2001年3月英语高级口译考试笔试真题+音频+答案

SECTLON1: LISTENLNG TEST (30 minutes)

Part A: Spot Dictation//tr.hjenglish.com/

PART B: Listening Comprehension

SECTION 3: TRANSLATION TEST //tr.hjenglish.com/
    请思考一下同一个人在相隔8 年前后说的话，“说到底，贫穷与其说是指生活在贫穷的国家、不如说是指只拥有低劣的技术。”这是比尔·盖茨在1992 年说的话。想当年，这位微软公司董事长的形象是个待人严厉、有自由(意志论)倾向的家伙，他得意地宣称只需要靠自己的产品就可以“改变世界。”……

    是的，即便是今天的资本家偶像比尔·盖茨，似乎也改变了想法。1992 年时充满自信的盖茨显然属于那个时代，相信他从事的行业拥有改变世界的能力，确信市场和新技术的 力量一旦得到释放，就可以解放世界上的绝大多数问题。但是新千年的盖茨对此持怀疑态度，表现出一种对奉献和政府援助的热情。尽管他已是亿万富翁，但也越来越认识到自冷 战结束以来盛行的“全球资本主义是万灵药”的意识形态一定有不当之处。

SECTION 4: LISTENING TEST
Part A: Note-taking and Gap-filling //tr.hjenglish.com

Part B: Listening and Translation
 Ⅰ. Sentence Translation
1. 16 岁以上人士可以读继续教育学院， 多课程是与工作相关的职业课程。
2. 艺术教学有 多方法，但我认为主要的是要鼓励每个孩子的想像力，允 他们尽可能自由地表达自己。
3. 接下来的数月里销售额持续下降，但随后形势好转，销售陡然上升。
4. 我谈一下英国公路交通事故问题。1992 年到2000 年期间，事故总数波动很大。
5. 我们是意大利公司在英国的子公司，我们正在考虑为英国开发一些新产品系列，比如供应英国市场饮料。

Ⅱ.Passage Translation //tr.hjenglish.com
1.  1970 年到1990 年期间，伴随着农业人口下降，城市人口幅上升。在有些年份，100 多万男女离开农场，到国内日益扩大的城市地区寻找更好的机会。在另一极端，主要是年 轻夫妇从旧城区迁往郊区，寻求更好的生活条件以抚养自己的家庭。结果是巨大的城郊住宅开发项目几乎是一夜之间冒了出来。

2. 烟草业今天就香烟广告向卫生部发出反击。他们发表了一份报告，声称香烟广告并不鼓励人们抽更多的烟，只是鼓励人们买某种品牌的烟。报告的依据是从全球90  个国家收 集的数据。报告与卫生部上有月发表的数字有冲突，这些数字表明禁止广告会减少香烟消费。烟草业的发言人说“如果一种产品合法，那么做这种产品的广告也应该是合法的。”

SECTION 5：READING TEST(答案要点)
1. a show of postcards with drawings from hundreds of artists, “celebrities”(well-known people)/including sculptors, fashion designers and musicians/comedians

2. drawings on blank postcard personally by artists/some are internationally famous/each piece is “anonymous ”/names of artists will not be known until the end of the show/some of the drawings can be most precious and valuable

3. an art lover/who knows some of the artists their styles quite well/interested in the experience of “buying blindly”/bought some valuable card

4. others: “content”to produce/make “a story”/program not directly involved in social changes or activities.
   Bill and Judith Moyers: not restrict themselves to producing TV programs/ “extended Journalism”/help set up organizations/activities/discussions/“raise public awareness”towards some major social issues

5. a four-part television series/documentary about/ “end-of-life”issues/sattitudes towards dying and death/ “end-stage care”its major audience baby-boom generation

6. Bill would directly face the issue he dealt with in his programs/link one's own behavior/attitudes with advice/apply instructions given to others to his own case

