翻译三级笔译综合能力-形容词(二)
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Ⅰ Grammar Adjectives
A Multiple Choices
1. Since arriving in New York, Thomas has had over 15 job interviews. And this is  opportunity to be lost.
    A．too good        B．too a good      C．too good an    D．a too good
2. This is the______bacon of the first class.
    A．choose        B．choosy          C．choice        D．choosing
3. He was so disappointed that he angrily chose______music he could find in the hope that it  might at least seem funny.
less is more 翻译    A．worse          B．the worse        C．worst          D．the worst
4. The town has a______bridge.
    A．nice old grey stone                  B．old stone grey nice
    C．grey race old stone                    D．old nice grey stone
5. One of the differences between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean is that the former has______waves.
    A．largest          B．large            C．larger          D．the largest
6. The people in Taiwan consume______milk per person today as they did twenty years ago.
    A．more than twice as many              B．twice more than as much
    C．so much more than twice              D．more than twice as much
7. The twins are so______that I cannot tell them apart.
    A．alike          B．likely          C．like            D．liking
8. It is a good time to catch up on______readings and other assignments.
    A．a former        B．previous        C．back          D．before
9. -I want to see Mr.Smith. We have an appointment.
    -I'm sorry, but he is not______at the moment, for the meeting hasn't ended．
    A．available                          B．accessible
    C．approachable                        D．advisable
10. I caught the last bus from town, but Tom came home______than I.
    A．more late      B．more later      C．even later      D．the later
11. He knows little of mathematics, and______of chemistry.
    A．even more      B．still less        C．no less        D．still more
12. The Yangtze River is not______than the Yellow River.
    A．very longer    B．more longer    C．longest        D．less longer
13. A good plan must be a little______so that special projects which are not included in the  plan can be done well.
    A．flexible          B．loose            C．relaxed        D．smooth
14. The reason why so many people sit before the television tonight is that there will be a______game of World Cup.
    A．living          B．live            C．lively          D．lived
15. "Do you regret paying five hundred dollars for the painting?"
    "No, I would gladly have paid______for it. "
    A．twice so much                      B．twice as much
    C．as much twice                      D．so much twice
Ⅱ Cloze Test
B The Beatles甲壳虫乐队
The English rock music group The Beatles gave the 1960s its characteristic musical flavor and    (1)    a profound influence on the course of popular music, equaled by  (2)  performers. The guitarists John Winston Lennon, James Paul McCartney, and George Harrison; and the drummer Ringo Starr, were all born and  (3)    in Liverpool. Lennon and McCartney had played together in a group called The Quarrymen. With Harrison,  (4)    formed their own group, The Silver Beatles, in 1959, and Starr joined them in 1962. As    (5)  Beatles, they developed a local following in Liverpool clubs, and their first recordings, "Love Me Do" (1962) and "Please Please Me" (1963), quickly made them Britain's top rock group. Their early music was  (6)    by the American rock singers Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley, but they infused a hackneyed musical  (7)    with freshness, vitality, and wit.
    The release of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in 1964  (8)  the beginning of the  phenomenon known as"Beatlemania" in the United States. The Beatle's first US  (9)  aroused a universal mob adulation. Their concerts were scenes of mass worship, and their records sold  (10)  the millions. Their first film, the innovative A Hard Day's Night(1964), was received enthusiastically  (11)  a wide audience that included many who had never before listened to rock music．
    Composing their own  (12)  , The Beatles established the precedent for other rock  groups to play their own music．Experimenting with  (13)  musical forms, they produced an extraordinary  (14)  of songs: the childishly simple "Yellow Submarine" ; the bitter **mentary of "Eleanor Rigby" ; parodies of earlier pop styles; new electronic sounds; **positions that were scored for cellos, violins, trumpets, and sitars, as well as for conventional guitars and drums. The  (15)  disbanded in 1970, after the release of their final album, Let It Be, and during the 1970s  (16)  individual careers, On dec.8, 1980, John Lennon    (17)  fatally shot outside his Manhattan apartment by Mark Chapman, a 25-year-old former mental  (18)  who, earlier that same day, had asked Lennon for his  (19)  . Lennon's murder was univers
ally  (20)  with an intensity of feeling usually inspired only by political and spiritual leaders.