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2015考研英语真题：英语一真题完整版

2015考研英语真题：英语一真题完整版Directions:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)Though not biologically related, friends are as “related”as fourth cousins, sharing about 1% of genes. That is _(1)_a study, published from the University of California and Yale University in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has__(2)_.The study is a genome-wide analysis conducted _(3)__1,932 unique subjects which __(4)__pairs of unrelated friends and unrelated strangers. The same people were used in both_(5)_.While 1% may seem_(6)_,it is not so to a geneticist. As James Fowler, professor of medical genetics at UC San Diego, says, “Most people do not even _(7)_their fourth cousins but somehow manage to select as friends the people who_(8)_our kin.”The study_(9)_found that the genes for smell were something shared in friends but not genes for immunity .Why this similarity exists in smell genes is difficult to explain, for now,_(10)_,as the team suggests, it draws us to similar environments but there is more_(11)_it. There could be many mechanisms working together that _(12)_us in choosing genetically similar friends_(13)_”functional Kinship” of being friendswith_(14)_!One of the remarkable findings of the study was the similar genes seem to be evolution_(15)_than other genes Studying this couldhelp_(16)_why human evolution picked pace in the last 30,000 years, with social environment being a major_(17)_factor.The findi ngs do not simply explain people’s_(18)_to befriend those of similar_(19)_backgrounds, say the researchers. Though all the subjects were drawn from a population of European extraction, care was taken to_(20)_that all subjects, friends and strangers, were taken from the same population.1. [A] when [B] why [C] how [D] what2. [A] defended [B] concluded [C] withdrawn [D] advised3. [A] for [B] with [C] on [D] by4. [A] compared [B] sought [C] separated [D] connected5. [A] tests [B] s [C]samples [D] examples6. [A] insignificant [B] unexpected [C]unbelievable [D] incredible7. [A] visit [B] miss [C] seek [D] know8. [A] resemble [B] influence [C] favor [D] surpass9. [A] again [B] also [C] instead [D] thus10. [A] Meanwhile [B] Furthermore [C] Likewise [D] Perhaps11. [A] about [B] to [C]from [D]like12. [A] drive [B] observe [C] confuse [D]limit13. [A] according to [B] rather than [C] regardless of [D] along with14. [A] chances [B]responses [C]missions [D]benefits15. [A] later [B]slower [C] faster [D] earlier16. [A]forecast [B]remember [C]understand [D]express17. [A] unpredictable [B]contributory [C] controllable [D] disruptive18. [A] endeavor [B]decision [C]arrangement [D] tendency19. [A] political [B] religious [C] ethnic [D] economic20. [A] see [B] show [C] prove [D] tellSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1King Juan Carlos of Spain once insisted “kings don’t abdicate, they dare in their sleep.”But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down. So, does the Spanish crisis suggest that monarchy is seeing its last days? Does that mean the writing is on the wall for all European royals, with their magnificent uniforms and majestic lifestyle?The Spanish case provides arguments both for and against monarchy. When public opinion is particularly polarised, as it was following the end of the Franco regime, monarchs can rise above “mere”politics and “embody”a spirit of national unity.It is this apparent transcendence of politics that explains monarchs’continuing popularity polarized. And also, the Middle East excepted, Europe is the most monarch-infested region in the world, with 10 kingdoms (not counting Vatican City and Andorra). But unlike their absolutist counterparts in the Gulf and Asia, most royal families have survived because they allow voters to avoid the difficult search for a non-controversial but respected public figure.Even so, kings and queens undoubtedly have a downside. Symbolic of national unity as they claim to be, their very history—and sometimes the way they behave today –embodies outdated and indefensible privileges and inequalities. At a time when Thomas Piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states.The most successful monarchies strive to abandon or hide their old aristocratic ways. Princes and princesses have day-jobs and ride bicycles, not horses (or helicopters). Even so, these are wealthy families who party with the international 1%, and media intrusiveness makes it increasingly difficult to maintain the right image.While Europe’s monarchies will no doubt be smart enough to survive for some time to come, it is the British royals who have most to fear from the Spanish example.It is only the Queen who has preserved the monarchy’s reputation with her rather ordinary (if well-heeled) granny style. The danger will come with Charles, who has both an expensive taste of lifestyle and a pretty hierarchical view of the world. He has failed to understand that monarchies have largely survived because they provide a service – as non-controversial and non-political heads of state. Charles ought to knowthat as English history shows, it is kings, not republicans, who are the monarchy’s worst enemies.21. According to the first two Paragraphs, King Juan Carlos of Spain[A] used turn enjoy high public support[B] was unpopular among European royals[C] cased his relationship with his rivals[D]ended his reign in embarrassment22. Monarchs are kept as heads of state in Europe mostly[A] owing to their undoubted and respectable status[B] to achieve a balance between tradition and reality[C] to give voter more public figures to look up to[D]due to their everlasting political embodiment23. Which of the following is shown to be odd, according to Paragraph 4?[A] Aristocrats’excessive reliance on inherited wealth[B] The role of the nobility in modern democracies[C] The simple lifestyle of the aristocratic families[D]The nobility’s adherence to their privileges24. The British royals “have most to fear”because Charles[A] takes a rough line on political issues[B] fails to change his lifestyle as advised[C] takes republicans as his potential allies[D] fails to adapt himself to his future role25. Which of the following is the best title of the text?[A] Carlos, Glory and Disgrace Combined[B] Charles, Anxious to Succeed to the Throne[C] Carlos, a Lesson for All European Monarchs[D]Charles, Slow to React to the Coming ThreatsTEXT 2Just how much does the Constitution protect your digital data? The Supreme Cpurt will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.California has asked the justices to refrain from a sweeping ruling, particularly one that upsets the old assumptions that authorities may search through the possessions of suspects at the time of their arrest. It is hard, the state argues, for judges to assess the implications of new and rapidly changing technologies.The court would be recklessly modest if it followed California’s advice. Enough of the implications are discernable, even obvious, so that the justice can and should provide updated guidelines to police, lawyers and defendants.They should start by discarding California’s lame argument that exploring the contents of a smartphone- a vast storehouse of digital information is similar to say, going through a suspect’s purse .The court has ruled that police don't violate the Fourth Amendment when they go through the wallet or porcketbook, of an arrestee without a warrant. But exploring one’s smartpho ne is more like entering his or her home. A smartphone may contain an arrestee’s reading history ,financial history, medical history and comprehensive records of recent correspondence. The development of “cloud computing.” meanwhile, has made that explorat ion so much the easier.But the justices should not swallow California’s argument whole. New, disruptive technology sometimes demands novel applications of the Constitution’s protections. Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a digital necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new personal domain of the passenger car then; they must sort out how the Fourth Amendment applies to digital information now.26. The Supreme court, will work out whether, during an arrest, it is legitimate to[A] search for suspects’mobile phones without a warrant.[B] check suspects’phone contents without being authorized.[C] prevent suspects from deleting their phone contents.[D] prohibit suspects from using their mobile phones.27. The author’s attitude toward California’s argument is one of[A] tolerance.[B] indifference.[C] disapproval.[D] cautiousness.28. The author believes that exploring one’s phone content is comparable to[A] getting into one’s residence.[B] handing one’s historical records.[C] scanning one’s correspondences.[D] going through one’s wallet.29. In Paragraph 5 and 6, the author shows his concern that[A] principles are hard to be clearly expressed.[B] the court is giving police less room for action.[C] phones are used to store sensitive information.[D] citizens’privacy is not effective protected.30.Orin Kerr’s comparison is quoted to indicate that(A)the Constitution should be implemented flexibly.(B)New technology requires reinterpretation of the Constitution.(C)California’s argument violates principles of the Constitution.(D)Principles of the Constitution should never be altered.Text 3The journal Science is adding an extra round of statistical checks to its peer-review process, editor-in-chief Marcia McNutt announced today. The policy follows similar efforts from other journals, after widespread concern that basic mistakes in data analysis are contributing to the irreproducibility of many published research findings.“Readers must have confidence in the conclusions published in our journal,”writes McNutt in an editorial. Working with th e American Statistical Association, the journal has appointed seven experts to a statistics board of reviewing editors (SBoRE). Manu will be flagged up for additional scrutiny by the journal’s internal editors, or by its existing Board of Reviewing Editors or by outside peer reviewers. The SBoRE panel will then find external statisticians to review these manus.Asked whether any particular papers had impelled the change, McNutt said: “The creation of the ‘statistics board’was motivated by concerns broadly with the application of statistics and data analysis in scientific research and is part of Science’s overall drive to increase reproducibility in the research we publish.”Giovanni Parmigiani, a biostatistician at the Harvard School of Public Health, a member of the SBoRE group, says he expects the board to “play primarily an advisory role.”He agreed to join because he “found the foresight behind the establishment of the SBoRE to be novel, unique and likely to have a lasting impact. This impact will not only be through the publications in Science itself, but hopefully through a larger group of publishing places that may want to model their approach after Science.”31、It can be learned from Paragraph I that[A] Science intends to simplify its peer-review process.[B]journals are strengthening their statistical checks.[C]few journals are blamed for mistakes in data analysis.[D]lack of data analysis is common in research projects.32、The phrase “flagged up ”(Para.2)is the closest in meaning to[A]found.[B]revised.[C]marked[D]stored33、Giovanni Parmigiani believes that the establishment of the SBoRE may[A]pose a threat to all its peers[B]meet with strong opposition[C]increase Science’s circulation.[D]set an example for other journals34、David Vaux holds that what Science is doing nowA. adds to researchers’worklosd.B. diminishes the role of reviewers.C. has room for further improvement.D. is to fail in the foreseeable future.35. Which of the following is the best title of the text?A. Science Joins Push to Screen Statistics in PapersB. Professional Statisticians Deserve More RespectC. Data Analysis Finds Its Way onto Editors’DesksD. Statisticians Are Coming Back with ScienceText 4Two years ag o, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter ,Elisabeth ,spoke of the “unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of ourinstitutions”Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism ”in society should be profit a nd the market .But “it’s us ,human beings ,we the people who create the society we want ,not profit ”.Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous foals for capitalism and freedom.”This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International ,shield thought ,making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking .As the hacking trial concludes –finding guilty ones-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones ,and finding his predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge –the winder issue of dearth of integrity still standstill, Journalists are known to have hacked the phones of up to 5,500 people .This is hacking on an industrial scale ,as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking. Others await trial. This long story still unfolds.In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place .One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, wow little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired wow the stories arrived. The core of her successful defence was that she knew nothing.In today’s world, title has become n ormal that well—paid executives should not be accountable for what happens in the organizations that they run perhaps we should not be so surprised. For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit. The words that have mattered are efficiency, flexibility, shareholder value, business–friendly, wealth generation, sales, impact and, in newspapers, circulation. Words degraded to the margin have been justice fairness, tolerance, proportionality and accountability.The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity. It was to ruin lives in the quest for circulation and impact. Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave no instructions—nor received traceable, recorded answers.36. According to the first two paragraphs, Elisabeth was upset by[A] the consequences of the current sorting mechanism[B] companies’financial loss due to immoral practices.[C] governmental ineffectiveness on moral issues.[D]the wide misuse of integrity among institutions.37. It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that[A] Glem Mulcaire may deny phone hacking as a crime[B] more journalists may be found guilty of phone hacking.[C] Andy Coulson should be held innocent of the charge.[D] phone hacking will be accepted on certain occasions.38. The author believes the Rebekah Books’s deferen ce[A] revealed a cunning personality[B] centered on trivial issues[C] was hardly convincing[D] was part of a conspiracy39. The author holds that the current collective doctrine shows[A] generally distorted values[B] unfair wealth distribution[C] a marginalized lifestyle[D] a rigid moral cote40. Which of the following is suggested in the last paragraph?[A] The quality of writing is of primary importance.[B] Common humanity is central news reporting.[C] Moral awareness matters in exciting a newspaper.[D] Journalists need stricter industrial regulations.Part BDirectionsIn the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of numbered blanks. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the blanks .Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)How does your reading proceed? Clearly you try to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them drawing on your implicit knowledge of English grammar.(41)________You begin to infer a context for the text, for instance, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved. Who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.The ways of reading indicated here are without doubt kinds of comprehension. But they show comprehension to consist not just of passive assimilation but of active engagement in inference and problem-solving. You infer information you feel the writer has invited you to grasp by presenting you with specific evidence and clues.(42)_________Conceived in this way, comprehension will not follow exactly the same track for each reader. What is in question is not the retrieval of an absolute, fixed or "true" meaning that can be read off and checked for accuracy, or some timeless relation of text to the world.(43)_________Such background material inevitably reflects who we are.(44)_______This doesn`t, however, make interpretation merely relative or even pointless. Precisely because readers from different historical periods, places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the page--including for texts that engage with fundamental human concerns--debates about texts can play an important role in social discussion of beliefs and values.How we read a given text also depends to some extent on our particular interest in reading it,(45)________Such dimensions of reading suggest-as others introduced later in the book will also do-that we bring an implicit(often unacknowledged)agenda to any act of reading. It doesn`t then necessarily follow that one kind of reading is fuller, more advanced or more worthwhile than another. Ideally, different minds of reading inform each other, and act as useful reference points for andcounterbalances to one another. Together, they make up the reading component of your overall literacy, or relationship to your surrounding textual environment.[A] Are we studying that text and trying to respond in a way that fulfills the requirement of a given course? Reading it simply for pleasure? Skimming it for information? Ways of reading on a train or in bed are likely to differ considerably from reading in a seminar room.[B] Factors such as the place and period in which we are reading ,our gender, ethnicity, age and social class will encourage us towards certain interpretations but at the same time obscure or even close off others.[C] If you unfamiliar with words or idioms, you guess at their meaning, using clues presented in the context. On the assumption that they will become relevant later, you make a mental note of discourse entities as well as possible links between them.[D] In effect, you try to reconstruct the likely meanings or effects that any given sentence, image or reference might have had: These might be the ones the author intended.[E] You make further inferences that form the basis of a personal response for which the author will inevitably be far less responsible.Section III TranslationDirections:Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)Within the span of a hundred years, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a tide of emigration—one of the great folk wanderings of history—swept from Europe to America. 46) This movement, driven by powerful and diverse motivations, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.47) The United States is the product of two principal forces-the immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs, and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits. Of necessity, colonial America was a projection of Europe. Across the Atlantic came successive groups of Englishmen, Frenchmen,Germans, Scots, Irishmen, Dutchmen, Swedes, and many others who attempted to transplant their habits and traditions to the new world.48) But, the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused significant changes. These changes were gradual and at first scarcely visible. But the result was a new social pattern which, although it resembled European society in many ways, had a character that was distinctly American.49) The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the 15th- and 16th-century explorations of North America. In the meantime, thriving Spanish colonies had been established in Mexico, the West Indies, and South America. These travelers to North America came in small, unmercifully overcrowded craft. During their six- totwelve-week voyage, they subsisted on barely enough food allotted to them. Many of the ship were lost in storms, many passengers died of disease, and infants rarely survived the journey. Sometimes storms blew the vessels far off their course, and often calm brought unbearably long delay.“To the anxious travelers the sight of the American shore brought almost inexpress ible relief.”said one recorder of events, “The air at twelve leagues’distance smelt as sweet as a new-blown garden.”The colonists’first glimpse of the new land was a sight of dense woods. 50) The virgin forest with its richness and variety of trees was a veritable real treasure-house which extended from Maine all the way down to Georgia. Here was abundant fuel and lumber. Here was the raw material of houses and furniture, ships and potash, dyes and naval stores.Section IV WritingPart A51. Directions:You are going to host a club reading session. Write an email of about 100 words recommending a book to the club members.You should state reasons for your recommendation.You should write neatly on the ANSWER SHEET.Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use Li Ming instead.Do not write the address. (10 points)Part B52. Directions:Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the following drawing. In your essay you should1) describe the drawing briefly2) explain its intended meaning, and3) give your commentsYou should write neatly on ANSWER SHEET. (20 points)。

