1、高级口译（笔试）模拟试卷 40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 These days searching for a number【 C1】 _ telephone directory seems very old-fashioned. Voice recognition systems are becoming more and more【 C2】 _: the best of them apparently recognise 49【 C3】 _. These devices save companies a huge amount of money. Step
3、hen Evans in New York has been talking to the machines and to the men who design them. I had a bit of a Basil Fawlty moment, the other day. I rang 411,【 C4】 _ which now uses a voice recognition system. I told the machine I wanted the number for “Harlem Auto Mall“ and shefor【 C5】 _replied “Harlem Pub
4、lic School 154“. No doubt like lots of people, I【 C6】 _. Machines, you see, have personalities, and hanks, phone companies, railways and 【 C7】 _ are spending a lot of money trying to find out what kinds of voices to give the machines that speak to us, the public, on their behalf. Much of the researc
5、h【 C8】 _Room 325 in McClatchy Hallin Stanford University in California. Its the site of the drily-entitled but fascinating laboratory for “ 【 C9】 _“, and the domain of a genial, enthusiastic professor called Clifford Nass who studies, quite simply, how people and machines get on, particularly when【
6、C10】_. In his lab, a stream of students and local people of all shapes and sizes undergo tests.【 C11】 _ are played to them and their reactions noted: “Did you trust that voice?“ “Did this one have authority?“ Generally, the tests show that people are【 C12】 _ than by male ones. On the upside, male vo
7、iced machines are perceived to【 C13】 _. One of the results of that, for example is that in Japan a stock-broking company used a female voice on its machine to give information on stocks and shares but then a male one【 C14】 _. Now, in many parts of the world, when you hire a car, you get a navigation
8、 systema little electronic map on a screen with a machine voice. In America, its a female voice. She tells me, say, to【 C15】 _ andI fancy, at leastgets exasperated if I dont follow her directions: “Recalculating Route“, she snaps,【 C16】 _. Now, in Germany when they tried a similar system, men reacte
9、d against being given directions by a female voice so it had to【 C17】 _. Old people, by the way, take advice more readily from young people than from people of their own age. 【 C18】 _. Professor Nass is working on a system where the machine-voice changes according to how you address it. Hes discover
10、ed that irritable drivers can calm down if 【 C19】 _ is subduedthough, for some reason that he doesnt quite understand, calm drivers get wound up by subdued, low-key voices that dont vary in pitch. So the next task is to vary the systems voice according to how grumpy you, the driver, are. If you soun
11、d【 C20】 _, the machine will change tone to calm you down. 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 part of t
12、he 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 you have ch
13、osen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. （ A） Vocabulary learning through media for children. （ B） Individual differences in language learning. （ C） The best approach to picking up new words for children. （ D） Individual learning, group learning, and classroom learning. （ A） Tom hasnt
14、 really started the essay so he might miss the deadline. （ B） Judy sends a copy of her essay to Tom for collection. （ C） Judy wants to help Tom by exchanging their ideas on the essay. （ D） Tom plagiarizes the work of Judy so he can hand in the paper on time. （ A） Three. （ B） Four. （ C） More than fou
15、r. （ D） Not mentioned. （ A） Maps. （ B） Booklets. （ C） Video tapes. （ D） Computers. （ A） Individual learning is no longer a popular concept in the circle. （ B） He can think of no form of media suitable for individual learning. （ C） Judy always disagrees with him when talking about self-learning for k
16、ids. （ D） Tom finds it hard to identify the most useful media for individual learning. （ A） 3. （ B） 7. （ C） 4. （ D） l. （ A） 3billion kwacha. （ B） Over 21 million USD. （ C） About 32 million USD. （ D） About 350 million kwacha. （ A） More than 600 businessmen including the wealthiest in the world have a
17、ttended BFA. （ B） There are 850 participants in this years forum according to a foreign affairs official in the province of Hainan. （ C） It is said that more than 40 senior officials from the Chinese government shall attend the forum. （ D） The forum is held in a tropical seaside town in Hainan which
18、 is the permanent home of the conference. （ A） The US Protection and Investigations (USPI). （ B） Taliban militants. （ C） A US security company in Kandahar province of southern Afghanistan. （ D） A local police officer, Mohammad Asaf. （ A） South Africa has spent quite some time in questioning the drug
