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英语翻译高级口译试题英语翻译高级口译试题以下是店铺整理的英语翻译高级口译试题，希望对大家有所帮助英译汉【原文】American mythology loves nothing more than the reluctant hero: the man -- it is usually a man -- whose natural talents have destined him for more than obliging obscurity. George Washington, we are told, was a leader who would have preferred to have been a farmer. Thomas Jefferson, a writer. Martin Luther King, Jr., a preacher. These men were roused from lives of perfunctory achievement, our legends have it, not because they chose their own exceptionalism, but because we, the people, chose it for them. We -- seeing greatness in them that they were too humble to observe themselves -- conferred on them uncommon paths. Historical circumstance became its own call of duty, and the logic of democracy proved itself through the answer.Neil Armstrong was a hero of this stripe: constitutionally humble, circumstantially noble. Nearly every obituary written for him has made a point of emphasizing his sense of privacy, his sense of humility, his sense of the ironic ordinary. And yet every aspect of Armstrong’ s life made clear: On that day in 1969, he acted on our behalf, out of a sense of mission that was communal rather than personal. The reluctant hero is also the self-sacrificing hero.【参考译文】美国神话最爱的莫过于不情愿的英雄：天赋注定他无法默默无闻。

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2010年03月高级口译真题（部分听力缺）SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST (30 minutes)Part A: Spot DictationDirections: 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 ONL Y ONCE.You probably know that asthma can cause breathing problems. So can kids with asthma play sports? ________(1)! Being active and playing sports is an especially good idea if you have asthma. Why? Because it can _______(2), so they work better.Some athletes with asthma have done more than develop stronger lungs. They've played _______(3), and they've even won medals at the Olympic Games! Some sports are less likely to bother a person's asthma. _________(4) are less likely to trigger flare-ups, and so are sports like baseball, football, and gymnastics.In some sports, you need to ________(5). These activities may be harder for people with asthma. They __________(6)cycling, long-distance running, soccer, basketball, cross-country skiing, _________(7). But that doesn't mean you can't play these sports if ________(8). In fact, many athletes with asthma have found that with the _________(9), they can do any sport they choose.But before playing sports, it's important that your asthma is _________(10). That means you aren't having lots of _________(11). To make this happen, it's very important that you _________(12) just as your doctor tells you to, even when __________(13).Your doctor will also tell you some other things you can do to avoid flare-ups. This may mean _________(14) when there is lots of pollen in the air, wearing ________(15) when you play outside during the winter, or making sure you always have time for __________(16).Make sure your coach and teammates know about your asthma. That way, they will understand if you _________(17) because of breathing trouble. It's also helpful if your coach ________(18) if you have a flare-up. Listen to your body and ________(19) your doctor gave you for handling breathing problems. And if you keep your asthma in good control, you'll be in the game and ________(20)!Part B: Listening ComprehensionQuestions 6 to 10 are based on the following news.6. (A) Mr. Gordon Brown’s proposal was announced at the conference in Copenhagen.(B) The fund would be available to the poorest and most vulnerable countries alone.(C) The proposed fund is intended to help poorer countries deal with climate change.(D) The total fund would be 10 billion British pounds in total over three years.7. (A) 0.1 %. (B) 0.4 %. (C) 1.2 %. (D) 3 %.8. (A) To ask for a suspension of its massive debt repayments.(B) To restore confidence of Western investors across the Gulf.(C) To carefully plan a six-month delay on payments on Dubai World.(D) To turn to Asian countries for help in the global financial crisis.9. (A) To demonstrate their support for the Doha Round of global trade negotiations.(B) To ask to review all the activities of the world trade body in recent years.(C) To accuse multinational companies of neglecting the interests of the poor.(D) To protest against a WTO ministerial conference starting on Monday.10. (A) At least 27 passengers dead.(B) 26 killed and scores injured. (C) Hundreds of people dead.(D) Casualty figures yet unknown.Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following interview.11. (A) Making people live in harmony and balance with nature.(B) Keeping evil spirits out of people’s life.(C) Ordering buildings, rooms and corridors conveniently.(D) Making a home or office look clean and orderly.12. (A) Scandinavian. (B) Irish (C) Norwegian. (D) British.13. (A) Scandinavia. (B) The US. (C) Asia. (D) Southern Europe.14. (A) Asking a seismologist for advice before starting a building project.(B) Building a house that would stay up in the earthquake.(C) Having a one-way street sign removed.(D) Pointing a road sign toward a house.15. (A) He chose to buy his home because of feng-shui (风水).(B) He arranged his office at home according to feng-shui.(C) He made sure that his rooms have great views out the window.(D) He had a feng-shui master put the furniture in his home.SECTION 2: READING TEST (30 miniutes)Question 1-5On the worst days, Chris Keehn used to go 24 hours without seeing his daughter with her eyes open. A soft-spoken tax accountant in Deloitte’s downtown Chicago office, he hated saying no when she asked for a ride to preschool. By November, he’d had enough. “I realized that I can have control of this,” he says with a small shrug. Keehn, 33, met with two of the firm’s partners and his senior manager, telling them he needed a change. They went for it. In January, Keehn started telecommuting four days a week, and when Kathryn, 4, starts T-ball this summer, he will be sitting along the baseline.In this economy, Keehn’s move might sound like hopping onto the mommy track—or off the career track. But he’s actually making a shrewd move. More and more, companies are searching for creative ways to save—by experimenting with reduced hours or unpaid furloughs or asking employees to move laterally. The up-or-out model, in which employees have to keep getting promoted quickly or get lost, may be growing outmoded. The changing expectations could persist after the economy reheats. Companies are increasingly supporting more natural growth, letting employees wend their way upward like climbing vines. It’s a shift, in other words, from a corporate ladder to the career-path metaphor long preferred by Deloitte vice chair Cathy Benko: a lattice.At Deloitte, each employee’s lattice is nailed together during twice-a-year evaluations focused not just on career targets but also on larger life goals. An employee can request to do more or less travel or client service, say, or to move laterally into a new role—changes that may or may not come with a pay cut. Deloitte’s data from 2008 suggest that about 10% of employees choose to “dial up” or “dial down” at any given time. Deloitte’s Mass Career Customization (MCC) program b egan as a way to keep talented women in the workforce, but it has quickly become clear that women are not the only ones seeking flexibility. Responding to millennials demanding better work-life balance, young parents needing time to share child-care duties and boomers looking to ease gradually toward retirement, Deloitte is scheduled to roll out MCC to all 42,000 U.S. employees by May 2010. Deloitte executives are in talks with more than 80 companies working on similar programs.Not everyone is on board. A 33-year-old Deloitte senior manager in a southeastern office, who works half-days on Mondays and Fridays for health reasons and requested anonymity because she was not authorized to speak on the record, says one “old school” manager insisted on scheduling meetings when she wouldn’t be in the office. “He was like, ‘Yeah, I know we have the program,’ “she recalls, “‘but I don’t really care.’”Deloitte CEO Barry Salzberg admits he’s still struggling to convert “nonbelievers,” but says they are the exceptions. The recession provides an incentive for companies to design more lattice-oriented careers. Studies show telecommuting, for instance, can help businesses cut real estate costs 20% and payroll 10%. What’s more, creating a flexible workforce to meet staffing needs in a changing economy ensures that a company will still have legs when the market recovers. Redeploying some workers from one division to another—or reducing their salaries—is a whole lot less expensive than laying everyone offand starting from scratch.Young employees who dial down now and later become managers may reinforce the idea that moving sideways on the lattice doesn’t mean getting sidelined. “When I saw other people doing it,” says Keehn, “I thought I could try.” As the compelling financial incentives for flexibility grow clearer, more firms will be forced to give employees that chance. Turns out all Keehn had to do was ask.1. The author used the example of Chris Keehn _____.(A) to show how much he loved his daughter and the family(B) to tell how busy he was working as a tax accountant(C) to introduce how telecommuting changed the traditional way of working(D) to explore how the partners of a company could negotiate and cooperate smoothly2. What is the major purpose of shifting from a corporate ladder to the career path of lattice?(A) To take both career targets and larger life goals of employees into consideration.(B) To find better ways to develop one’s career in response to economic crisis.(C) To establish expectations which could persist after the economy reheats.(D) To create ways to keep both talented women and men in the workforce.3. The expression “on board” in the sentence “Not everyone is on board.” (para. 4) means _____.