1、翻译硕士英语学位 MTI考试四川外国语大学 2014年真题及答案解析(总分：94.00，做题时间：90 分钟)1.The front army troops were 1 by a large contingent of students from the military academy. (strength) （分数：1.00）2.I was looking forward to a casual stroll, but he walked at a 1 pace. (vigor) （分数：1.00）3.A 1 of cultures or ideas occurs when two ve
2、ry different cultures or people meet and conflict. (collide) （分数：1.00）4.The 1 purpose of scientific discourse is not the mere presentation of information and thought, but rather its actual communication. (fundament) （分数：1.00）5. 1 today“s digital revolution serves a host of practical concerns, such a
3、s communicating and accessing information more quickly and efficiently. (admit) （分数：1.00）6.With the aim of eliminating any possible 1, we suggest some changes of wording to clarify the status of the unofficial advice. (ambiguous) （分数：1.00）7.I tried to see it, 1 the invisible and immeasurable energy
4、of mass of an atom, a cell, a person; I could almost see it. (vision) （分数：1.00）8.Some pearls have a (n) 1 shape, but they are shiny and beautiful none the less. ( regular) （分数：1.00）9.In the movies and comic books Wolverine almost comes out as 1, like Superman . (destruct) （分数：1.00）10.During the past
5、 two decades, dozens of investigators throughout the world have asked several hundred thousand 1 sampled people to reflect on their happiness and satisfaction with life or what psychologists call “subjective wellbeing.“ (represent) （分数：1.00）11.When traveling in a foreign country, it is wise to _ to
6、the habits of the natives.（分数：1.00）A.yieldB.conformC.submitD.turn12.Even with the _ of the Internet and 24-hour news, it is still a complex enterprise to get people to truly see the problems of racial discrimination.（分数：1.00）A.adventB.adventureC.accessD.accession13.We should critically _ whatever is
7、 beneficial in literature and arts from western countries.（分数：1.00）A.accommodateB.assimilateC.assortD.associate14.Many drugs the doctor can give you have harmful side effects, and considering a natural _ is often a better and popular option.（分数：1.00）A.optionB.choiceC.alternativeD.selection15.Because
8、 he wore a queer collection of clothes and talked to himself, his neighbours considered him _.（分数：1.00）A.ecstaticB.electronicC.eccentricD.eclectic16.In its own right, the royal highland show is the largest trade exhibition of agricultural _ in the UK.（分数：1.00）A.machineB.mechanicsC.mechanismD.machine
9、ry17.The aim of their revolution is to leave scientists free to continue research, _ by any regulation.（分数：1.00）A.restrainedB.deputedC.controlledD.unfettered18.The European Commission spokesman Gooch said at a press conference that after the European Commission has officially notified the WTO, “The
10、EU can feel free to impose _ tariffs on US products.“（分数：1.00）A.relinquishB.retaliatoryC.revolutionaryD.retribution19.The charter-school movement in the United States developed in the 1 990s as a reaction to the _ failure of public schools, especially in the inner cities.（分数：1.00）A.perceivedB.receiv
11、edC.conceivedD.deceived20.This novel won critical praise while _ a storm of controversy with its candid and raw descriptions of adolescent lust.（分数：1.00）A.stirringB.activatingC.triggeringD.teasing21.Unlike Keynesianism, monetarism eschews direct government control by means of taxation and spending _
12、 imposing limits on the nation“s money supply.（分数：1.00）A.with regard toB.for the sake ofC.in favor ofD.to extent of22.He _ in court that he had seen the prisoner run out of the bank after it had been robbed.（分数：1.00）A.justifiedB.witnessedC.testifiedD.identified23.If we can find approaches that meet
13、the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a _ way to reduce inequity in the world.（分数：1.00）A.sustainableB.susceptibleC.supposableD.suspensible24.Scholars come to the agreement that the Malthusian catastrophe has already occurred in
14、 isolated cultures that had no means of _ resources.（分数：1.00）A.refiningB.refreshingC.rejoicingD.replenishing25.Cocaine“s effects on the heart have _ gone unnoticed, because patients often lie about heir use of drug.（分数：1.00）A.largelyB.purposefullyC.strangelyD.effortlessly26.He possessed a(n) _ intel
15、ligence that put him in company with the greatest social thinkers of the day.（分数：1.00）A.frivolousB.reliableC.uncannyD.underlying27.A form of biological pest control is to include various plants in a garden or field that are known naturally to _ parasitic pests that are known to bring disease and des
16、truction.（分数：1.00）A.deterB.deferC.demurD.debut28.Pottery enabled primitive people to boil and steam food, which in turn allowed them to gain _ from new and more varied sources.（分数：1.00）A.sustenanceB.subsidiaryC.substanceD.supplement29.The right side of the body is controlled by the more influential
17、left hemisphere of human brain, causing the right side to be more _ at physical tasks.（分数：1.00）A.skillfulB.proficientC.expertD.adept30.Advances in food preservation gave consumers in developed countries access to _ all foods grown in distant lands.（分数：1.00）A.extensivelyB.virtuallyC.artificiallyD.con
