说到2016翻译硕士考研，想必很多考生都会信奉这样一句话“实践是检验真理的标准”要问原因，当然和 翻译硕士这门学科有关啦。翻译硕士是一门实践性很强的学科，是专门培养实践性人才，与当下的市场比较接近，在找工作方面也比较接地气，收入也很丰厚，对于热爱实践的考生可谓是一个不错的选择。报考2016翻译硕士的考生要复习的科目包括政治理论、翻译硕士英语、翻译基础、汉语写作与百科知识四门，其中北京外国语大学考第二外语(即非英语的其他语种)，其他学校一般只考 翻译硕士英语。今天小编就为大家整理了翻译硕士英语真题，具体内容如下：

　　青岛大学2011年考研翻译硕士英语真题

　　Passage 2

　　Nineteenth-century writers in the United States, whether they wrote novels, short stories, poems, or plays, were powerfully drawn to the railroad in its golden years. In fact, writers responded to the railroads as soon as the first were built in the 1830’s. By the 1850’s, the railroad was a major presence in the life of the nation. Writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau saw the railroad both as a boon to democracy and as an object of suspicion. The railroad could be and was a despoiler of nature; furthermore, in its manifestation of speed and noise, it might be a despoiler of human nature as well. By the 1850’s and 1860’s, there was a great distrust among writer intellectuals of the rapid industrialization of which the railroad was a leading force. Deeply philosophical historians such as Henry Adams lamented the role that the new frenzy for business was playing in eroding traditional values. A distrust of industry and business continued among writers throughout the rest of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth.

　　For the most part, the literature in which the railroad plays an important role belongs to popular culture rather than to the realm of serious art. One thinks of melodramas, boy’s books, thrillers, romances, and the like rather than novels of the first rank. In the railroads’ prime years, between 1890 and 1920, there were a few individuals in the United States, most of them with solid railroading experience behind them, who made a profession of writhing about railroading--- works offering the ambience of stations, yards, and locomotive cabs. These writers, who can genuinely be said to have created a genre, the “railroad novel,” are now mostly forgotten, their names having faded from memory. But anyone who takes the time to consult their fertile writing will still find a treasure trove of information about the place of the railroad in the life of the United States.

　　6. With which of the following topics is the passage mainly concerned?

　　A. The role of the railroad in the economy of the Unite States

　　B. Major nineteenth-century writers

　　C. The conflict between expanding industry and preserving nature

　　D. The railroad as a subject for literature

　　7. In the first paragraph, the author implies that writers’ reactions to the development of railroads were

　　A. highly enthusiastic

　　B. both positive and negative

　　C. unchanging

　　D. disinterested

　　8. According to the passage, the railroad played a significant role in literature in all of the following kinds of books EXCEPT

　　A. thrillers

　　B. boys’ books

　　C. important novels

　　D. romances

　　9. The author mentions all of the following as being true about the literature of railroads EXCEPT that

　　A. many of its writers had experience working on railroads

　　B. many of the books were set in railroad stations and yards

　　C. the books were well known during the railroads’ prime years

　　D. quite a few of the books are still popular today

　　10. What is the author’s attitude toward the “railroad novels” and other books about railroads written between 1890 and 1920?

　　A. They have much literary importance as the books written by Emerson, Thoreau, and Adams.

　　B. They are good examples of the effects industry and business had on the literature of the United States.

　　C. They contributed to the weakening of traditional values.

　　D. They are worth reading as sources of knowledge about the impact of railroads on life in the United States.

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