1、高级口译（笔试）模拟试卷 18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 The biggest mistake in life is to think that you work for someone else. True, you may have a boss and you may【 C1】 _from a company but, ultimately, you are master of【 C2】 _. You decide what potential you reach in your career and what you will【 C3】 _in yo
3、ur life. Regardless of your circumstances, you can【 C4】 _. This is particularly true at your current workplace. Every day you have【 C5】 _, to stand out, and to be exceptional. You can make a suggestion to improve a product or service or to【 C6】_. You can identify an opportunity to save money or【 C7】
4、 _. You can help a coworker do his or her job better or learn a new skill that you can use for the rest of your life. It all【 C8】 _, that is, taking action to get some thing done at work without waiting for your boss to tell you what to do or when and how to do it. To be able to take initiative in y
5、our job you first need to see how you and your position【 C9】 _of things at work. In most jobs this role is not【 C10】 _, so you need to investigate how you fit into【 C11】 _. Ask yourself: Why was my job created? Most jobs are created to help with【 C12】 _of the organization. If you can understand the
6、initial needs for your position, you will be better able to【 C13】 _and go beyond them. How does my job relate to others in the organization? Whom do you【 C14】 _? Questions like these help you to see the contribution you make in your position and【 C15】 _. What opportunities to contribute to the organ
7、ization exist in my job? Every job【 C16】 _for the employee who looks for them. Knowing how you contribute to your organization can【 C17】 _even more to help. How is my job linked to the organizations objectives? By defining your position【 C18】 _the goals and objectives of the organizations, you can【
8、C19】 _. Once you see your role in the big picture, you are better able to take the initiative【 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】 Part B Listenin
9、g 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 have heard a
10、nd write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. （ A） Sleeping pills. （ B） Some cannabis. （ C） Tobacco and alcohol. （ D） Some drugs. （ A） Mental hospital. （ B） Insane shelter. （ C） Habit-breaking place. （ D） No drug place. （ A） It is wrongly called
11、 illegal. （ B） It is almost legally accepted. （ C） It is commonly used. （ D） It is morally accepted. （ A） Because they have superficial personalities. （ B） Because they want to discover their real personalities. （ C） Because they want to escape their own weaknesses. （ D） Because they have curiosity.
12、 （ A） It is more addictive than tobacco. （ B） It is psychologically powerful. （ C） It is more addictive than alcohol. （ D） It is quite difficult to give up. （ A） Certain waste products are vomited out of motorcars or out of factories. （ B） The environment in general is being misused. （ C） Some waste
13、 products are put into the air or the sea. （ D） The publicity is only paid attention to. （ A） The pollution problem has been exaggerated by newspapers and television. （ B） Waste products should be got rid of. （ C） Agricultural pollution should be solved. （ D） Pollution is inevitable in a growing eco
14、nomy. （ A） We dont know the long-term effects of it. （ B） We dont have the technology to get rid of it. （ C） It is a cause rather than a symptom. （ D） We have to accept the reality and try to change society. （ A） We waste too much oil and so there is a high risk of accidents. （ B） There are too many
15、 oil tankers having accidents. （ C） Because we use so much oil there is a higher risk of accidents and oil spillage. （ D） If we dont waste oil, we will have no accidents. （ A） Something that is not easily disposable will be likely pollute the housewifes table. （ B） Something that can not be refined
16、will be likely to pollute the housewifes table. （ C） Whatever arrives at the housewifes table will be likely to cause pollution if it is prepackaged. （ D） Whatever arrives at the housewifes table will cause pollution of some sort. （ A） Install Web filters. （ B） Set Web sites. （ C） Ban access to site
17、s. （ D） Block online service activities. （ A） Saudi Arabia, Rome, China, Britain, Russia, Australia. （ B） Sandi Arabia, Rome, China, Britain, Russia, Austria. （ C） Saudi Arabia, Burma, China, Britain, Russia, Australia. （ D） Saudi Arabia, Burma, China, Britain, Russia, Austria. （ A） An official. （ B
