翻译二级笔译综合能力分类模拟题56_真题-无答案

翻译二级笔译综合能力分类模拟题56

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Ⅰ Vocabulary and Grammar

Part 1 Vocabulary Selection

1. Things went well for her during her early life but in her middle age her ______ seemed to change. A. affair B. luck C. event D. chance

2. Many sports people, especially the Gold winners, all know that they will have to break fresh ______and find a line of business for the later part of their life. A. field B. heaven C. road D. ground

3. It is understandable that though adolescent maturational and developmental states occur in an orderly sequence, their timing ______ with regard to onset and duration. A. falters B. varies C. accelerates D. dwindles

4. Arrogance and pride are similar in meaning, but there is a (n) ______ difference between them. A. submerged B. indecisive C. indistinct D. subtle

5. The popularity of the film show that the reviewers\" fears **pletely ______. A. unjustified B. unjust C. misguided D. unaccepted

6. I will never ______ the experiences of the four years at Howard University, though there were unhappy encounters. A. discharge B. recharge C. discard D. dispose

7. Disturbed by the ______ nature of the plays being presented, the Puritans closed the theaters in 12.

A. mediocre B. fantastic C. moribund D. salacious

8. Both coffee and tea have beneficial as well as ______ side-effects; while they stimulate the heart and help **e fatigue, they also cause insomnia and other nervous disorder. A. injurious B. malignant C. salutary D. specious

9. Three men were feared dead last night after a helicopter ______ off course into an oil platform and ditched into the North Sea. A. blandished B. ignited C. veered D. instigated

10. Some Americans are not sure if Obama is a president with great ______ and therefore deserves their political support. A. instigation B. integrity C. instinct D. intensity

Part 2 Vocabulary Replacement

1. Often the roots of the plants harbor ants, which help build up the soil by their wastes and dead bodies.

A. provide food for B. give shelter to C. supply water for D. obtain food from

2. Although the imperial guards despised the motive of the revolution, they actually helped the discontented, **mon people to attack and occupy the Bastille. A. disruptive B. discouraged C. dissatisfied D. disagreeable

3. Historians of the 1960\"s portrayed Jefferson as a dogmatic thinker, who was eager to fill the yound with his political orthodoxy and censored ideas which he did not like. A. judicious B. cynical C. proficient D. doctrinaire

4. The man had a rather shady occupation and made a lot of money within a short period of time. A. profitable B. comfortable C. honorable D. dishonest

5. It is formulated that the provisions of any regional constitutions may not conflict with those of the Constitution. A. interrelations B. stipulations C. interpretations D. jurisdictions

Part 3 Correcting Grammatical Errors

1. Just consider, it was only one minute when she left school, and the impressions of six years are not got over in that space of time. A. only one minute she left B. but one minute that she left C. one minute when she had left D. only one minute before she left

2. \"We\"re not bringing in millions of dollars,\" says a director of development. \"But we want to make sure the demand is there before we act to the project.\" A. of B. off

C. on D. for

3. The mother says that her daughter would be frightened to death if the door of the house is left opened.

A. is left open B. were left opened C. was left open D. was to be opened

4. Some children display an unacceptable curiosity about every new thing they encounter. A. incredible B. infectious C. incompatible D. inaccessible

5. Nearly everyone in Britain would like to own their own home and, whether they do or not, they are prepared to put time and money into decorating and furnishing it or even to making structural change to it.

A. to make structure change of B. making structural alterations to C. in making structure alterations of D. make strcture change to

Ⅱ Reading Comprehension

Sofia Coppola\"s \"Lost in Translation\" is a funny, bittersweet movie that uses cultural dislocation as a metaphor for people who have gotten lost in their own lives. The movie contains pricelessslapstickfrom Bill Murray, finely tuned performances by Murray and the beautiful Scarlett Johansson and a visual and aural design that cultivates a romantic though melancholy mood. In only her second feature, Coppola has made a poised, intelligent film that nicely balances laughs with a poignancy rarely seen in American movies. If Focus Features markets \"Lost in Translation\" carefully, this most **edy could win audiences well beyond art houses.

Bob Harris (Murray) is agrumpymovie star in town to shoot a **mercial. He is not only plagued by jet lag and gloom over a deteriorating marriage of many years, he is also in the midst of a midlife crisis that dampens his spirits but not his wit.

