2015年翻译资格考试中级笔译模拟试题(1)
1 The explanation given by the manager yesterday was not at all _____ to us.
A. satisfy
B. satisfied
C. satisfactory
D. satisfying
2 Part of the funds will be used to ____ that old cathedral to its original splendor.
A. rest
B. recover
C. replace
D. restore
3 This silk has gone right _____ and we have not sold a single piece of it for weeks.
A. out of fad
B. out of pattern
C. out of custom
D. out of fashion
4 The new Personal Digital Assistance contained a large ___ of information about an individual life.
A. deal
B. amount
C. number
D. account
5 Primitive superstitions that feed racism should be _____ through education.
A. ignored
B. exalted
C. eradicated
D. canceled
6. _____ pollution control measures are expensive, many local governments hesitate to adopt them.
A. Although
B. However
C. Because
D. Moreover
7. The less the surface of the ground yields to the weight of the body of a runner, _____ to the body.
A. the stress it is greater
B. greater is the stress
C. greater stress is
D. the greater the stress
8. Annie Jump Cannon, _____ discovered so many stars that she was called “the census taker of the sky.”
A. a leading astronomer,
B. who, as a leading astronomer,
C. was a leading astronomer,
D. a leading astronomer who
9. Kingdom of Wonders, _____ in 1995 in Fremont, Calif., became an industry legend for two toys: a talking bear and a ray-gun game.
A. find
B. found
C. founded
D. founding
10. Over a very large number of trials, the probability of an event _____ is equal to the probability that it will not occur.
A. occurring
B. to occur
C. occurs
D. occur
11. Only one-fifth of Americans saw oil as the chief reason that the U.S. made a war on Iraq, but 75 percent of the French and of the Russians believed _____.
A. to
B. so
C. go
D. do
12. Sadly, while the academic industry thrives, the practice of translation continues to _____.
A. stack
B. stage
C. stagnate
D. stamp
13. Your blunt treatment of disputes would put other people in a negative frame of _____, with the result that they would not be able to accept your proposal.
A. mind
B. idea
C. intention
D. wish
14. If you are an energetic person with strong views as to the right way of doing things, you find yourself _____ under pressures.
A. variably
B. invariably
C. invaluably
D. invalidly
15. Uncle Vernon, quite unlike Harry Potter who looked nothing like the rest of the family, was large, very fat, and _____, with an enormous black mustache.
A. neck-less
B. neck-lace
C. reckless
D. rack-less
16. Home to _____ and gangsters, officials and laborers, refugees and artists, the city was, in its prime, a metropolis that exhibited all the hues of the human character.
A. magnates
B. magnets
C. machine
D. magnitudes
17. His _____ behavior made everyone nervous. He was always rushing to open doors and perform other small tasks, apologizing unnecessarily for any inconvenience that he might have caused.
A. oblivious
B. observant
C. obsequious
D. obsolescent
18. He was completely __________ by her tale of hardship.
A. taken away
B. taken down
C. taken in
D. taken up
19. 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.
A. pedestrian
B. penchant
C. patriarch
D. patriotic
20. 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 marked and conscious period.
