最新中级口译考试笔试真题及听力原文及答案

2014年3月中级口译笔试考试真题
SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST (45 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 bla nks 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.
Good after noon, folks. Today ' s topic is “ Try Jogg ing for Fit ness ” . When we run for fitn ess, exercise, and pleasure, it is com monly called jogg ing. Joggi ng (1) in recent years. The popularity of joggi ng today stems from (2). First, joggi ng is one of the most efficie nt forms of exercise. As a rule, a pers on joggi ng (3) more calories per minute tha n in most other sports. Runnin g, like bik ing, swimming and (4), is an aerobic exercise. Such an exercise uses a great deal of oxygen. In additi on, it in creases (5).
Aerobic exercise strengthens the heart muscle so that it (6). This kind of exercise is also one of the best ways to improve our general health and (7) of our lungs. Jogging is also popular because almost every one of us (8). Jogging is an activity that doesn ' require (9) or special coord in ati on. Joggi ng is (10). Fin ally, it can be done alone, with ano ther pers on, or in a group.
For anyone who runs more than (11) a week, it is important to have good running shoes. Tennis shoes or sneakers won ' t do. Running produces stress that is (12) than the stress of walking.
With this added stress to (13), we n eed good shoes. The shoes should be replaced whe n they (14) or worn unevenly. Cold weather poses few problems for us joggers. The main hazard in (15) is slipp ing on ice or snow. There is no dan ger of freez ing our lun gs, because our body (16) before it reaches our lun gs. In win ter we should be sure to (17) and keep our feet as dry and warm as possible. It ' s best to wear (18). In summer, we must be careful not to dry out. So it is important for us to (19) on hot, humid days. The best summer wear is loose fitting and (20).
Part B: Listening Comprehension
1. Statements
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear several short stateme nts. These stateme nts will be spokenONLY 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 correspo ndi ng space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.
1. (A) Let ' s call it a day ancbictinue our talk tomorrow.
(B) I ' m hungry now. Can we discuss it after the dinner?
(C) I wish we could reach an agreeme nt tomorrow morni ng.
(D) Let me remind you that we should sig n it as soon as possible.
2. (A) Weather is difficult to forecast.
(B) The heat wave is about to end.
(C) I didn ' t hear the weather forecast for today.
(D) It ' s going to be quite hot these days.
3. (A) Peter barely un dersta nds what he hears.
(B) Peter seldom thinks about his own acti ons.
(C) Peter usually does n' t finish what he starts.
(D) Peter gen erally does n ' t tolerate others ' ideas.
4. (A) Many city cen ters in Europe are accessible to pedestria ns only.
(B) Many cities in Europe are too crowded with people to allow access for cars.
(C) Many tourists visit ing Europe find it difficult to rent a sec on d-ha nd car.
(D) Many local reside nts in Europea n cities support a ban on cars in city cen ters
5. (A) Lawyers are the most afflue nt of all professi on als.
(B) Lawyers are always awkward and come to no avail in a suicidal case.
(C) Lawyers are more likely to become depressed and commit suicide.
(D) Lawyers are like actors or actresses who have to put up a show on the stage.
6. (A) Most people take medicine when they have a pain in their brain.
(B) Most headaches are symptoms of ailme nts outside the brai n.
(C) It is found that storytelling can make your headaches less painful.
(D) If you hurt other parts of your body, you will feel the pain in your brain.
7. (A) For Ian guage learners, the Internet environment lacks real-life social factors.
(B) Lear ning a Ian guage through the Internet may produce remarkable effects.
(C) Lan guage lear ners can use the Ian guage appropriately in the Internet environment.
(D) Lear ning to protect our en viro nment is beco ming an intern ati onal issue for mankind.
8. A) Recent statistics show that America n wome n spe nd one third of their in come on food.
(B) America n wome n are more likely to go and dine in restaura nts or fast-food shops.
(C) Nowadays one in every three America ns prefers to eat in restaura nts or fast-food
(D) Today more America ns dine out because they have more jobs and more mon ey.
9. (A) Primary school pupils are likely to become good friends for life.
(B) Roommate arrangements often don ' t work out even for intimate friends.
(C) Liv ing un der one roof for a Ion ger period of time brings about a close frien dship.
