广东财经大学 2021 年英语水平考试考研真题考试年度：2021 年 考试科目代码及名称：613- 英语水平考试 ( 自命题 ) 适用专业：050201 英语语言文学 ［友情提醒：请在考点提供的专用答题纸上答题，答在本卷或草稿纸上无效！］一、Gap Filling 选词填空（从列表的单词中选择合适的词完成段落/非 Cloze 选择填空）（30 题，每题 1 分，共 30 分）WORD LISTcautious truly distinguished copies faring told another respectable era discouraging vary reap numbers flocking worth match claim invoked that contrast perform resistant rest gentler generous translation single imperialism hunger enthusiastic The world is 1 getting smaller. Americans are embracing, indeed driving, a new 2 of global trade and recreational travel, jet-setting from one international time zone to 3 ; we are communicating across borders by e-mail, surfing the Web for foreign news and 4 to see foreign films. It stands to reason that American publishing must also be primed to 5 the cultural bounty of a vast world literature, quickly and competently translated into the English language. Right? Well, not exactly. Truth be 6 the figures for translations from foreign languages into English are 7 . Of all the books translated worldwide, only 6% ---- and that is considered to be a 8 estimate ---- are translated from foreign languages into English. By 9 , almost 50% are translated from English into other languages. In a typical week, at least half of the top-10 bestsellers on Amazon.com in France and Germany are books in 10 ; on the U.S site, a recent scan showed not a 11 foreign name on an extended list of 24 top sellers. And that’s par for the past decade. Some midlist titles show 12 sales, but more often than not it takes validation on the level of a Nobel Prize to ratchet 13 up into the solid five-figure range. It is possible to argue that translations 14 on more or less the same level as similar English titles. Knopf senior editor George Anderou points out that Kwasi Boachi is “a first, quite literary novel, so if one could be assured of selling 7,000 copies of such a book, even if it weren’t in translation, I think it would be 15 doing.” Nevertheless, there is no getting around the fact that sales of translation in this country do not 16 sales of English titles abroad. Why are U.S. readers and publishers so 17 to literature in translation? Some chalk it up to cultural 18 . Several writers 19 there is a certain arrogance on the part of British and American publishing houses, which consider anything published in another language to be automatically 20 . English is, in practical terms, the most important language in the world today, and whether imperialism is 21 or not, that reality has a certain effect on American publishing. Still, many target a less pragmatic, more culture-specific kind of solipsism. “America is just frighteningly different from the 22 of the world,” says Barbara Epler, edit...
