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2006秋季英语高级口译资格证书第一阶段模考

听力答案及详解

Listening Test I

Part A：Spot Dictation

1. finish training	2. no atmosphere
3. football players	4. Team spirit
5. motivate the team	6. as individuals
7. put too much pressure on them	8. too tense
9. giving people autonomy	10. very rarely interfere
11. on their results	12. keep on employing them
13. making more substitutions	14. making more substitutions
15. don’t feel	16. want to discuss it
17. in a couple of days’ time	18. fight back
19. down to your attitude	20. waste my time on them

Part B: Listening Comprehension

1. D	2. B	3. C	4. C	5. D
6. C	7. D	8. A	9. B	10. C
11. C	12. A	13. D	14. D	15. B
16. B	17. B	18. C	19. C	20. A

Listening Test II

Part A. Note-taking and gap-filling

1. Ten	2. adult/adolescent
3. egocentricity	4. receive
5. object	6. attachment
7. loses	8. father
9. differences	10. unconditional
11. met/fulfilled	12. expectation
13. relationship	14. natural
15. law	16. adventure
17. world	18. conditional
19. positive	20. withdrawn

Part B. Listening and Translation

1. Sentence Translation

1.据我所知，妇女几乎在所有的岗位上比男性同事受到的压力要小，她们也更善于应付。

2.我们采访了300多位来自不同机构试图采用办公自动化的人士，但是他们当中成功的很少。

3.政治分析家说，在这个非洲国家，暴力已经达到一个危险点，对该国刚建立的民主体制产生了很大威胁。

4.暴风雨使城里大部分地区数千名居民的电力供应中断，很多学校和工厂关门。

5.一位叫约翰逊的先生从洛杉矶打来长途电话，说他们还未收到我们寄出的样品。他们等的有点着急了。

2. Passage Translation  

1. 在外度假时，明智的做法是把家里的钥匙交给一位邻居或是亲戚，一旦发生紧急情况可以进到房子里去处理问题。请他们把信箱中的邮件取走，别忘记取消牛奶和报纸。把你住的旅馆电话号码留给他们。到达后，打电话告诉他们你的房间号，如果他们需要和你联系，找你就不会有问题了。

2. 我们60%的雇员再欧洲以外的地区，在我们的子公司和联营企业工作。这可以向你们表明我们公司的国际化程度。我们还在美国新开了一家研究机构，考虑到过去三/四年里我们在那个国家的经营规模和市场份额不断扩大，这是不可避免的。

Scripts

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 blank with the 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.

Building team spirit is always the focal point of what I have been trying to do as a manager. When I first went to Crystal Palace, football player would finish training and then go straight home. There was no atmosphere. so we brought in a pool table and fruit machines. When football players choose to spend time together, it generates a better atmosphere.

Team spirit is very important, but I don’t believe in trying to motivate the team as a team. I try to motivate them as individuals. So I don’t give team talks. I speak to the players individually. And I try not to put too much pressure on them. I believe that football players perform best when they are relaxed. If they’re too tense, I can guarantee they won’t play well in a game.

I also believe in giving people autonomy. I like all the people who work for me to be autonomous; therefore, I very rarely interfere. I feel people should be judged 11 on their results. If they prove incompetent, then I’m incompetent if I keep on employing them.

It’s like that with the team. I get criticized for not interfering during a game and making more substitutions. But I feel if I’ve chosen those eleven players to get a result, then I should making more substitutions to get on with it.

If I’m dropping a player from the team, I don’t feel I have to explain it to them. If they want to discuss it, I will say “Come back and talk about it in a couple of days’ time” But I don’t try to re-motivate them. It’s up to them to have the character to fight back. I’m a great believer that almost everything you achieve in life is down to your attitude. If I have a football player who is magnificently gifted but has a stinking attitude, I won’t waste my time on them.

Part B: Listening Comprehension

Directions: In this part of the test there will be some short talks and conversation. 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 1-5 are based on the following conversation.

