1、翻译二级笔译综合能力分类模拟题 62 及答案解析(总分：118.43，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Cloze Test(总题数：4，分数：118.50)Tone Morrison“s First Novel Since Her Nobel Prizeby David GatesWhen longtime Tone Morrison fan see that her new novel, the first since she won the Nobel Prize in 1993, is called Paradise , they“ll fill in the Lost automatical
2、ly. Like the classic white American writers she“s lovingly, though warily, adopted as ancestral spirits. Morrison is obsessed with vanished or tainted Edens and failed visions of community. In 1992“s Jazz , it was 1920s Harlem. In 1987“s Beloved , it was a deceptively lovely plantation with the hell
3、ishly inapt name of Sweet Home. In 1977“s Song of Solomon , it was an idyllic post-Civil War farm significantly called Lincoln“s Heaven. Now, in Paradise , it“s the all-black Oklahoma town of Ruby in 1970s. Ruby“s built around a huge communal Oven (always reverently capitalized) and blessedly 1 from
4、 contamination by whites, whether in Klansmen“s hoods, policemen“s 2 or bankers“ tweeds. It“s literally a garden spot: “Iris, phlox, rose and peonies 3 up more and more time new butterflies journeyed 4 to brood in Ruby.“ With the very best intentions, the good townsfolk trash this Eden all by. 5 . C
5、ritics have long recognized the influence of Faulkner on the passionate, 6 Morrison, but it“s Hawthorne who seems to brood over Paradise , 7 his mixed blessing of resonant archetypes and risible artificiality. 8 in The Blithedale Romance (based on Concord“s Brook Farm), a utopian experiment unravels
6、; as in The Maypole of Merry Mount , puritanical elders squash a 9 community of dionysiac cultists. Ruby, it turns out, is run by “8-rocks“men with skin the color of 10 from deep in the mines, suspicious of those with lighter skin and 11 to do violence against any manifestation of “impurity“ and “im
7、morality.“ In the slam-bang opening 12 of Paradise , the men go gunning for houseful of women up the road whose only 13 in being witchy and matriarchal. But the pace picks up again. The novel“s overcrowding makes it feel 14 than it is: it slowly circles back to tell each of the women“s stories, and
8、to show how 15 proud, principled, churchonging men could neither keep the outside world from disrupting their community nor keep themselves from behaving eerily like their own nightmares of racist vigilantism.（分数：30.00）A Great FriendshipThomas Jefferson and James Madison met in 1776. Could it have b
9、een any other year? They worked together starting then to further American Revolution and later to shape the new scheme of government. From the work sprang a friendship perhaps incomparable in intimacy and the trustfulness of collaboration and induration. It lasted 50 years. It included pleasure and
10、 utility but 16 and above them, there were shared purpose, a common end 17 an enduring goodness on both sides. Four and a half months 18 he died, when he was ailing, debt-ridden, and worried about his impoverished 19 , Jefferson wrote to his longtime friend. His words and Madison“s reply remind us 2
11、0 friends are friends until death. They also remind us that 21 a friendship has a bearing on things larger than the 22 itself, for has there ever been a friendship of 23 public consequence than this one? “The friendship which has subsisted 24 us now half a century, the harmony of our political 25 an
12、d pursuits have been sources of constant happiness to me through 26 long period. It“s also been a great solace to me to believe that you“re 27 in vindicating to posterity the course that we“ve pursued for preserving to them, 28 all their purity, their blessings of self-government, 29 we had assisted
13、 in acquiring for them. If ever the earth has beheld a 30 of administration conducted with a single and steadfast eye to the general 31 and happiness of those committed to it, one 32 , protected by truth, can never known reproach, it is that to which our 33 have been devoted. To myself you have been
14、 a pillar of 34 throughout life. Take care of me when dead and be assured that I 35 leave with you my last affections.“ A week later Madison replied“You cannot look back to the long period of our private friendship and political harmony with more affecting recollections than I do. If they are a sour
15、ce of pleasure to you, what aren“t they not to be to me? We cannot be deprived of the happy consciousness of the pure devotion to the public good with which we discharge the trust committed to us and I indulge a confidence that sufficient evidence will find in its way to another generation to ensure
16、, after we are gone, whatever of justice may be withheld whilst we are here.“（分数：32.00）PhilanthropyIt has become an American tradition that those who attain great wealth return some of it to the public through philanthropy. An early example of this was the generosity of Amos Lawrence of Massachusett
17、s, a wealthy merchant who in the 1830s and afterwards contributed much money for famine relief in Ireland. He also donated generously to educational and other humanitarian causes. In the early years of the twentieth century several men who had amassed vast 36 likewise became great philanthropists. A
