三级笔译综合练习题.doc

翻译资格考试三级笔译综合能力试题
Section 1: Vocabulary and Grammar (25 points)
This section consists of 3 parts. Read thedirections for each part before answering thequestions. The time for this section is 25 minutes.
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
In this part, there are 20 plete sentences. Below each sentence, there are 4 choicesrespectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase which pleteseach sentence. There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required onyour 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 thestudents.
A. hostile B. anxious
C. tedious D. obscure
3. Whenever the government increases public services,______ because more workers areneeded 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 inthe 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. ets have two kinds of tails, one made up of dust, ______ made up ofelectrically 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 theycrumble 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 helphim with the performance.
A. by acciden