2012厦门大学翻译硕士211真题

2012年厦门大学翻译硕士211真题翻译硕士（MTI）备考系列

厦门大学2012年招收攻读硕士学位研究生(专业学位)

入学考试试题

科目代码：211

科目名称：翻译硕士英语

招生类别：翻译硕士

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Part Ⅰ．vocabulary & Grammar(共30题，每小题1分，共30分)

A. Complete each of the following sentences with the best choice.

1. Have you ever been in a situation _________ you know the other person is right yet you cannot agree with him?

A. by which B that C. in where D. where

2. He has many pen-friends. No week passes _________ he receives several letters.

A. that

B. which

C. than

D. but

3. That trumpet player was certainly loud. But I wasn’t bothered by his loudness _________by his lack of talent

A. so much as

B. rather than

C. as

D. than

4. The physicist has made a discovery, _________ of great importance to the progress of science and technology.

A. I think which is

B. that I think is

C. which I think is

D. which I think it is

5. Things, _________ is often the case, will turn out to be contrary to one’s wishes.

A. as

B. which

C. that

D. it

6. There ought to be less anxiety over the perceived risk of mountain climbing than _________ in the public mind today.

A. exist

B. exists

C. existing

D. to exist

7. _________ for the timely investment from the general public, our company would not be so thriving as it is.

A. Had it not been

B. Were it not

C. Be it not

D. Should it not be

8. People thinking about the origin of language for the first time usually arrive at the conclusion that it developed gradually as a system of grants, hisses and cries and _________ a very simple affair in the beginning.

A. must be

B. must have been C, ought to be D, should be

9. It was as a physician that he represented himself, and _________ he was warmly received.

A. as that

B. such as

C. as such

D. so that

10. China has hundreds of islands, _________ is Taiwan Island.

A, among them the largest B. and the largest of which

C. and the largest of them

D. but among which the largest

11. If the weather is fine, we will go. If _________ , _________ .

A. not, no

B. no, no

C. not, not

D. no, not

12. To define love is very difficult, for the same reason that words cannot fully describe the flavor of an orange. You have to taste the fruit to know its flavor. So it is _________ love.

A. to

B. in

C. too

D. with

13. Susan doesn’t even know that angles of less than 90 degrees are called _________angles.

A. converging

B. focal

C. acute

D. obtuse

14. Those battered old trousers of his are a _________ joke to all his friends.

A. steady

B. standing

C. stable

D. persisting

15. He tries to _________ his lessons by telling an interesting anecdote about the president.

A. cheer up

B. inspire

C. stimulate

D. liven up

16. The soldiers in the platoon shined their bayonets in _________ of the inspection by the general.

A. contemplation

B. anticipation C, preconception D. meditation

17. The early white settlers in America maltreated the Indians in two ways: first, they appropriated the Indians’ property and treated them with contempt; secondly, the writers of that period deprecated the character of the Indians and justified _________ .

A. those who persecuted them

B. those who supported them

C. their claims to the land

D. their rights as individuals

18. American cities, with few exceptions, resemble each other greatly. It is true that some of them may be constructed chiefly of wood, while others are chiefly brick, but in every other respect they are markedly _________ .

A. uniform

B. advanced

C. beautiful

D. unique

19. A hundred times a day we laugh at ourselves when we laugh at our neighbors, and we detest in others the faults that in ourselves are _________ .

A. much more glaring

B. totally absent

C. seldom to be found

D. positive virtues

20. Before making a decision, we should seek out both sides of a question and form the habit of having suspended judgment and an open mind receptive to _________ .

A. change

B. good authority

C. radio reports

D. new evidence

Part Ⅱ．Reading Comprehension(共20题，每小题2分，共40分)

In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 questions. Read the passages and then mark or write down the best answer to each question on your answer sheet.

TEXT A

Campaigning on the Indian frontier is an experience by itself. Neither the landscape nor the people find their counterparts in any other portion of the globe. Valley walls rise steeply five or six thousand feet on every side. The columns crawl through a maze of giant corridors down which fierce snow-fed torrents foam under skies of brass. Amid these scenes of savage brilliancy there dwells a race whose qualities seem to harmonize with their environment. Except at harvest time, when

self-preservation requires a temporary truce, the Pathan tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian. Every large house is a real feudal fortress made, it is true, only of sun-baked clay, but with battlements, turrets, loopholes, drawbridges, etc. complete. Every village has its defence. Every family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud. The numerous tribes and combinations of tribes all have their accounts to settle with one another. Nothing is ever forgotten, and very few debts are left unpaid. For the purposes of social life, in addition to the convention about harvest-time, a most elaborate code of honour has been established and is on the whole faithfully observed. A man who knew it and observed it faultlessly might pass unarmed from one end of the frontier to another. The slightest technical slip would, however, be fatal. The life of the Pathan is thus full of interest; and his valleys, nourished alike by endless sunshine and abundant water, are fertile enough to yield with little labour the modest material requirements of a sparse population.

Into this happy world the nineteenth century brought two new facts: the rifle and the British Government. The first was an enormous luxury and blessing; the second, an unmitigated nuisance. The convenience of the rifle was nowhere more appreciated than in the Indian highlands. A weapon which would kill with accuracy at fifteen hundred yards opened a whole new vista of delights to every family or clan which could acquire it. One could actually remain in one’s own house and fire at one’s neighbour nearly a mile away. One could lie in wait on some high crag, and at hitherto unheard of ranges hit a horseman far below. Even villages could fire at each other without the trouble of going far from home. Fabulous prices were therefore offered for these glorious products of science.

