2007秋季英语中级口译资格证书第一阶段模考

上海新东方学校英语综合能力培训部口译教研组发布（ 2007.9 ）

SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST

（ 40 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 blanks with the ward or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in you ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage only once.

Avoid eggs. Drink 8 glasses of water a day. Eating carbs will 1 . Nutritional advice such as this has been touted for years -- but is it accurate? 2 , according to Wendy Repovich, an exercise physiologist at Eastern Washington University, who did her best to dispel several common 3 during a health and fitness summit held recently in Dallas.

"Eating eggs will raise your cholesterol." This myth started because egg yolks have the 4 of cholesterol in any food, Repovich said. However, when eaten in 5 , eggs do not contain enough cholesterol to pose health risks, she said. "Most people avoid eggs and 6 they have any kind of cardiovascular risk their physicians tell them to avoid eggs, but really, there aren't 7 studies that show that one or two eggs a day really 8 to cholesterol levels."

"Eating carbohydrates makes you fat" is 9 . Cutting carbs from the diet may help a person shed pounds due to 10 from a decrease in carbohydrate stores, but eating carbs in moderation does not directly lead to 11 .

Here's another myth. "Drink 12 water a day." Repovich said people need to replace water lost through 13 , urinating, sweating each day -- but that doesn't necessarily total 64 ounces of water. "I see an awful lot of people carrying bottled water around, I think people are still 14 that they have to drink 8 glasses of water a day, but most people don't realize they get water from 15 in the diet." And too much water can be harmful, Repovich warned, leading possibly to an 16 in the body of sodium, a condition called hyponatremia.

It's also a myth, that everyone needs 17 , although Repovich admits to popping a multivitamin each morning. People who eat 18 fruits, vegetables, whole grains, along with moderate amounts of a variety of low-fat 19 and the right quantity of calories, probably don't need a vitamin supplement, she said. "But for the most part, we don't eat 20 so probably a simple multivitamin is good for most people."

Part B: Listening Comprehension

1. Statements

Directions: In this part of the test, 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 chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

1. (A) John and Lisa are team members.

(B) John and Lisa are good at handling emergencies.

(D) John and Lisa are good partners when working together.

2. (A) Sark pointed at you very personally.

(B) Sark said harsh things in order to hurt you.

(D) Sark expected you to take things seriously.

3. (A) Henry’s ear is a big problem for him.

(B) Henry killed the old man and got much money.

(D) Henry inherited a lot of money from his father.

4. (A) The departure gate was 29B and is now 30F.

(B) The departure gate was 30A and is now 32B.

(D) The departure gate was 29F and is now 30B.

5. (A) I don’t believe what Donald said.

(B) I’m sure that Donald is divorced now.

(D) I doubt if Donald is really divorced.

6. (A) They are here with us now because they took the early train.

(B) They wanted to be with us, so they took the early train.

(D) Even if they took the early train, they still couldn’t be with us now.

7. (A) Mark admitted that Monica was right, when she provided enough evidence.

(B) Mark denied that Monica was right, regardless of her evidence.

(D) Mark accepted Monica’s evidence and agreed that she was right.

8. (A) The figure on the check exceeds the balance in the bank account, so it’s worthless.

(B) If you cash the check in the amount of 15,000, we can do that for you.

(D) You check can still be cashed if you deposit another 50,000 dollars now.

9. (A) Bill Gates is rich because he didn’t finish his undergraduate study.

(B) Bill Gates tells us that in order to become rich, one must drop out.

(D) Some students have become millionaires after they drop out.

10. (A) Supply of native-born scientists and engineers exceeded the demand.

(B) Scientists and engineers in other countries have specialized technical skills.

(D) Supply of native-born scientists and engineers can meet the

2. 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 talk or conversation and questions Only ONCE. When you hear a question, read 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) A concert the woman attended.

(B) The man’s collection of CD’s.

(D) An instrument the woman is learning to play.

12. (A) She lost one of his CD’s.

(B) She didn’t invite him to the concert.

(D) She forgot about a meeting.

13. (A) A symphony.

(B) Some CD’s.

(D) His class notes.

14. (A) The woman’s house.

(B) The concert.

(D) The music shop.

Questions 15-18

15. (A) The types of instruments used in bebop music.

(B) The social setting in which bebop music developed.

(D) The influence of bebop music on the United States economy during the 1940 ’ s.

