1、口译二级综合能力（篇章听力理解与选择）模拟试卷 10及答案与解析 一、 PART 3 (40 points) Listen to the following longer passages and then choose the best answer to each of the questions. You may need to scribble a few notes in order to answer the questions satisfactorily. There are 20 questions in this part of test, 2 points for eac
2、h question. You will hear the passages only ONCE. At the end of each passage, you will have 2 minutes to finish the questions. 1 Why was the Yahoo users incepted by American and British government? （ A） Analyzing the images. （ B） Searching for the unknown customers. （ C） Fighting against the terrori
3、sm. （ D） Watching everyone in the country. 2 Which kind of technologies is the key to finding the suspect? （ A） Webcams. （ B） Interception. （ C） Face recognition. （ D） Optic Nerve program. 3 Which of the following is true about Secure Identity & Biometrics Association? （ A） It is in charge of terror
4、ist-finding. （ B） It provides face recognition with money. （ C） It is a commercial industry. （ D） It is a non-governmental organization. 4 What is the purpose of the speaker by the illustration of German airport? （ A） The new technology has prevailed all over the world. （ B） The airport is the safes
5、t place, with the help of the technology. （ C） The paper passport should step out. （ D） The technology saves a lot of time in confirming the identities. 5 What is the U. S. government aiming for, with the plan of the largest database? （ A） Tracking down everyone. （ B） Protecting Americans. （ C） Maki
6、ng no secrets. （ D） Safeguarding the world. 6 Why did Nira go to court? （ A） She was sued by the Gallery. （ B） She sued the Lower East Side space. （ C） Her investment was a total failure. （ D） She has some disagreement with Andy Warhol. 7 Which of the following is true about “Space Fruit“? （ A） It i
7、s a series of prints. （ B） It is made by Woodward Gallery. （ C） It is purchased by Nira. （ D） It is including 63 prints. 8 Which of the following is NOT true about the problem of Ms. Levine? （ A） The documents of the artworks might be falsified. （ B） The artworks were stolen by others. （ C） Most of
8、the artworks are faked. （ D） The Gallery refused to give her receipts. 9 What was the purpose of the suit? （ A） For compensation of the faked arts. （ B） For arresting the Woodwards. （ C） For disclosing all the documents. （ D） For claiming the ownership. 10 What is the attitude of Kristine Woodward t
9、owards the suit? （ A） Negative. （ B） Positive. （ C） Critical. （ D） Doubtful. 11 Which of the following is true about Trinity Root? （ A） It was destroyed in September 11. （ B） Its made by Sculptor Steve Tobin. （ C） It was positioned in St. Pauls Chapel. （ D） Its shape is like a tower. 12 Why did Tobi
10、n feel so angry? （ A） His works had been relocated without his permission. （ B） He paid much more money on this works than expected. （ C） His works had been broken by the church. （ D） His works were considered too big to repair. 13 What did the church plan to do? （ A） Make a compensation. （ B） Show
11、their respect. （ C） Repair it by their center. （ D） Give it back to its creator. 14 What did Tobin think of Trinity Root? （ A） It is made for the victims. （ B） It was the great works in that time. （ C） It should be owned by the church. （ D） The documents should have been assigned for its protection.
12、 15 Why was the church blamed by Tobin? （ A） The piece was moved away from the church. （ B） The ownership should be transferred to the government. （ C） The church lacks the responsibility in maintenance. （ D） The church should make a new replica. 16 Why was Robert Fletcher suing artist Peter Doig? （
13、 A） Because Peter denied that he had painted the canvas of a desert landscape. （ B） Because Peter denied that he knew Robert. （ C） Because Peter denied that he had been in the jail. （ D） Because Peter denied the value of the painting. 17 Which of the following is true about Peter Doig? （ A） He sold
14、his painting to Peter for $ 100. （ B） He once lived in Thunder Bay. （ C） He was very confused about the suit. （ D） He has been very famous for five years. 18 Which of the following is NOT true about this painting? （ A） It is highly valued by Peter Doig. （ B） Fletcher insisted on its authenticity. （
15、C） A specialist confirmed that it was the early painting by Doig. （ D） The author is Peter Edward Doig. 19 Who is the key witness to the fact? （ A） The professor from law school. （ B） The sister. （ C） The art teacher. （ D） The dealer. 20 What is the result of the suit? （ A） Fletcher put a famous nam
16、e on the painting for a high price. （ B） Doig did not think it was a big thing, but a mistake. （ C） This painting will be sold at a very low price. （ D） This suit put a warning tag on the capability of the specialist. 口译二级综合能力（篇章听力理解与选择）模拟试卷 10答案与解析 一、 PART 3 (40 points) Listen to the following long
17、er passages and then choose the best answer to each of the questions. You may need to scribble a few notes in order to answer the questions satisfactorily. There are 20 questions in this part of test, 2 points for each question. You will hear the passages only ONCE. At the end of each passage, you w
18、ill have 2 minutes to finish the questions. 1 【听力原文】 From 2008 to 2010, as Edward Snowden has revealed, the National Security Agency (NSA) collaborated with the British Government Communications Headquarters to intercept the webcam footage of over 1. 8 million Yahoo users. The agencies were analyzin