2016年广西民族大学翻译硕士英语考研真题A卷

2021年广西民族大学翻译硕士英语考研真题A卷Part I. Basic English Knowledge (30%)Section A: Multiple-choice (20 %)Directions: There are forty multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.1. On my way to the office, I saw a little girl standing in front of the shop window looking_____ at the toys inside.A. faintlyB. ferociouslyC. deliberatelyD. wistfully2. Sometimes the student may be asked to write about his _____ to a certain book or article that has some bearing on the subject being studied.A. reactionB. commentC. impressionD. comprehension3. The branches could hardly _____ the weight of the fruit.A. retainB. sustainC. maintainD. remain4. With an eighty-hour week and little change or enjoyment, life must have been very _____for the 19th-century worker.A. disinterestedB. dryC. wearyD. depressed5. The need for cash is forcing new graduates to take any job going, and many start their working life in _____, often menial jobs.A. momentaryB. mechanicalC. ashamedD. primeval6. The bus became _____ before they arrived, and many latecomers had to wait ina long queue.A. occupiedB. engagedC. packedD. filled7. Rosa was such a last-minute worker that she could never start writing a paper till the deadline was_____.A. approachB. recentC. problematicD. imminent8. Swarms of wasps are always invading my garden. They are a thorough ______.A. nuisanceB. disturbanceC. troubleD. annoyance9. The new airport will be ______ from all directions.A. availableB. accessibleC. obtainableD. achievable10. Now researchers are directing more attention to the social and cultural_____that propelled university graduates into careers in management.A. implicationB. impulseC. atmosphereD. imminence11. The police have offered a large ____ for information leading to the robber’s arrest.A. awardB. compensationC. prizeD. reward12. For years she suffered from the _____ that her husband might come back to her.A. visionB. ideaC. imaginationD. illusion13. There has been a _____ lack of communication between the union and the management.A. regretfulB. regrettableC. regrettingD. regretted14. Care should be taken to decrease the length of time that one is _____ loud continuous noise.A. subjected toB. filled withC. associated withD. attached to15. My mother can’t get _____ because she has rheumatism.A. aboutB. onC. throughD. in16. The novel contains some marvelously revealing _____ of rural life in the 19th century.A. glancesB. glimpsesC. glaresD. gleams17. The party’s reduced vote was _____ of lack of support for its policies.A. indicativeB. positiveC. revealingD. evident18. At three thousand feet, wide plains begin to appear, and there is never a moment when some distant mountain is not _____.A. on viewB. at a glanceC. on the sceneD. in sight19. Once a picture is proved to be a forgery, it becomes quite _____.A. invaluableB. pricelessC. unworthyD. worthless20. In the first few months of the war his army seemed ______, but soon it met its Waterloo.A. incredibleB. invisibleC. invidiousD. invincible21. _____ that they may eventually reduce the amount of labor needed on construction sites by 90 percent.A. So clever are the construction robotsB. So clever the construction robots areC. Such construction robots are cleverD. Such clever construction robots are22. He felt ______ during the interview. And he failed to get the job.A. anything but wellB. nothing but wellC. something but wellD. none but well23. It is not uncommon for there _____ problems of communication between the old and the young.A .being B. would be C. be D. to be24. _____, I’ll marry him all the same.A. Was he rich or poorB. Whether rich or poorC. Were he rich or poorD. Be he rich or poor25. Sorry to have kept you waiting. You must have thought ______.A. we were not comingB. we are not comingC. we didn’t comeD. we should not come26. That was not the first time he _____ us. I think it’s high time we _____ strong actions against him.A. betrayed, takeB. had betrayed, tookC. has betrayed, tookD. has betrayed, take27. ______, he is ready to accept suggestions from different sources.A. Instead of his contributionsB. For all his notable contributionsC. His making notable contributionsD. However his notable contributions28. I am pleased with what you have given me and _____ you have told me.A. thatB. all thatC. whichD. about whatever29. ______ earlier, I could have done something to help.A. If I was informedB. Was I informedC. Had I been informedD. If I should be informed30. _____,he never alters a decision.A. Come what mayB. What may comeC. May what comeD. May come whatever31. The Minister of Finance is believed of imposing new taxes to raise extra revenue.A. that he is thinkingB. to be thinkingC. that he is to thinkD. to think32. The heart is intelligent than the stomach, for they are both controlledby the brain.A. not soB. not muchC. no moreD. much more33. The membership card entitled him _____ certain privileges in the club.A. onB. inC. atD. to34. I have never been to London, but that is the city_____.A. where I like to visit mostB. I’d most like to visitC. which I like to visit mostlyD. where I’d like most to visit35. He was ______to tell the truth even to his closest friend.A. too much of a cowardB. too much the cowardC. a coward enoughD. enough of a coward36. ______ wool that is produced in _____ Scotland is used to make sweaters and other garments.A. / ... theB. / ... /C. The ... theD. The ... /37. _____ I like economics, I like sociology much better.A. As much asB. So muchC. How muchD. Much as38. You cannot be ______ careful in making the decision as it was such a critical case.A. tooB. quiteC. veryD. so39. _____ enough time and money, the researchers would have been able to discover more in this field.A. GivingB. To giveC. GivenD. Being given40. Barry had an advantage over his mother he could speak French.A. since thatB. in thatC. at thatD. so thatSection B: Proofreading and Error Correction (10 %)Directions: The following passage contains 10 errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it. Please write your answers on the Answer Sheet.People once widely believed that intelligent life existed onMars. The 19th century discover of what appeared to be 41. geometric designs cut across the surface was taken as evidence.The lines were thought to have been system of canals that had 42. been built to irrigate the surface. This is now clear that 43. “canals〞—perhaps the most spectacular geologic features ofMars—are natural valleys which ancient rivers once flowed. 44.Other fragmented idea concerns the planet’s seasonal 45. changes in color. Once when attributed to the rapid spread of 46. some life-form, these shifts are now known to develop from themovement of fine dust in the atmosphere.By the close of the 20th century none of the manyexperiments were conducted by spacecraft had ever found 47. persuasive evidence of life. Furthermore, speculation continued 48. over the existence of some form of life, in either the presentand the past. In 1996 scientists discovered organic compounds 49. and minerals in a meteorite, consisted of Martian rock, 50. that collided with Earth around 11,000 BC. These compoundssuggest that Mars may have been inhabited by organisms morethan three billion years ago.Part II. Reading Comprehension (50 %)Section A (30 %)Directions: There are 3 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D).You should decide on the best choice and write your answerson the Answer Sheet.Passage OneQuestions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.Department Store MagicFor most of the 20th century Smithson's was one of Britain's most successful department stores, but by the mid-1990s, it had become dull. Still profitable, thanks largely to a series of successful advertising campaigns, but decidedly boring. The famous were careful not to be seen there, and its sales staff didn't seem to have changed since the store opened in 1908. Worst of all, its customers were buying fewer and fewer of its own-brand products, the major part of its business, and showing a preference for more fashionable brands.But now all this has changed, thanks to Rowena Baker, who became Smithson'sfirst woman Chief Executive three years ago. Since then, while most major retailersin Britain have been losing money, Smithson's profits have been rising steadily. When Baker started, a lot of improvements had just been made to the building, without having any effect on sales, and she took the bold decision to invite one of Europe's most exciting interior designers to develop the fashion area, the heart of the store. This very quickly led to rising sales, even before the goods on display were changed.And as sales grew, so did profits.Baker had ambitious plans for the store from the start. ‘We're playing a big game, to prove we're up there with the leaders in our sector, and we have to make sure people get that message. Smithson's had fallen behind the competition. It provided a traditional service targeted at middle-aged, middle-income customers,who'd been shopping there for years, and the customer base was gradually contracting. Our idea is to sell such an exciting variety of goods that everyone will want to come in, whether they plan to spend a little or a lot.' Baker's vision for the storeis clear, but achieving it is far from simple. At first, many employees resisted her improvements because they just wouldn't be persuaded that there was anything wrong with the way they'd always done things, even if they accepted that the store had to overtake its competitors. It took many long meetings, involving the entire workforce, to win their support. It helped when they realized that Baker was a very different kind of manager from the ones they had known.Baker's staff policies contained more surprises. The uniform that had hardly changed since day one has now disappeared. Moreover, teenagers now get young shop assistants, and staffs in the sports departments are themselves sports fans in trainers. As Baker explains, ‘How can you sell jeans if you're wearing a black suit? Smithson's has a new identity, and this needs to be made clear to the customers.' She's also given every sales assistant responsibility for ensuring customer satisfaction, even if it means occasionally breaking company rules in the hope that this will help company profits.Rowena Baker is proving successful, but the City's big investors haven't been persuaded. According to retail analyst, John Matthews, ‘Money had already been invested in refurbishment of the store and in fact that led to the boost in sales. She took the credit, but hadn't done anything to achieve it. And in my view the company's shareholders are not convinced. The fact is that unless she opens several more stores pretty soon, Smithson's profits will start to fall because turnoverat the existing store will inevitably start to decline.'51. According to the writer, in the mid-1990s Smithson's department storeA. was making a loss.B. had a problem keeping staff.C. was unhappy with its advertising agency.D. mostly sold goods under the Smithson's name.52. According to the writer, Smithson's profits started rising three years ago because ofA. an improvement in the retailing sector.B. the previous work done on the store.C. Rowena Baker's choice of designer.D. a change in the products on sale.53. According to Rowena Baker, one problem which Smithson's faced when she joined was thatA. the number of people using the store was falling slowly.B. its competitors offered a more specialized range of products.C. the store's prices were set at the wrong level.D. customers were unhappy with the service provided.54. According to the writer, many staff opposed Baker's plans becauseA. they were unwilling to change their way of working.B. they disagreed with her goals for the store.C. they felt they were not consulted enough about the changes.D. they were unhappy with her style of management.55. Baker has changed staff policies because she believes thatA. the corporate image can be improved through staff uniforms.B. the previous rules were not fair to customers.C. customers should be able to identify with the staff serving them.D. employees should share in company profits.Passage TwoQuestions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.The Affect of Electricity on CancerCan electricity cause cancer? In a society that literally runs on electric power, the very idea seems preposterous. But for more than a decade, a growing band of scientists and journalists has pointed to studies that seem to link exposure to electromagnetic fields with increased risk of leukemia and other malignancies. The implications are unsettling, to say the least, since everyone comes into contact with such fields, which are generated by everything electrical, from power lines and antennas to personal computers and micro-wave ovens. Because evidence on the subject is inconclusive and often contradictory, it has been hard to decide whether concern about the health effects of electricity is legitimate—or the worst kind of paranoia.Now the alarmists have gained some qualified support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In the executive summary of a new scientific review, released in draft form late last week, the EPA has put forward what amounts to the most serious government warning to date. The agency tentatively concludes that scientific evidence “suggests a causal link〞between extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields—those having very long wave-lengths—and leukemia, lymphoma and brain cancer, While the report falls short of classifying ELF fields as probable carcinogens, it does identify the common 60-hertz magnetic field as “a possible, but not proven, cause of cancer in humans.〞The report is no reason to panic—or even to lost sleep. If there is a cancer risk, it is a small one. The evidence is still so controversial that the draft stirred a great deal of debate within the Bush Administration, and the EPA released it over strong objections from the Pentagon and the White House. But now no one can deny that the issue must be taken seriously and that much more research is needed.At the heart of the debate is a simple and well-understood physical phenomenon: When an electric current passes through a wire, it generates an electromagneticfield that exerts forces on surrounding objects, For many years, scientists dismissed any suggestion that such forces might be harmful, primarily because they are so extraordinarily weak. The ELF magnetic field generated by a video terminal measures only a few mill gauss, or about one-hundredth the strength of the earth’s own magnetic field, The electric fields surrounding a power line can be as high as 10 kilovolts per meter, but the corresponding field induced in human cells will be only about 1 mill volt per meter. This is far less than the electric fields that the cells themselves generate.How could such minuscule forces pose a health danger? The consensus used to be that they could not, and for decades scientists concentrated on more powerful kinds of radiation, like X-rays, that pack sufficient wallop to knock electrons out of the molecules that make up the human body. Such “ionizing〞 radiations have been clearly linked to increased cancer risks and there are regulations to control emissions.But epidemiological studies, which find statistical associations between sets of data, do not prove cause and effect. Though there is a body of laboratory work showing that exposure to ELF fields can have biological effects on animal tissues, a mechanism by which those effects could lead to cancerous growths has never been found.The Pentagon is for from persuaded. In a blistering 33-page critique of the EPA report, Air Force scientists charge its authors with having “biased the entire document〞 toward proving a link. “Our reviewers are convinced that there is no suggestion that (electromagnetic fields) present in the environment induce or promote cancer,〞 the Air Force concludes. “It is astonishing that the EPA would lend its imprimatur on this report.〞 Then Pentagon’s concern is understandable. There is hardly a unit of the modern military that does not depend on the heavy use of some kind of electronic equipment, from huge ground-based radar towers to the defense systems built into every warship and plane.56. The main idea of this passage isA. studies on the cause of cancer.B. controversial view-points in the cause of cancer.C. the relationship between electricity and cancer.D. different ideas about the effect of electricity on cancer.57. The view-point of the EPA isA. there is casual link between electricity and cancer.B. electricity really affects cancer.C. controversial.D. low frequency electromagnetic field is a possible cause of cancer.58. Why did the Pentagon and Whit House object to the release of the report? BecauseA. it may stir a great deal of debate among the Bush Administration.B. every unit of the modern military has depended on the heavy use of some kindof electronic equipment.C. the Pentagon’s concern was understandable.D. they had different arguments.59. It can be inferred from physical phenomenonA. the force of the electromagnetic field is too weak to be harmful.B. the force of the electromagnetic field is weaker than the electric fieldthat the cells generate.C. electromagnetic field may affect health.D. only more powerful radiation can knock electron out of human body.60. What do you think ordinary citizens may do after reading the different arguments?A. They are indifferent.B. They are worried very much.C. The may exercise prudent avoidance.D. They are shocked.Passage ThreeQuestions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.Knowledge economyThere have long been markets in tin, cocoa, silver and the like. There used to be security in thinking that somewhere there was a product, something you could touch and see. Now there are new markets in abstractions, trade in ideas and knowledge. Everyone has knowledge but there used to be no way to trade it—except through jobs. That simple fact of economic life was the basis for white collar employment for centuries. The whole job culture grew up because there was no alternative way to sell knowledge, other than the worker or manager providing, for a fixed price, his or her knowledge to an employer to own or control. The quantity of knowledge provided has typically been measured in time.But today we stand at the threshold of a new era. The information economy has matured and become smarter. According to many business commentators, we are now living in a knowledge economy .There has always been a market for knowledge, of course. The publishing industry is based on it. But today the internet is making the distribution of knowledge ever easier. The days when the publisher decided what got published are over. Anyone with a PC and a modem can talk to the world. This is reducing the friction in the knowledge economy.Everyone has knowledge of whatever industry she or he is in. say you are a computer dealer, for example. Over the years you have compiled a list of the ten best lowest price places to buy wholesale computer equipment. Now you can sell your knowledge to newer, younger computer dealers who have no way to build up this knowledge without losing thousands of pounds finding it out the hard way. Until now, such knowledge remained securely locked in the recipient’s head, accumulated and then worthlessly withered away. This no longer needs to be the case. Such knowledge can be sold via websites.Knowledge has a distinct advantage in today’s marketplace. It’s a renewable resource. Better yet, it’s worth actually increases. “Knowledge is the only assetthat grows with use,〞 observes Stanford University Professor Paul Romer. But what exactly is knowledge and how can it be packaged to trade on an open market? “Knowledge is experiential information, intelligence applied thorough and gainedfrom experience,〞 say Joseph Pine and James Gilmore in their book The Experience Economy.The value of knowledge often depends on variables such as time and the credibility of the seller. Certain knowledge may have a very limited shelf life.In sights concerning how to set up an internet business in one country, might beworth a fortune on one day and nothing the next, depending on changes in government policy. Markets in knowledge will be significance for one thing. They representone of the most original uses of the web technology. In some corner of the globethere is a company wanting to source plastic widgets from Poland, and somewhereelse another company that wishes to set up a plastics factory there. It’s simplya case of connecting the two.Indicater is a good example of a knowledge trader. It is targeted at food service managers throughout the hospitality industry. “We started with the context rather than extracting money from suppliers,〞 explains founder Mike Day, “we offerfood service professionals interactive support to increase sales and profits. People don’t want another one-dimensional site full of advertising that doesn’t help them to do their job more effectively. It has to be customized offering real solutions to real problems.〞 The site’s features include access to online trainingand a tariff tracker to restaurants can check prices throughout the sector.61. What point is made in the first paragraph?A. Interest in commodity markets has decreased.B. Overall levels of expertise have improved.C. Opportunities to exploit your knowledge were limited in the past.D. External market forces have meant knowledge is underpriced.62. In the third paragraph, what does the writer say about knowledge?A. Acquiring knowledge can be expensive.B. The most valuable knowledge concerns IT.C. Trading knowledge raises issues of security.D. New businesses find it hard to trade in knowledge.63. What point is made about knowledge in the fourth paragraph?A. It provides specialist information.B. Its appeal lies in its exclusivity.C. it can generate new ideasD. Its value accumulates.64. Which application of knowledge does the writer regard as particularly useful?A. analyzing manufacturing trendsB. introducing compatible partiesC. interpreting time constraintsD. advising on legislation65. What key feature is provided by Indicater ?A. approaches that reflect the provider’s own experienceB. access to appropriately trained potential employeesC. advice which directly benefits the bottom lineD. advertising which is carefully targetedSection B: Cloze (20 %)Please fill in blanks 66 to 85 of the following passage. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle viewed laughter as “a bodily exercise precious to health.〞 But __66__some claims to the contrary, laughing probably has little influence on physical fitness Laughter does __67__short-term changes in the function of the heart and its blood vessels, __68_ heart rate and oxygen consumption But because hard laughter is difficult to __69__, a good laugh is unlikely to have __70___ benefits the way, say, walking or jogging does.__71_, instead of straining muscles to build them, as exercise does, laughter apparently accomplishes the __72__, studies dating back to the 1930’s indicate that laughter__73___ muscles, decreasing muscle tone for up to 45 minutes after the laugh dies down.Such bodily reaction might conceivably help _ 74__the effects of psychological stress. Anyway, the act of laughing probably does produce other types of __75___ feedback, that improve an individual’s emotional state. __76___one classical theory of emotion, our feelings are partially rooted ___77___ physical reactions. It was argued at the end of the 19th century that humans do not cry __78__they are sad but they become sad when the tears begin to flow.Although sadness also ___79___ tears, evidence suggests that emotions can flow __80___ muscular responses. In an experiment published in 1988,social psychologist Fritz Strack of the University of würzburg in Germany asked volunteers to __81__ a pen either with their teeth-thereby creating an artificial smile – or with their lips, which would produce a(n)__82___ expression. Those forced to exercise their smiling muscles __83__ more exuberantly to funny cartons than did those whose mouths were contracted in a frown, __84__ that expressions may influence emotions rather than just the other way around __85__ , the physical act of laughter could improve mood.66. A. among B. except C. despite D. like67. A. reflect B. demand C. indicate D. produce68. A. stabilizing B. boosting C. impairing D. determining69. A. transmit B. sustain C. evaluate D. observe70. A. measurable B. manageable C. affordable D. renewable71. A. In turn B. In fact C. In addition D. In brief72. A. opposite B. impossible C. average D. expected73. A. hardens B. weakens C. tightens D. relaxes74. A. aggravate B. generate C. moderate D. enhance75. A. physical B. mental C. subconscious D. internal76. A. Except for B. According to C. Due to D. As for77. A. with B. on C. in D. at78. A. unless B. until C. if D. because79. A. exhausts B. follows C. precedes D. suppresses80. A. into B. from C. towards D. beyond81. A. fetch B. bite C. pick D. hold82. A. disappointed B. excited C. joyful D. indifferent83. A. adapted B. catered C. turned D. reacted84. A. suggesting B. requiring C. mentioning D. supposing85. A. Eventually B. Consequently C. Similarly D. ConverselyPart III. Writing (20 %)Directions: Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic:Some people believe that success in life comes from taking risks or chances. Others believe that success results from careful planning. In your opinion, what does success come from? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary.You should supply an appropriate title for your essay.Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.。

