2006年3月高级口译听力原文

2006年3月高级口译听力原文

Part A: Spot Dictation

Marks & Spencer has a very good reputation for job security and looking after its staff, with things like good perks,_______(1),that sort of thing. Do those things actually_______(2)?

I think it is, it is very important. When people have been working_______(3), and they may have been in from seven or eight o’clock in the morning, they can come off the sales floor and can go to _______(4) and obviously they can have tea, coffee, or_______(5),and can then buy at very reduced rates_______(6), if they want one, or a roll and cheese, in pleasant environment,_______(7), food of the highest quality, there’re areas where they can_______(8), or play pool or something, yeah, that is very important because they need_______(9). At busy times, they need to get away from it, they need to be able to relax. In terms of all the _______(10) we’ve got, that is very important, when people know that they will be having medicals, and_______(11) is another thing, obviously there’s _______(12)that they will buy which they will be able to buy_______(13). For Christmas bonus, we give all our general staff_______(14) which is guaranteed, and the _______(15)of that, actually, at the busiest time of the year when they’re_______(16) and working hard, is fantastic and to see their faces as you_______(17)with 10% of their salary in it… I believe the environment that you work in, _______(18)that you work with, the way you are treated, _______(19), and the fact that your views are listened to, and you feel you are consulted, that makes people _______(20) and makes them get up and come to work in the morning.

1. good canteen 1.the staff discount

2. motivate people in their work 2.an amount of merchandise

3. on the sales floor 13. at discounted rates

4. the staff restaurant 11.a 10% of their salary

5. a drink provided free of charge 15. motivational effect

6. a full cooked breakfast 16.under the most pressure

7. in a hygienic environment 17.hand them the envelope

8. rest and read papers 18.the quality of the people

9. a break from the customers 19.with respect and dignity

10. health-screening programs 20. happy and satisfied in their job

Part B: Listening Comprehension

Questions 1 to 5

N: Hi, Susan. How’s it going? How was your first week in the AIDS ward?

S: OK, I guess. But I never realized how many different things nurses have to do. There is a lot to learn.

N: There sure is! That’s why we’re having this meeting today, Susan. As your advisor, it’s my responsibility to help you learn your new job. We’ve found that sometimes our new assistant have trouble adjusting to the AIDS ward.

S: Actually, I do feel worried about being here.

N: That’s normal. I felt the same way when I started. What are you nervous about?

S: I know it sounds dumb, but I keep thinking that I might get infected with HIV. I know there isn’t a very big risk, but I’m still worried. My friends are worried, too.

N: What are your friends saying?

S: Well, some of them don’t want to be around me now. I think they’re afraid that they’ll get HIV somehow. One friend always used to give me rides in her car, but she won’t drive me to work because she’ afraid I’ll get the virus in her car！

N: That’s a difficult situation. But it’s a good opportunity to teach your friends the facts about HIV and AIDS, so they’ll know they’re wrong. And if they don’t want to learn anything, maybe they aren’t

good friends. I know I lost a few friends when I started working here.

S: My family’s also worried. My mother keeps saying, “You can’t be too careful!” She’s afraid that I’ll get AIDS from a patient. So I try to be very careful. I always wear the protective clothing, you know --- the rubber gloves, paper clothing, and plastic glasses. But then something strange happened.

N: What happened?

S: I went in to see a patient, to bring him his lunch, and he looked at me and said, “Oh, you’re new here, aren’t you.” Then he was acting very angry at me after that. I think it was because of the clothing!

N: Why do you think he was angry?

S: I’m not sure. I was just trying to protect myself.

N: I think the important thing to remember when you’re working with AIDS patients is that you’re working with people --- people who are very sick, but who still need to be treated with respect. I remember what my boss told me when I first started working with AIDS patients. He said, “It’s important to isolate the AIDS virus, but not the AIDS patient.”

S: What do you mean by “not isolate the AIDS patient”?

N: Well, just imagine that you’re very sick. You’re lying in bed in the hospital, worrying that you’re going to die. Then every time someone comes in the room, they’re covered from head to toe in protective clothing. How would that make you feel?

S: Terrible! It would make me feel like I was dangerous … like no one wanted to be near me.

N: Exactly, “you would feel very isolated. We don’t want our AIDS patients to feel that way. It’s important they feel just like all our other patients.

S: So what should I do?

N: well, you have to think carefully before you go into someone’s room. We know that it’s impossible to get AIDS from just touching someone, or breathing the air next to them, or ever sharing a glass of water. AIDS, as you know is passed though blood or bodily fluids. So when you go into a patient’s room, think to yourself: “What am I going to do in there Will I be in contact with blood or other bodily fluids?” For example, when you serve lunch to someone, do you think you need to wear protective clothing? Is there going to be any blood then?