W	Today we begin a two-park look at the opportunities which are available to mature students through the Open University. The Open University was founded in 1969 and it offers a range of course, varying in length and type, to adults studying in their own home and in their own time. Like all universities, it awards degrees and we’ll be looking at the range of degree courses in next weeks’ program. But today, we’re going to concentrate on the pre-degree courses which the O.U. offers. And to find out that doing such a course, I’ve invited an Open University student Steve Marshfield into the studio. Steve, you’ve done one course already and you are now in the middle of your second year. Is that right?
M	Yes, I did an Arts foundation course first and now I’m doing the Social Science one.
W	So you obviously enjoyed the experience enough.
M	Yes, I suppose it gets a bit compulsive. I got a lot out of the Arts foundation course—so I thought I’d have to go at something else and here I am now on the Social Sciences course.
W	When did you leave school?
M	16
W	Did you have any kind of training, then after leaving school?
M	No.
W	So really this was the first time you’d ever had to get down to study. Was that hard?
M	Yes it was, it was hard and it’s gonna get even harder.
W	What’s hard especially? It is the discipline?
M	Yes, it’s the discipline of switching from being an manual laborer to a mental laborer. For me it’s really difficult.
W	How did you hear about the Open University?
M	I used to see the programs on the television when I got in from the night shift. They’re on from twenty past seven to a quarter to eight Thursdays.
W	Is that the only time they’re on show?
M	No, they’re shown on Sunday morning. I’d like to know more about this. But it’s a repeat of Thursday’s. Anyway, I thought I’d like to know more about this.
W	How much time do you need to spend a week on a course?
M	Well, you’re supposed to do a unit a week and they say to allow 15 hours a unit. But I just haven’t got that amount of time to spare—not without completely reorganizing my life, anyway. I reckon you can get away with 2/3—a minimum of ten hours. A good Saturday and Sunday.
W	How did you get on with the exam at the end of the course?
M	I completely fluffed the exam. I made an absolute hash of it! I did pass the course but I realize now that it was in spite of the exam. I realize that because I had a letter from the Dean of the Arts Faculty telling me that, very nicely, that though I’d passed, I only passed absolutely minimally!
W	You say you fluffed the exam. Can you pinpoint why?
M	Well, I went in there in completely the wrong frame of mind. I was just completely apathetic. I sat there and wrote for 3 hours but it’s only when you get outside you think “Oh, no. Did I really say that?”
W	You could probably get a grant to go to an ordinary university now. If you were offered a place, would you jump at the chance?
M	No, I wouldn’t jump at it. I’d consider it. The thing is, for me, it’d be very difficult to go into higher education now that I’ve had 10, no 12 years of having money in my pocket.
W	Yes.
M	Coz it’d be an enormous change in my lifestyle and probably one that’d be difficult to cope with.
W	Yes. And finally, Steve, have you any advice you’d like to give someone who was thinking of taking an O.U. course?
M	Yes. Hold you nose and jump in!
W	Thank you very much for talking to me. Steve.
Q1	What open university course is the man taking now?
Q2	According to the man, how much time did he spend every week on a course?
Q3	What did the man say about the exam at the end of the course?
Q4	Why would the man hesitate about going to an ordinary university?
Q5	Which of the following best shows the main purpose of the program?

Questions 6-10 are based on the following news.

Moscow—Russian lawmakers voted overwhelmingly yesterday to reject the appointment of Viktor Chernomyrdin as prime minister despite warnings that the country was on the verge of political and economic collapse.

The Duma, the lower chamber of parliament, voted after more than three hours of bitter debate not to confirm Chernomyrdin. Hard-line delegates called for President Boris Yeltsin’s resignation.

Chernomyrdin pleaded before the vote with lawmakers to approve the formation of a government to tackle the country’s crisis that has seen the collapse of the stock market and the devaluation of the currency. The acting premier, who needed 226 votes for confirmation watched glumly as Duma voted not to confirm him.

Lagos—More then 160 bank chiefs jailed by Nigeria’s military regime have gone on hunger strike to protest against their ongoing detention without trial, reports here said yesterday. 85 jailed bank chiefs effused good on Sunday at their detention centre in Lagos, said the privately-owned Post Express and State-owned Daily Times newspapers.

Quito—The death toll from the crash of a Cuban aircraft at Ecuador’s Quito airport rose to 80 on Sunday as aviation experts searched the wreckage in the hope of pinning down the cause of the accident.

The Cubana de Aviation plane, a Russian-made Tupolev, ploughed through airport fences into a nearby field after it aborted a third attempt to take off on Saturday, witnesses said. It caught fire and exploded.

The civil aviation department said 80 people had died by Sunday afternoon. The initial toll of 77 increased when one victim died in hospital of severe burns and two more bodies were found at the site.

Singapore—Around 47 percent of 600 firms in six Asia-Pacific countries are uncertain about the advantages of electronic commerce, according to the results of a survey by Visa International released here yesterday. Fifty-three per cent of merchants believe conduction transactions via the internet was suitable for their businesses. Meanwhile, 73 per cent said this would only supplement, but not replace traditional ways of doing business.

