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对外经济贸易大学201 4年翻译硕士专业学位研究生入学考试初试试题考试科目：357英语翻译基础Part I Terminology and Phrase Translation (30 points)Section One: Translate the following terms rnto Chinese, Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET (10 points,l point each).1. Anti-Dumping Duty Order 6.par value2. countertrade w of diminis hing marginal utility3. holdingcompany 8.treasury bills4. workingcapital 9.zero sum game5. contingencyfund 10.niche marketSection Two: Translate the following terms into English.Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET (10 points,1 point each).1．即期汇票6．远期汇率2．资本流动性7．最低限价3．抵押贷款8．金融租赁公司4．指令经济9．微信5．机会成本10．雾霾Section Three: Give the full forms of the following abbreviations and translate them into Chinese. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET(10 pornts, 1 point each). l. MOOC 6. ICC2. TPP 7. ITC3. CAFTA 8. SBA4. CFR 9. UNCTAD5. GSP 10. USAIDPartⅡ Passage Translatron (120 points)Section One: Translate the following English passage into Chinese. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET (60 points).Global financial stability has improved over the past six months, bolstered by better macroeconomic performance and continued accommodative macroeconomic policies, but fragilities remain. The two-speed recovery-modest in advanced economies and robust in emerging market economies-has posed different policy challenges for countries. In advanced economies hit hardest by the crisis, governments and households remain heavily indebted, to varying degrees, and the health of financial institutions has not recovered in tandem with the overall economy. Emerging market economies are facing new challenges associated with strong domestic demand, rapid credit growth, relatively accommodative macroeconomic policies, and large capital infl.ows. Geopolitical riskscould also threaten the economic and financial outlook, with oil prices increasing sharply amid fears of supply disruptions in the Middle East and North Africa.The main task facing policymakers in advanced economies is to shift the balance of policies away from reliance on macroeconomic ar,d liquidity support to more structural policies-less "leaning" and more "cleaning of the financial system. This vnll entail reducing leverage and restoring market discipline, while avoiding financial or economic disruption during the transition. Thus, ongoing policy efforts to withdraw (implicit) public guarantees and ensure bondholder liability for future losses must build on more rapid progress toward stronger bank balance sheets, ensuring medium-term fiscal sustainability and addressing excessive debt burdens in the private sector.For policymakers in emerging market economies, the task is to limit overheating and a buildup of vulnerabilities- to avoid "cleaning" later. Emerging market economies have continued to benefit from strong growth relative to that in advanced economies, accompanied by increasing portfolio capital inflows. This is putting pressure on some financial markets, contributing to higher leverage, potential asset price bubbles, and inflationary pressures. Policymakers will have to pay increasing attention to containing the buildup of macro-financial risks to avoid future problems that could inhibit their growth and damage financial stability. In a number of cases, this will entail a tighter macroeconomic policy stance, and, when needed, the use of macro-prudential tools to ensure financial stability. Increasing the financial sector's capacity to absorb higher flows through efforts to broaden and deepen local capital markets will also help.Section Two: Translate the following Chinese passage into English. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET (60 points).中意两国都是拥有悠久历史和灿烂文化的文明古国。

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四川大学2014年翻译硕士考研真题及答案I. Directions: Translate the following words, abbreviations or terminology into their target languages respectively. (30′)1. Overseas remittance: 海外汇款;国外汇款2. European Union Emission Trading Scheme: 欧盟排放交易体系3. carbon sink: 碳汇4. TPP Agreement: 跨太平洋伙伴关系协定(Trans-Pacific Partnership)5. COP 19: 联合国气候变化大会第19次缔约方大会[ the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP19) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change]6. Malthusian Theory of Population: 马尔萨斯人口论7. sub-Saharan Africa: 撒哈拉以南非洲8. Maastricht Treaty: 马斯特里赫特条约9. Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC)：《中国南海缔约方行为公告》10. HSBC：汇丰银行11. the House of Lords：英国上议院12. purchasing power parity：购买力平价13. China-Britain Business Council (CBBC)：英中贸易协会14. Wikileaks：维基解密15. rep by pop：人口数决定代表数(representation by population);人民代表16. 创业板市场：Growth Enterprise Market17. 中国共产党第十八届三中全会：the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the CPC (communist party of China)18. 棱镜亊件:PRISM;the US surveillance program PRISM19. 《本草纲目》：compendium of materia medica20. 假冒及盗版产品：counterfeit and pirated products21. 页岩气：shale gas22. 土豪: rich rednecks;Beverly Hillbillies;upstart;rural rich;local tyrant; local lord23. 比特币：bitcoin24. “脱光”(11月11日): ending the situation of being single; say goodbye to the single lives25. 现房与期房: complete apartment and forward delivery housing26. 老年痴呆: senile dementia; Alzheimer’s disease27. 杜莎夫人蜡像馆: Madame Tussauds28. 热岛效应: Urban Heat Island Effect29. 《环球时报》:Global Times30. 《史记》: Historical RecordsII. Directions: Translate the following source texts into their target languages respectively. If the source text is in English, its target language is Chinese. If the source text is in Chinese, its target language is English. (120’)Source Text 1:The biographer should sternly confine himself to the functions as introducer and should give no more discussion than is clearly necessary for making the book an independent whole. A little analysis of motive may be necessary here and there, when for example, your hero has put his hand in somebody’s pocket and y ou have to demonstrate that his conduct was due to sheer absence of mind. But you must always remember that a single concrete fact were a saying into which man has put his soul is worth pages of psychological analysis. We may argue till Doom’s Day about Sw ift’s character, his singled phrase of dying like a poisoned rat in a hole, tells us more than all the commentators. The book should be the man himself speaking or acting, or nothing but the man. It should be such a portrait as reveals the essence of character. And the writer who gives anything that does not tell upon the general effect is like the portrait painter who allows the chairs and tables, or even the coat and cravat to distract attention from the vase. The really significant anecdote is often all that survives of a life. And such anecdotes must be made to tell properly instead of being hidden away in the wilderness of the common place. They should be a focus of interest instead of a fallible abstract for a book of miscellaneous. How much would be lost of Johnson if we suppressed the incident of the penance and to(*). It is such incidents that in books as often in life suddenly reveal to us all regions of sentiment, but never rise to the surface in the ordinary routine of our day.Source Text 2:The term genetically modified organism (GMO) refers to plants, microbes and animals with genes transferred from other species in order to produce certain novel characteristics (for example resistance to pests, or herbicides) and are produced by recombinant DNA technology. Four main sources of hazards of GMO are discussed by scientists worldwide:those due to the new genes, and gene products introduced; 2) unintended effects inherent to the teclinology; 3) interactions between foreign genes and host genes; and 4) those arising from the spread of the introduced genes by ordinary cross-pollination as well as by horizontal gene transfer.GM crops contain material, which is not present in them under natural conditions, and they form a part of our daily diet. To understand what effect they can have on us and on our animaJs, it is very important to study the influence of these GM plants in different organisms for several generations. At present, these studies are lackii.j from the scientific literature. Also, several detrimental effects of GM crops had been showed on the metabolism of animals. The hazard of GMO was shown for animals and the environment in many investigations. Earlier it was shown that consumption of GM food by animals led to the negative changes in their organisms. Experiments, conducted by A. Pusztai showed that potatoes modified by the insertion of the gene of snowdrop lectin (雪花莲凝集素),stunled the growth of rats, significantly affected some of their vital organs, including the kidneys, thymus (陶腺)，gastrocnemius muscles (聪肠肌)and othersand damaged their intestines and their immune system.Source Text 3:科学是讲求实际的。

2014年四川师范大学外国语学院212翻译硕士俄语考研真题及详解I.Прочитайтепредложенияивыберитеправильныйвариант（30баллов）.1.МыдавнонепереписываемсясАндреем.Ивдругонвзяли_____мнеподробноеписьмо.A.писалB.пишетC.написалD.напишет【答案】C【解析】句意是“我和安德烈好久没写信。