2017年广西民族大学基础英语考研真题A卷

2017年广西民族大学基础英语考研真题A卷一、Grammar, Vocabulary and General KnowledgeDirections: Find the ONE choice that best completes the sentence（.每小题 1 分，共 40 小题，共40 分）1.Which of the following sentences is INCORRECT?A.They have enough time to finish the paper.B.Dad says the meat is not enough cooked.C.You are not old enough to buy alcohol.D.She plays well enough for a beginner.2.In “She felt sick from tiredness”, the italicized word is used to indicateA. comparison.B. purpose.C. cause.D. direction.3. Which of the following sentences has an object complement?A. I will buy you a present.B. Mom gave me a necklace.C. I’m going to paint it pink.D. Tom is teaching children Japanese.4. Smoking is so harmful to health that it kills ____ each year than automobile accidents.A. more seven times peopleB. seven times more peopleC. more people seven timesD. people seven times more5. Sorry I’m late. I ____ have turned off the alarm clock and gone back to sleep again.A. mightB. shouldC. mustn’tD. couldn’t6. Mr. White, together with all his colleagues, ____ for Europe this morning.A. are leavingB. leaveC. is leavingD. are to leave7. The new designed bedroom seems to be a great deal larger than ____.A. it is necessaryB. being necessaryC. to be necessaryD. is necessary8. He was determined to sail around the world ____ his illness and old age.A. givenB. althoughC. despiteD. in spite9. Mr. White has become bad-tempered since he indulges in Gambling. He is no longer theman ____ used to be.A. whichB. whomC. whoD. that10. You ____ call your father’s name directly. It’s impolite in China.A. oughtn’tB. mustn’tC. needn’tD. wouldn’t11. It is not ____ much his appearance I like as his personality.A. asB. veryC. soD. that12. There is much chance ____ Bill will recover from his injury in time for the race.A. thatB. whichC. untilD. if13. They did the experiment ____ their chemistry teacher had instructed.A. asB. thoughC. untilD. when14. He was listening attentively in class, his eyes ____ on the blackboard.A. fixingB. fixedC. are fixingD. are fixed15. I don’t think ____ possible to master a foreign language without much memory work.A. thatB. thisC. youD. it16. Mary was ____to tears by their criticism.A. sunkB. reducedC. forcedD. declined17.The police fortunately gained the key clew according to the foot mark in the____ of the road.A. clayB. dirtC. mudD. soil18. These magnificent ____ buildings demonstrate the great intelligence of the laboringpeople.A. antiqueB. ancientC. primitiveD. remote19. I don’t remember meeting him, but the name John Smith rings a bell. The underlined partmeans ____.A. is omittedB. is warnedC. is appearingD. isfamiliar20.These goods are ____ for export, though a few of them may be sold on the homemarket.A. essentiallyB. completelyC. necessarilyD. remarkably21. Food will ____ if the temperature in your freezer rises above 8℃.A. decayB. rotC. spoilD. corrupt22. The small company isn’t ____ of handling an order that large.A. ableB. capableC. competentD. qualified23. Sometimes it’s good to stop for a while to think about the past and ____ the future.A. contaminateB. contemplateC. consolidateD. contradict24.School fees, illness, house repairs and other ____ have reduced his bank balanceto almost nothing.A. paymentB. amountC. figuresD. expenses25.Many people, including college students of all ages, spend little time in ____of physical fitness.A. searchB. viewC. lightD. pursuit26. There’s no denying that as we age ____, our body ages right along with us.A. chronologicallyB. significantlyC. deceptivelyD.deliberately27.We made an effort not to leave my friend out in the cold when we were planningthe birthday party. The underlined part means ____.A. embarrassB. humiliateC. ignoreD. exhaust28. The company has to make its accounts and operations as ____ as possible.A. distinctB. evidentC. explicitD.transparent29. His ability to absorb information was astonishing, but his concentration ____ was short.A. gapB. intervalC. spanD. distance30. She is generally ____ as one of the best modern poets.A. classedB. gradedC. rankedD. rated31. ____ is generally regarded as the beginning of modern world history.A. The Glorious RevolutionB. The English ReformationC. The RenaissanceD. The English Civil War32. In the US, the largest city along the Pacific Coast is ____A. San FranciscoB. Los Angeles.C. Seattle.D. Chicago.33. In Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used the technique of ____, in which the wholestory was told through the thoughts of a character.A. imagismB. stream of consciousnessC. naturalismD. symbolism34. Percy Bysshe Shelley did not write ____A. Song of Myself.B. Prometheus Unbound.C. Ode to the West Wind.D. Queen Mab.35. ____ is not a modernist novelist of Britain.A. James JoyceB. Virginia WoolfC.wrence D. Henry James____ is the manifestation of grammatical relationships through the addition of affixes, such as number, person, finiteness, aspect and case, which don’t change the grammatical class of the stems to which they are attached.A. Word formationB. InflectionC. CompoundD. Derivation37. One way to analyze lexical meaning isA. predication analysis.B. stylistic analysis.C. componential analysis.D. proposition analysis.38. ____ is NOT the characteristic of conversational implicature.A. CalculabilityB. CancellabilityC. DetachabilityD. Non-conventionality39. A sound pronounced with the vocal cords vibrating is said to be ____ sound.A. voicelessB. voicedC. consonantD. resonant40. Which function is the major role of language?A. Informative.B. Interpersonal.C. Performative.D. Emotive.二、ClozeDirections: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank thereare four choices marked [A]，[B]，[C] and [D] .You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage.（每小题 1 分，共 20 小题，共 20 分）According to BT's futurologist, Ian Pearson, these are among the developments scheduled for the first few decades of the new millennium (a period of 1, 000 years), when supercomputers will dramatically accelerate progress in all areas of life.Pearson has __1__ together to work of hundreds of researchers around the world to produce a __2__ millennium technology calendar that gives the latest dates whenwe can expect hundreds of key __3__ and discoveries to take place. Some of the biggest developments will be in medicine, including an __4__ life expectancy and dozens of artificial organs __5__ into use between now and 2040.Pearson also __6__ a breakthrough in computer human links. “By linking __7__ to our nervous system, computers could pick up __8__ we feel and, hopefully, simulate __9__ too so that we can start to __10__ full sensory environments, rather like the holidays in Total Recall or the Star Trek holodeck,” he says.But that, Pearson points __11__, is only the start of man-machine __12__: “It will be the beginning of the long process of integration that will __13__ lead to a fully electronic human before the end of the next century.” __14__ his research, Pearson is able to put dates to most of the breakthroughs that can be predicted. However, there are still no __15__ for when faster-than-light travel will be __16__, or when human cloning will be perfected, or when time travel will be possible. But he does __17__ social problems as a result of technological advances. A boom in neighborhood surveillance cameras will, for example, __18__ problems in 2010, while the arrival of synthetic __19__ robots will mean people may not be able to __20__ between their human friends and the droids. And home appliances will also become so smart that controlling and operating them will result in the breakout of a new psychological disorder-kitchen rage.1. [A] taken [B] pieced [C] kept [D] made2. [A] complicated [B] delicate [C] subtle [D] unique3. [A] breakthroughs [B] findings [C] events [D] incidents4. [A] expanded [B] extended [C] enlarged [D] enriched5. [A] being [B] becoming [C] carrying [D] coming6. [A] schedules [B] plans [C] predicts [D] designs7. [A] directly [B] instantly [C] precisely [D] automatically8. [A] that [B] how [C] what [D] all9. [A] thinking [B] hearing [C] sight [D] feeling10. [A] form [B] develop [C] find [D] undertake11. [A] out [B] at [C] to [D] toward12. [A] program [B] production [C] experiment [D] integration13. [A] finally [B] ultimately [C] utterly [D] absolutely14. [A] Through [B] Though [C] During [D] By15. [A] forecasts [B] articles [C] stories [D] meetings16. [A] advisable [B] affordable [C] available [D] valuable17. [A] solve [B] arose [C] exercise [D] expect18. [A] confront [B] cause [C] witness [D] collect19. [A] lovely [B] likely [C] lifelike [D] lively20. [A] distinguish [B] differ [C] diagnose [D] deviate三、Reading Comprehension （选择题每小题 1 分，共 10 小题；填空题每小题 1 分，共 8 小题；简答题每小题 2 分，共 11 小题；共 40 分）PASSAGE ONEThe Work-Life BalanceThis month the TUC is campaigning against, what it calls, Britain's "long hours culture". But do the British actually work too long? And if we do, is it doing us, or society at large, any harm?Over the past 150 years working hours across the developed world have beenfalling. In the mid-nineteenth century men in Britain, in paid employment, workedfor at least 55 hours per week. Hours worked then began a steady drop -- the riseof trade unionism is one explanation, but then, after the First World War theyplateaued. From 1951 onwards they dropped again but this fall was brought to a suddenhalt in 1981 with the onset of the deregulatory economic policies of the Thatcheryears. Working hours reached a high in 1997 when the UK average number of hoursworked hit 45.8 per week, falling to 44.3 hours per week in 2004.The main reason for this recent decline has been the impact of EU's WorkingTime Directive which stipulated that no one could work more than 48 hours in a week,unless special exemption had been jointly applied for by both employers andemployees. Nonetheless, in European terms, we are still doing badly in terms ofhours worked -- British workers are at the top, or bottom, of the hours charts,depending on your point of view. In 2004 British workers put in almost two and ahalf hours more per week than the average European worker -- although that was animprovement on 2001 when the gap was three and a quarter hours.In terms of actual hours worked, for those fortunate enough to be living andworking in the Netherlands the average was just 38.8 hours a week, whilst for thoseunfortunate enough to be working in Britain, the average was 43.5 hours. Workersin our closest European competitors, France and Germany, worked 38.9 hours and 39.6hours per week respectively. And yet, according to research both French and Germanworkers are around 20% more productive than their British counterparts. And we doequally badly when it comes to holidays. The European average for annual paid leaveis 26.5 days per year -- again the UK is near the bottom of the league with an averageof 24.5 days of annual leave.However, these raw figures don't tell the whole story. During the 1980s and1990s it was fashionable to predict that the "revolution in work" had begun.Business gurus were forecasting that the then current work norm, in which themajority of the workforce were in full-time employment at places of work away fromhome would give way to the majority having portfolios of part-time, temporary jobs,with many working either from home or from mobile office environments. This wouldresult in a blurring between work and home, leisure, and employment -- thus concernsabout hours worked would become little more than of historical interest.This view is backed up by Michael Moynagh in Working in the Twenty-First Century.After examining trends in working time over the past twenty years, and casting theirfindings forward, they conclude: "On balance it is likely that contracted workingtime will continue to drop, if slowly and intermittently".According to the research project "The Future of Work" led by Professor Peter Nolan of Leeds University, the notion that the nature of work is changing radically is systematically demolished.Based on a nationwide survey of employees Professor Nolan reports that the project found that, contrary to this conventional wisdom, the "end of work" scenario had not come to pass. In fact the 1990s had seen a growth, not a contraction, in the proportion of employees in full-time permanent jobs. In 2000, 92% of workers were in permanent work compared with 88% eight years earlier. And in 2000 only 5.5% said they were working on a temporary contract, compared with 7.2% in 1992. "Such startling figures do not suggest Britain is rapidly developing a more flexible labour market when measured by the extent of employment stability. Indeed, the permanent job remains very much the overwhelming norm and this is true across every occupational category."Nor was the notion of "going to work" in decline. The researchers found that most people still leave their homes for paid employment, only 3% of employees said they worked partly at home and a further 1.1% said they worked solely or mainly at home.Thus, arguments about working time are still very central to debates about the nature of the work experience. The Future of Work survey found that dissatisfaction with the hours that people were having to work had increased dramatically. In 1992 35% of men were satisfied with their hours, by 2000 this had fallen to 20%; the decline among women employees was even sharper, down from 51% in 1992 to 29% in 2000. And this decline was, in terms of social class, across the board.Professor Jonathan Gershuny is an expert on the work-life balance. He paid particular attention, not just to paid work but to two related issues -- women's unpaid work and leisure time. Gershuny notes how leisure time itself has become increasingly congested as people have less and less time to "consume" more and more leisure. He quotes from American sociologist Steffan Linder, who noted that as part and parcel of their "success" the harried executive might buy themselves a yacht; and yet the time they make available to enjoy their leisure activities diminishes the more successful they become. Gershuny paints a picture of the harried executive having to plan their leisure time almost as rigorously as they plan their working day.He also casts his eye over the unpaid work that is mainly done by women in the home. He notes how, despite the spread of "labour-saving" devices, the time women spend on domestic chores had not reduced, if anything it had gone up. This is because, as domestic work has become easier so "standards" have risen -- rooms that wereswept once a week are now swept once a day and meals that were cooked simply to be nourishing now had to be "interesting" as well. Gershuny reports that women on average spend 45-hours a week on unpaid domestic work; but where they had a full-time job this time went down to 22 hours a week. For men, his research showed that irrespective of whether or not they were in full-time work they spent an underwhelming 30 minutes a day on domestic chores. No doubt many of those same men would privately applaud the sentiments expressed in a Japanese research report that concluded: "Housewives by nature enjoy doing housework. For housewives, it is difficult to distinguish between housework and leisure." Then again, perhaps not, as times have moved on somewhat.Questions 1-4Choose the best answer.1.Which statement best describes the change of British working hours?A. Over the past 150 years, British working hours fluctuated by as long as 10hours.B.British workers worked 3 hours longer every week than their Europeancounterparts in 2001.C.British workers worked longer than French and German workers with higherproductivity.D. British workers have the least annual paid leave.2.What does the sentence "thus concerns about hours worked would become little morethan of historical interest" imply?A.Since there is no wild change in British working hours, the forecasting ofwork norm lost meaning.B.There is no point in concerning about working hours since it is hard to separateemployment and leisure.C.The notion that the nature of work has changed is not right.D.The end of work scenario makes research impossible.3.What can we see from the research findings of Michael Moynagh and Peter Nolan?A.They agreed that in the future, contracted working time will decrease.B.They agreed that more British would like to work from mobile officeenvironments.C.They have different conclusions and forecasts about British working time.D.Both are against conventional wisdom that the end of work has come.4.Professor Jonathan Gershuny notes that ______.A.men take over most housework when women are in full-time workB.people work harder in free time to consume what they produce in work timeC.if you are top managers, you have more leisure time availableD.women spend less time on domestic chores latelyQuestions 5-9Answer the following questions briefly by using NO MORE THAN TEN words.5.What is the result of working from home or mobile office environments?6.What are the percentages of people working partly at home and solely at homerespectively?7.What is the dominant working norm?8.Which phrase expresses the meaning that both managers and manual workers complainabout the long hours culture?9.What is one of the two issues that Professor Jonathan Gershuny paid specialattention to.Questions 10-12Complete the following sentences with NO MORE THAN THREE words.10.According to the Future of Work survey, women are______________________dissatisfied with their working hours.11.The more successful people are, the _____________________ time they have toenjoy themselves.12.The appearance of _____________________ actually increased time of doingdomestic chores.PASSAGE TWOAlready penitent for his angry action, but too stubborn to make amends, Mason toiled on at the head of the cavalcade, little dreaming that danger hovered in the air. The timber clustered thick in the sheltered bottom, and through this they threaded their way. Fifty feet or more from the trail towered a lofty pine. For generations it had stood there, and for generations destiny had had this one end in view--perhaps the same had been decreed of Mason.He stooped to fasten the loosened thong of his moccasin. The sleds came to ahalt, and the dogs lay down in the snow without a whimper. The stillness was weird;not a breath rustled the frost-encrusted forest; the cold and silence of outer spacehad chilled the heart and smote the trembling lips of nature. A sigh pulsed throughthe air--they did not seem to actually hear it, but rather felt it, like thepremonition of movement in a motionless void. Then the great tree, burdened withits weight of years and snow, played its last part in the tragedy of life. He heardthe warning crash and attempted to spring up but, almost erect, caught the blowsquarely on the shoulder.The sudden danger, the quick death--how often had Malemute Kid faced it! The pine needles were still quivering as he gave his commands and sprang into action. Nor did the Indian girl faint or raise her voice in idle wailing, as might many of her white sisters. At his order, she threw her weight on the end of a quickly extemporized handspike, easing the pressure and listening to her husband's groans, while Malemute Kid attacked the tree with his ax. The steel rang merrily as it bit into the frozen trunk, each stroke being accompanied by a forced, audible respiration, the 'Huh!' 'Huh!' of the woodsman. At last the Kid laid the pitiablething that was once a man in the snow. But worse than his comrade's pain was the dumb anguish in the woman's face，the blended look of hopeful，hopeless query. Little was said； those of the Northland are early taught the futility of words and the inestimable value of deeds. With the temperature at sixty-five below zero，a man cannot lie many minutes in the snow and live. So the sled lashings were cut，and the sufferer，rolled in furs，laid on a couch of boughs. Before him roared a fire ，built of the very wood which wrought the mishap. Behind and partially over him was stretched the primitive fly -- a piece of canvas ， which caught the radiating heat and threw it back and down upon him -- a trick which men may know who study physics at the fount.And men who have shared their bed with death know when the call is sounded. Mason was terribly crushed. The most cursory examination revealed it. His right arm，leg，and back were broken；his limbs were paralyzed from the hips；and the likelihood of internal injuries was large. An occasional moan was his only sign of life.No hope ； nothing to be done. The pitiless night crept slowly by -- Ruth's portion ，the despairing stoicism of her race，and Malemute Kid adding new lines to his face of bronze. In fact ，Mason suffered least of all，for he spent his time in eastern Tennessee，in the Great Smoky Mountains，living over the scenes of his childhood. And most pathetic was the melody of his long-forgotten Southern vernacular，as he raved of swimming holes and coon-hunts and watermelon raids. It was as Greek to Ruth，but the Kid understood and felt -- felt as only one can feel who has been shut out for years from all that civilization means.Morning brought consciousness to the stricken man ， and Malemute Kid bent closer to catch his whispers.“You remember when we foregathered on the Tanana ， four years come next ice run?I didn't care so much for her then. It was more like she was pretty，and there wasa smack of excitement about it，I think. But d'ye know，I've come to think a heap of her. She's been a good wife to me，always at my shoulder in the pinch. And when it comes to trading，you know there isn't her equal. D'ye recollect the time she shot the Moosehorn Rapids to pull you and me off that rock，the bullets whipping the water like hailstones -- and the time of the famine at Nuklukyeto -- or when she raced the ice-run to bring the news？Yes，she's been a good wife to me，better'n that other one. Didn't know I'd been there？Never told you，eh? Well，I tried it once，down in the States. That's why I'm here. Been raised together，too. I came away to give her a chance for divorce. She got it.”“But that's got nothing to do with Ruth. I had thought of cleaning up and pulling for the Outside next year -- her and I -- but it's too late. Don't send her back to her people，Kid. It's beastly hard for a woman to go back. Think of it! -- nearly four years on our bacon and beans and flour and dried fruit，and then to go back to her fish and caribou. It's not good for her to have tried our ways，to come to know they're better'n her people's，and then return to them. Take care of her，Kid -- why don't you -- but no，you always fought shy of them -- and you never told me why you came to this country. Be kind to her，and send her back to the Statesas soon as you can. But fix it so she can come back -- liable to get homesick，you know.”“And the youngster -- it's drawn us closer，Kid. I only hope it is a boy. Think of it -- flesh of my flesh，Kid. He mustn't stop in this country. And if it's a girl，why，she can't. Sell my furs；they'll fetch at least five thousand，and I've got as much more with the company. And handle my interests with yours. I think that bench claim will show up. See that he gets a good schooling；and Kid，above all，don't let him come back. This country was not made for white men.”“I'm a gone man，Kid. Three or four sleeps at the best. You've got to go on. You must go on! Remember，it's my wife，it's my boy -- O God! I hope it's a boy! You can't stay by me -- and I charge you，a dying man，to pull on.”Questions 13-15Choose the best answer.13.What is NOT true about Mason’s accident?A.He was struck by an old pine on the shoulder and crushed.B.It was possible his organs had been injured in addition to broken bones.C.He suffered a great deal as he lay waiting for death.D.He was laid on some branches by a great fire in an attempt to recover.14.What do we know about Mason’s wife according to the text?A.She is white like him.B.She is not Mason’s only spouse in life.C.She has been to his hometown.D.She understands Greek.15.What is implied about the character’s lives from the passage?A.Sleds were the main method of transportation.B.The major source of income was fur trading.C.They had to be calm and resourceful in the wild.D.The far north is not suitable for white people.Questions 16-17Answer the following questions briefly by using NO MORE THAN TEN words.16.Why does Mason think Ruth is a good wife?What was “fly” in paragraph 3 used for?PASSAGE THREENature versus cultureTo what extent have indigenous peoples suffered at the hands ofconservation?When US primatologist Dian Fossey arrived in Rwanda to study the mountain gorillas of the Parcs des Volcans in September 1967, her immediate concern was that their habitat was being eroded by human activity. As the government and wildlife authorities were turning a blind eye, she took the law into her own hands and organised patrols to drive out those she considered to be intruders in the park.Many of those targeted were local farmers who were grazing cattle and growing crops, collecting water, wood and bamboo or hunting small mammals. But the VirungaMountains were also home to the Batwa, pygmy hunter- gatherers who, for thousands of years, had lived on their forested slopes. Fossey took an instant dislike to the Batwa and adopted-vigilante tactics to ensure they stayed away from "her" gorillas.While Fossey's actions represented a huge inconvenience for the Bahutu and Batutsi farmers, for the Batwa they proved devastating. The forest was integral to their lifestyle: it provided them with food and medicine and was the centre of their cultural activities. Without it, they became destitute. They had neither the skills nor the resources to become farmers and were given no compensation or alternative. Considered second-class citizens -- unclean, stupid, untrustworthy -- by their neighbours, they were forced to live in hovels on the fringes of villages, scratching around in wasteland to eke out a living. By the early 1990s, begging was the main source of income for 70 per cent of Rwandan Batwa.The experience of the Batwa is one shared by millions of indigenous peoples around the world who have suffered at the hands of conservation. "Historically the impact of protected areas has been very negative because the rights of the local communities of indigenous peoples haven't been taken into account," says Marcus Colchester, director of the Forest Peoples' Programme, a UK organisation that promotes the interests of indigenous peoples around the world. "The establishment of parks and reserves has often required their forced removal and placed severe limits on their rights of access and use of natural resources. Hence, there has been a lot of conflict, impoverishment, suffering and cultural loss."The traditional fence-and-guards approach to conservation grew out of the US national parks movement of the late 19th century, which began preserving areas of 'natural' wilderness for recreational purposes. Ecologists subsequently decided that nature should be preserved in a pristine form, uncontaminated by human activity.Over the past 40 years, conservation of biodiversity has become an increasingly high-profile topic and there has been a corresponding rise in the number of protected areas. According to the World Conservation Union (IUCN) there were just over 1,000 in 1962; today there are more than 102,000, covering a terrestrial area of 17.1 million square kilometres, 11.5 per cent of the world's land.To date, there hasn't been any conclusive research into the extent to which establishing these areas affects indigenous peoples. But most protected areas were inhabited at one time. In 2000, WWF estimated that 86 per cent of South America's national parks were inhabited by people, most of them indigenous, and 90 per cent of protected areas in the Americas as a whole hosted indigenous peoples. However, it isn't just the indigenous peoples who have lost out to the traditional。

