翻译硕士英语 样题及答案

全日制翻译硕士专业学位（MTI）研究生入学考试大纲

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全国翻译硕士专业学位教育指导委员会在《全日制翻译硕士专业学位研究生指导性培养方案》（见学位办[2009]23号文）中指出，MTI教育的目标是培养高层次、应用型、专业性口笔译人才。MTI教育重视实践环节，强调翻译实践能力的培养。全日制MTI的招生对象为具有国民教育序列大学本科学历（或本科同等学力）人员，具有良好的双语基础。

根据《全日制翻译硕士专业学位研究生指导性培养方案》以及教学司[2009]22号文件精神，现制定全日制翻译硕士专业学位研究生入学考试大纲。.

一、考试目的

本考试旨在全面考查考生的双语（外语、母语）综合能力及双语翻译能力，招生院校根据考生参加本考试的成绩和《政治理论》的成绩总分（满分共计500分），参考全国统一录取分数线来选择参加复试的考生。

二、考试性质与范围

本考试是全国翻译硕士专业学位研究生的入学资格考试，除全国统考分值100分的第一单元《政治理论》之外，专业考试分为三门，分别是第二单元外国语考试《翻译硕士X语》（含英语、法语、日语、俄语、韩语、德语等语种），第三单元基础课考试《X语翻译基础》（含英汉、法汉、日汉、俄汉、韩汉、德汉等语对）以及第四单元专业基础课考试《汉语写作与百科知识》。《翻译硕士X 语》重点考查考生的外语水平，总分100分；《X语翻译基础》重点考查考生的外汉互译专业技能和潜质，总分150分；《汉语写作与百科知识》重点考查考生的现代汉语写作水平和百科知识，总分150分。（考试科目名称及代码参见教学司[2009]22号文件）

三、考试基本要求

1. 具有良好的外语基本功，掌握6,000个以上的选考外语积极词汇。

2. 具有较好的双语表达和转换能力及潜质。

3. 具备一定的中外文化以及政治、经济、法律等方面的背景知识。对作为母语（A语言）的现代汉语有较强的写作能力。

四、考试时间与命题

每年1月份举行，与全国硕士研究生入学考试同步进行。由各招生院校MTI 资格考试命题小组根据本考试大纲，分别参照翻译硕士外语考试《翻译硕X语》、基础课考试《X语翻译基础》及专业基础课考试《汉语写作与百科知识》考试大纲及样题的要求，自主负责命题与实施。

