1、口译二级综合能力（段落听力理解与选择）模拟试卷 4及答案与解析 一、 PART 2 (20 points) Listen to the following short passages and then choose one of the answers that best fits the meaning of each passage. The passages will be read only ONCE. There are 10 passages in this part of test, each with 1 question, which carries 2 points. 1
2、 What does the passage mainly talk about? （ A） The stock market is gloomy. （ B） Twitter would be purchased by other companies. （ C） Twitter would fire some employees. （ D） Twitter has faced an embarrassing situation. 2 What is the main idea of this passage? （ A） The auction house for the art has 248
3、-year history. （ B） It takes a long time to transfer the money after the auction. （ C） Shanghai and Mumbai would be the emerging market for the art. （ D） It was in 2013 that the art in the auction house set a world record. 3 How is the mining of Mongolia? （ A） The growth rate is over 17% in 2011. （
4、B） It will double annual GDP. （ C） Its bigger than France, Germany and Spain combined. （ D） It relies on the affluent minerals, which is promising. 4 How much were the yields on Italian and Spanish ten-year government bonds ? （ A） 3.2%. （ B） 6%. （ C） 6.4%. （ D） 40%. 5 Which year did the car makers b
5、elieve that the worse period of sales happened in? （ A） 2000. （ B） 2008. （ C） 2013. （ D） This year. 6 Which of the following is NOT true about Germany economy? （ A） The rate of employment is higher than some European countries. （ B） Its financial conditions keep a good momentum. （ C） Its federal bud
6、get has been rarely balanced during 46 years. （ D） It will be better to lower the taxes. 7 Why did Valeant spend $ 75. 9 million on share purchase? （ A） Because share purchase is restricted by Americas anti-trust. （ B） Because Valeant sought to maximize its benefits without violation of the rules. （
7、 C） Because Valeant wanted to gain the supports from the Federal Trade. （ D） Because Valeant needed to cooperate with its partner. 8 What did the Galaxy Note 7 come across after its release? （ A） It was taken as the best smart phone in South Korea. （ B） It was welcomed as the best one in the world.
8、（ C） Its glory faded away because of incidents of exploding handsets. （ D） It was attacked by injured consumers. 9 What problem did Curnutt find about IRS? （ A） It cooperated with private company. （ B） It took all the returns away. （ C） It had conflicts with auditors. （ D） It seldom checks Line 10.
9、10 Which is the best way to lower the cost of energy? （ A） To shorten the period of energy consumption. （ B） To choose the cheapest deal. （ C） To split the bill into different parts. （ D） To be aware of the gap between the various schemes of the tariff. 11 How do people show their fondness of inform
10、ation? （ A） They shut down their E-mail addresses. （ B） They buy many kinds of information carriers. （ C） They prefer information from pocket computers. （ D） They complain about the oversupply of information. 12 What is the passage mainly about? （ A） A genius bracket designer. （ B） A successful case
11、 of crowdsourcing. （ C） A new lightweight design for brackets. （ D） A public contest held by big companies. 13 What is the topic of the passage? （ A） The arduous task of drawing blood. （ B） The only option for finding veins. （ C） A vein visualization device. （ D） A high technology company. 14 3-D sc
12、anning can be applied in the following fields except_. （ A） surgery （ B） fashion （ C） orthodontic treatment （ D） retailing 15 What does the passage imply? （ A） Tantalum is essential to modern electronics. （ B） Tantalum can only be mined in war zones. （ C） Tantalum is important for human rights. （ D）
13、 Tantalum is a kind of transparent mineral. 16 What is the best title for the passage? （ A） Steve Jurvetson, a Crazy Venture Capitalist. （ B） SpaceX, Silicon Valleys Playground. （ C） Space, the Next Frontier. （ D） Space, the Final Startup. 17 What can be inferred about eHarmony? （ A） It is a brand n
