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Michael kept a tight grip on Roselle‘s harness , using voice and hand mands, as they ran to a street opposite the crumbling tower . The street bounced like a trampoline , and ―a deafening roar‖ like a hellish freight train filled the air. Hours later , Michael andRoselle made it home safely . At that moment , they thought they were ___28____(lucky ) in the world. In 2021, Roselle developed a blood disorder , ___29___ prevented her from guiding and touring . She died in 2021. ― I ___30___ (have) many other dogs ,‖ Mechael wrote , ―but there is only one Roselle.‖ Section B 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. catalog B. barely C. free D. selfconsciousness E. prospects F. pulsory G. dropped H. assigned I. certified J. totally K. transfer For thousands of muting students, Chabot was our Columbia, Annapolis, even our Sorbonne, offering courses in physics, stenography, auto mechanics, ___31___ public accounting, foreign languages, journalism—name the art or science, the subject or trade, and it was probably in the ___32___. The college had a nursing program that churned out graduates, sports teams that funneled athletes to bigtime programs, and parking for a few thousand cars—all ___33___, but for the effort and the cost of used textbooks. Classmates included veterans back from Vietnam, women of every marital and maternal status returning to school, middleaged men wanting to improve their employment ___34___ and paybacks. We could get our general education requirement out of the way at Chabot—credits we could ___35___ to a university—which made those two years an invaluable head start. I was able to go on to the California State University in Sacramento (at $95 a semester, just ___36___ affordable) and study no other subject but my major, theater arts. (After a year there I moved on, enrolling in a little thing called the School of Hard Knocks, . Life.) ―By some fluke of the punchcard puter era, I made Chabot‘s dean‘s list taking classes I loved (oral interpretation), classes I hesitated (health, a requirement), classes I aced, and classes I ___37___ after the first hour (astronomy, because it was all math). I nearly failed zoology, killing my fruit flies by neglect, but got lucky in an English course, ―The College Reading Experience.‖ The books of Carlos Castaneda were inprehensible to me (and still are), but my___38___ presentation on the analytic process called structural dynamics was hailed as clear and concise, though I did nothing more than embellish the definition I had looked up in the dictionary. A publicspeaking class was unfettable for a couple of reasons. First, the assignments forced us to get over our ___39___. Second, another student was a stewardess, as flight attendants called themselves in the 70‘s. She was studying munications and was geous. She lived not far from me, and when my VW threw a rod and was in the shop for a week, she offered me a lift to class. I rode shotgun that MondayWednesdayFriday, ___40___ tonguetied. Communicating with her oneonone was the antithesis of public speaking. III. Reading Comprehension Section A Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. It‘s a highrisky, multibilliondollar industry with tight deadlines, demanding customers and lives in danger. The business is 41 . And it‘s booming. The number of jobs for translators and interpreters doubled in the past 10 years while their wages steadily 42 before, during and after the recession. During a period of stagnating (停滯的 ) wages across the labor market, the languageservice industry with its 50,000 jobs is a 43 spot in the jobs outlook. Lillian Clementi is a French translator working in corporate munications from her home in Arlington, Massachusetts and is routinely on tight deadlines to hand in translated material. ―The risks can be huge,‖ said Clementi, ―There‘s tons of 44 pressure.‖ In some cases, a(n) 45 translation or interpretation is also vital. If a user‘s guide for medical equipment is not translated well, it could lead to 46 during an emergency. Soldiers in conflict areas require excellent interpreters to speak with munity members. Any change of tone or context could put lives 47 . Translators‘ and interpreters‘ immunity (免疫力 ) to the nation‘s economic downturn also 48 the growing demand for people who can speak several languages in an increasingly globalized economy, experts said. ―Good translators who 49 a particular subject and bee really good at it can really make sixdigit figures annually,‖ said Jiri Stejskal, spokesman for the American Translators Association. Multinational corporations, . demographic (人口的 ) changes and the Inter economy raise the need for translated and localized information. Companies increasingly want their content 50 to the tongue of the town, even between dialects of the same language. ―As more people 51 the worldwide economy, that‘s going to drive more merce, and that‘s going to drive more language services,‖ said Bill Rivers, executive director of the National Council for Language and International Studies in the Washington region. 52 , qualifications for translators and interpreters are not as simple as they may seem. Speaking two languages does not mean a person can work in the languageservice industry, experts said. Learning how to translate or interpret is a 53 skill beyond knowing the language. Furthermore, the most successful translators and interpreters maintain a 54 , such as legal documents, quarterly earnings reports or a special kno