804-英语写作与翻译-广东财经大学2020年研究生招生初试自命题试题真题

1、欢迎报考广东财经大学硕士研究生，祝你考试成功！（第 PAGE 3 页 共 NUMPAGES 3 页）PAGE PAGE 3广东财经大学硕士研究生入学考试试卷考试年度：2020年 考试科目代码及名称：804-英语写作与翻译(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！Part I Writing （100分）Summary Writing (1题，共40分)Write a summary based on the following text. Your summary must be in a continuous parag

2、raph and contain 120150 words.The term “cyberspace”(网际空间) was coined by William Gibson, a science-fiction writer. He first used it in a short story in 1982, and expanded on it a couple of years later in a novel, “Neuromancer”, whose main character, Henry Dorsett Case, is a troubled computer hacker a

3、nd drug addict. In the book Mr Gibson describes cyberspace as “a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators.”His literary creation turned out to be remarkably prescient. Cyberspace has become a popular term, symbolic of the computing devices, networks, wireless li

4、nks and other infrastructure that bring the internet to billions of people around the world. The myriad connections forged by these technologies have brought tremendous benefits to everyone who uses the web to tap into humanitys collective store of knowledge every day.But there is a darker side to t

5、his extraordinary invention. Data breaches are becoming ever bigger and more common. Last year over 800m records were lost, mainly through such attacks. Among the most prominent recent victims has been Target, whose chief executive, Gregg Steinhafel, stood down from his job in May, a few months afte

6、r the giant American retailer revealed that online intruders had stolen millions of digital records about its customers, including credit- and debit-card details. Other well-known firms such as Adobe, a tech company, and eBay, an online marketplace, have also been hit. The potential damage, though,

7、extends well beyond such commercial incursions. Americas president, Barack Obama, said in a White House press release earlier this year that cyber-threats “pose one of the gravest national-security dangers” the country is facing.Securing cyberspace is hard because the architecture of the internet wa

8、s designed to promote connectivity, not security. Its founders focused on getting it to work and did not worry much about threats because the network was affiliated with Americas military. As hackers turned up, layers of security, from antivirus programs to firewalls, were added to try to keep them

9、at bay. Gartner, a research firm, reckons that last year organizations around the globe spent $67 billion on information security. But the task is becoming harder. Cyber-security, which involves protecting both data and people, is facing multiple threats, notably cybercrime and online industrial esp

10、ionage, both of which are growing rapidly. A recent estimate by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) puts the annual global cost of digital crime and intellectual-property theft at $445 billiona sum roughly equivalent to the GDP of a smallish rich European country such as Austri

11、a.There is, therefore, an urgent need to provide incentives to improve cyber-security, be they carrots or sticks. One idea is to encourage internet-service providers, or the companies that manage internet connections, to shoulder more responsibility for identifying and helping to clean up computers

12、infected with malicious software. Another is to find ways to ensure that software developers produce code with fewer flaws in it so that hackers have fewer security holes to exploit. An additional reason for getting tech companies to give a higher priority to security is that cyberspace is about to

13、undergo another massive change. Over the next few years billions of new devices in our daily lives, from cars to household appliances and medical equipment, will be fitted with tiny computers that connect them to the web and make them more useful. Essay Writing (1题，60分)There is a debate in the forei

14、gn studies circle over the disciplinary attribute of English major in recent years. Do you agree with those scholars who insist that English is merely a tool of communication, or do you agree with those who regard it more as a carrier of cultural values? Write an essay of 400600 words on your opinio

15、n of English as a foreign language.Part II Translation(50分)English-Chinese Translation (25分)The day passed, and the night following, and the next, and next; till, almost without their being aware, five days had slipped by in absolute seclusion, not a sight or sound of a human being disturbing their

16、peacefulness, such as it was. The changes of the weather were their only events, the birds of the forest their only company. By tacit consent they hardly once spoke of any incident of the past subsequent to their wedding-day. The gloomy intervening time seemed to sink into chaos, over which the pres

17、ent and prior times closed as if it never had been. Whenever he suggested that they should leave their shelter, and go forwards towards Southampton or London, she showed a strange unwillingness to move. “Why should we put an end to all thats sweet and lovely!” she deprecated. “What must come will come.” And, looking through the gap of the curtains: “All is trouble outside there; inside here content.”He peeped out also. It was quite tru