文档介绍：一,20个单选
二,选词填空(15选10)
三,完形填空(三选一)
四,改错
五,阅读:共五篇(前四篇选择,最后一篇填空)有一篇是写发现DNA双螺旋结构的James Dewey Watson通过研究发现一个不安的事实——非洲人的智商不如其他洲的,由此担心非洲的未来。当然这种“歧视性”评论引发抗议热潮,科学家被逐出实验室。
翻译基础:
一,词汇翻译
考了两个和写作有关的词汇:Apostrophe(省略号)这个我没写出来,还有一个square brackets,刚开始没想起来,后来想起来了,是“方括号”的意思。其他都是比较基础的常用的词汇,不偏不难。
例如:CPI(消费者物价指数),APEC(亚太经合组织),CPC(中国共产党),BBC,
FIFA, IMF, H1N1,加班费(overtime pay),清明节,西部大开发(development of the west regions),教务处(这个我蒙对了,teaching affairs office),
二,段落翻译
第一篇是英译中,Youth原文
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of