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厦门大学翻译硕士英语真题2010年
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[单项选择]A fable is a didactic tale focused on a single character trail.()
A. an authentic
B. a muddied
C. an instructive
D. an old-fashioned
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[单项选择]Ironically, the proper use of figurative language must be based on the denotative meaning of the words, because it is the failure to recognize this () meaning that leads to mixed metaphors and their attendant incongruity.
A. esoteric
B. literal
C. allusive
D. symbolic
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[单项选择]The compact dictionaries published in recent years are not as unwieldy as some of the older editions.()
A. complete
B. tiresome
C. reliable
D. cumbersome
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[单项选择]Although specific concerns may determine the intent of a research project, its results are often ().
A. unanticipated
B. beneficial
C. spectacular
D. specialized
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[单项选择]After a slow sales start early in the year, mobile homes have been gaining favor as () to increasingly expensive conventional housing.
A. a reaction
B. an addition
C. an introduction
D. an alternative
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[单项选择]Early critics of Emily Dickinson's poetry mistook for simplemindedness the surface of artlessness that in fact she constructed with such ().
A. astonishment
B. vexation
C. allusion
D. cunning
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[单项选择]Passage B
French toys: One could not find a better illustration of the fact that the adult Frenchman sees the child as another self. All the toys one commonly sees are essentially a microcosm of the adult world; they are all reduced copies of human objects, as if in the eyes of the public the child was, all told, nothing but a smaller man, a homunculus to whom must be supplied objects of his own size.
Invented forms are very rare : a few sets of blocks, which appeal to the spirit of do-it-yourself, are the only ones which offer dynamic forms. As for the others, French toys always mean something, and this something is always entirely socialized, constituted by the myths or the techniques of modern adult life: the army, broadcasting, the post office, medicine (miniature instrument-cases, operating theaters for dolls), school, hair styling (driers for permanent-waving), the air force (parachutists), transport (trains, Ci
A. how toys prevent children from getting access to social reality and being educated in earlier ways of life
B. toys as barriers between the real cultural and ideological functions of toys and their functions of replicating nature
C. how French toys in substance, form, and material reconfirms French values and ways of life
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[填空题]
Although cosmetic surgery (and non-surgically cosmetic (1)______
procedures, such as Botox injections) sometimes produce negative
outcomes—media often highlights surgery "disasters"— (2)______
in the most part, the health risk for cosmetic procedures (3)______
is low and patient satisfaction is high. Often, people who have been
hobbled by poor body image all of their life, walk away from (4)______
cosmetic surgery in confidence and the motivation to lead (5)______
healthier lives. In addition, reconstructive surgery for burning (6)______
and accident victims or to those disfigured from disease restore (7)______
self-esteem and well-being in the way that other therapy cannot. (8)______
In my professional opinion, it is a time for members of the (9)______
medical community to examine the benefits and results o -
[单项选择]The discovery that, friction excluded, all bodies fall at the same rate is so simple to state and to grasp that there is a tendency to () its significance.
A. underrate
B. reassess
C. praise
D. eliminate
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[单项选择]Neon light is utilized in airport beacons because it can permeate fog.()
A. pass through
B. transmit
C. suspend
D. break up
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[单项选择]Because modern scientists find the ancient Greek view of the cosmos outdated and irrelevant, they now perceive it as only of () interest.
A. historical
B. intrinsic
C. experimental
D. superfluous
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[单项选择]Ravaged by pollution and war, many famous monuments have become eroded and stained.()
A. discolored
B. dismembered
C. displaced
D. distinctive
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[单项选择]Because noises modulate radiofrequency, radio stations use a band of frequencies to prevent interference with other stations.()
A. govern
B. adapt
C. temper
D. renovate
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[简答题]As a candidate for the Master’s Degree program in translation, what do you think a professional translator should be equipped with in order to bridge languages and cultures in your future career Write down your thoughts in ail essay of about 400 words. Supply a title for your essay. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness.
