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 46: A precondition of being a translator is ______.         

A.

A: being a linguist

B.

B: being bilingual

C.

C: working well with people

D.

D: being able to use high-tech equipment

Đáp án và lời giải
Đáp án:B
Lời giải:

Đáp án B

Một điều kiện tiên quyết của một thông dịch viên là ______.    

A. là một nhà ngôn ngữ    

B. là song ngữ    

C. làm việc tốt với mọi người    

D. có khả năng sử dụng thiết bị công nghệ cao

Dẫn chứng: Simply being bilingual doesn’t qualify someone to interpret.  

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