CATTI三级笔译综合能力模拟试卷(一)-聚题库

1. Children, hold the bottle with your fight hand. Tommy, you´re not correct. Please use your（） hand.

Aother

Bthe other

Canother

Dthe another

2. A good writer is （） who can express the commonplace in an uncommon way.

Athat

Bone

Cthis

Dwhich

3. There were also other forms of entertainment. The opera and the operetta remained popular, and music and theater（）a renaissance.

Aunderwent

Bexperimented

Cdiscovered

Dresisted

4. —How many students did you find in the playground?

ANone

BNo one

CNo body

DNot one

5. Because of the limitation of space, I had to （） a lot of excellent materials.

Aleave out

Bleave behind

Cleave alone

Dleave off

6. The game ended a few hours early, leaving players and（）unsatisfied.

Aspectators

Baudiences

Cauditors

Dwatchers

7. We found the tastiest and most（）paella and tapas in the most unprepossessing bars and cafes.

Aimaginative

Bimaginal

Cimaginary

Dimaginable

8. China is a wonderful place and there is （） to see and enjoy.

Aa lot of

Bmany

Cmuch

Dmany more

9. When required by their teacher to take notes in classes, some students only do so （）.

Awillingly

Bimpatiently

Ccautiously

Dreluctantly

10. They believe that businesses have to find new （）and take advantage of every selling technique that might lead people to buy.

Amanagers

Bsalespersons

Cinvestors

Dcustomers

11. If the car is not Danny´s, （） can it be?

Awho´s else

Bwhose else

Cwhose else´s

Dwho else´s

12. In ancient time's people used to build their houses with materials（）.

Aconvenient

Bimportant

Cavailable

Dnatural

13. —I need a black dress for the concert next week.—I am sure Emily will let you wear （）.

Aone of her

Bher

Cone of hers

Dher one.

14. She longed to visit Italy, （） she often dreamt about it.

Aso seriously that

Bso eagerly that

Cto such an extent that

Dso anxiously that

15. To the finalists, （）, the last high jump was the most important.

Ahe and I

Bhim and I

Che and me

Dhim and me

16. Professor White and I arranged to meet at 9 o'clock，but he hasn't（）yet.

Aturned in

Bturned up

Cturned around

Dturned on

17. Heart（）is much more common these days than it was even ten years ago.

Asurgery

Bsurgeon

Cwork

Dcirculation

18. You can benefit from your study plan （） you keep to it steadily.

Aunless

Bbut

Cas long as

Dnevertheless

19. There is an arrow on the wall （） the direction of advance.

Apointing

Bidentifying

Cmarking

Dindicating

20. This popular sports car is now being （） at the rate of a thousand a week.

Aturned down

Bturned out

Cturned in

Dturned up

21. Unfortunately, Gutzom Borglun died in 1941, just a few months（）finishing his college education.

Alack in

Bshort of

Cnot enough for

Dinsufficient in

22. The plans for the building were （） a few months ago.

Adrawn on

Bdrawn back

Cdrawn out

Ddrawn up

23. Mike and I really did（）Leigh how to play the lost game.

Ademonstrate

Bshow

Cmanifest

Ddisplay

24. Ted has been living in town for only half a year; yet he seems to be （）with everyone he meets.

Aaccustomed

Bconscious

Cacquainted

Dacknowledged

25. （）of danger, he jumped into the river all at once.

ABecause

BIn terms

CInstead

Dcarry out

26. There are many inconveniences that have to be （） when you are camping.

Aput up with

Bput up at

Cput up for

Dput up to

27. While Yelp continues to fight to protect the users of its platform, the law in the UK makes it surprisingly easy for businesses to（）consumers into removing honest reports of their experiences.

