二级英语笔译综合能力模拟试卷(一)-聚题库

1. They said that they had made up their minds to （）the task in spite of the extremely difficult conditions.

Acarry off

Bcarry on

Ccarry out

Dcarry forward

2. Urban centers with strong teleconnectivity need fewer volunteers than remote areas with （）communication systems.

Aprimitive

Bprovident

Cparticular

DPendent

3. Rumors are everywhere, spreading fear, damaging reputations, and turning calm situations into（） ones.

Atragic

Bvulnerable

Cturbulent

Dsuspicious

4. Only hotel guests have the（）of using the private beach.

Aoccasion

Bpossibility

Cprivilege

Dallowance

5. The rain was so heavy that the man was wet to the skin; his whole body was98 and trembling.

Astiff

Bstraight

Csteady

Dhard

6. As always when she sang in the bathroom, she（）the high notes in a special way.

Aspan out

Bbelted out

Cspread out

Dstretch out

7. Since the shipment consists of seasonable goods, it is important that it is（）as soon aspossible.

Adeleted

Bdemanded

Cdelivered

Ddetached

8. （） the issues of slavery and race has been fundamental in America's development.

APromoting

BConfronting

CConquering

DMeasuring

9. In addition to cultural differences, overseas students have to overcome linguistic （）as soon as possible.

Ahindrance

Bimpediment

Cbarriers

Dhurdles

10. The surgeons often wear loupes mounted on eye glasses to （）their work, which limits their field of vision to a few inches.

Atrack

Bcapture

Cmagnify

Dstrengthen

11. All the students of this university have free （）to the Internet via a broadband connection.

Aaccess

Bentrance

Cpermission

Dpassageway

12. As technological advances put more and more time between early school life and the young person's final access to specialized work, the stage of（）becomes an even more markedand conscious period.

Aadolescence

Badjacency

Cadvantage

Dadventure

13. One of the responsibilities of the Coast Guard is to make sure that all ships（）follow traffic rules in busy harbors.

Acautiously

Bdutifully

Cfaithfully

Dskillfully

14. Of course, there are personal factors: some run clever experiments, have good collaborating skills, and are（） in communicating their work.

Aeloquent

Btransparent

Cpractical

DRadical

15. Through receiving financial support from family, community or the government,is allowed, it is never admired.（）

AAs

BOnce

CAlthough

DLest

16. Our products are displayed in Stand B22,（）you will find me during office hours.

Awhen

Bwhich

Cthat

Dwhere

17. If you are an energetic person with strong views as to the right way of doing things, you find yourself（）under pressures.

Avariably

Binvariably

Cinvaluably

Dinvalidly

18. Even though the main source of （） exposure for a majority of the human population is the sun, the artificial tanning from sun beds contributes significantly to the total UV risk.

Aextra violent

Bextra violet

Cultraviolet

Dultravirus

19. （）is necessary for people to develop strong bones and teeth.

AThat calcium

BCalcium

CIt is calcium

DAlthough calcium

20. Americans who consider themselves （）in the traditional sense do not usually hesitate to heap criticism in domestic matters over what they believe is oppressive or wasteful.

Apedestrian

Bpenchant

Cpatriarch

Dpatriotic

21. According to the international regulation, the playing of the national anthem （）all sports events.

Aprecedes

Bredeems

Cpretends

Drepels

22. Part of the investment is to be used to（）that old temple to its original splendor.

Arest

Brecover

Creplace

Drestore

23. （）have been made for nearly three decades to increase the amount of precipitation from clouds by seeding them with salt or silver iodide.

ADevices

BHypotheses

CAttempts

DCommissions

24. Americans who consider themselves（）in the traditional sense do not usually hesitate to heap criticism in domestic matters over what they believe is oppressive or wasteful.