16. (A) They didn ’ t use singers.

(B) They gave free concerts.

(D) They shortened the length of their performances.

17. (A) To discuss one way it impacted jazz music.

(B) To explain why the government reduced some taxes.

(D) To discuss the popularity of certain jazz bands.

18. (A) The music contained strong political messages.

(B) The music had a steady beat that people could dance to.

(D) The music contained irregular types of rhythms.

Questions 19-22

19. (A) He’s an expert on life in the future.

(B) He’s an anthropologist.

(D) He’s an expert on greenhouse effect.

20. (A) It will take on quite a new look.

(B) It will be more progressive and the life will be better.

(D) It will be just the same as now.

21. (A) A colder climate.

(B) A shortage of labor power.

(D) A shortage of carbon dioxide.

22. (A) It is the result of decreasing the amount of carbon dioxide.

(B) It could melt the polar ice caps, which would cause disastrous flooding.

(D) It might disappear within the next decade.

Questions 23-26

23. (A) Competition in business.

(B) Government grants.

(D) International transportation practices.

24. (A) American industrialists

(B) French economists

(D) Civil War veterans

25. (A) The rights of private business owners should be protected.

(B) The government shouldn ’ t interfere in private business.

(D) Competition among companies should be restricted.

26. (A) Before the Civil War.

(B) After the Civil War.

(D) In the late 19th century.

Questions 27-30

27. (A) To buy a plane ticket.

(B) To talk to a friend.

(D) To arrange her conference.

28. (A) An excursion fare.

(B) A full return ticket.

(D) Three single tickets.

29. (A) 2104 pounds.

(B) 1402 pounds.

(D) 1204 pounds.

30. (A) London --- Cairo --- Melbourne

(B) London --- Melbourne --- Cairo

(D) London --- Singapore --- Cairo

Part C: Listening and Translation

1. Sentence Translation

Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 5 sentences in English. 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)

2. Passage Translation

Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in English. 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.

(1)

(2)

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 of 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

Like many teenage girls, Lee Ann Thill was obsessed with her appearance. A diabetic, she already was suffering from bulimia -- forcing herself to throw up to lose weight. But it wasn't enough, and she'd recently put on 20 pounds.

Then one day at a camp for diabetic teens, she heard counselors chew out two girls for practicing "diabulimia" -- skipping their insulin so they could lose weight, one of the consequences of uncontrolled diabetes.

Don't you realize you could die if you skip your insulin? the counselor scolded. That you could fall into a coma or damage your kidneys or your eyes?

But that's not what registered with Thill, who has Type 1, or juvenile, diabetes. Instead she focused on this: Skipping insulin equals weight loss. For the next 17 years, diabulimia was her compulsion.

"I took just enough insulin to function," said Thill, now 34, of Magnolia, N.J.

Today she worries about the long-term damage that may have come from her weight obsession. At 25, a blood vessel hemorrhage in her eye required surgery. At 28, doctors told her she had damaged kidneys.

"I'm fearful for the future," Thill said. "I feel very strongly that had I taken care of myself, I could have lived as long as anyone without diabetes. I don't think that's going to happen now."

Diabulimia usually is practiced by teenage girls and young women, and it may be growing more common as the secret is exchanged on Internet bulletin boards for diabetics and those with eating disorders.

One expert who has studied the phenomenon estimates that 450,000 Type 1 diabetic women in the United States -- one-third of the total -- have skipped or shortchanged their insulin to lose weight and are risking a coma and an early death.

"People who do this behavior wind up with severe diabetic complications much earlier," said Ann Goebel-Fabbri, a clinical psychologist at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston.

The American Diabetes Association has long known about insulin omission as a tactic to lose weight. But "diabulimia" is a term that has cropped up only in recent years and is not a recognized medical condition, said Barbara Anderson, a pediatrics professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Type 1 diabetes is a disorder in which the body's own immune system attacks insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. People with the disease produce little or no insulin, so they take shots of the hormone daily.

Warning signs

Red flags for diabulimia include a change in eating habits -- typically someone who eats more but still loses weight -- low energy and high blood-sugar levels. Frequent urination is another signal. When sugars are high, the kidneys work overtime to filter the excess glucose from the blood. This purging of sugar from the body through the kidneys is similar to someone with bulimia, who binges and then purges, or vomits.

1． What is bulimia?

