1、口译二级综合能力（听力理解与正误判断）模拟试卷 4及答案与解析 一、 PART 1 (20 points) Listen to the following short passages and then decide whether the corresponding statements are true or false. You will hear the passages only ONCE. There are 10 questions in this part of the test, 2 points for each question. 1 Wasting wood is a
2、serious problem in conserving the resources, which are distributed unevenly and affected by other natural factors. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 2 Russias well-developed dealer and logistics infrastructure indicate that economic growth can improve car sales. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 3 The government turns a blind eye to the h
3、arsh reality that international students faced. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 4 Amazon sold 200 million items more than the same period last year. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 5 The bank put forward the policy to discourage the flow of capital on market. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 6 Visas are necessary but impose a burden on the tourists. （ A
4、）正确 （ B）错误 7 Apples iBeacon is developed by Australian company, which cooperates with GPS well. （ A）正确 （ B）错 误 8 Researchers found that all the creatures have cells to identify where they are. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 9 Empathy is good, but it would misguide us when making decisions. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 10 Making a
5、definition of the business model is the key step to disseminate the vision of the business. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 11 Whenever you find yourself angry, excuse yourself from the situation. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 12 The e-commerce industry in the United States is beginning to protect consumers privacy. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 13
6、 China needs at least 6% growth to tackle the problem caused by population explosion. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 14 E-commerce and offline commerce exert influences on each other. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 15 Higher densities of people in cities are beneficial to environment but detrimental to public transportation. （ A）正确
7、（ B）错误 16 Imitation of peoples body languages will build support from them. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 17 Behaviors like spreading malicious gossips about peers are caused by competition. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 18 An elite group consists of outstanding people with special talents, skills, or knowledge. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 19 A
8、 side effect of hormone replacement therapy is lower incidence of heart disease. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 20 “Price discrimination“ refers to the practice of charging two people different prices for the same product. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 21 Organic food is considered better than medicine to keep people spiritual fitn
9、ess. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 22 Royal Navy mission fails to curb flow of migrants across Mediterranean. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 23 The Scientist made an experiment on the trees in order to find their system of roots. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 24 The device , which came from a dog owner, was intended to help people understand the f
10、eelings of dogs. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 25 May criticized the Bank for its failure in benefiting the common people. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 26 Cockroaches can give an implication in scientific research for the biomechanics study. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 27 The research has lasted more than a decade to study the effect of aspiri
11、n on cancers. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 28 DNA, mind and fingerprints are unique for every person to be identified. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 29 Although there is a peace agreement on a unity government, some of the militias didnt follow it. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 30 The book depicts the history of gender inequality from 1930s to t
12、he Industrial Revolution. （ A）正确 （ B）错误 口译二级综合能力（听力理解与正误判断）模拟试卷 4答案与解析 一、 PART 1 (20 points) Listen to the following short passages and then decide whether the corresponding statements are true or false. You will hear the passages only ONCE. There are 10 questions in this part of the test, 2 points
13、for each question. 1 【听力原文】 Throwing away food means wasting the resources used in its production, such as water. This is especially foolish in dry countries such as Spain. The problem is set to get worse as climate change makes rainfall patterns less predictable. 1 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 文中涉及一连串的逻辑关系。首先，文
14、章用 means把 “浪费食物 ”与浪费生产资源结合到了一起。然后用 “水 ”举例说明，在资源匮乏的地区 (例如，西班牙非常缺水 )，浪费水资源是个严重的问题，尤其在降雨量不大的情况下。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 2 【听力原文】 This should eventually feed through into lower financing costs for automakers and some upturn in sentiment among businesses and consumers. Moreover, Russias well-developed dealer a
15、nd logistics infrastructure should mean economic growth boost car sales relatively quickly. 2 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 从文中第二句可以知道，俄罗斯成熟的经销商和物流基础设施表明经济发展推动了汽车销售的快速增长。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 3 【听力原文】 At last, it seems the country is waking up to the news that international students have been given a hard time for no
16、 reason. It appears the government has been sitting on a report showing that international students dont all stay in the U. K. after they graduate. 3 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 理解本题的关键在于听者是否能捕捉到 “is waking up to the news”这条信息。这条信息告诉听者，英国民众现在已经开始意识到国际留学生处境艰难的问题。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 4 【听力 原文】 Amazons increasing dom
