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1、北京科技大学北 京 科 技 大 学2011年硕士学位研究生入学考试试题=试题编号： 211 试题名称： 翻译硕士英语 （共 10 页）适用专业： 翻译硕士（专业学位） 说明： 所有答案必须写在答题纸上，做在试题或草稿纸上无效。=PART I GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY 60 MIN (1x30=30 POINTS) There are thirty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C, D. Please choose the

2、 correct answer that best completes the sentence and mark your answers on the answer sheet. 1. The day is past when the country can afford to give high school diploma to all who _ six years of instruction. A. set about B. run for C. sit through D. make for2. Anderson held out his arms to _ the attac

3、k, but the shark grabbed his right forearm and dived.A. turn off B. ward off C. trigger off D. call off3. Small children are often _ to nightmares after hearing ghost stories in the dark. A. definite B. perceptible C. incipient D. susceptible4. Automation threatens mankind with an increased number o

4、f _ hours. A. meager B. complex C. idle D. active5. It would be _ their hospitality to accept any more from them.A. trampling on B. treading on C. trespassing on D. trying on6. We do not mean to be disrespectful when we refused to follow the advice of our _ leader. A. venerable B. respectful C. grac

5、ious D. famous7. A safety analysis _ the target as a potential danger. Unfortunately, it was never done. A. would identify B. will identify C. will have identified D. would have identified 8. These proposals sought to place greater restrictions on the use and copying of digital information than _ in

6、 traditional media. A. exist B. exists C. existing D. to exist9. Despite the fact that over time the originally antagonistic response to his sculpture has lessened, to this day, hardly any individuals _ his art. A. evaluate B. applaud C. denounce D. ignore10. The shortcomings of Mr. Brooks analysis

7、are _ his clarity in explaining financial complexity. A. alleviated by B. offset by C. magnified by D. demonstrated by11. Given the evidence of Egyptian and Babylonian _ later Greek civilization, it would be incorrect to view the work of Greek scientists as an entirely independent creation. A. imita

8、tion of B. ambivalence about C. disdain for D. influence on12. Any language is a conspiracy against experience in the sense that it is a collective attempt to _ experience by reducing it into discrete parcels.A. transcribe B. complicate C. manage D. amplify13. Though science is often imagined as a d

9、isinterested exploration of external reality, scientists are no different from anyone else: they are _ human beings enmeshed in a web of personal and social circumstances. A. vulnerable B. rational C. careless D. passionate14. Not until Kentuckys Mammoth Cave had been completely explored in 1972 _.A

10、. when was its full extent realized B. that its full extent was realizedC. was its full extent realized D. the realization of its full extent15. You should have known better than _ your little sister at home herself. A. to leave B. leave C. leaving D. to have left 16. I cannot concentrate on my work

11、 with the prospect of the court case _ me.A. hanging on B. hanging over C. hanging up D. hanging on to17. The fantastic achievements of modern technology and the speed at which scientific discoveries are translated into technological applications _ the triumph of human endeavor. A. facilitate B. lea

12、d to C. attest to D. herald18. The new conflict between Man and Nature is more dangerous than the traditional one between man and his fellow man, _ the protagonists at least shared a common language. A. where B. which C. what D. that19. Even if automakers modify commercially produced cars to run on

13、alternative fuels, the cars wont catch on in a way _ drivers can fill them up at the gas station. A. if B. when C. unless D. because20. Having been isolated on a remote island, with little work _ them, the soldiers suffered from boredom and low spirits. A. occupying B. to occupy C. occupied D. occup

14、y21. An institution concerned about its reputation is at the mercy of the actions of its members, because the misdeeds of individuals are often used to _ the institutions of which they are a part. A. coerce B. honor C. discredit D. intimidate22. The newborn human infant is not a passive figure, nor

15、an active one, but what might be called an actively receptive one, eagerly attentive _ it is to sights and sounds. A. as B. what C. that D. which23. For him _, what is essential is not that policy works, but that the public believe that it does.A. being re-elected B. to be re-elected C. re-elected D

