1、廣 西 民 族 大 學2013 年入學初試自命題科目試題科目代碼：211科目名稱：翻譯英語適用學科專業：翻譯方向：命題教師簽名：考生須知必須寫在答題紙上，寫在試題上無效。12答題時一律使用藍、黑色墨水筆作答，用其它筆答題不給分。3交卷時，請配合監考驗收，并請監考在準考證相應位置簽字（作為考生交卷的憑證）。否則，產生的一切由考生自負。Part I. Basic Englisowledge (30%)Section A: Multiple-choice (20 pos)Directions: There are forty multiple-choice questionsquestion. Wr

2、ite your answers on the Answer Sheet.his section. Choose the best answer to each1. I told himt I would him to act for me while I was away from office.A. identifyB. authorizeC. rationalizeD. justify2. The plane had to make an emergency landing because of problems.A. machineryB. technologyC. technical

3、D. mechanical3. Well be very careful and keep what youve told us strictly .A. rigorousB.C. privateD. mysterious4. We heard the news on radio, and they watched the news on TV.A. a . theB. the . theC. the . /D. /5.hefew months of the war his army seemed , but soon it met its Waterloo.A. incredibleB. i

4、nvisibleC. invidiousD. invincible6. The written record of the conversation doesnt what waually said.D. cooperate withA. respond toB. correspond toC. react with7. They were admisto the military exhibition because they were foreigners.A. deniedB. declinedC. deprivedD. rejected8. Frequent cultural exch

5、ange will certainly help friendly relations betn our two universities.A. fosterB. utilizeC. cherishD. raise9. Once a picture is proved to be a fery, ites quite .A. invaluableB. pricelessC. unworthyD. worthless10. She was standing outsidehe snow, with cold.A spinningB shiveringC shakingD staggering e

6、arr, I could have done something to help.If I was informedWas I informedHad I been informedIf I should be informedMust we come tomorrow? No, you cant.No, you neednt.C. No, you mus.D. No, you may not.He felt during theanything but wellnothing but wellsomething but wellnone but wellerview. And he fail

7、ed to get the job.It is notbeingmon for there problems of communication betn the old and the young.B. would beC. beD. to be15. If only the patient a different treatment instead of using the antibiotics, he might still be alivenow.A. had receivedB. receivedC. should receiveD. were receiving, Ill marr

8、y him all the same?Was he rich or poorWhether rich or poorWere he rich or poorBe he rich or poor17. He plays tennis to the of all other sports.A. eradicationB. excluC. extenD. incluIt is futile to discuss the matter further, becausegoing to agree upon anything today.neither you nor I areneither you

9、nor me isneither you nor I amneither me nor you are19. At three thousand feet, wide plains begmountain is not .o appear, and there is never a moment when some distantA. on viewB. at a glanceC. on the sceneD. in sight20. We have been hearingaccounts of your work.A. favoredB. favorableC. favoriteD. fa

10、voring21. Have you ever been in a situation you know the othhim?erson is right yet you cannot agree withA. by whichB.tC. in whereD. where22. I arrived at the airport so latet I missed the plane.A. onlyB. quiteC. narrowlyD. seldom23. The partys reduced vote wasof lack of support for its policies.A. i

11、ndicativeB.itiveC. revealingD. evident24. The new colleague to have worked in several big corporations before he joined our company.A. confessesB. declaresC. claimsD. confirms25.ellect is to the mind sight is to the body.A. whatB. asC.tD. like26. He was tol the truth even to his closest friend.too m

12、uch of a cowardtoo much the cowarda coward enoughenough of a coward27. The computer can be programmed to a whole variety of tasks.A. assignB. tackleC. realizeD. solve28. My mother cant getbecause she has rheumatism（風濕病）.A. aboutB. onC. throughD. in29. Swarms of wasps are always invading my garden. T

13、hey are a thorough .A. nuisanceB. disturbanceC. troubleD. annoyance30. The novel contains some marvelously revealing of rural lifehe 19th century.A. glanB. glimpsesC. glaresD. gleams31. the many hours of studydifficult.t he devoted to the subject, he still found the subject matterA. AfterB. Due toC.

