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2018 年广西民族大学翻译硕士英语考研真题 A 卷
Part I. Basic English Knowledge (30%)
Section A: Multiple-choice (20 %)
Directions: There are forty multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose
the best answer to each question. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
1.Her work in genetics won United States scientist Barbara McClintock ---- - in
1983.
A. was the Nobel Prize B. the Nobel Prize was
C. the Nobel Prize D. for the Nobel Prize.
2.You can count how many students passed an exam, but psychological and
emotional feelings cannot be _______ measured.
A. precisely
B. precise
C. preciously
D. precious
3.Unemployment has come down slightly, but this does not ______ the fact
that it is still a major problem.
A. alert B. alter C. alarm
D. altar
4.The man breathed a sign of ______ when he was told that everything had
arrived in good condition.
A. receive
B. relieve
C. relief D. release
5.Artificial light _______ the respiratory activity of some microorganisms in the
winter but not in the summer, in part because in the summer their respiration
is already at its peak and thus cannot be _______.
A. stimulates… lessened
B. B. elevates… quickened
C. C. reflects.. .expanded
D. D. enhances… increased
6.Because they have been so dazzled by the calendars and the knowledge of
astronomy possessed by the Mayan civilization, some anthropologists
have_______ achievements like the sophisticated carved calendar sticks of the
Winnebago people.
A. described
B. acknowledged
C. overlooked
D, defended
7.Even those siblings whose childhood was_______ familial feuding and
intense rivalry for their parents’ affection can nevertheless develop congenial
and even _______relationships with each other in their adult lives.
A, scarred by.. .vitriolic B, filled with… tolerant
C, dominated by… intimate D, replete with.. .competitive
8.Working for 10 hours per week or less seemingly does not take a consistent
_____ on school performance.
A. tool
B. toll
C. toller
D. tollen
9. He said he wished to ______ in the army during the last three years.
A. be served
B. be serving C. serve
D. have been serving
10. ________ much you may dislike it, junk mail comes to most of you anyway.
A. Whatever
B. Whichever
C. Whenever D. However
11. The increased use of computers in business has been_______ by a costly
increase in computer crime.
A. accompanied
B. disappointed C. matched D. witnessed
12.Many animals display______ instincts only while their offspring are young
and helpless.
A. cerebral B. imperious
C. rueful
D. maternal
13. Because of its importance in modern living, ______in all parts of the world.
A. in schools and colleges are algebra studies
B. studying algebra in schools and colleges
C. and the study of algebra in schools and colleges
D. algebra is studied in schools and colleges
14.______touching in O Henry's stories is the gallantry with which ordinary
people struggle to maintain their dignity.
A. Most is
B. Is mostly
C. Is it most
D. What is most
15. At the Seventh International Ballet Competition,Femando Bujones won
the first gold medal ever_________to a United States male dancer.
A.to be awarded B.to award
C.that awards D
.
should
be
awarding
16. I was awfully tired when I got home from work, but a half hour nap
____me.
A. relieved B. released C. revived D. recovered
17. The new technological revolution in American newspapers has brought
increased_ a wider range
of publications and an expansion of newspaper job.
A. reproduction B. circulation C. manipulationD. penetration
18.Geophysicists have collaborated with archaeologists and anthropologists
to study the magnetic properties of pottery and fireplaces at sites _________by
early humans.
A. occupied B. occupying
C. which
D. were occupied
19. The story that follows__ two famous characters of the Rocky Mountain
gold rush days.
A. concerns B. states
C. proclaims
D. relates
20.There is a general understanding among the members of the Board of
Directors that chief attention
____to the undertaking that is expected to bring highest profit.
A. is given B. givesC. must be given
D. be given
Section B: Proofreading and Error Correction (10 %)
Directions: The following passage contains 10 errors. Each indicated line
contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved.
You should proofread the passage and correct it. Please write your answers on
the Answer Sheet.
Dinosaurs, saber-tooth tigers and the dodo bird are famous examples (21)
__ ____
of animals that have become extinct. In case of the dinosaurs, it
(22)
seems likely that a catastrophic event alters the global climate (23)
enough to lead to their disappearance. More recent extinctions
and near-extinctions-such as the blue whales, tiger, panda, and
(24)
North American bison—have been the direct result of human activity.
By the early 1990s, species were becoming extinct at a rate of three
per hour, or 27,000 every day – a figure quoted by the American
biologist Edward O.Wilson of Harvard University, based on his
most conservative estimates. This rate of extinctions carries with
it some terrible consequences. Each plant that becomes extinct,
for example, may take with it as much as 30 insects and animals
(25)
that depend on it for food. Habitat loss is one of the most important
causes of extinction. For rising populations in many countries (26)
lead to the clearing of more land, habitats such as raining forest
(27)
and grasslands disappear.
In the East Africa, once renowned for its wildlife, few wild animals (28)
remain living outside the boundaries of national parks and game
(29)
reserves. In other parts of the world, coastal ecosystems are clearing (30)
for development. Wetland areas are drying out as a result of water
extraction to support farming and tourism. Bird species are among
the worst affected by the loss of wetlands.
Part II. Reading Comprehension (50 %)
Section A (30 %)
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. 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
write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
Passage 1
He emerged, all of a sudden, in 1957: the most explosive new poetic talent of
the English post-war era. Poetry specialized, at that moment, in the wry
chronicling of the everyday. The poetry of Yorkshire-born Ted Hughes, first
published in a book called “The Hawk in the Rain” when he was 27, was
unlike anything written by his immediate predecessors. Driven by an almost
Jacobean rhetoric, it had a visionary fervour. Its most eye-catching
characteristic was Hughes's ability to get beneath the skins of animals: foxes,
otters, pigs. These animals were the real thing all right, but they were also
armorial devices—symbols of the countryside and lifeblood of the earth in
which they were rooted. It gave his work a raw, primal stink.
It was not only England that thought so either. Hughes's book was also
published in America, where it won the Galbraith prize, a major literary
award. But then, in 1963, Sylvia Plath, a young American poet whom he had
first met at Cambridge University in 1956, and who became his wife in the
summer of that year, committed suicide. Hughes was vilified for long after
that, especially by feminists in America. In 1998, the year he died, Hughes
broke his own self-imposed public silence about their relationship in a book of
loose-weave poems called “Birthday Letters”. In this new and exhilarating
collection of real letters, Hughes returns to the issue of his first wife's death,
which he calls his “big and unmanageable event”. He felt his talent muffled
by the perpetual eavesdropping upon his every move. Not until he decided to
publish his own account of their relationship did the burden begin to lighten.
The analysis is raw, pained and ruthlessly self-aware. For all the moral
torment, the writing itself has the same rush and vigour that possessed
Hughes's early poetry. Some books of letters serve as a personalized
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