英语笔译综合能力三级考试题(一)-聚题库

1. Oil companies in the US are already beginning to feel the pressure. Refinery workers and petroleum equipment-manufacturing employees are being （）.

Alaid out

Blaid off

Claid down

Dlaid aside

2. Many modern TV viewers complain about（）that have constantly interrupted and destroyed their viewing the programs.

Acriminals

Bfinals

Cfinancials

Dcommercials

3. Romanticism（）emotion and imagination over reason.

Aestimated

Binvolved

Cinvoked

Dvalued

4. They looked at （） and hesitated to leave first.

Aanother one

Bone another

Cone other

Deach another

5. The Chairman seldom talked much at these meetings, but his gestures and noises spoke（）。

Aforums

Bvalues

Cvolumes

Dhorrors

6. The exploration team is determined to （） the most dangerous circumstances.

Astand up

Bstand up for

Cstand up to

Dstand up with

7. Would you like more coffee? I'm sure you would（）.

Amuch

Bfew

Cany

Da lot

8. Missing the last bus, we had no choice but（）a taxi home.

Ato take

Btake

Ctaking

Dtaken

9. It´s commonly acknowledged that infant mortality has declined because of recent medical（）and a higher standard of living.

Arecoveries

Bdiscoveries

Ccoverage

Dleverage

10. Is there any（）they'll ever find a cure for the common cold?

Aprospective

Bprospect

Cprosperity

Dprosperous

11. There aren´t any cupboards （） utensils in the kitchen.

Abut

Band

Cany

Dor

12. As a result the composers ended up taking home tapes of real performances rather than desperately struggling to（）the notes.