(A) going to insist on old schedules(B) concerned about work-life balance (C) ready to accept the flexible working system(D) accustomed to the changing working arrangement4. Which of the following is NOT the possible benefit of lattice-oriented careers for businesses?(A) reducing the costs on real estate.(B) cutting the salaries of employees.(C) forming a flexible workforce to meet needs in a changing economy.(D) keeping a workforce at the minimal level.5. According to the passage, the idea that “moving sideways on the lattice doesn’t mean getting sidelined”______.(A) would discourage employees from choosing telecommuting(B) might encourage more employees to apply for flexible work hours(C) would give employees more chances for their professional promotion(D) could provide young employees with more financial incentivesQuestions 6-10Right now, there’s little that makes a typical American taxpayer more resentful than the huge bonuses being dispersed at Wall Street firms. The feeling that something went terribly wrong in the way the financial sector is run—and paid—is widespread. It’s worth recalling that the incentive structures now governing executive pay in much of the corporate world were hailed as a miracle of human engineering a generation ago when they focused once-complacent ECOs with laser precision on steering companies toward the brightest possible futures.So now there’s a lot of talk about making incentives smarter. That may improve the way companies or banks are run, but only temporarily. The inescapable flaw in incentives, as 35 years of research shows, is that they get you exactly what you pay for, but it never turns out to be what you want. The mechanics of why this happens are pretty simple: Out of necessity, incentives are often based on an index of the thing you care about—like sound corporate leadership—that is easily measured. Share price is such an index of performance. Before long, however, people whose livelihoods are based on an index will figure out how to manipulate it—which soon makes the index a much less reliable barometer. Once share price determines the pay of smart people, they’ll find a way to move it up without improving—and in some cases by jeopardizing—their company. Incentives don’t just fail; they often backfire. Swiss economists Bruno Frey (University of Zurich) and Felix Oberholzer-Gee (Harvard Business School) have shown that when Swiss citizens are offered a substantial cash incentive for agreeing to have a toxic waste dump in their community, their willingness to accept the facility falls by half. Uri Gneezy (U.C. San Diego’s Rady School of Management) and Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota) observed that when Israeli day-care centers fineparents who pick up their kids late, lateness increases. And James Heyman (University of St. Thomas) and Dan Ariely (Duke’s Fuqua School of Business) showed that when people offer passers-by a token payment for help lifting a couch from a van, they are less likely to lend a hand than if they are offered nothing.What these studies show is that incentives tend to remove the moral dimension from decision-making. The day-care parents know they ought to arrive on time, but they come to view the fines as a fee for a service. Once a payoff enters the picture, the Swiss citizens and passersby ask, “What’s in my best interest?” The question they ask themselves when money isn’t part of the equation is quite different: “What are my responsibilities to my country and to other people?” Despite our abiding faith in incentives as a way to influence behavior. in a positive way, they consistently do the reverse.Some might say banking has no moral dimension to take away. Bankers have always been interested in making money, and they probably always will be, but they’ve traditionally been well aware of their responsibil ities, too. Bankers worried about helping farmers get this year’s seed into the ground. They worried about helping a new business get off to a strong start or a thriving one to expand. They worried about a couple in their 50s having enough to retire on, and about one in their 30s taking on too big a mortgage. These bankers weren’t saints, but they served the dual masters of profitability and community service. In case you think this style. of banking belongs to a horse-and-buggy past, consider credit unions and community development banks. Many have subprime mortgage portfolios that remain healthy to this day. In large part, that’s because they approve loans they intend to keep on their books rather than securitizing and selling them to drive up revenue, which would in turn boost annual bonuses. And help bring the world economy to its knees.At the Group of 20 gathering in September, France and Germany proposed strict limits on executive pay. The U.S. Now has a pay czar, who just knocked down by half the compensation of 136 executives. But the absolute amounts executives are paid may be inconsequential. Most people want to do right. They want their work to improve the lives of others. As Washington turns its sights on reforms for the financial sector, it just might consider nudging the industry’s major players away from the time-dishonored tradition of incentives and toward compensation structures that don’t strip the moral dimension away from the people making big decisions.6. According to the passage, th e incentive structures governing today’s executive pay in the corporate world _____.(A) are perfect and shall be continued(B) have gone wrong somewhere and should be remedied(C) are with inescapable flaws and must be stopped(D) have fundamentally improved the corporate management7. Which of the following best paraphrases the sentence “Incentives don’t just fail; they often backfire.” (para. 3)?(A) Incentives cannot promote the management of companies and banks; they often lead to corporate bankruptcy.(B) Incentives are only material stimulation, they can be used to destroy human morality.(C) Incentives do not achieve desired results, moreover, they often produce negative effect.(D) Incentives do not treat everything in terms of money and they are often used to change human mentality.8. According to the passage, with the current incentive structures, the rising of share prices _____.(A) is surely the reliable barometer of a company’s performances(B) will endanger the company and do harm to the share holders(C) is often driven up by corporate managers to boost their bonuses(D) proves the necessity of reforms for the financial sector9. The author introduced the “dual masters of profitability and community service” of the traditional b ankers _____.(A) to support the view that “banking has no moral dimension”(B) to prove that bankers have always been interested in making money(C) to display that the traditional banking is healthier and more successful(D) to argue that bankers could be saints so long as they serve the community10. Which of the following can be the major conclusion of the author?(A) Strict limits should be imposed by the government on executive pay.(B) The time-dishonored tradition of incentive structures could jeopardize companies.(C) The financial sector could be reformed on the basis of compensation structures.(D) The moral dimension should be separated from incentive structures.Questions 11-15Quick quiz: Who has a more vitriolic relationship with the US? The French or the British. If you guessed the French, consider this: Paris newspaper polls show that 72 percent of the French hold a favorable impression of the United States. Yet UK polls over the past decade show a lower percentage of the British have a favorable impression of the United States.Britain’s highbrow newspaper, The Guardian, sets the UK’s intellectual tone. On any given day you can easily read a handful of stories sniping at the US and things American. The BBC’s Radio 4, which is a domestic ne ws and talk radio station, regularly laments Britain’s social warts and follows them up with something that has become the national mantra, “Well, at least we’re not as bad as the Americans.”This isn’t a new trend: British abhorrence of America antedates George W. Bush and the invasion of Iraq. On 9/11 as the second plane was slamming into the World Trade Center towers my wife was on the phone with an English friend of many years. In the background she heard her friend’s teenage son shout in front of the TV, “Yeah! The Americans are finally getting theirs.” The animosity may be unfathomable to those raised to think of Britain as “the mother country” for whom we fought two world wars and with whom we won the cold war.So what’s it all about?I often asked that during the years I lived in London. One of the best answers came from an Englishwoman with whom I shared a table for coffee. She said, “It’s because we used to be big and important and we aren’t any more. Now it’s America that’s big and important and we can never forgive you for that.” A detestation of things American has become as dependable as the tides on the Thames rising and falling four times a day. It feeds a flagging British sense of national self-importance.A new book documenting the virulence of more than 30 years of corrosive British animosity reveals how deeply rooted it has become in the UK’s national psyche. “[T]here is no reasoning with people who have come to believe America is now a ‘police state’ and the USA is a ‘disgrace across most of the world,’” writes Carol Gould, an American expatriate novelist and journalist, in her book “Don’t Tread on Me.”A brief experience shortly after George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq illustrates that. An American I know was speaking on the street in London one morning. Upon hearing his accent, a British man yelled, “Take your tanks and bombers and go back to America.” Then the British thug punched him repeatedly. No wonder other American friends of mine took to telling locals they were from Canada. The local police recommended prosecution. But upon learning the victim was an American, crown prosecutors