0903高级口译模拟试卷一

英语高级口译资格证书第一阶段考试
昂立模拟考试
(2009年3月)
试卷一
TEST BOOK 1
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 blanks 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.
As a full-time student at West Thames College you will have your own Personal Mentor who will see you each week to ________ (1), and discuss any problems which may arise. We take a ________ (2) to the assessment of your work and encourage you to contribute to discussion.
This service provides ___________ (3) for those who need help to improve their writing, oral and ________ (4) for the successful completion of their college course. Help with basic skills is also available.
This service is available to anyone who is undecided ________ (5). It is very much a service for ________ (6), whatever your age, helping you to select the best option to ________ (7). The service includes educational advice, guidance and support, including a facility for accrediting ________ (8)—the Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL). The Admissions Office is open Monday to Friday 9.00 am to 5.00pm. All interviews are confidential and conducted in a ________ (9). Evening appointments are available on request.
The College Bookshop stocks ________ (10), covering aspects of all courses, together with __________ (11). It also supplies stamps, phone cards, blank videos and computer disks. The shop is open ________ (12) in the Student Handbook in the mornings, afternoons and evenings.
When students are ________ (13) and want the chance to relax and enjoy themselves with friends, they can participate in a number of ________ (14). Depending on demand, we offer a range of ________ (15) including football, badminton, basketball, table tennis, volleyball,
weight training and aerobics. For the non-sporting students we offer a ________ (16), video club, hair and beauty sessions, as well as a range of creative activities. Suggestions for activities from students are ________ (17).
This confidential service is available if you have ________ (18) during your course of study, whether of a ___________ (19). Our Student Advisors can help you directly or put you ________ (20) someone else who can give you the help you need.
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.
1. (A) Examples of different types of media.
(B) The way to use media.
(C) The best way to write an essay.
(D) How children learn through the media.
2. (A) Computer.
(B) Film.
(C) Television.
(D) Video.
3. (A) Videos.
(B) Tapes.
(C) Computers.
(D) Pictures.
4. (A) tapes.
(B) Computers.
(C) Wall maps.
(D) Books.
5. (A) The essay will be divided into two parts.
(B) There are 3 types of media.
(C) Maps are pictorial media.
(D) Computer is an example of electronic media.
6. (A) 6.7 million
(B) 7.6 million
(C) 12 million
(D) 19.6 million
7. (A) snow storm
(B) road accidents
(C) power outages
(D) plane crash
8. (A) Security cameras and glass doors were smashed.
(B) An attempt to steal its art pieces was thwarted.
(C) An oil painting from Pablo Picasso was sold at a record high price.
(D) Two valuable paintings were stolen.
9. (A) to reorganize IMF and the World Bank
(B) to discuss how to address the threats from emerging market countries
(C) to find solutions against the global financial crisis
(D) to prevent the excessive industrialization of key developing countries
10. (A) preventing US entities and citizens from doing business
(B) offering help to the Iranian government in its infringement of UN sanctions
(C) blocking the aid from the US Treasury Department
(D) freezing the financial assets of US entities and citizens
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following interview.
11. (A) Food and the weather.
(B) Food and the rickshaw pulling.
(C) Language and the rickshaw pulling.
(D) Food and language.
12. (A) Japanese game shows are more challenging.
(B) Japanese game shows are more fun.
(C) Japanese game shows add more physicality.
(D) Japanese game shows are more thrilling.
13. (A) They scored the best of all the Japanese game shows that were available.
(B) It is really funny with lots of costumes, trampolines while people dressed in Velcro suits.
(C) It is great to know in the end the contestants all enjoyed their experience, and a lot of
them want to go back and visit again.
(D) They took people to Japan and had them living in Tokyo, where they interacted with
Japanese people and Japanese culture.
14. (A) They go out into Tokyo and get a helicopter tour.
(B) They got to visit a Buddhist monastery,.
(C) They do mochi pounding.
(D) They participated in a ritual event.
15. (A) The contestants of the Japanese show are taken from America.
(B) The contestants have to get a rickshaw ride if they are punished.
(C) Tony Sanno is the host of the Japanese game show.
(D) The contestants have to participate in rewards and punishment based on the way they
did in the show.
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following talk.
16. (A) People who want to buy environmentally friendly products.
(B) People who are unaware of green issues.
(C) People who are unconcerned about green issues.
(D) People who buy goods which do not involve dealings with oppressive regimes.
17. (A) Women.
(B) Managerial groups.
(C) People aged 20 to 35.