(D) Most people don ' t believe in “ A friend in n eed is a friend in deed ”.
10. (A) Work has now become a major socializi ng in flue nce for wome n.
(B) Wome n can enjoy their new lifestyles by tak ing care of small childre n.
(C) Most mothers with childre n quit their jobs to become full-time housewives.
(D) There is little cha nce for wome n to be prese nted fairly in this com muni ty.
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 an swer to that questi on. Then write the letter of the an swer you have chosen in the correspo ndi ng space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.
Questions 11—14
11. (A) A gift.
(B) A picture.
(C) A file.
(D) Some mon ey.
12. (A) The acco un ti ng office.
(B) The vice- preside nt ' s office.
(C) Jack.
(D) Mrs Carter.
13. (A) It is to be sig ned by the preside nt himself.
(B) It is from the executive vice- preside nt ' s office.
(C) It is about changes in the accounting procedures.
(D) It is to be tran sferred to the acco unting office at on ce.
14. (A) Go to the executive ' s office.
(B) Hand in his resig natio n.
(C) Look through the woman ' s files.
(D) Ask some one for help.
Questions 15—18
15. (A) Work ing in a travel age ncy.
(B) Organizing a BBQ party.
(C) Teach ing En glish to Chin ese stude nts.
(D) Lear ning Chin ese.
16. (A) Cats.
(B) Dogs
(C) Cows.
(D) Birds.
17. (A) Because they could get some food.
(B) Because they are frien dly.
(C) Because they n eed compa ny.
(D) Because they want to be protected.
18. (A) Sacred ibis.
(B) Black crows.
(C) White parrots.
(D) Colorful parakeets.
Questions 19— 22
19. (A) Physics.
(B) Calculus.
(C) Compositi on.
(D) Biology.
20. (A) He is lazy.
(B) He is bori ng.
(C) He is won derful.
(D) He is humorous.
21. (A) He is able to save a lot of money from it.
(B) It pays well and the hours are flexible.
(C) It is interesting and the pay is good.
(D) His co-workers are congenial and cooperative.
22. (A) To attempt to transfer to Professor Atkins ' class.
(B) To cut back on his classes.
(C) To get a job at the library shelvi ng books.
(D) To drop his Acco un ti ng course.
Questions 23— 26
23. (A) Bow and keep your eye on the bus in ess card.
(B) Take it on e-ha ndedly and stuff it in a pocket.
(C) Use two hands and study the card carefully.
(D) Read it aloud to show your attention and respect.
24. (A) Because he prese nted gifts in sets of fours to the Japa nese bus in essme n.
(B) Because he failed to pay due atte nti on to the Japa nese bus in essme n ' s cards.
(C) Because his bus in ess card was not treated respectfully by the Japa nese bus in essme n.
(D) Because his bus in ess card had some errors which were discovered by the Japa nese bus in essme n.
25. (A) Chi na.
(B) America.
(C) Ho nduras.
(D) In dia.
26. (A) Native pottery.
(B) Maple syrup.
(C) Toy clocks.
(D) Amish han dicrafts.
Questions 27—30
27. (A) Light Engin eer.
(B) Pers onnel Man ager.
(C) Chemistry An alyst.
(D) News Editor.
28. (A) In a Lon don firm.
(B) In a chemical compa ny.
(C) At Leeds Lighti ng Factory.
(D) At Yorkshire Engin eeri ng.
29. (A) He is the Perso nnel Man ager.
(B) He is slow to resp ond to new ideas.
(C) He gets along well with his colleagues.
(D) He moves with the times.
30. (A) He ' d like more scope for putting new ideas into practice.
(B) He ' d love to work for some one who is un dersta nding.
(C) He longs for work and en terta inment in the capital.
(D) He is offered a much higher pay for the job.
Part C: Listening and Translation
1. Sentence Translation
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 5 sentences in En glish. You will hear the sentences ONLY ONCE. After you have heard each sentence, tran slate it into Chin ese and write your version in the corresp onding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.
(1)
(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 corresp onding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. You may take no tes while you are liste ning.
(1)
(2)
SECTION 2: STUDY SKILLS
Directions: In this sect ion, 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 questio n. An swer all the questi ons follow ing each passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage and write the letter of the an swer you have chose n in the corresp onding space in yourANSWER BOOKLET.
