09 年春季上海外语口语考试高级口译笔译真题
SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST (30 minutes)
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 blank with the word or words you have
heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER
BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE
When Americans think about hunger, we usually think in terms of mass starvation in
faraway countries. But hunger too often lurks____________(1).In 2006, 35.1 million
people, including_____________(2) children, in the United States did not have access
to enough food for an active healthy life. Some of these individuals relied on emergency
food sources and_________________(3).
Although most people think of hungry people and homeless people as the same, the
problem of hunger reaches. __________________(4). While the number of people
being hungry or _______________(5) may be surprising, it is the faces of those
hungry individuals that would probably ___________________(6).
The face of hunger is__________________ (7) who has worked hard for their
entire lives only to find their savings_________________ (8); or a single mother who
has to choose whether the salary from______________ (9) will go to buy food or pay
rent; or a child who struggles to ________________(10) because his family couldn't
afford dinner the night before. A December 2006 survey estimated
that______________(11) those requesting emergency food assistance were either
children or their parents.
Children_____________ (l2) to live in households where someone experiences
hunger and food insecurity than adults. _________________(13) compared to one in
five children live in households where someone suffers from
hunger__________________ (14).
Child poverty is more widespread in the United States than in_____________(l5); at
the same time, the U. S. government spends less than any industrialized country
to____________________ (l6).
We have long known that the ______________(l7) of small children need
adequate food ___________(l8). But science is just beginning to understand the full
extent of this relationship. As late as the l980s, conventional wisdom held that only
the_______________ (l9) actually alter brain development. The latest empirical
evidence, however, shows that even relatively mild
undernutrition______________(20) in children which can last a lifetime.
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 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
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following conversation.
l. (A) Her purse was stolen on the metro.
(B) Her home was broken into when she was vacationing.
(C) She was robbed on her way home.
(D) She was attacked by two kids on the street.
2. (A) Last week. (B) On a summer day (C) Towards evening. (D) Late at night.
3. (A) Four dollars. (B)Thirty dollars. (C) Forty dollars. (D) Three hundred
dollars.
4. (A) She hailed a taxi. (B) She just went home. (C) She reported the crime. (D) She
phoned her best friend.
5. (A) They need prosecuting.
(B) They have to be punished.
(C) They should get supervision.
(D) They must be held responsible.
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following hews.
6. (A) A NATO naval force has successfully reduced pirate attacks in that region.
(B) A UN resolution has been passed to stem the upsurge in pirate attacks on shipping
(C) Several African countries have joined hand to patrol the coast.
(D) An EU team of warships and aircraft will start its antipiracy operations.
7. (A) To resume a talk on improving its relations with India.
(B) To cooperate fully with India in looking into the terrorist attacks.
(C) To act swiftly to arrest the 10 militants who rampaged through Mumbai.
(D) To quicken the 5yearold peace process between the two nuclear rivals.
8. (A) To seek the temporary suspension of Parliament.
(B) To sign a deal with the opposition parties.
(C) To form a coalition government with the Liberals.
(D) To tackle the fallout from the financial crisis.
9. (A) President Arroyo has escaped an attempt by troops to seize power.
(B) Philippine lawmakers have voted to unseat the current president.
(C) An impeachment complaint against President Arroyo was thrown out.
(D) A majority of lawmakers are going to abstain in voting over the impeachment.
10. (A) $8 billion. (B) $22 bil1ion. (C) $36.9 billion. (D) $39 bi1lion.
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following interview
11. (A)Professions and ways we actually wear
(B) Trends and fashions in clothing.
(C) Fashion designing.
(D) Psychology clothing.
12. (A )An awareness of impressing others.
(B) An urge to look smart and trendy.
(C) A conscious act of indicating individual taste.
(D) A general feeling of insecurity.
13. (A) Peop1e who are absorbed by other things.
(B) People who are sociable and outgoing.
(C) People with an aggressive personality
(D) People with a preference for light colors.
l4. (A) The colors of one's clothing.
(B) The length of trousers one wears.
(C) Sticking to grey or dark suits.
(D) Wearing outrageous clothing,
15.(A) Young hairdrssers. (B) Pop music fans. (C) Minority groups. (D) Ageing pop
stars.
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following talk.
l6. (A) Participating in Intenet chats.
(B) Writing and receiving email messages.
(C) Purchasing things online.
(D) Doing research by clicking a mouse.
l7. (A) Because the Intenet binds fewer people together than we actually need.
(B) Because the hyperlinks often send us to commercial Web sites.
(C) Because the Web can't always show clearly how to get where we want.
(D) Because the Web is often a database organized for commercial purposes.
18. (A) The inconvenience of placing orders.
(B) The dropping out rate of online shoppers.
(C) Time wasted in filling out information.
(D) Issues related to privacy.
l9. (A)They are becoming socially isolated.
(B) 60 percent of them spend less time with family and friends.
(C) How long they stay on the Web is the most frequent cause for divorce.
(D) They no longer have close friends as they used to do.
20. (A) Computers offer a perfect system for work and communications.
