1、高级口译（笔试）模拟试卷 21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 Government in Britain can be divided into national government and (1) The center of government in Britain is Parliament, which (2) for the country about crimes and punishment, taxation, etc. Parliament is made up of the (3) , the House of Lords and the m
3、onarch. (4) are in Westminster in London and sometimes “Westminster“ itself is used to mean Parliament. The House of Commons, or the Commons, is the (5) of the two Houses. It has 650 elected members, called (6) or MPs, each representing people in a (7) The House of Lords, or the Lords, is the (8) of
4、 the two Houses. It has (9) , none of whom is elected These members include: people who have (10) which have been passed down to them (11) ; people who are given titles as a reward for their long (12) , but whose children do not inherit their title; and some important leaders of (13) , such as Archb
5、ishops and Bishops. The government (14) to the House of Commons, which are discussed by MPs. The bills then go to (15) to be discussed. The House of Lords can (16) to a bill, but does not have the power to reject it. (17) to the Commons, MPs vote on them and if (18) , they are signed by the monarch
6、and (19) . At present England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are all governed by (20) . In Northern Ireland the political parties are different but their MPs still go to the House of Commons. Part B Listening Comprehension Directions: In this part of the test there will be some short talks a
7、nd 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 answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your
8、ANSWER BOOKLET. （ A） They are made of warm material. （ B） They have a hole for the thumb. （ C） They are only for sports. （ D） They are first made by a teenager. （ A） K-K made Wristies because she didnt have gloves. （ B） K-K made the first pair of Wristies on a snowy day. （ C） K-K made the first pair
9、 of Wristies when she was ten. （ D） Wristies are long gloves with no fingers. （ A） K-Ks mother had store. （ B） K-K and her mother have a lot of experience of doing business. （ C） K-K and her mother asked a lot of people for advice. （ D） K-Ks mother didnt give her any help. （ A） In department stores.
10、 （ B） At the supermarket. （ C） At K-Ks home. （ D） From K-Ks friends. （ A） Be creative. （ B） Listen to your friends advice. （ C） Dont be afraid to do something new. （ D） Play in snow in winter. （ A） Commuters found it harder than usual to get around in the city. （ B） The transit union thought the str
11、ike was illegal and imposed a large amount of fine onto the subways and bus workers. （ C） The transit union believed that the fine was too much and decided to appeal. （ D） The mayor said that the strike could cost New York City a considerable portion of its daily output. （ A） They want to continue t
12、heir negotiation in Hong Kong. （ B） They will push the U.S. to drive down the global cotton price. （ C） They want the U. S. to reform its politics with the European Union. （ D） They hope the U. S. will stop providing subsidies to its cotton farmers. （ A） No sufficient security has been provided to t
13、he witnesses and lawyers. （ B） Not every defendant has been offered an attorney. （ C） Some lawyers threatened to boycott the trial. （ D） Saddam Hussein refused to turn up at the new phase of the trial. （ A） A man was beaten to death in the immigrant community. （ B） Many cars, buses, and commute trai
14、ns were torched. （ C） Two teenagers who were reported to have been chased by the police were electrocuted. （ D） Two young men hid themselves in a power sub-station. （ A） The United States has proposed a new solution to the nuclear issue of Iran. （ B） Iran hopes to continue its nuclear activities thr
15、ough cooperation with Russia. （ C） Iran welcomes the action taken by the IAES to refer its nuclear issue to the Security Council. （ D） Iran is looking forward to discussing its nuclear issue with the Europeans. （ A） The difference between a male nanny and a female nanny. （ B） The difference between
16、a nanny and a sitter, （ C） How to become a nanny in the United States. （ D） The job of a nanny. （ A） Help the children get dressed. （ B） Make super for the children. （ C） Help them with the homework. （ D） Play together with the children. （ A） A nanny usually lives with a family. （ B） Manny and nanny
17、 do the same thing. （ C） Nanny is not a typical job for a man. （ D） A manny is usually like a father to children. （ A） He went to a special school. （ B） He was trained by his own family. （ C） He was trained by his employers. （ D） He had been a sitter before he became a nanny. （ A） He thinks his job
18、is pretty funny. （ B） He thinks his job is strange. （ C） He thinks he has a great job. （ D） He is sometimes embarrassed. （ A） Why do people fall asleep? （ B） Three kinds of sleep disorders. （ C） The treatment for sleep disorders. （ D） Staying up too late can be harmful. （ A） They will stop breathing
19、. （ B） When they wake up, its hard for them to go back to sleep again. （ C） It can happen several hundred times one night. （ D） In the morning, they will remember waking up. （ A） Heavy breathing. （ B） Snoring. （ C） Feeling tired and sleepy. （ D） Falling asleep briefly. （ A） A condition that interfer
20、es with a persons ability to sleep normally. （ B） Stopping breathing for short periods. （ C） Difficulty in either falling asleep or staying asleep. （ D） Sudden attacks of deep sleep. （ A） There are only three kinds of sleep disorders. （ B） Everyone suffers from serious sleep disorders. （ C） The diso
21、rders have confusing symptoms. （ D） Doctors are now able to help people with sleeping problems. 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.
