1、中级口译（笔试）模拟试卷 6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. Remembe
2、r you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE. 0 To the majority of us, music is an indispensable part of our daily life. It can be defined in this way, music is sound arranged into【 C1】 _patterns. It forms an important part of many cultural and【 C2】 _. People use music to express feelings and ideas. Music
3、also serves to【 C3】 _when we are exhausted. Music is a performing art. It differs from such arts as【 C4】 _, in which artists creates works and then display or publish them.【 C5】 _need musicians to interpret and perform their work, just as playwrights need actors to【 C6】 _. Thus, most musical perform
4、ances are really【 C7】 _between composers and performers. Music also plays【 C8】 _in other arts. Opera combines singing and orchestra music with drama. Ballet and【 C9】 _need music to help the dancers with their steps. Motion pictures and【 C10】 _use music to help set the mood and emphasize the action.
5、Also, composers have【 C11】 _to music. Music is one of the oldest arts. People probably started to sing【 C12】 _. Hunting tools struck together may have been the first【 C13】 _. By about 10,000 B.C, people had discovered how to make flutes out of hollow bones.【 C14】 _, including the Chinese, Egyptians
6、used music in court and【 C15】 _. The first written music in the history can be dated back to 2500 B.C. Today, music【 C16】 _around the world. The music of people in Europe and the【 C17】 _is known as Western music. There are two kinds of Western music,【 C18】 _. Classical music includes symphonies, ope
7、ras and ballets. Popular music includes【 C19】 _, folk music, jazz, and rock music. The cultures of Africa and Asia have【 C20】 _of classical and popular music. 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】
8、 17 【 C17】 18 【 C18】 19 【 C19】 20 【 C20】 Statements 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 choic
9、es and decide which one is closest in meaning 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） Five students are finally qualified to get the money from the bank. （ B） After careful reviewing, the bank finall
10、y gave two students the job offer. （ C） Not all applicants successfully got the loan to cover their school fees. （ D） The applicants are going to wait while the bank is reviewing their applications. （ A） The lights should be coming back on soon. （ B） Youll know the storm has started when the lights
11、go off. （ C） The lights went off just as the storm began. （ D） Id rather mm the lights off during the storm. （ A） Demand for power has exceeded supply. （ B） The city has to increase the electrical consumption by next year. （ C） Three power generators will be installed next year. （ D） Power generatio
12、n must be reduced reasonably next year. （ A） Though I dont plan to go to the post office, after I see the doctor, I change my mind. （ B） I will go to the drug store first after finishing laundry. （ C） The first thing I will do is to see the doctor. （ D） I wont go to the post office unless its on the
13、 way of seeing a doctor. （ A） Neither Jeff nor I was surprised. （ B） Both Jeff and I were surprised. （ C） Jeff was less surprised than I was. （ D） Jeff was more surprised than I was. （ A） Michael had not made any mistakes in the grammar section. （ B） Michael is the second to have had made grammatica
14、l mistakes. （ C） Michael didnt rank the first in the final exam. （ D） Michael failed in the final exam. （ A） Sixty people gathered at the rally. （ B） Women outnumbered men twice. （ C） Men outnumbered women every time. （ D） About one hundred and twenty people came to the rally. （ A） In the following
15、months, the sales will increase after initial drop. （ B） Its hard to sustain the increase of sales, thus it keep dropping in the following months. （ C） The sales went through ups and downs in the past months. （ D） The sales situation is on the rise from the very beginning. （ A） Our assignment can ha
16、rdly be completed without a computer of my own. （ B） The statistics in the student center are messed up, thus making our assignment difficult to complete. （ C） Im planning to finish my own assignment as soon as possible. （ D） Our assignment has to wait till the computers in the student center get re
17、paired. （ A） Students left high school earlier than usual. （ B） The completion of high school bears relevance to qualification level in job markets. （ C） Students must get high school diploma so as to be qualified in looking for jobs. （ D） Compared with the past, young people nowadays are more incom
18、petent. 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 f
19、our 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） Sixteen years. （ B） Four years. （ C） Three years. （ D） Nineteen years. （ A） All of her clothes. （ B） Some of her extra classes.
20、（ C） Some of her rent. （ D） All of her school supplies. （ A） How to get along with people. （ B） How to make a budget for personal needs. （ C） How to make money for her entertainment. （ D） How to take some responsibility. （ A） Linda enjoys doing a part-time job because it brings her a lot of money. （
21、 B） Linda spends so much time on her part-time job that it interferes with her studies. （ C） Part-time jobs can actually help some students to improve their studies. （ D） Part-time jobs can really relieve parents from the heavy financial burden. （ A） It is a job you do in your life. （ B） It is the p
22、attern of work and work-related activities throughout a lifetime. （ C） It is a job you do during a certain period of time. （ D） It is a job you do in your spare time. （ A） To meet the needs of the society. （ B） To satisfy a persons interest. （ C） To satisfy certain goals. （ D） To support the family.
