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FUNDAMENTALS OF TRANSLATION

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 4mins

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Class
Date
1.

The Russian-American Linguist Roman Jakobson makes a very important distinction among the three types of written translation. _____ is not one of Jakobson's distinctions.

a)

Intralingual

b)

Intersemiotic

c)

Interlingual

d)

Pragmatic

2.

Within the type of Audiovisual Translation, the ______ consists of the replacement of the soundtrack contained in an audiovisual material from one language to another.

a)

Marketing and publicity

b)

Subtitling

c)

Voice-over

d)

Dubbing

3.

It consists of translations of reference or reference texts, which usually handle a language and a specialized terminology, often restricted to a specialized audience. It fulfills a more practical than aesthetic function.

a)

multiple translation

b)

texts official translation

c)

academic text translation

d)

specialized translation

4.

One of the following statements is true.

a)

Translation and interpretation means the same.

b)

Any individual speaking two languages can translate suitably.

c)

A translator can always be faithful to the original text or "source's author".

d)

The most impoprtant condition to translate well is not only to have a great foreign language proficiency.

5.

"She ____ for a walk (podría haber ido), but it rained cats and dogs!" The most suitable missing auxiliary verb here is

a)

would have gone

b)

could have gone

c)

could go

d)

might have gone

6.

"___ I borrow your car for a while? (podría) Mine is broken down". The missing auxiliary verb here is

a)

Could

b)

May

c)

Do

d)

Might

7.

"____ we go? (¿quiere que ...?) or we’ll get there too late". The most suitable missing auxiliary verb here is

a)

Would rather

b)

Do

c)

Shall

d)

Will

8.

"She ____ mistaken (posiblemente), but she is not willing to go back on her word". The most suitable missing auxiliary verb here is

a)

may be

b)

was possible to be

c)

can be

d)

is possible to be

9.

"Who knows? It ____ the whole night long (es probable que llueva)". The most suitable missing auxiliary verb here is

a)

may be raining

b)

could be raining

c)

have been raining

d)

has been raining

10.

"Evelyn ___ play the guitar every day (solía tocar la guitarra) when she was a teen(ager)". Besides "used to", the most suitable missing auxiliary verb here is

a)

did

b)

use to

c)

would

d)

would rather

11.

"That woman ___ (pudo haber sido) my mother since she was my dad’s first girlfriend". The most suitable missing auxiliary verb here is

a)

could had been

b)

might have been

c)

may have been

d)

can have been

12.

"I __ buy a new one (Preferiría) to get it repaired because of the long it takes". The most suitable missing auxiliary verb here is

a)

should prefer

b)

would rather

c)

might prefer

d)

will prefer

13.

Tender___ features female's women____. (La ternura caracteriza la feminidad de la mujer).

a)

less / hood

b)

ure / ship

c)

ness / ship

d)

ment / hood

14.

"Kids often fear of dark____, solitude, and ___". (oscuridad / desamor).

a)

fullness / unlove

b)

ment / mislove

c)

ness / lovelessness

d)

ship / loveless

15.

"New soaps don’t white____ (verb) color___ (adj) clothes as expected".

a)

er / ed

b)

less / full

c)

en / ish

d)

en / ful

16.

The warn___ (-adj) effects of the JEP’s decisions in Colombia are going to be ____expected (-adj) as well.

a)

ive / mis

b)

less / un

c)

ful / un

d)

ous / dis

17.

Wind__ (adj), drizzle), and barren feature Tunja whereas rainy, warm___ (adj), and peaceful feature Moniquirá.

a)

ing / ful

b)

ish / uous

c)

like / ish

d)

y / ful

18.

Beg___ (n) raising tests marks clearly means a child-___ (adj) attitude that attempts against human being’s dignity.

a)

gar / ly

b)

ing / y

c)

ness / ly

d)

ing / ish

19.

"An each-other year lunar ceremony". Best translation

a)

una ceremonia de cambio de luna de cada uno.

b)

una ceremonia lunar de día de por medio

c)

una ceremonia lunar bienal .

d)

una ceremonia bienal de luna.

20.

"the last four half-one-minute rounds". Best translation.

a)

los últimas cuatro minutos de las rondas.

b)

el último minuto de las cuatro rondas

c)

las últimas cuatro rondas de medio minuto.

d)

el último medio minuto de las cuatro rondas

21.

"a paper-based TOEFL examination." Best translation.

a)

un examen TOEFL basado en papel.

b)

un examen TOEFL básico de papel

c)

el papel base para un examen TOEFL

d)

un papel basado en el examen TOEFL

22.

