1、中级口译（笔试）模拟试卷 22及答案与解析 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 BOOKLET. Rememb
2、er you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE. 0 We have all experienced days when everything (1) . A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to (2) . What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong (3) . It is as if a single unimportant event set up (4) . Let u
3、s suppose that you are preparing a meal and (5) the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this (6) to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table, smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself (7) . You hang up hurried
4、ly and (8) baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal (9) . As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, (10) bringing three guests to dinner. Things can go wrong (11) , as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. During the (12) one evening
5、 two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. The woman immediately behind the two ears happened to be a learner. She suddenly (13) and stopped her ear. This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was (14) , the cake went right th
6、rough the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry driver who was (15) alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them (16) the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angr
7、y argument. Meanwhile, the traffic (17) . It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic (18) again. In the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from (19) , for they (20) what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days! S
8、tatements Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear several short statements. These statements will be spoken ONLY ONCE, and you will not find them written on the paper, so you must listen carefully. When you hear a statement, read the answer choices and decide which one is closest in mean
9、ing to the statement you have heard. Then write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. （ A） What I longed for was to be a leader. （ B） I didnt know if I was suitable to be a leader. （ C） To get into business appealed to me. （ D） What truely intere
10、sted 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 couldnt be used even after last September. （ A） The plane arrived at 9 am. （ B） The plane arrived at 12 pm. （
11、C） The plane delayed 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 dis
12、appointed with Christmas. （ C） Jack touched the Christmas cards with disappointment. （ D） Jack didnt receive any cards this Christmas. （ A） Aunt Polly thought that Tom was the one who ate the pie. （ B） Aunt Polly believed that Tom didnt eat the pie. （ C） Aunt Polly ate the pie herself and Tom was in
13、nocent. （ D） Aunt Polly suspected that Toms pie was eaten by someone. （ A） There will be a formal dress dinner in the chief executive officers residence. （ B） The chief executive officers followers will eat without him. （ C） Dinner will be served when the chief executive officers speech is over. （ D
14、） The chief executive officer will speak after the dinner. （ A） He didnt know what would happen if he made the suggestion. （ B） He didnt feel nervous after he had put forward the suggestion. （ C） He realized that the committee members would not adopt his suggestion. （ D） He considered it important t
15、o talk to the committee members first. （ A） Yuki cant speak English, so she needs to go to America. （ B） Yuki speaks English better than most Japanese do. （ C） Yuki will improve her English in America. （ D） Yuki will learn English in America instead of Japan. （ A） Good management seldom gets better
16、work from employees. （ B） Good management can make average employees work better. （ C） Average employees can do excellent work under any circumstances. （ D） Average employees cannot do excellent work despite good management. Talks and Conversations Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear
17、 several short talks and conversations. After each of these, you will hear a few questions. Listen carefully because you will hear the talk or conversation and questions ONLY ONCE, when you hear a question, read the four answer choices and choose the best answer to that question. Then write the lett
18、er of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. （ A） Saturdays game. （ B） Michigans defense. （ C） Pulled ligament. （ D） Getting into the coachs office. （ A） In the coachs office. （ B） On the playing field. （ C） At the doctors office. （ D） In the auditorium. （ A） T
19、o 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 man will back tomorrow afternoon for full practice. （ D） The films are on the womans desk. （ A） Conversation class. （ B）
20、 Writing Skills class. （ C） Examination Skills class. （ D） All of the three courses. （ A） Conversation class. （ B） Writing Skills class. （ C） Examination Skills class. （ D） All of the three courses. （ A） Conversation class. （ B） Writing Skills class. （ C） Examination Skills class. （ D） All of the th
21、ree courses. （ A） Conversation class. （ B） Writing Skills class. （ C） Examination Skills class. （ D） All of the three courses. （ A） To improve his skating techniques. （ B） To take a vacation. （ C） To take a course. （ D） To learn to ski. （ A） He has been to New Mexico many times. （ B） He has just gra
22、duated from college. （ C） He enjoys sports. （ D） He has relatives in Albuquerque. （ A） The low humidity. （ B） The changing climate. （ C） The high altitude. （ D） The extreme temperatures. （ A） The man will take the trip during January. （ B） The woman has been to New Mexico. （ C） The man will take ska
23、te and skis with him. （ D） The weather at high altitude is great. （ A） 25. （ B） 30. （ C） 35. （ D） 40. （ A） A painter. （ B） An engineer. （ C） An architect. （ D） A builder. （ A） In France. （ B） In Milan. （ C） In Florence. （ D） In Tuscany. （ A） He once made several designs for churches and other buildi
24、ngs. （ B） He painted the famous Mona Lisa in Milan. （ C） He once worked for French King Louis . （ D） He was invited to live in France by the King. （ 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 gir
25、l 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 didnt handle his complaint well. （ A） Apologetic. （ B） Reasonable. （ C） Pathetic. （ D） Fault-finding. （ A） The manager was off that day. （ B） It was the policy that you c
26、ouldnt refund your money without the receipt. （ C） The woman will exchange the mans jeans for a right size. （ D） The man was satisfied at last. Sectence Translation 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
27、 each sentence, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. 51 Our education system must respond in kind and start teaching children about the risks involved in sex before they even consider taking those risks. 52 Over the past three decades, b
