of their time learning maths.40 Which might be the BEST title for this article?（A）British faith in Chinese education fails to add up.（B） British fai
47、th in Chinese education grows steadily.（C） The British trust in Chinese education.（D）The British do not trust in Chinese education.40 The following passage has five paragraphs I-V. Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. Note there are more headings than paragr
48、aphs, so you will not use them all. Write the correct number A-E on the ANSWER SHEET.List of HeadingsA. The Chinese tech market is an alluring one.B. Its been a rough year for foreign tech companies in China.C. Instead, worse off in the China market are hardware companies like Cisco and IBM.D. But M
49、icrosoft may actually be better off in China than many other US tech companies.E. Qualcomm is having trouble with the Chinese government.Example AnswerParagraph IV E【R1】 Para. I_【R2】 Para. II_【R3】 Para. III_【R4】 Para. V_Para. I Microsoft is the latest to make headlines with a tale of woe, in the form of a $ 140m tax fee paid to Chinese authorities.(Microsoft prefers to call it a $ 140m “bilateral ad
