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昂立教育 高级口译 版权所有 不得翻印 上海英语高级口译证书考试上海英语高级口译证书考试上海英语高级口译证书考试上海英语高级口译证书考试 昂立模拟考试昂立模拟考试 第一阶段考试 下 注意事项 上海英语高级口译证书第一阶段考试下半场三个部分 依次是 第四部分 听力 第五部分 阅读 第六部分 翻译 下半场考试时间为 90 分钟 上半场考试结束后休息 10 分钟再进行下半场考试 答案一律写在答卷上 写在试卷上无效 但考生可根据需要在试卷上作任 何记号 昂立教育 高级口译 GOGOGOGO ONONONONTOTOTOTOTHETHETHETHENEXTNEXTNEXTNEXTPAGEPAGEPAGEPAGE2 上海英语高级口译证书第一阶段考试 下 上海英语高级口译证书第一阶段考试 下 昂立模拟考试昂立模拟考试 2009 2009 2009 2009 年年 8 8 8 8 月月 试卷二试卷二 TESTTESTTESTTEST BOOKBOOKBOOKBOOK 2 2 2 2 SECTIONSECTIONSECTIONSECTION 4 4 4 4 LISTENINGLISTENINGLISTENINGLISTENING TESTTESTTESTTEST 30 30 30 30 minutes minutes minutes minutes PartPartPartPart A A A A Note takingNote takingNote takingNote taking AndAndAndAnd Gap fillingGap fillingGap fillingGap filling Directions Directions Directions Directions In this part of the test you will hear a short talk Youwill hear the talk ONLY ONCE While listening to the talk you may take notes on the important points so that you can have enough information to complete a gap filling task on a separate ANSWERANSWERANSWERANSWERBOOKLET BOOKLET BOOKLET BOOKLET Youwill not get your ANSWERANSWERANSWERANSWERBOOKLETBOOKLETBOOKLETBOOKLET until after you have listened to the talk The best way for any job seeker to best 1 themselves for whatever follows is to understand the career 2 process and complete all the steps thoroughly Once you have 3 what you most want to do everything else that follows falls into place more 4 Researching career ideas is more 5 resumes are easier to complete and job searching efforts are often more 6 and oral 7 skills more effective There are many avenues too 8 calling or uninvited job hunting is a proven method The first step is 9 a list of all companies and don t worry if the list is 10 The second step is 11 the names of the people who have the power to offer you a job This step is accomplished by 12 each company smain number and asking the 13 for the name and 14 of the hiring manager The third step is the process is writing a dynamic 15 Make sure that each letter is 16 by addressing each to a named individual The fourth step is 17 the people you wrote to in the third step It means getting on the 18 and contacting these people and asking for a job 19 Yourgoal should be to get as many interviews with 20 employersas possible PartPartPartPart B B B B ListeningListeningListeningListening andandandand TranslationTranslationTranslationTranslation 1 1 1 1 SentenceSentenceSentenceSentence TranslationTranslationTranslationTranslation Directions Directions Directions Directions In this part of the test you will hear 5 English sentences Youwill hear the sentences 昂立教育 高级口译 GOGOGOGO ONONONONTOTOTOTOTHETHETHETHENEXTNEXTNEXTNEXTPAGEPAGEPAGEPAGE3 ONLYONLYONLYONLY ONCE ONCE ONCE ONCE After you have heard each sentence translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWERANSWERANSWERANSWERBOOKLET BOOKLET BOOKLET BOOKLET 1 2 3 4 5 2 2 2 2 PassagePassagePassagePassageTranslationTranslationTranslationTranslation Directions Directions Directions Directions In this part of the test you will hear 2 English passages Youwill hear the passages ONLYONLYONLYONLY ONCE ONCE ONCE ONCE After you have heard each passage translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWERANSWERANSWERANSWERBOOKLET BOOKLET BOOKLET BOOKLET Youmay take notes while you are listening 1 2 昂立教育 高级口译 GOGOGOGO ONONONONTOTOTOTOTHETHETHETHENEXTNEXTNEXTNEXTPAGEPAGEPAGEPAGE4 SECTIONSECTIONSECTIONSECTION 5 5 5 5 READINGREADINGREADINGREADING TESTTESTTESTTEST 30 30 30 30 minutes minutes minutes minutes Directions Directions Directions Directions Read the following passages and then answer ININININ COMPLETECOMPLETECOMPLETECOMPLETE SENTENCESSENTENCESSENTENCESSENTENCES the questions which follow each passage Use only information from the passage you have just read and write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWERANSWERANSWERANSWERBOOKLET BOOKLET BOOKLET BOOKLET QuestionsQuestionsQuestionsQuestions 1 31 31 31 3 The decision on April 17th by the Environmental Protection Agency EPA that six greenhouse gases are a danger to the environment and to human health has come at a good time for the green lobby It needed a boost for hopesinWashington DC that Congress will pass legislation to control emissions before December when the world gets togetherinCopenhagen to decide what to do when the Kyoto protocol runs out are low and falling The EPA has been mulling the harmfulness of greenhouse gases since 2007 when ina case brought by a coalition of states cities and NGOs the Supreme Court ruled that it should regulate greenhouse gases if they were found to be toxic As expected theEPA now run by Lisa Jackson who brings to the job 20 years of experience as a regulator who stough on business gave a provisional ruling that they were a final decision will come after a 60 day period of public consultation