1、高级口译（笔试）模拟试卷 17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 According to the recent forecasts from The Futuristic magazine for 1997 and beyond, the【 C1】 _since mid-century, while the population has doubled. As a result, the pressure on natural resources has【 C2】 _: Demand for grain has nearly tripled, and【 C3】 _h
3、as increased nearly fourfold, with carbon emissions rising accordingly. City skylines may【 C4】 _in the future. Information technologies are allowing workers to【 C5】 _rather than trek to downtown skyscrapers. Consequently, many prestigious office towers【 C6】 _, and U. S. builders have stopped putting
4、 up structures taller than 30 stories. Education in the Information Age will be【 C7】 _and less labor-intensive. Teaching may become more centralized, with a few “star teachers“ giving courses via【 C8】 _to a national student body. Infotech is producing interactive educational toys and other devices t
5、hat【 C9】 _of mental faculties. Some youngsters may even teach themselves to read before age 3. Future education will not end with【 C10】 _in high school or college, but become【 C11】 _. More students will be learning at home, using computers and advanced educational software. The number of home school
6、ers has grown from【 C12】_in the last two decades. Electronic networking will give more power to workers at the bottom of the【 C13】_. Computer networks allow employees to skip over【 C14】 _and communicate directly with senior managers or even the CEO. The【 C15】 _of electronic communications will make
7、low-status individuals【 C16】 _their points of view and offering valuable new ideas. The earths economy is expected to benefit hugely from【 C17】 _. Earth is a colossal system, and we will need to【 C18】 _. The space race will see many new competitors, as the United States and Russia【 C19】 _due to budg
8、et cuts. China, India, and Japan are moving ahead quickly in such fields as remote sensing satellites and【 C20】 _. 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】 Par
9、t B Listening Comprehension Directions: 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
10、have heard and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. （ A） You neednt pay your accommodation. （ B） You may make friends on the camp. （ C） You will be paid to do jobs on the camp. （ D） You will get free lunch and supper. （ A） From a travel ag
11、ency. （ B） From his friends. （ C） From advertisements. （ D） From relatives in Britain. （ A） There was no work for them to do. （ B） Farmers were quarreling with Teencamp. （ C） They couldnt finish what was asked to do. （ D） They lost their way and at a loss what to do. （ A） One week. （ B） Two weeks. （
12、 C） Three weeks. （ D） Four weeks. （ A） Go on a work camp is the best way to travel. （ B） Travelers might enjoy fresh vegetables and fruits. （ C） Going on a work camp is not always a pleasant experience. （ D） Work camps supply young people good practice. （ A） Reducing trade barriers in industrial and
13、 farm goods. （ B） Debt relief for the developing countries. （ C） Trade liberalization within the European Union. （ D） Negotiating with the campaign groups. （ A） 350 million dollars. （ B） 700 million dollars. （ C） 1.4 billion dollars. （ D） 700 billion dollars. （ A） Reducing the risk of death from can
14、cer. （ B） Reducing the risk of death from heart diseases. （ C） Extending drinkers life span. （ D） Alleviating the stress of modern people. （ A） WTO member nations object to it unanimously. （ B） America decides to block beef and pork imports from Russia. （ C） President Putin refused to talk with Bush
15、 at an Asian summit. （ D） America has not agreed to let Russia join. （ A） Indifferent. （ B） Miscellaneous. （ C） Excited. （ D） Disappointed. （ A） Two plants have already been closed down. （ B） Mr. Northfield has no plan to close down more European plants yet. （ C） The closing down of the two plants i
16、s partly a result of Flaxcos going international. （ D） The expansion of business will lead to more cut in the workforce and thus result in the closing down of more European plants. （ A） She thinks Flaxco should increase its workforce in Europe to help alleviate the unemployment problem. （ B） She thi
17、nks Flaxco is mainly responsible for the high unemployment rate. （ C） She thinks it is inevitable for Flaxco to go international. （ D） She disagrees with the mans opinion that Flaxco has contributed a lot to the government. （ A） Flaxco has focused all its manufacturing facilities in Europe. （ B） Fla
18、xco has concentrated its resources and efforts on high-end medicines. （ C） Flaxcos biggest research efforts are in the UK. （ D） Flaxco is expanding its basic research activity in the USA as well as in Italy. （ A） In Europe. （ B） Outside Europe. （ C） In the USA. （ D） In the UK. （ A） Because the USA p
