上海市中级口译第一阶段笔试模拟2及答案解析.doc

1、上海市中级口译第一阶段笔试模拟 2 及答案解析(总分：250.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、SECTION 1: LISTENING(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、A: Spot Dictation(总题数：1，分数：30.00)Ending a marriage can be a sad 1 experience, especially for children. In the United States, the number of children 2 grows by about one-million each year. As the number increases, exp

2、erts continue to 3 of divorce on children. Some experts say divorce is 4 . Some studies show that children of divorce have more problems. For example, some children of divorce are more often 5 toward parents and teachers. They have 6 of leaving school before completing their studies. They have more

3、7 . However, experts note that these problems are not necessarily caused by divorce alone. During the 1970s, many Americans believed that divorce was 8 for married people who were not happy. People did not think divorce would harm children. They thought children would 9 a period of change when their

4、 parents ended their marriage. Then the children would be all fight. 10 have changed in recent years. Researchers studied more than one-hundred children of divorce over 11 . She says some children never 12 . She says they often have problems with their 13 as a result of their parents“ divorce. Ms Wa

5、llerstein says her study proves that parents should 14 for their children, even if they are unhappy. However, some people say that children suffer more in a situation where 15 . They say it is better for children to live with one divorced parent than to live with two parents who are 16 . Other exper

6、ts note that many children of divorce 17 . This is because their parents are able to deal with the situation 18 . Experts say that some people who get divorced are able to 19 of their children first. They say that they are able to show the children that their 20 after the divorce. （分数：30.00）三、B: Lis

7、tening Compreh(总题数：0，分数：0.00)四、Statements(总题数：2，分数：10.00)（分数：5.00）A.Five students are finally qualified to get the money from the bank.B.After careful reviewing, the bank finally gave two students the job offer.C.Not all applicants successfully got the loan to cover their school fees.D.The applicant

8、s are going to wait while the bank is reviewing their applications.A.The lights should be coming back on soon.B.You“ll know the storm has started when the lights go off.C.The lights went off just as the storm began.D.I“d rather mm the lights off during the storm.A.Demand for power has exceeded suppl

9、y.B.The city has to increase the electrical consumption by next year.C.Three power generators will be installed next year.D.Power generation must be reduced reasonably next year.A.Though I don“t plan to go to the post office, after I see the doctor, I change my mind.B.I will go to the drug store fir

10、st after finishing laundry.C.The first thing I will do is to see the doctor.D.I won“t go to the post office unless it“s on the way of seeing a doctor.A.Neither Jeff nor I was surprised.B.Both Jeff and I were surprised.C.Jeff was less surprised than I was.D.Jeff was more surprised than I was.（分数：5.00

11、）A.Michael had not made any mistakes in the grammar section.B.Michael is the second to have had made grammatical mistakes.C.Michael didn“t rank the first in the final exam.D.Michael failed in the final exam.A.Sixty people gathered at the rally.B.Women outnumbered men twice.C.Men outnumbered women ev

12、ery time.D.About one hundred and twenty people came to the rally.A.In the following months, the sales will increase after initial drop.B.It“s hard to sustain the increase of sales, thus it keep dropping in the following months.C.The sales went through ups and downs in the past months.D.The sales sit

13、uation is on the rise from the very beginning.A.Our assignment can hardly be completed without a computer of my own.B.The statistics in the student center are messed up, thus making our assignment difficult to complete.C.I“m planning to finish my own assignment as soon as possible.D.Our assignment h

14、as to wait till the computers in the student center get repaired.A.Students left high school earlier than usual.B.The completion of high school bears relevance to qualification level in job markets.C.Students must get high school diploma so as to be qualified in looking for jobs.D.Compared with the

15、past, young people nowadays are more incompetent.五、Talks and Conversati(总题数：5，分数：20.00)Questions 11-14 （分数：4.00）A.Gym and sunbed.B.Fitness class.C.Weight-lifting exercise.D.Whole food bar.A.$1.5B.$ 2.5C.$ 5D.$ 6A.In the morning.B.At lunch hour or after work.C.At around 3 to 4 in the afternoon.D.Late

