上海市中级口译第一阶段笔试模拟36及答案解析.doc

1、上海市中级口译第一阶段笔试模拟 36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)News can be something the authorities want you to know, or something they would rather keep secret: an announcement of a 1 , denial of a failure, or a secret scandal that nobody reall

2、y wants you to 2 . If the authorities want to tell the world some good news, they issue statements, communiques, and call 3 . Or politicians make speeches. Local newspapers, radio and television help to 4 to what is going on. And by making contacts with 5 , journalists can ask for more information o

3、r explanations to help them 6 . Unless the correspondent is an 7 , it is rare to trust any single source. Officials have a policy to defend, and 8 want to attack it. Rumor and gossip can also confuse the situation. So, you have to 9 as much as possible, using common sense and experience as final che

4、cks to help establish just what“s likely to be the truth, or 10 . Just getting the news is only half the job. A correspondent may be well-informed, but his job is to 11 , the public. So, once the information is available it has to be written 12 which is also easily understood. Particularly for radio

5、, since, while a newspaper reader can turn back and reread a sentence or two, the radio listener has 13 . This also means that only a limited number of facts can be contained in a sentence and that there should be an 14 . And vital information necessary to understand the latest development should be

6、 presented 15 in ease the producer of a news program decides to 16 an item, by cutting for example the last sentence or two. Finally, the style of presentation must 17 . A cheerful voice might be perfect for a 18 . But it would be sadly out of place for a report of a 19 . And this would also confuse

7、 and distract the listener, probably 20 just what had happened and to whom. （分数：30.00）三、B: Listening Compreh(总题数：0，分数：0.00)四、Statements(总题数：2，分数：10.00)（分数：5.00）A.What I longed for was to be a leader.B.I didn“t know if I was suitable to be a leader.C.To get into business appealed to me.D.What truely

8、interested me was business.A.The newly-completed stadium was on the dot.B.The stadium was not finished in time.C.The stadium was open to public before last September.D.The stadium couldn“t be used even after last September.A.The plane arrived at 9 am.B.The plane arrived at 12 pm.C.The plane delayed

9、for 3 hours.D.The plane delayed for 9 hours.A.The spaghetti was from the outer space.B.The spaghetti was terrible.C.The spaghetti was delicious.D.The spaghetti was self-cooked.A.Jack was a bit upset for another ordinary Christmas.B.Jack was always disappointed with Christmas.C.Jack touched the Chris

10、tmas cards with disappointment.D.Jack didn“t receive any cards this Christmas.（分数：5.00）A.American workers tend to stay in one job.B.Crop dusting jobs in American are few.C.The mob moved very slowly.D.Their relatives live in a mobile home.A.The plane Prof. Smith planned to take was delayed by the hea

11、vy traffic.B.When Prof. Smith reached the airport, he booked the plane at twelve.C.The plane took off at 11.45.D.Prof. Smith missed his plane half an hour ago.A.The singer attracted some young people.B.People are packing to leave.C.The audience was packing to meet the fans.D.There is no chair in the

12、 auditorium.A.Jeff hosted a party to cerebrate his promotion.B.No one told me about Jeff“s promotion.C.Jeff“s promotion formed in a special way.D.The head office chose Jeff to work there.A.Their new house is warm, but not comfortable.B.They held a party to show their comfortable house.C.The former h

13、ouse is close to a department store.D.Neither apartment is comfortable.五、Talks and Conversati(总题数：5，分数：20.00)（分数：4.00）A.One that is unabridged with detailed definitions.B.One that contains fewer words and emphasizes on special words.C.One that contains a broad range of words in common usage.D.One th

14、at spans several volumes and has extensive word histories.A.The New Oxford Picture Dictionary.B.The American Heritage Dictionary.C.The Dictionary of Legal Terms.D.The Drinking Water Dictionary.A.It lists abbreviations, proper nouns, and tables of measures.B.It is an unabridged edition providing as m

15、any as 500,000 entries.C.It was randomly compiled and contains as many foreign words as possible.D.It provides detailed information of famous people and places.A.A school dictionary.B.A college dictionary.C.A general dictionary.D.A specialized dictionary.（分数：4.00）A.He picked up some apples in his ya

16、rd.B.He cut some branches off the apple tree.C.He quarreled with his neighbor over the fence.D.He cleaned up all the garbage in the woman“s yard.A.Trim the apple trees in her yard.B.Pick up the apples that fell in her yard.C.Take the garbage to the curb for her.D.Remove the branches from her yard.A.