18、ndrew Carnegie, an exceptionally energetic man, 37 has begun working twelve hours a day when he was only fourteen years old, 38 one of the world“s richest men by pioneering in the steel 39 . After his retirement in 1900 he devoted his time and his wealth to the 40 of free public libraries. He also s
19、et up foundations for medical research and 41 world peace. Carnegie“s belief, as he expressed it in an essay, was 42 the wealthy person must “consider all surplus revenues 43 come to him simply as “trust funds“ which is strictly bound as a matter of 44 to administer in the manner best calculated to
20、produce the most 45 results for the communitythe man of wealth thus becoming the mere 46 and agent for his poorer brethren.“ John D. Rockefeller, who also began as a poor boy, became 47 rich through oil refineries and other enterprises. In his 48 age, in the early 1900“s, he began to donate millions
21、 for beneficial 49 . The various Rockefeller Foundations support research as well as 50 causes in the United States and in other parts of the world. Rockefeller funds are now fighting hunger through the so-called “green revolution,“ whereby new agricultural techniques have greatly multiplied the yie
22、ld of food crops in Mexico, India, Pakistan, and parts of Africa. Through the Ford Foundation, and based on automobile profits, Henry Ford donated $500 million in 1950 to universities and hospitals for improving education and health. This likewise became a world-famous foundation, whose activities h
23、ave spread far and wide. Some of this money was effectively spend fight cholera and typhus in far-off Nepal.（分数：22.50）It never occurred to him that he and his doing were not of the most intense and fascinating interest to anyone with whom he came in contact. He had theories about almost any subject
24、under the sun, including vegetarianism, the drama, politics, and music; and in support of these theories he wrote pamphlets, letters, books, thousands upon thousands of words, hundreds and hundreds of pages. He not only wrote these things, and published themusually at somebody else“s expensebut he w
25、ould sit and read them aloud, for hours, to his friends and his family. He had the emotional stability of a six-year-old child. When he felt out of sorts, he would rave and stamp, or sink into suicidal gloom and talk darkly of going to the East to end his days as a Buddhist monk. Ten minutes later,
26、when something pleased him, he would rush out of doors and run around the garden, or jump up and down on the sofa, or stand on his head. He was almost innocent of any sense of responsibility. Not only did he seem incapable of supporting himself, but it never 51 to him that he was under any obligatio
27、n to do so. He was convinced that the 52 owed him a living. In support of this belief, he borrowed 53 from everybody who was good for a loanmen, women, friends, or 54 . He wrote begging letters by the score, sometimes groveling 55 shame, at others loftily offering his intended benefactor the privile
28、ge of 56 to his support, and being mortally offended if the recipient declined the 57 . I have found no record of his ever paying or repaying money to 58 who did not have a legal claim upon it. The name of this monster was Richard Wagner. Everything that I have said about him you can find 59 record:
29、 in newspapers, in police reports, in the testimony of people who knew him, in his own letters, 60 the lines of his autobiography. And the curious thing about this record is 61 it doesn“t matter in the least. Because this undersized, sickly, 62 , fascinating little man was right all the time. The jo
30、ke was 63 us. He was one of the world“s greatest dramatists; he was a great 64 ; he was one of the most stupendous musical geniuses that, up to now, the world has 65 seen. The world did owe him a living. When you consider what he wrote: thirteen operas and 66 dramas, eleven of them still holding the
31、 stage, eight of them unquestionably 67 ranking among the world“s great musical-dramatic masterpieces: when you listen to 68 he wrote, the debts and heartaches that people had to endure from him don“t 69 much of a price. Think of the luxury with which for a time, at least, fate 70 Napoleon, the man
32、who ruined France and looted Europe; and then 71 you will agree that a few thousand dollars“ worth of debts were not too 72 a price to pay for the Ring trilogy. Listening to his music, one does not forgive him for what he 73 or may not have been. It is not a matter of forgiveness. It is a 74 of bein
33、g dumb with wonder that his poor brain and body didn“t burst 75 the torment of the demon of creative energy that lived inside him, 76 , clawing, scratching to be released; tearing, shrieking at him to 77 the music that was in him. The miracle is that what he did in the little 78 of seventy years cou
