1、翻译硕士英语学位 MTI 考试-16 (1)及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Grammar and V(总题数：20，分数：20.00)1.He plays tennis to the _ of all other sports. A. eradication B. exclusion C. extension D. inclusion（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.2.She answered with an _ “No“ to the request that she attend the public hearing. A. eloquent B.
2、effective C. emotional D. emphatic（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.3.Everyone who has visited the city agrees that it is _ with life. A. vibrant B. violent C. energetic D. fun（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.4.We met Mary and her husband at a party two months ago. _ weve had no further communication. A. Thereof B. Thereby C. There
3、after D. Thereabouts（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.5.The heat in summer is no less _ here in this mountain region. A. concentrated B. extensive C. intense D. intensive（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.6.Could you just give me a hand? Lets _ the car into motion; it got a flameout just now. A. shove B. nudge C. prompt D. poke（分数：1.
4、00）A.B.C.D.7.The river was _ with waste from that factory. Some measures must be taken to stop its production. A. corrupted B. consumed C. contaminated D. infected（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.8.This disease _ itself in yellowness of the skin and eyes. A. manifests B. modifies C. magnifies D. exposes（分数：1.00）A.B
5、.C.D.9.Is there any possible _ explanation for his bad health since he seems to have no obvious disease? A. psychiatric B. psychological C. surgical D. physical（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.10.The young lovers were not allowed to get married because their two families were _ enemies. A. hereditary B. congenital
6、C. innate D. latent（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.11._ I like economics, I like sociology much better. A. As much as B. So much C. How much D. Much as（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.12._ both sides accept the agreement _ a lasting peace be established in this region. A. Only if, will B. If only, would C. Should, will D. Unless,
7、 would（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.13.I know he failed his last test, but really hes _ stupid. A. something but B. anything but C. nothing but D. not but（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.14.Whats the chance of _ a general election this year? A. there being B. there to be C. there be D. there going to be（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.15._ you
8、 _ further problems with your printer, contact your dealer for advice. A. If.had B. Have.had C. Should.have D. In case.had（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.16.Land belongs to the city; there is _ thing as private ownership of land. A. no such a B. not such C. not such a D. no such（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.17.It was _ we had
9、hoped. A. more a success than B. a success more than C. as much of a succes as D. a success as much as（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.18.I am surprised _ this city is a dull place to live in. A. that you should think B. by what you are thinking C. that you would think D. with what you were thinking（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D
10、.19.The opening ceremony is a great occasion. It is essential _ for that. A. for us to be prepared B. that we are prepared C. of us to be prepared D. our being prepared（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.20.Linda was _ the experiment a month ago, but she changed her mind at the last minute. A. to start B. to have star
11、ted C. to be starting D. to have been starting（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.二、BPart Reading (总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、BSection A/B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)四、Text A(总题数：1，分数：10.00)In the 1960s, medical researchers Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe developed a checklist of stressful events. They appreciated the tricky point that any ma
12、jor change can be stressful. Negative events like “serious illness of a family member“ were high on the list, but so were some positive life-changing events, like marriage. When you take the Holmes-Rahe test you must remember that the score does not reflect how you deal with stressit only shows how
13、much you have to deal with. And we now know that the way you handle these events dramatically affects your chances of staying healthy.By the early 1970s, hundreds of similar studies had followed Holmes and Rahe. And millions of Americans who work and live under stress worried over the reports. Someh
14、ow, the research got boiled down to a memorable message. Womens magazines ran headlines like “Stress causes illness!“ If you want to stay physically and mentally healthy, the articles said, avoid stressful events.But such simplistic advice is impossible to follow. Even if stressful events are danger
15、ous, manylike the death of a loved oneare impossible to avoid. Moreover, any warning to avoid all stressful events is a prescription for staying away from opportunities as well as trouble. Since any change can be stressful, a person who wanted to be completely free of stress would never marry, have
16、a child, take a new job or move.The notion that all stress makes you sick also ignores a lot of what we know about people. It assumes were all vulnerable and passive in the face of adversity. But what about human initiative and creativity? Many come through periods of stress with more physical and m
17、ental vigor than they had before. We also know that a long time without change or challenge can lead to boredom, and physical and mental swain.（分数：10.00）(1).The result of Holmes-Rahes medical research tells us _. A. the way you handle major events may cause stress B. what should be done to avoid str
