英语翻译高级口译模拟

1、全真模拟试题二()SECTION 1: LISTENING TESTPart 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 an the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in you AN

2、SWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE. On December 5, 1945, at 2:00 pm, a group of (1) took off in perfect weather for a practice flight over the Atlantic Ocean. Two hours later, (2) , Lt. Charles Taylor, radioed back that he was "completely lost." He said that the pla

3、nes' compasses were "going crazy," and that he could see no land. And then his radio died. The navy sent another plane to (3) , but it disappeared too. By the end of that day, (4) had disappeared in a mysterious area known as the Bermuda Triangle. This is just one of many frightening s

4、tories that people love to tell about the Bermuda Triangle, which is located on the West Atlantic Ocean between Miami, Florida, the island of Bermuda, and the island of Puerto Rico. Over the years, more than a hundred planes, ships, and small boats (5) have been lost in this area. Many of them disap

5、peared in the middle of the day, in perfect weather. And in most cases, to make the stories even more mysterious, (6) have ever been found. The planes and ships have simply disappeared. There is no doubt that there is something strange, perhaps even mysterious, about this part of the Atlantic; the q

6、uestion is, what is it? How can we explain the disappearance of so many ships and planes in this region? In this lecture, we will examine some of the official, as well as (7) that people have offered over the years. The United States Navy does not believe that there is anything mysterious about the

7、Triangle. It says that all the accidents are the result of the (8) . These features include the Gulf Stream current, which flows rapidly through the area, (9) , and changeable, often violent, weather patterns. In addition, the Triangle (10) that causes compasses in this area to point to true north i

8、nstead of magnetic north. If the navigator of a ship or plane forgets this fact, he can easily get lost in the Bermuda Triangle. The navy believes that this is probably what happened to the five navy airplanes that I mentioned at the beginning of this talk. In conclusion, the navy believes that the

9、disappearances (11) can be explained by human errors, changing weather, or (12) . Some of the other theories concerning so many accidents in the Triangle are a little bit difficult to believe. For example, John Wallace Spencer, who wrote a book called Limbo of the Lost, believes that (13) have estab

10、lished a civilization in the Triangle's underwater canyons, which have never been explored. He thinks that (14) human beings for their underwater zoo, and that they caused the disappearances. A similar theory states that the planes and ships disappeared because (15) -UFOs-attacked them. People w

11、ho believe this theory refer to the fact that many of the missing planes and ships reported (16) before they suddenly disappeared. As you can see, there are (17) the strange things that have happened in the Bermuda Triangle. There have been (18) about this subject, and there was even a special expos

12、ition at the Library of Congress. Nevertheless. (19) travel to this popular area. Do these tourists ever wonder if they, too, will disappear (20) Bermuda Triangle?Part B: Listening ComprehensionDirections: In this part of the test there will be some short talks and conversation. After each one, you

13、will be asked some questions. The talks, conversations and questions will be spoken ONLY ONCE. Now listen carefully and choose the right answer to each question you have heard and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.Questions 1 to 5 are ba

14、sed on the following conversation. 1. (A) American English. (B) British English. (C) Chinese English. (D) Australian English. 2. (A) Not as good as most of the other students that he taught. (B) The best ever amongst all the acquaintances that he knew in life. (C) Slightly over the intermediate leve

15、l amongst all of the students that he had. (D) No worse than most of the other students that he came across. 3. (A) She does not fully understand the courses taught by native speakers. (B) Her spoken English is not as accurate as he expected it to be. (C) He could not communicate with the woman free

16、ly during their conversation. (D) The problem suggested by the woman isn't as serious as she thought. 4. (A) Economy course. (B) Philosophy course. (C) Professional course. (D) Finance course. 5. (A) IELTS. (B) Real Talk 7. (C) Market Leader. (D) SIA(Advanced).Questions 6 to 10 are based on the

17、following news. 6. (A) The concept of sustainable utilization and management of natural resources has been denied. (B) The Zimbabwean government would fight for the proposed ban on ivory trade. (C) The Zimbabwean delegation leaves for CITES conference. (D) Various conservationists working for severa

18、l private companies have voted against the local officials involved. 7. (A) Nine. (B) One. (C) Two. (D) Three. 8. (A) One of the marine veterans might lose the honorable discharge status. (B) None of the marine veterans was recognized in the photo caption in The Washington Post. (C) Four marine vete

19、rans deny to having wear uniform at protest without authorization. (D) Many military veterans are becoming leaders of Iraq Veterans Against the War. 9. (A) South Sudan is not satisfied with the little improvement in the implementation of the peace deal. (B) Africa's longest civil war in the vast

