翻译硕士英语-天津某商业大学2022年硕士研究生招生考试自命题科目试题.pdf

天津商业大学2022年硕士研究生招生考试试题专 业：英语笔译科目名称：翻译硕士英语(2 1 1)共 1 0 页 第 1 页说明：答案标明题号写在答题纸上，写在试题纸上的无效。I.Choose the one answer that best explains the underlined word or phrase in the sentence.Write youranswers on the ANSWER SHEET(20 points).1.Cross-Straits tensions is not to ease until Taiwan independences provocations cease.A.evocation B.offence C.aggravation D.challenge2.Snow turned Datong into a serene white fairy-tale world.A.perfect B.tranquil C.pure D.crystal3.Chinas dramatic economic growth and social development under the guidance of the CPC haveenthralled the international community.A.motivated B.moved C.charmed D.interested4.None of the vaccinated patients had serious symptoms caused by Delta during the epidemic outbreak inGuangzhou in May.A.signs B.disease C.sickness D.discomfort5.Last year,the figure reached a staggering 498.2 billion yuan.A.absorbing B.shocking C.appealing D.attracting6.Despite the ongoing suspicion,demonization,and counterproductive rivalry,it is not a mathematicalfbnnula whereby the developing nations get certain amounts of sanctions relief.A.act of condemning B.act of describing somebody as foeC.act of praising D.act of describing somebody as evil7.The long-term ideals and ambitious goals have enabled the CPC to jump out of the fetters of pragmatismand utilitarianism.A.fence B.trammels C.jail D.dilemma8.The clothes are cheap,but she wears them with a certain swagger.A.jactitation B.proud C.strut D.profoundness9.Singapore will no longer pay the Covid-19 medical bills for people unvaccinated by choice”，thegovernment said,as the country grapples with a surge in cases.A.struggles B.wrangles C.grasps D.tangles10.The immediate past U.S.president waged a war against us with a lethal dose of tariffs,the impact ofwhich still lingers on American consumers wallets.A.convenient B.sparse C.enormous D.fatal11.Except under special circumstances,groundwater that is not replenished easily should not be exploited.A.completed B.supplemented C.replaced D.alternated12.Increased activity by these groups can also lead to increased state corruption and contribute to theerosion of state stability.A.corrosion B.development C.foundation D.ulceration13.Giant pandas are playing and foraging inside the Shenshuping base of China Conservation and ResearchCenter for the Giant Panda in Wolong National Nature Reserve.专 业：英语笔译科目名称：翻译硕士英语（2 1 1）共 1 0 页 第 2 页A.rolling B.harassing C.seeking foods D.seeking water14.Geopolitical concerns are creating pressures for economies to reduce their supply dependence onindividual countries while decoupling is already underway in important high-tech industries.A.isolating B.associating C.disclosing D.dissociating15.It has zoomed in on provincial-level data to provide better insight into Chinas climate and healthproblems in different regions.A.focused B.accumulated C.stimulated D.indulged16.His 8-year-old younger brother also succumbed to the disease in less than two months.A.received B.accustomed C.surrendered D.defeating17.It may not have been the most sustainable leadership strategy,but of course,Steve Jobs bucked muchof management conventional wisdom.A.complimentary B.contradictory C.supportable D.continual18.Although we dont have enough reliable data to compare whether the U.S.or China has suffered more,it is all but certain that retaliatory tarifits have caused economic pain to both parties.A.overcharged B.unbalanced C.vindicatory D.dangerous19.This years Singles Day shopping extravaganza has stirred up consumers,purchasing enthusiasm.A.intention B.indulgence C.lust D.appetency20.Among the citys 17 national-level intangible cultural heritages,10 are crafts and folk arts.A.disconnected B.incomprehensible C.discarnate D.inevitableIL In each of the following sentences,there are four underlined parts,marked with A,B,C and D.Identify the part that is grammatically incorrect.Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET(10points).1.Environmental experts arc urging those US politicians opposed to a key international agreement set asideA B Ccommercial interests in order for the country to join the pact aimed at preserving biodiversity.D2.The billionaire CEO Elon Musk had already sold a combined$6.9 billion worth of shares in clcctronic-A B Ccar company Tesla as of Nov 12.D3.Researchers say they have uncovered the names of 102 Native American students who died at a 3deralA B Coperated boarding school jn Nebraska.D4.The coming Thanksgiving festival in the United States will be the most expensive in years because ofA Bhigh food prices,which are also hurting many of the countrys food banks,which tens of millions ofCDpeople in the US rely.