翻译考试历年中级口译真题(16)

会计考友 · 发表于 2012-8-16 09:54:19

Part A: Spot Dictation
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with banks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the word or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer inthecorresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE.
   The usual good-luck wish to a theatre actor who is about to _________ (1) or to be engaged in a performance is to say    Break a leg”. This may seem to be a rather _____          ___(2) to say to someone who is probably already quite impatient, ______          ___ (3). But most theatre actors and actresses are, by tradition, very                (4). And they would do everything to avoid slipping or throwing themselves into“ __________ ”(5).

      Among many  actors and actresses, it  is thought  that  wishing for  good luck  from their ____       _(6) will have the  opposite effect. Consequently, by __________(7)  for  bad luck, ___________(8)  that  the  actor or  actress  will  in  fact  have  good  luck.  Actors  and  actresses _________(9) noisy, squeaking shoes to be a sign of good luck, and it is also __________(10) to have a theatre cat. On the other hand, bad luck can come _________          _(11); it comes from the audience's  whistling _____    __(12),  from the  actor's repeating the  last  line  of the play ________(13)  and  from  certain  shades of the colour  _____          _(14)  in the background  of the
stage.

   Where do these __________(15) or worries come from? Some people believe them to be the result of an actor's __________(16). The real reason, although, may have more to do with simply being frightened about _________(17) in front  of a large audience and making  silly, laughable mistakes. After all, acting is a very __________(18). If an actor performs badly, it is very  likely that  he would  gradually __________(19) and  eventually  his j ob  and livelihood. Under such adverse and frightful  conditions, it  is  not surprising that  actors and actresses___________(20) bad things to happen.
Ⅰ. Statements
Directions: In this part of the lest, you will hear several short statements. These statements will be  spoken  only  once,  and  you  will  not  find  them  written  on  the  paper;  so  you  must  listen carefully. When you hear a statement, read the answer choices and decide which one is closest in meaning to the statement you have heard. Then write the letter of the answer you have chose in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.
1.A. We spent three days visiting factories.
B. We were planning to see three factories.
C. We didn't expect to go to three factories.
D. We went to see the factory on the third day.
2. A. That school was once a shop.
B. Stores stand today where once there was a school. http://tr.hjenglish.com
C. A shop is in the center of that school.
D. A school is set up beside the shopping center.
3. A. This room is not only small, but it is also far away.
B. Fewer than nineteen guests will come, so we need a smaller room.
C. We must reduce our guest list by at least ninety.
D. Ninety people won't fit in this room.
4. A. Joyce is so busy that she always runs for work.
B. Joyce runs her small business herself.
C. Joyce eventually became successful.
D. Joyce's business had been successful for a long time.
5. A. We're using four colors to paint the lounge.
B. We have chosen the fight colors.
C. The lounge has walls of beautifully painted wood.
D. The colors in the painting aren't right for the lounge. http://tr.hjenglish.com
6. A. It's never cooler in the suburbs.
B. The suburbs gets hotter before the city does.
C. Compared to the suburbs, city temperatures are higher.
D. Unlike city schools, suburban schools are open year-round.
7. A. Miss Moore has failed one-third of the classes.
B. Those who are absent more than one-third of the time should fail.
C. More than one-third of the students fail the test.
D. Only one-third of the students missed their classes while on holiday.
8. A. The figures on those instructions are difficult to see.
B. The instructions are illogical and incomplete.
C. I don't know how people can understand those instructions.
D. I can't look at anyone else's figures.
9. A. You should write down your daily activities.
B. It's a good idea to read the paper every day.
C. You should keep a record of the music you've heard.
D. After your trip, you should record what you see.
10.A. Mathematics isn't a required course.
   B. He's never met the math student before.
   C. Peter is taking a mathematics course.
   D. They will never require mathematics.

会计考友 · 发表于 2012-8-16 09:54:20

Ⅱ. Talks and Conversations
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear several short talks and conversations. After each of these, you will hear  a few questions. Listen carefully because you will hear the four  answer choices and choose the best answer to that question. Then write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

Questions 11～14
11.A. An architect.                                  B. Ajanitor
   C. A housing agent.                            D. A university professor.
12.A. One.                                           B. Two.
   C. Three.                                           D. Four.
13.A. It is large and sunny.                            B. It is smaller than the living-room.
   C. It has only a small window.                D. It has large cupboards.
Ⅰ. Sentence Translation
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 5 English sentences. You will hear the sentences only once. After you have heard each sentence, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

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(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)                                                                                        </p>Ⅱ.Passage Translation
Directions: In this part  of the test, you will hear  2 passages. You will hear  the passages only once. After you have heard each passage, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. You may take notes while you are listening.
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会计考友 · 发表于 2012-8-16 09:54:21

SECTION 2: STUDY SKILLS (50 minutes)
Directions: In this section, you will read several passages. Each passage is followed by several questions based on  its  content. 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 the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

Questions 1～5
   An unexpectedly bitter dispute between the Royal Mail and the union of postal workers has kept Britain's postal service closed for two weeks.

