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1、考研考博-考博英语-中国矿业大学模拟考试题含答案1. 翻译题许多国际体育比赛的业余组织者经常抱怨说，体育道德已不复存在了。他们把体育方面 出现的向题全部归咎于日益增长的职业化。他们震惊地看到，现在有些运动员把赛跑当工作， 参加赛跑就要得到报酬。他们宣称，当现代奥林匹克运动会兴起时，运动员觉得参加比赛本 身就是一种奖励，别无他求了。事实上如此崇高的理想向来只是一种愿望而已，同现实从来就没有多少关系。1900年 和1904年的两届奧运会就和商业有着密切的关系，因为当时就是为国际贸易会招徕顾客而举办那两次奥运会的。这些比赛组织者们有时忽视的一点是，任何想成为奥运冠军的人必须 牺牲业余吋间，可能还得中
2、断学业，动员们想得到一些实惠的奖赏，也就不足为奇了。【答案】Many amateur organizers of international sporting events often complain that sportsmanship no longer exists. They blamed the growing professionalism for all the problems in sports. They were shocked to see that some athletes now treat running a race as their job. They s
3、hould get paid for running a race. With the rise of the modern Olympic games, they claim, athletes felt rewarded for their participation and wanted nothing more.In fact, such a lofty ideal has always been just a desire, having nothing to do with the reality. The Olympic games of 1900 and 1904 were c
4、losely associated with commerce because they were held to drum up customers for international trade. What the organizers sometimes fail to realize is that anyone who wants to become an Olympic champion must sacrifice his spare time and possibly take a break from his studies. So Its no surprise that
5、athletes want some tangible rewards.2. 翻译题Its noble to seek truth, and it is beautiful to find it. It is the ancient feeling of the human heart, that knowledge is better than riches; and it is deeply and sacredly true. To mark the course of human passions as they have flowed on in the ages that are
6、past; to see why nations have risen, and why they have fallen; to speak of heat, and light, and the winds; to know what man has discovered in the heavens above and in the earth beneath. It is worthwhile in the days of our youth to strive hard for this great discipline. A man who dedicates his life t
7、o knowledge, becomes habituated to pleasure which carries with it no regret.【答案】追求真理是高尚的，发现真理是美好的。知识胜于财富，这是人类心灵的一种古老的感觉;这是千真万确的。它记录人类激情的历程，因为它们在过去的年代里一直在流动；它看国家为何兴起，为何衰落。它提起热、光和风；它知道人类在天上地下都发现了什么. 在我们年轻的时候，为这门伟大的学科而努力奋斗是值得的。一个把一生献给知识的人，就会习惯于它带来的乐趣而不后悔。3. 单选题People are getting a better idea of the ne
8、ed to protect（ ）property rights.问题1选项A.knowledgeB.intelligenceC.intellectualD.leaning【答案】C【解析】固定搭配辨析题。knowledge “知识，学问，知道”；intelligence “智力，情报工作，理解力”：intellectual “智力的，聪明的，理智的”；intellectual property rights “知识产权”；leaning “倾向，爱好；倾斜”。本题考察固定搭配intellectual property rights “知识产权”，句意是大家正更好地理解保护知识产权的需要。C选项
9、正确。4. 单选题The mayor（ ）his speech to suit the crowd of homeless people gathered in his office.问题1选项A.intonedB.expandedC.tailoredD.shortened【答案】C【解析】动词辨析题。intone “吟诵，吟咏”；expand “扩大，扩展”；tailor “剪裁; 使合适”；shorten “缩短，变短”。根据句意为了迎合聚集于自己办公室的无家可归的人，市长（ ）自己的演说。确定C选项正确。5. 单选题The earliest controversies about the
10、 relationship between photography and art centered on whether photographs fidelity to appearances and dependence on a machine allowed it to be a fine art as distinct from merely a practical art. Throughout the nineteenth century, the defense of photography was identical with the struggle to establis
11、h it as a fine art. Against the charge that photography was a soulless, mechanical copying of reality, photographers asserted that it was instead a privileged way of seeing, a revolt against commonplace vision, and no less worthy an art than painting.Ironically, now that photography is securely esta
12、blished as a fine art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such. Serious photographers variously claim to be finding, recording, impartially observing, witnessing events, exploring themselvesanything but making works of art. They are no longer willing to debate whethe
13、r photography is or is not a fine art. except to proclaim that their own work is not involved with art. It shows the extent to which they simply take for granted the concept of art imposed by the triumph of Modernism: the better the art, the more subversive it is of the traditional aims of art.Photo
14、graphers disclaimers of any interest in making art tell us more about the harried status of the contemporary notion of art than about whether photography is or is not art. For example, those photographers who suppose that, by taking pictures, they are getting away from the pretensions of art as exem
15、plified by painting remind us of those Abstract Expressionist painters who imagined they were getting away from the intellectual austerity of classical Modernist painting by concentrating on the physical act of painting. Much of photographys prestige today derives from the convergence of its aims wi
16、th those of recent art, particularly with the dismissal of abstract art implicit in the phenomenon or Pop painting during the 1960s. Appreciating photographs is a relief to sensibilities tired of the mental exertions demanded by abstract art. Classical Modernist paintingthat is, abstract art as developed in different ways by Pica
