中級(jí)英語(yǔ)翻譯資格考試閱讀理解練習(xí)題及答案

1、中級(jí)英語(yǔ)翻譯資格考試閱讀理解練習(xí)題及答案試題一Britain almost more than any other country in the world must seriously face the problem of building upwards, that is to say, of accommodating a considerable proportion of its population in high blocks of flats. It is said that the English man objects to this type of existence,

2、 but if the case is such, he does in fact differ from the inhabitants of most countries of the world today. In the past our own blocks of flats have been associated with the lower-income groups and they have lacked the obvious provisions, such as central heating, constant hot water supply, electrica

3、lly operated lifts from top to bottom, and so on, as well as such details, important notwithstanding (然而), as easy facilities for disposal of dust and rubbish and storage places for baby carriages in the ground floor, playgrounds for children on the top of the buildings, and drying grounds for washi

4、ng. It is likely that the dispute regarding flats versus (對(duì)，對(duì)抗) individual houses will continue to rage on for a long time as far as Britain is concerned. And it is unfortunate that there should be hot feelings on both sides whenever this subject is raised. Those who oppose the building of flats bas

5、e their case primarily on the assumption (設(shè)想) that everyone prefers an individual home and on the high cost per unit of accommodation. The latter ignores the higher cost of providing full services to a scattered community and the cost in both money and time of the journeys to work for the suburban r

6、esident.31. We can infer from the passage that _.A) English people, like most people in other countries, dislike living in flatsB) people in most countries of the world today are not opposed to living in flatsC) people in Britain are forced to move into high blocks of flatsD) modern flats still fail

7、 to provide the necessary facilities for living(B)32. What is said about blocks of flats built in the past in Britain?A) They were mostly inhabited by people who did not earn much.B) They were usually not large enough to accommodate big families.C) They were sold to people before necessary facilitie

8、s were installed.D) They provided playgrounds for children on the top of the buildings.(A)33. The word “rage” (Line 9) means _.A) be ignored B) develop with great force C) encourage people greatly D) be in fashion(B)34. Some people oppose the building of flats because _.A) the living expenses for ea

9、ch individual family are higherB) it involves higher cost compared with the building of housesC) they believe people like to live in houses with gardensD) the disposal of rubbish remains a problem for those living in flats(C)35. The author mentions that people who live in suburban houses _.A) do not

10、 have access to easy facilities because they live away from the cityB) have to pay a lot of money to employ people to do service workC) take longer time to know each other because they are a scattered communityD) have to spend more money and time travelling to work every day(D)試題二Reading is thought

11、to be a kind of conversation between the reader and the text. The reader puts questions, as it were, to the text and gets answers. In the light of these he puts further questions, and so on.For most of the time this “conversation” goes on below the level of consciousness. At times, however, we becom

12、e aware of it. This is usually when we are running into difficulties, when mismatch is occurring between expectations and meaning. When successful matching is being experienced, our questioning of the text continues at the unconscious level.Different people converse with the text differently. Some s

13、tay very close to the words on the page; others take off imaginatively from the words, interpreting, criticizing, analyzing and examining. The former represents a kind of comprehension which is written in the text. The latter represents higher levels of comprehension. The balance between these is im

14、portant, especially for advanced readers.There is another conversation which from our point of view is equally important, and that is to do not with what is read but with how it is read. We call this a “process” conversation as opposed to a “content” conversation. It is concerned not with meaning bu

15、t with the strategies (策略) we employ in reading. If we are an advanced reader our ability to hold a process conversation with a text is usually pretty well developed. Not so our ability to hold a content conversation. It is precisely this kind of conversation that is of importance when we are seekin

16、g to develop our reading to meet the new demands being placed upon us by studying at a higher level.31. Reading as a kind of conversation between the reader and the text becomes conscious only when _.A) the readers expectations agree with what is said in the textB) the reader has trouble understandi

17、ng what the author saysC) the reader asks questions and gets answersD) the reader understands a text very well(B)32. At a lower level of comprehension, readers tend to _.A) read a text slowly B) read without thinking hardC) interpret a text in their own way D) concentrate on the meaning of words onl

18、y(D)33. A “process” conversation has to do with _.A) the application of reading strategies B) matching our expectations with the meaning of a textC) the development of our ability to check the details D) determining the main idea of a text(A)34. According to the passage, it is of great importance for readers at a higher level to maintain a balance between _.A) conscious and unconscious levels of comprehensionB) the readers expectations and the meaning of a textC) lower and higher levels of comprehensionD) interpreting and criticizing