Jakarta—Indonesian troops threatened to fire rubber bullets yesterday at hundreds of looters attacking houses owned by ethnic Chinese in the central Java town of Cilacap.

Rioting has rocked the town in recent days.

Violence, not looting, has abated in the town, a military official said.

“Basically, the situation is getting better. There is no violence today, but hundreds of jobless people are still continuing to loot a number of ethnic Chinese fishermen’s houses,” Colonel Mnoer Muis told reporters.

“We are going to take action against the robbers, with rubber bullets if necessary.”

Police detained 27 people in the town in recent days, Muis said.

Q6	How many votes are needed in the lower chamber of Russian parliament to confirm the appointment of the prime minister?
Q7	What do the jailed bank chiefs protest against in Nigeria?
Q8	When did the plane crash happen?
Q9	What’s the majority view concerning electronic commerce, according to a recent survey conducted by Visa International?
Q10	Which of the following statements is true about the rioting in Indonesia?

Questions 11-15 are based on the following interview

M	How long has SOFTBANK been in business?
W	The company started in 1981. At that time the PC was just a toy. No one was distributing software. No one even knew that software was available.
M	The growth’s been phenomenal, then.
W	That’s right. Sales revenues have gone up every year since we started. At one time they were doubling every month.
M	What’s the main growth area now?
W	Networking. That’s really taking off. It includes operating systems, cables, boards, everything you need for the networked company. Before that, the big growth area was business applications. Things like word processing packages and spreadsheets.
M	And before that?
W	Games. Games software. That’s where it all started.
M	And what about your magazine business? In that growing?
W	Yes, indeed. We published 14 different computer magazines last month. But it got off to a poor start initially.
M	Yeah?
W	We set up the publishing division just six months after we’d set up the distribution business, so we didn’t have a lot of money to spare. We launched two magazines, printed 50, 000 copies and 85% were returned.
M	Really?
W	They just didn’t sell and they were eating up all our profits.
M	I’m surprised you didn’t close them down.
W	We didn’t want people to think we were in trouble. We decided to take a gamble instead. We made them twice as thick, kept the price the same, change the layout and printed twice as many. Then we spent all the money we had left on TV advertising.
M	It obviously worked.
W	Yes. They sold out in three days.
Q11	When was the company founded?
Q12	What is the company’s main growth area at present?
Q13	According to the woman, how many computer magazines did they publish last month?
Q14	When did they set up the publishing division?
Q15	Why didn’t they close down the publishing division when it wasn’t successful?

Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following talk.

The traditional American family used to have a working father, a house-wife mother, and two or three children. But in the last 20 or 25 years, this picture has changed. Now we have many different kinds of families and living situations besides this traditional one. For example, there are many single mothers and single fathers who are raising children by themselves. There are married couples who decide that they don’t want any children. Sometimes adult children who have been living alone for a long time come back and live with their parents again. You can also find groups of new types of families in this country. Why has the traditional family changed so much? Well, the reasons are both social and economic. First, as you know, the divorce rate is high in our culture; as a result, we have many single-parent families. Second, there is unemployment among young adults. If they cannot find a job, many time they return home and live with their parents again. But of course the most important reason for the changes in the American family is that most American women now work outside the home. In fact, 54.5% of all American women are now working or looking for work. This means that more than half of all American homes do not have a full-time homemaker anymore.

Some people might say that these are “women’s problems”, so women should be the ones to solve them. But more and more people understand that everybody in our society is responsible for trying to find answers to these problems. In fact, many companies are trying to help modern working parents, both the mother and the father, by creating flexible new policies. Here are a few examples.

One example is that many companies now allow a woman to leave her job temporarily in order to have a baby. This is called maternity leave.

Second, you know that big companies like IBM or Mitsubishi often transfer their employees to other cities… right? If a company transfers the husband, for example, this might create a problem for the wife because now she has to find a new job, too. Well, now there are some companies that will help the husband or wife of a transferred worker to find a new job.

Another new policy is that many companies now have something called “flextime”. Flextime means that instead of working from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, as most people do in this country, a worker can work from, say, 6:00 am to 3：00 pm, or from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm, etc. As you can imagine, flextime is very useful for people with children.

Fourth, some companies allow their employees to work at home instead of coming in to the office every day. Working at home is easy for people in professions like computer programming and telephone sales.

Fifth, a few large companies now have day-care centers for the children of their employees. 

