上海市高级口译第一阶段笔试模拟22及答案解析.doc

1、上海市高级口译第一阶段笔试模拟 22及答案解析(总分：-16.98，做题时间：90 分钟)一、SECTION 1 LISTENING (总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Part A Spot Dictatio(总题数：1，分数：-1.00)The biggest mistake in life is to think that you work for someone else. True, you may have a boss and you may 1 from a company but, ultimately, you are master of 2 . You decide wha

2、t potential you reach in your career and what you will 3 in your life. Regardless of your circumstances, you can 4 . This is particularly true at your current workplace. Every day you have 5 , to stand out, and to be exceptional. You can make a suggestion to improve a product or service or to 6 . Yo

3、u can identify an opportunity to save money or 7 . You can help a coworker do his or her job better or learn a new skill that you can use for the rest of your life. It all 8 , that is, taking action to get some thing done at work without waiting for your boss to tell you what to do or when and how t

4、o do it. To be able to take initiative in your job you first need to see how you and your position 9 of things at work. In most jobs this role is not 10 , so you need to investigate how you fit into 11 . Ask yourself: Why was my job created? Most jobs are created to help with 12 of the organization.

5、 If you can understand the initial needs for your position, you will be better able to 13 and go beyond them. How does my job relate to others in the organization? Whom do you 14 ? Questions like these help you to see the contribution you make in your position and 15 . What opportunities to contribu

6、te to the organization exist in my job? Every job 16 for the employee who looks for them. Knowing how you contribute to your organization can 17 even more to help. How is my job linked to the organization“s objectives? By defining your position 18 the goals and objectives of the organizations, you c

7、an 19 . Once you see your role in the big picture, you are better able to take the initiative 20 . （分数：-1.00）三、Part B Listening Com(总题数：0，分数：0.00)四、Questions 1 to 5 are(总题数：1，分数：-1.00)（分数：-1.00）A.They are made of warm material.B.They have a hold for the thumb.C.They are only for sports.D.They are fi

8、rst made by a teenager.A.K-K made Wristies because she didn“t have gloves.B.K-K made the first pair of Wristies on a snowy day.C.K-K made the first pair of Wristies when she was ten.D.Wristies are long gloves with no fingers.A.K-K“s mother had a store.B.K-K and her mother had a lot of experience of

9、doing business.C.K-K and her mother asked a lot of people for advice.D.K-K“s mother didn“t give her any help.A.in department storesB.at the supermarketC.at K-K“s homeD.from K-K“s friendsA.be creativeB.listen to your friends“ adviceC.don“t be afraid to do something newD.play in snow in winter五、Questi

10、ons 6 to 10 ar(总题数：1，分数：-1.00)（分数：-1.00）A.Commuters found it harder than usual to get around in the city.B.The Transit Union thought the strike was illegal and imposed a large amount of fine onto the subway and bus workers.C.The Transit Union believed that the fine was too much and decided to appeal

11、.D.The mayor said that the strike could cost New York City a considerable portion of its daily output.A.They want to continue their negotiation in Hong Kong.B.They will push the US to drive down the global cotton price.C.They want the US to reform its policies with the European Union.D.They hope the

12、 US will stop providing subsidies to its cotton farmers.A.No sufficient security has been provided to the witnesses and lawyers.B.Not every defendant has been offered an attorney.C.Some lawyers have threatened to boycott the trial.D.Saddam Hussein refuses to turn up at the new phase of the trial.A.A

13、 man was beaten to death in the immigrant community.B.Many cars, buses, and commuter trains were torched.C.Two teenagers who were reported to have been chased by the police were electrocuted.D.Many young men hid themselves in a power sub-station.A.The United States has proposed a new solution to the

14、 nuclear issue of Iran.B.Iran hopes to continue its nuclear activities through cooperation with Russia.C.Iran welcomes the action taken by the IAEA to refer its nuclear issue to the Security Council.D.Iran is looking forward to discussing its nuclear issue with the Europeans.六、Questions 11 to 15 a(总

15、题数：1，分数：-1.00)（分数：-1.00）A.The difference between a mate nanny and a female nanny.B.The difference between a nanny and a sitter.C.How to become a nanny in the United States.D.The job of a nanny.A.help the children get dressedB.make supper for the childrenC.help them with the homeworkD.play together w

16、ith the childrenA.A manny usually lives with a family.B.Manny and nanny are the same thing.C.A nanny is not a typical job for a man.D.A manny is usually like a father to children.A.He went to a special school.B.He was trained by his own family.C.He was trained by his employers.D.He had been a sitter

