2016年华南理工大学英语翻译基础真题试卷.doc

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华南理工大学大学英语三级B级-翻译专项试题一、大学英语三级翻译英译汉1． Not until the problem 0f talents and funds is solved, is our talking about the project meaningful．A．不到解决人才和资金问题的时候，无须讨论这项工程的。

B．讨论这项工程有无意义要看人才和资金问题能否得到解决。

C．只有解决了人才和资金问题，讨论这项工程才有意义。

D．解决人才和资金问题与讨论这项工程具有同样重要的意义。

【答案】C【解析】本题的翻译要点是对“Not until…”这个句型的理解。

该句表示强调，意为“直到……才”。

选项D对句型理解有误。

选项A和选项B没有把强调的语气翻译出来，且选项A后半句有漏译现象。

知识模块：英译汉2．The general manager public relations person as well as the head of the company’s management.A) 总经理不仅要当好公关人员，而且要领导好公司。

B) ，也一定要当好公司的领导。

C) 总经理不仅是公司的管理首脑，还必须起某种公关人物的作用。

D) 总经理要管理好自己的公司，首先必须管理好公司的公关人员。

【答案】C3． If you require , your application should be in the Student Financial Aid Services at least three weeks before your registration date.A) 如果你需要资助学费，应向助学办公室提出申请，。