23、 （ A） A career can determine the way you make a friend. （ B） A career can determine the way you live. （ C） A career can affect the way you feel about yourself. （ D） All of the above. （ A） It can help you make more money. （ B） It can help you build the life you want. （ C） It can help you build a good
24、 family. （ D） It can help you make more friends. （ A） Fiber, wheat germ and water. （ B） Iron, flour and yeast. （ C） Yeast, flour and fiber. （ D） Flour, water and yeast. （ A） In some cases it is more readily absorbed by the body. （ B） It assists in the baking process. （ C） It is less expensive than b
25、onded iron. （ D） It is bonded to chemical constituents. （ A） White bread contains no iron. （ B） Bread made without yeast has a fine texture. （ C） White bread provides far less nutrition. （ D） The principal ingredients of different breads are the same. （ A） Yeast. （ B） Artificial coloring agents. （ C
26、） Bleaching. （ D） Iron. （ A） The demand for unskilled workers. （ B） The demand for professional jobs. （ C） The demand for technical workers. （ D） The demand for administrative people. （ A） Vocational education is more associated with trades and crafts. （ B） Young people are trained by employers on t
27、he job. （ C） Vocational education is carried out in education institutions. （ D） The government is not responsible for vocational education. （ A） In the former Soviet Union, even primary schools offered some vocational education. （ B） In Germany, 90% of the young people receive vocational education.
28、 （ C） In some countries, skills are grouped to prevent individuals from moving between jobs. （ D） In some countries, individuals are trained to do any special jobs. （ A） Children begin to work from an earlier age than before. （ B） Many students follow a formal vocational program. （ C） It is not so e
29、xpensive to train professionals. （ D） There are not enough training places for workers. （ A） Justify the claims they make. （ B） Appear in court. （ C） Get away with their products. （ D） Always be honest in the ads. （ A） Because she also uses the soap for better skin. （ B） Because she admires the movi
30、e star. （ C） Because she considers it a good example of certain ads. （ D） Because she thinks that it is a good idea to have a movie star endorse a product. （ A） Developing new advertisements for old products. （ B） Educating people about new products. （ C） Designing useful products for people in need
31、. （ D） Making a profit in the marketplace. （ A） Price. （ B） Quality. （ C） Advertisement. （ D） Promotion. 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 Chine
32、se and write 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
33、 corresponding 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)
34、, 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 BOOKLET. 57 In general, our society is becoming one of giant enterprises directe
35、d by a bureaucratic management in which man becomes a small, well-oiled cog in the machinery. The oiling is done with higher wages, well-ventilated factories and piped music, and by psychologists and “human-relations“ experts; yet all this oiling does not alter the fact that man has become powerless
36、, that he does not wholeheartedly participate in his work and that he is bored with it. In fact, the blue-and the white-collar workers have become economic puppets who dance to the tune of automated machines and bureaucratic management. The worker and employee are anxious, not only because they migh
37、t find themselves out of a job; they are anxious also because they are unable to acquire any real satisfaction or interest in life. They live and die without ever having confronted the fundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectually independent and productive human beings.
38、 Those higher up on the social ladder axe no less anxious. Their lives axe no less empty than those of their subordinates. They axe even more insecure in some respects. They are in a highly competitive race. To be promoted or to fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a matter of self-re
39、spect. When they apply for their first job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the right mixture of submissiveness and independence. From that moment on they axe tested again and again-by the psychologists, for whom testing is a big business, and by their superiors, who judge their beha
40、vior, sociability, capacity to get along, etc. This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than ones fellow-competitor creates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes of unhappiness and illness. Am I suggesting that we should return to the preindustrial mode of production or to
41、 nineteenth-century “free enterprise“ capitalism? Certainly not. Problems axe never solved by returning to a stage which one has already outgrown. I suggest transforming our social system from a bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maximal production and consumption axe ends in themselves
42、 into a humanist industrialism in which man and full development of his potentialitiesthose of love and of reason-are the aims of all social arrangements. Production and consumption should serve only as means to this end, and should be prevented from ruling man. 58 By “a well-oiled cog in the machin
43、ery“ the author intends to render the idea that man is _. （ A） a necessary part of the society though each individuals function is negligible （ B） working in complete harmony with the rest of the society （ C） an unimportant part in comparison with the rest of the society, though functioning smoothly
44、 （ D） a humble component of the society, especially when working smoothly 59 The real cause of the anxiety of the workers and employees is that _. （ A） they axe likely to lose their jobs （ B） they have no genuine satisfaction or interest in life （ C） they axe faced with the fundamental realities of
45、human existence （ D） they axe deprived of their individuality and independence 60 From the passage we can infer that real happiness of life belongs to those _. （ A） who are at the bottom of the society （ B） who axe higher up in their social status （ C） who prove better that their fellow-competitors
46、（ D） who could keep far away from this competitive world 61 To solve the present social problems the author suggests that we should _. （ A） resort to the production mode of our ancestors （ B） offer higher wages to the workers and employees （ C） enable man to fully develop his potentialities （ D） tak
47、e the fundamental realities for granted 62 The authors attitude towards industrialism might best be summarized as one of _. （ A） approval （ B） dissatisfaction （ C） suspicion （ D） tolerance 62 The farm is a major marketplace for millions of tons of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, and for advanc
48、ed machinery and the fuel required to run it. The modern superfarm, large and highly capitalized, is resource dependent compared with the diversified small farms that were once dominant. On diversified farms, major energy needs may be supplied by resident humans and animals. Soil fertility may be ma
49、intained by alternating cash crops and restorative crops, and also by returning animal manure to the soil. This fanning model of relatively self-sufficient agriculture, and the way of life associated with it, are still economically viable, as demonstrated by prosperous Amish farmers and other practitioners of “alternative“ agriculture. Particularly relevant to todays mainstream agriculture are the energy-saving practices on large “organic“ farms, wh