dropped the case even though the perpetrator had a history of assaulting foreigners.The examples of this bitterness continue:I recall my wife and I having coffee with a member of our church. The woman, who worked at Buckingham Palace, launcheda conversation with, “Have you heard the latest dumb American joke?” which incidentally turned out to be a racial slur against blacks. It’s common to hear Brits routinely dismiss Americans as racists (even with an African-American president), religious nuts, global polluters, warmongers, cultural philistines, and as intellectual Untermenschen.The United Kingdom’s counterintelligence and security agency has identified so me 5,000 Muslim extremists in the UK but not even they are denounced with the venom directed at Americans. A British office manager at CNN once informed me that any English high school diploma was equal to an American university degree. This predilection for seeing evil in all things American defies intellect and reason. By themselves, these instances might be able to be brushed off, but combined they amount to British bigotry.Oscar Wilde once wrote, “The English mind is always in a rage.” But the energy r equired to maintain that British rage might be better channeled into paring back what the Economist (a British news magazine) calls “an overreaching, and inefficient state with unaffordable aspirations around the world.” The biggest problem is that, as wit h all hatred, it tends to be self-destructive. The danger is that as such, it perverts future generations.The UK public’s animosity doesn’t hurt the United States if Americans don’t react in kind. This bigotry does hurt the United Kingdom, however, because there is something sad about a society that must denigrate and malign others to feed its own self-esteem. What Britain needs to understand is that this ill will has poisoned the enormous reservoir of good will Britainused to enjoy in America. And unless the British tweak their attitude, they stand to become increasingly irrelevant to the American people.11. Which of the following is NOT the example given by the author to show the British abhorrence of America?(A) A boy shouted “The Americans are finally getting theirs.” when watching TV on 9/11.(B) A woman working at Buckingham Palace told an American joke against blacks.(C) An American speaking on a London street was punched and no prosecution followed.(D) An English author once wrote, “the English mind is always in a rage.”12. The word “animosity” used in the passage can best be replaced by _____.(A) strong hatred (B) total indifference (C) great sympathy (D) sheer irrelevance13. The author quoted from the American novelist Carol Gould’s book _____.(A) to reveal how America has become a police state(B) to expand on the British attitude to America(C) to explain the changing course of British mentality to America(D) to document the past 30 years of relationship between Britain and America14. The author argues that the UK public opinion about America will _____.(A) undermine the relations between the UK and the US(B) be self-destructive to Great Britain (C) destroy the self-esteem of both the UK and the US(D) hurt the United States except the United Kingdom15. What is the best title for the passage?(A) “Police state”: America in the eyes of the UK public(B) “The mother country”: Britain and America fought two world wars(C) The British national psyche of self-importance(D) The ally the British love to hateQuestions 16-20History may soon become extinct in our secondary schools, only less missed and less lamented than before. A new study by the Historical Association found that 3 out of 10 comprehensives no longer bother to teach the subject, which isn’t part of the core curriculum after the age of 13. Only 30 per cent do GCSE history. The researchers interviewed 700 history teachers. Most British kids can name every contestant appearing in The X Factor, but a subst antial number don’t know about the Battle of Trafalgar, 20 per cent believe the Germans, Spanish or Americans once occupied Britain and some think Winston Churchill was the first man to walk on the moon.And who were the dunces who decided to make this subject optional? Why the Tories when last they ruled over us. That was then. Today’s Tories are ardent History Boys, eager to return to the days when the past was hammered into the heads of the young, or embellished tales of glory to give British children an inheritance of innate superiority. Michael Gove, Shadow Schools Secretary for Children, has been banging on about this for a while and earlier this year the Tory Andrew Rosindell raised the issue in parliament, but regrettably turned a serious debate into brassy, right-wing patriotism: “The peoples of these magnificent British Isles...have a rich and proud history like no other”. Really, sir? So Fat Henry and his sorry wives or Churchill only have to stand up to blank out the histories of Egypt, Turkey, Mexico, Austria, Greece, India, France, Iran and other old lands?Many of us who long passionately for the reinstatement of history as a core GCSE subject are now concerned about the substance and purpose behind the Tory plans to do just that. They have a burning desire to use history as a feelgood hallucinogen, get its band of revisionist stars to head up the cavalry, to lead us back to the future. As this prospect approaches, at times I think the current state of ignorance may prove to be less harmful. When politicians exploit these and turn them into propaganda, the results can be lethal.We are not immune. Thousands of Britons today swallow the BNP’s message and vote for racist views, thus betraying thelegacy of their iconic war against Nazism and the millions of Indians, Africans, Chinese, Caribbeans and others who fought with this country in both world wars. When the BBC hosts these blackguards on its most prestigious programmes and uses democracy as an excuse, it too is guilty of treacherous historical amnesia. Arguably, the lack of good historical education makes our citizens more open to neo-Nazi brain-washers. Young Muslims too, are easily plucked off by charismatic Islamicists who weave fictionalised accounts of splendiferous Islamic epochs when they did no wrong and brought paradise to earth.There is another disconcerting trend. Britain is deeply conservative and these days looks back longingly to the Tudors, Georgians, Victorians, Edwardians, wartime Britons, and now the Sixties. Showman historians provide our public with an entertaining and comforting view of what has gone before. Audiences are never really forced to question things or feel troubled. If we are to reinstate history as a key subject in secondary schools, we must do so with a better understanding of its impact, and design the syllabus to tell as full a story as possible of this complicated nation and its connections to the world. Few in power have the imagination to take up this challenge because that would be too tricky. Yet our children have a right to learn about British fascism as well as the battles and ultimate victory over Hitler; they need to be taught about how this country set up the endless conflict in Palestine, and the mistakes made by the British government when Zimbabwe was created. Hardly anyone over 20 in Britain knows this. The coming generations surely must, if only to understand the games played during the bitter Cold War, particularly as we may be returning to those days.The long neglected positive aspects of our history also need to be exhumed. As left-wing historians often point out, the hard-won democratic rights we enjoy were not bestowed by kings and the landed gentry, but were wrested by oppressed peasants, industrial working classes and the abject poor. Most black, Asian and Arab British children do not know about the many white anti-Imperialist MPs and an alarming number are woefully ignorant of the erudite Arabists who loved the Middle East and its many cultures. If we had known better the history of Iraq and Afghanistan, our government might have avoided the foolhardy and disastrous interventions that have left us with no credit. I write here as one of the ignoramuses. I was not taught anything about Afghanistan and have only now started to understand a little more about the people and the places. Oscar Wilde wrote: “The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it”. And having rewritten it as honestly as possible, to tea ch it to those who will inherit our land.16. When the author says “today’s Tories are ardent History Boys” (para. 2), he implies that _____.(A) the Tories should be responsible for having made the subject of history optional(B) the Tories have realised the mistakes they made in the past(C) the Tories plan to resume the course of history in secondary education(D) the Tories want to use history to gain back the ruling power of the country17. Which of the following is true?(A) Winston Churchill was a statesman in the 20th century British history.(B) The Germans, Spanish or Americans once occupied Britain.(C) British fascism led to the ultimate victory over Hitler in World War II.(D) The Battle of Trafalgar was fought in the Trafalgar Square in London.18. The passage mentions the histories of Egypt, Turkey, Mexico, Austria, Greece, India, France, Iran and other old lands _____.(A) to support the right-wing patriotism of the Tory Andrew Rosindell(B) to show the proud history of Great Britain over the past centuries(C) to question the right-wing patriotism of the Tory Andrew Rosindell(D) to agree with the Tories on the interpretation of the British history19. Which of the following is not the author’s major concern about the reinstatement of history as a core GCSE subject?(A) The history of the Tudors, Georgians, Victorians, Edwardians, wartime Britons.(B) The Tory’s purpose in planning to reintroduce history as a GCSE subject.(C) The possible use of history as simple propaganda for political purposes.(D) The negative aspects of the British history and the lessons to be learned.。