17、File a lawsuit against the man.B.Ask the man for compensation.C.Have the man“s apple tree cut down.D.Throw garbage into the man“s yard.A.He was ready to make a concession.B.He was not intimidated.C.He was not prepared to go to court.D.He was a bit concerned.（分数：4.00）A.To make preparations for a new

18、publication.B.To learn how couples spend their weekend.C.To know how housework is shared.D.To investigate what people do at weekend.A.He goes to exercise class.B.He goes sailing.C.He goes to the cinema.D.He stays at home.A.Friday.B.Saturday.C.Sunday.D.Any weekday.A.Surname.B.First name.C.Address.D.A

19、ge.（分数：4.00）A.Complaining to the manager.B.Having a fight with the manager.C.Buying another pair of jeans.D.Trying to get his money back.A.The girl refused to refund the jeans.B.He was given the wrong size.C.The girl deliberately put the jeans in a box.D.The girl didn“t handle his complaint well.A.A

20、pologetic.B.Reasonable.C.Pathetic.D.Fault-finding.A.The manager was off that day.B.It was the policy that you couldn“t refund your money without the receipt.C.The woman will exchange the man“s jeans for a right size.D.The man was satisfied at last.（分数：4.00）A.Saturday“s game.B.Michigan“s defense.C.Pu

21、lled ligament.D.Getting into the coach“s office.A.In the coach“s office.B.On the playing field.C.At the doctor“s office.D.In the auditorium.A.To the hospital.B.To his home.C.To her office.D.To the library.A.The man is hurt badly.B.Michigan team is one of the top football teams in the country.C.The m

22、an will back tomorrow afternoon for full practice.D.The films are on the woman“s desk.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 have heard eac

23、h 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)（分数：10.00）(1).As editor of this newspaper, I“d like to introduce to you our requirements. Good grades are prerequisite for working on the pa

24、per. There“s some money for salaries, depending on how involved you get with the paper, but don“t expect to get rich. This isn“t something you do for the money. Mostly it is just for fun. Anyone who is interested in joining the staff should speak to me immediately after the meeting. Be prepared to s

25、tart right away. The first issue goes to press tomorrow（分数：5.00）_(2).Many students trying to increase their effective reading speed become discouraged when they find that if they try to race through passages faster, they fail to take what they have read. At the end, they have been so busy “reading f

26、aster“ that they cannot remember what the passage was about. The problem is that the material they are practicing on is either too difficult for them in vocabulary or content, or not sufficiently interesting. I hope my following lectures will be both interesting and fairly easy, but you should also

27、practice reading as much as you can in your own time.（分数：5.00）_九、SECTION 2: STUDA SKI(总题数：6，分数：60.00)Christophe Petyt is sitting in a Paris car, listing the adornments of his private art collection: several Van Goghs, and a comprehensive selection of the better impressionists. “I can,“ he says quiet

28、ly, “really get to know any painting I like, and so can you. “ Half an hour 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 a

29、ctivities 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, each ordered in th

30、e 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. “ E

31、very 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.

32、 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

33、 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 t

34、his 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 t

35、hink 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

36、 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 part

37、icular painting by Van Gogh caught his eye. At $10 million, it was well beyond his reach so he came up with the iclea 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 coff

38、ee-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

39、 a huge and lucrative market existed for fake art.（分数：10.00）(1).In the first paragraph, the writer indicates that he shares _.（分数：2.00）A.Petyt“s criticism of the work of a range of paintersB.the art world“s suspicious attitude towards Petyt“s activitiesC.the general inability to distinguish copies f

40、rom real paintingsD.Petyt“s desire to appreciate great works of art(2).The painters employed by Petyt _.（分数：2.00）A.have been specially trained in the techniques of forgeryB.were chosen because of the quality of their original workC.have to be versatile in terms of the range of styles they reproduceD

41、.make copies of those paintings customers specifically request(3).The price of the of Petyt“s painting depends on _.（分数：2.00）A.the status of the original artistB.the time and skill needed to create itC.the degree to which it has to be artificially agedD.the extent to which the copy truly replicates

42、the original(4).As a result of the court case he won, Petyt _.（分数：2.00）A.no longer reproduces fake signatures on paintings he sellsB.has been able to copy the work of more contemporary artistsC.is obliged to make sure his products can be identified as copiesD.has agreed not to market his products th

43、rough certain channels(5).What do we learn about the way Petyt selected the paintings that would appear in his exhibition?（分数：2.00）A.It was not something that he“d carefully chosen.B.They needed to be ones that could be reproduced quickly.C.They had to be pictures that would appeal to the buying pub

44、lic.D.He did some research into the work of artists he“d always admire without others we would soon die. Tiny amounts of some hormones can modify moods and actions, our inclination to eat or drink, our aggressiveness or submissiveness, and our reproductive and parental behavior. And hormones do more

45、 than influence adult behavior; early in life they help to determine the development of bodily form and may even determine an individual“s behavioral capacities. Later in life the changing outputs of some endocrine glands and the body“s changing sensitivity to some hormones are essential aspects of

46、the phenomena of aging. Communication within the body and the consequent integration of behavior were considered the exclusive province of the nervous system up to the beginning of the present century. The emergence of endocrinology as a separate discipline can probably be traced to the experiments

47、of Bayliss and Starling on the hormone secretion. This substance is secreted from cells in the intestinal walls when food enters the stomach; it travels through the bloodstream and stimulates the pancreas to liberate pancreatic juice, which aids in digestion. By showing that special cells secrete chemical agents that are conveyed by the bloodstream and regulate distant target organs or tissues. Bayliss and Starling demonstrated that chemical integration could occur without participation of the nervous system. The term “hormone“ was first used wi