1、高级口译（笔试）模拟试卷 12及答案与解析 Part A Spot Dictation Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the word or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Re
2、member you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE. 0 If the entire human species were a single individual, that person would long ago have been declared mad. The insanity would not lie in the【 C1】 _of the human mindthough it can be a black and raging place indeed. And it certainly wouldnt lie in the【 C2】 _
3、. The madness would lie instead in the fact that both of those qualities, the savage and the splendid, can exist in one creature, one person,【 C3】 _. Were a species that is capable of almost dumbfounding kindness. We nurse one another,【 C4】 _, weep for one another. Ever since science taught us how,
4、we willingly tear the【 C5】 _and give them to one another. And at the same time, we【 C6】 _. The past 15 years of human history are【 C7】 _of those subatomic particles that are created in accelerators and【 C8】 _, but in that fleeting instant, weve visited untold horrors on ourselves. As the【 C9】 _speci
5、es the planet has produced, were also the lowest, cruelest, most blood-drenched species. Thats【 C10】_. What does, or ought to, separate human beings with other species is our highly developed【 C11】 _, a primal understanding of good and bad, of right and wrong, of what it means to suffer not only our
6、 own pain, but also the pain of others. That quality is【 C12】 _of what it means to be human. Why its an essence that so often spoils, no one can say. Morality may be a hard concept to grasp, but【 C13】 _. Psychologists believe even kids can feel the difference between a matter of morality and one of【
7、 C14】_innately. Of course, the fact is that a child will sometimes hit and wont feel particularly bad about it eitherunless hes caught. The same is true【 C15】 _or despots who slaughter. The rules we know, even the ones we intuitively feel, are by no means【 C16】 _. Where do those intuitions come from
8、? And【 C17】 _about following where they lead us? Scientists cant yet answer those questions, but that hasnt【 C18】 _. Brain scans are providing clues. Animal studies are providing more.【 C19】 _are providing still more. None of this research may make us behave better, not right away at least. But all
9、of it can help us understand ourselves【 C20】 _perhaps, but an important one. 1 【 C1】 2 【 C2】 3 【 C3】 4 【 C4】 5 【 C5】 6 【 C6】 7 【 C7】 8 【 C8】 9 【 C9】 10 【 C10】 11 【 C11】 12 【 C12】 13 【 C13】 14 【 C14】 15 【 C15】 16 【 C16】 17 【 C17】 18 【 C18】 19 【 C19】 20 【 C20】 Part B Listening Comprehension Directions
10、: In this part of the test there will be some short talks and conversations. After each one, you will be asked some questions. The talks, conversations and questions will be spoken ONLY ONCE. Now listen carefully and choose the right answer to each question you have heard and write the letter of the
11、 answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. （ A） Entertainment on TV. （ B） The news in the U.S （ C） Being a correspondent. （ D） Interpreting news. （ A） The news is just entertainment. （ B） The news is shallow. （ C） The news gets reported in the same style. （ D） The new
12、s is boring. （ A） The news offers easy information that doesnt mean much to you. （ B） The news makes you feel like youre learning, but actually youre not. （ C） The news is just another popular entertainment program like a sitcom. （ D） The news must be presented by physically attractive ladies. （ A）
13、More entertaining. （ B） More in-depth. （ C） Less informative. （ D） Less interesting. （ A） Newspapers. （ B） Radio. （ C） TV. （ D） The Internet. （ A） A trade show of the latest sporting goods is on display. （ B） An event for team sports is held with the countrys best athletes. （ C） A spring market fair
14、 for cutting equipment and accessories is open. （ D） A business rendezvous is scheduled between VIPs and the best athletes. （ A） Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox 2. （ B） SnapBack, a private browser that does not store individual information. （ C） A built-in RSS reader to quickly sca
15、n the latest news and information. （ D） Safari 3, the worlds fastest and easiest-to-use web browser. （ A） Heavy rain triggered floods which caused heavy casualties and damage. （ B） Harsh drought had been going on for several years and killed some people. （ C） 23 people were missing after a storm hit
16、 a village in the mountainous province. （ D） Authorities were searching for the people who had crossed the border from other countries. （ A） Two soldiers hijacked a jet plane full of passengers in flight. （ B） The hijackers were captured after killing one of the hostages. （ C） A military unit arrest
17、ed the hijackers with no one injured or killed. （ D） The hijacked plane landed safely at an airport in a neighboring country. （ A） $683.30. （ B） $900, 000. （ C） C$1 million. （ D） C$2 million. （ A） TV programs. （ B） Media coverage on crime. （ C） The school system. （ D） Juvenile crime. （ A） The proble
18、m has been overdone by the media. （ B） The messages the kids get make them like that. （ C） The school has not done enough to help the kids. （ D） Some kids are essentially violent. （ A） Giving the kids a more caring environment. （ B） Setting up a responsible school system. （ C） Taking harsh actions a
19、gainst violence in the school. （ D） Keeping the kids under one-to-one surveillance. （ A） Do supervised activities. （ B） Take instructional programs. （ C） Stay in school for supper. （ D） Go in for sports. （ A） Because they can help set good role models. （ B） Because they can stop white-collar crime.