五、考试形式

本考试采取客观试题与主观试题相结合的方法，各项试题的分布见各门“考

试内容一览表”。

六、考试内容

见以下分别表述。

全日制翻译硕士专业学位（MTI）研究生入学考试

《翻译硕士X语》考试大纲

一、考试目的

《翻译硕士X语》作为全日制翻译硕士专业学位（MTI）研究生入学考试的外国语考试，其目的是考查考生是否具备进行MTI学习所要求的外语水平。

二、考试性质与范围

本考试是一种测试应试者单项和综合语言能力的尺度参照性水平考试。考试范围包括MTI考生入学应具备的外语词汇量、语法知识以及外语阅读与写作等方面的技能。

三、考试基本要求

1. 具有良好的外语基本功，认知词汇量在10,000以上，掌握6,000个以上（以

英语为例）的积极词汇，即能正确而熟练地运用常用词汇及其常用搭配。

2. 能熟练掌握正确的外语语法、结构、修辞等语言规范知识。

3．具有较强的阅读理解能力和外语写作能力。

四、考试形式

本考试采取客观试题与主观试题相结合，单项技能测试与综合技能测试相结合的方法。各项试题的分布情况见“考试内容一览表”。

五、考试内容

本考试包括以下部分：词汇语法、阅读理解、外语写作等。总分100分。

I．词汇语法

1. 考试要求

1）词汇量要求

考生的认知词汇量应在10,000以上，其中积极词汇量为6,000以上，即能正确而熟练地运用常用词汇及其常用搭配。

2）语法要求

考生能正确运用外语语法、结构、修辞等语言规范知识。

2. 题型

选择题或改错题。总分30分。考试时间为60分钟。

II. 阅读理解

1. 考试要求

1）能读懂常见外刊上的专题报道、历史传记及文学作品等各种文体的文章，既能理解其主旨和大意，又能分辨出其中的事实与细节，并能理解其中的观点和隐含意义。

2）能根据阅读时间要求调整自己的阅读速度。

2. 题型

1）选择题（包括信息事实性阅读题和观点评判性阅读题）

2）简答题（要求根据所阅读的文章，用3-5行字数的有限篇幅扼要回答问题，重点考查阅读综述能力）

本部分题材广泛，体裁多样，选材体现时代性、实用性；重点考查通过阅读获取信息和理解观点的能力；对阅读速度有一定要求。总分40分。考试时间为60分钟。

III．外语写作

1. 考试要求

考生能根据所给题目及要求撰写一篇400词左右的记叙文、说明文或议论文。该作文要求语言通顺，用词得体，结构合理，文体恰当。

2. 题型

命题作文。总分30分。考试时间为60分钟。

全日制翻译硕士专业学位（MTI）研究生入学考试

《X语翻译基础》考试大纲

一、考试目的

《X语翻译基础》是全日制翻译硕士专业学位（MTI）研究生入学考试的基础课考试科目，其目的是考查考生的外汉互译实践能力是否达到进入MTI学习阶段的水平。

二、考试性质与范围

本考试是测试考生是否具备基础翻译能力的尺度参照性水平考试。考试范围包括MTI考生入学应具备的外语词汇量、语法知识以及外汉两种语言转换的基本技能。

三、考试基本要求

1. 具备一定中外文化，以及政治、经济、法律等方面的背景知识。

2. 具备扎实的外汉两种语言的基本功。

3. 具备较强的外汉/汉外转换能力。

四、考试形式

本考试采取客观试题与主观试题相结合，单项技能测试与综合技能测试相结合的方法，强调考生的外汉/汉外转换能力。各项试题的分布情况见“考试内容一览表”。

五、考试内容

本考试包括两个部分：词语翻译和外汉互译。总分150分。

I. 词语翻译

1. 考试要求

要求考生准确翻译中外文术语或专有名词。

2.题型

要求考生较为准确地写出题中的30个汉/外术语、缩略语或专有名词的对应目的语。汉/外文各15个，每个1分，总分30分。考试时间为60分钟。

II. 外汉互译

1. 考试要求

要求应试者具备外汉互译的基本技巧和能力；初步了解中国和目的语国家的社会、文化等背景知识；译文忠实于原文，无明显误译、漏译；译文通顺，用词正确，表达基本无误；译文无明显语法错误；外译汉速度为每小时250-350个外语单词，汉译外速度为每小时150-250个汉字。

2.题型

要求考生较为准确地翻译出所给的文章，外译汉为250-350个单词，汉译外为150-250个汉字，各占60分，总分120分。考试时间为120分钟。

全日制翻译硕士专业学位（MTI）研究生入学考试

《汉语写作与百科知识》考试大纲

一、考试目的

《汉语写作与百科知识》是全日制翻译硕士专业学位（MTI）研究生入学考试的专业基础课考试科目，其目的是考查学生是否具备进行MTI学习所要求的汉语水平。

二、考试性质与范围

本考试是测试考生百科知识和汉语写作水平的尺度参照性水平考试。考试范围包括本大纲规定的百科知识和汉语写作水平。

三、考试基本要求

1. 具备一定中外文化，以及政治、经济、法律等方面的背景知识。

2. 对作为母语（A语言）的现代汉语有较强的基本功。

3. 具备较强的现代汉语写作能力。

四、考试形式

本考试采取客观试题与主观试题相结合，单项技能测试与综合技能测试相结合的方法，强调考生的百科知识和汉语写作能力。各语种考生统一用汉语答题。试题分类参见“考试内容一览表”。

