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2010年天津外国语大学211翻译硕士英语[专业硕士]考研真题及详解

I. Vocabulary (20′)

Directions: Choose the one answer that best explains the
underlined word or phrase in the sentence. Write your answers on the ANSWER
SHEET.

1 U.S.
President Barack Obama announced plans to scrap the controversial
missile defense program in Eastern Europe on September 18.

A. fight

B. cancel

C. push

D. conciliate

【答案】B

【解析】句意：9月18日，美国总统奥巴马宣布放弃颇有争议的东欧导弹防御系统的计划。scrap有“除掉，取消”之意，因此B项cancel与之表达意思相符。conciliate和解；调解；安抚。

2 Demonstrators
entered their third day of a building takeover at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday in
protest of a tuition increase, an undertaking that a school spokesman called futile.

A. useless

B. constructive

C. derogatory

D. negative

【答案】A

【解析】句意：星期六游行示威者占领加州大学圣塔克鲁斯分院大楼进入第三天，目的是抗议学费的上涨，而学校一位发言人称该举动是徒劳的。futile无益的；无用的；徒劳的。useless无用的，无效的。constructive建设性的；积极的。derogatory贬低的；贬义的。negative消极的；否定的。

3 He said
Clinton met for three hours and 15 minutes with the North Korean leader but
said he did not know what issues were discussed. But he said Clinton’s views on
a verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula are well-known.

A. ambiguous

B. confirmable

C. imprudent

D. unreal

【答案】B

【解析】句意：他称克林顿与朝鲜领导人的会面持续了3小时15分钟，但表示其对谈论内容并不知情。他指出克林顿在实现朝鲜半岛真正无核化方面的观点是广为人知的。verifiable可证实的；可核实的。confirmable可以确定的。ambiguous含糊的；引起歧义的。imprudent不明智的，不谨慎的。

4 Its
negotiating habit is to make promises to win concessions, and then
renege on those promises.

A. miracle

B. silly image

C. loud holler

D. compromise

【答案】D

【解析】句意：其谈判习惯就是先承诺让对方做出让步，然后又违背诺言。concession让步，妥协。compromise妥协；损害。miracle奇迹；令人惊奇的人（或事）。holler呼叫，呼救。

5 The CDC also
said 21 more deaths from H1N1 were reported in the past week, bringing the
official toll of pediatric H1N1 deaths in the United States to 171.

A. clinical H1N1
deaths

C. reported H1N1
deaths

B. children H1N1
deaths

D. tallied H1N1
deaths

【答案】B

【解析】句意：疾病控制和预防中心也指出，上周又有21人死于H1N1，使美国官方公布的因感染H1N1而死亡的儿童人数达到171。pediatric意为“小儿科的”，C项中children与之相对应。clinical临床的；诊所的。reported据报告的，据报导的。tally计算；合计。

6 A new Michael
Jackson show offers an eye-popping look at the King of pop’s extravagant
lifestyle and peculiar private tastes.

A. lavish

B. liberal

C. unreasonable

D. mandatory

【答案】A

【解析】句意：对于迈克尔·杰克逊所用物品的新一轮展览，使人们惊讶于“流行乐之王”奢侈的生活方式和特殊的个人爱好。extravagant奢侈的；过度的。lavish铺张的；奢侈的；盛大的。liberal开明的；自由的。unreasonable不合理的；非理智的。mandatory强制的；命令的。

7 At the dawn
of the G8 summit in early June that year, Putin likewise gave a stark
warning on the U.S. deployment of missile interceptors in Eastern Europe.

A. predictive

B. capricious

C. blunt

D. intimidating

【答案】C

【解析】句意：那年六月初G8峰会召开时，普京同样就美国在东欧部署导弹拦截系统提出严正警告。stark此处指“严峻的，令人不快的”，因此C项blunt（不客气的；直言不讳的）与之表达意思相符。predictive预言性的；预测性的。capricious变化无常的；变幻莫测的。intimidating令人惊恐的；令人胆怯的。

8 We saw the stampede
at a Wal-Mart store in New York last year on Black Friday that led to an
employee’s death,” said Burt Flickinger, managing director of consulting
firm Strategic Resource Group.

A. frenzied rush
of panic-stricken animals

B. headlong rush
or flight of a crowd of people

C. sudden action
taken by a group of people

D. impulse on
which people act

【答案】B

【解析】句意：咨询公司Strategic Resource Group的总经理表示：“我们目睹了去年黑色星期五发生在纽约一家沃尔玛分店的踩踏事件，那次事件直接导致了一名店员的死亡”。stampede此处指“人群的蜂拥”，因此B项“人群拼命前涌或仓皇奔逃”是对该词含义的正确解释。headlong头向前地；急速地。flight逃避；躲开。

9 Susan Boyle’s
debut album “I Dreamed a Dream” is the most pre-ordered CD in
Amazon’s history.

A. official
demonstration

C. farewell to
the public

B. formal
presentation

D. first public
appearance

【答案】D

【解析】句意：苏珊·鲍尔的首张专辑《我曾有梦》是亚马逊历史上预售最多的CD。debut作形容词，意为“首张的，首场的，首次的”，因此D项“首次公开亮相”符合该词的含义。

10 Reporters
Without Borders said it has been outspoken in criticizing “the culture of impunity
and violence in the Philippines, especially Mindanao.”