考查固定用法。

他突然就给我写了一封长长的信。

”“взяли＋完成体动词过去时”可译为“突然就……”，表意外。

选择C。

2.Иванвыросвбольшой,_____семье.A.дружескойB.дружнойC.дружественнойD.дружелюбной【答案】B【解析】句意是“伊万是在一个大而和睦的家庭里长大的。

”考查形容词近义词辨析。

дружеский友好的，友爱的вдружескойатмосфере在友好气氛中，дружескаявстречаспорт.友谊[比]赛。

дружный和睦的，友好的，дружнаясемья友好家庭，дружныйколлектив和睦的集体，符合题意。

友好的，友谊的дружественныестраны友好的国家；友邦дружественныйакт-友谊行为，一般用于国家间。

дружелюбный亲睦的，友善的дружелюбныеотношения友善的关系дружелюбныйвзгляд友善的目光。

选择B。

3.Онсправилсясэтойработойбез_____затруднений.A.любыхB.иныхC.каждыхD.всяких【答案】D【解析】句意是“他能够轻而易举地胜任这份工作。

”考查固定搭配。

безвсякихзатруднений“一点也不费力、轻而易举地”。

选择D。

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对外经济贸易大学2014年MTI考研真题I.Phrase Translation1.Anti-Dumping Duty Order反倾销税令2.counter trade对销贸易3.holding company控股公司4.working capital营运资本，流动资金5.contingency fund应急费用6.par value票面价值w of diminishing marginal utility边际效用递减/规律8.treasury bills(美国或英国的)短期国库券9.zero sum game零和博弈，又称零和游戏10.niche market利基市场11.即期汇票sight draft，demand draft12.资本流动性mobility of capital13.抵押贷款Mortgage Loan14.指令经济Command economy15.机会成本opportunity cost16.远期汇率forward rate17.最低限价floor price18.金融租赁公司Financial leasing company19.微信WeChat20.雾霾haze21.MOOC网络公开课(Massive Open Online Courses)22.TPP跨太平洋战略经济伙伴协议(Trans-Pacific Partnership)23.CAFTA东盟自由贸易区(China-ASEAN Free Trade Area)24.CFR成本加运费（Cost and Freight）25.GSP普及特惠税制度(Generalized System Of Preferences)26.ICC国际商会（International Chamber of Commerce）27.ITC国际贸易委员会(International Trade Commission)28.SBA小企业管理局(Small Business Administration)29.UNCTAD联合国贸易和发展会议(United Nations Conference on Trade and Development)AID美国国际开发署(United States Agency for International Development)ⅡPassage Translatron(120points)Section One:Translate the following English passage into Chinese. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET(60points).Global financial stability has improved over the past six months, bolstered by better macroeconomic performance and continued accommodative macroeconomic policies,but fragilities remain.Thetwo-speed recovery-modest in advanced economies and robust in emerging market economies-has posed different policy challenges for countries. In advanced economies hit hardest by the crisis,governments and households remain heavily indebted,to varying degrees,and the health of financial institutions has not recovered in tandem with the overall economy.Emerging market economies are facing new challenges associated with strong domestic demand,rapid credit growth,relatively accommodative macroeconomic policies,and large capital infl.ows. Geopolitical risks could also threaten the economic and financial outlook,with oil prices increasing sharply amid fears of supply disruptions in the Middle East and North Africa.The main task facing policymakers in advanced economies is to shift the balance of policies away from reliance on macroeconomic ar,d liquidity support to more structural policies-less“leaning”and more “cleaning of the financial system.This vnll entail reducing leverage and restoring market discipline,while avoiding financial or economic disruption during the transition.Thus,ongoing policy efforts to withdraw(implicit)public guarantees and ensure bondholder liability for future losses must build on more rapid progress toward stronger bank balance sheets,ensuring medium-term fiscal sustainability and addressing excessive debt burdens in the private sector.For policymakers in emerging market economies,the task is to limit overheating and a buildup of vulnerabilities-to avoid“cleaning”later.Emerging market economies have continued to benefit from strong growth relative to that in advanced economies,accompanied by increasing portfolio capital inflows.This is putting pressure on some financial markets,contributing to higher leverage,potential asset price bubbles,and inflationary pressures.Policymakers will have to pay increasing attention to containing the buildup of macro-financial risks to avoid future problems that could inhibit their growth and damage financial stability.In a number of cases,this will entail a tighter macroeconomic policy stance,and,when needed,the use of macro-prudential tools to ensure financial stability.Increasing the financial sector’s capacity to absorb higher flows through efforts to broaden and deepen local capital markets will also help.Section Two:Translate the following Chinese passage into English.Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET(60 points).中意两国都是拥有悠久历史和灿烂文化的文明古国。

翻译硕士英语学位MTI考试四川外国语大学2014年真题(总分：94.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the appropriate words derived from the words given in parentheses at the end of the sentences.(总题数：10，分数：10.00)1.The front army troops were 1 by a large contingent of students from the military academy. (strength)（分数：1.00）解析：strengthened[解析] 句意：军校的学生分队加入后，前线部队实力得到了增强。

根据句意，此处表示实力被增强，因此需要填入strength的动词过去分词形式。

2.I was looking forward to a casual stroll, but he walked at a 1 pace. (vigor)（分数：1.00）解析：vigorous[解析] 句意：我希望只是随意逛逛，但是他走起来步伐矫健。

由句意可知，此处需填入vigor的形容词形式。

3.A 1 of cultures or ideas occurs when two very different cultures or people meet and conflict. (collide)（分数：1.00）解析：collision[解析] 句意：当两种截然不同的文化或民族相遇并碰撞时，便会产生文化和观念上的冲突。

此处讲文化和观念的冲突，因此应当是collide的名词形式。

4.The 1 purpose of scientific discourse is not the mere presentation of information and thought, but rather its actual communication. (fundament)（分数：1.00）解析：fundamental[解析] 句意：科学论述的最根本的目的不只是传递信息和表达思想，更重要的是现实的交流。

2014年四川外国语大学翻译硕士（MTI）汉语写作与百科知识真题试卷(总分：54.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、单项选择题(总题数：25，分数：50.00)1.“黄河，你千百年来坚韧地浇灌着华北大地，养育着华夏子孙，就如一位慈祥、坚韧的伟大母亲护养着她生养的儿女！”运用了（）（分数：2.00）A.比喻、对比B.比喻、拟人C.明喻、夸张D.拟人、夸张2.象形、指事、会意、形声都有的一组字是（）（分数：2.00）A.益盂戌朱B.涉伐豕疫C.布刃取囤D.易甘贼旗3.跟“野生”词性相同的是（）（分数：2.00）A.女式B.男士C.出生D.野游4.“他会英语”、“他会说英语”和“他会来的”中的三个“会”字的词性分别是（）（分数：2.00）A.动词、助动词、助动词B.助动词、助动词、动词C.助动词、动词、动词D.动词、助动词、动词5.划分汉语词类的标准应该是（）（分数：2.00）A.语法意义B.语法功能C.形态标志D.音节结构6.普通话语音系统里，p[p h ]的发音特征是（）（分数：2.00）A.双唇不送气清塞音B.双唇送气清塞音C.双唇浊鼻音D.唇齿清擦音7.“小李，你还记得咱们第一次见面的情景吗？”这个句子从结构上看是（）（分数：2.00）A.体词性(名词性)偏正短语作宾语B.主谓短语作宾语C.兼语短语作宾语D.连动短语作谓语8.下面几组外来词，借用方式相同的一组是（）（分数：2.00）A.卡宾枪、香槟酒、道林纸B.汉堡包、沙发、吉普车C.易拉罐、幽默、意识流D.艾滋病、迪斯科、保龄球9.长江全长约6300公里，流经青海、西藏……（）个省、自治区、直辖市，流域面积达180余万平方公里：（分数：2.00）A.9B.10C.11D.1210.科举制度从隋朝持续到了清末，总共持续了多少年（）（分数：2.00）A.1200B.1300C.1400D.150011.由于推崇高门大姓，古代的“郡望意识”很流行。