Aget at

Bget over

Cget on

Dget through

13. But if you allow me to be frank, it´s the people, especially, the younger generation that I´m（）.

Aworried about

Btaken in

Clikely to be

Dagreed at

14. The Minister of Finance（）the demands of the negotiators and agreed to a meeting with the leaders of the five unions.

Agave in to

Bgave away

Cgot away with

Dgot along with

15. Some people are color-blinded and cannot（）between blue and green.

Adistinguish

Bdiffer

Cseparate

Ddivide

16. She agreed without the slightest（）.

Ahesitation

Bthinking

Clook

Dhope

17. Sorry, I didn't know （） Dr.Smith has already returned from his holiday.I'II go and see him in a minute.

Athat

Bwhen

Cwhether

Dif

18. She found herself in a（）with her parents over her future career.

Aparadox

Bdilemma

Cprejudice

Dconflict

19. It was a soldier who happened to be there（）saved the girl from the danger.

Awhere

Bhow

Cthat

Dwhen

20. Hardly anyone can put up with this sort of（）living environments and all the hardships that he has to bear.

Aweary

Bvary

Cdreary

Dfairy

21. The composition is not very good. You should make attempt to （）.

Atouch up

Bround off

Ctouch on

Dround about

22. These are common materials（）we are all familiar.

Aabout which

Bof which

Cwith which

Dto which

23. After the big job was finished, the builder （） the number of men working for him.

Acut down

Bcut across

Ccut off

Dcut back

24. We agreed to accept （） they considered as the best tourist destination.

Awhatever

Bwhoever

Cwhomever

Dwhichever

25. Language learning usually（）conscious imitation.

Ainspires

Benriches

Cnecessitates

Dstimulates

26. The teacher asked （） who had finished their homework to leave the classroom as quickly as they could.

Athem

Bthey

Cthose

Dthese

27. Two suspects were found, but the police didn´t arrest （） of them.

Aeither

Bneither

Cany

Dnone

28. It is one thing to enjoy listening to good music, but it is quite （） to perform skillfully yourself.

Aanother

Bany other

Cother thing

Dsome other

29. Nuclear science should be developed to benefit the people （） harm them.

Arather than

Bother than

Cmore than

Dbetter than

30. We cannot always （） the wind, and new windmills should be so designed that they can also be driven by water.

Ahang on

Bhold on

Ccount on

Dcome on

It is simple enough to say that since books have classes — fiction, biography, poetry — we should separate them and take from each what it is right and what should give us. Yet few people ask from books what can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconception when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Do not dictate to your author; try to become him. Be his fellow-worker and accomplice. If you hang back, and reserve and criticize at first, you are preventing yourself from getting the fullest possible value from what you read. But if you open your mind as widely as possible, then signs and hints of almost imperceptible fineness, from the twist and turn of the first sentences, will bring you into the presence of a human being unlike any other. Steep yourself in this, acquaint yourself with this, and soon you will find that your author is giving you, or attempting to give you, something far more definite. The 32 chapters of a novel — if we consider how to read a novel first — are an attempt to make something as formed and controlled as a building: but words are more impalpable than bricks; reading is a longer and more complicated process than seeing. Perhaps the quickest way to understand the elements of what a novelist is doing is not to read, but to write; to make your own experiment with the dangers and difficulties of words. Recall, then, some event that has left a distinct impression on you — how at the corner of the street, perhaps, you passed two people talking. A tree shock; an electric light danced; the tone of the talk was comic, but also tragic; a whole vision, an entire conception, seemed contained in that moment.
But when you attempt to reconstruct it in words, you will find that it breaks into a thousand conflicting impressions. Some must be subdued; others emphasized; in the process you will lose, probably, all grasp upon the emotion itself. Then turn from your blurred and littered pages to the opening pages of some great novelist — Defoe, Jane Austen, Hardy. Now you will be better able to appreciate their mastery. It is not merely that we are in the presence of a different person — Defoe, Jane Austen, or Thomas Hardy — but that we are living in a different world. Here, in Robinson Crusoe, we are trudging a plain high road; one thing happens after another; the fact and the order of the fact is enough. But if the open air and adventure mean everything to Defoe, they mean nothing to Jane Austen. Here is the drawing-room, and people talking, and by the many mirrors of their talk revealing their characters. And if, when we have accustomed ourselves to the drawing-room and its reflections, we turn to Hardy, we are once more spun around. The moors are round us and the stars are above our heads. The other side of the mind is now exposed — the dark side that comes uppermost in solitude, not the light side that shows in company. Our relations are not towards people, but towards Nature and destiny. Yet different as these worlds are, each is consistent with itself. The maker of each is careful to observe the laws of his own perspective, and however great a strain they may put upon, they will never confuse us, as lesser writers so frequently do, by introducing two different kinds of reality into the same book. Thus to go from one great novelist to another — from Jane Austen to Hardy, from Peacock to Trollope, from Scott to Meredith — is to be wrenched and uprooted; to be thrown this way and then that. To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination if you are going to make use of all that the novelist — the great artist — gives you.

1. When you read a novel, you need to have all the following qualities except（）.

Afine perception

Bbold imagination

Ccritical attitude

Dopen mind

2. When we begin to read a book, （）.

Awe are eager to know the result of the book

Bwe have formed some ideas beforehand

Cwe have some prejudice against the author

Dwe are doubtful about the facts to be shown

3. Which of the following is NOT the preconception the writer mentioned in the passage?

ANot many people ask from the books they are reading what books can give them.

BMost readers ask too much from the writers with no idea of the actual situation of the different writers.

CThey think poetry should be written based on an imaginative topic.

DReaders should take an attitude of admiration to the authors.

4. "Be his fellow-worker and accomplice" in Paragraph 1 means to（）.

Atry to help him if the author of a book commits a crime

Btry to make the reader himself in the position of the author

Ctry to learn the author´s writing skills and the other skills

Ddo best to be the author´s friend and follow his model

5. Why did the writer compare reading a thick book to a building?

ABoth of them need time.

BBoth of them have precise structures.

CBoth of them need imagination.

DA and B

6. The word " impalpable" (in Paragraph 1) means（）.

Aimperceptible

Bunlearnable

Cuntouchable

Ddiscernable

7. According to the passage, the process of writing is（）.

Adangerous

Binteresting

Cdifficult

Dtragic

8. In Paragraph 2, the author mentioned Defoe, Jane Austen and Hardy to show（） .

Atheir mastery of writing novels

Bher admiration for them

Cthey had different writing styles to reveal the world

Dher understanding about their works

9. From the passage we learn that（）.

AJane Austen always described the characters´ living room in her novels

BHardy tried to reveal the relationship between Nature and destiny

CDefoe reflected the dark side of society

Dgreat writers sometimes confuse their readers

10. The writer says, "To read a novel is a difficult and complex art," which of the following arts does the author want to stress here?

AThe art of observation.

BThe art of imagination.

CThe art of association.