Questions 1—5
The first permanent shelters were probably built twenty or forty thousand years ago by fish-eating people who lived in the places as long as the fish supply lasted. Fish-eaters could stay in one place for several years. However, once man lear ned to farm, he could live Ion ger in one place. Thus, he was able to build a permanent home. Once again, he built his home with the materials he found at hand. In Egypt, for example, wood was scarce, so most houses were built of bricks made of dried mud, with a roof supported by tree trun ks.
When the Norseme n came from Scandin avia to n orther n Europe, they found many forests, so they built homes with a framework of heavy tree trunks and then filled the space between the trunks with clay. The Eskimos, on the other han d, lived in a land where there was little or no wood. They learned to adapt their homes perfectly to their
surroundings. In the wintertime, when everything was covered with snow and ice, the Eskimos built their homes with blocks of ice. When the warm weather came and melted the ice, the Eskimos lived in a tent made of animal ski ns.
The weather is man ' s worst natural enemy. He has to protect himself from extremes of heat and cold and from storms, wind and rain. Where there are torre ntial rains, houses are either built on piles to keep them off the ground, or they have steep thatched roofs to drain off the rain. People living in the Congo River region have found that steep, heavily-thatched roofs drain off the jungle rains more quickly.
Protect ion from dan ger has also in flue need the type of house man builds. When en emies threate ned him, man made his house as in accessible as possible. The tree-dwellers of the Philipp ines protect themselves by livi ng high above the ground. Whe n dan ger threate ns, they remove the ladders leading to their homes. The cliff dwellers of the American Southwest built their homes high up on the sides of cliffs, where access was very difficult.
Nomad tribes must move from place to place, tak ing care of flocks of sheep that are always in n eed of fresh grass. Their houses must be simple and easy to tran sport. The no mads of cen tral Asia have developed a house made of a framework of poles covered with felt. The house is round because the framework is curved, and there is a hole at the top to let the smoke out.
1. Accord ing to the passage, the Norseme n who came to n orther n Europe built their houses
with _________ .
(A) rocks and wood
(B) wood and clay
(C) woode n roofs and stone walls
(D) woode n walls and thatched roofs
2. Man ' s mosu rgent n eed in buildi ng a house is protect ion from ______ .
(A) en emies
(B) floods
(C) earthquakes
(D) the weather
3. The passage suggests that a house with a steep sloping roof is more likely to be
found _________ .
(A) in a wi ndy country
(B) in a rainy country
(C) n ear the coast
(D) in the desert
4. Whe n dan ger threate ns, the tree-dwellers of the Philipp ines ______ .
(A) take away their ladders
(B) bombard the en emy from above
(C) pull up the bridge over their moat
(D) wind up the ropes leadi ng to their homes
5. Accord ing to the passage, the no mad tribes of cen tral Asia live in _______ .
(A) ten ts
(B) tree houses
(C) small houses of clay
(D) round houses of felt
【参考答案】1.B 2.D 3.B 4.A 5.D
Questions 6—10
Emma Way did not become a figure of con tempt for British cyclists because she nu dged Toby Hockley off his bicycle and into a hedge as she drove past him on a country lane on May 19. No, she achieved that in famy by con fess ing to her crime on li ne. cked “(DEf i sttef kno
his bike earlier, ” Way, 22, tweeted after the collisi on that left Hockley, 29, with a bruised body
and the status of a martyr for Britain ' s cyclists. " Ihavteeiglnt of wayen pay ro—
tax! ” She ended with a hashtag popuwrth tweeting British motorists: #bloodycyclists.
It was the tweet heard around the roads of Britain and it resulted in Way ' s being convicted in November of drivi ng offen ses, los ing her job as a trainee acco untant and ack no wledg ing in court that the comme nt rated "11 out of 10 ” on the stupidity scale. In an in terview on n ati onal televisi on after her conviction, she no ted that since the story broke, she had bee n cyberbullied and had received "malicious com muni cati ons. ” What she did not say was thaorhefwialsnock ing
Hockley, a chef, off his bike. " I was quite angry at the mannerism of the cyclist on the road
said. " My point of view is that he was on my side of the road that ' s not the wa—you drive. ”
Way to stoke the fire, Ms. Way. By continuing to pin the blame for the incident on the cyclist, the young driver fell further into an already con siderable chasm that divides moder n Brita in. The BBC last year featured an hourl ong docume ntary —with lots of footage of ragi ng cyclists and cab drivers ——whose title explained the situation succinctly: War on Britain ' s Roads.