B) 如果你需要申请贷款交纳学费，你应该至少在三周内到助学办公室登记注册。

C) 如果你需要减免学费，应到助学办公室提出申请，手续。

D) 如果你需要学费资助，最迟应该在注册日期三周前将你的申请交到助学办公室。

2016年华南理工大学626英语综合水平测试考研真题(总分150, 做题时间180分钟)Reading ComprehensionDirections: Read the following passages and make ONE choice that **plete or answer each of the statements or questions after thepassages.(60 marks, 2 marks each)Passage 1Fall is staggering in, right on schedule, with its baggage of chilly nights, spectacular, heart-stoppingly beautiful leaves. People will travel up and down the East Coast just to stare at it—a whole season of leaves.Where do the **e from? Sunlight rules most living things with its golden edicts. When the days begin to shorten, a tree reconsiders its leaves. All summer it feeds them so they can process sunlight, but in the dog days of summer the tree begins pulling nutrients back intoits trunk and roots, reduces and gradually chokes off its leaves. A dry layer of cells forms at the leaves’ slender stems, then scars over. Undernourished, the leaves stop producing the pigment chlorophyll, and photosynthesis ceases. Animals can migrate, hibernate, or store food to prepare for winter. But where can a tree go? It survives by dropping its leaves, and by the end of autumn only a few fragile threads of fluid-carrying xylem hold leaves to their stems.A turning leaf stays partly green at first, then reveals spots of yellow and red as the chlorophyll gradually breaks down. Dark green seems to stay longest in the veins. During the summer, chlorophyll dissolves in the heat and light, but it is also being steadily replaced. In the fall, on the other hand, no new pigment is produced, and so we notice the other colors that were always there, right in the leaf, although chlorophyll’s shocking green hid them from view. With their camouflage gone, we see these colors for the first timeall year, but they were always there, hidden like a vivid secret beneath the hot glowing greens of summer.An odd feature of the colors is that they don’t seem to have any special purpose. Animals and flowers color for a reason—adaptation to their environment—but there is no adaptive reason for leaves to color so beautifully in the fall any more than there is for the sky or ocean to be blue. It’s just one of the haphazard marvels theplanet presents every year. We find the sizzling colors thrilling, and in a sense they cheat us. Colored like living things, they signal death and disintegration. In time, they will become fragile and, like the body, return to dust. They are as we hope our own fate will be when we die: Not to vanish, just to sublime from one beautiful state into another. Though leaves lose their green life, they bloom with urgent colors, as the woods grow mummified day by day, and Nature becomes more carnal, mute, and radiant...SSS_SINGLE_SELThe signal for a tree to begin its preparation for winter is when________.Anights feel chilly days become shorterBdays become shorterCthere is less nutrientsDthe weather turns drierSSS_SINGLE_SELAccording to the passage, the leaves’ color changing process should be traced back to ________.Athe blooming spring daysBthe dog days of summerCthe late autumn daysDthe previous winterSSS_SINGLE_SELWe just see green in summer because ________.Atrees can only produce chlorophyllBtrees in green can easily get more nutrientsCenough sunlight provides strong green colorsDchlorophyll is strong enough to cover other colorsSSS_SINGLE_SELAthe fragile plantsBthe blooming flowersCthe dying human bodyDthe God-created wonderSSS_SINGLE_SELWhich of the following will the author agree?AThe ocean chooses blue color to match the surroundings.BThe spectacularly colored leaves signal the end of life.CLeaves change color in autumn for adaptive purpose.DPeople hope for a more beautiful world after death.Passage 2Imagine a world in which everyone uses all the energy they want, yet dependence on oil, with its attendant smog and green-house-gas emissions, is a thing of the past. This utopia is plausible—many would say probably. It is one in which hydrogen, rather than fossil fuels, is central to our energy economy.Vehicles could use hydrogen in a variety of ways. Some researchers favor the introduction of electric cars powered solely by fuel cells, **bine hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity. Others say that conventional car engines can be converted to run on hydrogen with relatively minor modifications. Experts are also split over whether, as a temporary step towards a full hydrogen economy, vehicles shouldinitially use on-board equipment to extract hydrogen from fossil fuels.Infrastructure issues play a big role in the debate over which approach should be taken. The lack of an existing system for storing and distributing hydrogen presents a dilemma. Car manufacturers do not want to sell vehicles that people cannot fuel, and **panies do not want to spend money developing a hydrogen distribution infrastructure when there are no hydrogen cars on the road. The equation becomes **plicated with fuel cells because they have yet to be produced in large numbers and their long-term reliability has not been proven.This deadlock could be broken by “reformers”, which would allow hydrogen cars to run on fossil fuels. Reformers can break down the hydrocarbons in fossil fuels and so liberate hydrogen. Natural gas, for example, can be reformed by heating it together with water and a nickel-based catalyst. The result is a series of reactions whose products are carbon dioxide and hydrogen. Other fossil fuels, including petrol or gasoline, can be reformed in a similar way.Hydrogen cars fitted with reformers would still run on petrol, but would reform it into hydrogen. Advocates of the technology say that this would give **panies the confidence to produce the vehicles, and so provide a fresh impetus for fuel-cell development. Several car manufacturers, including General Motors and DaimlerChrysler, are now working with Ballard Power Systems, a fuel-cell producer based in Burnaby, near Vancouver, to develop vehicles that are powered by fuel cells fed by reformers.But reformers still produce carbon dioxide, and for many environmentalists, this is enough to rule them out. In addition, it has to be taken into account that hydrogen vehicles with reformers are also technologically **plex and costly to build than straightfuel-cell cars.SSS_SINGLE_SELIn this article, what is introduced as the most promising substitute for fossil fuels?AFuel cells.BReformers.CHydrogen.DHydrocarbons.SSS_SINGLE_SELAThey don’t believe applying the new technology will be profitable.BThe infrastructure system is not ready to support hydrogen-fed cars.CMass production of fuel cells is still difficult in terms of technology.DConsumers do not have belief in the long-term reliability of new fuels.SSS_SINGLE_SELWhich is NOT included as the problems with the “reformers”?AFossil fuels are used in the hydrogen-fed cars.BReformers promote the fuel-cell development.CBurning reformers will release carbon dioxide.DBuilding vehicles with reformers is expensive.SSS_SINGLE_SELWhy did General Motors and DaimlerChrysler favor reformers?ABecause they have confidence in fuel cells.BBecause they want to protect the environment.CBecause cars can still store fossil fuels to produce hydrogen.DBecause reformers are the necessary step towards a better economy.SSS_SINGLE_SELThe main idea of this article is ________.AHow to have cars run on hydrogen remains a problem.BExperts still argue whether hydrogen is the best substitute.CThe long-talked-about energy utopia will be realized in near future.DCar manufacturers and **panies can’t come to an agreement.Passage 3Dr. Joseph Bell, the eminent surgeon and medical instructor, had all people wide-eyed with his deductive acrobatics.“A patient walked into the room where I was instructing the students, and his case seemed to be a very simple one. I was talking about what was wrong with him. ‘He has been a soldier in a Highland regiment, and probably a bandsman.’ I pointed out the swagger in his walk, suggestive of the Highland piper; while his shortness told me that if he had been a soldier, it was probably as a bandsman. But the man insisted he was nothing but a shoemaker and had never been in the army in his life. This was rather a floorer, but being absolutely certain, I told two of the strongest clerks to remove the man to a side room and strip him. Under his left breast I instantly detected a little blue D branded on his skin. He was an army deserter. That was how they used to mark them in the Crimean days. He confessed having played in the band of a Highland regiment in the war against the Russians.”Of all the Edinburgh undergraduates, it was Conan Doyle who was the most deeply impressed by his incredible mentor. One time when the young Doyle was working as Dr. Bell’s assistant, a patient entered and sat down. “Did you like your walk over the golf links today, as you came in fr om the south of the town?” inquired Dr. Bell. The patient replied: “Why, yes, did Your Honor see me?” Dr. Bell had not seen him.“Conan Doyle could not understand how I knew,” Dr. Bell related later, “but on a showery day such as that had been, the reddish clayat bare parts of the golf links adheres to the boot, and a tiny part is bound to remain. There is no such clay anywhere else.”Thus, Conan Doyle’s five years as a struggling medical student—and his months serving his uncanny Scotch instructor—gave him both the idea for the character and much of the material that helped make him a world-famous author. But actually, when he graduated from Edinburgh University in 1881, Doyle intended to be a doctor. He nailed up his oculist’s shingle in a suburb of Ports mouth and waited for patients. Six years later he was still waiting. Lacking a practice, desperate for any kind of income, Doyle turned to writing. He decided to try a detective story. And for it he wanted a new kind of detective. Perhaps he looked at the photograph of Dr. Bell which he kept on the mantelpiece of his study. At any rate, he thought of Bell, and, thinking of him, hit upon his detective.He called him Sherlock Holmes after an English cricketer and Oliver Wendell Holmes.SSS_SINGLE_SELDr. Bell decided that the patient (in the 2nd paragraph) was asoldier mainly because of ________.Ahis being shortBhis way of walkingChis refusal to be strippedDthe mark under his breastSSS_SINGLE_SELWhat did Conan Doyle learn in Edinburgh University?AWriting.BSurgery.CDeduction.DMedicine.SSS_SINGLE_SELWhat is true about Conan Doyle?AHe began writing stories to make a living.BHe had been one of Dr. Bell’s best students.CHe had always dreamed to be a famous writer.DHe had learned much from Dr. Bell about deduction.SSS_SINGLE_SELWhich contributed to Conan Dolye’s finally becoming a famous author?AHis intimate relationship with Dr. Bell.BHis good memory and deductive capability.CHis interest in detective stories and his skills with words.DHis medical knowledge and working experience with Dr. Bell.SSS_SINGLE_SELWhich of the following is NOT true about Dr. Bell and his deductive ability?ASeeing the patient was not tall, Dr. Bell could tell with certainty he was a solider.BFrom the clay attached to the boot, Dr. Bell knew where the person came from.CBy observing how people walked, he could tell what profession they were probably in.DConan Doyle was much impressed by Dr. Bell’s deductive feats while working together.Passage 4A few months before, as I was visiting Texas, I heard the taped voice used to guide passengers to their connections at the Dallas Airport announcing items in both Spanish and English. This trend is likely to continue; after all, for some southwestern states like Texas, where the largest minority is now Mexican-American, Spanish was the first written language and the Spanish style lives on in the western way of life.Shortly after my Texas trip, I sat in a campus auditorium at the University of Wis consin at Milwaukee as a Yale professor―whose original work on the influence of African cultures upon those of the Americas has led to his ostracism from some intellectual circles—walked up and down the aisle like an old-time Southernevangelist,dancing and drumming the top of the lectern, illustrating his points before some Afro-American intellectuals and artists who cheered and applauded his performance. The professor was “white.” After his lecture, he conversed with a group of Milwaukeeans―all of whom spoke Yoruban, though only the professor had ever traveled to Africa.Such blurring of cultural styles occurs in everyday life in the United States to a greater extent than anyone can imagine. Yet members of the nation’s present educational and cultural elite still cling to the notion that the United States belongs to some vaguely defined entity they refer to as “Western civilization,” by which they mean, presumably, a civilization created by people of Europe, as if Europe can even be viewed as completely uninfluenced by the rest of the world. Is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which includes Turkish marches, a part of Western civilization? Or the late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century French paintings, whose creators were influenced by Japanese art? And what of the cubists, through whom the influence of African art changed modem painting? Or the surrealists, who were so impressed with the art of the Pacific Northwest Indians that, intheir map of North America, Alaska dwarfs the lower forty-eight states in size?Are the Russians, who are often criticized for their adoption of “Western” ways by Tsarist dissidents in exile, members of Western civilization? And what of the millions of Europeans who have black African and Asian ancestry, black Africans having occupied severalEuropean countries for hundreds of years? Are these “Europeans” a part of Western civilization? Or the Hungarians, who originated across the Urals in a place called Greater Hungary? Or the Irish, who came from the Iberian Peninsula?Even the notion that North America is part of Western civilization because our “system of government” is derived from Europe is being challenged by Native American historians who say that the founding fathers Benjamin Franklin especially, were actually influenced by the system of government that had been adopted by Iroquois hundreds of years prior to the arrival of