7. stop the broadcasting of the Panorama programme/the programme's naming of suspects can lead to prejudice in trials of criminals/ “damage police investigation”

8. no possibility to “upset”a fair trial/named suspects “beyond jurisdiction”/evidence of their tying to the bombing/eye witness giving evidence to police

9. positive attitude/welcome the broadcasting of the programme/the programme will bring justice to victims and criminals //tr.hjenglish.com

favour of the broadcasting/transmission of the Panorama programme in which the suspects are named/criminal proceedings will not be delayed( “stayed”)/naming of suspects not violating the Human Rights Act

SECTION 6:TRANSLATION TEST
      The relationship that science keeps with art has long been that of one-sided enthusiasm. That is, while science loves art passionately, art keeps itself far away from science.

      Many renowned scientists love art all their lives. They understand art, and are very good at getting nutrients from art to enhance their noble spirits or to derive the greatest comfort from burdens of life. On the contrary, a literary artist who loves natural science and has some idea about engineering technology can be well regarded as a rarity of rarities.

      One of the reasons why artists stand in awe before science or keep a respectful distance from it is that science involves a huge stack of abstruse mathematical formulas. But leaving aside mathematics and bypassing that huge stack, we are still able to give a passionate response to its main melody, greatly admiring the music although we can read nothing of the score of Mozart's musical pieces.

听力测试题录音文字稿:

SECTION 1:LISTENING TEST
Part A: Spot Dictation //tr.hjenglish.com
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 word or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE. Now, let's begin Part A with Spot Dictation.

      You have been at Furnell University for two weeks now. As usual, you need enough time to sleep and eat. You also want to spend time with your new friends and get some exercise. But, after the first two weeks of classes, you have probably concluded that there isn't enough time to do all these things, because you also have no attend classes, go to labs, do assignments and write papers.

      Soon you will be in a situation like this one: You are going to have a quiz in your ten o'clock class. You studied for it until 3 a. m. You also have an eight o'clock. Should you sleep late and skip the eight o'clock class?

      To some extent the answer depends on the professor of the course. Some instructors announce that they require attendance. In that case you really should go to class. Some don't say anything. In that case you have to decide. Once in a while it is better to stay in bed and sleep than to get so tired you cannot think, However, it is not a good idea to skip class more than a few times.

      If you have to skip a class. ask another student for the class notes, announcements and the assignment. Also, come to the next class prepared. If you miss class because you are sick, tell the instructor afterward. He or she may let you make up the work. If you have an important appointment, tell the instructor about it before you miss the class.

      Here is another problem. You took the quiz. Even after studying very hard, you could not answer all the questions. In high school you always not every answer right. What went wrong? Nothing. High school work is easy, so a good student is supposed to get a prefect score. In college the teacher wants to challenge even the best students. Therefore, almost nobody answers every question correctly.

      But maybe there some very basic ideas in that course you don't understand. Go see the teacher during his or her office hours. Most teachers will gladly explain things again. Of course, they will not be pleased to repeat what they said in class to someone who skipped class.

      Maybe you really should get up for that eight o'clock class!

Part B: Listening Comprehension
Directions: In this part of the test there will be some short talks and conversations. After each one, you will be asked some question. The talks, conversation and question 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. Now let's begin Part B Listening Comprehension.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following conversation.
(Male)        I recently read an article which said that in primary schools in particular chances of promotions of women in primary education. Is this something you've noticed or is this something you feel?

(Female)      No, this is something that is so. I read that article, too. I would have written it myself, really. And we come back full circle really because it's not just teaching, I mean it's everything that men are getting promotion more quickly than women. In the primary sector there are far more women teachers than men but there are more headmasters than headmistresses.

(Male)        So where does that leave someone like you? I mean what, what are the possibilities of your promotion in primary education? At the moment you're in charge of a section of the school.

(Female)      Yes I'm in charge of the infant department which goes from the children who are three to the children who are seven. And they transfer when they are seven to higher up the school which is called the junior department, So I'm in charge of the Lower School, if you like.

