1、2016 年华南理工大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷及答案解析(总分：102.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Vocabulary(总题数：30，分数：60.00)1.If you keep on trying something, the day will come when you can do it well and with great_.（分数：2.00）A.careB.easeC.tempoD.dignity2.She_to find new stories about her homeland, making sure her American-born daughter did not
2、 grow up ignorant of Chinese culture.（分数：2.00）A.dropped outB.went out of her wayC.gave wayD.got down3.In the past, a womans world usually_household work and waiting for her children and husband to come home.（分数：2.00）A.made upB.composed ofC.was comprised ofD.consisted of4.Domestic tourists now make u
3、p more than 90 percent of the countrys total and_two-thirds of its total tourism earnings.（分数：2.00）A.attributeB.contributeC.distributeD.dispatch5.He is a diligent and_teacher, well liked by his students.（分数：2.00）A.voluntaryB.consciousC.conscientiousD.hard6.The doctor tried last time to explain to th
4、e Browns that infants and young children are more _to the effects of secondhand smoke than adults.（分数：2.00）A.conduciveB.advantageousC.delicateD.vulnerable7.It is absolutely true today that college degrees have become a valuable _ for jobseekers in the countrys developing market economy.（分数：2.00）A.as
5、setB.liabilityC.deterrentD.means8.She is far too_to believe these ridiculous lies.（分数：2.00）A.sensationalB.sensitiveC.sensibleD.sensuous9.With_audiences and less financial support from government, Britains best orchestras must find new sources of income, if they are to continue.（分数：2.00）A.shrinkingB.
6、captiveC.witheringD.sympathetic10.On July 1, 1997, China resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong, wiping out 156 years of colonial humiliation_on the Chinese nation.（分数：2.00）A.befellB.imposedC.afflictedD.leased11.Johnson_the problem in his mind for two more days before he came to a conclu
7、sion.（分数：2.00）A.turned onB.turned overC.turned outD.turned to12.Many of the works exhibited in the gallery are_, filled with energy and vitality, bright colors and unique ways of expressing ideas.（分数：2.00）A.imaginativeB.imaginableC.imaginedD.imaginary13.Words fail to_our feelings of great reverence
8、for the hero.（分数：2.00）A.implyB.deliverC.conveyD.contain14.China is_an ambitious plan to stimulate the domestic economy by investing in infrastructure construction , of which telecommunications are an important part.（分数：2.00）A.undertakingB.supervisingC.foilingD.compiling15.I have to_time to prepare f
9、or the coming sports meet.（分数：2.00）A.set aboutB.set asideC.set upD.set off16.If not properly_, border issues which are always very sensitive and complicated international relations can often trigger conflicts.（分数：2.00）A.handledB.handingC.handleD.to handle17.After_seemed an endless wait, it was his t
10、urn to enter the personnel managers office.（分数：2.00）A.whatB.itC.thatD.there18.Every change of season, every change of weather _ some change in the wonderful colors and shapes of these mountains.（分数：2.00）A.makeB.makesC.is makingD.are making19.There_nothing more for discussion, the meeting came to an
11、end half an hour earlier.（分数：2.00）A.to beB.to have beenC.beD.being20.Variables such as individual and corporate behavior_nearly impossible for economists to forecast economic trends with precision.（分数：2.00）A.make itB.makeC.it makesD.makes it21.Had Jane been more careful on the math exam, she_much be
12、tter results now.（分数：2.00）A.would be gettingB.could have gotC.must getD.would get22.By the year 2030, its estimated that more than two thirds of the worlds population will be living in cities _today.（分数：2.00）A.twice as many asB.as twice as manyC.as much as twiceD.as much twice as23.My daughter has w
13、alked eight miles today. We never guessed that she could walk_far.（分数：2.00）A./B.suchC.thatD.as24.Much_I like Antonia, I hated the superior tone that she sometimes took with me.（分数：2.00）A.althoughB.sinceC.forD.as25.Developing friendly ties with neighborly countries is the priority aim of this country
14、s foreign policy and this policy will not be changed_the international situation may be.（分数：2.00）A.whicheverB.howeverC.whereverD.whatever26.The snow leopard is a class-one endangered species, _is the giant panda.（分数：2.00）A.asB.suchC.whichD.that27.Jeremy came to visit me again. It was the second time
15、 he_me that afternoon.（分数：2.00）A.had been interruptingB.has interruptedC.would have interruptedD.had interrupted28.Graces eyes were wet with tears as she put her face_she could, gripping my left hand and stroking it.（分数：2.00）A.as close as to mineB.so close to mine asC.as close to mine asD.much so cl
16、ose as29.The boys in the family are old enough for_.（分数：2.00）A.schoolB.schoolsC.the schoolD.the schools30.Intellect is to the mind_sight is to the body.（分数：2.00）A.asB.whatC.likeD.that二、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：2，分数：40.00)1 To say that the city is a central problem of American life is simply to know