Europeans.SSS_SINGLE_SELWhy did the Dallas airport announcement speak both Spanish and English?AThe majority people living there is Mexican.BThe airport announcer was of Spanish origin.CSpanish and English are official languages there.DSpanish is a required second language for Texas residents.SSS_SINGLE_SELWe can learn from the second paragraph that.Athe author of the passage was an Afro-AmericanBthe language spoken in Milwaukee was YorubanCthe Yale professor lectured on African culturesDthe audience came from some Southern statesSSS_SINGLE_SELWhat does “Western civilization” mean according to some American educational and cultural elite?AEuropean culture without the influence of other civilizations.BAmerican culture which originated from mainland Europe.CThe European cultural courses taught in high schools.DWestern ways of living by Russian dissidents in exile.SSS_SINGLE_SELAccording to the passage, which of the following is pure without other cultural influence?ABeethoven’s Ninth Symphony.BLate 19th and 20th century French paintings.CAmerican system of government.DThe art of Pacific Northwest Indians.SSS_SINGLE_SELAccording to the author, which of the following has an Indian contribution?AYoruban dancing.BFestival marches.CEighteenth century paintings.DGovernment system.Passage 5Many people find New York an unattractive city to inhabit because of the physical filth, and while, God knows, the city is filthy, I doubt that that element plays an important role in our decision to leave. Naples is far dirtier, and so are Bombay and countless other cities,but a tolerance for dirt seems to grow where some fondness exists. Tangiers is one of the dirtiest cities in the world, yet a friend of mine who possesses flawless taste lives in the casbah there and would live nowhere else. A few days ago in Central Park I saw a man leaning on a litter can drinking a carton of orange juice, and when he finished he tossed the container not in the receptacle but on the ground.I don’t understand this, but there is a lot about New York I don’t understand. Mainly, I don’t understand why the city has no soul, no detectable hea rtbeat, why the chief element in the city’s emotional economy is indifference. I think that’s what sent me on my way. Vienna almost suffocates the Viennese with care, Paris manages to imbue her own with an obsession for their fulfillment, San Francisco exudes a pride that even gathers to her heart total strangers; but the key to New York’s character is that it doesn’t really care about anything. Across the court from the Manhattan apartment that I have occupied for the past few years is a dog that quite often hurls insults into the darkness, a few of which my dog refuses to accept service on and makes a tart reply. I think I yearn for the people of New York to do somewhat the same thing; I would like to think they possess a nature that could be stimulated by something.A number of New Yorkers have been driven from the city by fear; by the feeling that they are besieged and that if they venture too far from their neighborhoods they will be mugged or, worse, murdered. I have never been mugged or physically molested in any way, possibly because my large build does not make me an ideal prospect for a hoodlum. Yet I recall the lady who was buying a magazine in the Port Authority Bus Terminal one evening when a stranger walked up and disemboweled her with a butcher knife. Later arrested, he told police that he didn’t know the lady but “just felt like killing somebody.” It’s impossible to protect oneself from such madness, and I think it is the fool in New York who is not a coward at heart.I recall, too, the New Year’s Eve when, after a dinner party, a friend of mine went down to the street to get a taxicab and the cab veered too quickly and hit him. His wife and I took him in the cab to Lenox Hill Hospital, and while we were trying to get emergency treatment for him the cabdriver was screaming at us for his fare. A few weeks ago a fifteen-year-old girl was raped on a subway train. The next day the police expressed the opinion that the girl was partially responsible for the act because she had entered a car in which there were no other passengers. All of these things may happen in other large cities, and undoubtedly do, but they reflect a lack ofcaring, a sickness of the soul, that I find difficult to accept and impossible to forget.SSS_SINGLE_SELWhat’s the meaning of the word “filthy” in the first sentence?AFlawy.BDirty.CUnattractive.DImportant.SSS_SINGLE_SELAccording to the author, ________ is the key character of the city New York.AsuffocationBobsessionCprideDindifferenceSSS_SINGLE_SELThe man killed the lady with a butcher knife because ________.Athe lady didn’t pay for the magazineBthe lady was the only person he didn’t knowCthe man was a new butcherDthe man just wanted to killSSS_SINGLE_SELWhy was the cabdriver screaming at the author and his friends?AHe was hit by the taxicab.BHe didn’t want any emergency treatment.CHe was asking for the money.DHe refused to take the responsibility.SSS_SINGLE_SELWhich of the following was not the reason why the author left New York?APhysical filth.BLack of caring.CMadness.DIndifference.Passage 6My grandmother in Bacon County, Georgia, raised biddies: tiny cheeping bits of fluff that city folk allow their children to squeeze to death at Easter. But city children are not the only ones who love biddies; hawks love them, too. Hawks like to swoop into the yard and carry off one impaled on their curved talons. Perhaps my grandmother, in her secret heart, knew that hawks even then were approaching the time when they would be on the endangered species list. Whether she did or not, I’m sure she often felt she and her kind were already on the list. It would not do.I’ll never forget the first time I saw her get rid of a hawk. Chickens, as everybody knows, are cannibals. Let a biddy get a spot of blood on it from a scrap or a raw place and the other biddies will simply eat it alive. My grandmother penned up all the biddies except the puniest one, already half pecked to death by the other cutelittle bits of fluff, and she set it out in the open yard by itself. First, though, she put arsenic on its head. I―about five years oldand sucking on a sugar-tit—saw the **e in low over the fence, its red tail fanned, talons stretched, and nail the poisoned biddy where it squatted in the dust. The biddy never made a sound as it was carried away. My gentle grandmother watched it all with satisfaction before she let her other biddies out of the pen.Another moment from my childhood **es instantly to mind was about a chicken, too; a rooster. He was boss cock of the whole farm, a magnificent bird nearly two feet tall. At the base of a chicken’s throat is its craw, a kind of pouch into which the bird swallows food, as well as such things as grit, bits of rock and shell. For reasons I don’t understand t hey sometimes become craw-bound. The stuff in the craw does not move; it remains in the craw and swells and will ultimately cause death. That’s what would have happened to the rooster if the uncle who practically raised me hadn’t said one day: “Son, we got to fix him.”He tied the rooster’s feet so we wouldn’t be spurred and took out his castrating knife, honed to a razor’s edge, and sterilized it over a little fire. He soaked a piece of fine fishing line and a needle in alcohol. I held the rooster on its back, a wing in each hand. With the knife my uncle split open the craw, cleaned it out, then sewed it up with the fishing line. The rooster screamed and screamed. But it lived to be cock of the walk again.SSS_SINGLE_SELWhat’s the possible meaning of the word “biddies”(Paragraph 1)?ABaby hawks.BBaby chickens.CBaby birds.DBaby boys.SSS_SINGLE_SELHow did the author’s grandmother get rid of a hawk?ABy penning up all the biddies.By pecking her biddies to death.CBy giving it a poisoned biddy.DBy putting arsenic on its head.SSS_SINGLE_SELAccording to the passage, what’s the organ for a chicken to digest food?ACraw.BGrit.CRock.DShell.SSS_SINGLE_SELBeing “cock of the walk” means being a ________.Aweak roosterBlovely cockCboss roosterDcrippled cockSSS_SINGLE_SELFrom the passage, we can infer ________.AThe author’s relatives were very kind.BLife on a farm was not very romantic.CThe author liked his childhood very much.Farmers had to treat sick chickens by themselves.Critical ReadingDirections: Read the following passages and answer the question.(40 marks, 4 marks each)Passage 7I dated a woman for a while—a literary type, well-read, lots of books in her place—whom I admired a bit too extravagantly, and one Christmas I decided to give her something unusually nice and, I’m afraid, unusually expensive. I bought her a set of Swift’s Works—not just any set but a scarce early-eighteenth-century edition; then I wrapped each leather-bound volume separately and made a card for each volume, each card containing a carefully chosen quotation from Swift himself. I thought it was terribly romantic; I had visions of her opening the set, volume by volume, while we sat by the fire Christmas Eve sipping cognac and listening to the Brandenburg Concertos.How stupid I am sometimes! She, practical woman that should have known she was, had bought me two pairs of socks and a shirt, plus a small volume of poems by A. R. Ammons. She cried when she opened the Swift. I thought they w ere tears of joy, but they weren’t. “Ican’t accept this,” she said. “It’s totally out of proportion.” She insisted that I take the books back or sell them or keep them for myself. When I protested she just got more upset, and finally she asked me to leave and to take the books with me. Hurt and perplexed, I did. We stopped seeing each other soon after that. It took me weeks to figure out what I had done wrong. “There’s a goat in all of us,” R. P. Blackmur wrote somewhere, “a stupid, stubborn goat.”To my c redit, I’m normally more perspicacious about the gifts I give, and less of a show-off, But I have it in me, obviously, to be, as my ex-girlfriend said, totally out of proportion: to give people things I can’t afford, or things that betoken an intimacy that doesn’t exist, or things that bear no relation to the interests or desires of the person I’m giving them to. I’ve kicked myself too often not to know it’s there, this insensitivity to the niceties of gift-giving.The niceties, of course, not the raw act of giving (and certainly not the thought) are what count. In most cultures, most of them more sensible than our own, the giving of gifts is highlyritualistic―that is, it is governed by rules and regulations; it is under strict social control. It is also, more or less explicitly, an exchange. None of this giving with no thought of receiving; on the contrary, you give somebody something and you expect something backin return―maybe not right away but soon enough. And it is expected to be of more or less equivalent value; you can be fairly certainthat nobody is going to one-up you with something really extravagant like a scarce set of Swift, or else turn greedy on you and give you a penny whistle in return for a canoe. And once that’s under control, the giving and receiving of gifts is free to become ceremonious, an occasion for feasting and celebration. You can finish your cognacs,in other words, and get down to the real business of the evening.SSS_TEXT_QUSTIWhat kind of a Christmas Eve did the author expect when he bought his date a set of Swift’s Works?SSS_TEXT_QUSTIWhy did the author’s date cry when she opened the Swift?SSS_TEXT_QUSTIWhat’s the basic rule for gift giving?Passage 8Not so long ago, for most people, listening to radio was a single task activity. Now it is rare for a person to listen to the radio and do nothing else.Even TV has lost **mand of our foreground. In so many households the TV just stays on, like a noisy light bulb, while the life of the family passes back and forth in its shimmering glow.A sense of well-**es with this saturation of parallel pathways in the brain. We choose mania over boredom every time. “Humans have never, ever opted for slower,” points out the historian Stephen Kent.We catch the fever―and the fever feels good. We live in the buzz. “It has gotten to the point where my days, crammed with all sorts of activities, feel like an Olympic endurance event: the everyday athon,” confesses Jay Walljasper in the Utne Reader.All humanity has not succumbed equally, of course. If you make haste, you probably make it in the technology-driven world. Sociologists have also found that increasing wealth and increasing education bring a sense of tension about time. We believe that we possess too little of it. No wonder Ivan Seidenberg, an American **munications executive, jokes about the mythical DayDoubler program his customers seem to want: “Using sophisticated time-mapping **pression techniques, DayDoubler gives you access to 48 hours each and every day. At the higher numbers DayDoubler becomes less stable, and you run the risk of a temporal crash in which everything from the beginning of time to the present could crash down around you, sucking you into a suspended time zone.”Our culture views time as a thing to hoard and protect. Timesaving is the subject to scores of books with titles like Streamlining Your Life; Take Your Time; More Hours in My Day. Marketers anticipate our desire to save time, and respond with fast ovens, quick playback, quick freezing and fast credit.We have all these wa ys to “save time,” but what does that concept really mean? Does timesaving mean getting more done? If so, does talking on a cellular phone at the beach save time or waste it? If you can choose between a 30-minute train ride, during which you can read, and a 20-minute drive, during which you cannot, does the drive save ten minutes? Does it make sense to say that driving saves ten minutes from your travel budget while removing ten minutes from your reading budget?”These questions have no answer. They depend on a concept that is ill-formed: the very idea of timesaving. Some of us say we want to save time when really we just want to do more and faster. It might be simplest to recognize that there is time and we make choices about how to spend it, how to spare it, how to use it and how to fill it.Time is not a thing we have lost. It is not a thing we ever had. Itis what we live in.”。