(D) Professional groups.
18. (A) 13%.
(B) 21%.
(C) 26%.
(D) 28%.
19. (A) Animal testing.
(B) River and sea pollution.
(C) Forest destruction.
(D) Recycling.
20. (A) Politicians may be seriously misjudging the public mood by claiming that
environmentalism is yesterday’s issue.
(B) Being financially better off has made shoppers more sensitive to buying green products.
(C) “Pale green” consumers tend to buy green products if they see them.
(D) The image of green consumerism used to be associated with the more eccentric
members of society.
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 1-5
In the early twentieth century, the thrust in American architecture was toward a style rooted in the American landscape and based on American rather than European forms. Two architects who worked independently yet simultaneously at endorsing an American architecture were Mary Colter (1869-1958) and Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). Both developed regional styles that paralleled the regionalism seen in the other visual arts. Colter created a uniquely Southwestern idiom incorporating desert landscapes with Native American arts: Wright and his followers in Chicago developed the Prairie style of domestic architecture that reflected the natural landscape of the Midwest.
Mary Colter’s hotels and nation al park buildings are rooted so masterfully in the history of the Southwest that they seem to be genuine pieces of that history. Her magnificent Watchtower, overlooking the Grand Canyon in Arizona, was built to suggest an ancient Native American ruin preserved for the delight of the present-day traveler.
Colter was a lifelong student of art history, natural history, and human civilization. Her well-rounded artistic talents empowered her to work historical references into buildings constructed with modern methods and materials. She preferred to use materials indigenous to the region, such as Kaibab limestone and yellow pine. She took great stock in materials and setting, gathering many of her materials on-site and incorporating them in their natural state into her projects. She treated building and site as integral halves of a single composition and merged them seamlessly. Her Lookout Studio, for example, appears to rise straight from the rim of the Grand Canyon because its layering of stonework matches the texture, pattern, and color of the canyon wall below it.
When Colter designed the Watchtower. She wanted the building to be a part of its environment while also enhancing the view of the surrounding desert and the canyon and river below. She decided to recreate a Native American watchtower because it would provide the necessary height while assuming the appearance of a prehistoric building. Colter was familiar with the architectural remains of ancient villages scattered about the Southwest and was especially fascinated by the stone towers--round, square, and oval monoliths. The ancient Round Tower at Mesa Verde became the direct inspiration for the form and proportions of the Watchtower. The Twin Towers ruin at Hovenweep, whose stone was closer to that available at the Grand Canyon, was the model-for the Watc htower’s masonry. The Watchtower is perhaps the best example of Colter’s integration of history architecture, and landscape in a unified work of art.
Like Mary Colter. Frank Lloyd Wright believed that architecture was an extension of the
natural environment. Wright was appalled by much of what he saw in the industrialized world. He was not fond of cities, and although he designed office buildings and museums, his favorite commissions were for homes, usually in the country. Wright is associated with the Prairie style of residential architecture, whose emphasis on horizontal elements reflected the prairie landscapes of the Midwest. Most Prairie-style homes have one or two stories and are built of brick or timber covered with stucco. The eaves of the low-pitched roof extend well beyond the walls, enhancing the structure’s horizontality.
Wright’s own studio-residence in Wisconsin was completely integrated with the surrounding landscape. He nestled his house in the brow of a hill and gave it the name Taliesin, which means “shining brow”in Welsh. Every element of the design corresponded to the surrounding landscape. The yellow stone came from a quarry a mile away, so Taliesin looked like the outcroppings on the local hills. The exterior wood was the color of gray tree trunks. The stucco walls above the stone had the same tawny color as the sandbanks in the river below.
Wright’s most famous house, Falling Water, was built right over a waterfall in Pennsylvania. The house blends harmoniously with its surroundings, yet it departs from the Prairie philosophy of being a completely integrated extension of the natural landscape.
1. According to the passage, both Mary Colter and Frank Lloyd Wright designed buildings that
________.
(A) reflected the history of the region
(B) emphasized the architect's individuality
(C) relied on the assistance of other artists
(D) blended into the natural environment
2. The author mentions Kaibab limestone and yellow pine in paragraph 3 as examples of
________.
(A) materials with high artistic value
(B) references to art history and natural history
(C) materials that are native to the Southwest
(D) traditional materials that are now scarce
3. What was the main inspiration for Mary Colter’s design of the Watchtower?
(A) The beautiful views of the American Southwest
(B) The ancient Round Tower at Mesa Verde
(C) The colorful stone cliffs of the Grand Canyon
(D) Architectural remains of masonry homes
4. What can be inferred from the passage about the Watchtower?
(A) The Watchtower was the only building Colter designed at the Grand Canyon.
