1、口译三级综合能力（正误判断）模拟试卷 5及答案与解析 SECTION 1 (10 points) Listen to the following passages and then decide whether the statements below are true or false. There are 10 questions in this section, with 1 points each. You will hear the recording only ONCE. At the end of the recording, you will have 2 minutes to
2、 finish this section. 0 Filming Shakespeares Poems for 21st Century Audience Vocabulary and Expressions chunk commitment sonnet practitioner 1 The Nobel Prize had already existed during the time of William Shakespeare. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 2 The first Nobel Prizes were awarded nearly 300 years after the de
3、ath of Shakespeare. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 3 A theater company called the New York Shakespeare Exchange is going to film Shakespeares poems. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 4 Ross Williams knows that many people might also share the same feeling towards Shakespeare. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 5 Ross Williams says 400-year-old English is n
4、ot easy to understand, and many people view Shakespeare as dusty and dull. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 6 Ross Williams considers the sonnet a good choice for people to experience Shakespeare in form of a part show. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 7 Shakespeare is the first practitioner of the sonnet. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 8 Ross Williams
5、and his partners placed Shakespeares drama as the important part of their company. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 9 The group is willing to film each of Shakespeares 154 sonnets before the great English writers birthday. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 10 Each piece of the sonnets will be filmed with different locations in New York C
6、ity as the background. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 10 Do Languages Shape the Way We Think? Vocabulary and Expressions perceive differentiate facilitate 11 The theory of linguistic relativity holds that language does not shape the way we think, and determines what we think about. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 12 Benjamin Lee Whor
7、f believes that we see the world differently because we speak different languages. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 13 Benjamins best example of his theory is the Dani people. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 14 The English language has many words to describe snow. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 15 An Eskimo perceives the snow in more diversified way th
8、an an English person. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 16 Dani people is a farming group from New Jersey. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 17 A Dani person cannot recognize different colors the same as an English person is able to. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 18 It is safe to say that a language could not shape peoples way of thinking according to Be
9、njamins theory. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 19 The example of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V truly proves the idea that a language could shape peoples way of thinking. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 20 Charles V said he spoke Italian to ambassadors, French to men and German to women. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 20 Gold Rush in California Vocabul
10、ary and Expressions nugget sawmill financier 21 Most Americans lived on the East Coast in 1847. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 22 James Marshall was the person who found the gold nugget in January 1848. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 23 James Marshall was a lumberjack when he found gold in northern California. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 24 News
11、of James Marshalls discovery of gold traveled to the East Coast quickly due to the good condition of communication. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 25 People in the East Coast know the news of Marshalls discovery at the end of 1848. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 26 It was President James Polk who officially proved the news was true.
12、 （ A）正确 （ B）错误 27 Benjamin Buckley was not one of the lucky birds in the Gold Rush. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 28 Alexander Van Valen earned more than his wife in the two-year stay in California. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 29 Alexander Van Valens wife made a living by sewing and by borrowing money. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 30 It was th
13、e Gold Rush that promoted California to be the countrys 31st state. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 口译三级综合能力（正误判断）模拟试卷 5答案与解析 SECTION 1 (10 points) Listen to the following passages and then decide whether the statements below are true or false. There are 10 questions in this section, with 1 points each. You will hear
14、 the recording only ONCE. At the end of the recording, you will have 2 minutes to finish this section. 0 【听力 原文】 Filming Shakespeares Poems for 21st Century Audience Nothing like the Nobel Prize existed during the time of William Shakespeare. The first Nobel Prizes were not awarded until 1901, nearl
15、y 300 years after the death of the so-called “ Bard of Avon“. Next year marks the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeares birth. His plays are still widely performed all over the world. But for many people, Shakespeare is something they study in school, not something they read or watch for pleasur
