2013年上海海事大学翻译硕士英语考研真题试卷.pdf

2013年上海海事大学攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题

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考试科目：翻译硕士英语

Part I. Vocabulary and Structure (30 points; 0.5 point for each item)

Directions: There are 60 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter

on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

1. You and I could hardly understand each other, _______ ?

A. could I

B. couldn’t you

C. could we

D. couldn’t we

2. We often advise him not to drink more wine _______ is good for his health.

A. as

B. than

C. that

D. but

3. I didn’t call the hotel to make a room reservation, but I _______ .

A. may have

B. must have

C. should have

D. shall have

4. It was not until midnight _______ the camping site.

A. that they have reached

B. that they did not reach

C. did they reach

D. did they not reach

5. Thomas Jefferson’s achievements as an architect rival his contributions _______ a politician.

A. such

B. more

C. as

D. than

6. _______ is generally accepted, economic growth is determined by the smooth development of

production.

A. What

B. That

C. It

D. As

7. Space exploration promises to open up many new territories for human settlement, as well as

_____the harvest of mineral resources.

A. leads to

B. to lead to

C. leading to

D. lead to

8. Someday, solar power collected by satellite s ______ the earth may give us all the energy we need for an expanding civilization.

A. circled

B. to circle

C. circling

D. circles

9. In this experiment, they are wakened several times during the night, and asked to report what they _______.

A. had just been dreaming

B. are just dreaming

C. have just been dreaming

D. had just dreamt

10. Her terror was so great ______somewhere to escape; she would have run for her life.

A. only if

B. that there had only been

C. that had there only been

D. if there were only

11. Some women ________a good salary in a job instead of staying home, but they decided not

to work for the sake of the family.

A. must make

B. should have made

C. would make

D. could have made

12. A light with no more power than _______by an ordinary electric light bulb becomes

intensely strong as it is concentrated to a pinpoint-sized beam.

A. as is produced

B. that produced

C. that is produced

D. produced

13. For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception of early intercontinental travelers

or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it, let alone _______what lay beneath the surface.

A. asking

B. ask

C. to ask

D. be asked

14. Even if they are on sale, these refrigerators are equal in price to, if not more expensive than,

_____ at the other store.

A. anyone

B. the others

C. that

D. the ones

15. The atmosphere is as much a part of the earth as _____its soil and the water of its lakes,

rivers and oceans.

A. are

B. is

C. do

D. has

16. From now on, when anyone in our ranks who has done some useful work dies, ______soldier

or cook, we should have a funeral ceremony and a memorial meeting in his honor.

A. no matter he is

B. whether he has been

C. be he

D. whether be he

17. In 1921 Einstein won the Nobel Prize, and was honored in Germany until the rise of

Nazism_______he was driven from Germany because he was a Jew.

A. then

B. and

C. when

D. before

18. Physics is the present-day equivalent of _____used to be called natural philosophy from

which most of present-day science arose.

A. that

B. all

C. which

D. what

19. _____ the population of working age increased by 1 million between 1981 and 1986, today it

is barely growing.

A. Whereas

B. Even if

C. After

D. Now that

20. By the first decade of the 21st century, international commercial traffic _____vastly beyond

today’s levels.

A. will be expected to extend

B. will have been expected to extend

C. is expected to be extended

D. is expected to have extended

21. His features were agreeable; his body, _____slight of build, had something of athletic

outline.

A. somehow

B. as

C. though

D. somewhat

22. We advocate ______the economic, cultural and religious traditions of all national minorities.

A. to respect

B. to be respected

C. respecting

D. having respected

23. There are two horses at the ends of a rope ____with all their might in opposite directions.

A. pulling

B. pull

C. pulled

D. to pull

24. Today the Tennessee Valley is one of the richest areas in the world. But if things _____as

they were it would now be a desert.

A. had left

B. were left

C. had been left

D. had been leaving

25. After twenty years abroad, William came back only ____ how his hometown was damaged

in an earthquake.

A. to find out

B. finding out

C. to have found out

D. to be finding out