Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Simply being bilingual doesn’t qualify someone to interpret. Interpreting is not only a mechanical process of converting one sentence in language A into the same sentence in language B. Rather, it’s a complex art in which thoughts and idioms that have no obvious counterparts from tongue to tongue _ or words that have several meanings must be quickly transformed in such a way that the message is clearly and accurately expressed to the listener.
At one international conference, an American speaker said, “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear”, which meant nothing to the Spanish audience. The interpretation was, “A monkey in a silk dress is still a monkey” - an idiom the Spanish understood and that expressed the same idea.
There are 2 kinds of interpreters, simultaneous and consecutive. The former, sitting in a separated booth, usually at a large multilingual conference, speaks to listeners wearing headphones, interpreting what a foreign language speaker says actually a sentence behind. Consecutive interpreters are the ones most international negotiations use. They are employed for smaller meetings without sound booths and headphones. Consecutive interpretation also requires two-person teams. A foreign speaker says his piece while the interpreter, using a special shorthand, takes notes and during a pause, tells the client what was said
The word “the former” in the last paragraph refers to _____.
A. simultaneous interpreters
B. the conference
C. consecutive interpreters
D. both A & B
Đáp án A
Từ "the former" trong đoạn cuối cùng đề cập tới _____.
A. những phiên dịch viên đồng thời.
B. hội nghị
C. những phiên dịch viên liên tục.
D. cả A và B
Thông tin ở câu: “There are 2 kinds of interpreters, simultaneous and consecutive. The former,...” (Có 2 loại thông dịch viên, đồng thời và nối tiếp. Loại được nhắc đến trước,...) => Loại hình phiên dịch viên được đề cập trước là simultaneous. => Đáp án đúng là A