1、中级口译（笔试）模拟试卷 26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 Education 【 C1】 _in the modernization of our country. There are, however, still 【 C2】 _children in remote rural areas who 【 C3】 _go to school because of【 C4】 _. This is a very serious problem which【 C5】 _. Therefore, the authorities【 C6】 _to help them financ
3、ially, which is called “【 C7】 _“. This project, I believe, 【 C8】 _. In the first place, as a developing country, China is【 C9】 _a huge amount of money in education in the【 C10】 _. So education has to【 C11】 _the general public to 【 C12】 _. Secondly, with the financial 【 C13】 _of the public, many of t
4、he poor children who【 C14】_school can go on with their study. This will, in turn,【 C15】 _the expansion of the rural economy in【 C16】 _. Clearly, Project Hope has【 C17】 _for the modernization of our country.【 C18】 _, my suggestion is that the government【 C19】 _the public in cities to finance the proj
5、ect. And I am sure the project will be【 C20】 _. 1 【 C1】 2 【 C2】 3 【 C3】 4 【 C4】 5 【 C5】 6 【 C6】 7 【 C7】 8 【 C8】 9 【 C9】 10 【 C10】 11 【 C11】 12 【 C12】 13 【 C13】 14 【 C14】 15 【 C15】 16 【 C16】 17 【 C17】 18 【 C18】 19 【 C19】 20 【 C20】 Statements Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear several
6、 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 meaning to the statement you have heard. Then write the letter of the ans
7、wer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. （ A） I spent 20 dollars for the Teddy bear. （ B） I spent 25 dollars for the Teddy bear. （ C） I spent 15 dollars for the Teddy bear. （ D） I spent 10 dollars for the Teddy bear. （ A） Polishing windows made the house smell good. （ B
8、） The smell of wood polish reminded me of my mother. （ C） Where a mother lived, there would be a smell of wood. （ D） I used wood polish to make the house smell like mother. （ A） He will soon understand what I think of him. （ B） You should tell him how you feel about him. （ C） You should let him know
9、 what you think of the shoes. （ D） He will think of you when he sees the shoes. （ A） If he tries harder, he will be able to do the work well. （ B） He always fails to do the work well, though he tries very hard. （ C） He never seems to feel satisfied with the work hes done. （ D） He doesnt try hard eno
10、ugh, so he cant do the work well. （ A） I was telling the truth but nobody was listening. （ B） If I told the truth, maybe someone would care. （ C） No one thought that I was telling tell the truth. （ D） No one would pay attention to what I say. （ A） Some recent grads have trouble controlling their wor
11、k. （ B） It is always hard to avoid giving up weekends and working late nights. （ C） Recent grads notice that some people have to work late nights. （ D） What recent grads feel uncomfortable is to sacrifice their personal life. （ A） We found the road to take thanks to his instructions. （ B） We were lo
12、st because his instructions were not clear enough. （ C） We picked a road no matter what his instructions were. （ D） We misunderstood his instructions and got lost. （ A） Not many people read his works, even though he is great. （ B） He considers himself a great writer, but others dont. （ C） He is a gr
13、eat writer, but his works are hard to read. （ D） Many people consider him to be a great writer after they read his works. （ A） Quick choices are always bad decisions. （ B） One should always think twice before making a decision. （ C） Looking back helps one to make a decision. （ D） One shouldnt hesita
14、te when a decision has to be made. （ A） You shouldnt trust her one more time because she always lies. （ B） You have known her better now, so you should trust her. （ C） You need to trust her again, no matter how many times shes lied to you. （ D） Even if she lied to you many times, youd better still t
15、rust her. Talks and Conversations Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 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
16、 four answer choices and choose the best answer to that question. Then write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. （ A） At a travel agency. （ B） At a car shop. （ C） At an insurance company. （ D） In the suburbs. （ A） On May 7th. （ B） On May 8th. （
17、 C） On May 9th. （ D） On May 1 Oth. （ A） B-33793. （ B） B-37793. （ C） B-37739. （ D） B-33739. （ A） A new insurance policy. （ B） A license plate. （ C） A drivers license. （ D） A signed contract. （ A） To develop a savings plan. （ B） To set up a bank account. （ C） To set clear investing goals. （ D） To deci
18、de on the type of business for investment. （ A） A wide selection of investments. （ B） A limited range of growth stock. （ C） A group of low risk bonds and cash. （ D） A group of high risk mutual funds. （ A） Invest in the New York Stock Exchange. （ B） Dont expect enormous gains. （ C） Save at least 11 %