14、ame of a dating app. （ B） It is an online matchmaker. （ C） It is an old listed company. （ D） It is a later entrants of stock market. 18 “Uber“ has been used as a synonym for_. （ A） sprinkle （ B） expensive services （ C） dubbing （ D） excellent services 19 What does the word “ sibling“ refer to? （ A） D
15、enmark. （ B） Wind turbine. （ C） Copenhagens citizen. （ D） Brother. 20 What can be inferred about Word Lens? （ A） It is an interpretive language software. （ B） It is a text replacement app. （ C） It is a kind of high-tech camera. （ D） It is an app for Android system. 21 What are pollinators? （ A） Inse
16、cts. （ B） Flies. （ C） Flesh. （ D） Chemicals. 22 When do musk deers use their fangs? （ A） Kicking for living. （ B） Fighting for mating. （ C） Sucking blood. （ D） Protecting from hunting. 23 What can be inferred from the the example? （ A） There is a great leap in technology. （ B） The brain surgery is t
17、oo complicated. （ C） The medical devices should be improved. （ D） The pressure of the skull is hard to control. 24 What is the topic of the passage? （ A） Cancers and tumors. （ B） Breast cancer. （ C） Genetic engineering. （ D） Biological engineering. 25 What is the main idea of this passage? （ A） How
18、to find which way to go. （ B） GPS is an efficient way to find the location. （ C） Smartphones are the intelligent devices for people. （ D） The global positioning network cannot be seamless. 26 What can be inferred from the example of GPS? （ A） Our brain can function as a navigation system. （ B） GPS i
19、s so critical to cars and phones. （ C） Our brain can possess the data from GPS. （ D） The disease can destroy the brain. 27 What is the main idea of this passage? （ A） How to test the water in contaminated wells. （ B） How serious is the problem of tainted water. （ C） How tedious is the testing work.
20、（ D） How to differentiate the clean water from the poisonous. 28 Why did Microsoft intend to purchase Linkedln? （ A） Linkedln is the most amazing software. （ B） Linkedln is a successful social-networking. （ C） Linkedln reaches a dead end. （ D） Linkedln may attract more people. 29 Which of the follow
21、ing is NOT true about this passage? （ A） Flatiron provides courses for those who are interested in IT. （ B） The courses are of three to six months. （ C） Professional advice will be given to students. （ D） Adam and Avi are the founders of this school. 30 What are the engineers required to know about
22、a product architecture? （ A） The technology. （ B） The experiment. （ C） The standards. （ D） The rationale. 口译二级综合能力（段落听力理解与选择）模拟试卷 4答案与解析 一、 PART 2 (20 points) Listen to the following short passages and then choose one of the answers that best fits the meaning of each passage. The passages will be re
23、ad only ONCE. There are 10 passages in this part of test, each with 1 question, which carries 2 points. 1 【听力原文】 At one point on Friday afternoon, Twitters stock was trading for under $ 16. 50 a share, down from nearly $25 earlier this month, when acquisition rumors began heating up. One analyst say
24、s it may be time for some cost-cutting, including layoffs, since the firm hasnt been able to grow its way to profitability. 1 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 本文的四个关键词 down、 acquisition、 cost-cutting和 layoffs分别说明了推特的股价大幅度下跌，有可能被其他公司收购，为了削减开支要采取减员的措施。选项 A、 B、 C都是对细节的描述，而选项 D是对原文主旨的推断。 【知识模块】 段落听力理解与选择 2 【听力原文】 Christ
25、ies announced on Wednesday sales of $ 7. 1 billion for 2013 the most in the auction houses 248-year history. Money has never flowed through the auction rooms quite as fast as it did in 2013. Last year, the company held its first auctions in Shanghai and Mumbai to keep pace with the demand for high-e
26、nd art from the new global elite. 2 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 段落用大篇幅来叙述 2013年拍卖的业绩，从文中 “Money has never flowed through the auction rooms quite as fast as it did in 2013”可以看出2013年出现了拍卖史上最大的现金流。 【知识模块】 段落听力理解与选择 3 【听力原文】 Mongolia seemed a blessed land, with growth rates over 17% in 2011 and around 12% in each o
