2010 首都师范大学 翻译硕士英语.docVIP

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。 Part I. Proofreading and Error Correction (10 POINTS, 15 MINUTES) Directions: The following passage contains TEN errors. Each numbered line contains ONE error, in which only ONE word is involved. Identify each error and correct it in the following way: copy the wrong word on your ANSWER SHEET and then write down the correct one. Make sure that you write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET! The changes in language will continue forever, but no one wrons word correction knows sure who does the changing. One possibility is that children are responsible. A professor of linguistic at the 1.________ ________ University of Hawaii explores this in one of his recent books. Sometimes around 1880, a language catastrophe occurred 2. ________ ________ in Hawaii when thousands of emigrant workers were brought 3. ________ ________ to the islands to work for the new sugar industry. These people spoke different languages were unable to communicate 4. ________ ________ with each other or with the native Hawaiians and the dominant English-speaking owners of the plantations. So they firstly 5. ________ ________ spoke in Pidgin English — the sort of thing such mixed language populations have always done. A pidgin is not really a language at all. It is more like a set of verbal signals used to name objects and without the grammatical rules needed for expressing thought 6. ________ ________ and ideas. And then, within a single generation, the whole mess 7. ________ ________ of mixed people began speaking a totally new tongue: Hawaiian 8. ________ ________ Creole. The new speech was contained ready-made words borrowed from all the original tongues, but beard little or no resemblance 9. ________ ________ with the predecessors in the rules used for stringing the words