S: Um, no, I guess not. I guess I don’t need to wear the clothing then I serve food. N: How about when you draw someone’s blood? Do you need the protective clothing then?

S: Well, there’s a chance that I could prick my finger on the needle.,

N: Right. In that case I’d wear gloves, just to be safe. I guess the rule to live by is to protect yourself when you need to, but don’t wear the clothing unnecessarily. Part of our job is to take care of the patients’ feelings --- as well as their illness --- and too much protective clothing can make them feel uncomfortable.

1. What is Susan’s job?

2. How does Susan’s family feel about her job?

3. What should Susan do with AIDS patients according to the man?

4. What contribute to the spread of AIDS virus?

5. Which of the following statements is not true according to the conversation?

Questions 6 to 10

United Nations

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan cancelled a two-week trip to Asia, which was scheduled to start on Saturday because of the debate over the UN budget and other urgent political issues, the organization announced on Thursday. Deputy spokeswoman Marie Okabe said the Secretary General had informed the governments of China, the Republic of Korea, Japan, and Vietnam that he was postponing the visit. Vienna, Austria

Two US allies in Iraq are withdrawing forces this month, and a half dozen others are debating possible pullouts or reductions, increasing pressure on Washington as calls mount to bring home US troops. Bulgaria and Ukraine will begin withdrawing their combined 1250 troops by mid December. If

Australia, Britain, Italy, Japan, Poland, and South Korea reduce or recall their personnel, more than half of the non-American forces in Iraq could be gone by next summer. Japan and South Korea help with reconstruction, but Britain and Australia provide substantial support forces, and Italy and Poland train Iraqi troops and police. Their exodus will deal a blow to American efforts to prepare Iraqis to take over the most dangerous peace-keeping tasks and craft an eventual US exit strategy.

Honduras

More than 30,000 people in Honduras have been left homeless by tropical storm Gamma, which killed 34 people there earlier this month, and flooded low-lying areas, the government spokesman said on Thursday. Some 90,000 people were affected by the November 18th to 20th storm, which also damaged banana farms. The relevant government departments have deployed 5 teams across the nation to conduct damage assessments in collaboration with local officials.

Haiti

Armed kidnappers hijacked a school bus carrying 14 children on Thursday, and a US missionary was shot and abducted while driving outside Haiti’s capital, police said. The separate kidnappings came 5 weeks before national elections are to be held to restore democracy and stability in the troubled nation. Police said they did not appear to be politically related. The bus was taking the children to school when several armed men stopped it, boarded it, and drove off down a main road heading west from Porter Prince, the capital. Police Commissioner Francois Henry Douso said. He also said the captors contacted the children’s families and demanded 50,000 US dollars for their release. The children are aged 5 to 17.

Vietnam

Vietnam on Friday started construction of a 2.4 billion US dollar hydro-power plant, promising to take good care of the nearly 100,000 people in three provinces who will be displaced by the project. “I asked the governments of the three provinces to do a good job in relocating people and resettling them, so that the people will have a better life than in their old homes.” Prime Minister Phan Van Khai said in a nationally televised speech at the long chain earthquake-prone northern Soong Nam Province. Vietnam’s power consumption has increased by some 15% annually in recent years, and the Soong Nam plant will generate nearly one fifth of the country’s power output when completed, said V oo Duk Fin, Deputy General Director of State Utility Electricity of Vietnam Corporation.

6. What did the US deputy spokeswoman announce on Thursday?

7. Which of the following US allies in Iraq are withdrawing forces by mid December?

8. How many people in Honduras were killed by tropical storm Gamma earlier this month?

9. What happened in Haiti on Thursday?

10. What project was started in Vietnam on Friday?

Questions 11 to 15

M: Could you tell us something about the program?

W: Basically, the soap opera is about life in the east end of London, that is, the Cockney way of life.

But that isn’t what, you know, the most important thing about the program. That isn’t the reason for its success. The reason for its success is it deals with social problems that other soap operas have never dealt with before. I mean, our aim isn’t to shock. But, it’s just that we can’t … We believe that we couldn’t do a realistic situation drama about the east end without incorporating topics like drugs, homosexuality, divorce, adultery, all of those things that other soap operas have only skimmed on: prison and breaking the law.

M: Very nicely.

W: Prison, nervous break-downs. I mean, it’s not just all gloom and doom. There is a lot of humor.

