Once the children have grown up I shall start travelling again, and I'm really that

Once the children have grown up I shall start travelling again, and I'm really ________ that.
A) passing on to
B) waiting up for
C) looking forward to
D) making up for
ANSWER: C
The 1990s have seen a general _____ in aid to poor countries, largely because of fiscal pressures in any rich countries.
A) consumption
B) decline
C) contingency
D) conviction
ANSWER: B
The United Kingdom has made significant contributions to the world economy,______ in technology and industry.
A) especially
B) likely
C) eventually
D) indispensably
ANSWER: A
The whole business of having meals at fixed ________ is nothing but a social convention and, in modern life, a matter of convenience.
A) approaches
B) substances
C) intervals
D) requirements
ANSWER: C
Our challenge is to ______ our clients with the best possible advice and support, enabling them to take the right direction at both strategic and operational levels.
A) expand
B) consult
C) improve
D) provide
ANSWER: D
The __________ was not a happy one at the time, but looking back on it I suppose I'm glad it occurreD)
A) improvement
B) regression
C) encounter
D) compromise
ANSWER: D
Since most of the world's commercial apples lack genetic diversity, they are unable to ______ a disease
or a pest.
A) put away
B) hold up
C) fight off
D) get off
ANSWER: C
Questions of race, ethnicity, and religion have been a __________ source of conflict in American education.
A) previous
B) perennial
C) vulnerable
D) naughty
ANSWER: B
The contemporary world economy differs ______ from what the traditional economic theorists of the 1930s envisageD)
A) primarily
B) likely
C) conversely
D) profoundly
ANSWER: D
In recent years ______ complex and persistent problems in economic and social fields have led people to wonder why once comfortable ANSWERs no longer seem adequate to today's questions.

1. 
   generously
   
2. 
   inadvertently
   
3. 
   increasingly
   
4. 
   ingeniously
   

ANSWER: C
When the rate of exchange began to rise again, he felt _______to call a meeting of the financial staff.
A) obliged
B) blamed
C) consumed
D) omitted
ANSWER: A
Since the 1950s modern dance in Europe and America has _______ a vigorous process of creativity.
A) cast
B) explored
C) constituted
D) followed
ANSWER: D
The assassination by terrorists of Signor Aldo Moro, five times Prime Minister of Italy, in May 1978 was ______ by everyone as an act of barbarism.
A) applauded
B) appealed
C) reiterated
D) condemned
ANSWER: D
I was greatly impressed by the way the judge conducted the trial, ________ when it came to summing
up the case.
A) particularly
B) completely
C) sufficiently
D) effectively
ANSWER: A
Asthma is a common ________ in which the airways lining the lung become inflameD)
A) diagnosis
B) disease
C) fury
D) patient
ANSWER: B
I was astonished to learn how such an experienced man as Dr Foster could be _____ by her tricks.
A) looked up
B) found out
C) run over
D) taken in
ANSWER: D
The recent economic figures ______ that the country is slowly coming out of the crisis.
A) commit
B) imply
C) incur
D) evolve
ANSWER: B
Choose the "restatement" that is closest in meaning to the original sentence. No one but you can take my heart...
A) Anyone -- except you -- can take my heart.
B) No one, including you, can take my heart.
C) Anyone can take my heart, but you can't.
D) Only you can take my heart.
ANSWER: D
Choose the "restatement" that is closest in meaning to the original sentence. He was only able to catch the bus by running for it.
A) If he hadn't run for the bus, he couldn't have possibly caught it.
B) He would have caught the bus if he had run for it.
C) He would have caught the bus even if he hadn't run for it.
D) He needn't have run at all to catch the bus.
ANSWER: A
Choose the "restatement" that is closest in meaning to the original sentence. I find it impossible not to feel sorry for her.
A) Feeling sorry for her is another possibility for me.
B) I wish I felt sorry for her.
C) She makes it impossible for me to feel sorry for her.
D) I can't help feeling sorry for her.
ANSWER: D
Translation can refer to two things:
A) product
B) process
C) aim
D) A and B
ANSWER: D
What does the process involves?
A) The process involves changing the source text (ST) in the source language (SL) into a written target (TT) in a target language (TL)
B) changing in opinions
C) Changing in spoken language
D) changing in languages
ANSWER: A
What are the three categories of Jacobson's:
A) Intralingual translation or "rewording"
B) Interlingual translation or "translation proper".
C) Intersemiotic translation or "transmutation"
D) A,B,C
ANSWER: D
What is the focus of translation studies?
A) Intercultural translation between two different languages.
B) Interlingual translation between two different languages.
C) Intercommunicational translation between two different languages.
D) Interpersonal translation between two different languages.
ANSWER: B
When did the study of translation as an academic subject began?
A) in the past 60 years.
B) in the past 70 years.
C) in the past 80 years.
D) in the past 90 years.
ANSWER: A
Give the two visible ways in which translation studies has become more prominent:
A) Proliferation(increased) of specialised translating and interpreting more prominent.
B) In the past two decades, proliferation of conferences, books and journals on translation (Bable, Target, The Translator, Across language and culture, etC)..)
C) no correct ANSWER
D) A and B
ANSWER: D
The practise of translation was discussed by: (A brief history of the discipline)
A) Cicero and Horace (first century BCE)
B) St Jerome (4th century CE) - Greek into Latin - The Structures.
C) No ANSWER
D) A and B
ANSWER: D
Descriptive Translation Studies
A) Product-oriented DTS
B) Function-oriented DTS
C) Process-oriented DTS. Psychology of translation
D) A, B and C
ANSWER: D
The first three of 'Theoretical Translation Studies'
A) Medium restricted theories: translation by machine and humans.
B) Area-restricted theories: specific languages or groups of languages and/or culture.
C) Rank-restricted theories: linguistic theories restricted to a specific level of word or sentence.
D) A, B and C
ANSWER: D
The last three of 'Theoretical Translation Studies'
A) Text-type restricted theories: specific discourse type or genres (literary, business and technical translation).
B) Time restricted theories: referring to theories and translation limited according to specific time frames and periods.
C) Problem-restricted theories: specific problems such as equivalence (key issue the 60s/70s).
D) A,B and C
ANSWER: D
Product-oriented DTS:

A) Examines existing translations. Single ST-TT or comparative analysis of several TTs of the ST. Diachronic or synchroniC)

B) study of contexts rather than texts (socio-translation studies).
C) trying to find out what happens in the mind of the translator.
D) A,B and C
ANSWER: A
Function-oriented DTS:
A) Examines existing translations. Single ST-TT or comparative analysis of several TTs of the ST. Diachronic or synchroniC)
B) study of contexts rather than texts (socio-translation studies).
C) trying to find out what happens in the mind of the translator.
D) A,B and C
ANSWER: B
Process-oriented DTS. Psychology of translation:
A) Examines existing translations. Single ST-TT or comparative analysis of several TTs of the ST. Diachronic or synchroniC)
B) study of contexts rather than texts (socio-translation studies).
C) trying to find out what happens in the mind of the translator.
D) A,B and C
ANSWER: C
________ relations between the two countries have not been very satisfactory recently.
A) Abnormal
B) Economic
C) Monotone
D) Criminal
ANSWER: B
She is now a popular, ________ film star.
A) generous
B) glamorous
C) greasy
D) grieving
ANSWER: B
Oh, it must be ______ cold weather now up there on top of the hill.
A) hospitable
B) confusing
C) stuffy
D) freezing
ANSWER: D
A(n) _______ soldier is most likely to get shot in the ass.
A) cowardly
B) unconscious
C) vertical
D) courageous
ANSWER: A
I am sorry for bothering you at such a(n) ______ hour.
A) unnecessary
B) inconvenient
C) necessary
D) incompetent
ANSWER: B
It's _______ !! They charged me double the price of an ordinary bottle of wine in that restaurant.
A) outrageous
B) undesirable
C) outstanding
D) competitive
ANSWER: A
The service here is always ______. It has never been compulsory.
A) inadequate
B) irregular
C) voluntary
D) chronic
ANSWER: C
Her voice had become ______ from shouting. Her last words were almost inaudible.
A) reserved
B) hoarse
C) damp
D) sour
ANSWER: B
I am rather ______ about her health. Really, I must see the doctor at once.
A) continuous
B) conceited
C) concerned
D) complicated
ANSWER: C
Getting through a day without being touched by the press would be difficult. We have daily morning and evening newspapers and weekly news magazines. _____ What we eat, what we buy, what we do, what we think is influenced by the press.
A) The power of the press upon us is really enormous.
B) One should not start the day without reading a newspaper.
C) Newspaper sales are less than magazine sales.
D) The effect of the press on the public is not so important as some people like to suggest.
ANSWER: A
A green leaf is a factory in which a plant manufactures its own food. _____ In this case the raw materials are water and carbon dioxide, which is obtained from the air. The sun provides the energy.
A) As in all factories, raw materials and energy are essential.
B) This process is called photosynthesis.
C) That is why some leaves are broader than others.
D) Plants take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen.
ANSWER: A
Man has been polluting the Earth from the time he lit his first fire and washed his clothes in the river. _____ This is no longer true. The increase in population and the spread of industry has changed all this.
A) Now motorways and super highways have reduced the amount of good farming land.
B) At first, the Earth could handle this problem because there was plenty of space, fresh air and water.
C) Crops have to be treated with chemicals and these are often poisonous.
D) In large cities, cars are responsible for about 80 per cent of the air pollution.
ANSWER: B
Police officers working on the murder have _____ hundreds of families.
A) asked
B) demanded
C) enquired
D) questioned
ANSWER: D
The thief was ________ to prison for two years.
A) judged
B) put
C) sent
D) taken
ANSWER: A
He was a much older tennis player but he had the great ________ of experience.
A) advantage
B) deal
C) help
D) value
ANSWER: A
To get my travelers’ cheques I had to ________ a special cheque to the Bank for the total amount.
A) make up
B) make off
C) make out
D) make over
ANSWER: A
He began to take politics ________ only when he left school.
A) carefully
B) bravely
C) seriously
D) solemnly
ANSWER: C
Unless the workers’ demands are ______ soon there will be a strike.
A) given
B) met
C) paid
D) permitted
ANSWER: B
The children thought that the cream was deliciously ________ and they finished it all.
A) famous
B) chosen
C) flavored
D) hungered
ANSWER: C
A ___ broke into our house and stole our new TV and my laptop.
A) mugger
B) vandal
C) pirate
D) burglar
ANSWER: D