A. A good habit for overweight people to sharpen their figure.

B. A dangerous way to lose weight at the risk of many disfunctioning in organs.

C. A resolution for treating diabetics.

D. A long-term plan for losing weight.

2. Which of the following is not a possible fallout for "diabulimia"?

A. Eye hemorrhage

B. Kidney damage

C. Weight losing

D. Amputation

3. What does the phrase “cropped up” mean?

A. Come out

B. Go up

C. Decline

D. Pent up

4. These signs show you suffer from diablimia EXCEPT _____?

A. eating more but still losing weight

B. low energy and high blood-sugar levels.

C. Frequent urination

D. Getting overweighed

5. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Diablimia

B. Diabetes

C. Obesity

D. Insulin

Questions 6-10

Archaeologist Andrej Gaspari is haunted by pieces of the past. His hometown river, the Ljubljanica, has yielded thousands of them—Celtic coins, Roman luxuries, medieval swords—all from a shallow 12-mile (19 kilometers) stretch. Those who lived near and traveled along the stream that winds through Slovenia's capital of Ljubljana considered it sacred, Gaspari believes. That would explain why generations of Celts, Romans, and earlier inhabitants offered treasures—far too many to be accidental—to the river during rites of passage, in mourning, or as thanksgiving for battles won.

But Gaspari may never be able to explain for certain why the Ljubljanica holds one of Europe's richest stores of river treasures, many of them remarkably preserved by the soft sediments and gentle waters. Too many pieces of the puzzle have already disappeared.

During the past two decades, sport divers have made the river their playground, removing most of some 10,000 to 13,000 objects found so far. Even though removing artifacts from the Ljubljanica has long been illegal, professional archaeologists have been forced to compete with private collectors. Some divers sold their loot to museums; others to the highest bidder. Some kept their treasures private. Many artifacts have left the country, untraceable. Gaspari's greatest torment comes from the knowledge that few maverick collectors know—or care—where exactly their prizes were found. For an archaeologist, an object's meaning comes as much from its context—location, association with other objects—as from the prize itself. Without context, there is no story.

Mladen Mück is one of Gaspari's tormentors. Now in his 40s, the Bosnian-born architect began diving in the river in 1985 and has brought up about a thousand pieces. In his kitchen in Ljubljana, a plastic box contains prehistoric tools. Upstairs, dusty cases hold other rare artifacts, including deer antler axes. Mück says he has no intention of selling what he has found. Like many collectors, he babies his goods and claims they are better off with him than with the authorities.

"More people see these artifacts in my house than if I gave them to a museum," he says with a dismissive wave. "There they would sit in a basement."

Gaspari disagrees. A team at the National Museum of Slovenia is preparing an exhibit of the river's treasures that will tour Europe in 2008, he says. Still, he hopes that someday Mück will hand over his items. "My heart is strong," quips the 33-year-old archaeologist. If Mück is obstinate, "I will outlive him."

6. What treasure does the river NOT bear?

A. Celtic coins

B. Roman luxuries

C. medieval swords

D. sediments and water in the river

7. Why are treasure in the river disappearing?

A. Divers are taking them a way.

B. Archaeologists are taking them away.

C. Archaeologists are competing with divers.

D. Those treasures have been so old that they have gone bad.

8. What do archaeologists need when investigating those treasures?

A. They need to know its value in terms of money.

B. They need to find out its context and location and association with other objects.

C. They need to sell them to foreign markets.

D. They need to take them back to where they had been.

9. what does the word “baby” mean in the 4^th paragraph?

A. Cherish

B. Take care of

C. Put them up for sale

D. Repair

10. Wat is Gaspari’s plan in saving the treasures?

A. He intends to display those treasures.

B. He is going to travel across European countries.

C. He is going to buy those treasures back.

D. He is going to trace those lost treasures.

Questions 11-15

The light turns green and the person in front of you doesn’t step on the gas. Someone edges in on you too abruptly at the Midtown Tunnel. You’re behind a minivan driving below the speed limit on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Do you yell, gesture, curse or honk?

Of course you do. After all, this is New York, and this spring we went from third place to second in instances of aggressive driving and road rage. A new national poll of 2,500 drivers brings word that only Miami is more badly behaved than we are.

