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2010年3月中级口译真题

SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST (45 minutes)

Part A: Spot Dictation

Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the word or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE.

The Internet is an excellent source for finding many types of information and for keeping up with new developments in the world. Today, an ever increasing number of people are using the Internet to

________(1) related information, conduct business, or personal activities, access electronic databases, send e-mail, and network with relatives, _______(2). Frequently referred to as the Information Super Highway, the Internet is actually a network of _______(3). You may

think of the Internet as analogous to the _________(4), Just as the inter-state system connects to different cities via ________(5), the Internet connects computers around the world via a number of different __________(6). At the most basic level, a computer, a modem, and a right type

of _________(7 can get a person onto the Internet. Through the Internet you can access massive amounts of information by ________(8) that are linked together.

Generally speaking, two types of information are _________(9), are the most useful for people. That

is ,conversational resources, and _________(10).

Conversational resources allow users to have conversations with individuals _________(11). Mailing lists and news groups are _________(12) of conversational resources. Mailing lists include electronic mail, whereby the user __________(13), send to any other individual, or group of individuals, who have subscribed by having their name and electronical_________(14) placed on the center’s list of addresses.

News groups are essentially electronic ________(15). Any one with Internet access can

__________(16) to the board, and any one with Internet access can read the board.

The reference resources you_________(17) are the World Wide Web(www) or the web for short. The web uses HTML(hypertext markup language) to ________(18), sound, graphics and video. Of course, you need browsers to view documents, and ________(19)through the intricate links structure. The most ________(20) browser is the Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Part B: Listening Comprehension

1. Statements

Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear several short statements. These statements will be spoken ONLY ONCE, and you will not find them written on the paper; so you must listen carefully. When you hear a statement, read the answer choices and decide which one is closest in meaning to the statement you have heard. Then write the

letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

2. Talks and Conversations

Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear several short talks and conversations. After each of these, you will hear a few questions. Listen carefully because you will hear the talk or conversation and questions ONLY ONCE. When you hear a question, read the four answer choices and choose the best answer to that question. Then write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Part C: Listening and Translation

1. Sentence Translation

Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 5 sentences in English. You will hear the sentences ONLY ONCE. After you have heard each sentence, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

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2. Passage Translation

Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in English. You will hear the passages ONLY ONCE. After you have heard each passage, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. You may take notes while you are listening.

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SECTION 2: STUDY SKILLS (45 minutes)

Directions: In this section, you will read several passages. Each passage is followed by several questions based on its content. You are to choose ONE best answer, (A), (B), (C) or (D), to each question. Answer all the questions following each passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

Questions 1-5

On Saturday mornings I worked in the family shop. I started cycling down to the shop with Dad on Saturday as soon as I was big enough. I thought of it as giving him a hand and so I didn’t mind what I did, although it was mostly just fetching and carrying at a run all morning. I managed not to think of it as work and I looked forward to the bar of chocolate my grandmother passed me unsmilingly as I left. I tried not to look at her; I had reason to feel guilty because I’d generally already eaten some dried fruits or a sliver of cheese when no one was looking. As soon as I was fifteen, though, Dad said, “That’s it, our Janet. You’re of working age now and you’re not coming to work unless your grandmother pays you properly.’ He did his best to make his chin look determined. “I shall speak to her.”

The next Saturday, Gran called me into her little office behind the shop. I always hated going in there. She had an electric heater on full blast, and the windows were always kept tightly closed whatever the weather. There were piles of dusty catalogues and brochures on the floor. “You’re wanting to get paid, I hear,” Gran said. “Yes, please,” I replied. It was rather like visiting the head mistress at school, so I was very quiet and respectful. Gran searched through the mess of papers on her crowded desk, sighing and clicking her

tongue. Eventually she produced an official-looking leaflet and ran her fingers along the columns of figures. “How old are you?” “Fifteen ... Gran,” I added for extra politeness, but she looked at me as if I had been cheeky. “Full-timers at your age get two hundred and forty pounds for a thirty-five-hour week,” she announced in such a way as to leave no doubt that she wasn’t in favour of this. “No wonder there’s no profit in shopkeeping! So, Janet, what’s that per hour?” Question like that always flustered me. Instead of trying to work them out in my head, I would just stand there unable t o think straight. “I’ll get a pencil and paper,” I offered. “Don’t bother,” snapped Gran angrily, “I’ll do it myself. I’ll give you 6 pounds an hour; take it or leave it,” “I’ll take it, please,” “And I expect real work for it, mind. No standing about, and if I catch you eating any of the stock, there’ll be trouble. That’s theft, and it’s a crime.”