It wasn' tentirely an exaggeration: people are dying in this conflict between cyclists and drivers. London in November seemed like a particularly dangerous place for the two-wheeled combatants. Six cyclists were killed in less than two weeks, a mounting toll chronicled in increasingly mournful headlines. Six in a few days is a lot; the total killed this year in Britain capital is 14. The deaths sparked a bout of public recrim in atio n. When London ' Mayor Boris Johnson, himself a cyclist, appeared less than sympathetic after the fifth death — he told a radio host that some of the dead cyclists " have take n decisi ons that really did put their lives in dan ger —he was tran sformed from cycli ng champi on to heartless pro-car politicia n and joined Way as a target of the particularly passi on ate fury that cyclists can muster.
s bicyclists
The an ger has become political in Brita in, as it has in many coun tries whose gover nments
encourage citizens to cycle rather than drive to work, to lessen the impact on the environment and on traffic. Johnson has arguably done more than any previous politician for London cyclists, establishing a $1.6 billion fund to make
cycling safer in the city and appointing London ' first cycli ng commissi oner. Even though the nu mber of cyclist deaths in London has bee n dropp ing steadily in the past two decades, the dema nd from cyclists for the city to adapt grows as the nu mber of bikes on the road grows. As does the particularly passi on ate fury that cyclists can muster.
Whether or not Johnson is right that some of the cyclists who died recently were breaking the law, all of us make
a very personal decision about risking our lives by getting on our bikes. And we should know that when we ignore red lights to get ahead of the traffic, or get too close to trucks or buses because we feel it 'our right to be there, then we are making a mistake even dumber than Emma Way 'tweet. In the war of the cyclist vs. the driver, the driver will nearly always come out alive. Less so the cyclist.
6. According to the passage, who had been cyberbullied and had received malicious com muni cati ons?
(A) Toby Hockley.
(B) Boris Joh nson.
(C) Emma Way.
(D) A cycli ng commissi oner.
7. Which of the following statements is NOT true in the conflict between cyclists and drivers?
(A) London seemed like a particularly dan gerous place for the cyclists.
(B) 14 cyclists were killed in less than two weeks in London.
(C) The deaths of cyclists sparked a bout of public recrim in ati on.
(D) People are dying in this conflict between cyclists and drivers.
8. London ' s Mayor has established a $1.6 billion fund ________ .
(A) to en courage citize ns to cycle to work
(B) to build more bike lanes in London
(C) to lessen the impact on the environment
(D) to make cycli ng safer in London
9. Accord ing to the passage, a rash of accide nts in volvi ng cars has made London (A) outraged
(B) alarmed
(C) cautious
(D) cyberbullied
10. What would be the best title for this passage?
(A) Cycle rather than Drive to Work
(B) Watch your Cycli ng Manners
(C) Pedal at Your Own Peril
(D) Lesse n the Impact on Traffic
【参考答案】6.C 7.B 8.D 9.A 10.C
Questions 11—15
Educators have known for 30 years that students perform better when given one-on-one tutoring and mastery learning — working on a subject until it is mastered, not just until a test is scheduled. Success also requires motivatio n, whether from an inner drive or from pare nts, men tors or peers.
Will the rise of massive ope n on li ne courses (MOOCs) quash these success factors? Not at all. In fact, digital tools offer our best path to cost-effective, pers on alized lear nin g. I know because I have taught both ways. For years Sebastian Thrun and I have given artificial-intelligence courses at Sta nford Uni versity and other schools; we lectured, assig ned homework and gave every one the same exam at the same time. Each semester just 5 to 10 perce nt of stude nts regularly en gaged in deep discussi ons in class or office hours; the rest were more passive. We felt there had to be a better way.
So, in the fall of 2011, we tried something new. In addition to our traditional classroom, we created a free online course open to anyone. On our first try, we attracted a city 'worth of participa nts —about 100,000 en gaged with the course, and 23,000 fini shed.