广西民族大学2015年硕士研究生入学考试初试自命题科目试题(357翻译基础)

附件4：广西民族大学2015年硕士研究生入学考试初试自命题科目试题（试卷代号：A卷）科目代码：357科目名称：英语翻译基础适用学科专业：翻译硕士（MTI）研究方向：英语笔译、英语口译命题教师签名：考生须知1．答案必须写在答题纸上，写在试题上无效。

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Part I. Terminology and Phrase Translation (30%)1.Translate the following terms, phrases or acronyms into Chinese (15 points).(1)electoral fraud(2)Tainted stars(3)extradition treaty(4)stealth fighter(5)car exhausts(6)overcapacity(7)bricks-and-mortar stores(8)poverty-alleviation funds(9)the Global Infrastructure Initiative(10)house-for-pension program(11)Grand Slam(12)anti-monopoly investigations(13)hard-berth(14)time-honored restaurants(15)genetically modified product2.Translate the following terms, phrases or acronyms into English (15 points).(1)领土争端(2)栖息地保护区(3)跨太平洋伙伴关系协议(4)天然气管道(5)法庭调查阶段(6)城镇化(7)农地流转(8)公车私用(9)规模化种植(10)医保体制(11)看客心态(12)依法治国(13)冰桶挑战(14)不患难，但患无备(15)众人拾柴火焰高Part II Passage Translation (120%)1.Translate the following into Chinese (60 points).On a flight from Frankfurt to Shanghai, a foreign engineer noticed row after row of Chinese passengers deep into their iPads, playing games or watching movies. None was doing any reading. The engineer posted his observation online and got a tidal wave of responses, most of which corroborated his view.Before we get to "Why Chinese do not read", I'll reveal the spoiler, which is the most frequent defense. "We read. We just do not read in the same way as the old generations do. We rely on modern gadgets for faster access." It is true that you cannot claim that only content on a printed page is knowledge. Anything that's printed can be displayed digitally. There are millions of books available in digital form. And true electronic books can incorporate sound and video, thus enhancing the reading experience.To those who believe they can get anything and everything from the Web, I'll hereby add my two cents' worth: Yes, you can, but you won't do it.My publishers (I work with several publishing houses in China) told me that most of the best-sellers in China are textbooks or supplement reading material, in other words, books that students are forced to read, or rather, forced to buy. So, let's compare China's best-seller list with that of the New York Times. While the latter has a mix of serious books, especially about history, and celebrity memoirs, the former is almost totally nothing.A walk through an airport bookstore will bring you more doom and gloom: mostly how-to-get-rich titles written by those who've done it or who claim to have the secret recipe. On top of that, there are buyers of books in China who decorate their rooms with wall-to-wall tomes but never bother to open the pages.Yes, people do read in China to enrich their bank accounts, but not to enrich themselves comprehensively.2.Translate the following into English (60 points).中国作为人口最多的发展中国家的基本国情和定位没有改变，发展仍然是我们的第一要务。

2015年广西民族大学基础英语考研真题A卷

2015年广西民族大学基础英语考研真题A卷I. Vocabulary (20 points，1 point each)Directions:There are 20 sentences in this part. Each sentence contains a word or phrase which is underlined. Below each sentence are four other expressions. Choose the one which would best keep the meaning of the original, and write down the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet.1.Please keep your comments pertinent to the topic under discussion.A. relevantB. conformingC. satisfactoryD. direct2.He was deeply committed to political doctrines of social equality.A. issuesB. beliefsC. interestsD. basics3.His plots are always very ingenious.A. stupidB. smartC. absurdD. consistent4.In this example 'X' denotes the time taken and 'Y' the distance covered.A. representsB. points toC. equals toD. emphasizes5.He didn't give an adequate answer to the question.A. enoughB. wiseC. promptD. satisfactory6. A high proportion of crime in any country is perpetrated by young males intheir teens and twenties.A. committedB. witnessedC. perceivedD. restricted7.Baldwin enlightened her as to the nature of the experiment.A. showedB. explained toC. warnedD. frightened8.Most scientists believe it is legitimate to use animals in medical research.A. desirableB. reasonableC. legalD. effective9.He said he was resigning but did not elaborate on his reasons.A. explainB. provideC. stateD. tell10.Success in the talks will reinforce his reputation as an internationalstatesman.A. establishB. formC. consolidateD. threaten11.We did not realize the magnitude of the problem.A. essenceB. importanceC. contentD. consequences12.Sleep has often been thought of as being in some way analogous death.A. similarB. closeC. identicalD. related13.How much to tell terminally ill patients is left to the discretion of the doctor.A. decisionB. secretsC. contemplationD. words14.The director tried to wave aside these issues as trivial details that couldbe settled later.A. simpleB. unimportantC. uselessD. inferior15.Some astronomers contend that the universe may be younger than previouslythought.A. explainB. agreeC. thinkD. argue16.It takes time to really understand all these facts.A. ruminateB. realizeC. assimilateD. acceptputers can be used to make language learning easier.A. facilitateB. accelerate B. relieve D. alleviate18.The selection process is based on rigorous tests of competence and experience.A. seriousB. thoroughC. difficultD. demanding19.He appended a glossary to his novel where he used an invented language.A. addedB. usedC. includedD. compiled20.Mr Norris said he was hopeful that his request would elicit a positive response.A. causeB. obtainC. produceD. call forthII. Reading Comprehension (80 points)Directions:The following two passages are followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You shoulddecide on the best choice and write down the letter on your answer sheet. Passage 1 (15 points, 3 points each)One of the great mysteries of the brain is that we still cannot pin down exactly what a memory is—that is, how neural circuitry stores a given recollection. Yet in the last decade we have learned a lot about memory’s limitations. Memories are not necessarily written into our brains like ink on paper. Think of them instead as inscribed in clay, suggests André Fenton, a neuroscientist at New York University’s Center for Neural Science. Every time you access a memory, the message can get smudged, just as a clay tablet might if you were to pick it up and run your fingers over its surface. Ongoing biochemical processes cause memories to shift over time.Further, our mind sets and emotions can influence what we pay attention to and thus remember. Scientists are tinkering with experimental chemicals that, when injected, can interfere with memory-forming proteins and erase certain types of maladaptive feelings, such as an addict’s desire for drugs. Researchers have even managed to trick mice into forming entirely false memories. Memory formation and recollection is an evolving, active and plastic process that involves many different working parts of the brain, and scientists are just beginning to piece together how they coalesce into such a complex machine.1.The first sentences of this passage suggests that ________.A. scientists have little idea about the mechanism of memoryB. recollections are stored in memoryC. memory is the last big problem to solve about our brainD. if we know how our brain stores the recollections we know the nature of memory2.Fenton suggests that ________.A. ink on paper is different from inscriptions in clayB. using memory is harmful for our brainC. messages in our memory always change a little when we use themD. none of the above3.According to the second paragraph, ________.A. chemicals that can influence memory-formation work on proteinsB. addiction to drugs is a faulty type of adaptationC. altering memory-formation is already successful on miceD. all of the above4.According to the second paragraph, which of the following is true about memoryformation and recollection?A. The process is not a rigid or static oneB. The process relies on every part of the brain working togetherC. Scientists are trying to combine what they know into a theory about memoryD. none of the above5.Which of the following is NOT true, according to this essay?A. Scientists are fascinated with the process of memory and recollectionB. We still don't know everything about our brainC. The research of scientists are focused on eliminating undesired memoriesD. “Ongoing biochemical processes” refer mainly to those intrinsic to our body,not to the experimental chemicals in the laboratory.Passage 2 (15 points, 3 points each)A new study suggests holding a position of power, with weighty responsibilities, increases symptoms of depression in women but diminishes them in men. "Women with job authority -- the ability to hire, fire and influence pay -- have significantly more symptoms of depression than women without this power." Pudrovska, a sociologist at the University of Texas at Austin, explained in a press release. "In contrast, men with job authority have fewer symptoms of depression than men without such power."Pudrovska and her research partner conducted their study using data on mental health and job authority collected from 1954 to 2004 as part of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. The study's authors claim that social and cultural norms allow for men to more seamlessly assume positions of power. According to them, a man in power is expected and accepted by his peers, colleagues and subordinates -- by those working alongside him as well as outsiders looking in. In contrast, previous studies have shown women in positions of authority regularly experience "interpersonal tension, negative social interactions, negative stereotypes, prejudice, social isolation, as well as resistance from subordinates, colleagues and superiors." The weight of these stressors and tensions results in an uptick of depressive symptoms, with women in power possessing depression symptoms more often than men not in positions of authority. As well, men in positions of power were even less likely to be depressed.The study's authors say their findings are proof that "we need to address gender discrimination, hostility and prejudice against women leaders to reduce the psychological costs and increase the psychological rewards of higher-status jobs for women."1.The first paragraph suggests that ________.A. women are depressed but men are notB. holding a position of power has different effects on women and menC. having more power is harmful for women but healthy for menD. none of the above2.The study was called a “longitudinal study” because ________.A. the study was based on collected dataB. the study was conducted on mental health and job authorityC. the study was done across 50 yearsD. none of the above3.In the study's authors' opinion, the differences between men and women inadapting to job authority________.A. lies primarily in social and cultural normsB. consists in the different expectations that society has on men and womenC. are manifested in their different patterns of depressionD. all of the above4.The study's authors believe that ________.A. society ought to pay women leaders more than men leadersB. social discrimination and hostility toward women leaders increase theirpsychological tensionC. women leaders had better be relieved of their higher-status jobsD. none of the above5.The author of this passage ________.A. reports on the study and the findings but gives no explicit commentB. apparently agrees with the study's authors on their conclusionC. shows sympathy to women in high positionsD. wants to draw public attention to the social discrimination addressed in thestudyPassage 3Read the following passages carefully and then explain in your own English the exact meaning of the numbered and underlined parts.(25 points, 5 points each) Consider the times you’ve hopped on a subway, boarded a plane or entered a waiting room. [1]Chances are, you probably avoided engaging with any fellow commuters or patients. But contrary to what we might think, we’d be happier if we did strike up a conversation with a total stranger.In a study, commuters in Chicago were asked to either talk with a stranger on a train, or sit quietly alone, or just [2]do whatever they’d normally do on their commute. Then, they responded to a survey about how they felt.It turns out that those who engaged with strangers had the most pleasurable experience and [3]those who remained solitary had the least enjoyable experience. These answers were compared with another group that did not participate but instead had to predict how they might feel in each situation. This group thought talking with strangers would be the least enjoyable, by far.So [4]despite being social animals and enjoying social engagement, we avoid chatting with strangers. Why? Well, according to a follow up study it’s because we think, wrongly, that strangers don’t want to talk with us. [5]The one way to get over this is to practice reaching out – who knows, commuting could become more enjoyable.Passage 4Read the following passages carefully and then explain in your own English the exact meaning of the numbered and underlined parts. (25 points, 5 points each)[1]The intelligence of dolphins is well documented by science. Studies show that dolphins are able to understand sign language, solve puzzles, and use objects in their environment as tools. Scientists also believe that dolphins possess a sophisticated language: numerous instances have been recorded in which dolphinstransmitted information from one individual to another. A recent experiment proved that dolphins can even recognize themselves in a mirror—[2]something achieved by very few animals. This behavior demonstrates that dolphins are aware of their own individuality, at a level of intelligence that may be very near our own.Are dolphins usually intelligent? Dolphins have large brains, but we know that [3brain size alone does not determine either the nature or extent of intelligence. Some researchers have suggested that dolphins have big brains because they need them—for sonar and sound processing and for social interactions. Others have argued that regardless of brain size, dolphins have an intelligence level somewhere between that of a dog and a chimpanzee. The fact is, we don't know, and [4]comparisons may not be especially helpful. Just as human intelligence is appropriate for human needs, dolphin intelligence is right for the dolphin's way of life. [5]Until we know more, all we can say is that dolphin intelligence is different.III. General knowledge (20 points)A. Fill in each blank with a suitable word or phrase, and write your answers on the answer sheet. (10 points, 1 point each)1.The Theory of Conversation Implicatures was proposed by ________.2.American Behaviorist linguistics was represented by the linguist ________.The title of his best-known book was ________. TG Grammar was proposed by ________.3.The Oxford professor of philosophy ________ was famous for the Speech ActTheory, in which speech acts are described as consisting of three parts, i.e.________ act, ________ and ________ act.4.In terms of word formation, the words “edit”, “televise” etc. can becategorized as cases of ________.5.In their book ________, Lackoff and Johnson argued that metaphors are auniversal method of human cognition.B. Write out the authors of the following works: (4 points, 1 point each)1.The Great Gatsby ________2. A Tale of Two Cities ________3.Leaves of Grass ________4.Gulliver's Travels ________C. Translate the following into English or Chinese (2 points, 1 point each):1.请勿践踏草坪2.WTOD. Explain the following terms briefly: (4 points, 2 point each)1.euphemism2.sonnetIV. Translation (30 points)E-C (15 points)Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson River must remember the Catskill Mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and can be seen to the west swelling up to a noble height and lording it over the surrounding country. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky, but sometimes when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory.C-E (15 points)在无数广为流行的生命理论中，惟一永恒的主题就是爱。

