商务英语翻译试题三试卷及答案

1、商务英语翻译试题（三）I词汇测试题：（2题，每题10分，共20分）1 该组有 10 个商务英语英文词或词组，下面均有英文词或词组来进行解释。请将正确的选项标出，要求英英转换意义准确，符合商务英语规范。 （ 10 分）（1） creditA. a kind of moneyB. a method of paying at a later timeC. currencyD. charge or service（2） assignA. to take or move outB. to put sth in a particular orderC. to choose or give a partic

2、ular job to sb.D. to decide how sth will be made(3) to performA. to project a programB. to contribute a fundC. to do an action or piece of workD. to cater for(4) to withholdA. to offer something for a decision B. to have a particular right to doC. to put something in a particular orderD. to refuse t

3、o give or to keep back(5) to scheduleA. to take on responsibilityC. to bring in a consultant(6) reimbursementA. to chargeC. to claim for damages(7) qualifyA. to make sth. BetterB. to trust in someoneD. to list or state detailsB. to pay back esp. moneyD. to ask forB. to cause sb. to have the legal ri

4、ght to have or do sth.C. to choose sb. officially for a jobD. to pay for the damage(8) put forwardA. to arrange for somethingB. to come on somethingC. to put on an eventD. to suggest an idea for consideration(9) to boostA. to take back or to removeB. to refuse to giveC. to become less in number or s

5、mallerD. to improve or increase(10) to comply withA. to comfortB. to contractC. act in accordance withD. to cash on delivery2. 该组有 10 个商务英语英文词或词组，下面均有汉语词或词组来进行解释，请将正确项选出，要求英汉转换意义准确，符合商务英语规范。( 10 分)(1) sub-standardA. 不合标准的C. 附属的标准(2) shop aroundA. 四处游荡C. 寻找店面(3) ceiling limitA. 屋顶，房顶C. 期限(4) sub-cont

6、ractorA. 副经理C. 法人代表(5) It is proposed thatA.可能会C.应该是(6) security centerA. 证券交易中心C. 保险中心(7) grace periodA. 宽限期C. 一段时间(8) consensusA. 内容，规范C. 证券，债券(9) in principleA. 适用于C.? 原则上(10) bull marketA 熊市C 集市II 语境意义，完形填空题本组考题共有15 个空， 每空下有多项意义近似的英语选项，准确选项填入空内。B. 标准化的D. 次品B.到处寻找D. 逛街B. ?限额D. 信用额度B. 承包商D. 转包人，分包

7、人B.最好会D.必定会B. 期货中心D. 保障中心B. 美好的时期D. 终止时期B. 意见一致D. 正式批准B. 主要来讲D. 规定B 牛市D 证券市场2 题，共 30 分)从中择一要求：A词语的特定环境所产生的意义。B词语的情态色彩意义。C词语的语法意义D句子与超句群在特定的集约形式中的意义。E语篇的主题意义1.完形填空题(10空，每空1.5分)WTOIt is well known that the World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only international organization 工 with the global rules of

8、 trade between notions. Its main function is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly as possible.It was founded in 1993 by the Final Act that concluded the Urugudy Round of multilateral negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade(GATT), which it _2 , and exists to administer and pol

9、ice the 28 free-trade agreements, oversee world trade practices, and adjudicate trade disputes.It began its operation on January 1, 1995, with its general council _3 76 member states; by early 1999 it numbered 134 members. The result of it is to make a more prosperous, peaceful and accountable econo

10、mic world.Decisions in the WTO are typically by4一 among all membercountries and they are ratified by members parliaments. Trade friction is channeled into the WTO s dispute settlement process where the focus is on interpreting agreements and commitments, and how to ensure that countries ' trade

11、policies 5 with them. That way, the risk of disputes spilling over into political or military conflict is reduced. By lowering trade barriers, the WTO s system also breaks down other barriers between peoples and nations. At the heart of the system-known as the 6 trading systemare the WTO ' s agr

12、eements, negotiated and signed by a large majority of the world' s tranations, and _7一 in their parliaments. These agreements are the legal ground-rules for international commerce. Essentially, they are contracts, guaranteeing member countries important trade rights. They also bind governments t

13、o keep their trade policies within agreed limits to everybody ' s benefit. The agreements were negotiated and signed by governments. But their purpose is to help producers of goods and services, exporters and importers conduct their business. The goal is to improve the welfare of the peoples of

14、the member countries.The past 50 years have seen an 8 growth in world trade. Merchandise exports grew on average by 6% annually. Total trade in 1997 was14 times the level of 1950. GATT and the WTO have helped to create a strong and prosperous trading system contributing to 9 growth.The system was de

15、veloped through a series of trade negotiations, or rounds, held under GATT. The first rounds dealt mainly with tariff reductions but later negotiations included other areas such as anti-dumping and non-tariff measures. The latest round - the 1986-84 Uruguay Round -led to the WTO ' s creation.Dec

16、isions are made by the entire membership. A majority vote is also possible but it has never been used in the WTO, and was extremely rare under the WTO' s 10, GATT. The WTO s agreemens have been ratified in allmembers parliaments.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.A. dealingA. placesA. concludingA. consensusA. co

