上海市高级口译第一阶段笔试分类模拟笔记题(五)及答案解析.doc

1、上海市高级口译第一阶段笔试分类模拟笔记题(五)及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Note-taking and Gap-(总题数：0，分数：0.00)ACan we save the world“s 1 languages? The Hadza community lives in Tanzania. Their languageHadzais unique. However the language may not be 2 for long. There are now fewer than 1,000 Hadza 3 . The number will conti

2、nue to 4 and their sing-song tongue, 5 with clicks and glottal stops, is no longer being learned by all Hadza children. The language is in danger of being 6 . The Hadza are not alone in facing the loss of their 7 tongue. Every 8 days a language dies. Over half of the approximately 7,000 languages sp

3、oken on the planet may 9 by the end of the 20th century. Eighty percent of the 10 languages have no 11 form. 12 the last speaker dies, so does the language. But eighty percent of the world“s population now speak just 13 of its languages. So, will the languages on the 14 be reduced to a 15 of tongues

4、 Not if some people have their way, who are fighting back to 16 rarer tongues successfully. Perhaps the most successful example is 17 , which was dead two centuries ago but is a living language now. Other languages have also been brought back from the brink of 18 through the sheer will and determin

5、ation of their communities. Language preservation works best when the language, culture and 19 of minority-speaker communities are 20 by national governments. （分数：50.00）BAs I applied to study 1 at the University of Illinois in 1978, my father 2 objected, and quoted me a 3 . “Every year, 4 performers

6、 compete for 200 available roles on Broadway.“ Some years later, when I graduated from film school, I came to 5 my father“s concern. It was nearly unheard of for a Chinese newcomer to make it in the American film industry. I struggled 6 six years of 7 , hopeless uncertainty. Much of the time, I was

7、helping film 8 with their equipment or working as editor“s assistant. My most painful experience involved touting a 9 at more than 30 production companies and meeting with 10 rejection each time. That year, I 11 30. Yet, I couldn“t even support myself. What could I do? Give up my dream? My wife gave

8、 me 12 support. She worked at a small 13 research lab after graduation and her income was terribly 14 . To 15 my own feelings of 16 , I took on cooking, cleaning, taking care of our sonin addition to reading, 17 films and writing scripts, which was rather 18 for a man. Afterward, I enrolled in a com

9、puter course at a nearby community 19 . For the days that followed, I descended into malaise. So my wife said, “Ang, don“t forget your dream.“ And today, I“ve finally won that golden statue. I think my own perseverance and my wife“s immeasurable 20 have finally met their reward. （分数：50.00）上海市高级口译第一阶

10、段笔试分类模拟笔记题(五)答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Note-taking and Gap-(总题数：0，分数：0.00)ACan we save the world“s 1 languages? The Hadza community lives in Tanzania. Their languageHadzais unique. However the language may not be 2 for long. There are now fewer than 1,000 Hadza 3 . The number will continue to 4 an

11、d their sing-song tongue, 5 with clicks and glottal stops, is no longer being learned by all Hadza children. The language is in danger of being 6 . The Hadza are not alone in facing the loss of their 7 tongue. Every 8 days a language dies. Over half of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken on the

12、 planet may 9 by the end of the 20th century. Eighty percent of the 10 languages have no 11 form. 12 the last speaker dies, so does the language. But eighty percent of the world“s population now speak just 13 of its languages. So, will the languages on the 14 be reduced to a 15 of tongues? Not if so

13、me people have their way, who are fighting back to 16 rarer tongues successfully. Perhaps the most successful example is 17 , which was dead two centuries ago but is a living language now. Other languages have also been brought back from the brink of 18 through the sheer will and determination of th

14、eir communities. Language preservation works best when the language, culture and 19 of minority-speaker communities are 20 by national governments. （分数：50.00）解析：dying 听力原文 Can we save the world“s dying languages? After witnessing how one of our earliest languages is in danger of disappearing, we sho

15、uld look at efforts to preserve our oral culture. Along Lake Eyasi in northern Tanzania there lives the Hadza community sitting in male-and female-only groups, with the men playing small lute-like stringed instruments and applying a pre-hunt poisonous tree resin to their metal arrowheads. They light

