1、高级口译（笔试）模拟试卷 36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 This is what Africa has in abundance, space, almost 12 million square miles of desert, savanna, coastline, and people, 700 million in sub-Saharan Africa, 11% of the planets population, more than half of them children, and almost all of them poor. This to
3、o is what Africa has in abundance, poverty. Sub-Saharan Africa is【 C1】 _, almost half the people here live on less than 65 cents a day, not enough money, not enough food. One in three Africans is undernourished, malnutrition is a【 C2】 _ here, one in five children die before reaching the age of five.
4、 So many lives are short,【 C3】 _ is just over 45 years, often less for women, who die bearing children, die of AIDS. Sub-Saharan Africa has just【 C4】 _, but close to 70% of all people living with HIV, more than 29 million people. 58% of them, women. More than 16 million Africans【 C5】 _, thats the po
5、pulation of Hong Kong, Denmark and Ireland combined. 12 million children have【 C6】 _, many of them like these in Uganda HIV positive. HIV, AIDS is only one disease plaguing Africa. Malaria kills almost 【 C7】 _. Measles kills more than a thousand children every day. Thats one child nearly every minut
6、e. Measles can【 C8】 _, but in sub-Saharan Africa only about a half of all children are immunized during the first year of life.【 C9】 _ in Nigeria let polio, which was nearly eradicated in the world, takes route again, spread to 17 previously polio-free countries. There is no vaccine【 C10】 _; the bes
7、t prevention is clean water, which more than 300 million Africans dont have. Water of any kind 【 C11】_, or so distant, that the working years of many lives are spent hauling water. Work for most is hard.【 C12】 _, labour as farmers, grow what they can, where they can, and get it to market however the
8、y can. Across sub-Saharan Africa economic growth is low, slow, and【 C13】 _. Corruption is another kind of plague here. And so is war. One in every five Africans lives in a society【 C14】 _, armed conflict has ruptured nearly half of all the countries in sub-Saharan Africa in the past 5 years. Most ho
9、rribly in Liberia, Congo, Darfur, and Sudan. Uncounted millions have【 C15】 _. Without stability and good government progress is limited, so is the willingness of donors to give and investors to invest to bring【 C16】 _ into the modern world. To improve education, 41% of Africans cannot read or write,
10、 as many as half of all African children【 C17】 _. Even those who complete high school are ill-equipped to be part of a 21st-century work force, or the technological age. Less than one percent of the African population has a computer; only one in forty owns a telephone. Yet Africa【 C18】_ beneath the
11、surface, literally in minerals, gold, cobalt, copper, diamonds and in oil. Sub-Saharan African countries will earn more than 200 billion dollars in oil revenues【 C19】 _. And Africa has incalculable wealth in its people, who are among the most perseverant and resilient on Earth, who want and have【 C2
12、0】 _, and in a growing number of African countries free elections. 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: In this
13、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 answer yo
14、u have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. （ A） The School of Midwifery （ B） Harvard Graduate School of Education （ C） Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study （ D） The Faculty of Social Work, Arts, and Education （ A） Educational Leadership. （ B） Distance Education. （ C） Educatio
15、nal Administration. （ D） Curriculum Design. （ A） 2062 2302. （ B） 2044 5761. （ C） 2062 2057. （ D） 2067 2057. （ A） Not sure so she needs to see it for herself. （ B） Complicated so she needs the man to check it out. （ C） Easy so she can tell the number on the spot. （ D） Crucial so the man has to confir
16、m it with the record. （ A） Annual membership for the future. （ B） Yearly membership for now. （ C） Quarter membership for the future. （ D） Seasonal membership for now. （ A） He denies the current stalemate and the brewing confrontation. （ B） The United States threats to impose new sanctions against Ir
17、an. （ C） The United Nations nuclear watchdog shall convene on Monday. （ D） Tehrans nuclear program is about nuclear safety and security issues. （ A） They have killed one person and injured 37 others in an explosion. （ B） They were interrogated and freed by the police. （ C） They are Rwandese national
18、s who were on normal cause of their private affairs. （ D） They are of Somali origin and have disembarked from a pickup near the scene moments before the explosion. （ A） 30. （ B） 520. （ C） 63. （ D） 433. （ A） The Socialists. （ B） Sarkozs party. （ C） The Socialists alliances. （ D） The Convents. （ A） Ne