Apedestrian

Bpenchant

Cpatriotic

Dpatriarch

25. The long service of decades of the to-be-retired with the company was（）a present eachfrom the President.

Aconfirmed by

Brecorded in

Cacknowledged with

Dappreciated for

26. The city government is getting its residents to properly（） their garbage.

Abreak up

Bdispose of

Ccheck out

Dhand out

27. Mrs. Lackey was awakened by the ringing of the bedside phone 12 hours after her husband's boat had been （）.

Awrecked

Bcollapsed

Cdecayed

Dfired

28. Only after food has been dried, salted or canned （）for later consumption.

Athat is should be stored

Bshould be stored

Cshould it be stored

Dit should be stored

29. After you've started to master the techniques, the real struggle is just beginning. It's （） that makes you great.

Apersistence

Binsistence

Ccontinuation

Dmentality

30. Your usual teacher has lost his voice and（）I am taking his place today.

Anevertheless

Bhowever

Cmoreover

Daccordingly

This is offered as a textbook illustration of the principle that voters are far shrewder than most politicians believe. This case study highlighting Washington's inability to fool anyone is based on a recent survey of the attitudes of people on Medicare about their new prescription-drug benefit.
Last fall, when Congress added prescription-drug coverage to Medicare, the new law was hailed as a political masterpiece. Congressional Democrats, who overwhelmingly opposed the bill, thundered that they, too, were eager to provide a drug benefit under Medicare, but they championed alternative legislation that offered a larger drug subsidy and smaller incentives to health insurers to participate. Liberals such as Sen. Edward Kennedy were confident that the drug bill, with plenty of holes in its benefit formulas, would inevitably be expanded around the time it took effect.
Not many in Congress seemed troubled that the federal budget was deep in deficit, the nation was saddled with future expenditures for the Iraq war and virtually no health care expert believed that the legislation would fit into its projected $400-billion-over- 10-years cost framework. The new law was a cynical bargain that had more to do with the 2004 election than a rational approach to the prescription-drug needs of the nation's elderly.
The prescription-drug legislation seems a compromise between competing ideologies inserted into a fixed congressional budget. Put another way, it was sausage-stuffing in the guise of lawmaking. And, what no one anticipated was the reaction of the elderly, a group that votes in disproportionate numbers.

1. According to the text, some health care experts believed that（）.

Athe new law had a 10-year budget of about $400 billion but little was expected for the prescription-drug coverage

Bthe new law will have to wait another l0 years and cost about $400 billion before it is able to take effect

Cthe framework of the new legislation would be fit for a project that was to cost $400 billion over the next 10 years

Dthe projected $400-billion-over-10-years cost framework was planned to be the budget for the current Iraq war

2. The passage you are reading is the beginning part of a report in the original. Then, what is "This",the first word, most probably referring to?

AAn offered illustration.

BPart of a textbook on politics.

CWhat the author is going to write.

DThe principle that voters are shrewder than most politicians believe.

3. Also found in Paragraph 1, what does "this case study" probably refer to?

AA case study the writer is to talk about.

BPart of a textbook on politics.

CWhat the author is going to write.

DWashington's inability to fool anyone.

4. Based on a recent survey of the attitudes of people on Medicare is（）.

Athe capital city of the United States of America

Ba textbook on American politics

Cwhat the author is going to write

Da statement that the American government cannot fool its people

5. "Congress added prescription-drug coverage to Medicare" most probably means that theCongress of the USA decided to（）.

Aadd prescription-drugs to the Medicare program

Ballow the Medicare program to provide refunding subsidies to selected medicines to bepurchased by Medicare members

Cincrease payment to Medicare for refunding Americans buying prescription medicines

Dprovide insurance to prescription drugs purchased by Medicare participants

6. Below are four groups of terms that are found in the passage. Which group contains at least one term that does not refer to the same thing as the other terms within the group?

Athe new law, the bill, the drug bill, the prescription-drug legislation, the legislation

Bprescription-drug coverage, the new law, the drug bill, the prescription- drug legislation, the legislation

Cthe drug bill, the bill, Medicare with prescription-drug coverage added, the prescription-drug legislation, the legislation

Dthe new law, the bill, the drug bill, Medicare with additions including prescription-drug coverage, the prescription-drug legislation