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历年高级口译考题翻译部分精解第一套英译中Since Darwin, biologists have been-firmly convinced that nature works without plan or meaning, pursuing no aim by the direct road of design. But today we see that this conviction is a fatal error. Why should evolution, exactly as Darwin knew it and described it, be planless and irrational? Do not aircraft design engineers work, at precisely that point where specific calculations and plans give out, according to the same principle of evolution, when they test the serviceability of a great number of statistically determined forms in the wind tunnel, in order to choose the one that functions best? Can we say that there is no process of natural selection when nuclear physicists, through thousands of computer operations, try to find out which materials, in which combinations and with what structural form, are best suited to the building of an atomic reactor? They also practise no designed adaptation, but work by the principle of selection. But it would never occur to anyone to call their method planless and irrational.【参考译文】达尔文以后的生物学家们一直相信，大自然的运行是没有计划没有意义的，不会按照预先设定的途径实现任何目的。

9月英语高级口译真题+答案

9 月英语高级口译真题+ 答案(4)SECTION 3: TRANSLATION TEST (30 minutes)Directions: Translate the following passage into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.A proposal to change long-standing federal policy and deny citizenship to babies born to illegal immigrants on U.S. soil ran aground this month in Congress, but it is sure to resurface-kindling bitter debate even if it fails to become law.At issue is “ birthright citizenship -pr〞ovided for since the Constitutio n' s14th Amendment was ratified in 1868. Section 1 of that amendment, drafted with freed slaves in mind, says: “ All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subj to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States. 〞Some conservatives in Congress, as well as advocacy groups seeking to crack down on illegal immigration, say the amendment has been misapplied over the years, that it was never intended to grant citizenship automatically to babies of illegal immigrants. Thus they contend that federal legislation, rather than a difficult-to-achieve constitutional amendment, would be sufficient to end birthright citizenship.“ MostAmericans feel it doesn 'mt ake any sense for people to come into the country illegally, give birth an d have a new U.S. citizen, 〞said the spokesman of th federation of American immigration reform. “ But the advocates for illegal immi will make a fuss; they ' lcllaim you ' repunishing the children, and I suspect the leadership doesn ' t want to deatlhwaitt.h 〞SECTION 4: LISTENING TEST (30 minutes)Part A: Note-taking and Gap-fillingDirections: In this part of the test you will hear a short talk. You will hear the talk ONLY ONCE. While listening to the talk, you may take notes on the importa nt points so that you can have enough information to complete a gap-filling task on a separate ANSWER BOOKLET. You will not get your TEST BOOK and ANSWER BOOKLET until after you have listened to the talk.The doctor-patient relationship is one of the __________ 〔1〕relationships in life, but many people say this relationship is beyond _____________ 〔2〕. Can this relationship be saved? The answer is __________ 〔3〕yes, because it must. And if that is lost, medicine becomes a technology and is _________ 〔4〕. In part the crisisin medicine began with doctors __________ 〔5〕themselves from patients.The more critical work of a doctor happens in the taking of the human 〔6〕. 〔7〕is the most important and most difficult single transaction. The studies show that 〔8〕of all the valuable informationthat leads to correct diagnosis comes from the history. Another __________ 〔9〕comes from the physical examination, 10% comes from simple __________ 〔10〕tests, and 5% comes from all the complex __________ 〔11〕. So listening is vital, because listening is not merely listening, but to establish a _________ 〔12〕.But some doctors think listening is _________ 〔13〕. They like to use complex and costly __________ 〔14〕, and use ___________ 〔15〕that create adversereactions and require _________ 〔16〕. They don 't like to listen. Because there premium on listening and that there 's no __〔__1_7_〕___fo_r_listening.Even so, the doctor-patient relationship is not _________ 〔18〕saving. Because people may ask, what is good health? And good health begins first and foremost with 〔19〕. If you don 't care for a _______ 〔__2_0_〕, be somebody else,but don ' t be a doctor!Part B: Listening and Translation1. Sentence TranslationDirections: 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.〔1〕〔2〕〔3〕〔4〕〔5〕2. Passage TranslationDirections: 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.〔1〕。

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5月翻译资格英语高级口译B试卷及答案一、口语题1、Topic：“What do you think of the idea of college students' dropping their school and setting up their own businesses？”2、Question for Reference：1. Now some universities allow students to discontinue their own businesses. What significance can you see in this policy？2. There have been a number of reports on those students running their own businesses. Give your comments.3. Are you interested in setting up your own business before you complete your university education？二、口译题1、Part A （英译中）Passage 1：The smoothes transition of power in Macao is another great success attributable to Deng Xiaoping' s concept of “one country， two systems” and will play an active role in facilitating the complete reunification of the motherland. Since their return， Hong Kong and Macao's previous social and economic system and way of life have remained unchanged and their laws have been kept basically unchanged.We are very pleased to see that the policies of “one， country， two systems” and “high degree of autonomy” and the Basic Laws of the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions have been implemented in an all-round way. The central government has given full support to the Special Administrative Region governments of Hong Kong and Macao in their work. We are very positive that Hong Kong and Macao in the 21st century will have an even brighter future with the Mainland of the country.Passage 2：The Chinese government is expected to take further measures to expand domestic demand for consumer goods this year to maintain sutained， rapid and healthy economic growth. As investment， consumption and exports have been effectively increased as a resultof the central authorities-policies， economic growth is now established at 7 percent or more this year.To tackle the problem of insufficient consumer demand， china will further its efforts in preparing for investment in fixed assets. The government will concentrate its investment on infrastructure facilities， technological renovation，environmental protection， research and development， education and the construction of residential buildings. Meanwhile， the government will further make use of fiscal and monetary levers to support economic growth and provide a better policy environment for private investment.2、Part B（中译英）Passage1：澳门实现平稳过渡，又一次标志着邓小平“一国两制”构想的巨大成功，对实现祖国完全统一将起到积极的推动作用。