2016年暨南大学英语翻译基础真题试卷(总分：64.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、词语翻译(总题数：32，分数：60.00)1.英译汉__________________________________________________________________________________________ 2.sleeping pills（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 3.VIP（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 4.APP（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 5.soul mate（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ ughing stock（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 7.black sheep（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 8.brain storming（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 9.fig leaves（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 10.walking dictionary（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 11.smart phone（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 12.Renaissance（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 13.opinion poll（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 14.wet blanket（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 15.a skeleton in the cupboard（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 16.wet blanket（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 17.汉译英__________________________________________________________________________________________ 回扣__________________________________________________________________________________________ 绩点__________________________________________________________________________________________ 中医__________________________________________________________________________________________ 21.支付宝（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 博爱__________________________________________________________________________________________母校__________________________________________________________________________________________ 计划__________________________________________________________________________________________ 25.转基因食品（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 26.听证会（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 27.货到付款（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 28.往返票（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 29.数据库（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 30.两岸关系（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 情商__________________________________________________________________________________________ 微信__________________________________________________________________________________________二、英汉互译(总题数：4，分数：4.00)33.英译汉__________________________________________________________________________________________ 34.At the theater Hargraves was known as an all-round dialect comedian, having a large repertoire of German, Irish, Swede, and black-face specialties. But Mr. Hargraves was ambitious, and often spoke of his great desire to succeed in legitimate comedy.This young man appeared to conceive a strong fancy for Major Talbot. Whenever that gentleman would begin his Southern reminiscences, or repeat some of the liveliest of the anecdotes, Hargraves could always be found, the most attentive among his listeners. For a time the Major showed an inclination to discourage the advances of the " play actor," as he privately termed him; but soon the young man's agreeable manner and indubitable appreciation of the old gentleman's stories completely won him over.It was not long before the two were like old chums. The Major set apart each afternoon to read to him the manuscript of his book. During the anecdotes Hargraves never failed to laugh at exactly the right point. The Major was moved to declare to Miss Lydia one day that young Hargraves possessed remarkable perception and a gratifying respect for the old regime. And when it came to talking of those old days—if Major Talbot liked to talk, Mr. Hargraves was entranced to listen.Like almost all old people who talk of the past, the Major loved to linger over details. In describing the splendid, almost royal, days of the old planters, he would hesitate until he had recalled the name of the negro who held his horse, or the exact date of certain minor happenings, or the number of bales of cotton raised in such a year; but Hargraves never grew impatient or lost interest. On the contrary, he would advance questions on a variety of subjects connected with the life of that time, and he never failed to extract ready replies.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 35.汉译英__________________________________________________________________________________________ 36.六十整岁望七十岁如攀高山。

Unit1 A1. 任何年满18岁的人都有资格投票。

(be eligible to, vote)Anyone over the age of 18 is eligible to vote.2. 每学期开学前，这些奖学金的申请表格就会由学校发给每一个学生。

(apply for, scholarship)A form to apply for these scholarships is sent by the university to every student before the start of every semester.3. 遵照医生的建议，我决定戒烟。

(on the advice of)On the advice of my doctor, I decided to give up smoking.4. 公园位于县城的正中央。

(be located in)The park is located right in the center of town.5. 这所大学提供了我们所需的所有材料和设备。

(facilities)The university provides all the materials and facilities we desire. Unit1 B1. 他们花了多年的时间寻找内心的平静，但是收效甚微。

(search for)窗体顶端Answer:They spent many years searching for peace of mind, but with little success.2. 这种新药的成功研制已经使许多疾病的治疗发生了根本性的变革。

(revolutionize)Answer:The successful development of the new drug has revolutionized the treatment of many diseases.3. 由于这个国家的经济不景气，这家公司濒于破产。

2016年华南理工大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷(总分：102.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、 Vocabulary(总题数：30，分数：60.00)1.If you keep on trying something, the day will come when you can do it well and with great______. （分数：2.00）A.careB.ease √C.tempoD.dignity解析：解析：本题考查名词辨析。

you can do it well意为“你会做好它”，with great______ 与此并列，意义上应该与此接近。

with great care意为“小心翼翼地”。

with great ease意为“轻而易举地”，符合题意，故答案为[B]项。

with great tempo意为“以极大的速度”；with great dignity意为“威风凛凛”。

如果填入care，tempo或dignity，与you can do it well的语义不符，故均排除。

2.She______to find new stories about her homeland, making sure her American-born daughter did not grow up ignorant of Chinese culture.（分数：2.00）A.dropped outB.went out of her way √C.gave wayD.got down解析：解析：本题考查动词短语辨析。