When the news broke in May, The New York Sun suggested that theatrical behavior behind the wheel was a source of pride to many New York motorists. One cabbie wondered how Miami could have beaten us. Nancy Julius, a clinical psychologist, admitted there were days when she was proud of outmaneuvering other drivers. “I’m actually offended that we’re only No. 2,” she told me last week. “I think we should be No. 1. We’re entitled to our anger.”

I know what she means. Why let anyone get away with anything?

I mean, if the Colonies hadn’t been angry with King George, would we have Independence Day traffic to infuriate us? No. It’s summer, and I say let the raging begin. What else can you do but rage when confronted with a street fair?

It’s the season for parade rage, too. Last weekend, downtown residents, gay and straight, fumed about the Gay Pride parade that tied up traffic and trashed streets. Power rage surged last week during a New York blackout. So did air rage when Northwest flights were canceled due to employee walkouts. In Los Angeles there’s heir rage, too, as neighbors of Paris Hilton vent about gawkers and paparazzi overrunning a narrow street.

Of course you have to exercise caution if you choose to spout off. In May, Newsday reported that a road rage incident on the Long Island Expressway ended with one driver being pepper-sprayed. The other spent the night in jail.

“A total disaster,” he said. Well, yes, but maybe a little amusing too?

I’m not suggesting it’s fun watching people endangering themselves or others. But come on, who doesn’t enjoy a good fight every now and again?

Last Tuesday, after Gov. Eliot Spitzer publicly chided the State Legislature, the Senate majority leader, Joseph Bruno, announced to the press that Mr. Spitzer should “stop wandering around this state, having a tantrum like a big overgrown rich kid.”

Equally amusing was an MTV report last week about a music industry luncheon that ended in a rumble involving the rappers Ludacris and T. I. and their posses. And wouldn’t any Manhattan (or Hamptons) intersection be dull without the free-ranging displays of aggression? Driver turns a little soon? Bang on his trunk with your hand. And if a bicyclist barrels past while you’re on foot, give him a piece of your mind!

Then, after taking it to the street, take it inside.

The other morning there was a long line at my overpriced coffee place. After watching one woman cut, I was outraged to see another — chic in white — try it, too.

“Just so you know, the line’s in the back of the store,” I said. It ended with her cursing and me telling her to shut up. But instead of feeling distressed, I felt invigorated.

“Fighting can make long lines less boring,” said Robert Sinclair, an AAA spokesman. “Besides, you can’t let people step on you.”

11. Wat does the author mean by” step on the gas” in the 1^st paragraph?

A. Start the car

B. Stop the car

C. Keep driving the car

D. Get off the car

12. Wich of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. New York is the worst city in U.S. in terms of driving rudeness.

B. Miami is the worst city in termsof driving rudeness.

C. In Europe, people don’t honk or curse when they are stuck in the road.

D. People don’t believe Miami is the worst city in terms of road anger.

13. What does “spout off” (para.7) mean?

A. Act aggressively

B. Say rude words.

C. Keep silent

D. Put somebody in jail

14. What is the author’s tone in writing the passage?

A. Sarcastic

B. Serious

C. Amicable

D. Aggressive

15. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Road anger

B. Anger in congress

C. Air anger and heir anger

D. Angers and how standers-by deal with them

Questions 16-20

Glass fibers have a long history. The Egyptians made coarse fibers by 1600 B.C., andfibers survive as decorations on Egyptian pottery dating back to 1375 B c. During theRenaissance (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries A.D.), glassmakers from Venice used glass Line fibers to decorate the surfaces of plain glass vessels. However, glassmakers guarded their secrets so carefully that no one wrote about glass fiber production until the early seventeenth century.

The eighteenth century brought the invention of "spun glass" fibers. Rene-Antoine deReaumur, a French scientist, tried to make artificial feathers from glass. He made fibers by rotating a wheel through a pool of molten glass, pulling threads of glass where the hot thick liquid stuck to the wheel. His fibers were short and fragile, but he predicted that spun glass fibers as thin as spider silk would be flexible and could be woven into fabric.

By the start of the nineteenth century, glassmakers learned how to make longer, stronger fibers by pulling them from molten glass with a hot glass tube. Inventors wound the cooling end of the thread around a yarn reel, then turned the reel rapidly to pull more fiber from the molten glass. Wandering tradespeople began to spin glass fibers at fairs, making decorations and ornaments as novelties for collectors, but this material was of little practical use; the fibers were brittle, ragged, and no longer than ten feet, the circumference of the largest reels. By the mid-1870's, however, the best glass fibers were finer than silk and could be woven into fabrics or assembled into imitation ostrich feathers to decorate hats. Cloth of white spun glass resembled silver; fibers drawn from yellow-orange glass looked golden.