(B) The Watchtower’s purpose was to help people appreciate the desert scenery.
(C) Colter used landscape design to enhance the beauty of the Watchtower.
(D) The Watchtower’s success inspired other architects to design tall buildings.
5. All of the following characterize the Prairie style of architecture EXCEPT ________.
(A) a concern for the surrounding landscape
(B) a direct reference to the region’s history
(C) an emphasis on horizontal elements
(D) the building being horizontally enhanced
Questions 6-10
Through various methods of research, anthropologists try to fit together the pieces of the human puzzle--to discover how humanity was first achieved, what made it branch out in different directions, and why separate societies behave similarly in some ways but quite differently in other ways. Anthropology, which emerged as an independent science in the late eighteenth century, has two main divisions: physical anthropology and cultural anthropology. Physical anthropology focuses on human evolution and variation and uses methods of physiology, genetics, and ecology. Cultural anthropology focuses on culture and includes archaeology, social anthropology, and linguistics.
Physical anthropologists are most concerned with human biology. Physical anthropologists are detectives whose mission is to solve the mystery of how humans came to be human. They ask questions about the events that led a tree-dwelling population of animals to evolve into two-legged beings with the power to learn--a power that we call intelligence. Physical anthropologists study the fossils and organic remains of once-living primates. They also study the connections between humans and other primates that are still living. Monkeys, apes, and humans have more in common with one another physically than they do with other kinds of animals. In the lab, anthropologists use the methods of physiology and genetics to investigate the composition of blood chemistry for clues to the relationship of humans to various primates. Some study the animals in the wild to find out what behaviors they share with humans. Others speculate about how the behavior of non-human primates might have shaped human bodily needs and habits.
A Well-known family of physical anthropologists, the Leakeys, conducted research in East Africa indicating that human evolution centered there rather than Asia. In 1931, Louis Leakey and his wife Mary Leakey began excavating at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, where over the next forty years they discovered stone tool and hominid evidence that pushed back the dates for early humans to over 3.75 million years ago. Their son, Richard Leakey, discovered yet other types of hominid skulls in Kenya, which he wrote about in Origins (1979) and Origins Reconsidered (1992).
Like physical anthropologists, cultural anthropologists study clues about human life in the distant past; however, cultural anthropologists also look at the similarities and differences among human communities today. Some cultural anthropologists work in the field, living and working among people in societies that differ from their own. Anthropologists doing fieldwork often
produce an ethnography, a written description of the daily activities of men, women, and children that tells the story of the society’s community life as a whole. Some cultural anthropologists do not work in the field but rather at research universities and museums doing the comparative and interpretive part of the job. These anthropologists, called ethnologists, sift through the ethnographies written by field anthropologists and try to discover cross-cultural patterns in marriage, child rearing, religious beliefs and practices, warfare--any subject that constitutes the human experience. They often use their findings to argue for or against particular hypotheses about people worldwide.
A cultural anthropologist who achieved worldwide fame was Margaret Mead. In 1923, Mead went to Samoa to pursue her first fieldwork assignment--a study that resulted in her widely read book Coming of Age in Samoa (1928). Mead published ten major works during her long career, moving from studies of child rearing in the Pacific to the cultural and biological bases of gender, the nature of cultural change, the structure and functioning of complex societies, and race relations. Mead remained a pioneer in her willingness to tackle subjects of major intellectual consequence, to develop new technologies for research, and to think of new ways that anthropology could serve society.
6. Which sentence below best expresses the essential information in the underlined sentence in
paragraph 2?
(A) Physical anthropologists investigate how intelligent human beings evolved from
creatures that lived in trees.
(B) There are unanswered questions about why some tree-dwelling animals have evolved
only two legs.
(C) People want to know more about the behavior of animals and how some animals acquire
the ability to learn.
(D) Some animal populations have the power to ask questions and to learn from the events
of the past.
7. Why does the author discuss the Leakey family in paragraph 3?
(A) To argue for an increase in the amount of research in Africa
(B) To contradict earlier theories of human evolution
(C) To give examples of fieldwork done by physical anthropologists
(D) To compare hominid evidence from Tanzania with that from Kenya
8. Which of the following is of major interest to both physical and cultural anthropologists?
(A) Methods of physiology and genetics
(B) Religious beliefs and practices
(C) Child rearing in societies around the world
(D) Clues about human beings who lived long ago
9. According to paragraph 4, cultural anthropologists who do fieldwork usually ________.
(A) discover hominid evidence indicating when humans evolved
(B) write an account of the daily life of the people they study
(C) work at universities and museums interpreting the work of others
(D) develop new technologies for gathering cultural data
10. According to the passage, Margaret Mead wrote about all of the following subjects
EXCEPT ________.