A. extreme
indifference

C. exception of
examination

B. extreme
barbarism

D. exemption
from punishment

【答案】D

【解析】句意：无国界记者组织称其在批评“菲律宾，尤其是棉兰老岛的免责和暴力文化”方面一直很坦诚。impunity意为“不受惩罚，无罪”，因此D项“免除责罚”正确，其中exemption指“豁免；免除”。barbarism野蛮状态或行为。

11 The United
States has yet to recognize China as a market economy, despite its vows to
“work toward China’s market economy status in an expeditious
manner” months ago, Zhou said.

A. hasty

B. sluggish

C. arrogant

D. expressive

【答案】A

【解析】句意：周指出，尽管数月前宣称要“尽快承认中国的市场经济地位”，但让美国承认中国为市场经济国家尚需时日。expeditious迅速而有效率的，迅速完成的。hasty仓促完成的；急忙的。sluggish行动迟缓的；不机警的；懒散的。arrogant傲慢的，自大的。expressive富于表情的；富于表现力的。

12 The derailment
killed at least 26 people and injured about 100, but there was no immediate
word on who or what group might have been behind the action.

A. doomed plane
crash

C. misfortunate
train accident

B. disastrous
car crash

D. deadliest
traffic accident

【答案】B

【解析】句意：此次火车脱轨造成至少26人死亡，约100人受伤，但还没有关于可能为该事故负责的个人或组织的消息。derailment指“火车脱轨”，因此C项“不幸的火车事故”是对该词的正确解释。

13 The
Copenhagen UN summit—between 7-18 December—aims to draw up a treaty to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol,
although observers say this is unlikely.

A. supersede

B. continue

C. reverse

D. mandate

【答案】A

【解析】句意：在12月7日至18日召开的哥本哈根世界气候大会，其宗旨是商讨《京都议定书》一期承诺到期后的后续方案，虽然观察者表示这难以实现。succeed在句中指“接替；继任”，因此A项supersede（取代，接替）与之表达意思相符。reverse反转；（使）颠倒；掉换。mandate授权，委托。

14 In recent
years, the bureaucratization of China’s higher education and the obsession
with power among professors have increasingly concerned the public.

A. enthusiasm
for

C. motivation
for

B. tolerance of

D. phobia for

【答案】A

【解析】句意：近年来，中国高等教育的官僚化和教授们对权利的痴迷越发引起公众的担忧。obsession with指“对……的痴迷”，因此A项“对……的热爱”与之表达意思相一致。motivation动机；动力。tolerance宽容，容忍。phobia恐惧；厌恶。

15 The
transportation activity, of which the passengers are a part, breaks the law. In
this sense, the passengers must be held accountable.

A. legitimate
for being taken into account

B. responsible
for the explanation

C. responsible
for the action

D. responsible
for the consequence

【答案】C

【解析】句意：此次运输触犯了法律，而乘客作为该活动的一部分，在这一层面上，乘客们对此活动同样负有责任。accountable指“负有责任的”。responsible for the action“对行为承担责任”。这一句主要讲就违法的运输活动负责任，这两个意义相近，可互相替换。legitimate for being taken into account将其考虑在内是合理的。responsible for the
explanation对解释承担责任的。responsible for the consequences对后果承担责任的。

16 The vibrant
demand for cheaply priced Chinese goods has shriveled as the economic
crisis discourages U.S. consumers from spending.

A. disclosed

B. remained
stable

C. soared up

D. dwindled

【答案】D

【解析】句意：受经济危机的影响，美国消费者对于价格低廉的中国产品的巨大需求出现了下滑。shrivel（使）枯萎；（使）干枯；（使）皱缩。dwindle减少，变小，缩小。disclose公开；揭露。remain stable保持稳定。soar up急速上涨。

17 The latest conundrum
is that factories cannot find enough workers to resume full capacity as orders
resurge.

A. myth

B. riddle

C. dilemma

D. puzzle

【答案】C

【解析】句意：最近出现的难题是随着订单的增多，工厂却无法招到足够的工人来恢复全面生产。conundrum有“谜语；难解的问题”两个含义，句中取第二个意思，因此答案选C（窘境；进退两难）。myth神话；错误的看法。riddle谜语；谜团。puzzle智力问题（或游戏、玩具）；令人费解的人/事物。

18 His claims
are so outrageous that they don’t deserve any response.

A. trivial

B. irritable

C. ridiculous

D. equitable

【答案】C

【解析】句意：他的言论太离谱了，根本不值得对其做出任何回应。outrageous离谱的；反常的。ridiculous荒谬的；荒唐的。trivial琐碎的，无价值的。irritable易怒的；过敏的。equitable公正的，公平的。

19 In April
2009, Pyongyang announced its withdrawal from the talks following the UN
Security Council’s unanimous decision to condemn its allegedsatellite
launch.

