2007 秋季英语高级口译资格证书第一阶段模考 答案

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

Part A: Spot Dictation

本项共 30 分，每格 1.5 分

1.         in a five-centimetre-thick / in a 5cm thick

2.         common and efficient

3.         out of every 50 words

4.         the American directory enquiries

5.         this machine had a female voice

6.         found myself ranting

7.         all kinds of alleged help-lines

8.         is conducted in a small room

9.         Communication between Humans and Inter-active Media

10.     the machines talk to the people

11.     Voices of different ages and accents

12.     less persuaded by female voices

13.     have energy and authority

14.     to make the actual sale.

15.     make a right in two miles

16.     in her American English.

17.     be taken off the market

18.     Tone matters to drivers

19.     the voice on the navigation system

20.     aggressive to the machine

Part B: Listening Comprehension

本项共 20 分，每格 1 分

1-5         C D B D A                                  6-10        B D A B B

11-15      B C D A C                                  16-20      A A D B B

SECTION 4: LISTENING TEST

Part A: Note-taking And Gap-filling

 

In the United States, the 16th annual Bible reading marathon ended on Thursday at the Capitol building in Washington DC. The event, which involved dozens of volunteers reading the Bible aloud from Genesis to Revelation, culminated in a nationwide day of prayer, led by President Bush himself. Religious belief has always played an important part in American life but a lively debate is now under way about whether religion has seeped into areas which should be kept secular. Justin Webb travelled to the most religious state in the union and was surprised by what he found:

From the air Mississippi has the colour and texture of fresh broccoli -- at a distance the trees look tightly coiled -- rich green in the sunlight, purple patches in the shade. Mississippi is home to millions of trees, and not many millions of people. It is a verdant, sweaty place. As your plane comes down to land there are glints all around of sunlight on still water, meandering rivers, reservoirs and swamps, where the line between the still brown liquid and the vegetation is blurred. The state is mostly rural and poor -- shacks and mobile homes nestling under the canopy of the forest, rusting pick-up trucks bouncing down dirt roads.   

And churches -- everywhere churches. Pristine Catholic cathedrals with long pointy towers -- cool and confident looking with wide lawns and copious car parks -- Baptist houses of worship, with those vaguely threatening messages on billboards outside -- Jesus is coming -- where are you going? And in the denser undergrowth, the deeper heart of the State, tiny little brick buildings some not much bigger than a garage.   There are more churches per head of population in Mississippi than in any other state and, historically, you could argue, more bigotry, more cruelty, more unchristian behaviour, racial prejudice, more unchristian behaviour.

I came to Mississippi assuming -- in a European secular sort of way -- that holy scripture -- which once led Mississippi whites down the road of bigotry, was unlikely to be the state's saviour today. On the radio the so-called family Christian station was explaining why god invented women and the devil invented feminism. So far, so predictable. But a visit to Mississippi in 2005 provides a reminder that while religion has motivated all manner of charlatans and creeps in American life and still does, it is also the primary motivation for many of those who genuinely do good and are not collecting money or condemning other people's vice -- in a nation without anything but the most basic social services, without a national health service, many of those picking up the pieces are religious, often fundamentalist Christians. To be sure the President has encouraged this trend -- but in Mississippi I didn't get the impression that they needed much encouragement from far off Washington.

I went to a prison housing the most dangerous young offenders, considered so beyond the pale that they are being tried as adults. The American penal system is brutal -- the sentences are long and the conditions harsh. I had been invited to this place by Dr John Perkins a renowned black prison visitor -- a man who brings bibles and talks to the kids about the lives they might one day lead. I assumed we would be treated with icy courtesy by the whites who run the place. But I got it all wrong. We'd been inside for two minutes when a request, an order, came that we were to lunch with the sheriff, the man in charge. He was a redneck straight out of central casting -- huge and menacing. Then suddenly, as giggly as a schoolgirl. He hugged Dr Perkins and thanked Jesus Christ for the food. Over lunch he told their story -- of a meeting at a prayer breakfast which led to an invitation for Dr Perkins to visit the jail. A couple of highly motivated evangelical Christians have built a personal relationship unthinkable in even the recent past -- and are now significantly improving the lives of mainly black 16 and 17 year old murderers and rapists -- people the rest of the nation is happy to lock up and forget. This was surprise enough -- but there was more to come. We were introduced to Cynthia Cockerne -- an elderly frail white woman who has been running the rudimentary prison education effort. She was a person of quite extraordinary cheery religious fervour -- in almost every sentence she referred to the Lord. She and Dr Perkins did their stuff with the kids -- when we said our goodbyes Dr Perkins walked out with me and announced casually -- that woman is a saint -- and to think that her great uncle killed my brother. It was a racist killing -- unpunished as they all were in those days in these parts -- which this elderly couple had only realised linked them when they chatted recently about places where they had lived and events they had witnessed. They are reconciled now and working hard to make life better in modern Mississippi. I think the so-called Christian right has overplayed its political hand in George Bush's America -- but the power of evangelism at the grassroots is still huge. The televangelists and the religious fire and brimstone politicians come and go but Dr Perkins, Mrs Cockerne and the sheriff are a mighty engine and they'll still be hard at work long after Mr Bush has gone…

Part B: Listening and Translation

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.