(B) The effects of the Internet on our lives are still debatable.
(C) The Intenet has revolutionized the way we do things.
(D) We can get information, products and friends quickly with the Intenet.
SECTION 2: READING TEST
(30 minutes)
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 the letter of the answer you have chosen in
the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET
Questions 15
"They treat us like mules," the guy installing my washer te1ls me, his eyes narrowing
as he wipes his hands. I had just complimented him and his partner on the speed and
assurance of their work. He explains that it's rare that customers speak to him this way. I
know what he's talking about. My mother was a waitress all her life, in coffee shops and
fastpaced chain restaurants. It was hard work, but she liked it, liked "being among the
public," as she would say. But that work had its sting, too— the customer who would treat
her like a servant or, her biggest complaint, like she was not that bright.
There's a lesson here for this political season: the subtle and notsosubtle insults
that bluecollar and service workers endure as part of their working lives. And those
insults often have to do with intelligence.
We like to think of the United States as a classless society. The belief in economic
mobility is central to the American Dream, and we pride ourselves on our spirit of
egalitarianism. But we also have a troubling streak of aristocratic bias in our national
temperament, and one way it manifests itself is in the assumptions we mark about people
who work with their hands. Working people sense this bias and react to it when they vote.
The common political wisdom is that hotbutton social issues have driven bluecollar
voters rightward. But there are other cultural dynamics at play as well. And Democrats
can be as oblivious to these dynamics as Repub1icans——though the Grand Old Party did
appea1 to them in St. Paul.
Let's go back to those two men installing my washer and dryer. They do a lot of heavy
lifting quickly——mine was the first of l5 deliveries——and efficiently to avoid injury.
Between them there is ongoing communication, verbal and nonverbal, to coordinate the
lift, negotiate the tight fit, move in rhythm with each other. And al1 the while, they are
weighing options, making decisions and so1ving problems——as when my new dryer
didn't match up with the gas outlet.
Think about what a good waitress has to do in the busy restaurant: remember orders
and monitor them, attend to a dynamic, quickly changing environment, prioritize tasks
and manage the flow of work, make decisions on the fly. There's the carpenter using a
number of mathematica1 concepts—symmetry proportion, congruence, the properties of
angles——and visualizing these concepts while building a cabinet, a flight of stairs, or a
pitched roof
The hairstylist's practice is a mix of technique, knowledge about the biology of hair,
aesthetic judgment, and communication skill. The mechanic, electrician, and plumber are
troubleshooters and problem solvers. Even the routinized factory floor cal1s for working
smarts. When has any of this made its way into our political speeches? From either party.
Even on Labor Day.
Last week. the GOP masterfully invoked some old cultural suspicions: country folk
versus city and eastcoast versus heartland education. But these are symbolic populist
gestures, not the stuff of true engagement. Judgments about intelligence carry great
weigh in our society, and we have a tendency to make sweeping assessments of people's
intelligence based on the kind of work they do.
Political tributes to labor over the next two months will render the muscled arm,
sleeve rolled tight against biceps. But few will also celebrate the thought bright behind the
eye, or offer an image that links hand and brain. It would be fitting in a country with an
egalitarian vision of itself to have a truer, richer sense of all that is involved in the wide
range of work that surrounds and sustains us.
Those politicians who can communicate that sense will tap a deep reserve of
neglected feeling. And those who can honor and use work in explaining and personalizing
their policies will find a welcome reception.
l. To illustrate the intelligence of the working class, the author cites the examples of all of
the following EXCEPT______.
(A) hairstylist and waitress, (B) carpenter and mechanic
(C) electrician and plumber (D) streetcleaner and shopassistant
2. In the sentence "we pride ourselves on our spirit of egalitarianism"(para. 3), the word
"egalitarianism" can be replaced by_______.
(A) individualism (B) enlightenment (C) equality (D) liberalism
3. We can conclude from the passage that ________.
(A) in America, judgments about people's intelligence are often based on the kind of
work they do
(B) the subtle and notsosubtle insults towards bluecollars are a daily phenomenon in
America
(C) the United States is a classless society
(D) the old cultural suspicions of country folk versus city and eastcoast versus heartland
education show the Republican's true engagement
4. One of the major groups of targeted readers of the author should be_______.
(A) bluecollar American workers (B) middleclass American businessmen
(C) American politicians (D) American company leaders
5. Which of the following summarizes the main idea of the passage?
(A) The Democratic Party and the Republican Party should stop symbolic populist
gestures.
(B) Political tributes should mind the subtle bias against the intelligence of the working
class.
(C) The ruling party should acknowledge the working smarts of bluecollars.
(D) The whole American society should change the attitude towards the bluecollar
workers.
Questions 610
From cyborg housemaids and waterpowered cars to dog translators, and rocket
boots, Japanese boffins have racked up plenty of nearmisses in the quest to turn science
fiction into reality. Now the finest scientific minds of Japan are devoting themse1ves to
cracking the greatest scifi vision of all: the space elevator. Man has so far conquered
space by painfully and inefficiently blasting himself out of the atmosphere but the 2lst
century should bring a more leisurely ride to the final frontier.