Glass fibers were little more than a novelty until the 1930's, when their thermal and electrical insulating properties were appreciated and methods for producing continuous filaments were developed. In the modern manufacturing process, liquid glass is fed directly from a glass-melting furnace into a bushing, a receptacle pierced with hundreds of fine nozzles, from which the liquid issues in fine streams. As they solidify, the streams of glass are gathered into a single strand and wound onto a reel.

16. Which of the following aspects of glass fiber does the passage mainly discuss?

(A) The major developments in its production

(B) Its relationship with pottery making

(D) The variety of its uses in modern industry

17. The word "coarse" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to ____.

(A) decorative

(B) natural

(D) weak

18. Why was there nothing written about the making of Renaissance glass fibers until

the seventeenth century?

(A) Glassmakers were unhappy with the quality of the fibers they could make.

(B) Glassmakers did not want to reveal the methods they used.

(D) Production methods had been well known for a long time.

19. According to the passage, using a hot glass tube rather than a wheel to pull

fibers from molten glass made the fibers___.

(A) quicker to cool

(B) harder to bend

(D) longer and more durable

20. Which of the following terms is defined in the passage?

(A) invention

(B) circumference

(D) bushing

Questions 21-25

THE challenge of making a serious film about the Zodiac, a serial killer who terrorised northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s, is that he was never caught. By focusing on the men who tried to catch the murderer and the effect the investigation had on their lives, David Fincher weaves a potent spell.

James Vanderbilt's intelligent, factual script is based on a book by Robert Graysmith, who became intrigued by the letters the Zodiac wrote to the San Francisco newspaper where he worked as a political cartoonist. Played by Jake Gyllenhaal, Graysmith is that familiar figure, the earnest amateur sleuth solving crimes that baffle the authorities. Dave Toschi (Mark Ruffalo), a San Francisco homicide detective, and Paul Avery (Robert Downey junior), a star reporter, are also hunting the Zodiac. The three men stay on the case for two decades, during which the embittered Avery sinks into substance abuse, Toschi is transferred from the homicide department under a cloud, and Graysmith's marriage comes to grief.

Obsessed investigators are common in films about serial killers, a genre in which Mr Fincher scored a notable success in 1995 with “Seven”. But what was a melodramatic device in that film becomes gripping drama in “Zodiac”, which has also seen a refining of his visual style. “Seven” was flashy; “Zodiac” is sober and ravishingly elegant.

Instead of dwelling on gruesome images, Mr Fincher sets our nerves on edge with three brutal crimes, then mesmerises us with a mystery—just as the Zodiac did. After an initial killing spree, he continued to hold the Bay Area in thrall with threatening letters accompanied by blocks of cipher code, which newspapers printed like the morning crossword. During one sequence the words of the taunting messages even seem to float in the air around the frustrated investigators.

Mr Fincher aims to tell a fascinating story, not to exorcise a collective obsession. Jack the Ripper, who was never caught, became an industry, whereas the solution “Zodiac” proposes is convincing enough to forestall a stream of books and films in which the Zodiac turns out to be Spiro Agnew, say, or Janis Joplin. That should at least put a dent in the undying notoriety this particular psychopath killed to achieve.

21. About Zodiac, which of the following is NOT TRUE?

A. He was finally caught after 20 years of tracing.

B. He is the stereotype of “Zodiac” in the movie.

C. He is a serial killer who had been at large till death.

D. He confessed his crime in his letters to a reporter.

22. What is the movie “Zodiac” like?

A. It was played by Jake Gyllenhaal and Zodiac himself.

B. It is all the same with “Seven”.

C. It depicts a troubled detective and his lost marriage.

D. It is rather dramatic.

23. What does the word “mesmerise” (para. 4) mean?

A. enchant

B. delude

C. dilute

D. entrench

24. Which of the following is not included in the movie?

A. Zodiac committed three brutal crimes

B. After an initial killing spree, he continued to hold the Bay Area in thrall with threatening letters

C. He sent letters to newspapers.

D. He committed suicide in the end.

25. Which of the following serves as the best title of the passage?

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