16、 night.A.It“s free of charge to join the health club.B.The facilities in the club are quite expensive.C.The club will offer item at reduced price only in the morning.D.Old-pensioners are the majority of their club members.Questions 15-18 （分数：4.00）A.Writing.B.Intensive reading.C.Conversational.D.List

17、ening.A.The course will last about a month and a half on each Friday afternoon.B.The course is open to all students of the center.C.Only students of assigned departments are entitled to enroll.D.Only freshmen are allowed to sign up for the class.A.In term lime, on weekends.B.In term time, in weekday

18、s.C.In vacation, 9 a.m. to midday.D.In vacation, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.A.Borrow more than one book at a time.B.Keep any book for up to a week.C.Keep master copies and reference books more than a week.D.Borrow books as soon as one gets the borrowing Card.Questions 19-22 （分数：4.00）A.Former schoolmates.B.Coll

19、eagues.C.Boss and secretary.D.Neighbors.A.The woman“s hobbies.B.The night life in the city.C.The difference between rural life and urban life.D.How to make friends in the city.A.She was born in the city.B.She doesn“t think the noise and traffic in the city matter much.C.She drives to work every day.

20、D.She enjoys a natural way of life.A.One can“t meet more than 20 people in the whole day.B.It“s easier and more convenient to live with an extended family in the suburb.C.It“s been increasingly difficult for one to make friends if living in the suburb.D.More people may consider buying house in the c

21、ountry.Questions 23-26 （分数：4.00）A.By the lack of a generally balanced diet.B.Through the exhaust fumes of cars.C.By eating seafood contaminated by lead.D.By lead water pipes.A.Get angry more easily and even more violent.B.Be inactive and lack energy.C.Easily distracted.D.Tend to have more dream than

22、 other children.A.About 30 years ago.B.In 1977.C.In the 1990s.D.Only in the past three years.A.Don“t use any product containing lead.B.Move out of the urban areas to the countryside.C.Eat less fish, crabs and vegetables.D.Stop using the petrol containing lead.Questions 27-30 （分数：4.00）A.To explain ho

23、w Canadian firms could develop their export trade in Japan.B.To organize between two and three trade fairs in different regions each year.C.To learn many new things about exhibiting Canadian goods in foreign countries.D.To negotiate with others.A.Be well-organized.B.Be balanced between work and life

24、.C.Be communicative with clients.D.Be patient.A.Twelve months, depending on whether the exhibition is small or large.B.Five months, depending on the network of contacts they have in the host country.C.Six months, depending on things such as the type of goods being exhibited.D.Six months, depending o

25、n the products, the location and network of contacts, location, etc.A.Because it is one more chance for her to know about the social situation in Japan.B.Because she takes it as a great challenge to enter Japanese fashion market.C.Because it is an opportunity for the agency to create a good impressi

26、on with clients.D.Because she longs to set up a fashion fair there to enhance her study of Japanese.六、C: Listening Transla(总题数：0，分数：0.00)七、Sectence Translation(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 5 sentences in English. You will hear the sentences ONLY ONCE. After you

27、have heard each sentence, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. （分数：20.00）_八、Passage Translation(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in English. You will hear the passages ONLY ONCE. After you hav

28、e 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. （分数：10.00）_九、SECTION 2: STUDA SKI(总题数：6，分数：60.00)Reading the papers and looking at television these days, one can easily be persuaded

29、that the human species is on its last legs, still tottering along but only barely making it. In this view, disease is the biggest menace of all. Even when we are not endangering our lives by eating the wrong sorts of food and taking the wrong kinds of exercise, we are placing ourselves in harm“s way

30、 by means of the toxins we keep inserting into the environment around us. As if this were not enough, we have fallen into the new habit of thinking our way into illness: ff we take up the wrong kind of personality, we nm the risk of contracting a new disease called stress, followed quickly by corona

31、ry occlusion. Or if we just sit tight and try to let the world slip by, here comes cancer, from something we ate, breathed or touched. No wonder we are a nervous lot. The word is out that if we were not surrounded and propped up by platoons of health professionals, we would drop in our tracks. The t