Best translation of the Connective "furthermore" is

a)

aún más

b)

además

c)

más aún

d)

por demás

23.

Best translation of the connective "meanwhile" is

a)

mientras tanto

b)

entre tanto

c)

mientras que

d)

mientras

24.

The best translation of the connective "though" is

a)

aunque

b)

completamente

c)

sobre excelente

d)

aún cuando

25.

The best translation of the prepositions "As for / as to" is

a)

en referencia a

b)

en relación con

c)

para

d)

en todo lo que

26.

The best translation of the connective "whereas" is

a)

en cambio

b)

a cambio de

c)

en cuanto a

d)

donde sea que

27.

It can be said that the ____ is a set of words, at least two, where the first one is a preposition and the last one a noun. The latter may or may not be affected by an adjective, which must precede it, and / or by a determiner. The resulting chunk must necessarily be translatable, as this is the sole purpose of the segmentation process.

a)

nominal phrase

b)

infinitive phrase

c)

prepositional phrase

d)

phrase

28.

A phrase cannot contain:

a)

Punctuation marks (apart from distributive comma),

b)

Personal and relative pronouns (I, you, He, she, it, we, you, they & that, which, who). These always precede a verb.

c)

Subject or predicate

d)

Meaning

29.

We are going to call on the Bensons today.

a)

announce

b)

chat with

c)

visit

d)

phone

30.

The work of a teacher calls for a lot of tolerance.

a)

asks for

b)

demands

c)

has

d)

advise

31.

How are you getting along in French?

a)

copying/ managing

b)

accompanying

c)

coming to

d)

succeeding

32.

I put up with the disco noise as long as I could.

a)

enjoy

b)

replay

c)

bear

d)

overpayed

33.

We ran across them at the Macey’s store.

a)

competed

b)

met with

c)

saw and passed by

d)

bumped into

34.

Stephanie always puts away her toys after she has used them.

a)

throws away

b)

gets rid of

c)

brings with them

d)

puts in order

35.

Please, drop off the book in the library while you go back home.

a)

buy

b)

deliver

c)

leave

d)

pick up

36.

The teacher promised to look over this letter for me and to correct the mistakes in English.

a)

examine

b)

get better

c)

overlook

d)

amend

37.

In the middle of the carnival, I saw a beer / _________ coming down to the funeral house. (This is its homonym).

a)

bear

b)

beer

c)

bier

d)

bir

38.

A birth / _________ is useful, comfortable, and saves room. (this is its homonym)

a)

berth

b)

beerth

c)

birth

d)

bearth

39.

Mrs. King hardly uttered a word because she was horse / __________ that morning. (This is its homonym)

a)

hurse

b)

hourse

c)

hoorse

d)

hoarse

40.

___ is the art of using speech to convince or persuade, the art of speaking or writing effectively.

a)

Grammar

b)

Syntax

c)

Rhetoric

d)

Prosody

41.

In linguistics, ___________ is the set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences in a given language, usually including word order.

a)

Rhetoric

b)

Syntax

c)

Semantics

d)

Pragmatics

42.

____ is the study of the internal structure of words and forms a core part of linguistic study today.

a)

Semantics

b)

Orthography

c)

Spelling

d)

Morphology

43.

_____ is a set of conventions for writing a language. It includes norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation. It ultimately means “the correct way of writing a language.”

a)

Mechanics

b)

Plagiarism

c)

Blunder

d)

Basics

44.

Somebody, anybody, someone, no one, something, and everything, are ___ pronouns.

a)

relative

b)

indefinite

c)

compound indefinite

d)

relative compound

45.

this, the latter, the former, that, those, are ____ pronouns.

a)

reciprocal

b)

objective

c)

indefinite

d)

Demonstrative

46.

us, him, them, me, her, your, are ______________ pronouns.

a)

direct

b)

indirect

c)

objective

d)

subjective

47.

“Tom, lend me the book”. This is an example of a __________ case.

a)

subjunctive

b)

nominative

c)

accusative

d)

imperative

48.

“Go over there, right away!”. This is an example of an _________ case.

a)

demonstrative

b)

accusative

c)

imperative

d)

nominative

49.

____: word or phrase that is used as a short, sudden expression of emotion. It has no grammatical function in a sentence i.e. ouch! Gosh! Sugar!

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

conjunction

c)

interjection

d)

phrase

50.

It's at the beginning of a word, attached to the root, or word base, to make a new word: reuse, undertaken, rewrite, impossible.

a)

Affix

b)

Prefix

c)

Infix

d)

Morpheme