28、rave men and women have fought devastating discrimination, stigma, doubt, and violence as they stood in the face of this deadly disease. 53 Limit your movements during an earthquake to a few steps to a nearby safe place. Stay indoors until the shaking has stopped and you are sure it is safe to leave
29、. 54 Vegetarians were more likely to be female, of higher social class and better educated, but IQ was still a significant factor. 55 A full-time stay-at-home mother would earn $134,121 a year if paid for all her work, an amount similar to a top U.S. ad executive, a marketing director or a judge, ac
30、cording to a study released Wednesday. Passage Translation Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in English. You will hear the passages ONLY ONCE. After you have heard each passage, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BO
31、OKLET. You may take notes while you are listening. 56 I think we must make important decisions soon. We need to decide how to develop our natural resources and mineral wealth without destroying the wilderness and harming the wild life. What is decided on now will affect the generations to come. For
32、todays lecture, Ill first show you some pictures of Alaskas wilderness as it was 20 years ago, foil owed by some of the wilderness as it is today. Then Id like to outline my specific suggestions for the preservations of Alaska. 57 In the test of short-term memory, non-smokers made the fewest errors,
33、 but deprived smokers committed fewer errors than active smokers. The test required people to read 2 passages, than answer questions about them. Non-smokers remembered 19% more of the most important information than active smoker, and deprived smokers did better than those who had smoked a cigarette
34、 just before testing. Active smokers tended not only to have poorer memories but also to have trouble separating important information from insignificant details. 一、 SECTION 2: STUDA SKILLS Directions: In this section, you will read several passages. Each passage is followed by several questions bas
35、ed on its content. 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 the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLE
36、T. 57 The discovery of the Antarctic not only proved one of the most interesting of all geographical adventures, but created what might be called “the heroic age of Antarctic exploration“. By their tremendous heroism, men such as Shakleton, Scott, and Amundsen caused a new continent to emerge from t
37、he shadows, and yet that heroic age, little more than a century old, is already passing. Modern science and inventions are revolutionizing the endurance, future journeys into these icy wastes will probably depend on motor vehicles equipped with caterpillar traction rather than on the dogs that earli
38、er discoverers found so invaluable and hardly comparable. Few realize that this Antarctic continent is almost equal in size to South America, and enormous field of work awaits geographers and prospectors. The coasts of this continent remain to be accurately charted, and the mapping of the whole of t
39、he interior presents a formidable task to the cartographers who undertake the work. Once their labors are completed, it will be possible to prospect the vast natural resources which scientists believe will furnish one of the largest treasure hoards of metals and minerals the world has yet known, and
40、 almost inexhaustible sources of copper, coal, uranium, and many other ores will become available to man. Such discoveries will usher in an era of practical exploitation of the Antarctic wastes. The polar darkness which hides this continent for the six winter months will be defeated by huge batterie
41、s of light which make possible the establishing of air-fields for the future inter- continental air services by making these areas as light as day. Present flying routes will be completely changed, for the Antarctic refueling bases will make flights from Australia to South America comparatively easy
42、 over the 5,000 miles journey. The climate is not likely to offer an insuperable problem, for the explorer Admiral Byrd has shown that the climate is possible even for men completely untrained for expeditions into those frozen wastes. Some of his parties were men who had never seen snow before, and
43、yet he records that they survived the rigors of the Antarctic climate comfortably, so that, provided that the appropriate installations are made, we may assume that human beings from all countries could live there safely. Byrd even affirms that it is probably the most healthy climate in the world, f
44、or the intense cold of thousands of years has sterilized this continent, and rendered it absolutely germfree, with the consequences that ordinary and extraordinary sickness and diseases from which man suffers in other zones with different climates are here utterly unknown. There exist no problems of
45、 conservation and preservation of food supplies, for the latter keep indefinitely without any signs of deterioration; it may even be that later generations will come to regard the Antarctic as the natural storehouse for the whole world. Plans are already on foot to set up permanent bases on the shor
46、es of this continent, and what so few years ago was regarded as a “dead continent“ now promises to be a most active center of human life and endeavor. 58 When did man begin to explore the Antarctic? _ （ A） About 100 years ago. （ B） In 20th century. （ C） At the beginning of the 19th century. （ D） In
47、1798. 59 What must the explorers be, even though they have modem equipment and techniques? _ （ A） Brave and tough. （ B） Stubborn and arrogant. （ C） Well-liked and humorous. （ D） Stout and smart. 60 The most healthy climate in the world is _. （ A） in South America （ B） in the Arctic Region （ C） in th
48、e Antarctic Continent （ D） in the Atlantic Ocean 61 What kind of metals and minerals can we find in the Antarctic? _ （ A） Magnetite, coal and ores. （ B） Copper, coal and uranium. （ C） Silver, natural gas and uranium. （ D） Aluminum, copper and natural gas. 62 What is planned for the continent? _ （ A）
49、 Building dams along the coasts. （ B） Setting up several summer resorts along the coasts. （ C） Mapping the coast and whole territory. （ D） Setting up permanent bases on the coasts. 62 The Guidford Four, freed last week after spending 15 years in prison for crimes they did not commit, would almost certainly have been executed for the pub bombing they were convicted of. They had the death penalty been in force at the time of their trial. They may now be a decent interval before the pro-hanging lobby, which has the support of the Prime Mini