19、rovides Flaxco with high-tech talents. （ B） Because the USA is the most important market for Flaxco. （ C） Because Flaxco has expanded its business there in the USA in the past few years. （ D） Because Flaxcos rival company in the USA has set up a research unit in Europe. （ A） Extremely good sensory p
20、erception power. （ B） The ability of predicting the future. （ C） Some mysterious abilities of the human brain. （ D） The phenomenon of knowing something without using any of the five senses. （ A） No one but the scientists know what ESP really is. （ B） Everybody has the experience of ESP. （ C） It is i
21、mpossible to decide whether one has ESP or not. （ D） ESP has been studied by many people. （ A） Play cards with your friends. （ B） Try to name by means of intense concentration an object placed in the next room. （ C） Guess who the caller is before picking up the receiver. （ D） Think about a friend yo
22、u havent seen or heard for a long time. （ A） He can see what is in the next room. （ B） He knows what another person is thinking. （ C） He can predict the future. （ D） All of the above. （ A） The one who gets 5% of the questions correct. （ B） The one who gets all of the questions correct. （ C） The one
23、who gets 20% of the questions correct. （ D） The one who gets 10% of the questions correct. 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. Answ
24、er all the questions following each 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 Jamie Stephenson has seen firsthand what modem genetic science can do for a family. When her
25、 son David was 2 years old, a pediatrician noticed developmental delays and suspected fragile syndrome, a hereditary form of mental retardation. A lab test confirmed the diagnosis, and the Stephensons spent several years learning to live with it. When David was 6, he visited a neurologist, who scrib
26、bled “fragile X“ on an insurance-company claim form. The company responded promptlyby canceling coverage for the entire family of six. There is no medical treatment for fragile X, and none of Davids siblings had been diagnosed with the condition. “The company didnt care,“ Stephenson says. “They just
27、 saw a positive genetic test and said, Youre out. “ From the dawn of the DNA era, critics have worried that genetic testing would create a “biological underclass“a population of people whose genes brand them as poor risks for employment, insurance, even marriage. The future is arriving fast. Medical
28、 labs can now test human cells for hundreds of anomalous genes. Besides tracking rare conditions, some firms now gauge peoples susceptibility to more common scourges. By unmasking inherited mutations in p53 ( main story) and other, genes, the new tests can signal increased risk of everything from br
29、east, colon and prostate tumors to leukemia. Many of the tests are still too costly for mass marketing, but that will change. And as the Stephensons story suggests, the consequences wont all be benign. “This is bigger than race or sexual orientation,“ says Martha Volner, health-policy director for t
30、he Alliance of Genetic Support Groups. “Genetic discrimination is the civil-rights issue of the 21st century.“ No one would argue that genetic tests are worthless. Used properly, they can give people unprecedented power over their lives. Prospective parents who discover theyre silent carriers of the
31、 gene for a disease can make better-in formed decisions about whether and how to have kids. Some genetic maladies can be managed through medication and lifestyle changes once theyre identified. And while knowing that youre at special risk for cancer may be an emotional burden, it can also alert you
32、to the need for intensive monitoring. Jane Gorrell knows her family is prone to colon cancer. Her father developed hundreds of precancerous polyps back in the 1960s, and both she and her sister had the same experience during the 70s. Their condition, has since been linked to a mutation in the p53 ge
33、neand Gorrell has learned, that one of her two children inherited it. Though the child has suffered no symptoms, she gets frequent colon exams and is helping researchers test a drug that could help save lives. The catch is that no one can guarantee the privacy of genetic information. Outside of larg
34、e group plans, insurance companies often scour peoples medical records before extending coverage. And though employers face some restriction, virtually any company with a benefits program can get access to workers health data. So can schools, adoption agencies and the military. Employees of Lawrence