18、tinually三、Part Reading Compr(总题数：3，分数：34.00)A Feminist theatre is a genre that came to be widely recognized, theorized, studied and practiced in the wake of the seventies“ Women“s Liberation Movement; it has generally been understood as describing and encompassing diverse theatrical work motivated b
19、y the recognition of and resistance to women“s marginalization within social and cultural systems that accord male privilege and dominance. Observing this, however, it is important to remember that historically women have “acted“ out their resistance to mainstream, male-dominated theatre cultures, a
20、nd that, since the seventies, feminist-theatre scholarship has looked to recover the works and performances of neglected pioneering, women-in-theatre figures. For instance, such scholarship has served to uncover the dramatic texts of the tenth-century, plays by Restoration women playwrights and dram
21、as by Edwardian women concerned with suffrage and the Woman Question. B In the seventies, recognition that women“s cultural, social, sexual, economic and political lives had been oppressed by male domination was what fueled a climate of Western feminism. Women came together in consciousness-raising
22、groups to share their personal discontents and political dissatisfactions. The inequalities of the workplace, the education system, the “institution“ of motherhood and the objectification of women“s bodies were common grievances that served to shape the four political demands of the UK“s Women“s Lib
23、eration Movement: for equal pay, equal education and opportunity, 24-hour nurseries and free contraception and abortion on demand. C As a profession, theatre was a microcosm of the discrimination and inequalities operating in society at large. In 1981, feminist playwright and critic, Michelene Wando
24、r, published an analysis of theatre and sexual politics that made explicit women“s second-class, “understudy“ status in a maledominated theatre industry. The lived, professional experience of being consigned to the role of understudy is what, in turn, encouraged women practitioners to found their ow
25、n feminist-theatre groups. Monstrous Regiment, along with the Women“s Theatre Group (both companies were founded in the mid-seventies), were seminal to the innovation of a feminist-theatre tradition and to creating a counter-cultural body of women“s plays and performances. Many more groups were to f
26、ollow in their wake such as Clapperclaws (1977) and Mrs. Worthington“s Daughters (1979). These companies played not only small-scale touring venues but were networked into women“s communities that hosted shows in non-theatre spaces, such as schools, community hails or youth clubs. Both organizationa
27、lly and creatively they operated democratically and collaboratively, rather than hierarchically and individualistically. Ensemble-based acting and presentational styles were widely adopted. D With the outcrop of feminist groups came more opportunities for women playwrights, and by the mid to late se
28、venties, Caryl Churchill, Pare Gems, and Louise Page were moving dramatic representations of women“s lives and experiences center-stagethis as a counter-cultural challenge and alternative to the “malestream,“ canonical tradition of theatre. Thereafter, women dramatists coming to prominence in the ei
29、ghties included Sarah Daniels, April De Angelis, Winsome Pinnock and Timberlake Wertenbaker. As testimony to the emergence of a body of Women“s playwriting, much of which was influenced by Second Wave feminism, in 1982 Methuen Drama launched the Plays By Women series. The first of four plays to be p
30、ublished in volume one of the series was Caryl Churchill“s Vinegar Tom: a play about witchcraft without any witches; a play where scenes locate in the seventeenth century, but songs intersperse and break up the action to insist that women“s oppression is not consigned to the historical past but is a
31、n urgent contemporary issue. Stylistically innovative and politically charged and premiered by Monstrous Regiment, Vinegar Tom along with other “women“s“ plays by Churchill such as Cloud Nine or Top Girls, proved seminal to defining a feminist landscape in British theatre and were highly influential
32、 in terms of studying and theorizing feminist theatre, aesthetically and politically. E Feminist theatre and performance that emerged from the Second Wave largely came to be defined, understood and analyzed in relation to three types of feminism: bourgeois/liberal, radical/cultural and socialist/mat
33、erialist. Listed in that order, the three feminisms were hierarchically conceived, with bourgeois/liberal feminism posited as the politically “weakest“ given that it neither endorsed radical/cultural feminism“s desire to overthrow patriarchy in favor of women“s social, cultural and sexual empowermen
