月英語高級(jí)口譯考試筆試真題

1、2004年9月英語高級(jí)口譯考試筆試真題+答案SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST (30 minutes)       Every nation and region in the world has its own set of folk heroes. Sometimes, the heroes from _ (1) are strikingly similar. When this is true, the stories connected with these figures can _ (2) between two

2、seemingly different cultures. Often, however, heroes from one culture or region are _ (3). When this is the case, the heroic figure demonstrates the unique aspects of a specific people, not merely _ (4) to similar circumstances. Now, in this lecture, we will look at a number of American folk heroes

3、in order to focus on several aspects of _ (5).       By folk heroes, we mean figures whose stories have evolved over time and whose legends cannot be _ (6). Instead of being created by a single writer, folk heroes evolve through time and reflect the efforts and creativity of

4、 _ (7). Of course, professional writers sometimes _ (8) folk heroes, just as those who create folk heroes often incorporate aspects of _ (9) into their stories. Nonetheless, folk heroes and the folklore concerning them are _ (10) by people who perform _ (11) their audiences. One example of this proc

5、ess might be the poet Homer reciting his heroic tales to a _ (12) audience of ancient Greeks. This was a favorite form of entertainment long before _ (13).       America is a diverse country in which various people and sub-cultures embrace their own unique history and lore.

6、_ (14) under these circumstances, a wide variety of heroes have become a part of _ (15). Any yet many of these heroes share similarities that make them distinctively American, in spite of _ (16). By focusing on these similarities, we can _ (17) of America and its people.     

7、0; For hundreds of years, Americans have struggled to understand their place in the New World. There were _ (18) in the New World. In addition, the social and economic position of people was not as _ (19) as in Europe, Africa and Asia. As a result, storytellers created heroes _ (20) the unique oppor

8、tunities and challenges that America provided. Part B: Listening Comprehension Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following conversation. 1.   (A) In the professor's home.       (B) In the professor's office.       (C) In the classro

9、om.       (D) In the school library. 2.   (A) Children always have the same accents as their mothers.       (B) Most adult language learners can lose their accents.       (C) Students don't usually learn their c

10、lassmates' accents.       (D) There will be big misunderstandings if you speak with accents. 3.   (A) He used the wrong stress.       (B) He used the wrong intonation.       (C) He misunderstood the word.  

11、     (D) He spoke the word with a very different accent. 4.   (A) Australian.       (B) British.       (C) Indian.       (D) South African. 5.   (A) To drop the pronunciation class.

12、60;     (B) To sign up for a listening / speaking class.       (C) To check in the library the schedule for the new semester.       (D) To wait to make a decision about the pronunciation class. Questions 6 to 10 are based on the f

13、ollowing news. 6.   (A) Because of the accumulation of funds in the real estate market.       (B) Because of the rising house prices and government budget deficits.       (C) Because of the resignation of the Finance Minister Gorden Brown.

14、      (D) Because of the increase in the number of the houses being sold. 7.   (A) Business confidence will probably remain unchanged for the next year.       (B) Business confidence was the highest in May since April 2001.   

15、0;   (C) Published National indexes show confidence unchanged in Germany and Italy and falling in France.       (D) The index of confidence may have stayed at plus 5, the highest in 3 years. 8.   (A) They will deliver solid earning results this year. 

16、0;     (B) They will break even at the end of this year.       (C) They posted another year of losses due to bad loan write-offs.       (D) They reported mixed results for the year ended March 31. 9.   (A) 50.  

17、0;    (B) 100.       (C) 150.       (D) 200. 10.  (A) A Korean patrol boat operated illegally in Japanese waters.        (B) A Korean fishing vessel overturned and the captain was fatally wounded.

18、60;      (C) A Japanese Coast Guard patrol boat fired teargas grenades at a Korean fishing vessel.        (D) A Japanese fishing vessel was repeatedly ordered to stop operating in Korean waters. Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following inte

19、rview. 11.  (A) Because the usage of the Internet is widespread now.        (B) Because Internet addiction is growing on college campuses.        (C) Because the computer is accessible to everyone on college campuses.    

20、;    (D) Because Internet addiction is less harmful than other addictions. 12.  (A) She cannot go to sleep without surfing on the Net first.        (B) She and other people are surfing on the Net in the middle of the night.     &#

21、160;  (C) She doesn't know when her Internet compulsiveness is turning into an addiction.        (D) She isn't sure the exact amount of time is really the issue. 13.  (A) People's work performance and school performance may be affected.   

