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1、专业英语考试复习资料专业八级分类模拟258专业英语考试复习资料专业八级分类模拟258专业八级分类模拟258LANGUAGE USAGE Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way: For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one
2、 in the blank provided at the end of the line. For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line. For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash / and put the word in the b
3、lank provided at the end of the line. The most difficult texts to translate are not, however,highly literarily productions, but rather those texts which say 1nothing, the type of language is often used by politicians and 2delegates to international forums. In fact, a group of professionaltranslators
4、 at the United Nations headquarters in New York Cityhave insisted that the most difficult text to translate be one in 3which the speaker or writer has attempted to say nothing. Thenext most difficult type of text is one filled with irony orsarcasm, since in a written text the paralinguistics clues t
5、o the 4meaning are usually much more difficult to detect like when 5someone is speaking. And perhaps the third most difficult typeof text is a book or article on translating in which the illustrated 6examples rarely match. In fact, a book on translating almostalways requires extensive adaptation. On
6、e of the most surprising paradoxes of translating is that it 7 is never a completely perfect and timeless translation. Both 8language and culture are always in the process of change.Furthermore, language is an open system with overlappingmeanings and fuzzier boundariesthe bane of logicians but the 9
7、delight of poets. The indeterminacy of language is part of theprice that must be paid for creativity and for the new insight 10which come through symbolic reinterpretation of humanexperience.1.答案:literarilyliterary,此处为形容词,前者为副词。2.答案:is删去,或在is前添加that,此处为前文的同位语the type of language的定语从句。如不加修改,该句即为完整单句,
8、前句应为句号,且首字母大写。3.答案:beis,此处insist意为“坚持认为”而非“要求”,所以不应做虚拟语气。4.答案:paralinguisticsparalinguistic,此处需用形容词,前者为名词。5.答案:likethan,此处用比较级。6.答案:illustratedillustrative,illustrative example是常见搭配,意为“说明性的例子”,illustrated用作表语通常表示“带插图的”。7.答案:itthere,it前无指代。此处意为“有”,是there be句型。8.答案:andor,前有否定意义的never,后应用or。9.答案:fuzzie
9、rfuzzy,此处无比较。10.答案:insightinsights,变为复数,与后面的定语从句保持一致。No person understood the science and politics of modern 11weaponry better than William J. Perry, the US Secretary ofDefense from 1994 to 1997. When a man of such unquestionedexperience and intelligence issues the starkly nuclear warning 12that is
10、central to his recent memoir, we should turn heed. Perry 13is forthright when he says: Today, the danger of some sort of anuclear catastrophe is more than it was during the Cold War and 14most people are blissfully unaware of this danger. He also tellsus that the nuclear danger is grown greater ever
11、y year and 15that even a single nuclear detonation could destroy our way oflife. In clear, detailed but powerful prose, Perrys new book, My Journey at the Nuclear Brink, tells the story of hisseventy-years experience of the nuclear age. Beginning with his 16firsthanded encounter with survivors livin
12、g amid vast wastes of 17fused rubble in the aftermath of World War II, his accounttakes us up to today when Perry is on an urgent mission to alertus the dangerous nuclear road we are traveling. 18 Reflecting upon the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Perry says it was then that he first unde
13、rstood that theend of all of civilization was now possible, not merely the ruin ofcities. He took to heart Einsteins words that the unleashedpower of the atom has changed everything, saved our modes of 19thinking. He asserts that it is only old thinking thatpersuades our leaders that nuclear weapons
14、 provide security,instead of understanding the hard truth which they now 20endanger it.11.答案:understoodunderstands,结合下文,此处应是一般现在时,因为文意显然认为他仍是这方面的顶尖专家。12.答案:starklystark,此处应为形容词,stark warning是常见的搭配,意为“严正警告”。13.答案:turntake/pay,heed通常前跟后者,意为“小心、注意”。14.答案:moregreater,根据下文以及习惯用法,应用后者。15.答案:growngrowing,此
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