五、考试内容

本考试包括三个部分：百科知识、应用文写作、命题作文。总分150分。

I. 百科知识

1. 考试要求

要求考生对中外文化，国内国际政治、经济、法律以及中外人文、历史、地理等方面有一定的了解。

2. 题型

要求考生解释出现在不同主题的短文中涉及上述内容的20个名词。每个名词2.5分，总分50分。考试时间为60分钟。

II. 应用文写作

1. 考试要求

该部分要求考生根据所提供的信息和场景写一篇450字左右的应用文，体裁包括说明书、会议通知、商务信函、备忘录、广告等，要求言简意赅，凸显专业性、技术性和实用性。

2. 题型

试卷提供应用文写作的信息、场景及写作要求，由考生根据提示写作。总分40分。考试时间为60分钟。

III. 命题作文

1. 考试要求

考生应能根据所给题目及要求写出一篇不少于800字的现代汉语短文。体裁可以是说明文、议论文或应用文。要求文字通顺，用词得体，结构合理，文体恰当，文笔优美。

2. 题型

试卷给出情景和题目，由考生根据提示写作。总分60分。考试时间为60分钟。

答题和计分

要求考生用钢笔或圆珠笔在答题卷上作答。

《汉语写作与百科知识》考试内容一览表

《汉语写作与百科知识》样题

第一部分百科知识（50’）

请简要解释以下段落中划线部分的知识点

1.这次股市波动在全球都有一定的关联影响，这说明全球化在逐步进

展。过去中国认为自己的市场是一个相对比较小型的市场，也是一

个正在建设中的、比较幼年的市场，或者说是在转轨经济中逐步发

展的新兴市场。由于全球经济一体化的进展，股市波动相互之间关

联密切，这也说明中国的市场还需要加速发展，我们要进一步提高

直接融资的比重，进一步把资本市场建设得更好、更快、更加国际

化。关于流动性过剩问题。流动性偏多是全球的现象，中国也存在

流动性偏多的问题。美国财政赤字那么大，它那儿的流动性也很丰

富，产油国资金也很丰富。因此，资金面上的宽松是全球一体化之

下相互影响的现象。宏观调控当局都应该重视这个问题，做好自己

的工作，对于过剩的流动性应该采取稳健的、适当收缩的政策。

2.端午原是个防病防灾的日子，却因大诗人屈原增添了纪念层面的意

义，增添了爱国情怀和报国无门的悲情、齐心协力救助生命的悲壮；

因了陶渊明酷爱重阳，因了他酷爱的菊的勾连，重阳节衍生了“颂

陶”的文化意蕴，歌颂他“人淡如菊”的精神境界，“重阳无酒”也

成了知识分子安贫乐道的形象写真。

3.1994年起，比尔·盖茨开始了他的收藏爱好。作为拥有600亿美元

财富的收藏者，盖茨想买什么就可以买什么，而他购买艺术品似乎

也完全凭个人的兴趣，没有明确的学术或商业性目标。还有很多不

知名的微软富翁也有收藏艺术品的爱好，这些微软人囊中的巨额财

富和近乎疯狂的收藏行为对美国艺术市场产生巨大的推动作用，证

明了微软公司在文化市场中有多重要。一个软件公司创造的巨额财

富使大量重要艺术作品流向微软人手中，流向西雅图。

4.2009年3月的全国“两会”上，吴邦国提出，今年要着力加强社会

领域立法，继续完善经济、政治、文化领域立法。社会领域的公平

正义，变化并没有那么快，我们只需要翻找出过去的研究和报道，

就可以看到今天的问题所在。例如，上文提到的新华社2006年那篇

文章中，对社会领域立法促进公平正义列举了五个方面：一是保障

公民权利，尊重和保障人权；二是发展社会事业，提高公共服务的

能力和水平；三是健全社会保障，发展慈善事业；四是规范社会组

织，使各类具有公益或互益性质的社会组织，纳入规范化、法制化

管理的轨道；五是重视社会管理，包括加强公共安全、应对突发事

件等。社会领域立法以促进公平正义，也许更加直接地体现了孟德

斯鸠在《法的精神》中强调的重点：限权。也就是保障私权利，限

制公权力。从新华社列举的五项内容可以看出，每前进一步的关键

都是公私权界。显然，在这方面还有相当漫长的路要走。

第二部分应用文写作（40’）

根据下面的文字说明写一篇450字左右的应用文，要求包含标题、正文、结尾语、落款等几个要素。

中国×进出口商会于×月×日至×月×日派人去××，了解了××汽车索赔案的谈判结果。根据中国××办公室和对外经济贸易部××司的指示，现要给其上级部门即中国××办公室的答复报告《关于××汽车索赔案谈判结果的报告》，要求介绍谈判过程及结果，并指出产生“索赔案”的原因等。请以中国×进出口商会的名义起草一份兼具情况性和答复性的报告，注意要写标题、发文字号、主送机关正文、结尾语、落款等公文要素。

第三部分现代汉语写作（60’）

根据下面的文字要求写一篇现代文，题材不限（诗歌、戏剧除外）。

生活当中，有许多事情当你亲临其境之后，往往思想受到启迪，身心感到愉悦。偶然忆起，就如品香茗，又如含青榄，清香久远，令人难忘??

