Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions:

Simply being bilingual doesn’t qualify someone to interpret. Interpreting is not only a mechanical process of converting one sentence in language A into the same sentence in language B. Rather, it’s a complex art in which thoughts and idioms that have no obvious counterparts from tongue to tongue or words that have several meanings must be quickly transformed in such a way that the message is clearly and accurately expressed to the listener. At one international conference, an American speaker said, “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear”, which meant nothing to the Spanish audience. The interpretation was, “A monkey in a silk dress is still a monkey” -an idiom the Spanish understood and that expressed the same idea. There are 2 kinds of interpreters, simultaneous and consecutive. The former, sitting in a separated booth, usually at a large multilingual conference, speaks to listeners wearing headphones, interpreting what a foreign language speaker says actually a sentence behind. Consecutive interpreters are the ones most international negotiations use. They are employed for smaller meetings without sound booths and headphones. Consecutive interpretation also requires two-person teams. A foreign speaker says his piece while the interpreter, using a special shorthand, takes notes and during a pause, tells the client what was said.

Question 43: What is the purpose of the passage?

A: To explain the scope of interpreting

B: To differentiate between simultaneous and consecutive interpreters

C: To state the qualifications of an interpreter

D: To point out the importance of an interpreter

Đáp án và lời giải

Đáp án:B

Lời giải:

Đáp án B

Mục đích của đoạn văn là gì?

A. Để giải thích phạm vi công việc phiên dịch

B. Để phân biệt giữa thông dịch viên nối tiếp và liên tục

C. Để rõ trình độ của một thông dịch viên

D. Để chỉ ra tầm quan trọng của một thông dịch viên

Dẫn chứng: There are 2 kinds of interpreters, simultaneous and consecutive.

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