17、nfirmA. multilateralA. rolledA. exceptionalA. presentedB. communicating C. complyingB. removesB. comprisingB. commentB. abideB. multipleB. ratifiedB. exceptC. supersedes C. competing C. commitment C. conformC. lateralC. checkedC. exceeding10. A. predecessor2.语境意义题：B. unprecedented C. supersededB. su

18、ccessor C. professorD. confirmingD. makesD. takingD. componentD. dealD. manageableD. issuedD. extendingD. sustainedD. institution文中有五处缺少内容，请从文后的选项中选出合适的选项， 填回到原文 中相应的位置 （5空，每空3分）When did humans first arrive at the concept of money? What conditions spawned it? And how did it affect the ancient societ

19、ies that created it? Until recently, re- searchersthought they had the answers. (1) . But few see the matter so simply now. With evidence gleaned from such disparate sources as ancient temple paintings, clay tablets, and buried hoards of un- coined metals, researchers have revealed far more ancient

20、money: silver scraps and bits of gold, massive rings and gleaming ingots.(2) .There, they suggest, wealthy citizens were flaunting money at least as early as 2500 B.C. and perhaps a few hundred years before that. "There's just no way to get around it," says Marvin Powell, a historian a

21、t Northern Illinois University in De Kalb. "Silver in Mesopotamia functions like our money today. It's a means of exchange. People use it for a storage of wealth, and they use it for defining value."Many scholars believe money began even earlier. My sense is that as farback as the writ

22、ten records go in Mesopotamia and Egypt, some form of money is there, observes JaonnWatihlliams, curator of Roman and Iron Age coins at the British Museum in London. "That suggests it was probably there beforehand, but we can' t tell because I we don't have any written records."Jus

23、t why researchers have had such difficulties in uncovering these ancient moneys has much to do with the practice of archeology and the nature of money itself. Archeologists, after all, are the ultimate Dumpster divers: they spend their careers sifting through the trash of the past, ingeniously recon

24、structing vanished lives from broken pets and dented knives. (3) Money doesn't always come in the form of dimes and sawbucks, even today. As a means of payment and a way of storing wealth, it assumes many forms, from debit cards and checks to credit cards and mutual funds. The forms it took in t

25、he past have been, to say the least, elusive.From the beginning, money has shaped human society. It greased the wheels of Mesopotamian commerce, spurred the development of mathematics, and helped officials and kings rake in taxes and impose fines. (4) . "If there were never any money, there wou

26、ld never have been prosperity," says Thomas Wyrick, an economist at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, who is studying the origins of money and banking. "Money is making all this stuff happen."Ancient texts show that almost from its first recorded appearance in the an

27、cient Near East, money preoccupied estate owners and scribes, water carriers and slaves. In Mesopotamia, as early as 3000 BC, scribes devised pictographs suitable for recording simple lists of concrete objects, such as grain consignments. (5) .A. Five hundred years later, the pictographs had evolved

28、 into a more supple system of writing, a partially syllabic script known as cuneiform that was capable of recording the vernacular: first Sumerian, a language unrelated to any living tongue, and later Akkadian , an ancient Semitic language.B. In the process, they have pushed the origins of cash far

29、beyond the sunny coasts of the Mediterranean, back to the world's oldest cities in Mesopotamia, the fertile plain created by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.C. As it evolved in Bronze Age civilizations along the Mediterranean coast, it fostered sea trade, built lucrative cottage industries, and

30、underlay an accumulation of wealth that might have impressed Donald Trump.D. The tokens served first as counters and perhaps later as promissory notes giver temple tax collectors before the first writing appeared.E. They believed money was born, as coins, along the coasts of the Mediterranean the se

31、venth or sixth century BC, a product of the civilization that later gave world the Parthenon, Plato, and Aristotle.F. But like us, ancient Mesopotamians and Phoenicians seldom made the error of tossing out cash, and only rarely did they bury their most precious liquid assets in ground. Even when arc

32、heologists have found buried cash, though, they've trouble recognizing it for what it was. G. If money had never developed, we would all still be bartering. We would have been stuck with that. Money opened the door to trade, which opened the door for specialization. And that made possible a mode

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34、趋势将持续下去。在此情况下，我们想提醒你们，在近期内不可能再有相同的报盘。IV. 风格意义类试题（共30分）将下面段落译成适应原文风格的汉语表达，要求不仅译文忠实于原文，流畅无误，而且在篇章词语风格上，能与原文相适应。The coming of the railroads made canal shipping less important, but it tied New York even more closely to the central regions of the country. It was easier for people in the central states to

35、 ship their goods to New York for export overseas.Exports from New York were greater than imports. Consequently, shipping companies were eager to fill their ships with passengers on the return trip from Europe. Passengers could come from Europe very cheaply as a result. Thus New' York became the

36、 greatest port for receiving people from European countries. Many of these people remained in the city. Others stayed in NewYork for a few weeks, months, or years, and then moved to other parts of the United States. For these 'great numbers of new Americans New York had to provide homes, goods, and services. Their labor helped the city become great.商务英语翻译试题（三）参考答案I .词汇测试题（共20%）1 （ 1-5） BCCDD （ 6-10） BBDDC2 .（ 1-5） ABBDC （ 6-10） AABCBII 语境意义，完形填空题（共30% ）完形填空题（15%）（1-5） ACBAC （6-10） ABABA语境意义题：（15%）（1-5） EBFCAIII 形式主义类题（5 句，共 20% ）1 In the latter half of the 20th