From then on, my main job at the shop was filling the shelves. This was dull, but I hardly expected to be trusted with handling the money. Once or twice, however, when Dad was extra busy, I’d tried to help him by serving behind the counter. I hated it. It was very difficult to remember the prices of everything and I was particularly hopeless at using the till. Certain customers made unkind remarks about this, increasing my confusion and the chances of making a fool of myself.

It was an old-established village shop, going back 150 years at least and it was really behind the times even then. Dad longed to be able to make the shop more attractive to customers, but Gra n wouldn’t hear of it. I overheard them once arguing about whether to buy a freezer cabinet. “Our customers want frozen food,” Dad said. “They see things advertised and if they can’t get them from us, they’ll go elsewhere.” “Your father always sold fresh f ood,” Gran replied. “People come here for quality, they don’t want all that frozen stuff.”

1. How did Janet feel when she first started her Saturday morning job?

(A) She enjoyed the work that she was given.

(B) She was pleased to be helping her father.

(D) She was only really interested in the reward.

2. What do we learn about her grandmother’s office in the second paragraph?

(A) It was untidy.

(B) It was dark.

(D) It had too much furniture in it.

3. The word “flustered” (para. 2) means _______.

(A) bored

(B) angered

(D) depressed

4. What did Janet’s father and grandmother disagree about?

(A) How to keep their customers loyal to the shop.

(B) The type of advertising needed to attract customers.

(D) How to get new customers to come to the shop.

5. What impression do we get of Janet’s feelings towards her grandmother?

(A) She respected her fairness.

(B) She doubted her judgment.

(D) She admired her determination.

Questions 6-10

Many trees in the Brackham area were brought down in the terrible storms that March. The town itself lost two great lime trees from the former market square. The disappearance of such prominent features had altered the appearance of the town centre entirely, to the annoyance of its more conservative inhabitants.

Among the annoyed, under more normal circumstances, would have been Chief Inspector Douglas Pelham, head of the local police force. But at the height of that week’s storm, when the winds brought down even the mature walnut tree in his garden, Pelham had in fact been in no fit state to notice. A large and healthy man, he had for the first time in his life been seriously ill with an attack of bronchitis.

When he first complained of an aching head and tightness in his chest, his wife, Molly, had tried to persuade him to go to the doctor. Convinced that the police force could not do without him, he had, as usual, ignored her and attempted to carry on working. Predictably, though he wouldn’t have listened to anyone who tried to tell him so, this has the effect of fogging his memory and shortening his temper.

It was only when his colleague, Sergeant Lloyed, took the initiative and drove him to the doctor’s door that he finally gave in. By that time, he didn’t have the strength left to argue with her. In no time at all, she was taking him along to the chemist’s to get his prescribed antibiotics and then home to his unsurprised wife who sent him straight to bed.

When Molly told him, on the Thursday morning, that the walnut tree had been brought down during the night, Pelham hadn’t been able to take it in. On Thursday evening, he had asked weakly about damage to the house, groaned thankfully when he heard there was none, and pulled the sheets over his head.

It wasn’t until Saturday, when the antibiotics took effect, his temperature dropped and he got up, that he realised with a shock that the loss of the walnut tree had made a permanent difference to the appearance of the living-room. The Pelhams’ large house stood in a sizeable garden. It had not come cheap, but even so Pelham had no regrets about buying it. The leafy garden had created an impression of privacy. Now, though, the storm had changed his outlook.

