1、2017年 9月上海市高级口译第一阶段笔试真题试卷及答案与解析 Part A Spot Dictation Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the word or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER B
2、OOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE. 0 For years we have been talking about addiction to the Internet, and then to the mobile phone. A recent survey in UK found that _【 C1】 would rather live without their own children for a week than give up their mobile phone, while _【 C2】 admitted
3、 they were addicted to their handsets. Now we are putting together a support group for those who _【 C3】 . By speaking of the group, I mean, what we offer as some of the treatments are _【 C4】 for those people. The group itself becomes a therapeutic tool, because people are getting out of their rooms
4、where they _【 C5】 or the mobile phone for many hours and even days, surfing the Internet or the WeChat. People are _【 C6】 and are dealing with other people face-to-face. They are getting _【 C7】 . They realize that it is not just them, that there are other people who are engaged in the same behavior
5、and _【 C8】 , and also they can help each other strategize about what is the best way for them to_【 C9】 , to figure out other things to do. And also we _【 C10】 . it is important to figure out what is going on in the persons life that is contributing to _【 C11】 . Why is the person spending so much tim
6、e on _【 C12】 ? Are they avoiding something? Or are they trying to _【 C13】 ? As far as how many people are actually addicted to the Internet or the Wechat, there was one study which said _【 C14】 . I would say at least 5 percent of people who are _【 C15】 . The thing is, though, it is very easy to slip
7、 into and you dont realize it, _【 C16】 . For instance, we have _【 C17】 where people can just go in, they may be doing _【 C18】 on the computer, and then they just _【 C19】 and see what is going on, and then before they know it, _【 C20】 . 1 【 C1】 2 【 C2】 3 【 C3】 4 【 C4】 5 【 C5】 6 【 C6】 7 【 C7】 8 【 C8】
8、9 【 C9】 10 【 C10】 11 【 C11】 12 【 C12】 13 【 C13】 14 【 C14】 15 【 C15】 16 【 C16】 17 【 C17】 18 【 C18】 19 【 C19】 20 【 C20】 Part B Listening Comprehension Directions: In this part of the test there will be some short talks and conversations. After each one, you will be asked some questions. The talks, con
9、versations and questions will be spoken ONLY ONCE. Now listen carefully and choose the right answer to each question you have heard and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. （ A） He wanted to see the Ice Hotel. （ B） He organized a fashion s
10、how there. （ C） He was on his winter vacation. （ D） He was on a business trip. （ A） The hotel is a favorite haunt for movie stars. （ B） The hotel is located on a frozen river. （ C） The hotel is rebuilt every year. （ D） The hotel is submerged every summer. （ A） He had to spend some time warming himse
11、lf up in a bar. （ B） He had to run around the lake to get some exercises. （ C） He had to take enough food in a warm restaurant. （ D） He had to get a reindeer skin ready for the night. （ A） Ice creams. （ B） Alcoholic drinks. （ C） Fashion shows. （ D） Polar lights. （ A） Its not her cup of tea. （ B） Its
12、 not as good as the fashion show. （ C） Its a place for cool people. （ D） Its the shooting site of a movie. （ A） They need German men as godfathers. （ B） They have the right to register for social welfare. （ C） They can qualify for residency in Germany. （ D） They want to get paid in work as German ci
13、tizens. （ A） She was lost in Mountain Gate. （ B） She was abducted by unknown captors. （ C） She was taken to a local hospital. （ D） She was found bound alongside an interstate. （ A） 6.1%. （ B） 6.9%. （ C） 7.0%. （ D） 7.1%. （ A） Children were immunised with the wrong vaccine. （ B） Children were vaccinat
14、ed with the same unsterilised syringe. （ C） The immunisation campaign was not led by the health minister. （ D） The administering team was not trained by the UNICEF. （ A） 84,000. （ B） 117,000. （ C） 248,000. （ D） 250,000. （ A） By taking a student loan. （ B） By consulting a specialist. （ C） By developi
15、ng a budget. （ D） By finding a decent job. （ A） Purchasing a new smart phone. （ B） Saving money for a vacation. （ C） Paying for college. （ D） Keeping track of their spending. （ A） Because it avoids the possibility of additional tuition costs. （ B） Because it helps college students secure more schola
16、rships. （ C） Because it can substitute credits for other elective courses. （ D） Because it shows their potential in finding a good job upon graduation. （ A） They can have more access to educational resources. （ B） They can afford to take extra-curricular courses. （ C） They need to become more discip
17、lined and focused. （ D） They need to spend more time on their home assignments. （ A） It is not as easy as finding a part-time job. （ B） It is not as good as taking a part-time job. （ C） It should be recommended for college students. （ D） It should resolve the problem of budget shortfalls. （ A） They
