Every year in March, while the two session(会议) are being held in Beijing, government officials give sports to the public. And they answer questions from journalists from both home and abroad. For this reason, interpreters(口译员) play a very important role.

Zhang Lu is one of them. She usually interprets for top leaders. Zhang is known for her translations of Chinese literary quotes (文学典故). From the ancient poem Li Sao to the shi,ci and qu writing of later dynasties, she can interpret them well.

How are interpreters like Zhang able to work so correctly and quickly? The source of their ability is largely hard work. Most of them majored in English in college and went through a great deal of training. After they become interpreters, they never stop learning. Zhang watches and listens to foreign media such as BBC, VOA and CNN on TV or the radio every day as part of her training. She described it as an “unshakable (不可动摇) routine”. She hardly ever breaks it.

According to China Radio International, a month before the two sessions, the interpreters are told who they are going to interpret for. They then make full use of the month to prepare themselves. They try to predict what kinds of questions might be asked. They also look at literary quotes that the spokesperson might plan to use when they answer questions.

There is no “secret” to the success of China’s best interpreters. It comes from hard work.

1.What does Zhang Lu do?

A. A top leader B. A government official C. A interpreter D. A journalist

2.Zhang Lu trains herself by ______

A. translating Chinese literary quotes B. answering questions in English

C. predicting the questions D. listening to foreign media every day.

3.The underline word “routine” here probably means _______

A. 常规 B. 爱好 C. 基础 D. 训练

4.The passage mainly talks about _______

A. why interpreters play an important role

B. whom interpreters work for

C. what interpreters usually do before two sessions

D. how to be a good and successful interpreter.

We look at the world around us everyday, but somehow we don’t manage to see it until what we’ve become used to suddenly disappeared. That’s to say that you may get used to some places and some ________ around you. For example, the neatly-dressed woman I used to see --or look at on my way to work each ________.

For three years, no matter ________the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 a.m. On ________ days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime turn out clean cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. ________, she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I ________all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how ________I expected to see her each morning. You might say I ________her.

“Did she have an accident? Something ________?” I thought to myself about her disappearance. Now that she was gone, I felt I had _______her. I began to realize that part of our ________life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar strangers: the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who ________walks her dog along the street ever morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are ________markers in our lives. They add weight to our ________ of places and belongings.

Think about it, while walking to work, ________we mark where we are by passing a certain building, why not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though unnamed , person?

1.A. guests B. tourists C. strangers D. friends

2.A. morning B. afternoon C. night D. year

3.A. how B. which C. what D. when

4.A. sunny B. rainy C. cloudy D. snowy

5.A. Especially B. Clearly C. Differently D. Luckily

6.A. believed B. expressed C. wondered D. remembered

7.A. often B. much C. long D. soon

8.A. respected B. praised C. missed D. admired

9.A. better B. worse C. more D. less

10.A. forgotten B. lost C. known D. hurt

11.A. hard B. daily C. happy D. enjoyable

12.A. hardly B. seldom C. always D. never

13.A. common B. pleasant C. important D. special

14.A. choice B. decision C. sense D. knowledge

15.A. although B. because C. if D. however

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