22、 Answer 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 There has been an ecological triumph in the province of Sweden where Ive spent the past
23、 three weeks. The wolf and the lynx have both returned to the forests. The naturalists have been rejoicing. Theres been a TV documentary. Meanwhile the local farmers and hunters have disappeared into the forests with their rifles. Jan and Lennart, the sons of the farmer at the end of the lake, were
24、particularly aggrieved that the lynx (thats a wild cat to you townies) was killing “their“ deer, and the urban bureaucrats who had decided to protect it only increased their rage. They vowed to track the animal down. “Did they kill it?“ I asked one local man. “They didnt say“, he replied with a hint
25、 of a wink. What does the word “rural“ mean to you? Organic, perhaps. Wholesome. Gemeinschaft (or do I mean Gesellschaft?). Conservative. Marxs “rural idiocy“ maybe. To me the countryside is about paranoia. It breeds independence and idiosyncrasy and other nice things but also the sort of people who
26、 wander onto Capitol Hill in order to kill some senators or declare war on the FBI for being an essentially socialist organization. For people who live in and off the countryside, there always seems to be the idea that “they“ the bureaucrats, the government, the city folk are out to get them. What t
27、hey despise almost as much as city folk themselves are the sort of things that city folk like about the countryside, footpaths, beauty spots, old buildings, rare flora and fauna, ancient sites of historical interest. To select from my experience of the past few weeks, the land that was once owned by
28、 my late grandparents contained a meadow that was famous across Sweden (well, it was once featured on the front page of the local newspaper) for its rare plants. A couple of weeks ago my cousin an engineer and part-time farmer with a flock of four sheep and one ram fenced the meadow off, set the she
29、ep loose into it and within two days it duly looked like a bit of scrub in a corner of a derelict industrial estate. Incidentally, when your correspondent went to investigate this vandalism, the said ram pursued him across the field in a way that was later said to be hilarious to onlookers. Another
30、local man carries around a special bullet in case he should ever get on the trail of a wolf. The normal bullets used for hunting deer and elk have soft tips so that they spread out on contact and cause devastating fatal wounds. But this special wolf bullet has a hard tip so that it will pass right t
31、hrough the animal, leaving a relatively small (though almost certainly fatal) wound. The dying wolf will then probably walk tens of miles before it dies, thus preventing “them“ from identifying the slayers of this absurdly protected predator. And this happens in a province which has a wolf as its of
32、ficial symbol. Theres more. A neighboring lake has become home to what I was informed is an exceedingly rare kind of hawk. But the local people who have spotted it have kept its presence a closely guarded secret. If they told ornithologists about it, then the next thing that would happen is that the
33、y would probably want to come into the area and start to look at the bloody thing, and once these bureaucrats and scientists get their claws into an area, who knows where it will end? Much of this is probably true of rural areas everywhere, but in Sweden it has been exacerbated by the Byzantine bure
34、aucracy that was generated by 40 years of social democracy, a system that led both to some of the finest public services and to the situation in which the countrys greatest living artist, Ingmar Bergman, under suspicion of a minor tax transgression, was publicly arrested and interrogated in a manner
35、 that might have been thought excessive by Beria. One of the fundamental Swedish rights is entitled allamansrdtt, which permits anybody to walk, pick berries or mushrooms virtually anywhere. Some local businessmen have hired Polish workers to come up to Sweden and pick mushrooms but they havent been
36、 to our area more than once. When they emerged from this forest they found that the tyres in their bikes and cars were mysteriously flat. Its somehow a typically Swedish paradox: you have the legal right to go where you like, hut dont let that give you the idea that you can just go anywhere. 41 The