27、f 2012 and 2013. Mining was the promise in a country with annual GDP per person of less than $ 2, 000 just five years ago and $ 4, 000 today. Some $ 3 trillion of get-at-able minerals are thought to lie under a country bigger than France, Germany and Spain combined, equivalent roughly to $ 1 million
28、 for each of nearly 3 million Mongolians. 3 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 原文告诉听者， 2011年蒙古国的经济增长率超过了 17；人均GDP在五年内从不到 2000美元增长到了 4000美元；据估计蒙古国地下有可采矿价值 3万亿美元。由此看来，选项 A、 B和 C与原文内容不符。文中 “Mining was the promise in a country”说明了蒙古国的矿业十分发达，文中还提到据估计平均每人拥有价值一百万美元的矿产资源。所以，选项 D的叙述是正确的。 【知识模块】 段落听力理解与选择 4 【听力原文】 The yields on
29、 Italian and Spanish ten-year government bonds are now around 3. 2% , about half what they were a couple of years ago. The yield on existing Greek ten-year bonds dropped to below 6% this week; two years ago it was nearly 40%. 4 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 从文中 “The yields on Italian and Spanish ten-year governme
30、nt bonds are now around 3 2， about half what they were a couple of years ago”可以看出现如今是 3 2，是几年前的一半。所以 通过简单计算，多年前应该是6 4。 【知识模块】 段落听力理解与选择 5 【听力原文】 The car makers cheer is explained by a belief that the worst is over. Sales in Europe tumbled in the 2008 financial crisis, and have fallen every year sinc
31、e. Only 12. 4 million cars were sold in 2013, nearly 4 million fewer than in 2007. But early this year a rebound began, and sales so far this year are up 6%. 5 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 原文中 “Only 12 4 million cars were sold in 2013， nearly 4 million fewer than in 2007 ”需要听者再加工一下数字。 “2013年的汽车销售量比 2007年减少了 400万
32、辆 ”。今年 销售额增长了 6。由此看来， 2013年的销售额最低。 【知识模块】 段落听力理解与选择 6 【听力原文】 Thanks mainly to low unemployment, Germany keeps exceeding tax forecasts, with receipts that other European countries must envy. Last year state revenues totaled 620 billion; by 2017 they will pass 700 billion. This bounty is letting Germa
33、ny balance its federal budget in 2015 for the first time in 46 years. 6 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 从原文中 “This bounty is letting Germany balance its federal budget in 2015 for the first time in 46 years”可以看出这次国家总税收值让德国联邦政 府的预算第一次平衡了。因此，选项 C的说法与原文大意正好相符。同时，也可以从文中推断出 A和 B的说法也是可以接受的。 【知识模块】 段落听力理解与选择 7 【听力原文】 Amer
34、icas anti-trust laws say that any share purchase worth $76 million or more must be approved by the Federal Trade Commission. However, in this case, a fund created with $ 75. 9 million of Valeants money circumvented the rule. 7 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 美国的反垄断法规定购买 7600万以上的股票必须经过美国联邦贸易委员会的批准，但是 Valeant出资 7590万
35、成功地避开了审核，从而做到利益最大化。因此选项 B的说法符合原文大意。 【知识模块】 段落听力理解与选择 8 【听力原文】 When Samsung first launched the Galaxy Note 7, it was heralded as the best smart phone the South Korean firm had ever made. Some even went as far as to say it was the best phone ever made. Within a month of its release, such high praise w
36、ent up in smoke, so to speak, as reports of exploding handsets began to emerge. 8 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 文中的 “went up in smoke”是 “化为乌有 ”的意思，是理解本题的关键。由于机身爆炸的消息被报道出来，这款手机所拥有的一切殊荣都化为乌有。 【知识模块】 段落听力理解与选择 9 【听力原文】 The problem is that the IRS is still not flagging partnership returns with a blank Line 10 or a du
37、bious figure. That means none of them are delivered to auditors. And Curnutt discovered that the IRS needs to check Line 10 only for the year when property with big debts is disposed of, typically 20 years after purchase. 9 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 本题问的是 Curnutt发现了国税局的什么问题。文章最后 一句告诉我们国税局 20年来首次需要检查 Line 10是因
38、为大笔债务需要处理。这也从侧面反映了国税局不尽责的行为，与前面两句话形成层层递进关系。 【知识模块】 段落听力理解与选择 10 【听力原文】 Soaring gas and electricity prices mean that almost a third of us will delay pressing the button because of the cost. One way you can slice hundreds of pounds off your annual energy bill is to switch supplier. Joe says that with