19、g images they downloaded from webcams and scanning them for known terrorists who might be using the service to communicate, matching faces from the footage to suspects with the help of a new technology called face recognition. The outcome was pure Kafka, with innocent people being caught in the surv
20、eillance dragnet. In fact, in attempting to find faces, the Pentagons Optic Nerve program recorded webcam sex by its unknowing targets up to 11 percent of the material the program collected was “ undesirable nudity“ that employees were warned not to access, according to documents. And thats just the
21、 beginning of what face recognition technology might mean for us in the digital era. Over the past decade, face recognition has become a fast-growing commercial industry, moving from its governmental origins programs like Optic Nerve into everyday life. The technology is being pitched as an effectiv
22、e tool for securely confirming identities, with the financial backing of a new Washington lobbying firm, the Secure Identity & Biometrics Association (SIBA). To some, face recognition sounds benign, even convenient. Walk up to the international checkpoint in a German airport, gaze up at a camera, an
23、d walk into the country without ever needing to pull out a passport your image is on file, the camera knows who you are. The U. S. Government is in the process of building the worlds largest cache of face recognition data, with the goal of identifying every person in the country. The creation of suc
24、h a database would mean that anyone could be tracked wherever his or her face appears. 1 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 从文中 “matching faces from the footage to suspects”可以知道，选项 C符合原文大意。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 2 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 从 “with the help of a new technology called face recognition”可以看出，这种技术应 该是面部识别技术。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理
25、解与选择 3 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 从 “with the financial backing of a new Washington lobbying firm ，the Secure Identity Biometrics Association”可以知道，选项 B与原文大意一致。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 4 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 逻辑推断题。从 “To some， face recognition sounds benign， even convenient”可以知道，接下来举的包括德国机场的例子都应该是说明上述这一点。因此只有选项 D的内容与原文相符。 【
26、知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 5 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 通过 “The U S Government is in the process of building the worlds largest cache of face recognition data， with the goal of identifying every person in the country ”和文首的 “scanning them for known terrorists”可以得出，美国这样做是为了查出恐怖主义分子，从而保护国民。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 6 【听力原文】 Accordi
27、ng to Courthouse News Service, collector Nira filed a lawsuit on June 30 against New York-based Woodward Gallery, claiming that the Lower East Side space convinced her to invest in fake Andy Warhol prints from a series titled “Space Fruit“ , 1979. Her complaint states that she agreed to split the $
28、180, 000 cost of ninety prints with John and Kristine Woodward in October 2008. However, when Levine looked into the authenticity of the works in July 2014, she learned from a restorers condition report that the “Space Fruit“ collection only consisted of seventy-six prints. Levine said that the pape
29、r looked significantly different from the one she was showed by the Woodwards and now suspects that they may have falsified the document. The Warhol Authentication Board also informed her that sixty-three of the works she had copurchased were fakes. When Levine asked the gallerists to produce receip
30、ts for the prints she was told that there were no invoices because they were bought directly from Warhols printer, who died in 2001. Levine said that the paper looked significantly different from the one she was showed by the Woodwards and now suspects that they may have falsified the document and s
31、ale for the rest of the approximately 140 pieces of art that she jointly purchased with the Woodwards. Levine is also seeking a court order that John and Kristine Woodward each provide depositions on the purchases. Kristine Woodward told the New York Post that the suit “ has no merit. “ She added, “
32、The gallery has continued to have integrity in all that we do in the last twenty-three years. “ 6 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 从文中 “filed a lawsuitclaiming that the Lower East Side space convinced her to invest in fake Andy Warhol prints” 可以知道， Nira起诉 the Lower East Side space是因为他们劝说她购买了赝品。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 7 【正
33、确答案】 A 【试题解析】 从文中 “prints from a series titledSpace Fruit”可以知道选项 A与原文大意相符。从原文了解到 Nira与 John and Kristine Woodward联合购买的画应该是 Andy Warhol的画作，包含 66幅作品，其中 63幅为赝品。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 8 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 虽然 从文中 “that theSpace Fruitcollection only consisted of seventy-six prints”可以猜测对于画作的数量是有疑问的，后面谈到画作中的 63幅有假，
34、但是全文上下自始至终没有提到画作被偷。因此，选项 B与原文大意不符。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 9 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 从文中 “asking the court to order the gallery to disclose all documentation of acquisition and sale for the rest of the approximately 140 pieces of art”可以知道，选项 C与原文大意一致。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 10 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 从文中可以了解 Kristine Woodward是被
