2012年翻译考试英语笔译能力模拟题(2)_第2页

　　A. making mistakes is confined only to human beings.

　　B. every human being cannot avoid making mistakes.

　　C. all human beings are always making mistakes.

　　D. every human being is born to make bad mistakes.

　　Question 2: The first paragraph implies that

　　A. computer errors are so obvious that one can hardly prevent them form happening.

　　B. a computer is so capable of making errors that none of them is avoidable.

　　C. computers make such errors as miscalculation and inaccurate reporting.

　　D. computers can’t think so their errors are natural and unavoidable.

　　Question 3: The author uses his hypothesis that “computers represent an extension of the human brain” in order to indicate that

　　A. human beings are not infallible, nor are computers.

　　B. computers are bound to make as many errors as human beings.考试网

　　C. errors made by computers can be avoided the same as human mistakes can be avoided.

　　D. computers are made by human beings and so are their errors.

　　Question 4: The rhetoric the author employed in writing the third paragraph, especially the sentence “A good computer can think clearly and quickly enough to beat you at chess…” is usually referred to in writing as

　　A. climax. B. personification C. hyperbole D. onomatopoeia

　　Question 5: The author compared the faint and distant sound of the computer to the sound of thinking and regarded it as the product of A. dreaming and thinking B. some property of errors C. consciousness D possibilities