民宅上嵌有“太原流芳”的姓氏应该是（）（分数：2.00）A.杜姓B.刘姓C.王姓D.张姓12.“君者，舟也；庶人者，水也。

2014年对外经济贸易大学翻译硕士解析真题战后期，与美英分区占领德国，参加纽伦堡对纳粹战犯的审判。

⑼西德成立后,法德同为北约与欧共体成员国,推动欧洲一体化进程。

3、英德关系⑴在法国大革命和拿破仑帝国时期，英国联合普奥反法。

⑵1814—1815年，英国同普奥共同操纵维也纳会议，建立维也纳体系。

（略）⑶进入帝国主义阶段后，英德矛盾成为帝国主义主要矛盾，英、德分别组织三国协约和三国同盟两大军事集团。

疯狂扩军备战。

⑷一战爆发后，英法在西线相继取得马恩河、凡尔登、索姆河、日德兰等战役的胜利，最后大败德国，取得一战胜利。

⑸一战后，在巴黎和会上，奉行均势，反对过分削弱德国；参与瓜分德国海外殖民地。

⑹20年代在德国赔款和法国安全问题，英国偏袒德国；道威斯计划通过后，对德提供贷款，扶植德国；参与签订洛迦诺公约，提高德国政治地位。

⑺30年代对德实行绥靖政策：对德实施普遍义务兵役制，开进莱茵不设防区不予反击；对德入侵西班牙采取“不干涉”政策；制造慕尼黑阴谋；德国突袭波兰，英法确坐视波兰灭亡而按兵不动。

⑻二战爆发后，英国逐渐坚定了反法西斯斗争决心；不列颠之战使德国遭到第一次重大失败；丘吉尔和罗斯福发表《大西洋宪章》；参与发表华盛顿26国宣言，建立世界反法西斯同盟；阿拉曼战役战胜德意在北非的军队，北非登陆迫使德意军队投降；诺曼第登陆，开辟欧洲第二战场；相继参加开罗会议、德黑兰会议、雅尔塔会议和波茨坦会议。

⑼二战后，参与对德国及其首都柏林的分区占领；在纽伦堡队纳粹战犯进行审判。

4、英美关系⑴1775—1783年的独立战争，美国摆脱英国殖民统治，赢得独立。

⑵1823年，美国提出“门罗主义”，引起英国不满。

1846年美国从英国手中取得俄勒冈。

⑶1899年美国提出对华“门户开放”政策，首先得到英国承认。

⑷一战后期，美国加入协约国作战，企图与英法争夺战利品。

⑸一战后美国企图凭借世界经济霸权地位，实现统治全世界的野心，同英国力图保持海上霸权，继续扩大殖民地的意图发生矛盾，英美矛盾成为主要矛盾。

【211翻硕英语】题型跟13年一样,10个词语填空10分;20道单选题都是考察词汇量的,20分;阅读共3篇都是雅思题型共40分;作文30分.今年的作文题目是该不该推迟退休.友情提示一下~不知道大家发现没,川外每年的作文都考跟时政紧密相关的东西,所以亲们在准备政治的时政部分时要好好关注一下,也许在写作文时很能用到哦~【357翻译基础】题型还是老题型,不过今年格式有变化.往年是词语翻译英译汉,汉译英,然后篇章翻译英译汉,汉译英.今年是英译汉词语翻译,篇章翻译,然后汉译英词语翻译,段落翻译.只是顺序稍有变化,题型还是一样滴~感觉今年的翻译题目题量不是很大,于是本人早交卷了,于是我把词语翻译的题目全部抄到准考证上啦~所以亲们你们懂的,我的真题回忆可是真真的哦~英译汉----civil law, mass transit, wage theory, mock epic, counterspionage, high seas, CYO, irrigation and drainage, ICN, ILO, IAEA, polar front, higher down payment, have kissed the Blarney stone, fat chance.汉译英----中国梦,工作作风,网络推手,民族复兴,韩国泡菜,司法公信力,克强经济学,航空识别区,个人财产申报,重庆东站,上海自由贸易区,轮值主席(国),国际翻译日主题,成品油定价机制,十八届三中全会【448百科知识】百科今年被坑了...没想到出了好多语法知识的题目,完全失策了啊TAT.不多说了,上题~(1)"黄河，你千百年来坚韧地浇灌着华北大地，养育着华夏子孙，就如一位慈祥、坚韧的伟大母亲护养着她生养的儿女!",请问这句话运用了什么修辞手法?<选B>A.比喻、对比B.比喻、拟人C.明喻、夸张D.拟人、夸张(2)象形、指事、会意、形声都运用到的哪一个选项中的四个汉字(不好意思选项记不得了)(3)哪个词语"野生"的词性相同?<答案好像是A~> A.女式B.男士C.出生D.野游(4)"他会英语""他会说英语"和"他会来的"三句话中的"会"字分别是什么用法?A.动词、助动词、助动词(5)划分汉语词类的标准是什么[百度了一下好像选对了~是B.语法功能](6)汉语拼音中声母p的发音特征<选B>A.双唇不送气清塞音B.双唇送气清塞音C.双唇浊鼻音D.唇齿清擦音(7)"小李,你还记得咱们第一次见面的情景吗?"分析一下这句话的结构<选A>A.体词性(名词性)偏正短语作宾语B.主谓短语作宾语C.兼语短语作宾语D.连动短语作谓语(8)选项中哪一组是借用方式相同的外来词<选A>A.卡宾枪香槟酒道林纸B.汉堡包沙发吉普车C.易拉罐幽默意识流D.爱滋病迪斯科保龄球(9)长江流经__个省、自治区和直辖市<11个>(10)科举制度从隋朝开始到清末废止,共____年<1300多年>(11)中国古代时兴大户人家,如果一户人家的门前写着"太原流芳",那么这家应该是什么姓氏?答案应该是C."王姓"吧~(12)"君者,舟也;庶人者,水也。

