翻译二级笔译综合能力-21_真题-无答案

翻译二级笔译综合能力-21
(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
Ⅰ V ocabulary and Grammar
Part 1 V ocabulary Selection
Directions: Complete each of the following sentences by selecting the one word from the four choices marked by letters A, B, C and D that can **plete the statement.
1. Because of the economic crises, many graduating students have to be ______ the pavemenmts for a job even before graduation.
A. walking
B. pounding
C. locating
D. cashing
2. As the crisis is sweeping across the copuntry, many young people, especially college graduates, can't but get in ______ of themselves, not knowing what to do with their "future".
A. back
B. front
C. frontier
D. backyard
3. 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
4. Most of the authorities knew that they had to ______ a halt to that sort of energy-consuming management.
A. nail
B. hammer
C. make
D. call
5. Some people are born to have a very good memory whereas many other people are born to have
a memory like a ______.
A. sleeve
B. sieve
C. button
D. basket
6. It is commonly acknowledged that no one can make a ______ purse out of a sow's ear.
A. cotton
B. nylon
C. silk
D. satin
7. In our philosophy of life we believe that in most cases what is sauce for the ______ is sauce for the gander.
A. chicken
B. pigs
C. ducks
D. goose
8. I often tell people that have failed in some business that what you lose on the ______ you get back on the roundabouts.
A. swings
B. sprays
C. ends
D. logs
9. Frankly speaking, I am not at all for anything that is all the ______. I respect things that can sustain and carry some far-reaching significance.
A. rag
B. blacket
C. rate
D. rage
10. She soon found that in that place she was just like a square ______ in a round hole.
A. log
B. board
C. peg
D. hog
11. It's a sure thing that if she knows that there is a ______ sale in town, she will certainly rush to the scene.
A. liguidation
B. station
C. realization
D. modification
12. Some good wives can always get their money's worth. They seldom buy things that they are made to pay through the ______.
A. arm
B. leg
C. nose
D. face
13. Since 2008, there have been more and more famous people in the acting profession whose name becomes "smelly", and whose life and career are between the ______ and the block.
A. needle
B. twiddle
C. riddle
D. beetle
14. Some corrupted officials the world over, whatever crimes they **mitted, can always get away with ______.
A. murmur
B. murder
C. mercy
D. motive
15. There are always people in **munity who are always on the gravy train and in Fortune's ______.
A. leg
B. nap
C. fat
D. lap
16. According to the newspaper, the police are still looking for the criminal, who is still at ______.
A. large
B. bay
C. dawn
D. dusk
17. The present situation of people's abnormal behaviors speaks volumes for the fact that there is a
a large number of people whose thinking is already out of ______.
A. tear
B. gear
C. fear
D. smear
18. I can't understand why there are more and more people who are breaking a fly on the ______ instead of getting their labor's worth.
A. board
B. plate
C. wheel
D. reel
19. Until now the ______ of life is still beyond the knowledge of **mon folks: few people know how and in what way the human organs are working and functioning.
A. wheels
B. fate
C. reels
D. parts
20. A good hand at management usually has second ______ to one's bow, a best card to be played when needed.
A. rope
B. thread
C. straw
D. string
Part 2 V ocabulary Replacement
Directions: In each of the following statements there is one word or phrase underlined. And below each statement, there are four choices headed by letters A, B, C and D. Tick the one letter that represents the one word or phrase that can replace the underlined item without changing the meaning of the statement. There is only One right answer.
1. Without ever having made any effort, some people become rich overnight, making bundles and living like fighting cocks.
A. endeavour
B. sweat
C. struggle
D. weight
2. **plaint about our management was not without reasons.
A. could be rectified
B. could be justified
C. was modified
D. could be enforced
3. Because of the limited time, he swallowed the food and hurried to the work place.
A. fastened
B. engulfed
C. hurried
D. quickened
4. You are not to interrupt the general manager fight now. He is at the moment busy with some urgent business.
A. enforced in
B. tangled with
C. fumbled at
D. occupied with
5. People who are unable to recognize their own weak points are nine out of ten good at finging fault with the weak points of others.
A. identify
B. modify
C. rectify
D. justify
6. The newly elected president seems to be a resolute man, a man of sound judgement and quick decision.
A. resolvent
B. resonant
C. manly
D. manful
7. The president of the corporation demanded that all important business documents be photocopied in case of a computer diasater.
A. rewritten
B. manifolded
C. folded
D. manifested
8. The speaker made some critical remarks on the management of the local government. As a result, he brought himself some very bad trouble.
A. poignant
B. poisonous
C. critic
D. resonant
9. People living in big modem cities are scarcely aware of the fact that there are still many people who are living in poor and filthy environments.
A. poverty-stricken
B. sloppy
C. sordid
D. solid
10. Although there is a great number of new books launched onto the market, most of them are merely for the birds.
A. a spate
B. a variety
C. a pile
D. spit
11. That university has produced a large number of social celebrities, including four Presidents
and three Speakers.
A. sprouted
B. spawned
C. stashed
D. spouted
12. Further information concerening measures to be taken will be made clear in a week's time.
A. spelled out
B. announced
C. visible
D. transparent
13. According to the newly released documents, this idea of rectification will be made known to all fields of the superstructure.