I’ve given you five examples of new company policies that are supposed to make life a little easier for working mothers and fathers. Let me repeat them for you briefly: maternity leave, helping the wife or husband of a transferred worker to find a new job in another city; flextime, allowing employees to work at home, and day-care centers. However, it’s important for you to understand that there are only a few large companies that can afford to help their employees with these kinds of programs. For most people trying to work and take care of a family is still very, very difficult.

Q16	What is typical of the traditional American family?
Q17	Which of the following is NOT cited in the talk as a reason of the change of the American family pattern？
Q18	What is the percentage of all American women who are working or looking for work?
Q19	According to the talk, how do some companies help a transferred employee?
Q20	Which of the following statements is TRUE, according to the speaker?

Listening Test II

Part A. Note-taking and gap-filling

Today I’d like to talk about love between child and parent.

For most children before the age from eight and a half to ten, the problem is almost exclusively that of being loved—of being loved for what one is. The child up to this age does not yet love; he responds gratefully and joyfully to being loved. At this point of the child’s development and a new factor enters into the picture; that of the producing love by one’s own activity. For the first time, the child thinks of giving something to mother or to father. For the first time in the child’s life the idea of love is changed from being loved into loving, into creating love. It takes many years from this first beginning to the maturing of love. Eventually the child may now be an adolescent and has overcome his egocentricity; the other person is not any more primarily a means to the satisfaction of his own needs. The needs of the other person are as important as his own, in fact, they have become more important. To give has become more satisfactory and more joyous than to receive; to love has become more important even than being loved.

Closely related to the development of the capacity of love is the development of the object of love. The first months and years of the child are those where his closest attachment is to the mother. This attachment begins before the moment of birth, when mother and child are still one, although they are two. Although the child is now living outside of the womb, he is still completely dependent on mother. But he becomes more independent day by day: he learns to walk, to talk and to explore the world on his own; the relationship to mother loses some of its vital significance, and instead the relationship to father becomes more and more important.

In order to understand this shift from mother to father, we must consider the essential differences in quality between motherly and fatherly love. We have already spoken about motherly love. Motherly love by its very nature is unconditional. Mother loves the newborn infant because it is her child, not because the child has fulfilled any specific condition, or lived up to any specific expectation.

The relationship to father is quite different. Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, the ocean; father does not represent any such natural home, he has little connection with the child in the first years of its life, and his importance for the child in this period cannot be compared with that of mother. But while father does not represent the natural world, he represents the other pole of human existence. He represents the world of thought, of law and order, of discipline and of travel and adventure. Father is the one who teaches the child, who shows him the road into the world.

Closely related to this function is one which is connected with socio-economic development. When private property came into existence, and when private property could be inherited by one of the sons, father began to look for that son to whom he could leave his property. Naturally, that was the one whom father thought best fitted to become his successor, the son who was most like him, and consequently whom he liked the most. Fatherly love is conditional love. Its principle is “I love you because you fulfill my expectations, because you do your duty, because you are like me.” In conditional fatherly love we find a negative and a positive aspect. The negative aspect is the very fact that fatherly love has to be deserved, that it can be lost if one does not do what is expected. In the nature of fatherly love the fact obedience becomes the main virtue, that disobedience is the main sin and its punishment is the withdrawal of fatherly love.

Part B. Listening and Translation

1. Sentence Translation

1. Women in almost all jobs are less stressed and cope better than their male colleagues, as far as I can tell.

2. We have interviewed more than 300 people from different organizations attempting to automate their offices, but there are few success stories.

3. Violence is this African country is reaching a crisis point and poses a major threat to the country’s infant democracy, politically analysts say.

4. The storm left thousands of people without electricity in large parts of the city, forcing the closure of schools and many factories.

5. A Mr. Johnson called on long-distance from Los Angeles, saying they’ve still not received the samples we sent. They’re getting impatient.

2. Passage Translation  

1. When you’re out on holiday, it’s wise for you to give the keys of your house to a neighbor or relative, so that they can get in, in case there is an emergency. Ask them to remove the post from your letter-box and don’t forget to cancel the deliveries of milk or newspapers. Leave the telephone number of the hotel you are staying in and call to let them know your room number when you arrive so that if they need to get in touch with you, they won’t have the problems tracking you down.

2. We have over 60% of our employees involved outside of Europe. They work in our subsidiaries and associated companies overseas. That might give you an indication of how international our company has become. Furthermore we have just started a new research unit in the USA, which is inevitable give the large size of our operations in that country and the expansion of our market share there in the past 3 or 4 years.

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