1、第1页共 1 页三 峡 大 学2012年研究生入学考试试题(A卷)科目代码： 211 科目名称： 翻译硕士英语 考试时间： 3 Hours（考生必须将答案写在答题纸上）Part I PART I GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE ( 10 )There are twenty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase tha
2、t correctly completes the sentence. Mark your answer on your answer sheet.1. I wish to change my major in postgraduate study, because I know the competition in the computer department of Qinghua is_. A. fragrant B. formidable C. fierce D. flexible2. If the specific attribute is_, subsequent generati
3、ons of offspring can be expected to display it more frequently. A. inherited B. inhibited C. imitated D. transmitted3. As a matter of fact, what impressed me most is Einsteins _， but not his photoelectric theory for which he won the Nobel Prize. A. character B. temper C. quality D. personality4. The
4、 travel agency will make your travel _ and send your tickets to the office by the end of week. A. release B. experiences C. reservations D. diagram5. It is generally agreed that economic controls can _ inflation by preventing overt wage and price increases from taking place. 第 2 页A. suppress B. impr
5、ess C. compress D. express6. The extrovert loves crowds; _ the introvert is fond of solitude. A. differently B. by contrast C. otherwise D. in contrast7. To call the music of another music- culture “primitive is ones own standards _ on a group that doesnt recognize them.A. putting B. forcing C. emph
6、asizing D. imposing8. By computation, he estimated that the _ repairs on the house would cost him a thousand dollars.A. coarse B. rough C. crude D. rude 9. Because of rush-hour congestion in Farmington, several large corporations are implementing _ work-hour programs.A. submissive B. inclusive C. ta
7、ngible D. flexible10. After the jazz concert, the clean-up crew found the campus _ with candy wrappers, bottles and cans. A. littered B. covered C. scattered D. dispersed11. I could see that my wife was _ having that fur coat, whether I approved of it or not.A. intent on B. adequate for C. short of
8、D. deficient in12. People of all countries are expected to _ the principles of the United Nations. A. inspect B. hold up C. uphold D. hold off13. While both plans were perfectly sensible, only one seemed _ in Chinas particular situation. A. useful B. available C. feasible D. desirable14. The magicia
9、n picked several persons _ from the audience and asked them to help him with the performance. A. by accident B. at random C. on occasion D. on average15. So many people turned out for the meeting that there were not enough seats to_ them all.A. sit B. seat C. accommodate D. afford第 3 页16. The attorn
10、ey was warned against trying to _ the young witness.A. influential B. influence C. influentially D. influencing17. From ancient times, the valley of the Nile has been made _ by the river floods. A. famous B. deserted C. attractive D. fertile18. Most workplace errors _ careless practices amongst empl
11、oyees.A. stem from B. leave out C. start up D. get into19. She prefers to have her left _ photographed, she says thats her better side. A. veil B. profile C. fringe D. view 20. It wasnt the largest company. It was ,_, one of the most highly respected in the field.A. furthermore B. therefore C. addit
12、ionally D. howeverPART I SECTION B PROOFREADING & CORRECTION ( 15 )The following passage contains TEN 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 in the following way:For a wrong word, underline
13、 the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “”sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.第 4 页For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary
14、 word with a slash / and putthe word in the blank provided at the end of the line.Hello, my name is Richard and I am an ego surfer. Thehabit began about five years ago, and now I need help. Like mostjournalists, I cant deny that one of my private joys are seeing my (21) _byline in print. Now the Int
15、ernet is allowing me to feed this vanityto ever greater extent, and the occasional sneaky web search has (22) _grown into a full-blown obsession for how high up Googles ranking (23) _my articles appear where I put my name into the search box. (24) _When I lastly looked, my best effort was a rather h
16、umiliating 47th (25)_place. You know you have a problem how you find yourself (26) _competing for ranking with a retired basketball player from the 1970s.Not that Im lonely for suffering from a dysfunctional techno- (27) _habit. New technologies have revealed a whole raft of hithertounsuspected pers
17、onality problems: think crackberry, powerpoint-lessness or cheesepodding. Most of us are familiar in sending an (28) _e-mail to a colleague sitting a couple of feet away instead talking to (29)_them. Some go onto the web to snoop on old friends, colleagues oreven the first dates. More of us than eve
18、r reveal highly personal (30)_information on blogs or My Space entries. A few will even useInternet anonymity to fool others into believing they are someone elsealtogether. So are these web syndromes and technological tics newversions of old afflictions, or are we developing fresh mind bugs?第 5 页PAR
19、T II READING COMPREHENSION SECTION A Multiple Choice ( 30 )In this section, there are several reading passages followed by a total of fifteen multiple choice questions, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Read the passages and the
20、n mark your answers on your answer sheet. Text AIf I had been asked more than 30 years ago, which I would prefer, a planned economy or a laissez-faire free market, I would have chosen the latter as the best pick-me-up for the countrys abject economic condition at that time. But if asked the same que
21、stion today, I would not hesitate to say that I would accept neither if they were presented in their extreme versions.I do not necessarily agree with all that David Harvey says in his book, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, about the rise of neoliberal economics as a state apparatus whose fundamenta
22、l mission is to reflect the interests of private property owners, businesses, multinational corporations, and financial capital. However, the Asian financial crisis in 1997 and the financial crisis on Wall Street with its ensuing global economic meltdown testify to the truth of much of what Harvey s
23、ays about the nature of neoliberalism.Harvey writes that the rise of neoliberal economics since the late 1970s has mainly benefited the wealthy. In the United States, the richest 1 percent now control 15 percent of the wealth as opposed to 8 percent at the end of World War II. Harvey also points out
