1、高级口译（笔试）模拟试卷 44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 I met Cameron at his home in the village of Newtonmore, in the Scottish Highlands. Hes【 C1】 _, so when we went out of his comfortable home, up onto the open hillside above the village. I could easily tell how much he loves【 C2】 _. As he looked round, enj
3、oying the scenery and talking, his face lit up. But when I asked him about memorials to the dead in the countryside【 C3】 _. He talked about all the stuff hes seen, left by people whove been on the mountains before him.【 C4】 _, he tells me. But also, more and more monuments, marble plaques, laminated
4、 photographs. 【 C5】 _ in plastic. Children toys cemented onto boulders. He hates them all, he says. Hes never destroyed a memorial himself, but he knows other people who have and he【 C6】 _. On the other side of the argument are Mo and Moragtwo women whose friend, Ailsa, died last year of breast canc
5、er. Mo told me Ailsa was【 C7】 _. Its difficult to believe that shes one. And she talked about the plan for a sponsored walk up Britains highest mountain, Ben Nevis. The aim is【 C8】 _ a cancer charity, to help Ailsas friends say good-bye, and to build a small cairn of piled-up rocks in her memorycomp
6、lete with【 C9】 _. Morag explained that they picked Ben Nevis because, on a grey day of mist and low cloud, the summit【 C10】 _. It was as though the decision had been made for them. And, she added, the top of the mountain is the closest【 C11】 _. Ben Nevis towers over Fort William, a small town in the
7、 west of the Scottish Highlands. It promotes itself as【 C12】 _ the UKnot least because the mountain is on the doorstep. Admittedly, at one thousand three hundred and forty-three meters the Ben【 C13】 _ on a world scale. But it does feature some extraordinary wild and rugged scenery, which draws tens
8、of thousands of people every year. They come【 C14】_, and in all sorts of ways. Some walk up a wide, easy path to the top because its something to do on Sunday morning when it feels like everything else in Fort William is shut.【 C15】 _ the much more challenging Alpine-esque cliffs and ridges on the m
9、ountains north face. And somelike Mo and Moragcome to【 C16】 _, a family member, or a friend whos died. The mountaineers and walkers say all these memorials are crass, intrusive, and worse than leaving litter in a wild, unspoiled place.【 C17】 _ that mountains are special, spiritual placesbut say that
10、 they should be free to leave monuments to the dead in the wilderness, if thats what【 C18】 _. Its complicated. A sensitive and difficult subject. And its been dealt with in a variety of different ways. Some land-owners【 C19】 _ on hill and lake-sides. Others remove anything and everything they find e
11、ven digging up snow-drops and other wild flowers that have been planted in places【 C20】 _. Now the Mountaineering Council of Scotland is calling for a debate about what shouldand shouldntbe allowed. 1 【 C1】 2 【 C2】 3 【 C3】 4 【 C4】 5 【 C5】 6 【 C6】 7 【 C7】 8 【 C8】 9 【 C9】 10 【 C10】 11 【 C11】 12 【 C12】
12、 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 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 spok
13、en 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 ANSWER BOOKLET. （ A） 200. （ B） 100. （ C） 80. （ D） 3. （ A） Local residents werent going to allow a Superdome to go into
14、their side of the bridge. （ B） The city could be burned, looted and pillaged just like New Orleans. （ C） The police deputies were not going to allow their town to build another New Orleans. （ D） There were possibly not enough places in the town for so many evacuees to stay in. （ A） Because the polic
15、e allowed a very small portion of white people cross the bridge. （ B） Because most of the people asking for help were African-American women and children. （ C） Because there were almost no black police officers on the spot that day. （ D） Because any black people who wanted to cross the bridge had to
16、 be with some white people. （ A） There was a chaos caused by the front people running backwards so they couldnt go fast. （ B） The bridge was quite high so its dangerous for them to climb up to the bridge at high speed. （ C） Some of them were injured, disabled and others children so they couldnt go v
17、ery fast. （ D） There were some camping sites established by evacuees which block the traffic. （ A） Complain against the police officer. （ B） Try to find a solution and help the woman. （ C） Communicate with other witnesses. （ D） Find the police officer and the reason behind. （ A） Sri Lanka aims for o
18、ver 8% economic growth in 2007. （ B） The particular focus of the national economy is consistently on raising per capita income. （ C） It has built a market economy through a series of structural reforms since its independence. （ D） The country has enjoyed strong economic growth since 1979. （ A） The k