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高级口译全真题目录试卷一（97.3）................................................................................................................... - 3 - Section 1: Listening test................................................................................................ - 3 - Section 4: Listening test................................................................................................ - 7 -试卷二（97.9）................................................................................................................. - 10 - Section 1: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 10 - Section 4: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 14 -试卷三（98.3）................................................................................................................. - 17 - Section 1: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 17 - Section 4: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 21 -试卷四（98.9）................................................................................................................. - 24 - Section 1: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 24 - Section 4: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 29 -试卷五（99.3）................................................................................................................. - 31 - Section 1: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 31 - Section 4: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 36 -试卷六（99.9）................................................................................................................. - 39 - Section 1: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 39 - Section 4: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 44 -试卷七（2000.3）............................................................................................................. - 46 - Section 1: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 46 - Section 4: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 51 -试卷八（2000.9）............................................................................................................. - 54 - Section 1: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 54 - Section 4: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 59 -试卷九（2001.3）............................................................................................................. - 62 - Section 1: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 62 - Section 4: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 67 -试卷十（2001.9）............................................................................................................. - 69 - Section 1: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 69 - Section 4: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 74 -试卷十一（2002.3）......................................................................................................... - 77 - Section 1: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 77 - Section 4: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 82 -试卷十二（2002.9）......................................................................................................... - 85 - Section 1: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 85 - Section 4: Listening test.............................................................................................. - 90 -1试卷一（97.3）Section 1: Listening testPart A: Spot DictationNews can be something the authorities want you to know, or something they would ratherkeep secret. An announcement of a government success, a denial of a failure, or, a secret scandal that nobody really wants you to talk about.If the authorities want to tell the world some good news, they issue statements, communiques, and call press conferences. Or politicians make speeches. Local newspapers, radio and televisionhelp to alert foreign correspondents to what is going on. And by making contacts with local officials, journalists can ask for more information or explanations to help them write their stories. Unless the correspondent is an eye witness, it's rare to trust any single source. Officials havea policy to defend, and opposition politicians want to attack it. Rumor and gossip can also confuse the situation. So, you have to check information as much as possible using common sense and experience as final checks to help establish just what's likely to be the truth, or close to it.Just getting the news is only half the job. A correspondent may be well informed, but his jobis to inform other people, the public. So once the information is available it has to be written in an interesting way which is also easily understood. Particularly for radio, since, while a newspaper reader can turn back and re-read a sentence or two, the radio listener has only one chance. This also means that only a limited number of facts can be contained in a sentence, that there should be an element of repetition. And vital information necessary to understand the latest development should be presented at the start of a report in case the producer of a news program decides la shorten an item, by cutting for example the last sentence or two.Finally, the style of presentation must match the subject matter. A cheerful voice might be perfect for a royal wedding. But it would be sadly out of place for a report of a plane crash. And this would also confuse and distract the listener, probably making it difficult to understand just what had happened and to whom.Part B: Listening ComprehensionQuestions 1-5 are based on the following conversation.FRED: Well, Vic, I'm sure all our listeners would love to be brought up to date on the latest in tiny television.VIC: It's an expanding market, Fred, that's for sure, and they seem to be getting smaller every year.FRED: Which countries are dominating the market?VIC: At the moment it's Japan, principally. In the spring of 1982 Sony introduced the Watchman.FRED: Is that the Walkman?VIC: No, the Watchman is a portable black and white TV set with a tiny 5 cm screen and aerial. FRED: How big is the whole thing?VIC: Oh, I'd say about 35 cm by 12 cm and it weighs only a couple of kilograms.FRED: Was it a success from the start?VIC: Funnily enough, a Sony executive said that no one would want to watch a TV while walking around and also a slightly larger model could be bought for half the price!FRED: Really?VIC: But, despite this pessimistic view, sales of this model far outnumbered projections. FRED: Well, you never can tell! How big was the initial production?V1C: The company started with 2000 units per month and increased to 5000 by the end of 1982, but they still couldn't keep up with the demand.FRED: So I suppose they upped the production levels even higher.VIC: It was much more radical than that! In the spring of 1983 Sony pulled out all the stopsand launched the Watchman all over again with a new model.FRED: Oh, what's it like?VIC: Well, it's 20 per cent smaller and the price is 25 per cent less...FRED: Mmmm.VIC: ... and the components were designed from scratch.FRED: And what about production levels?VIC: They quadrupled to 20,000 units a month just for the Japanese market!FRED: Wow! The Watchman certainly seems to have taken off.VIC: Indeed it has.FRED: And I believe there were other Japanese companies as well.VIC: Yes. At the end of 1982 Hattori that's H— A T— T— O— R— I you know, the makers of Seiko watches—welt, they unveiled an even smaller TV, around 3 cm, which is built intoa wrist-watch.FRED: Incredible!VIC: It certainly is. The rest of the set is carried separately in your pocket and it's about the size of a packet of kingsize cigarettes.FRED: And how does it work?VIC: It has a liquid crystal display screen. The TV receiver and battery pack fit into your pocket, and they're connected by a cord to the watch.FRED: Is there a headphone?VIC: Oh, yes, that's plugged into the receiver as well.FRED: Seems a bit complicated, that one, with all the wires and bits and pieces.VIC: Yes, it does.FRED: Any other Japanese models?VIC: Yes, Casio—that's C—A—S—I—O. Their latest is a calculator-sized TV about one-third the bulk of the Watchman and with 1983 production figures of 2000 units a month.FRED: I see.VIC: And, according to a spokesman, they hope to match their calculator sales, which are about 25 million units per year.FRED: Very impressive. And no doubt other Japanese companies will jump on the bandwagon. VIC: Most likely.FRED: Now, could you tell us about other countries making these tiny TVs?VIC: Of course. From Sinclair in England there's one similar in size to the Casio, and their production levels were 1 million for 1983.FRED: Obviously they're planning on backing a winner!VIC: How right you are. A representative said they expect a mass-market response, not just as a novelty item.FRED: And just which market are the manufacturers aiming at?VIC: Mainly the commuters who spend hours going to and from work. These tiny TVs will provide relief from the monotonous train and bus rides.FRED: Well, Vic, thanks for keeping us in touch with this extremely popular gadget.VIC: My pleasure, and happy viewing to all of you with those wee TVs.Question No. 1. What is being discussed in the talk?Question No. 2. When was this product recommended to the public?Question No. 3. Which of the following companies first introduced this product?Question No. 4. Which group of people are most likely to form the main market for this product? Question No. 5. According to the talk, which of the following is true about its market? Questions 6-10 are based on the following conversation.Male: How many different countries do you think you've been to?Female: Once I made a count of how many countries I'd hitchhiked through and it came to twenty eight. So if you add on a few more for those where I haven't hitched, I imagineit comes to about forty by now.Male: About forty! And are there any of these that you feel you really would like to go back to?Female: Two that I could actually live in I think. One would be the west coast of Canada because I think that had everything to offer. It was rich culturally, it was very bright, ithad a very pleasant climate, slightly improved on Britain. It had the Rocky Mountains behind, loads of coastline, um, a lot going on both day and night, a large university, andit was just near America if you felt like crossing the border. The other place I liked, butmore for a holiday, was Sardinia, which I found was one of the quietest, most unspoiltparts of Europe that I've seen.Male: What is it about traveling that makes you want to keep doing it?Female: I think it's the one time when I feel completely alive every minute of the day. I also feel I have a tremendous amount of experience to bring back every time I've traveled, there'sso much to share with other people. I feel I've got, sort of, two hundred per cent of meto give once I come back. But when I'm actually doing it, you're free from all thebounds of routine, you're free from the assumptions people make about you. You're freefrom the inhibitions that cause you not to fully be yourself and enjoy yourself becauseof what people might think and so on.Male: But it can also be a little bit dangerous at times too, can't it?Female: It can certainly be dangerous if you're doing it alone. I avoid traveling alone whenever I can. I mostly go with people I know very well and this is part of the travelerdiscovering the person you're traveling with and discovering the differences in taste andthe similarities in taste. But, um the most dangerous situation I found myself in wasnearly being knifed here in Devon, in Ilfracombe. But apart from that, I was on a trainin Hungary where there was a murder in the loo, and we were kept for 10 hours whilethey investigated why somebody had been stabbed in the loo. I've also slept, voluntarily,in a prison in Norway and another prison in Germany. Um and in one of them we werelocked in and heard the other prisoners shouting and banging on the doors and that feltquite frightening. Um I managed to get right into the center of the Middle East warthrough no choice of my own. They wouldn't let us out of the plane and we were caught throughout the whole war in the country and couldn't get around at all. That felt as ifyou were living on a knife edge; we were lying there contemplating quite coollywhether, if there was an air raid, we should actually go into the shelter or allowourselves to be killed on the spot. And, er there are certainly risks and I think more sowhen you do travel alone, so I try and avoid it.Question No. 6. How many countries has the woman been to?Question No. 7. Which place does the woman seem to like most?Question No. 8. Considering that traveling can be dangerous at times, what does the woman do? Question No. 9. Which of the following is true about the woman?Question No. 10. Why does the woman want to keep traveling?Questions 11-15 are based on the following news.Here is