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1、翻译二级笔译综合能力分类模拟题122Cloze TestCourage Some of the worlds oldest and best stories are about courag（江南博哥）e. They are stories that people always want to hear, and they have been told again and again. Many of these are in this bookstories of Leonidas and Joan of Arc, for example, of Robert Bruce and Grace
2、 Darling. Some of these heroes lived hundreds of years ago, but their courage will never be forgotten. You will also find in this book stories that are not nearly so well known, such as the story of Sir Edmund Verney, Charles Is Standard Bearer, or of John Stuart Mould, the Australian, who risked hi
3、s life taking mines to pieces. Some are stories of the past; more than a quarter are about people who lived in this century, such as John Kennedy, Thor Heyerdahl, and the South African Negro leader, Albert Luthuli. You will have read about some of them in the newspapers, or heard people talking of t
4、hem, but some of them will probably be quite new to you. We have chosen courageous people from all over the world: Alexander Nevsky was Russian, John Sobieski and Marie Curie were Polish, Madeleine de Vercheres was a French Canadian, and Toussaint lOuverture, who lived in the West Indies, was the gr
5、andson of an African chief. The oldest stories here are almost all about courage in 1 , for in the days when battles were the most important 2 , this was the sort of courage people always 3 . But later they began to realize that other ways of being brave could be 4 important, and sometimes, perhaps,
6、 needed 5 courage than fighting bravely. Now we admire people 6 the courage to say and teach what they believe in, 7 we have the stories of Socrates, and of religious martyrs 8 St, Peter to Edmund Campion. You need courage to face 9 , as Alexander Nevsky and William the Silent both 10 at times. You
7、need courage to fight against illness or 11 , as Franklin Roosevelt, Beethoven, and Helen Keller 12 . And you need even more courage to go on and on 13 and trying again, however often you fail. Neither Elizabeth Garrett Anderson nor Marie Curie 14 their great and useful work if they 15 this kind of
8、courage. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was a pioneer, a woman who had the courage to do something new. A pioneer is a kind of 16 just as much an explorer as Shackleton, who faced 17 from the elements, or as Alan Shepard and other pioneers in space, who face the 18 . There is another kind of courage whi
9、ch is less easy to recognize and probably does 19 so much fame, and that is the courage of a person who starts by being a 20 . There are some people who, almost without thinking, can show 21 courage in the excitement of a moment; there are others who 22 want to ran away. St. Peter wanted to 23 , and
10、 so in the 16th century did Thomas Cranmer. When people like this 24 their natural cowardice and force themselves to be 25 , as both these men did, we respect them very much, 26 they may have failed before. You can probably think of people who might be in this book and are not; but we could only cho
11、ose 43 27 of courage out of the many thousands that there are. Some heroes have not been 28 in this book because their stories are told in one of 29 books in this series. The story of Gandhi, the great Indian 30 , comes in the book India and Her Neighbours; in Exploring the world there is the story
12、of the selfless courage of Captain Oates who deliberately walked out into the Antarctic blizzard to die, so as to give his companions a better hope of surviving. In the same book are the stories of many other gallant explorers. Last of all there are the brave people nobody knows about: the people wh
13、o were brave even when there was no one there to see, and who said nothing about it; people who let others have the praise for what they did; and people who faced things which their friends never knew needed courage. Nobody writes stories about them, but many of us can recognize people like this amo
14、ng our own friends.1.A.wild-life huntingB.battleC.sailing in the deep seaD.fight 正确答案：B2.A.eventsB.occasionsC.happeningsD.news 正确答案：D3.A.memorizedB.rememberedC.respectedD.thought of 正确答案：B4.A.exactly beB.would just beC.just asD.the same as 正确答案：C5.A.a finer sort ofB.a kind ofC.a sort ofD.a stronger
15、kind of 正确答案：A6.A.ofB.withC.equipped withD.along with 正确答案：B7.A.and soB.and thatC.so thatD.and such 正确答案：A8.A.betweenB.withinC.beyondD.from 正确答案：D9.A.being smearedB.being inferiorC.to be incapableD.being unpopular 正确答案：D10.A.were to doB.had to doC.would have to doD.ought to do 正确答案：B11.A.injuriesB.diseasesC.handicapsD.lung trouble 正确答案：C12.A.al