2015年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语一试题

2015年研究生考试考研英语一真题试题及答案Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)Though not biologically related, friends are as ―related‖ as fourth cousins, sharing about 1% of genes. That is _(1)_a study, published from the University of California and Yale University in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has__(2)_.The study is a genome-wide analysis conducted _(3)__1,932 unique subjects which __(4)__pairs of unrelated friends and unrelated strangers. The same people were used in both_(5)_.While 1% may seem_(6)_,it is not so to a geneticist. As James Fowler, professor of medical genetics at UC San Diego, says, ―Most people do not even _(7)_their fourth cousins but somehow manage to select as friends the people who_(8)_our kin.‖The study_(9)_found that the genes for smell were something shared in friends but not genes for immunity. Why this similarity exists in smell genes is difficult to explain, for now. _(10)_, as the team suggests, it draws us to similar environments but there is more_(11)_it. There could be many mechanisms working together that _(12)_us in choosing genetically similar friends_(13)_‖functional Kinship‖ of being friends with_(14)_!One of the remarkable findings of the study was that the similar genes seem to be evolving_(15)_than other genes. Studying this could help_(16)_why human evolution picked pace in the last 30,000 years, with social environment being a major_(17)_factor.The findings do not simply explain people‘s_(18)_to befriend those of similar_(19)_backgrounds, say the researchers. Though all the subjects were drawnfrom a population of European extraction, care was taken to_(20)_that all subjects, friends and strangers, were taken from the same population.1. [A] when [B] why [C] how [D] what2. [A] defended [B] concluded [C] withdrawn [D] advised3. [A] for [B] with [C] on [D] by4. [A] compared [B] sought [C] separated [D] connected5. [A] tests [B] objects [C]samples [D] examples6. [A] insignificant [B] unexpected [C]unreliable [D] incredible7. [A] visit [B] miss [C] seek [D] know8. [A] resemble [B] influence [C] favor [D] surpass9. [A] again [B] also [C] instead [D] thus10. [A] Meanwhile [B] Furthermore [C] Likewise [D] Perhaps11. [A] about [B] to [C]from [D]like12. [A] drive [B] observe [C] confuse [D]limit13. [A] according to [B] rather than [C] regardless of [D] along with14. [A] chances [B]responses [C]missions [D]benefits15. [A] later [B]slower [C] faster [D] earlier16. [A]forecast [B]remember [C]understand [D]express17. [A] unpredictable [B]contributory [C] controllable [D] disruptive18. [A] endeavor [B]decision [C]arrangement [D] tendency19. [A] political [B] religious [C] ethnic [D] economic20. [A] see [B] show [C] prove [D] tellSection II Reading ComprehensionDirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1King Juan Carlos of Spain once insisted ―kings don‘t abdicate, they dare in their sleep.‖ But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down. So does the Spanish crisis suggest that monarchy is seeing its last days? Does that mean the writing is on the wall for all European royals, with their magnificent uniforms and majestic lifestyle?The Spanish case provides arguments both for and against monarchy. When public opinion is particularly polarized, as it was following the end of the Franco regime, monarchs can rise above ―mere‖ politics and ―embody‖ a spirit of national unity.It is this apparent transcendence of politics that explains monarchs‘ continuing popularity as heads of state. And also, the Middle East excepted, Europe is the most monarch-infested region in the world, with 10 kingdoms (not counting Vatican City and Andorra). But unlike their absolutist counterparts in the Gulf and Asia, most royal families have survived because they allow voters to avoid the difficult search for a non-controversial but respected public figure.Even so, kings and queens undoubtedly have a downside. Symbolic of national unity as they claim to be, their very history—and sometimes the way they behave today—embodies outdated and indefensible privileges and inequalities. At a time when Thomas Piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states.The most successful monarchies strive to abandon or hide their old aristocratic ways. Princes and princesses have day-jobs and ride bicycles, not horses (or helicopters). Even so, these are wealthy families who party with the international 1%, and media intrusiveness makes it increasingly difficult to maintain the right image.While Europe‘s monarchies will no doubt be smart enough to survive for some time to come, it is the British royals who have most to fear from the Spanish example.I t is only the Queen who has preserved the monarchy‘s reputation with her rather ordinary (if well-heeled) granny style. The danger will come with Charles, who has both an expensive taste of lifestyle and a pretty hierarchical view of the world. He has failed to understand that monarchies have largely survived because they provide a service —as non-controversial and non-political heads of state. Charles ought to know that as English history shows, it is kings, not republicans, who are themonarchy‘s worst e nemies.21. According to the first two Paragraphs, King Juan Carlos of Spain[A] used to enjoy high public support[B] was unpopular among European royals[C] eased his relationship with his rivals[D]ended his reign in embarrassment22. Monarchs are kept as heads of state in Europe mostly[A] owing to their undoubted and respectable status[B] to achieve a balance between tradition and reality[C] to give voters more public figures to look up to[D]due to their everlasting political embodiment23. Which of the following is shown to be odd, according to Paragraph 4?[A] Aristocrats‘ excessive reliance on inherited wealth[B] The role of the nobility in modern democracies[C] The simple lifestyle of the aristocratic families[D]The nobility‘s adherence to their privileges24. The British royals ―have most to fear‖ because Charles[A] takes a rough line on political issues[B] fails to change his lifestyle as advised[C] takes republicans as his potential allies[D] fails to adapt himself to his future role25. Which of the following is the best title of the text?[A] Carlos, Glory and Disgrace Combined[B] Charles, Anxious to Succeed to the Throne[C] Carlos, a Lesson for All European Monarchs[D]Charles, Slow to React to the Coming ThreatsText 2Just how much does the Constitution protect your digital data? The SupremeCourt will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.California has asked the justices to refrain from a sweeping ruling particularly one that upsets the old assumption that authorities may search through the possessions of suspects at the time of their arrest. It is hard, the state argues, for judges to assess the implications of new and rapidly changing technologies.The court would be recklessly modest if it followed California‘s advice. Enough of the implications are discernable, even obvious, so that the justices can and should provide updated guidelines to police, lawyers and defendants.They should start by discarding California‘s lame argument that exploring the contents of a smart phone — a vast storehouse of digital information — is similar to, say, rifling through a suspect‘s purse. The court has ruled that police don‘t violate the Fourth Amendment when they sift through the wallet or pocketbook of an arrestee without a warrant. But exploring one‘s smart phone is more like entering his or her home. A smart phone may c ontain an arrestee‘s reading history, financial history, medical history and comprehensive records of recent correspondence. The development of ―cloud computing,‖ meanwhile, has made that exploration so much the easier.Americans should take steps to protect their digital privacy. But keeping sensitive information on these devices is increasingly a requirement of normal life. Citizens still have a right to expect private documents to remain private and protected by the Constitution‘s prohibition on unreas onable searches.As so often is the case, stating that principle doesn‘t ease the challenge of line-drawing. In many cases, it would not be overly onerous for authorities to obtain a warrant to search through phone contents. They could still invalidate Fourth Amendment protections when facing severe, urgent circumstances, and they could take reasonable measures to ensure that phone data are not erased or altered while a warrant is pending. The court, though, may want to allow room for police to cite situations where they are entitled to more freedom.But the justices should not swallow California‘s argument whole. New, disruptive technology sometimes demands novel applications of the Constitution‘s protections. Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a virtual necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new personal domain of the passenger car then; they must sort out how the Fourth Amendment applies to digital information now.26. The Supreme Court will work out whether, during an arrest, it is legitimate to[A] prevent suspects from deleting their phone contents.[B] search for suspects‘ mobile phon es without a warrant.[C] check suspects‘ phone contents without being authorized.[D]prohibit suspects from using their mobile phones.27. The author‘s attitude toward California‘s argument is one of[A] disapproval.[B] indifference.[C] tolerance.[D]cautiousness.28. The author believes that exploring one‘s phone contents is comparable to[A] getting into one‘s residence.[B] handing one‘s historical records.[C] scanning one‘s correspondences.[D] going through one‘s wallet.29. In Paragraph 5 and 6, the author shows his concern that[A] principles are hard to be clearly expressed.[B] the court is giving police less room for action.[C] citizens‘ privacy is not effectively protected.[D] phones are used to store sensitive information.30. Orin Kerr‘s comparison is quoted to indicate that[A] the Constitution should be implemented flexibly.[B] new technology requires reinterpretation of the Constitution.[C]California‘s argument violates principles of the Constitution.[D]principles of the Constitution should never be altered.Text 3The journal Science is adding an extra round of statistical checks to its peer-review process, editor-in-chief Marcia McNutt announced today. The policy follows similar efforts from other journals, after widespread concern that basic mistakes in data analysis are contributing to the irreproducibility of many published research findings.―Readers must have confidence in the conclusions published in our journal,‖writes McNutt in an editorial. Working with the American Statistical Association, the journal has appointed seven experts to a statistics board of reviewing editors(SBoRE). Manuscript will be flagged up for additional scrutiny by the journal‘s internal editors, or by its existing Board of Reviewing Editors or by outside peer reviewers. The SBoRE panel will then find external statisticians to review these manuscripts.Asked whether any particular papers had impelled the change, McNutt said: ―The creation of the ‗statistics board‘ was motivated by concerns broadly with the application of statistics and data analysis in scientific research and is part of Science‘s overall drive to increase reproducibility in the research we publish.‖Giovanni Parmigiani, a biostatistician at the Harvard School of Public Health, a member of the SBoRE group. He says he expects the board to ―play primarily an advisory role.‖ He agreed to join because he ―found the foresight behind the establishment of the SBoRE to be novel, unique and likely to have a lasting impact. This impact will not only be through the publications in Science itself, but hopefully through a larger group of publishing places that may want to model their approach after Science.‖John Ioannidis, a physician who studies research methodology, says that the policy is ―a most welcome step forward‖ and ―long overdue.‖ ―Most journals are weak in statistical review, and this damages the quality of what they publish. I think that, for the majority of scientific papers nowadays, statistical review is more essential than expert review,‖ he says. But he noted that biomedical journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet pay strong attention to statistical review.Professional scientists are expected to know how to analyze data, but statistical errors are alarmingly common in published research, according to David Vaux, a cell biologist. Researchers should improve their standards, he wrote in 2012, but journals should al so take a tougher line, ―engaging reviewers who are statistically literate and editors who can verify the process‖. Vaux says that Science‘s idea to pass some papers to statisticians ―has some merit, but a weakness is that it relies on the board of reviewi ng editors to identify ‗the papers that need scrutiny‘ in the first place‖.31. It can be learned from Paragraph 1 that[A] Science intends to simplify its peer-review process.[B] journals are strengthening their statistical checks.[C] few journals are blamed for mistakes in data analysis.[D] lack of data analysis is common in research projects.32. The phrase ―flagged up‖ (Para. 2) is the closest in meaning to[A] found.[B] marked.[C] revised.[D] stored.33. Giovanni Parmigiani believes that the establishment of the SBoRE may[A] pose a threat to all its peers.[B] meet with strong opposition.[C] increase Science‘s circulation.[D]set an example for other journals.34. David Vaux holds that what Science is doing now[A] adds to researchers‘ workload.[B] diminishes the role of reviewers.[C] has room for further improvement.[D]is to fail in the foreseeable future35. Which of the following is the best title of the text?[A] Science Joins Push to Screen Statistics in Papers.[B] Professional Statisticians Deserve More Respect[C] Data Analysis Finds Its Way onto Editors‘ Desks[D] Statisticians Are Coming Back with ScienceText 4Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch‘s daughter ,Elisabeth ,spoke of the ―uns ettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions‖ Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only ―sorting mechanism ‖in society should be profit and the market .But ―it‘s us ,human beings ,we the people who create the society we want ,not profit ‖.Driving her point home, she continued: ―It‘s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous foals for capital ism and freedom.‖ This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International ,shield thought ,making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking .As the hacking trial concludes –finding guilty ones-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones ,and finding his predecessor,Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge –the winder issue of dearth of integrity still standstill, Journalists are known to have hacked the phones of up to 5,500 people .This is hacking on an industrial scale ,as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking. Others await trial. This long story still unfolds.In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place .One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, wow little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired wow the stories arrived. The core of her successful defence was that she knew nothing.In today‘s world, title has become normal that well—paid executives should not be accountable for what happens in the organizations that they run perhaps we should not be so surprised. For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit. The words that have mattered are efficiency, flexibility, shareholder value, business–friendly, wealth generation, sales, impact and, in newspapers, circulation. Words degraded to the margin have been justice fairness, tolerance, proportionality and accountability.The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity. It was to ruin lives in the quest for circulation and impact. Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave no instructions—nor received traceable, recorded answers.36. According to the first two paragraphs, Elisabeth was upset by[A] the consequences of the current sorting mechanism[B] companies‘ financial loss due to immoral practices.[C] governmental ineffectiveness on moral issues.[D]the wide misuse of integrity among institutions.37. It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that[A] GlemMulcaire may deny phone hacking as a crime.[B] more journalists may be found guilty of phone hacking.[C] Andy Coulson should be held innocent of the charge.[D] phone hacking will be accepted on certain occasions.38. The author believes the Rebekah Books‘sdefence[A] revealed a cunning personality[B] centered on trivial issues[C] was hardly convincing[D] was part of a conspiracy39. The author holds that the current collective doctrine shows[A] generally distorted values.[B] unfair wealth distribution.[C] a marginalized lifestyle.[D] a rigid moral code.40. Which of the following is suggested in the last paragraph?[A] The quality of writing is of primary importance.[B] Common humanity is central news reporting.[C] Moral awareness matters in editing a newspaper.[D] Journalists need stricter industrial regulations.Part BDirections:In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the fist A-G to fit into each of the numbered blanks. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)How does your reading proceed? Clearly you try to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them, drawing on your explicit knowledge of English grammar (41) __________________ You begin to infer a context for the text, for instance, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.The ways of reading indicated here are without doubt kinds of of comprehension. But they show comprehension to consist not just passive assimilation but of active engagement inference and problem-solving. You infer information you feel the writer has invited you to grasp by presenting you with specific evidence and cues. (42) ________________Conceived in this way, comprehension will not follow exactly the same track for each reader. What is in question is not the retrieval of an absolute, fixed or ―true‖ meaning that can be read off and clocked for accuracy, or some timeless relation ofthe text to the world. (43) _______Such background material inevitably reflects who we are. (44) ________________________ This doesn‘t, however, make interpretation merely relative or even pointless. Precisely because readers from different historical periods, places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the page-including for texts that engage with fundamental human concerns-debates about texts can play an important role in social discussion of beliefs and values.How we read a given text also depends to some extent on our particular interest in reading it. (45)________________ Such dimensions of read suggest-as others introduced later in the book will also do-that we bring an implicit (often unacknowledged) agenda to any act of rea ding. It doesn‘t then necessarily follow that one kind of reading is fuller, more advanced or more worthwhile than another. Ideally, different kinds of reading inform each other, and act as useful reference points for and counterbalances to one another. Together, they make up the reading component of your overall literacy or relationship to your surrounding textual environment.A. Are we studying that text and trying to respond in a way that fulfils the requirement of a given course? Reading it simply for pleasure? Skimming it for information? Ways of reading on a train or in bed are likely to differ considerably from reading in a seminar room.B. Factors such as the place and period in which we are reading, our gender ethnicity, age and social class will encourage us towards certain interpretation but at the same time obscure or even close off others.C. If you are unfamiliar with words or idioms, you guess at their meaning, using clues presented in the context. On the assumption that they will become relevant later, you make a mental note of discourse entities as well as possible links between them.D. In effect, you try to reconstruct the likely meanings or effects that any given sentence, image or reference might have had: These might be the ones the author intended.E. You make further inferences, for instance, about how the text may be significant to you, or about its validity—inferences that form the basis of a personal response for which the author will inevitably be far less responsible.F. In plays，novels and narrative poems, characters speak as constructs created by the author, not necessarily as mouthpieces for the author‘s own thoughts.G. Rather, we ascribe meanings to texts on the basis of interaction between what we might call textual and contextual material: between kinds of organization or patterning we perceive in a text‘s formal structures (so especially its language structures) and various kinds of background, social knowledge, belief and attitude thatwe bring to the text.Part CDirections:Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)Within the span of a hundred years, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a tide of emigration—one of the great folk wanderings of history—swept from Europe to America. (46) This movement, driven by powerful and diverse motivations, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.(47) The United States is the product of two principal forces—the immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs, and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits. Of necessity, colonial America was a projection of Europe. Across the Atlantic came successive groups of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Scots, Irishmen, Dutchmen, Swedes, and many others who attempted to transplant their habits and traditions to the new world.(48) But the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused significant changes. These changes were gradual and at first scarcely visible. But the result was a new social pattern which, although it resembled European society in many ways, had a character that was distinctly American.(49) The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the 15th- and 16th-century explorations of North America. In the meantime, thriving Spanish colonies had been established in Mexico, the West Indies, and South America. These travelers to North America came in small, unmercifully overcrowded craft. During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they survived on barely enough food allotted to them. Many of the ships were lost in storms, many passengers died of disease, and infants rarely survived the journey. Sometimes storms blew the vessels far off their course, and often calm brought unbearably long delay.To the anxious travelers the sight of the American shore brought almost inexpressible relief. said one recorder of events, ―The air at twelve leagues‘ distance smelt as sweet as a new-blown garden.‖ The colonists‘ first glimpse of the new land was a sight of dense woods. (50) The virgin forest with its richness and variety of trees was a real treasure-house which extended from Maine all the way down to Georgia. Here was abundant fuel and lumber. Here was the raw material of houses and furniture, ships and potash, dyes and naval stores.Section III WritingPart ADirections:You are going to host a club reading session. Write an email of about 100 words recommending a book to the club members.You should state reasons for your recommendation.You should write neatly on the ANSWER SHEET.Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use ―Li Ming‖ instead.Do not write the address. （10 points）Part BDirections:Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the following picture. In your essay, you should1) describe the picture briefly,2) interpret its intended meaning, and3) give your comments.You should write neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. (20 points)参考范文Part ADear members,I am writing to recommend you a great book, “Life Will Start from Tomorrow”, that I have just read recently, as I will hold a club reading session this weekend.The main reasons why I recommend this book are as follows. First and foremost, it is the story about two wheelchair girls, who are struggling, fighting against their destiny. We can learn perseverance from them. What’s more, its contents give us courage to face the difficulties we meet in our daily life.I really hope you will like it as I do and I am looking forward to discussing more with you.Sincerely yours,Li MingPart BAs is vividly depicted in the picture above, four young people, boys and girls, are having dinner while they all focus on their telephones, saying nothing to each other. The dishes on the table are untouched. There is a caption, a gathering in the age of mobile phones, below the picture. It is a common social phenomenon nowadays but the symbolic meaning is profound.There are numerous reasons for the above phenomenon, which is conveyed in the picture. Here, I will list the top two ones. In the first place, a phone really gives us convenience as a communication tool, but people depend too much on it to communicate with others, especially when the smart phones are widely used, and we ignore the face-to-face communication. Secondly, living in a tight fast-paced city life, people try to improve their ability. A telephone can provide various information as a computer does so that some people don’t want to waste their valuable time even if they are surrounded by friends.To draw a conclusion, it is wise for us to change this phenomenon. For one thing, we should use mobile phones properly and reasonably. For another, learning to relax ourselves and communicate with others face-to-face will help us have a great future.。