Previously, the view from the living-room had featured the handsome walnut tree. This has not darkened the room because there was also a window on the opposite wall, but it had provided interesting patterns of light and shade that disguised the true state of the worn furniture that the family had brought with them from their previous house.

With the tree gone, the room seemed cruelly bright, its worn furnishings exposed in all their shabbiness. And the view from the window didn’t bear looking at. The tall house next door, previously hidden by the tree, was now there, dominating the outlook with its unattractive purple bricks and external pipes. It seemed to have a great many upstairs windows, all of them watching the Pelhams’ every movement.

“Doesn’t it look terrible?” Pelham croaked to his wife.

But Molly, standing in the doorway, sounded more pleased than dismayed. “That’s what I’ve been telling you ever since we came here. We have to buy a new sofa, whatever it costs.”

6. Why were some people in Brackham annoyed after the storm?

(A) The town looked different.

(B) The police had done little to help.

(D) Fallen trees had not been removed.

7. What do we learn about Chief Inspector Pelham and his work, from the third paragraph?

(A) He found his work extremely annoying.

(B) He was sure that he fulfilled a vital role in his work.

(D) He did not trust the decisions made by his superiors.

8. When Inspector Pelham’s wife first told him about the walnut tree, he appeared to be _______.

(A) worried

(B) shocked

(D) uninterested

9. As a result of the storm, the Pelhams’ living-room _______.

(A) was pleasantly lighter

(B) felt less private

(D) was in need of repair

10. From what we learn of Inspector Pelham, he could best be described as _______.

(A) open-minded

(B) well-liked

(D) strong-willed

Questions 11-15

A team of world-leading neuro-scientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person’s brain and read their intentions before they act. The research breaks controversial new ground in scientists’ ability to probe people’s minds and eavesdrop on their thoughts, and raises serious ethical issues over how brain-reading technology may be used in the future. The team used high-resolution brain scans to identify patterns of activity before translating them into meaningful thoughts, revealing what a person planned to do in the near future. It is the first time scientists have succeeded in reading intentions in this way.

“Using the scanner, we could look around the brain for this information and read out something that from the outside there’s no way you could possibly tell is in there. It’s like shining a torch around, looking for writing on a wall,” said John-Dylan Haynes at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Germany, who led the study with colleagues at University College London and Oxford University.

The research builds on a series of recent studies in which brain imaging has been used to identify tell-tale activity linked to lying, violent behaviour and racial prejudice. The latest work reveals the dramatic pace at which neuro-science is progressing, prompting the researchers to call for an urgent debate into the ethical issues surrounding future uses for the technology.

If brain-reading can be refined, it could quickly be adopted to assist interrogations of criminals and terrorists, and even usher in a “Minority Report” era (as portrayed in the Steven Spielberg science fiction film of that name), where judgments are handed down before the law is broken on the strength of an incriminating brain scan.

“These techniques are emerging and we need an ethical debate about the implications, so that one day we’re not surprised and overwhelmed and caught on the wrong foot by what they can do. These things are going to come to us in the next few years and we should really be prepared,” Professor Haynes said. The use of brain scanners to judge whether people are likely to commit crimes is a contentious issue that society should tackle now, according to Haynes. “We see the danger that this might become com pulsory one day, but we have to be aware that if we prohibit it, we are also denying people who aren’t going to commit any crime the possibility of proving their innocence.”

During the study, the researchers asked volunteers to decide whether to add or subtract two numbers they were later shown on a screen. Before the numbers flashed up, they were given a brain scan using a technique called functional magnetic imaging resonance. The researchers then used a software that had been designed to spot subtle differences in brain activity to predict the person’s intentions with 70 percent accuracy.

Because brains differ so much, the scientists need a good idea of what a person’s brain activity looks like when they are thinking something to be able to spot it in a scan, but researchers are already devising ways of deducing what patterns are associated with different thoughts.

11. According to the passage, the brain-reading technology can be used ______.

(A) to eavesdrop on potential criminals and terrorists.

(B) to probe people’s minds and read their intentions.

