2008春季英语高级口译资格证书第一阶段模考

上海新东方学校 英语综合能力培训部 口译研究中心权威发布（2008.3）

SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST (30 minutes)
Part A: Spot Dictation

Directions: 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 ward or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in you ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage only once.
I met Cameron at his home in the village of Newtonmore, in the Scottish Highlands. He’s ______________________________（1）, so when we went out of his comfortable home, up onto the open hillside above the village. I could easily tell how much he loves ______________________________（2）. As he looked round, enjoying the scenery and talking, his face lit up. But when I asked him about memorials to the dead in the countryside ______________________________（3）. He talked about all the stuff he’s seen, left by people who’ve been on the mountains before him. ______________________________（4）, he tells me. But also, more and more monuments, marble plaques, laminated photographs. ______________________________（5） in plastic. Children toys cemented onto boulders. He hates them all, he says. He’s never destroyed a memorial himself, but he knows other people who have and he ______________________________ （6）.
On the other side of the argument are Mo and Morag—two women whose friend, Ailsa, died last year of breast cancer. Mo told me Ailsa was ______________________________（7）. It’s difficult to believe that she’s gone. And she talked about the plan for a sponsored walk up Britain’s highest mountain, Ben Nevis. The aim is ______________________________（8） a cancer charity, to help Ailsa’s friends say good-bye, and to build a small cairn of piled-up rocks in her memory—complete with ______________________________（9）. Morag explained that they picked Ben Nevis because, on a grey day of mist and low cloud, the summit ______________________________（10）. It was as though the decision had been made for them. And, she added, the top of the mountain is the closest ______________________________（11）.
Ben Nevis towers over Fort William, a small town in the west of the Scottish Highlands. It promotes itself as ______________________________（12） the UK—not least because the mountain is on the doorstep. Admittedly, at one thousand three hundred and forty-three meters the Ben ______________________________（13） on a world scale. But it does feature some extraordinary wild and rugged scenery, which draws tens of thousands of people every year. They come ______________________________（14）, and in all sorts of ways. Some walk up a wide, easy path to the top because it’s something to do on Sunday morning when it 下载地址   （查看下载帮助）