Aimitate

Bintimate

Cintimidate

Dintensify

28. If you（）your name and address on the card, we'll send the book to you as soon as it is retumed.

Ago over

Bfill in

Cfind out

Dcarry out

29. English people often take umbrellas with them when they go out because they don't want to be（） in a rain.

Aseized

Bgot

Ccaptured

Dcaught

30. You should respect （） as you would like to be respected.

Aother

Bothers

Cthe other

Dthe others

In 1930, W. K. Kellogg made what he thought was a sensible decision, grounded in the best economic, social and management theories of the time. Workers at his cereal plant in Battle Greek, Mich, were told to go home two hours earlier every day for good.
The Depression-era move was hailed in Factory and Industrial Management magazine as the "biggest piece of industrial news since Henry Ford announced his five-dollar-a-day policy. " It´s believed that industry and machines would lead to workers´ paradises where all would have less work, more free time, and yet still produce enough to meet their needs.
So what happened? Today, instead of working less, our hours have stayed steady or risen —and today many more women work so that families can afford the trappings of suburbia. In effect, workers chose the path of consumption over leisure.
With unemployment at a nine-year high and many workers worried about losing their jobs — or forced to accept cutbacks in pay and benefits — work is hardly the paradise economists once envisioned.
The modern environment would seem alien to pre-industrial laborers. For centuries, the household — from farms to "cottage" craftsmen — was the unit of production. The whole family was part of the enterprise, be it farming, blacksmithing, or baking. "In pre-industrial society, work and family were practically the same thing," says Gillis.
The Industrial Revolution changed all that. Mills and massive iron smelters required ample labor and constant attendance. For the first time, work and family were split. Instead of selling what they produced, workers sold their time. With more people leaving farms to move to cities and factories, labor became a commodity and placed on the market like any other.
Innovation gave rise to an industrial process based on machinery and mass production.
The theories of Frederick Taylor, a Philadelphia factory foreman, led to work being broken down into component parts, with each step timed to coldly quantify jobs that skilled craftsmen had worked a lifetime to learn. Workers resented Taylor and his stopwatch, complaining that his focus on process stripped their jobs of creativity and pride, making them irritable. Long before anyone knew what "stress" was, Taylor brought it to the workplace — and without sympathy.
The division of work into components that could be measured and easily taught reached its apex in Ford´s River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Mich. , where the assembly line came of age. To maximize the production lines, businesses needed long hours from their workers. But it was no easy to sell.
Labor leaders fought back with their own propaganda. For more than a century, a key struggle for the labor movement was reducing the amount of time workers had to spend on the job.
Between 1830 and 1930, work hours were cut nearly in half, with economist John Maynard Keynes famously predicting in 1930 that by 2030 a 15-hour workweek would be standard. While work had once been a means to serve God, two centuries of choices and industrialization had turned work into an end in itself, stripped of the spiritual meaning that sustained the Puritans who came ready to tame the wilderness.
By the end of the 1970s, companies were reaching out to spiritually drained workers by offering more engagement while withdrawing the promise of a job for life, as the American economy faced a stiff challenge from cheaper workers abroad. By the 1990s, technology made working from home possible for a growing number of people. Seen as a boon at first, telecommuting and the rapidly proliferating "electronic leash" of cell phones made work inescapable, as employees found themselves on call 24/7. Today, almost half of American workers use computers, cell phones, E-mail, and faxes for work during what is supposed to be nonwork time. Home is no longer a refuge but a cozier extension of the office.
When the stock market bubble burst and the economy fell into its recent recession, workers were forced to re-evaluate their priorities. They want a better quality of life; they´re asking for more flextime to spend with their families.
But there´s still the question of fulfillment. A recent study shows that work doesn´t satisfy workers´ deeper needs. "We expect more and more out of our jobs," says Hunnicutt. "We expect to find wonderful people and experience all around us. "

1. What is the Depression-era move according to the passage?

AWorkers at Kellogg´s plant work two hours less every day.

BWorkers at Kellogg´s plant get five dollars more every day.

CWorkers at Kellogg´s plant get only five dollars each day.

DWorkers at Kellogg´s plant work less and earn more.