18、） A colonel. （ C） A businessman. （ D） A soldier. （ A） The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. （ B） A special Internet police unit. （ C） The Web sites to be against the Falun Gong. （ D） An Internet surveillance system. （ A） Special representations of sexual acts. （ B） Information on crime and vio
19、lence. （ C） Information on the use of certain narcotics. （ D） Information on cyber-romance. （ A） Revising the alternative minimum tax. （ B） Under President Bushs tax plan, the rise would be even steeper. （ C） Raising taxes: the current tax law is out of date. （ D） Simplifying U. S. taxes: its comple
20、x. （ A） Congress. （ B） the Senate Finance Committee. （ C） the Senate. （ D） the Tax Bureau. （ A） Various political and economic viewpoints. （ B） Various viewpoints of tax simplification. （ C） All kinds of individual viewpoints. （ D） All kinds of complicated viewpoints. （ A） A nonprofit research organ
21、ization in Washington. （ B） A tax system research organization in Washington. （ C） A senate organization in Washington. （ D） An economic research organization in Washington. （ A） Doing what we want to do. （ B） An ideal place where there is no pollution. （ C） Having to tolerate cars pollution as we l
22、ike to drive them. （ D） Driving cars pollution. 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 each passage
23、 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 America is not the only country wrestling with immigration. As the Senate was passing its version of an immigration bill, Spain was cal
24、ling for European Union to help it stem a flood of migrants from west Africa to the Canary Island. The EU sent patrol boats and aircraft to the seas which thousands have crossed (and where hundreds have died in the hope of getting into Europe). Britain and France are reforming their immigration laws
25、. Britain and Italy are fretting over the deportation of immigrant criminals. Six countries favour European “integration contracts“tests of wouldbe citizens knowledge of their host countries as a pre-condition for getting passports. But if both sides of the pond are experiencing similar upheavals, t
26、here is a big difference between their debates. Americans are letting it all hang out. Tumultuous demonstrations clog the streets. Politicians, lobbyists and interest groups clog the talk shows. In Europe, debate does not grip countries in the same way. After second-generation immigrants staged thei
27、r suburban car-flagrations in France last year, the prime minister weirdly downplayed the riots significance. Questions about the impact of immigration merge into issues such as asylum, and even Islamist terror. Debate exists, but it is distorted and submerged. “The big difference in the way Europea
28、ns and Americans look at immigration,“ argues Kathleen Newland of the Migration Policy Institute in Washiongton, DC, “springs from the fact that America protects its welfare system from immigrants but leaves its labour markets open, while the EU protects its labour markets and leaves it s welfare sy
29、stem open.“ Immigrants to Europe are welcomed with welfare benefits but cannot get jobs (their unemployment rate is far higher than average). America makes it easy even for illegal immigrants to get jobs but stops even legal ones claiming means-tested welfare benefits or subsidized housing. The resu
30、lt is that in America political debate centers on illegal immigration, and there is no sense that legal immigrants impose burdens on others. In Europe things are different. There, even legal immigrants are often seen as sponging on others through welfare receipts; and the fact that some have taken j
31、obs which would not otherwise be done so cheaply is forgotten. In Europe, says Danny Sriskandarajah of Britains Institute for Public Policy Research, it is harder to talk about immigration as an economic issue. Instead, all migrants are caught in web of suspicion. Politically, the debate is differen
32、t, too. In America, immigration is a mainstream issue, and splits both parties, Republicans especially. Not so in Europe. With few exceptions, the parties most willing to raise immigration as a political issue lie outside the mainstream-notably (though not only) far-right parties such as Frances Nat
33、ional Front and the Danish Peoples Party. The Netherlands is an exception: there, the politics of immigration entered the mainstream after two critics of multiculturalism were murdered. Britain is a partial exception, too: both Labour and Conservatives have espoused the cause of immigration control.