A. confidential

B. determined

C. claimed

D. agreed

【答案】C

【解析】句意：2009年8月，联合国安理会一致谴责朝鲜发射卫星，随后平壤宣布退出会谈。alleged声称的；被断言的。claimed为claim“声称，断言”的过去分词形式，因此与alleged表达意思相一致。confidential秘密的；悄悄的。determined坚定的；确定的。

20 Day by day,
the relentless protests have become the most serious challenge to
Milosevic in nine years in power.

A. desperate

B. stressful

C. intoxicating

D. unyielding

【答案】D

【解析】句意：不断的抗议逐渐成为米洛舍维克掌权9年以来所面临的最严重挑战。relentless此处指“坚韧的；不屈不挠的”，与D项“不屈不挠的；坚定不移的”表达意思相一致。desperate孤注一掷的；渴望的。stressful有压力的。intoxicating醉人的；令人陶醉的；使兴奋的。

II. Grammar (10′)

Directions: In each of the following sentences there are
four underlined parts marked A, B, C and D. Identify the part that is grammatically
incorrect. Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.

1 The
grammatical words which play so large a part English grammar are for
the most part sharply and obviously different from the
lexical words

A. play so large
a part

B. for the most
part

C. sharply and
obviously

D. different
from

【答案】A

【解析】该画线部分之后为名词词组，因此part后应加入介词in，构成play
a part in短语，意为“对…有影响，发挥作用”。

2 As humankind moves
into the third millennium, it can rightful claim to have broken
new ground in its age-old quest to master the environment.

A. moves into

B. rightful

C. to have
broken

D. age-old

【答案】B

【解析】修饰动词claim（声称；断言），应当用副词rightfully，指“合适的；恰当的；应有的”。

3 There are
great impediments to the general use of a standard in pronunciation
comparable to those existing in spelling.

A. moves into

B. rightful

C. to have
broken

D. age-old

【答案】D

【解析】根据句中的两个in，可知本句比较的是拼写和发音的general use of a standard，因此D项所对应的画线部分应以that来代替the
general use of a standard。

4 Being
equal to other things, a man who expresses himself effectively is sure
to succeed more rapidly than a man whose command of language is poor.

A. Being equal
to other things

B. expresses
himself effectively

C. more rapidly

D. whose

【答案】A

【解析】本句指“其他方面若都相同，善于表达自己观点的人，相比语言表达能力差的人能更快获得成功”，因此逗号前应改为独立主格结构Other things being equal。

5 Not all
persons arrested and accused with a crime are guilty, and the
main function of criminal courts is to determine who is guilty under the law.

A. Not all
persons

B. accused with

C. and

D. under the law

【答案】B

【解析】be accused of为固定搭配，指“被起诉，被指控”，因此B项所对应画线部分中with应改为of。

6 Life insurance,
before available only to young, healthy persons, can now be obtained
for old people, and even for pets.

A. Life
insurance

B. before
available only to young, healthy persons

C. be obtained
for

D. and even for
pets

【答案】B

【解析】本句想要表达的是“人寿保险之前只是针对年轻和健康的人，但现在老人、甚至宠物也可获得人寿保险”，B项所对应画线部分中before作介词，指“在…之前”，不符合句意，因此应把before作时间状语放在persons之后，即构成available only to young, healthy persons before。

7 As we
see in relation to political and national movements, language is used as
a badge or a barrier depended on which way we look at it.

A. As

B. used as

C. depended

D. which way

【答案】C

【解析】本句指“语言被作为政治运动和民族运动的标识，亦或是阻碍，这取决于我们是如何看待的”，C项画线部分及之后的内容作状语，修饰整个句子，且与主句之间为主动关系，因此应把C项所对应画线部分改为depending on（这取决于，根据）。

8 Never in my
life forget the impression made on me by my first visit to
the late Premier Chou.

A. forget

B. made on

C. by my first
visit

D. the late
Premier Chou

【答案】A

【解析】表示否定或半否定的副词或短语放句首时，句子需要半倒装，即把助动词/be动词/情态动词放在主语之前，A项所对应画线部分前缺少助动词和主语，应改为Never in my
life did I forget。

9 I would
have told him the answer had it been possible, but I were
so busy then.

A. would have
told

B. had it been

C. but

D. I were

【答案】D

【解析】前半句是对过去非真实情况的假设，使用了虚拟语气，而后半句则是对过去真实情况的介绍，不需用虚拟语气，be动词am的过去式为was，因此D项有误。

10 Through the
world whose advance has been made in science and technology is
due to education which brings forth scientists and inventors.