Charlotte(Johansson), the neglected wife of a photographer, experiences a similar air-conditioned nightmare. Married two years, she already feels lost in the relationship, unable to participate in her husband\"s career orpinpointwhat she wants out of life. When she ventures into the city, she is confronted by a distorted version of Western modernity.

These two people discover each other late at night at the bar. Neither one can sleep. A friendship evolves in their mutual isolation.

Coppola sees in Tokyo\"s crowded, neon-lit urban landscape a society estranged from its own culture. The night is filled with pleasure-seekers obsessed by games, toys and American pop culture. Only when Charlotte takes a train to Kyoto is she able to experience the old Japan of ancient temples and gardens, tea houses and kimono-clad figures. This role fits Murray like his own skin. A middle-aged burnout who sees no challenges on his horizon gradually changes into a man revitalized by another alienated soul. **ic touch enriches the character with a self-deprecating wit and. in a few sequences, a rubbery physicality that earns sustained laughs. Johansson makes Charlotte\"s loneliness and disillusionment palpable as the woman is cut off from life in ways she never imagined.

Using high-speed film stock, cinematographer Lance Acord gives the glaring neon and numbingly sleek interiors a kind of romantic sheen. The score produced by Brian Reitzell created out of Japanese musical themes and \"Tokyo dream-pop\" adds to the sense of an Eastern city that hassuccumbedin large measure to Western culture.

1. The word \"slapstick\" underlined in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______. A. farce B. soap opera C. idol play D. science fiction

2. \"Lost in translation\" is a movie about ______.

A. a couple who sought happiness in a foreign country B. some westerners keen on learning the oriental culture C. the funny experiences of some film-making crew in Japan D. people whose lives got disrupted in an alien culture

3. The boldfaced word \"poignancy\" in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______. A. happiness B. clarity C. cleverness D. sadness

4. The word \"grumpy\" underlined in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______. A. short-tempered B. snippy C. testy D. cranky

5. Which of the following is NOT true about Bob Harris? A. He is a bad-tempered movie star.

B. He is sad because of his unhappy marriage. C. He is a bit slow as he is in a midlife crisis. D. He is one of Charlotte\"s friends.

6. The word \"pinpoint\" underlined in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______. A. subscribe exactly B. know C. confirm D. point out

7. Charlotte sees no hope in life because ______. A. she feels alienated from her busy husband

B. she feels unable to stand the hardships in Japan C. she has been abandoned by her husband

D. she has had a recurring nightmare about her death

8. The two characters in the film can be described as ______. A. exhausted but happy B. energetic but indifferent C. enthusiastic and romantic D. emotionally tired and lonely

9. The word \"succumbed\" underlined in the last Paragraph refers to ______. A. submit to B. obey C. resign D. truckle

10. It can be learned that \"Tokyo dream-pop\" ______. A. was adapted to the music of the film B. **posed by Brian Reitzell

C. must be a theme song sung in the movie D. must be about Tokyo\"s Westernization

Ⅲ Cloze Test

Our Perception

Most of us assume that our eyes send an accurate copy of the external world along nerve pathways to the brain, where it is projected on a kind of screen. Yet there is a good deal of evidence that our impressions are not simply mental photographs of what is going on \"out there.\" Rather, our perceptions are filtered through the lens of our previous experiences, attitudes and beliefs. This is true of even the simplest kinds of perception. For example, when a car appears on the 1 your eyes send an image of a miniature automobile to your 2 , an image that grows larger as the car approaches. What you 3 , however, is a normal-sized car, because you know that cars do not 4 and contract. If the car is yours and you know it\"s 5 , you will perceive it as blue whether it\"s in bright sunlight, dark shadow, or under a yellow 6 .

In much the same way, we adjust our social perceptions to 7 what we know—or think we know. An old 8 illustrates this. A man and his son are in an accident. The 9 is killed; the boy is rushed to the hospital for emergency 10 . The **es into the operating room, looks at the boy, and 11 , \"I can\"t operate. That\"s my son.\" Who is the surgeon? The boy\"s mother. Many people are 12 by this riddle because they expect a doctor (especially a surgeon) to be a 13 . All of us have this tendency to **munications in the 14 of our own ideas and beliefs. Sometimes, different people may 15 different messages in the **munication. Take the TV 16 All in the Family. Students viewers who had been identified 17 highly prejudiced saw the main character, a bigoted white man 18 Archie Bunker, as a likeable grouch who won most of his 19 with members of his family. Students who were low in prejudice thought 20 Archie lost these arguments and that the whole point of the show was to ridicule his prejudices.

