2021年全国翻译专业资格(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 Gram ___r (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 inplete senten ___s. Below each senten ___, there are four words or phrases respectively ___rked by letters A, B, C, D. Choose the word or phrase which best pletes each senten ___. There is only one right answer. Then ___rk 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 Bei ___g, 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. removed2. In ___ny ______ a lack of direction prompted the Republican Guard to call it a day. A. oasions B. cases C. events D. days3. They did considerable work to ______ the ___sses of the United States with the elementary problems of Latin America. A. allow B. acquaint C. notify D. propagate4. My mother says a teaching ___chine 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. re ___nufactured5. The big retailers are starting to think s ___ll, too. Sain ___ury's and Tesco have launched convenien ___-store chains, called Local and Express, respectively - that have fast bee _____ in British towns. A. ubiquitous B. established C. frequented D. known6. The solidarity among the young, especially the ___ Generation, is so strong that it's helping to _____ thecountry's deep-rooted regional divide. A. enhan ___ B. dissolve C. weaken D. move7. The Wright brothers continued their flying in Fran ___ and _____ all who saw them. A. saddened B. frightened C. astonished D. alarmed8. We are will aware of the responsibilities that ne___ssarily _____ to our offi ___. A. attach B. confronts C. given D. fa ___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. looking10. 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. fruitful11. When you ___ke the sacrifi ___ in ___rriage, the psychologists say, you're sacrificing not to each other butto ______ in a relationship. A. unity B. utility C. fraternity D. reality12. The constant changes in fashion, _____ with a view to higher sales, ___de greater de ___nds on women as a class.A. predictedB. dictatedC. statedD. related13. It is easy to see why ___ny little girls prefer to_____ with the ___le role, but the girl who does find the___le role more attractive is fa ___d with a dilem ___. A. beautify B. modify C. identify D. justify14. 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. verify15. I could easily per ___ive 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. impress16. It is a dangerous thing nowadays if you do not _____ others at arm's length, for they ___y hit you below thebelt any time. A. bake B. keep C. take D. ___ke17. I will never _____ the experien ___s of the four years at Howard University, though there were unhappy encounters. A. discharge B. recharge C. discard D. dispose18. 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. forage19. 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 rocks20. He aimed at finding some workable _____ with a ___n who was a ___lebrity not only in the inward-reflecting world of Oxford but in the larger world outside. A.neighborhood B. work ___nship C. relationship D. crafts___nshipPart 2 Vocabulary Repla ___ment This part consists of15 senten ___s in which one word or phrase is underlined. Below each senten ___, there are four choi ___srespectively ___rked by letters A, B, C, D. You are toselect the ONE choi ___ that can repla ___ the underlined word without causing any gram ___tical error or changingthe principal meaning of the senten ___. There is only one right answer. Then ___rk 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 ___rked ___n.After he served in Desert Storm, directing helicopter and ground units, the Army's high ___nd gave him the job of re___ the servi ___ for the post-cold war world. A. aperson whose conduct is watched with suspicion or hostility B. a ___n destined to sueed C. a re ___rkable person D.a notable person22. 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 chair ___n Akio Morita. A. free publication B. pirate publication C. lawful publication D. mercial publication23. "No," Koji ___ 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 Americanau ___n ___ B. he fa ___d America boldly C. hechallenged America D. he met the Americans' challenge proudly24. Traffic with criminals is dangerous. A. dealingwith criminals B. tracking the criminals C. fighting the criminals D. transporting criminals25. Some - such as liquid oxygen - are so cold that they embrittle ___ny constructional ___terials and evaporate continuously if not refrigerated. A. weaken B. strengthen C. redu ___ D. cause … to bee brittle26. A "Backgrounder" permits newspapermen to publishinfor ___tion given them though without attribution to the sour ___. A. a person who re ___ins behind the s ___ne B. a person providing the background knowledge C. a press conferen ___ D. a news agency27. Is it possible that the entire tale is but a garbled aount of that voyage and Biarni another name for Leif? A. detailed B. plausible C. distorted D. eye-witness28. Isolated cases of disaffection - or harbingers of a___ss cross-border movement that threatens Europe's economic stability? The question is pressing. A. sign B. forerunner C. messenger D. vanguard29. The ___n we met this morning grows ___ny kinds of plants in his garden, most of which are flowers including suulents and cacti. A. rises B. raises C. plants D. plows30. The scientist contested the assumption of previous scientists that the fate of hu ___n beings could not bepredicated. A. respected B. supposed C. suspected D. assumed31. One's knowledge of the world, aording to hu ___nists, is largely