Now let’s begin Part B with Sentence Translation:

 

Sentence No. 1. Over the course of the past 20 years, there has been an absolute move to market-based economy. That outlook, of course, means as little government control as possible.

Sentence No. 2. Whenever the gold price falls, in any currency, it makes sense to buy financial assets. Stocks and bonds tend to move inversely with the gold price.

Sentence No. 3. I am trying to give voice to obese kids. I think that losing weight is much more than putting the chopped veggies in the fridge and taking them out when you’re hungry.

Sentence No. 4. What you would want us to do is to use our investment capacity as well as our research capacity to come up with new ways to power our economy, new ways to energize our economy.

Sentence No. 5. Knowledge is the asset to be harnessed. Innovation is the process where knowledge is created, converted into products and services and commercialized in a worldwide market – all enabled by unprecedented advances in technology.

 

 

Ⅱ . Passage Translation

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

Now let’s begin Passage Translation with the first passage.

 

Passage One:

I had achieved the so-called American Dream to a large extent by my late thirties. My husband and I lived in Los Angeles, where I practiced law. I earned a six-figure income and enjoyed the expensive clothes and vacations that my salary afforded. I was respected in my profession. But after ten years of practicing law, I started to question everything. What kind of contribution was I making to society? How would I feel at retirement looking back on my career? After considerable soul searching and journal writing, I concluded that I did not want to spend the next 30 years of my life helping people fight each other.

 

Passage Two:

It was interesting to look at what processes or events led people to adopt a simpler lifestyle. There were a number of people who chose simplicity after experiencing a serious illness or death of a loved one. We know that these events often get people to stop, think, and take stock of their lives. Other people decided to live more simple so that they could spend more time raising their children. But I think the presence of stress and lack of time were the dominant motivating factors that led people to simplicity.

 

This is the end of SECTION 4, listening test. （本项共 20 分，每格 1 分）

1.         16^th

2.         Genesis

3.         Revelation

4.         secular

5.         religious

6.         findings

7.         water

8.         rivers / streams

9.         reservoirs

10.     swamps

11.     head

12.     feminism

13.     penal / legal / punishing

14.     sentences

15.     harsh / cruel / bad

16.     overplayed

17.     evangelism

18.     televangelists

19.     brimstone

20.     sheriff

Part B: Listening and Translation

1. Sentence Translation

本项共 15 分，每句 3 分

(1)    在过去 20 年中，有这样一种完全向市场经济发展的趋势。这种前景当然意味着政府越少插手越好。

(2)    不论以何种货币结算，每当黄金价格下降时，购买金融资产都不失为一种好方法。股票和债券的价格常常与黄金价格相逆而行。

(3)    我想吐露肥胖儿童的心声。我认为，减肥不仅仅是把切好的蔬菜放在冰箱里，等到饿的时候拿出来吃那么简单。

(4)    你想要我们做的是，运用我们的投资能力和研究能力，想出推动和刺激我们经济的新方法。

(5)    知识是等待利用的财产。创新是一个过程，它见证知识的产生，知识转化成产品和服务以及在世界市场上得以商品化——这些都因技术的空前进步而成为现实。

 

2. Passage Translation

本项两小节，共 15 分

(1)    在我近四十岁时，我在很大程度上实现了所谓的美国梦。我和丈夫住在洛山矶，我从事律师工作。我的收入高达六位数，我的工资足够我享受名贵的服饰和豪华的假期。我在同行中颇受尊重。但是，经过十年的律师生涯，我开始思考许多事情。我对社会有什么贡献？在我退休时，我会怎样回顾我的职业生涯？经过很多心灵探索和日记写作，我得出结论，我不想再花 30 年来帮助人们互相争斗了。

(2)    观察什么过程或事件会导致人们去选择一种更为简单的生活，是很有意义的事。有许多人因为经历了严重的疾病或挚爱的人的死亡而选择简单的生活。我们都知道，这些事件往往会让人停下来思考，然后对生活做出判断。还有些人选择简单的生活是因为他们想有更多的时间来陪孩子。但我认为，压力的存在和时间的缺乏是导致人们追求简单生活的主要因素。

 