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[单项选择]Although economists have traditionally considered the district to be solely an agricultural one, the () of the inhabitants' occupations makes such a classification obsolete.
A. productivity
B. diversity
C. predictability
D. profitability
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[单项选择]In Hawaii, endemic birds, such as the omao and the apapane, dwell in the volcanic highlands and tropical rain forests.()
A. alluring
B. aquatic
C. graceful
D. native
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[单项选择]Although any destruction of vitamins caused by food irradiation could be () the use of diet supplements, there may be no protection from carcinogens that some fear might be introduced into foods by the process.
A. counterbalanced by
B. attributed to
C. augmented with
D. stimulated by
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[单项选择]Galena, the chief ore of lead, is a brittle mineral with a metallic luster.()
A. hazel
B. dense
C. breakable
D. sparking
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[单项选择]In spite of the increasing () of their opinions, the group knew they had to arrive at a consensus so that the award could be presented.
A. impartiality
B. judiciousness
C. polarity
D. consistency
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[单项选择]The notion that a parasite can alter the behavior of a host organism is not mere fiction; indeed, the phenomenon is not even ().
A. observable
B. real
C. comprehended
D. rare
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[单项选择]Passage D
Nearly a century ago, biologists found that if they separated an invertebrate animal embryo into two parts at an early stage of its life, it would survive and develop as two normal embryos. This led them to believe that the cells in the early embryo are undetermined in the sense that each cell has the potential to develop in a variety of different ways. Later biologists found that the situation was not so simple. It matters in which plane the embryo is cut. If it is cut in a plane different from the one used by the early investigators, it will not form two whole embryos.
A debate arose over what exactly was happening. Which embryo cells are determined, just when do they become irreversible committed to their fates, and what are the "morphogenetic determinants" that tell a cell what to become But the debate could not be resolved because no one was able to ask the crucial questions in a form in which
A. State legislators deciding about funding levels for a state-funded biological laboratory.
B. Readers of an alumni newsletter published by the college that Paul Gross attended
C. Marine biologists studying the processes that give rise to new species.
D. Undergraduate biology majors in molecular biology cours -
[单项选择]Author Katherine Sherwood McDowell had a knack for converting almost every experience into marketable prose.()
A. an aptitude for
B. an obsession with
C. an alternative to
D. a purpose for
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[单项选择]Although Simpson was ingenious at () to appear innovative and spontaneous, beneath the ruse he remained uninspired and rigid in his approach to problem-solving.
A. intending
B. contriving
C. forbearing
D. declining
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[单项选择]Passage C
American ethnocentricity, while manifest in general attitudes toward others is, of course, tempered somewhat by the very heterogeneity of the population that we have been examining. Thus, while there are the broad standard-expressed in the ways most Americans set goals for their children, organize their political lives, and think about their society in contrast to others-living in our racial and ethnic mosaic makes us more inclined to think in terms of layers or circles of familiarity. A black from Chicago feels and thinks very "American" in lago or Nairobi as does an Italian from Brooklyn when visiting relatives in Calabria or Sicily. But when they get home, they will generally reveal to feeling "black" in contrast to "white" and Italian in comparison to other Americans in their own communities.
Ethnocentrism is found in political as well as in ethnic contexts. Much of the disc
A. ethnocentrism is a psychological problem
B. ethnocentrism exists parochially
C. ethnocentrism varies in degree and intensity in different social groups
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[单项选择]The form and physiology of leaves vary according to the () in which they develop: for example, leaves display a wider range of adaptations to different degrees of light and moisture.
