2001年3月英语高级口译考试笔试真题+音频+答案
Directions: Read the following passage and then answer IN COMPLETE SENTENCES 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 ANSWER BOOKLET.
Questions 1～3
Nick Park, the Oscar-winning animator of Wallace and Gromit, and Damien Hirst the Turner Prize winner, are among artists and celebrities who have transformed 2, 000 blank postcards into works of art priced at ￡35. Such is the draw of the Royal College of Art's “secret” postcard exhibition-an annual event now into its seventh year－that art lovers will be queuing overnight for the chance to buy original works by internationally renowned artists.
The catch－and the fun of it －is that buyers have no idea who the artist is until the end of the show. Each work is anonymous , signed only on the back of the postcard, which can't be seen until later. It forces buyers to rely on their visual sense rather than words on a label. It has led to people going home with original works by David Hockney. Eduardo Paolozzi and Frank Auerbach, among others.
The postcards in this year s Secret 2000 show will be decorated by 750 indeviduals including Richard Long, the sculptor who arranges natural materials into forms; Christo, who covers building and landscapes with drapes; Zandra Rhodes, the fashion designer; David Bowie and Brian Eno, the musicians; and Terry Gilliam, the comedian. There will also be works by recent graduates of the college, so that there is no grarantee of picking the established names. But who knows? Today's unknowns may be tomorrow's Hockneys.
Christopher Frayling, rector of the college, said that some artists teased buyers by deliberately producing work in the style of other artists: “It can be a detective game to work out what's what, ”he said. The art will be previewed at the college in South Kensington from November 22 before going on sale on November 30 from 8 am.
Anthony Waites, 39, a postman from North London , was among those who queued overnight last year. He struck lucky and went home with a Frank Auerbach cityscape which he believes to be worth ￡10, 000. He decided to suffer for his art by getting up early after the disappointment of arriving too late to buy anything in previous years. “I got there at 6 pm. Within ten minutes, there were four people behind,” He obsessively paints the same scenes. This was Primrose Hill of Camden Town.
Emily Sargeant, the exhibition curator, said that she has never known anyone to resell any of the postcards. All proceeds will go to the college's Fine Art Student Award Fund, which pays for four bursaries in perpetuity, as well as offering several hundred pounds to students who are preparing their final graduation show. More than ￡400, 000 has been raised for the fund in the in the past seven years.
1. What is the Secret 2000 show?
2. Why is the show so popular with the visitors?
3. What can we learn from the example of the postman Anthony Waites?
Questions 4～6 //tr.hjenglish.com
Most journalists are content to produce a story, then sit back and watch for its effects. Not Bill and Judith Moyers, the husband-and-wife television-documentary makers whose independent production company, Public Affairs Television, has turned out 63 programs over the past 25 years, amassing more than 30 Emmy Awards. Long before completing On Our Own Terms, the four-part series on dying that airs this week on public-broadcasting stations across the U.S., they had helped launch more than 200 community-based coalitions that have been planning activities to raise public awareness of the end-stage care issues discussed in their documentary. And well after the final show ends Thursday night, nearly 70 national organizations, along with local public-TV stations and a website (pbs. org/onourownterms), will promote what they hope will become a national dialogue about death. Using money raised from a number of their traditional nonprofit and corporate backers, the Moyerses are spending as much on this education and outreach program as they did on producing the series:2.5 million.
This brand of extended journalism, which includes the use of community networks, has become a Moyers trademark. After 46 years of working together, Bill, 66, and Judith, 65, have created an oeuvre that has in turn attracted its own audience. On Our Own Terms is only the latest in a series of Moyers' PBS documentaries that speak directly to the 77 million-strong baby-boom generation, which has been dictating the national agenda since coming of age in the 1960s.As wise and benevolent Uncle Bill and Aunt Judith, the , Moyerses are reaching boomers through television , the medium they grew up with, about the issues that concern them at key passage in their lives.
Even the title of the series on dying is targeted at boomers, though the couple disagreed on how best to approach them. Bill wanted to call it Living with Dying. Judith, knowing from surveys that audiences shy away from words like death and dying, pushed for something hopeful. On Our Own Terms, her choice, deliberately plays to the boomer conviction, she says, that We can change things; “we can control things.” Bill thought the wording was wrong precisely because of that. “It feeds their egoism, their sense that can control things,” he said, “and they can't.”
Breaking through the personal barriers to get people to talk about issues like faith and fear may be a Moyers forte, but it is not easy to act on in real life , even for the Moyerses. After Bill's mother died a year ago April, on the first day of their shooting the series, he was struck by an image in his mind “of a shadowy figure, the back of whose head I could see as she moved toward an exit sign. . .Now she's gone, and there's nobody in my native family between me and the an exit sign.” He determined then to practice what he was about to preach.