17、that increasingly the cities are American life; just as urban living is becoming the condition of man across the world. Everywhere men and women crowd into cities in search of employment, a decent living, the company of their fellows, and the excitement and stimulation of urban life. 2 Within a very
18、 few years, 80 percent of all Americans will live in cities the great majority of them in concentrations like those which stretch from Boston to Washington, and outward from Chicago and Los Angeles and San Francisco and St. Louis. The cities are the nerve system of economic life for the entire Natio
19、n, and for much of the world. 3 And each of our cities is now the seat of nearly all the problems of American life: poverty and race hatred, stunted education and saddened lives, and the other ills of the new urban Nation congestion and filth, danger and purposelessness which afflict all but the ver
20、y rich and the very lucky. 4 .The city is not just housing and stores. It is not just education and employment, parks and theaters, banks and shops. It is a place where men should be able to live in dignity and security and harmony, where the great achievements of modern civilization and the ageless
21、 pleasures afforded by natural beauty should be available to all. If this is what we want and this is what we must want if men are to be free for that “pursuit of happiness“ which was the earliest promise of the American Nation we will need more than poverty programs, housing programs, and employmen
22、t programs, although we will need all of these. We will need an outpouring of imagination, ingenuity, discipline, and hard work unmatched since the first adventurers set out to conquer the wilderness. For the problem is the largest we have ever known. And we confront an urban wilderness more formida
23、ble and resistant and in some ways more frightening than the wilderness faced by the pilgrims or the pioneers. 5 One great problem is sheer growth growth which crowds people into slums, thrusts suburbs out over the countryside, burdens to the breaking point all our old ways of thought and action our
24、 systems of transport and water supply and education, and our means of raising money to finance these vital services. 6 A second is destruction of the physical environment, stripping people of contact with sun and fresh air, clean rivers, grass and trees condemning them to a life among stone and con
25、crete, neon lights and an endless flow of automobiles. This happens not only in the central city, but in the very suburbs where people once fled to find nature. “There is no police so effective,“ said Emerson, “as a good hill and a wide pasture. where the boys.can dispose of their superfluous streng
26、th and spirits.“ We cannot restore the pastures, but we must provide a chance to enjoy nature, a chance for recreation, for pleasure and for some restoration of that essential dimension of human existence which flows only from mans contact with the natural world around him. 7 A third is the increasi
27、ng difficulty of transportation adding concealed, unpaid hours to the workweek, removing men from the social and cultural amenities that are the heart of the city; sending destructive swarms of automobiles across the city, leaving behind them a band of concrete and a poisoned atmosphere. And sometim
28、es as in Watts our surrender to the automobile has so crippled public transport that thousands literally cannot afford to go to work elsewhere in the city. 8 A fourth destructive force is the concentrated poverty and racial tension of the urban ghetto a problem so vast that the barest recital of its
29、 symptoms is profoundly shocking: Segregation is becoming the governing rule; Washington is only the most prominent example of a city which has become overwhelmingly Negro as whites move to the suburbs; many other cities are moving along the same road for example, Chicago, which, if present trends c
30、ontinue, will be over 50 percent Negro by 1975. The ghettoes of Harlem and Southside and Watts are cities in themselves, areas of as much as 350, 000 people. Poverty and unemployment are endemic: from one-third of the families in these areas live in poverty, in some, male unemployment may be as high
31、 as 40 percent; unemployment of Negro youths nationally is over 25 percent. Welfare and dependency are pervasive: one-fourth of the children in these ghettoes, as in Harlem, may receive Federal Aid to Dependent Children; in New York City, ADC alone costs over $ 20 million a month; in our five larges
32、t cities, the ADC bills over $ 500 million a year.Housing is overcrowded, unhealthy, and dilapidated: the last housing census found 43 percent of urban Negro housing to be substandard; in these ghettoes, over 10, 000 children may be injured or infected by rat bites every year. Education is segregate
33、d, unequal, and inadequate: the high school dropout rate averages nearly 70 percent, there are academic high schools in which less than 3 percent of the entering students will graduate with an academic diploma. Health is poor and care inadequate: infant mortality in the ghettoes is more than twice t