20、（ C） Because they can reduce crime. （ D） Because they can make criminals feel fair. （ A） Workplace inequality. （ B） Sexism in language. （ C） The AIDS crisis. （ D） The way the mass media treats women. （ A） Language and thought definitely influence each other. （ B） It is impossible to understand the r
21、elationship between the two. （ C） What we think certainly determines what we say. （ D） What we say very probably affects what we think. （ A） The professional world. （ B） The United Nations publications. （ C） The International Womens Organization. （ D） The feminist movement. （ A） Nouns dont have a ge
22、nder in English. （ B） Spanish nouns have two genders. （ C） German nouns are either masculine or feminine. （ D） The issues of gender vary across languages. （ A） How some publications avoid sexist language? （ B） Why we have to avoid sexism in English? （ C） The efforts we have already taken to eliminat
23、e sexism. （ D） The gender issues in different languages. 一、 SECTION 2 READING TEST Directions: In this section you will read several passages. Each one is followed by several questions about it. You are to choose ONE best answer, A, B, C or D, to each question. Answer all the questions following eac
24、h passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage and write tile letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. 40 What will future historians remember about the impact of science during the last decade of the 20th century? They will not be
25、much concerned with many of the marvels that currently preoccupy us, such as the miraculous increase in the power of home computers and the unexpected growth of the Internet. Nor will they dwell much on global warming, the loss of biodiversity and other examples of our penchant for destruction. Inst
26、ead, the end of 20th century will be recognized as the time when, for better or worse, science began to bring about a fundamental shift in our perception of ourselves. It will be the third time that science has forced us to re-evaluate who we are. The first time, of course, was the revolution that b
27、egan with Copernicus in 1543 and continued with Kepler, Galileo and Newton. Despite the Churchs opposition, we came to realize that the Earth does not lie at the centre of the universe. Instead we gradually found we live on a small planet on the edge of a minor galaxy, circling one star in a univers
28、e that contains billion of others. Our unique position in the universe was gone for ever. A few centuries later we were moved even further from stage centre. The Darwinian revolution removed us from our position as a unique creation of God. Instead we discovered we were just another part of the anim
29、al kingdom proud to have “a miserable ape for a grandfather“, as Thomas Huxley put it in 1850. We know now just how close to the apes we areover 90% of our genes are the same of those of the chimpanzee. Increasing knowledge of our own genetics is one of the driving forces in the third great conceptu
30、al shift that will soon take place. Others are the growing knowledge of the way our minds work, our new ability to use knowledge of the nervous system to design drugs that affect specific states of mind and the creation of sophisticated scanners which enable us to see what is happening inside our br
31、ains. In the third revolution we are taking our own selves to pieces and finding the parts which make up the machine that is us. Much of the new knowledge from genetics, molecular biology and the neurosciences is esoteric. But its cultural impact is already running ahead of science. People begin to
32、see themselves not as wholes with a moral centre but the result of the combined action of parts for which they have little responsibility. Its Nobodys Fault is the title of a popular American book on “difficult“ children. Many different children, the book explains, are not actually difficult but are
33、 suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). There is nothing wrong with them or the way they have been brought up. Rather, the part of the brain which controls attention is short of a particular neurotransmitter. You might, as many people do, question the way in which the disorder has been dia
34、gnosed on such a staggering scale. But that is not the point. The cultural shift is that people are not responsible for their disorders, only for obtaining treatment for the parts of them that have gone wrong. Even when a treatment is not to hand, the notion that we are made of “clusters of function