19、 of earning a year. （ D） Remain calm whatever happens. （ A） Therere three basic guidelines to smart investing for ones future. （ B） Its necessary to understand the financial products before you buy. （ C） New York stocks have always kept 30% annual returns these years. （ D） George Boros is a reporter
20、. （ A） To get materials for a class she missed. （ B） To discuss an assignment she is working on. （ C） To ask a question about a video her class recently watched. （ D） To inform the professor of changes in her schedule. （ A） He remembers that he does not have the video in his office. （ B） He realizes
21、 that the woman does not have a VCR. （ C） He is worried that he will not have the video back in time for his class. （ D） He realizes that he will not need the video until the following week. （ A） To return the video to the professor. （ B） To get the video from the professor. （ C） To hand in an assig
22、nment to the professor. （ D） To discuss the handouts with the professor. （ A） He is not planning to talk about the handouts now. （ B） He expects the woman to respond to questions in the handouts. （ C） He is concerned that the handouts may be difficult to understand. （ D） He is not sure if he has the
23、 handouts the woman needs. （ A） Boom. （ B） Production. （ C） Distribution. （ D） Employment. （ A） 39 billion dollars. （ B） 65 billion dollars. （ C） 300 billion dollars. （ D） 392 billion dollars. （ A） Manufacturers. （ B） Employees. （ C） Farmers. （ D） Pessimists. （ A） The agricultural trends of the 1950
24、s. （ B） The employment rate in 1955. （ C） The economic situation in the 1950s. （ D） The government policy of the 1950s. （ A） 2,000. （ B） 4,000. （ C） 6,000. （ D） 7,000. （ A） Clothing. （ B） Electrical appliances. （ C） Travel agencies. （ D） Photographic equipment. （ A） 10%. （ B） 20%. （ C） 25%. （ D） 30%
25、. （ A） Two weeks. （ B） Less than two weeks. （ C） Two to three weeks. （ D） More than three weeks. 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 each sentence, translate it into Chinese and w
26、rite your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. 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 corresp
27、onding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. You may take notes while you are listening. 一、 SECTION 2: STUDA SKILLS Directions: In this section, you will read several passages. Each passage is followed by several questions based on its content. You are to choose one best answer, (A), (B), (C) or (D), to eac
28、h 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 BOOKLET. 57 Googles share price reached an all-time high Tuesday at $518.84 with the ann
29、ouncement of a new partnership with marketing software maker Salesforce. com. Google, the #1 search engine, seems to defy every Internet law of gravity. But one question arises with each subsequent record-high share price: is it possible for Google to get any bigger? According to Hitwise, for the fo
30、ur weeks ending June 2, 2007, Google accounted for 64. 8% of all executed searches in the U. S., triple that of its nearest competitor Yahoo! Search, which achieved 21. 7% of all searches in that same time period. Tech pundits have long theorized that there must be a saturation point for Googles rol
31、e in our quest to find information on the Internet. We just dont have a clue as to where that point may be. Weve pondered the possibility of slips in dominance with the release of a new competitive offering, but that hasnt happened. We wondered if integration of MSNs search offering with the new Vis
32、ta operating system would affect Googles share of search not really. Googles role in our Internet use has become ubiquitous. Google, in its transition from a noun to a verb, has become more than a tool to find information online, its quickly becoming the default tool to navigate the web, replacing t
33、he browser URL bar as the way to move from one website to the next. How do we know this? The secret to Googles primary use can be found in the top searches that people enter on the site. The #1 term, representing over 4% of all US searches on Google, is for the site that surpassed Google last summer
34、 to become the most popular domain on the Internet, “MySpace“. In fact 17 of the top 20 searches on Google are searches for the other leading Internet sites such as “ebay“, “yahoo“, and “mapquest“. The most puzzling search term that Internet users enter into a Google searchbox is the 14th most popul