A. whose

B. has been made

C. is due to

D. which

【答案】A

【解析】本句指“世界范围内，科技领域所取得的任何进步都是教育的成果，是教育培养出了科学家和发明家”。本句主句的主语为advance，系动词为is，A项所对应画线部分应改为whatever“无论什么；任何（事物）”。

III. Reading comprehension (40′)

Directions: Below each of the following 4 passages you
will, find questions or incomplete statements about the passage. Each statement
or question is followed by lettered words or expressions. Select the word or expression
that most satisfactorily completes or answers each question in accordance with
the meaning of the passage. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40″)

(1)

This enthusiasm
surprised me, since there is virtually nothing about the the Olympics that is
culturally relevant to China. Apart from judo and Tae Kwon Do, whose links to
China are indirect, there are no traditional Chinese athletics in the Games. In
ancient times, the Chinese nobility played cuju, a game that is remotely
similar to soccer, and chuiwan, which resembles golf. The Forbidden City
Museum has a painting of a Tang-dynasty emperor, Minghuang, involved in a
polo-like game with the palace maidens. But the heart of the ancient Chinese
athletic tradition, and the part of it that was more accessible to common
people, consists of wushu, or traditional martial arts, and qigong,
meditative breathing exercises. These activities are as much spiritual and
aesthetic as they are physical; their goal is artistic expression and
self-improvement, rather than winning. The ancient Chinese didn’t build stadiums,
because their athletics were not designed to draw paying crowds. The Chinese
language didn’t even have a term for “sports” until the nineteenth century,
when foreigners introduced a more systematic approach to athletics.

Chinese
historians draw the line between ancient and modern sports at 1840. That
summer, the first full-sized British fleet arrived off Canton, accelerating the
Opium War and kicking off China’s most painful historical era. The missionaries
and other outsiders who arrived in the late nineteenth century introduced
Western ideas of competition to Chinese athletics. In the early twentieth
century, China began to take an interest in the Olympic movement, and a single
Chinese sprinter competed in the 1932 Games. Four years later, at the Berlin
Olympics, China sponsored a delegation of sixty-nine athletes, among them a
mixed-gender wushu exhibition team that performed before Hitler. By
then, the Chinese were committed to the Olympics, and they had come to see
sports as a way in which the country could avenge the injustices of the past
century. “There was a feeling of being the underdog and wanting to prove to the
world that the Chinese were strong,” James Riordan, of the University of
Surrey, who has studied sports in the former Soviet Union and China, told me
when I called him.

1 When the
author writes “Apart from judo and Tae Kwon Do, whose links to China are
indirect…”he means

A. Judo
originated in Korea

B. Tae Kwon De
originated in Japan

C. Both sports
were introduced into China from other countries

D. Both sports
were introduced into China via a third country

2 That wushu
and qigong are not considered a sport, according to the author, is because

A. They are not
included in the Olympics Games

B. They are not
related even remotely to soccer or golf

C. They are good
to look at

D. They are not
competitive

3 “A mixed
gender team” most probably means that

A. The team
consists of both men and women

B. The team
consists of gendermares

C. The team
consists of athletes of all ages

D. The team
consists of atheletes from different parts of the country.

4 James Riordan
believes that China sees sports as a way

A. to win medals

B. to win
friends

C. to show
strength of the nation

D. to win
personal reputation

5 “A single
Chinese sprinter competed in the 1932 Games.” Give the name of this athlete.

A. Zhang Boling

B. Liu Changchun

C. Dong Shouyi

D. Yan Xiu

【答案与解析】

1 C  文章首句指出“这种热情使我感到惊讶，因为奥运会上几乎没有与中国文化相关的运动”，接着第二句讲述到“除了柔道和跆拳道与中国有着间接的关联外，奥运会上没有传统的中国体育运动”。柔道和跆拳道分别源自日本和韩国，因此该句想要表达的是这两种运动是由其他国家传入中国的，即C项内容。

2 D  文章第一段倒数第三、四句指出中国古代传统体育运动的核心是武术和气功，它们是身体锻炼和精神及美学的结合，其目的是艺术表现和自我提升，而不是取胜（rather than winning），因此这就是作者不把武术和气功看作是体育运动的原因，故D项正确。

3 A  第二段倒数第三句指出，四年之后中国参加了柏林奥运会，派出了69名运动员所组成的代表团，其中就包括a mixed-gender wushu exhibition team，根据语境可知，mixed-gender指的是“男女混合的”，因此A项正确。

4 C  文章最后一句给出James Riordan所认为的中国参加奥运会的原因，即“There was a feeling of being the underdog and wanting to prove to
the world that the Chinese were strong”（感觉自己是受压迫者/劣势者，想要向全世界证明中国的强大），因此C项表达的意思与之相符。

5 B  1932年中国首次参加奥运会，第十届奥运会在美国洛杉矶举行，中国只派出了一名短跑运动员刘长春。因此B项正确。

(2)

By now, both
investigators had a clear vision of what had happened. Someone had poured
liquid accelerant throughout the children’s room, even under their beds, then
poured some more along the adjoining hallway and out the front door, creating a
“fire barrier” that prevented anyone from escaping; similarly, a prosecutor
later suggested, the refrigerator in the kitchen had been moved to block the
back-door exit. The house, in short, had been deliberately transformed into a
death trap.