DAll of A, B and C

Immune Therapy May Help Some Heart Failure Patients
免疫疗法也许能拯救有些心力衰竭的病人
by Amanda Gardner
Some patients with heart failure may stand to benefit from therapy which modifies the body´s immune response.
A study in the Jan. 19 issue of The Lancet found that patients with no history of heart attacks, as well as those in a milder stage of heart failure, had a reduced rate of death and of subsequent hospitalizations with such a treatment.
But the novel therapy is far from hitting hospitals or doctors´ offices any time soon, experts said.
"It had absolutely no improvement in the general study population," noted Dr. Norbert Moskovits, director of the Heart Failure Program at Maimonides Medical Center in New York City. "The subgroup analysis is more or less a way to come up with a new study. If they show improvements in certain subgroups then next time they can look at that in a larger trial. You cannot draw any conclusions from this, really. It was a very good trial and it still showed nothing."
According to the American Heart Association, some five million Americans have heart failure. "There are half a million new cases each year. It is the number one discharge diagnosis for Medicare patients," Moskovits said. "It´s a huge problem, and that´s why everyone is looking for a new angle."
Heart failure is commonly treated with drugs, including ACE (angiotensin converting enzyme) inhibitors, beta blockers and diuretics. "Most improve patient survival, symptoms and lifestyle," Moskovits said.
Some experts believe that inflammation plays a role in chronic heart failure. Logic would dictate, then, that interfering with the immune system and related inflammatory processes could impact the course of the disease.
But interventions that have targeted specific inflammatory cytokines (signaling chemicals central to the immune system) have not met with much success.
This has led scientists to hypothesize that affecting the immune system more generally might have a benefit.
This study involved more than 2,400 heart failure patients who were randomly assigned to receive non-specific immunomodulation therapy (IMT) or a placebo. They also had left ventricular systolic dysfunction and had undergone hospitalization for heart failure or IV drug therapy in an outpatient setting within the past 12 months.
In this case, IMT involved taking blood from patients with congestive heart failure, exposing the blood to oxidative stress for 20 minutes, then injecting the blood back into the muscle on days 1, 2 and 14, and then every 28 days for at least 22 weeks.
"Certain blood cells in these samples were more or less killed off and, by injecting them, you attenuate the immune response," Moskovits explained. "It´s a very cumbersome process."
But after a mean follow-up of more than 10 months, patients in the IMT group showed only an 8 percent reduction in risk of death or hospitalization, which essentially translates into no difference.
However, the results were more impressive in two subgroups of participants: Those with no previous history of heart attack had a 26 percent reduction in risk while those classified with New York Heart Association functional class Ⅱ heart failure-meaning they had only slight or mild limitations in their activities—had a 39 percent reduction in risk.
Both of these subgroups were younger and had less severe disease than the entire group of participants.
There was also a trend toward a lowering in C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations in the IMT arm. CRP is a marker of inflammation and this finding, the authors said, indicates that the concept of treating heart failure with immunomodulation is not yet dead.
But long-term effects also need to be investigated. "By attenuating the immune response, do you subject patients to a higher risk for infections, for cancer?" Moskovits asked. "There are a lot of questions."
Moskovits also pointed out that many therapies for heart failure are counterintuitive. Beta blockers, for instance, were thought for many years to be contraindicated for heart failure. Similarly, a medication to improve heart muscle function in heart failure patients ended up worsening their survival.

11. What is the most important step of the immunomodulation therapy?

ATo take blood from the patient with congestive heart failure.

BTo expose the blood to oxidative stress for 20 minutes.

CTo inject the blood back into the patient.

DTo treat the patient with drugs.

12. What experts said in the third paragraph means that （）.

Athe new therapy will soon be put in practice for the majority of heart failure patients

Bthe new therapy is not likely to be put in practice for its ineffectiveness for the majority of heart failure patients

Cthere might be quite a long time before the new therapy can be used in hospitals or doctors´ offices

Dsome time later the new therapy will be so effective that hospitals or doctors´ offices will be struck

13. According to Dr. Norbert, if there is improvement in the subgroups in trial, （）.

Athe new therapy will then be introduced in hospitals or doctors´ offices.