drop out意为“离开，退出”。

go out of one's way意为“不怕麻烦；特地”。

give way意为“撤退；让路；退让；垮掉”。

get down意为“沮丧；落下；吞下；写下”。

本句意为：为了保证她在美国出生的女儿长大后不会对中国文化很生疏，她______找寻有关祖国的新鲜事。

[考研类试卷]2016年华南理工大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷.doc[考研类试卷]2016年华南理工大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷一、Vocabulary1 If you keep on trying something, the day will come when you can do it well and with great______.（A）care（B）ease（C）tempo（D）dignity2 She______to find new stories about her homeland, making sure her American-born daughter did not grow up ignorant of Chinese culture.（A）dropped out（B）went out of her way（C）gave way（D）got down3 In the past, a woman's world usually______household work and waiting for her children and husband to come home.（A）made up（B）composed of（C）was comprised of（D）consisted of4 Domestic tourists now make up more than 90 percent of the country's totaland______two-thirds of its total tourism earnings.（A）attribute（B）contribute（C）distribute（D）dispatch5 He is a diligent and______teacher, well liked by his students.（A）voluntary（B）conscious（C）conscientious（D）hard6 The doctor tried last time to explain to the Browns that infants and young children are more ______to the effects of secondhand smoke than adults.（A）conducive（B）advantageous（C）delicate（D）vulnerable7 It is absolutely true today that college degrees have become a valuable ______ for jobseekers in the country's developing market economy.（A）asset（B）liability（C）deterrent（D）means8 She is far too______to believe these ridiculous lies.（A）sensational（B）sensitive（C）sensible（D）sensuous9 With______audiences and less financial support from government, Britain's best orchestras must find new sources of income, if they are to continue.（A）shrinking（B）captive（C）withering（D）sympathetic10 On July 1, 1997, China resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong, wiping out 156 years of colonial humiliation______on the Chinese nation.（A）befell（B）imposed（C）afflicted（D）leased11 Johnson______the problem in his mind for two more days before he came to a conclusion.（A）turned on（B）turned over（C）turned out（D）turned to12 Many of the works exhibited in the gallery are______, filled with energy and vitality, bright colors and unique ways of expressing ideas.（A）imaginative（B）imaginable（C）imagined（D）imaginary13 Words fail to______our feelings of great reverence for the hero.（A）imply（B）deliver（C）convey（D）contain14 China is______an ambitious plan to stimulate the domestic economy by investing in infrastructure construction , of which telecommunications are an important part.（A）undertaking（B）supervising（C）foiling（D）compiling15 I have to______time to prepare for the coming sports meet.（A）set about（B）set aside（C）set up（D）set off16 If not properly______, border issues which are always very sensitive and complicated international relations can often trigger conflicts.（A）handled（B）handing（C）handle（D）to handle17 After______seemed an endless wait, it was his turn to enter the personnel manager's office.（A）what（B）it（C）that（D）there18 Every change of season, every change of weather ______ some change in the wonderful colors and shapes of these mountains.（A）make（B）makes（C）is making（D）are making19 There______nothing more for discussion, the meetingcame to an end half an hour earlier.（A）to be（B）to have been（C）be（D）being20 Variables such as individual and corporate behavior______nearly impossible for economists to forecast economic trends with precision.（A）make it（B）make（C）it makes（D）makes it21 Had Jane been more careful on the math exam, she______much better results now. （A）would be getting （B）could have got（C）must get（D）would get22 By the year 2030, it's estimated that more than two thirds of the world's population will be living in cities —______today.（A）twice as many as（B）as twice as many（C）as much as twice（D）as much twice as23 My daughter has walked eight miles today. We never guessed that she couldwalk______far.（A）/（B）such（C）that（D）as24 Much______I like Antonia, I hated the superior tone that she sometimes took with me. （A）although（B）since（C）for（D）as25 Developing friendly ties with neighborly countries is the priority aim of this country's foreign policy and this policy will not be changed______the international situation may be.（A）whichever（B）however（C）wherever（D）whatever26 The snow leopard is a class-one endangered species, ______is the giant panda. （A）as（B）such（C）which（D）that27 Jeremy came to visit me again. It was the second time he______me that afternoon. （A）had been interrupting （B）has interrupted（C）would have interrupted（D）had interrupted28 Grace's eyes were wet with tears as she put her face______she could, gripping my left hand and stroking it.（A）as close as to mine（B）so close to mine as（C）as close to mine as（D）much so close as29 The boys in the family are old enough for______.（A）school（B）schools（C）the school（D）the schools30 Intellect is to the mind______sight is to the body.（A）as（B）what（C）like（D）that二、Reading Comprehension30 [1] T o say that the city is a central problem of American life is simply to know that increasingly the cities are American life; just as urban living is becoming the condition of man across the world. Everywhere men and women crowd into cities in search of employment, a decent living, the company of their fellows, and the excitement and stimulation of urban life.[2] Within a very few years, 80 percent of all Americans will live in cities — the great majority of them in concentrations like those which stretch from Boston to Washington, and outward from Chicago and Los Angeles and San Francisco and St. Louis. The cities are the nerve system of economic life for the entire Nation, and for much of the world.[3] And each of our cities is now the seat of nearly all the problems of American life: poverty and race hatred, stunted education and saddened lives, and the other ills of the new urban Nation — congestion and filth, danger and purposelessness —which afflict all but the very rich and the very lucky.[4] ...The city is not just housing and stores. It is not just education and employment, parks and theaters, banks and shops. It is a place where men should be able to live in dignity and security and harmony, where the great achievements of moderncivilization and the ageless pleasures afforded by natural beauty should be available to all. If this is what we want — and this is what we must want if men are to be free for that "pursuit of happiness" which was the earliest promise of the American Nation —we will need more than poverty programs, housing programs, and employment programs, although we will need all of these. We will need an outpouring of imagination, ingenuity, discipline, and hard work unmatched since the first adventurers set out to conquer the wilderness. For the problem is the largest we have ever known. And we confront an urban wilderness more formidable and resistant and in some ways more frightening than the wilderness faced by the pilgrims or the pioneers.[5] One great problem is sheer growth —growth which crowds people into slums, thrusts suburbs out over the countryside, burdens to the breaking point all our old ways of thought and action — our systems of transport and water supply and education, and our means of raising money to finance these vital services.[6] A second is destruction of the physical environment, stripping people of contact with sun and fresh air, clean rivers, grass and trees — condemning them to a life among stone and concrete, neon lights and an endless flow of automobiles. This happens not only in the central city, but in the very suburbs where people once fled to find nature. "There is no police so effective," said Emerson, "as a good hill and a wide pasture... where the boys...can dispose of their superfluous strength and spirits." We cannot restore the pastures, but we must provide a chance to enjoy nature, a chance for recreation, for pleasure and for some restoration of that essential dimension of human existence which flows only from man's contact with the naturalworld around him.[7] A third is the increasing difficulty of transportation —adding concealed, unpaid hours to the workweek, removing men from the social and cultural amenities that are the heart of the city; sending destructive swarms of automobiles across the city, leaving behind them a band of concrete and a poisoned atmosphere. And sometimes — as in Watts — our surrender to the automobile has so crippled public transport that thousands literally cannot afford to go to work elsewhere in the city.[8] A fourth destructive force is the concentrated poverty and racial tension of the urban ghetto — a problem so vast that the barest recital of its symptoms is profoundly shocking: Segregation is becoming the governing rule; Washington is only the most prominent example of a city which has become overwhelmingly Negro as whites move to thesuburbs; many other cities are moving along the same road — for example, Chicago, which, if present trends continue, will be over 50 percent Negro by 1975. The ghettoes of Harlem and Southside and Watts are cities in themselves, areas of as much as 350, 000 people.Poverty and unemployment are endemic: from one-third of the families in these areas live in poverty, in some, male unemployment may be as high as 40 percent; unemployment of Negro youths nationally is over 25 percent.Welfare and dependency are pervasive: one-fourth of the children in these ghettoes, as in Harlem, may receive Federal Aid to Dependent Children; in New York City, ADC alone costs over $ 20 million a month; in our five largest cities, the ADC bill's over $ 500 million a year.Housing is overcrowded, unhealthy, and dilapidated: the lasthousing census found 43 percent of urban Negro housing to be substandard; in these ghettoes, over 10, 000 children may be injured or infected by rat bites every year.Education is segregated, unequal, and inadequate: the high school dropout rate averages nearly 70 percent, there are academic high schools in which less than 3 percent of the entering students will graduate with an academic diploma.Health is poor and care inadequate: infant mortality in the ghettoes is more than twice the rate outside, mental retardation among Negroes caused by inadequate prenatal care is more than seven times the white rate; one-half of all babies born in Manhattan last year will have had no prenatal care at all; deaths from diseases like tuberculosis, influenza, and pneumonia are two to three times as common as elsewhere.[9] Fifth is both cause and consequence of all the rest. It is the destruction of the sense, and often the fact, of community, of human dialog, the thousand invisible strands of common experience and purpose, affection and respect which tie men to their fellows. Community is expressed in such words as neighborhood, civic pride, friendship. It provides the life-sustaining force of human warmth and security, a sense of one's own human significance in the accepted association and companionship of others.[10]/doc/5d3837163369a45177232f60ddccda 38376be1f5.html munity demands a place where people can see and know each other, where children can play and adults work together and join in the pleasures and responsibilities of the place where they live. The whole history of the human race, until today, has been the history of community. Yet, this isdisappearing, and disappearing at a time when its sustaining strength is badly needed. For other values which once gave strength for the daily battle of life are also being eroded.[11] The widening gap between the experience of the generations in a rapidly changing world has weakened the ties of family; children grow up in a world of experience and culture their parents never knew.[12] The world beyond the neighborhood has become more impersonal and abstract. Industry and great cities, conflicts between nations and the conquests of science move relentlessly forward, seemingly beyond the reach of individual control or even understanding.[13] ...But of all our problems, the most immediate and pressing, the one which threatens to paralyze our very capacity to act, to obliterate our vision of the future, is the plight of the Negro of the center city. For this plight and the riots which are its product and symptom —threaten to divide Americans for generations to come; to add to theever-present difficulties of race and class the bitter legacy of violence and destruction and fear....[14] It is therefore of the utmost importance that these hearings go beyond the temporary measures thus far adopted to deal with riots — beyond the first hoses and the billy clubs; and beyond even sprinklers on fire hydrants and new swimming pools as well. These hearings must start us along the road toward solutions to the underlying conditions which afflict our cities, so that they may become the places of fulfillment and ease, comfort and joy, the communities they were meant to be.31 According to the passage, everywhere men and women crowd into cities in searchof______.（A）employment and race hatred（B）a decent living and stunted education（C）congestion and the company of their fellows（D）the excitement and other advantages of urban life32 It can be learned that within a few years, ______of all Americans will live in concentrations like those which stretch from Boston to Washington, and outward from Chicago and other cities.（A）less than 80 percent（B）about 80 percent（C）more than 80 percent（D）none of the above33 Besides poverty, housing and unemployment programs, Americans need______to attain the kind of society they want.（A）imagination（B）ingenuity（C）discipline and hard work（D）all of the above34 According to the author, the city should be______.（A）the seat of nearly all the problems of American life（B）just houses, stores, schools, businesses, parks, and theaters（C）place where people can live in dignity and security and harmony（D）the nerve system of political, economic, cultural life for much of the world35 The major city problems discussed in the passage include all of the following EXCEPT______.（A）racial tension and the destruction of the sense ofcommunity（B）sheer growth and destruction of the physical environment（C）the difficulty of transportation and concentrated poverty（D）unpaid working hours and a poisoned atmosphere36 The most prominent example of a city which has become overwhelmingly Negro is______.（A）New York（B）San Francisco（C）Chicago（D）Washington37 Which of the following statement is NOT true?（A）20 percent of the children in ghettos may receive Federal Aid to Dependent Children.（B）Male unemployment in some areas may be as high as 40 percent.（C）43 percent of urban Negro housing is substandard.（D）In ghettos, the high school dropout rate averages nearly 70 percent.38 The reason why the plight of the Negro is the most immediate and pressing problem is that it threatens______.（A）to paralyze the American economy（B）to divide Americans for generations to come（C）to destroy the vision of the future generations（D）to use violence in overthrowing the old belief and social system39 According to the author, the sense of community chiefly means______.（A）the ties of family（B）a thousand imaginable strands（C）things which tie men to their fellows（D）the values which once gave strength for the daily battle of life40 In this selection, the author makes______work for him to order the materials so that it is easy to follow.（A）description（B）classification（C）definition（D）narration40 [1] When I first saw Pippa the cheetah, she was sitting pertly on a chair in the tearoom of the New Stanley Hotel in Nairobi. I had gone to meet her owners, an English couple who were leaving Kenya and wanted to ensure that their pet would find a good home. Pippa was wearing a harness and was able to sit at a table, looking as if she might have a soft drink through a straw. She was a thoroughly spoiled cub.[2] Eighteen months later she had returned to the wild. She was living in the Northern Frontier District where she had been born. She had learned to hunt for herself, had mated with a wild cheetah, and was raising a litter of cubs.[3] Pippa's rehabilitation to the wild required patience, perseverance, love, and the same kind of respect for her as a being that I would have offered a fellow human. I had previously shared this love and respect with Elsa the lioness, whom my husband George and I had raised as a cub. But it was not simply a matter of affection — although there was plenty of that. The rehabilitation process was important as an experiment in developing a means of trying to guarantee the survival of endangered species. The cheetah is one of these; the lion maybecome one soon.[4] I learned many things from Elsa and Pippa. They proved always to be interesting and affectionate companions. And I enjoyed the closeness to nature that the rehabilitation process required. But there were raany times when I was working with Elsa and Pippa, and there have been many times since, when I have wondered about another endangered species, a species generally as ignorant of the threat to its survival as these two cats had been. That species is man.[5] Some recent scientific, economic, and political research suggests that the curves for food demand and food supply will cross in a maximum of 60 years. By then, man's overpopulation, increasing pollution, and the diminishing food supply could threaten to end human life on our planet. Being aware of this research, I could not help wondering what steps man could take to ensure his survival. Could he, for instance, learn from animals something about birth control, inter-creature relationships, or thought communication that would help him avoid extinction?[6] Generally, the first reaction to such musings is one of astonishment. The question phrases itself. What can man, the most highly evolved species of animal life, learn from less developed creatures? Astonishment at this question itself suggests a starting place. Perhaps man needs to regain his humility — and his sense of perspective. Perhaps he should look at himself as just another experiment of nature, no more important intrinsically than the thousands of other species evolved on our planet. Man is, after all, a fairly recent development. He has lived on earth only 1. 7 million years — not a very long time compared with the 400 million years of somecreatures.[7] Man's achievements during this stay are astounding. Yet they endanger his own survival. As a result, he may disappear as have other species who became too overspecialized, or outlived their environment. Perhaps more than any other creature man is notable for his constant violations of the eternal law of living in harmony with nature. Man kills everything that competes with him for living space or food. He has irreparably damaged his environment. He has forsaken nature's basic laws, substituting for them his own man-made laws and values. He has, for example, invented money —and now he gauges success, power, and achievement almost exclusively in terms of it. He overestimates his ego and his capacities. He worships status and sacrifices fantastically for it.[8] A more rational perspective would see that all organic life is of equal importance. That every species has its role to play. That nothing survives unless it fits into the balance of nature and lives within its environment. That all life must work together to preserve life and maintain ecology.[9] But man can also learn more specifically from animals. With his research capacity he can ask himself : How were animals able to maintain the balance of nature for more than 400 million years? Once he has unlocked these secrets, he can try to apply them to his own situation.[10] What are some of these secrets? Birth control is one. Animals have very efficient means of controlling their reproduction. We who study animals have learned about it only in the last few years. We don't yet know how it works, but we do know some facts. Most antelopes, for example, can withhold their young for weeks, even months. They do this in order that birthsoccur with the arrival of the rains, the availability of grazing, and the mothers' adequate supply of milk for the young.[11] Elephants seem able to adjust their reproduction in somewhat the same way. On the Victoria Nile, for instance, one bank is extremely eroded; it provides barely enough food for the elephants living there. The opposite bank, on the other hand, is quite well covered with vegetation. Observations indicate that elephants on the grassy bank calve every four years, while those on the eroded bank do so only every nine.[12] My own observations of Elsa and Pippa have revealed some most interesting facts. These cats come into season every five to seven weeks. Once the first litter has been born, they have the capacity to produce a new litter every three and a half months, and some zoo-confined lionesses actually do produce litters this of-ten. But in their natural state, females of these species will not let a male near them — let alone mate with him — while they are engaged in rearing their young to complete independence. Among lions this period lasts two years; among cheetahs it is about seventeen and a half months.[13] When Pippa lost two litters to predators a few days after their birth, she instantly looked for a mate and conceived despite the fact she had hardly recovered from giving birth. Knowing that her unfortunate cubs did not need her anymore, she lost no time in starting a new litter. This also happened with a lioness I knew.[14] Judging from this behavior, I can only assume that some kind of psychological block stops mother lions and cheetahs from wanting to mate while they are preoccupied with training their young.[15] Another secret of animals' survival is telepathy. This sense has become atrophied in man, but a definite thought-communication functions in animals. Elsa the lioness frequently sensed when George and I intended to visit her camp, even though it lay 180 miles from our home in Isiolo. On most occasions when we made our irregular visits she was waiting for us. By following her spoor we discovered that she had sometimes walked 50 or 60 miles to meet us.[16] The same thing happened when I took Elsa's two sisters to Nairobi to be flown to the Rotterdam zoo. Elsa stayed behind with George in Isiolo 180 miles away. He did not know when I was coming back; no person knew. But Elsa knew. On the morning of my return she sat down in the entrance drive and would not budge until I arrived in the evening.[17] I have known this kind of thought-communication with the animals with whomI've lived. When Elsa died, I woke in the night, knowing what had happened, even thoughI was several hundred miles away. The same thing occurred later with one of Pippa's cubs.[18] I don't possess this sensitivity with my own kind. I feel far more in tune with what is going on when I am in the bush than when I am in London or Nairobi. We don't know much yet about this telepathy —from which gland it comes, or how it works. But if men could reawaken or cultivate it in themselves, and then cooperate by trusting each other, rather than fearing and treating one another suspiciously, the world would be a far better place.[19] Another secret of the animals is embodied in a basic law of nature which men often ignore. Every animal has around him a security zone. Within that zone he feels safe. Simple observation shows what happens to creatures whose sense ofadequate living space has been consistently violated, and who have thus become degenerate. You only have to go to a zoo. There you find animals sitting like prisoners, tucked so close togetherthat it is not surprising they become frustrated and sometimes so tense that they try to break out. Then they have to be destroyed.[20] When people see animals in this condition, they get the impression that the animals are either dangerous and aggressive or, if they have fallen into a state of utter despair, that they are lethargic or stupid. But animals that I have known in their natural state are never like this. This illustrates why zoos — even the best zoos — cannot solve the problem of recovering a healthy survival number of presently endangered species.[21] The security-zone sense, the need for adequate living space, is not limited to wild animals. Men once possessed it as well. But now our awareness of it has grown so faint that four or five people can live together in one room, a situation which repeatedly occurs in overcrowded slums. People living in these conditions often become aggressive —sometimes even criminal — for the same reason that animals do in zoos.[22] Man-made values account not only for man's reduced awareness of his own security zone. They have also impaired a whole range of relationships which nature had placed in proper perspective. One of these, referred to earlier, is mating. Another is the relationship of mother to young. So many modern human mothers these days prefer to have jobs and put their children in day-care centers or kindergartens, rather than look after them. In nature this happens only in perverted cases. I have watched many animal mothers with their young. They are devoted to them andtend them with affection — and discipline. But they don't overdo it. Elsa and Pippa loved their cubs, but they also kept strict behavior. There was no nonsense about it.[23] Man's great challenge at this moment is to prevent his exodus from this planet. If he wants to survive — which he can do only if all other forms of life around him survive as well — he simply has to see himself as no more important than his fellow creatures. Since man has a higher intelligence than most animals, he is responsible for insuring their survival and thus maintaining life on our planet.[24] I personally doubt that man can recover his original relationship with all other forms of life unless he reappraises his man-made values, returns again to the rules of nature, and then accepts and obeys them.41 The main idea of this article is that______.（A）people can teach animals how to survive（B）people can learn survival techniques from animals（C）animals can survive in the wild after living in zoos（D）animals can learn from man how to live in tune with nature42 In the sentence "But it was not simply a matter of affection..." (paragraph 3) , "it" refers to______.（A）respect（B）survival means（C）patience, perseverance and love（D）Pippa's rehabilitation to the wild43 In paragraph 6, it is implied, but not directly stated, that______.（A）man has not lived on the earth very long compared to some other creatures （B）man should look at himself as justanother experiment of nature（C）man thinks he can learn something from animals（D）man thinks he is more important than other animals44 In paragraph 7, the writer gives examples of______.（A）how man destroys the balance in nature（B）how man will survive in the future（C）how man uses his environment constructively（D）how man kills animals for food45 The subject of paragraphs 10, 11, 12, 13, and 46 is______.（A）Elsa and Pippa（B）Elephants on the Victoria Nile。