The investigators
collected samples of burned materials from the house and sent them to a
laboratory that could detect the presence of a liquid accelerant. The lab’s
chemist reported that one of the samples contained evidence of “mineral
spirits,” a substance that is often found in charcoal-lighter fluid. The sample
had been taken by the threshold of the front door.

The fire was now
considered a triple homicide, and Todd Willingham—the only person, besides the victims, known to
have been in the house at the time of the blaze—became the prime suspect.

Police and fire
investigators canvassed the neighborhood, interviewing witnesses. Several, like
Father Monaghan, initially portrayed Willingham as devastated by the fire. Yet,
over time, an increasing number of witnesses offered damning statements. Diane
Barbee said that she had not seen Willingham try to enter the house until after
the authorities arrived, as if he were putting on a show. And when the
children’s room exploded with flames, she added, he seemed more preoccupied
with his car, which he moved down the driveway. Another neighbor reported that
when Willingham cried out for his babies he “did not appear to be excited or
concerned.” Even Father Monaghan wrote in a statement that, upon further
reflection, “things were not as they seemed. I had the feeling that
[Willingham] was in complete control.” The police began to piece together a
disturbing profile of Willingham. Born in Ardmore, Oklahoma, in 1968, he had
been abandoned by his mother when he was a baby. His father, Gene, who had
divorced his mother, eventually raised him with his stepmother, Eugenia. Gene,
a former U.S. marine, worked in a salvage yard, and the family lived in a
cramped house; at night, they could hear freight trains rattling past on a
nearby track. Willingham. who had what the family called the “classic
Willingham look”—a
handsome face. thick black hair, and dark eyes—struggled in school, and as a teen-ager began to
sniff paint. When he was seventeen, Oklahoma’s Department of Human Services evaluated
him, and reported, “He likes ‘girls,” music, fast cars, sharp trucks, swimming,
and hunting, in that order.” Willingham dropped out of high school, and over
time was arrested for, among other things, driving under the influence,
stealing a bicycle, and shoplifting.

In 1988, he met
Stacy, a senior in high school, who also came from a troubled background: when
she was four years old, her stepfather had strangled her mother to death during
a fight. Stacy and Willingham had a turbulent relationship. Willingham, who was
unfaithful, drank too much ,Jack Daniel’s, and sometimes hit Stacy—even when she was pregnant. A
neighbor said that he once heard Willingham yell at her, “Get up, bitch, and
I’ll hit you again.”

6 Liquid
accelerant most probably is_____.

A. A kind of
fuel that speeds up the spread of fire

B. A kind of
water that is accessible to tourist

C. A kind of
fluid that makes water flow more quickly

D. A kind of
fuel that makes the car move faster

7 Triple
homicide is a complicated phrase each word of which consisting of many Latin
affixes, such as tri- meaning three and -cide meaning killing. So we may infer
that the term means_____.

A. The murder
took place in three different places

B. The arsonist
killed a total of three people

C. Three
murderers working in collaboration killed one victim

D. Three
murderers killed three victims

8 Which
contradicts the eye-witnesses’ accounts of the fire?

A. Todd
Willingham cares more about his car than his children in the burning house

B. Todd
Willingham did nothing at all to save his endangered children

C. Todd
Willingham did not tell the truth judged by his behavior at the fire scene

D. Todd
Willingham did not shed tears seeing his children engulfed in the fire

9 “He likes
‘girls,’ music, fast cars, sharp trucks, swimming, and hunting, in that order”
means what he likes most is_____.

A. “girls”

B. hunting

C. fast cars

D. not clear

10 Driving
under the influence , or DUI for short means_____.

A. drunk driving

B. forced
driving

C. driving by
obeying someone’s order

D. driving to an
important place

【答案与解析】

6 A  文章第一段介绍到，有人在孩子们的房间里，甚至床下都泼了liquid accelerant，然后在毗连的走廊和前门外也泼了一些，从而形成”fire barrier”，使得任何人都无法逃脱。可推测liquid accelerant指的是“液体助燃剂”，accelerant意为“促进剂，催化剂”。因此答案选A项。

7 B  词组triple homicide出现在第三段开头“The fire was now considered a triple homicide”，其中前缀tri-表示“三个”，-cide意为“杀，杀伤”，可知triple homicide指的是纵火犯害死了三个人，因此B项为正确答案。