翻译硕士英语学位MTI考试对外经济贸易大学2014年真题(总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、Part Ⅰ Vocabulary an(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Section One(总题数：20，分数：20.00)1.The packing of goods offered does not meet our standards. Could you use packing which is______breakage?（分数：1.00）A.secure fromB.secure aboutC.secure forD.secure under2.All employees will be ______ to learn and use the new computer system if we want to increase our productivity.（分数：1.00）A.objectedB.obstructedC.obligedD.obtained3.Non-Americans have a long way to go before they reach that level—720L of soft drinks a year —and that would ______ booming business for the two giants.（分数：1.00）A.operateB.updateC.recruitD.translate into4.They have mutually agreed that Party A ______ Party B with the manufacturing of television sets in Shenzhen with all necessary parts and components supplied by Party A.（分数：1.00）A.authorizesB.entrustsC.offersD.appoints5.Please make sure that your L/C will reach us well before the shipment month so that we can ______ shipping space for the goods with ABC Line.（分数：1.00）A.bookB.preserveC.conserveD.retain6.The wide variation ______ prices for some brands cannot be explained by these factors.（分数：1.00）A.inB.toC.onD.for7.Although international logistics is discussed as a movement or flow of goods, a stationary period is involved when merchandise becomes ______ stored in warehouses.（分数：1.00）A.inventoryB.goodsC.cargoD.packages8.The seller shall, at his own ______, carry out at the place of manufacture all such inspections of the equipment as are specified in the contract.（分数：1.00）A.costB.expenseC.expenditureD.spending9.Marks and Spencer admits that trading in recent weeks has shown ______ improvement.（分数：1.00）A.no signs ofB.no tracks ofC.no marks ofD.no evidences of10.Most people have a bank account which allows them to ______ checks.（分数：1.00）A.openB.takeC.writeD.charge11.After merger, the two companies are going to collaborate ______ car manufacture.（分数：1.00）A.withB.fromC.inD.of12.All quotations are subject to our final ______ Unless otherwise noted or agreed upon, all prices are commission inclusive.（分数：1.00）A.orderB.confirmationC.termsD.decision13.Due to her excellent performance in this project, Miss Lin was ______ to the Sales Director.（分数：1.00）A.chosenB.raisedC.promotedD.forwarded14.Female customers are the ______ buyer of Ford"s new model.（分数：1.00）A.progressiveB.prospectiveC.properD.perspective15.Every one-year plan must be ______ in relation to longer-term plans, and it should contain the stages that are necessary to achieve the final goals,（分数：1.00）A.handed overB.drawn upC.made upD.written off16.Since the price you quoted would leave us no margin of ______, we must do business with other suppliers who are offering lower prices for Dinner Sets of the same quality.（分数：1.00）A.salesB.choiceC.benefitD.profit17.Coca-cola has overcome Pepsi"s ______ edge in Eastern Europe.（分数：1.00）A.absoluteparativeC.definitepetitive18.We shall be pleased to offer you other items which might be of interest to you upon ______ of your specific inquiries.（分数：1.00）A.noticeB.receiverC.arrivalD.receipt19.A business owned and operated by one person is called a ______ proprietorship.（分数：1.00）A.oneB.soleC.onlyD.unique20.Urban wage earners use credit to help them purchase the vast array of ______ goods, such as automobiles, washing machines, and refrigerators.（分数：1.00）A.durableB.endurableC.bearableD.tolerable三、Section Two Identify(总题数：10，分数：10.00)21.The candidate enjoys wide support from the voters because of his record he will probably be elected.（分数：1.00）A.fragmentB.run onC.choppyD.correct22.Covent Garden is London"s big wholesale market where you can buy many things. For example, fruit, vegetables and flowers.（分数：1.00）A.fragmentma spliceC.choppyD.correct23.The hospital decides when patients sleep. It dictates when they eat. It tells them when they may be with family.（分数：1.00）A.correctB.run onma spliceD.choppy24.My company is House Furnishing Corporation, there is a ready market for kitchenware in our area.（分数：1.00）A.choppyB.fragmentC.correctma splice25.Ever since the 19th century cartoonist Thomas Nast to pin a donkey on the Democrats and the elephant on the Republican, cartoonists have been mapping the iconography of American politics.（分数：1.00）A.fragmentB.correctma spliceD.run on26.The report, which was completed by the April 15 deadline only through the hard work and long hours of the entire staff.（分数：1.00）A.correctB.fragmentC.run onma splice27.Different purposes for which money is borrowed result in the creation of different kinds of financial assets, having different maturities, risks, and other features, thus different financial markets.（分数：1.00）ma spliceB.correctC.fragmentD.run on28.Our results were inconsistent. The program obviously contains an error. A revision of the program is required.（分数：1.00）A.choppyB.run onC.fragmentD.correct29.It will further help the church in Asia, Africa and Latin America a new pope emerges from those areas.（分数：1.00）A.fragmentB.correctma spliceD.run on30.After we studied the technical aspects of the proposal and our contracts office reviewed its financial aspects. The proposal, although innovative, does not meet our immediate needs.（分数：1.00）A.correctB.run onC.fragmentD.choppy四、Part Ⅱ Reading Compr(总题数：4，分数：40.00)It might be easier to do something about North Korea"s nuclear truculence if we could make head or tail of the cryptic videos it has been posting on the web. The latest shows a dreaming man, some Korean script and a video of rockets flying through space while fires burn in skyscrapers and a pianist plays "We Are the World" at dirge tempo. Is this a harmless fantasy? A thrown-down gauntlet? Should the west respond with a statement? Should it post a video of its own? It is hard to know. Our traditional media are being "replaced" by the internet. But the "information" coming out of the information economy is often hard to decipher, and composed for purposes that are hard to discern.The film academic Stephen Apkon argues in The Age of the Image , published this week, that itis possible to speak of a new kind of literacy, one built on figuring out such non-verbal messages. At its humblest level, his book is about the "language"" of film, but Mr Apkon has a larger philosophical point, too. Our culture is growing more global. While it still relies on words, they are increasingly wrapped up with images, and it is the images people remember. Elizabeth Daley, dean of the University of Southern California"s School of Cinematic Arts, believes writing today is like Latin on the eve of the Renaissance-the language of a scholarly establishment. YouTube clips and other visuals are the equivalent of vernacular Italian. They are the street language, and the medium for much new and creative thinking.Images have always mattered in public arguments more than we admit. Few people cared that Richard Nixon won the 1960 presidential debates against John Kennedy, so unkempt did the Republican look. Mr Apkon quotes a neuroscientist who says people are so attuned to picking up subtle signals that they make decisions about whether they like or dislike politicians "immediately". And unsubtle, non-verbal messages with a great emotional wallop can now be broadcast more widely. Video of the shooting of Neda Agha-Sohan, captured during June 2009 protests against irregular Iranian elections, spread round the world. In the gut-wrenching Kony 2012 video (100m views in six days), American activists sought to enlist the US military in a manhunt for a Ugandan warlord. Eyesight is the most trusted sense, Mr. Apkon notes, and that means we need to be careful with it. There is a standing danger that the public will grow so upset by images of mistreatment that it will demand the government send the army off to war. This is arguably what happened Somalia in 1992, with America"s poorly planned military response to the African country"s famine. In future, Mr. Apkon says, we are likely to need "a combination of scepticism and incisiveness", enabling citizens to "[critique ] what is put in front of them with some level of sophistication". That is unlikely. When the passions provoked by visual imagery lead to the same conclusion as the logic of a verbal argument, people are generally comfortable coming to a decision. But when passion and logic are at odds, one of them must be favoured.Until recently, it was the essence of statesmanship, scholarship and justice to purge strong emotion from our deliberations. Images today, though, are so plentiful and sharp that they dominate our thought processes. Although Mr. Apkon relishes the immediacy of YouTube, he fears that political advertisers will soon be able to craft stories around "hidden mental hungers", easily manipulating voters.Citizens tend to think about voting in one of two ways. First, you base your vote on your identity. You are a farmer, so you choose the candidate best disposed towards farmers. The second theory is that you vote on arguments, independent of identity. You believe a sales tax should replace income tax, so you vote for the candidate who shares that opinion. But today"s image-based communication has little to do with identity or arguments. It has to do with thelowest-common-denominator traits that mark you as a human animal.There is no obvious solution. Even if we acquire the scepticism Mr. Apkon speaks of, certain institutions "go with" certain styles of perceiving, absorbing and interpreting information. You would not think that there was anything "Protestant" about the printing press. And yet the press seems to have been a prerequisite for Protestantism"s rise. Likewise, our own democracies, imperfect though they may be, are the culmination of the culture of the written word. Mr. Apkon notes how Kennedy, in those 1960 debates, "tapped into a lever in the psyche more primal than mere facts".In retrospect, that was an ominous moment. Once you find that lever, isn"t democracy bound to lose a bit of its appeal, rather like a detective story in which you have been told the ending?（分数：10.00）(1).Which of the following is INCORRECT according to the author?（分数：2.00）A.Images do not always matter in public arguments more than we admitB.Videos on political issues are the most popular among allC.Videos carrying messages with a great emotional wallop can attract attentionD.Activists must use street language to appeal to the audience(2).What does the author mean by saying "writing today is like Latin on the eve of the Renaissance —the language of a scholarly establishment?"（分数：2.00）A.Videos are like Italian that served as the street languageB.A video is worth more than a thousand words"C.Writing would face extinction, just as LatinD.Writing would be less popular among common people(3).What is the author"s attitude towards "seeing is believing?"（分数：2.00）A.PositiveB.DangerousC.Negativeeful(4).According to the author, what may "image-based communication" influence voter"s behavior?（分数：2.00）A.People might vote on their identitiesB.People might vote on their "hidden mental hungers"C.People might vote on arguments, independent of identityD.People might vote on political advertisers who have better stories(5).Which of the following constitutes the best title for this passage?（分数：2.00）A.In the unthinking age, seeing is believingB.Images matter less today than in the pastC.Democracy has lost its appeal nowadaysD.Images in the Information AgeOne November evening in 1989 I was loafing in my room at university when a friend began thumping on the door. "What is it?" I shouted irritably. "The Berlin Wall just fell," he shouted back For months afterwards I walked around in a daze of wonder, as crowds ransacked secret-police headquarters and Nelson Mandela walked out of jail. Two lines from Wordsworth about the French Revolution, which I"d read in some article about the1989 revolutions, kept going through my mind: Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,But to be young was very heaven!It was the most optimistic political moment I"ve lived through, my generation"s version of 1945 or 1968. 