22、;     (B) People may lose social skills that make face-to-face relationships successful.        (C) People may be cheated by those with false identities.        (D) People may have no time for taking walks and other leis

23、ure activities. 14.  (A) Work performance.        (B) School performance.        (C) Relationships.        (D) Mental health. 15.  (A) Practice self-discipline.        (B) Hav

24、e some sort of balance in life.        (C) Set an alarm clock.        (D) Act upon your friend's advice. Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following talk. 16.  (A) In the late 1940s.        (B) In the ear

25、ly 1950s.        (C) In the late 1950s.        (D) In the early 1960s. 17.  (A) Abstract Expressionism.        (B) The artistic movement that immediately preceded it.        (C) Th

26、e internal struggles of the individual artists.        (D) Mass-produced visual media and the design of common household objects. 18.  (A) Abstract Expressionism was a very personal art.        (B) Abstract Expressionism was more easily acc

27、essible to the masses than Pop Art.        (C) Abstract Expressionism reflected a direct relationship to the actual world.        (D) Abstract Expressionism was a little bit influenced by Pop Art. 19.  (A) To direct art from the person

28、alities of the individual artists towards the world.        (B) To impose a unified symbolic meaning on his collection of materials.        (C) To concentrate less on the objects and more on the images he found.     

29、0;  (D) To set the stage for further development in Pop Art. 20.  (A) Because their use of found objects and images from everyday life was innovative.        (B) Because they believed that these images reflected the cultural values of contemporary society.  &#

30、160;     (C) Because they use everyday objects found on the street as the material for their art.        (D) Because they combined and repeated images from print media to make one single artwork.SECTION 2: LISTENING TEST (30 minutes)Questions 1-5

31、60;    Valentine's Day is tomorrow, and we are all thinking about true love and heart-shaped chocolate candy. Well, maybe not all of us. Some of us, actually, are considering the quantifiable aspects of divorce. In America today, some 50 percent of marriages are predicted to end i

32、n divorce. And at the University of Washington in Seattle they say they can tell you exactlywell, almost exactlywhich ones those will be.      A psychologist, a mathematician, and a pathologist have devised what they call a proven mathematical formula for detecting which relation

33、ships will go sourthereby holding out hope that such couples can overcome their problems, and avoid divorce. "We have been able to predict that divorce will happen before it does. That's old news," says John Gottman, emeritus professor of psychology. "But what we have now is a sci

34、entific model for understanding why we can predict it with such accuracy."      The work marks the first time a mathematic model is being used to understand such deep personal human interactions, adds James Murray, professor of applied mathematics. "It is totally object

35、ive. And our prediction of which couples would divorce within a four-year period was 94 percent accurate." This is how it works: Couples face each other and discusseach speaking in turna subject over which they have disagreed more than once in the past. They are wired to detect various physiolo

36、gical data, such as pulse rates, and they're also videotaped. A session lasts a mere 15 minutes. The research team watches and analyzes the tapes and data, awarding plus or minus points depending on the type of interactions and according to a standard scoring system. Everything is then translate

37、d into equations and plotted on a graph, which the researchers have dubbed the "Dow-Jones Industrial Average for marital conversation." Once this is done, different situations are simulated and analyzed from the equations and graphs, and predictions are made.      Over

38、the past 16 years more than 700 couples (at different stages of their marriages) took part in the research. But let's go back a moment. It all starts, say, with a chat about mothers-in-lawapparently one of the hot topics of contention among couples, along with money and sex, according to Dr. Mur

39、ray. "The husband might say to his wife, 'Your mother really is a pain in the neck.' Well, that's a minus two points. A shrug, that's a no-noso minus one. And rolled eyesvery negative; that's minus two." If however, the husband were to say, "Your mother is a pain i

40、n the neckbut she is sometimes funny," then, according to the researchers, you would take away two pints and then give one back. If the husband cracked a smile, he would get another point. At the end of all the additions and subtractions, a stable marriage is indicated by having five more posit

41、ive points than negative ones. Otherwise, warns the team, the marriage is in trouble.      In troublebut not doomed. The whole point of the model, says Dr. Gottman, is that it gives therapists new understanding with which they can help couples overcome patterns of interaction and

42、 prevent divorce. "What we are suggesting," says Murray, "is that couples who take this experiment then be told the prediction and realize they are going to have to both change their behavior and repair what is wrong."      Not everyone buys into this model. B

43、onnie Jacobson, a clinical psychologist and processor at New York University, says it is "absolutely impossible" to understand the workings of a relationship via a one-size-fits-all model. "For mostly every couple I have seen, it's hard to see how they got together in the first pl

44、ace," she says. "So unless you really get to know the nuanced dynamics, you will never 'get it' or be able to help."      Christine Fasano was married for only 14 months before getting a divorce last year. She agrees the dynamics of a relationship are nuanc

45、ed and complexbut also sees merit in the University of Washington study's basic assumption that if one looks starkly at interaction between a couple, it is possible to ascertain whether the relationship is headed toward demise. "I'm not surprises the model works," she says. "I

46、t's actually not that profound. My basic observation of couples that are happily married is that they treat each other well. That is basically what they are saying, and that is hard to argue with."      So, any final advice for Valentine's Day from the divorce resear

47、ch team out in Washington? "I would never give advice on matters of the heart," says Murray, who, incidentally, has been married 45 years. "But I suppose the bottom line is, yes, communication. And being good to one another. That is nice to quantify." 1.   The mathemati

