2023年广东财经大学硕士研究生入学考试试卷

2023年12月9日发(作者：abcb式词语)

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广东财经大学硕士硕士入学考试试卷

考试年度： 考试科目代码及名称：804-英语写作与翻译(自命题)

合用专业：050201 英语语言文学

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Part I Writing （100分）

（1） Summary Writing. Plea read the following passage and write a

summary of 120 to 150 English words. (1题，共40分)

English as a National Foreign Language

India has two national languages for central administrative purpos:

Hindi and English. Hindi is the national, official, and main link language of

India. English is an associate official language. The Indian Constitution also

officially approves twenty-two regional languages for official purpos.

Dozens of distinctly different regional languages are spoken in India,

which share many characteristics such as grammatical structure and

vocabulary. Apart from the languages, Hindi is ud for communication in

India. The homeland of Hindi is mainly in the north of India, but it is spoken

and widely understood in all urban centers of India. In the southern states of

India, where people speak many different languages that are not much related to Hindi, there is more resistance to Hindi, which has allowed English to

remain a lingua franca to a greater degree.

Since the early 1600s, the English language has had a toehold on the

Indian subcontinent, when the East India Company established ttlements in

Chennai, Kolkata, and Mumbai, formerly Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay

respectively. The historical background of India is never far away from

everyday usage of English. India has had a longer exposure to English than

any other country which us it as a cond language, its distinctive words,

idioms, grammar and rhetoric spreading gradually to affect all places, habits

and culture.

In India, English rves two purpos. First, it provides a linguistic tool

for the administrative cohesiveness of the country, causing people who speak

different languages to become united. Secondly, it rves as a language of

wider communication, including a large variety of different people covering a

vast area. It overlaps with local languages in certain spheres of influence and

in public domains.

Generally, English is ud among Indians as a ‘link’ language and it is the

first language for many well-educated Indians. It is also the cond language

for many who speak more than one language in India. The English language is

a tie that helps bind the many gments of our society together. Also, it is a linguistic bridge between the major countries of the world and India.

English has special national status in India. It has a special place in the

parliament, judiciary, broadcasting, journalism, and in the education system.

One can e a Hindi-speaking teacher giving their students instructions during

an educational tour about where to meet and when their bus would leave, but

all in English. It means that the language permeates daily life. It is

unavoidable and is always expected, especially in the cities.

The importance of the ability to speak or write English has recently

incread significantly becau English has become the de facto standard.

Learning English language has become popular for business, commerce and

cultural reasons and especially for internet communications throughout the

world. English is a language that has become a standard not becau it has

been approved by any ‘standards’ organization but becau it is widely ud

by many information and technology industries and recognized as being

standard. The call centre phenomenon has stimulated a huge expansion of

internet-related activity, establishing the future of India as a

cyber-technological super-power. Modern communications, videos, journals

and newspapers on the internet u English and have made ‘knowing English’

indispensable. （2）Essay Writing. Plea write an essay around 500 English words according

to the materials given below. (1题，60分)

Happiness is what human beings pursue during their lives. But what is the real

happiness in this world? Read the following quotations, and write an essay on

HAPPINESS, explicating your opinions with examples. Make your essay logical,

conci and convincing. You should give a title to your essay.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

— Alice Meynell

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exerci of

our faculties, and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

— Bertrand Rusll

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

— Dostoevsky

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which gives

happiness. — Thomas Jefferson

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this

world. —John Locke

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so

wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one

quarter alone. — Sigmund Freud

Part II Translation(50分)

（1） English-Chine Translation (25分)

There were flowers: delphiniums(飞燕草), sweet peas, bunches of lilac;

and carnations, mass of carnations. There were ros; there were iris. Ah

yes—so she breathed in the earthy garden sweet smell as she stood talking to

Miss Pym who owed her help, and thought her kind, for kind she had been

years ago; very kind, but she looked older, this year, turning her head from

side to side among the iris and ros and nodding tufts of lilac with her eyes

half clod, snuffing in, after the street uproar, the delicious scent, the

exquisite coolness. And then, opening her eyes, how fresh like frilled linen

clean from a laundry laid in wicker trays the ros looked; and dark and prim

the red carnations, holding their heads up; and all the sweet peas spreading in

their bowls, tinged violet, snow white, pale—as if it were the evening and girls

in muslin frocks came out to pick sweet peas and ros after the superb

summer’s day, with its almost blue-black sky, its delphiniums, its carnations,

its arum lilies(海芋) was over; and it was the moment between six and ven when every flower—ros, carnations, iris, lilac— glows; white, violet, red,

deep orange; every flower ems to burn by itlf, softly, purely in the misty

beds; and how she loved the grey-white moths spinning in and out, over the

cherry pie, over the evening primros!

（2） Chine-English Translation (25分)

这批以吴越乡村生活为背景旳画，粗看与一般水乡风情画相仿，实则意思迥然相异。这些画并不想单纯反应所谓乡土气息，因为这一段已经残破。也不说古叙旧，那一段已成往昔。我所求旳只是画旳情境。从某种意义上讲，只是通过所画之物映照一种思想，一种人与自然旳协调关系。这是人们永远梦想着旳，也是时常为现代社会所忘却旳美好理想，或许这也只能在艺术中成为现实。我所画旳石桥瓦舍，应是剔除岁月沧桑旳永恒旳构造，画中并无更多旳故事，却想为观者提供一种假想旳去处，或引起回归自然之幽思，或用来得一份清净，如此我亦足以自慰。

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