2015年华东师范大学211翻译硕士英语考研真题及详解【圣才出品】
2015年华东师范大学211翻译硕士英语考研真题及详解
I. Grammar and vocabulary (15 points): Choose one answer that best suits the context.
1. The population ______ problem brings social and economic problems to China and how to better support the country's 132 million elderly has become a big challenge.
A. aged
B. aging
C. age
D. being aged
【答案】B
【解析】人口老龄化的表达为“aging population”。
2. Cloning of human beings should be forbidden, ______ the development and production of chemical weapons.
A. the same as
B. as should be
C. as should
D. as, should be
【答案】D
【解析】句意：人类克隆应当被禁止，就如同化学武器的发展与生产应当被禁止一样。
as这里引导的是方式状语从句，意思是正像……一样,从句里should be后省略了forbidden。
3. Such a difficult problem ______ that I don’t know what to do with it.
A. it is
B. was it
C. is it
D. it was
【答案】C
【解析】这句话是个倒装句。正常语序应该是It is such a difficult problem that I don’t know what to do with it.“such”位于句首时要用倒装。
4. ______ when everyone has to think for himself.
A. There comes a time
B. Here comes a time
C. There a time goes
D. A time comes here
【答案】A
【解析】这句话是个倒装句。句意：每个人都不得不为自己考虑的时候到了。当there 和here位于句首，谓语动词是be, come, go, remain等，而主语又是名词时，用完全倒装。
5. —Do you want to buy this kind of computer?
—Yes, I’d like to buy______.
A. it
B. one
C. this
D. that
【答案】B
【解析】one这里指的是同类事物（this kind of computer）中的一个。
6. The 2008 Sichuan earthquake, ______ 8.0 ______ the Richter scale occurred at14:28 on 12 May 2008 in Sichuan province of China.
A. measuring, on
B. measured, on
C. which measured, of
D. which was measured, of
【答案】A
【解析】earthquake与measure之间构成主动关系，故使用现在分词的形式。“里氏……等级”的地震的表达方法为“measuring/be measured ... on the Richter scale”。
7. ______ by life’s ______, the last emperor of China worked as a lowly ga rdener in the palace over which he had once ruled.
A. Fortified, generosity
B. Deluded, coincidences
C. Humbled, vicissitudes
D. Venerated, survivors
【答案】C
【解析】句意：经历了人生的沧桑后，中国的最后一位皇帝变得谦卑，在他曾经统治的宫殿里成为一名卑微的园丁。humble使卑贱。vicissitude变迁。fortify加强。delude欺骗。venerate崇敬。
8. A born teller of tales, Olsen used her impressive ______ skills to advantage in her story “I Stand Here Ironing".
A. metaphysical
B. diagnostic
C. narrative
D. argumentative
【答案】C
【解析】由句意可知，空白处单词应该与“teller”意思相关。narrative叙事的。metaphysical形而上学的；超自然的。diagnostic诊断的。argumentative好辩的。
9. A hypothesis must not only account for what we already know, but it must also be ______ by continued observation.
A. refuted
B. interrupted
D. discredited
【答案】C
【解析】句意：一个假设不仅要解释我们已经知道的东西，还必须通过持续的观察来验证。verify核实。refute反驳。discredit使名誉扫地。
10. According to poet John Berryman, there were so many ways to ______ a poem that it was quite amazing good ones ever got written.
A. begin
B. ruin
C. recite
D. categorize
【答案】B
【解析】句意：一位叫做约翰贝里曼的诗人说，有许多方式能摧毁一首诗，（所以）那些优秀的诗能被写出来让人感到很惊讶。recite背诵。
11. Advances in health care have lengthened life spans, lowered infant mortality rates, and, thus, ______ the overpopulation problem.
A. eliminated
B. aggravated
C. minimized
D. distorted
【解析】句意：医疗卫生的进步延长了人们的寿命，降低了婴儿死亡率，从而加重了人口过多问题。aggravate使恶化。distort扭曲。
12. Although a few of her contemporaries ______ her book, most either ignored it or mocked it.
A. dismissed
B. disregarded
C. deprecated
D. appreciated
【答案】D
【解析】由“although”可知，空白处单词应该与“ignored”和“mocked”意思相反，应该是一个褒义词。appreciate欣赏。dismiss解散。deprecate反对。disregard忽视。
13. Although in his seventies at the time of the interview, Picasso proved alert and insightful, his faculties ______ despite the inevitable toll of the years.
A. atrophied
B. diminished
C. intact
D. impaired
【答案】C