6 .Now we"re at the peak of political pessimism. The political year is opening with almost nobody on either right or left expecting anything good. The great questions seem to be: how will an intervention in Syria go wrong? And will the US House of Representatives vote to repeal "Obamacare" for the 41st time? 7 The utopian urge persists; it has just migrated from politics to technology. Instead of developing a political policy to solve a problem, people now develop an app.In politics, you can hardly count all the lights that have failed since the invasion of Iraq a decade ago. Faith in unregulated capitalism died with Lehman Brothers. Then Barack Obama, the Occupy movements and the Tea Party all rapidly disappointed their followers. In 2009 in Copenhagen, it became clear the world wouldn"t agree to combat climate change. Now the Arab spring is eating its own children, the Russian demonstrators have gone home, and hardly anyone believes in the European project any more. 8 , even before its intellectual underpinning was revealed as an academic paper whose authors had accidentally left important bits of data off their spreadsheet. The western liberating impulse-previously directed at Iraq, Iran and Cuba-has died too. Myanmar finally opened up, and ethnic conflict promptly began. Even people who believed in al-Qaeda are now presumably disillusioned.It"s hard to find a self-proclaimed political messiah anywhere: Hugo Chavez is dead, and FidelCastro himself says Cuba"s revolution has failed. Politicians have been reduced to celebrities who can gain our attention only with Anthony Weineresque private antics. 9 Meanwhile a rash of TV series like House of Cards, Veep and The Thick of It portray politics as a greedy, narcissistic pursuit. No wonder political parties are shedding members at record speed. The last emotion that still animates tots of western voters is rage at immigrants-an archetypal expression of pessimism. Andrew Adonis, leading thinker of the UK"s Labour party, says : "We"re in one of those periods like the 1970s where politicians manifestly don"t have the answers. "But meanwhile a group of people has stood up who do claim to have answers: technologists. In 2007, just as western economies began to crumble, Apple launched the iPhone. 10 The latter took time to decide how to use their new might. Nicole Boyer, director of the Adaptive Edge consultancy in San Francisco, explains: "Tech was late to the game for social problems. It took a generation of tech entrepreneurs to make money and then say, "OK, what are we going to do?" Now they are busy remaking the world: Google"s Erie Schmidt negotiates with North Korea, Jeff Bezos tries to save newspapers, Mark Zuckerberg plots to get the world"s poor online and Bill Gates fights infectious disease. "They have something of the white knight about them," muses Adonis. "There is a profound tech-optimism."In this budding tech-utopia, government scarcely features. Great technological achievements of the past—the atomic bomb, the moon landing and even the internet—began within the US government. Today, whether people like government or loathe it, they mostly ignore it.A. Austerity became the latest light to failB. Since then, credibility has kept leaching from politicians to techiesC. Strangely, it actually turned out pretty wellD. But hope springs eternalE. Mandela on his deathbed still towers over today"s lot（分数：10.00）Where do pesticides fit into the picture of environmental disease? We have seen that they now pollute soil, water, and food, that they have the power to make our streams fishless and our gardens and woodlands silent and birdless. Man, however much he may contrary, is part of nature. Can he escape a pollution that is now so thoroughly distributed throughout our world?We know that even single exposures to these chemicals, if the amount is large enough, can cause extremely severe poisoning. But this is not the major problem. The sudden illness or death of farmers, farm workers, and others exposed to sufficient quantities of pesticides are very sad and should not occur. For the population as a whole, we must be more concerned with the delayed effects of absorbing small amounts of the pesticides that invisibly pollute our world. Responsible public health officials have pointed out that the biological effects of chemicals are cumulative over long periods of time, and that the danger to the individual may depend on the sum of the exposures received throughout his lifetime. For these very reasons the danger is easily ignored. It is human nature to shake off what may seem to us a threat of future disaster. "Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious signs," says a wise physician, Dr. Rene Dubos, "yet some of their worst enemies slowly approach them unnoticed."（分数：10.00）(1).Which of the following is closest in meaning to the sentence "Man is part of nature." (Para.1)?（分数：2.00）A.Man appears indifferent to what happens in natureB.Man acts as if he does not belong to natureC.Man can avoid the effects of environmental pollutionD.Man can escape his responsibilities for environmental protection(2).What is the author"s attitude towards the environmental effects of pesticides?（分数：2.00）A.PessimisticB.IndifferentC.DefensiveD.Concerned(3).In the author"s view, the sudden death caused by exposure to large amounts of pesticides ______.（分数：2.00）A.is not the worst of the negative consequences resulting from the use of pesticidesB.now occurs most frequently among all accidental deathsC.has sharply increased so as to become the center of public attentionD.is unavoidable because people can"t do without pesticides in farming(4).People tend to ignore the delayed effects of exposure to chemicals because ______.（分数：2.00）A.limited exposure to them does little harm to people"s healthB.the present is more important for them than the futureC.the danger does not become apparent immediatelyD.humans are capable of withstanding small amounts of poisoning(5).It can be concluded from Dr. Dubos" remarks that ______.（分数：2.00）A.people find invisible diseases difficult to deal withB.attacks by hidden enemies tend to be fatalC.diseases with obvious signs are easy to cureD.people tend to overlook hidden dangers caused by pesticidesSince 2011, when Stanford University launched its first "massive open online courses", these free, internet-enabled programmes have cropped up everywhere, engaging millions of users. The largest Mooc providers-Coursera, Udemy, Udacity, and EdX-offer free tuition, supplied by universities, often to hundreds of thousands of students at a time. But just a year after Moocs really started taking off, offering the promise of real disruption to the centuries-old higher-education business, user growth has started to slow.Until May this year, visitors to Moocs were increasing rapidly. But since then the picture has become markedly less rosy. Over the past quarter the major Mooc providers in the US have seen stagnation or slowing growth in visitor numbers. The "summer slump" across the education sector might normally explain this kind of drop. However, this comes even as the major platforms have supplemented their offerings with more new courses and high-profile partner universities. The decline, however, has not been universal, and exceptions to the trend may offer hints about how the market for Moocs could develop. Available data on visits to the major Mooc sites between November 2012 and August 2013 indicate that visits from India have doubled over the past nine months. India still has only about a third the number of Mooc users as the US. But that still makes it the largest market for Moocs outside America, even though it has only a fraction of the broadband penetration. As a largely English-speaking country, India illustrates how Moocs might develop in emerging markets if more content was available in Vietnamese, Mandarin, Indonesian or Portuguese.Furthermore, Indian Mooc users include a higher proportion of younger people, even controlling for India"s large youth population: more than 80 percent of Indian visitors to Mooc sites are under 34, while US and European visitors are fairly evenly spread across age groups. Indians also spend roughly five times as long as average visitors on Mooc sites.Why India? It may be because India has the largest population of university-age students in the world (94m and growing), while higher education in India is inadequate in quantity and quality due to poor government regulation and corruption. With 17m students in higher education, India has one of the world"s lowest higher-education enrollment ratios, even among developing nations. Young Indians" enthusiasm for Moocs shows that there is an appetite for higher education, with or without sufficient supply of physical seats. But what is surprising is that Indians should be so motivated to visit Moocs when they are not yet accredited. You still cannot get a qualification from a Mooc. So are Moocs only aspirational for young Indians-the equivalent offlipping through a glossy university catalogue-or could they, in combination with targeted assessments, deliver tangible benefits to students and reap a return in exchange for outcomes delivered?Many Mooc providers are already bundling courses into "packages" that roughly correspond to short certificated programmes. Universities still fear offering Mooc degrees, which could cannibalise fee-paying courses. But that will not stop ambitious education providers in emerging markets such as India offering real-world qualifications.So Moocs could indeed be a disruptive development in emerging markets-where the majority of the world"s youth reside. India lacks higher-education places but foreign universities face barriers to entry. So why not tap the Indian market through Moocs in combination with targeted assessments? While it is unlikely that Moocs will dramatically change the economics of going to college for an American teenager, Moocs could be transformative in markets where there is not enough capacity to meet demand for university education. Just as some developing countries have bypassedfixed-line telephony for mobile solutions, Moocs could help developing countries to leapfrog the bricks-and-mortar model of higher education. And universities might be able to do well from them: for higher education, the fortune may indeed be at the bottom of the pyramid.（分数：10.00）(1).Which of the following is TRUE about MOOC?（分数：2.00）A.Mooc was first launched by Havard UniversityB.High-profile universities are not interesteder number is growing rapidly especially in USD.India now ranks the second in terms of the MOOC market(2).Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the author?（分数：2.00）A.India"s internet penetration is quite highB.India is a largely English-speaking countryC.India has a huge supply and demand problem of educationD.India"s higher education system is poorly developed(3).What is the biggest bottleneck of MOOC?（分数：2.00）A.It lacks enough funding since it"s freeB.It cannot provide qualificationsC.Universities would not offer high-profile coursesD.It stops expanding in the developed world(4).Which of the following is NOT MENTIONED according to the passage?（分数：2.00）A.Provide courses in Chinese and other languages as wellB.Try to combine courses with targeted assessmentsC.Develop courses on mobile platformsD.Bypass bricks-and-mortar schools(5).Which of the following might be the best title for this passage?（分数：2.00）A.Mooc witnesses its fastest development in the past several yearsB.Moocs might matter even more in emerging marketsC.Mooc will be better developed if it uses the global language of EnglishD.Mooc will take the place of traditional courses offered in the universities very soon五、Part Ⅲ Writing(总题数：1，分数：30.00)31.Write a report of 300-350 words in English, describing, comparing and analyzing the situation of the global economy between 2008 and 2012, and forecast for 2013-2014, by IMF and QNB Group. Your writing will be assessed for language, format, structure, content and length. Write your report on the ANSWER SHEET.30.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。