16、e. One American theater company is trying to change that. Jim Tedder reports. Ross Williams studied acting and directing in school. He launched a theater company called the New York Shakespeare Exchange. Ross Williams loves Shakespeare. But, he knows that many people might not share that love. He sa
17、ys 400-year-old English is tough to understand, and many people think of Shakespeare as dusty and dull. “ So I started thinking about how I could deliver Shakespeare to people in small chunks, things that would be manageable and get people to experience Shakespeare in their day-to-day lives without
18、having to make the commitment to go to see a full show. And so we started with the sonnets because theyre contained. “ Sonnets are 14-line poems, and Shakespeare is one of the most famous practitioners. Ross Williams and his partners launched the Sonnet Project as part of their theater company. The
19、group hopes to film and release each of Shakespeares 154 sonnets before the great English writers birthday next April. Each piece is being filmed in a different location in New York City. 【知识模块】 正误判断 1 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据原文 “Nothing like the Nobel Prize existed during the time of William Shakespeare”
20、可知，莎士比亚时代没有诺贝尔这样的奖项，所以题干错误。 【知识模块】 正误判断 2 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 根据原文 “The first Nobel Prizes were not awarded until 1901，nearly 300 years after the death of the so-calledBard of Avon”，该句意为，第一个诺贝尔奖颁发于 1901年，是在埃文河畔的吟游诗人 (莎士比亚别称 )去世近 300年后。此处的 “Bard of Avon”是指莎士比亚，因此题干正确。 【知识模块】 正误判断 3 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 根据上下文信
21、息可以推知，该公司会将莎士比亚作品搬上银幕，因此题干正确。 【知识模块】 正误判断 4 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据原文 “Ross Williams loves Shakespeare But， he knows that many people might not share that love”，可以直接推知题干错误。 【知识模块】 正误判断 5 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 根据原文 “He says 400-year-old English is tough to understand，and many people think of Shakespeare as dust
22、y and dull”，可以直接得知题干正确。 【知识模块】 正误判断 6 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据原文 “get people to experience Shakespeare in their day -to-day lives without having to make the commitment to go to see a full show”，关键词为 “a full show”，因此题干错误。 【知识模块】 正误判断 7 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据原文 “Sonnets are 14-line poems， and Shakespeare is one
23、 of the most famous practitioners”，提及莎士比亚 14行诗而非其戏剧，所以题干错误。 【知识模块】 正误判断 8 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据原文 “Ross Williams and his partners launched the Sonnet Project as part of their theater company”可知，这一项目只是该公司的一部分，而非最重要的项目，因此题干错 误。 【知识模块】 正误判断 9 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 根据原文 “The group hopes to film and release each
24、of Shakespeares 154 sonnets before the great English writers birthday next April”，可以直接推断题干正确。 【知识模块】 正误判断 10 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 根据原文 “Each piece is being filmed in a different location in New York City”，可以直接判断题干正确。 【知识模块】 正误判断 10 【听力原文】 Do Languages Shape the Way We Think? Members of different cultures
25、 speak different languages. Does it mean that people who speak, let us say, English, see things differently than people who speak Chinese or Spanish? In other words, does language lead our way of thinking or is it the other way around? According to Benjamin Lee Whorf and his theory of linguistic rel
26、ativity, language shapes the way we think, and determines what we think about. He believed that depending on the language we speak we see the world differently. His best example was the comparison between the idea of snow of an English person and an Eskimo person. The Eskimo has many words to descri
27、be snow, while the English only has one. An Eskimo has a specific word to describe the wet snow, the snow currently falling and so on. Therefore an Eskimo perceives the snow in a different way than an English person. Another example is the Dani people, a farming group from New Guinea. They only have
28、 two words to describe the two basic colors: dark and bright. Hence a Dani person cannot differentiate colors as well as an English person is able to. Although Benjamins theory is not yet completely clarified, it is correct to say that a language could facilitate some ways of thinking. True or not,
29、this topic is an interesting one to reflect upon. Linguists and people who speak many languages have come up with the same idea. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V spoke 6 languages fluently and said the following: I speak Italian to ambassadors, French to women, German to soldiers, English to my horse an
30、d Spanish to God. A man is as many times a man, as many languages he knows. 【知识模块】 正误判断 11 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据原文 “According to Benjamin Lee Whorf and his theory of linguistic relativity， language shapes the way we think， and determines what we think about”，关键信息点为 “does not shape”与其观点相反，所以题干错误。 【知识模块
31、】 正误判断 12 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 根据原文 “He believed that depending on the language we speak we see the world differently”和上下文信息， “He”指代 “Benjamin Lee Whorf”，因此题干正确。 【知识模块】 正误判断 13 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据原文 “His best example was the comparison between the idea of snow of an English person and an Eskimo person”可知，