Bthere will be a trial on a larger extent to see weather the same effect can be found

Cit can be concluded that the trail is good although it showed nothing

Dno conclusions can be drawn for heart failure patients in general

14. How many kinds of medicines are mentioned in the passage as commonly used to treat heart failure?

Anone

Bone

Ctwo

Dthree

15. The author´s attitude towards the new therapy is （）.

Agenerally positive

Bgenerally negative

Creserved positive

Dnot expressed

Industrial Production Managers
工业生产经理
Nature of the Work: Industrial production managers coordinate the resources and activities required to produce millions Of goods every year in the United States. Although their duties vary from plant to plant, industrial production managers share many of the same major responsibilities. These responsibilities include production scheduling, staffing, procurement and maintenance of equipment, quality control, inventory control, and the coordination of production activities with those of other departments.
Working Conditions: Most industrial production managers divide their time between production areas and their offices. While in the production area, they must follow established health and safety practices and wear the required protective clothing and equipment. The time in the office, which often is located near production areas, usually is spent meeting with subordinates or other department managers, analyzing production data, and writing and reviewing reports.
Employment: Industrial production managers held about 255,000 jobs in 2000. Almost all are employed in manufacturing industries, including the industrial machinery and equipment, transportation equipment, electronic and electrical equipment, fabricated metal products, instruments and related products, and food and kindred products industries, or are self-employed. Production managers work in all parts of the country, but jobs are most plentiful in areas where manufacturing is concentrated.
Training: Because of the diversity of manufacturing operations and job requirements, there is no standard preparation for this occupation. However, a college degree is required, even for those who have worked their way up the ranks. Many industrial production managers have a college degree in business administration, management, industrial technology, or industrial engineering. Others have a master´s degree in industrial management or business administration (MBA). Some are former production-line supervisors who have been promoted. Although many employers prefer candidates with a business or engineering background, some companies hire well-rounded liberal arts graduates.
Job Outlook: Employment of industrial production managers is expected to grow more slowly than the average for all occupations through 2010. However, a number of job openings will stem from the need to replace workers who transfer to other occupations or leave the labor force. Applicants with a college degree in industrial engineering, management, or business administration, and particularly those with an undergraduate engineering degree and a master´s degree in business administration or industrial management, enjoy the best job prospects.
Earnings: Median annual earnings for industrial production managers were $61,660 in 2000. The middle 50 percent earned between $46,290 and $81,930. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $35,530, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $106,020.
Related Occupations: Industrial production managers oversee production staff and equipment, ensure that production goals and quality standards are being met, and implement company policies. Occupations requiring similar training and skills are engineers, management analysts, operations research analysts, and top executives.

16. The passage is mainly about （）.

Athe procedures for industrial production

Bthe ways to raise working efficiency and productivity

Cthe importance of coordination in production activities

Dthe role of an industrial production manager

17. The procurement department is in charge of （）.

Apurchasing the production materials

Bdistributing the inventories in stock

Ccontrolling the quality of the products

Dmaking constant communication with other departments

18. Which of the following aspects is the focus of the fourth paragraph?

AQuality control.

BInventory control.

CCoordination of production activities.

DThe necessity to obtain the latest information.

19. What is the role of computers in the production process?

AThey control the techniques of production.

BThey keep each department well-informed.

CThey monitor the progress and status of work.

DThey transmit directions from the management to employees.

20. To meet the production quota, it is of importance that （）.

Aevery machine be utilized to its fullest capability

Bproblems be corrected at once whenever they arise

Cwork shifts be arranged to yield the highest productivity

Dthe optimal staffing and budgeting arrangement be made

The central problem of economics is to satisfy the people´s and nation´s wants. The problem we are faced with is that our (1) , here identified as money, are (2) . The only way we can resolve our (3) is to make choices. After looking at our resources, we must examine our list of (4) and identify the things we need (5) , those we can postpone, and (6) we cannot afford. As individuals, we face the central problem involved in economics — deciding just how to allocate our limited resources to provide ourselves with the greatest (7) of our wants.
Nations face the same problem. As a country´s population (8) , the need for more goods and services grows (9) . Resources necessary to production may increase, but there are (10) enough resources to satisfy the total desires of a (11) . Whether the budget meeting is taking place in the family living-room, in the conference room of the corporation (12) of directors, or in the chamber of the House of Representatives in Washington, the basic problem still exists. We need to find (13) of allocating limited resources in order to satisfy unlimited wants.
A short time ago, economists divided goods into two categories, free and economic. The former, like air and water, were in (14) abundance that economists had no concern about (15) of scarcity and what to do about it. Today many of these " free goods" are in (16) very expensive to use. Pollution has made clean air and water expensive for producers who have to filter their waste products, for consumers who ultimately pay for the producers´ extra costs, and (17) tax-payers who pay for the government´s involvement in cleaning the environment.
In the 1990s, almost all goods are (18) . Only by effort and money can they be (19) in the form people wish.
Meeting the needs of people and the demands from resources available leads to the basic activity of production. In trying to (20) unlimited wants from limited economic goods, production leads to new problems in economics.

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