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Directions:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)Though not biologically related, friends are as “related”as fourth cousins, sharing about 1% of genes. That is _(1)_a study, published from the University of California and Yale University in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has__(2)_.The study is a genome-wide analysis conducted _(3)__1,932 unique subjects which __(4)__pairs of unrelated friends and unrelated strangers. The same people were used in both_(5)_.While 1% may seem_(6)_,it is not so to a geneticist. As James Fowler, professor of medical genetics at UC San Diego, says, “Most people do not even _(7)_their fourth cousins but somehow manage to select as friends the people who_(8)_our kin.”The study_(9)_found that the genes for smell were something shared in friends but not genes for immunity .Why this similarity exists in smell genes is difficult to explain, for now,_(10)_,as the team suggests, it draws us to similar environments but there is more_(11)_it. There could be many mechanisms working together that _(12)_us in choosing genetically similar friends_(13)_”functional Kinship” of being friends with_(14)_!One of the remarkable findings of the study was the similar genes seem to be evolution_(15)_than other genes Studying this could help_(16)_why human evolution picked pace in the last 30,000 years, with social environment being a major_(17)_factor.The findings do not simply exp lain people’s_(18)_to befriend those of similar_(19)_backgrounds, say the researchers. Though all the subjects were drawn from a population of European extraction, care was takento_(20)_that all subjects, friends and strangers, were taken from the same population.1. [A] when [B] why [C] how [D] what2. [A] defended [B] concluded [C] withdrawn [D] advised3. [A] for [B] with [C] on [D] by4. [A] compared [B] sought [C] separated [D] connected5. [A] tests [B] s [C]samples [D] examples6. [A] insignificant [B] unexpected [C]unbelievable [D] incredible7. [A] visit [B] miss [C] seek [D] know8. [A] resemble [B] influence [C] favor [D] surpass9. [A] again [B] also [C] instead [D] thus10. [A] Meanwhile [B] Furthermore [C] Likewise [D] Perhaps11. [A] about [B] to [C]from [D]like12. [A] drive [B] observe [C] confuse [D]limit13. [A] according to [B] rather than [C] regardless of [D] along with14. [A] chances [B]responses [C]missions [D]benefits15. [A] later [B]slower [C] faster [D] earlier16. [A]forecast [B]remember [C]understand [D]express17. [A] unpredictable [B]contributory [C] controllable [D] disruptive18. [A] endeavor [B]decision [C]arrangement [D] tendency19. [A] political [B] religious [C] ethnic [D] economic20. [A] see [B] show [C] prove [D] tellSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1Ki ng Juan Carlos of Spain once insisted “kings don’t abdicate, they dare in their sleep.”But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of therepublican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down. So, does the Spanish crisis suggest that monarchy is seeing its last days? Does that mean the writing is on the wall for all European royals, with their magnificent uniforms and majestic lifestyle?The Spanish case provides arguments both for and against monarchy. When public opinion is particularly polarised, as it was following the end of the Franco regime, monarchs can rise above “mere”politics and “embody”a spirit of national unity.It is this apparent transcendence of politics that explains monarchs’continuing popularity polarized. And also, the Middle East excepted, Europe is the most monarch-infested region in the world, with 10 kingdoms (not counting Vatican City and Andorra). But unlike their absolutist counterparts in the Gulf and Asia, most royal families have survived because they allow voters to avoid the difficult search for a non-controversial but respected public figure.Even so, kings and queens undoubtedly have a downside. Symbolic of national unity as they claim to be, their very history—and sometimes the way they behave today –embodies outdated and indefensible privileges and inequalities. At a time when Thomas Piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states.The most successful monarchies strive to abandon or hide their old aristocratic ways. Princes and princesses have day-jobs and ride bicycles, not horses (or helicopters). Even so, these are wealthy families who party with the international 1%, and media intrusiveness makes it increasingly difficult to maintain the right image.While Europe’s monarchies will no doubt be smart enough to survive for some time to come, it is the British royals who have most to fear from the Spanish example.It is only the Queen who has preserved the monarchy’s reputation with her rather ordinary (if well-heeled) granny style. The danger will come with Charles, who has both an expensive taste of lifestyle and a pretty hierarchical view of the world. He has failed to understand that monarchies have largely survived because they provide a service – as non-controversial and non-political heads of state. Charles ought to know that as English history shows, it is kings, not republicans, who are the monarchy’s worst enemies.21. According to the first two Paragraphs, King Juan Carlos of Spain[A] used turn enjoy high public support[B] was unpopular among European royals[C] cased his relationship with his rivals[D]ended his reign in embarrassment22. Monarchs are kept as heads of state in Europe mostly[A] owing to their undoubted and respectable status[B] to achieve a balance between tradition and reality[C] to give voter more public figures to look up to[D]due to their everlasting political embodiment23. Which of the following is shown to be odd, according to Paragraph 4?[A] Aristocrats’excessive reliance on inherited wealth[B] The role of the nobility in modern democracies[C] The simple lifestyle of the aristocratic families[D]The nobility’s adherence to their privileges24. The British royals “have most to fear”because Charles[A] takes a rough line on political issues[B] fails to change his lifestyle as advised[C] takes republicans as his potential allies[D] fails to adapt himself to his future role25. Which of the following is the best title of the text?[A] Carlos, Glory and Disgrace Combined[B] Charles, Anxious to Succeed to the Throne[C] Carlos, a Lesson for All European Monarchs[D]Charles, Slow to React to the Coming ThreatsTEXT 2Just how much does the Constitution protect your digital data? The Supreme Cpurt will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.California has asked the justices to refrain from a sweeping ruling, particularly one that upsets the old assumptions that authorities may search through the possessions of suspects at the time of their arrest. It is hard, the state argues, for judges to assess the implications of new and rapidly changing technologies.The court would be recklessly modest if it followed California’s advice. Enough of the implications are discernable, even obvious, so that the justice can and should provide updated guidelines to police, lawyers and defendants.They should start by discarding California’s lame argument that exploring the contents of a smartphone- a vast storehouse of digital inform ation is similar to say, going through a suspect’s purse .The court has ruled that police don't violate the Fourth Amendment when they go through the wallet or porcketbook, of an arrestee without a warrant. But exploring one’s smartphone is more like enter ing his or her home. A smartphone may contain an arrestee’s reading history ,financial history, medical history and comprehensive records of recent correspondence. The development of “cloud computing.” meanwhile, has made that exploration so much the easier.But the justices should not swallow California’s argument whole. New, disruptive technology sometimes demands novel applications of the Constitution’s protections. Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a digital necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new personal domain of the passenger car then; they must sort out how the Fourth Amendment applies to digital information now.26. The Supreme court, will work out whether, during an arrest, it is legitimate to[A] search for suspects’mobile phones without a warrant.[B] check suspects’phone contents without being authorized.[C] prevent suspects from deleting their phone contents.[D] prohibit suspects from using their mobile phones.27. The author’s attitude toward California’s argument is one of[A] tolerance.[B] indifference.[C] disapproval.[D] cautiousness.28. The author b elieves that exploring one’s phone content is comparable to[A] getting into one’s residence.[B] handing one’s historical records.[C] scanning one’s correspondences.[D] going through one’s wallet.29. In Paragraph 5 and 6, the author shows his concern that[A] principles are hard to be clearly expressed.[B] the court is giving police less room for action.[C] phones are used to store sensitive information.[D] citizens’privacy is not effective protected.30.Orin Kerr’s comparison is quoted to indicate that(A)the Constitution should be implemented flexibly.(B)New technology requires reinterpretation of the Constitution.(C)California’s argument violates principles of the Constitution.(D)Principles of the Constitution should never be altered.Text 3The journal Science is adding an extra round of statistical checks to its peer-review process, editor-in-chief Marcia McNutt announced today. The policy follows similar efforts from other journals, after widespread concern that basic mistakes in data analysis are contributing to the irreproducibility of many published research findings.“Readers must have confidence in the conclusions published in our journal,”writes McNutt in an editorial. Working with the American Statistical Association, the journal has appointed seven experts to a statistics board of reviewing editors (SBoRE). Manu will be flagged up for additional scrutiny by the journal’s internal editors, or by its existing Board of Reviewing Editors or by outside peer reviewers. The SBoRE panel will then find external statisticians to review these manus.Asked whether any particular papers had impelled the change, McNutt said: “The creation of the ‘statistics board’was motivated by concerns broadly with the application of statistics and data analysis in scientific research and is part of Science’s overall drive to increase reproducibility in the research we publish.”Giovanni Parmigiani, a biostatistician at the Harvard School of Public Health, a member of the SBoRE group, says he expects the board to “play primarily an advisory role.”He agreed to join because he “found the foresight behind the establishment of the SBoRE to be novel, unique and likely to have a lasting impact. This impact will not only be through the publications in Science itself, but hopefully through a larger group of publishing places that may want to model their approach after Science.”31、It can be learned from Paragraph I that[A] Science intends to simplify its peer-review process.[B]journals are strengthening their statistical checks.[C]few journals are blamed for mistakes in data analysis.[D]lack of data analysis is common in research projects.32、The phrase “flagged up ”(Para.2)is the closest in meaning to[A]found.[B]revised.[C]marked[D]stored33、Giovanni Parmigiani believes that the establishment of the SBoRE may[A]pose a threat to all its peers[B]meet with strong opposition[C]increase Science’s circulation.[D]set an example for other journals34、David Vaux holds that what Science is doing nowA. adds to researchers’worklosd.B. diminishes the role of reviewers.C. has room for further improvement.D. is to fail in the foreseeable future.35. Which of the following is the best title of the text?A. Science Joins Push to Screen Statistics in PapersB. Professional Statisticians Deserve More RespectC. Data Analysis Finds Its Way onto Editors’DesksD. Statisticians Are Coming Back with ScienceText 4Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s d aughter ,Elisabeth ,spoke of the “unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of ourinstitutions”Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism ”in societyshould be profit and the market .But “it’s us ,human beings ,we the people who create the society we want ,not profit ”.Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous foals for capitalism and freedom.”This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International ,shield thought ,making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking .As the hacking trial concludes –finding guilty ones-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones ,and finding his predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge –the winder issue of dearth of integrity still standstill, Journalists are known to have hacked the phones of up to 5,500 people .This is hacking on an industrial scale ,as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking. Others await trial. This long story still unfolds.In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place .One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, wow little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired wow the stories arrived. The core of her successful defence was that she knew nothing.In today’s world, title has become normal that well—paid executives should not be accountable for what happens in the organizations that they run perhaps we should not be so surprised. For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit. The words that have mattered are efficiency, flexibility, shareholder value, business–friendly, wealth generation, sales, impact and, in newspapers, circulation. Words degraded to the margin have been justice fairness, tolerance, proportionality and accountability.The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity. It was to ruin lives in the quest for circulation and impact. Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave no instructions—nor received traceable, recorded answers.36. According to the first two paragraphs, Elisabeth was upset by[A] the consequences of the current sorting mechanism[B] companies’financial loss due to immoral practices.[C] governmental ineffectiveness on moral issues.[D]the wide misuse of integrity among institutions.37. It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that[A] Glem Mulcaire may deny phone hacking as a crime[B] more journalists may be found guilty of phone hacking.[C] Andy Coulson should be held innocent of the charge.[D] phone hacking will be accepted on certain occasions.38. The author believes the Rebekah Books’s deference[A] revealed a cunning personality[B] centered on trivial issues[C] was hardly convincing[D] was part of a conspiracy39. The author holds that the current collective doctrine shows[A] generally distorted values[B] unfair wealth distribution[C] a marginalized lifestyle[D] a rigid moral cote40. Which of the following is suggested in the last paragraph?[A] The quality of writing is of primary importance.[B] Common humanity is central news reporting.[C] Moral awareness matters in exciting a newspaper.[D] Journalists need stricter industrial regulations.Part BDirectionsIn the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of numbered blanks. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the blanks .Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)How does your reading proceed? Clearly you try to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them drawing on your implicit knowledge of English grammar.(41)________You begin to infer a context for the text, for instance, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved. Who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.The ways of reading indicated here are without doubt kinds of comprehension. But they show comprehension to consist not just of passive assimilation but of active engagement in inference and problem-solving. You infer information you feel the writer has invited you to grasp by presenting you with specific evidence and clues.(42)_________Conceived in this way, comprehension will not follow exactly the same track for each reader. What is in question is not the retrieval of an absolute, fixed or "true" meaning that can be read off and checked for accuracy, or some timeless relation of text to the world.(43)_________Such background material inevitably reflects who we are.(44)_______This doesn`t, however, make interpretation merely relative or even pointless. Precisely because readers from different historical periods, places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the page--including for texts that engage with fundamental human concerns--debates about texts can play an important role in social discussion of beliefs and values.How we read a given text also depends to some extent on our particular interest in reading it,(45)________Such dimensions of reading suggest-as others introduced later in the book will also do-that we bring an implicit(often unacknowledged)agenda to any act of reading. It doesn`t then necessarily follow that one kind of reading is fuller, more advanced or more worthwhile than another. Ideally, different minds of reading inform each other, and act as useful reference points for and counterbalances to one another. Together, they make up the reading component of your overall literacy, or relationship to your surrounding textual environment.[A] Are we studying that text and trying to respond in a way that fulfills the requirement of a given course? Reading it simply for pleasure? Skimming it for information? Ways of reading on a train or in bed are likely to differ considerably from reading in a seminar room.[B] Factors such as the place and period in which we are reading ,our gender, ethnicity, age and social class will encourage us towards certain interpretations but at the same time obscure or even close off others.[C] If you unfamiliar with words or idioms, you guess at their meaning, using clues presented in the context. On the assumption that they will become relevant later, you make a mental note of discourse entities as well as possible links between them.[D] In effect, you try to reconstruct the likely meanings or effects that any given sentence, image or reference might have had: These might be the ones the author intended.[E] You make further inferences that form the basis of a personal response for which the author will inevitably be far less responsible.Section III TranslationDirections:Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)Within the span of a hundred years, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a tide of emigration—one of the great folk wanderings of history—swept from Europe to America. 46) This movement, driven by powerful and diverse motivations, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.47) The United States is the product of two principal forces-the immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs, and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits. Of necessity, colonial America was a projection of Europe. Across the Atlantic came successive groups of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Scots, Irishmen, Dutchmen, Swedes, and many others who attempted to transplant their habits and traditions to the new world.48) But, the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused significant changes. These changes were gradual and at first scarcely visible. But the result was a new social pattern which, although it resembled European society in many ways, had a character that was distinctly American.49) The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the 15th- and 16th-century explorations of North America. In the meantime, thriving Spanish colonies had been established in Mexico, the West Indies, and South America. These travelers to North America came in small, unmercifully overcrowded craft. During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they subsisted on barely enough food allotted to them. Many of the ship were lost in storms, many passengers died of disease, and infants rarely survived the journey. Sometimes storms blew the vessels far off their course, and often calm brought unbearably long delay.“To the anxious travelers the sight of the American shore brought almost inexpressible relief.”said one recorder of events, “The air at twelve leagues’distance smelt as sweet as a new-blown garden.”The colonists’first glimpse of the new land was a sight of dense woods. 50) The virgin forest with its richness and variety of trees was a veritable real treasure-house which extended from Maine all the way down to Georgia. Here was abundant fuel and lumber. Here was the raw material of houses and furniture, ships and potash, dyes and naval stores.Section IV WritingPart A51. Directions:You are going to host a club reading session. Write an email of about 100 words recommending a book to the club members.You should state reasons for your recommendation.You should write neatly on the ANSWER SHEET.Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use Li Ming instead.Do not write the address. (10 points)Part B52. Directions:Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the following drawing. In your essay you should1) describe the drawing briefly2) explain its intended meaning, and3) give your commentsYou should write neatly on ANSWER SHEET. (20 points)一.Close test1、What2、Concluded3、On4、Compared5、Samples6、Insignificant7、Know8、Resemble9、Also10、Perhaps11、To12、Drive13、Ratherthan14、Benefits15、Faster16、understand17、Contributory18、Tendency19、Ethnic20、seeII Reading comprehensionPart AText 121. C ended his regin in embarrassment22. A owing to their undoubted and respectable status23. C the role of the nobility in modern democracy24. D fails to adapt himsself to his future role25. B Carlos, a lesson for all European MonarchiesText 226. B check suspect's phone contents without being authorized.27.C disapproval28.A getting into one's residence29. D citizens' privacy is not effectively protected30.B new technology requires reinterpretation of the constitutionText 331.B journals are strengthening their statistical checks32.C marked33. D set an example for other journals34. C has room for further improvement35.A science joins Push to screen statistics in papersText 436. A the consequences of the current sorting mechanism37. B more journalists may be found guilty of phone hacking38. C was hardly convincing39. A generally distorted values40. C moral awareness matters in editing a newspaperPart B41.C if you are unfamiliar...42.E you make further inferences...43.D Rather ,we ascribe meanings to...44.B factors such as...45.A are we studying that ...Part C46)在多种强大的动机驱动下，这次运动在一片荒野上建起了一个国家，其本身塑造了一个未知大陆的性格和命运。