16、. to re-elect24. Mercurys velocity is so much greater than the Earths that it completes more than four revolutions around the Sun in the time _ takes the Earth to complete one. A. when B. it C. that D. which25. The mother would _ her son doing his music practice if he could finish his assignment bef

17、ore supper.A. let down B. let alone C. let off D. let out26. When the streets are full of melting snow, you cant help but _ your shoes wet. A. getting B. get C. to get D. got27. She could sing these songs _ a moments notice whenever she was asked. A. with B. to C. on D. at28. As we see _ political a

18、nd national movements, language is used as a badge or barrier depending on which way we look at it. A. in aspects of B. in view of C. in consideration of D. in relation to29. The emergence of mass literacy coincided with the first industrial revolution; _ the new expansion in literacy, as well as ch

19、eaper printing, helped to nurture the rise of popular literature. A. as a result B. in turn C. therefore D. in other words30. The notion that a parasite can alter the behavior of a host organism is not mere fiction; indeed, the phenomenon is not even _. A. real B. comprehended C. rare D. observableP

20、ART II READING COMPREHENSION 60 MIN (40 POINTS)Section One Multiple Choice (2x10=20 points)Directions: In this section there are two reading passages followed by multiple choice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your answer sheet. Passage A On Aug. 14, 2007 a computer hacker

21、 named Virgil Griffith unleashed a clever little program onto the Internet that he dubbed WikiScanner. Its a simple application that trolls through the records of Wikipedia, the publicly editable Web-based encyclopedia, and checks on who is making changes to which entries. Sometimes its people who s

22、houldnt be. For example, WikiScanner turned up evidence that somebody from Wal-Mart had punched up Wal-Marts Wikipedia entry. Bad retail giant. WikiScanner is a jolly little game of Internet, but its really about something more: a growing popular irritation with the Internet in general. The Net has

23、anarchy in its DNA; its always been about anonymity, playing with your own identity and messing with other peoples heads. The idea, such as it was, seems to have been that the Internet would free us of the burden of our public identities so we could be our true, authentic selves online. Except it tu

24、rns out who couldve seen this coming? that our true, authentic selves arent that fantastic. The great experiment proved that some of us are wonderful and interesting but that a lot of us are hackers and pranksters and hucksters. Which is one way of explaining the extraordinary appeal of Facebook. Fa

25、cebook is a “ social network”: a website for keeping track of your friends and sending them messages and sharing photos and doing all those other things that a good little Web 2.0 company is supposed to help you do. It was started by Harvard students in 2004 as a tool for meeting at least discreetly

26、 ogling other Harvard students, and it still has a reputation as a hangout for teenagers and the teenaged-at-heart. Which is ironic because Facebook is really about making the Web grow up. Whereas Google is a brilliant technological hack, Facebook is primarily a feat of social engineering. (It would

27、nt be a bad idea for Google to acquire Facebook, the way it snaffled YouTube, but its almost certainly too late in the day for that. Yahoo! offered a billion for Facebook last year and was rebuffed. ) Facebooks appeal is both obvious and rather subtle. Its a website, but in a sense, its another vers

28、ion of the Internet itself: a Net within a Net, one thats everything the larger Net is not. Facebook is cleanly designed and has a classy, upmarket feel to it a whiff of the Ivy League still clings. People tend to use their real names on Facebook. They also declare their sex, age, whereabouts, roman

29、tic status and institutional affiliations. Identity is not a performance or a toy on Facebook: it is a fixed and orderly fact. Nobody does anything secretly: a news feed constantly updates your friends on your activities. On Facebook, everybody knows youre a dog. Maybe thats why Facebooks fastest-gr

30、owing demographic consists of people 35 or older: theyre refugees from the uncouth wider Web. Every community must negotiate the imperatives of individual freedom and collective social order, and Facebook constitutes a critical rebalancing of the Internets founding vision of unfettered electronic li

31、berty. Of course, it is possible to misbehave on Facebook its just self-defeating. Unlike the Internet, Facebook is structured around an opt-in philosophy; people have to consent to have contact with or even see others on the network. If youre annoying folks, youll essentially cease to exist, as those you annoy drop you off the grid. Facebook has taken steps this year to expand its functionality by allowing outside dev