【推荐1】从方框中选出的适当的单词填空。每个单词只能使用一次，选项中有一项为多余选项。

A．accurately B．advantage C．desirable D．humble E．curious F．knowing G．processing H．rapidly I．target J．translate K．equipment

A successful translator must have an excellent, up-to-date knowledge of his source language, full facility in the handling of his     1     language, which will be his mother tongue or language of habitual use, and a knowledge of the latest subject-matter in his fields of specialization. This is his professional     2    . In addition to this, it is desirable that he should have a (n)     3     mind, wide interests, a good memory and the ability to grasp quickly the basic principles of new developments. He should be willing to work on his own, often at high speeds, but should be     4     enough to consult others should his own knowledge not always prove adequate to the task in hand. He should be able to type fairly quickly and     5     and if he is working basically as an information translator, let us say, for an industrial firm, he should have the flexibility of mind to enable him to switch     6     from one source language to another, as well as from one-subject-matter to another, since this ability is frequently required of him in such work. Bear in mind the nature of the translator’s work is the     7     of the written word; it is, strictly speaking, unnecessary that he should speak the language he is dealing with. If he does speak them, it is a (n)     8     rather than a weakness, but this skill is in many ways a luxury that makes no much difference to him. It is, however,     9     that he should have a rough idea about the pronunciation of his source languages, even if this is restricted to     10     how proper names and place names are pronounced.

【推荐2】Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. fast B. stuntmen C. training D. catching E. fall F. seriously G. really H. profession I. fight J. living

You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another hard. At the start, they only     1     with their fists. But soon they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs. And so it goes on until one of the men crashes through a window and falls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead! Of course he isn’t     2     dead. With any luck he isn’t even hurt. Why? Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from     3     moving trains, who crash cars of even     4     fire, are professionals. They do this for a living. These men are called     5    . That is to say, they perform tricks. There are two sides to their work. They actually do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall from a high building. However, they do not     6     on to hard ground but on to empty cardboard boxes covered with mattress(床垫). Again, when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they crash through windows, the glass is made of sugar! But although their work depends on trick of this sort, it also requires a high degree of skill and     7    . Often a stuntman’s success depends on careful timing. For example, when he is “blown up” in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment.
Naturally stuntmen are well paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They often get     8     injured and sometimes killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff a thousand feet high. His parachute(降落伞) failed to open, and he was killed. In spite of all the risks, this is no longer a     9     for men only. Men no longer dress up as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action. For nowadays there are stuntgirls, too.