(A) the nature of cultural change
(B) relations between people of different races
(C) the biological basis of gender
(D) economic systems of pioneer women
Questions 11-15
Among all the abilities with which an individual may be endowed, musical talent appears earliest in life. Very young children can exhibit musical precocity for different reasons. Some develop exceptional skill as a result of a well-designed instructional regime, such as the Suzuki method for the violin. Some have the good fortune to be born into a musical family in a household filled with music. In a number of interesting cases, musical talent is part of an otherwise disabling condition such as autism or mental retardation. A musically gifted child has an inborn talent; however, the extent to which the talent is expressed publicly will depend upon the environment in which the child lives.
Musically gifted children master at an early age the principal elements of music, including pitch and rhythm. Pitch—or melody—is more central in certain cultures, for example, in Eastern societies that make use of tiny quarter-tone intervals. Rhythm, sounds produced at certain auditory frequencies and grouped according to a prescribed system, is emphasized in sub-Saharan Africa, where the rhythmic ratios can be very complex.
All children have some aptitude for making music. During infancy, normal children sing as well as babble, and they can produce individual sounds and sound patterns. Infants as young as two months can match their mother's songs in pitch, loudness, and melodic shape, and infants at four months can match rhythmic structure as well. Infants are especially predisposed to acquire these core aspects of music, and they can also engage in sound play that clearly exhibits creativity.
Individual differences begin to emerge in young children as they learn to sing. Some children can match large segments of a song by the age of two or three. Many others can only approximate pitch at this age and may still have difficulty in producing accurate melodies by the age of five or six. However, by the time they reach school age, most children in any culture have a schema of what a song should be like and can produce a reasonably accurate imitation of the songs commonly heard in their environment.
The early appearance of superior musical ability in some children provides evidence that musical talent may be a separate and unique form of intelligence. There are numerous tales of
young artists who have a remarkable “ear”or extraordinary memory for music and a natural understanding of musical structure. In many of these cases, the child is average in every other way but displays an exceptional ability in music. Even the most gifted child, however, takes about ten years to achieve the levels of performance or composition that would constitute mastery of the musical sphere.
Every generation in music history has had its famous prodigies—individuals with exceptional musical powers that emerge at a young age. In the eighteenth century, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began composing and performing at the age of six. As a child, Mozart could play the piano like an adult. He had perfect pitch, and at age nine he was also a master of the art of modulation—transitions from one key to another—which became one of the hallmarks of his style. By the age of eleven, he had composed three symphonies and 30 other major works. Mozart’s well—developed talent was preserved into adulthood.
Unusual musical ability is a regular characteristic of certain anomalies such as autism. In one case, an autistic girl was able to play “Happy Birthday” in the style of various composers, including Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, and Schubert. When the girl was three, her mother called her by playing incomplete melodies, which the child would complete with the appropriate tone in the proper octave. For the autistic child, music may be the primary mode of communication, and the child may cling to music because it represents a haven in a world that is largely confusing and frightening.
11. Which sentence below best expresses the essential information in the underlined sentence in
paragraph 1?
(A) Children may be born with superior musical ability, but their environment will
determine how this ability is developed.
(B) Every child is naturally gifted, and it is the responsibility of the public schools to
recognize and develop these talents.
(C) Children with exceptional musical talent will look for the best way to express
themselves through music-making.
(D) Some musically talented children live in an environment surrounded by music, while
others have little exposure to music.
12. The word predisposed in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ________.
(A) inclined
(B) gifted
(C) pushed
(D) amused
13. According to the passage, when does musical talent usually begin to appear?
(A) When infants start to babble and produce sound patterns
(B) Between the ages of two and four months
(C) When children learn to sing at two or three years old
(D) Between ten years old and adolescence
14. According to the passage, which of the following suggests that musical talent is a separate
form of intelligence?