34、he rate outside, mental retardation among Negroes caused by inadequate prenatal care is more than seven times the white rate; one-half of all babies born in Manhattan last year will have had no prenatal care at all; deaths from diseases like tuberculosis, influenza, and pneumonia are two to three ti
35、mes as common as elsewhere. 9 Fifth is both cause and consequence of all the rest. It is the destruction of the sense, and often the fact, of community, of human dialog, the thousand invisible strands of common experience and purpose, affection and respect which tie men to their fellows. Community i
36、s expressed in such words as neighborhood, civic pride, friendship. It provides the life-sustaining force of human warmth and security, a sense of ones own human significance in the accepted association and companionship of others. 10 .Community demands a place where people can see and know each oth
37、er, where children can play and adults work together and join in the pleasures and responsibilities of the place where they live. The whole history of the human race, until today, has been the history of community. Yet, this is disappearing, and disappearing at a time when its sustaining strength is
38、 badly needed. For other values which once gave strength for the daily battle of life are also being eroded. 11 The widening gap between the experience of the generations in a rapidly changing world has weakened the ties of family; children grow up in a world of experience and culture their parents
39、never knew. 12 The world beyond the neighborhood has become more impersonal and abstract. Industry and great cities, conflicts between nations and the conquests of science move relentlessly forward, seemingly beyond the reach of individual control or even understanding. 13 .But of all our problems,
40、the most immediate and pressing, the one which threatens to paralyze our very capacity to act, to obliterate our vision of the future, is the plight of the Negro of the center city. For this plight and the riots which are its product and symptom threaten to divide Americans for generations to come;
41、to add to the ever-present difficulties of race and class the bitter legacy of violence and destruction and fear 14 It is therefore of the utmost importance that these hearings go beyond the temporary measures thus far adopted to deal with riots beyond the first hoses and the billy clubs; and beyond
42、 even sprinklers on fire hydrants and new swimming pools as well. These hearings must start us along the road toward solutions to the underlying conditions which afflict our cities, so that they may become the places of fulfillment and ease, comfort and joy, the communities they were meant to be.（分数
43、：20.00）(1).According to the passage, everywhere men and women crowd into cities in search of_.（分数：2.00）A.employment and race hatredB.a decent living and stunted educationC.congestion and the company of their fellowsD.the excitement and other advantages of urban life(2).It can be learned that within
44、a few years, _of all Americans will live in concentrations like those which stretch from Boston to Washington, and outward from Chicago and other cities.（分数：2.00）A.less than 80 percentB.about 80 percentC.more than 80 percentD.none of the above(3).Besides poverty, housing and unemployment programs, A
45、mericans need_to attain the kind of society they want.（分数：2.00）A.imaginationB.ingenuityC.discipline and hard workD.all of the above(4).According to the author, the city should be_.（分数：2.00）A.the seat of nearly all the problems of American lifeB.just houses, stores, schools, businesses, parks, and th
46、eatersC.place where people can live in dignity and security and harmonyD.the nerve system of political, economic, cultural life for much of the world(5).The major city problems discussed in the passage include all of the following EXCEPT_.（分数：2.00）A.racial tension and the destruction of the sense of
47、 communityB.sheer growth and destruction of the physical environmentC.the difficulty of transportation and concentrated povertyD.unpaid working hours and a poisoned atmosphere(6).The most prominent example of a city which has become overwhelmingly Negro is_.（分数：2.00）A.New YorkB.San FranciscoC.Chicag
48、oD.Washington(7).Which of the following statement is NOT true?（分数：2.00）A.20 percent of the children in ghettos may receive Federal Aid to Dependent Children.B.Male unemployment in some areas may be as high as 40 percent.C.43 percent of urban Negro housing is substandard.D.In ghettos, the high school
49、 dropout rate averages nearly 70 percent.(8).The reason why the plight of the Negro is the most immediate and pressing problem is that it threatens_.（分数：2.00）A.to paralyze the American economyB.to divide Americans for generations to comeC.to destroy the vision of the future generationsD.to use violence in overthrowing the old belief and socia