19、s efficacy and safety. （ B） The nation is finally embracing all approaches possible to fighting the epidemic. （ C） The government in March unveiled a revamped AIDS strategy, including an expanded rollout of drugs. （ D） South Africa has gathered AIDS researchers from around the world to attend an Ant
20、i-AIDS conference. （ A） 4:30. （ B） 5:00. （ C） 4:45. （ D） 5:05. （ A） Three. （ B） Four. （ C） At least four. （ D） Not mentioned. （ A） There was nothing special about the driver and he was very calm. （ B） The driver had no special facial features and looked somewhat dark. （ C） He put on a mask to hide h
21、is face when he was in the car. （ D） Black people and Hispanics look very much alike. （ A） His wife asked him to buy some flowers for her birthday in a flower shop. （ B） He was too romantic to believe that the robbery is true when on the job. （ C） The manager was absent during office hours dealing w
22、ith some private matters. （ D） It took 10 minutes for him to check what was happening and press the alarm bell. （ A） The man is very young. （ B） The man smokes. （ C） The man looks like a student. （ D） The man speaks with an accent. （ A） A school teacher. （ B） A clerk to the current Chief Justice. （
23、C） An appeals court judge. （ D） A extremist zealot. （ A） Edith was believed to be an amiable, professional, and therefore, suitable nominee. （ B） The President was known to be under pressure from people around. （ C） The retiring justice, Sandra Day OConnor, didnt accomplish her own mission. （ D） It
24、was a result from the consensus of all the voters and politicians. （ A） Be absent-minded because they cannot care less about the unpredictable results. （ B） Listen to the debate between Edith Brown Clement and John Roberts. （ C） Pay their attention to the reaction of the Senate democrats. （ D） Get r
25、eady to vote for or against John Roberts nomination in the Senate. （ A） Supreme Court Nomination in US （ B） Male or Female, Thats the Question （ C） Executive Influence on Judiciary （ D） Almighty Battle for the President and People （ A） Because the President tries to suggest that an apparently fairly
26、 liberal judge would be nominated. （ B） Because the retiring justice, Sandra Day OConnor, like other people, prefers a woman to take her place. （ C） Because her naming is an unanimous decision between the conservatives the democrats in the Senate. （ D） Because the President sees through her naming w
27、hich was a clever ploy by the White House. 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 on t
28、he 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 Late next month Europes political leaders will meet in Berlin to mark the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. Todays European Union spra
29、ng directly from that treaty. An economic club that began with six members has grown into a far-reaching political entity that has 27 members, 500 million inhabitants and constitutes the worlds biggest economic and trading block. Reaching 50 ought to be a joyous occasion. Yet no celebration in Berli
30、n can hide the fact that the EU is in something of a mid-life crisis. For most of the past decade its economic growth has been feeble and its unemployment unacceptably high. Nobody knows where to draw its boundaries. And since France and the Netherlands voted “no“ in two referendums in 2005 it has b
31、een unable to agree on its own constitution. Enthusiasts hope that the Berlin reunion will lead to a revival of that plan. They are deluding themselves. A flood of books, articles and broadcasts is expected to mark the 50th birthday. This is not, in fact, such a book. A Dutch journalist and historia
32、n, Geert Mak, spent the last year of the 20th century travelling around the continent for his newspaper, NRC Handelsblad. His musings were gathered into a book that became a bestseller in the Netherlands in 2004. Now the publishers have had the bright idea of bringing out an English translation just
33、 before the Rome treaty anniversary. Mr. Mak does indeed tell of the origins of the EU, notably by drawing on the words and wisdom of Max Kohnstamm, a Dutchman who worked closely with Jean Monnet, the projects French founding father. But his book is really a broader travelling history of the whole o
34、f Europes 20th century. As befits a journalist with an eye for bad news, he also has much more to say on its calamitous first half than on its more successful second half. Mr. Maks travels start in the capitals that glittered so brightly in the early 1900s: Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Lon
