2011翻译考试高级笔译考试模拟试卷二_第5页

　Emory University enjoys a large endowment thanks to a student who became a senior executive at Coca-Cola, and already holds the archives of the poets W B Yeats and Seamus Heaney, as well as Hughes. "Emory seems to be very serious about building a collection of contemporary literature," said Rushdie. "Not only do they have the papers of Hughes and Heaney, but also Paul Muldoon and other writers. I got the sense that they want to collect contemporary novelists as well and it just felt very good to be part of that."

　　Rushdie, who now lives in New York, has accepted a position as a visiting fellow and will spend a month on the campus in Decatur, a leafy suburb of Atlanta, every year until 2012. "They asked if I'd ever thought about putting my archive anywhere and, to tell you the truth, until that moment I really hadn't," Rushdie said.

　　"My archive is so voluminous that I don't have room in my house for it and it's in an outside storage facility. I was worried about that and wanted to feel it was in a safe place." The papers will be open for scholars to study with one key exception: the "fatwa" diaries that Rushdie wrote under threat of death from Islamic extremists for writing The Satanic Verses. He spent a decade in hiding under the protection of Scotland Yard after Ayatollah Khomeini, then leader of Iran, called the book "blasphemous against Islam" in 1989.

　　The author may use the diaries as the basis for a book: "I wouldn't want them out in the open, 1 want to be the first person to have a go at the material, whether as a serious autobiography or as a memoir." He was ambivalent about the idea of scholars studying his papers. "The whole thing is very bizarre, you know, it's like imagining someone going through your underwear."

　　The two unpublished novels—The Antagonist, influenced by Thomas Pynchon, the American writer, and The Book of Peer—were written by Rushdie in the 1970s: "The Antagonist was a contemporary London novel, set around Ladbroke Grove where I was living at the time. I think it was embarrassingly Pynchonesque."

　　Chris Smith, the former culture minister who chairs the UK Literary Heritage Working Group, said: "It is a very sad day for British literature and scholarship. Our literary heritage is arguably our greatest contribution to culture and we should be taking special care to protect that." Andrew Motion, the poet laureate, last week called for the government to remove Vat from unbound papers, which increases the cost of purchases in this country. Stephen Enniss, of Emory University, said: "There is worldwide interest in Rushdie. We are catering for the long-term care of the archive and will welcome scholars from all over the world."

　　11. It can be learned from the passage that the British author Salman Rushdie ______.

　　(A) lived in hiding under the protection of Scotland Yard for a decade

　　(B) had spent the decade living in Scotland Yard until 1998

　　(C) lived in hiding in New York for one decade

　　(D) had moved from place to place since the publication of The Satanic Verses

　　12. According to the passage, the British Library ______.

　　(A) is going to buy back Rushdie's personal archive from Amory University

　　(B) opposes the American universities' acquisition of archives from British literary people

　　(C) has discussed with Salman Rushdie about the acquisition of his personal archive

　　(D) has expressed much concern over foreign buyers' acquisition of Britain's literary heritage

　　13. It can be concluded from the passage that the Emory University has collected the archives of all the following British poets EXCEPT ______.

　　(A) Ted Hughes

　　(B) Andrew Motion

　　(C) W B Yeats

　　(D) Seamus Heaney

　　14. According to the passage, the "fatwa" diaries (para.7) ______.

　　(A) were not included in the archive sold to the Emory University

　　(B) will not be open to the public in the near future

　　(C) were all about the writing of The Satanic Verses

　　(D) will soon be published to expose the persecution of Islamic extremists