For chemists, physicists, material scientists, astronauts and dreamers across the
globe, the space elevator represents the most tantalizing of concepts: cables stronger and
lighter than any fibre yet woven, tethered to the ground and disappearing beyond the
atmosphere to a satellite docking station in geosynchronous orbit above Earth.
UP and down the 22,000 milelong (36,000km) cables——or flat ribbons——wil1 run
the elevator carriages. themselves requiring huge breakthroughs in engineering to which
the biggest Japanese companies and universities have turned their collective attention.
In the carriages, the scientists behind the idea told The Times, could be any number
of cargoes. A space elevator could carry people, huge solarpowered generators or even
casks of radioactive waste. The point is that breaking free of Earth’s gravity will no longer
require so much energy—perhaps 100 times less than launching the space shuttle. "Just
like traveling abroad, anyone will be able to ride the elevator into space," Shuichi Ono,
chairman of the Japan Space Elevator Association, sad.
The vision has inspired scientists around the world and government organizations,
including Nasa. Several competing space elevator projects are gathering pace as various
groups vie to build practical carriages, tethers and the hundreds of other parts required to
carry out the plan. There are prizes offered by space elevatorrelated scientific
organizations for breakthroughs and competitions for the bes and fastest design of
carriage.
First envisioned by the celebrated master of science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke, in his
l979 work The Fountains of Paradise, the concept has all the best qualities of great
science fiction: it is bold, it is a leap of imagination and it would change life as we know it.
Unlike the warp drives in Star Trek, or H. G Wells's The Time Machine, the idea of the
space elevator does not mess with the laws of science; it just presents a series of very, very
complex engineering problems.
Japan is increasingly confident that its sprawling academic and industrial base can
so1ve those issues, and has even put the astonishingly low price tag of a trillion yen (5
billion) on building the elevator Japan is renowned as a global leader in the precision
engineering and highquality material production without which the idea could never be
possible.
The biggest obstacle lies in the cables. To extend the elevator to a stationary satellite
from the Earth's surface world require twice that length of cable to reach a counterweight,
ensuring that the cable maintains its tension. The cable must be exceptionally light,
staggeringly strong and able to withstand all projectiles thrown at it inside and outside
the atmosphere. The answer, according to the groups working on designs, will lie in
carbon nanotubes ——microscopic particles that can be formed into fibres and whose
mass production is now a focus of Japan's big texti1e companies.
According to Yoshio Aoki, a professor of precision machinery engineering at Nihon
University and a director of the Japan Space Elevator Association, the cable would need
to be about four times stronger than what is currently the strongest carbon nanotube
fibre, or about l80 times stronger than steel. Pioneering work on carbon nanotubes in
Cambridge has produced strength improvement of about l00 times over the past five
years.
Equally, there is the issue of powering the carriages as they climb into space. "We are
thinking of using the technology employed in our bullet trains," Professor Aoki said.
“Carbon nanotubes are good conductors of electricity , so we are thinking of having a
second cable to provide power all along the route." Japan is hosting an international
conference in November to draw up a timetable for the machine.
6. Cyborg housemaids, waterpowered cars, dog translators and rocket boots
are_______.
(A) some of the illusory imaginations of Japanese scientists and technologists
(B) the inventions Japanese scientists are still making on the basis of science fiction
(C) some of the examples of inventions created in science fiction
(D) a few examples which will lead to the invention of the space elevator
7. All of the following would be the features of the cables of the future space elevator
EXCEPT that they would be.________
(A) 22,000 miles long (B) exceptionally light
(C) 180 times stronger than steel (D) made of fibres currently available
8. According to the passage, the idea of the space elevator__________.
(A) was first suggested by H.G Wells in his The Time Machine
(B) was based on the warp drives from Star Trek by Arthur C. Clarke
(C) was first proposed by Arthur C. Clarks in his The Fountains of Paradise
(D) was the imagination of scientists from the Japan Space Elevator Association
9. According to the passage, how is the idea of the space elevator different from some
other imaginations in science fiction?__________
(A) It is in agreement with the laws of science.
(B) It is less functiona1 but more expensive.
(C) It is easier to launch than other space vehicles.
(D) It is more essential for the space elevator to break free of Earth's gravity.
l0. If can be inferred from the passage that__________
(A) science fiction stimulates the development of space science
(B) science fiction usually does not follow the laws of science
(C) science fiction has greatly changed life as we know it
(D) science fiction will never equal the research of space exploration
Questions 1115
When the British artist Paul Day unveiled his nine metrehigh bronze statue of two
lovers 1ocked in an embrace at London's brand new St Pancreas Intenational station last
year it was lambasted as "kitsch", "overb1own” and "truly horrific". Now, a brief glimpse
of a new frieze to wrap around a plinth for The Meeting Place statue has been revealed,
depicting "dreamlike" scenes inspired by the railways.
Passengers arriving from the continent will be greeted with a series o
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