单选题 Questions 26 ~ 28 are based on the following news from the BBC or the VOA. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the three questions. Now listen to the news.
单选题The translator must have an excellent, up-to-date knowledge of his source languages, full
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in the handling of his target language, which will be his mother tongue or language of habitual
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and a knowledge and understanding of the latest subject-matter in his field of specialization. This is, as it were, his professional equipment.
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this, it is desirable that he should have an
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mind, wide interests, a good memory and the ability to grasp quickly the basic principles of new developments. He should be willing to work
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his own, often at high speeds, but should be humble enough to
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others
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his own knowledge not always prove adequate to the task in hand. He should be able to type fairly quickly and accurately and, if he is working mainly for publication, should have more than a nodding
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with printing techniques and proof-reading. If he is working basically as an information translator,
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, for an industrial firm, he should have the flexibility of mind to enable him to
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rapidly from one source language to another,
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from one subject-matter to another, since this ability is frequently
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of him in such work. Bearing in mind the nature of the translator"s work, i.e. the processing of the written word, it is, strictly speaking,
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that he should be able to speak the language he is dealing with. If he does speak them, it is an advantage
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a hindrance, but this skill is in many ways a luxury that he can
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with. It is,
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, desirable that he should have an approximate idea about the pronunciation of his source languages even if this is restricted to
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how proper names and place names are pronounced. The same
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to an ability to write his source languages. If he can, well and good; if he cannot, it does not
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. There are many other skills and
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that are desirable in a translator.
单选题Roger Rosenblatt's book Black Fiction, in attempting to apply literary rather than sociopolitical criteria to its subject, successfully alters the approach taken by most previous studies. As Rosenblatt notes, criticism of Black writing has often served as an excuse for expounding on Black history. Addison Gayle's recent work, for example, judges the value of Black fiction by overtly political standards, faring each work according to the notions of Black identity which it put forward. Although fiction assuredly springs from political circumstances, its authors react to those circumstances in ways other than ideological, and talking about novels and stories .primarily as instruments of ideology limits much of the fictional enterprise. Rosenblatt's literary analysis discloses relations and connotations among works of Black fiction which solely political studies have overlooked or ignored. Writing acceptable criticism of Black fiction, however, presupposes giving satisfactory answers to a number of questions. First of all, is there a sufficient reason, other than the racial identity of the authors, to group together works by Black authors? Second, how does Black fiction make itself distinct from other modern fiction with which it is largely contemporaneous? Rosenblatt's idea shows that Black fiction constitutes a distinct body of writing that has an identifiable, coherent literary tradition. Looking at novels written by Blacks over the last eighty years, lie discovers recurring concerns and designs independent of chronology. These structures are thematic, and they spring, not surprisingly, from the central fact that the Black characters in these novels exist in a predominantly White culture, whether they try to conform to that culture or rebel against it. Black Fiction does leave some aesthetic questions open. Rosenblatt's thematic analysis permits considerable objectivity; he even states that it is not his intention to judge the merit of the various works--yet his reluctance seems misplaced, especially since an attempt to appraise might have led to interesting results. For instance, some of the novels appear to be structurally diffused. Is this a defect, or are the authors working out of, or trying to create, a different kind of aesthetic? In addition, the style of some Black novels, like Jean Toomer's Cane, verges on expressionism or surrealism; does this technique provide a counterpoint to the popular theme that describes the fate against which Black heroes are struggling, a theme usually conveyed by more naturalistic modes of expression? In spite of such omissions, what Rosenblatt does include in his discussion makes for a keen and worthwhile study. Black Fiction surveys a wide variety of novels, bringing to our attention in the process some fascinating and little-known works like James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. Its argument is tightly constructed, and its forthright, clear style exemplifies levelheaded and penetrating criticism.
单选题Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the passage.
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单选题Everything ______ into consideration, I propose that the first prize should be given to Liu Qiang.A. to takeB. takingC. takenD. took
单选题What can we learn about rivers in Australia?