35、ar term: “Google“.(In case youre keeping count, the three most popular terms that are not websites are: porn, free porn and lyrics.) However, for all of its success, Googles online dominance has been limited to search. In web-based e-mail, for example, Googles service, Gmail, is in a distant fifth p
36、lace to leader Yahoo! Mail, which is over 12 times the size of Gmail in terms of visits. Google has barely made a peep in social networking: MySpace, the #1 social networking site, is over 300 times the size of Googles Orkut service. Even mainstream information such as Google Finance is an order of
37、magnitude smaller in visits than the industry leader in financial information Yahoo! Finance. Googles most promising growth strategy may be in acquiring industry leading sites versus building a homegrown solution. Take the October 2006 acquisition of YouTubeonly $1. 65 billion and youve instantly be
38、come the industry leader in online video sharing. The combined offering of YouTube and Google Video represents over 51 % of all multimedia visits in the US. With deep coffers and the expansion of its primary search business showing no signs of slowing, there really is no telling how big Google can b
39、ecome. In researching this column I tried googling the question, ironically the results werent of much help. 58 Which of the following statement is true? （ A） Googles share price doesnt have a highest point. （ B） Googles share price will keep going down after this year. （ C） Goolge, like all compani
40、es, has a satuation point in consumers quest. （ D） Pundits have so far decided where the satuation point is. 59 What does the word “ubiquitous“(Para. 2)mean? （ A） Omnipresent. （ B） Omnipotent. （ C） All the time. （ D） Universal. 60 Which of the following is Googles attribution? （ A） Google has become
41、 more than a tool to find information online and quickly became the default tool to navigate the web （ B） It has replaced the browser URL bar as the way to move from one website to the next （ C） The top searches that people enter on the site is included into Google searchbox （ D） It has become a ver
42、b now 61 By what means can Google expect a growth? （ A） A home-grown solution. （ B） Acquiring industry. （ C） Deep coffers and the expansion of its primary search business. （ D） Search engine. 62 What is the authors attitude? （ A） Impartial. （ B） Admiring. （ C） Sympathetic. （ D） Objective. 62 A curio
43、us election will take place in St. Louis on April 3rd. Seven candidates will compete for two seats on the citys school board. The polls will open at 6 am and stay open until 7 pm. Staffing the polling stations and counting the electronic ballots will cost taxpayers an estimated $130,000. Two happy c
44、andidates will celebrate and take officejust in time to have the state of Missouri complete the takeover of the districts schools and give them and the other board members nothing to do for several years. This election to nothing comes after years of falling test scores, revolving superintendents, s
45、creaming matches between board members at public meetings and a growing dissatisfaction with every aspect of public education. The state board of education voted on March 22nd to take over the school district, effective in mid-June. Some prominent figures endorsed this course, including the mayor of
46、 St. Louis, Francis Slay, and even some members of the St. Louis school board. Others in the city, though, are deeply opposed and ready to fight about it. Although the city schools overall have an amply deserved reputation for low standards, there are some good schools and many good students. The be
47、st students have the most to lose, fearing that the turmoil could damage their chances of getting into good universities. In mid-March a group of high-school pupils, backed by their superintendent, Diana Bourisaw, occupied Mr. Slays office for five days. When the state education board voted on the t
48、akeover, a group of angry students, teachers and other members of the public tried to disrupt the meeting. Protesters are still trying to use the courts to stop the action, and the teachers union has threatened a strike. Under Missouri law the citys schools will now be placed under a three-member bo
49、ard appointed by the governor, the mayor and the president of the board of aldermen. Governor Matt Blunts choice of Rick Sullivan, the head of a building firm, has already been attacked because of Mr. Sullivans lack of experience in education and because he lives in one of the wealthiest suburbs outside the city. Blacks say their political power has been diluted. Mr. Sullivan and the other members, who have yet to be appointed, have an almost i