In spired by Nobel laureate Herbert Simon' scomme nt that “ learnin gresults from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks, we created a course centered on the students doing things and getting frequent feedback. Our a lectures were short (two- to six-minute) videos designed to prime the attendees for doing the next exercise. Some problems required the applicati on of mathematical tech niq ues described in the videos. Others were ope n-en ded questio ns that gave stude nts a cha nce to thi nk on their own and the n to hash out ideas in on li ne discussi on forums.
Our scheme to help make learning happen actively, rather than passively, created many ben efits akin to tutori ng — and helped to in crease motivatio n. First, as show n in a 2013 study in the Proceedi ngs of the Nati onal Academy of Scie nces USA, freque nt in teract ions keep atte ntio n from wandering. Second, as William B. Wood and Kimberly D. Tanner describe in a 2012 Life Scien ces Educati on paper, lear ning is enhan ced whe n stude nts work to con struct their own explanations, rather than passively listening to the teacher ' That is why a properly designed automated in tellige nt tutori ng system can foster lear ning outcomes as well as huma n in structors can, as Kurt van Leh n found in a 2011 meta-a nalysis in Educati onal Psychologist.
A final key advantage was the rapid improvement of the course itself. We analyzed the jun ctures where our thousa nds of stude nts succeeded or failed and found where our course n eeded fine-tuning. Better still, we could capture this information on an hour-by-hour basis. For our class, huma n teachers an alyzed the data, but an artificial-in tellige nce system could perform this fun ctio n and the n make recomme ndatio ns for what a pupil could try next to improve —as on li ne shopp ing 精品文档
sites today make automated recomme ndati ons for what book or movie you might enjoy. On li ne learning is a tool, just as the textbook is a tool. The way the teacher and the stude nt use the tool is what really coun ts.
11. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) Different sources of motivation for students ' success.
(B) Effective one-on-one tutori ng and mastery lear ning.
(C) Person alized massive ope n on li ne courses for stude nts.
(D) Con siderable improveme nt of the college courses.
12. The word “quash” ( para. 2) is closest in meaning to _____ .
(A) inten sify
(B) in spire
(C) cancel
(D) disco unt
13. When the author and his colleague offered their first on li ne course ____ .
(A) it attracted about 100,000 city reside nts to study
(B) it created a climate of passivity for in troverted stude nts
(C) it was desig ned for both stude nts and work ing adults
(D) it was atte nded by a great nu mber of stude nts
14. The “lectures ” in the MOOCs are meant for the students to _______ .
(A) do and think actively on their own
(B) make up for what they miss in classrooms
(C) get freque nt feedback from men tors and peers
(D) focus on what they n eed most
15. One way on li ne courses are similar to on li ne shopp ing sites is that __ .
(A) they make recomme ndati ons for what users do n ext
(B) they function automatically for thousa nds of young stude nts
(C) they are a boon to computer-savvy stude nts and shoppers
(D) they update their contents on an hour-by-hour basis
【参考答案】11.C 12.C 13.D 14.A 15.A
Questions 16— 20
Most people have see n bullies in acti on, mak ing life miserable for others. Their targets ofte n escape the intimidation relatively unharmed, but sometimes it is too much to bear. That can be true whether the victim is a 12-year-old girl or a 136-kilogram American football player.
A member of the Miami Dolph ins left the Nati onal Football League team recen tly because he
was repeatedly in sulted and threate ned by a teammate, Richie In cog nito. Many fans were disgusted by details of In cog nito's expletive-filled voice mail and text messages, while others defe nded his behavior as a n atural part of a rough-a nd-tumble sport.
Some people are ast oni shed that Jon atha n Martin, who is 1.95 meters tall, “ could actually be the colu mnist Timothy Egan wrote recen tly in emoti on ally damaged by taunts from a teammate,
The Times. “ Can you possibly hurt a hulk with words? ” Based on his own experie nee play ing football in high school, Mr. Egan argues that you can. He was smaller than the other guys and had a big, unruly head of hair that made him stand out. His teammates taunted him. “ Did it hurt?
