题目内容：

 

A. accurately   B. advantage   C. desirable   D. humble   AB. adequate  AC. knowing    AD. processing   BC. rapidly     BD. target     CD. translate   ABC. grasp

A successful translator must have an excellent, up-to-date knowledge of his source language, full facility in the handling of his ___1.____ language, which will be his mother tongue or language of habitual use, and a knowledge of the latest subject-matter in his fields of specialization. This is his professional equipment. In addition to this, it is desirable that he should have an inquiring mind, wide interests, a good memory and the ability to ____2.___ quickly the basic principles of new developments. He should be willing to work on his own, often at high speeds, but should be ____3.___ enough to consult others if his own knowledge doesn’t always prove __4.____ to the task in hand. He should be able to type fairly quickly and ___5.____ and, if he is working basically as an information translator, let us say, for an industrial firm, he should have the flexibility of mind to enable him to switch ___6.____    from one source language to another, as well as from one-subject-matter to another, since this ability is frequently required of him in such work. Bearing in mind the nature of the translator’s work, i. e. the __7.____ of the written word, it is, strictly speaking, unnecessary that he should speak the languages he is dealing with. If he does speak them, it is an ___8.___ rather than a hindrance (障碍), but this skill is in many ways a luxury that makes no much difference to him. It is, however, ___9.___ that he should have a rough idea about the pronunciation of his source languages, even if this is restricted to __10.___ how proper names and place names are pronounced.