2010年翻译硕士英语考研真题答案及解析（二）

本文提供2010年翻译硕士英语考研真题答案及解析，以下为具体内容

1、Although she gives badly _______ titles to her musical compositions, they _______ unusual combinations of materials including classical music patterns and rhythms, electronic sounds, and bird songs.

A、conventional … incorporate

B、eccentric … deploy

C、traditional … exclude

D、imaginative … disguise

2、Even though the folktales Perroult collected and retold were not solely French in origin, his versions of them were so decidedly French in style that later anthologies of French folktales have never _______ them.

A、excluded

B、admired

C、collected

D、comprehended

3、In arguing against assertions that environmental catastrophe is imminent, her book does not ridicule all predictions of doom but rather claims that the risks of harm have in many cases been _________.

A、exaggerated

B、ignored

C、scrutinized

D、derided

4、 There seems to be no ________ the reading public’s thirst for books about the 1960’s: indeed, the normal level of interest has ______ recently because of a spate of popular television documentaries.

A、quenching … moderated

B、whetting … mushroomed

C、slaking … increased

D、ignoring … transformed

5、Despite a tendency to be overtly _______, the poetry of the Middle Ages often sparks the imagination and provides lively entertainment, as well as pious sentiments.

A、diverting

B、emotional

C、didactic

D、romantic

6、One of the first ______ of reduced burning in Amazon rain forests was the chestnut industry: smoke tends to drive out the insect that, by pollinating chestnut tree, allow chestnuts to develop.

A、reformers

B、discoveries

C、casualties

D、beneficiaries

7、 The research committee urged the archaeologist to _______ her claim that the tomb she has discovered was that of Alexander the Great, since her initial report has been based only on ______.

A、disseminate … supposition

B、withdraw … evidence

C、undercut … caprice

D、document … conjecture

8、Although Heron is well known for the broad comedy in the movies she has directed previously, her new film is less inclined to__________: the gags are fewer and subtler.

A、understatement

B、preciosity

C、symbolism

D、melodrama

9、Bebop’s legacy is______ one: bebop may have won jazz the right to be taken seriously as an art form, but it _______ jazz’s mass audience, which turned to other forms of music such as rock and pop.

A、a mixed……alienated

B、a troubled……seduced

C、an ambiguous……aggrandized

D、a valuable……refined

10、The exhibition’s importance lies in its___________: curators have gathered a diverse array of significant works from many different museums.

A、homogeneity

B、sophistry

C、scope

D、farsightedness