1、高级口译（笔试）模拟试卷 8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 Malaria is a very serious disease that kills more children under the age of five than any other disease. People get malaria when they are bitten by【 C1】 _called mosquitoes. The mosquitoes【 C2】 _which enter a persons blood and cause malaria. Carter Dibbs i
3、s an American doctor who works on the【 C3】 _for the United States Agency for International Development. Doctor Dibbs says the parasite that causes malaria is much【 C4】 _, such as the virus that causes polio. He says the malaria parasite【 C5】 _so that it is more difficult to make a vaccine that is sa
4、fe and will【 C6】 _. Malaria vaccines are now【 C7】 _in Burkina Faso and Mall. Vaccines are being tested on children in Mozambique and Mall. Many organizations are【 C8】 _. They include U, S. A. I. D, the American military, American health organizations,【 C9】 _. To make sure that a vaccine will【 C10】 _
5、, it must be tested on many people in many different places. Doctor Dibbs says the people who join the vaccine tests are as important to【 C11】 _as the scientists. People are told about the tests during public meetings【 C12】 _. Doctor Dibbs says people should【 C13】 _that could happen to their bodies
6、if they take the medicine that is being tested. Adults or parents of children must agree to the vaccine test. Adults receive【 C14】 _the vaccine medicine. The children receive either the malaria vaccine or a different medicine that【 C15】 _a different disease. Then health care workers【 C16】 _to see if
7、 they show any signs of malaria. The results of the tests must be compared to people who have not【 C17】 _. The vaccine is successful if【 C18】 _who receive it do not show any signs of malaria for one year. Then the United States government will be asked to【 C19】 _. However, it could still take anothe
8、r five years before【 C20】 _to give to all the children in Africa and around the world. 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
9、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 spoken ONLY ONCE. Now listen carefully and choose the right answer to each question you have heard and write the let
10、ter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. （ A） Complaints about technology. （ B） Technology in the workplace. （ C） Cell phone use in emergency. （ D） Latest models of cell phones. （ A） They are frustrating to use. （ B） They are expensive to operate. （ C） The
11、y can cause companies to lose business. （ D） They can be very convenient sometimes. （ A） To express agreement with the callers opinion. （ B） To signal that she wants to end the call. （ C） To bring the caller back to his main point. （ D） To stop the caller from talking so much. （ A） The ringing sound
12、 can be annoying. （ B） Not every one follows the rules to use them. （ C） People dont really need them. （ D） Some people dont use them in the right places. （ A） To give an example to support the callers opinion. （ B） To make sure that she understands the callers point. （ C） To present an opposing poi
13、nt of view. （ D） To remind the caller that his time is up. （ A） Because he successfully brokered many peace talks in the world. （ B） Because he established the largest bank in Bangladeshi. （ C） Because he did a lot of translation for the Grameen Bank. （ D） Because he helped entrepreneurs with the mo
14、de of “micro credit“. （ A） Anti-retro viral drugs are more easily available now. （ B） 3. 4 million people of working age died of AIDS in 2005. （ C） Research of drugs against AIDS has created new jobs. （ D） AIDS is undermining the economic growth in many countries. （ A） Cutting jobs to improve its pr
15、ofit margins. （ B） Curbing voluntary redundancy and early retirement. （ C） Building new business models at its German plants. （ D） Offering guarantees of job security. （ A） The lucrative drug trafficking would disappear. （ B） Gucci and Prada would go bankrupt. （ C） Airlines and airports would suffer
16、 economic losses. （ D） Sales of duty-free drink and perfume at airports would increase. （ A） She used to serve as WHO Assistant Director-General. （ B） She led the research of drugs against SARS. （ C） She helped provide new services to prevent diseases and promote better health. （ D） She helped conta
17、in the outbreak of bird flu in 1997 in Hong Kong. （ A） The type of people who suffer from sleep loss. （ B） The causes and effects of sleep loss. （ C） Ways to avoid sleep loss. （ D） Accidents caused by sleep loss. （ A） To explain her childrens sleep habits. （ B） To give advice about how to get more s
18、leep. （ C） To compare sleep loss problems in adults and children. （ D） To give an example of the causes and effects of sleep loss. （ A） Poor job performance. （ B） Car accidents. （ C） Not making good decisions. （ D） Falling asleep at work. （ A） She feels that there are more tired drivers now than in