英语语言文学方向初试题目回忆918综合知识Part OneI、名词解释5个Obamacare, Watergate scandal , Copernicus,Socrates(忘了一个,也是美国的)II、不少于150字the influence ofwestward movement on the American nation...why the Americansalways believe that the government should pay a litimed role ...III. 400字What did the Romanshave in common with the Greeks? and what's the distinct contributions made bythe Romans to European culture?Part TwoI.名词解释5选3（50字）OscarWilde, Heartof Darkness; The Last ofthe Mohicans; Black humour.（还有个忘了）II. 10个选择III. 150字briefly comment Becky Sharp in WilliamMakepeace's Vanity Fair.John Dos Passos'U.S.A.Part Three名词解释I. immediate constituents; analytic languageII. 要举至少两个例子的inflectionalaffix, superordinate, elevation of meaningIII. 语境对意义有什么作用？词语意思的改变对一门语言存活有什么意义？（大概是这么问的）语言学部分，暂时记住这些，最后一道大题考的是Grice的合作原则，a man asks a young girl "how old are you?" she replys " I'm 80!"，it violates the cooperative principle, please explain this phenomenon. 要写500字。

对外经济贸易大学2014年翻译硕士专业学位研究生入学考试初试试题考试科目：211翻译硕士英语Part I V ocabulary and Grammar (30%)Section One: Choose from A, B, C or D the ONE that best completes the sentence,and mark your choice on the ANSWER SHEET (20 points,l poInt each).1. The packing of goods offered does not meet our standards. Could you use packing whichis _______ breakage?A. secure fromB. secure aboutC. secure forD. secure under2. All employees will be ______ to learn and use the new computer system if we want to increase our productivity.A objected B. obstructed C. obliged D. obtained3. Non-Americans have a long way to go before they reach that level-720L of soft drinksa year-and that would _____ booming business for the two giants.A operate B. update C. recruit D. translate into4. They have mutually agreed that Party A ______ Party B with the manufacturing of television sets in Shenzhen with all necessary parts and components supplied by Party A.A authorizes B. entrusts C. offers D. appoints5. Please make sure that your L/C will reach us well before the shipment month so that we can ______ shipping space for the goods with ABC Line.A.bookB.preserveC.conserveD.retain6. The wide variation ______ prices for some brands cannot be explained by these factors.A.inB. to C．on D. for7. Although international logistics is discussed as a movement or flow of goods, a stationary period is involved when merchandise becomes ______ stored in warehouses.A.inventoryB. goodsC. cargoD. packages8. The seller shall, at his own _______ , carry out at the place of manufacture all such inspections of the equipment as are specified in the contract.A.costB.expenseC.expenditureD.spending9 Marks and Spencer admits that tradingin recent weeks has shown________improvementA. no signs ofB. no tracks ofC. no marks ofD. no evidences of10. Most people have a bank account wluch allows them to________checks.A open B.take C.write D.charge11. After merger, the two companies are going to collaborate______ car manufacture.A.withB.fromC.inD. of12. All quotations are subject to our final______ Unless otherwise noted or agreed upon, all prices are commission inclusive.A order B.confirnation C.terms D. decision13. Due to her excellent performance in this project, Miss Lin was______to the Sales Director.A.chsenB.raisedC.promotedD.forwarded14. Female customers are the______buyer of Ford’s new model.A.progressiveB.prospectiveC.properD.prospeetive15. Every one-year plan must be_______in relation to longer-term plans, and it should contain the stages that are necessar3r to achieve the final goals.A.handed overB. drawn upC. made upD. written off16. Since the price you quoted would leave us no margin of _______, we must do Business with other suppliers who are offering lower prices for Dinner Sets of the same quality.A.salesB.choiceC.benefitD.profit17. Coca-cola has overcome Pepsi's______edge in Eastern Europe.A.absoluteB. comparativeC. definiteD. competitive18.We shall be pleased to offer you other items which might be of interest to you upon ______of your specific inquiries.A. noticeB. receiverC. anivalD. receipt19. A business owned and operated by one person is called a______propretorship.A.oneB.soleC.onlyD. unique20. Urban wage earners use credit to help them purchase the vast array of________goods, such as automobiles, washing maclunes, and refrigerators.A durable B, endurable C. bearable D. tolerableSection Two Identify Stylistic Problems (10 points, 1 point each)Identify the stylistlc problem with each of the followlng sentences by choosing A, B,C or D. Write your correct sentence on the ANSWER SHEET.21. The candidate enjoys wide support from the voters because of his record he will probably be elected.A.fragmentB.runonC.choppyD.correct22. Covent Garden is London's big wholesale market where you can buy many things. For example, fruit, vegetables and flowers.A fragmentB comma splice C. choppy D. correct23. The hospital decides when patients sleep. It dictates when they eat. It tells them when they may be with family.A correctB run on ma splice D. choppy24.My company is House Fumishing Corporation, there is a ready market forkitchenware in our area.A.choppyB.fragmentC. correctD. comma splice25.Ever since the 19th century cartoonist Thomas Nast to pin a donkey on the Democrats and the elephant on the Republican, cattoonists have been mapping the iconography of American politics.A.fragmentB.correctmaspliceD.runon26. The report, which was completed by the April 15 deadline only through the hard work and long hours of the entire staff.A.correctB.fragmentC.run onma splice27. Different purposes for which money is borrowed result in the creation of different kinds of financial assets, having different maturities, risks, and other features, thus different financial markets.ma spliceB.correctC.fragmentD.run on28. Our results were inconsistent. The program obviously contains an error. A revision of the program is required.A.choppyB.run onC.fragmentD.correct29. It will further help the church in Asia, Africa and Latin America a new pope emerges from those areas.A.fragment B correct C. comma splice D. run on30. After we studied the technical aspects of the proposal and our contracts office reviewed its financial aspects. The proposal, although innovative, does not meet ourimmediate needs.A correctB run on C.fragment D.choppyPartⅡReading Comprehension (40%)Read the following passage and answer the questions by choosing A, B, C or D.Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET (2 points each).Passage OneIt might be easier to do something about North Korea's nuclear truculence if we could make head or tail of the cryptic videos it has been posting on the web. The latest shows a dreaming man, some Korean script and a video of rockets flying through space while fires burn in skyscrapers and a pianist plays “We Are the World” at dirge tempo.Is this a harmless fantasy? A thrown-down gauntlet? Should the west respond with a statement? Should it post a video of its own? It is hard to know. Our traditional media are being “replaced” by the internet. But the "information”conung out of the information economy is often hard to decipher, and composed for purposes that are hard to discern. The film academic Stephen Apkon argues in The Age of the Image , published this week, that it is possible to speak of a new kind of literacy, one built on figuring out such non-yerbal messages. At its humbles t level, his book is about the “language”of film, but Mr Apkon has alarger philosophical point, too. Our culture is growing more global. While it still relies on words, they are increasingly wrapped up with images, and it is the images people remember. Elizabeth Daley, dean of the University of Southern California's School of anematic Arts, believes writing today is like Latin on the eve of the Renaissance - the language of a scholarly establishment. YouTube clips and other visuals are the equivalent of vernacular Italian. They are the street language, and the medium for much new and creative thinking.Images have always mattered in public arguments more than we admit. Few people cared that Richard Nixon won the 1960 presidential debates against John Kennedy, so unkempt did the Republicanlook. Mr Apkon quotes a neuroscientist who says people are so attuned to picking up subtle signals that they make decisions about whether they like or dislike politicians “immediately”. And unsubtle, non-verbal messages with a great emotional wallop can now be broadcast more widely. Video of the shooting of Neda Agha-Soltan, captured during June 2009 protests against irregular Iranian elections, spread