24、 that the aggregate economic growth during the decades between 第 6 页World War II and the 1970s was greater than during the neoliberal era. But I would have accepted the free market fundamentalism of neoliberalism in the late 1970s, because at that time China was on the verge of bankruptcy. What the
25、country needed then was free market competition to reverse the dire economic situation brought about by the extreme planned economy, which had almost choked to death the dynamism of economic development.I believe that many in the country must have felt the same way. We over-emphasized the pros of la
26、issez faire while completely ignoring the cons. Our worship of the market economy was blind devotion. We thought that way because we were narrow-minded and not well informed at the time. We believed that a market economy would lead us to the same prosperity as that enjoyed by our developed counterpa
27、rts, though we knew little about what was happening in the developed countries.Back in the 1970s we never thought about the downsides of modernity. We saw the convenience of cars, but we never considered the exhaust emissions that would pollute our air. We only thought of the profit big factories -
28、no matter what they produced - would bring us, and never thought of the pollutants they would discharge during the manufacturing process. We had our eyes fixed on the role of free competition in stimulating the enthusiasm of labor, but failed to realize there would be those willing to seek illegal o
29、r unjustifiable profits.The gap between the haves and have-nots in the country has been widening rapidly in the past three decades. Given the countrys per capita income is just over $4,000, that China will likely overtake Japan to be the biggest luxury goods consumer in the world speaks volumes for
30、the ever-widening income gap.第 7 页What China has achieved over the last 30 years justifies the economic road the country has followed in the past three decades. Yet, the state of the global economy shows that laissez faire can be a bad thing when carried to extremes and it is high time that we in Ch
31、ina rethought the role of laissez faire in the countrys economic development. The blind worship of free competition without accepting its drawbacks will be as detrimental to the country as the stubborn adherence to the planned economy was in the decades before the late 1970s.More than 2,000 years ag
32、o, Chinese philosopher Laozi warned that it was important to guard against going to extremes, because he realized that it is very difficult for people to see both the good and the bad of something at the same time.Using the good parts of something and getting rid of the bad is the wisdom of our fore
33、fathers, and it is wisdom that should also be applied to economic principles.31. What is the main idea of paragraph 1?A. the author would prefer a planned economy B. the author would prefer a laissez-faire free market C. the author would prefer neither of themD. the author would prefer a free market
34、 without its stubborn version32. According to David Harvey, _?A. the upcoming of neoliberal economics as a state apparatus whose basic mission is to reflect the interests of individual property owners, businesses, multinational corporations, and financial capital. B. the rise of neoliberal economics
35、 as a state apparatus whose fundamental mission is to reflect the interests of private property owners, multinational 第 8 页corporations, and financial capital.C. the rise of a laissez-faire free market as a state apparatus whose fundamental mission is to reflect the interests of common property owne
36、rs, businesses, multinational corporations.D. the rise of free market economy as a state apparatus whose fundamental mission is to reflect the interests of private property owners, businesses, multinational corporations, and financial capital.33. According to the author, which statement is NOT true
37、about the advantages of market economy?A. It can aggregate economic growth B. It can protect the interests of private property owners C. It can foster the economic development.D. It can cause the financial crisis34. According to the author, which statement is NOT true about the disadvantages of mark
38、et economy?A. high economic growth brought about emissions that would pollute our air. B. there would be uncountable of pollutants during the manufacturing process.C. there would be those willing to seek illegal or unjustifiable profits.D. governments will take measures on avoiding air pollution wit
39、h the development of economy35. According to the authors opinion, The main notion conducted by philosopher Laozi is that_.A. moderate economy can benefit the people of different races.B. it is difficult for people to see both the good and the bad of something at the 第 9 页 same time.C. he realized th
40、at everything could not go to extremesD. he took the original fertilized the balance of the nation.Text BIt cannot be more obvious that China does not want the Durban climate change meeting to be a failure. But while China has shown it is willing to be flexible about binding emission cuts after 2020
41、, it is quite unlikely that the United States will show a similar willingness. It has already said it will not consider committing to a new legally binding treaty proposed by the European Union unless major developing countries such as China and India first agree to take actions equivalent to those
42、of the industrialized nations.Chinas consistent stance is that developed countries should never shirk their responsibility for global warming and thus must take the lead in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. So the first priority is for developed countries to renew their pledges under the Kyoto Proto
43、col before starting to negotiate a new one.However, it seems that the US has turned a deaf ear to what most developing countries are saying about climate change and has turned a blind eye to the impact that global warming is having around the world.No wonder that environmental groups and scientists
44、have warned US President Barack Obama that the US is being viewed as the major obstacle to progress.The onus is on the US to make a major shift in its negotiating stance.True, China and some other major developing countries have become major 第 10 页greenhouse gas emitters in recent years. But such em
45、issions are produced during the manufacturing of exported goods to industrialized countries. When consumers from those countries are benefiting from the manufacturing industries in China and other major developing countries, it is definitely unfair to say that the developing nations need to shoulder the responsibility for cutting emissions on their own.Unlike developed countries, such as the US, which have already finished their industrial development, China needs to improve the living standards of i