19、the past. （ B） She understands why people drive when they are tired. （ C） She thinks that most drivers do not recognize when they are too tired to drive. （ D） She wants Lian to explain more about her driving habits. （ A） They should not drive. （ B） They should take time off from work. （ C） They shou
20、ld follow traffic regulations. （ D） They should drink coffee to wake up. （ A） The influence of Andrew Carnegies philanthropy today. （ B） The reasons for Andrew Carnegies philanthropy. （ C） The relationship between Andrew Carnegie and other philanthropists. （ D） The story of Andrew Carnegies life. （
21、A） He built new schools. （ B） He built public libraries. （ C） He asked people to read his book. （ D） He encouraged people to share their books. （ A） To describe a difficult time in Carnegies life. （ B） To explain a motivation for Carnegies philanthropy. （ C） To illustrate the problems of poor childr
22、en. （ D） To tell the history of philanthropy before Carnegie. （ A） To improve international communication. （ B） To make it easier to learn how to read and write. （ C） To encourage people to read books in English. （ D） To change the way dictionaries are written. （ A） She is surprised that Carnegie th
23、ought his plan could succeed. （ B） She understands why Carnegie proposed his idea. （ C） She doubts whether Carnegie was serious about his plan. （ D） She regrets that Carnegies plan did not succeed. 一、 SECTION 2 READING TEST Directions: In this section you will read several passages. Each one is foll
24、owed 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 your ANSW
25、ER BOOKLET. 40 IN 1871 America added about 6,000 miles of track to its railways, an endeavor that occupied a tenth of its industrial labour force. But by 1875 track-building had fallen by more than two-thirds, and employed less than 3 % of Americas workers. According to Brad DeLong, an economic hist
26、orian at the University of California, Berkeley, the violent ups and downs of the railway industry help to explain the popularity, before the Great Depression and John Maynard Keynes, of a fatalistic view of the business cycle. Recessions, however unpleasant, were cathartic, and therefore necessary.
27、 They released capital and labour from profitless activities (such as laying the years 6,000th mile of track) as an essential prelude to redeploying them elsewhere. “Depressions are not simply evils, which we might attempt to suppress,“ wrote Joseph Schumpeter. They represent “something which has to
28、 be done“. In Schumpeters day, this fatalism was shared by many at Americas Federal Reserve. But todays Fed acts quickly to suppress recessions, which it recognises are mostly due to a lack of demand, not an excess of track. For the Fed, recessions are good for one thing, and one thing only: curbing
29、 inflation. Unfortunately, this task is now an urgent one. According to figures released this week, core consumer prices rose by 2.7% in the year to Julytoo fast for comfort. In theory, curbing this inflation could be painless. If the Feds commitment to price stability is credible, and if people loo
30、k forward, not backward, when settling their wages and setting their prices, they will respond to the Feds promises. Unfortunately, in practice, inflation suffers from strong inertia. Hence cutting it typically requires a slowing of the economy as well as a lowering of inflationary expectations. Lik
31、e pagans sharpening their knives, economists debate the size of this “sacrifice ratio“: the number of people who must lose their jobs to appease the gods of price stability. Some models, including one of many that guide the Feds deliberations, put this ratio as high as 4.25, which means that unemplo
32、yment must rise by one percentage point (or 1.5m people) for 4.25 years to reduce inflation by one percentage point. But other, less bloodthirsty economists suggest the ratio is more like 2 or 2.5. Ratios like these mean that for the first time in years Americas domestic economists, who track their
33、countrys inflation and unemployment, are as worded about the future as its international economists, who fixate on the countrys external imbalances. The internationalists have long feared that a recession might lie ahead should foreigners abruptly abandon the dollar. The prospect of a more conventio
34、nal downturnengineered not by foreign central banks, but by Americas ownsuggests the cart and horse belong in a different order. A recession might bring about a reversal of the current-account deficit, rather than the other way around. Recessions were, after all, part and parcel of Portugals current
