常考搭配1—up
1.向上:life up举起,climb up爬上,stand up站起来,pick up捡起
2.完成,结束:finish up完成,eat up吃光,use up用光,wind up结束
3.离开,消灭:break up 拆开,驱散,give up放弃,clutter up使散乱
4.增加,变强:mount up增加,pick up振作,加快,speed up加速
5.变好,改善:check up核对,patch up修理,light up点亮
6.关注,锁紧,固定住:shut up关闭,hold up 延误,keep up坚持

模拟练习:
A translator must have an excellent, up-to-date knowledge of his source languages.He must fill facility in the handling of his target language, which will be his mother tongue or language of habitual __1__, and a knowledge and understanding of the latest subject-matter in his field of specialization. This is, as it were, his professional __2__. In addition to this, it is __3__ that he should have an enquiring mind, wide interests, a good memory and the ability to __4__ quickly the basic principles of new developments.
He should be willing to work __5__ his own, often at high speeds, but should be humble enough to __6__ other people because his own __7__ does not always prove adequate to the task in hand. He should be able to type fairly quickly and __8__ and, if he is working mainly for publication, should have more than a nodding __9__ with printing techniques and proof-reading.
If he is working basically as an information translator, let us say, for an industrial firms, he should have the flexibility of mind to enable him to __10__ rapidly from one source language to __11__, as well as from one subject-matter to another, since this ability is frequently __12__ of him in such work. Bearing in __13__ the nature of the translator's work, i.e. the processing of the written word, it is, strictly speaking, __14__ that he should be able to speak the languages he is __15__ with.
If he does speak them, it is an __16__ rather than a hindrance(障碍), but this skill is in many ways a luxury that he can do away with. It is, __17__, desirable that he should have an __18__ idea about the pronunciation of his source languages, even if this is restricted to knowing how proper names and place names are pronounced. The same __19__ to an ability to write his source languages. If he can, well and good; if he cannot, it does not __20__.


1.
[A]application
[B]use
[C]utility
[D]usage

2.
[A]equipment
[B]language
[C]performance
[D]facility

3.
[A]wise
[B]unique
[C]desirable
[D]effective

4.
[A]input
[B]grasp
[C]seek
[D]expand

5.
[A]on
[B]in
[C]for
[D]by

6.
[A]learn
[B]imitate
[C]conduct
[D]consult

7.
[A]profession
[B]intelligence
[C]knowledge
[D]style

8.
[A]steadily
[B]accurately
[C]regularly
[D]reasonably

9.
[A]familiarity
[B]acquaintance
[C]knowledge
[D]skill

10.
[A]change
[B]transform
[C]turn
[D]switch

11.
[A]another
[B]other
[C]one
[D]all

12.
[A]lacked
[B]required
[C]faced
[D]confronted

13.
[A]brain
[B]thought
[C]mind
[D]memory

14.
[A]essential
[B]unnecessary
[C]advantageous
[D]useless

15.
[A]doing
[B]dealing
[C]deciding
[D]working

16.
[A]idea
[B]advice
[C]advantage
[D]accordance

17.
[A]however
[B]accordingly
[C]consequently
[D]thus

18.
[A]adjacent
[B]ambiguous
[C]artificial
[D]approximate