32、他的例证是比较英国人和因纽特人对雪的不同理解，所以题干错误。 【知识模块】 正误判断 14 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据原文 “The Eskimo has many words to describe snow， while the English only has one”，是因纽特人而不是英语语言，可以直接判断题干错误。 【知识模块】 正误判断 15 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 根据原文 “An Eskimo has a specific word to describe the wet snow， the snow currently falling and so on”，
33、可以直接判断题干正确。 【知识模块】 正误判断 16 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据原文 “Another example is the Dani people， a farming group from New Guinea”，可以直接判断地点信息错误。 【知识模块】 正误判断 17 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 根据原文 “Hence a Dani person cannot differentiate colors as well as an English person is able to”，关键词组为 “as well as”，意为 “和 一样好 ”，可以等同于 “the
34、same as”，因此题干正确。 【知识模块】 正误判断 18 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据原文 “Although Benjamins theory is not yet completely clarified， it is correct to say that a language could facilitate some ways of thinking”，译文为：虽然本杰明的理论认为，语言能够促进人的思维，这一点可以说是正确的。注意转折词 although的使用，本杰明的观点是，语言可以塑造人的思维，因此题干错误。 【知识模块】 正误判断 19 【正确答案】 A 【试题解
35、析】 根据上下文信息，在列举 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V的例子之前，说话人提及 “Linguists and people who speak many languages have come up with the same idea”，可以推知题干正确。 【知识模块】 正误判断 20 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据原文 “Holy Roman Emperor Charles V spoke 6 languages fluently and said the following： I speak Italian to ambassadors， French
36、 to women， German to soldiers， English to my horse and Spanish to God”，应该是French to women，而不是 men，因此题干错误。 【知识模块】 正误判断 20 【听力原文】 Gold Rush in California In 1847, California became a US territory. Most Americans at the time lived on the East Coast. But thousands traveled west to California after a set
37、tler reported finding gold there. James Marshall was the one who found the gold nugget in January 1848. Mr. Marshall was building a sawmill near the American River in central California. When he looked in the water, he saw shiny pieces of metal. One of them was about the size of a fingernail. He too
38、k the piece, put it in his mouth, and he knew he found gold because the metal was soft. He and his boss gave the nugget to the US government to prove they found gold on the land. News of James Marshalls discovery traveled to the East Coast. But communication was slow in the middle of the 19th centur
39、y. People in the big eastern cities of New York and Boston heard only rumors about gold in California. It was not until December 1848, almost a year after Mr. Marshalls discovery, that President James Polk told Congress the rumors were true. During the next weeks and months, thousands of young men f
40、rom the Northeast left their homes and families to seek great riches in California. “You didnt really have to work for it, as far as they knew. You just had to lean over and pick it up and you were rich. “ One of those young men was Benjamin Buckley. His records suggest he found thousands of dollars
41、 worth of gold. Buckley put some money in banks and sent some to family members. Alexander Van Valen, however, was not as successful. The Smithsonians Museum of American History still has the letters he wrote to his wife and daughters in New York at that time. “His wife tried to make a living by sew
42、ing and borrowing money from the financiers against her husbands future profits. But it wasnt any easier for her than it was for her husband 3, 000 miles away in California. “ according to his letters. In two years, Alexander Van Valen earned only $500. History proves the California Gold Rush was im
43、portant for other reasons. “The Gold Rush really put California on the map. It made it desirable. It made the East Coast really want California to become part of the U. S. So, it was huge. “ And in 1850, California became the countrys 31st state. 【知识模块】 正误判断 21 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 根据原文 “In 1847， Califor
44、nia became a US territory Most Americans at the time lived on the East Coast”， 1847年加利福尼亚成为美国的领土，大多数的美国人在那个时候都生活在东海 岸。据此，可以直接判断题干正确。 【知识模块】 正误判断 22 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 根据原文 “James Marshall was the one who found the gold nugget in January 1848”，可以直接判断题干正确。 【知识模块】 正误判断 23 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据原文 “Mr Marshall
45、 was building a sawmill near the American River in central California”可知，他正在建一个锯木场，由此并不能推断他是一个伐木工人，所以题干错误。 【知识模块】 正误判断 24 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据原文 “People in the big eastern cities of New York and Boston heard only rumors about gold in California It was not until December 1848，almost a year after Mr Mar
46、shalls discovery” 可知，由于通信较慢，约一年之后东海岸的人们才确认这一信息，因此题干错误。 【知识模块】 正误判断 25 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 原文同上题， 1848年 12月，东海岸的人们通过官方确认了这一消息，题干正确。 【知识模块】 正误判断 26 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 根据原文 “that President James Polk told Congress the rumors were true”，可知总统确认了该消息，题干正确。 【知 识模块】 正误判断 27 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据原文 “One of those young
47、men was Benjamin Buckley His records suggest he found thousands of dollarsworth of gold”可知， Benjamin Buckley是幸运儿之一，因此题干错误。 【知识模块】 正误判断 28 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据原文 “His wife tried to make a living by sewing and borrowing money from the financiers against her husbands future profits”可知，丈夫并不比妻子挣得多，二人生活拮据，需要从放债人那里借钱生活，所以题干错误。 【知识模块】 正误判断 29 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 原文同上题，题干正确。 【知识模块】 正误判断 30 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 根据原文 “The Gold Rush really put California on the map And in 1850， California became the countrys 31st state”，淘金热促进了加利福尼亚的发展，使它成了美国的第 31个州，所以题干正确。 【知识模块】 正误判断