(D) to suppress activities linked to lying, violence and discrimination.

12. Which of the following words can best describe the research on the brain scan?

(A) Ethical.

(B) Powerful.

(D) Groundbreaking.

13. What should people do before brain scans are to be put into practical use?

(A) Mobilize adequate resources.

(B) Resolve controversial issues.

(D) Identify different brain activities.

14. The word “this” in the sentence “We see the danger that this might become compulsory one day, …” (para. 5) refers to ______.

(A) the use of brain scanners

(B) the prohibition of brain scanners

(D) denying people the possibility of proving their innocence

15. How did neuroscientists manage to detect different brain activities of people?

(A) Flashing them up on a screen.

(B) Deducing varying patterns.

(D) Predicting their intentions.

Questions 16-20

Why bankrupt yourself in a so-called old people’s home? Try a health spa—it might actually be cheaper.

Sometimes I see old ladies shuffling along the pavement with their sticks, Zimmer frames for greater support, swollen ankles, backs bent, fingers clutching at the small bag of shopping for one, and I think: “There goes my future.”

But perhaps it need not be like that. Instead of bankrupting oneself or the state with the increasingly high cost of home care or an old people’s home, why not try a health spa instead?

My friend Rosemary has just returned from a five-day visit to one of these health farms, which she thought might aid her recovery from her heart attack.

It wasn’t exactly her cup of tea, she said: a sort of mix between mall shopping and a Saga cruise, “with the same awful whirlpools, people waiting about half-clothed, and loads of boutiques selling odd things.

It would have been more beneficial had she not foolishly tried yoga and lay on the floor trying to breathe. One should not do this after a heart attack.

Rosemary soon felt clammy and sick, sat on a chair, and then, even more foolishly, raised her arms above her head and nearly flaked out. So she staggered to the smoking room, now hidden away in a distant chalet behind the lawn because despite a tremendous struggle, she hasn’t quite managed to give up completely yet.

But the food was fabulous, the grounds were heavenly, and there were hordes of charming young staff, and loads of free activities, not all strenuous. Rosemary was able to do blessed little for five days and she did have a lovely rest—perfect if one is old and fairly helpless.

When my mother was alive, I took her to both Rosemary’s health sp a and a local care home. It wasn’t a nursing home—my mother was able to wash and dress herself and move about—but entertainment and activities were minimal and the food was grim: the customary dried chicken legs and bits of quiche and white bread ham sandwiches for supper.

This wretched place cost exactly the same as the health spa. How can the spa do it for that price and also manage respect for guests, fabulous food and attractive surroundings? We just can’t work it out.

16. What does the author mean when she thinks “There goes my future.” (para. 2)?

(A) The same is true of her future.

(B) Her future might be worse.

(D) She can’t tell what her future holds for her.

17. In the author’s eyes, why did her friend Rosemary benefit less in the health spa?

(A) Because she did her mall shopping instead.

(B) Because she reverted to her old habit of smoking.

(D) Because she stayed there for a span of five days.

18. The author’s high opinion of the health spa is based on ______.

(A) her own experience

(B) her friend Rosemary’s experience

(D) both Rosemary’s and her mother’s experiences

19. According to the passage, which of the following can be found in a care home?

(A) Loads of boutiques.

(B) Lots of free activities.

(D) Poor-quality food.

20. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

(A) Rosemary will revisit the health spa and stay there longer for recovery

(B) a care home is not as attractive as the health spa

(D) the health spa cannot manage itself long term with its lower price

Questions 21-25

The latest gloomy news f rom journalism’s battered front lines is that the prestigious New York Times (NYT) is laying off 100 staff. Paper-and-ink newspapers are in deep trouble, there’s no doubt about that. But the NYT, as comprehensive as its news coverage sometimes is, is hardly in a position to offer the real story on its current woes, anymore than a psychoanalyst is able to objectively analyze him or herself.

What’s bad for the NYT is not necessarily bad for journalism any more than what is good for the NYT is necessarily good for journalism. But with more than 100 newspapers closing down last year, troubles at the NYT can be seen in a general perspective as part of a trend. With advertising revenue plummeting, and real estate losing value by the hour, the NYT is in a free fall accelerated in part by its own greed.

