華東政法大學(xué)翻譯碩士英語科目是外語學(xué)院碩士研究生入學(xué)考試的一門重要科目，外語學(xué)院的培養(yǎng)模式是利用外語專業(yè)語言文化教學(xué)的優(yōu)勢，以專業(yè)標準的外語教學(xué)培養(yǎng)學(xué)生的語言、交際習(xí)慣和文化溝通能力，突出聽、說、讀、寫、譯五項語言技能的訓(xùn)練；以全面的計算機應(yīng)用教學(xué)，使學(xué)生掌握實用的文字處理和其他常用法律軟件的操作技能。華東政法大學(xué)翻譯碩士英語科目入學(xué)考試試題如下：

　　考生特別注意：1、答題必須寫在由各考點提供的教育部統(tǒng)一格式的業(yè)務(wù)課答題紙上，凡寫在其他任何非教育部統(tǒng)一格式答題紙上的答題內(nèi)容一律無效。2、答題紙裝訂線左側(cè)的考生姓名、報考專業(yè)和考生編號三項內(nèi)容必須填寫完整準確，錯填、漏填或在指定位置以外地方填寫的一律不給分。

　　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