1、口译二级综合能力（篇章听力理解与选择）模拟试卷 6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 each
2、 question. You will hear the passages only ONCE. At the end of each passage, you will have 2 minutes to finish the questions. 1 What does the speaker cite as an introduction to the topic? （ A） The story of a poor boy. （ B） The story of birds. （ C） The story from classics. （ D） The story of cry wolf.
3、 2 How do thornbills escape predators? （ A） By calling help from wolves. （ B） By imitating wolf calls. （ C） By making alarm for nestlings. （ D） By imitating hawk calls. 3 How do thornbills react to the broadcasting? （ A） They panicked and screamed. （ B） They escaped from their nestle. （ C） They mimi
4、cked alarm calls. （ D） They found out the truth. 4 How do currawongs react to the broadcasting? （ A） They felt curious. （ B） They mimicked alarm calls. （ C） They felt cheated. （ D） They gave up hunting. 5 What is the function of mimicked calls? （ A） To protect the nestlings. （ B） To defeat the enemy
5、. （ C） To attract other callers. （ D） To search for more food. 6 Which of the following statements is NOT true about the survey? （ A） 39% of the surveyed were dead in 5 years. （ B） 10% of the surveyed identified odors correctly. （ C） 39% of the surveyed has the poorest sense of smell. （ D） 19% of th
6、e surveyed has complete smell loss. 7 What do researchers find? （ A） Loss of the sense of smell caused death. （ B） Pollution and bugs caused death. （ C） People with poor smell sense are more likely to die. （ D） Sense of smell is related to age and nutrition. 8 What is the significance of the researc
7、h? （ A） It proves to be a quick way to detect patients at risk. （ B） It has found out another deadly disease. （ C） It points out an efficient way to extend lifespan. （ D） It takes into consideration age and smoking habits. 9 What does the loss of smell signify? （ A） Regeneration of cells. （ B） High
8、pressure. （ C） Damage to the body. （ D） Unavoidable death. 10 Which of the following is possible to cause loss of the sense of smell? （ A） A reduced ability to sniff out odors. （ B） Long time exposure to pollution. （ C） Drinking water polluted by bugs. （ D） A lifetimes symptoms of asthma. 11 Who is
9、more likely to do military services? （ A） Rural Americans. （ B） Urban Americans. （ C） Americans from counties. （ D） American counterparts. 12 How many rural Americans own their homes? （ A） 47 million. （ B） 13. 4 million. （ C） 59. 8 million. （ D） 38 million. 13 What does the word “denizen“ probably m
10、ean? （ A） Children. （ B） Adults. （ C） Dwellers. （ D） Netizen. 14 Which is true of the differences between rural and urban Americans? （ A） Urban Americans are more likely to move to other states. （ B） Urban Americans are less likely to obtain college education. （ C） Rural Americans are more likely to
11、 move to other states. （ D） Rural Americans are more likely to obtain college education. 15 What is the historical reason for the change of urban population? （ A） The growth of job opportunities in cities. （ B） The difficulty of living in rural areas. （ C） The capital needed to start careers. （ D） T
12、he migration of workers from other countries. 16 Which of the following is true about high-income babies? （ A） They tend to know more stories. （ B） They lose their tempers easily. （ C） They can focus for a long time. （ D） They are sensitive to reading. 17 Whats the difference between boys and girls
13、at elementary school? （ A） Girls have better academic performance than boys. （ B） Girls are more attentive, sensitive and flexible. （ C） Boys are more independent than girls. （ D） Boys prefer sex to academic work. 18 Why do boys academic struggles turn into economic ones? （ A） Because mens wages are
14、 stagnating. （ B） Because our economy rewards knowledge. （ C） Because men are more likely to be idle. （ D） Because it is difficult to look for work. 19 The fall of middle-class pay is mainly related to_. （ A） female earnings （ B） male earnings （ C） family income （ D） international pressure 20 Whats
15、the topic of the passage? （ A） The gap between two genders. （ B） A link between boys and economy. （ C） Single-parent families and their influence. （ D） The different behaviors of men and women. 口译二级综合能力（篇章听力理解与选择）模拟试卷 6答案与解析 一、 PART 3 (40 points) Listen to the following longer passages and then choo
16、se 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 will have 2 minutes to fin
17、ish the questions. 1 【听力原文】 In the classic story, a boy tries to repeatedly fool his town into believing that there is a wolf on the prowl. This morality tale ends poorly for the boy, but a small Australian bird can do one better. When a pied currawong goes looking for brown thornbill nestlings to e