7. Democratic Congressmen suggested that the government should（）.

Abe enthusiastic in providing a drug benefit to the people

Boppose the new legislation with thundering protests

Cgive more money, so to speak, to medicine makers and retailers

Dprovide financial assistance to people wanting to buy life insurance

8. Paragraph 3 reflects basically the views and comments of（）.

ACongressional Democrats

Bmany other Liberals in the Congress

CSen. Edward Kennedy

Dthe author of the passage

9. Referring to the elderly as summarized in the passage, we can assume that they are（）.

Agreat in number and most will vote

Bgreat in number but few tend to vote

Cfew in number and few tend to vote

Dfew in number but most will vote

10. From the end of the passage we would expect the author to start his next paragraph most probably on（）.

Ahow the senior citizens of the United States responded to the new legislation

Bthe opinions of the few who anticipated what the reaction of the elderly was to be

Cwhat the legislators would consider doing to avoid further legislative digressions

Dmajor competing ideologies that differ on the coming congressional budget

A total of 4.6 million digital televisions have been sold, and the sales of HDTV sets have quadrupled since last year. Consumers have bought HDTVs to play their DVDs and to have clearer pictures and wide screens. Only a small percentage of the people who have purchased HDTVs, however, have actually hooked their TVs up to receive high-definition television digital signals. Perhaps television viewers are having trouble keeping up with the changes in technology. Even the manufacturers of HDTVs, like Mitsubishi, Thomson Multimedia, Sony, and Samsung seem to have a tough time learning how to make their sets work with the various digital TV formats because little standardization has been required or implemented in the industry.
Some of the HDTVs Weigh over 200 lbs., and a variety of retailers offer a delivery service to the buyer's home to help install the heavy sets. This is known as a white-glove service and usually comes with an extra fee. After HDTV purchasers get their sets home and hook them up, they will still need to Work to get the digital signals to their systems. Most of the industry's cable providers do not yet offer high-definition programing, and only about 15% of commercial television stations have switched over to even the lowest improved digital pictures. Worse yet, viewers may need to install antenna before they can even get the digital signals to their new HDTV sets. Another frustration for home-theater seekers is that the current HDTV sets allow owners only to watch high-definition programs, not to record them.

11. A majority of HDTV consumers could not enjoy high-quality digital pictures because （）.

Athey did not tune in to the right channel

Bthey did not install the system

Cthe market retailers created the confusion on purpose

Dthe manufacturers did not have a uniform standard for their sets

12. According to the first sentence, the sales of HDTV sets since last year, by the time when this article was written, had reached （）.

A4.6 million

B9.2 million

C18.4 million

DI do not know how many

13. "Hook up" as in "hooked their TVs up" underlined in Paragraph 1 most probably means to（）.

Ahave a hood over the TV

Bbe connected to

Crelate oneself to

Dkeep contact with

14. According to the passage, which of the following offers most of the HDTV programmes so far?

ARetailer delivery services.

BCable providers.

CCommercial television stations.

DHDTV set manufacturers.

15. On the whole, this passage is positioned to dwell on （）.

Athe overall picture of the HDTV sector

Bhow the giant TV makers should offer better products

Ca lament over consumers' inability to use a high-end TV set

Da criticism of the TV makers for doing nothing about a big problem

Health officials in western Siberia are to begin in slaughter of thousands of birds today after identifying Russia's first outbreak of a bird flu strain that can be fatal in humans. Doctors in neighboring Kazakhstan have also (1) that a 19-year-old poultry worker (2) admitted to hospital with (3) of bird flu, only to be diagnosed (4) double pneumonia.
The H5N1 strain of avian (5) has killed 60 people (6) 2fib in Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia, but has rarely been found in birds or humans (7) Asia.
Health officials (8) that HSN1 is infecting migrating birds, which could spread the (9) into Europe. Earlier this year China registered the first outbreak of H5N1 (10) wild birds, some of which (11) to breeding grounds in Siberia. These birds could come (12) contact with others flying to Europe and North America.
Russia's (13) began in the Novosibirsk (14) , about 1,750 miles (15) of Moscow in the Asian part of Russia, early last month, but the veterinary service (16) the virus only last week. Valery Mikheyev, the chief sanitary doctor of Novosibirsk, said that teams had been (17) the (18) birds and supervising the slaughter in13 (19) villages. He said, 'The state of (20) of the inhabitants of these areas gives (21) cause for alarm. Up to 6,000 people are being (22) per day.
The virus seems to have (23) only private farms that let (24) mix with wild birds. Further outbreaks were registered in the Omsk and Altai regions, but the strain had (25) to be determined, Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said.

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