19、ey post of Finance Minister was vacated by Yongyuth Mayalarp. （ B） Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont resigned. （ C） Former World Bank economist was responsible for tank design in an institute. （ D） The minor restructuring of the Thai cabinet is approved. （ A） 49. （ B） 47. （ C） 44. （ D） 43. （ A） There
20、 is no guarantee that constituent assembly election will be held even after six months. （ B） All agreements between the CPN-M and the seven-party alliance (SPA) had been broken. （ C） Declaring republic through parliament could save eight-party unity. （ D） Prachanda should address a talk program orga
21、nized by the Reporters Club. （ A） Bahrain. （ B） Oman. （ C） Saudi Arabia. （ D） Caretaker. （ A） They finally refused the awful aid from the West in any form. （ B） They were still at their worst and there is no sign for recovery. （ C） They wanted to eliminate hunger and poverty with the help of the Wes
22、t. （ D） They have been damaged in the interior wars for the past 40 years. （ A） Africans are taught to be dependent on the aid from the West. （ B） Local markets are weakened everywhere by the aid. （ C） Huge bureaucracies are emerging because the officials abuse the aid money. （ D） Corruption and com
23、placency are promoted by the fast growing economy. （ A） They encouraged the Kenyans to help themselves in the fighting against the catastrophe. （ B） They requested help from the United Nations World Food Program. （ C） They worked with the United Nations and tried to create more job opportunities in
24、the region. （ D） They took effective measures to eliminate the devastation and minimize human casualties. （ A） The government would be forced to improve the infrastructure and establish market economy. （ B） The Kenyans would be forced to do business with Uganda or Tanzania. （ C） The local people wou
25、ld starve because they have nothing to eat. （ D） African countries would make their national borders more permeable. （ A） Africans have many opportunities of development when they are in the drought. （ B） African countries have vast natural resources such as oil, gold, and diamonds. （ C） Hunger shou
26、ld not be a problem in most of the countries south of the Sahara. （ D） Africa has a long history and Africans did well before the Europeans came to the continent. （ A） The Olympics were as important as the Pythian Games in ancient Greece. （ B） The Pythian Games have been staged at Delphi since the 6
27、th century BC. （ C） The Pythian Games were more like a celebration of the arts than sport. （ D） The city of Kuching in Malaysian Borneo shall host the venue this year. （ A） Around 1,000. （ B） About 40. （ C） Approximately 6. （ D） Not mentioned. （ A） Senior members of the International Delphic Committ
28、ee held a very serious meeting. （ B） Some parts of the fences of the games arena collapsed. （ C） The Russians sent a letter to remind the committee of the difficulties of the host nation. （ D） There seemed to be no organisation, no funding, and no competitors from Malaysia. （ A） Building friendships
29、 across cultures. （ B） Promoting different cultures of different nations. （ C） Performing traditional activities of the peoples. （ D） Showing the wealth of exotic cultures. （ A） It is a chaos because all the performers are chatting, sitting and eating the same food together. （ B） It is not well orga
30、nized because they are going on stage to represent completely different worlds. （ C） It is a fierce competition because all the performers are all doing their best and their performance are equally attractive. （ D） It is a bridge of understanding across which one day the Russians may share the delig
31、ht. 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 the basis of what is stated or implied i
32、n that passage and write tile letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. 40 Quipus are the mysterious bundles of colored and knotted threads that served as the Inca empires means of recording information. The code of the quipus has long since been forgott
33、en, and the only major advance in understanding them was the insight, made in 1923, that the knots were used to represent numbers. The quantity and positioning of the knots, at least in certain quipus, is agreed to represent a decimal system. A new and possibly significant advance in deciphering the
34、 quipu system may now have been gained by two Harvard researchers, Gary Urton and Carrie J. Brezine. They believe they may have decoded the first worda place nameto be found in a quipu (pronounced KWEE-poo), and have also identified what some of the many numbers in the quipu records may be referring