A. adolescence
B. adjacency
C. advantage
D. adventure
参考答案：1-5 CDDBC 6-10 CDACA 11-15 BCABA 16-20 ACCDA
2015年翻译资格考试中级笔译模拟试题(2)
Crime control is a pretty complex question, the first step, of course, is deterrence to stop people from committing crime in the first place. That involves the economy. Are there enough jobs for everyone? There should be. And social structure, are there enough support system? And so on. When people are convicted, and put in prison, then the goal should be to have reform programs inside prisons. So they want person comes out, they don’t return to a life of crime. If the education program and drug treatment program have been cut, convicted criminals are not being reformed. Trick or treat
Graduate
译文：如何控制犯罪率是一个十分复杂的问题。首先，当然要防止犯罪行为的发生。包括从经济方面来说，是否有足够的工作提供给所有人?这个是应该要保证的;从社会机构来说，是否有足够的社会保障体系?等等。而一旦人们犯了罪，被关进监狱了，那么监狱里就需要有
改造计划，可以让这些人出狱之后，不再回到犯罪生涯。如果停掉教育计划和毒品治疗方案，那就无法对这些犯人就行改造了。
评析：本篇段落翻译选自2008年春季高口的听力原文，这就暗示了广大口译考生，历年的听力原文等材料是平时训练的重要资源，平时多积累，考试的时候方可胸有成竹。
本篇段落关注的是一个常见的社会问题——如何控制犯罪率。段落给出了两点建议，一个是要防患未然;二是在对犯人实施改造计划。内容对考生来说应该并不陌生，语速也较为平缓，作为两段翻译的的第二段，在难度上是可以接受的。
本段词汇较为常见。注意deterrence，意是“威慑，制止”，这里考生也可将名词转译为动词，译为“防止犯罪行为的发生”;另外，convict这个单词意为“判…有罪”，convicted criminals 指“囚犯，犯人”。
段落的句子结构较为简单。考生只需注意这个长句：When people are convicted, and put into prison, the goal should be to have reform programs inside prisons, so that when the person comes out, they don't return to a life of crime. 这个句子虽长，但只要理解语义，理清分句之间的逻辑关系，如when引导的是从句，the goal 后面的内容是主句，so that作的是目的状语。划分好结构，再按句子本身的语序进行翻译就可以了。
总体而言，本篇英译中难度适中，主题也不偏颇另类，考生在平时注意对社会问题的积累，多进行真题练习，把握好时间和心态，相信会顺利完成翻译。
2015年翻译资格考试中级笔译模拟试题(3)
1. He remained calm In the face of the impending danger.
A. terrific
B. trivial
C. astonishing
D. imminent
2. “Holmes!” I whispered. “What on earth are you doing in this disgusting place?”
A. humble
B. unpleasant
C. underprivileged
D. noisy
3. The futility of the program resulted from poor planning.
A. possible failure in the future
B. ineffectiveness and uselessness
C. blindness to its mistakes
D. potential disaster
4. Construction of the gigantic office building in this city was for years intermittent
A. stopping and starting at intervals
B. something that will happen soon
C. being watched with keen interest
D. anything that comes and goes
5. Although many modifications have been made in it, the game known in the United States as football can be traced directly to the English game of rugby.
A. rules
B. changes
C. demands
D. leagues
6. Your silence implies countenancing his abject behavior; therefore please clarify your stand to him.
A. supporting
B. obscuring
C. concealing
D. assisting
7. The graduate committee must be in full accord in their approval of a dissertation.
A. indecisive
B. sullen
C. vocal
D. unanimous
8. We regret being unable to entertain your request for providing free boarding to 15 sportsmen for two weeks.
A. receive
B. comply
C. coincide
D. consider
9. Justices of the peace have jurisdiction over the trials of some civil suits and of criminal cases involving minor offenses.
A. superiority
B. authority
C. guidance
D. consider
10. One of the things we have to do to prevent a pandemic is to make sure people understand and know what they can do to minimize the commotion.
A. command
B. collusion
C. turmoil
D. tutelage
11. One of the effective ways to lessen environmental pollution is the reservation and protection of more swamps.
A. vast thick corals
B. pockets of wet land
C. warm volcanoes
https://www.doczj.com/doc/b93062038.html,lions of bees and wasps
12. The word “wrath” in The Grapes of Wrath by the Nobel prize winner John Steinbeck probably means:
A. great anger
B. large crowds
C. hard labor
D. sudden storms
13. The artist spent years on his monumental painting, which covered the whole roof of the church, the biggest in the country.
A. archaic
B. sentimental
C. outstanding
D. entire
14. The ancient Jewish people regarded themselves as the salt of the earth, the chosen few by God to rule the world.
A. outcast
B. elite
C. nomad
D. disciple
15. Many of the electric and electronic products we purchase and consume today are what some industrial experts call “homogenous toys”.
