翻译二级笔译综合能力分类模拟题31
(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
Reading Comprehension
In WAR MADE EASY Norman Solomondemolishesthe myth of an independent American press zealously guarding sacred values of free expression. Although strictly focusing on the shameless history of media cheerleading for the principal post World War II American wars, invasions, and interventions, he calls into question the entire concept of the press as some kind of institutional counterforce to government and corporate power.
Many of the **piled in this impeccably documented historical review will be familiar to readers who follow the news on the Internet. But such examples achieve fresh impact because of the way Solomon has organized and analyzed them. Each chapter is devoted to a single warhawk argument ("America Is a Fair and Noble Superpower", "Opposing the War Means Siding with the Enemy", "Our Soldiers Are Heroes, Theirs Are Inhuman"), illustrated with histo
rical examples from conflicts in the Dominican Republic, E1 Salvador, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Kosovo, both Iraq wars, and others in which the media were almost universally **plices.
The book should really be subtitled "War reporting doesn"t just suck, it kills", it makes you feel like demanding a special war crimes tribunal for corporate media executives and owners who joined the roll-up to" shock and awe" as non-uniformed psywar ops. To be sure, this would raise the issue of whether or not following orders mightsufficefor the defense of obedient slaves such as Mary McGrory and Richard Cohen, who performed above and beyond the call of duty. "He persuaded me," McGrory gushed(热情洋溢地表达)the morning after Colin Powell addressed a plenary session of the United Nations on February 5, 2003, declaring that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. "The cumulative effect was stunning." In the same Washington Post edition, Cohen wrote.
The evidence he presented to the United Nations—some of it circumstantial, some of it absolutely bone-chilling in its detail—had to prove to anyone that Iraq not only hasn"t accou
nted for its weapons of mass destruction but without a doubt still retains them. Only a fool—or possibly a Frenchman—could conclude otherwise.
Solomon demonstrates how this kind of peppy prewar warm updegeneratesinto drooling and heavy breathing once the killing begins. As if observing a heavy **puter game, the pornographers of death concentrate on the exquisite craftsmanship and visual design of the murder machines and the magnificence of the fiery explosions they produce.
1. The word "demolish" underlined in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. destroy        B. wreck
C. smash        D. negate
2. What is a common misperception of American press?
A. It discloses the shocking history of invasions.
B. It concentrates on media support for the wars.
C. It protects freedom of expression without reserve.
D. It stands on the side of the government.
3. The word "accomplices" underlined in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. conspirator        B. partner
C. co-agent        D. co-worker
4. The author of this passage thinks WAR MADE EASY is ______.
A. questionable        B. controversial
C. well proven        D. finely polished
5. The word "suffice" underlined in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. be sufficient for        B. satisfy
C. discovery        D. provide
6. It can be implied that the convicts in El Salvador, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Kosovo ______.
A. created heroes
B. are forgotten by most Americans
C. were criticized by American media
D. were supported by American media
7. What can be inferred about McGrory and Richard Cohen?
A. Both were shocked by the news that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
B. Both publicly supported the US accusation of Iraq.
C. **mitted a special war crime.
D. Both defended the interests of those who were submissive.
8. The word "degenerate" underlined in Paragraph 5 refers to ______.
A. retrogress        B. grow
C. decline        D. recess
9. In the second to last paragraph, "... could conclude otherwise" probably means to think ______.
A. the evidence given was true
B. Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction
C. Cohen gave horrifying description of Iraq
D. Colin Powell"s address was out of question
10. Solomon mentioned **puter game in order to ______.
documented翻译A. blame the press for its guilt in the war
B. compare the prewar preparations and the real war
C. stress the large scale of mass destruction
D. describe the visual effects of the murder machines
Although "naming rights" have proliferated in American higher education for the past several decades, the phenomenon has recently expanded to extraordinary lengths. Anything to get an extra dollar out of donors is fair game. I know colleges and universities sorely need to raise funds in these times of fiscalconstraints, but things have gotten a bit out of hand.

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