32、ruth is something different, in my view. There has never been a time in history when human beings in general have been statistically as healthy as the people now living in the industrial societies of the Western world. Our average life expectancy has stretched from 45 years a century ago to today“s

33、figure of around 75. More of us than ever before are living into our 80s and 90s. Dying from disease in childhood and adolescence is no longer the common occurrence that it was 100 years ago, when tuberculosis and other lethal microbial infections were the chief causes of premature death. Today, dyi

34、ng young is a rare and catastrophic occurrence, and when it does happen, it is usually caused by trauma. Medicine must get some of the credit for the remarkable improvement in human health, but not all. The profession of plumbing also had much to do with the change. When sanitary engineering assured

35、 the populace of uncontaminated water, the great epidemics of typhoid fever and cholera came to an end. Even before such advances, as early as the 17th century, improvements in agriculture and nutrition had increased people“s resistance to infection. In short we have come a long way-the longest part

36、 of that way with common sense, cleanliness and a better standard of living, but a substantial recent distance as well with medicine. We still have an agenda of lethal and incapacitating illnesses to cause us anxiety, but these shouldn“t worry us to death. The diseases that used to kill off most of

37、us early in life have been brought under control. Meanwhile, biomedical research has moved us into the early stage of a totally new era in medicine. So much has recently been learned about fundamental processes at cellular and subcellular levels that there are no longer any disease mechanisms that h

38、ave the look of impenetrable mysteries. There is a great deal still to be learned about the ailments of our middle years and old agecancer, heart disease, stroke, dementia, arthritis and the rest. But they no longer seem unapproachable, as they did just ten years ago. Today“s powerful technologies f

39、or basic research have made it possible for scientists to investigate almost any question. This does not guarantee a quick answer, of course, or even a correct one; but the ability to make intelligent guesses and then to formulate sharp questions concerning medicine“s hardest problems is something n

40、ew. It no longer stretches the imagination to see a time ahead when human beings, in industrialized society, can be relatively free of disease for a full run through life. This does not mean that we shall be any happier or be living much longer than we do now. We shall still die most often by wearin

41、g out, according to our individual genetic clocks; but we shall not be so humiliated by the chronic illnesses that now make old age itself seem a disease.（分数：10.00）(1).The author believes that people are doing great harm to their lives by _.（分数：2.00）A.eating too muchB.taking wrong exercisesC.polluti

42、ng the environmentD.A, B and C(2).Nowadays people are likely to feel that they _.（分数：2.00）A.are all rightB.are very tiredC.tend to be illD.are stressed(3).Today, dying young is _.（分数：2.00）A.a common phenomenonB.the case with many peopleC.usually caused by traumaD.never reported(4).One hundred years

43、ago, people were _.（分数：2.00）A.not as healthy as todayB.as strong as todayC.not as poor as todayD.as hard as today(5).Today, most people in America can live as long as _.（分数：2.00）A.45B.75C.80D.90The discovery of the Antarctic not only proved one of the most interesting of all geographical adventures,

44、 but created what might be called “the heroic age of Antarctic exploration“. By their tremendous heroism, men such as Shackleton, Scott, and Amundsen, caused a new continent to emerge from the shadows, and yet that heroic age, little more than a century old, is already passing. Modem science and inv

45、entions are revolutionizing the techniques of former explorers, and, although still calling for courage and feats of endurance, future journeys into these icy wastes will probably depend on motor vehicles equipped with caterpillar traction rather than on the dogs that earlier discoverers found so in

46、valuable. Few realize that this Antarctic continent is almost equal in size to South America, and an enormous field of work awaits geographers and prospectors. The coasts of this continent remain to be accurately charted, and the mapping of the whole of the interior presents a formidable task to the

47、 cartographers who undertake the Work. Once their labours are completed, it will be possible to prospect the vast natural resources which scientists believe will furnish one of the largest treasure hoards of metals and minerals the world has yet known, and almost inexhaustible sources of copper, coal, uranium, and many other ores will become available to man. Such discoveries will usher in an era of practical exploitation of the Antarctic wastes. The polar darkness which hides this continent for the six winter months will be defeated by hu