18、at, the thornbill parents call wolf or, actually, they call hawk. The false alarms fool the currawong into thinking that its own predator, the brown goshawk, is nearby. The tiny thornbill thus effectively outsmarts its large enemy. To explore how this sophisticated ruse works, biologist Branislav Ig
19、ic and his colleagues positioned a taxidermied currawong near thornbill nests while broadcasting nestling distress calls. The thornbills sounded their hawk alarm calls and even mimicked the alarms of other species. Igic also tested 18 currawongs by broadcasting the sounds of the thornbills mimetic a
20、nd nonmimetic hawk calls. He found that the playback discouraged the currawongs from hunting. The researchers think that alarm calls from what sounds like multiple callers might make the warning seem more reliable. Birds can adapt some very interesting and unique strategies to protect their young. T
21、he thornbills own hawk calls fooled the currawongs for 8. 3 seconds on average, but when Igic included the mimicked calls, too, the currawongs were distracted twice as long. That padding may provide enough time for the nestlings to escape the nest. 1 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 本文以 “狼来了 ”的经典故事开篇，引入主题。 【知识模块】 篇章
22、听力理解与选择 2 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 原文指出刺喙蜂鸟在面对天敌澳洲喜鹊时，也会使用狼来了这一招，不过它们不学狼叫，学鹰叫。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 3 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 原文指出刺喙蜂鸟听到播放雏乌求救的声音后，开始模仿鹰的叫声，然后模仿其他鸟类的警报声。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 4 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 原文指出澳洲喜鹊听到播放的刺喙蜂鸟模仿的鹰的声音和真正鹰的叫声后，都会放弃捕猎行为。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 5 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 原文指出这是鸟类保护幼鸟的有趣而又独特的策略。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与
23、选择 6 【听力原文】 Measuring peoples sense of smell in later life could help doctors predict how likely they are to be alive in five years time, a PLOS One study suggests. A survey of 3, 000 adults found 39% with the poorest sense of smell were dead within five years compared 19% with moderate smell loss a
24、nd just 10% who identified odors correctly. And despite taking issues such as age, nutrition, smoking habits, poverty and overall health into account, researchers found those with the poorest sense of smell were still at greatest risk. Lead scientist, Prof. Jayant Pinto, said: “We think loss of the
25、sense of smell doesnt directly cause death, but it is a harbinger, an early warning system that shows damage may have been done. Our findings could provide a quick inexpensive way to identify patients most at risk. “ Exactly how smell loss contributes to lifespan remains unclear, but the researchers
26、 put forward a number of possible reasons behind the link. They say a reduced ability to sniff out odors could signal less regeneration or repair of cells in the body overall, as a healthy sense of smell depends partly on a continual turnover of cells that line the nose. And a worsening sense of sme
27、ll may serve as a mirror for a lifetimes exposure to pollution and bugs, they say. 6 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 判断题实际上是四个小的事实细节题。本题考查了实验中 三个与数字有关的细节。在 3000个参与实验的人中， 39嗅觉不灵敏，且在五年内死亡，所以选项 A和 C正确。 10的人嗅觉正常， B选项也正确。原文指出 19的人有轻度的嗅觉缺失，而 D选项 “19的人嗅觉完全缺失 ”与原文有很大的出入，表述有误。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 7 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 本题考查的是实验的结果、
28、发现。为保证实验结果的准确性，要考虑相关变量，如年龄和营养。在此基础上分析嗅觉与寿命的相关性，才更有说服力。但实验并未直接说明嗅觉与年龄、营养相关， D不正确。实验 发现嗅觉失灵与死亡之间有很大关联，但嗅觉失灵不直接导致死亡。 A与此发现相反， C与此发现相符。在进一步分析引起此发现的原因时，指出污染和臭虫是使嗅觉逐渐失灵的原因之一，但没有说这两者导致死亡，所以 B选项也不正确。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 8 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 Prof Pinto认为该研究的重要意义在于它能够为医生提供快捷、经济的诊断方式，锁定那些死亡风险最高的病人。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择
29、9 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 本题考查的是对实 验发现的解释，即为什么嗅觉失灵与寿命之间有联系。研究者认为嗅觉失灵意味着细胞再生能力和修复能力减弱， A选项与此意相反。再结合上文 Pinto教授的评论，嗅觉失灵预示了身体已受损害，选项 C正确。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 10 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 原文指出嗅觉恶化是一面镜子，它反映了终生面对污染和臭虫所带来的后果。 A选项是对嗅觉恶化的同义转述，也就是对结果的描述，不能作为原因。本题问的是引起嗅觉失灵的可能原因，答案应为 B长期的污染。 C选项与原文有很大出入，不能入选。 【 知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 11 【听
30、力原文】 A new report from the Census Bureau offers a numbers-driven, county-level glimpse into Americas urban-rural divide. It shows rural Americans on average are more likely to own a home, less likely to have earned a college degree and more likely to have served in the armed forces than their urban