35、控诉方，但是她这样评价这个案子 “has no merit”，意思是这个案子是无根据的，从 “The gallery has continued to have integrity in all that we do in the last twenty-three years ”可以知道， Kristine认为她们 23年以来一直是正直可靠的。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 11 【听力原文】 Sculptor Steve Tobin said, “Im still in shock,“ after he discovered that Lower Manhattans Trinity
36、Church had relocated and damaged a public sculpture that he designed and produced in 2005 as a memorial to the victims of September 11. Trinity Root, a bronze replica of a large sycamore tree destroyed in the terror attacks on the twin towers, was installed in a courtyard at Trinity Church, several
37、blocks away from its original location at one of its parishes, St. Pauls Chapel. The site-specific work was eighteen feet tall, twenty-five feet wide, and weighed thousands of pounds. In order to create the piece, Tobin said he brought the original stump and tree roots to his Pennsylvania studio for
38、 casting. The artist paid for the $ 330, 000 project himself, and said that he had to take out a home-equity loan to cover the cost. The church brought the piece to a conference center it owns in West Cornwall, Conneticut. Tobin said the church sent him pictures of the piece that showed significant
39、damage. Nathan Brockman, a spokesman for the church, said, “We have great respect for Tobin and the 9/11 museum. “ He admitted that the sculpture had been broken, but said it was repairable. The church, which owns the statue, had mailed the artist documents that once signed would transfer ownership
40、of the piece to him and would ship it to Tobin at the churchs expense. Tobin said, “I didnt want to sign any document because of the condition of the piece,“ and maintained that it should never have been moved in the first place. “It was made for the people who were affected by the events. Its where
41、 the tree was. It was for those who had suffered. “ 11 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 文中的 “a public sculpture that he designed and produced in 2005Trinity Root ， a bronze replica” 说明这件雕塑的作者是 Tobin。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 12 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 从 “Sculptor Steve Tobin said， “Im still in shock， ”after he discovered that Lower
42、 Manhattans Trinity Church had relocated and damaged a public sculpture that he designed and produced in 2005 as a memorial to the victims of September 11” 可以知道， Tobin作为雕像的作者对于三一教堂搬运和毁坏他设计并制造的雕像一事颇为不满。文章接下来又谈了 Tobin对于教堂的诸多安排都有异议。因此选项 C的叙述都与原文相符。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 13 【正确答 案】 D 【试题解析】 从 “Tobin said the
43、 church sent him pictures of the piece that showed significant damage ”可以知道，教堂把雕像的残片已经交给 Tobin去修复。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 14 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 从 “as a memorial to the victims of September 11”可以知道，选项 A的叙述与原文一致。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选 择 15 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 “maintained that it should never have been moved in the first
44、 place ”可以知道， Tobin始终不赞同教堂认为雕像可以被修复，并把残片给予他的做法。因此，选项 A的说法与原文大意一致。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 16 【听力原文】 Collector Robert Fletcher is suing artist Doig for claiming that a painting of a desert landscape is not his work. Fletchers lawsuit alleges that Doig is confused or lying about the origins of the painting i
45、n order to prevent its current owner from selling it for millions. When Doig first saw the work, it was only a photograph of the canvas. He denied it was his work, although it was very nice. Doig did grow up in Canada, but the artist said he never spent time in prison and has never even been to Thun
46、der Bay. Fletcher, who intends to sell the canvas, brought the work to a Chicago-based gallery. A specialist told them that it is “ rare to see such a complete and highly resolved early painting by Doig. “ She later said that she only saw an image of the work and could not authenticate it without se
47、eing it in person. A professor at New York University Law School suggests that it is unfair to Doig. And Doigs lawyers may have already tracked down the actual author of the work. They identified a man named Peter. The mysterious artist died in 2012, but his sister said that the landscape looks like
48、 an Arizona horizon, which would have been familiar to him. The former prisons art teacher not only confirmed that the painting was produced by Peter, but actually claims to have watched the man paint it. Doig, who plans to present documents to the court that prove that he was not in the area during
49、 the time when Fletcher claims that work was created, believes this incidence of mistaken identity is a result of the millions his paintings are raising at auction. 16 【正确答案】 A 【 试题解析】 从 “is suing artist Peter Doig for claiming that a painting of a desert landscape is not his work” 可以知道， Peter否认 Robert手中的画作是他的作品。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 17 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 从文中 “Doig is confused or lying about the origins of the painting”可以知道， Doig有两种可能 性，但是通过全文的表述，可以知道事情的真相是这画作真不是他画的，所以选项 C的叙述较为贴切。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 18 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 从 “She later said that she only