请以“值得品味”为题，写一篇不少于800字的文章。

《翻译硕士英语》考试大纲

一、考试目的

《翻译硕士英语》作为全日制翻译硕士专业学位（MTI）研究生入学考试的外国语考试，其目的是考查考生是否具备进行MTI学习所要求的英语水平。

二、考试性质与范围

本考试是一种测试应试者单项和综合语言能力的尺度参照性水平考试。考试范围包括MTI考生入学应具备的英语词汇量、语法知识以及英语阅读与写作等方面的技能。

三、考试基本要求

1. 具有良好的英语基本功，认知词汇量在10,000以上，掌握6,000个以上的积

极词汇，即能正确而熟练地运用常用词汇及其常用搭配。

2. 能熟练掌握正确的英语语法、结构、修辞等语言规范知识。

3. 具有较强的阅读理解能力和英语写作能力。

四、考试形式

本考试采取客观试题与主观试题相结合，单项技能测试与综合技能测试相结合的方法。各项试题的分布情况见“考试内容一览表”。

五、考试内容

本考试包括三个部分：词汇语法、阅读理解、英语写作。总分100

分。

I．词汇语法

1. 考试要求

1）词汇量要求

考生的认知词汇量应在10,000以上，其中积极词汇量为6,000以上，即能正确而熟练地运用常用词汇及其常用搭配。

2）语法要求

考生能正确运用英语语法、结构、修辞等语言规范知识。

2. 题型

选择题或改错题。总分30分。考试时间为60分钟。

II. 阅读理解

1. 考试要求

1）能读懂常见外刊上的专题报道、历史传记及文学作品等各种文体的文章，既能理解其主旨和大意，又能分辨出其中的事实与细节，并能理解其中的观点和隐含意义。

2）能根据阅读时间要求调整自己的阅读速度。

2. 题型

1）选择题（包括信息事实性阅读题和观点评判性阅读题）

2）简答题（要求根据所阅读的文章，用3-5行字数的有限篇幅扼要回答问题，

重点考查阅读综述能力）

本部分题材广泛，体裁多样，选材体现时代性、实用性；重点考查通过阅读获取信息和理解观点的能力；对阅读速度有一定要求。总分40分。考试时间为60分钟。

III．英语写作

1. 考试要求

考生能根据所给题目及要求撰写一篇400词左右的记叙文、说明文或议论文。该作文要求语言通顺，用词得体，结构合理，文体恰当。

2. 题型

命题作文。总分30分。考试时间为60分钟。

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I. Vocabulary and grammar (30’)

Multiple choice

Directions: Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.

1. Thousands of people turned out into the streets to _________ against the local authorities’ decision to build a highway across the field.

A. contradict

B. reform

C. counter

D. protest

2. The majority of nurses are women, but in the higher ranks of the medical profession women are in a _________.

A. minority

B. scarcity

C. rarity

D. minimum

3. Professor Johnson’s retirement ________ from next January.

A. carries into effect

B. takes effect

C. has effect

D. puts into effect

4. The president explained that the purpose of taxation was to ________ government spending.

A. finance

B. expand

C. enlarge

D. budget

5. The heat in summer is no less _________ here in this mountain region.

A. concentrated

B. extensive

C. intense

D. intensive

6. Taking photographs is strictly ________ here, as it may damage the precious cave paintings.

A. forbidden

B. rejected

C. excluded

D. denied

7. Mr. Brown’s condition looks very s erious and it is doubtful if he will _________.

A. pull back

B. pull up

C. pull through

D. pull out

8. Since the early nineties, the trend in most businesses has been toward on-demand, always-available products and services that suit th e customer’s _________ rather than the company’s.

A. benefit

B. availability

C. suitability

D. convenience

9. The priest made the ________ of the cross when he entered the church.

A. mark

B. signal

C. sign

D. gesture

10. This spacious room is ________ furnished with just a few articles in it.

A. lightly

B. sparsely

C. hardly

D. rarely

11. If you explained the situation to your solicitor, he ________ able to advise you much better than I can.

A. would be

B. will have been

C. was

D. were

12. With some men dressing down and some other men flaunting their looks, it is really hard to tell they are gay or _________.