   Street-comer  mail  boxes  are  sealed  and  international  mail  suspended  until  the  Union  of Communication Workers and post office management settle their differences over special pay for new recruits.

   The strike began as a spotty, 24-hour work stoppage Aug. 31 but was extended last week to include most  of the  1,500 Royal Mail offices and more than  100,000 union members. It is the first  major  disruption of service since  1981,and has prompted discussion of further privatizing postal deliveries. British Prime Minister has said the Royal Mail is one public service that should remain  in  government  hands.  But  some  businessmen  have  pressed  British  Prime  Minister  to expand the market  for  private courier  services to include carrying large volumes of mail. The pay dispute concerns special bonuses of between ￡15 and ￡35 a week for workers in the London area where the cost of living is high and it is difficult to attract new recruits. The Royal Mail is offering the premiums to help alleviate an acute shortage of workers in London but union leader want the bonuses distributed equally across the country.

   The post  office has asked other  countries to hold all  mail  deliveries for  Britain  until  the strike is settled, because it is  difficult to  guarantee security  for  mail bags piling up  at  air  and seaports.

1. The passage suggests that a strike is happening _______. http://tr.hjenglish.com
A. within the Union of Communication Workers
B. within post-office management
C. within the British government
D. within the postal service of Great Britain
2. According to the passage, the postal strike_________.
A. has been the second major strike since 1981
B. has been settled by the British government
C. has attracted many new recruits
D. has already lasted for two weeks
3. Which of the following is NOOT true about the postal strike?
A. The strike began as a spotty, 24 hour work stoppage Aug.31.
B. The strike has included all the 1,500 Royal Mail offices.
C. The strike has made the street-comer mail boxes sealed.
D. The strike has been joined by more than 100,000 union members.
4. According to the passage, the purpose for the postal strike is________.
A. to prompt discussion of further privatizing postal deliveries
B. to expand the market for private courier services
C. to have special pay for newly hired workers
D. to offer the premiums to help workers in London.
5. What would be the best title for this passage?
A. Britain's postal strike
B. Britain's post-office management
C. Britain's private courier services
D. Britain's Royal Mail offices

会计考友 · 发表于 2012-8-16 09:54:22

Questions 6～10
   Hong Kong, where buildings rise and fall like mood swings, has never had much time for the  past.  Yet  even  by  those  normally  harried  standards,  authorities  face  a  remarkably  tight deadline for the transition between old and new airports. In the seven hours between  11:30 p.m. on  July  5, when  venerable Kai  Tak  shuts  down,  down,  and  6:30  a.m. on July  6 when HKIA opens, a lumbering menagerie of  equipment will  trek  the  39  km from one  to  the  other. Thousands of items have been logged and assigned a moving time.“The plan is a living thing, and it changes all the time,”says Michael Winarick, the ex-British Army colonel in charge of the  move.  The operation  actually  began May 6,  when the  first pieces  of  equipment were transferred to the new site, and won't end until early August. But pressure will be greatest on the  critical night, when a parade of ungainly vehicles will take to the closed-off roads of“Kowloon — deck loaders”that equip planes, the tractors that nudgejumboj ets into position, the scuttling baggage trains and fire trucks and erect  moving staircases. Winarick admits to tense moments when  crews  discovered they  only  had  15cm to  spare under  some  overpasses:“We  looked  at letting out tire pressure.”Heaver items like the scaffolding used by maintenance crews will sail on  17 barges through Victoria Harbor. Thirty planes will take off from Kai Tak on a rare set of domestic flights, winging the  15 minutes to Chek Lap Kok. Some  1,000 police will watch over the move, which will be televised to discourage rubberneckers. But the greatest threat is beyond anyone's control: officials say that if a typhoon hits that night, they'll postpone HKLA'S opening for a week.