As newspapers flap about trying to breathe another day, Internet news aggregators soar, circling above like birds of prey for whom the shifting tide is an opportunity waiting to be picked. Internet delivery of news is infinitely faster and more flexible. It saves millions of trees from the paper pulp mill and cuts down on the need for noisy delivery trucks and back-breaking labor, so what’s not to like about it?

For a brief fleeting moment, consumers can have their cake and eat it too. Newspapers do the heavy lifting, while Internet news sites spread the information around for free, “lite” and easy.

But who will write the news when the newspapers are gone? Who are the new news gatekeepers? The Internet makes us rather too dependent on terminals and telephone lines produced and controlled by a handful of big corporations. Another problem with the Net is its indiscriminate character. Falsehoods are floated as easily as truths, and although conscientious bloggers may help u s navigate this unknown land, there’s no business model to sustain the most truthful bloggers, either.

More ominous yet, there’s something called the digital divide which means people who don’t care to use or can’t afford computers are increasingly being l eft in the dark, reduced to second class citizens in an age awash in information.

Ironically, readers in countries such as Thailand, though hobbled by lower income, are likely to enjoy their treasured national newspapers a bit longer than Americans, because on one hand, salaries and labor costs are lower, and on the other hand, there is the social imperative to reach the large percentage of the population who can’t afford the fancy new digital viewing devices and terminals.

Journalism can and must survive even the most calamitous change if society is ever to right itself and get things right. In times of economic and social stress, reliable information is more important than ever, incisive analysis a necessity. With the diminished brightness of the day, more and more watchdogs are called for. Shining light in dark places is more critical than ever.

A healthy society needs news and information that should be accessible to people from all walks of life at nominal cost, a role newspapers have played rather well for more than a century now. Newspapers will undergo drastic makeovers, but so will the Internet information highway, which will lose some of its luster when the pay-per-view toll booths are installed.

21. What does the passage mainly discuss?

(A) The general downward trend of newspaper readership.

(B) The comparison between newspaper and Internet news.

(D) The reasons for New York Times laying off its staff.

22. We learn from the first paragraph that ______.

(A) a psychoanalyst is able to objectively analyze himself, but the NYT is not

(B) the NYT is in a better position than a psychoanalyst to size up their woes

(D) the NYT can’t analyze its woes objectively just as a psychoanalyst can’t do to himself

23. Which of the following is NOT the cause of the troubles the NYT runs into?

(A) Shrinking advertising.

(B) Falling standards.

(D) Prevailing Internet news.

24. According to the passage, people are more likely to be kept in the dark in the Information Age because of ______.

(A) the Internet’s indiscriminate character

(B) people’s total dependence on terminals

(D) the closing down of numerous newspapers

25. What does the phrase “shining light” (para. 8) refer to?

(A) Effective watchdogs.

(B) News accessible to people.

(D) Analysis of newspapers.

Questions 26-30

Christophe Petyt is sitting in a Paris café, listing the adornments of his private art collection: several Van Goghs, and a comprehensive selection of the better impressionists. “I can,” he says quietly, “really get to know any painting I like, and so can you.” Half an ho ur later I am sitting in his office with Degas’ The Jockeys on my lap. If fine art looks good in a gallery, believe me, it feels even better in your hands. Petyt is the world’s leading dealer in fake masterpieces, a man whose activities provoke both admiration and

exasperation in the higher levels of the art world. Name the painting and for as little

as ?1,000 he will deliver you a copy so well executed that even the original artist might have been taken in.

Petyt’s company employs over eighty painters, eac h ordered in the style. of a particular artist or school. “We choose them very carefully,” he says. “They’re usually people with very good technique but not much creativity, who are unlikely to make it as artists in their own right. But they love the great works and have real insight into what’s gone into them.” Every work is individually ordered, using new canvases and traditional oil paints, before being artificially aged by a variety of simple but ingenious techniques.