37、attitude held by the locals towards the bureaucrats and the government can best be described as _. （ A） hated （ B） distrust （ C） contempt （ D） reverence 42 The experience described by the author in third paragraph is intended to show that _. （ A） local farmers hate the good things valued by the city
38、 folk because they hate city folk themselves （ B） vandalism is of common occurrence in the countryside （ C） my cousin had a deep affection for his sheep and ram （ D） correspondents were unwelcome to the land 43 In the fourth paragraph, which adjective(s) can be best applied to the local man for his
39、behavior? （ A） Funny. （ B） Cunning. （ C） Cruel and mean （ D） Resourceful and creative. 44 The writer thinks that Byzantine bureaucracy _. （ A） is too stringent in carrying out the laws （ B） deserves compliments for its achievements in preventing crimes （ C） is highly democratic （ D） contributes litt
40、le to the public welfare 45 The writer gave the description in a _ tone. （ A） dispassionate （ B） eulogizing （ C） positive and exaggerating （ D） negative and bitter 45 Steven Spielherg has taken Hollywoods depiction of war to a new level. He does it right at the start of Saving Private Ryan, in a 25
41、minute sequence depicting the landing of American forces on Omaha Beach in 1944. This is not the triumphant version of D-Day were used to seeing, but an inferno of severed arms, spilling intestines, flying corpses and blood-red tides. To those of us who have never fought in a war, this reenactmentne
42、wsreel-like in its verisimilitude, hallucinatory in its impact leaves you convinced that Spielberg has taken you closer to the chaotic, terrifying sights and sounds of combat than any filmmaker before him. This prelude is so strong, so unnerving, that I feared it would overwhelm the rest of the film
43、 When the narrative proper begins, theres an initial feeling of diminishment, its just a movie, after all, with the usual banal music cues and actors going through their paces. Fortunately, the feeling passes. Saving Private Ryan reasserts its grip on you and, for most of its 2 hour and 40 minute ru
44、nning time, holds you in thrall. Our heroes are a squad of eight soldiers lucky enough to survived Omaha Beach. Now they are sent, under the command of Captain Miller (Tom Hanks), to find and safely return from combat a Private Ryan (Matt Damon), whose three brothers have already died in action. Why
45、 should they risk their lives to save one man? The question haunts them, and the movie. The squad is a familiar melting-pot assortment of World War Two grunts the cynical New Yorker (Edward Burns) who doesnt want to risk his neck; the Jew (Adam Goldberg); the Italian (Vin Diesel); the Bible-quoting
46、sniper from Tennessee (Barry Pepper); the medic (Giovanni Ribisi). The most terrified is an inexperienced corporal (Jeremy Davies) brought along as a translator. Davies seems to express every possible variety of fear on his eloquently scrawny face. Tom Sizemore is also impressive as Millers loyal se
47、cond in command. As written by Robert Rodat, they could be any squad in any war movie. But Spielberg and his actors make us care deeply about their fate. Part of the movies power comes from Hanks quietly mysterious performance as their decent, reticent leader (the men have a pool going speculating a
48、bout what he did in civilian life). Theres an unhistrionic fatalism in Captain Miller; he just wants to get the job done and get home alive, but his eyes tell you he doesnt like the odds. The level of work in Saving Private Ryan from the acting to Janusz Kaminskis brilliantly bleached-out color cine
49、matography to the extraordinary sound design by Gary Rydstorm is state of the art. For most of Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg is working at the top of his form, with the movie culminating in a spectacularly staged climactic battle in a French village. The good stuff is so shattering that it overwhelms the lapses, but you cant help noticing a few Hollywood moments. Sometimes Spielberg doesnt seem to trust how powerful the material is, and crosses the line into sentimentality. Theres a prelude and a coda, set in a military ceme