6. The word“trek”(paragraph 1) means__________.
A. to go through wild country                   B. to walk slowly for pleasure
C. to travel to a holy place                      D. to make a long hardjourney.
7. The passage suggests that authorities_________. http://tr.hjenglish.com
A. nudgejumbojets into position before July 5
B. watch over the move on July 6
C. have a tight deadline for the transition
D. look at letting out tire pressure
8. According to the passage, thirty planes will__________.
A. trek the 39km from one to the other
B. move along with tractors and fire trucks
C. sail on 17 barges through Victoria Harbor
D. fly from Kai Tak to Chek Lap Kok
9. According to the passage, the move will be televised to___________.
A. discourage people who watch something with too much interest
B. show to world the transition between old and new airports
C. report the whole process of lumbering menagerie of equipment
D. display the scuttling baggage trains, fire trucks and erect moving staircases
10.Which of the following can be the best title for this passage?
A. Last Plane Out, Don't    Forget to Trek the 39km
B. Last Plane Out, Don't Forget to Turn Off the Lights
C. Last Plane Out, Don't Forget to Nudge Jumbo Jets into Position
D. Last Plane Out, Don't Forget to Sail on 17 Barges through Victoria Harbor

会计考友 · 发表于 2012-8-16 09:54:23

Questions 11～15
Don't be Bashful
   Listening in on the CB (Citizens Band two-way radio\receiver) channels can be a lot of fun However, it is even more fun to take part in the conversations. But, don't be bashful. All of those on the air were also newcomers once. Now they are more experienced than you, they should not make fun of you if you make a boo-boo.
   What is the most common boo-boo made by CB beginners? It's failing to release the PTT (push-to-talk)  button on  the  microphone when they  stop  transmitting (stop  talking). Just remember to push to talk and then release the PTT switch so you can listen to the reply. The PTT switch, when pushed in, turns the transmitter  on and then, when released, turns the transmitter off and reactivates the receiver.

   Brevity (keep  it  short)  You  can  get  more  benefit  out  of  your  CB  radio,  and  so  can
everyone else, if you keep your transmissions short. You can make transmissions“crystal clear”
if you use abbreviations. The Ten-Signals Listed below are the most commonly used; however,
you may encounter local variations.
No.MeaningNo.Meaning10-1Receiving poorly10-12Urgent business10-1Receiving well10-13Anything for us?10-1Stop transmitting10-14Nothing for you, return to base10-1OK message received10-15My location is…10-2Relay message10-16Call by telephone10-3Busy, stand by10-17Report in person to…10-4Out of service10-18Stand by leaving air10-5In service, subject to call10-19Completed last assignment10-6Repeat message10-20Can you contact…?10-7Transmission completed10-21Disregard last information standing by10-8Talking too rapidly10-22I am moving to channel10-9Visitors present10-23Identify your station10-10Advise weather/road10-24Time is up for contact conditions10-11Make pickup at …10-25Illegal use of radio10-26 I will give you a radio check
11.According to the passage, CB beginners _________.
A. don't wait long enough between transmissions
B. don't release the PTT Button while transmitting
C. don't use the equipment correctly
D. don't know when to stop talking
12. A CB user hasjust given you what you think is a very confused account of a road accident in
your vicinity. Which Ten-Signal would you send him?
A. 10—1                                                    B.10—9
C. 10—11                                                 D. 10—26
13.You want to tell someone briefly where there is a package for him. You begin________.
A.10—17                                                    B. 10—25
C.10—16                                                    D. 10—22
14. You are due to leave the motorway five miles ahead for a secondary road, but you have heard the words “traffic jam”at the tail end of a local radio broadcast. Which Ten-Signal would you transmit?
A.10—27                                                    B.10—30
C.10—20                                                    D.10—13
15.You  have just  delivered  a  small  box  would  like  a  break  before  returning  to base. Which Ten-Signal would you send?
A.10—10                                                          B10—24
C.10—18                                                          D.10—7

会计考友 · 发表于 2012-8-16 09:54:24

Questions 16～20
   When my first  child was born, my mother-in-law said to me：“Motherhood is wonderful just  as long as you remember that A Mother’s Place is in the Wrong. No matter what you do, your children will blame you.

   Since  that  time,  almost  nine  years  ago,  I  have  carefully monitored  mothers  and  their growing offspring to verify this maxim, and found that indeed it contains much truth.

   For  example, if a mother  stints herself to the point  of starvation to send her  darling to a good boarding school, the darling will turn round years later and accuse her of being a snob who deprived her of everyday family life.

