高级口译口试真题集锦

高级口译口试真题集锦

上海市英语高级口译资格证书第二阶段考试

ORAL TEST

Directions: Talk on the following topic for at least 3 minutes. Be sure to make your points clear and supporting details adequate. You should also be ready to answer any questions raised by the examiners during your talk. You need to have your name and registration number recorded. Start your talk with “My name is …”.

Topic: The real estate market in China

Questions for Reference:

1. What do you know about the real estate market trend in Shanghai as well as in China?

2. Why are people becoming more active in buying their own houses in recent years?

3. If you have enough money, what kind of house would you like to buy? Why?

4. What conclusions could you draw from the booming real estate business?

上海市英语高级口译资格证书第二阶段考试

INTERPRETAION TEST (Paper 33)

Part A

Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in English. After you have heard each sentence or paragraph, interpret it into Chinese. Start interpreting at the signal…and stop it at the signal…You may take notes while you are listening. Remember you will hear the passages only once. Now let us begin Part A with the first passage.

Passage 1:

There are 2 types of social communication intelligence. The first one refers to the ability to understand oneself. Children with the intelligence for self-understanding know how to make plans and arrangements, and know how to bring their ability into full play. They can do things on their own in a well-organized way without their parents’ supervisi on.//

The second type is the ability to understand others. Children with this kind of ability are good at spotting the peculiarities of other people and imitating them. For instance, they can easily identify a negative character in a TV play or a film. Therefore, parents should make their children develop their potential intelligence according to their own characteristics.

(参考答案)

社会交际智能有两种。第一种是了解自身的能力。具有这种智能的孩子知道如何计划与安排，知道如何充分发挥自己的能力。他们不需要父母/大人的督促，自己做事井井有条。//

第二种是了解别人的能力。这类孩子善于发现别人的特征，善于模仿。比如，他们能轻而易举地识别出电影或电视里的反面人物，因此，家长应按自己孩子的特点来发展其潜在智能。

Passage 2:

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Now that we are all here, shall we begin? As you all know, the purpose of today’s meeting it to consider how best to introduce our range of machine tools to the key Asian market. We have been discussing this idea for some time and the very fast growth of Asian markets indicates that we should at least take this to the next stage.//

There are several items on the agenda. The first is the joint venture with the Starr Company, which is a small but successful company whom we could license to manufacture our products out there. The second item is the possibility of a link with a major regional