round the world. In the gut-wrenching Kony 2012 video (100m views in six days), American activists sought to enlist the US military in a manhunt for a Ugandan warlord. Eyesight is the most trusted sense, Mr. Apkon notes, and that means we need to be careful with it. There is a standing danger that the public will grow so upset by images of mistreatment that it will demand the government send the army off to war. This is arguably what happened Somalia in 1992, with America's poorly planned military response to the African country’s famine. In future, Mr. Apkon says, we are likely to need "a combination of scepticism and incisiveness", enabling citizens to "[critique] what is put in front of them with some level of sophistication".That is unlikely. When the passions provoked by visual imagery lead to the same conclusion as the logic of a verbal argument, people are generally comfortable coming toa decision. But when passion and logic are at odds, one ofthem must be favoured.Until recently, it was the essence of statesmanship, scholarship and justice to purge strong emotion from our deliberations. Images today, though, are so plentiful and sharp that they dominate our thought processes. Although Mr. Apkon relishes the immediacy of YouTube, he fears that political advertisers will soon be able to craft stories around "hidden mentalhungers", easily manipulating voters.Cituzens tend to think about voting in one of two ways, First, you base your vote on your identity. You are a farmer, so you choose the candidate best disposed towards farmers. The second theory is that you vote on arguments, independent of identity. You believe a sales tax should replace income tax, so you vote for the candidate who shares that opinion. But today’s image-based communication has little to do with identity or arguments. It has to do with the lowest-common-denominator traits that mark you as a human animal.There is no obvious solution. Even if we acquire the scepticism Mr. Apkon speaks of, certain institutions "go with" cefttain styles of perceiving, absorbing and interpreting information. You would not think that there was anything "Protestant" about the printing press. And yet the press seems to have been a prerequisite for Protestantism's rise. Likewise, our own democracies, imperfect though they may be, are the culnunation of the culture of the written word. Mr. Apkon notes how Kennedy, in those 1960 debates, "tapped into a lever in the psyche more primal than mere facts",In retrospect, that was an ominous moment. Once you find that lever, isn't democracy bound to lose a bit of its appeal, rather like a detective story in which you have been told the ending?1. Which of the following is INCORRECT according to the author?A. Images do not always matterin public arguments more than we admitB. Videos on political issues are the most popular among all.C. Videos carrying messages with a great emotional wallop can attract attention.D. Activists must use street language to appeal to the audience.2. What does the author mean by saying "writing today is like Latin on the eve of the Renaissance - the language of a scholarly establishment?"A. Mdeos are like Italian that served as the street language.B. A video is worth more than a thousand words".C. Writing would face extinction, just as Latin.D. Writing would be less popular among common people.3 What is the author's attitude towards "seeing is believing?"A positiveB. dangerousC. negativeD. useful4.According to the author, what may "image-based communication" influence voter's behavior?A. People might vote on their identities.B. People might vote on their "hidden mental hungers".C. People might vote on arguments,independent of identity.D. People might vote on political advertisers who have better stories.5.Which of the following constitutes the best title for this passage?A. In the unthinking age, seeing is believing.B. Images matter less today than in the past.C. Democracy has lost its appeal nowadays.D.Images in the Information Age.Passage TwoOne November evening in 1989 I was loafing in my room at university when a friend began thumping on the door. "What is it? " I shouted irritably. "The Berlin Wall just fell, " he shouted back. For months afterwards I walked around in a daze of wonder, as crowds ransacked secret-police headquarters and Nelson Mandela walked out of jail. Two lines from Wordsworth about the French Revolution, which I'd read in some article about the 1989 revolutions, kept goirtg through my mind:Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,But to be young was very heaven!It was the most optimistic political moment I've lived through, my generation's version of 1945 or 1968 6Now we're at the peak of political pessimism. The political year is opening with almost nobody on either right or left expecting anything good. The great questions seem to be: how will an intervention in Syria go wrong? And will the US House of Representatives vote to repeal "Obamacare" for the 41st time? 7 The utopian urge persists; it has just migrated from politics to technology. Instead of developing a political policy to solve a problem, people now develop an app.In politics, you can hardly count all the lights that have failed since the invasion of Iraq a decade ago. Faith in unregulated capitalism died with Lehman Brothers. Then Barack Obama, the Occupy movements and the Tea Party all rapidly disappointed their followers. In 2009 in Copenhagen, it became clear the world wouldn't agree to combat climate change. Now the Arab spring is eating its o wn children, the Russian demonstrators have gone home, and hardly anyone believes in the European project any more. 8 , even before its intellectual underpinning was revealed as an academic paper whose authors had accidentally left important bits of data off their spreadsheet.The western liberating impulse - previously directed at Iraq, Iran and Cuba - has died too. Myanmar finally opened up, and ethnic conflict promptly began. Even people who believed in al-Qaeda are now presumably disillusioned.It’s hard to find a self-proclaimed political messiah anywhere: Hugo Chávez is dead, and Fidel Castro himself says Cuba's revolution has failed. Politicians have been reduced to celebrities who can gain our attention only with Anthony Weineresque private antics.9 Meanwhile a rash of TV series like House of Cards, Veep and The Thick of lt portray politics as a greedy, narcissistic pursuit. No wonder political parties are shedding members at record speed. The last emotion that still animates lots of western voters is rage at immigrants - an archetypal expression of pessimism. Andrew Adonis, leading thinker of the UK's Labour party, says: "We're in one of those periods like the 1970s where politicians manifestly don't have the answers. "But meanwhile a group of people has stood up who do claim to have answers: Technologists. In 2007, just as western economies began to crumble, Apple launched the iPhone. 10 . The latter took time to decide how to use their new might. Nicole Boyer, director of the Adaptive Edge consultancy in San Francisco, explains:“Tech was late to the game for social problems. It took a generation of tech entrepreneurs to make money and then say, 'OK, what are we going to do?'”Now they are busy remaking the world: Google's Eric Schmidt negotiates with North Korea, Jeff Bezos tries to save newspapers, Mark Zuckerberg plots to get the world's poor online and Bill Gates fights infectious disease. “They have something of the white knight about them,”muses Adonis. “There is a profound tech-optinusm.”In this budding tech-utopia, govemment scarcely features. Great technological achievements of the past - the atomic bomb, the moon landing and even the internet - began within the US government. Today, whether people like government or loathe it, they mostly ignore it.Choose the following sentences marked A to E to complete the above artticle.6_____________7____________8_____________9_____________10_____________A. Austerity became the latest light to failB. Since then, credibility has kept leaching from politicians to techiesC. Strangely, it actually turned out pretty wellD. But hope springs eternalE. Mandela on his deathbed still towers over today’s lotPassage ThreeWhere do pesticides fit into the picture of environmental disease? We have seen that they now pollute soil, water, and food, that they have the power to make our streams fishless and our gardens and woodlands silent and birdless. Man, however much he may