   If, on the other hand, a mother sends her little lamb to the local neighbourhood school; the little lamb will grumble years later that his parents didn’t give a fig for education and that is why he is illiterate and on the dole.

   If  a  women  has  a  job,  her  children  will  speak  mournfully  of  the  experience  of  being latchkey  kids who never  knew  what  it  was to  come  home to the j oy  and  security  of  a  mum baking bread in the kitchen.

   If  a  women does  not  work,  her daughter will  afterwards  describe  her old  mum as  a
“suburban cabbage” who never “fulfilled herself”.

   If a women endures a painful and difficult marriage for the sake of the children, she will be told by those children, when grow-up, that she was an absolute fool to put up with it and should have walked out years ago.

   If  she  considers  it  to be best  to  end the  marriage, they  will  accuse her  of  causing them “paternal deprivation syndrome ”and obliging them to grow up in “a one-parent situation”.

   If you try to shield your  children from the weary realities of life, they will  say you were absurdly overprotective.

   If you try to share your troubles with them, they will say that you overburdened them with responsibilities and cheated them of their childhood.

   If you have but a single child, the child will say afterwards that you selfishly deprived it of siblings, and will tell sad stories about the loneliness of its childhood.

   If you have two children, they will describe their family background as typical, stereotyped, neurotic, introverted-a nuclear  family. Truly, a mother’s place is in the wrong-and, yea, it goes on even unto the third generation.

   When your children encounter trouble or difficulties as adults, in their own marriages or in their personalities, whom do they blame? You’ve got it in one: mother!

16. Having thought about her mother-in-law’s advice, the author_________.
A. was inclined to doubt the advice
B. interviewed women whose children had grown up
C. decided to put the advice to the test
D. asked adults about their childhood
17. The passage suggests that local schools______________.
A. make children feel insecure
B. have a poor educational record
C. allow children too much freedom
D. are for the children of “suburban cabbages
18.According to the passage, a women who divorces her husband will___________.
A. be backed by her children
B. be blamed by her children
C. usually blame her husband
D. soon lose the children’s affection
19. It can be concluded from the passage that mother________.
A. are willing to take the blame
B. are blamed unfairly
C. can not be blameless
D. cannot avoid blame
20. What would be the best title for this passage?
A. A Great Mother Should Fulfill Herself
B. A Typical And Stereotyped Family
C. The Generation Gap
D. Motherhood Is A No-Win Situation

会计考友 · 发表于 2012-8-16 09:54:25

Questions 6～10
   A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in identically the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as sacred texts. It is always much better to tell a story than to read it out of a book and, if a parent can produce an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

   A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or arousing his sadistic impulses. To prove the latter, one would have to show in controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often guilty of cruelty than those who had not. On the  whole,  their symbolic  verbal  discharge  seems to  be  rather a  safety valve  than  an incitement  to  overt  action. As to  fears, there are, I think, well-authenticated cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having been told the story on only one occasion. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.
   There are also people who obj ect to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not obj ectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that instead of indulging his  fantasies in  fairy tales, the child  should be taught  how to adapt  to reality by studying  history  and mechanics.  I  find  such  people,  I  must confess,  so  unsympathetic  and peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of madmen attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a broomstick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their enchanted girl-friend.

   No fairy story ever claimed to be a description of the external world and no sane child has ever believed that it was.

21. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is_________.
A. repeated without variation                         B. treated with reverence
C. adapted by the parent                               D. set in the past
22. The word“overt”(paragraph 2) means__________.
A. acute                                              B. authentic
C. apparent                                        D. artificial
23. According to the passage, great fear can be stimulated in a child when a story is_______.
A. filled with excitement                               B. heard only once
C. repeated too often                                  D. read out of a book
24. According to the passage, the advantage claimed for repeating fairy stories to young children
is that it_______.
A. makes them come to terms with their fears
B. develops their power of memory
C. convinces them there is something to be afraid of
D. encourages them not to have ridiculous beliefs
25. The author's mention of broomsticks and telephones is meant to suggest that_______.
A. fairy stories are still being vividly made up
B. children do not easily accept fairy tales as they are
C. people try their best to modernise old fairy stories
D. there is more concern for children's fears nowadays