14、 DespiteD. As for32. Talking about future career, Id prefer to be a lawyer a doctor.A.n to beratherotherto beingn ben beCare should be taken to decrease the length of timesubjected tofilled witht one isloud continuous noise.C. assoted withD. attached to34. t they may eventually reduce the amount of

15、labor needed on construction sites by 90 percent.So clever are the construction robotsSo clever the construction robots areSuch construction robots are cleverSuch clever construction robots areMuch as, I couldnt lend him the money because I simply didnI would have liked toI would like to haveI shoul

16、d have to likeI should have liked tovet much spare cash.More oftenexchangen not, it is difficult tothe exact meaning of a Chiidiom in English.B. transferC. conveyD. convert37. The local authorities realized the need to make for elderly peopleheir housing programs.A. preparationB. requirementC. speci

17、ficationD. proviIf your carany attention during theshall needshould needwould needwill need12 months, take it to an authorized dealer.39. The scheme waswhen it was discovered it would be very costly.A. resignedB. surrenderedC. releasedD. abandoned40. The physicistechnology.s made a discovery, of gre

18、at importance to the progress of science andA. I think which isB.t I think isC. which I think isD. which I think it isSection B:Proofreading and Error Correction (10 pos)Cities can be frightened pla. The majority of the population live in noisy massive 41 42 43 44tower blocks. The sense of belonging

19、 to a community tends to appear when you livethirty floors up in a skyscrr. Strange enough, whereashe past the inhabitants of onestreet all knew each other, nowadays people on the same flooro to each other.ower blocks even sayCountry life, on the other hand, differs from this kind of isolated existe

20、ncehata sense of community generally keep the inhabitants of a small village together. People have 45the advantage of knowingt there is always someone to turn to when they need help.So country life has disadvantages too. For example, shopes a major problem 46and for anything slightly out of the ordi

21、nary you have to go for an expedition to thenearest large town. The country has the advantage of peaceful and quiet, but suffers from the disadvantages of being cut off. The city has noise and population which do harm to 47 48human health. But one of their main advantages ist you are at the centre o

22、f things and 49t life doesnt come to an end even at ten at night. Some people have found a compromisebetn the two: they expressed their preference for the quiet life by leaving for the city 50and moving to the country within commuting distance of the large city.Part II.Reading Comprehen(45%)Section

23、A (30 pos)Directions: There are 3 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions orunfinished sements. For each of them there are four choion the best choice and write your answers on the Answer Sheet.Passage OneQuestions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.marked A),B)

24、,C) and D).You should decide“Museum” is a slippery word. Itmeant (in Greek) anything consecrated to the Muses: a hill, ashrine, a garden, a festival or even a textbook. Both Platos Academy and Aristotles Lyceum had amouseion, a muses shrine. Although the Greeks already collected detached works of ar

25、t, manytemplesnotablyt of Hera at Olympia (before which the Olympic flame is still lit) had collections ofobjects, some of which were works of art by well-known masters, while paings and sculpturesheAlexandrian Museum were incidental to its main pure.The Romans also collected and exhibited art from

26、disbanded temples, as well as mineral specimens,exotic plants, animals; and they pMeanwhile, the Greek word had slippeddered sculptures and paings (mostly Greek) for exhibition.o Latin by transliteration (though not to signify picture galleries,which were called pinacothecae) and museum still more o

27、r less meant “Muses shrine”.The inspirational collections of precious and semi-precious objects were kept in larger churches andmonasterieswhich focused on the gold-enshrined, bejewelled relics of sas and martyrs. Prin, andlater merchants, had similar collections, which became the deits of natural c

28、uriosities: large lumps ofamber or coral, irregular pearls, unicorn horns, ostrich eggs, fossil bones and so on. They also included coins and gemsoften antique engraved onesas well as, increasingly, paings and sculptures. As theymultipd and expanded, to supplement them, the skill of the fakers grew