In short, our perceptions of the social world are anything but accurate copies of what is going on outside. We pick and choose, according to our expectations, and we fit what we see into a mental image of reality which we have already formed. In large part, what we \"see\" is determined by where we stand in the social system. Ask a fourth-grader, a teacher, a principal, a janitor, and a parent to describe the same school, and you will get five different pictures. Each has different information, and each looks at the same \"facts\" in a different way. Ask a man and wife to describe their marriage, and you might not know they were talking about the same family. \"His\" marriage and \"her\" marriage may be quite different. What is common sense to a man may be nonsense to a woman! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Ⅳ Writing

1. Read the following English passage and then write a Chinese summary of approximately 300 words that expresses its main ideas and basic information.Deceptively small in column inches, a recent New York Times article holds large meaning for us in business. The item concerned one Daniel Provenzano, 38, of Upper Saddle River, N.J. Here is the relevant portion:

When he owned a Fort Lee **pany called Advice Inc., Mr. Provenzano said he found out that a sales representative he employed had stolen $9,000. Mr. Provenzano said he told the man that \"if he wanted to keep his employment, I would have to break his thumb.\" He said another Advice employee drove the sales representative to Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, broke the thumb with a hammer outside the hospital, and then had a car service take the man home after the thumb was repaired.

Mr. Provenzano explained that he \"didn\"t want to set an example\" that workers could get away with stealing. The worker eventually paid back $4,500 and kept his job, he said. I know that you\"re thinking: This is an outrage. I, too, was shocked that Provenzano was being prosecuted for his astute management. Indeed, I think his \"modest proposal\" has a lot to teach managers as they struggle with the problems of our people-centered business environment. Problems such as....

Dealing with the bottom 10%. GE made the system famous, but plenty of companies are using it: Every year you get rid of the worst-evaluated workers. Many managers object that this practice is inhumane, but not dealing with that bottom 10% leads to big performance problems. Provenzano found a kinder, gentler answer. After all, this employee would have been fired virtually anywhere else. But at Advice Inc., he stayed on the job. And you know what? I bet he became a very, very—very—productive employee. For most managers Provenzano\"s innovative response will be a welcome new addition to their executive tool kit. And by the way, \"executive tool kit\" is clearly more than just a metaphor at Advice Inc.

Being the employer of choice. With top talent scarce everywhere, **panies now want to be their industry\"s or **munity\"s most desirable employer. Advice Inc. understood. The employee in question wasn\"t simply disciplined in his supervisor\"s office and sent home. No, that\"s how an ordinary employer would have done it. But at Advice Inc., another employee—the HR manager, perhaps? —took time out his busy day and drove the guy right to the emergency room. And then—the detail that says it all—**pany provided a car service to drive the employee home. The message to talented job **es through loud and clear: Advice Inc. is a company that cares.

Setting an example to others. An eternal problem for managers is how to let all employees know

what happens to those who perform especially well or badly. A **panies actually post everyone\"s salary and bonus on their intranet. But pay is so one-dimensional. At Advice Inc., a problem that would hardly be mentioned at **panies—embezzlement— was undoubtedly the topic of rich discussions for weeks, at least until the employee\"s cast came off. Any employee theft probably went way, way—way—down.

When the great Roberto Goizueta was CEO of Coca-Cola he used to talk about this problem of setting examples and once observed, \"Sometimes you must have an execution in the public square!\" But of course he was speaking only figuratively. If he had just listened to his own words, Goizueta might have been an even better CEO.

Differentiation. This is one of Jack Welch\" s favorite concepts—the idea that managers should treat different employees very differently based on performance. Welch liked to differentiate with salary, bonus, and stock options, but now, in what must henceforth be known as the post-Provenzano management era, we can see that GE\"s great management thinker just wasn\"t thinking big enough.

This Times article is tantalizing and frustrating. In just a few sentences it opens a whole new world of management, yet much more surely remains to be told. We must all urge Provenzano to write a book explaining **plete managerial philosophy.