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考试科目： 211翻译硕士英语
适用专业： 英语口译（MTI）、英语笔译（MTI）
（试题共14页）
（注意：答案必须写在答题纸上，写在试题上不给分）
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. The forests were very dry because of the dry spell.
A. tree line B. explorers C. draft D. drought
2. Self-denial is one of their tenets.
A. reasons B. doctrines C. renters D. figures
3. The Iranians did not see eye to eye with the Americans about releasing the hostages.
A. view B. scare C. agree D. quarrel
4. The most pressing problem any economic system faces is how to use its scarce resources.
A. puzzling B. difficult C. terrifying D. urgent
5. The firm of Bonnin and Morris in Philadelphia was probably the first American company to manufacture porcelain.
A. silverware B. crystal
C. china D. linen
6. Children who come from deprived families are frequently poor readers.
A. without respect B. without experience C. without funds D. without legs
7. They raised a hue and cry just outside the gate.
A. surrendered B. built a temporary shelter
C. made a great deal of noise D. flew the flag
8. Carlo showed us his diagram if the machine.
A. insides B. screws C. sketch D. masterpiece
9. The beggar solicited passers-by for money.
A. requested B. scowled at C. bargained with D. chased
10. He took on so much work, he had no time for pleasure.
A. allowed B. increased C. accomplished D. assumed
11. Essentially, a theory is an abstract, symbolic representation of _________reality
A. what it is conceived B. that is conceived
C. what is conceived to be D. that is being conceived of
12. Using many symbols makes _______ to put a large amount of information on a single map.
A. possible B. it is possible
C. it possible D. that possible
13. A vacuum tube is a glass tube from which most of the air has been removed, _______ an almost complete vacuum.
A. creating B. creates C. is creating D. it creates
14. Booker T. Washington, acclaimed as a leading educator at the turn of the century, _____ of a school that later became the Tuskegee Institute.
A. took charge B. taking charge C. charge was taken D. taken charge
15. True hibernation takes place only among _______ animals.
A. whose blood is warm B. blood warm
C. warm-blooded D. they have warm blood
16. In central Georgia, archaeological evidence indicates that Native Americans first inhabited the area________.
A. since thirteen centuries B. thirteen centuries ago
C. the previous thirteen centuries D. thirteen centuries were before
17. In ________, the advent of the telephone, radio, and television has made rapid long-distance communication possible.
A. one hundred years later B. one hundred years ago
C. the one hundred years since D. the last one hundred years
18. ________, The Yearling, won a Pulitzer Prize.
A. Marjorie Rawlings’ best work was B. Marjorie Rawlings’ best work
C. Her best work was Marjorie Rawlings’ D. That Marjorie Rawlings’ best work
19. Abstraction goes into the making of any work of art, ________ or not.
A. whether the artist being aware of it B. the artist is being aware whether
C. whether the artist is aware of it D. the artist is aware whether
20. Not until 1931 ________ the official anthem of the United States A. “The Star-spangled Banner” did become B. when “The Star-spangled Banner” became C. did “The Star-Spangle Banner” become D. became “The Star-spangled Banner”
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
Justice and injustice in criminal adjudication are more than abstract concept; in modern America each term conjures up its own paradigm image. Justice occurs in a somber courtroom where a robber reaches a legal decision. Injustice is a bloodthirsty mob bearing lit torches, intimidating on the doors of the jail desperate to wreak revenge upon the suspected wrongdoer held within.
This image of injustice provides many normative insights. One that courts have frequently drawn is that in criminal adjudication emotion is unalterably opposed to reason and thus to justice itself. Taking this principle a step farther, courts have urged that the more a legal issue might provoke popular rage, the harder courts must work to insulate the legal decision from emotive influence. The classic example is capital sentencing, an occasion which evokes strong emotions. Here the Supreme Court has worked to ensure that “any decision to impose the death sentence be, and appear to be, based on reason rather than caprice or emotion”. The Court has, over a period of years, undertaken an extensive regulatory project aimed at suppressing emotive influence in capital cases by mandating
rationalistic ruled to guide sentencing. This insistence upon the injustice of all emotion stems from a misconception of emotion and its influence upon criminal punishment. Although the mob at jail scene illustrates that anger can lead to injustice, it does not support the proposition that all decisions influenced by anger are morally tainted. Anger can be justified and have moral decision making is complex; untangling it involved a close examination of emotion than the law has generally undertaken.
This has obvious significance for criminal law as a form of social concord. But it is also important or its alleged role as a restraint on power. Criminal law does little or nothing to restrict the efforts of the various professionals now responsible for
preventing and reshaping deviant behavior. Rather it is them who have colonized its territory, as in the welfare of the professional authority that legitimates them and because they enter into the
enabling role of the state as dispenser of benefits. This is to say nothing of other forms of market and bureaucratic power and social control exercised by groups other than government. Under these
conditions the alleged protections of the criminal law seem premised on a nineteenth century view of the state and society; those interested in the law in the twentieth century must look to the potential of administrative law rather than to criminal law. Either way critical writers would be wasting their time here.