Legislation to cap carbon emissions though supported by the administration is struggling to get through Congress So greens are delighted because the EPA sdecision allows emissions to be regulated under existing rules Businesses and congressmen who dislike the idea of legislating to control emissions may now decide that a new law over which they can have some influence would be better than regulation through an old one According to Edward Markey co author of the main cap and trade billinthe House it is no longer a choice between doing a bill or doing nothing It is now a choice between regulation and legislation But the decision is not as momentous as it seems It applies principally to emissions from motor vehicles which are responsible for under a quarter of man made carbon dioxidein America Attempts to extend it to other sources of greenhouse gases may prove more difficult and would almost certainly face challengesincourt And environmental cases tend to drag on and on Massachusetts v EPA the case thatledto this decision was filed six years ago the Exxon Valdezcase took 19 years TheJarndyce v Jarndycefactor is very stronginAmerica according to Paul Bledsoe of the National Commission on Energy Policy Advocates of control understandably prefer a legislative approach Thanks to the energetic sponsorship of Henry Waxman chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee the cap and trade bill has momentuminthe House But Mr Waxman s bill which is regarded as extremely greeninWashington may have to be watered down if it is to gain the approval of its many opponents from coal states inthe Democratic as well as the Republican Party And if it gets through the House which insome form it probably will its chancesinthe Senate are slim They are reckoned to have shrunk lately as the administration is seen as focusing more on health care reform thus using up time and political capital which might 昂立教育 高级口译 GOGOGOGO ONONONONTOTOTOTOTHETHETHETHENEXTNEXTNEXTNEXTPAGEPAGEPAGEPAGE5 otherwise have been allocated to climate change Going to the Copenhagen conference without legislationinplace will be embarrassing for America especially since other bits of the world are forging ahead In December inthe face of much opposition especially from eastern Europe the European Commission got member states to agree to its 20 20 20 plan to reduce emissions to 20 below 1990 levels by 2020 China s economic stimulus package includes twice as much green spending as America sdoes If America slegislators threaten to send the country srepresentatives into the conference room naked the EPA sdecision which means that tailpipe emissions at least are likely to be regulated has provided them with a figleaf 1 Why the decision on April 17thby the EPA has come at a good time for the green lobby Paragraph 1 2 What does Edward Markey mean by itis no longer a choice between doing a bill or doing nothing It is now achoice between regulation and legislation Paragraph 3 3 Why does the author say that the EPA sdecision has provided them with a figleaf Paragraph 6 QuestionsQuestionsQuestionsQuestions 4 64 64 64 6 Weallknow how an auction works The auctioneer sits up front and keeps calling for higher bids until there sone bidder left and that person wins Now imagine an auction where the auctioneer won tlet you see the other bidders but assures you they are there on the other side of a curtain The auctioneer won ttell you who the other bidders are you re only told a range of prices that others have bid And simply paying the most doesn tguarantee you llwin because the auctioneer has created a system that lets some bidders win even when they pay less Youmay not like this system but this auctioneer controls the bulk of the market Imagine that and you have imagined Google Most people think of Google as a free search engine anditis that But the real genius of Google was thatitfigured out that advertisers would pay to have their messages pop up when someone typesina keyword Those search ads now represent the biggest chunk of all Internet advertising Google gets the lion sshare which has alloweditto amass such power thatitmay end up the target of a U S antitrust investigation The Feds are already examining possible antitrust issuesina deal Google has reached with authors to sell millions of books online And they are investigating issues connected to the fact that Google and Apple share two board members one of whom is Google CEO Eric Schmidt Last year when Google tried to make a search pact with Yahoo federal regulators came close to bringing antitrust charges until Google walked away from the deal Microsoft a bitter rival is pushing regulators to reininGoogle anditmay or may not be a coincidence that one of Microsoft soutside law firms also represents TradeComet a tiny NewYorkcompany thatin February sued Google alleging antitrust violations Microsoft