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英语翻译高级口译-17
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[单项选择]The author mentioned "a string of crimes" in paragraph 2 to show that ______.
A. (A) Crime is becoming more and more rampant and nasty in Britain.
B. (B) Crime rate is on the rise in Britain.
C. (C) The government has done little to crack down on crimes.
D. (D) Harsh sentence and prisons are not effective in alleviating crimes.
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[单项选择]The author's analysis of cosmetic surgery supports the proposition that ______.
A. (A) only the rich should undergo such procedures
B. (B) doctors should worry about medicine, not ethics
C. (C) advertising should accurately reflect popular culture
D. (D) nature should not be tampered with unnecessarily
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[单项选择]Which of the following is true according to the passage
A. (A) Mentally iii offenders should not be sent to prison.
B. (B) Jailed criminals will lose contact with their families and re-offend after release.
C. (C) Smaller detention centres close to home are the best place for many women prisoners.
D. (D) Non-custodial community sentences proved to be quite effective in reducing re-offences.
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[单项选择]In the writer's view, people who qualify as eccentrics ______.
A. (A) make every effort to appear strange
B. (B) have a strong desire to be noticed
C. (C) deliberately behave in a mysterious way
D. (D) are unaware that their behaviour is unusual
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[单项选择]In the sentence "his successor, John Reid, is busily putting the boot into everyone else, lambasting judges for being soft on crime and scaring the daylights out of his department.", the phrase "scare the daylight out of" is closest in meaning to ______.
A. (A) fire
B. (B) frighten
C. (C) scold
D. (D) threaten
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[单项选择]The ad for mineral water is cited as an example of the way popular culture ______.
A. (A) promotes symbols of status
B. (B) excludes those unwilling to consume
C. (C) fosters unrealistic expectations
D. (D) co-opts the role of nutritionists
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[单项选择]Which of the following is implied in the sentence "Tony Blair was due on June 23rd to urge a new balance between the rights of offenders and those of victims in favour of the latter." in paragraph 3
A. (A) The offenders should be punished more severely.
B. (B) Tony Blair was supportive of the rights of victims.
C. (C) Neither offenders nor victims are pleased with the status quo of the administration of justice.
D. (D) The rights of the victims were greatly impaired.
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[单项选择]Which of the following does not support the statement "Yet there are some crucial ways in which Google differs from Microsoft."
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[单项选择]What is the main idea of the passage
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[单项选择]In writing the last sentence, the author ______.
A. (A) reaches the conclusion of the passage.
B. (B) criticizes the competition in the IT industry.
C. (C) reveals his real attitude toward the comparison of Microsoft and Google.
D. (D) adopts a satirical tone.
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[单项选择]Eccentric people tend to form into groups because ______.
A. (A) they have no other friends
B. (B) they want others to share their interests
C. (C) they are good organisers
D. (D) they feel they are misunderstood
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[单项选择]The author's analysis of the impulse toward bodily transformation is most weakened by a failure to explore the ______.
A. (A) psychological benefits of an improved
B. (B) point of view of psychologists who treat "scalpel slaves"
C. (C) difference between competent and incompetent plastic surgeons
D. (D) dangers of injury stemming from misuse of bodybuilding equipment
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[单项选择]Which of the following is NOT true about the "proprietary lock-in" according to the passage
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[单项选择]Which of the following is LEAST likely to be the author's attitude toward prison
A. (A) Detention center is preferred to prison in correcting all the criminals.
B. (B) Harsh penalty and prison may not be in the best interest of the society
C. (C) It is better to educate and reform the criminals than to lock them up.
D. (D) The function and effectiveness of prisons in Britain have not improved much over the last decade.
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[单项选择]The author implies that the "normalizing images" (Para. 5) we are surrounded with have the effect of______.
A. (A) encouraging mediocrity instead of excellence
B. (B) enabling individuals to free themselves from anxiety
C. (C) promoting solidarity among disparate social groups
D. (D) bolstering the supremacy of a narrow range
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[单项选择]Which of the following is NOT implied in the statement "Google provides the front door to the Internet."
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[单项选择]Which best expresses the change since the seventeenth century in the perception people have of their relationship to their bodies
A. (A) From beneficiary to benefactor
B. (B) From preserver to despoiler
C. (C) From observer to investigator
D. (D) From caretaker to creator
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[单项选择]According to the writer, eccentric people ______.
A. (A) want to show that they are different
B. (B) try to do what is expected of them.
C. (C) express their own views in public
D. (D) pretend to be something they are not
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[单项选择]According to the writer, most people have a desire to ______.
A. (A) be regarded as individuals
B. (B) behave differently from other people
C. (C) say what other people want to hear
D. (D) spend all their time with a group of people
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[单项选择]What is the purpose of the article
A. (A) to criticise people who always conform
B. (B) to encourage people to be individuals
C. (C) to examine the reasons for eccentric behaviour
D. (D) to describe problems faced by eccentric people