1、高级口译（笔试）模拟试卷 6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. Rem
2、ember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE. 0 Most people would be impressed by the high quality of medicine available to most Americans. There is【 C1】 _, a great deal of attention to the individual, a vast amount of【 C2】 _, and intense effort not to make mistakes because of the【 C3】_which doctors an
3、d hospitals must face in the courts if they【 C4】 _. But the Americans are in a mess. The problem is the way in which health care is【 C5】 _. Contrary to public belief, it is not just a free competition system. The private system has been joined【 C6】 _, because private care was simply not looking afte
4、r【 C7】 _. But even with this huge public part of the system, which this year will eat up【 C8】_more than 10 per cent of the U. S. Budget【 C9】 _are left out. These include about half the【 C10】 _unemployed and those who fail to meet【 C11】_on income fixed by a government trying to【 C12】 _where it can. T
5、he basic problem, however, is that there is no【 C13】 _over the health system. There is no confinement to what doctors and hospitals【 C14】 _, other than what the public is able to pay.【 C15】 _has shot up and prices have climbed. When faced with toothache, a sick child, or a【 C16】 _, all the unfortuna
6、te person concerned can do is pay up. Two-thirds of the population are【 C17】 _. Doctors charge as much as they want, knowing that the insurance company will pay the bill.【 C18】 _in the U. S. A. is among the most worrying problems. In 2004【 C19】 _climbed 15.9 per centabout twice【 C20】 _. 1 【 C1】 2 【
7、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 the test there will be some short talks and conversations. After each o
8、ne, 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 ANSWER BOOKLET. （ A） Just Say
9、No to the Kids （ B） Discipline is Not a Dirty Word （ C） Parenting, a Difficult Job （ D） What are Children Thinking? （ A） An author whos been running parenting workshops. （ B） A child psychologist on practical parenting. （ C） A journalist whos interviewed a lot of parents. （ D） A parent whos been hav
10、ing a lot of trouble. （ A） On no occasions. （ B） On several occasions mentioned in the interview. （ C） On all occasions. （ D） On rare, important occasions. （ A） Because children will be given too many choices. （ B） Because they will take IF as an incentive. （ C） Because they will be put in control.
11、（ D） Because they will challenge against it. （ A） The I-message. （ B） The When-Then rule. （ C） Corporal punishment. （ D） Dont end a sentence with OK. （ A） The Federal Reserve cut interest rates to 4.75 percent. （ B） The reduction of interest rate is offering help to the economy of the United States.
12、 （ C） The discount rate was reduced by a bold half point. （ D） The Federal Reserve lowered the discount rate to lubricate credit market. （ A） Torrential rains and mudslides led to heavy casualties. （ B） Storm Olga caused a failure of electrical power and flooded the area. （ C） Strong winds in the up
13、per atmosphere tugged Storm Olga apart. （ D） Tropical storm warnings and watches were issued. （ A） It has fallen down compared with the previous year. （ B） Total European sales were down over the first 11 months. （ C） Private demand in most western European countries were depressed for a number of r
14、easons. （ D） Volkswagen Group was no longer the market leader since its market share dropped. （ A） That there was scientific evidence proving the causal relationship between a certain kind of medicine and suicidal cases. （ B） That healthcare worker should pay more attention to cases of suicidal thou
15、ghts linked to a new smoking cessation pill. （ C） That it would warn against the clinical application of a new smoking cessation pill. （ D） That it would ask Pfizer Inc to submit changes to the marketing information. （ A） It paid $ 4 million for a handwritten, illustrated version of “Harry Porter“.