20、 region has not ended yet. (C) Regional countries are forced to ensure specific aspects of the deal are implemented to make unity attractive. (D) Disputes over ownership of Sudan's oil fields, mainly located in the south, have been addressed. 10. (A) The world economy. (B) Climate change. (C) Ch

21、ild labor. (D) Environment protection.Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following interview. 11. (A) They know they are going to be murdered so they are frightened. (B) They don't have the sense of security after the train bombings. (C) They are angry because those who are well-informed do not

22、 tell the truth to the public. (D) They feel nothing special and forget the whole thing three weeks later. 12. (A) Ten. (B) At least twelve. (C) Two. (D) Not mentioned. 13. (A) Threats from al Qaeda. (B) Concerns over corruption. (C) Loose information networks. (D) Unwillingness to fight against the

23、 terrorists. 14. (A) In a store. (B) In a railway station. (C) In an airfield. (D) In a police agency. 15. (A) The terrorists can achieve their greatest ever success in the future. (B) There is no prediction what shall happen to the residents in Madrid. (C) People shall lead their normal lives as th

24、ey used to. (D) Nothing substantial has been proposed and carded out by the authorities so far.Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following talk. 16. (A) Absorbed and attracted. (B) Sympathetic. (C) Both anger and despair. (D) Fair and objective. 17. (A) Educational establishments. (B) Power statio

25、ns. (C) Recreational facilities. (D) Guillotine. 18. (A) The young man is considered mature enough to stand on his own feet and support his family. (B) The landowner promised a high income to the potential workers. (C) It is extremely competitive for Brazilians to find a work in the downtown area. (

26、D) Many young people in Brazil realize the importance of the Amazon rain forest and try to protect it. 19. (A) Around 22 years. (B) Less than 8 years. (C) Approximately 30 years. (D) More than 33 years. 20. (A) Brazilians might not be able to seek a better life as expected in the near future. (B) We

27、 might accelerate global warming and disrupt the world's climate. (C) Residents in the developed nations might be encouraged to consume more and more meat. (D) Brazil, burdened with a heavy foreign debt, might be forced to export more beef and more soybeans.SECTION 2: READING TESTDirections: In

28、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 o

29、f the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.Questions 1-5 Radio's got a problem. Although some 200 million people tune in each week to hear their favorite overcaffeinated DJ or catch those crucial rush-hour traffic updates, it's getting tougher to hold list

30、eners' attention. Facing flat revenues and competition ranging from iPods to music phones, the 87-year-old industry is scrambling to reinvent itself. But not even satellite radio or the new HD format addresses this analog medium's fundamental flaw: it doesn't give people any say in which

31、 songs they hear. If you don't like a track or a DJ, your only option is to turn the dial-or turn it off. That could change if the pioneers behind personalized radio continue to win over music lovers who are burned out on regular radio but can't be bothered to constantly refresh their iPods

32、with 99 iTunes. On websites such as Last. fm, P and the new S personalized radio lets you train it to understand your tastes. You can, of course, just listen to the music passively as it plays on your computer. But it's even better when you make it your own, by marking each song as a favorite, s

33、kipping past it or banishing it from the station's playlist altogether. And despite growing concern about how proposed new royalty fees for Internet radio stations could hamper the industry's growth, on May 23 Sprint became the first wireless carrier to offer personalized radio on its phones

34、. Each customizable radio service has its own way of assessing what you like. Pandora refers to its database of more than 600,000 major-label songs-all of which have been categorized by musical attributes such as voice, tonality and chromatic harmony-then serves up similar-sounding tracks. That can

35、get a little monotonous, so Slacker, which launched in March, uses professional DJs to dream up constantly changing playlists that give you more variety while still adhering to your basic tastes. If you ask for Gwen Stefani, for example, you'll also get the Cars, Talking Heads and Bjork in addit

36、ion to more obvious matches such as BIondie and Madonna. And Last. fm, which is based in London, taps into the collective wisdom of its 20 million users worldwide. For example, if you like Beyonce, and other Last. fm members who like Beyonce also listen to Mary J. Blige, then the service will put Ma

37、ry on your playlist as well. Personalized radio isn't just a quirky idea for tech geeks to fawn over and venture capitalists to gamble their millions on. Although its revenues are minuscule compared with the $21 billion of the terrestrial-radio industry, more than 4 million people in the US visi

