211翻译硕士英语试题11

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2011年硕士研究生入学考试试题

考试科目代码：211 考试科目名称：翻译硕士英语（如无特殊注明，所有答案必须写在答题纸上，否则以“0”分计算）

Part ⅠGrammar and Vocabulary (30%)

A. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence (20%).

1. ____ in the past, at the moment it is a favorite choice for wedding gown.

2. ____ for a long time, the

C. There having been no rain

D. There being no rain

3. The millions of calculations involved, ____ by hand, would have lost all practical value by the time they were finished.

A. had they been done

B. they had been done

C. having been done

D. they were done

4. Televisions enable us to see things happen almost at the exact moment

g

C. which they happen

D. when they have happened

A. to leave

B. leaving

C. to have left

D. leave

6. As the train will not leave until one hour later,

8. Betty advised m

A. Concerning C. In terms of D

10. A well written composition ____ good choice of words and clear organization among other

11. It is ____ with the customer not to let the shop assistants guess what she really likes and wants until

13. George was introduced to ____ activities at a young age, when she was hire to act as a lookout for drug dealers.

14. An institution that properly carries the name university is a more comprehensive and complex institution t

A. settlement

B. establishment

C. construction

D. structure

16. Jac

A. strength

B. direction

C. tradition

D. tre

18. Outside my office window there is a fire ____

20. The electric

A. pause

B. break

C. interruption

D. breakdown

B. Put a word in each blank that is appropriate for the context (10%).

Ah, daydreaming. Is 1 anything more pleasant than sitting back and letting your thoughts drift? Well, yes: 2 letting your thoughts drift, for one. Because according to a study published in the journal Science, people are least happy when their minds wander. [M. Killings and Daniel Gilbert, A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind]

Humans, to a degree unmatched by other 3 , are capable of thinking about things outside the here and now— 4 that happened yesterday, or something they hope will happen tomorrow. It’s that sort of itinerant intellect 5 allows us to plan and to learn. But at what cost?

Psychologists at Harvard used an iPhone app to find out. 6 random times throughout the day, the program asked some 2,200 participants what they were doing, what they were thinking about and 7 they felt. It turns out that people spend nearly half their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing. And8 whether and where their thoughts tend to 9 is a better predictor of their feelings than what they’re actually up to. The scientists conclude that a wandering mind is an unhappy mind.

10 try to focus on, and live in, the present. You might discover that happiness is just being where it’s happening.

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (40%)

A.Read the following passages and answer the questions by choosing A, B, C, or D (20%)

1.

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