[外语类试卷]笔译二级实务(综合)模拟试卷1及答案与解析.doc
《[外语类试卷]笔译二级实务(综合)模拟试卷1及答案与解析.doc》由会员分享,可在线阅读,更多相关《[外语类试卷]笔译二级实务(综合)模拟试卷1及答案与解析.doc(11页珍藏版)》请在麦多课文档分享上搜索。
1、笔译二级实务(综合)模拟试卷 1及答案与解析 SECTION 1 Compulsory Translation (30 points) 1 In nearly every case the first black Britons to move to the UK did so of their own will. Black South Africans, for all the oppression they endured for so long, never lost their culture, their languages and their sense of home. Bla
2、ck Americans, the only grouping in a nation of immigrants who did not originally come to the US out of their choice, appeared trapped in a perpetual struggle to define their identity. 2 “Other countries have a climate; in England we have weather. “ This statement, often made by Englishmen to describ
3、e the peculiar meteorological conditions of their country, is both revealing and true. 3 Although New Zealand was the first country in the world where women got the vote in 1893, it remains a sexist society in which male chauvinism of the pioneering period still rules many social patterns. 4 As a ga
4、mbler, I have always been attracted to Las Vegas. And I thought the city was the perfect place to take the biggest gamble of your life getting married. 5 The story of how oil transformed Kuwait is like a modern version of Aladdin and his magic lamp. Oil is the “lamp“ that enriched Kuwait. 6 In the p
5、rocess, he used and adapted Freuds ideas about the Oedipus complex, which Freud believed was as crucial to the development of the child, and especially of male children. 7 She had been reared in the tradition of great ladies, which had taught her how to carry her burden and still retain her charm, a
6、nd she intended that her three daughters should be great ladies also. 8 Rome was not built in a day. Rome cannot be seen in a day, a week, or even a year. Rome is an enormously colorful and alluring mixture of the old the Rome of ancient times, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the new. 9 Vera Pe
7、rlin Born on 28 November 1902 in St Johns, Newfoundland, Elizabeth Vera Crosbie Perlin is known for her pioneering work in providing education for children with special needs and developmental challenges. During her lifetime she received several awards, including first person to be named St Johns Ci
8、tizen of the Year in 1962, Newfoundland Woman of the Century from the National Jewish Council in 1967, Officer of the Order of Canada in 1968, and an Honorary Doctorate of Law from Memorial University in 1970. Vera Perlin received her education in St Johns and Toronto. In 1926 she married Albert B.
9、Perlin; they had three children, Ann Elizabeth, John and George. She helped to establish Newfoundlands first Home and School Association and served on the advisory board of the United Church Orphanage. It was during her tenure on this board that she became aware of the lack of educational facilities
10、 for developmentally challenged children. “ Mrs. Perlin firmly believed that children with a developmental disability should go to school to be nurtured by dedicated teachers who would help them achieve their potential. “ In 1954, with the full support of the United Church, she established the first
11、 classroom for children with special needs, in the basement of the United Church Orphanage. She recruited Mollie Dingle, MBE, as teacher. In 1957, due to the need for more classes, Perlin bought a house. Her program quickly outgrew this new space, however, and in 1966 she undertook the construction
12、of a new “multipurpose building. named the Vera Perlin School in her honour. “ Her efforts ultimately led to the formation of the association now known as the Newfoundland Association for Community Living. Subsequently, the St. Johns branch of that association was called the Vera Perlin Society. In
13、1959 the provincial government awarded the Association a yearly grant, which lasted until 1971, when the government took responsibility for educating developmentally challenged children. Vera Perlin died in 1974. Her ideals are represented still today through the Vera Perlin Society, which serves as
14、 advocate and service provider for citizens who have developmental challenges. 10 Billi Dyer (Excerpt) If you were to draw a diagonal line down the state of Illinois from Chicago to St. Louis, the halfway point would be somewhere in Logan County. The county seat is Lincoln which prides itself on bei
15、ng the only place named for the Great Emancipator before he became President. Until the elm blight reduced it in a few months to nakedness, it was a pretty late-Victorian and turn-of-the-century town of twelve thousand inhabitants. It had coal mines but no factories of any size. “ Downtown“ was, and
16、 still is, the courthouse square and stores that after a block or two in every direction give way to grass and houses. Which in turn give way to dark-green or yellowing fields that stretch all the way to the edge of the sky. When Illinois was admitted into the Union there was not a single white man
17、living within the confines of what is now the county line. That flat farmland was prairie grass, the hunting ground of the Kickapoo Indians. By 1833, under coercion the chiefs of all the Illinois Indians had signed treaties ceding their territories to the United States. The treaties stipulated that
18、they were to move their people west of the Mississippi River. In my boyhood that is to say, shortly before the First World War arrowheads were turned up occasionally during spring plowing. The town of Lincoln was laid out 1853, and for more than a decade only white people lived there. The first Negr
19、oes were brought from the South by soldiers returning from the Civil War. They were carried into town rolled in a blanket so they would not be seen. They stayed indoors during the daytime and waited until dark for a breath of fresh air. Muddy water doesnt always clean overnight. In the running conve
20、rsation that went on above my head, from time to time a voice no longer identifiable would say, “ So long as they know their place“. A colored man who tried to attend the service at one of the Protestant churches was politely turned away at the door. The man cleaned out stables and chicken houses, k
21、ept furnaces going in the wintertime, mowed lawns and raked leaves and did odd jobs. The women took in washing or cooked for some white family and from time to time carried home a bundle of clothes that had become shabby from wear or that the children of the family had outgrown. I have been told by
22、someone of the older generation that on summer evenings they would sit on their porches and sing, and that the white people would drive their carriages down the street where these houses were in order to hear them. I am aware that “blacks“ is now the only acceptable form, but when I was a little boy
23、 the polite form was “coloured people“ ; it was how they spoke of themselves. In speaking of things that happened long ago, to be insensitive to the language of the period is to be, in effect, an unreliable witness. In 1953, Lincoln celebrated the hundredth anniversary of its founding with a pageant
24、 and a parade that outdid all other parades within the living memory. The Evening Courier brought out a special edition largely devoted to old photographs and sketches of local figures, past and present, and the recollections of the elderly people. A committee came up with a list of the ten most dis
- 1.请仔细阅读文档,确保文档完整性,对于不预览、不比对内容而直接下载带来的问题本站不予受理。
- 2.下载的文档,不会出现我们的网址水印。
- 3、该文档所得收入(下载+内容+预览)归上传者、原创作者;如果您是本文档原作者,请点此认领!既往收益都归您。
下载文档到电脑,查找使用更方便
2000 积分 0人已下载
下载 | 加入VIP,交流精品资源 |
- 配套讲稿:
如PPT文件的首页显示word图标,表示该PPT已包含配套word讲稿。双击word图标可打开word文档。
- 特殊限制:
部分文档作品中含有的国旗、国徽等图片,仅作为作品整体效果示例展示,禁止商用。设计者仅对作品中独创性部分享有著作权。
- 关 键 词:
- 外语类 试卷 笔译 二级 实务 综合 模拟 答案 解析 DOC