(Male)        And do you have ambition in that sense? I mean would you like to be a headmistress?

(Female)      No no no I would not. I would not like to be a headmistress at all. I mean this is the next stage of my career were I ambitious...um...but I basically enjoy being a classroom teacher. Now perhaps this gives a clue to why there are not more women heads. I don't know I mean in the past it may have been that, and it may still be , that because boys are brought up to be more ambitious, that they're the ones who are going for promotion and quick promotion, I mean rapid promotion so that they are heads by the time they're thirty and they start out in their career thinking that whereas I enjoy being a class teacher and um－I was a deputy head before I got this post but I prefer to be in the classroom with the children than sitting at a desk doing administration which is what being a head means if you're a head of a largish school.

(Male)       Are you pleased that you chose primary teaching as a career and if...if someone came up to you at school leaving age and was wondering about what they were going to do, would you advise them to follow in your footsteps?

(Female)     I'm very pleased that I did－well I'm pleased most of the time. Monday morning I'm  not pleased.  Some mornings during the week and the end of the holidays I'm not pleased. I'm a primary school teacher, I mean basically I am. Because I left teaching once and then went back into it, so I think that shows that I am committed to be a primary school teacher.

Question NO.1.      What has the man read recently? //tr.hjenglish.com
Question NO.2.      What does the woman mean by the “Lower School”?
Question NO.3.      According to the woman, why do men get rapid promotion?
Question NO.4.      What does the woman want for herself?
Question NO.5.      Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the dialogue?

Question 6 to 10 are based on the following news.
NEW DELHI
      Italian-born Sonia Gandhi was overwhelmingly reelected president of India's opposition Congress Party yesterday, crushing the unwelcome challenge of little-known dissident.

      A senior official of the troubled centrist group said the widow of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi won all but 180 of the 7, 767 ballots cast by party delegates around the country on Sunday.

      Former party vice-president Jitendra Prasada, who made history by becoming the first person to contest the leadership of India's oldest party against a member of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, tookjust 94 votes. Eighty-six other votes were invalid.

      More than 2, 000 exuberant Gandhi supporters gathered outside the Congress Party headquarters in New Delhi as the vote count came to a close. Many of them had already completed several hours of celebration, setting off firecrackers, waving banners and chanting Gandhi's name

LISBON
      A Russian-built Antonov plane crashed near Luanda yesterday, killing all 40 people aboard and one person on the ground, Portugal's Lusa news agency reported from the Angolan capital.

      Lusa had earlier quoted Angolan National Radio as saying the 24 people were believed aboard the plane that came down at 13:00 local time, some five minutes after taking off.

      The Portuguese agency said that one of its correspondents had counted 41 bodies at the scene of the crash in open country on the outskirts of Luanda.

      It said that the bodies, including some women and children, were badly burned.

BOGOTA
      Colombia's top rebel group broke off peace talks with the government yesterday, saying it had failed to halt right-wing“terrorism”and was laying the groundwork for a Viet Nam-style, US military intervention in the Andean nation.
 
      The surprise move by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Latin America's largest rebel army, came at a meeting in its Switzerland-sized safe haven in southeastern jungles, where guerrilla commanders and government delegates were supposed to outline term for their first bilateral cease-fire in 13 years.

      Instead, FARC issued a stiffly worded statement saying it was indefinitely suspending the slow-moving peace talks it began in January 1999.

BERNE //tr.hjenglish.com
      The Swiss Government asked parliament yesterday to ratify a treaty establishing an international criminal court to try mass murderers and other gross violators of human rights.

      The court, to be based in the Dutch city of The Hague, would try the most heinous crimes－ genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

       “Setting up a permanent criminal court that aims to put an end to leaving criminals unpunished has been expected for decades. Its creation marks a valuable contribution to peace and security,”the foreign ministry said in a statement.