2. The phrase "came of age" underlined in Paragraph 8 probably means to（）.

Acome into being

Brealize its function

Cfall into an out-of-date style

Dfall into an effective pattern

3. The following statements are mentioned in the passage except that（）.

Ain the pre-industrial society, the whole family was part of enterprise, work and the family were the same thing

Bbecause of the Industrial Revolution, workers sold their time but not what they produced

Cbecause of the Industrial Revolution more factories needed more workers

Dbecause more people lived in the cities and factories labor became a commodity

4. What´s the workers´ reaction to Taylor´s innovation?

AWorkers complained they could not create because of the innovation.

BWorkers complained that Taylor carried out his policy without sympathy.

CWorkers complained that Taylor should tell them the ' stress' resulted from the innovation.

DWorkers complained that Taylor´s focus on process stripped their jobs of creativity and pride.

5. For more than a century, a key struggle for the labor movement was（）.

Aincreasing workers´ pay

Breducing working time

Cimproving working conditions

Dasking for more rights

6. The economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that（）.

Awork hour would be cut nearly in half

Bwork hour would be cut nearly in half between 1830 and 1930

Cwork hour would be cut in 1930

Dby 2030 a 15-hour workweek would be standard

7. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

AEmployees could work at home freely by using cell phones and telecommuting.

BEmployees could escape from work because they had telecommuting and cell phones.

CEmployees were controlled by their employers because of the telecommuting and cell phones.

DEmployees were called up by their employers for seven times within 24 hours.

8. What made home a cozier extension of the office?

ATelecommuting and cell phones.

BThe innovation and creation.

CThe nirvana and paradise.

DComputers and E-mail.

9. Which of the following statements is true?

AWorkers are asking for more flextime to spend with their families.

BWorkers are under less pressure than they used to be before the Industrial Revolution.

CWorkers are working less today.

DWorkers are satisfied with their work because it can offer whatever they need.

10. The author strongly believes that（）.

Awork is not all that people need though it is important

Bwork can offer people fulfillment

Cthe economic recession can improve the people´s quality of life

Dthe flextime can satisfy people´s needs

Drug Helps Smokers Quit and Lose Weight
药物帮助抽烟者戒烟和减肥
For all those smokers who want to quit but haven´t because they´re afraid of packing on the pounds, researchers have exciting news.
A new drug called rimonabant helped smokers kick the habit and even lose a little weight in the process, according to a presentation made this week at the American College of Cardiology´s annual meeting in New Orleans.
"It is early, but our findings are very promising," says co-researcher Dr. Lowell Dale, associate director of the Mayo Clinic Nicotine Dependence Center in Rochester, Minn. "This medication really appears to have the potential to assist in stopping smoking and controlling weight while stopping, which could significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease."
The findings were announced just before a study in the March 10 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that smoking, obesity and a sedentary lifestyle are responsible for more than 800,000 deaths in the United States every year. Tobacco, according to the report, is the biggest killer, causing 435,000 deaths.
"To have a drug which could get to two of the major lifestyle problems associated with heart and vascular disease would just be incredible," says cardiologist Dr. Stephen Siegel of New York University Medical Center.
Dr. LaMar McGinnis, a senior medical consultant with the American Cancer Society, agrees. "If this drug does have minimal side effects and consequences, then the benefits could be enormous."
"We are excited about the potential for this, but we are in a wait-and-see mode," he adds, noting that more research, particularly long-term studies, needs to be done.
The current study followed 787 smokers who were "motivated" to stop smoking, according to Dale. They´d been smoking for 11 to 24 years and averaged 23 cigarettes a day.
One-third of the group was given a placebo, another third received 5 milligrams daily of rimonabant, and the final third received 20 milligrams of rimonabant once a day.
Treatment started two weeks prior to the volunteers´ quit day, and continued for eight weeks. The participants couldn´t use any additional measures to stop smoking—such as nicotine replacement, antidepressants or behavioral therapy—during the clinical trial and in the three months leading up to the trial.
Almost 28 percent of those taking 20 milligrams of rimonabant were able to stop smoking during the study period. By comparison, only 15.6 percent of those taking the low dose of rimonabant were successful in their quit attempt, and 16.1 percent of those taking a placebo stopped smoking.
What´s more, those on the high dose of rimonabant managed to lose slightly more than haft a pound during the study period, while those given a placebo gained 2.5 pounds.
Side effects appeared to be minimal. The most common, according to Dale, was nausea.
Rimonabant is the first in a new class of drugs that target the Endo Cannabinoid system, which
is located in the brain and other areas of the body. Dale says this system is stimulated by nicotine
and possibly by overeating. When it´s stimulated, dopamine—a neurotransmitter—is released, causing feelings of pleasure, which reinforces the behavior, he says.
"This drug blocks this system, so that when people eat or smoke, they don´t get the same response, which tends to decrease the behavior," Dale explains.
He says there are two more clinical trials in progress, and a year-long trial to assess the long-term effects of the medication is planned. He says he believes the manufacturer of rimonabant will likely begin the US Food and Drug Administration approval process by the end of this year or early next year.
At the same conference, Canadian researchers reported on a trial of more than 1,000 people with body mass indexes (BMIs) over 27. A BMI above 24 is considered overweight. Those who took 20 milligrams daily of rimonabant lost an average of 20 pounds and more than three inches off their waist circumference. They also lowered their cholesterol levels by 25 percent and their triglyceride levels by 15 percent, the study found.
Siegel says his big concern about rimonabant is that you may need to stay on it indefinitely, particularly if you´re taking it for overeating.
"The long and short of it is that this drug is extremely enticing and thought-provoking in therms of the actual drug, and in terms of how some of our dependencies develop," says Siegel.