34、t, nor advocated the radical transformation of society“s economic, political and social structures as socialist/materialist feminism did. Each feminist dynamic also had its aesthetic counterpart: bourgeois/liberal feminism remained attached to conventional realistic forms, but sought to create more
35、roles for women within the confines of traditional dramatic writing; radical/ cultural feminism became associated with and explored ideas and possibilities of a “women“s language“; techniques and performance registers. F However, the media backlash against feminism in the eighties, the widely promot
36、ed “top-girl Feminism“ (as critiqued by Churchill in her play), and thereafter the individualistically styled “girl power“ of the nineties and a younger, feminist Third Wave challenging the politics and values of Second Wave feminism, have all combined to make feminist theatre that much harder to ge
37、netically define and identify. Resistant voices in the nineties, such as Rebecca Pilchard and Judy Upton, picked up the complex feminist baton by dramatizing disenchanted and disadvantaged communities of young women. The iconoclast Sarah Kane, while distancing herself from the Second-Wave feminist t
38、radition (notably by her rejection of the “woman“ writer label), nonetheless reinvigorated structures of feminist feeling through her representations of gender wars and diseased masculinities, notably in her controversial debut play, Blasted. G As a growing number of younger “women“ playwrights make
39、 their debuts on contemporary British stages, it becomes increasingly clear that their diverse subjectsthe financial crash of the American energy company Enron (Prebble, Enron) , middle-class girls in trouble (Stenham, That Face) or “posh“ boys behaving badly (Wade, Posh), challenge the gaze of the
40、feminist critic that formerly looked to drama explicitly taking and playing the disenfranchised “woman“s part. “ Indeed, in the theatre of Debbie Tucker Green, arguably one of the most exciting political voices to emerge on the British stage in the twenty-first century, feminism itself comes under s
41、crutiny as, in her signature style of beautiful but brutal, black urban-speak, in plays such as Trade and Stoning Mary, Green interrogates the inability of women to achieve solidarity across social, cultural, economic and racial divides within a larger, epic landscape of a white Western world that s
42、ingularly fails to care for disempowered “others.“ H In sum, feminist futures and the future of feminist theatre appear far less certain than in the defining moment of seventies activism and political theatre making. Yet, as “women“ playwrights and practitioners dramatize epic questions of social in
43、justices and inequalities in an increasingly globalized world, or evidence concern for what part feminism can play in terms of staging socially progressive, transformative possibilities and solutions, enduring questions of gender privilege and bias that formerly fueled the genre, surface as constant
44、 and significant reminders of the unfinished business of feminist theatre. Do the following statements agree with the claims of the writer in Reading Passage 1? On your Answer Sheet, write YES if the statement agrees with the claims of the writer NO if the statement contradicts the claims of the wri
45、ter NOT GIVERN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this.（分数：10.00）(1).Feminist theatre described and encompassed diverse theatrical work which was motivated by the recognition of and resistance to women“s marginalization.（分数：1.00）(2).Before the seventies, there were some pioneeri
46、ng, women-in-theatre figures who create immortal works to fight against mainstream, male-dominated theatre cultures, but they and their efforts were neglected.（分数：1.00）(3).In the seventies, a climate of Western feminism appeared because women began to realize their lower position in cultural, social
47、, sexual, economic and political lives.（分数：1.00）(4).In the seventies, women practitioners founded their own feminist-theatre groups to express their dissatisfaction of being consigned to the role of understudy in the profession of theatre.（分数：1.00）(5).In total, four waves of feminism have been menti
48、oned in the passage.（分数：1.00）(6).For each question below, choose the answer that best completes the sentence. Then write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Which of the following seems to be the most appropriate title for the passage?（分数：1.00）A.Feminist Theatre: History and FutureB.Femini
49、st Theatre: Famous Feminist-Theatre GroupsC.Feminist Playwrights and Their Eminent WorksD.Feminism and Its Influence on Theatre(7).Which of the following is NOT TRUE about Caryl Churchill?（分数：1.00）A.Together with other women playwrights, she moved dramatic representations of women“s lives and experiences center-stageB.Her Vinegar Tom was one of the four plays of the Plays By Women seriesC.All of her plays were highly influential in terms of studying and theorizing feminist theatre, aesthe