16、 a small fire by rapidly twisting a hardwood twig into a softwood stick from the local Commiphora tree. It soon smolders and, intrigued, I have a go too. It“s surprisingly difficult, but with their help, I get it to smoke eventually. You have to travel four hours west from the city of Arusha to meet

17、 this ancient tribe of hunter-gatherers, and join them in a bow-and-arrow hunt for prey among the thorn bushes. The Hadza people may have nothingno animals, land or possessions aside from the clothes on their backs, but they are rich in the skills and resourcefulness they need to produce everything

18、from their environment. That“s not all that sets them apart from most societies. The Hadza are thought to be the most ancient modern humans, the first surviving peoples to have split off from our ancestral family tree, and are not closely related genetically to any other peoples. Their languagea cli

19、cking tongue, also called Hadzais unique and unrelated even to other clicking languages. Some linguists believe Hadza may be close to humankind“s first ancestral language. However the language may not be around for long. The Hadza bushmen, who live in groups of around 15 people, are believed to have

20、 been living in this remote area for at least 10,000 years, but there are now fewer than 1,000 Hadza left. Fewer than 400 of them continue to live a stone-age lifestylethey are among the last hunter-gatherers in a continent of farmers and pastoralists. The numbers will continue to drop, as their lan

21、d is swallowed up by farmers, government-designated conservation areas and private game reserves. And their sing-song tongue, punctuated with clicks and glottal stops, and which has no words for numbers past four, is no longer being learned by all Hadza children. As the modern world encroaches, the

22、language is in danger of being lost as the Hadza make greater use of the widely spoken Swahili tongue. What is at risk is not simply the vocabulary and grammar of this unique language, but the Hadza“s, and by extension, part of humanity“s cultural heritage and expression. The Hadza are not alone in

23、facing the loss of their native tongue. Every 14 days a language dies. Over half of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken on the planet may disappear by the end of the century. In the age of the Anthropocene, language extinction is happening faster than species extinction. Eighty percent of the e

24、ndangered languages are African, including Hadza, and the majority have no written form. Once the last speaker dies, so does the language. And for an oral culture, preserving language becomes even more important for maintaining the identity and heritage of a community. It is said that with every lan

25、guage you speak you gain a new soul. But eighty percent of the world“s population now speak just 1.1% of its languages, and universal languages, like English, dominate the Internet, signage and the majority of published texts. So, is the Anthropocene becoming a duller place, in which the rich divers

26、ity of humanity“s full and wonderful language abilities is reduced to a handful of tongues: English, Mandarin, and a few others? Are we in danger of losing our soul? Not if some people have their way. They are fighting back to preserve rarer tongues, in some cases, with great success. Perhaps the mo

27、st successful example is Hebrew, which was dead two centuries ago, before being revived and brought into the 20th century as a living language and the mother tongue of an entire generation of Israelis. Other languages have also been brought back from the brink of extinction through the sheer will an

28、d determination of their communities, including Welsh, Cornish, Gaelic and New Zealand Maori. Language preservation works best when the language, culture and identity of minority-speaker communities are respected by national governments, rather than being banned; and if children are either fully tau

29、ght in their mother tongue or given dedicated classes in it, in addition to learning the national or regional language. Evidence is mounting for the benefits of bi-or multi-lingualism, and for the social and psychological importance of mother-tongue conservation, which allows conversation across mul

30、tiple generations and strengthens cultural continuity and community identity.解析：around解析：left解析：drop解析：punctuated解析：lost解析：native解析：14解析：disappear解析：endangered解析：written解析：Once解析：1.1%解析：planet解析：handful解析：preserve解析：Hebrew解析：extinction解析：identity解析：respectedBAs I applied to study 1 at the University

31、 of Illinois in 1978, my father 2 objected, and quoted me a 3 . “Every year, 4 performers compete for 200 available roles on Broadway.“ Some years later, when I graduated from film school, I came to 5 my father“s concern. It was nearly unheard of for a Chinese newcomer to make it in the American fil