Someday, that is. On his desk at their home in New Jersey, Bill has a note from his son William, 41, attached to a newspaper clipping of an New Jersey, about and-of-life issues and how parents and their children don't deal with them adequately. The note reads, “Dad, Mom, when are we going to talk about this?”
“It's still there on my desk,”admits Moyers, “18 months later.”
4. What is the major difference between the Moyerses and other journalists?
5. What is On Our Own Term? What is this program about?
6. Explain the sentence “He determined then to practice what he was about to preach.”(Para.4)
Questions 7～10 //tr.hjenglish.com
The BBC last night beat off an 11th hour legal attempt to block a programme naming four men in connection with the Omagh bombing which killed 29 people/. The demand by the Northern Ireland human rights commission for the Panorama programme ot be injuncted was thrown out by the high court in Belfast, Mr Justice Kerr finding in the corporation's favour just 90 minutes ahead of transmission to end a dramatic day of legal argument.
Mr. Justice Kerr said: “There is no reason to suppose that criminal proceedings against any of those taking part in the programme will be stayed. ”He added that relevant sections of the Human Rights Act, which the commission argued meant the court should err on side of the person, showed that the “balance fell firmly in favour of the broadcaster.” The commission had argued that the programme's naming of suspects could prejudice any criminal trial, and thus breach the human rights of the bomb's victims and any defendants.
On Friday the high court in Belfast rejected another application from Lawrence Rush, who lost his wife in the worst attack of the Troubles. Mr. Rush had asked the attorney general to take up the case but yesterday Lord Williams refused because the law on contempt of court applies up the case but yesterday Lord Williams refused because the law on contempt of court applies ONLY ONCE people are charged with a crime, and no one has been charged with the bombing.
In court Karen Quinliven, for the commission, argued that identification could damage police investigations and said there were implications “for the personal safety and right to life” of those named. She also argued the right of all people to be protected from “trial by media.” She produced a letter from the RUC chief constable, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, to the director general of the BBC. In it Sir Ronnie wrote that he would wish to ensure no material would be used which “would of might be likely to have an adverse affect on future prosecutions, ”Ms Quinliven said. “would or might be likely to have an adverse affect on future prosecutions, ” Ms Quinliven said.
The BBC argued that since those name lived in the Irish Republic, they were beyond the jurisdiction of the court and the commission. Ben Stephens QC, representing the corporation, said: “There is no chance of an upset to fair trial. The human rights commission has taken on itself to protect individuals outside itsjurisdiction. ”
Panorama said that four men, all from the republic, were tied to the bombing by records from mobile phones they either used or supplied. The records from the day of the bombing on August 15, 1998 place those using the phones in the vicinity of scene where the device exploded and in a timescale consistent with the explosion. Panorama says that through the records the four can be tracked on their way to Omagh from the republic, staying in the town for 20 minutes and then leaving in the direction of the Irish border.
The BBC claimed eyewitnesses had given evidence to the police as to who was using the mobile phones, but were too frightened to testify in court. When challenged by a BBC, all four people named refused to explain their movements on the day. On legal advice, the Guardian has decided not to name the four identified by the BBC.
The programme's reporter, John Ware, said the legal precedent that would have been set if the application had succeeded would have amounted to a “gagger's charter.” Mr. Ware said: “It would mean you can't publish evidence of criminal behaviour for fear of prejudicing any trials. It would mean that a programme identifying alleged corrupt police officers couldn't run, as that would jeopardise a fair trial. ”
After the verdict, a BBC spokesman said: “Many of the victims' relatives clearly wanted the programme to be broadcast including those who took part in the programme. They and many others hope that the transmission of this programme will help bring to justice those responsible for the Omagh atrocity. ”
Brice Dixon, head of the commission, said: “We've concerned that if no successful prosecution ensues because of the risk of an unfair trial, the victims are left without justice and that breaches their human rights.” The commission was set up under the Good Friday agreement and charged with defending human rights in the province.
7. What is the demand from the Northern Ireland human rights commission?
8. What is BBC's view on the issue of naming in their programme the four men tied to the Omagh bombing?
9. What do we know about the attitudes of relatives of victims in Omagh bombing towards the issue?
10.What is the verdict of the high court in Belfast?
SECTION 6: LISTENING TEST (30 minutes)
Directions: Translate the following passage into English and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.
长期以来，科学同艺术之间的关系一直是剃头担子一头热：科学热恋着艺术，艺术却拒科学于千里之外。
许多大科学家一生钟爱艺术，且懂艺术，从中汲取养料，善养浩然之气，或得到人生最大安慰。相反，热爱自然科学并且理解工程技术的文学艺术家真可谓凤毛麟角。
艺术家对自然科学望而生畏，敬而远之，原因之一是里面有一大堆高深的学公式。其实，撇开学，绕过那一大堆公式，一门学科的基本思想还是可以被我们理解和欣赏的。 这恰如我们虽然看不懂莫扎特乐曲的总谱，却照样能同它的主旋律产生共鸣，击节称赞。