18、were all killed by an unexpected meteorite attack. （ B） They died out as a result of sudden climatic change. （ C） They were all killed by a sudden nuclear explosion. （ D） They died out because of their enormous size as land animals. （ A） Their blood is in intimate contact with the water they live in
19、. （ B） Their size is not big enough for them to live on land. （ C） They cannot hibernate in polluted water. （ D） They cannot survive the big animals in the Amazon rain forest. （ A） Big animals usually could not survive little ones in major extinctions. （ B） It is a bad thing that we humans have brou
20、ght animals from place to place. （ C） The introduction of foreign animals will spread diseases to us humans. （ D） The travel of big animals will spread diseases and disrupt the ecosystem. （ A） Dinosaurs. （ B） Mammoths. （ C） Saber-toothed cats. （ D） Tropical frogs. （ A） The distance they have travell
21、ed should be at least 1,600 kilometers. （ B） The foreign animals run amuck as they have no natural predators. （ C） There should be land bridges connecting the continents. （ D） There are humans who bring pets from one continent to another. 一、 SECTION 2 READING TEST Directions: In this section you wil
22、l read several passages. Each one is followed by several questions about it. You are to choose ONE best answer, A, B, C or D, to each question. Answer all the questions following each passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage and write tile letter of the answer you have chose
23、n in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. 40 A major study of the grocery-buying habits of millions of Americans released late last year found that people using food stamps generally make the same unhealthy food choices as everyone else in America. Too many sweets, salty snacks and prepar
24、ed desserts, junk food, in other words. But when it came to soda and its sugary ilk, the results were more surprising, and not in a good way. According to the USDA-funded study, shoppers using food stamps spent a larger share of their budget9.25% to be exacton sugar-sweetened beverages than other sh
25、oppers. Even more startling: Food-stamp shoppers bought more soda than any other single grocery item. The new data revived an old debate about banning soda from the $71-billion food-stamp program. In February, the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing to gather testimony about the pros and cons
26、 of such a restriction. It does seem counterproductive to spend billions of taxpayer dollars in an effort to improve the nutrition of low-income Americans on a product with little or no nutritional value. It is called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, after all. And soda had been identi
27、fied as one of the prime culprits in soaring U.S. obesity and Type 2 diabetes rates. The study and committee debate raised some of the same uncomfortable issues that have caused the proposal to languish in the past. On the conservative side, folks have worried that this type of nannystate regulation
28、 will lead to other heavy-handed health-related restrictions. Liberals, meanwhile, have been concerned that it is patronizing and punitive to tell people how to spend their government benefits. Add in the opposition from beverage industry lobby and its no surprise this idea hasnt gotten very far whe
29、n its been proposed. In recent years, a handful of states and cities have tried to impose such a requirement, but were blocked by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The difference now is that the attitude toward soda has rapidly soured as more evidence has poured in that beverages with added sugars
30、 are making people fat and sick. The USDA has issued dietary guidelines warning people to limit their consumption of food with added sugars, the largest sources of which are sweetened beverages. This belief helped San Francisco, Philadelphia and handful of other cities push through new taxes on soda
31、. A handful more are considering their own soda levies. We know that there are detrimental health effects of drinking lots of soda, but we dont know if barring SNAP recipients from spending their benefits on soda will really improve their health. It s worth finding out by undertaking a limited pilot
32、 program, regardless of the qualms we may have about imposing restraints on the poor that better-off Americans dont face. The assumption is that those billions of dollars not going to buy Coke will be spent on healthier food. But that may not be the case. What if consumption of other sugary items in
33、creases? Or if SNAP recipients simply transferred their sweet drink habit ounce-for-ounce to more expensive and still sugar-laden fruit juice? Or if they spent their non-SNAP money on soda? Before making a permanent change, we need to know if it would improve nutrition or be pointlessly punitive. Bu
