阅读理解
根据今年新考纲规定，三级笔译的阅读部分共30道选择题，总分30分。虽然题目比较多，但是每部分的阅读内容，不像高口那样都是长篇大论，一般是两三段的文章，也有才一两段的，例如04年5月的第三篇阅读：

The blue of the sea is caused by the scattering of sunlight by tiny particles suspended in the water. Blue light, being of short wavelength, is scattered more efficiently than light of longer wavelengths. Although waters of the open ocean are commonly some shade of blue, green water is commonly seen near coasts, especially in tropical or subtropical regions. This is caused by yellow pigments being mixed with blue water. Phytoplankton are one source of the yellow pigment. Other microscopic plants may color the water brown or brownish-red. Near the shore, silt or sediment in suspension can give water a brownish hue. Outflow of large rivers can often be observed many miles offshore by the coloration of suspended soil particles.

Marine phytoplankton (Greek for “plant wanderers”) are microscopic single-celled plants that include diatoms, dinoflagellates, coccolithophorids, green algae, and blue-green algae, among others. The growth of these organisms, which photosynthesize light, depends on a delicate balance of nutrient enrichment via vertical mixing, which is often limited by the availability of nitrogen and light. Diatoms are one-celled plants with patterned glass coverings. Each glass, or silicon dioxide box, is ornamented with species-specific designs, pits, and perforations making them popular with microscopists and, more recently, electron scanning microscopists.

只有两段内容。后面有6道选择题，我们看一下前两道：

63. Green water near coastlines is almost always caused by

A. sand color   B. red pigments in coastal waters  C. blue pigment   D. reflected light and yellow pigment from plant life

64. Phytoplankton are the source of which color pigment?

A. Red.   B. Green.  C. Yellow.   D. Blue.

仍然是考查对篇章的理解和找出信息点。三级笔译的阅读题每篇的字数都在150-450之间，篇幅短小，然而题材广泛，以04年5月的真题为例，阅读部分八篇文章的主题分别是：

quantum theory，origin of baseball，ocean plant，diet standard in America，about pearl（仅一段），stress（仅一段），mental disorder（仅一段），aspirin

出题主要以细节题、是非题、主旨题、推断题为主。解题方法这里无需赘言，和四六级中高口什么的始终是一脉相承，追根溯源还是要注意平时扩大阅读面、加大阅读量、训练阅读速度。（全面阅读：英文报刊报纸阅读网址大全）
 


完形填空 （Cloze Test）
根据今年新考纲规定，完形填空部分共二十个空，总分10分。这里的完形填空不同于大家平时熟悉的那种给出选项的完形填空，三级笔译的完形填空是需要自己填空缺的单词的，来看下04年5月真题的节选：

Does a born and bred bilingual _____make_____(8) a better translator than someone who learned language B later in ______life____(9)? There is no definite answer, but the following issues are important. ______First____(10), a born and bred bilingual often suffers from not truly knowing ______any____(11) language well enough to translate, with some even suffering from what _____is_____(12) known as a lingualism, a state in which a person lacks _____a____(13) full, fluent command of any language.

这里，第8空考查的是语法；第9空考查固定搭配和上下文理解：later in life是固定说法；第10空非常简单，一看就推断得出来；11空考查的同样是对语意的理解；后面两空也非常简单，属于基础语法范畴。

没有选项的完形填空，难点就在对文章大意的把握，所这里需要考生通读全文，抓住重要信息点，找主旨句，并保证自己填进去的内容在语法和逻辑上都说得通。