17、 before he became a nanny.A.He thinks his job is pretty funny.B.He thinks his job is strange.C.He thinks he has a great job.D.He is sometimes embarrassed.七、Questions 16 to 20 a(总题数：1，分数：-1.00)（分数：-1.00）A.why do people fall asleepB.three kinds of sleep disordersC.the treatment for sleep disordersD.st

18、aying up too late can be harmfulA.They will stop breathing.B.When they wake up, it“s hard for them to go back to sleep again.C.It can happen several hundred times one night.D.In the morning, they will remember waking up.A.heavy breathingB.snoringC.feeling tired and sleepyD.falling asleep brieflyA.a

19、condition that interferes with a person“s ability to sleep normallyB.stopping breathing for short periodsC.difficulty either falling asleep or staying asleepD.sudden attacks of deep sleepA.There are only three kinds of sleep disorder.B.Everyone suffers from serious sleep disorders.C.The disorders ha

20、ve confusing symptoms.D.Doctors are now able to help people with sleeping problems.八、SECTION 2 READING TE(总题数：0，分数：0.00)It“s 1997, and it“s raining. And you“ll have to walk to work again. Any given subway train breaks down one morning out of five. The buses are gone, and on a day like today, bicycle

21、s slosh and slide. Lucky you have a job in demolition. It“s slow and dirty work, but steady. The fading structures of a decaying city are the great mineral mines and hardware shops of the nation. Break them down and reuse the parts. Coal is too difficult to dig up and transport to give us energy in

22、the amounts we need, nuclear fission is judged to be too dangerous, the hoped-for breakthrough toward nuclear fusion never took place, and solar batteries are too expensive to maintain in sufficient quantity. Anyone older than ten can remember automobiles. At first, the price of gasoline climbedway

23、up. Finally, only the well-to-do drove, and that was too clear an indication that they were filthy rich; so any automobile on a city street was overturned and burned. The cars vanished, becoming part of the metal resource. There are advantages in 1997, if you want to look for them. The air is cleane

24、r, and there seem to be fewer cold. The crime rate has dropped. With the police car too expensive, policemen are back on their beats. More important, the streets are full. Legs are king, and people walk everywhere far into the night. There is mutual protection in crowds. If the weather isn“t too col

25、d, people sit out front. If it is hot, the open air is the only air conditioning they get. At least the street lights still burn. Indoors, few people can afford to keep light burning after supper. As for the winterwell, it is inconvenient to be cold, with most of what furnace fuel is allowed hoarded

26、 for the dawn. But sweaters are popular indoor wear. Showers are not an everyday luxury. Lukewarm sponge baths must do, and if the air is not always very fragrant in the human vicinity, the automobile fumes are gone. It is worse in the suburbs, which were born with the auto, lived with the auto, and

27、 are dying with the auto. Suburbanites form associations that assign turns to the procurement and distribution of food. Pushcarts creak from house to house along the posh suburban roads, and every bad snowstorm is a disaster. It isn“t easy to hoard enough food to last till the roads are open. There

28、is not much refrigeration except for the snow-banks, and then the dogs must be fought off. What energy is left must be conserved for agriculture. The great car factories make trucks and farm machinery almost exclusively. The American population isn“t going up much anymore, but the food supply must b

29、e kept high even though the prices and difficulty of distribution force each American to eat less. Food is needed for export to pay for some trickles of oil and for other resources. The rest of the world is not as lucky as we are. They“re starving out there because earth“s population has continued t

30、o rise. The population on earth is 5.5 billionup by 1.5 billion since 1977and, outside the United States and Europe, not more than one in five has enough to eat at any given time. There is a high infant mortality rate. It“s more than just starvation, though. There are those who manage to survive on

31、barely enough to keep the body working, and that proves to be not enough for the brain. It is estimated that nearly two billion people in the world are permanently brain-damaged by undernutrition, and the number is growing. At least the big armies are gone. Only the United States and the Soviet Unio

32、n can maintain a few tanks, planes, and shipswhich they dare not move for fear of biting into limited fuel reserves. Machines must be replaced by human muscle and beasts of burden. People are working longer hours, andwith lighting restricted, television only three hours a night, new books few and pr

33、inted in small editionswhat is there to do with leisure? Work, sleep, and eating are the great trinity of 1997, and only the first two are guaranteed. Where will it end? It must end in a return to the days before 1800, to the days before the fossil fuels powered a vast machine industry and technolog

