翻译硕士英语考试试题

XX大学2011年硕士研究生入学考试试题

考试科目：（211 ）( 翻译硕士英语)

适用专业：（0552 ）( 翻译)

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I. Multiple Choice (20*0.5 point)

Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

1. You will be ______ the fine if you tell us who else was involved.

A. spared

B. revealed

C. forgiven

D. given

2. He has been ______ every mail as he cherishes a hope that one day his missing

brother will contact him.

A. watching out

B. watching at

C. watching for

D. watching in

3. Some people enjoy talking about their fears while others ______ being asked to

discuss their personal feelings.

A. refuse

B. decline

C. resent

D. promote

4. He was arrested and sentenced to 10 years’imprisonment for ______ several

crimes.

A. committing

B. making

C. conducting

D. undertaking

5. As you are married, you are required to fill in this form with the names of you and

your ______.

A. partner

B. spouse

C. husband

D. wife

6. In order to prevent corruption, the top leaders of government are required to announce their income ______.

A. on time

B. on cue

C. in public

D. at ease

7. With the development of our national economy, more and more people ______ the

market economy.

A. believe in

B. take on

C. put off

D. put on

8. The vegetarian restaurant makes its dishes resemble meat in every way except

______.

A. contents

B. insides

C. ingredients

D. Tastes

9. Nowadays, the ATM machine is very popular because people can get money almost

______ when the code number is put in.

A. instantaneously

B. spontaneously

C. intentionally

D. marginally

10. Students who always do things ______ might lack of creativity.

A. on the book

B. with the book

C. by book

D. by the book

11. The best moral ______ is that of conscience, the worst is the fear of punishment.

A. sanction

B. function

C. operation

D. acquisition

12. My friends and I don’t like to see his films because they have been criticized for

being ______ violent.

A. excitedly

B. overly

C. usually

D. absolutely

13. Some problem students who were always in low spirit were diagnosed as suffering

from ______ crisis.

A. identify

B. idealism

C. identity

D. status

14. We should carefully plan the process of negotiation and any ______ acts will be

harmful to the result.

A. impulse

B. impulsion

C. instinct

D. impulsive

15. Life was pure ______ last month; the children were ill and I had little money.

A. misery

B. merriness

C. mythic

D. merit

16. His friends ______ him on the back when he said he was getting married.

A. stroke

B. hit

C. beaten

D. slapped

17. Many people feel worried that foreign goods such as cars and appliances may

______ through the Chinese market after China enters the World Trade Organization.

A. run amok

B. run out

C. run off

D. run away

18. When kids become grown-ups and independent, they sometimes feel that their

mothers are ______ old women.

A. meddlesome

B. troublesome

C. dynamic

D. prudent

19. He is really jealous when his girlfriend ______ a friendship with another young

man.

A. strikes on

B. strikes at

C. strikes up

D. strikes with

20. He is so conservative that he is ______ with modern life.

A. out of fashion

B. out of step

C. going back

D. is based

II Cloze (10*1 point)

Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. Fill in each blank with the word in the following that best fits into the passage (fifteen choices are supplied). Write down your choices on the Answer Sheet.

Yet crime has certainly not decreased in ___1___ to the rise in imprisonment. Experts say the law of diminishing returns is ___2___ work here: As judges send more and more people to jail, a greater proportion of prisoners will ___3___ be less-frequent offenders. What’s ___4___, most criminologists agree ___5___ the steep rise in incarceration rates has been ___6___ largely by low-level drug offenders. Giving them more and longer ___7___ has done ___8___ to stop the drug trade, scholars say, since there always seem to be others ___9___ on the street to ___10___ their place.