全国翻译专业资格(水平)考试英语二级笔译综合能力模拟试题

全国翻译专业资格（水平）考试英语二级笔译

综合能力模拟试题

Section 1: Vocabulary and Grammar (25 Points)

This section consists of three parts. Read the directions for each part before answering the questions. The time for this section is 25 minutes.

Part 1 Vocabulary Selection

In this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are four words or phrases respectively marked by letters A, B, C, D. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. There is only one right answer. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.

1. The streets of the Dual Springs neighborhood, a migrant-worker hub in northern Beijing, are ______. That's no surprise; more than 13,000 people have been quarantined in China's capital to halt the insidious spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

A. deserted

B. vacated

C. unlived in

D. removed

2. In many ______ a lack of direction prompted the

Republican Guard to call it a day.

A. occasions

B. cases

C. events

D. days

3. They did considerable work to ______ the masses of the United States with the elementary problems of Latin America.

A. allow

B. acquaint

C. notify

D. propagate

4. My mother says a teaching machine has to be _____ to fit the mind of each boy and girl it teaches and that each kid has to be taught differently.

A. modified

B. considered

C. adjusted

D. remanufactured

5. The big retailers are starting to think small, too. Sainsbury's and Tesco have launched convenience-store chains, called Local and Express, respectively - that have fast become _____ in British towns.

A. ubiquitous

B. established

C. frequented

D. known

6. The solidarity among the young, especially the 386 Generation, is so strong that it's helping to _____ the country's deep-rooted regional divide.

A. enhance

B. dissolve

C. weaken

D. move

7. The Wright brothers continued their flying in France and _____ all who saw them.

A. saddened

B. frightened

C. astonished

D. alarmed

8. We are will aware of the responsibilities that necessarily _____ to our office.

A. attach

B. confronts

C. given

D. face

9. People say that what we are all _____ is a meaning for life, but I don't think that's what we all look for.

A. seeing

B. seeking

C. watching

D. looking

10. When Joe was left to live with those people, he found that they were so ____ of life that he couldn't stay with them

A. painful

B. disdainful

C. meaningful

D. fruitful

11. When you make the sacrifice in marriage, the psychologists say, you're sacrificing not to each other but to ______ in a relationship.

A. unity

B. utility

C. fraternity

D. reality

12. The constant changes in fashion, _____ with a view to higher sales, made greater demands on women as a class.

A. predicted

B. dictated

C. stated

D. related

13. It is easy to see why many little girls prefer to _____ with the male role, but the girl who does find the male role more attractive is faced with a dilemma.

A. beautify

B. modify

C. identify

D. justify

14. If we can _____ any kind of killing in the name of religion, the door is opened for all kinds of other justifications.

A. purify

B. satisfy

C. justify

D. verify

15. I could easily perceive that his heart burnt to relieve his starving kids, but he seemed ashamed to ______ his inability to me.

A. discover

B. recover

C. demonstrate

D. impress

16. It is a dangerous thing nowadays if you do not

_____ others at arm's length, for they may hit you below the belt any time.

A. bake

B. keep

C. take

D. make

17. 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

18. We should not _____ the West, nor should we praise it to the skies and think great of everything that belongs to the West.

A. forgive

B. forsake

C. forlorn

D. forage

19. Bill Gates is one of those who are said to be

_______, able to rack huge profits at every turn.

A. on the ship

B. on the plane

C. on the gravy train

D. on the rocks

20. He aimed at finding some workable _____ with a man who was a celebrity not only in the inward-reflecting world of Oxford but in the larger world outside.

A. neighborhood

B. workmanship

C. relationship

D. craftsmanship

Part 2 Vocabulary Replacement

This part consists of 15 sentences in which one word or phrase is underlined. Below each sentence, there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C, D. You are to select the ONE choice that can replace the underlined word without causing any grammatical error or changing the principal meaning of the sentence. There is only one right answer. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.

21. It wasn't long before Franks was a marked man.

After he served in Desert Storm, directing helicopter and

ground units, the Army's high command gave him the job of remaking the service for the post-cold war world.

A. a person whose conduct is watched with suspicion or hostility

B. a man destined to succeed

C. a remarkable person

D. a notable person

22. The most notorious expression of that change was last year's bootleg publication of "The Japan That Can Say No" - the book written by right-wing politician Shintaro Ishihara and Sony chairman Akio Morita.

A. free publication

B. pirate publication

C. lawful publication

D. commercial publication

23. "No," Kojima said, "the point is, he spoke out, he stood up to America. Japan is just getting tired of being pushed around."

A. he stood up and spoke to the American audience

B. he faced America boldly

C. he challenged America

D. he met the Americans' challenge proudly

24. Traffic with criminals is dangerous.

A. dealing with criminals

B. tracking the criminals

C. fighting the criminals

D. transporting criminals

25. Some - such as liquid oxygen - are so cold that they embrittle many constructional materials and evaporate continuously if not refrigerated.