48、cal model is designed by these scientists _.      (A) to figure out the of probability of divorce      (B) to predict and help avoid divorce      (C) for the newly-married young couples      (D) on the basis of physiolog

49、ical data 2.   Which of the following CANNOT be found about the mathematical formula?      (A) It is quite popular and has been widely accepted.      (B) It has been experimented with over 700 couples.      (C) It has been invente

50、d by a number of scientists from related fields.      (D) It is proved useful as more marriages end in divorce. 3.   In the sentence "Not every one buys into the model." (para.6) the expression "buys into" can be interpreted as _.    &

51、#160; (A) pays to acquire      (B) supports fully      (C) have confidence in      (D) understands and accepts 4.   Christine Fasano is introduced in the passage because _.      (A) her divorce was predicted an

52、d avoided by the formula      (B) her divorce proved the effectiveness of the mathematical model      (C) she thought the rationale behind the formula is understandable      (D) she argued that divorce could be prevented by frequent communi

53、cation 5.   The love equation employs all of the following methods EXCEPT _.      (A) It is based on the analysis of recordings of marital conversation      (B) It uses and addition and subtraction system to record the data      (

54、C) It makes predictions from analysis of equations and graphs      (D) It uses the interviews of each of the spouses separately Questions 6-10      When Timothy Spahr finally knocked off work on Jan.13, after more than 10 hours on the job, he figured he was at

55、 last done for the night. Spahr's task as an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center fro Astrophysics, in Cambridge, Mass., is to collect reports of asteroids that might one day pass near Earth. On that Tuesday, he had been processing observations from an automated telescope in New Mexico w

56、hen he noticed a pinpoint of light that might fit the profile. He calculated the object's orbit and, as usual, posted the information on the Minor Planet Center website for other astronomers to see. Then he went off to dinner with a friends.      What happened next guaranteed

57、 that Spahr's workday wasn't nearly over. It also triggered a debate among astronomers about how quickly the public should be informed about dangers from spaceand how sure scientists need to be before issuing such warnings. Several times in the past, sky watchers have announced that a rogue

58、asteroid might threaten Earthtriggering the usual banner headlinesonly to retract the warning a few days later. But while saying "never mind" is embarrassing, it would be much worse to keep a real danger quiet. And that's why Spahr's drawn-out workday was a prime topic of discussio

59、n at the Planetary Defense conference organized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and held last week in Garden Grove, Calif.      While Spahr dined, a German amateur astronomer visited the Minor Planet website, noted the new object, called 2004 AS1, and no

60、ticed further that its brightness was expected to increase an almost unbelievable 4,000% in the next day or soan indication that it was approaching with blistering speed. Then he plotted the orbit Spahr had calculated and realized that the chunk of rock, estimated at the time to be about 100 ft. acr

61、oss, was on a direct collision course with Earthspecifically, somewhere in the northern hemisphereand only days away. At that size, it would probably explode in the atmosphere a few miles up with the force of a one-megaton H-bomb, enough to wreak havoc on anything directly below.    &

62、#160; When the German amateur posted an alert on an asteroid watchers e-mail list, astronomers around the world went into high gear. "By the time I got home at around midnight," says Spahr, "there were five messages waiting on my answering machine." Over the next several hours, h

63、e and others raced to try to figure out whether Earth truly was in danger. "All of us were initially very skeptical," says Clark Chapman, an astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. "We thought it was a mistake or bad data or someone playing a trick." 

64、0;    But when Steve Chesley, at NASA'S Jet Propulsion Laboratory, checked Spahr's calculations, he came up with a 1-in-4 probability of a strike. "It was a responsible analysis," says Chapman. "It wasn't mistaken in any obvious way." There was one hitc

65、h: the asteroid's projected trajectory was based on only four observations over a one-hour period, hardly enough to be definitive. It would take another look to nail down its path.      Usually a threatening asteroid is potted years in advance. This time, with just days to sp

66、are, astronomers had to get their second look right away. So Chesley did some more calculations to find what's called the keyholethe tiny region of sky where 2004 AS1 should be if the orbit was correctand put those coordinates out on the Internet. "It clearly wasn't time to make an anno

67、uncement," says Chapman, who denies a BBC report that he was on the verge of telephoning the White House that night. "But if we still didn't know the next morning, I think we would have been obliged to alert people."      Fortunately, the wait was not long. At

68、around 3:30 E.T. that morning, Brian Warner, an amateur astronomer from Colorado Springs. Colo., aimed a telescope at the keyhole and found it was empty.2004 AS1 wasn't going to hit Earth after all, and probably never willluckily, since it turns out to be more like 1,600 ft. across. Next time, S

69、pahr won't be depending on a sharp-eyed amateur. "Within two days after the incident," he say, "we had software to check for future impacts automatically." 6.   Which of the following cannot be concluded from the statement "What happened next guaranteed that Spahr's workday wasn't nearly over.&quo