18、ess C. what kind of event would cause stress D. how to cope with sudden changes in life（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The studies on stress in the early 1970s led to _. A. widespread concern over its harmful effects B. great panic over the mental disorder it could cause C. an intensive research into stress-re
19、lated illnesses D. popular avoidance of stressful jobs（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The score of the Holmes-Rahe test shows _. A. how much pressure you are under B. how positive events can change your life C. how stressful a major event can be D. how you can deal with life-changing events（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4)
20、.Why is “such simplistic advice“ (Para. 3) impossible to follow? A. No one can stay on the same job for long. B. No prescription is effective in relieving stress. C. People have to get married someday. D. You could be missing opportunities as well.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).According to the passage people
21、 who have experienced ups and downs may become _. A. nervous when faced with difficulties B. physically and mentally strained C. more capable of coping with adversity D. indifferent toward what happens to them（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.五、Text B(总题数：1，分数：10.00)That summer an army of crickets started a war with
22、 my father. They picked a fight the minute they invaded our cellar. Dad didnt care for bugs much more than Mamma, and he could tolerate a few spiders and assorted creepy crawlers living in the basement Every farm house had them. A part of rustic living and something you needed to put up with ff you
23、wanted the simple life.He told Mamma: now that were living out here, you cant be jerking your head and swallowing your gum over whats plain natural, Ellen. But she was a city girl through and through and had no ears when it came to defending vermin. She said a cricket was just a noisy cockroach, jus
24、t a dumb horny bug that wouldnt shut up. She said in the city there were blocks of buildings overrun with cockroaches with no way for people to get rid of them. No sir, no way could she sleep with all that chirping going on; then to prove her point she wouldnt go to bed. She drank coffee and smoked
25、my fathers cigarettes and she paced between the couch and the TV. Next morning she threatened to pack up and leave, so Dad drove to the hardware store and hurried back. He squirted poison from a jug with a spray nozzle. He sprayed the basement and all around the foundation of the house. When he was
26、finished he told us that was the end of it.But what he should have said was: this is the beginning, the beginning of our war, the beginning of our destruction. I often think back to that summer and try to imagine him delivering a speech with words like that, because for the next fourteen days Mamma
27、kept find dead crickets in the clean laundry. Shed shake out a towel or a sheet and a dead black cricket would roll across the linoleum. Sometimes the cat would corner one, and swat it around like he was playing hockey, then carry it away in his mouth. Dad said swallowing a few dead crickets wouldnt
28、 hurt as long as the cat didnt eat too many. Each time Mamma complained he told her it was only natural that wed be fending a couple of dead ones for a while.Soon live crickets started showing up in the kitchen and bathroom. Mamma freaked because she thought they were the dead crickets come back to
29、haunt, but Dad said these was definitely a new batch, probably coming up on the pipes. He fetched his jug of poison and sprayed beneath the sink and behind the toilet and all along the baseboard until the whole house smelled of poison, and then he sprayed the cellar again, and then he went outside a
30、nd sprayed all around the foundation leaving a foot-wide moat of poison.For a couple of weeks we went back to find dead crickets in the laundry. Dad told us to keep a sharp look out. He suggested that wed all be better off to hide as many as we could from Mamma. I fed a few dozen to the cat who I di
31、dnt like because he scratched and bit for no reason. I hoped the poison might kill him too so we could get a puppy. A couple of weeks later, when both live and dead crickets kept turning up, he emptied the cellar of junk. Then he burned a lot of bundled newspapers and magazines which he said the cri
32、ckets had turned into nests.He stood over that fire with a rake in one hand and a garden hose in the other. He wouldnt leave it even when Mamma sent me out to fetch him for supper. He wouldnt leave the fire, and she wouldnt put supper on the table. Both my brothers were crying. Finally she went out
33、and got him herself. And while we ate, the wind lifted some embers onto the wood pile. The only gasoline was in the lawn mowers fuel tank but that was enough to create an explosion big enough to reach the house. Once the roof caught, there wasnt much anyone could do.（分数：10.00）(1).The word“ rustic“ i
34、n the first paragraph probably means _. A. urban B. rural C. metropolitan D. extravagant（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following is CORRECT about Dad and Mamma? A. Compared with Mamma, Dad was more tolerant of bugs B. Mamma took Dads advice to put up with some crawlers. C. Dad could bear to have
35、spiders more than bugs. D. Mamma often swallowed her gum in the house.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Dad had to go to the hardware store to buy _ A. some pesticide B. a toxic jug C. a spray nozzle D. some cigarettes（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Dad sprayed poison in all of the following places EXCEPT _. A. kitchen B.
