英语笔译高级综合能力试题

This section consists of 3 parts. Read the directions for each part before answering the questions. The time for this section is 25 minutes.

Part 1        Vocabulary Selection

In this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are 4 choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. There is only ONE right answer. Then blacken the corresponding letter as required on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.

1.    We have had to raise the prices of our products because of the increase in the cost of______________ materials.

A. primitive                              B. rough

C. original                               D. raw

2.    With an eighty-hour week and little enjoyment, life must have been very ______________ for the students.

A. hostile                                B. anxious

C. tedious                                D. obscure

3.    Whenever the government increases public services, ______________ because more workers are needed to carry out these services.

A. employment to rise                    B. employment rises

C. which rising employment               D. the rise of employment

4.    Our flight to Guangzhou was______________ by a bad fog and we had to stay much longer in the hotel than we had expected.

A. delayed                             B. adjourned

C. cancelled                           D. preserved

5.    Container-grown plants can be planted at any time of the year, but______________ in winter.

A. should be                           B. would be

C. preferred                            D. preferably

6.    Both longitude and latitude ______________ in degrees, minutes and seconds.

A. measuring                           B. measured

C. are measured                        D. being measured

7.    Most comets have two kinds of tails, one made up of dust, ______________ made up of electrically charged particles called plasma.

A. one another                         B. the other

C. other ones                           D. each other

8.    Good pencil erasers are soft enough not ______________ paper but hard enough so that they crumble gradually when used.

A. by damaging                         B. so that they damage

C. to damage                           D. damaging

9.    The magician picked several persons ______________ from the audience and asked them to help him with the performance.

A. by accident                           B. at random

C. on occasion                         D. on average

10.   On turning the comer, they saw the path ______________ steeply.

A. departing                           B. descending

C. decreasing                          D. degenerating