8 C  题干问的是哪个选项的描述与目击者对该次火灾的陈述相矛盾。该题可用排除法来做。第四段第四句一位名叫Diane Barbee的邻居指出她看到Willingham直到相关部门到来后才试图进入房子，似乎在演戏一样，因此B项“Todd
Willingham没有试图救他处于危险中的孩子”与原文内容相符。而在接下来的第五句中，她又接着说，“他似乎更关注车，他把车开下了车道”，因此，A项的“比起孩子，他更关心车”与原文内容相符。而在同一段的第六句中，他的另一个邻居举报说“当他大声呼喊他的孩子的时候，他did not appear to be excited or concerned，因此D项“当看到他的孩子被火吞没时，他没有掉眼泪”与原文内容相符。而文章中并没有提到Todd Willingham的证词，所以C项“根据他在火灾现场的表现来看，他没有讲真话”这一点毫无根据。因此，本题的正确答案为C。

9 A  题干所引用句子中in that order指“按顺序排列，依次排列”，因此可知Todd Willingham最喜欢的是A项中的”girls”。

10 A  第四段后半部分讲述了Todd Willingham的成长历程，该段最后一句指出Todd Willingham高中时辍学，之后因driving under the
influence、偷自行车和商店行窃等被捕。drive under the influence为固定用法，指“醉酒驾驶”，因此对应A项。

(3)

Although a
grandparent who arrives on the scene after the birth of a child is
traditionally pictured cooking dinner for sleep-deprived parents or stuffing the
freezer with casseroles, I can tell you that these days it’s mostly takeout. That
is not simply the narrow view of a male grandparent who, admittedly, would have
little to offer by way of home-cooked meals once he’d served the second dinner
of meat loaf, accompanied by a salad of prewashed mesclun and a reminder of his
mother’s belief that meat loaf is one of the many dishes that always taste
better the next day. As I was about to leave for San Francisco last spring to
inspect my daughter Abigail’s first baby, my son-in-law’s mother had just
completed a similar visit, and Abigail reported to me, “We had some good sushi
while Brian’s room was here.” Brian’s mother is not Japanese. Abigail was
referring to takeout sushi—or carryout, as they say in San Francisco, since,
she warned me in advance, San Francisco is a place where restaurants are, in
general, happy to prepare food to go but not happy to deliver it. In carryout,
the accepted role of a visiting grandparent is to duck into the restaurant for
the pickup while one parent waits behind the wheel of the double-parked car and
the second parent remains at home, holding the baby with one hand and setting
the table with the other.

The one
exception, Abigail said, seems to be Chinese food, which does come directly to
the door. In Manhattan, the victuals customarily referred to as Takeout
Chinese—essentially, a separate cuisine, if that’s the word, from the food
available in Chinatown—tend to make the trip from restaurants to apartment
houses dangling in plastic bags from the handlebars of rickety bicycles. (The
proprietors of Chinese restaurants apparently’ feel about baskets the way proprietors
of National Hockey League teams used to feel about helmets—sissy stuff. The
restaurant proprietors still feel that way about helmets.) Manhattan is
essentially flat—I’ve been riding a bicycle around the city for at least thirty
years, and I have yet to shift gears—but San Francisco is, famously, not. When
my mind wandered during the flight from New York, I could picture one of those
impassive delivery boys from a Manhattan Chinese restaurant trying to make it
up a nearly perpendicular San Francisco hill, his determination unaffected by
breathlessness or leg cramps or the fact that the weird angle has already
caused a container of hot-and-sour soup to burst open on his trousers.

When my mind
wasn’t wandering, I was thinking about whether to present the home-delivery
issue to Abigail as one more reason why it made sense to live in New York
rather than San Francisco. I could imagine myself delivering the pitch: “Are
you saying that you’re willing to raise this child—this innocent child—in a
city that has virtually no delivery, depriving her of the attention of
whichever parent has to make the pickup or interrupting her schedule for a
totally unnecessary car journey or, God forbid, cooking?” I could also imagine
Abigail, who works as a legal-services lawyer for children, replying that,
according to the laws and precedents she’s familiar with, the sort of behavior
I’d just described would not, strictly speaking, constitute child neglect.

11 A male
grandparent in this text refers to_____.

A. Waizhufu (外祖父) in general

B. Both zhufu (祖父) and Waizhufu (外祖父)

C. Zhufu (祖父) in general

D. Waizhufu (外祖父) in particular

12 To interpret
“the narrow view of a male grandparent” we understand it to mean_____.

A. A male
grandparent’s view is limited

B. A male
grandparent’s view is near-sighted

C. A male
grandparent is looked down upon

D. A male
grandparent is sharp-eyed

13 The National
Hockey League refers to_____.

A. A group of
hockey teams from across the country working together for a common goal

B. A group of
hockey teams from across the country playing against each other irregularly

C. A group of
ice hockey teams from across the country working together for common interest

D. A group of
ice hockey teams from across the country playing against each other regularly

14 According to
the text, the terrain of San Francisco is_____.

A. basically
flat

B. very uneven

C. very flat

D. basically
uneven

15 One
convincing reason the author believes in to persuade her daughter to move back
to New York is that Manhattan boosts of_____.