Rifle-thieves scoured all India to reinforce the efforts of the honest smuggler. A steady flow of the coveted weapons spread its genial influence throughout the frontier, and the respect which the Pathan tribesmen entertained for Christian civilization was vastly enhanced.

The action of the British Government on the other hand was entirely unsatisfactory. The great organizing, advancing, absorbing power to the southward seemed to be little better than a monstrous spoil-sport. If the Pathan made forays into the plains, not only were they driven back (which after all was no more than fair), but a whole series of subsequent interferences took place, followed at intervals by expeditions which toiled laboriously through the valleys, scolding the tribesmen and exacting fines for any damage which they had done. No one would have minded these expeditions if they had simply come, had a fight and then gone away again. In many cases this was their practice under what was called the "butcher and bolt policy" to which the Government of India long adhered. But towards the end of the nineteenth century these intruders began to make roads through many of the valleys, and in particular the great road to Chitral. They sought to ensure the safety of these roads by threats, by forts and by subsidies. There was no objection to the last method so far as it went. But the whole of this tendency to road-making was regarded by the Pathans with profound distaste. All along the road people were expected to keep quiet, not to shoot one another, and above all not to shoot at travellers along the road. It was too much to ask, and a whole series of quarrels took their origin from this source.

1. The word "debts" in "very few debts are left unpaid" in the first paragraph means _________ .

[A] loans

[B] accounts

[C] killings

[D] bargains

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the geographical facts about the Indian frontier?

[A] Melting snows.

[B] Large population.

[C] Steep hillsides.

[D] Fertile valleys.

3. According to the passage, the Pathans welcomed _________ .

[A] the introduction of the rifle

[B] the spread of British rule

[C] the extension of luxuries

[D] the spread of trade

4. Building roads by the British _________ .

[A] put an end to a whole series of quarrels

[B] prevented the Pathans from carrying on feuds

[C] lessened the subsidies paid to the Pathans

[D] gave the Pathans a much quieter life

5. What would be a suitable title for the passage?

TEXT B

A bus took him to the West End, where, among the crazy coloured fountains of illumination,

shattering the blue dusk with green and crimson fire, he found the card of his choice, a tea-shop that had gone mad and turned Babylonian, a white palace with ten thousand lights. It towered above the other building like a citadel, which indeed it was, the outpost of a new age, perhaps a new civilization, perhaps a new barbarism; and behind the thin marble front were concrete and steel, just as behind the careless profusion of luxury were millions of pence, balanced to the last halfpenny, Somewhere in the background, hidden away, behind the ten thousand lights and acres of white napery and bewildering glittering rows of teapots, behind the thousand waitresses and cash-box girls and black-coated floor managers and temperamental long-haired violinists, behind the mounds of cauldrons of stewed steak, the vanloads of ices, were a few men who went to work juggling with fractions of a farming, who knew how many units of electricity it took to finish a steak-and-kidney pudding and how many minutes and seconds a waitress (five feet four in height and in average health) would need to carry a tray of given weight from the kitchen life to the table in the far comer. In short, there was a warm, sensuous, vulgar life flowering in the upper storeys, and a cold science working in the basement. Such was the gigantic tea-shop into which Turgis marched, in search not of mere refreshment but of all the enchantment of unfamiliar luxury. Perhaps he knew in his heart that men have conquered half the known world, looted whole kingdoms, and never arrived in such luxury. The place was built for him.

It was built for a great many other people too, and, as usual, they were all there. It steamed with humanity. The marble entrance hall, piled dizzily with bonbons and cakes, was as crowded and bustling as a railway station. The gloom and grime of the streets, the raw air, all November, were at once left behind, forgotten: the atmosphere inside was golden, tropical, belonging to some high

mid-summer of confectionery. Disdaining the lifts, Turgis, once more excited by the sight, sound, and smell of it all, climbed the wide staircase until he reached his favourite floor, where an orchestra, led by a young Jewish violinist with wandering lustrous eyes and a passion for tremolo effects, acted as a magnet to a thousand girls, scented air, the sensuous clamour of the strings; and, as he stood hesitating a moment, half dazed, there came, bowing, s sleek grave man, older than he was and far more distinguished than he could ever hope to be, who murmured deferentially: "For one, sir? This way, please, " Shyly, yet proudly, Turgis followed him.

6. That "behind the thin marble front were concrete and steel" suggests that _________ .

[A] modem realistic commercialism existed behind the luxurious appearance

[B] there was a fundamental falseness in the style and the appeal of the card

[C] the architect had made a sensible blend of old and new building materials

[D] the caré was based on physical foundations and real economic strength

7. The following words or phrases are somewhat critical of the tea-shop EXCEPT _________ .

[A] ". . . turned Babylonian"

[B] "perhaps a new barbarism"

[C] "acres of white napery"

[D] "balanced to the last halfpenny"

8. In its context, the statement that "the place was built for him" means that the café was intended to _________ .

[A] please simple people in a simple way

[B] exploit gullible people like him