2009年考研英语全题型高分强化教程(11)

Part B 选择搭配

Directions:

　　In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 1~5, choose the most suitable one from the list A~G to fit into each of the numbered blanks. There are two extra choices which do not fit in any of the gaps.

　　The marriage Law of People's Republic of China was modified in 2001. The amendment adapts to the variations in the economic development and social changes.

　　1._________________Some basic systems were not set up in the former law, such as system of void marriage and voidable marriage and compensation for the divorce injuries etc. The second is lack of modification and compliment. Ever since its enforcement in 1980, the Marriage Law had not been modified in spite of the severe change occurred in the real life of Chinese marriage and living conditions. Therefore, the modification of the Marriage Law was not only necessary but also in emergency.

　　2._________________In the following, the main facets of the amendment will be enumerated and commented.

　　3._________________The four circumstances are bigamy, consanguineous marriage that is forbidden by law, having certain illness before the marriage that is deemed in medicine not supposed to marry and not cured after marriage and having not reached lawful matrimonial age. In the Article 11, it is stipulated the marriage that can be annulled that is, voidable marriage. The stipulations of the voidable marriages contain the cause and the time limit of petition. In the Article 12, the legal consequences of the void marriage and the voidable marriage are stipulated. The consequences are that such marriages are void from the very beginning and the parties do not enjoy marital rights or bear marital obligation. The property that was obtained in the cohabitant period is to be dealt with according to the parties agreement and if no agreement is reached the court will decide in the principle of considering the party with no fault. As for the bigamy, the interests of the party in a legitimate marriage shall not be infringed and the stipulations in the law of relation between parents and children are applied to the children in bigamy.

　　4._________________Contrary to the media dissemination before the modification that criminal responsibility will be included in the problem of second concubine, the new Marriage Law just adopt the civil liability. However, it is still strengthened in the field. The new Marriage Law abandoned the distinction of bigamy in lawful form and bigamy as a matter of fact. The bigamy in the new Marriage Law is only the bigamy in lawful form. The bigamy as a matter of fact is included in the cohabitation done by people who have other legal spouse. In the Article 46, both bigamy and the cohabitation of people who have spouse are conditions on which the other party is entitled to damages.

　　5.__________________To cohabit with other people during the period of marriage is out of question the breach of the loyal obligation and the violation of the other party's consortium. However, such rights and obligations can be stipulated in the Marriage Law. Criminal responsibility has no legal basis to be included into this part of law, for if so, the execution of law will be deprived of corresponding basis.

　　[A] The second concubine is the typical example of cohabitation with others done by people who has spouse. Marriage is presumed to be a deed between certain man and woman who bear the loyal obligations.

　　[B] In the first place, the system of void marriage and voidable marriage has been induced in the new Marriage Law of P.R.C. In the Article 10 of the Marriage Law it is stipulated that if one of the four circumstances of marriage is fulfilled the marriage will be announced void by courts.

　　[C] There are two main deficiencies in the Marriage Law of P.R.C. before the modification, first of which is that the clauses are mostly abstract principles and lack of systematically completeness.

　　[D] After the modification, several new systems are established and some clauses are defined clearer and more positive.

　　[E] The marital property system has always been an essential system in the family and marriage legal regulations.

　　[F] Secondly, the law is strengthened to address the situation of second concubine .

　　[G] The divorce criteria have been completed. In the 1980 Marriage Law, the general principle of incompatibility is adopted.

Ⅲ. Translation

Please translate the underlined sentences in the passage.

Saddam's Co-Defendants Await Execution

　　（1）Two of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants were taken from their cells and told they were going to be hanged on the same day the former dictator was executed their lawyer said Sunday.

　　（2）But the two condemned men still await death as Iraqi officials decide how to avoid the kind of outcry that followed Saddam's hanging on Dec. 30.

　　Also on Sunday, the U.S. military announced the deaths of five more American troops and at least 14 Iraqis died in bombings and shootings.

　　Saddam's half brother and former intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim and the former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, Awad Hamed al-Bandar, were sentenced to hang.

　　（3）They were convicted along with Saddam of involvement in the killings of nearly 150 Shiites in the town of Dujail after a 1982 assassination attempt there against Saddam.

　　Their executions were postponed however, until after the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha which ended five days ago.

　　（4）Authorities also decided to give Saddam his own "special day," National Security adviser Mouwaffak al-Rubaie said at the time of his execution.

　　（5）One of Saddam's lawyers who met the deposed leader in his final days told The Associated Press over the weekend that Saddam expected to be put to death and considered it "the most beautiful end"he could have.