35、s“ remains strong. Genetic analysis supports this view. A gene linked to alcoholism has been located and a Gallup poll has revealed that the great majority of Americans consider alcoholism to be a disease There are claims of genes too for obesity, homosexuality and even for laziness. Some claims abo
36、ut genes may be silly. Or you may think that the current conceptual shift is just a re-run of old arguments about the relative roles of nature and nurture. Instead, take one drug, Viagra, as an example of the new way of thinking about ourselves. If you suffer from impotence, it might have a variety
37、of physiological causes. Or you might just be anxious about sexual performance. But Viagra does not make such fine distinctions: it acts at the level of the chemical reactions that control the blood flow needed to maintain an erection. The more direct means we have of changing who we are, through ch
38、anging the parts that we are composed of, the harder becomes the question of who was the person who made the decision to change, before becoming someone else. This will be the real issue for the 21st century: who are we, if we are the sum of our parts and science has given us the power to change tho
39、se parts? 41 What is the most important scientific progress in the 20th(上标 ) century? （ A） Peoples new knowledge of themselves. （ B） The development of computer technology. （ C） The birth and growth of the Internet. （ D） Mankinds ability to control global warming 42 According to the passage, which o
40、f the following is NOT one of the driving forces in the third great conceptual shift? （ A） Knowledge of our own genetics. （ B） Knowledge of the way our minds work. （ C） Knowledge of how to use sophisticated scanners. （ D） Knowledge of how to design drugs that affect specific states of mind. 43 Which
41、 of the following is likely to be the main idea of the book It s Nobodys Fault ? （ A） Many children are suffering from ADD. （ B） ADD is the problem for the problematic children. （ C） Some peoples brains do not have neurotransmitters. （ D） The way people are brought up determines their behavior. 44 W
42、hich of the following reflects the cultural shift? （ A） More people are diagnosed to be suffering from mental disorders. （ B） People are not responsible for the problems they have. （ C） More people are seeking mental treatment. （ D） People begin to question the accuracy of doctors diagnoses. 45 Whic
43、h of the following does the drug Viagra illustrate? （ A） Some claims about genes may be silly. （ B） We have a “new way of thinking about ourselves“. （ C） A physical disorder “might have a variety of physiological causes“. （ D） People are obtaining treatment for the parts of them that have gone wrong
44、. 45 American education is every bit as polarized, red and blue, as American politics. On the crimson, conservative end of the spectrum are those who adhere to the back-to-basics credo: Kids, practice those spelling words and times tables, sit still and listen to the teacher; school isnt meant to be
45、 funhard work builds character. On the opposite, indigo extreme are the currently unfashionable “progressives“, who believe that learning should be like breathing natural and relaxed, that school should take its cues from a childs interests. As in politics, good sense lies toward the center, but the
46、 pendulum keeps sweeping sharply from right to left and back again. And the kids end up whiplashed. Since the Reading Wars of the 1990s, the U.S. has largely gone red. Remember the Reading Wars? In the 1980s, educators embraced “whole language“ as the key to teaching kids to love reading. Instead of
47、 using “See Dick and Jane Run“ primers, grade-school teachers taught reading with authentic kid lit: storybooks by respected authors, like Eric Carle (Polar Bear, Polar Bear). They encouraged 5-and 6-year-olds to write with “inventive spelling“. It was fun. Teachers felt creative. The founders of wh
48、ole language never intended it to displace the teaching of phonics or proper spelling, but thats what happened in many places. The result was a generation of kids who couldnt spell, including a high percentage who had to be turned over to special Ed instructors to learn how to read. That eventually
49、ushered in the current joyless back-to-phonics movement, with its endless hours of reading-skill drills. Welcome back, Dick and Jane. Now were into the Math Wars. With American kids foundering on state math exams and getting clobbered on international tests by their peers in Singapore and Belgium, parents and policymakers have been searching for a culprit. Theyve found it in the math equivalent of whole languageso-called fuzzy math, an object of paren