The notional value of the original is not the determining factor, however, when it comes to setting the retail value of Petyt’s paintings. This is actually linked to the amount of effort and expertise that has gone into producing the copy. An obscure miniature may therefore cost much more than a bigger, better-known painting by a grand master. The Degas I’m holding looks as though it came off the artist’s easel yesterday. Before being sold it has to be aged, and this, so to speak, is the real “art” of the copy. A few minutes in a hot oven can put years on a canvas, black tea apparently stains it beautifully and new frames can be buried underground, then sprayed with acid.

The view when Petyt started out was that very little of this could be legal. He was pursued through the French courts by museums and by descendants of the artists. This concern was perhaps understandable in a country that has been rocked by numerous art fraud scandals. “The establishment was suspicious of us,” huffs Petyt, “but for the wrong reasons, I think Some people want to keep all the best art for themselves.” He won the case and as the law now stands, the works and signatures of any artist who has been dead for seventy years can be freely copied. The main proviso is that the copy cannot be passed off to dealers as the real thing. To prevent this every new painting is indelibly marked on the back of the canvas, and as an additional precaution a tiny hidden piece of gold leaf is worked into the paint.

Until he started the business ten years ago, Paetyt, a former business-school student, barely knew one artist from another. Then one particular painting by Van Gogh caught his eye. At $10 million, it was well beyond his reach so he came up with the idea of getting an art-student friend to paint him a copy. In an old frame. it looked absolutely wonderful, and Petyt began to wonder what market there might be for it. He picked up a coffee-table book of well-known paintings, earmarked a random selection of works and got his friend to knock them off. “Within a few months I had about twenty good copies.” he says, “so I organised an exhibition. In two weeks we’d sold the lot, and got commissions for sixty more.” It became clear that a huge and lucrative market existed for fake art.

26. In the first paragraph, the writer indicates that he shares _______.

(A) Petyt’s criticism of the work of a range of painters

(B) the art world’s suspicious attitude towards Petyt’s activities

(D) Petyt’s desire to appreciate great wo rks of art

27. The painters employed by Petyt _______.

(A) have been specially trained in the techniques of forgery

(B) were chosen because of the quality of their original work

(D) make copies of those paintings customers specifically request

28. The price of the of Petyt’s painting depends on _______.

(A) the status of the original artist

(B) the time and skill needed to create it

(D) the extent to which the copy truly replicates the original

29. As a result of the court case he won, Petyt _______.

(A) no longer reproduces fake signatures on paintings he sells

(B) has been able to copy the work of more contemporary artists

(D) has agreed not to market his products through certain channels

30. What do we learn about the way Petyt selected the paintings that would appear in his exhibition?

(A) It was no t something that he’d carefully chosen.

(B) They needed to be ones that could be reproduced quickly.

(D) He did some research into the work of artists he’d always admired.

SECTION 3: TRANSLATION TEST (1) (30 minutes)

Directions: Translate the following passage into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

The recession has hit middle-income and poor families hardest, widening the economic gap between the richest and poorest Americans as rippling job layoffs ravaged household budgets.

Household income declined across all groups, but at sharper percentage levels for

middle-income and poor Americans. Median income fell last year from $52,163 to $50,303, wiping out a decade's worth of gains to hit the lowest level since 1997. Poverty jumped sharply to 13.2 percent, an 11-year high.

No one should be surprised at the increased disparity. Analysts attributed the widening gap to the wave of layoffs in the economic downturn that have devastated household budgets. They said while the richest Americans may be seeing reductions in executive pay, those at the bottom of the income ladder are often unemployed and struggling to get by.

SECTION 4: TRANSLATION TEST (2) (30 minutes)

Directions: Translate the following passage into English and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

2010年翩然而至，全球24个时区的万千钟声，此起彼伏，宣告在这人类新千年中，一个10年代的终结，又是另一个10年代的开始。在开局的10年中，中国经济在前9年连续9年保持着9%以上的增长。最后一年，虽受国际金融风暴影响，但依然能保持8%的高增长。

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