did, ” he wrote. "I knew very well what it felt like to give so much to a game and have people who were part of it, his teammates, hurt him. ”
Bullies aren' all men. The Times reported recently that scientists had made big strides in understanding aggression by young women. “Theexistenee of female competition may seem obvious to anyone who has bee n in a high school cafeteria or sin gles bar, ” Joh n Tierney wro' “ but an alyz ing it has bee n difficult because it tends to be more subtle and in direct (a nd a lot less
viole n t) tha n the male variety. ”
Researchers found that women were more likely to make mean comments about other
women if they saw them as competition for male attention. In an experiment, a group of female college students reacted negatively when a woman wearing a low-cut blouse and a short skirt entered the room, while they barely noticed the same woman dressed in a T-shirt and jeans.?But in perhaps one differe nee betwee n the sexes, in stead of confron ti ng the woma n directly, the others made fun of her once s he left the room.? ” Wome n are in deed very capable of aggress ing aga inst others, especially wome n they perceive as rivals, ” said Dr. Tracy Vailla ncourt, a psychologist at
the Uni versity of Ottawa.
For those on the receivi ng end who are young or otherwise vuln erable, the damage can be
tragic. In September, a 12-year-old girl in Florida named Rebecca Ann Sedwick killed herself after other girls bullied her online. She went to an abandoned cement plant, climbed to a platform and jumped.
“ Rebecca became oneof the youn gest members of a grow ing list of childre n and tee nagers apparently driven to suicide, at least in part, after being maligned, threatened and taunted online, The Times reported. And teenagers aren ' t just using Facebook or InstagranotiepiQbtoier.
New applications appear constantly, making it difficult for parents to keep tabs on their children activity. Rebecca ' s mother, Tricia Norman, didn ' t know her daughter was receiving messages that said: “You' re ugly ” and “Can u die please? ”
“You hear about this all the time, ” Ms. Norman said of cyberbullying. “ I never, ever thought
it would happe n to me or my daughter. ”
16. How did Jon atha n Martin react whe n taun ted and in sulted by his teammate?
(A) He remained silent at first and then challenged the bully to a fight.
(B) He took no notice of the taunts and insults from his teammate.
(C) He could no Ion ger put up with the bully ing and left the team.
(D) He accepted the bully ing as a n atural part of a rough-a nd-tumble sport.
17. Which of the following is typical of female bullying?
(A) Confron ti ng the victim in directly.
(B) Caus ing the victim to die in the end.
(C) Making fun of the victim with n asty words.
(D) Maki ng mea n comme nts about the victim ' s clothes.
18. Accord in g to the passage, Tricia Norma n ' s daughter ________ .
(A) is a pretty, lovely girl
(B) uses Facebook or In stagram a lot
(C) committed suicide because of cyberbully ing
(D) used to isolate herself from her classmates
19. Parents are often kept in the dark about their children being bullied because _____ .
(A) their children have no courage to tell them about it
(B) parents are not involved in their children ' s activities
(C) bully ing is too com mon to catch pare nts ' atte nti on
(D) bully ing is in direct and is usually con ducted on li ne
20. Which of the follow ing best summarizes the main idea of the passage?
(A) In timidati on can damage the victim emotio nally and physically.
(B) Bully ing can come in all shapes and sizes.
(C) Taun ti ng is limited to physically small and weak people.
(D) Female in sult ing is harder to bear tha n male bully ing.
【参考答案】11.C 12.A 13.C 14.D 15.B
Questions 21—25
Questions 26— 30
SECTION 3: TRANSLATION TEST (30 minutes)
Directions: Tran slate the followi ng passage in to Chin ese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.
In the near future, professors will run their courses over digital platforms capable of collecting data on each student
' Tipeseressforms were initially developed for massive
ope n on li ne courses. However, uni versities are now foldi ng these platforms back in to their traditi onal classes because they make it easier to share content, host discussi ons and keep track of stude nt work.
Soon, these platforms will be able to mon itor which stude nts are spe nding 15 minu tes on a calculus problem and which ones slog away for an hour. This can raise red flags for professors about who might n eed extra help.
As more classes move partially or en tirely on li ne, the requireme nts of havi ng a uniform start and end date diminish. It means some students could sail through a semester ' s worth of classe a few weeks and the n start aga in with new courses.
It used to be that getting accepted to a prestigious university was how you accessed the best professors and could hang out with the smartest students. That ' s because universities were, for the most part, closed in formati on systems that distributed out their content among a select few. That cha nging.。