16、（ B） It donated money to a charity co-founded by J. K. Rowling. （ C） It won the bid in an auction for a book written by J. K. Rowling. （ D） It posted reviews of all the tales on the Website. （ A） Women are more stressed out than men. （ B） Stress reducing in holiday seasons. （ C） Life with extreme st
17、ress. （ D） What makes people more stressful? （ A） A chief editor. （ B） A psychologist. （ C） A program presenter. （ D） A columnist. （ A） Women are bearing the burden for the holidays by themselves. （ B） Women needs to satisfy their childrens expectations. （ C） Women have to take care of family relati
18、onships during this period. （ D） Women may feel they are not doing it as well as their mothers did. （ A） That you should depend on yourself in an aviation accident. （ B） That you should realize that your life is more important than others. （ C） That you should focus on giving help to other people be
19、fore saving yourself. （ D） That you should get rid of your guilt in order to achieve stress reducing. （ A） Eat right. （ B） Get enough rest. （ C） Listen to the advices. （ D） Take time to contemplate. （ A） Celebrity life. （ B） Chronic back pain. （ C） Healthcare for people in all walks of life. （ D） Di
20、et and pain. （ A） Pregnancy. （ B） Lack of exercise. （ C） Overweight. （ D） Osteoporosis. （ A） Relaxation therapy. （ B） Pain killers. （ C） Exercise routines. （ D） Diet. （ A） Sufferers from back pain are not able to move around. （ B） It is usually better at self-repair. （ C） A back injury is usually mo
21、re painful. （ D） Its response to injury often results in more damage. （ A） It is advised for extreme pain only. （ B） It is advised for pain lasting more than two days. （ C） It is advised for a maximum of two days. （ D） It is advised when one is unable to hold his or her spine. 一、 SECTION 2 READING T
22、EST 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 in that passage and write t
23、ile letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. 40 WHITE people tend to be nervous of raising the subject of race and education, but are often voluble on the issue if a black person brings it up. So when Trevor Phillips, chairman of Britains Commission for
24、 Racial Equality, said that there was a particular problem with black boys performance at school, and that it might be a good idea to educate them apart from other pupils, there was a torrent of comment. Some of it commended his proposal, and some criticised it, but none of it questioned its premise
25、. Everybody accepts that black boys are a problem. On the face of it, it looks as though Mr Phillips is right. Only 27% of Afro-Caribbean boys get five A-C grades at GCSE, the exams taken by 16-year-olds, compared with 47% of boys as a whole and 44% of Afro-Caribbean girls. Since, in some subjects,
26、candidates who score less than 50% get Cs, those who dont reach this threshold have picked up pretty little at school. Mr Phillipss suggestion that black boys should be taught separately implies that ethnicity and gender explain their underachievement. Certainly, maleness seems to be a disadvantage
27、at school. Thats true for all ethnic groups: 57% of girls as a whole get five A-Cs, compared with 47% of boys. But its not so clear that blackness is at the root of the problem. Among children as a whole, Afro-Caribbeans do indeed perform badly. But Afro-Caribbeans tend to be poor. So to get a bette
28、r idea of whether race, rather than poverty, is the problem, one must control for economic status. The only way to do that, given the limits of British educational statistics, is to separate out the exam results of children who get free school meals: only the poor get free grub. Poor childrens resul
29、ts tell a rather different story. Afro-Caribbeans still do remarkably badly, but whites are at the bottom of the pile. All ethnic minority groups do better than them. Even Bangladeshis, a pretty deprived lot, do twice as well as the natives in their exams; Indians and Chinese do better still. And ab
30、solute numbers of underperforming whites dwarf those of underperforming Afro-Caribbeans: last year, 131,393 of white boys failed to hit the governments benchmark, compared with 3,151 Afro-Caribbean boys. These figures suggest that, at school at least, black peoples problem is not so much race as pov
31、erty. And they undermine the idea of teaching black boys separately, for if poor whites are doing worse than poor blacks, theres not much argument for singling out blacks for special measures: whites need help just as badly. This isnt, however, a message that anybody much wants to hear. Many white p
32、eople find the idea that theres something fundamentally wrong with black people comforting: it confirms deeply held prejudices and reassures them that a whole complex of social problems-starting with underachievement in schools, but leading on to unemployment, drug addiction and crimeis nothing to d
33、o with them. The race-relations industry also has an interest in explaining educational underachievement in terms of ethnicity. A whole raft of committees, commissions and task forces has been set up on the assumption that racial differences are a fundamental cause of social problems. If thats wrong
