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 44: The author implies that most people have the opinion that the skill of interpreting is ______.         

A.

A: simpler than it really is

B.

B: very complex and demanding

C.

C: highly valued and admired

D.

D: based on principles of business

Đáp án và lời giải
Đáp án:A
Lời giải:

Đáp án A

Các tác giả ngụ ý rằng hầu hết mọi người có ý kiến rằng các kỹ năng của phiên dịch là ______.   

A. đơn giản hơn nó thực sự là 

B. rất phức tạp và đòi hỏi cao   

C. đánh giá cao và ngưỡng mộ

D. dựa trên các nguyên tắc của kinh doanh

Dẫn chứng: 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 ...  

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