38、t Pandora and Last. fm each month, according to comScore Media Metrix. That makes them the fifth and sixth most popular Web radio stations in the country. "It's the ideal middle ground between having an intact experience and being in control of what you receive," says Last. fm co-found

39、er Martin Stiksel. Making personalized radio portable could be the key to its long-term success. "The biggest problem with Internet radio is that it's stuck on the PC," says Slacker CEO Dennis Mudd. "What you really want is this device you can play in your living room, in your car

40、 or in the desert walking around." In addition to Sprint's move to put Pandora on phones, SanDisk recently demonstrated a prototype portable player that could run Pandora, and Slacker plans to sell a $150 iPod-like player this summer that can get wireless music downloads from its website. U

41、nlike iTunes, music from Slacker is free. "Most people don't want to pay for radio," says Mudd, who hopes to bring in revenue through audio advertising spots. That model is showing some promise. The overall Internet-radio market brought in more than $400 million in ad revenue last year

42、, according to JPMorgan Chase. About half of that came from online ads on websites owned by conventional radio broadcasters like CBS Radio and Clear Channel. "Internet radio, when you tie it in with our business model, I think it works," says Clear Channel CEO Mark Mays, who is beefing up

43、his stations' Web presence with online videos and promotions. Even old-school DJs see the appeal of personalized radio. Elvis Duran, who hosts a popular morning show on New York City's Z100, says he could imagine a future in which listeners wake up to some comedy and conversation from the sh

44、ow followed by three songs tailored to their tastes. But he doesn't expect live DJs to become obsolete: "When people wake up in the morning, it's good to hear some people who are talking about interesting topics and who let you know, hey, the world's still spinning and I can go out

45、there." Good idea. No wonder Apple never built a radio tuner in the iPod: it's scared of the competition. 1. Which of the following is not the problem of old school radio DJs? (A) The 87-year-old industry is too old to catch on. (B) Listeners' attention is more likely to be deviated. (C

46、) Fierce competition with counterparts. (D) Floundering profit-earning modes. 2. Personalized radio's improvement does NOT include _. (A) customing your own list of favorite music (B) assessing your choice of music (C) expanding database of music (D) recommending similar music on your own fancy

47、3. We can conclude from the passage that _. (A) personalized radios have made great benefits until now (B) companies like Sprint, Slacker, and Pandora are teaming up to make personalized radio wireless and portable (C) iTune will cut its price to catch up with others (D) the author suggests that old

48、 style DJs will ultimately disappear 4. The last sentence implies that _. (A) people need live DJs more than they need customized radios (B) people tend to think live DJs will still remain (C) Apple company is too weak to build a radio channel on its own products (D) live DJs are struggling to survi

49、ve the heated competition 5. The word "beefing up" (Para. 6) is closest to _. (A) working on (B) reinforcing (C) cutting (D) staying putQuestions 6-10 For almost six years Lyle Craker, a researcher who studies medicinal plants at the University of Massachusetts, has been trying to grow pot

50、. Quite a long time, one might think, for a professor of agronomy-his students, presumably, have far less trouble. The difficulty for Dr. Craker, though, is that he would like to grow marijuana legally, but the Drag Enforcement Administration (DEA) has so far refused to give him a licence. Last mont

51、h a judge appointed by the Department of Justice recommended that it would be in the public interest for Dr. Craker to grow the drug. Mary Ellen Bittner said that the government's monopoly on the legal growing of cannabis is hindering legitimate research and that there is a need for a second lic

52、ensed facility to grow and supply it to authorised researchers. Dr. Craker' s case is backed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a not-for-profit group that supports research into the medicinal benefits of unapproved drugs. Lawyers

53、 for the groups argued that if cannabis is to be successfully licensed as a medicine by the Food and Drug Administration, a stable and secure supply is necessary. Moreover this supply is not available from the National Institute on Drag Abuse, the only body licensed by the DEA to grow it. The lawyer

54、s pointed to the case of Donald Abrams, a professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He tried for many years to get cannabis from the national institute in order to conduct research on how it might help AIDS patients. This research was approved by all the necessar

55、y authorities-yet he was still refused cannabis. Later, when he changed his research to investigate whether it was dangerous for AIDS patients, his demand was supplied. Why is there such resistance? The DEA declined to comment on the case because it is ongoing, However Allen Hopper, a senior attorne

56、y based in Santa Cruz who works for the American Civil Liberties Union, says that the reasons for the lack of supply are political rather than scientific. Dr. Craker' s fight is by no means over. The decision on whether he can have his licence still rests with the deputy administrator of the DEA. The agency