50．Polish your application form. Ensure that your application is tailored to the particular school. Keep calm. Listen carefully to the interviewers. Make eye contact with the present people in the interviewing room. Show a sense of humor. Show your previous teaching practice. Prepare yourself in case you are asked to give a talk. Believe in yourself and have confidence.
（在倒数第二段中，校长提出了面试的九点建议。）
Part III. Writing [30 points]
Directions: Based on the information given below, please write an essay of about 400 words on the Answer Sheet. You have 60 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay.
Nowadays college or university students are often required to work on group projects. On completion, all the students in the group receive the same grade. Do you agree or disagree that group project is a good way to evaluate students? Use specific reasons and examples to support your views.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar, vocabulary and appropriateness.
【参考范文】
Group project is not a good way to evaluate college students
Nowadays, it is common for college students to finish the tasks assigned by college teachers as groups. Students have to form a group with a few classmates according to their will or teachers’ will. They work together to prepare for their task. In the end, they make a presentation in front of teachers and the rest of students. On completion, all the students in the group receive the same grade. There has been heated debate over whether group project is a good way to evaluate students. Some applaud the practice, believing that the result of group project will be more favorable with joined efforts of every group members and each of them will get a higher grade. However, others argue that group project is by no means a good way to evaluate students. Because they insist that it is unfair to give the same grade to all group members since their contributions differ. In my view, group project is not a satisfactory way to evaluate students.
First of all, some group members are so lazy that they don’t deserve the final grade. At the beginning of preparation, group members often gather to discuss the contents of their task and divide the different parts of the task among members. The lazy members often ask for fewer parts than others. Therefore, other group members have to make more preparation. So it is unfair for the other members since the lazy members contribute less. What’s more, the lazy members often procrastinate to finish their parts. So, others have to wait. As a result, when all members eventually combine their respective parts, there is little time left for revision and unification which can lead to an excellent presentation and high grade.
Secondly, some group members are lacking in the spirit of cooperativeness. The lack of cooperativeness is often manifested when all group members combine their respective parts. I’d like to take a PowerPoint task for example. It is inevitable that different members adopt different formats of words and pictures in their slides. Therefore, it is necessary to unify the format. But some group members are unwilling to change their format. In consequence, the final PowerPoint is not unified in format, which brings about a low grade.
All in all, I don’t think group project is a good way to evaluate students for those members who are lazy or lacks cooperativeness often have detrimental effects on the final grade of a group. College teachers should make every student do their work separately. Teamwork does not necessarily leads to a better work.
【解析】
如今大学老师常常要求学生们分组完成任务，最后组内成员获得相同的任务分数。题目问你是否认为小组任务是评价学生的好方法？范文作者持否定态度，认为小组任务绝不是评价学生的好方法。一，有些组员懒，做的部分少，而且常常拖延，耽误整个小组完成任务的进程。二，有些组员缺乏合作精神，影响到了最终成果的质量。最后一段作者简要总结，重申了观点。
2012年中国海洋大学211翻译硕士英语考研真题及详解
Part I. Vocabulary and Grammar [30 points; 20 minutes]
Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentences in this part. Beneath each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
1．Ms. Green has been living in town for only one year, yet she seems to be _____ with everyone who comes to the store.
A. accepted
B. admitted
C. admired
D. acquainted【答案】D【解析】句意：格林小姐才在镇里住了一年，但是她好像认识来到店里的每个人。
be acquainted with熟知 ……。
2．I _____ with thanks the help of my colleagues in the preparation of this new column.
A. express
B. confess
C. verify
D. acknowledge【答案】D【解析】句意：我在此感谢与我一起准备新专栏的各位同事的帮助。acknowledge
有感谢之意，与thanks相对应。
3．They were _____ in their scientific research, not knowing what happened just outside their lab.
A. dipped
B. drowned
C. immersed
D. submerged【答案】D【解析】句意：他们都埋头于他们的科学实验，不知道实验室外面发生的事情。be
immersed in专心于，沉浸在 ……中。drown溺水。dip浸；蘸。submerge (使)浸没；(使)淹没。
4．Foreign disinvestment and the _____ of South Africa from world capital markets after 1985 further weakened its economy.