专 业：英语笔译科目名称：翻译硕士英语（2 1 1）共 1 0 页 第 3 页5.This year,vaccine makers from around the globe took the top spot in the list of Change the World”.A B C D6.Zero-tolerance approach to the virus is a response to a rising call in the country for an easiness of theA B Cmeasures to halt the latest wave of the virus.D7.The 2022 Winter Olympics will be the first Games in history exclusively powe】all venues with cleanA B Cenergy from renewable sources.D8.The country commitment to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060A B Cposes challenges to the coal industry.D9.The members of EDG and other staffc displayed tai chi martial arts and traditional Chinese costumes inA BReykjavik,launching a Chinese hurricane in the Icelandic capital.C D10.Goldenrod is often referred to as“the flower of the devil”,as it spreads extremely fast and causes otherABCplants die.DIII.Reading comprehension(40 points).Section A Multiple Choice QuestionsIn this section there are tour passages followed by sixteen multiple-choice questions.For eachmultiple choice question,there are four suggested answers marked A,B,C and D.Choose the one thatyou think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET.Passage 1She was a small woman,old and wrinkled.When she started washing for us,she was already pastseventy.Most Jewish women of her age were sickly,weak,broken in body.But this washwoman,small andthin as she was,possessed a strength that came from generations of peasant ancestors.Mother would countout to her a bag of laundry that had accumulated over several weeks.She would then lift the bag,put it onher narrow shoulders,and carry it the long way home.She would bring the laundry back about two weeks later.My mother had never been so pleased withany washwoman.Yet she charged no more than the others.She was a real find.Washing clothes was noteasy in those days.The old woman had no tap where she lived but had to bring in the water from a pump.For the clothes and bedclothes to come out so clean,they had to be scrubbed thoroughly in a washtub,rinsedwith washing soda,soaked,boiled in an enormous pot,starched,then ironed.Every piece was handled tentimes or more.专 业：英语笔译科目名称：翻译硕士英语（2 1 1）共 1 0 页 第 4页That winter was a harsh one.The streets were icy.No matter how much we heated our stove,thewindows were covered with frost.The newspapers reported that people were dying of the cold.Coal becamedear.The winter had become so severe that parents stopped sending children to school.On one such day the washwoman,now nearly eighty years old,came to our house.Mother gave her apot of tea to warm herself,as well as some bread.The old woman sat on a kitchen chair trembling and shaking,and warmed her hands against the teapot.Her fingernails were strangely white.These hands spoke of thestubbornness of mankind,of the will to work not only as ones strength permits but beyond the limits of onespower.The bag was big,bigger than usual.When the woman placed it on her shoulders,it covered hercompletely.At first she stayed,as though she were about to fall under the load.But an inner stubbornnessseemed to call out;no,you may not fall.A donkey may puimit himself to fall under his burden,but not ahuman being、Ihe besl of creation.More than two months passed.The frost had gone,and then a new frost had come,a new wave of cold.One evening,while mother was sitting near the lamp mending a shirt,the door opened and a small puff ofsteam,followed by a gigantic bag,entered.I ran toward the old woman and helped her unload her bag.Shewas even thinner now,more bent.She could not utter a clear word,but mumbled something with her sunkenmouth and pale lips.After the old woman had recovered somewhat,she told us that she had been ill,very ill.But God hadnot yet wanted to take this poor soul to Himself.She began to feel better,and as soon as she was able to standon her feet once more,she resumed her washing.Not just ours,but the wash of several other families too.But she never came back.The wash she had returned was her last effort on this earth.Now at last herbody,which had long been supported only by the force of honesty and duty,had fallen.Her soul passed intothose spheres where all holy souls meet.1.The most suitable title for the story is_?A.The Washwoman B.The Old Jewish LadyC.The Stubborn Old Lady D.The Hard-working Old Lady2.The adjective that can be used to describe the character of the washwoman is_.A.stubborn B.honest C.responsible D.all of the above3.The writer of the story might be_.A.black B.a Jew C.a Muslim D.a Christian4.When the washwoman died,she was nearly in her_.A.60s B.70s C.80s D.90sPassage 2Brave New World,written by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932,was about the big technologicalrevolution about to take place,that of biotechnology.In the novel,the hatching of people is not in wombsbut,as we now say,in vitro;the drug soma,gives people instant happiness;the modification of behavior willbe through constant subliminal repetition and,other huge changes that will happen in the future.This novel describes a dystopia.In it,the evil is not so obvious because no one is hurt;indeed,this isa world in which everyone gets what they want.As one of the characters notes,t4The Controllers realized专 业：英语笔译科目名称：翻译硕士英语（2 1 1）共 1 0 页 第 5 页that force was no good,and that people would have to be seduced rather than