And there is a lot of love and warmth in the program as well. So, really, if anyone says, what is east-enders about? It’s not about Cockneys. I mean, because the situations that we deal with are characteristic of a lot of inner-city communities all over Britain, and I’m sure in other cities in the world. But it’s just that we cover them with an edge on how a Cockney, and how a Cockney community reacts and deals with those problems.

M: What part do you play?

W: I play a girl called Michelle Faller, we all know, Michelle Hallway to start with. She wasn’t a family. She lived in the same house with her mother and father and her grandmother. The son ran away, and then the mother had another baby, and then she got pregnant by the local landlord.

This is, Michelle got pregnant, not my mom, by the landlord of the local pub, which nobody knows about. No one knows who the father is. That was the big story line in the first year. And after she had the baby, she married a local lad who she’d known for a few years.

M: Is she all like you?

W: She speaks like me. That’s where it ends. No, she is not at all like me. I mean, my circumstances are, if I hadn’t gone into acting, there probably would have been more similarities. But because my life is changed, and my circumstances have changed so much over the past couple of years, the only similarities between me and Michelle is our accent.

M: Do you like her?

W: Yeah, I like her. I think she’s very brave, very courageous to have the baby, and very strong to keep the consequences of everyone knowing who the father was, which would be just so catastrophic. M: Catastrophic or something?

W: I’m such a good speaker. Yeah, catastrophic or something or other. So she’s got the strength to keep such a big secret with her. And she believes that she’ll keep it with her for the rest of her life.

11. What type of program are they talking about?

12. What is the reason for the success of the program?

13. Who is the woman being interviewed?

14. What was the big story line in the first year?

15. Why does the woman say Michelle is very brave?

Questions 16 to 20

With thousands of people traveling everyday as a part of their jobs, there is a great concern about the effect of jetlag on business travelers. In the world of international business, many men and women have trouble performing their jobs because they feel tired and sick from all their traveling.

Business people are not the only professionals who suffer from jetlag. Professional sports players also find that jetlag affects their performance. I have recently read a health report and it looks at the problem of jetlag in professional baseball. You see, researchers have wondered about how a jetlag affects the job performance of people who travel for a living. The problem is that it is very difficult to measure exactly how jetlag affects most travelers, how we can measure the performance of, say, an executive who travels to another country to make a business deal. This is where the idea of looking at baseball comes in. So, by looking at whether baseball teams win or lose games, researchers believe that we can see how jetlag affects performance in sports, business, and other jobs.

In the study, doctors looked at baseball records from 2001 to 2004. They studied the performance of 19 teams from the eastern and pacific time zones. Looking at the results of the 2 games immediately after a team traveled from one coast to the other. The study shows that changing time zones may hurt the performance of west coast baseball teams traveling east for a game, but not the east coast teams traveling west. The reason, the researchers think, is that people traveling east suffer more from the symptoms of a jetlag.

An example of this effect can be seen in the best of the 7 big championship series played in 2003 between the San Francisco Giants and the Atlanta Braves. The games are played in the home cities of each team. So, in 2003, the Atlanta Braves and San Francisco Giants played the first 2 games in Atlanta, the next 3 games in San Francisco, and the last 2 games in Atlanta. In this contest, Atlanta won 4 of the 7 games, and was the winner of the series. Researchers believe that San Francisco Giants lost because they played more games away from home and therefore, had more jetlag.

We know from past studies that the symptoms of a jetlag are stronger when a person travels east. This is because when we travel east, our day becomes shorter, and a shorter day is more difficult to adjust to. So the players from San Francisco were at a disadvantage when they traveled east for a game in Atlanta. The researchers think that the San Francisco team had more of the symptoms caused by jetlag problems such as headaches, tiredness and difficulty thinking clearly. All of these symptoms

could result in poor performance by baseball players. However this is only the first study to look at the effect of jetlag on sports, and more research is needed. Other scientists say that this research doesn’t prove that jetlag causes poor performances in baseball games. This study only looked at baseball records for three years, and much more information must be studied before we can decide if the losses are truly a result of the jetlag and not some other reason. What about the home-team advantage? Yes, the positive effects of the home team advantage are well known. It’s much easier for a team to play a game at home where they can sleep in their own beds, and the local fans can come to the game and cheer for the team. However, jetlag adds to the disadvantage for the team that’s playing away from home. So, when the San Francisco team traveled east to play in Atlanta, they were added a disadvantage in two ways. They were playing away from home, and they had strong jetlag from traveling east。

16. How do business people often feel from all their traveling?

17. According to the report, why did researchers study jetlag in baseball?

18. Researchers analyzed the performance of some baseball teams, where are these teams from?

19. Which of the following is not mentioned as a symptom of jetlag?

20. Which of the following statements is true according to the health report?

SECTION 4: LISTENING TEST

Part A: Note-taking And Gap-filling

This is Psychology Wednesday, today we’ll be discussing EQ, not IQ. EQ, emotional intelligence quotient. We’ve been hearing a lot about EQ lately. And in fact, you might have seen Daniel Goleman’s bestselling book about it in the bookstore. Your emotional intelligence quotient seems to include both intra- and interpersonal relationships. In other words, how well you handle your own emotions? And how well you respond to others’?