A. displacement B. elimination
C. exclusion
D. exception【答案】C【解析】句意：1985年后外资的缺乏和世界资本市场对南非的排斥进一步削弱了南
非的经济。exclusion排除在外，不包括。displacement代替。elimination去除。exception例外。
5． Although his bid to apply for the membership turned out to be _____, he did not stop his secessionist efforts.
A. futile
B. incompetent
C. prosperous
D. scrupulous【答案】A【解析】句意：虽然他为申请会员所作的努力白费了，但他还是没有停止努力。
futile徒劳无功的，白费的。incompetent没有能力的。prosperous繁荣的。scrupulous正直的；有道德原则的。只有A项符合句意。
6．I tried very hard to persuade him to join our group but I met with a flat _____.
A. disapproval
B. rejection
C. refusal
D. decline【答案】C【解析】句意：我十分努力得想要说服他加入我们，但还是被他坚决地拒绝了。 flat
refusal固定搭配，表示断然拒绝。
7．He is planning another tour abroad, yet his passport will _____at the end of this month.
A. expire
B. exceed
C. terminate
D. cease【答案】A【解析】句意：他打算再出国旅游一趟，可是护照月底就要过期了。expire指失效，
过期。exceed超过。terminate结束。cease停止。
8．It is strictly _____ that access to confidential documents is denied to all but a few.
A. secured
B. forbidden
C. regulated
D. determined【答案】C【解析】句意：根据严格规定，除少数几个人以外，其他所有人都不准接触机密文
件。forbidden禁止。secure保证。regulate（用规则条例）约束，控制。determine决定。这里表示……是严格规定的。
9．To survive in the intense trade competition between countries, we must _____ the qualities and varieties of products we make to the world-market demand.
A. improve
B. enhance
C. guarantee
D. gear【答案】D【解析】句意：为了在国际激烈的贸易竞争中生存,我们必须调整产品质量和种类
以满足世界市场需求。gear...to...使 ……适合于……。
10．He has failed me so many times that I no longer place any _____ on what he promises.
A. faith
B. belief
C. credit
D. reliance【答案】D【解析】句意：他已经对我失约了这么多次，我不再相信他的承诺。place reliance
on固定短语，表示相信。
11．She had clearly no _____ of doing any work, although she was very well paid.
A. tendency
B. ambition
C. intention
D. willingness【答案】C【解析】句意：尽管薪金会很丰厚，她却没有工作的打算。have intention of doing
sth计划做某事。have the tendency towards sth/to do sth倾向于做某事。ambitionfor sth有志于做某事。willingness to do sth愿意做某事。
12． The public opinion was that the time was not _____ for the election of such a radical candidate as Mr. Jones.
A. practical
B. ripe
C. ready
D. reasonable【答案】B【解析】句意：公众的观点是选举像琼斯这样的激进派候选人的时机还未成熟。 ripe
(水果、谷物等)成熟的；(时机)成熟的，适宜的。而ready不能与time搭配使用。
13． Please _____ yourself from smoking and spitting in public places, since the law forbids them.
A. restrain
B. hinder
C. restrict
D. prohibit【答案】A【解析】句意：请不要在公共场所吸烟和吐痰，因为法律禁止这些行为。restrain
oneself from doing sth为固定搭配，意为克制自己不去做某事。
14．With his lack of experience and smaller physique, we don ’t think he _____ a chance of winning the fight.
A. gained
B. possessed
C. stood
D. took【答案】C【解析】句意：他缺乏经验，体格又小，所以我们认为他没有希望打赢。stand a
chance为一固定词组，意为 “很有希望，很有可能”。
15．If businessmen are taxed too much, they will no longer be motivated to, work hard, with the result that incomes from taxation might actually _____.
A. shrink
B. delay
C. disperse
D. sink【答案】A【解析】句意：如果对商人征税过多，他们就不再有工作的动力，自然政府税收也
随之减少。shrink收缩；减少。delay推迟；延误。disperse散开，驱散。sink下沉。
16．There is only time to _____ the plan and we will discuss it in detail next week.
A. decry
B. adumbrate
C. eliminate
D. expound【答案】B【解析】句意：现在只有时间概述这项计划，下周我们会详细讨论它。adumbrate
概述；概括说明。decry诋毁。eliminate消除，除去。expound详细说明，解释。