derived by observation, experien ___ and their ___ysis of the things they observe and experien ___. A. e from B. determined C. resulted in D. resulted from32. In the last 10 years we have all witnessed an impressive growth in our knowledge about the enviro___ents. A. imperative B. observable C. sustainable D. expressive33. In our culture and in our eyes suess all too often means simply outdoing other people by virtue of achievement judged by some single scale - ine or honors - and ing out at "the top". A. outfitting B. outbidding C. outraging D. outshining34. Social taboos re ___ined strong. Gambling wasvirtually prohibited ex ___pt on the ra ___courses, and drinking of alcohol was discouraged by the closing ofhotels at six o'clock and by the shortage of bottle beer.A. factuallyB. eventuallyC. consequentlyD. significantly35. Everyone must be responsible for their own behavior, and most of the young people today are interested, as faras I can per ___ive, in taking their knocks, just as ___s must take theirs. A. taking their jobs B. sharing their ideas C. assuming their responsibilities D. shaking off their responsibilitiesPart 3 Correcting Gram ___tical Errors This part consists of 15 senten ___s in which there is an underlined part that indicates a gram ___tical error. Below eachsenten ___, there are four choi ___s respectively ___rkedby letters A, B, C, D. You are to select the ONE choi ___ and repla ___ the underlined element(s) so that the erroris erased and corrected. There is only one right answer. Then ___rk the corresponding letter with a single baracross 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 myselfB. to momC. for momD. by myself37. Of course, nobody ever thought the prime minister's job shall be easy. A. would B. could C. will D. should38. Downing Street is fighting fier ___ly for somethingit hopes it shall control: its reputation. "[The BBC] is now saying, 'Nobody ever said the prime minister told alie,' but that's exactly what they're saying," Alastair Campbell, Blair's director of munications, told Newsweek. "That's pretty heavy." A. could B. would C. can D. will39. The ___de-in-America idea of the global brand hasbuilt 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 building40. 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 theleast C. At most D. At the most41. For me and my other class ___tes, trying to fathom what happened to our old school friend, we ___y 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 up42. When I was an editor, I always preferred to apologise promptly, what the merits of the case, rather than fa ___ the expense and, importantly, the time consuming plexities 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 importantly43. One morning my patien ___ was growing thin during Mark talked on ___ too often, and then I ___de a novi ___-teacher's mistake. A. when B. as C. while D. whenever44. One of the key features of CBI is the use of authentic "input" - in other words, "real" reading but listening ___terial: ___gazine and newspaper articles, poems, short stories, brochures, ex ___rpts from textbooks written for native speakers of English, radio interviews, lectures, and advertisements. A. and B. or C. and/or D. Nil45. 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 anything46. 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 also47. 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 … when48. If they will not be able to reach agreement before the conferen ___, they shall lose a good opportunity of involving themselves to do the project. A. will beunable … to involving B. are unable … to involve C. are not be able … to involve D. will be able … to involving49. I was standing behind him and I did see Sandra handing the letter to Joe. A. hand B. has handed C. handed D. was handing50. The President was talking to all the department heads while a group of unexpected important clients had arrivedfor a talk with him. A. when … were arriving B. as …had arrived C. when … arriving D. when … arrivedSection 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 answersor ways of finishing. You must choose the one which youthink fits best. Then ___rk 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 Hu ___n by Lewis Tho ___s Everyone must have had at least one personal experien ___ with a puter error bythis time. Bank balan ___s are suddenly reported to have jumped from $379 into the millions, appeals for charitable contributions are ___iled over and over to people withcrazy sounding names at your address, department stores send the wrong bills, utility panies write that they'returning everything off, that sort of thing. If you ___nage to get in touch with someone and plain, you then get instantaneously typed, guilty letters from the same puter, saying, "Our puter was in error, and an adjustment is being ___de in your aount." These are supposed to be the sheerest, blindest aidents. Mistakes are not believed to be the nor ___l behavior of a good ___chine. If things go wrong, it must be a personal, hu ___n error, the result of fingering, tampering a button getting stuck, someonehitting the wrong key. The puter, at its nor ___l best, is infallible. I wonder whether this can be true. After all, the whole point of puters is that they represent an extension of the hu ___n brain, vastly improved upon but noheless hu ___n, superhu ___n ___ybe. A good puter 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 puter 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 ___chines, and standing listening, it is easy to i ___gine that the faint, distant