35、don. This was a time when Europe seemed unchallenged in its prosperity and leadership. But much of this was thrown away in the mud, filth and death of what the author calls the war of 1914-45. Mr. Mak tells this part of his story vividly and in great, gory detail, moving from grim fields of battle (
36、Verdun, Stalingrad) to stirring places of revolution (Petrograd, Berlin), and on to ghastly charnel-houses of death and destruction (Auschwitz, Dresden). Through the book runs one powerful common strand: nationalism and the end of Europes multi-ethnic way of life. Mr. Mak finds a telling quote from
37、Hitler, who declared that “the essence of Europe is not geographical but racial.“ The first world war did for the continents three great multinational empires: the Habsburg, the Russian and the Ottoman. The cataclysmic 1939-45 war destroyed much of what was left, killing along the way as many as 40
38、million people in Europe, including 6 million Jews. Mr. Mak rightly plays up the centrality of the two world wars to Europes 20th century. As he notes, it is not possible to appreciate the forces that play out in eastern Europe or the Balkans, say, without a comprehensive understanding of these regi
39、ons experience in the second world war, and the cold war that followed. This is also why he devotes less space to Britain and France than to places farther east. It is equally impossible to grasp the origins of the European Union without dwelling on the two wars. The founders wanted above all to avo
40、id repeating the experience of the first half of the century. Monnet and his fellows were convinced that nationalism lay at the root of Europes troubles. Their answer was to lay the foundation stones for a supranational state. Yet the tension between nationalism and supranationalism was there from t
41、he start. Charles de Gaulle, with his fierce attachment to France, was in some ways the first Eurosceptic. He was also deeply suspicious of British intentions towards the European project, because Winston Churchill once told him that he would always choose the open sea over Europe. Euroscepticism ha
42、s increased over the past decade, and is now found even in the 12 countries that have joined the EU since Mr. Mak first wrote his book. Yet as he explains in an epilogue added in 2006, the problems of the EU run deeper than just coping with Euroscepticism. Young Europeans do not fret over the risk o
43、f another war, so that part of Monnets dream means nothing to them. Instead they see a remote, bureaucratic and in some ways undemocratic organisationand not one that offers them a dream at all. No constitution will change that, something the leaders who will be gathering in Berlin would do well to
44、realise. 41 Why did the author say “Enthusiasts hope that the Berlin reunion will lead to a revival of that plan. They are deluding themselves.“? (Para. 2) （ A） EU is confronted by a series of difficulties such as economic weakness and internal discordance. （ B） Nobody knows where to draw its bounda
45、ries. （ C） They are not enthusiasts. （ D） EU is never going to revive. 42 Which of the following statements is true about Geert Maks book? （ A） It is a travelling pamphlet. （ B） It marks the 50th birthday of EU. （ C） It is more of a description of European calamitous history than an epic for it. （ D
46、） Britain and France take up most of the space in his book. 43 Which of the following is NOT true about Euroscepticism? （ A） It is connected with the gap between nationalism and supranationalism. （ B） Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill are both Eurosceptic. （ C） It has spread throughout Europe.
47、 （ D） The Berlin celebration will eliminate Euroscepticism. 44 What is the best topic for the article? （ A） Grim History of the EU, Calamitous WWII （ B） Approaching a 50th Birthday, the ElTs Past and Present （ C） A Travelling Book on EU History （ D） In Europe: Travels Through the 20th Century 45 Wha
48、t is the authors attitude towards EU? （ A） Partiality. （ B） Trepidation. （ C） Stander-by attitude. （ D） Euromaniac. 45 “Is the environment making us fat?“ That is the intriguing question posed by Bruce Blumberg of the University of California, Irvine. His research into endocrine disrupterschemical c
49、ompounds that interfere with the bodys normal processing of hormones such as oestrogenhas led him to conclude that some of them may well encourage obesity. The notion of such “obesogens“, as Dr. Blumberg calls them, is controversial. Some insist that diet and exercise (or, rather, the lack thereof) are the simpler explanations for obesity, with perhaps a dash of genetic predisposition thrown in. However, a panel of experts convened at the American A