34、 But for the most part, big parties of center-left and center-right have not made deep reform of immigration a high priority. Because immigration has been the preserve of the fringe, Europes debate about it is bedeviled with accusations of racism (which does exist). Naturally, this harms those who w
35、ant to impose controls: they are tainted by association. But paradoxically, it does not help those who back immigration and benefit from it either (such as employers of immigrant labour). Europe has no equivalent to the alliance of Senator John McCain and Ted Kennedy (usually political foes) who spo
36、nsored the Senate bill. Without a space in the political center for friends of immigration, public fears of immigration go unaddressed and unallayed. And on the other side, there is less political representation of immigrants in European countries. Hardly any of the 36,000 mayors in France are immig
37、rants; none of the parliamentary deputies from mainland France are (in contrast, America has two dozen congressmen with Latino backgrounds). 41 Which of the following does NOT support the statement “America is not the only country wrestling with immigration.“? (Para. 1) （ A） Six countries approve of
38、 the European “integration contracts“. （ B） Britain and France are amending their immigration laws. （ C） Britain and Italy are tortured by the deportation of immigrant criminals. （ D） Spain was trying to stop the pour of immigrant criminals from west Africa to its country. 42 According to the passag
39、e, which of the following is NOT true? （ A） It is easier for immigrants to seek employment in America than in Europe. （ B） America and Europe have different policies toward immigrants concerning jobs and welfare benefits. （ C） Europe may attract immigrants with its generally good public welfare bene
40、fits. （ D） America is more tolerant and generous toward immigrants than Europe. 43 Which of the following can NOT be concluded from the statement “it is harder to talk about immigration as an economic issue.“? (Para. 4) （ A） Immigration is often considered as a political or social issue rather than
41、an economic issue in Britain. （ B） Immigrants do not have noticeable impact on British economy. （ C） Immigrants contribution to the prosperity of Britain is often neglected. （ D） In America, the issue of immigration is mainly about its economic implications. 44 Why did the author mention Senator Joh
42、n McCain and Ted Kennedy in Paragraph 6? （ A） Because they initiated legislation to find a solution to the problem of immigration. （ B） Because they are political foes but find common voice for immigrants. （ C） Because they are influential people in American politics. （ D） Because they hold opposing
43、 views on the issue of immigration. 45 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? （ A） The debate on immigrants in America is more intense and pronounced than in Europe. （ B） There is less political representation of immigrants in European countries than in America. （ C） Political
44、ly, immigration is a mainstream issue in America, but a marginal one in all European countries, （ D） Americas debate on immigration may be painful, but Europes is dysfunctional. 45 MANKINDS progress in developing new gizmos is often referred to as the “march of technology“. That conjures up images o
45、f constant and relentless forward movement orchestrated with military precision. In reality, technological progress is rather less orderly. Some technologies do indeed improve at such a predictable pace that they obey simple formulae such as Moores law, which acts as a battle plan for the semiconduc
46、tor industry. Other technologies proceed by painful lurchesthink of third-generation mobile phones, or new versions of Microsoft Windows. There are even the occasional backward steps: you can skip over the trailers when watching a film on video, but for some reason you are not allowed to do so when
47、watching a DVD. And there are some cases, particularly in the developing world, when technological progress takes the form of a leapfrog. Such leapfrogging involves adopting a new technology directly, and skipping over the earlier, inferior versions of it that came before. By far the best-known exam
48、ple is that of mobile phones in the developing world. Fixed-line networks are poor or non-existent in many developing countries, so people have leapfrogged straight to mobile phones instead. The number of mobile phones now far outstrips the number of fixed-line telephones in China, India and sub-Sah
49、aran Africa. By their very nature, mobile networks are far easier, faster and cheaper to deploy than fixed-line networks. There are other examples. Incandescent light bulbs, introduced in the late 1870s, are slowly being displaced in the developed world by more energy-efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs), in applications from traffic lights to domestic lighting. LEDs could, however, have an even greater impact in parts of the developing world that lack mains po
