2010 笔译期末考试模拟练习.pptVIP

期末考试模拟练习 An acquaintance of world history is helpful to the study of current affairs.   读一点世界史，对学习时事是有帮助的。 A view of Mt. Fuji can be obtained from here.　 　  从这里可以看到富士山。 He is no smoker, but his father is a chain-smoker.　   他倒是不抽烟，但他爸爸却一支又一支不停地抽。 They talked for almost eight hours, through dinner and well into the night.　 He married her in spite of her looks. The daily newspaper guides, educates and encourages the masses.  The lecture was interesting，but as far as I am concerned the speaker was speaking over my head． No word is meaningless. Anyone who doesn’t recognize this fact is not a materialist. We live and learn.  The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily, that is what fiction means. Rumors had already spread along the streets and lanes. It seemed a long time before my turn came. Television, it is often said, keeps one informed about current events, allows one to follow the latest developments in science and politics, and offers an endless series of programs which are both instructive and entertaining. ? It begins as a childlike interest in the grand spectacle and exciting event; it grows as a mature interest in the variety and complexity of the drama, the splendid achievements and terrible failures; it ends as deep sense of the mystery of man‘s life of all the dead, great and obscure, who once walked the earth, and of wonderful and awful possibilities of being a human being. I told the story to John, who told it to his brother. After dinner, the four key negotiators resumed their talks, which continued well into the night. He showed no further wish for conversation with Mrs. Smith, who was now more than usually insolent and disagreeable. She was very patient towards the children, which her husband seldom was.Mary had scarcely heard the news when she wept aloud. On Books A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well a