2022二级笔译真题模拟05-18

1、The sentence “Children are a relatively modern invention” underlined in Paragraph 1 means that children .（单选题）

A. were exactly the same as adults a few hundred years ago

B. did not exist at that time because there were no families yet

C. were not different from adults in physical appearance

D. were not different from adults

试题答案：D

2、At first the company refused to purchase the equipment, but this decision was ______ revised.（单选题）

A. subsequently

B. successively

C. predominantly

D. preliminarily

试题答案：A

3、According to the passage, which of the following best describes the sequence of stages that the sun will probably pass through?（单选题）

A. Yellow dwarf, white dwarf, red giant, black giant.

B. Red giant, white dwarf, red dwarf, nova explosion.

C. Yellow dwarf, red giant, white dwarf, black dwarf.

D. White dwarf, red giant, black dwarf, yellow dwarf.

试题答案：C

4、What’s the advantage of studying exposed brain?（单选题）

A. It can help capture the earliest events of the brain.

B. It can help researchers use the highest possible resolution to observe the events.

C. It can help researchers find the indirect imaging methods that track neural activity through the skull.

D. It lets researchers study the electrical activity and the blood flow in detail.

试题答案：D

5、The writer gives several reasons why the boys on the Churchill team behaved as they did. Which of the following was not one of them?（单选题）

A. They did not like the fact that the boys from Burbank spoke Spanish.

B. They felt that they needed to put the Burbank boys in their place.

C. They needed to reaffirm the power they felt the Burbank team threatened.

D. The Burbank team did not respond to the Churchill team’s insult.

试题答案：A