SECTION 2: READING TEST

本项共 50 分，每格 2.5 分

1-5                   A C D B C                                  6-10        B A A D C

11-15            C C B D C                                  16-20      C A C B B

 

SECTION 3: TRANSLATION TEST

本项共 50 分

说到幻想，也许有人会问，是否会有一场战争可以结束所有的战争，是否有一种药物可以赐予所有人美貌。这个问题完全合乎情理，每年有五十万的美国人死于一种疾病，人们谈之色变，它不像是疾病，更像是夙敌。

20 世纪的癌症就像 19 世纪的肺结核，如同一颗隐伏在体内的炸弹，给人们造成的恐惧远远大于糖尿病和高血压。癌症药物的大量出现始于 20 世纪的一项科学突破 —— 癌症的病因不是心情抑郁、环境恶化、性欲受到压抑等因素，而是基因出错。每个肿瘤的起因都是细胞出错，不幸产生了基因突变，至少是两处，有时是几处。基因突变使细胞大量复制，使基因失去掌控能力，而正常情况下，基因会控制新组织的生长。十年不到，这种观点就彻底改变了癌症，癌症不再是无法攻克的疾病，只是一种机体的紊乱，而这种紊乱产生的分子机制已经破解。这种新的观点促进了各种新方法的产生，使基因突变得以控制，使许多癌症患者绝处逢生。

SECTION 5: READING TEST

本项共 50 分，每个问题 5 分

1.         Tokyo Olympic Games in 2016 / do wonders for the city's infrastructure, prosperity and international reputation. / opponents say that Tokyo, whose 1964 Olympics represented a coming-out party for Japan after the devastation of war, no longer has anything to prove with such a costly proposition. / Health care, pensions and schooling are pressing issues. / Most contenders for the governorship oppose it.

2.         the world's biggest / with 2,000 tonnes of seafood passing through each day / hugely popular with overseas and Japanese visitors / stands in contrast to many capital's sanitised routines. Tsukiji was built as the replacement for the fish market that had stood at central Nihonbashi for over 300 years until a huge earthquake in 1923. / outdated

3.         Many market traders oppose the move / at a stroke the “Tsukiji brand” will be destroyed / City managers proposing the move / toxic benzene / environmentalists say that an earthquake or a tidal surge would destroy it/  construction companies backing the plan

4.         Britain’s overheated property market/ the country's largest housebuilder created / Last year the two firms built about many homes in Britain / Together they will be able to trim costs and they will be in a stronger position in America / bigger is stronger

5.         the transforming upheaval / Ms Barker was investigating why the supply of new houses had responded so sluggishly to the house-price boom, with completions actually falling / a fragmented and inefficient industry / firms competed not for customers but for that scarce British commodity, land with permission to develop. Local firms have a better chance of gaming the planning system than their national rivals / quality often suffered because demand was great.

6.         First, publicly quoted builders vulnerable to takeovers from rivals or private-equity firms / rising house prices pushed up the value of their land faster than their share prices / Britain may soon weaken “green belts” around towns and cities / firms may soon be able to buy land in suburb-sized chunks.

7.         RST will close until 2010 / extensively remodelled before it reopens / the closure is being accompanied by real regret. This imperfect theatre has been so influential / it has become the stuff of legend. / the fabric of the old building will be retained, wrapped around a newly designed theatre.

8.         The old theatre was designed in 1920s Modernist style / It was built of red brick and had fine art-deco decoration / The foyer box-office is a gorgeous piece of early 20th-century design in stainless steel, green marble, bronze and silver bronze with ornamental grilles. The whole was rated Grade 2*

9.         The audience of 1,050 sits in three shallow tiers of seats on three sides of a stage that juts out over ten metres from the proscenium / because of the intimacy it allows between audience and actors, the RSC is wedded to it.

10.     audiences today remember a remarkable range of productions in the old theatre / many masters performed there / a legend

 

SECTION 6: TRANSLATION TEST

本项共 50 分

China is a land of scenic contrasts, each uniquely representing its own area: West Lake in Hangzhou with enchanting pavilions set in quiet surroundings, Mount Emei in Sichuan with peaks peeping through mist and clouds, Guilin in Guangxi with panoramic views of mountains and rivers. And Jiuzhaigou presents another view. Aged trees wave the seasons by, amid carpets of wild flowers and thick green vegetation. Sparkling lakes and waterfalls vary with every season. Mystic lakes and sparkling waterfalls captivate your eyes as you enter the ravine. The trees are their greenest in spring when in tensified by colorful flowers. In summer, warm tints spread over the hills and lakelands. As summer merges into autumn, the maple trees turn fiery-red, splashing color through the thickly forested hills. Tranquility pervades primitive Jiuzhaigou throughout the year.