35、 to. Though a single word would be just the first step in a very long road, it would open the possibility of discovering a whole new level of meaning in the quipus. It could also resolve a longstanding controversy by establishing that quipus included a writing system and were not just personal mnemo
36、nic devices understood only by the person who made them, as some scholars have maintained. That in turn would help explain the “Inca paradox,“ that among states of large size and administrative complexity the Inca empire stands out as the only one that apparently did not invent writing. The paradox
37、would be resolved if indeed the quipu encodes a writing system as well as numbers. The Harvard researchers also have ideas about the nature of the item being so carefully tallied in the quipus under study: units of labor, like an ancient time log. The Inca empire, which lasted from about 1450 to 153
38、2, depended on tribute levied in the form of a labor tax. Because of the importance of the tax for building the imperial roads and other public works, both the requisition and delivery of the labor days owed in tax were likely to have been carefully recorded by the Inca bureaucrats. Quipus were used
39、 both by high officials to issue instructions and by lower officials to report what they had done. It is easy to imagine a diligent accountant wanting to compare the outgoing quipu, or a copy of it, with the incoming response quipu. Since the quipu could represent instructions sent to the ruler of P
40、uruchuco from the provincial governor, or accounting records sent from Puruchuco to the governor, it would have been useful for the records to carry a tag identifying the place they referred to. As it happens, all the quipu in the two top summarizing layers carry an initial set of knots designating
41、three ones, as if 1-1-1 designated the place name for Puruchuco. The lowest level quipus do not carry this ZIP code, perhaps because they never left Puruchuco and so didnt need one. If this interpretation is accepted by other scholars, it would be the first meaning beyond the number system to be ide
42、ntified in quipus, Dr. Urton said. Galen Brokaw, a quipu expert at the State University of New York at Buffalo, said it was plausible to suggest the numbers being tallied in many quipu referred to the labor tax. Dr. Urtons identification of 1-1-1 as a place name would, if confirmed, be “a substantiv
43、e contribution to understanding how quipu worked,“ Dr. Brokaw said. The proposal is fascinating, he said, but hard to verify because the provenance of most quipu is unknown. Only 700 or so quipus have been preserved, since the Spanish destroyed them as a matter of policy. About two-thirds are clearl
44、y numerical records, with knots placed in a series of levels, each corresponding to a power of 10. But scholars have been baffled by the nature of the remaining third, which embody some different meaning. Those who believe the nonnumerical quipus were just personal mnemonic devices cite a 17th-centu
45、ry Jesuit chronicler who reported that each quipu maker could understand only his own quipu, not those of others. But the chronicler may have been misinformed, Dr. Urton wrote in his book Signs of the Inka Khipu, because his report was made 70 years after the Spanish authorities in Lima had condemne
46、d quipu as idolatrous in a decree of 1583 and had ordered them burned. Dr. Urton believes that the Puruchuco hierarchy of quipus would have been made by different people and hence show information passing between them via quipu. This would be a significant finding, if true, since it points to the qu
47、ipu encoding generally understood signs, not a personal set of signs. 41 According to the passage, what is NOT the significance of the latest decoding of the quipu system by two Harvard researchers? （ A） It casts light on the understanding of the whole quipu system. （ B） It helps to settle a long-st
48、anding debate over the nature of the quipu system. （ C） It is likely to prove that the Inca Empire did create its own writing system. （ D） It shows that the “Inca paradox“ only concerns the cultural development of the ancient Empire. 42 Based on the latest discovery by Harvard researchers, quipus mi
49、ght be all the following EXCEPT_. （ A） an approach to exchange information between individuals （ B） a system of numbers （ C） accounting records of labor tax （ D） a form of instructions or reports by bureaucrats 43 Galen Brokaw holds that_. （ A） Gary Urton and Carrie J. Brezine has interpreted the quipu system convincingly （ B） the latest advance in decoding quipus does not reveal all the functions of quipus （ C） the greatest obstacle to fully unders