36、basement C. bathroom D. sitting-room（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).The immediate cause of the fire is _. A. the wind B. some embers C. the explosion of the fuel tank D. the materials of the roof（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.六、Section B Directions(总题数：0，分数：0.00)七、Text A(总题数：1，分数：10.00)The earliest controversies about the r
37、elationship between photography and art centered on whether photographs fidelity to appearances and dependence on a machine allowed it to be a fine art as distinct from merely a practical art. Throughout the nineteenth century, the defence of photography was identical with the struggle to establish
38、it as a fine art. Against the charge that photography was a soulless, mechanical copying of reality, photographers asserted that it was instead a privileged way of seeing, a revolt against commonplace vision, and no less worthy an art than painting.Ironically, now that photography is securely establ
39、ished as a fine art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such. Serious photographers variously claim to be finding, recording, impartially observing, witnessing events, exploring themselvesanything but making works of art. They are no longer willing to debate whether
40、photography is or is not a fine art, except to proclaim that their own work is not involved with art. It shows the extent to which they simply take for granted the concept of art imposed by the triumph of Modernism: the better the art, the more subversive it is of the traditional aims of art.Photogr
41、aphers disclaimers of any interest in making art tell us more about the harried status of the contemporary notion of art than about whether photography is or is not art. For example, those photographers who suppose that, by taking pictures, they are getting away from the pretensions of art as exempl
42、ified by painting remind us of those Abstract Expressionist painters who imagined they were getting away from the intellectual austerity of classical Modernist painting by concentrating on the physical act of painting. Much of photographys prestige today derives from the convergence of its aims with
43、 those of recent art, particularly with the dismissal of abstract art implicit in the phenomenon of Pop painting during the 1960s. Appreciating photographs is a relief to sensibilities tired of the mental exertions demanded by abstract art. Classical Modernist paintingthat is, abstract art as develo
44、ped in different ways by Picasso, Kandinsky, and Matissepresupposes highly developed skills of looking and a familiarity with other paintings and the history of art. Photography, like Pop painting, reassures viewers that art is not hard; photography seems to be more about its subjects than about art
45、.Photography, however, has developed all the anxieties and self-consciousness of a classic Modernist art. Many professionals privately have begun to worry that the promotion of photography as an activity subversive of the traditional pretensions of art has gone so far that the public will forget tha
46、t photography is a distinctive and exalted activityin short, an art.（分数：10.00）(1).What is the author mainly concerned with?（分数：2.00）_(2).Why does the author introduce Abstract Expressionist painter?（分数：2.00）_(3).How did the nineteenth-century defenders of photography stress the photography?（分数：2.00）
47、_(4).Could you name a few of the Classical Modernist painters?（分数：2.00）_(5).What does the author want to tell us by saying“ Ironically, now that photography is securely established as a free art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such.“ ( Para. 2)（分数：2.00）_八、Text B(总题数：1，分数：10.00