A. straight

B. homosexual

C. beautiful

D. sad

13. His remarks were ________ annoy everybody at the meeting.

A. so as to

B. such as to

C. such to

D. as much as to

14. James has just arrived, but I didn’t know he _________ until yesterday.

A. will come

B. was coming

C. had been coming

D. came

15. _________ conscious of my moral obligations as a citizen.

A. I was and always will be

B. I have to be and always will be

C. I had been and always will be

D. I have been and always will be

16. Because fuel supplies are finite and many people are wasteful, we will have to install _________ solar heating device in our home.

A. some type of

B. some types of a

C. some type of a

D. some types of

17. I went there in 1984, and that was the only occasion when I ________ the journey in exactly two days.

A. must take

B. must have made

C. was able to make

D. could make

18. I know he failed his last test, but really he’s _________ stupid.

A. something but

B. anything but

C. nothing but

D. not but

19. Do you know Tim’s brother? He is _________ than Tim.

A. much more sportsman

B. more of a sportsman

C. more of sportsman

D. more a sportsman

20. That was not the first time he ________ us. I think it’s high time we ________ strong actions against him.

A. betrayed…take

B. had betrayed… took

C. has betrayed…took

D. has betrayed… take

II. Reading comprehension (40’)

Section 1 Multiple choice (20’)

Directions: In this section there are reading passages followed by multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your answer sheet.

Passage A

The Welsh language has always been the ultimate marker of Welsh identity, but a generation ago it looked as if Welsh would go the way of Manx, once widely spoken on the Isle of Man but now extinct. Government financing and central planning, however, have helped reverse the decline of Welsh. Road signs and official public documents are written in both Welsh and English, and schoolchildren are required to learn both languages. Welsh is now one of the most successful of Europe’s regional languages, spoken by more than a half-million of the country’s three million people.

The revival of the language, particularly among young people, is part of a resurgence of national identity sweeping through this small, proud nation. Last month Wales marked the second anniversary of the opening of the National Assembly, the first parliament to be convened here since 1404. The idea behind devolution was to restore the balance within the union of nations making up the United Kingdom. With most of the people and wealth, England has always had bragging rights. The partial transfer of legislative powers from Westminster, implemented by Tony Blair, was designed to give the other members of the club—Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales—a bigger say and to counter centrifugal forces that seemed to threaten the very idea of the union.

The Welsh showed little enthusiasm for devolution. Whereas the Scots voted overwhelmingly for a parliament, the vote for a Welsh assembly scraped through by less than one percent on a turnout of less than 25 percent. Its powers were proportionately limited. The Assembly can decide how money from Westminster or the European Union is spent. It cannot, unlike its counterpart in Edinburgh, enact laws. But now that it is here, the Welsh are growing to like their Assembly. Many people would like it to have more powers. Its importance as figurehead will grow with the opening in 2003, of a new debating chamber, one of many new buildings that are transforming Cardiff from a decaying seaport into a Baltimore-style waterfront city. Meanwhile a grant of nearly two million dollars from the European Union will tackle poverty. Wales is one of the poorest regions in Western Europe—only Spain, Portugal, and Greece have a lower standard of living.

Newspapers and magazines are filled with stories about great Welsh men and women, boosting self-esteem. To familiar faces such as Dylan Thomas and Richard Burton have been added new icons such as Catherine Zeta-Jones, the movie star, and Bryn Terfel, the opera singer. Indigenous foods like salt marsh lamb are in vogue. And Wales now boasts a national airline, Awyr Cymru. Cymru, which means “land of compatriots”, is the Welsh name for Wales. The red dragon, the nation’s symbol since the time of King Arthur, is everywhere—on T-shirts, rugby jerseys and even cell phone covers.

“Until very recent times most Welsh people had this feeling of being second-class citizens,” said Dyfan Jones, an 18-year-old student. It was a warm summer night, and I was sitting on the grass with a group of young people in Llanelli, an industrial town in the south, outside the rock music venue of the National Eisteddfod, Wales’s annual cultural festival. The disused factory in front of

us echoed to the sounds of new Welsh bands.