29、increasingly refined.At the same time, visitors could admire the very grandest paings and sculptureshe churches,palaand castles; they were not “collected” either, but “site-specific”, and were considered anegralpart both of the fabric of the buildings and of the way of life which went on inside them

30、and most of thebuildings were public ones. However, during the revival of antiquityhe fifteenth century, fragments ofantique sculpture were given higher susn the work of any contemporary, sot displays ofantiquities would inspire artists to imiion, or even better, to emulation; and so could be consid

31、eredMuses shrineshe former sense. The Medici garden near San Marco in Florence, the Belvedere and theCapitol in Rome were the most famous of such early “inspirational” collections. Soon they multipd, and,gradually, exemplary “modern” works were also added to such galleries.he seventeenth century, sc

32、ientific and prestige collecting became so widespreadt three or fourcollectors independently published directories to museums all over the known world. But it wasofrevolutions and industry which produced the next sharp shifthe way the institution was perceived: thefury against royal and church monum

33、ents prompted antiquarians to shelter them in asylum-galleries, ofwhich the Musee des Monuments Francais was the most famous. Then,hehalf of the nineteenthcentury, museum funding took off, ald to the rise of new wealth: London acquired the National Galleryand the British Museum, the Louvre wasanized

34、, the Museum-Insel was begun in Berlin, and theMunich galleries were built. In Vienna, the huge Kunsthistorisches and Naturhistorisches Museums tookover much of the imperial treasure. Meanwhile, the decline of craftsmanship (and of publite with it)inspired the creation of “improving” collections. Th

35、e Victoria and Albert Museum in London was the mostfamous, as well as perhaps the largest of them.51. The sentence “Museum is a slippery word”heparagraph meanst the meaning of the word didnt change until after the 15th century.the meaning of the word had changed over the years.the Greeks held differ

36、ent concepts from the Romans.D. prinand merchants added paings to their collections.52. “ the skill of the fakers grew increasingly refined”A. there was a great demand for fakers.he third paragraph meanst B. fakers grew raly in number.C. fakers became more skillful.D. fakers became more polite.Paing

37、 and sculptures on display in churchescollected from elsewhere.made part of the buildings.donated by people.bought by churches.he 15th century were 54. Modern museums cameo existence in order to protect royal and church treasures.improve existing collections.stimulate publicerest.raise more funds.Wh

38、ich is the main idea of the passage? Collection and collectors.The evolution of museums.Modern museums and their functions.The birth of museums.Passage TwoQuestions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.In terms of purety of research and debate, business schools have performed amazingly inprom

39、oting management as a distinctive activity. No other discipline has produced as much in such a shortperiod. It is unclear yet how much of it will stand the test of time, but for sheer industry, the businessschools deserve credit. Not a day goes by without another wave of research prs, books, article

40、s, andjournals.hese terms, schools have produced a generally accepted theoretical basis for management. When itcomes to knowledge creation, however, they find themselves in difficulties. They are caught betn theneed for academic rigor and for real-world business relevance, which tend to pull in opit

41、e directions.The desire to establish management as a credible discipline leads to researcht panders to traditionalacademic criteria. The problem for business school researchers ist they seek the approval of theiracademic peers rathern the business community.he United Ses this has led to the sort of

42、grandpr clip counting exercisest meet demands for academic rigor but fail to add one ioo the real sumof humnowledge.Business schools have too often allowed the constras of the academic world to cloud their view ofthe real world. Business school researchers seek provable theoriesrathern helpful theor

43、ies. They havechampioned a prescriptive approach to management based onysis and, more recently, on fashionableideast soon disappearo the ether. The one best way approach encourages researchers to mould theidiosyncrasies of managerial realityo their tightly defined ms of behavior. Figures and sistics

44、 arefittedo linear equations and tidy ms. Economists and other sol scientists label this cure smoothing.Meanwhile, reality continually refuses to co-operate.Central to this is the tenbetn relevance and rigor. Inrfect world, there would be no need tochoose betn the two. But in the business school wor