A. Chinese
restaurants

B. Flat terrain

C. Take-out fast
food

D. Delicious
sushi

【答案与解析】

11 B  文章第一段的第三句话提到，“我”要leave for San Francisco last spring to inspect my daughter Abigail’s
first baby，由此可知，作者要到旧金山的女儿家看望她的第一个孩子，因此他做了外祖父；而在这一句话的后半句又提到，my son-in-law’s mother had just completed a similar visit，“我儿媳的妈妈也刚刚完成了类似的访问”，联系上下文，可以推断出“我”的儿媳也刚刚产子，所以“我”也做了祖父，只有B项符合原文的内容，因此，本体的正确答案为B。

12 A  narrow view指“观点狭隘的，有偏见的”，因此A项中“view
is limited”与之表达意思相符。

13 D  National Hockey League“北美冰球联盟”，是由北美冰球队伍所组成的职业运动联盟，现有30支队伍，是全世界最高层级的职业冰球比赛。NHL的赛季分为例行赛和季后赛，最后一轮在季后赛胜出的球队便获得史丹利杯冠军。四个选项只有后半部分不同，可知D项中“定期进行对抗赛”的表述正确。

14 B  第二段倒数第二句指出曼哈顿的地势基本上是平坦的，并提到“but San Francisco is, famously, not”，即旧金山的地势是出了名的不平坦，因此B项为正确答案。uneven不平坦的，凹凸不平的。

15 B  最后一段作者指出他在想要不要向女儿提出旧金山在送餐方面的问题，以此作为劝女儿在纽约而非旧金山居住的理由之一，结合上文提到的旧金山的餐馆非常乐意准备外卖食品，而不愿送饭，并且旧金山地势不平坦，送饭不方便，由此可知作者劝女儿回纽约居住的原因之一是曼哈顿的地势平坦。因此答案选B。

(4)

Since 1970, the
population of the United States has grown by forty per cent, while the number
of registered vehicles has increased by nearly a hundred per cent—in other words, cars have
proliferated more than twice as fast as people have. During this same period,
road capacity increased by six per cent. If these trends continue through 2020,
every day will resemble a getaway day, with its mixture of commuters, truckers,
and recreational drivers, who take to the road without regard for traditional
peak travel times, producing congestion all day long: trucks that can’t make
deliveries on time, people who can’t get to or from work, air quality that
continues to deteriorate as commerce suffers and our over-all geopolitical
position weakens because we are forced to become ever more dependent on foreign
oil. This is the way the world ends: not with a bang but a traffic jam.

What can you do
about the traffic? Take the train? The train may be out of commission; Amtrak,
the nation’s passenger rail service, may be out of business before too long.
Fly? Airlines are cutting flights and raising prices to offset heavy losses.
Manage traffic better? There are many schemes for managing traffic, but not
very many practical ways to reduce the number of vehicles on the roads. Even if
people have an alternative to driving, as do many New Yorkers, over time an
ever larger number of commuters choose to drive. Today, about 3.6 million
people make their way into Manhattan’s “hub” (the area below Sixtieth Street)
each workday—about
the same number who came on an average day fifty years ago. In 1948, six
hundred and fifty thousand of the commuters drove; fifty years later, more than
1.3 million of them drove, and most of them drove alone.

It’s not enough
to build public transportation; you also have to get people to use it, either
by making trains and buses more convenient or by prohibiting some people from
driving during peak periods. But in the United States restricting people from
using their automobiles whenever they like has always been politically
difficult, and Mayor Bloomberg’s efforts to do so are controversial. The new
restrictions have brought joy to many of the city’s residents—New York is the only city in
the United States in which the majority of households don’t own an automobile—but they have been a source of
outrage for the parking-garage industry, restaurant and theatre owners,
retailers, labor groups, and some local politicians. Traffic is bad, but, as
some New Yorkers have discovered, a lack of traffic may be worse. “I think it’s
destroying the fabric of New York,” Grog Susick, senior vice-president of
Central Parking, told the Times in November. After a Christmas season in New
York in which the traditional Five Days of Gridlock saw only light congestion,
the Metropolitan Parking Association began investigating possible legal action
against the city for maintaining the lone-driver restrictions.

16 “This is the
way the world ends: not with a bang but a traffic jam.” The word ban here most
probably means_____.

A. The earth
collides with an extraterrestrial star

B. The earth
witnesses a major war

C. The earth
hears a huge bell ring

D. The earth
hears the bell toll at a church

17 According to
the author, traffic congestion in Manhattan is mainly caused by_____.

A. increase of
population

B. increase of
cars

C. addition of
new roads

D. lack of funds

18 “Traffic is
bad, but a lack of traffic may be worse.” Who might be affected by a lack of
traffic?