35、-account reversal, which began in 1982, Britains from 1989 and Spains from 1991. In reality, however, Americas deficit is unlikely to close without its industrial structure changing substantially. Only about a quarter of what it now produces can be sold across borders. Andrew Tilton of Goldman Sachs
36、 has calculated that to boost exports and narrow its deficit to 2.5% of GDP by 2010, America would need to increase its manufacturing capacity by about 17%. But until this year, it was housing, a non-traded good par excellence, which has attracted extra labour and capital. In 2005 the share of const
37、ruction workers in payroll employment was the highest in 50 years, and residential investment accounted for the biggest chunk of GDP since 1951. Schumpeter, no doubt, would call this “maladjustment“. Might a recession do for housing what it did for late-19th-century railways? The last downturn was a
38、ccompanied by substantial restructuring, according to a widely cited paper by Erica Groshen and Simon Potter of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Workers who lost their jobs in the 2001 recession did not return to the same industry during the recovery. Instead, those who did not leave the labour
39、 force altogether slowly migrated to new industries. Companies, the authors wrote, saw the recession “not as an event to be weathered but as an opportunityor even a mandateto reorganise production permanently, close less efficient facilities and cull stuff“. Schumpeter could not have put it better h
40、imself. Recession is not inevitable. But if a 2007 slowdown curbs inflation, narrows the trade deficit and clears space for an American manufacturing revival it will prove a surprisingly fruitful period of dearth. 41 Why did the author mention railway construction at the beginning of the passage? （
41、A） to serve as a background of the passage. （ B） to illustrate the wild ups and downs of the railway industry （ C） to introduce the fatalistic view that recession, however unpleasant, is necessary. （ D） to display the relationship between industrial development and employment rate. 42 Which of the f
42、ollowing is NOT true about inflation? （ A） Curbing inflation is an imperative task in America. （ B） Easing Inflation is painless theoretically but difficult in practice. （ C） Inflation can be reduced at the cost of rise of employment rate. （ D） American people are willing to make great sacrifice to
43、get the price stabilized. 43 Which of the following best explain the sentence “Cart and horse belong in a different order.“ in Paragraph 6? （ A） A malfunction will soon occur in the carriage of American economy. （ B） It is recession that might help narrow current-account deficit, not the other way a
44、round. （ C） A recession will be planned not by foreign central banks, but by Americas own. （ D） Inflation will bring about a reversal of unemployment. 44 Why did the author say “Schumpeter, no doubt, would call this maladjustment.“? （ A） Housing, instead of manufacturing industry, attracted extra la
45、bour and capital. （ B） The rise of manufacturing capacity failed to bring about the narrowing of deficit. （ C） The wages of construction workers were the highest in 50 years. （ D） Housing investment accounted for the biggest part of GDP. 45 Which of the following does NOT support the statement “Rece
46、ssion is not an event to be weathered but an opportunity.“ in Paragraph 8? （ A） Recession brings about a reasonable utilization Of capital and labor. （ B） Recession is a good opportunity to keep inflation down. （ C） Recession helps cut trade deficit. （ D） Recession help facilitate the regulation of
47、such industries as housing and railway. 45 Despite questions of the motivation behind them, the attacks by the President and the Vice President on the moral content of television entertainment have found an echo in the chambers of the American soul. Many who reject the messengers still accept the me
48、ssage. They do not like the moral tone of American TV. Every good story will not only captivate its viewers but also give them some insight into what it means to be a human being. By so doing, it can help them grow into the deeply centered, sovereignly free, joyously loving human beings. Meaning, fr
49、eedom and lovethe supreme human values. And this is the kind of human enrichment the American viewing public has a right to expect from those who make its entertainment. It is not a question of entertainment or enrichment. These are complementary concerns and presuppose each other. The story that entertains without enriching is superficial and escapist. The story that enriches without entertaining is simply dull. The story that does both is a delight. Is