“There was almost a genetic tendency for lack of confidence,” Dyfan continued. Equally comfortable in his Welshness as in his membership in the English-speaking, global youth culture and the new federal Europe, Dyfan, like the rest of his generation, is growing up with a sense of possibility unimaginable ten years ago. “We used to think. We can’t do anything, we’re only Welsh. Now I think that’s changing.”

1. According to the passage, devolution was mainly meant to

A. maintain the present status among the nations.

B. reduce legislative powers of England.

C. create a better state of equality among the nations.

D. grant more say to all the nations in the union.

2. The word “centrifugal” in the second paragraph means

A. separatist.

B. conventional.

C. feudal.

D. political

3. Wales is different from Scotland in all the following aspects EXCEPT

A. people’s desire for devolution.

B. locals’ turnout for the voting.

C. powers of the legislative body.

D. status of the national language.

4. Which of the following is NOT cited as an example of the resurgence of Welsh national identity?

A. Welsh has witnessed a revival as a national language.

B. Poverty-relief funds have come from the European Union.

C. A Welsh national airline is currently in operation.

D. The national symbol has become a familiar sight.

5. According to Dyfan Jones what has changed is

A. people’s mentality.

B. pop culture.

C. town’s appearance.

D. possibilities for the people.

Passage B

The miserable fate of Enron’s employees will be a landmark in business history, one of those awful events that everyone agrees must never be allowed to happen again. This urge is understandable and noble: thousands have lost virtually all their retirement savings with the demise of Enron stock. But making sure it never happens again may not be possible, because the

sudden impoverishment of those Enron workers represents something even larger than it seems. It’s the latest turn in the unwinding of one of the most audacious promise s of the 20th century. The promise was assured economic security—even comfort—for essentially everyone in the developed world. With the explosion of wealth, that began in the 19th century it became possible to think about a possibility no one had dared to dream before. The fear at the center of daily living since caveman days—lack of food, warmth, shelter—would at last lose its power to terrify. That remarkable promise became reality in many ways. Governments created welfare systems for anyone in need and separate programs for the elderly (Social Security in the U.S.). Labour unions promised not only better pay for workers but also pensions for retirees. Giant corporations came into being and offered the possibility—in some cases the promise—of lifetime employment plus guaranteed pensions? The cumulative effect was a fundamental change in how millions of people approached life itself, a reversal of attitude that most rank as one of the largest in human history. For millennia the average person’s stance toward providing for himself had been. Ultimately I’m on my own. Now it became, ultimately I’ll be taken care of.

The early hints that this promise might be broken on a large scale came in the 1980s. U.S. business had become uncompetitive globally and began restructuring massively, with huge Layoffs. The trend accelerated in the 1990s as the bastions of corporate welfare faced reality. IBM ended its no-layoff policy. AT&T fired thousands, many of whom found such a thing simply incomprehensible, and a few of whom killed themselves. The other supposed guarantors of our economic security were also in decline. Labour-union membership and power fell to their lowest levels in decades. President Clinton signed a historic bill scaling back welfare. Americans realized that Social Security won’t provide social security for any of us.

A less visible but equally significant trend affected pensions. To make costs easier to control, companies moved away from defined benefit pension plans, which obligate them to pay out specified amounts years in the future, to defined contribution plans, which specify only how much goes into the play today. The most common type of defined-contribution plan is the 401(k). the significance of t he 401(k) is that it puts most of the responsibility for a person’s economic fate back on the employee. Within limits the employee must decide how much goes into the plan each year and how it gets invested—the two factors that will determine how much it’s worth when the employee retires.

Which brings us back to Enron? Those billions of dollars in vaporized retirement savings went in employees’ 401(k) accounts. That is, the employees chose how much money to put into those accounts and then chose how to invest it. Enron matched a certain proportion of each employee’s 401(k) contribution with company stock, so everyone was going to end up with some Enron in his or her portfolio; but that could be regarded as a freebie, since nothing compels a company to match employee contributions at all. At least two special features complicate the Enron case. First, some shareholders charge top management with illegally covering up the company’s problems, prompting investors to hang on when they should have sold. Second, Enron’s 401(k) accounts were locked while the company changed plan administrators in October, when the stock was falling, so employees could not have closed their accounts if they wanted to. But by far the largest cause of this human tragedy is that thousands of employees were heavily overweighed in Enron stock. Many had placed 100% of their 401(k) assets in the stock rather than in the 18 other invest ment options they were offered. Of course that wasn’t prudent, but it’s what some of them did.