19、arly 100. （ B） 71. （ C） More than 80. （ D） 70. （ A） $26,000. （ B） $29,656. （ C） $56,000. （ D） $31000. （ A） An executive officer. （ B） A domestic engineer. （ C） A camion driver. （ D） A utility man. （ A） An American woman living in the suburbs whose time is often spent transporting her children from o
20、ne athletic activity or event to another. （ B） A mom who spends lots of her time and efforts on the education and transportation of her children. （ C） A woman whose job is a soccer team player and whose part in family is a housekeeper at the same time. （ D） A mom who does 7 jobs back at home can bec
21、ome so strong that she is sometimes described as a “soccer team player“. （ A） He believes it is not high enough as far as the job categories are concerned. （ B） He hesitates to say that the income is too low because it might irritate the public. （ C） He thinks it might sound high but the moms actual
22、ly deserve it. （ D） He proposes that the salary for those housewives should be flexible within the range of seven-figure level. （ A） It is their job to evaluate peoples value and do market survey. （ B） They try to attract the attention of the public by calculating the salary of every possible job. （
23、 C） It is wrong that working mothers value is often neglected by the society. （ D） The speaker has the idea to give his mother a salary as a token of love in turn. （ A） Joint efforts shall be paid to get the situation of Scotland back to normal. （ B） They agreed to double their annual aid to Africa
24、by 2010. （ C） G8 shall work together on the subject of climate change. （ D） Debts for Africas poorest countries shall be cancelled. （ A） The Commonwealth Games. （ B） Group-Eight Summits. （ C） European Football Finals. （ D） Huge New Year celebrations. （ A） There shall be a series of lethal bomb explo
25、sions more than six hundred kilometres away in London. （ B） Seat of the Scottish parliament shall be the spotlight and Edinburgh a key business and tourist centre. （ C） Local church and community groups shall want trade justice, clean water, and action on HTV-AIDS. （ D） The four thousand residents o
26、f the town of Auchterarder two kilometres away shall become the focus of international attention. （ A） To work closely with the local residents to build one of the best colonies in history. （ B） To send missionaries and civil servants to accomplish the missions assigned by G8. （ C） To establish form
27、al links with one of the African countries. （ D） To build clinics, hospitals, schools, and colleges in the colonies. （ A） Whether one million visitors heading for Edinburgh would cause consternation in the city. （ B） Whether the CIA would be permitted to shoot wild-life which strayed too close to th
28、e US president. （ C） Whether people could buy some of the steel fencing at a knock-down price when the summit ended. （ D） Whether there would be a runway to allow President Bush to fly in on Airforce One. 一、 SECTION 2 READING TEST Directions: In this section you will read several passages. Each one
29、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 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 yo
30、ur ANSWER BOOKLET. 40 Radios got a problem. Although some 200 million people tune in each week to hear their favorite overcaffeinated DJ or catch those crucial rush-hour traffic updates, its getting tougher to hold listeners attention. Facing flat revenues and competition ranging from iPods to music
31、 phones, the 87-year-old industry is scrambling to reinvent itself. But not even satellite radio or the new HD format addresses this analog mediums fundamental flaw: it doesnt give people any say in which songs they hear. If you dont like a track or a DJ, your only option is to turn the dialor turn
32、it off. That could change if the pioneers behind personalized radio continue to win over music lovers who are burned out on regular radio but cant be bothered to constantly refresh their iPods with 99 iTunes. On websites such as Last.fm, P and the new S personalized radio lets you train it to unders
33、tand your tastes. You can, of course, just listen to the music passively as it plays on your computer. But its even better when you make it your own, by marking each song as a favorite, skipping past it or banishing it from the stations playlist altogether. And despite growing concern about how prop
34、osed new royalty fees for Internet radio stations could hamper the industrys growth, on May 23 Sprint became the first wireless carrier to offer personalized radio on its phones. Each customizable radio service has its own way of assessing what you like. Pandora refers to its database of more than 6