      Twenty-two countries have ratified the treaty drawn up in Rome in 1998. A total of 60 must do so before the court can start up. Some 115 countries have signed up for the court, signaling their intention to ratify the treaty.

PARIS
      French authorities claim they will destroy all meat and bone meal used in the manufacture of animal feed yesterday. The claim was made one day after Prime Minister Lionel Jospin announced a ban on such feed to prevent the spread of “mad cow disease. ”

      Francois Patriat, the French State Secretary for Consumption under the Ministry of Agriculture, said France has the means to cope with this emergency situation.

      France needs to destroy about 1 million tons of such feed within one year. It has so far destroyed 140, 000 tons and is in the process of stocking and destroying 500, 000 tons more now.

Question No.6.      What happened recently in India?
Question No.7.      How many people were killed in a plane crash in Angola?
Question No.8.      What happened in the Latin American country of Colombia?
Question No.9.      What does the Swiss government ask the parliament to do?
Question No.10.     What do the French authorities claim they will do?

Question 11 to 15 are based on following interview. //tr.hjenglish.com
(Male)       So, Juuliet you...you have a very powerful voice, with a wonderful range from high to low...does it take a lot of looking after?

(Female)     Um...not more so than anybody else, I don't think...um, but er, I'm very lazy, I'm sure I'm doing a lot of things wrong, um, but er, so far so good. I do look after it in the fact that I try not to get very tired, or wear myself out, because not just, you know, ...talking does as much damage, and laughing the wrong way, as singing does...

(Man)        It that so? I didn't realise that...

(Female)     Yeah...Some people talk...If you talk like this, you put a lot of strain on the back of cords there, um, that does a lot of damage to your vocals over a number of years, so you try and, I try and talk the way I'm talking now, not very fast, not very high-pitched, and without much pressure on my voice.

(Man)        When you're singing, you sound, your voice sounds wonderfully relaxed, but that's not the idea that most people would have of the music business as a whole. Is the, is the life-style very stressful?

(Female)     Yes, as a matter of fact, it's very demanding, um, it's probably like a, an executivejob, um, where you can't come home at a certain nine-to-five, you can't spend a lot of your time with people around you, you feel detached because you know, it's like, I, I...I don't necessarily have a schedule, I might work weekends, um, but...I don't actually mind, but it's like your family, your boyfriend, or your husband, or whatever, they can't get to see you, it's like last night, I, er it's like I was supposed to be going out to dinner with old friend, you know with some friends, and, I ended, I was at a studio, and I said, oh I should be finished around seven, and of course eleven o'clock came, and I was still at the studio, and everybody was raving mad, and I got there only to find that everybody was getting ready to leave the restaurant...Things like that do happen, you know you can't, you...you're not tied to that, and because of that sometimes you feel you can't do things that other people, nine-to-five, can do. You might have a day off on a Tuesday, and all your nine-to-five friends have got to get up to go to work, so they don't necessarily want to go out on the town or to the countryside or to the beach, the way you might want to on a Saturday, and so you find that you, you change, and you hang around with more people in the business, because their schedules all fit yours...

(Man)         You mean it is your music career that determines the pattern of your social life?

(Female)      Yes, I mean you can have more of a social life within the business. It's not that you just want to hang out with the famous people, it's just that they're the ones that are available...

Question No.11.     What is thejob of the woman is being interviewed?
Question No.12.     In the interview, the woman is comparing her job with another type of work.
Question No.13.     According to the interview, which of the following statements is NOT true?
Question No.14.     Why did the woman let down her friends by being late at the restaurant last night?
Question No.15.     What is the main topic of this interview?

Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following talk. //tr.hjenglish.com
      (Man) In the United States, homelessness had grown at a dramatic rate during the last decade.

      Estimates of the number of Americans currently without a permanent home vary wildly. Advocacy groups like the National Coalition for the Homeless say that close to 3 million Americans live on the streets or in emergency and temporary shelters. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development puts the figure at 350, 000.