2016年5月翻译资格考试三级英语笔译真题及答案试题部分：Section 1: English-Chinese Translation (英译汉) Translate the following passage into Chinese.LECCO, Italy — Each morning, about 450 students travel along 17 school bus routes to 10 elementary schools in this lakeside city at the southern tip of Lake Como. There are zero school buses.In 2003, to confront the triple threats of childhood obesity, local traffic jams and —most important —a rise in global greenhouse gases abetted by car emissions, an environmental group here proposed a retro-radical concept: children should walk to school.They set up a piedibus (literally foot-bus in Italian) —a bus route with a driver but no vehicle. Each morning a mix of paid staff members and parental volunteers in fluorescent yellow vests lead lines of walking students along Lecco’s twisting streets to the schools’ gates, Pied Piper-style, stopping here and there as their flock expands.At the Carducci School, 100 children, or more than half of the students, now take walking buses. Many of them were previously driven in cars. Giulio• Greppi, a 9-year-old with shaggy blond hair, said he had been driven about a third of a mile each way until he started taking the piedibus. “I get to see my friends and we feel special because we know it’s good for the environment,” he said.Although the routes are each generally less than a mile, the town’s piedibuses have so far eliminated more than 100,000 miles of car travel and, in principle, prevented thousands of tons of greenhouse gases from entering the air, Dario Pesenti, the town’s environment auditor, estimates.The number of children who are driven to school over all is rising in the United States and Europe, experts on both continents say, making up a sizable chunk of transportation’s contribution to greenhouse-gas emissions. The “school run” made up 18 percent of car trips by urban residents of Britain last year, a national survey showed.In 1969, 40 percent of students in the United States walked to school; in 2001, the most recent year data was collected, 13 percent did, according to the federal government’s National Household Travel Survey. Lecco’s walking bus was the first in Italy, but hundreds have cropped up elsewhere in Europe and, more recently, in North America to combat the trend.Towns in France, Britain and elsewhere in Italy have created such routes, although few are as extensive and long-lasting as Lecco’s.Section 2: Chinese-English Translation (汉译英) Translate the following passage into English.全球气候变化深刻影响着人类生存和发展，是各国共同面临的重大挑战。