A. weaken

B. strengthen

C. reduce

D. cause … to become brittle

26. A "Backgrounder" permits newspapermen to publish information given them though without attribution to the source.

A. a person who remains behind the scene

B. a person providing the background knowledge

C. a press conference

D. a news agency

27. Is it possible that the entire tale is but a garbled account of that voyage and Biarni another name for Leif?

A. detailed

B. plausible

C. distorted

D. eye-witness

28. Isolated cases of disaffection - or harbingers of a mass cross-border movement that threatens Europe's economic stability? The question is pressing.

A. sign

B. forerunner

C. messenger

D. vanguard

29. The man we met this morning grows many kinds of plants in his garden, most of which are flowers including succulents and cacti.

A. rises

B. raises

C. plants

D. plows

30. The scientist contested the assumption of previous scientists that the fate of human beings could not be predicated.

A. respected

B. supposed

C. suspected

D. assumed

31. One's knowledge of the world, according to humanists, is largely derived by observation, experience and their analysis of the things they observe and experience.

A. come from

B. determined

C. resulted in

D. resulted from

32. In the last 10 years we have all witnessed an impressive growth in our knowledge about the environments.

A. imperative

B. observable

C. sustainable

D. expressive

33. In our culture and in our eyes success all too often means simply outdoing other people by virtue of

achievement judged by some single scale - income or honors

- and coming out at "the top".

A. outfitting

B. outbidding

C. outraging

D. outshining

34. Social taboos remained strong. Gambling was

virtually prohibited except on the racecourses, and

drinking of alcohol was discouraged by the closing of

hotels at six o'clock and by the shortage of bottle beer.

A. factually

B. eventually

C. consequently

D. significantly

35. Everyone must be responsible for their own behavior, and most of the young people today are interested, as far

as I can perceive, in taking their knocks, just as adults must take theirs.

A. taking their jobs

B. sharing their ideas

C. assuming their responsibilities

D. shaking off their responsibilities

Part 3 Correcting Grammatical Errors

This part consists of 15 sentences in which there is an underlined part that indicates a grammatical error. Below each sentence, there are four choices respectively marked

by letters A, B, C, D. You are to select the ONE choice and

replace the underlined element(s) so that the error is erased and corrected. There is only one right answer. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.

36. A survey asked British mums who work outside the home what they would most like for Mother's Day. And what

did they reply? "Flowers? Chocolates? Dinner in Paris? " No, what 72% wanted was this: a little bit of time for mother.

A. to myself

B. to mom

C. for mom

D. by myself

37. Of course, nobody ever thought the prime minister's job shall be easy.

A. would

B. could

C. will

D. should

38. Downing Street is fighting fiercely for something

it hopes it shall control: its reputation. "[The BBC] is

now saying, 'Nobody ever said the prime minister told a

lie,' but that's exactly what they're saying," Alastair Campbell, Blair's director of communications, told Newsweek. "That's pretty heavy."

A. could

B. would

C. can

D. will

39. The made-in-America idea of the global brand has built a name that people will buy on faith, and the pioneer

was Coca-Cola.

A. is building

B. is to build

C. was to build

D. was building

40. For the least, American roots are no longer an easy selling point. Through much of the postwar period, US brands could play off this cachet; Levi's ad campaigns used wholesome themes of boy-meets-girl in a heartland American setting until the early 1990s.

A. At least

B. At the least

C. At most

D. At the most

41. For me and my other classmates, trying to fathom what happened to our old school friend, we may never know

if we really would grow up with a future terrorist.

A. grow up

B. are growing up

C. grew up

D. shall grow up

42. When I was an editor, I always preferred to apologise promptly, what the merits of the case, rather than face the expense and, importantly, the time consuming complexities and debilitating worry of litigation, libel being one of the least satisfactory branches of the law.

A. whichever, more importantly

B. whatever, more important

C. whichever, more important C. whatever, more importantly

43. One morning my patience was growing thin during Mark talked once too often, and then I made a novice-teacher's mistake.

A. when

B. as

C. while

D. whenever

44. One of the key features of CBI is the use of authentic "input" - in other words, "real" reading but listening material: magazine and newspaper articles, poems, short stories, brochures, excerpts from textbooks written for native speakers of English, radio interviews, lectures, and advertisements.

A. and

B. or

C. and/or

D. Nil

45. In each person's life there are three stages. When one was young, people said, "He will do something." As he grew older and did nothing, they said, "He could do something if he found himself." When he was white-haired, people said of him, "He might do something if he could try anything."

A. He should have done something if he has tried something

B. He would have done something if he should have tried anything

C. He might do something if he would try something.

D. He might have done something if he had tried

anything

46. China not only will endeavor to curb its population growth, but will also upgrade the education of its citizens.

A. will not only … but also will

B. will not only …

but also will

C. will not only … but also

D. not only … but will

also

47. Of course, the notion suspects that while people work 50 weeks a year, their output is greater than they

work 46 or 47 weeks.

A. predicts … even if

B. assumes … if

C. assumes … when

D. predicts … when

48. If they will not be able to reach agreement before the conference, they shall lose a good opportunity of involving themselves to do the project.