广西民族大学考研真题_基础英语2012--2015,2017年

广西民族大学2012年硕士研究生入学考试初试自命题科目试题（试卷代号： A卷）科目代码： 622科目名称：基础英语英语语言文学、适用学科专业：外国语言学与应用语言学研究方向：所有方向命题教师签名：考生须知1．答案必须写在答题纸上，写在试题上无效。

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I. Vocabulary (20 points)Directions：There are 20 sentences in this part. Each sentence has a word or phrase underlined. Below each sentence are four other words or phrases. You are to choose the one word or phrase which would best keep the meaning of he original sentence and write down the letter on your answer sheet.1．I didn’t stop at John’s house because he had visitors, and I didn’t want to butt in.A. incurB. intrudeC. inferD. intercept.2. The author dedicated the book to his son.A. inscribedB. submergedC. promotedD. reassured.3. When you are hungry, you will devour what is up before you.A. gulpB. enhanceC. defrayD. doze4. We’d better wait inside until the storm subsides.A. transmitsB. distortsC. migratesD. diminishes5. The union and the company have come to terms on a new contract.A. brought to an endB. called onC. reached an agreement onD. terminated.6. Several dissenting statements were made.A. lengthyB. novelC. unanticipatedD. opposing7. Speaking the truth, he is really stubborn.A. indignantB. obstinateC. ambitiousD. prodigal8. John is interested in and clever at many different things, so he is all-around.A. verticalB. versatileC. verdantD. vernal9. Because it was very contagious, everyone in the family came down with the disease.A. superfluousB. paternalC. sanitaryD. infectious10. If something can be easily seen, we say that it is conspicuous.A. picturesqueB. desolateC. vigorousD. eminent11. The judge’s decision was appealed.A. applaudedB. unexpectedC. appropriateD. challenged12. As an artist, Jim is certainly an amateur, for he has had no training.A. a seniorB. an alienC. a laymanD. a steward13. That is a very interesting hypothesis.A. assumptionB. announcementC. conclusionD. comment14. The agreement between them has been made.A. contentionB. concordC. conjunction D commune15. The warranty period is one year.A. initialB. trialC. guaranteeD. maximum16. During the weekends, they wander idly without purpose in the street.A. rambleB. rumbleC. fumbleD. clamp17. Many sick persons stayed in hospital waiting for the doctor.A. scavengersB. invalidsC. croniesD. deacons18. Mr. Harris has been in a coma for several days.A. very angry B unconscious C distracted D. very busy19. They finally agreed unwillingly.A. consortedB. consoledC. consignedD. conceded20. The returning of his illness surprised us.A. relayB. relapseC. refrainD. refundII. Reading Comprehension: (80 points)Directions:The following two passages are followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and write down the letter on your answer sheet. Passage 1. (10 points, 2 points each)The standardized educational or psychological tests, that are widely used to aid in selecting, classifying, assigning, or promoting students, employees, and military personnel have been the target of recent attacks in books, magazines, the daily press, and even in Congress. The target is wrong, for in attacking the tests, critics turn attention from the fault that lies with ill-informed or incompetent users. The tests themselves are merely tools, with characteristics that can be measured with reasonable precision under specified condition. Whether the results will be valuable, meaningless, or even misleading depends partly upon the tool itself but largely upon the user.All informed predictions of future performance are based upon some knowledge of relevant past performance. How well the predictions will be supported by later performance de-ends upon the amount, reliability, and appropriateness of information used and on the skill and wisdom with which it is interpreted. Anyone who keeps careful score knows that the information available is always incomplete and that the predictions are always subject to error.Standardized tests should be considered in this context. They provide a quick, objective method of getting some kinds of information about what a person has learned, the skills he has developed, or the kind of person he is the information so obtained has, qualitatively, the same advantages and shortcomings as other kinds of information. Whether to use tests, other kinds of information, or both in a particular situation depends, therefore, upon the evidence from experience, and upon such factors as cost and availability.1. What is the author's attitude towards standardized tests?a. Negativeb. Positivec. Slightly criticald. Both a and b2. Why is the target of attacks considered to be wrong?a. Because the standardized tests are criticized by too many magazinesb. Because the problems of the tests should not be referred to Congressc. Because one fails to notice test users' lack of knowledged. Because attacks shouldn't be made by incompetent users3. "All informed predictions" in Paragraph 2 means all predictions that ________.a. are based on sound knowledge of the testsb. are based on information from the mass mediac. are made by government agenciesd. are made by testes4. One's predictions are never 100% accurate because _______.a. the predictor may not be wise enoughb. the predictor may not nave sufficient experiencec. the predictor never receives complete informationd. the information received is subject to errors5. According to the author, what is the context in which standardized tests should be considered?a. They provide a quick objective methodb. They get information about a particular personc. They provide good quality informationd. They may be partly incorrectPassage 2 (10 points, 2 points for each)When Liam McGee departed as president of Bank of America in August, his explanation was surprisingly straight up. Rather than cloaking his exit in the usual vague excuses, he came right out and said he was leaving “to pursue my goal of running a company.” Broadcasting his ambition was “very much my decision,” McGee says. Within two weeks, he was talking for the first time with the board of Hartford Financial Services Group, which named him CEO and chairman on September 29.McGee says leaving without a position lined up gave him time to reflect on what kind of company he wanted to run. It also sent a clear message to the outside world about his aspirations. And McGee isn’t alone. In recent weeks the No.2 executives at Avon and American Express quit with the explanation that they were looking for a CEO post. As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don’t get the nod also may wish to move on. A turbulent business environment also has senior managers cautious of letting vague pronouncements cloud their reputations.As the first signs of recovery begin to take hold, deputy chiefs may be more willing to make the jump without a net. In the third quarter, CEO turnover was down 23% from a year ago as nervous boards stuck with the leaders they had, according to Liberum Research. As the economy picks up, opportunities will abound for aspiring leaders.The decision to quit a senior position to look for a better one is unconventional. For years executives and headhunters have adhered to the rule that the most attractive CEO candidates are the ones who must be poached. Says Korn/Ferry senior partner Dennis Carey:”I can’t think of a single search I’ve done where a board has not instructed me to look at sitting CEOs first.”Those who jumped without a job haven’t always landed in top positions quickly. Ellen Marram quit as chief of Tropicana a decade age, saying she wanted to be a CEO. It was a year before she became head of a tiny Internet-based commodities exchange. Robert Willumstad left Citigroup in 2005 with ambitions to be a CEO. He finally took that post at a major financial institution three years later.Many recruiters say the old disgrace is fading for top performers. The financial crisis has made it more acceptable to be between jobs or to leave a bad one. “The traditional rule was it’s safer to stay where you are, but that’s been fundamentally inverted,” says one headhunter. “The people who’ve been hurt the worst are those who’ve stayed too long.”6. When McGee announced his departure, his manner can best be described as beingA. arrogant.B. frank.C. self-centered.D. impulsive.7. According to Paragraph 2, senior executives’ quitting may be spurred byA. their expectation of better financial status.B. their need to reflect on their private life.C. their strained relations with the boards.D. their pursuit of new career goals.8. The word “poached” (Line 3, Paragraph 4) most probably meansA. approved of.B. attended to.C. hunted for.D. guarded against.9. It can be inferred from the last paragraph thatA. top performers used to cling to their posts.B. loyalty of top performers is getting out-dated.C. top performers care more about reputations.D. it’s safer to stick to the traditional rules.10. Which of the following is the best title for the text?A.CEOs: Where to Go?B.CEOs: All the Way Up?C. Top Managers Jump without a NetD. The Only Way Out for Top PerformersPassage 3Read the following passages carefully and then explain in your own English the exact meaning of the numbered and underlined parts.(30 points, 3 points for each)(1) Being angry increases the risk of injury, especially among men, new research says. The researchers gathered data on more than 2,400 accident victims at three Missouri hospitals. They interviewed each subject to determine the patient’s emotional state just before the injury and 24 hours earlier, gathering data on whether the patients felt irritable, angry or hostile, and to what degree. Then they compared the results with a control group of uninjured people.(2) Despite widespread belief in “road rage,” anger did not correlate with injuries from traffic accidents. (3) Not surprisingly, anger was strongly associated with injuries inflicted deliberately. But other injuries – those neither intentionally inflicted nor from falls or traffic accidents – also showed strong associations with anger.(4) The correlations were significantly weaker for women than for men, but there were no differences by race. The authors acknowledge that their data depend on self-reports, which are not always reliable.(5) Why anger correlates with injury is not known. “I can speculate that the anger may have prompted some behavior that led to the injury, or may have simply distracted the person, leading indirectly to the injury,” said the study’s lead author. (6) It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As persons deprived of memory become disoriented and lost, not knowing where they have been and where they are going, so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.Passage 4Read the following passages carefully and then explain in your own English the exact meaning of the numbered and underlined parts.(30 points, 3 points for each)History is the best antidote to delusions of omnipotence and omniscience. (7) Self-knowledge is the indispensable prelude to self-control, for the nation as well as for the individual. History should forever remind us of the limits of our passing perspectives. It should strengthen us to resist the pressure to convert momentary impulses into moral absolutes. It should lead us to recognition of the fact, so often and so sadly displayed, that the future outwits all our certitudes and that the possibilities of the future are more various than the human intellect is designed to conceive.(8) A nation informed by a vivid understanding of the ironies of history is best equipped to manage the tragic temptations of military power. Let us not bully our way through life, but let a sensitivity to history temper and civilize our use of power. In the meantime, let a thousand historical flowers bloom. (9) History is never a closed book or a final verdict. It is forever in the interests of an ideology, a religion, a race, and a nation.The great strength of history is its capacity for self-correction. This is the endless excitement of historical writing: the search to reconstruct what went before. (10) A nation’s history must be both the guide and the domain not so much of its historians as its citizens.III. General knowledge (20 points,)A. Fill in each blank with a suitable word which should be written on the answer sheet. (10 points, 1 for each)1. The distinctive phonemic features that occur above the level of the segments are called suprasegmental features, which include ________, _______, and ________.2. In the predication analysis, the basic unit is called predication, which is the abstraction of the meaning of a sentence. It consists of _______ and _______.3. According to Austin’s new model, a speaker might be performing three acts simultaneously when speaking: ________, _________and ________4. According to cognitive linguistics, conceptual ______ and conceptual metonymy are cognitive models.5. “Care” is the ______ of the word “carelessness”.B. Write out the authors of the following works: (4 points, 1 point each)1)The Voice of the City ________________2) Life on the Mississippi _______________3）Song of myself __________________4）Syntactic Structure __________________C. Translate the following into English or Chinese (2 points, 1 point each):1) APEC2) 金砖四国D. Explain the following terms: (4 points, 2 point each)1) ASEAN2) stream of consciousnessIV. Translation (30 points)E-C (15 points)The decision of the New York Philharmonic to hire Alan Gilbert as its next music director has been the talk of the classical-music world ever since the sudden announcement of his appointment in 2009. For the most part, the response has been favorable, to say the least. “Hooray! At last!” wrote Anthony Tommasini, a sober-sided classical-music critic.One of the reasons why the appointment came as such a surprise, however, is that Gilbert is comparatively little known. Even Tommasini, who had advocated Gilbert’s appointment in the Times, calls him “an unpretentious musician with no air of the formidable conductor about him.” As a description of the next music director of an orchestra that has hitherto been led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and Pierre Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least some Times readers as faint praise.C-E (15 points)一个可能的应对方式（解决办法）是古典音乐表演者发明有吸引力的从唱片上听不到的曲子。