34、, then all those worthies might as well pack up and go home. Trying to explain educational underachievement away as a racial issue may be comforting and convenient, but it is also dangerous, for it distracts attention from the real problemthat the school system fails the poor. Thats not a black prob
35、lem or a white problem: its a British problem. 41 The article can be classified as _. （ A） objective commentary （ B） detailed illustration （ C） chronological description （ D） heated argumentation 42 According to the author, Trevor Phillips （ A） arrives at his view with strong prejudice. （ B） was gre
36、eted with harsh criticism regarding his suggestion to educate black boys separately. （ C） is reasonable in arguing that ethnicity and gender account for black boy s underachievement. （ D） comes to his generalization without any investigation. 43 The author of the passage holds that _. （ A） all the w
37、hite students do better than ethnic minorities at school. （ B） Trevor Phillips account of black boys underperformance is an abuse of trust of ethnic minority. （ C） poverty, rather than race, is the underlying reason for the black boys underperformance at school. （ D） neither ethnicity nor gender can
38、 account for the black boys underachievement. 44 Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? （ A） White people cant be exempt from the troublesome social problems. （ B） If the assumption that ethnicity is the root of social problems proves to be wrong, many people might lose jobs. （
39、 C） The large number of committees, commissions and task forces carried out their jobs on the basis of false assumption. （ D） The major task of the race-relations industry is to coordinate the relationships between the white and the ethnic minorities. 45 Which of the following best explains the sent
40、ence “Thats not a black problem or a white problem: its a British problem.“ in the last paragraph? （ A） Black boys underachievement is not a problem of the black only but of all the British. （ B） Differentiating between black people and white people is a racial discrimination against the black. （ C）
41、 The origin of black boys underperformance lies in the British education system, rather than any ethnical difference. （ D） Black boys underperformance is not a racial problem but an educational problem of all British. 45 “THE French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Euro
42、pe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.“ Thus did a young Alexis de Tocqueville describe his motherland in the early 19th century. His words still carry a haunting truth. Over the past few years, as other western democracies
43、 have shuffled quietly along, France has by turns stunned, exasperated and bemused. This weeks massive one-day protest, drawing 1m-3m people on to the streets, was no exception. This particular stand-off, between the centre right government of Dominique de Villepin and those protesting against his e
44、ffort to inject a tiny bit of liberalism into Frances rigid labour market, may be defused. The Constitutional Council was due to rule on the legality of the new law on March 30th. But the underlying difficulty will remain: the apparent incapacity of the French to adapt to a changing world. On the fa
45、ce of it, France seems to be going through one of those convulsions that this nation born of revolution periodically requires in order to break with the past and to move forward. Certainly the students who kicked off the latest protests seemed to think they were re-enacting the events of May 1968 th
46、eir parents sprang on Charles de Gaulle. They have borrowed its slogans (“Beneath the cobblestones, the beach!“) and hijacked its symbols (the Sorbonne university). In this sense, the revolt appears to be the natural sequel to last autumns suburban riots, which prompted the government to impose a st
47、ate of emergency. Then it was the jobless, ethnic underclass that rebelled against a system that excluded them. Yet the striking feature of the latest protest movement is that this time the rebellious forces are on the side of conservatism. Unlike the rioting youths in the banlieues, the objective o
48、f the students and public-sector trade unions is to prevent change, and to keep France the way it is. Indeed, according to one astonishing poll, three quarters of young French people today would like to become civil servants, and mostly because that would mean “a job for life“. Buried inside this ch
49、illing lack of ambition are one delusion and one crippling myth. The delusion is that preserving France as it is, in some sort of formaldehyde solution, means preserving jobs for life. Students, as well as unqualified suburban youngsters, do not today face a choice between the new, less protected work contract and a lifelong perch in the bureaucracy. They, by and large, face a choice between already unprotected short-term work and no work