saysithas nothing to do with that 昂立教育 高级口译 GOGOGOGO ONONONONTOTOTOTOTHETHETHETHENEXTNEXTNEXTNEXTPAGEPAGEPAGEPAGE6 litigation Finally the Obama administration is taking a tougher stance on antitrust than the Bush administration did Why allthe fuss Twothirds of allU S Internet searches take place on Google whileYahoo and Microsoft handle 20 percent and 8 percent respectively according to researcher eMarketer If you hope to sell products over the Internet you pretty much have to advertise on Google Nobody knows if Google has abused its power but last year Google generated 22 billionin revenue and 4 2 billioninnet profit Success alone is not an indication of malfeasance of course But historically it sbeen the surest way for tech companies to attract trouble infact it salmost become a rite of passage IBM suffered through a 13 year antitrust case during the 1970s a decade agoitwas Microsoft sturn In May European regulators levied a 1 45 billion fine against Intel over allegationsitabused its power to keep rival AMD from gaining market share Making an antitrust case against Google will be incredibly difficult simpleinconcept Google s business is magnificently complicatedinits execution Then again the challenge of building such a case against the most powerful tech companyinthe world may be too tempting for ambitious trustbusters to resist 4 Whydoes the author mention the practices of auctioneersinthe first Paragraph 5 Google is recently under the pressure of some legalproblems can you list some of them 6 What does the author mean by Success alone is not an indication of malfeasance of course but historically it sbeen the surest way for tech companies to attract trouble Passage 5 QuestionsQuestionsQuestionsQuestions 7 7 7 7 10101010 Compared with the systemsinother industrializedcountries the American unemployment insurance UI scheme pays lower benefits for less time and to a smaller share of the unemployed In expansions this encourages the jobless to return quickly to work and unemployedAmericans do indeed work harder at finding jobs than their European counterparts see chart Butin recessions when there is less work to return to itcauses hardship Like America straining system UI is ripe for attention from the incoming Obama administration Like much of the social safety net the current UI system was a product of Franklin Roosevelt sNew Deal States were prodded to provide benefitsinaccordance with federal guidelines inreturn the federal government paid their administrative costs But the system has not kept up with changesinAmerica slabor force States often require beneficiaries to have worked or earned an amount that disqualifies many part time and low wage workers They also disqualify people seeking only part time work even though many people now work part time for family reasons Benefits typically last for only six months more than enough time to find a new jobinnormal times but notinrecessions Extended benefits kickinautomatically when unemployment reaches certain thresholds but those thresholds areso high that they arealmost never triggered 昂立教育 高级口译 GOGOGOGO ONONONONTOTOTOTOTHETHETHETHENEXTNEXTNEXTNEXTPAGEPAGEPAGEPAGE7 Congress therefore has to pass special legislation to extend benefits asitdid twice last year but political wrangling often delays such action In the week that ended on December 20th 586 000 workers filed a first claim for unemployment benefits the largest number for 26 years Yetsuch claimants are inone sense lucky typically 60 of unemployed people don tqualify for the benefits at all Unemployment insurance is one of the economy smost important automatic stabilizers helping to maintain household purchasing power when the economy weakens But that role is impaired by the short duration of benefits and their skimpy level At just under 300 the average weekly benefit is less than half the average private sector wage Mississippi smaximum benefit of 230 is not much more than the federal poverty threshold of 200 for an individual Benefits are low inpart because they are financed by payroll taxes that states levy on their employers States don tlike to raise such taxes even when times aregood But that means they lack the funds to pay benefits when times are bad forcing them to raise other taxes or borrow from the federal government as some 30 states are now considering One of the best features of America ssystem is experience rating employers that frequentlylayworkers off must pay higher payroll taxes thereby discouraging such lay offs But according to Alan Krueger of Princeton many states have neutered that feature by charging most employers the lowest tax rate Several moves are afoot to mend the flawsinthe UI system Under a bill put forward by Jim McDermott a congressman from Seattle the government would offer cash incentives to states to expand eligibility to part time workers and