A. relationship
B. sequence
C. patterns
D. environment
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[单项选择]Alexander Woollcott's flamboyant personality combined sharpness of wit with sentimentality.()
A. devious
B. humorous
C. singular
D. showy
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[单项选择]Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women, which recounts the experiences of the four March sisters during the American Civil war, is largely autobiographical.()
A. praises
B. narrates
C. exaggerates
D. classifies
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[单项选择]Orioles are arboreal birds, and when they descend to the ground, it is mainly to gather nest materials.()
A. territorial
B. tree-dwelling
C. consummate
D. grumpy
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[单项选择]Mergers may be effected to revive or rejuvenate failing businesses by the infusion of new management and personnel.()
A. inspection
B. introduction
C. evaluation
D. concentration
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[单项选择]When squashed the stem and leaves of the jewelweed exude a juice that will soothe some skin irritations.()
A. boiled
B. aged
C. crushed
D. chopped
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[单项选择]Although adolescent maturational and developmental states occur in an orderly sequence, their timing () with regard to onset and duration.
A. lasts
B. varies
C. falters
D. accelerates
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[单项选择]Since most, if not all, learning occurs through (), relating one observation to another, it would be strange indeed if the study of other cultures did not also illuminate the study of our own.
A. assumptions
B. experiments
C. comparisons
D. repetitions
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[单项选择]Noting the murder victim's flaccid musculature and pear-like figure, she deduced that the unfortunate fellow had earned his living in some () occupation.
A. treacherous
B. ill-paying
C. illegitimate
D. sedentary
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[单项选择]Fertilizer applied to soil can replace depleted nutrients.()
A. organic
B. acidic
C. exhausted
D. desirable
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[单项选择]Passage A
Notation gave western music a means of written record, but at first only for a kind of music, chant, that was believed to have originated half a millennium and more in the past—to be effectively, ageless. Early medieval chants sprang from the whole time of eternal sameness, which they so readily convey, and similarly there was no measure of the time within them—the rhythm. Then measure came. And with it came the first identifiable composers and precisely datable works.
Where chant was of a piece with other musical traditions in being self-sufficient melody, working within a modal system, belonging to no creator (but to God) and designed for worship, the new music of the twentieth century opened a distinctively western path. The measuring of time was the beginning not only of rhythmic notation—known, far beyond Europe, to the Indian theorist Sarngadeva in the first half of the thirteenth cen
A. The Development of Rhythm
B. Time Measured.
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[单项选择]Because folk art is neither completely rejected nor accepted as an art form by art historians, their final evaluations of it necessarily remain ().
A. arbitrary
B. estimable
C. equivocal
D. orthodox
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[多项选择]Passage CWhat ideas are behind the generalized image of "lazy" Indians Answer the question in 4 or 5 sentences.
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[单项选择]Ocean waves can cut imposing cliffs along coastlines.()
A. immobile
B. impermeable
C. impressive
D. imaginative
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[单项选择]South Carolina's mineral resources are abundant, but not all of them can be lucratively mined.()
A. profitably
B. safely
C. easily
D. extensively
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[单项选择]Biologists have ascertained that specialized cells convert chemical energy into mechanical energy.()
A. determined
B. argued
C. hypothesized
D. griped
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[单项选择]Pocahonta, a seventeenth century Powhatan Indian, went to the Jamestown colony as her father's emissary.()
A. ward
B. attendant
C. messenger
D. translator
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[单项选择]The legislative filibuster is a parliamentary tactic designed to delay or prevent action by the majority.()
A. tradition
B. rule
C. observance
D. maneuver
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[单项选择]He had expected gratitude for his disclosure, but instead he encountered () bordering on hostility.
A. patience
B. discretion
C. ineptitude
D. indifference
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[单项选择]Psychology has slowly evolved into an () scientific discipline that now functions autonomously with the same privileges and responsibilities as other sciences.
A. independent
B. unusual
C. outmoded
D. uncontrolled
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[单项选择]The painting was larger than it appeared to be, for hanging in a darkened recess of the chapel, it was () by the perspective.
A. improved
B. diminished
C. embellished
D. jeopardized
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[单项选择]Data concerning the effects on a small population of high concentrations of a potentially hazardous chemical are frequently used to () the effects on a large population of lower amounts of the same chemical.
A. verify
B. redress
C. predict
D. realize
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[单项选择]A fossil is a remnant of a once-living organism.()
A. bone
B. solvent
C. picture
D. vestige