华东政法大学翻译硕士英语科目入学考试试题

 　　华东政法大学翻译硕士英语科目是外语学院硕士研究生入学考试的一门重要科目，外语学院的培养模式是利用外语专业语言文化教学的优势，以专业标准的外语教学培养学生的语言、交际习惯和文化沟通能力，突出听、说、读、写、译五项语言技能的训练；以全面的计算机应用教学，使学生掌握实用的文字处理和其他常用法律软件的操作技能。华东政法大学翻译硕士英语科目入学考试试题如下：

  　　考生特别注意：1、答题必须写在由各考点提供的教育部统一格式的业务课答题纸上，凡写在其他任何非教育部统一格式答题纸上的答题内容一律无效。2、答题纸装订线左侧的考生姓名、报考专业和考生编号三项内容必须填写完整准确，错填、漏填或在指定位置以外地方填写的一律不给分。   　　Part I. Vocabulary and Grammar (30 points, 1 point for each)   　　Directions: After each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence. Write your answers on your answer sheet.   　　1.Traffic was brought to a virtual standstill due to a raging flood, and the island was now only ___ by boat.   　　A. available B. accessible C. attainable D. obtainable   　　2.We face the grim ___ of still higher unemployment.   　　A. outlook B. prospect C. forecast D. prediction   　　3.They ___ that the region needs some workers to compensate for a shrinking local population.   　　A. confide B. conclude C. confirm D. concede   　　4.We can’t ___ any market information on when we’re coming out with those products.   　　A. divulge B. discover C. uncover D. diverge   　　5.Some students have got such a mistaken notion about work that they are ______ of manual labor.   　　A. contempt B. contemptuous C. contempted D. contemptible   　　6.Engagement is designed to reward good behavior and hedging to ___ bad.   　　A. deflate B. deter C. defect D. dilate   　　7.She is the eighth person and first female to ___ the top post in the magazine’s 165-year history.   　　A. resume B. consume C. assume D. presume   　　8. He was regretful over his impractical goal which just turned out to be a ______.   　　A. mirage B. miracle C. miagrate D. mirador   　　9. It is impossible to ___ the two points of view because they are too different.   　　A. compromise B. unite C. reconcile D. combine   　　10.To ___ your thirst, you’d better drink some water instead of a cup of coffee.   　　A. quell B. quieten C. quash D. quench   　　11. The No. 1 domestic ___ of the government is to clean up the environment.   　　A. commission B. committee C. committence D. commitment   　　12. A good teacher is one who is good at ___ his teaching to the needs of his students.   　　A. furnishing B. evaluating C. cajoling D. tailoring   　　13. Looking at the withered crops in the ___ field, the farmer felt melancholy and helpless.   　　A. parched B. inexhaustible C. blunted D. preserved   　　14.The possibility of a civil war ___ large in Ukraine.   　　A. threatened B. became C. appeared D. loomed   　　15.Public polls record strong support for voluntary euthanasia, but Uncle Hun’s death still ___ sorrow.   　　A. evoked B. embodied C. justified D. diverted   　　16. Ellyin made a very ___ excuse for her absence from class.   　　A. faint B. fragile C. frail D. feeble   　　17. In that country, students will be _____ admittance to their classroom if they are not properly dressed.   　　A. declined B. deprived C. denied D. deserted   　　18. In this factory the machines are not regulated ______ but are jointly controlled by a central computer system.   　　A. independently B. individually C. irrespectively D. irregularly   　　19. To show off her English, Shasha often ___ her presentations with some esoteric words.   　　A. sparks B. sprinkles C. scatters D. falters   　　20. ________ for your help, I could not have accomplished the dissertation.   　　A. Had it been not B. Had not it been   　　C. Had not been it D. Had it not been   　　21. A collection of facts cannot be called science ______ a pile of bricks cannot be called a house.   　　A. what B. more than C. any more than D. no more than   　　22. Just as the builder skilled in the handling of his bricks, _____ the experienced writer is skilled in the handling of his words.   　　A. as B. thus C. so D. like   　　23. With the number of private cars increasing, the main streets are often ______ during the rush hour.   　　A. clattered B. propped C. clogged D. hindered   　　24. More than one third of the Chinese in the United States live in California, ______ in San Francisco.   　　A. previously B. predominantly C. practically D. permanently   　　25. Most good writers use every means _____ to make the reader's way smooth and easy.   　　A. at their disposal B. at their request C. at their will D. at their convenience   　　26. No longer are contributions to computer technology confined to any one country; _____ is this more true than in Europe.   　　A. hardly B. little C. seldom D. nowhere   　　27. When the farmers visited the city the first time, they were ___ by its complicated traffic system.   　　A. precluded B. bewildered C. diverted D. expired   　　28. One study found that job applicants who make more eye contact are _____ as more alert, dependable, confident and responsible.   　　A. referred B. perceived C. recommended D. presumed   　　29. People who refuse to _____ with the law will be punished.   　　A. obey B. consent C. conceal D. comply   　　30. Physics is the present-day equivalent of _____ used to be called natural philosophy, from which most of present-day science arose.   　　A. that B. all C. which D. what   　　Part II. Reading Comprehension (40 points)   　　Section 1 Multiple choice questions (20 points, 2 points for each)   　　Directions: In this section there are reading passages followed by multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then write your answers on your answer sheet.   　　Passage 1   　　We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person’s knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It really is extraordinary that after all these years, educationists have still failed to device anything more efficient and reliable than examinations. For all the pious claim that examinations text what you know, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite. They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person’s true ability and aptitude.   　　As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the mark of success of failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It doesn’t matter that you weren’t feeling very well, or that your mother died. Little things like that don’t count: the exam goes on. No one can give of his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a sleepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of vicious competition where success and failure are clearly defined and measured. Can we wonder at the increasing number of ‘drop-outs’: young people who are written off as utter failures before they have even embarked on a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students?   　　A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The examination system does anything but that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, so the student is encour