2016年上半年笔译二级综合能力真题试卷
词汇选择题
1.Scientists are pushing known technologies to their limits in an attempt to______more energy from the earth.(C)
A. detract
B. protract
C. extract
D. retract
解析：本题考查动词语义搭配。题干大意为“科学家们正在推进现有技术的发展，以更多的能源”，本题四个选项均以-tract结尾，但其中只有extract(提取，获取)的语义能与energy(能源)构成符合上下文逻辑的搭配，故C选项符合题意。
2.When the civil war ended,______tasks confronted the people. Soldiers from both sides had to be demobilized, readjusted to civilian life, and reabsorbed by the devastated economy.(A)
A. staggering
B. appealing
C. contending
D. rewarding
解析：本题考查现在分词转化而来的形容词词义搭配。本题第二句话所描述的情况给出了提示：内战结束后美国人民面临大量任务，选项中只有staggering(惊人的，巨大的)能与tasks(任务)构成符合下文逻辑走向的搭配，意为“艰巨的任务”，故A选项符合题意。
3.The new accessibility of land around almost every major city______an explosion of real estate development and fueled what we know as urbanization.(D)
A. incited
B. followed
C. claimed
D. sparked
解析：本题考查动词的语义搭配。本题主干意为“新的可开发土地______房地产的爆发”，选项中只有sparked(激起，触发)能够作为谓语动词与explosion(爆发)形成符合逻辑的搭配，故D选项符合题意。
4.Japan’s______in the field of electronics would have to withstand much stronger challenge from competitors in the globalized economy.(B)
A. subordination
B. supremacy
C. submission
D. subjection
解析：本题考查近义名词的语义搭配。本题主干语意为“日本在电子领域的______必将经受挑战”，选项中只有supremacy(霸权)能够与谓语withstand challenge(经受挑战)形成符合上下文逻辑的搭配，故B选项符合题意。
5.After the 1870s, a number of important authors began to reject the Romanticism that had ______immediately following the civil war.(D)
A. appeared
B. recurred
C. surfaced
D. prevailed
解析：本题考查瞬间动词与延续性动词的用法。本题中的过去完成时的时间状语所示的是一段时期，不能与非延续性动词连用，选项中只有prevail(流行，盛行)是延续性动词(可表示一段时期内的延续性动作)，其余动词均为瞬间动词，故D选项符合题意。
6.The poet was able to______the bucolic lifestyle in great detail because he had lived in the countryside for a long time.(C)
A. design
B. determine
C. depict
D. denote
解析：本题考查动词的语义搭配。本题主干意为“这位诗人能够______那种田园生活方式是因为他在乡下生活过”，选项中只有depict(描述，描绘)能与诗人这一身份以及lifestyle构成语义上的搭配，故C选项符合题意。
7.The most______investments were made in small books that had proven to be steady sellers, providing a reasonably reliable source of income for the publisher.(B)
A. appalling
B. appealing
C. astounding
D. astonishing
解析：本题考查形容词的语义搭配。本题主干意为“最______的投资都给了那些畅销的小书”，选项中只有appealing(吸引人的)符合下文的逻辑，故B选项符合题意。
8.As early as 1782, the______Delaware inventor Oliver Evans built a highly automated, labor-saving flour mill driven by water power.(C)
A. proficient
B. prudent
C. productive
D. prolific
解析：本题考查形容词的语义搭配。本题主干意为“______的发明家建造了……”，选项中只有productive(多产的)符合下文的逻辑，故C选项符合题意。
9.These innovations in manufacturing______output and living standards to an unprecedented extent.(C)
A. moved
B. triggered
C. boosted
D. generated
解析：本题考查动词的语义搭配。本题考点是判断“制造业的创新”与“产量与生活水准”之间的关系，选项中只有boosted(提高，推进)作为谓语动词才符合上下文的语义逻辑，故C选项符合题意。
10.Studies reveal that obesity could, to a large extent, be attributed to the increasing popularity of the______lifestyle.(A)
A. sedentary
B. secretive
C. seclusive
D. solitary
解析：本题主要考查形容词的词义搭配。本题主干意为“肥胖症可归因于______的生活方式”，选项中只有sedentary(久坐不动的)可以和前文的obesity构成符合逻辑的搭配，故A选项符合题意。
11.As a comet’s orbit brings it closer to the sun, first the comet grow
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