2016年华南理工大学硕士研究生入学考试《英语翻译基础》真题(总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、词语翻译(总题数：27，分数：50.00)1.英译汉2.His son acts a lot of older than his years._________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(他的儿子年纪轻轻却做事老练。

)3.Lucy is impatient of open questions and irritated at her inability to answer them._________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(露西无法忍受那些没有定论的问题，无法给出答案让她恼火。

华南理工大学大学英语分班试题库精选College English Test For Freshmen注意事项1.请按座位表双隔位入座,将准考证（校园卡、学生卡）放在座位的左上角。

2.将自己的姓名、院系、班级写在客观题卡左上方的方框中，将学生代号填入答题卡右上方的方框中。

具体填法如下：把学号中的前2位数字（20）去掉，然后将剩下的10位填入答题卡。

如某学生的学号为200542019018，去掉“20”，将剩下的“0542019018”填入答题卡即可。

最后在竖列的相对应的数字框中划线。

3.所有客观题（4选1）的答案一不定期要写在答题卡上。

4.听写/简答/填空/翻译题的答案写在主观题答题纸上。

5.凡是写在试题册的答案一律作废。

6.请严格按照题号答题划线。

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Model Test 1Part One Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said –Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A),B),C)and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a line through the centre.Example: You will hear:You will read:A)At the office.B)In the waiting room.C) At the airport.D)In a restaurant.From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening. This is most likely to have taken place at the office. Therefore, A)At the office is the best answer. You should choose[A] on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre.1. A)She is not interested in the article.B)She has giver the man much trouble.C)She would like to have a copy of the article.D)She doesn’t want to take the trouble to read the article.2.A)He saw the big tower he visited on TV.B)He has visited the TV tower twice.C)He has visited the TV tower once.D)He will visit the TV tower in June.3. A)The woman has trouble getting along with the professor.B)The woman regrets having taken up much of the professor’s time.C)The woman knows the professor has been busy.D)The woman knows the professor has run into trouble.4. A)He doesn’t enjoy business trips as much as he used to.B)He doesn’t think he is capable of doing the job.C)He thinks the pay is too low to support his family.D)He wants to spend more time with his family.5. A)The man thought the essay was easy.B)The both had a hard time writing the essay.C)The woman thought the essay was easy.D)Neither of them has finished the assignment yet.6. A)In the park. B)Between two buildings.C)In his apartment D)Under a huge tree.7. A)It’s awfully dull. B)It’s really exciting.C)It’s very exhausting. D)It’s quite challenging.8. A)Movie. B)A lecture. C)A play. D)A speech.9. A)The weather is mild compared to the past years.B)They are having the coldest winter ever.C)The weather will soon get warmer.D)The weather may get even colder.10. A)The mystery story.B)The hiring of a shop assistant.C)The search for a reliable witness.D)An unsolved case of robbery.Section BPassage OneQuestions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. A)They want to change the way English is taught.B)They learn English to find well-paid jobs.C)They want to have an up-to-date knowledge of English.D)They know clearly what they want to learn.12. A)Professionals. B)College students.C)Beginners D)Intermediate earners.13. A)Courses for doctors. B)Courses for businessmen.C)Courses for reporters. D)Courses for lawyers.14. A)Three groups of learners. B)The importance of business English.C)English for Specific Purposes. D)Features of English for different papacies. Passage TwoQuestions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.15. A)To show off their wealth.B)To feel good.C)To regain their memory.D)To be different from others.16. A)To help solve their psychological problems.B)To play games with them.C)To send sham to the hospital.D)To make them aware of its harmfulness.17. A)They need care and affection.B)They are fond of round-the-world trips.C)They are mostly from broken families.D)They are likely to commit crimes.Passage ThreeQuestions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.18. A)Because it was too heavy.B)Because it did not bend easily.C)Because it did not shoot far.D)Because its string was short.19. A)It went out of use 300 years ago.B)It was invented alter the short how.C)It was discovered before fire and the wheel.D)It’s still in use today.20.A)They are accurate and easy to pull.B)Their shooting range is 40 yards.C)They are usually used indoors.D)They took 100years to develop.Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. 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 mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.Design of all the new tools and implements is based on careful experiments with electronic instruments. First, a human “guinea pig” is tested using a regular tool. Measurements are taken of the amount of work done, and the buildup of heat in the body. Twisted joints and stretched muscles can not perform as well, it has been found, as joints and muscles in their normal positions. The same person is then tested again, using a tool designed according to the suggestions made by Dr. Tichauer. All these tests have shown the great improvement of the new designs over the old.One of the electronic instruments used by Dr. Tichauer, the myograph (肌动记器), makes visible through electrical signals the work done by human muscle.Another machine measures any dangerous features of tools, thus proving information upon which to base a new design. One conclusion of tests made with this machine is that a tripod stepladder is more stable and safer to use than one with four legs.This work has attracted the attention of efficiency experts and time-and-motion-study engineer, but its value goes far beyond that. Dr. Tichauer’s first thought is for the health of the tool user. With the repeated use of the same tool all day long on production lines and in other jobs, even light manual work can put a heavy stress on one small area of the body. In time, such stress can cause a disabling disease. Furthermore, muscle fatigue is a serious safety hazard.Efficiency is the by-product of comfort, Dr. Tichauer believes, and his new designs for traditional tools have proved his point.21.What are involved in the design of a new tool according to the passage?A)Electronic instruments and a regular tool.B)A human “guinea pig ” and a regular tool.C)Electronic instruments and a human “guinea pig”.D)Electronic instruments, a human “guinea pig” and a regular tool.22.From the passage we know that joints and muscles perform best when .A)they are twisted and stretchedB)they are in their normal positionsC)they are tested with a human “guinea pig”D)they are tested with electronic instruments23.A “myograph” (Para. 2, Line 1) is an electronic instrument that .A)is able to design new toolsB)measures the amount of energy usedC)enable people to see the muscular movementsD)visualizes electrical signals24.It can be inferred form the passage that .A)a stepladder used to have four legsB)it is dangerous to use toolsC)a tripod is safer in a tool designD)workers are safer on production lines25.Dr. Tichauer started his experiments initially to .A)improve efficiencyB)increase productionC)reduce work loadD)improve comfortQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.More and more , the operations of our businesses, governments, and financial institutions are controlled by information that exists only inside computer memories. Anyone clever enough to modify this information for his own purposes can reap big reward. Even worse, a number of people who have done this and been caught at it have managed to get away without punishment.It’s easy for computer crimes to go undetected if no one checks up on what the computer is doing.But even if the crime is detected, the criminal may walk away not only unpunished but with a glowing recommendation from his former employers.Of course, we have no statistics on crimes that go undetected. But it’s disturbing to note how many of the crimes we do know about were detected by accident, not by systematic inspections or other security procedures. The computer criminals who have been caught may have been the victims of uncommonly bad luck.Unlike other lawbreakers, who must leave the country, commit suicide, or go to jail, computer criminals sometimes escape punishment, demanding not only that they not be charged but that they be given good recommendations and perhaps other benefits. All too often, their demands have been met.Why? Because company executives are afraid of the bad publicity that would result if the public found out that their computer had been misused. They hesitate at the thought of a criminal boasting in open court of how he juggled (诈骗) the most confidential (保密) records right under the noses of the company’s executives, accountants, and security staff. And so another computer criminal departs with just the recommendations he needs to continue his crimes elsewhere.26.It can be concluded from the passage that .A)it is still impossible to detect computer crimes todayB)people commit computer crimes at the request of their companyC)computer criminals escape punishment because they can’t be detectedD)computer crimes are the most serious problem in the operation of financial institutions27.It is implied in the third paragraph that .A)most computer criminals who are caught blame their bad luckB)the rapid increase of computer crimes is a troublesome problemC)most computer criminals are smart enough to cover up their crimesD)many more computer crimes go undetected that are discovered28.Which of the following statements is mentioned in the passage?A)A strict law against computer crimes must be enforced.B)Companies usually hesitate to uncover computer crimes to protect their reputation.C)Companies will guard against computer crimes to protect their reputation.D)Companies need to impose restrictions on confidential information.29.What may happen to computer criminals once they are caught?A)With a bad reputation they can hardly find another job.B)They may walk away and easily find another job.C)They will be denied access to confidential records.D)They must leave the country to go to jail.30.The passage is mainly about .A)why computer criminals are often able go escape punishmentB)why computer crimes are difficult to detect by systematic inspectionsC)how computer criminals manage to get good recommendations from their former employersD)why computer crimes can’t be eliminatedQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent, notions of male superiority are hard to maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and indecision makes for equality and this in turn leads to further sharing. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by cooperation rather than by the “battle of the sexes”.If the process goes too far and man’s role is regarded as less important – and that has happened in some cases – we are as badly off as before, only in reverse.It is time to reassess the role of the man in the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of “Momism”– but we don’t want to exchange it for a “neo-Popism”. What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credit – nor the blame. We have almost given up saying that a woman’s place is in the home. We are beginning, however, to analyze man’s place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child.The family is a co-operative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems.Excessive authoritarianism (命令主义) has unhappy consequences, whether it wears skirts or trousers, and the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is pertinent (相关的, 切题的) not only to a healthy democracy, but also to a healthy family.31.The ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is .A)fundament to a sound democracyB)not pertinent to healthy family lifeC)responsible for MomismD)what we have almost given up32.The danger in the sharing of household tasks by the mother and the father is that .A)the role of the father may become an inferior oneB)the role of the mother may become an inferior oneC)the children will grow up believing that life is a battle of sexesD)sharing leads to constant arguing33.The author states that bringing up children .A)is mainly the mother’s jobB)belongs among the duties of the fatherC)is the job of schools and churchesD)involves a partnership of equals34.According to the author, the father’s role in the home is .A)minor because he is an ineffectual parentB)irrelevant to the healthy development of the childC)pertinent to the healthy development of the childD)identical to the role of the child’s mother35.With which of the following statements would the author be most likely to agree?A)A healthy, co-operative family is a basic ingredient of a healthy society.B)Men are basically opposed to sharing household chores.C)Division of household responsibilities is workable only in theory.D)A woman’s place in the home – now as always.Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.Teaching children to read well from the start is the most important task of elementary schools. But relying on educators to approach this task correctly can be a great mistake. Many schools continue to employ instructional methods that have been proven ineffective. The staying power of the “look-say”or “whole-word”method of teaching beginning reading is perhaps the most flagrant example of this failure to instruct effectively.The whole-word approach to reading stresses the meaning of words over the meaning of letters, thinking over decoding, developing a sight vocabulary of familiar words over developing the ability to unlock the pronunciation of unfamiliar words. It fits in with the self-directed, “learning how to learn” activities recommended by advocates (倡导者) of “open” classrooms and with the concept that children have to be developmentally ready to begin reading. Before 1963, no major publisher put out anything but these “Run-Spot-Run” readers.However, in 1955, Rudolf Flesch touched off what has been called “the great debate”in beginning reading. In his best-seller Why Johnny Can’t Read, Flesch indicted (控诉) the nation’s public schools for miseducating students by using the look-say method. He said-and more scholarly studies by Jeane Chall and Rovert Dykstra Later confirmed – that another approach to beginning reading, founded on phonics (语言学) , is far superior.Systematic phonics first teaches children to associate letters and letter combinations with sounds; it then teaches them how to blend these sounds together to make words. Rather than building up a relatively limited vocabulary of memorized words, if imparts a code by which the pronunciations of the vast majority of the most common words in the English language can be learned. Phonics does not devalue the importance of thinking about the meaning of words and sentences; it simply recognizes that decoding is the logical and necessary first step.36.The author feels that counting on educators to teach reading correctly is .A)only logical and natural B)the expected positionC)probably a mistake D)merely effective instruction37.The author indicts the look-say reading approach because .A)it overlooks decoding B)Rudolf Flesch agrees with himC)he says it is boring D)many schools continue to use this method38.One major difference between the look-say method of learning reading and the phonics method is .A)look-say is simpler B)phonics takes longer to learnC)look-say is easier to teach D)phonics gives readers access to far more words39.The phrase “touch-off” (Para.3, Line 1) most probably means .A)talk about shortly B)start or causeC)compare with D)oppose40.According to the author, which of the following statements is true?A)Phonics approach regards whole-word method as unimportant.B)The whole-word approach emphasizes decoding.C)In phonics approach, it is necessary and logical to employ decoding.D)Phonics is superior because it stresses the meaning of words thus the vast majority of most common words can be learned.Part Three V ocabulary and StructureDirections: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D). Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.41.Word had come from the manager a new transaction would be concluded.A)whoB)thatC)whichD)when42.There was a traffic jam, but she get to the destination in time.A)couldB)mightC)ought toD)was able to43.“Do you think I should attend the lecture?” she asked me.A)thatB)whetherC)ifD)when44.Their room was on the third floor, its window the sports ground.A)overlooksB)overlookingC)overlookedD)to overlook45.On no account to anyone who works in the company.A)my name must be mentionedB)my name must mentionC)must my name be mentionedD)must my name mention46.Jim knows little of mathematics, of chemistry.A)and still lessB)as well asC)no less thanD)and still more47.The man denied any thing at the supermarket when he was questioned by the police.A)to have stolenB)to stealC)having stolenD)having been stealing48.Did he tell you what if he had a chance?A)was he going to doB)he would doC)be had doneD)had to do49.The results were to yesterday, but we have heard nothing.A)revealB)have revealedC)be revealedD)have been revealed50.Calculations, which are astronomically exact, have been made with the use of computers.A)possibleB)it possibleC)possiblyD)to be possible51.To handle the delicate situation, you must; beA)more than carefulB)more carefullyC)carefully enoughD)enough carefully52.The governess agreed to teach the temperamental child she was given complete authority.A)whetherB)forC)thatD)provided53.According to the periodic table, still some elements undiscovered.A)there seem to beB)it seems to beC)it seems thatD)here seem54.The farmer used wood to build a house to store grain.A)withB)in whichC)whichD)where55.A beam of light will not bend round the corners unless to do so with the help of a reflecting device.A)being doneB)madeC)to be madeD)having made56. , the more severe the winters are.A)The more north you goB)The farther you go the northC)The more you go northD)The farther north you go57.Vicky has been sad recently, for her plan to go to college at the last moment.A)fell outB)fell behindC)fell throughD)fell off58.You had better leasing these newcomers, for that will hurt their feeling.A)leave outB)leave forC)leave offD)leave behind59.Don’t lose heart! You should your courage and overcome the difficulty.A)hold upB)set upC)pull upD)pluck up60.He a sum of money every month to help the two orphans.A)sets asideB)sets upC)sets alongD)sets in61.His debts had to be after he committed suicide with his rifle.A)laid offB)written offC)turned offD)put off62.The gentleman a cherub with his letter.A)combinedB)includedC)keptD)enclosed63.At the meeting both sides exchanged their views on a wide of topics they were interested in.A)extentB)numberC)collectionD)range64.His has changed but he has kept the fine qualities of a scientific researcher.A)stateB)statusC)stationD)statue65.She can speak French and German, to nothing of English.A)sayB)speakC)talkD)tell66.If you play with electricity, you may get an electric .A)strikeB)beatC)shockD)knock67.It was a wonderful play with a of over fifty actors and actresses.A)listB)groupC)bunchD)herd68.A change in policy is needed if relations are ever to improve.A)strictB)wideC)everD)radical69.Please give my best to your family.A)noticeB)attentionC)regardsD)cares70.They bought the land with a to build a new office block.A)purposeB)viewC)goalD)reasonPart IV Close (15 minutes )Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage, for each bland there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the one that best fits into the passage.Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Methods of studying vary; what works 71 for some students doesn’t work at all for others. The only thing you can do is experiment 72 you find a system that does work for you . But two things are sure: 73 else can do your studying for you, and unless you do find a system that works, you won’t although college. Meantime, there are a few rules that 74 for everybody. The hint is “don’t get 75 ”.The problem of studying, 76 enough to start with, becomes almost 77 when you are trying to do 78 in one weekend. 79 the fastest readers have trouble 80 that. And id you are behind in written work that must be 81 , the teacher who accepts it 82 late will probably not give you good credit. Perhaps he may not accept it 83 . Getting behind in one class because you are spending so much time on another is really no 84 .Feeling pretty virtuous about the seven hours you spend on chemistry won’t 85 one bit if the history teacher pops a quiz. And many freshmen do get into trouble by spending too much time on one class at the 86 of the others, either because they like one class much better or because they find it so much harder that they think, they should 87 all their time to it. 88 the reason, going the whole work for one class and neglecting the rest of them is a mistake, if you face this 89 , begin with the shortest and easiest 90 . Get them out of the way and then go to the more difficult, time consuming work.71.A)good B)easily C)sufficiently D)well72.A)until B)after C)while D) so73.A)somebody B)nobody C)everybody D)anybody74.A)follow B)go C)operate D)work75.A)behind B)after C)slow D)later76.A)hardly B)unpleasant C)hard D)heavy77.A)improbable B)necessary C)impossible D)inevitable78.A)three week’s work B) three weeks’ worksC) three week s’ work D) three week’s works79.A)Even B)Almost C)If D)With80.A)to do B)doing C)at doing D)with doing81.A)turned in B) turned up C) turned out D) given in82.A)very B)quite C)such D)that83.A)anyway B)either C)at all D)too84.A)solution B)method C)answer D)excuse85.A)help B)encourage C)assist D)improve86.A)expense B)pay C)debt D)charge87.A)devote B)put C)spend D)take88.A)Whichever B)Whatever C)However D)Wherever89.A)attraction B)decision C)temptation D)dilemma90.A)arrangements B)way C)assignments D)classPart VWriting Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic Good Manners. You should write at least 100words and you should base your composition on the outline (giver in Chinese) below:1.世界上的人都看重良好的行为举止.2.在公共场合的一些好的行为举止.3.如果每个人都培养起了好的行为举止.Keys:1-10:CCBDB DACDD 11-20:DABCB AACBA21-25:DBCAD26-30:DDBBD31-35:AADCA36-40:CADBC41-50:BDABC ACBDA 51-60:ADABB DCCDA 61-70:BDDBA ABDCA71-80:DABDA CCCAB 81-90:ADCDA AABCCWriting:People all over the world set great regard on good manners. To certain degree, good manners indicate a person’s good education and breeding. In schools, it is part of students’ moral Raining to develop good manners. A person with good manners always wins praise. On the contrary, people will frown on him if he behaves roughly and impolitely.There are good manners in which we behave in public places. It is a good manner to offer help to the young, the old and the handicapped when they are in need of it. So is it to conduct ourselves politely and keep away from foul language. Besides, we should guard against such minor offences as making a loud noise, casting peels and shells, smoking and spitting.If everyone has developed good manners, people will form a more harmonious relationship. If everyone behaves considerately towards others and follows the social ethics, people will live in a better world. With the general mood of society improved, there will be a progress of civilezation.。