A. identical
B. homosexual
C.unrelated
D. distinguishable
参考答案：1-5 DBBAB 6-10 ADDBC 11-15 BACBA
2015年翻译资格考试中级笔译模拟试题(4)
1. That boy is suffering from unrequited love and pines away.
A. fervent
B. obsessive
C. secret
D. unreturned
2. For a long time in that vast region, this law was in abeyance.
A. active use
B. doubt
C. discussion
D. disuse
3. A court-martial has but recently decided to acquit him.
A. declare he is not guilty
B. upwardly mobile
C. excessively overweight
D. privately educated
4. There are more people who are obese today than 20 years ago.
A. gainfully employed
B. upwardly mobile
C. excessively overweight
D. privately educated
5. As a conductor, Leonard Bernstein is famous for his intensely vigorous and exuberant style.
A. enthusiastic
B. nervous
C. painful
D. extreme
6. When insects feed on decaying plant material in a compost pile, they help turn it into useful garden soil.
A. available
B. organic
C. distasteful
D. decomposing
7. Researchers have discovered that dolphins are able to mimic human speech.
A. import
B. imitate
C. impair
D. humor
8. The dichotomy postulated by many between idealism is one of the standard clichés of the ongoing debate over international affatrs.
A. division
B. combination of two parts
C. disparity
D. contradiction
9. Attempts have been made for nearly three decades to increase the amount of precipitation from clouds by seeding them with salt or silver iodide.
A. Devices
B. Hypotheses
C. Efforts
D. Suggestions
10. Justices of the peace have jurisdiction over the trials of some civil suits and of criminal cases involving minor offenses.
A. supremacy
B. authority
C. guidance
D. obedience
11. The feeling of competition among the students in all the classrooms where the test was going on was noticeable to everyone.
A. discord
B. discovery
C. rivalry
D. cooperation
12. The artist spent years on his monumental painting, which covered the whole roof of the church, the biggest in the country.
A. archaic
B. sentimental
C. outstanding
D. entire
13. Many of the electric and electronic products we purchase and consume today are what some industrial experts call “homogeneous toys”.
A. identical
B. homosexual
C. unrelated
D. distinguishable
14. Anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff furthered her reputation as an authority on Native American culture with her study of the symbols, myths, and rituals of the Huichol people.
A. deserved
B. retained
C. renewed
D. advanced
15. This reflects the priority being attached to economic over political activity, partly caused by a growing reluctance to enter a calling blighted by relentless publicity that all too often ends in destroying careers and reputations.
A. powerfulness
B. unwillingness
C. renaissance
D. apologeticness
参考答案：1-5 DDACB 6-10 DBACB 11-15 CCADB
2015年翻译资格考试中级笔译模拟试题(5)
1. An epigram is usually defined being a bright or witty thought that is tersely and ingeniously expressed.
A. as
B. as be
C. as been
D. to being
2. Upon completing his examination over the patient, the doctor offered his judgment of her conditions.
A. of
B. off
C. about
D. around
3. If they spend some time on Chinese history, they will be more able to predict China’s future.
A. more
B. able
C. better
D. better able
4. When she returned back by abroad, she told us all about her experience as an illegal immigrant.
A. by
B. back
C. from
D. back from
5. He was looking impatient at the visiting salesman, who showed no signs of getting ready to leave.
A. patient
B. patience
C. impatience
D. impatiently
6. The recent conference on the effective use of the seas and ocean was another attempt resolving major differences among countries with conflicting interests.
A. resolve
B. resolves
C. to resolve
D. being resolved
7. Life insurance, before available only to young, healthy persons, can now be obtained for old people, and even for pets.
A. before young, healthy persons available only,
B. available only to young, healthy persons before,
C. available only to persons young, but more healthy,
D. before young and healthy persons only available to,
8. Following a year of fast development, by the first quarter of this year, China has had about 1,100 e-commerce websites.
A. China had about 1,100 e-commerce websites by the end of last March
B. by the end of the first quarter of this year, China has had about 1,100 e-commerce websites
C. by the end of this recent past March, China has about 1,100 e-commerce websites
D. by the end of this first quarter, China had about 1,100 or so e-commerce websites
9. Sino-foreign educational program on business is popular in China now, and the demand for high level interpretation is great.