a summary of the news."No general election yet" says the Prime Minister.Five people die in an earthquake in central Italy.And one-fourth million pounds is stolen from a security van.In a speech in the city of London last night, the Prime Minister announced that there will beno general election in the near future. Talk of a quick election was pure speculation, she said. A general election would be held when it was in the best interests of the nation to do so.In central Italy, several small towns and villages are still cut off by avalanches following the earthquake during the night which killed five people. It was central Italy's strongest earthquake for several years and hundreds of people have been made homeless. In Rome, as well as in Florence, Naples and Perugia, gas pipes were broken, windows shattered and electric cables thrown onto the streets.Thieves got away with almost one-fourth million pounds after a security van was ambushedin central London early this morning. The security van was rammed by a lorry as it was taking a short cut through a narrow street off Piccadilly. Three masked men then threatened the driver and his assistant with shotguns and forced one of them to unlock the van. The thieves made their escape in a car parked nearby. This car was later found abandoned in south London. The driver of the van and his assistant were badly shaken but not seriously hurt.Hospital waiting lists in the southwest of England have gone up by a quarter in the last five years. While the number of doctors, nurses and other staff have increased, the demand on theservice has grown even faster.Question No. 11. What does the Prime Minister say about the general election?Question No. 12. What happened in central Italy?Question No. 13. Where did the raid on a security van take place?Question No. 14. About how much money was stolen from the security van?Question No. 15. Which of the following statements is true about the hospitals in south-western England?Questions 16-20 are based on the following talk.The figures for burglaries have risen alarmingly over the last few years and are now quite appalling. Let me quote you a few statistics about break-ins.A house is burgled in Britain now about every two minutes, and over the past three years the number of burglaries reported to the police has risen by approximately 50,000 to well over400,000 this year. The insurance companies report that last year alone household burglary losses rose by 27 per cent over the previous year to 138.2 million, and several companies are refusing to provide burglary cover in what we might call high-risk areas.There are, nevertheless, half a dozen measures which can be taken against burglaries, which Iwill briefly outline for you. It really only requires some basic common sense and a small outlay, combined with a little knowledge of the way a burglar thinks and operates. You have to put yourself in his position, really. Most burglars are opportunists looking for an easy break-in, so don't make things simple for them. Don't advertise the fact you're out or away, or be careless about security. Even if you're just popping out for a quarter of an hour, don't leave doors and windows open or unlocked. A burglary can take less than ten minutes.This time element leads me to my second main point, that where a house is hard to get intoand will take a long time to do so because you've fitted good locks and bolts on your exterior doors and windows or even burglar alarms, the chances are that the burglar will move on to somewhere easier. There are plenty of these, I can assure you. Milk bottles left on the doorstep, papers by the front door, garage doors wide open, curtains drawn in the daytime or undrawn at night are all indications. For comparatively little you can buy a programmed time-switch that'll turn on and off a light at appropriate times.Not all burglaries happen while you are out, of course. You should always be wary of callersat the door who say, for example, that they've come to read the gas meter; always check their credentials, and if in doubt don't let them in. It's also a good idea to keep a record of serial numbers on electrical equipment, radios, TVs and so on, or even to take photographs of valuable jewelry, antiques or pictures.Question No. 16. How many burglaries have been reported this year?Question No. 17. How does the insurance industry react to the rise of burglaries?Question No. 18. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a measure against burglaries? Question No. 19. Which of the following statements is true, according to the passage?Question No. 20. What might be the best title for this passage?Section 4: Listening testPart A: Note-taking and Gap-fillingOver the last fifty years housework has been made considerably easier by the invention of an increasing number of labor-saving devices and appliances, mostly electrical, which have drastically cut down the amount of time and effort previously needed to do the everyday household chores. For many years now there have been vacuum cleaners, electric irons, washing machines and floor-polishers; now we have electric potato-peelers and even electric carving knives. We can buy cookers that will switch themselves on and produce a meal that is ready to eat the minute we get back home. If we have one of those electric pop-up toasters, we can make toastat the breakfast table itself. Mashed potatoes can be quickly and effortlessly made with a mixer, which usually has a variety of attachments that enable you to make all sorts of other more exotic things like fresh orange juice or real mayonnaise. And a tumble-drier can save you from the frustration of hanging out the washing only to have to bring it in again ten minutes later when a menacing storm-cloud looms over.Probably the most important piece of electrical equipment to become widely used in the last twenty years is the dishwasher. Washing up by hand is not only a time-consuming task (it can take longer than eating the meal itself), but also an extremely boring one, particularly when you are on your own, and it also ruins your hands. Dishwashers come in a range of different sizes and models to suit your purse, the size of your family, and the layout of your kitchen. They can be stood up on the floor or on a worktop, or they can be mounted on a wall. And their capacity ranges from six to twelve place-settings. If you buy one, it is worth having it plumbed into the mains water supply to save you from having to connect rubber pipes to your taps each time you use it. All you have to do is load the dirty dishes, glasses and cutlery into the racks inside the machine, pour in some special detergent powder, close the door and switch it on: it does the rest by itself while you get on and do more interesting things. Of course, most dishwashers can't accommodate large saucepan and frying pans, and you do have to scrape all scraps of solid food from the dishes before you put them in to avoid blocking the filters, but the machine will wash almost everything else and get rid of even the most stubborn egg and lipstick stains. When the washing cycle is over, the machine dries the plates and glasses with its own heat, and indeed they can be left inside until they are needed for the next meal.If you buy a medium-sized dishwasher, you probably won't need to wash up more than once a day. The drawback of this, of course, is that you have to have enough dishes, cutlery, etc. to last three or four meals. So it can happen that people who buy a dishwasher have to buy new china and glasses, either because they haven't got enough or because the ones they've got don't fit the machine. This extra expense may not only be necessary, but also desirable, for one has to remember that dishwashers can be quite noisy. This means that many people prefer only to use their machine once a day, preferably last thing at night, when you can just shut the kitchen door on it and go to bed.Part B: Listening and TranslationI. Sentence TranslationSentence No. 1. This is the most serious hurricane to have hit the region this century, but so far there have been no reports of damage or injuries.Sentence No. 2. I've just got a call from Michael in the Hong-Kong office and he needs the latest sales figures, so could you fax them to him first thing tomorrow morning?Sentence No. 3. If you make an appointment and see us towards the end of the week, we'll be able to let you know our decision.Sentence No. 4. The U S economy is going to enjoy steady growth for the remainder of the year with unemployment rate lowered and inflation kept under control.Sentence No. 5. The president said that his government is encouraging its big enterprises to invest in this country, especially in the south-eastern coastal areas.II. Passage TranslationPassage 1:The tourist season in London, which used to be mainly in the summer months, is now all theyear round. Around 15 million people visit Britain each year, and most of these visitors spend at least a few days in London.But London is more than this. It is the center of government and the home of the Queen. It isalso the financial center of Britain.Passage 2:Canada is a huge country, second in size only to Russia. Yet it has only 26 million people,which is less than half the population of the United Kingdom.A third of the country is covered by forest and there are also vast grasslands and countlesslakes and rivers.There are great variations in climate. Winters are extremely cold except in Vancouver, whichhas a milder climate owing to its location on the west coast. Canadian summers are warm on the whole, especially inland, so you'll only need lightweight clothing.试卷二（97.9）Section 1: Listening testPart A: Spot DictationToday I'm going to consider very briefly a problem concerned with the competition for land use, that is, whether crops should be used to produce food or should be used to produce fuel and in considering this problem I will look at four main areas: the historical background to the problem, the economies involved in the competition for land use, some examples, and a possible solution to a potential problem.In considering the historical background we should look at the oil crisis of the 1970s due tothe rapid trend in increasing oil prices. Many countries have looked for alternative energy sources to make them independent of other countries' fossil fuels. Examples of alternative energy sources include such things as solar power, the harnessing of wind and waves, and also the production of biogas. Biogas is methane which is produced from human and animal waste.A particularly interesting possibility for many developing countries has been the conversionof plant material to alcohol. This is interesting because in many developing countries there is a large agricultural sector and at: the same time a small industrial sector and thus the possibility of using the agricultural sector to produce fuel is of interest to those countries.Research is going on in the production of alcohol, for example, from sugar and there are two main economic reasons for this. First of all, the world price of sugar has fallen dramatically or the world price of sugar has fallen in very real terms in the last decade. This has caused a problem for those economies which are dependent on their sugar production as it gives them an alternative possibility for using their sugar. And secondly sugar is the most efficient source of alcohol, therefore, it is relatively economical to make fuel by distilling alcohol from it.In addition to sugar there are other starchy plants that can be used to make alcohol, forexample in tropical countries such plants as the cassava plant and the sweet potato are good sources from which alcohol can be made and in non-tropical countries you have such things as corn and sugar beet.Part B: Listening ComprehensionQuestions 1-5 are based on the following conversation.F: Er ... roughly, Mr. Andrew Simpson, when did you begin collecting badges?M: At my primary school, I think. The teachers used to give out badges to pupils who were particularly good at certain things. So I got a little blue badge with the word "swimming" on it, and then another one I remember—it was green—which had the word "Tidy" on it! HalF: And have you still got those badges in your collection?M: No ... well, I've got the swimming badge, but I think I was so untidy that I must have lost the tidy badge years ago!F: And you started collecting badges, then, from that, the age of about nine?M: Er, yeah, I guess so ... eight or nine or so. That's right. In those days—we're talking about the early fifties there weren't so many cars around as there are today. So filling stations didn'thave so many customers. So the petrol companies used to give out badges. I suppose they thought that kids whose parents had a car would keep asking them to go to a particular filling station so that they could get another free badge. My dad bought our first car in 1954. I think。

