2010年3月高级口译真题答案.doc

2010年3月高级口译真题参考答案SECTION 1: LISTENING TESTPart A: Spot Dictation(1) You bet, they can (2) help your lungs get stonger(3) professional football and basketball(4) Golf and yoga(5) keep going for a long time(6) include long-distance running(7) and ice hockey(8) you really like them(9) right training and medicine(10) under control(11) symptoms or flare-ups(12) take all asthma medicine(13) youre feeling OK(14) skipping outdoor workouts(15) a scarf or mask(16) a careful warm-up and cool-down(17) need stop working out(18) knows which steps to take (19) follow the instructions(20) knot on the sidelines Part B: Listening Comprehension1.B 2.D 3.C 4.A 5.C 6.C 7.A 8.A 9.D 10.B11.A 12.B 13.D 14.C 15.B 16.A 17.B 18.D 19.C 20.CSECTION 2: READING TEST1.C 2.A 3.C 4.D 5.B 6.B 7.C 8.C 9.C 10.C11.D 12.A 13.B 14.B 15.D 16.D 17.A 18.C 19.A 20.DSECTION 3: TRANSLATION TEST当下在伦敦舞台上所看到的演出，有太多的戏关注于生活中的暴力冲突，因此遇上一出在平凡故事中演绎平凡人的戏剧，也就令人感到惊奇。托马斯萨科维尔（Thomas Sackville）写的来客就是这样一部戏，至少表面上是这样。 这部戏看来与英国现代戏剧的主流格格不入。事实上，剧情将人看来平淡无奇，所以观众的注意力不断地集中于缜密的戏剧结构、明晰的主题拓展。因此，把它看作是“结构严谨的戏剧”来展开讨论 / 做出评价，看来是合情合理的。故事描写的是伦敦郊区一个中产阶级家庭的普通一夜。夫妇俩邀请了一个朋友来家里吃晚饭。朋友按时光临，接着大家谈起格子的生活和爱好。他们的谈话写得引人入胜、风趣幽默，但又并不哗众取宠，把观众的注意力过多地吸引到对话本身，表现出作者善写对话的非凡才能。同时，每个人物也刻画地惟妙惟肖，而且各种都被赋予虽然平淡无奇、但却令人信服的动机。通过无数细腻笔触的勾画，人物形象一一呈现：有趣、幽默、平凡，而又稍嫌笨拙。如果说，按照现实世界的标准来看，这些任务并没有塑造得生气勃勃，我们依然可以感到，作者是故意（这样做）的，因为他只想让他们作为戏剧人物出现在舞台上，仅此而已。SECTION 4: LISTENING TESTPart A: Note-taking And Gap-filling(1) contagious(2) invitation(3) charge(4) crime(5) moral(6) intrinsic(7) criminals(8) sensitive(9) environment(10) subtle(11) induce(12) responsible(13) mess(14) roof(15) litter(16) graffiti(17) jumping(18) dramatically(19) cares(20) permitsPart B: Listening and TranslationI. Sentence Translation1据一些环保压力团体称，今后五年是对热带雨林至关重要的时期。如果我们在此期间不采取行动，热带雨林将在十年内消失。2据日前公布的一份医疗报告称，流行歌手嗓音已出现了问题。因此他们必须对工作环境严加选择，不应在烟雾缭绕的环境中工作，而且自己不应吸烟。3当今的着装潮流是越来越休闲随意，但这有失偏颇。事实上，正式的穿衣风格从未被摈弃，只不过旧的传统被替代而已。4我公司对通过计算机系统召开会议很感兴趣。因为我们的各个部门遍及欧洲。计算机会议看来是在公司内部共享知识与信息的一个理想方式。5他们向一个慈善机构捐赠7.5万美元，该机构致力于改善该地区街头流浪儿童的生活。这笔钱将用于5000名贫民窟的儿童未来5年的教育。II. Passage Translation1加利福尼亚大学管理层决定在明年秋季将学费提高2500美元以上，以弥补预算赤字。根据该大学财务委员会所批准的一项计划，将学费提高到8000美元左右。校董会议室里已集结了一群学生，对学费升高表示愤慨，他们停留在会议室阻挠会议进程。校警逮捕了至少14名拒绝离开的抗议者，并驱散了呼喊口号的人群。抗议活动基本是和平的。2最近，科学和公众舆论已达成共识：气候变化是由于大气中温室气体、尤其是二氧化碳的累积。这种累积起于人为因素。因此，人们建议全球范围内推行低碳经济，以避免灾难性的气候变化。基于低能耗、低温室气体排放和减少污染，低碳经济主张最大限度利用能源、以及建立基本的使用清洁能源机制。低碳经济标志一个全球革命，与人的生活方式、国家生产方式以及国家利益广泛相连。SECTION 5: READING TEST1. Why does the author introduce the topic of the likelihood of living to 150 at the beginning of the passage?on one hand / with the progress of science & technology / gene technology / medical treatment / healthy lifestyle. / humans have the possibility of having an extraordinarily long life / the rising of life expectancy / even live up to the age of 150 / on the other hand / this means a third, or even half of ones life would be in retirement / the rapid increase of state pension age (will have to rocket) / lead to reduction of retirement income / huge pressure on state pension + personal pension savings2. What is the glide path (para.5)? What is the possible effect of taking the glide path?the glide path: with the increase of state pension age / high pressure on the state pension / more people will have to continue to work after the original / normal retirement age / retirement could become a gradual process (gradually winding down into retirement) / a figurative use to describe the lengthening of working age after retirement / the possibility of sharing more responsibility (the onus) for the funding of retirement income (funding our later years)3. Why does the author mention the prediction of Lotto numbers in the passage?although Derren Brown and lottery the two top searched-for keywords on the web / his prediction of Lotto numbers a kind of trick / trickery or illusion / which can not be relied or trusted / used for comparison / to describe the sobering situation of retirement income for pensioners in the following decades / the rapid declining of annuity rate over the next decades / predicting future retirement income would be as difficult as predicting the winning Lotto balls4. Give a brief summary of