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CATTI中级笔译练习题（2）

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　　新东方在线英语频道给大家整理的CATTI中级笔译练习题（2）,希望能够对大家的英语考试备考有所帮助，更多有关英语的备考内容，欢迎随时关注新东方在线英语频道。

　　To Err Is Human by Lewis Thomas

　　Everyone must have had at least one personal experience with a computer

　　error by this time. Bank balances are suddenly reported to have jumped form $379

　　into the millions, appeals for charitable contributions are mailed over and over

　　to people with crazy sounding names at your address, department stores send the

　　wrong bills, utility companies write that they’re turning everything off, that

　　sort of thing. If you manage to get in touch with someone and complain, you then

　　get instantaneously typed, guilty letters from the same computer, saying, “Our

　　computer was in error, and an adjustment is being made in your account.”

　　These are supposed to be the sheerest, blindest accidents. Mistakes are not

　　believed to be the normal behavior of a good machine. If things go wrong, it

　　must be a personal, human error, the result of fingering, tampering a button

　　getting stuck, someone hitting the wrong key. The computer, at its normal best,

　　is infallible.

　　I wonder whether this can be true. After all, the whole point of computers

　　is that they represent an extension of the human brain, vastly improved upon but

　　nonetheless human, superhuman maybe. A good computer can think clearly and

　　quickly enough to beat you at chess, and some of them have even been programmed

　　to write obscure verse. They can do anything we can do, and more besides.

　　It is not yet known whether a computer has its own consciousness, and it

　　would be hard to find out about this. When you walk into one of those great

　　halls now built for the huge machines, and standing listening, it is easy to

　　imagine that the faint, distant noises are the sound of thinking, and the

　　turning of the spools gives them the look of wild creatures rolling their eyes

　　in the effort to concentrate, choking with information. But real thinking, and

　　dreaming, are other matters. On the other hand, the evidence of something like

　　an unconscious, equivalent to ours, are all around, in every mail. As extensions

　　of the human brain, they have been constructed the same property of error,

　　spontaneous, uncontrolled, and rich in possibilities.

　　Question 1: The title of the writing “To Err Is Human” implies that

　　A. making mistakes is confined only to human beings.

　　B. every human being cannot avoid making mistakes.

　　C. all human beings are always making mistakes.

　　D. every human being is born to make bad mistakes.

　　Question 2: The first paragraph implies that

　　A. computer errors are so obvious that one can hardly prevent them form

　　happening.

　　B. a computer is so capable of making errors that none of them is

　　avoidable.

　　C. computers make such errors as miscalculation and inaccurate

　　reporting.

　　D. computers can’t think so their errors are natural and unavoidable.

　　Question 3: The author uses his hypothesis that “computers represent an

　　extension of the human brain” in order to indicate that

　　A. human beings are not infallible, nor are computers.

　　B. computers are bound to make as many errors as human beings.

　　C. errors made by computers can be avoided the same as human mistakes can

　　be avoided.

　　D. computers are made by human beings and so are their errors.

　　Question 4: The rhetoric the author employed in writing the third

　　paragraph, especially the sentence “A good computer can think clearly and

　　quickly enough to beat you at chess…” is usually referred to in writing as

　　A. climax. B. personification C. hyperbole D. onomatopoeia

　　Question 5: The author compared the faint and distant sound of the computer

　　to the sound of thinking and regarded it as the product of A. dreaming and

　　thinking B. some property of errors C. consciousness D possibilities

　　参考答案：

　　1. B 2. A 3. A 4. B 5. C

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