      Yet both bureaucrats and advocates agree on one point, that is, the face of homelessness has changed radically in the past 10 years, as more and more low-income housing is mowed down in the name of progress. Some 20 years ago, says Kristen Morris, assistant director of the New York, office of the National Coalition for the Homeless, the typical “street person”was a White male who suffered from a mental illness or an addiction to drugs or alcohol. Today's homeless, however, are a more eclectic group.

      More than 60 percent of the homeless today are Black, mostly single mothers with small children. More than half of them have never been homeless before. In many cases, they have been evicted form their homes, or the low-income housing in which they lived was demolished or burned down. About 60 percent of all homeless people live on some form of public assistance with an average monthly income of 210 dollars. About 20 percent are mentally ill. According to Marie Robinson who is a lawyer for the coalition for the Homeless, “There has been a real democratization of skid row”. All sorts of people have been pushed out of the housing market because of the critical shortage of affordable places to live.

     As a result, homelessness has climbed to the top of the “me-generation's”short list of social concerns. But there is a great gap between concern and active involvement in the effort to solve this growing problem. For many people, the inaction is due to ignorance, not indifference. According to Ellen Rocks, who is executive director of the House of Ruth, a Washington, D. C., organization that provides shelter and other services to women who are homeless or are the victims of domestic violence, “There area a lot of people who want to get involved but don't really know how. ”

     The fact is that there are many ways in which individuals can help the homeless. Yet for those people truly interested in the cause, one of the first steps is to get to know the homeless and understand how they became that way. Many advocates believe that it is important for middle-class people to get to know and reach out to the homeless and bridge the gap that exists.  “Middle-class people have to learn that what is happening in America today is all-out war on the poor. Just as America once robbed the Indians of their land, today we're robbing the poor of affordable housing. ”

Question No.16.     According to the US Department  of Housing and Urban Development, how many Americans are homeless?
Question No.17.     According to talk, which of the following is responsible for the dramatic growth rate of homelessness?
Question No.18.     Which of the following statements is TRUE about the homeless people?
Question No.19.     Why is there a great gap between mere concern and active involvement in solving the problem?
Question No.20.     According to the talk, what  is one of the  first  steps to help  these homeless  people?

SECTION 4: LISTENING TEST
Part A: Note-taking and Gap-filling //tr.hjenglish.com
Directions: In this part of the test you will hear a short talk. You will hear the talk ONLY ONCE. While listening to the talk, you may take notes on the important points so that can have enough information to complete a gap-filling task on a separate ANSWER BOOKLET. You will not get your ANSWER BOOKLET until after you have listened to the talk. Now listen to the talk carefully.

     (Woman)   Beyond doubt, thejeans phenomenon is a seismic event in the history of dress, and not only in the United States. Indeed, the habit of wearing jeans is－along with the computer, the copying machine, rock music, polio vaccine, and the hydrogen bomb－one of the major contributions of the United States to postwar world at large.

     Before the nineteen-fifties, jeans were worn, principally in the West and Southwest of the United States, by children, farmers, manual laborers when on the job, and of course, cowboys. There were isolated exceptions－for example, artists of both sexes took to blue jeans in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the nineteen-twenties and thirties; around 1940, the male students at Williams College took them up as a mark of differentiation from the chino-wearing snobs of Yale and Princeton; and in the late forties the female students of Bennington College adopted them as a virtual uniform, though only for wear on campus －but in the nineteen-fifties, James Dean and Marlon Brando worejeans in movies about youth in a revolt against parents and society. John Wayne wore them in movies about untrammeled heroes in a lawless Old West, many schools from coast to coast gave a boost to jeans by banning them as inappropriate for classrooms. So jeans acquired the ideological baggage necessary to propel them to national fame.