A. spheres
B. spears
C. communities
D. branches
14. Recently, officials at this level all seem to be exhausted, though few of them have ever made **plaint.
A. consolidated
B. commoved
C. slushed
D. spent
15. The suspect was hitting the policeman on the head and knocked him down with a few wild kicks.
A. stroking
B. sloping
C. smiting
D. smirching
16. The newly released documents in connection with the protection of the local environments irritated the local people.
A. engulfed
B. enraged
C. agitated
D. agonized
17. The decision of the city government has actually worsened the traffic situation in that city.
A. aggravated
B. aggrandized
C. alarmed
D. revitalized
18. After the conference, the participants were scattered into smaller groups to have a free session of talks.
A. bee
B. donkey
C. cow
D. bull
19. He doesn't need anyone to figure out the reason. He knows where the trouble is.
A. where the belt tightens
B. where the cat jumps
C. where the shoe pinches
D. where the dog lies
20. In reading, whatever the material, the professor can always find the best elements from the mass of symbols.
A. isolate
B. pinpoint
C. point
D. figure out
Part 3 Correcting Grammatical Errors
Directions: In each of the following statements there is an underlined part that is indicated as an error. Below each statement, there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part so that the error is corrected. There is only ONE right answer.
1. 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
2. Young people tend to stay with their family longer on these days for accommodation is expensive but, when they move away to a job or college, there are various options open to them.
A. these days for
B. during these days as
C. these days as
D. within these days for
3. In Britan, a building society or bank are the official owners and the mortgage is a financial loan for anything that goes up to 100% of the value of the house, repayable over twenty to forty years.
A. that is to 100% of the value of
B. up to 100% of the value of
C. which is up 100% of the value to
D. going up to 100% of the value to
4. If people cannot afford to buy their own house, they can rent property from a private landlord, as 10% of the population does, or from their local council.
A. as do 10% of the population
B. just as 10% of the population will do
C. the same as 10% of the people do
D. as will do 10% of the population
5. Regarding their family roles, Chinese wives, Korean wives and American wives differ from each other in both how long they spent at home and their status as an individual.
A. each other in either the time they spend home and their status
B. one another in both how long they spend at home and what their status
C. each other in both the time they spend home and their status
D. one another in both the time they spend at home and their status
6. When the Art Gallery was being opened for the public, the Prime Minister was the first entering the gallery following other visitors.
A. was open to... entering the gallery followed with
B. was opened for... to enter the gallery following by
C. was opened to... to enter the gallery followed by
D. was to be opened for... entering the gallery followed with
7. Only when total production expands faster than the rate of labor force growth plus the rate of productivity increase and minus the rate with average annual hours fall so does the unemployment rate.
A. at which average annual hours fall does the umemployment rate fall.
B. which average annual hours fall so does the umemployment rate.
C. in which average annual hours fall and so does the umemployment.
D. which average annual hours fall does the umemployment rate fall.
8. The woman proceeded gently to tickle that withered chin of seventy, much as it had been that of
a four- or five-year old child.
A. much as if it was that
B. much as though it were that
C. much as though it has been that
D. much as though it had been that
9. All mothers are of the same nature as a mother, and if your Mum will be a tycoon like Gates, she will be able to buy you the same car as your friend's.
A. were... would
B. was... would
C. had been... would have been
D. is... will
10. Her face is a curious misture: the soft dreamy eyes contrast so sharply with the firm, I almost said, hard little mouth.
A. I have almost said
B. I had almost said
C. I would almost say
D. I should have said
11. An investigation that is unguided can occasionally yield new facts, even notable ones, and the typical appearance of such facts is the result of a search in a definite direction.
A. but the typical appearance of such facts
B. but typically the appearance of such facts
C. and typically the appearance of facts as such
D. and the typical appearance of facts as such
12. Were it not for the measures timely taken last year by the central government, these banks
could have been closed.
A. would have been
B. should have been
C. had to be
D. will have been
13. For centuries animals have been used as surrogates for people in experiments to assess the effects of therapeutic and other agents that may be later used for humans.
A. which may later be used fr humans
B. that may be later used in humans
C. which might later be used for humans
D. that might later be used in humans
14. The paradoxical aspect of the myths about Demeter, when we consider the predominant image of her as a tranquil and serene goddess, is her agitated search for her daughter.
A. when considering the predominant image of her as
B. when consider the predominant image of her as
C. while considering the predominant image of her like
D. if we consider the predominant image of her like
15. Considering the age and his family's poor living conditions and environments, he was not punished by the police as he should have been.
A. the police did not punish him as he should be
B. the police hadn't punished him as he should have been
C. the police didn't punish him as they should have done
D. the police hadn't punished him like they should have done
16. Current data suggest that, although transitional states between fear and aggression exist, fear and aggression are as distinctly physiologically as they are psychological.
A. as distinctly physiological as they are psychologically
B. as distinct physiologically as they are psychological
C. as distinct physiologically as they are psychologically
D. as distinctly physiological as they are psychological
17. If the policemen had arrived two minutes later than that, the man must have been killed by the gang.
A. Had the policemen arrived
B. If the policemen arrived
C. If the policemen arrived
D. Had the policemen had arrived
18. He must have been very hard to please, indeed, if he did not approve the salary of he job.
A. if he had not approved
B. if he is not approved of
C. if he not approves
D. if he had not approved of
19. Today, under such an unfavorable social condition, many postgraduate students hardly can escape from being sidetracked by things that are irrelevant to their healthy development.
A. could hardly escape from being
B. can hardly escape being
C. hardly can escape from
D. can hardly be escaping
20. It was the lady's view that the country's problems had been exacerbated by foreign technocrats, so to invite them to come back would be counterproductive.
A. so inviting
B. so invite
C. so that to invite
D. so that inviting。