会计考友 · 发表于 2012-8-16 09:54:26

Questions 26～30
   What are we? To the biologist we are member of a sub-species called Homo sapiens sapiens, which represents a division of the species known as Homo sapiens. Every species is unique and distinct: that is part of the definition of a species. But what is particularly interesting about out species? For a star, we walk upright on our hindlegs at all times, which is an extremely unusual way of getting around for a mammal. There are also several unusual features about our head, not least  of  which  is  the  very  large  brain  it  contains. A  second  unusual  feature  is  our  strangely flattened face with its prominent, down-turned nose. Apes and monkeys have faces that protrude forwards  as  a  muzzle  and  have    “squashed”noses  on  top  of  this  muzzle.  There  are  many mysteries about human evolution, and the reason for our unusually shaped nose is one of them.
   Another  mystery  is  our  nakedness,  or  rather  apparent  nakedness. Unlike the apes, we are not covered by a coat of thick hair. Human body hair is very plentiful, but it is extremely fine and short so that, for  all practical purposes, we are naked. Very probably this has something to do with  the  second  interesting  feature  of  our  body;  the  skin  is  richly  covered  with  millions  of microscopic sweat glands. The human ability to sweat is unmatched in the primate world.

   So much for  our  appearance: what about  our behaviour? Our  forelimbs, being freed from helping us to get about, possess a very high degree of manipulative skill. Part of this skill lies in the anatomical structure of the hands, but the crucial element is, of course, the power of the brain. No matter how suitable the limbs are for  detailed manipulation, they are useless in the absence of  finely  tuned  instructions  delivered through  nerve  fibres. The  most  obvious  product  of  our hands  and brains  is technology. No  other  animal  manipulates the  world  in  the  extensive  and arbitrary  way  that  humans  do.  The termites  are  capable  of  constructing  intricately  structured mounds which create their own“air-conditioned”environment inside. But the termites cannot choose to build a cathedral instead. Humans unique because they have the capacity to choose what they do.

26. According to the author, biologists see us as_________.
A. exactly the same as Homo sapiens
B. totally different from Homo sapiens
C. a divided species
D. an interesting sub-division of Homo sapiens
27.  Which of the  following is not  an  indication  as  being  particularly interesting  about  our species?
A. The fact that we walk.                      B The size of our hindlegs.
C. The shape of our faces.                   D. The way our noses evolved.
28. According to the passage, other primates__________.
A. do not sweat
B. sweat more than human beings
C. have larger sweat glands than humans
D. do not sweat as much as humans
29. According to the passage, what is most important about our hands?
A. The way they are made.                      B. They are very naked.
C. Our control over them.                      D. Their muscular power.
30. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
A. What are Human Beings:Appearance and Behaviour
B. What are Primates: the Ability to Sweat
C. What are Termites:Architects of the Animal World
D. What are Human Hands Capable of: the Ability to Choose
SECTION 3: TRANSLATION TEST (1) (30 minutes)

Directions: Translatethe following passage into Chinese and  write your version it the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKKLET.

   BBC World Service is the world's biggest radio network, with  140 million listeners across the globe, broadcasting in 44 languages, heard on short-wave, medium-wave, FM and satellite. We have an ambitious plan for the brand new technology of Digital Broadcasting by  Satellite, due to start next year. The appearance of the Internet has taken us broadcasters all by surprise. The Internet has enabled any radio station anywhere to become an international broadcaster with only a  minor investment.  Although  its  sound  quality is  far from  perfect,  it excels  that of short-wave.  Internet  radio  does  not  only  mean  competition  but  also  great  opportunities.  The BBC is taking the Internet  very  seriously, for  it's a  cheap way  of getting a reasonable quality signal to places in the even our short-wave transmitters can't adequately reach. Very recently, we launched“BBC On-Line”, which incorporates a 24-hour news service. And the users can hear programmes in Mandarin, Arabic, Spanish and Russian.
SECTION 4: TRANSLATION TEST (2) (30 minutes)

Directions:  Translate the following  passage into English  and  write your  version in  the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

   深圳作为全国最早的特区，与内地经济往来极为密切，特别是在香港回归祖国以后，人员往来大为增加，深圳机场是全国十大机场之一。由于深圳地处亚热带，与北方温差较大，从北方来的旅客，为了适应深圳的气候，走下飞机的第一件大事就是脱掉身上过多过厚的衣服。

   深圳机场为方便旅客，设置了4 间更衣室。室内设备齐全。旅客可以轻松愉快的环境中更换衣服，整理仪容，给前来迎接的亲朋好友留下良好的第一印象。

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