EQ is not exactly a new idea. I mean, we all know a lot of old proverbs about thinking before you act and that kind of thing. That’s true. But the term itself isn’t a new one. And it shows that people have realized the way you control your feelings is just as important as your education, maybe, even more important.

But what’s really interesting and the focus of today’s session is: Can you learn EQ? We have been talking to some people recently, and they’re all educators. We try to get their perspective on this issue. For example, some elementary school teachers really think that some kids have higher EQs than some others. Even at 5 or 6 years old, some of the kids tend to be more patient and easy-going than others, and then others are prone to shout and make a big fuss. I don’t want to use this example to make it sound as if it’s bad to be spirited or anything. But if you can’t control your emotions even at that age, you can have a lot of problems. That means, if you can’t deal with setbacks, you don’t make progress. And if you are always impatient, your peers don’t like you.

Another example is how kids deal with frustration. Imagine a child who’s having trouble doing a maths problem. She gets frustrated with the problem, throws her pencil down, yells angrily, “this is a stupid problem, I hate it!” Another child with a higher EQ may be able to handle the situation better. She might try different ways to approach the problem, or ask for help and so on. And she will be more successful because she won’t let her negative feelings get in the way of her task.

Another question I’d like to talk about is: Can you learn to have a higher EQ? People seem to have different views on this question. Most of the people we’ve been talking to believe that the answer to this question is “yes”. They believe this EQ idea is definitely important. Let’s face it, when the going gets tough, it’s much better for one to have a positive, enthusiastic attitude than to dwell on failures. For example, kids can be taught to have patience and not to give up when things go wrong. They learn to respond well to their emotions. They learn how to sit still and listen and how to respect others. And these people don’t believe we’re born with a high emotional intelligence quotient. They think we have to learn those skills. But others don’t agree. They find that some people never learn to improve their EQ. OK, maybe you can teach children, but frankly, adults can hardly change. We talked to a company president who said, “I worked with a lot of managers. And the good ones are sharp,

perceptive people who respond well to change. I don’t think the others can learn that.” Why not? Well, part of the problem is that people with a low EQ have a difficult time seeing how their behavior affects other people. They see no reason to change. Their behavior has negative effects for themselves and for others. But they don’t see it that way. They tend to blame other people for the problems they are having. People like this just don’t work well with other people. I’d say, they have a lower EQ, and they will probably never adjust their behavior.

Part B: Listening and Translation

I. Sentence Translation

1.In the education circles, homework opponents argue that homework damages the physical,

emotional, and mental health of children by reducing the amount of time they have to play and get fresh air.

2.I’ve always felt that there are two equally important parts to success. Step one is to create

your business or to embark on a career. And step two is to exceed everyone’s expectations. If you miss either step, you are hosed.

3.As a result of our recent corporate restructuring, which included reorganizing our affiliates

and cutting more than 300 jobs, our profit-earning power has improved by 18%, as compared with the previous year.

4.Now 28% of Hawaii’s 93 native bird species are extinct, and another one third are listed on

the Federal Threatened and Endangered Species Lists, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

5.“War is not like the weather that comes and goes beyond our power to influence”. That

attitude is obsolete. The growing destructive capacities of humanity make this the prime problem of the 21st century.

II. Passage Translation

1.The world is more unequal than at anytime in world history. There is a basic reason for that.

200 years ago, everybody was poor. The period of economic growth is a fairly recent period.

But it’s been a period of extreme differentiation in economic performance. A relatively small part of the world achieved what the economists call a modern economic growth. And this sustained the increase year after year in income per person. When you accumulate that over two centuries, you get quite a change, maybe a twenty-fold increase or more in the standard of living measured in material terms.

2.There is a great range in the number of doctors per 100,000 inhabitants in various parts of the

world, as we can see from the chart. It is surprising that the figure for Italy should be a great deal higher than for the United Kingdom. But that is the case. In Italy the figure is around 400, while in the UK, it is only a little over 160 doctors per 100,000 inhabitants. Both Spain and Belgium have considerably higher figures than the UK, slightly over 350 in Spain, and about 310 in Belgium.