江苏大学XXXX级硕士研究生英语期末考试样卷

江苏大学XXXX级硕士研究生英语期

末考试样卷

考试科目：文献阅读与翻译 考试时

间：XXXXXX

Directions:Answer the following questions on the Answer Sheet.

1. How many kinds of literature do you know? And what are they? (5%)

2. How many types of professional papers do you know? And what are they? (5%)

3. What are the main linguistic features of Professional Papers? (10%)

4. What are the purposes of abstracts? How many kinds can the

abstracts be roughly classified into? And what are the different kinds? (10%)

5.What is a proposal? How many kinds of proposals do you think are there? What are the main elements of a proposal? (10%)

6.Give your comments on the linguistic features of the following passage. (15%)

Basic Point-Set Topology

One way to describe the subject of Topology is to say that it is

qualitative geometry. The idea is that if one geometric object can be continuously transformed into another, then the two objects are to be viewed as being topologically the same. For example, a circle and a square are topologically equivalent. Physically, a rubber band can be stretched into the form of either a circle or a square, as well as many other shapes which are also viewed as being topologically equivalent. On the other hand, a figure eight curve formed by two circles touching at a point is to be regarded as topologically distinct from a circle or square. A qualitative property that distinguishes the circle from the figure eight is the number of connected pieces that remain when a single point is removed: When a point is removed from a circle what remains is still connected, a single arc, whereas for a figure eight if one removes the point of contact of its two circles, what remains is two separate arcs, two separate pieces.

The term used to describe two geometric objects that are topologically equivalent is homeomorphic. Thus a circle and a square are homeomorphic. Concretely, if we place a circle C inside a square S with the same center point, then projecting the circle radially outward to the square defines a function f :C→S, and this function is continuous: small changes in x produce small changes in f(x). The function f has an inverse f -1:S→C obtained by projecting the square radially inward to the circle, and this is continuous as well. One says that f is a homeomorphism between C and S.

One of the basic problems of Topology is to determine when two given geometric objects are homeomorphic. This can be quite difficult in general.

Our first goal will be to define exactly what the ‘geometric objects’are that one studies in Topology. These are called topological spaces. The definition turns out to be extremely general, so that many objects that are topological spaces are not very geometric at all, in fact.

7. Match the phrase in the first column with its translation in the second column.(10%)

1. Full length paper a.征稿启事

2. Sponsoring organization b.会务组

3. Call for papers c.全文

4. Submission of papers d.提交论文

5. Conference venue and fees e.信息牌/布告栏

6. Conference editorial board f.主办单位

7. Review g.研讨会

8. Limousine service h.评审、审稿

9. Message board i.客车设施

10. Audio visual facilities j.会址和会费

11. Colloquia k.视听设施

8. How do you understand Yan Fu’s three-word guide xing, da,

ya? What’s your

opinion on the principles of translation? (10%)

9. It is very common that one word has more than one meaning.

The proper choice of word meaning is essential to translation.

Choose the correct meaning of the word “story ” in the

following sentences. (5%)

(1) This war is becoming the most important story of this

generation.

(2) It is quite another story now.

(3) Some reporters who were not included in the session broke the

story.

(4) He'll be very happy if that story holds up.

(5) The Rita Haywoth story is one of the saddest.

[The meanings of STORY: a. situation; b. inside information; c. experience; d. law case; e. statement; f. event]

10. Put the following abstract into Chinese. (10%)

Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a major source of indoor

air pollution. A major point stressed in both the Surgeon General’s Report and the National Academy of Science’s Report is that methods used to determine the exposure of the nonsmoking population to ETS must be improved. In this dissertation, a semi-real time system for monitoring ETS are proposed and compared with other systems. Several new tracers for ETS are proposed. The generalization and decay of ETS in an indoor environmental laboratory is studied. A new technique for analyzing microgram and sub microgram amount of nicotine is developed. A unique exposure study to ETS is to carry out wherein never-smokers are exposed to ETS. Much evidence has accumulated that fine particulate matter in the atmosphere affects human health and atmospheric properties. To monitor airborne particles, it is necessary to separate various particle sizes in the atmosphere and to determine the chemical compositions of the particles. A new high flow rate, multichannel parallel plate denuder sampling system has been developed which is capable of determining the particle size distributions and the semi-volatile organic compounds which can be lost from particles during sampling.

11.Put the following passage into English. (10%)

在本《国际标准》中，”文摘”一词的意义是：对原文献内容准确、扼要而不加解释或评论的表述。无论作者是谁，对此均不应有所不同。一篇文摘应该根据文献的内容与文体，使之具有尽可能多的报道性。也就是说，文摘应尽可能多的表达文献内容中包含的定量或定性的信息。报道性文摘对于叙述实验研究和主题单一的文献足较为理想的。但某些内容庞杂或冗长的文献，例如泛述、综述以及整篇或整集的专著，则允许备有一个仅仅起指示性、描述性指南作用的文摘。还有一种必不可少

的融报道性与指示性于一体的综合性文摘，这类文摘适用于文摘长度受限制，或因文献类型与文体的限制，而有必要对文献的要点作报道性介绍的情况。