11. "Packing on the pounds" in the first sentence means （）.

Asaving money

Bending up in a police station

Ccosting extra money

Dincreasing weight

12. What might be the "two major lifestyle problems" that Dr. Stephen Siegel mentioned?

ACardiovascular disease and smoking.

BSmoking and obesity.

CSmoking and a sedentary lifestyle.

DHeart and vascular disease.

13. The passage indicates that （）.

Aa daily intake of 5mg of rimonabant is not so effective as taking placebo

Bthe more rimonabant you take, the more chances of quitting smoking there is

Cthe longer you take rimonabant, the more effective it is

Dtaking additional measures while taking rimonabant can reduce the effectiveness of the drug

14. The mechanism of the efficacy of rimonabant is that （）.

Ait eliminates the Endo Cannabinoid system

Bit prevents the Endo Cannabinoid system from being stimulated

Cit stops nicotine from causing dopamine to be released

Dit helps reinforce people´s feeling of pleasure

15. One possible side effect of rimonabant is that it （）.

Amight reduce the cholesterol and triglyceride levels in patients

Breduces the patients´ waist circumference

Cmay cause addiction to it

Dmay be thought-provoking

Charter School Class Gets a First-hand Social Studies Lesson
注册学校的班级获得第一手的社会研究课
Just a typical day in sixth grade social studies. Only it´s a double period, usually reserved for reading or math. And it´s in the science classroom, which has more space. The American and New York State flags are flanking the chalkboard, the school banner hanging above them, klieg lights shining on them from the back.
Oh, and there´s a substitute teacher—Gov. George E. Pataki.
"Can someone tell me the three different branches of government?" he asked the scholars of Bronx Preparatory Charter School, on Webster Avenue in the Morrisania section.
They could. Their teacher, John Stassen, had done a special lesson on exactly that the day before. They knew who heads the executive branch, too, and the name of the nation´s highest court, and what percentage of the Legislature it takes to override an executive´s veto. But Mr. Pataki stumped them on how many houses form the legislative branch. "We haven´t gotten to that," Mr. Stassen said.
Governor Pataki, a prime advocate of 1998 state legislation creating charter schools, which are publicly financed but free of state regulation, swooped into Bronx Prep yesterday and was greeted with gleaming hallways and singing children.
As a start-up school in its first year, Bronx Prep has been besieged with visitors—donors, state evaluators, entrepreneurs planning their own schools, potential employees, potential students, and a reporter and photographer chronicling its progress for this newspaper. (The mayor showed up in the fall.) Mostly they sit in the back, watching business as usual. But for the governor, well, a school puts on a show.
The principal, Marina Bernard Damiba, turned over the math class she teaches to Laura Barfield, the writing teacher, leaving herself free to stand on a chair and hang the school banner. Two artistic students were recruited to write "Welcome Governor Pataki" and "Thank you for our charter school" on the boards in the science room. A parent volunteer in a lavender dress and matching loafers came to shake hands.
Mr. Pataki arrived around 11a.m., joining several public officials and a dozen advance men and security people. In Tara Kelley´s sixth-grade reading class, two students recited poems. In fifth-grade math, being taught by the sixth-grade teacher because Mrs. Damiba was leading the tour, the youngsters burst into their signature raplike chants of the multiplication tables.