31、counterparts. The bureaus latest American Community Survey statistics shows that 47 million adults and 13. 4 million children under the age of 18 lived in counties outside of Americas major metropolitan regions. More than 81 percent of rural adults were homeowners, compared with 59. 8 percent of urb
32、an denizens. Nearly two-thirds, 65. 4 percent, lived in their state of birth, compared with 48. 3 percent of city dwellers. And less than 1 in 5 19. 5 percent had earned a bachelors degree, shy of urban Americas 29 percent mark. Back in 1910, more than 54 percent of the country lived in a rural area
33、. But with job growth in city centers continually outpacing whats been seen in other parts of the country, Americans particularly those just starting out in their careers have flocked to urban areas en masse. 11 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 原文开篇即指出美国乡下人和城里人的三点不同，可总结为 “两多一少 ”：拥有住房的多，服兵役的多，获得大学学位的少。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与
34、选择 12 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析 】 原文指出居住在乡间的美国成年人有 47 million， 81以上的人拥有自己的住房，粗略计算，拥有住房的人大概是 38 million。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 13 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 原文在对比美国城市和乡村居民时使用多个近义词来表示 “居民 ”：denizen， dweller， citizen。这些词可以相互解释， denizen的意思相当于 dweller或 citizen。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 14 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 原文指出 65 4的乡下人居住在出生地， 48 3的城里人居住在出生
35、地，可见，城里人搬迁到其他地方的概率更高。乡下人获得学士学位的比率是 19 5，城里人获得学士学位的比率是 29，可见，城里人接受大学教育的比率更高。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 15 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 原文指出在 20世纪初，居住在乡村的人口占 54，随着城市就业机会的增加，大量人口涌入城市。所以，城市人口变化的历史原因是就业机会的增长。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 16 【听力原文】 The behavior gap between rich and poor children is now a well-known piece of social science
36、. Entering kindergarten, high-income children not only know more words and can read better than poorer children but they also have longer attention spans, better-controlled tempers and more sensitivity to other children. All of which makes the comparisons between boys and girls in the same categorie
37、s fairly striking: The gap in behavioral skills between young girls and boys is even bigger than the gap between rich and poor. The gap grows over the course of elementary school and feeds into academic gaps between the sexes. By eighth grade, 48 percent of girls receive a mix of As and Bs or better
38、. Only 31 percent of boys do. And in an economy that rewards knowledge, the academic struggles of boys turn into economic struggles. Mens wages are stagnating. Men are much more likely to be idle than they once were and much more likely to be idle than women. We reported last week that the United St
39、ates had lost its once-enormous global lead in middle-class pay. The depressing trend has many causes, but the social struggles of men and boys are an important one. If the United States is going to build a better-functioning economy than the one weve had over the last 15 years, were going to have t
40、o solve our boy problems. Two of the leading theories involve single-parent families and schools. Girls who grow up with only one parent fare almost as well on average as girls with two parents. Boys dont. But the trends seem too broad for family structure to be the only cause. Thats where schools c
41、ome in. 16 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 原文指出来自高收入家庭的儿童在幼儿园时期就表现得很好，他们识字更多，读得更好，注意力集中，自控力更强。 C选项是对原文 “they also have longer attention spans”的同义转述。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 17 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 原文指出 男孩女孩之间的差别在小学期间不断增大，表现在学习成绩上： “The gap grows over the course of elementary school and feeds into academic gaps between the sexe
42、s ”，然后列举了数字来支持这一观点： “By eighth grade， 48 percent of girls receive a mix of As and Bs or better Only 31 percent of boys do ”，这两句话都可以 帮助听者作出判断。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 18 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 本文是层层递进型文章。先比较穷孩子和富孩子，再比较男孩和女孩，然后建立男孩和经济之间的联系。在这个节点，男孩和经济的联系是通过学习成绩建立的。成绩好，工作就好。因为成绩不好，他们比女人失业率高。这个原因是隐含的： “And in an econ
43、omy that rewards knowledge ”。也就是说，知识越多，收入越高。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 19 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 原文指出美国中产阶级收入下降，想改变现状，要先解决男孩的问题： “were going to have to solve our boy problems ”。结合全文，男孩学校表现不好，工作难找，中产阶级收入下降，这说明中产阶级收入主要与男人的收入相关。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择 20 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 本文通过比较两性之间的差异，提出男孩与经济之间的关联，所以主旨应是 “a link between boys and economy”，而不是 “the gap between two genders”。 【知识模块】 篇章听力理解与选择