高级口译试题集锦(2)

高级口译试题集锦（2）Part A (E-C)Passage ISince its invention 300 years ago, the piano has played its way intothe hearts and homes of music lovers around the world. It hasinspired ①composers and performers. It has made a place for itselfin palaces and concert halls, in church hails and jazz clubs. Thepiano has revolutionized the way people play and experience music.By the late 1700s, the piano had spread throughout Europe and to theAmerican colonies. No longer the exclusive property of the nobility②, pianos still carried an air of③privilege and prestige. Wealthyamateurs ④, mostly young ladies, learned to play. Composers began toproduce sonatas ⑤, dances and songs that were profitable and easyenough for amateurs.难点提示：①给……以灵感②贵族阶层③神态，姿态④业余爱好者⑤奏鸣曲()参考译文：自从三百年前发明钢琴以来，钢琴的演奏已经深入到全世界每一位音乐爱好者的心灵，走进了每一户音乐爱好者的家。

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We are thought of over-whelmed by the information flow.Research suggests that all the multi-tasking may actually make our brains work better and faster, producing a world-wide increase in IQ up to 20 points and more in recent decades. Is there any real benefit in all these mental gymnastics we now have to go through? We are not becoming a race of global idiots, but many do think certain skills are enhanced and certain are not. You know the ability to make fast decisions, to answer a dozen emails in 5 minutes or to fill out maybe big aptitude text. That’s enhanced.But when someone is out there with his kids laying in his little league, or something like that, he’s got his cell phone in his pocket, he is always wondering: “Jeez, did I get a voicemail?”This might have negative effects on our own brains patterns. Creativity is something that happens slowly. It happens when your brain is just noodling around, just playing. 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In many countries, it is a day when families visit cemeteries and place flowers on the tombs of their relatives. In Europe, Labor Day is celebrated on May 1, whereas in Canada and the United States, labor and laborers are honored by a legal holiday on the first Monday in September.Part B Listening and TranslationI. Sentence TranslationDirections: 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.1. 原文：The biggest challenge facing us now is to improve the quality of life in cities, because sadly, cities don’t always offer the economic security, the safety or the comfort they promise.译文：现在我们面临的最大挑战是提高城市生活质量,因为令人遗憾的是，城市并不总能提供所允诺的经济保障，安全或者舒适。

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A. 会议将在下午三点开始。

B. 会议将在下午四点开始。

C. 会议将在下午五点开始。

D. 会议将在下午六点开始。

答案：B2. 根据对话内容，下列哪项是正确的？A. 他们计划去看电影。

B. 他们计划去购物。

C. 他们计划去公园。

D. 他们计划去餐厅。

答案：A二、口语表达1. 请用英语描述你最喜欢的季节，并解释原因。

答案：My favorite season is autumn. The weather is cool and crisp, and the leaves change into beautiful colors.2. 请用英语讲述一次你在国外旅行的经历。

答案：During my trip to Paris, I visited the Eiffel Tower and enjoyed the stunning view of the city from the top.三、阅读理解1. 阅读以下段落，并回答问题：What is the main idea of the passage?答案：The main idea of the passage is the importance of environmental conservation.2. 根据文章内容，下列哪项是作者的观点？A. 人们应该减少使用塑料。

B. 人们应该增加使用塑料。

C. 塑料对环境没有影响。

D. 塑料是不可替代的。

答案：A四、翻译1. 将下列句子从英语翻译成中文："In order to achieve success, one must be willing to work hard and persevere."答案：为了取得成功，一个人必须愿意努力工作并坚持不懈。

2. 将下列句子从中文翻译成英语：“随着科技的发展，我们的生活变得越来越便利。

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Our managing director will host a reception banquet in your honor tonight, and we would like you and your family to come to the dinner this evening to meet our managing director.2．您在生活或工作中若有不尽如人意之处，请立即和我联系，我很乐意为您排忧解难。

If you should encounter any inconveniences in your life and work, do not hesitate to let me know and I will be very glad to help you out.3．我为能在上海接待您和您的家人身感愉快，我很高兴我们能在今后的半年里合作共事。

我们将给您配备两名实验助手。

必要时，我们还想邀请您的一名同事一起参加我们的一项研究工作。

It gives me such a great pleasure to meet you and your family here in Shanghai and I'm very glad that you will be working with us for the next six months. We'll provide you with two lab assistants and if necessary, we would like to invite one of your associates to join us.4．您若愿意的话，我们想把你们先安排在地处市中心的假日酒店下榻，从假日酒店开车40分钟可到我们的实验室。

If you don’t mind, we’d like to accommodate you (put you up) at the Holiday Inn, which is located in the downtown area, a forty-minutes drive from our lab.1．Back in my college days, a professor of Oriental Civilization introduced me to the wealth of the Confucianism and Taoism, and by doing that he planted in the depths of my mind the inexplicable “China dream”.我大学时期有一位教东方文明史的教授，他使我对博大精深的中国儒家思想和道家学说有所了解，同时也使我萌生了一种难以言表的“中国梦”。

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高级口译试题集锦（５）Part A (E-C)Passage IWhat is poverty? Poverty is not being able to have what most peoplehave. It's not being able to live like most people live. It's likehearing your mother in the bedroom crying because she has no moneyto give you for lunch. It's like always begging people not to turnoff the: electricity or the telephone.It's like being forced to move from one shabby ①apartment toanother because you can't pay the rent. It's like trying to hidefrom your rich friends so they won't see how poor you are. Povertymay mean having no home, sleeping in the streets, getting wet whenit rains, going for days with no food, or perhaps dying of sicknessand hunger.难点提示①破旧不堪的（）参考译文什么是贫穷?贫穷就是不能拥有大多数人拥有的东西。

贫穷就是不能像大多数人那样生活。

贫穷就像听到你母亲在卧室里哭泣，因为她没钱给你吃午饭。

贫穷就像总是乞求人们不要切断电源或者电话。

贫穷就像被迫从一个破旧不堪的公寓搬到另一个破旧不堪的公寓，因为你付不起房租。

9月英语高级口译真题+答案(2)