"Could you keep up with the nines?" the governor asked a colleague as they shuffled to the next room, where fifth graders sang another diffy, pronouncing themselves "ready to read."
In Mr. Stassen´s class, the cameras snapped as Mr. Pataki took questions from the students: Why did he want charter schools? Has he vetoed any laws? What does he do every day?
"Would you consider being president?" asked Thelma Perez.
"Thelma, I am very happy being governor of this state," Mr. Pataki said. "We´ll just leave it at that."
There was the ceremonial exchange of gifts—the governor got a Bronx Prep polo shirt and $50 honorary Scholar Dollars, which students earn for good behavior; he gave the school a framed copy of the charter law, and a pen. On the way out, the school´s director, Kristin Kearns Jordan, slid in a plea for tax legislation that would make it easier for young schools to finance buildings. By 12:15, after a brief news conference, two aides carried the flags down the steps and out the door.
"They left already?" Maria Ortiz, the administrative assistant, asked with a sigh of relief. "Everybody?" And then she rang the little cow bell, signaling lunch.

16. The fact that Bronx Prep has been besieged with visitors indicates that （）.

Acharter schools are very popular with the public

BBronx Prep is the first of its kind established under the 1998 state legislation

CGovernor Pataki gives full support to the school

DDifferent people have different ideas about the school

17. Which of the following is NOT true of Bronx Prep?

AIt is a charter school financed by public funds.

BIt employs Governor Pataki as its substitute social studies teacher.

CIt locates in New York State.

DIts students have little idea about the Senate and the House of Representatives.

18. The fact that John Stassen had done a special lesson the day before probably shows that （）.

Asocial studies is one of the most important subjects in the school

Bthe school wants to get more support from the governor

Cthe school could not afford to loose face in front of the governor

Dthorough preparation has been done to welcome the governor

19. The governor´s visit to the school can best be described as （）.

Aa hands-on social studies class to school pupils

Ba disruption to the school routine

Can unexpected exciting event

Da tiring, extravagant social event to both the teachers and the governor

20. The author´s attitude can best be described as （）.

Acritical

Bsarcastic

Cironic

Dobjective

Poultry Production 家禽生产
Large-scale intensive meat (1) poultry production is a waste of food resources. This is (2) more protein has to be fed to animals (3) the form of vegetable matter than can ever (4) recovered in the form of meat. Much of the food value (5) lost in the animal´s process of digestion and cell replacement. (6) the case of chicken, neither can one eat feathers, blood, feet (7) head. In all, only about 44% of the live animal fits (8) be eaten as meat.
This means one (9) to feed approximately 9-10 times as (10) food value to the animal than one can consume (11) the carcass. As a system (12) feeding the hungry, the effects can prove disastrous. (13) times of crisis, grain is the food of life.
(14) the huge increase in poultry production (15) Asia and Africa continues. Normally British or US firms are involved. (16) instance, an American based multinational company (17) this year announced its involvement in projects (18) several African countries. Britain´s largest suppliers of chickens, Ross Breeders, (19) also involved in projects all (20) the world.

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