35、 Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), a large research institution owned by the Department of Energy and operated by the University of California, recently discovered that the organization had for three decades been quietly testing new hires blood and urine samples for evidence of various conditions. “I cant
36、say the information was put to some incredibly harmful use, because we dont know what happened,“ says Vicki Laden, a San Francisco lawyer who has tried unsuccessfully to sue the lab for civil fights violations. LBL recently stopped the testing. 41 In the sentence“There is no medical treatment for fr
37、agile X, and none of Davids siblings had been diagnosed with the condition.“( para.1 ), the word “siblings“ means_. （ A） parents （ B） grandparents （ C） ancestors （ D） brothers or sisters 42 According to the passage, what will be the new human rights phenomenon occurring in the new century? （ A） A ne
38、gative genetic test. （ B） Unmasking inherited mutations. （ C） Race or sexual orientation. （ D） Genetic discrimination. 43 From the passage, we can infer that_. （ A） people believe genetic tests are useful when they are properly used （ B） prospective parents are reluctant to discover that theyre sile
39、nt carriers of the gene for a disease （ C） if some genetic diseases are managed through medication, lifestyle will not change （ D） if a father has no risk for cancer, his son will certainly has no cancer either 44 What can be concluded from the last paragraph? （ A） LBL recently stopped the testing.
40、（ B） The privacy of genetic information can not be guaranteed. （ C） The information must be put to some incredibly harmful use. （ D） A San Francisco lawyer has tried to sue the lab for civil rights violations, but he isnt successful. 45 What is the authors attitude to the genetic tests? （ A） Positiv
41、e. （ B） Negative. （ C） Interrogative. （ D） Indifferent. 45 More than ten years ago, Ingmar Bergman announced that the widely acclaimed Fanny and Alexander would mark his last hurrah as a filmmaker. Although some critics had written him off as earnest but ponderous, others were saddened by the depart
42、ure of an artist who had explored cinematic moodsfrom high tragedy to low comedyduring his four-decade career. What nobody foresaw was that Bergman would find a variety of ways to circumvent his own retirementdirecting television movies, staging theater productions, and writing screenplays for other
43、 filmmakers to direct. His latest enterprise as a screenwriter, Sundays Children, completes a trilogy of family-oriented movies that began with Fanny and Alexander and continued with The Best Intentions written by Bergman and directed by Danish filmmaker Bille August. Besides dealing with members of
44、 Bergmans family in bygone timesit begins a few years after The Best Intentions leaves offthe new picture was directed by Daniel Bergman, his youngest son. Although it lacks the urgency and originality of the elder Bergmans greatest achievements, such as The Silence and Persona, it has enough visual
45、 and emotional interest to make a worthy addition to his body of work. Set in rural Sweden during the late 1920s, the story centers on a young boy named Pu, dearly modeled on Ingmar Bergman himself. Pus father is a country clergyman whose duties include traveling to the capital and ministering to th
46、e royal family. While this is an enviable position, it doesnt assuage problems in the pastors marriage. Pu is young enough to be fairly oblivious to such difficulties, but his awareness grows with the passage of time. So do the subtle tensions that mar Pus own relationship with his father, whose des
47、ire to show affection and compassion is hampered by a certain stiffness in his demeanor and chilliness in his emotions. The films most resonant passages take place when Pu learns to see his father with new clarity while accompanying him on a cross-country trip to another parish. In a remarkable chan
48、ge of tone, this portion of the story is punctuated with flash-forwards to a time 40 years in the future, showing the relationship between parent and child to be dramatically reversed: The father is now cared for by the son, and desires a forgiveness for past shortcomings that the younger man resolu
49、tely refuses to grant. Brief and abrupt though they are, these scenes make a pungent contrast with the sunny landscapes and comic interludes in the early part of the movie. Sundays Children is a film of many levels, and all are skillfully handled by Daniel Bergman in his directional debut. Gentle scenes of domestic contentment are sensitively interwoven with intimations of underlying malaise. While the more nostalgic sequences are pho