A. will be unable … to involving

B. are unable … to involve

C. are not be able … to involve

D. will be able … to involving

49. I was standing behind him and I did see Sandra handing the letter to Joe.

A. hand

B. has handed

C. handed

D. was handing

50. The President was talking to all the department heads while a group of unexpected important clients had arrived for a talk with him.

A. when … were arriving

B. as … had arrived

C. when … arriving

D. when … arrived

Section 2: Reading Comprehension (50 Points, 70 minutes) In this section you will find after each of the passages a number of questions or unfinished statements about the passage, each with four (A. B. C and D) suggested answers or ways of finishing. You must choose the one which you think fits best. Then mark the corresponding letter

with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.

Questions 51-55 are based on the following passage.

To Err Is Human

by Lewis Thomas

Everyone must have had at least one personal experience with a computer error by this time. Bank balances are suddenly reported to have jumped from $379 into the millions, appeals for charitable contributions are mailed over and over to people with crazy sounding names at your address, department stores send the wrong bills, utility companies write that they're turning everything off, that sort of thing. If you manage to get in touch with someone and complain, you then get instantaneously typed, guilty letters from the same computer, saying, "Our computer was

in error, and an adjustment is being made in your account."

These are supposed to be the sheerest, blindest accidents. Mistakes are not believed to be the normal behavior of a good machine. If things go wrong, it must be

a personal, human error, the result of fingering, tampering a button getting stuck, someone hitting the wrong key. The computer, at its normal best, is infallible.

I wonder whether this can be true. After all, the whole point of computers is that they represent an extension of the human brain, vastly improved upon but nonetheless human, superhuman maybe. A good computer can think clearly and

quickly enough to beat you at chess, and some of them have even been programmed to write obscure verse. They can do anything we can do, and more besides.

It is not yet known whether a computer has its own consciousness, and it would be hard to find out about this. When you walk into one of those great halls now built for the huge machines, and standing listening, it is easy to imagine that the faint, distant noises are the sound of thinking, and the turning of the spools gives them the look of wild creatures rolling their eyes in the effort to concentrate, choking with information. But real thinking, and dreaming, are other matters. On the other hand, the evidence of something like an unconscious, equivalent to ours, are all around, in every mail. As extensions of the human brain, they have been constructed the same property of error, spontaneous, uncontrolled, and rich in possibilities.

51. The title of the writing "To Err Is Human" implies that

A. making mistakes is confined only to human beings.

B. every human being cannot avoid making mistakes.

C. all human beings are always making mistakes.

D. every human being is born to make bad mistakes.

52. The first paragraph implies that

A. computer errors are so obvious that one can hardly prevent it from happening.

B. the computer is so capable of making errors that none of them is avoidable.

C. computers make such errors as miscalculation and inaccurate reporting.

D. Computers can't think so their errors are natural and unavoidable.

53. The author uses his hypothesis that "computers represents an extension of the human brain" in order to indicate that

A. human beings are not infallible, nor are computers.

B. computers are bound to make as many errors as human beings.

C. errors made by computers can be avoided the same as human mistakes can be avoided.

D. computers are made by human beings and so are their errors.

54. The rhetoric the author employed in writing the third paragraph, especially the sentence "A good computer can think clearly and quickly enough to beat you at chess…" is usually referred to in writing as

A. climax

B. personification

C. hyperbole

D. onomatopoeia

55. The author compared the faint and distant sound of the computer to the sound of thinking and regarded it as the product of

A. dreaming and thinking

B. some property of errors

C. consciousness

D. possibilities

Questions 56-60 are based on the following passage.

The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American

by Jeff Smith

Our real American foods have come from our soil and have been used by many groups -- those who already lived here and those who have come here to live. The Native

Americans already had developed an interesting cuisine using the abundant foods that were so prevalent.

The influence that the English had upon our national eating habits is easy to see. They were a tough lot, those English, and they ate in a tough manner. They wiped their mouths on the tablecloth, if there happened to be one, and they ate until you would expect them to burst. European travelers to this country in those days were most often shocked by American eating habits, which included too much fat and too much salt and too much liquor. Not much has changed! And, the Revolutionists refused to use the fork since it marked them as Europeans. The fork was not absolutely common on the American dinner table until about the time of the Civil War, the 1860s. Those English were a tough lot.

Other immigrant groups added their own touches to the preparation of our New World food products. The groups that came still have a special sense of self-identity through their ancestral heritage, but they see themselves as Americans. This special self-identity through your ancestors who came from other lands was supposed to

disappear in this country. The term melting pot was first used in reference to America in the late 1700s, so this belief that we would all become the same has been with us for a long time. Thank goodness it has never worked. The various immigrant groups continue to add flavor to the pot, all right, but you can pick out the individual flavors easily.

The largest ancestry group in America is the English. There are more people in America who claim to have come from English blood than there are in England. But is their food English? Thanks be to God, it is not! It is American. The second largest group is the Germans, then the Irish, the Afro-Americans, the French, the Italians, the Scottish, and the Polish. The Mexican and American Indian groups are all smaller than any of the above, though they were the original cooks in this country.

56. Which of the following statements is nearly identical in meaning with the sentence "they ate until you would expect them to burst" in the second paragraph?

A. You bet they would never stop to eat till they are full.