A. programs in enterprises / high level interpreters
B. programs in international business / senior interpreters
C. program in international biz / senior interpretations
D. programs of business / high-level interpretations
10. Many students agreed to come, but some students against because they said they don’t have time.
A. were against because they said they did not
B. were against because they say they don’t
C. were against it because they said they did not
D. were against coming because they said they don’t
11. While it is essential that the text covers the subject adequately, it is also important that it is neither too detailed or too complex for the intended reader.
A. for
B. nor
C. no
D. not
12. Consumer porcelains in Jingdezhen are not selling well in export market as compared with those made in Liling, Hunan Province and Zibo, Shandong Province.
A. on export market
B. in exporting market
C. in exported market
D. in the export market
13. It is a market which sales value might be more than 10 billion yuan.
A. a market with a sales value that might be
B. a market which might be sales value
C. a market with sale value might be
D. market with sales might be a value
14. As an English major student, I think business English is more practical than other fields.
A. a English student / field
B. a English major student / regions
C. a English major / courses
D. an English student major / sciences
15. We should let more young parents and their children can enjoy scientific early education.
A. provide more young parents and their children to enjoy early education
B. provide more young parents and their children to enjoy early education and scientific
C. provide young parents and their children enjoy more scientific early education
D. provide young parents and their children with more early education services
参考答案：1-5 AADCD 6-10 CBABC 11-15 BDACD
2015年翻译资格考试中级笔译模拟试题(6)
Social control refers to social processes, planned or unplanned, by which people are taught, persuaded, or forced to conform to norms. In every society, some punishments or negative sanctions are established for deviant behavior. Without deviant behavior there would not be need for social control and without social control there would not be a way of recognizing the boundary between the acceptable and the unacceptable.
Social control may be either formal or informal. Informal mechanisms include expressions of disapproval by significant others and withholding of positive rewards for disapproved behavior. Most people internalize norms in the course of socialization. This is any group’s most powerful protection against deviance, in that the individual’s own conscience operates as an agent of social
control. When informal sanctions fail, formal agents of social control may be called upon. In contemporary society, such formal agents and agencies include psychiatry and other mental health professions; mental hospitals; police and courts of law; prisons; and social welfare agencies. All these formal agents function to limit, correct, and control violation of norms. Conflict theorists would also point out that social control agents and systems tend, in any society, to serve the interests of powerful groups and to enforce the norms most beneficial to those who make the rules and who, therefore, define unacceptable behavior.
Social control, whether formal or informal, has a dual function. First, it punishes the wrongdoer and reaffirms the boundaries of acceptable behavior. Second, and less recognized, it regulates the manner in which deviants are treated.
1. Social control refers to processes by which ____.
A. norms are developed
B. norms are enforced
C. people are educated and trained
D. people are rewarded and punished
2. Every society has its own ____.
A. planned systems
B. controlled norms
C. recognized boundary
D. established sanctions
3. Informal mechanisms of social control include the following EXCEPT ____.
A. a high level of interest in ensuring conformity
B. expression of disapproval by significant others
C. withholding of positive rewards for the deviants
D. people’s internalization of norms in socialization
4. The most powerful protection against deviance is ____.
A. negative sanctions
B. severe punishments
C. the individual’s conscience
D. unrestrained suppression
5. Formal agents of social control include the following EXCEPT ____.
A. police stations
B. mental hospitals
C. welfare agencies
D. vocational schools
6. The purpose of formal agents is to ____.
A. make beneficial rules
B. preserve social orders
C. control violation of norms
D. define acceptable behavior
7. Which statement about social control agents is NOT true?
A. They tend to serve the interest of those who enforce the norms.
B. They tend to serve the interest of those who receive a benefit.
C. They tend to serve the interest of those who make the rules.
D. They tend to serve the interest of those who are powerful.
8. According to conflict theorists, social control agents and systems are ____.
A. liberal
B. partial
C. neutral
D. overall
9. In the third paragraph, “a dual function” refers to ____.
A. formal and informal
B. rewards and penalities
C. approval and disapproval
D. clarification and regulation
10. The perspective from which the author discusses social control is ____.
A. biological
B. sociological
C. psychological
D. anthropological
参考答案：1-5 BADCD 6-10 CBBDB
2015年翻译资格考试中级笔译模拟试题(7)
Every group has a culture, however uncivilized it may seem to us. To the professional anthropologist, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture over another, just as to the professional linguist, there is no intrinsic hierarchy among languages.