39、the gap between the average standard tariff and the cheapest deal on the market at a near-record 344, there has never been a better. 10 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 从原文中 “the cheapest deal on the marketthere has never been a better”可以知道，不同的能源公司税率不一样，选择税率最低的能源协议单可以为用户节约将近 344磅。 【知识模块】 段落听力理解与选择 11 【听力原文】 We compl
40、ain about our oversupply of information. We treasure it nonetheless. We arent shutting down our e-mail addresses. On the contrary, were buying pocket computers and cellular modems and mobile phones with tiny message screens to make sure that we can log in from the beaches and mountaintops. These dev
41、ices are fed by our ever-growing militia of information carriers. 11 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 讲话者认为人们抱怨信息过剩，却又非常珍视信息。他们购买各种信息载体，希望在沙滩、山顶时都能获取信息。 【知识模块】 段落听力理解与选择 12 【听力原文】 Big companies will increasingly crowdsource the kinds of work they never used to let anyone outside their walls touch. Last year, GE open
42、ed up a public contest it called the Bracket Challenge. The jet engine division needed a new lightweight design for brackets that would help hold an engine on an airplane. About 700 people from all over the world submitted designs. GE chose a design by Kurniawan, who won $ 7, 000, and GE got a part
43、thats 84 percent lighter than its predecessor. 12 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 讲话者指出越来越多的大公司将工作众包出去，并举了 GE公司的例子。可以说，这是一次成功的众包。众包指的是一个公司或机构把过去由员工执行的工作任务，以自由自愿的形式外包给大众网络的做法。 【知识模块】 段落听力理解与选择 13 【听力原文】 Despite the pervasiveness of the procedure, drawing blood remains an arduous task. Finding a vein is often difficu
44、lt; an estimated 30 percent of patients require multiple sticks. AccuVein, a New York-based company, recently developed a device that could help put an end to missed veins. It uses noninvasive infrared technology to project an image of a persons veins onto the skins surface; when a patients arm is s
45、canned, the musculature appears red, and the veins show as dark lines. 13 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 讲话者的意图在于向听者介绍一种新的、快速找到血管的仪器，它能把肌肉组织和血管的影 像以不同颜色显现在皮肤表面，可以说，这是一种可视化的手段。 musculature意为 “肌肉组织 ”。 【知识模块】 段落听力理解与选择 14 【听力原文】 From medicine to fashion, 3-D scanning is also taking off in a variety of other fields. A
46、 growing number of plastic surgeons and other doctors use scanners for planning procedures and surgery. And a firm called Stratasys uses scanners and 3-D printers to create orthodontic devices like retainers. In many major cities, you can also find companies that employ these tools to make customize
47、d clothing no tailor necessary. 14 【正 确答案】 D 【试题解析】 讲话者指出 3D扫描技术应用范围很广，从医学到时尚领域都在用。然后举例，具体说明 3D扫描技术在外科、牙科和服装行业的应用。结尾处讲话者指出连裁缝也不用了， retail与 tailor读音有相似之处，注意不要误听误判。 【知识模块】 段落听力理解与选择 15 【听力原文】 Nobody likes to think his or her iPhone was made from minerals derived from a country where warlords and mass
48、rapists profit from the mines. So a year ago, Apple made a bold claim: It had audited smelters in its supply chain and none of them used tantalum from war-torn regions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The announcement about tantalum was an important step for human rights advocates who have long
49、called for more transparency from international companies. 15 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 本题考查听者对陌生词汇的理解、猜测能力。讲话者先提到上义词mineral，再列举其中一种 tantalum，可推断 tantalum是它的下义词，是一种矿物。通过上下文可知， tantalum可用于制造 iPhone。综合以上信息，选项 A正确。 tantalum，钽，一种稀有金属。 【知识模块】 段落听力理解与选择 16 【听力原文】 No venture capitalist is crazier about outer space than Steve Jurvetson, who has been listening to unrealistic space company pitches for two decades. In the early 2000s, he helped back SpaceX. But mostly hes impatiently waited for space to turn into Silicon Valleys next playground the kind of puls