45、ld, the need to satisfy academic criteria and bepublished in journals often tilts the balance away from relevance. In other words, it is often easier to pursuefiable objectivesn it is to add anything useful to the debate about management. To a large extent,the entire business school system works aga

46、inst useful, knowledge-creating research. Academics have fiveyears in which to prove themselves if they are to make the academic grade. It seems long enough. But itcan take two or even three years to geto a suitable journal. They therefore have around three years,erest and carry out meaningful and o

47、riginal research. This is aprobably less, to come up win area ofdemanding timescale. The tempion must be to slice up old data in new ways rathergroundbreaking, innovative research.n pursue genuinelyIt is a criticism also made by some business school insiders. “Academic journals tend to find more and

48、 more techniques for testing more and more obscure theories. They are asking trivial questions and answering them exactly. There has to be a backlash,” says Julian Birkinshaw of London Business School. In large part, the problem goes back to a time when business schools were trying to establish them

49、selves.Up until the 1960s, American business schools were dismissed as pseudo-academic institutions, includingthe universities of which they often formed a part, regarded them as a little moreSince then, most of the leading schools have undergone major reassessments and changes. However, it is quest

50、ionable whether those changes have gone far enough.n vocational colleges.roduced s56. What does theparagraph suggest about the research generated by business schools? Its quality is variable.Its lasting value is uncertain.IIs always been produced too quickly.s had no influence on management.57. In p

51、aragraph two, the writer arguest business school research takes a negative view of the business community.has failed to give credibility to management as a disciplineis directed at the wrong audience.does not stand up to academic scrutiny.58.he third paragraph, the writer criticizes the theories of

52、management produced by business schoolsfor being A)prehensible.contradictory.vague.inflexible.59.he fourth paragraph, the writer sayst the business school system causes academics to A) be satisfied with rereting previous research.B) avoid complicated business ies.concentrate on very narrow fields of

53、 study.focus on topics no longer relevant to busineeeds.What do we learn about business schoolsThey are reluctant to admit to failings.he last paragraph?They resent criticism of their academic journal.They used to be looked down on by other institutions.They are comfortable with the current situatio

54、n.Passage ThreeQuestions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.What comes to mind when you hear the worddiversity? Ies of race or gender may spring tomindEqual rights? Or minority ies?I encourage people to look at a much wider definition of the wordI would tend to say diversity is“differentnes

55、s” in any formA good example of this kind of diversity has been experienced by everywho ever left behind the comforts of home and movedo uncharted territoryIes of diversity areinformed not only by your cultural background and context，but also by your religion，age，field of work，family situation，Its f

56、or this reasonality，and countless other factorst make us uniqueDiversity affects everyonebuzz word. The buzz happens because its allt diversity hase such aabout how you handle itIts very much like the job a comer has when creating a great musicalcomitionIf the comer understands what each unique note

57、 and dynamic mark is capable of inarts，the result achieved is extraordinaryIf, however，none of the parts iscombination with the othcommunicating with the others，were left wicacophony(刺耳)Onrsonal levelIts this understanding and acceptance of “the other” which rests at the core ofdiversityWhether were

58、 talking about navigating through a multicultural urban environment or uprootingand moving to a new foreign sol context，it is nesary to set aside rigid amptions about “the other”and put olfhe others shoes. So how do we make this leap? Its often as simple as asking questionsand being careful not to a

59、workshops I give amet what you see is nesarily what the other side sees. Often in mylesson to the audience to illustrate this principle. Ipresent theandplish the “imsible”. The participants receive the same props but simply cant manage. We lookmore carefully at the situation and realizet the amption

60、s they made about it actually blocked themfrom achieving this feat; a feat they suddenly are emered to do which, moments ago, was imsible.The goal in being sensitive to diversity is to cultivate a culture of respect for peoples differenandunderstandt such an environment is benefil to everyone involv