9月英语高级口译真题+答案(2)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 1-5Anyone who doubts that children are born with a healthy amount of ambition need spend only a few minutes with a baby eagerly learning to walk or a headstrong toddler starting to talk. No matter how many times the little ones stumble in their initial efforts, most keep on trying, determined to master their amazing new skill. It is only several years later, around the start of middle or junior high school, many psychologists and teachers agree, that a good number of kids seem to lose their natural drive to succeed and end up joining the ranks of underachievers. For the parents of such kids, whose own ambition is often inextricably tied to their children’s success, it can be a bewildering, painful experience. So it’s no wonder some parents find themselves hoping that, just maybe, ambition can be taught like any other subject at school.It’s not quite that simple. “Kids can be given the opportunities to become passionate about a subject or activity, but they can’t be forced,” says Jacquelynne Eccles, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, who led a landmark, 25-year study examining what motivated first-and seventh-grades in three school districts. Even so, a growing number of educators and psychologists do believe it is possible to unearth ambition in students who don’t seem to hav e much. They say thatby instilling confidence, encouraging some risk taking, being accepting of failure and expanding the areas in which children may be successful, both parents and teachers can reignite that innate desire to achieve.Figuring out why the fire went out is the first step. Assuming that a kid doesn’t suffer from an emotional or learning disability, or isn’t involved in some family crisis at home, many educators attribute a sudden lack of motivation to a fear of failure or peer pressure t hat conveys the message that doing well academically somehow isn’t cool. “Kids get so caught up in the moment-to-moment issue of will they look smart or dumb, and it blocks them from thinking about the long term,” says Carol Dweck, a psychology professor a t Stanford. “You have to teach them that they are in charge of their intellectual growth.” Over the past couple of years, Dweck has helped run an experimental workshop with New York City public school seventh-graders to do just that. Dubbed Brainology, the unorthodox approach uses basic neuroscience to teach kids how the brain works and how it can continue to develop throughout life. “The message is that everything is within the kids’ control, that their intelligence is malleable,” says Lisa Blackwell, a re search scientist at Columbia University who has worked with Dweck to develop and run the program, which has helped increase the students’ interest in school and turned around their declining math grades. More than any teacher or workshop, Blackwell says, “parents can play a critical role in conveying this message to their children by praising their effort, strategy and progress rather than emphasizing their ‘smartness’ or praising high performance alone. Most of all, parents should let their kids know that mistakes are a part of learning.”Some experts say our education system, with its strong emphasis on testing and rigid separation of students into different levels of ability, also bears blame for thedisappearance of drive in some kids. “These program s shut down the motivation of all kids who aren’t considered gifted and talented. They destroy their confidence,” says Jeff Howard, a social psychologist and president of the Efficacy Institute, a Boston-area organization that works with teachers and parents in school districts around the country to help improve children’s academic performance. Howard and other educators say it’s important to expose kids to a world beyond homework and tests, through volunteer work, sports, hobbies and other extracurricular activities. “The crux of the issue is that many students experience education as irrelevant to their life goals and ambitions,” says Michael Nakkua l, a Harvard education professor who runs a Boston-area mentoring program called Project IF （Inventing the Future）, which works to get low-income underachievers in touch with their aspirations. The key to getting kids to aim higher at school is to disabuse them of the notion that classwork is irrelevant, to show them how doing well at school can actually help them fulfill their dreams beyond it. Like any ambitious toddler, they need to understand that you have to learn to walk before you can run.1. Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the first paragraph?（A）Children are born with a kind of healthy ambition.（B）How a baby learns to walk and talk.（C）Ambition can be taught like other subjects at school.（D）Some teenage children lose their drive to succeed.2. According to some educators and psychologists, all of the following would be helpful to cultivate students’ ambition to succeed EXCEPT ________.（A）stimulating them to build up self-confidence（B）cultivating the attitude of risk taking（C）enlarging the areas for children to succeed（D）making them understand their family crisis3. What is the message that peer pressure conveys to children?（A）A sudden lack of motivation is attribute d to the student’s failure.（B）Book knowledge is not as important as practical experience.（C）Looking smart is more important for young people at school.（D）To achieve academic excellence should not be treated as the top priority.4. The word “malleable” in the clause “that their intelligence is malleable,” （para.3）most probably means capable of being ________.（A）altered and developed（B）blocked and impaired（C）sharpened and advanced（D）replaced and transplanted5. The expression “to disabuse them of the notion” （para.4）can be paraphrased as ________.（A）to free them of the idea（B）to help them understand the idea（C）to imbue them with the notion（D）to inform them of the conceptQuestions 6-10Civil-liberties advocates reeling from the recent revelations on surveillance had something else to worry about last week: the privacy of the billions of search queries made on sites like Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft. As part of a long-running court case, the government has asked those companies to turn over information on its users’search behavior. All but Google have handed over data, and now the Department of Justice has moved to compel the search giant to turn over the goods.What makes this case different is that the intended use of the information is not related to national security, but the government’s continuing attempt to police Internet pornography. In 1998, Congress passed the Child Online Protection Act （COPA）, but courts have blocked its implementation due to First Amendment concerns. In its appeal, the DOJ wants to prove how easy it is to inadvertently stumble upon pore. In order to conduct a controlled experiment-to be performed by a UC Berkeley professor of statistics-the DOJ wants to use a large sample of actual search terms from the different search engines. It would then use those terms to do its own searches, employing the different kinds of filters each search engine offers, in an attempt to quantify how often “material that is harmful to minors” might appear. Google contends that since it is not a party to the case, the government has not right to demand its proprietary information to perform it s test. “We intend to resist their motion vigorously,” said Google attorney Nicole Wong.DOJ spokesperson Charles Miller says that the government is requesting only the actual search terms, and not anything that would link the queries to those who made them. （The DOJ is also demanding a list of a million Web sites that Google indexes to determine the degree to which objectionable sites are searched.）Originally, the government asked for a treasure trove of all searches made in June and July 2005; the re quest has been scaled back to one week’s worth of search queries.One oddity about the DOJ’s strategy is that the experiment could conceivably sink its own case. If the built-in filters that each search engine provides are effective in blocking porn sites, the government will have wound up proving what the oppositionhas said all along-you don’t need to suppress speech to protect minors on the Net. “We think that our filtering technology does a good job protecting minors from inadvertently seeing adult content,” says Ramez Naam, group program manager of MSN Search.Though the government intends to use these data specifically for its COPA-related test, it’s possible that the information could lead to further investigations and, perhaps, subpoenas to find out who was doing the searching. What if certain search terms indicated that people were contemplating terrorist actions or other criminal activities? Says the DOJ’s Miller, “I’m assuming that if something raised alarms, we would hand it over to the pr oper authorities.” Privacy advocates fear that if the government request is upheld, it will open the door to further government examination of search behavior. One solution would be for Google to stop storing the information, but the company hopes to eventually use the personal information of consenting customers to improve search performance. “Search is a window into people’s personalities,” says Kurt Opsahl, an Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney. “They should be able to take advantage of the Internet without worrying about Big Brother looking over their shoulders.”6. When the American government asked Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft to turn over information on its users’ search behavior, the major intention is _________.（A）to protect national security（B）to help protect personal freedom（C）to monitor Internet pornography（D）to implement the Child Online Protection Act7. Google refused to turn over “its proprietary information”（para.2）required byDOJ as it believes that ________.（A）it is not involved in the court case（B）users’ privacy is most important（C）the government has violated the First Amendment（D）search terms is the company’s business secret8. The phrase “scaled back to” in the sentence“the request has been scaled back to one week’s worth of search queries” （para.3）can be replaced by _________.（A）maximized to（B）minimized to（C）returned to（D）reduced to9. In the sentence “One oddity about the DOJ’s strategy is that the experiment could conceivably sink its own case.”（para.4）, the expression “sink its own case” most probably means that _________.（A）counterattack the opposition（B）lead to blocking of porn sites（C）provide evidence to disprove the case（D）give full ground to support the case10. When Kurt Opsahl says that “They should be able to take advantage of the Internet without worrying about Big Brother looking over their shoulders.” （para.5）, the expression “Big Brother” is used to refer to _________.（A）a friend or relative showing much concern（B）a colleague who is much more experienced（C）a dominating and all-powerful ruling power（D）a benevolent and democratic organization。

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第一单元1．今晚公司总经理将设宴为您洗尘，请您携家人一起光临。

我们将给您配备两名实验助手。

必要时，我们还想邀请您的一名同事一起参加我们的一项研究工作。

2．Our guest house, a small family-style apartment building, is also available to you if you decide to move out of the hotel. The guesthouse is located in Zhangjiang High-Tech Park of Pudong on the other side of Huangpu River, a beautiful and peaceful environment that has never failed to attract any visitor.如果你们不喜欢假日酒店，你们也可以搬到公司的招待所去住，我们的招待所是一幢家庭式的公寓小楼，地处浦东张江高科技园区，环境优美安宁，人见人爱。

3．Of course, I will work closely with my Chinese colleagues on my research projects, through which I believe I will realize my “China dream”in the most rewarding direction.当然啰，我一定会与中国同事密切合作，尽力搞好我们的研究项目，我认为这样做能最有成效地实现我的中国梦。

4．All these years I have been looking forward to visiting this great and legendary country, and I feel honored and pleased that I will be working with my Chinese colleagues in the head office of your automobile group.多年来我一直期待着能访问这个美丽传奇的国家，同时我为自己能够在贵汽车集团的总部所在地和中国同事合作共事而感到荣幸和愉快。

第二单元1．我此时的心情可以用孔子在《论语》中的一句话来表达：“有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎。

”A remark in The Analects of Confucius can best express what I feel now, "It is such a delight to have friends coming from afar !"2．近代中国经历了一段积贫积弱、任人宰割的历史。

落后就要挨打，这是中国人民从屡遭外来侵略的悲惨经历中得出的刻骨铭心的教训。

China experienced a period of enduring impoverishment and long-standing debility in its modern history and was for a time at the mercy of other countries. Lagging behind leaves one vulnerable to attacks, which is the never-forgotten lesson the Chinese people have learnt from their tragic experience of repeated foreign invasions. 3．中华人民共和国成立后，中国人民自力更生、改革开放、与时俱进，在社会主义建设中取得了举世瞩目的伟大成就Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese people, through self-reliance, have carried out the national program of reform and opening up and, by keeping pace with the times, have made great achievements in building socialism that have caught the attention of the world.4．但是，我们必须清楚地看到，中国仍然是一个发展中国家，社会生产力水平总的还比较低，仍然处于并将长期处于社会主义初级阶段，还需要经过几十年的艰苦奋斗才能建成小康社会，实现中华民族的伟大复兴。

However, we must be fully aware of the fact that China is still a developing country with a low level of productivity on the whole, and it is still at the primary stage of building socialism and will remain so for many years to come. It will take decades of persistent and hard work to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and to achieve our great national rejuvenation我们将坚定不移高举中国特色社会主义伟大旗帜，以邓小平理论和“三个代表”重要思想为指导，深入贯彻落实科学发展观，保持宏观经济政策的连续性和稳定性，We will unswervingly uphold the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, further implement the scientific outlook on development under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of Three Represents, maintain the continuity and stability of macroeconomic policy,6．着力加快经济发展方式转变和经济结构调整，着力推进改革开放和自主创新，着力实现包容性增长，着力改善民生和促进社会和谐稳定，推进社会主义经济建设、政治建设、文化建设、社会建设以及生态文明建设，加快全面建设小康社会进程。

work hard to accelerate economic restructuring and the transformation of the economic development pattern, press ahead with reform and opening up and with independent innovation。

endeavor to realize inclusive growth, strive to improve people’s wellbeing and to promote socialist harmony and stability, make headway with our efforts to encourage socialist economic, political, cultural ,social and ecological development ,and pick up the pace of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects.7．我深信，两国高层领导人之间的频繁互访，不仅有助于我们两国之间关系的改善，而且还有助于亚太地区乃至整个世界的和平与稳定。