34、y. It must end in subsistence farming and in a world population reduced by starvation, disease, and violence to less than a billion. And what can we do to prevent all this now? Now? In 1997? Almost nothing.（分数：-1.00）(1).Article “Life Without Fuel“ is _.（分数：-0.20）A.a scientific study of life in 1997B

35、.an imaginary account of life in 1997C.a history of life in 1997D.a difficult time of life in 1997(2).According to Paragraph 2, a good kind of job to have is in: _.（分数：-0.20）A.demolitionB.a gasoline stationC.constructionD.a hardware shop(3).Which statement is NOT true according to this article?（分数：-

36、0.20）A.Energy will be expensive and in short supply.B.There will be more cars than ever in 1997.C.The air will be cleaner in 1997.D.People will walk everywhere instead of going by cars.(4).Paragraph 4 discusses: _.（分数：-0.20）A.the crime rate in 1997B.the disadvantages of life in 1997C.the advantages

37、of life todayD.the advantages of life in 1997(5).Paragraph 5 shows that in 1997, people will: _.（分数：-0.20）A.not use any electricityB.use more electricity than they do todayC.use less electricity than they do todayD.keep lights burning after supper indoorsAt first glance, the image that flashed on th

38、e 19-inch computer screen looked like an ordinary road map. Then J. Richardson, acting manager of the Federal Aviation Administration“s Central Flow Control Facility in Washington, began tapping at his keyboard. With one stroke he zoomed in to an aerial view of the New York Metropolitan area, divide

39、d not along town or county lines but along sectors of airspace. With another keystroke he eliminated hundreds of tiny black dots showing the location of low-flying aircraft and private jets. What remained on the screen were larger, winged symbols representing commercial airliners. With a few more ke

40、y taps he color-coded the jetliners according to their airport destination: red for La Guardia, green for Newark, brown for John F. Kennedy. To computer buffs at ease with the graphic virtuosity of Max Headroom, the FAA demonstration might seem primitive. But to air-traffic professionals gathered in

41、 the agency“s sixth floor “war room“, it represented a technological breakthrough. Prior to last week, FAA radar data showing the location of planes flying over the U. S. could be shown only piecemeal on computer screens at one or more of the aviation agency“s 20 regional control centers. Now, all t

42、hat information has been merged and displayed on a single cathod-ray screen, giving the nation“s air traffic controllers an unprecedented view of overhead traffic patterns as they unfold from coast to coast. Exclaimed the FAA“s Richardson, with pardonable pride: “It“s unbelievable!“ Well, at least i

43、mpressively intricate. The objective of the system is to provide centralized management of traffic problems as they may build up at any of the country“s 12,500 airports. Cost of the new computer operation so far: about $2 million. The FAA“s ultimate goal, though, is multi-billion-dollar air-traffic

44、control system so highly automated that it can monitor flights and direct pilots with little or no human intervention. Such a system is far in the future, but a new linkup may have arrived just in time. FAA officials say that with their new control system they will be able to meet those recommendati

45、ons from the National Transportation Safety Board without reducing the number of flights entering or leaving the critical choke points. Using the new computers, supervisors can monitor with greater precision specific sections of airspace that are becoming dangerously over-crowded. Traffic jams can t

46、hen be alleviated or prevented by shifting the altitude of some flights or rerouting others so that they bypass congested areas. By this fall, when more complex computer programs should be in place, controllers hope to be able to predict at least two hours in advance when an airspace sector is about

47、 to become saturated, and thus prevent delays. Says Jack Ryan, director of the FAA“s Air traffic Operations Service: “We will be ready to head off problems before they occur.“ The FAA“s glowing new capability is attracting curiosity from other federal agencies. The Defense Department, which must mon

48、itor the flow of aircraft into the U. S.“s air defense identification zone, is said to be fascinated by the new system. So is the Drug Enforcement Administration, which desperately seeks to know the identity of every aircraft entering U. S. airspace, especially those from the south. They are particu

49、larly impressed with an FAA feature that allows controllers to place an electronic cursor over an individual blip, press a key and see all the available aircraft data displayed on the screen. Any blip that fails to provide information has not registered a flight plan with the FAA and may be fair game for interception.（分数：-1.00）(1).The first paragraph tells us that _.（分数：-0.20）A.FAA officials are learning to operate a computerB.commercial airliners and private jets can be shown on the same screenC.a map of the New York area airspace can be shown on the screenD.a