A. Manhattan
residents

B. Car drivers

C .House owners

D. Parking lot
managers

19 We may infer
from the text that_____.

A. New York City
might has the lowest car ownership” rate among all US cities

B. New York City
might be the most congested city among all US cities

C. New York City
might be the most expensive city among all US cities

D. New York City
might be the most mixed-race city among all US cities

20 “I think
it’s destroying the fabric of New York,” here the word fabric can be best
understood as_____.

A. New York’s
way of life

B. New York’s
textile industry

C. New York’s
outer appearance

D. New York’s
inner mechanism

【答案与解析】

16 A  第一段首先讲述到美国机动车辆的增加远超过人口数量的增长和道路通行能力的提升，并提出如果该趋势持续增长将出现的一系列问题，最后总结到“This is the way the world ends: not with a bang but a traffic jam”，bang原意为“猛撞；巨响；爆炸声”，结合语境及所给选项可知，此处bang指A项中的“地球与其他星球的相撞”。

17 B  第二段最后两句指出，如今每个工作日大约360万人来到Manhattan’s
“hub”，几乎与50年前的人数相同，但1949年有65万的人驾车出行，而50年后超过130万人驾车，并且其中大多数是独自开车。由此可见曼哈顿出现交通拥堵的主要原因是汽车的增多。

18 D  第三段倒数第四句指出关于限制使用车辆的规定have brought joy to many of the city’s residents，但与此同时也成为a source of outrage for
the parking-garage industry, restaurant and theatre owners, retailers, labor
groups, and some local politicians（outrage义愤；愤慨），可见停车场、饭店、剧院、零售商等都会受到交通量减少的影响。因此D项正确。

19 A  第三段倒数第四句破折号之间指出，“New York is the only city in the United States in which the majority
of households don’t own an automobile”（纽约是美国唯一的大多数家庭都没有汽车的城市），因此可推测纽约拥有汽车的比率可能是美国所有城市中最低的。因此答案选A。

20 D   Central Parking公司的资深副总裁认为交通量的缺少正destroying the fabric of New York，单词fabric有“（社会或体系的）基本结构”之意，因此D项“纽约的内部机制”与之表达意思相符。

IV. Writing (30′)

Some time ago, the
official Xinhua News Agency reported that the administrators of Beihai Park in
Beijing would not renew their contract with Kentucky Fried Chicken when its
10-year lease was due. Some
support the decision as they believe the fast food outlet is out of keeping
with a scenic imperial garden. Others
shrug it off as they think the removal of the Colonel Sanders plaque at the
park is likely to be only a hiccup to China’s growing love affair with American
culture.

Write a composition of about 400 words on the following
topic：

Does a Western Fast Food Outlet Belong in A Chinese
Imperial Garden?

【参考范文】

Does a Western Fast Food Outlet Belong in A Chinese
Imperial Garden?

Beihai Park, a Chinese
Imperial Garden, decided not to renew its contract with Kentucky Fried Chicken
after the previous 10-year contract expired some time ago, as a result of the
increasing criticism from the public. People’s opinions are divided concerning
the existence of a fast food outlet in a Chinese Imperial Garden.

The opposing
side believe that although exchanges of cultures are unobjectionable, it does
not mean everything about other cultures should be brought in and be blended.
Some even go so far as taking the existence of Kentucky Fried Chicken as an
insult on China’s valuable ancient civilization. The protection of the
integrity of cultural and historical heritage is stressed by people concerned.

They think Kentucky
Fried Chicken is substantially the symbol of American culture and therefore
will not integrate into the Chinese Imperial Garden. These people argue that Kentucky
Fried Chicken in Beihai Park doesn’t resonate with its surroundings. For these
people, it is just emotionally unacceptable that a Western-style restaurant is
in a scenic imperial garden that is upheld as the essence of China’s ancient
civilization.

Nevertheless,
some other people believe Kentucky Fried Chicken does not show any disrespect
for China’s traditional culture and is no more than a place for people to have
a rest and enjoy food and drinks. Moreover, they claim that world cultural
heritage sites need dynamic commercial promotion and that’s why so many sites
in China become so popular. Whether the new building will ruin the aesthetic
and natural beauty of the architecture should be based on experts studies. If
dealt with rightly, commercial business can be an important channel for
cultural relics protection. As the talk between Chinese and other cultures
increases, it also shows the growing strength of China’s global influence. The
existence of Kentucky Fried Chicken in Beihai Park will show the openness of
China’s society and these people believe the reason for starting Kentucky Fried
Chicken in China was not about cultural invasion, let alone causing damage to
China’s traditional culture.

All
in all, Beihai Park is one of the symbols of ancient China, and the existence
of Western restaurant is indeed not very integrated. However one cannot help
thinking that the argument about the negative effects of a small western
restaurant on China’s long historical culture is somewhat far-fetched.

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