(A) Exceptional musical ability in an otherwise average child
(B) Recognition of the emotional power of music
(C) The ability of all babies to acquire core elements of music
(D) Differences between learning music and learning language
15. Why does the author discuss Mozart in paragraph 6?
(A) To compare past and present views of musical talent
(B) To give an example of a well-known musical prodigy
(C) To list musical accomplishments of the eighteenth century
(D) To describe the development of individual musical skill
Questions 16-20
There's no word for the sound you hear upon opening a can of soda. But the tchk-ptoop-fshchss! of a top being popped is distinctive, immediately recognizable. It is the sound of carbonation — or CO2 — rushing from the can. And it's a sound that brings to mind a technology, much overlooked in the popular press, that could safely recapture and store much of that emitted carbon, and has the potential to prevent an impending climate catastrophe.
The CO2 in carbonated drinks is the same CO2 that is spewed from tailpipes and power plants and causes global warming. In fact, the CO2 that makes the bubbles in your soda comes from those same power plants. Instead of being released into the atmosphere as a global-warming gas, the CO2 is captured from power plant exhaust, purified and sold to the nation's bottlers and soft drink fountain suppliers. When you pop the tab, however, the CO2 escapes into the atmosphere anyway.
But there's a silver lining. The same process that captures CO2 from power plants to make drinks fizzy is the one half of a process that has the potential to capture and stash as much as 90% of all CO2 from coal-burning power plants. Engineers and scientists are working on several ways to catch the carbon, either before or after coal burns. One technology known as integrated gasification combined cycle, or IGCC, would turn the coal into gas before it's burned for energy; gasifying it releases the carbon for capture, transportation, and sequestration deep underground. Another process, called "oxy-coal" combustion, removes nitrogen from air before combustion; when coal is burned, the waste gas is close to pure CO2, which can be easily captured.
Scientists and engineers hope to pump this captured carbonation through mile-long straws that reach deep into the Earth's crust, into salt mines, aquifers and oil fields. Underground, the pressure will liquefy it and perhaps eventually turn it to rock. Think of it as "geo-bottling" —except we never want to pop the cap. From Houston to Huainan, scientists are already digging holes and pumping down CO2 by the ton. "The carbon belongs underground," Susan Hovorka, a
geologist at the University of Texas, Austin, told one of us in 2005. "I say, put it back."
Today, the CO2 captured for producing soda is only a very small percentage of the total CO2 from power plants, but the technology for large-scale carbon capture and storage looks to be just around the corner. Spurring action from industry and governments has proved difficult, however, because the long-term economic, social and environmental costs of CO2 pollution are not included in the price we pay for energy. That makes CO2-intensive sources of energy like coal-fired power plants look like a better deal than cleaner technologies. But the truth is, it's a "pay me now, or pay me later" situation. In the context of climate change, it's more like, "pay me now, or your kids will pay me even more later."
Fortunately, a combination of efficient markets and smart policy could level the playing field. A carbon-storage industry will be virtually impossible without a national policy that puts a price on CO2 pollution. One such policy involves the creation of a national cap for greenhouse gas emissions and an accompanying market for tradable carbon emission credits. This summer, the U.S. Senate will likely consider legislation that would set up such a market. By making carbon a pollutant and unleashing market forces to find a price for it, the nation will essentially be revealing fossil fuels' true social cost — and giving cleaner technologies, including carbon capture and storage, a fair shot.
Even before the federal government creates a national cap — which is generally considered inevitable — the economy will need a bridge, economic nudges, so that the private sector can test carbon capture and storage before scaling it up. More than 30 states are looking at legislation that would give carbon storage technology a boost. Some call for comprehensive studies of the technology, while in Wyoming — one of several states identified as having underground carbon storage potential — laws are already being written to address questions about ownership of and liability for the underground CO2 vaults. These laws will help U.S. "geo-bottling" incubate while the federal government catches up to state and private efforts. At Duke University's Climate Change Policy Partnership, for example, researchers are modeling optimal routes for gas pipelines, based on engineering, social and environmental factors, to move the CO2 from plant to storage site.
There is little doubt that we'll need help from many new technologies to fight the inexorable rise in greenhouse gas emissions. And indeed, reversing emission trends is truly an all-hands-on-deck affair. But to achieve the targets talked about in current legislation —and notably by each of the presidential candidates — reducing carbon from our power production has to be disproportionately responsible for overall progress. If thorny questions surrounding carbon capture and storage are not answered, and if the technology is not implemented soon, we will have lost precious time in the quest toward off irreparable consequences of climate change.
Today we bottle CO2 to make soda. Tomorrow we need to be bottling industrial carbon on a grand scale. It's something to think about when you take a soda break on this Earth Day. Pop the tab — tchk-ptoop-fshchss! — drink, think, and, of course, don't forget to recycle.。