2015年12月大学英语A级真题

Directions: This part is to test your listening ability. It consists of4sect i o n sSection ADirections:This section is to test your ability to understand shortdialogues. There are 5 recorded dialogues in it. After each dialogue, there is a recorded question. Both the dialoguesand questionswill be spoken only once. When you hear a question, you should decideon the correct answer from the 4 choices marked A) , B) , C) and D) given in yourtest paper. Then you should mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Section BDirections: This section is to test your ability to understand short conversations. There are 2 recorded conversations in it. After each conversation, there are some recordedquestions. Both the conversations and questions will be spoken two times. When you hear a question, you should decide on the correct answer from the 4 choices marked A), B) ,C) and D) given in your test paper. Then you should mark the corresponding letter on theAnswer Sheet with a single line through the center. Now listen to the conversations1. A) The price of the product.8) The charge of the service.2. A) Giving a lecture.8) Taking an interview.3. A) Its food is delicious.8) Its price is reasonable.4. A) By sea.8) By air.5. A) Asking the way.B) Renting a car.C) The delivery of his order. D) The packing of the goods. C) Preparing a party. D) Having an exam. C) It is close to his office. D)It provides good service. C) By train. D) By truck. C) Buying air tickets. D) Booking hotel rooms.10.A)By7:00.C)By9:00.B)By8:00.D)By10:00.Section CDirections: In this section you will hear a recorded short passage. The passage is printed in the test paper, but with some words or phrases missing. The passage will be read two times. You are required to put the missing words or phrases on the Answer Sheet in order of the numbered blanks according to what you hear. Now the passage will begin.An interviewer sometimes starts with an open-ended question like "Could you tell me something about yourself It is a way to break the ice and make you feel 11 during the interview. It is also a way for the interviewer to know more about your personality to help him or her to 12 if you are a good fit for the job.It is not a good idea to talk too much about yourself because the interviewer doesn't want to know everything about you. But on the other hand, telling 13 can make him or her wonder why you aren' t more open. So it's a good idea to share some 14 . These interests may not 15 your work.Section DDirections: This section is to test your ability to comprehend short passages. You will hear aConversation 16. A)Open a new shoe store.B)Participate in a tradefair.7. A) An advertising brochure.B)A price listConversation 28. A) At a hotel.8) At the airport.9. A) To buy a ticket.B) To book a taxi.C) Invite the woman to his company D) Place an order with the woman C) An invitation letter D) A few samples. C)In a restaurant. D) In a bank. C)To place an order. D) To make an appointment.recorded passage. After that you will hear five questions. Both the passage and the questions will be read two times. When you hear a question, you should complete the answer to it with a word or a short phrase (in no more than 3 words ) The questions and incomplete answers are printed in your test paper. You should write your answers on the Answer Sheet correspondingly. Now listen to the passage.16.What does the speaker talk about first in his speechThe speaker first gives about his company.17.What are the main products of the companyClothing, and household products18.How long has the company been in businessOver.19.Where can people find job openings at Family DollarOn its20.How can people apply for the jobsThey can make their application ^Part n - Structure - (10 minutes)Directions: This part is to test your ability to construct grammatically correct sentences. It consists of 2 sections.Section ADirections: In this section, there are 10 incomplete sentences. You are required to complete eachone by deciding on the most appropriate word or words from the 4 choices markedA) B) , C) and D). Then you should mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheetwitha single linethrough the center21.the investigation, the committee published the report on the cause of the accidentA) CompletedC) Having completedB)CompletingD) To have completed22.The report shows that over half of the women are suffering second-hand smoke at the workplace.A) inB) forC) onD) from23.Our goal is to fulf川the needs of our clients, challenging they may be.A) howeverB) whenever C) whereverD) whatever24.Only after the secretary saw the train disappear in sight the railway station,A) he leaves B) has he leftC) he leftD) didhe leave25.If they had worked harder, they the project ahead of time.A)will finishC) have finishedB)would have finishedD) had finished26.The company has decided to sponsor the exhibition, helps to promote its image.A) thatB) whoC) whatD) which27.The newly appointed manageris said to be neither flexible easy to get along with.A) orB) andC) norD) but28.benefit salaries maynot be high, working as a nursing assistant does have some other.A) Unless B) WhileC) AsD) Since29.How we pack the products has a significant impact he cost oflogistics.A) ofB) onC) toD) with30.impressed me most about the school is how it was designed to support both thestudents and the community.A) WhatB) ThatC) ThisD) WhichSection BDirections: There are 5 incomplete statements here. You should fill in each blank with the proper form of the word given in brackets. Write the word or words in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet31.For the sake of our long-term(cooperate) , we may consider reducing the price by 10percent.32.Here you will find some(value) resources to help you develop communication ski.33.Driving has long been thought of as(efficient) thanflying,but according to new research, that is no longer the case.34.Quotations and samples will (send) to you as soon as we receive your specificInquiries35.After (receive) yourloan from us, if you are not completelysatisfied with your experience, please contact us.Part m - Rea ding Comprehension • (40 minutes)Directions: This part is to test your reading ability. There are 5 tasks for you tofulfill. You should read the reading materials carefully and do the tasks as you are instructedTask 1Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 86 to 40. For each question or statement, there are 4 choices marked A), B), C) and D).You should make the correct choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.In giving a business presentation, manyspeakers think that if their idea is strong, their audience will get it readily. They feel discouraged when the audience is unable to understand their presentations. That happens a lot especially when technical experts are invited to make a product presentation to a group of users.What can we do to make a business presentation easier to understand In my view, good presentations have always been simple and visual. In an effective business presentation, the fewer the points, the better the messagegets passed on. You focus on the depth of coverage instead of the width (广度)of coverage. Additionally, you make your ideas visual and relevant, so the messageis understood better and rememberedlonger. Great business presenters relate their ideas and concepts to their audience by using simple, powerful diagrams instead of relying on text-based slides. In fact, drawing diagrams forces a presenter to make the idea clear even at the preparation stage. It is impossible to draw a diagram when you are not clear about an idea. Whenyour idea is clear, it is easier to transfer it. Most audiences understand a diagram faster and remember it longer.This possibly explains why most of the memorable presentations have been visual in nature.36.Many speakers believe that the stronger their idea, .A)the more powerful their speech will beB)the more meaningful their speech will beC)the more easily the audience will understand itD)the harder the audience will find it to follow37.Why are you advised to give fewer points in your presentationA)To pass on the messages better.C) To allow audienceto take notes.B)To avoid wasting too much time.D) To leave more time forquestions.38.The speaker can help the audience remember the message longer byA). displaying text-based slides.C) focusing on thewidth of of coverageB)avoiding long technical terms.D)using simple andpowerful diagrams39.The underlined word "transfer" in this passage most probably means 〞A) createB) pass onC) take offD)describe40.This passage is mainly aboutA)how to make an effective business presentationB)how to present strong ideas in a presentationC)how to focus on the depth of coverageD)how to prepare a powerful diagramTask 2Directions:This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions orunfinished statements are numbered 41 to 45.now the companyhas grown to have its ownonline store, relationships with suppliers inAsia, and local factories. The company has had its revenues double every two months.For our day-to-day operations, Blue Jeans Company has established several key relationships and we can easily expand our production when the demand for our goods increases.We obtain the best organic cotton from two suppliers, one located in Turkey and the other in Japan, which meansthat their supplies are produced without the use of any chemicals. Once the shipment arrives in the US, it'll be routed ( 发送)to our production and shipping partner in Los Angeles. We work closely with our partner to ensure quality through regular checks. It is also where the products will ship out.Our office is located on 2029 Century Park East where all staff work together, handling all online order processing and ensuring the purchase and delivery of the products run smoothly. It's also where all requests for refunds are handled in addition to the future launch of the jean-recycling program.41.Blue Jeans Company first started its business byA)selling its product to friendsC) exportingjeans to AsiancountriesB)doing business in an online storeD) supplyingraw materials tolocal factories42.“ Organic cotton “ in Line1,Para.3, probably means “ cottonA)manufactured automatically C) produced without using chemicalsB)grown in local regionsD) imported from foreign countries43.To ensure product quality, the companyA)uses man-made materials C) checks its products regularlyB)observes strict regulations D) often asks for clients opinions44.The company's products will ship out fromA) New York B)Los Angeles C) Turkey D)Japan45.What will the company do in the futureA)Sell its products worldwideC) Establish a new office in NewYork.B)Handle all its orders onlineD) Carry out a jean-recyclingprogramTask 3Directions: Readthe following passage. After reading it, you are required to complete the outline below it (No.46 to No.50). You should write your answers briefly ( inno more than three words )on the Answer Sheet correspondingly FineArtAmerica. com is an online market place designed to help you transform your digital images into a flourishing online business.Simply open a free account, upload (上传)your images, set your prices for the available print sizes, and you're in business…instantly.You can immediately start selling fine art prints and greeting cards to a worldwide audience of art collectors.Each month, more than 5 million visitors stop by FAA to browse and purchase artwork.When one of these visitors purchases your prints or greeting cards, we take care of everything for you!In order to help you generate sales, FAA advertises your artwork for you online, and we also provide you with powerful and unique marketing features.In addition, FAA has an online community of 40 000+ artists who participate in daily discussions, live chats, groups, contests, and much more. If you' re interested in networking with other artists, discussing art-related topics, and sharing business ideas. you've cometo the right place.A 级2021-12-5In addition, FAAhas an online community of 40 000+ artists whoparticipatein daily discussions, live chats, groups, contests, and much more, If you'reinterested in networking with other artists, discussing art-related topics, and sharing business ideas.. youFineArtAmerica. comD eoat ：oni%lp ：曲利翻榻 ys)ua 隔ita0f temmsesein t od a foStockg and oShae es ^^^1^^“9 it, you are required to find the items equivalent to those given in Chinese in the table below. Then you should mark the corresponding leStepsWRlsagiyour 出tt 即ffisoiudh topeBentfer; in ord e r of the numberedblanks, 51 through 55, 0 nthe 烟哪舫射§8京 images; J 3) seEa4f^ings per shareCNumC 0s jn g is1r 陡：over 49 morkhly- Market valueI - Cash flow52.() 开盘价've come to the right place.Task 4an online market placeA- Bear marketB — Bull market4幅呼酢“喀a^pffits and 48D- Opening priceM- -Volume of trading E- Primary market N 一一Ordinary shareF - Secondary market 一Composite IndexG - Individual investorP - Account balance H - Annual report一Annual returnExamples: ( O ) 综合指数(E ) 一级市场 51.() 每股股价 ()年回报()熊市53.()二级市场()交易量54.()资金流()普通股55.()每股收益()市场价值Task 5Directions: Read the following passage. After reading it, you should give brief answers to the 5 questions( No.56 to No. 60)that follow. The answers ( in no more than 3 words ) should be written after the corresponding numbers on the Answer Sheet.Are you searching the Internet to find the best place to book a room for your family vacation Here are some of our tips for you.A 级2021-12-6Getting StartedYears ago searching for a hotel required a lot of phone calls to hotel chains. Today, there's no shortage of quality online hotelbookingwebsites, Just locate your favorite online hotel booking site, enter your travel destination, the date of your trip,and the number of hotel guests.Narrowing the Hotel SearchSo now what You' ve found a list of hotel rooms online ordered by hotel star rating (等级),guest scores, or price. What's most important to you If it's price, sort the list by lowest price first. I fit's the star rating of the hotel, then click to sort by rating. Read Guest Scores and ReviewsAlways read the guest scores. Keep in mind that hotels with a high number of highly rated guest scores and written guest reviews will increase your confidence that you'll have a good experience at that hotel. Always consider the guest scores when you book a room online in a hotel. Your experience is likely to be similar.56.What did people have to do to search for a hotel in the pastThey had to make a lot of.57.What should people do after they have found their favorite hotel booking siteSimply enter their , the date of their trip and the number of guests.58.How are hotel rooms ordered in a list onlineThey are ordered by star rating,, or price.59.What should people do if they think the star rating is most importantThey just sort by .60.Why should people take the guest scores into considerationBecause their experience is likely to be ^Part IV • Translation - English into Chinese • (25 minutes)Directions: This part, numbered 61 through 65, is to test your ability to translate English into Chinese. After each of the sentences numbered61 to 64, you will read three choices of suggested translation marked A), B) and C). You should choose the best translation and mark the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. And for the paragraph numbered 65, write your translation in the corresponding space on the Translation /Composition Sheet.61.I t has been found that somepeople devote themselves so fully to their business success that they develop unhealthy eating habitsA〕人们发现有些人的事业之所以能成功,是与他们的生活习惯密不可分的.B〕人们发现有些人只注重自己事业的开展,而忽略了健康饮食习惯的养成.C〕人们发现有些人全身心倾注于事业的成功,以至养成不健康的饮食习惯62.It's not howmuchdata you collect, but the value of the data collected that will help you run your businessA〕收集数据的手段并不重要,重要的是你收集的数据是否对企业有实际意义.B〕不是你收集数据的数量,而是所收集数据的价值,才有助于你企业的运营.C〕你所收集的数据还不多,维持企业的正常运行需要收集更多有意义的数据.63.Failure to arrive on time for the appointment may result in the test being canceled and loss of the test feesA〕未能按约定时间到达,可能会导致测试被取消和测试费用损失B〕由于没有按时到达考场,测试就会被取消,测试费用将会退还.C〕尽管你已报名参加测试,但未支付测试费,所以不能参加测试A 级2021-12-764.This manual contains operating procedures of the most frequently used basic functions, allowing the machine to immediately be usedA〕本手册包含最常用的根本功能的操作程序,可让你立即使用本机.B〕本手册主要教你学会一些根本的操作要领,以便你独立操作机器.C〕本手册告诉你操作程序的一些最根本要领,这样机器就能启动了.65.Weinvite you to submit a paper to the 19th World Conference on Business Management. It will take place in Paris, France, on June 29th to July 2nd,2021. The deadline for submission is on January 21st, 2021. The conference focuses on small business management, which is closely related to your research area. If you need more time, please let us know about a suitable time for you and I will inform you if it is feasible for usPart V • Writing • • (25 minutes)Directions: This part is to test your ability to do practical writing.You are required to write an Invitation Letter according to the following information given in Chinese. Remember to do the task on the Translation/Composition Sheet.说明：以AB偿司市场部经理的名义用英语写一封邀请函.内容如下：1.定于2021年12月18日在东方宾馆举行产品发布会；2.发布会上将展示本公司的新产品,并邀请有关专家做相关报告;3.会后将举行业务洽谈;4.感谢对方多年的合作,并邀请对方参加;5.请在11月底前回函确认.产品发布会：New Product Release突防活对题数了听力理解确定测试要求时间20分钟统计个人做题耗时题目数量20测评结果统计表语法结构阅读理解10分钟40分钟1525译写作合计25分钟25分钟120分钟5166核定做题正确率信心指数★★★★正确率在65%Z上,很不错哦,继续保持！★正确率在50%~65%嗯,您是一支潜力股,努力定会升值的!★★:正确率在50%Z下,您缺少的不是水平而是练习,要加油啊！A 级2021-12-8。

2015年广西民族大学英语翻译基础考研真题A卷

2015年广西民族大学英语翻译基础考研真题A卷Part I. Terminology and Phrase Translation (30%)1.Translate the following terms, phrases or acronyms into Chinese (15 points).(1)electoral fraud(2)Tainted stars(3)extradition treaty(4)stealth fighter(5)car exhausts(6)overcapacity(7)bricks-and-mortar stores(8)poverty-alleviation funds(9)the Global Infrastructure Initiative(10) house-for-pension program(11) Grand Slam(12) anti-monopoly investigations(13) hard-berth(14) time-honored restaurants(15) genetically modified product2.Translate the following terms, phrases or acronyms into English (15 points).(1)领土争端(2)栖息地保护区(3)跨太平洋伙伴关系协议(4)天然气管道(5)法庭调查阶段(6)城镇化(7)农地流转(8)公车私用(9)规模化种植(10)医保体制(11)看客心态(12)依法治国(13)冰桶挑战(14)不患难，但患无备(15)众人拾柴火焰高Part II Passage Translation (120%)1.Translate the following into Chinese (60 points).On a flight from Frankfurt to Shanghai, a foreign engineer noticed row after row of Chinese passengers deep into their iPads, playing games or watching movies. None was doing any reading. The engineer posted his observation online and got a tidal wave of responses, most of which corroborated his view.Before we get to "Why Chinese do not read", I'll reveal the spoiler, which is the most frequent defense. "We read. We just do not read in the same way as the old generations do. We rely on modern gadgets for faster access." It is true that you cannot claim that only content on a printed page is knowledge. Anything that's printed can be displayed digitally. There are millions of books available in digital form. And true electronic books can incorporate sound and video, thus enhancing the reading experience.To those who believe they can get anything and everything from the Web, I'll hereby add my two cents' worth: Yes, you can, but you won't do it.My publishers (I work with several publishing houses in China) told me that most of the best-sellers in China are textbooks or supplement reading material, in other words, books that students are forced to read, or rather, forced to buy. So, let's compare China's best-seller list with that of the New York Times. While the latter has a mix of serious books, especially about history, and celebrity memoirs, the former is almost totally nothing.A walk through an airport bookstore will bring you more doom and gloom: mostly how-to-get-rich titles written by those who've done it or who claim to have the secret recipe. On top of that, there are buyers of books in China who decorate their rooms with wall-to-wall tomes but never bother to open the pages.Yes, people do read in China to enrich their bank accounts, but not to enrich themselves comprehensively.2.Translate the following into English (60 points).中国作为人口最多的发展中国家的基本国情和定位没有改变，发展仍然是我们的第一要务。

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