　　Now Iraqi officials must decide how to carry out a second round of executions in the face of worldwide criticism over their handling of Saddam's death. In the final moments of his life, Saddam was taunted by some of those present in the execution chamber as he stood with a noose around his neck.

　　British Prime Minister Tony Blair criticized the way in which Saddam was executed.

　　"He believes that the manner of the execution was completely wrong, but that should not lead us to forget the crimes that Saddam Hussein committed including the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis," a spokeswoman for Blair's office said on condition of anonymity in line with policy.

　　Blair's likely successor, Treasury chief Gordon Brown, said Saturday that the taunting of Saddam during his execution and the release of an illicitly recorded cell phone video was "deplorable" and "completely unacceptable."

　　Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has ordered an inquiry into the emergence of the unofficial video, on which Saddam is heard exchanging insults with his executioners and shown dying on the gallows.

　　In Amman, Jordan's Parliament also denounced the execution and asked God to bless Saddam's soul. The speaker of the lower house said Saddam's execution ignored the feelings of Muslims and Arabs because it came just before the start of the religious festival of Eid al-Adha.

　　While waiting for their own postponed executions, Ibrahim and al-Bandar have been mourning Saddam, their lawyer Issam Ghazawi told the AP. He said he met with the men individually on Wednesday in Baghdad where they are in U.S. custody.

　　The lawyer said U.S. officials had told the pair their deaths were imminent on the day of Saddam's execution.

　　Ghazawi said Ibrahim told him the Americans took him and al-Bandar from their cells on the day of Saddam's hanging and brought them to an office inside the prison at about 1 a.m. They asked them to collect their belongings because they intended to execute them at dawn - the same time Saddam was put to death.

练习答案与题解：

Part B选择搭配

1.[C]
此句话为第二段首句，应与第一段紧密衔接并与本段保持一致。通读第一段可知，本文应当与2001年婚姻法的修订有关。所以本段的开头既要与第一段保持一致，又要引领下文。所以选择C。

2.[D]
此处主要考虑与后面的一致性。下面主要讲在婚姻法修改以后，一些新的体系建立起来，正好与此句内容相一致。所以选D。

3.[B]
这里考查的就是全文的衔接问题了。原文是一个逻辑的整体，要时刻注意把握。在上端段末提示了下面将要对主要修订的几处加以评论，所以本句话的提示词"In the first place"就成了重要线索。

4.[F]
注意把握段与段之间的逻辑衔接关系。本段与上一段相比显然与上一段在内容上有所不同，据此判断这是另一层意思的开始，因此选择F。

5.[A]
此处要把握好层次间的搭配转换。这个选项具有一定的迷惑性。因为这里不像前几段逻辑层次那样明显，但也并非如羚羊挂角无迹可寻，在空栏之后我们就可以看到信息词"cohabit"，据此，可以判断是选A。

Translation

1．该句翻译要点关键在于怎样把英文中的句子调整的符合汉语语序。按照汉语习惯，我们通常会把时间状语提前。

本句应译为：星期天，萨达姆·侯赛因两个共同被告的律师说，这两位被告被从牢房中带了出来并且被告知他们将与前独裁者在同一天接受绞刑。

2． condemned愿意为已被判罪的人，这里根据上下文的语义应该译为被判死刑者。

本句应译为：但这两个被判死刑者仍然在等待接受死刑。因为12月30日萨达姆被绞死后，伊拉克官方要考虑怎样做才能避免民众愤怒的抗议。

3． involvement在这里是名词，但在翻译成汉语时，为了符合汉语的表达习惯需要将名词转译成动词。

本句应译为：在1982年的一次反萨达姆的暗杀企图后，他们因为卷入了屠杀Dujail镇将近150名什业派穆斯林事件而和萨达姆一同被定罪。

4．注意这里的代词，文中的"his"指的是上文提到的萨达姆，在翻译时，可以把萨达姆的名字加上。

本句应译为：国家安全顾问Mouwaffak al-Rubaie在萨达姆执行死刑的时候说，权威人士也希望把特别的日子只留给萨达姆一个人。

5．在原文中，作者力求将其文笔发挥到比较佳，在一句话中两次提到萨达姆时所用的指代都不相同，我们在翻译过程也要把握这一特点，把它翻到位。

本句应译为：在其比较后的日子里见到过这位前领导人的萨达姆的律师之一在那个周末对美联社说道，萨达姆希望被处死，他认为这是他能得到的比较美的结局。