首都师范大学2010年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试卷考试科目代码：211考试科目名称：翻译硕士英语请将答案住明题号写在答题纸上，试题纸上做答无效。PartI.ProofreadingandErrorCorrection(10POINTS,15MINUTES)Directions:ThefollowingpassagecontainsTENerrors.EachnumberedlinecontainsONEerror,inwhichonlyONEwordisinvolved.Identifyeacherrorandcorrectitinthefollowingway:copythewrongwordonyourANSWERSHEETandthenwritedownthecorrectone.MakesurethatyouwriteyouranswersontheANSWERSHEET!Thechangesinlanguagewillcontinueforever,butnoonewronswordcorrectionknowssurewhodoesthechanging.Onepossibilityisthatchildrenareresponsible.Aprofessoroflinguisticatthe1.________________UniversityofHawaiiexploresthisinoneofhisrecentbooks.Sometimesaround1880,alanguagecatastropheoccurred2.________________inHawaiiwhenthousandsofemigrantworkerswerebrought3.________________totheislandstoworkforthenewsugarindustry.Thesepeoplespokedifferentlanguageswereunabletocommunicate4.________________witheachotherorwiththenativeHawaiiansandthedominantEnglish-speakingownersoftheplantations.Sotheyfirstly5.________________spokeinPidginEnglish—thesortofthingsuchmixedlanguagepopulationshavealwaysdone.Apidginisnotreallyalanguageatall.Itismorelikeasetofverbalsignalsusedtonameobjectsandwithoutthegrammaticalrulesneededforexpressingthought6.________________andideas.Andthen,withinasinglegeneration,thewholemess7.________________ofmixedpeoplebeganspeakingatotallynewtongue:Hawaiian8.________________Creole.Thenewspeechwascontainedready-madewordsborrowedfromalltheoriginaltongues,butbeardlittleornoresemblance9.________________withthepredecessorsintherulesusedforstringingthewords10.________________together.Althoughgenerallyregardedasprimitivelanguage,HawaiianCreolehadahighlysophisticatedgrammar.PartII.Vocabulary(20POINTS,25MINUTES)Directions:Fromthefourwordsorphrasesundereachsentence,choosetheonethatbestsuitstheblankineachsentence.1.RecenteditionsoftheChineseclassicTaoTeChing,basedonmanuscriptsmoreauthoritativethanthosehithertoavailable,haverender...