People once thought of the languages of backward groups as undeveloped. While it if possible that language in general began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of “backward” languages that no spoken tongue answers that description today. Most languages of uncivilized groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely complex. They differ from Western languages not in their sound patterns or grammatical structures, which usually are fully adequate for all language needs, but only in their vocabularies, which reflect the objects and activities known to their speakers. Even in this aspect, two things are to be noted. First, all languages seem to possess the machinery for vocabulary expansion, either by putting together words already in existence or by borrowing them from other languages and adapting them to their own syst em. Second, the objects and activities requiring names and distinctions in “backward” languages, while different from the West, are often surprisingly numerous and complicated. A Western language distinguishes merely between two degrees of remoteness (“this” and “that”). But some languages of the American Indians distinguish between what is close to the speaker, or to the person addressed, or removed from both, or out of sight, or in the past, or in the future.
1. Every group of human beings has ____.
A. its own set of ideas, beliefs and ways of life
B. an extremely complex and delicate language
C. its own elegant music, literature, and other arts
D. the process of growing crops or raising animals
2. To the professional linguists, ____.
A. there is no intrinsic superiority of cultures
B. there is no intrinsic hierarchy of languages
C. all languages came from grunts and groans
D. all languages are most severe and standard
3. Most languages of uncivilized groups are ____.
A. adequate
B. numerous
C. ingenious
D. ingenuous
4. “Backward” languages fall behind Western languages in ____.
A. ways to transfer ideas
B. forms to satisfy needs
C. abilities to answer description
D. systems to expand vocabulary
5. All languages, whether civilized or not, have their own ____.
A. ways to transfer ideas
B. forms to satisfy needs
C. abilities to answer description
D. systems to expand vocabulary
6. Which of the following statements is implied in the passage?
A. Anthropologists have nothing to do with linguists.
B. Linguists have nothing to do with anthropologists.
C. The study of languages casts light upon the study of cultures.
D. The study of cultures casts no light upon the study of languages.
7. It is implied that all cultures have to be viewed ____.
A. profoundly
B. intrinsically
C. independently
D. professionally
8. According to this passage, to learn a foreign language would require one to ____.
A. do more activities
B. learn about a new culture
C. meet more people
D. need more names
9. The author’s attitude shown in this passage toward “backward” languages is ____.
A. restrained
B. subjective
C. objective
D. resolute
10. This passage is on the whole ____.
A. narrative
B. instructive
C. prescriptive
D. argumentative
参考答案：1-5 ABCBD 6-10 CCBCB
2015年翻译资格考试中级笔译模拟试题(8)
The field of medicine has always attracted its share of quacks and charlatans — disreputable women and men with little or no medical knowledge who promise quick cures at cheap prices. The reasons why quackery thrives even in modern times are easy to find.
To begin with, pain seems to be a chronic human condition. A person whose body or mind “hurts” will often pay any amount of money for the promise of relief. Second, even the best medical treatment cannot cure all the ills that beset men and women. People who mistrust or dislike the truths that their physicians tell them often turn to more sympathetic ears.
Many people lack the training necessary to evaluate medical claims. Given the choice between (a) a reputable physician who says a cure for cancer will be long, expensive and may not work at all, and (b) a salesperson who says that several bottles of a secret formula “snake oil” will cure not only cancer but tuber culosis as well, some individuals will opt for “snake oil”.
