2021年翻译资格《笔译务实》二级笔译习题及答案（卷一）.doc

2021年翻译资格《笔译务实》二级笔译****题及答案（卷一）
Even after I was too grown-up to play that game and too grown-up to tell my mother that I inst every one of them. On principle, she disapproved of everything I wanted to do, from going to study in America to perming my hair, and her favorite phrase was "over my dead body." It was clear that I loved her far more than she loved me 一 that is, if she loved me at all.
After I finished graduate school in America and got married, my relationship with my mother improved a great deal. Though occasionally dubious about my choice of a writing career, overall she thought I' d shaped up nicely. I thought the same about her. We established a rhythm: She' d write from India and give me all the gossip and send care packages with my favorite kind of mango pickle; I' d call her from the United States and tell her all the things I' d been up to and send care packages with instant vanilla pudding, for which she'd developed a great fondness. We loved each other equally
一 or so I believed until my first son, Anand, was born.
My son' s birth shook up my neat, organized, in-control adult existence in ways I hadn' t imagined. I went through six weeks of being shrouded in an exhausted fog of postpartum depression. As my husband and I walked our wailing baby up and down through the night, and I seriously contemplated going AWOL, I wondered if I was cut out to be a mother