the issue of personal pension savings in the United Kingdom introduced in the passage.with the rising of life expectancy in the UK / the amount of income pensioners get from personal pension savings reduced greatly (could be a shock) / annuity rates have dropped as the government tried to restore (reflate) the economy / it is determined by life expectancy / the longer people live, the lower the annuity rate could become / the income from such pension pot much less than before & could be radically cut in the next future5. What are the ecosystem services (para.1)? What is the ecological infrastructure (para.2) according to Sukhdev?nature has contributed a lot / in various ways (dozens of ecosystem services) to the protection / conservation of the environment / such as vegetation, insects, microbes / a new movement to give an economic value to the services nature provides / which can be transformed into monetary costs / in the language of finance / could also be considered as services / when investment is used to protect and restore damaged ecosystems, which can be called ecological infrastructure / to attract investment / such investment can produce high rates of return / new forms and ways of investment6. What are water funds (para.4)? For what purposes are the water funds set up? water funds set up by conservation groups used for watershed protection / provided by urban water utilities, hydroelectric power providers + other users relying on regular flows of clean water downstream / to give support to watershed protection upstream / thriving markets for wetland and endangered-species habitat conservation / growing of mitigation banks and conservation banks with similar purposes7. Why does the author say that Not everyone thinks using market mechanisms is a good idea. (para.6)?people have different opinions towards the use of market mechanisms ot protect ecological environment / some have negative opinions about such approaches / not necessary effective / pointing out the possible defects of some of the measures / examples: with REDD program, if done wrongly protection of one rainforest could lead to the destruction of other forests fakery of carbon credits leads to no real reduction of carbon / similar scandal8. Why does the author introduce the Mindset List published by professors at Beloit College at the beginning of the passage?to show the young generation the rapid social, political, economic, scientific and technological changes and developments in modern society over the past decades / a kind of dictionary providing all kinds of cultural references/ providing a kind of time travel / help young students see more clearly the relationship between the past and the future / to be better prepared for a comprehensive outlook of the world9. What does the author mean by saying that our pasts vision of the future was not visionary enough(para.4)?reality puts prophecy to shame: the prediction of the future often proved to be wrong, or backward / the society develops much faster than people imagined / predicted / the examples showing that over the past decades / some predictions either wrong or just the opposite of the reality / (examples: Thatcher declared in 1969 no woman would become Prime Minister, 10 years later she herself became the first Prime Minister in the UK + predictions of American presidents)10. Explain the statement Leaders rely on the future as a vaccine against the present. (para.5) Make your comment.political leaders use the future as a strategy to deal with / tackle the problems they are facing at the present / or for propaganda purposes/ vaccine a term used in medicine, meaning something used to protect people against diseases / here used figuratively / to indicate that future often served either as weapon or instrument to defend the national / diplomatic policies political leaders make or propose / not always effective or usefulSECTION 6: TRANSLATION TESTOn the verge of 70, I am supposed to have weathered twists and turns in life and had a grasp of mundane affairs. Sometimes, however, I am still lingering in-between consciousness and unconsciousness. Confu