Many “snake oil” remedies are highly laced with alcohol or narcotic drugs. Anyone who drinks them may get so drunk or stoned that they drown their pains in the rising tide of pleasant intoxicati on. Little wonder that “snake oil” is a popular cure-all for minor aches and hurts! But let there be no misunderstandings. A very few “home remedies” actually work. However, most remedies sold by quacks are not only useless, but often can be harmful as well.
71. In this passage, a quack or a charlatan is someone who ____.
A. has a special ability
B. has little knowledge
C. is not a good doctor
D. pretends to be a doctor
72. The sentence “pain seems to be a chronic human condition” means pain seems t o ____.
A. be very serious
B. be very difficult
C. last for a long time
D. be always happening
73. Quackery thrives even in modern times because ____.
patients pay any amount of money
patients do not like their physicians
quacks say that they can help patients
best medical treatment costs very much
74. People who seek the advice of quacks and charlatans are those who ____.
A. are poorly educated
B. are highly educated
C. dislike medical treatments
D. mistrust physicians’ truths
75. To evaluate medical claims, one must ____.
A. turn to reputable doctors
B. make an adequate choice
C. have the necessary training
D.. disbelieve promise of relief
76. According to the author, a very few home remedies are ____.
A. useless
B. harmful
C. pleasant
D. effective
77. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. Quacks are really sympathetic.
B. “Snake oil” does not work.
C. Doctors cannot cure all ills.
D. Patients are often impatient.
78. Many individuals opt for “snake oil” becau se they ____.
A. are misled by a secret formula
B. cannot afford a treatment
C. lack medical knowledge
D. do not trust physicians
79. “Snake oil” is a popular cure-all for minor aches and hurts because it has ____.
A. actually worked
B. some fruit stones
C. been misunderstood
D. alcohol or narcotic drugs
80. Which of the following would be the best title of this passage?
A. Distrust of Physicians
B. Medical Treatment
C. Snake Oil Remedies
D. Guard Against Quackery
参考答案：
71. D 72. D 73. C 74. D 75. C 76. D 77. A 78. A 79. D 80. D
2015年翻译资格考试中级笔译模拟试题(9)
1 The explanation given by the manager yesterday was not at all _____ to us.
A. satisfy
B. satisfied
C. satisfactory
D. satisfying
2 Part of the funds will be used to ____ that old blbrary to its original splendor.
A. rest
B. recover
C. replace
D. restore
3 This silk has gone right _____ and we have not sold a single piece of it for weeks.
A. out of fad
B. out of pattern
C. out of custom
D. out of fashion
4 The new Personal Digital Assistance contained a large ___ of information about an individual life.
A. deal
B. amount
C. number
D. account
5 Primitive superstitions that feed racism should be _____ through education.
A. ignored
B. exalted
C. eradicated
D. canceled
6. _____ pollution control measures are expensive, many local governments hesitate to adopt them.
A. Although
B. However
C. Because
D. Moreover
7. The less the surface of the ground yields to the weight of the body of a runner, _____ to the body.
A. the stress it is greater
B. greater is the stress
C. greater stress is
D. the greater the stress
8. Annie Jump Cannon, _____ discovered so many stars that she was called “the census taker of the sky.”
A. a leading astronomer,
B. who, as a leading astronomer,
C. was a leading astronomer,
D. a leading astronomer who
9. Kingdom of Wonders, _____ in 1995 in Fremont, Calif., became an industry legend for two toys: a talking bear and a ray-gun game.
A. find
B. found
C. founded
D. founding
10. Over a very large number of trials, the probability of an event _____ is equal to the probability that it will not occur.
A. occurring
B. to occur
C. occurs
D. occur
11. Only one-fifth of Americans saw oil as the chief reason that the U.S. made a war on Iraq, but 75 percent of the French and of the Russians believed _____.
A. to
B. so
C. go
D. do
12. Sadly, while the academic industry thrives, the practice of translation continues to _____.
A. stack
B. stage
C. stagnate
D. stamp
13. Your blunt treatment of disputes would put other people in a negative frame of _____, with the result that they would not be able to accept your proposal.