34、t it is a good step to take to gather data. And the argument that it would be too hard on grocers to carve out sugary drinks doesnt hold water. As the study shows, modern grocery check stand technology is sophisticated enough to easily separate out purchases by UPC code. Indeed, SNAP already comes w
35、ith restrictions on alcohol, tobacco and hot foods. Grocers dont have a problem sorting them out. The Women, Infant and Children food-assistance program is even more prescriptive, permitting only specific items to be purchased: milk, cheese, cereal and formula, for example, but absolutely nothing wi
36、th added sugar or artificial sweetener. Ideally, a pilot program would also find ways to improve access to safe drinking water. Denying poor people the ability to use food aid to buy a Coke on a hot day may raise some unsettling questions. Yet the findings in the USDAs study about excessive soda con
37、sumption shouldnt be ignored. 41 What is the passage mainly about? （ A） The investigation of the grocery-buying habits of Americans. （ B） New taxes on soda to be levied to restrict the use of food stamps. （ C） A comparison between SNAP and Women, Infant and Children food-assistance program. （ D） An
38、argument over SNAP recipients use of food stamps to buy soda. 42 The expression “nannystate regulation“ (para.3)_. （ A） reveals the confrontation between the conservatives and liberals （ B） displays the affirmative attitude of the conservatives （ C） shows the conservatives contemptuous opinion towar
39、ds the regulation （ D） tells us the concerning and caring nature of such regulation 43 Which of the following CANNOT be true about the SNAP? （ A） It is a government program involving the distribution of $71-billion food-stamps. （ B） It has restrictions on the purchase of alcohol, tobacco and hot foo
40、ds. （ C） It targets at the American population of obesity and Type 2 diabetes patients. （ D） It triggers heated argument about the use of food-stamps to purchase soda. 44 The word “qualms“ from the expression “regardless of the qualms we may have“(para.5) can be paraphrased as_. （ A） non-descriptive
41、 sentimental emotions （ B） feelings of uncertainty （ C） empathies and concerns （ D） fears and depressions 45 Which of the following shows the authors approach towards the soda issue? （ A） Subjective, critical and negative. （ B） Objective, analytical and explorative. （ C） Descriptive, neutral and ima
42、ginative. （ D） Vehement, concerning and sympathetic. 45 Any downtime such as the Easter weekend break takes me back to the summer of 2007 when I went on holiday and nearly died. It was the year the iPhone was born. The world was beginning to gorge on the gold rush of the Internet, social networks an
43、d mobile phonesthe so called “triple revolution“. I was no exception. With a new business and a new baby, I was exhausted. Whenever possible, I was going online in a world which, a decade on, posts more than 6,000 tweets a second, where 60% of Britons are on Facebook and 14m of us are on Instagram.
44、There is a cost to all this connectedness and being “always on“. In 2007, arriving in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, famous for its lack of technology as much as its shingle shore, I went for a gentle jog along the beach to get in the holiday mood. Yet I felt myself grinding to a halt. I had ignored a cold for
45、 months. Now I had the strange sensation that I was filling up with the shingle beneath me. Dragging myself back to the cottage, I muttered: “I think I have overdone it.“ My husband and our children looked on with scepticism: wasnt I just incapable of switching off? Three days later I was in Ipswich
46、 Hospital with pneumonia and sepsis. I was a few hours from all my organs shutting down. During my recovery I mulled on what had happened to me and whether I was uniquely bad at managing my life. I began to notice there was something unhealthy about this new era of “infobesity“ and time poverty whic
47、h has steadily worsened. Ive been studying the effects of connectedness and its discontents and have been devising strategies to counteract the impact that the Age of Overload is having on our health. Im now publishing my findings about what I call “social health“. In it I recommend ways in which we
48、 can get the best of the fully connected era and not suffer its worst excesses. I have started by looking at the history of connectedness itself. The human has fought to become “king of the jungle“ in 200,000 short years. But in just an evolutionary nanosecond150 yearswe have jumped into an entirely
49、 new era. Everything from the telephone to central heating and, of course, the computer has transformed us for ever. Yet we are seeing a society and a “system“ that are not, for want of a better word, healthy. Evidence shows we are not happier, more productive, or always safer: more than 10m working days a year in the UK are lost to “stress“, anxiety and depression and global productivity is stagnant and, if anything, falling. Now that we live cheek by