单选题The flower needs ______. Would you like me to do it for you? A. watering B. to water C. water D. to be watering
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单选题Why is a special substance painted on the tree?
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单选题It is stipulated in the new rules that the jury is formed by a group of people who ______ the power of effective action.[A] have[B] are[C] is[D] has
单选题Our neighbours are so
reserved
and unfriendly that they never speak to us. The underlined part means ______.
单选题John will have to go to work by bus as his car ______. A. is repaired B. is needed repairs C. is being repaired D. is needed repairing
单选题Fool ______ Jim is, he could not have done such a thing. A. who B. as C. like D. that
单选题 Question 4 to 6 are based on the follwing conversation.
At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the
questions. Now, listen to the conversation.
单选题Listening to thrilling stories made my flesh______.
单选题In order to be qualified, the applicant should______.
单选题Questions 26 to 28 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.
单选题{{B}}TEXT B{{/B}} Just over 10 years ago,
Ingmar Bergman announced that the widely acclaimed Fanny and Alexander would
mark hi, last hurrah as a filmmaker, Although ,some critics had written him off
as earnest but ponderous, others were saddened by the departure of an artist who
had explored cinematic mood, -- from high tragedy to low comedy = during his
four-decade career. What nobody foresaw. that Bergman
would find a variety of way, to circumvent his own retirement director
television movies, tailing theater production, and writing screenplay, for other
filmmakers to direct, Hi, latest enterprise as a screenwriter, Sunday',
Children, complete, a trilogy of family-oriented movie, that began with Fanny
and Alexander and continued with The Best Intentions written by Batsman and
directed by Danish filmmaker Bille August, Beside, dealing with
member, of Bergman’s family in bygone times - it begins a few years after The
Best Intentions leaves off- the new picture was directed by Daniel Batsman, his
youngest son, Although it lacks the urgency and originality of the elder
Bergman’s greatest achievements, such as The Silence and Potions, it has enough
visual and emotional interest to make a worthy addition to his body of
work, Set in rural Sweden during the late 1920s, the story
centers on a young, boy named Pa, clearly modeled on Ingmar Bergman himself.
Pu's father is a country clergyman whose duties include traveling to the capital
and ministering to the royal family, While this is an enviable position, it
doesn’t assuage problems in the pastor’s marriage, Pu’s young enough to be
fairly oblivious to such difficulties, but his awareness grows with the passage
of time, So do the subtle tensions that mar Pu’s own relationship with his
father, whose desire to show affection and compassion is hampered by a certain
stiffness in his demeanor and chilliness in his emotions. The
film’s most resonant passages take place when Pu learns to see his father with
new clarity while accompanying him on a cross-country trip to another parish. In
a remarkable change of tone, this portion of the story is punctuated with
.flash-forwards to a time 40 years in the future, showing the relationship
between parent and child to be dramatically re versed: The father is now cared
for by the son, and desires a forgiveness for past shortcomings that the younger
man resolutely refuses to gram. Brief and abrupt though they
are, these scenes make a pungent contrast with the sunny landscapes and comic
interludes in the early part of the movie. Sunday’s Children is
a film of many levels, and all are skillfully handled by Daniel Batsman in his
directional debut. Gentle scenes of domestic contentment are sensitively
interwoven with intimations of underlying malaise. While the more nostalgic
sequences are photographed with an eye-dazzling beauty that occasionally
threatens to become cloying, any such result is foreclosed by the jagged
interruptions of the flash-forward sequences--an intrusive device that few
filmmakers are agile enough to handle successfully, but that is put to
impressive use by the Bergman team. Henrik Linnros gives a
smartly turned performance as young Pu, and Thommy Berggren - who starred in the
popular Elvira Madison years ago - is steadily convincing as his father. Top
honors go to the screenplay, though, which carries the crowded canvas of Fanny
and Alexander and the emotional ambiguity of The Best Intentions into fresh and
sometimes fascinating territory.