17、inance in American e-commerce misstated the number of items the company sold during the holiday season. The company sold 200 million more items than in the same period last year, not 200 million items over all. 4 【正确答案】 A 【试 题解析】 原文谈论亚马逊在美国电子商务市场上的份额节节攀升，例如节日季的销售额比去年同期增长了两亿件。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 5 【听力原
18、文】 The Bank of Japan announced that it would implement a policy of negative interest rates in order to forestall yet another onset of deflation. For years, Japan held to a zero interest rate policy and massive injections of yen into both the bond and stock markets to try to stimulate growth and, thu
19、s, at least a little inflation. 5 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 第二句是第一句的进一步说明。 “into both the bond and stock markets to try to stimulate growth”是银行举措的目的所在。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 6 【听力原文】 Visas offer governments a way to control their borders, whether to regulate the flow of immigrants or to pick-out threats to securit
20、y. But the paperwork and fees they entail also deter legitimate tourists and business travelers. 6 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 文中 “deter legitimate tourists and business travelers”可以推断出作者认为签证的流程工作和费用会影响游客的行程。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 7 【听力原文】 Technologies such as Apples iBeacon have attempted to fill in holes with link
21、ed sensors that track indoor location using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, but a new ground-based system by Australian company is the first to produce a signal that merges seamlessly with the GPS network. And it is incredibly accurate. 7 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 “but a new ground-based system”说明 这个系统并不是 “Apples iBeacon
22、”。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 8 【听力原文】 The idea that the brains of mammals make a mental map that mirrors the spatial geometry of the outer world first emerged around 1930. Neuroscientists have subsequently identified cells that work together to create such maps. A key development came in 1971, when an Americ
23、an-British researcher found that place cells in the rat hippocampus fire at particular locations on the willy-nilly path an animal travels. 8 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 文章开始就告诉我们只有哺乳动物 mammals才有可以确定位置的细胞。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 9 【听力原文】 Empathy may be a critical leadership skill, but its also a finite resource, says
24、 Waytz. It taxes us mentally and emotionally and can even impair our ethical judgment. Managers should enact smart strategies that protect employees from the ill effects of empathy but promote the good ones. 9 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 “finite resource”、 “impair our ethical judgment”和 “ill effects of empathy”
25、都可以告诉我们 “移情 ”有很多负面的影响。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 10 【听力原文】 Marketplace entrepreneurs should develop a clear vision of their business model and find the most positive yet accurate way to describe it to the outside world. Then they should engage regulators and the media to ensure that they are understood on th
26、eir own terms. 10 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 本文层层递进，提出企业家要有自己的理念，并找到正确的方式让外界正确解读这些理念。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 11 【听力原文】 The more emotional you feel, the less rational youll think. Learn to recognize your personal warning signs of anger and remove yourself from the situation before you lose your cool. This may mean sa
27、ying, “I am not willing to talk about that right now,“ or it may mean walking away. 11 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 讲话者建议，当你感到愤怒时，应该走开或暂时不再讨论。“excuse yourself from the situation”可以概括两种意思。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 12 【听力原文】 Facing fines, congressional investigations, and public embarrassment over their privacy invading b
28、ehaviors, with the potential loss of some business and credibility, the major players in the e-commerce industry in the United States are beginning to change some of their policies regarding the treatment of consumer data. 12 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 原文指出因侵犯客户隐私使美国的电子商务面临着很多问题，它们已经开始转变客户信息的处理方式。言外之意，它们开始保护客户
29、隐私了。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 13 【听力原文】 Despite some breathless Western commentary, there will be no Chinese economic implosion in 2016. China calculates that it needs at least 6% growth to provide the job numbers, increases in income and poverty reduction required for social stability. 13 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 原
30、文指出中国需要 6的经济增长来提供就业机会、增加工资和减少贫困，以维持社会稳定。原文并未 提到 “population explosion”，应该是对implosion的误听误判。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 14 【听力原文】 E-commerce is a major conduit and generator of offline commerce. The reverse is also true: online traffic is driven by offline brands and shopping. While online research influences o
31、ffline purchases, it is also the case that offline marketing media heavily influence online behavior including sales. 14 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 讲话者认为电子商务与线下商务互相影响，互相促进。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 15 【听力原文】 Cities will save us, experts argue. Higher densities of people mean less energy consumption and lower carbon em
32、issions per capita a boon for the environment. People supposedly switch from driving cars to using public transportation, for instance. 15 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 原文指出，在城市里，人口密度大，能源消耗低，碳排放量少，这对环境来说是件好 事。人们也会使用公共交通 (与上文衔接起来，这也对环境有益 )。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 16 【听力原文】 If youre trying to get people to do something,
33、mimic their body position and facial expressions as you talk to them. This will build rapport, make them feel that youre similar to them, and make them like you. 16 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 原文指出模仿别人的身体语言可以建立情感协调，而不是获得支持。 support与 rapport两词意义不同。在这段讲话中， rapport已在下文得到了解释。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 17 【听力原文】 Given its in
