笔译和听、说、读、写一样要坚实的基本功，缺乏语法知识和词汇积累及其驾驭它们的能力，提高英语翻译水平只能是一句空话。因此只有练好语法和词汇基本功，才能举一反三，灵活正确地做好翻译，也才能在各类考试中成绩优异。本书在如何以汉语和英语基本功为基础做到忠实原文，译文通顺方面有精确到位的指导。
实践是提高翻译水平的唯一途径。本书对翻译方法与技巧——增词法、减词法、反译法、重复法、词序调整法、选词法和改变词类法等——的使用有详细说明与解释，使考生对汉英互译要点有清晰的认识和实际帮助。对考生提高翻译技巧，掌握翻译原则大有裨益。

TEST ONE
Part 1 Translation from English into Chinese
Passage 1 Smoking and Cancer
Passage 2 Vocabulary and Success
Part 2 Translation from Chinese into English
Passage 1 中国加入世贸组织
Passage 2 难忘
TEST TWO
Part 1 Translation from English into Chinese
Passage 1 Music During Surgery May Ease Patients Recovery
Passage 2 Food
Part 2 Translation from Chinese into English
Passage 1 婚姻
Passage 2 送个宠物给孩子
TEST THREE
Part 1 Translation from English into Chinese
Passage 1 The Happy Prince
Passage 2 Pollution Is a Dirty Word
Part 2 Translation from Chinese into English
Passage 1 一个朋友
Passage 2 要不要给孩子买电脑？
TEST FOUR
TEST FIVE
TEST SIX
TEST SEVEN
TEST EIGHT
TEST NINE
TEST TEN
TEST ELEVEN
TEST TEWLVE
TEST THIRTEEN
TEST FOURTEEN
TEST FIFTEEN
TEST SIXTEEN
TEST SEVENTEEN
TEST EIGHTEEN
TEST NINETEEN
TEST TWENTY
TEST TWENTY-ONE
TEST TWENTY-TWO
TEST TWENTY-THREE
TEST TWENTY-TOUR
TEST TWENTY-FIVE