compelled to live in an orderlysociety.In this world,disease and social conflict have been abolished;there is no depression,madness,loneliness,or emotional distress.No one takes religion seriously any longer,no one is introspective or hasunrequited longings,the biological family has been abolished,no one reads Shakespeare.But no one(saveJohn the Savage,the books protagonist)misses these things,either,since they are happy and healthy.In thewords of biocthicist Leon Kass,“Unlike the man reduced by disease or slavery,the people dehumanized inBrave New World are not miserable,dont know that they are dehumanized,and,what is worse,would notcare if they knew.They are,indeed,happy slaves with a slavish happiness.What is so important about being a human being in the traditional way,which is different from thesituation described by Huxley?After all,what the human race is today is the product of an evolutionaryprocess that has been going on for millions of years,one that with any luck will continue well into the future.There are no fixed human characteristics,except for a general capability to choose what we want to be,tomodify ourselves in accordance with our desires.So who is to tell us that being human and having dignitymeans sticking with a set of emotional responses that are the accidental byproduct of our evolutionary history?There is no such thing as a biological family,no such thing as human nature or a“normal“human being,andeven if there were,why should that be a guide for what is right and just?Huxley is telling us,in effect,thatwe should continue to feel pain,be depressed or lonely,or suffer from debilitating disease,all because thatis what human beings have done for most of their existence as a species.Huxley was right.He tells us through his novel that the most significant threat posed by contemporarybiotechnology is the possibility that it will alter human nature and thereby move us into a“posthuman“stageof history.This is important,I will argue,because human nature exists,is a meaningful concept,and hasprovided a stable continuity to our experience as a species.It is,conjointly with religion,what defines ourmost basic values.Human nature shapes and constrains the possible kinds of political regimes,so atechnology powerful enough to reshape what we are will have possible malign consequences.Biotechnology,in contrast to many other scientific advances,mixes obvious benefits with subtle harmsin one seamless package.There may be products of biotechnology that will be similarly obvious in thedangers they pose to mankind-for example,superbugs,new viruses,or genetically modified foods thatproduce toxic reactions.Like nuclear weapons or nanotechnology,these are in a way the easiest to deal withbecause once we have identified them as dangerous,we can treat them as a straightforward threat.The moretypical threats raised by biotechnology,on the other hand,are those captured so well by Huxley,and aresuinmed up in the title of an article by novelist Tom Wolfe,Sorry,but Your Soul Just Died.Medicaltechnology offers us in many cases a deviPs bargain:longer life,but with reduced mental capacity;freedomfrom depression,together with freedom from creativity or spirit;therapies that blur the line between what weachieve on our own and what we achieve because of the levels of various chemicals in our brains.What should we do in response to biotechnology that in the future will mix great potential benefits withthreats that are either physical and overt or spiritual and subtle?The answer is obvious:We should use thepower of the state to regulate it.And if this proves to be beyond the power of any individual nation-state toregulate,it needs to be regulated on an international basis.We need to start thinking concretely now abouthow to build institutions that can discriminate between good and bad uses of biotechnology,and effectivelyenforce these rules both nationally and internationally.专 业：英语笔译科目名称：翻译硕士英语（2 1 1）共 1 0 页 第 6 页5.What does the underlined word“dystopia mean?A.an ideal but nonexistent political and social way of lifeB.a bad place,a very unpleasant imaginary world in which ominous tendencies of the present social,politicaland technological order are projected into a disastrous future culminationC.certain cultural,institutional and discursive spaces that are somehow“other”D.real and imagined space,lived space,the way that people actually live in and experience that urbanspace6.Which of the following ways is not how people in the“brave new world live?A.they live happily and dont know what pain isB.they can get everything they wantC.they cherish love,friendship and other emotionsD.they dont have the concept of biological family7.Which of the following attitudes might not belong to the author of this passage?A.he agrees with HuxleyB.he believes the soul of people living in the brave new world diesC.he believes the world described in the Brave New World is a posthuman stage of historyD.he thinks biotechnology brings only a lot of benefits,and no ha