The Enron employees’retirement disaster is part of the larger trend away from guaranteed economic security. That’s why preventing such a thing from ever happeni ng again may be impossible. The huge attitudinal shift to I’ll-be-taken-care-of took at least a generation. The shift back may take just as long. It won’t be complete until a new generation of employees see assured economic comfort as a 20th-century quirk, and understand not just intellectually but in their bones that, like most people in most times and places, they’re on their own.

6. Why does the author say at the beginning “The miserable fate of Enron’s employees will be a landmark in business history…”?

A. Because the company has gone bankrupt.

B. Because such events would never happen again.

C. Because many Enron workers lost their retirement savings.

D. Because it signifies a turning point in economic security.

7. According to the passage, the combined efforts by governments, layout unions and big corporations to guarantee economic comfort have led to a significant change in

A. people’s outlook on life.

B. people’s life styles.

C. people’s living standa rd.

D. people’s social values.

8. Changes in pension schemes were also part of

A. the corporate lay-offs.

B. the government cuts in welfare spending.

C. the economic restructuring.

D. the warning power of labors unions.

9. Thousands of employees chose Enron as their sole investment option mainly because

A. the 401(k) made them responsible for their own future.

B. Enron offered to add company stock to their investment.

C. their employers intended to cut back on pension spending.

D. Enron’s offer was simil ar to a defined-benefit plan.

10. Which is NOT seen as a lesson drawn from the Enron disaster?

A. The 401(k) assets should be placed in more than one investment option.

B. Employees have to take up responsibilities for themselves.

C. Such events could happen again as it is not easy to change people’s m ind.

D. Economic security won’t be taken for g ranted by future young workers.

Section 2 Answering questions (20’)

Directions: Read the following passages and then answer IN COMPLETE SENTENCES the questions which follow each passage. Use only information from the passage you have just read and write your answer in the corresponding space in your answer sheet.

Questions 1～3

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The Ten Tors Challenge takes place in the middle of the breeding season, when the slightest disturbance can jeopardize birds’chances of reproducing successfully. Experts at the RSPB and the Dartmoor National Park Authority fear that the walkers could frighten birds and even crush eggs. They are now calling for the event to be moved to the autumn, when the breeding season is over and chicks should be well established. Organisers of the event, which is led by about 400 Territorial Army volunteers, say moving it would be impractical for several reasons and would mean pupils could not train properly for the 55-mile trek. Dartmoor is home to 10 rare species of ground-nesting birds, including golden plovers, dunlins and lapwings. In some cases, species are either down to their last two pairs on the moor or are facing a nationwide decline.

Emma Parkin, South-west spokeswoman for the PASPB, took part in the challenge as a schoolgirl. She said the society had no objections to the event itself but simply wanted it moved to another time of year. “It is a wonderful activity for the children who take part but, having thousands of people walking past in one weekend when birds are breeding is hardly ideal,” she said. “We would prefer it to take place after the breeding and nesting season is over. There is a risk of destruction and disturbance. If the walkers put a foot in the wrong place they can crush the eggs and if there is sufficient disturbance the birds might abandon the nest.” Helen Booker, an RSPB upland conservation officer, said there was no research into the scale of the damage but there was little doubt the walk was detrimental. “If people are tramping past continually it can harm the chances of successful nesting. There is also the fear of direct trampling of eggs.”A spokesman for the Dartmoor National Park Authority said the breeding season on the moor lasted from early March to mid-July, and the Ten Tors Challenge created the potential for disturbance for March, when participants start training.

To move the event to the autumn was difficult because children would be on holiday during the training period. There was a possibility that some schools in the Southwest move to a four-term year in 2004, “but until then any change was unlikely. The authority last surveyed bird life on Dartmoor two year ago and if the next survey showed any further decline, it would increase pressure to move the Challenge,” he said.

Major Mike Pether, secretary of the army committee that organises the Challenge, said the event could be moved if there was the popular will. “The Ten Tors has been running for 42 years and it has always been at this time of the year. It is almost in tablets of stone but that’s not to say we won’t consider moving if there is a consensus in favour. However, although the RSPB would like it moved, 75 per cent of the people who take part want it to stay as it is,” he said. Major Pether said the trek could not be moved to earlier in the year because it would conflict with the lambing season, most of the children were on holiday in the summer, and the winter weather was too harsh.

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