2014年9月中级口译笔试真题阅读部分(含解析).docx

裕德教育口译/kouyi 网络资料下载 2014年9月中级口译笔试真题：阅读部分（含解析）第二部分 阅读SECTION 2: STUDY SKILLS (50 MINUTES)Direction: 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.Q1-5：这篇文章是一篇健康类话题的文章，正如课上所说，中口阅读比较喜欢出健康类话题，考生平时应多加关注。当然，健康类话题没有那么专业，还是以和生活话题结合的文章为主。前两段话告诉我们，尽管大众经常听到每天应该服用维生素的说法，但其实并不是这样。我们每日所食用的食物中已经包含了这些营养元素，没有必要多次重复补充。第三、四段告诉我们，可能小孩或者孕妇这样的人群需要一些额外补充，但还是要咨询家庭医生，应按医嘱服用适当的剂量。因为如果盲目加倍服食，结果并不是更有效，而是会有毒。第五段则具体提到，如果是要减肥，应该怎么做。而且作者还很贴心地提示，如果只是要甩一点肉，少食多动。而如果要减很多，最好是咨询医生。第六段和第七段则提到了祛痘和塑形方面应该注意的一些问题，以及官方机构严禁标签上出现一些误导性的信息描述。总的来说，文章叙述很明确，线索也很单一，就是一条一条地罗列出来。而后面的题目也确实以细节题考查为主，难度不大。Q6-10：这篇文章是一篇社会类话题的新闻，作者在第一段引用了Shelton Johnson的故事，只是为了引出文章主题，并没有必要进行详细阅读。第二段话则以Johnson的角度带来了文章的主题，那就是他发现来国家公园的访客人数中，美籍非裔出现得很少。第三段至第七段全都是这一现象的具体阐述和描写，可适当略读。第八段则剖析了这一现象背后的原因，因为可能公园方面制定的一些规定和某些种族人群的度假方式相悖，所以某些种族就选择不来国家公园。第九段则是数据段，2009年的调查显示，白人访客占比77%，拉丁裔和亚裔各占11%，而非裔只占1%，阅读时可略。最后一段是引言段，同样可略去。后面的题目全是细节题，细心定位核对即可。Q11-15：这篇文章是一篇社会类话题的新闻，讲述了爱尔兰移民来英国的一些问题。第一段开门见山，第一句The number of people emigrating from Ireland is currently estimated at 30000 annually就可以看出文章主题。第二段话提到，对于来英国伦敦的爱尔兰移民来说，首要的问题也是最困难的问题就是要找到住处。第三段指出，英格兰的福利制度要优于爱尔兰。第四、五段援引了例子，提到了移民可以选择的住所。最后一段则提到了爱尔兰移民会面临的问题，就是孤独寂寞感，这当然也会让他们更多地团结在一起。还提到，如果是由于经济原因没有办法才选择移民，这样的人可能不如主动移民的人更能适应新的生活。后面的题目全都是细节题，文章看懂就不会做错。Q16-20：这篇文章是一篇很典型的叙事性文章，作者讲述了自己和同伴第一次去巴黎的经历，描述了充满冒险精神的他们搭便车的体验。整篇文章都是非常琐碎细致的描述，所以后面题目全都是细节题。对于考生来说，没有什么诀窍，细心定位，核对内容，甄别正确选项即可。Q21-25：One point three billion metric tons - thats how much food that we waste each year. Not an easy number to wrap ones head around. Try to imagine 143,000 Eiffel Towers stacked one on top of the other-together theyd weigh around 1.3 billion tons. The sheer scale of the number makes it practically impossible to grasp, no matter how you come at it.Rendering the figure all the more unfathomable is the fact that alongside this massive wastage of food, 840 million people experience chronic hunger on a daily basis. Many millions more suffer from silent hunger - malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies.For the more economically minded, heres another number: the economic cost of food wastage runs around $750 billion per annum. This is expressed in producer prices; if we were to consider retail prices and the wider impacts on the environment including climate change, the figure would be far higher.When food is lost or wasted, the energy, land and water resources that went into producing it are also squandered -while at the same time large amounts of greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere during production, processing, and cooking.We simply cannot tolerate the wastage of 1.3 billion tons of food per year-one-third of the worlds annual food production. Theres a lot that can be done. To begin with, food losses and waste need to be seen as a cross-cutting policy issue, rather than a lifestyle choice to be left in the hands of individual consumers and their consciences. The world needs to wake up to the need for policies on food waste and losses that look at all stages of the food chain, from production to consumption.Losses of food-on farms, during processing, transport and at markets-represent a thorn in the side of food security in most developing countries, where post-harvest losses can reach as high as 40 percent of production in some cases. Especially in these places, investment in infrastructure for transportation, storage, cooling and marketing of food is badly needed. Training farmers in best practices also has an important role to play.In developed countries, food retailing practices require a rethink. For example, rejection of food products on the basis of aesthetic concerns is a major cause of food waste. Some supermarkets have already begun relaxing standards on fruit appearance, selling misshaped items at reduced prices and helping raise awareness that ugly does not mean bad. More approaches like this, that find markets or uses for surplus food, are needed.Both businesses and households should monitor to see where and how they waste food and take corrective steps, because prevention of waste is even more important than recycling or composting. Unlike the mindboggling figure of 1.3 billion tons, these simple steps are easy enough to grasp-and within reach of each of us. The world has enough on its plate-food wastage is something we can all do something about now.这篇文章非常好读，是一篇社会热点类话题文章，讲述了浪费食物的现象，并且提出相应的建议。前四段列举了大量的数据，甚至还举例、打比方，其实统统可以略去，考生只要看到关键词wastage of food就看懂文章主题了。从第五段开始，作者就提出了建议。Theres a lot that can be done就提示了考生，应该做一些标记了。第六段提出developing countries应该怎么做，第七段提出developed countries应该怎么做，最后一段指出both businesses and households应该怎么做。结构非常清晰，本文不难。前三题全考细节题，细心核对即可。第四题考到了最难的一种细节题，问四个选项哪个正确，一个一个回去原文定位便可得出答案，作者明显是呼吁每一个人行动起来。第五题题干中的best title表示这是很典型的主旨题，出现关键词food wastage的选项就是正确的答案。Q26-30：这篇文章是一篇经济类话题的文章，正如课上所言，经济类话题是中高口阅读常见的高频话题，但是难度其实并不大，一般来说，并不太会考查太过艰深晦涩的专业知识，还是以通俗类文章居多。开篇第一句Starting up a