     After that fame came quickly, and it was not long before young Americans－whether to express social dissent, to enjoy comfort , or to follow their peers－had become so attached to their jeans that some hardly ever took them off. According to a jeans authority, a young man in the North Bronx with a large and indulgent family attained some sort of record by continuously wearing the same pair of jeans, even for bathing and sleeping, for over eight months. Eventually, as all the world knows, the popularity of jeans spread from cowboys and anomic youths to adult Americans of virtually every are and sociopolitical posture, conspicuously including Jimmy Carter when he was a candidate for the presidency. Trucks containing jeans came to rank as one of the three leading targets of hijackers, along with those containing liquor and cigarettes. Estimates of jeans sales in the United States vary wildly, chiefly because the line between jeans and slacks has come to be a fuzzy one. According to the most conservative figures, put out by the leading jeans manufacturer, Levi Strauss &Company, of San Francisco, annual sales of jeans of all kinds in the United States by all manufacturers in 1957 stood at around a hundred and fifty million pairs, while for 1997 they came to over five hundred million, or considerably more than two pairs for every man, woman, and child in the country.

      Overseas, jeans had to wait slightly longer for their time to come. American Western movies and the example of American servicemen from the West and Southwest stationed abroad who, as soon as the Second World War ended, changed directly from their service uniforms into blue jeans bought at post exchanges started a fad for them among Europeans in the late nineteen-forties. But the fad remained a small one, partly because of the unavailability of jeans in any quantity; in those days , European customers considered jeans of inferior quality unless they came from the United States, while United States jeans manufacturers were inclined to be satisfied with a reliable domestic market. Being always short of denim, the rough, durable, naturally shrink-and-stretch cotton cloth of which basic jeans are made, they were reluctant or unable to undertake overseas expansion.

      Gradually, though, denim production in the United States increased, and meanwhile demand for American-made jeans became very overwhelming in parts of Europe. At first, the demand was greatest in Germany, France, England, and the Benelux nations; later it spread to Italy, Spain and Scandinavia, and eventually to Latin American and the Far East.

Part B: Listening and Translation
 Ⅰ. Sentence Translation //tr.hjenglish.com
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 5 English sentences. You will hear the sentences ONLY ONCE. After you have heard each sentence, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Now let's begin Part B with Sentence Translation.

Sentence No.1.     People over the age of 16 can take courses in continuing and further education colleges. Much continuing and further education is work-related and vocational.
Sentence No.2.     There are so many different approaches to the teaching of art, but I think that the main thing is to encourage the imagination of each child, and allow them to express themselves as freely as possible.
Sentence No.3.     A further drop in sales was sustained over the following months, but after that the situation picked up and the sales increased quite sharply.
Sentence No.4.     I'm going to talk about the road accident figures in the UK. The total number of accidents fluctuated quite a lot during the period 1992 to 2000.
Sentence No.5.     We're the British subsidiary of an Italian company and we're thinking of developing some new lines for Britain, such as drinks for the British market.

 Ⅱ.Passage Translation
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 English passage. You will hear the passages ONLY ONCE. After you have heard each passage, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. You may take notes while you are listening. Now let's begin Passage Translation with first passage.

Passage 1
      Between 1970 and 1990 the decline of farm population was accompanied by a sharp increase in the urban population. In some years more than 1 million men and women left the farms to seek better opportunities in the nation's growing urban areas. On the other extreme, the migration out of the older cities into the suburbs was mostly led by young married couples as they were seeking better living conditions for raising their families. As a result, huge suburban housing developments were springing up almost overnight.

Passage 2 //tr.hjenglish.com
      The tobacco industry has today hit back at the Department of Health about cigarette advertising. They're issued a report arguing that cigarette advertisements do not encourage people to smoke more, and that they only encourage people to buy a specific kind of cigarette. The report is based on data collected from more than 90 countries around the world. It conflicts with figures issued by the Department of Health last month, which suggested that banning advertisements would result in a drop in cigarette consumption. A spokesperson for the tobacco industry said “If a product is legally available, then it should be legal to advertise it. ”

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