contrary, is part of nature. Can he escape a pollution that is now so thoroughly distributed throughout our world?We know that even single exposures to these chemicals, if the amount is large enough, can cause extremely severe poisoning. But this is not the major problem. The sudden illness or death of farmers, farm workers, and others exposed to sufficient quantities of pesticides are very sad and should not occur. For the population as a whole,we must be more concerned with the delayed effects of absorbing small amounts of the pesticides that invisibly pollute our world.Responsible public health officials have pointed out that the biological effects of chemicals are cumulative over long periods of time, and that the danger to the indnadual may depend on the sum of the exposures received throughout his lifetime. For these very reasorts the danger is easily ignored. It is human nature to shake off what may seem to us a threat of future disaster. "Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious signs," says a wise physician, Dr. Rene Dubos, "yet some of their worst enemies slowly approach them unnoticed."11. Wluch of the following is closest in meaning to the sentence "Man, ...is part of nature." (Para.1)?A. Man appears indifferent to what happens in nature.B. Man acts as if he does not belong to nature.C. Man can avoid the effects of environmental pollution.D. Man can escape his responsibilities for environmental protection.12. What is the author's attitude towards the environmental effects ofpesticides?A. PessimisticB. Indifferent.C. Defensive.D. Concerned.13. In the author's view, the sudden death caused by exposure to large amounts of Pesticides_________.A. is not the worst of the negative consequences resulting from the use of pesticidesB. now occurs most frequently among all accidental deathsC. has sharply increased so as to become the center of public attentionD. is unavoidable because people can't do without pesticides in farming14. People tend to ignore the delayed effects of exposure to chemicals because_______.A.limited exposure to them does little harm to people's healthB. the present is more important for them than the futureC. the danger does not become apparent immediatelyD. humans are capable of withstanding small amounts of poisoning15. It can be concluded from Dr Dubos' remarks thatA. people find invisible diseases difficult to deal withB. attacks by hidden enemies tend to be fatalC. diseases with obvious signs are easy to cureD. people tend to overlook hidden dangers caused by pesticidesPassage FourSince 2011, when Stanford University launched its first "massive open online courses", these free, internet-enabled programmes have cropped up everywhere, engaging millions of users. The largest Mooc providers - Coursera, Udemy, Udacity, and EdX - offer free tuition, supplied by universities,often to hundreds of thousands of students at a time. But just a year after Moocs really started taking off, offering the promise of real disruption to the centuries-old higher-education business, user growth has started to slow.Until May this year, visitors to Moocs were increasing rapidly. But since then the picture has become markedlyless rosy. Over the past quarter the major Mooc providers in the US have seen stagnation or slowing growth in visitor numbers. The "summer slump" across the education sector might normally explain this kind of drop. However, this comes even as the major platforms have supplemented their offerings with more new courses and high-profile partner universities.The decline, however, has not been universal, and exceptions to the trend may offer hints about how the market for Moocs could develop. Available data on visits to the major Mooc sites between November 2012 and August 2013 indicate that visits from India have doubled over the past nine months. India still has only about a third the number of Mooc users as the US. But that still makes it the largest market for Moocs outside America, even though it has only a fraction of the broadband penetration. As a largely English-speaking country, India illustrates how Moocs might develop in emerging markets if more content was available in Vietnamese, Mandarin, Indonesian or Portuguese.Furthermore, Indian Mooc users include a higher proportion of younger people, even controlling for India's large youth population: more than 80 per cent of Indian visitors to Mooc sites are under 34, while US and European visitors are fairly evenly spread across age groups. Indians also spend roughly five times as long as average visitors on Mooc sites.Why India? It may be because India has the largest population of university-age students in the world (94m and growing), while higher education in India is inadequate in quantity and quality due to poor govemment regulation and corruption. With 17m students in higher education, India has one of the world's lowest higher-education enrolment ratios, even among developing nations.Young Indians' enthusiasm for Moocs shows that there is an appetite for higher education, with or without sufficient supply of physical seats. But what is surprising is that Indians should be so motivated to visit Moocs when they are not yet accredited. You still cannot get a qualification from a Mooc. So are Moocs only aspirational for young Indians - the equivalent of flipping through a glossy university catalogue - or could they, in combination with targeted assessments, deliver tangible benefits to students and reap a retum in exchange for outcomes delivered?Many Mooc providers are already bundling courses into "packages" that roughly correspond to short certificated programmes. Universities still fear offering Mooc degrees,which could cannibalise fee-paying courses. But that will not stop ambitious education providers in emerging markets such as India offering real-world qualifications.So Moocs could indeed be a disruptive development in emerging markets - where the majority of the world's youth reside. India lacks higher-education places but foreign universities face barriers to entry, So why not tap the Indian market through Moocs in combination with targeted assessments?While it is unlikely that Moocs will dramatically change the economics of going to college for an American teenager, Moocs could be transformative in markets where there is not enough capacity to meet demand for university education. Just as some developing countries have bypassed fixed-line telephony for mobile solutions, Moocs could help developing countries to leapfrog the bricks-and-mortar model of higher education. And universities might be able to do well from them: for higher education, the fortune may indeed be at the bottom of the pyramid.16. Which of the following is TRUE about MOOC?A. Mooc was first launched by Havard University.B. High-profile universities are not interested.C. User number is growing rapidly especially in US.D. India now ranks the second in terms of the MOOC market.17. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the author?A. India's internet penetration is quite high.B. India is a largely English-speaking country.C. India has a huge supply and demand problem of education.D. India's higher education system is poorly developed.18. Whatis the biggest bottleneck ofMOOC?A. It lacks enough funding since it's free.B. It cannot provide qualifications.C. Universities would not offer high-profile courses.D. It stops expanding in the developed world.19. Which of the following is NOT MENTIONED according to the passage?A. Provide courses in Chinese and other languages as well.B. Try to combine courses with targeted assessments.C. Develop courses on mobile platforms.D. Bypass bricks-and-mortar schools.20. Which of the following might be the best tide for this passage?A. Mooc witnesses its fastest development in the past several years.B. Moocs might matter even more in emerging markets.C. Mooc will be better developed if it uses the globallanguage of English.D. Mooc will take the place of traditional courses offered in the universities very soon.Part IIJ Writing (30%)Write a report of 300-350 words in EnglIsh, describing, comparing and analyzing the situation of the global economy between 2008 and 2012, and forecast for 2013-2014, by IMF and QNB Group. Your writing will be assessed for language, format, structure, content and length.Write your report on the ANSWER SHEET.Notes:Sub-Saharan = Sub-Saharan CountnesGCC = Gulf Cooperation CountriesIMF = Intemational Monetary FoundQNB Group = Qatar Natlonal Banking Group。