[外语类试卷]2008年9月上海市高级口译第二阶段口试真题试卷（精选）及答案与解析.doc

1、2008年 9月上海市高级口译第二阶段口试真题试卷（精选）及答案与解析 Part A Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in English. After you have heard each paragraph, interpret it into Chinese. Start interpreting at the signal, and stop it at the signal.You may take notes while you are listening. Remember you w

2、ill hear the passages ONLY ONCE. Now let us begin Part A with the first passage. 1 Passage 1 2 Passage 2 Part B Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in Chinese. After you have heard each passage, interpret it into English. Start interpreting at the signal, and stop it at th

3、e signalyou may take notes while youre listening. Remember you will hear the passages ONLY ONCE.Now, let us begin Part B with the first passage. 3 Passage 1 4 Passage 2 2008年 9月上海市高级口译第二阶段口试真题试卷（精选）答案与解析 Part A Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in English. After you have

4、 heard each paragraph, interpret it into Chinese. Start interpreting at the signal, and stop it at the signal.You may take notes while you are listening. Remember you will hear the passages ONLY ONCE. Now let us begin Part A with the first passage. 1 【听力原文】 For all of human history the source of suc

5、cess has been controlling natural resources- land, gold and oil. Suddenly the answer is knowledge. The king of knowledge economy, Bill Gates, owns no land, no gold or oil. How does one use knowledge to build wealth? The knowledge-based economy is asking new questions, giving new answers and developi

6、ng new rules for the success game. Information technology has opened up opportunities for new products with much higher levels of productivity. / A successful knowledge-based economy requires large public investments in education, research and development. Sometimes successful businesses must be wil

7、ling to destroy the old while it is still successful if they wish to build the new that will become successful. Of what were the twelve American companies at the beginning of the 20th century, eleven were not around to see the beginning of the 21st century. Technological breakthroughs occur, the eco

8、nomic environment changes, and they could not adjust. 1 【正确答案】 在整个人类历史上，成功的源泉在于对土地、黄金和石油等自然资源的控制。突然之间，成功的钥匙变成了知识。知识经济之王比尔 ?盖茨没有土地、黄金或石油。人们是怎样用知识来创造财富的 ?以知识为 基础的经济正在提出一些新问题，提供新答案，为成功制定新的游戏规则。信息技术使人们有机会采用更高的生产力水平，开发新产品。 / 成功的知识经济要求政府在教育、研究与开发领域投入巨资。有时候，成功的企业只有在成功时甘愿自我毁灭，方能建立起更加成功的新企业。在 20世纪初曾名列美国最大的 1

9、2家公司中，有 11家没有看到 21世纪的曙光。技术突破不断出现，经济环境不断变化，而这些公司未能适应新的形势。 2 【听力原文】 Now, lets turn to the problem of corruption. I think all countries should take a firm stance on corruption, pursue a sensible macro economic policy, and are committed to poverty elimination. One of the conclusions to be drawn from the

10、 Asian crisis is that development is unsustainable where there is widespread corruption. Proper regulation and transparent economic management will increasingly be a pre-requisite for investment and not just for foreign investors, but for domestic investment too. / Of course, the causes of corruptio

11、n do not only lie in developing countries. It is extraordinary that only now the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development is recommending that all countries make it a criminal offence to offer a bribe to a public official overseas. We must intensify our efforts, and firmly and resolute

12、ly take any necessary measures in our combat against corrupt government officials. 2 【正确答案】 现在，让我们来讨论一下腐败问题。我认为，所有国家必须采取坚定的立场反对腐败，奉行明智的宏观经济政策，并致力消除贫困。从亚洲危机得出的一个结论是：如果腐败广泛存在，发展就不可能持续。适当的调控和透明的经济管理越来越成为国内外投资者投资的必要条件。 / 当然，不是只 在发展中国家才存在腐败。非同寻常的是，经济合作和发展组织现在才刚刚建议，所有国家都应该认定在海外向官员行贿属刑事犯罪行为。我们必须加大力度，坚决果断地采

13、取一切措施，打击政府官员的腐败行为。 Part B Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in Chinese. After you have heard each passage, interpret it into English. Start interpreting at the signal, and stop it at the signalyou may take notes while youre listening. Remember you will hear the passages

14、ONLY ONCE.Now, let us begin Part B with the first passage. 3 【听力原文】 长期以来，就业问题一直是各国政府面临的一个难题。国际劳工组织最近发表全球就业报告指出，全球失业人数已超过 2亿， 创历史新高，总失业率约为 8%。在我国，根据统计，去年城镇失业人数为 2080万人。 / 要解决我国的失业问题，首先要加强人口控制，人口过多是我们解决就业问题的一个严重障碍。控制人口仍是我们面临的紧迫的任务。其次，政府促进对外开放，争取更多的世界劳力密集型工业和服务业来中国办企业，同时要解决好产业结构与就业结构不协调问题。 3 【正确答案】 Emp

15、loyment has long been a difficult problem for all the governments to solve. According to a recent report released by the International Labor Organization, the number of global unemployment has exceeded 200 million, setting a new record in history, and the unemployment rate of the world is about 8%.

16、Statistics show that last year in our country the number of jobless people in towns and cities amounted to 20. 8 million./ To solve the unemployment problem in our country, first of all, population control should be strengthened, or too big a population is a serious obstacle to solving the unemploym

17、ent problem. Population control is still a pressing task we are facing. Secondly, Our government should further opening up to the outside world and try to attract more labor- intensive industry and service industry of the world to set up factories in China so as to boost the labor demand. Finally, t

18、he government should solve the problem of the unbalanced development between production and employment structures 4 【听力原文】 亚太地区总体保持和平稳定，依然是世界上最具经济活力和发展潜力的地区。亚太经济合作组织向更加紧密的合作迈进。以东盟与中国、日本、韩国为主渠道的东亚合作更加务实。上海合作组织在发展结伴而不结盟的国家关系和反恐合作方面取得明显进展。 / 但是，影响和平与发展的不确定因素也在增加，世界还很不安宁。不公正不合理的国际政治经济旧秩序没有根本改变。世界经济发展很不平

19、衡，南北差距进一步扩大，发展中国家在经济全球化进程中获益较少，有的面临被边缘化的危险。 4 【正确答案】 The Asia-Pacific region has, on the whole, continued to enjoy its peace and stability, and remains the most dynamic region economically with the greatest development potential in the world. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is heading f

20、or closer cooperation. In East Asia, cooperation between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on the one hand and China, Japan and the Republic of Korea on the other as the major channel, has become more practical. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has made outstanding progre

21、ss in developing state-to-state relationship based on partnership rather than alliance, as well as in anti-terrorist cooperation. / However, uncertainties impeding peace and development are also on the increase. The world is far from being tranquil. The old international political and economic order

22、, which is unfair and irrational, has yet to be changed fundamentally. Economic development of the world is materially unbalanced, and the North-South gap is further widening. The developing countries have gained less from the economic globalization process, and some of them are in danger of being marginalized.