34、ld have been done at all, even by a great 79 . Is it any wonder that he had no time to be a man?（分数：33.93）翻译二级笔译综合能力分类模拟题 62 答案解析(总分：118.43，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Cloze Test(总题数：4，分数：118.50)Tone Morrison“s First Novel Since Her Nobel Prizeby David GatesWhen longtime Tone Morrison fan see that her new novel, t
35、he first since she won the Nobel Prize in 1993, is called Paradise , they“ll fill in the Lost automatically. Like the classic white American writers she“s lovingly, though warily, adopted as ancestral spirits. Morrison is obsessed with vanished or tainted Edens and failed visions of community. In 19
36、92“s Jazz , it was 1920s Harlem. In 1987“s Beloved , it was a deceptively lovely plantation with the hellishly inapt name of Sweet Home. In 1977“s Song of Solomon , it was an idyllic post-Civil War farm significantly called Lincoln“s Heaven. Now, in Paradise , it“s the all-black Oklahoma town of Rub
37、y in 1970s. Ruby“s built around a huge communal Oven (always reverently capitalized) and blessedly 1 from contamination by whites, whether in Klansmen“s hoods, policemen“s 2 or bankers“ tweeds. It“s literally a garden spot: “Iris, phlox, rose and peonies 3 up more and more time new butterflies journ
38、eyed 4 to brood in Ruby.“ With the very best intentions, the good townsfolk trash this Eden all by. 5 . Critics have long recognized the influence of Faulkner on the passionate, 6 Morrison, but it“s Hawthorne who seems to brood over Paradise , 7 his mixed blessing of resonant archetypes and risible
39、artificiality. 8 in The Blithedale Romance (based on Concord“s Brook Farm), a utopian experiment unravels; as in The Maypole of Merry Mount , puritanical elders squash a 9 community of dionysiac cultists. Ruby, it turns out, is run by “8-rocks“men with skin the color of 10 from deep in the mines, su
40、spicious of those with lighter skin and 11 to do violence against any manifestation of “impurity“ and “immorality.“ In the slam-bang opening 12 of Paradise , the men go gunning for houseful of women up the road whose only 13 in being witchy and matriarchal. But the pace picks up again. The novel“s o
41、vercrowding makes it feel 14 than it is: it slowly circles back to tell each of the women“s stories, and to show how 15 proud, principled, churchonging men could neither keep the outside world from disrupting their community nor keep themselves from behaving eerily like their own nightmares of racis
42、t vigilantism.（分数：30.00）解析：isolated解析：uniforms解析：took解析：miles解析：themselves解析：unsentimental解析：bestowing解析：As解析：neighboring解析：coal解析：willing解析：section解析：offense解析：longer解析：theseA Great FriendshipThomas Jefferson and James Madison met in 1776. Could it have been any other year? They worked together sta
43、rting then to further American Revolution and later to shape the new scheme of government. From the work sprang a friendship perhaps incomparable in intimacy and the trustfulness of collaboration and induration. It lasted 50 years. It included pleasure and utility but 16 and above them, there were s
44、hared purpose, a common end 17 an enduring goodness on both sides. Four and a half months 18 he died, when he was ailing, debt-ridden, and worried about his impoverished 19 , Jefferson wrote to his longtime friend. His words and Madison“s reply remind us 20 friends are friends until death. They also
45、 remind us that 21 a friendship has a bearing on things larger than the 22 itself, for has there ever been a friendship of 23 public consequence than this one? “The friendship which has subsisted 24 us now half a century, the harmony of our political 25 and pursuits have been sources of constant hap
46、piness to me through 26 long period. It“s also been a great solace to me to believe that you“re 27 in vindicating to posterity the course that we“ve pursued for preserving to them, 28 all their purity, their blessings of self-government, 29 we had assisted in acquiring for them. If ever the earth ha
47、s beheld a 30 of administration conducted with a single and steadfast eye to the general 31 and happiness of those committed to it, one 32 , protected by truth, can never known reproach, it is that to which our 33 have been devoted. To myself you have been a pillar of 34 throughout life. Take care o
48、f me when dead and be assured that I 35 leave with you my last affections.“ A week later Madison replied“You cannot look back to the long period of our private friendship and political harmony with more affecting recollections than I do. If they are a source of pleasure to you, what aren“t they not
49、to be to me? We cannot be deprived of the happy consciousness of the pure devotion to the public good with which we discharge the trust committed to us and I indulge a confidence that sufficient evidence will find in its way to another generation to ensure, after we are gone, whatever of justice may be withheld whilst we are here.“（分数：32.00）解析：over 该空后的 and above them 暗示此空当为介词，而 over 正好和 and above 搭配。解析：and 连接两个名词的连词无疑是 and。解析：before解析：family解析：that 跟随 remind 的直接宾语从句的代词，事物应用 that，人应用 who 或 whom，所以此空应填that。解析：sometimes解析：friendship 空后的 itself 暗示答案应为前面出现的 friendship。解析：greater 该空前的 eve