35、00,000 major-label songsall of which have been categorized by musical attributes such as voice, tonality and chromatic harmonythen serves up similar-sounding tracks. That can get a little monotonous, so Slacker, which launched in March, uses professional DJs to dream up constantly changing playlists
36、 that give you more variety while still adhering to your basic tastes. If you ask for Gwen Stefani, for example, youll also get the Cars, Talking Heads and Bjork in addition to more obvious matches such as Blondie and Madonna. And Last.fm, which is based in London, taps into the collective wisdom of
37、 its 20 million users worldwide. For example, if you like Beyonce, and other Last.fm members who like Beyonce also listen to Mary J. Blige, then the service will put Mary on your playlist as well. Personalized radio isnt just a quirky idea for tech geeks to fawn over and venture capitalists to gambl
38、e their millions on. Although its revenues are minuscule compared with the $21 billion of the terrestrial-radio industry, more than 4 million people in the US visit Pandora and Last.fm each month, according to comScore Media Metrix. That makes them the fifth and sixth most popular Web radio stations
39、 in the country. “Its the ideal middle ground between having an intact experience and being in control of what you receive,“ says Last.fm co-founder Martin Stiksel. Making personalized radio portable could be the key to its long-term success. “The biggest problem with Internet radio is that its stuc
40、k on the PC,“ says Slacker CEO Dennis Mudd. “What you really want is this device you can play in your living room, in your car or in the desert walking around.“ In addition to Sprints move to put Pandora on phones, SanDisk recently demonstrated a prototype portable player that could run Pandora, and
41、 Slacker plans to sell a $150 iPod-like player this summer that can get wireless music downloads from its website. Unlike iTunes, music from Slacker is free. “Most people dont want to pay for radio,“ says Mudd, who hopes to bring in revenue through audio advertising spots. That model is showing some
42、 promise. The overall Internet-radio market brought in more than $400 million in ad revenue last year, according to JPMorgan Chase. About half of that came from online ads on websites owned by conventional radio broadcasters like CBS Radio and Clear Channel. “Internet radio, when you tie it in with
43、our business model, I think it works,“ says Clear Channel CEO Mark Mays, who is beefing up his stations Web presence with online videos and promotions. Even old-school DJs see the appeal of personalized radio. Elvis Duran, who hosts a popular morning show on New York Citys Z100, says he could imagin
44、e a future in which listeners wake up to some comedy and conversation from the show followed by three songs tailored to their tastes. But he doesnt expect live DJs to become obsolete: “When people wake up in the morning, its good to hear some people who are talking about interesting topics and who l
45、et you know, hey, the worlds still spinning and I can go out there.“ Good idea. No wonder Apple never built a radio tuner in the iPod: its scared of the competition. 41 Which of the following is not the problem of old school radio DJs? （ A） The 87-year-old industry is too old to catch on. （ B） Liste
46、ners attention is more likely to be deviated. （ C） Fierce competition with counterparts. （ D） Floundering profit-earning modes. 42 Personalized radios improvement does NOT include_. （ A） customing your own list of favorite music （ B） assessing your choice of music （ C） expanding database of music （
47、D） recommending similar music on your own fancy 43 We can conclude from the passage that_. （ A） personalized radios have made great benefits until now （ B） companies like Sprint, Slacker, and Pandora are teaming up to make personalized radio wireless and portable （ C） iTune will cut its price to cat
48、ch up with others （ D） the author suggests that old style DJs will ultimately disappear 44 The last sentence implies that_. （ A） people need live DJs more than they need customized radios （ B） people tend to think live DJs will still remain （ C） Apple company is too weak to build a radio channel on
49、its own products （ D） live DJs are struggling to survive the heated competition 45 The word “beefing up“ (Para. 6) is closest to_. （ A） working on （ B） reinforcing （ C） cutting （ D） staying put 45 For almost six years Lyle Craker, a researcher who studies medicinal plants at the University of Massachusetts, has been trying to grow pot. Quite a long time, one might think, for a professor of agronomyhis students