2016年华南理工大学英语翻译基础真题试卷(题后含答案及解析) 题型有：1. 词语翻译 2. 英汉互译词语翻译英译汉1．His son acts a lot of older than his years.正确答案：他的儿子年纪轻轻却做事老练。

2．Lucy is impatient of open questions and irritated at her inability to answer them.正确答案：露西无法忍受那些没有定论的问题，无法给出答案让她恼火。

3．Tom got the key of the street.正确答案：汤姆无家可归了。

4．Though now and then opportunity had been given him to leave, he had never taken it.正确答案：虽然他不时地有机会可以离开，他却从来没有离开过。

5．No one gets out of this world alive and few people come through life without at least one serious illness.正确答案：没有谁能活着离开这个世界，极少有人一生没生过一次重病。

6．They have been wetted in the rain and their goods have been affected with damp.正确答案：他们被雨淋湿了，货物也受潮了。

7．The sense of inferiority that she acquired in her youth has never been totally eradicated.正确答案：她自青少年时期便产生的自卑感还没有完全消除。

8．She became a poor third in the English-speaking contest.正确答案：她在英语演讲比赛中获得第三名，成绩比第二名落后很多。

211华南理工大学2016年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试卷（试卷上做答无效，请在答题纸上做答，试后本卷必须与答题纸一同交回）科目名称：翻译硕士英语适用专业：英语笔译(专业学位)211华南理工大学2017年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试卷（试卷上做答无效，请在答题纸上做答，试后本卷必须与答题纸一同交回）科目名称：翻译硕士英语适用专业：英语笔译（专硕）211华南理工大学2018年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试卷（试卷上做答无效，请在答题纸上做答，试后本卷必须与答题纸一同交回）科目名称：翻译硕士英语适用专业：英语笔译(专硕)A. People could explain well why they made their choices.B. Only a few of participants had choice blindness in making decision.C. Usually participants were aware of the limits of their skills.D. Most participants didn’t realize that their choices had been switched.44. Change blindness refers to the phenomenon that_________________.A. many people fail to notice the big change around themB. people tend to ignore the small changes in the surroundingsC. people’s choices can be easily interrupted by a big changeD. quite a few people do not have a good sense of directions45. What do researchers think is the drive for many everyday preferences?A. The haste judgment.B. The mechanism of self-feedback.C. The interaction with others.D. The expectation for the future.Passage fourRicky Gervais’s new film, The Invention of Lying, is about a world where lying doesn’t exist, which means that everybody tells the truth, and everybody believes everything everybody else says. “I’ve always hated you,”a man tells a work colleague. “He see ms nice, if a bit fat,” a woman says about her date. It’s all truth, all the time, at whatever the cost. Until one day, when Mark, a down-on-his-luck loser played by Gervais, discovers a thing called “lying” and what it can get him. Within days, Mark is rich, famous, and courting the girl of his dreams. And because nobody knows what “lying” is? he goes on, happily living what has become a complete and utter farce.It’s meant to be funny, but it’s also a more serious commentary on us all. As Americans, we like to think we value the truth. Time and time again, public-opinion polls show that honesty is among the top five characteristics we want in a leader, friend, or lover; the world is full of sad stories about the tragic consequences of betrayal. At the same time, deception is all around us. We are lied to by government officials and public figures to a disturbing degree; many of our social relationships are based on little white lies we tell each other. We deceive our children, only to be deceived by them in return. And the average person, says psychologist Robert Feldman, the author of a new book on lying, tells at least three lies in the first 10 minutes of a conversation. “There’s always been a lot of lying,” says Feldman，whose new book, The Liar in Your Life, came out this month. “But I do think we’re seeing a kind of cultural shift where we’re lying more, it’s easier to lie, and in some ways it’s almost more acceptable.”As Paul Ekman, one of Feldman’s longtime lying colleagues and the inspiration behind the Fox IV series “Lie To Me”defines it，a liar is a person who “intends tomislead,”“deliberately,”without being asked to do so by the target of the lie. Which doesn’t mean that all lies are equally toxic: some are simply habitual –“My pleasure!” -- while others might be well-meaning white lies. But each, Feldman argues, is harmful, because of the standard it creates. And the more lies we tell, even if they’re little white lies, the more deceptive we and society become.We are a culture of liars, to put it bluntly, with deceit so deeply ingrained in our mind that we hardly even notice we’re engaging in it. Junk e-mail, deceptive advertising, the everyday pleasantries we don’t really mean –“It’s so great to meet you! I love that dress”– have, as Feldman puts it, become “a white noise we’ve learned to neglect.” And Feldman also argues that cheating is more common today than ever. The Josephson Institute, a nonprofit focused on youth ethics, concluded in a 2008 survey of nearly 30,000 high school students that “cheating in school continues to be rampant, and it’s getting worse.” In that survey, 64 percent of students said they’d cheated on a test during the past year, up from 60 percent in 2006. Another recent survey, by Junior Achievement, revealed that more than a third of teens believe lying, cheating, or plagiarizing can be necessary to succeed, while a brand-new study, commissioned by the publishers of Feldman’s book, shows that 18-to 34-year-olds--- those of us fully reared in this lying culture --- deceive more frequently than the general population.Teaching us to lie is not the purpose of Feldman’s book. His subtitle, in fact, is “the way to truthful relationships.”But if his book teaches us anything, it’s that we should sharpen our skills — and use them with abandon.Liars get what they want. They avoid punishment, and they win others’ affection. Liars make themselves sound smart and intelligent, they attain power over those of us who believe them, and they often use their lies to rise up in the professional world. Many liars have fun doing it. And many more take pride in getting away with it.As Feldman notes, there is an evolutionary basis for deception: in the wild, animals use deception to “play dead” when threatened. But in the modem world, the motives of our lying are more selfish. Research has linked socially successful people to those who are good liars. Students who succeed academically get picked for the best colleges, despite the fact that, as one recent Duke University study found, as many as 90 percent of high-schoolers admit to cheating. Even lying adolescents are more popular among their peers.And all it takes is a quick flip of the remote to see how our public figures fare when they get caught in a lie: Clinton keeps his wife and goes on to become a national hero. Fabricating author James Frey gets a million-dollar book deal. Eliot Spitzer’s wi fe stands by his side, while “Appalachian hiker” Mark Sanford still gets to keep his post. If everyone else is being rewarded for lying，don’t we need to lie, too, just to keep up?But what’s funny is that even as we admit to being liars, study after study shows thatmost of us believe we can tell when others are lying to us. And while lying may be easy, spotting a liar is far from it. A nervous sweat or shifty eyes can certainly mean a person’s uncomfortable, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re lying. Gaze aversion, meanwhile, has more to do with shyness than actual deception. Even polygraph machines are unreliable. And according to one study, by researcher Bella DePaulo, we’re only able to differentiate a lie from truth only 47 percent of the time, less than if we guessed randomly. “Basically everything we’ve heard about catching a liar is wrong,”says Feldman, who heads the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.Ekman, meanwhile, has spent decades studying micro-facial expressions of liars: the split-second eyebrow arch that shows surprise when a spouse asks who was on the phone; the furrowed nose that gives away a hint of disgust when a person says “I love you.” He’s trained everyone from the Secret Service to the TSA, and believes that with close study, it’s possible to identify those tiny emotions. The hard part, of course, is proving them. “A lot of times, it’s easier to believe,” says Feldman. “It takes a lot of cognitive effort to think about whether someone is lying to us.”Which mea ns that more often than not, we’re like the poor dumb souls of The Invention of Lying, hanging on a liar’s every word, no matter how untruthful they may be.46. What do we know about Mark in the film The Invention of Lying?A. He looks too thin for his date.B. He is the most honest man.C. Lying changes his life completely.D. He lives in a lying world.47. According to Robert Feldman, the author of The Liar in Your Life, Americans now_____________________.A. regard the truth as very importantB. tend to lie more often than beforeC. start a conversation with three liesD. hate to be deceived by their children48. How does Robert Feldman see little white lies?A. They do harm to both people and the society.B. They are more acceptable than habitual lies.C. They are necessary in the social relationships.D. They are good-intentioned and thus harmless.49. The survey of the Josephson Institute revealed in 2008 that____________.A. most students passed the examinations by cheatingB. few students realized the harm of deceivingC. lying had become a habit of many studentsD. cheating was spreading unrestrainedly in schools。

2016年华南理工大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷(总分：102.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、 Vocabulary(总题数：30，分数：60.00)1.If you keep on trying something, the day will come when you can do it well and with great______. （分数：2.00）A.careB.ease √C.tempoD.dignity解析：解析：本题考查名词辨析。

you can do it well意为“你会做好它”，with great______ 与此并列，意义上应该与此接近。

with great care意为“小心翼翼地”。

with great ease意为“轻而易举地”，符合题意，故答案为[B]项。

with great tempo意为“以极大的速度”；with great dignity意为“威风凛凛”。

如果填入care，tempo或dignity，与you can do it well的语义不符，故均排除。

2.She______to find new stories about her homeland, making sure her American-born daughter did not grow up ignorant of Chinese culture.（分数：2.00）A.dropped outB.went out of her way √C.gave wayD.got down解析：解析：本题考查动词短语辨析。

drop out意为“离开，退出”。

go out of one's way意为“不怕麻烦；特地”。

give way意为“撤退；让路；退让；垮掉”。

get down意为“沮丧；落下；吞下；写下”。

本句意为：为了保证她在美国出生的女儿长大后不会对中国文化很生疏，她______找寻有关祖国的新鲜事。

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2016年华南理工大学翻译硕士入学考试《英语》真题(总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、 Vocabulary(总题数：30，分数：60.00)1.If you keep on trying something, the day will come when you can do it well and with great______.A.careB.ease √C.tempoD.dignity【解析】本题考查名词辨析。

you can do it well意为"你会做好它"，with great______ 与此并列，意义上应该与此接近。

with great care意为"小心翼翼地"。

with great ease意为"轻而易举地"，符合题意，故答案为[B]项。

with great tempo意为"以极大的速度"；with great dignity 意为"威风凛凛"。

如果填入care，tempo或dignity，与you can do it well的语义不符，故均排除。

2.She______to find new stories about her homeland, making sure her American-born daughter did not grow up ignorant of Chinese culture.A.dropped outB.went out of her way √C.gave wayD.got down【解析】本题考查动词短语辨析。

drop out意为"离开，退出"。

go out of one's way意为"不怕麻烦；特地"。

give way意为"撤退；让路；退让；垮掉"。

2016年华南理工大学外国语学院211翻译硕士英语考研真题及详解Part Ⅰ.Vocabulary and Structure (30 points, 1 point for each)Directions: After each statement there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Select the only one choice that best completes’ the statement. Write your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.1. If you keep on trying something, the day will come when you can do it well and with great _____.A. careB. easeC. tempoD. dignity【答案】B【解析】句意：如果你一直在尝试某件事，总有一天你可以出色且轻松地将它完成。

care 关怀；照料。

ease轻松，舒适。

tempo速度，发展速度。

dignity尊严；高贵。

2. She _____ to find new stories about her homeland, making sure her American-born daughter did not grow up ignorant of Chinese culture.A. dropped outB. went out of her wayC. gave wayD. got down【答案】D【解析】句意：她开始寻找关于自己祖国的新故事，以确保她出生在美国的女儿不会对中国文化一无所知。

drop out退出；退学。

go out of one’s way特地；不怕麻烦。

give away 放弃；泄露。

get down to开始认真考虑；着手处理。

1、游客们被美丽的风景迷住了。

(attracted)The tourists were attracted by the beautiful scenery.2、能够见到老朋友，我说不出有多高兴。

（describe）I could not describe my happiness to see my old friends.3、两个顾客吵了起来，被店主撵了出去。

(kick out of)The shop-owner kicked the tow customers out of the shop as they began to quarrel.4、如果你没有票的话，我不能让你进入剧场。

（admit）If you don’t have ticket，I won’t admit you into the theatre.5、他当了多年主任，不过现在该退休了，让更年轻的人来接替。

（take over）He has been the dean for many years, but now it’s time for him to retire and let someone younger take over.1、汤姆情不自禁地对玛丽一见钟情。

（fall in love）Tom could n’t help falling in love with Mary at first sight.2、聚会之后，屋里满是烟味。

（be filled with）The room was filled with the smell of cigarette after the party.3、不同的文化有不同的餐桌礼仪。

（table manners）Different culture has different table manners.4、他没有充分知识到签合同的重要性。

（appreciate）He did not fully appreciate the significance of signing the contract.5、他依靠在墙上，一言不发。