34、trinsically competitive character, it is hardly surprising that academic life is riddled with malicious gossip or “character assassination“. Attacks on ones peers are understandable, but slander against juniors is rightly condemned. 17 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 原文指出，学术家的流言和人身攻击，本质在于竞争关系的存在。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 1
35、8 【听力原文】 Im not suggesting that you be as deceptive as Tom Sawyer was. But people do like to feel that theyre part of an elite group. We like to feel that we have special talents and skills that set us apart. 18 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 原文对 elite(精英 )一词作了解释： “we have special talents and skills that set us ap
36、art ”。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 19 【听力原文】 Perhaps youve heard the phrase “correlation does not imply causation“. Different factors are often associated together, but it may be hard or impossible to know which causes which. For example, data from several research studies showed that women who took hormone re
37、placement therapy also had a lower incidence of heart disease. 19 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 原文用激素替代治疗和心脏病之间关系的例子来证明相关不一定代表因果关系。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 20 【听力原文】 Economists use the term “price discrimination“ for the practice of charging two people different prices for the same product. For example, charging more fo
38、r a first-class seat would not be price discrimination. Charging different prices for the same kind of seat, either first-class or economy, would be price discrimination. 20 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 同一件商品，对两个人要价不同的现象被称为 “价格歧视 ”。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 21 【听力原文】 Organic food, prepared as simply as possible or, pref
39、erably, left raw. Frequent sessions with a spiritually inclined fitness practitioner, working toward the health of both mind and body, because of traditional healing techniques rather than those of Western medicine. 21 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 原文中 “rather than”就已经肯定了 “traditional healing techniques”并否定了 medi
40、cine，但是肯定的部分是传统的治疗技术，而不是有机食物本身，因此本题的论述与原文不符 。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 22 【听力原文】 A Royal Navy and EU mission to combat people-smuggling in the Mediterranean has caused more migrants to die at sea, a parliamentary report says. The peers claimed that Operation Sophia, the European Union mission to break up sm
41、uggling networks, which cost 6 million in the past year, was a failure and urged against the renewal of its mandate this month. 22 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 结合上下文，我们可以知道皇家海军打击地中海人口走私失败了。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 23 【听力原文】 Vast rings of related plants communicate via their roots, and during the hard months of winter a
42、nd early spring, theyll distribute nutrients evenly among themselves. Scientists have spilled dye onto trees at one end of a grove and traced it through the root network all the way to the other side. 23 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 通过文中 “distribute nutrients evenly among themselves”和 “traced it through the root
43、 network all the way to the other side”我们可以知道，科学家通过追踪颜料，发现这种植物的根系间可以传递养分。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 24 【听力原文】 A dog collar that is capable of detecting the emotions of a dog and communicate them to humans has been invented by a Japanese biologist. The smart collar device is named Inupathy Inu means dog in Ja
44、panese and was developed to better understand his own dog. 24 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 原文首句介绍了智能项圈 的功能和发明者，第二句解释发明此装置的初衷是什么。 dog collar是套在宠物犬脖子上的项圈。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 25 【听力原文】 May said it was the rich who benefited from the Bank printing money and cutting interest rates in the years after the 2008 financial
45、crash, while “ordinary, working class people“ were asked to make sacrifices in terms of stagnating pay, job insecurity and unaffordable housing. 25 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 原文比较了两种情况，一种是富人从当前金融政策中获益，另一种是穷人作出牺牲。说话者用了 “make sacrifices”来表示不满。注意这里的 Bank是指向国家的金融体系和相关政策，而不是具体的哪一家银行。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 26 【 听力原文】 Peo
46、ple have plenty of reasons to despise cockroaches. Theyre wickedly speedy, nearly indestructible and somehow able to get into anything. But these same qualities earn only the deepest admiration from professor Robert Full, a biomechanics expert at the University of California, Berkeley, and Kaushik J
47、ayaram, a Harvard University robotics researcher. “ We know they can go anywhere,“ says Full. 26 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 文章首句提出问题，第二句话锋一转指出蟑螂对于生物力学的重大价值。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 27 【听力原文】 The worlds largest clinical trial is now under way. It will monitor 11,000 patients for as long as 12 years to investigate whet
48、her taking aspirin daily stops the recurrence of some cancers, including stomach and breast cancer. 27 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 文章首句是主题句，后面主要告诉听者实验的时间、 人数、过程和目的。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 28 【听力原文】 We all suspect were unique, and methods for identifying individuals, whether by examining fingerprints or strands of DNA
49、, confirm this conviction. A recent study shows that each persons mind also exhibits a distinct pattern that could be used as a distinguishing feature with near-perfect accuracy. 28 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 通过常识我们都知道人的 DNA和指纹都是独一无二的，从原文“each persons mind also exhibits a distinct pattern that could be used as a distinguishing feature with near-perfect accuracy”中的 also、 “distinct pattern”和“a distinguishing feature”可以知道 mind也是独一无二的。 【知识模块】 听力理解与正误判断 29 【听力原文】 Members of the two main factions in Libyas civil war formed a unity government as part of a peace process br