noises are the sound ofthinking, and the turning of the spools gives them the look of wild creatures rolling their eyes in the effort to con___ntrate, choking with infor ___tion. But real thinking, and dreaming, are other ___tters. On the other hand, the eviden ___ of something like an unconscious, equivalent to ours, are all around, in every ___il. As extensions of the hu ___n 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 Hu ___n" implies that A. ___ mistakes is confined only to hu ___n beings.B. every hu ___n being cannot avoid ___ mistakes.C. all hu ___n beings are always ___ mistakes.D. every hu ___n being is born to ___ke bad mistakes.52. The first paragraph implies that A. puter errorsare so obvious that one can hardly prevent it from happening. B. the puter is so capable of ___ errors that none of them is avoidable. C. puters ___ke such errors as miscalculation and inaurate reporting. D. Computers can't think so their errors are natural and unavoidable.53. The author uses his hypothesis that "putersrepresents an extension of the hu ___n brain" in order to indicate that A. hu ___n beings are not infallible, nor are puters. B. puters are bound to ___ke as ___ny errors as hu ___n beings. C. errors ___de by puters can be avoided the same as hu ___n mistakes can be avoided. D. puters are ___de by hu ___n beings and so are their errors.54. The rhetoric the author employed in writing the third paragraph, especially the senten ___ "A good puter canthink clearly and quickly enough to beat you at chess…" is usually referred to in writing as A. cli ___x B. personification C. hyperbole D. ono ___topoeia55. The author pared the faint and distant sound of the puter to the sound of thinking and regarded it as the product of A. dreaming and thinking B. some property of errors C. consciousness D. possibilitiesQuestions 56-60 are based on the following passage. The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American by Jeff Smith Our realAmerican foods have e from our soil and have been used by ___ny groups -- those who already lived here and those who have e here to live. The Native Americans already had developed an interesting cuisine using the abundant foods that were so prevalent. The influen ___ 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___nner. 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 sin ___ it ___rked them as Europeans. The fork was not absolutely mon 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 an___stral heritage, but they see themselves as Americans. This special self-identity through your an ___stors whocame from other lands was supposed to disappear in this country. The term melting pot was first used in referen ___ to America in the late 1700s, so this belief that we would all bee 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 an___stry group in America is the English. There are more people in America who claim to have e 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 Ger ___ns, then the Irish, the Afro-Americans, the French, the Italians, the Scottish, and the Polish. The Mexican and American Indian groups are all s___ller than any of the above, though they were theoriginal cooks in this country.56. Which of the following statements is nearly identical in meaning with the senten ___ "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. B. What you can expect is that they would not stop eating unlessthere was no more food. C. The only thing you would expect is that they wouldn't stop eating till they had had enough of the food. D. the only thing is that they wouldn't stop eating till they felt sick.57. Which of the following statements is Not true? A. English people had bad table ___nners. B. American food was exclusively unique in its flavors and varieties. C. American ___t contained a lot of fat, salt and liquor. D. Europeans were not at all austomed to the American way of eating.58. The author's attitude towards the American food is that A. American food is better than foods from other countries. B. American food is superior to European foods. C. the European food had helped enrich the flavors and varieties of the American foods. D. people from other countries could still identify from the American foods the food that was unique to their countries.59. Immigrant groups, when they got settled down in the United States, still have had their own sense of self-identity because A. their foods are easily identified among all the foods Americans eat. B. their foods stand out in sharp contrast to foods of other countries. C. they know pretty well what elements of the American food are of their own countries' origin. D. they know pretty well how their foods contribute to American cuisine.60. Which of the following statements is true? A. People from other cultures or nations start to lose their self-identity on ___ they get settled down in America. B. The "melting pot" is supposed to melt all the foods but in reality it doesn't. C. The special sense of self-identity of people from other countries can't ___intain on ___ they bee Americans. D. The "melting pot" finds it capable of melting all the food traditions into the American tradition.Questions 61-64 are based on the following passage."It's like being bitten to death by ducks." That's how one mother described her constant squabbles with her eleven-year-old daughter. And she's hardly alone in the experien ___. The arguments almost always involve mundane ___tters -taking out the garbage, ing home on time, cleaning up the bedroom. But despite its b ___ity, this relentless bickering takes its adoles ___nts - particularly mothers - report lower levels of life satisfaction, less ___rital happiness, and more general distress than parents of younger children. Is this continual arguing ne ___ssary? For the past two years, my students and I have been examining the day-to-day relationships of parents and young teenagers to learn how and why family ties change during the transition from childhood into adoles ___n ___. Repeatedly, I am struck by the fact that, despite considerable love between most teens and their parents, they can't help sparring. Even in the closest of families, parents and teenagers squabble and bicker surprisingly often - so often, in fact, that we hear impassioned recountings of these arguments in virtually every discussion we have with parents or teenagers. One of the most frequently heard phrases on our interview tapes is, "We usually get along but …" As psychologist Anne Petersen notes, the subject of parent-adoles ___nt conflict has generated considerable controversy among researchers and clinicians. Until about twenty years ago, our views ofsuch conflict were shaped by psycho ___ytic clinicians and theorists, who argued that spite and revenge, passive aggressiveness and rebelliousness toward parents are all nor ___l, even healthy, aspects of adoles ___n ___. But stu ___s conducted during the 1970s on samples of average teenagers and their parents (rather than those who spent Wednesday afternoons on ___ysts' couches) challenged the view that family storm and stress was inevitable or pervasive. These surveys consistently showed that three-fourths of all teenagers and parents, here and abroad, feel quite close to each other and report getting along very well. Family relations appeared far more pacific than professionals and the public had believed.61. Aording to the passage, parents and teenagers are always at loggerheads with each other over A. the careless attitude of teenagers toward their parents' work pressure. B. who should take the lion's share of the housework. C. the finger-pointing attitude of the parents toward their children. D. disagreements on each other's behavioral patterns.62. The parents-children relationship changes from the relative positive to the relative negative when A. the children reach 7 or 8 years of age. B. the children reach 13 or 14 years of age. C. the parents begin to have too___ny household responsibilities. D. the parents begin to feel there is too much burden in the house.63. Stu ___s conducted during the 1970s on parents-children relationship indicated that A. adoles ___n ___ did not cause as much trouble as clinicians and theorists had stated. B. Children's aggressiveness and rebelliousness were growing. C. Children-parents relationship was declining. D. teenagers became even more abhorrent of their parents.64. The author's own discoveries from the day-to-day relationships of parents and young teenagers indicate that A. storm and stress between the parents and the teenagers are nor ___l. B. storm and conflicts are unavoidable. C. parents can never avoid the conflicts unless they love their children. D. parents' strictness lead to their children's disapproval of them.Questions 65-71 are based on the following passage. Questions of education are frequently discussed as if they bore no relation to the social system in which and for which the education is carried on. This is one of the monest reasons for the unsatisfactoriness of the answers.It is only within a particular social system that a system of education has any meaning. If education today seems to deteriorate, if it seems to bee more and more ___tic and meaningless, it is pri ___rily because we have no settled and satisfactory arrangement of society, and because we have both vague and diverse opinions about the kind of society we want. Education is a subject which cannot be discussed in a void: our questions raise other questions, social, economic, financial, political. And the bearings are on more ulti ___te problems even than these: to know what we want in education we must know what we want in general, we must derive our theory of education from our philosophy of life. The problem turns out to be a religious problem. One might almost speak of a "crisis" of education. There are particular problems for each country, for each civilization, just as there are particularproblems for each parent; but there is also a general problem for the whole of the civilized world, and for the uncivilized so far as it is being taught by its civilized superiors; a problem which ___y be as acute in Japan, in China or in India as in Britain or Europe or America. The progress (I do not mean extension) of education for several ___nturies has been from one aspect a drift, from another aspect a push; for it has tended to be dominated by the idea of "getting on". The individual wants more education, not as an aid to acquisition of wisdom but in order to get on; the nation wants more in order to get the better of other nations, the class wants to get the better of other classes, or at least to hold its own against them. Education is associated therefore with technical efficiency on the one hand, and with rising in society on the other. Education bees something to which everybody has a "right", even irrespective of his capacity; and when everyone getsit - by that time, of course, in a diluted and ___erated form - then we naturally discover that education is no longer an infallible means of getting on, and people turn to another fallacy: that of "education for leisure" - without having revised their notions of "leisure". As soon。