32、m industry. I struggled 6 six years of 7 , hopeless uncertainty. Much of the time, I was helping film 8 with their equipment or working as editor“s assistant. My most painful experience involved touting a 9 at more than 30 production companies and meeting with 10 rejection each time. That year, I 11

33、 30. Yet, I couldn“t even support myself. What could I do? Give up my dream? My wife gave me 12 support. She worked at a small 13 research lab after graduation and her income was terribly 14 . To 15 my own feelings of 16 , I took on cooking, cleaning, taking care of our sonin addition to reading, 17

34、 films and writing scripts, which was rather 18 for a man. Afterward, I enrolled in a computer course at a nearby community 19 . For the days that followed, I descended into malaise. So my wife said, “Ang, don“t forget your dream.“ And today, I“ve finally won that golden statue. I think my own perse

35、verance and my wife“s immeasurable 20 have finally met their reward. （分数：50.00）解析：film 听力原文 In 1978, as I applied to study film at the University of Illinois, my father vehemently objected. He quoted me a statistic: “Every year, 50,000 performers compete for 200 available roles on Broadway.“ Against

36、 his advice, I boarded a flight to the U.S. This strained our relationship. In the two decades following, we exchanged less than a hundred phrases in conversation. Some years later, when I graduated from film school, I came to comprehend my father“s concern. It was nearly unheard of for a Chinese ne

37、wcomer to make it in the American film industry. Beginning in 1983, I struggled through six years of agonizing, hopeless uncertainty. Much of the time, I was helping film crews with their equipment or working as editor“s assistant, among other miscellaneous duties. My most painful experience involve

38、d touting a screenplay at more than thirty different production companies, and being met with harsh rejection each time. That year, I turned 30. There“s an old Chinese saying. “At 30, one stands firm.“ Yet, I couldn“t even support myself. What could 1 do? Keep waiting, or give up my movie-making dre

39、am? My wife gave me invaluable support. My wife was my college classmate. She was a biology major, and after graduation, went to work for a small pharmaceutical research lab. Her income was terribly modest. At the time, we already had our elder son, Haan, to raise. To appease my own feelings of guil

40、t, I took on all houseworkcooking, cleaning, taking care of our sonin addition to reading, reviewing films and writing scripts. Every evening after preparing dinner, I would sit on the front steps with Haan, telling him stories as we waited for his motherthe heroic huntressto come home with our sust

41、enance. This kind of life felt rather undignified for a man. At one point, my in-laws gave their daughter (my wife) a sum of money, intended as start-up capital for me to open a Chinese restauranthoping that a business would help support my family. But my wife refused the money. When I found out abo

42、ut this exchange, I stayed up several nights and finally decided. This dream of mine is not meant to be. I must face reality. Afterward (and with a heavy heart), I enrolled in a computer course at a nearby community college. At a time when employment trumped all other considerations, it seemed that

43、only a knowledge of computers could quickly make me employable. For the days that followed, I descended into malaise. My wife, noticing my unusual demeanor, discovered a schedule of classes tucked in my bag. She made no comment that night. The next morning, right before she got in her car to head of

44、f to work, my wife turned back and, standing there on our front steps, said, “Ang, don“t forget your dream.“ And that dream of minedrowned by demands of realitycame back to life. As my wife drove off, I took the class schedule out of my bag and slowly, deliberately tore it to pieces. And tossed it i

45、n the trash. Sometime after, I obtained funding for my screenplay, and began to shoot my own films. And after that, a few of my films started to win international awards. Recalling earlier times, my wife confessed, “I“ve always believed that you only need one gift. Your gift is making films. There a

46、re so many people studying computers already, they don“t need an Ang Lee to do that. If you want that golden statue, you have to commit to the dream.“ And today, I“ve finally won that golden statue. I think my own perseverance and my wife“s immeasurable sacrifice have finally met their reward. And I

47、 am now more assured than ever before: I must continue making films. You see, I have this never-ending dream.解析：vehemently解析：statistic解析：50,000解析：comprehend解析：through解析：agonizing解析：crews解析：screenplay解析：harsh解析：turned解析：invaluable解析：pharmaceutical解析：modest解析：appease解析：guilt解析：reviewing解析：undignified解析：college解析：sacrifice