1997.9上海市英语中级口译笔试答案

1997.9上海市英语中级口译资格证书第一阶段考试参考答案:SECTION1:LISTENING TESTPart A: Spot Diction1. feel healthy2. content3. on average4. six minutes5. laugh more6. 400 times7. adulthood 8. growing up9. effects of laughter 10. blood and stomach11. physical exercises 12. facial and stomach13. jogging 14. pain relief15. forty university students 16. funny cassette17. intended to relax 18. tolerate the discomfort19. humour 20. immune systemPart B: Listening Comprehension1-5 B D C A D 6-10 D D C B B11-15 B D A A C 16-20 D A B A D21-25 B D C A C 26-30 D A C B CPart C: Listening and TranslationⅠ.Sentence Translation1.这类独特的酒被认为是世界上最好的一种酒。

2.由于他打算扩店，他开价要买下隔壁的房产。

3.我再也不准备容忍你的无能。

你被开除了。

4.会上有人提议在委员会里应该有一位教工代表。

5.“广告”这个词最简单的涵义就是“让某事物引起他人注意”。

或者“将某事物告知某人”。

Ⅱ.Passage Translation1. 请各位注意，图书馆马上就要关门了。

请把参考书放回原处，如果要外借备用书籍以便当夜使用，现在可以办理（手续），多谢各位合作。

2. 30年前，我还是个小孩子的时候，我父亲曾安排我去乡下一个农场过了两个暑假。

他认为那对我有好处，他是对的。

那使我懂得了不少有关自立的重要意义。

那地方非常偏僻，农场主的地位当时肯定已是二十出头的女儿说她从未离开过家门，也未见过火车。

SECTION2: STUDY SKILLS1-5 D A D D C 6-10 A C B C A11-15 B D C C D 16-20 B D A C D21-25 B B D A C 26-30 D C C B CSECTION3: TRANSLATION(1)海豚与鲸鱼一样，需要不时浮出水面以其头顶上的鼻孔进行呼吸。

海豚是群居动物，爱结伴。

事实上，不少海豚还以与人相处为乐，它们在水中供人乘骑之事也是常有所闻的。

除了可爱逗趣之外，海豚对于人类是极有帮助的。

例如，早在公元前400年希腊诗人艾里昂就因溺水而被一头海豚救起。

至今为止，海豚一直在帮助遇到麻烦的游泳者。

不仅如此，它们还能帮助人们捕鱼。

更有甚者，海豚智力发达。

它的大脑与人类的相似，但容量更大。

因而有人宣称，海豚真的比人更聪明。

当然，现在没法证明这点。

脑容量并不是一个决定聪明程度的检测标准。

还有，由于人们无法完全同海豚进行交流，也就不可能用其他方法测定它们的智力，然而，海豚与海豚之间显然能进行交流。

不管怎么说，他们发出的哨音、咔哒声和嗡嗡声等至少是一种语言的形式。

但是，迄今为止人们尚不能解释海豚语言交流的密码。

SECTION4: TRANSLATION(2)Every spring hundreds of thousands of domestic and foreign businessmen swarm into Shanghai to attend the annual East China Export Commodity Trade Fair. Here, all kinds of goods from Shanghai compete with the goods from other places in China. The advantage of Shanghai lies in its advanced scientific and technological strength, therefore the export of high-tech products should take the lead in increasing Shanghai’s foreign trade and export.Professor Yang Zhenning, a famous physicist, once said, “The high-tech battlefield is the main and the last battlefield for China to overtake the developed countries.” It is not only indispensable in history, but also necessary in the future to develop by way of promoting high-indispensable in history, but also necessary in the future to develop by way of promoting high-indispensable in history, but also necessary in the future to develop by way of promoting high-tech trade.听力测试题录音文字稿：SECTION 1: LISTENING TESTPart A: Sport 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 on the tape. Write your answer in corresponding space in your answer booklet. Remember you will hear the passage only once. Now let’s begin Part A with Spot Dictation.Doctors are starting to believe that laughter not only improves your state of mind, but actually affects your entire physical well-being. Britain’s first laughter therapist, Robert Holdensays:“Instinctively we know that laughing help us feel healthy and alive. Each time we laugh we feel better and more content.”A French newspaper found that in 1930 the French laughed on average for nineteen minutes per day. By 1980 this had fallen to six minutes. Eight per cent of the people questioned said that they would like to laugh more. Other research suggests that children laugh on average about 400 times a day, but by the time they reach adulthood this had been reduced to about fifteen times. Somewhere in the process of growing up we lose an astonishing 385 laughs a day.William Fry, a psychiatrist from California studied the effects of laughter on the body. He got patients to watch funny films, and monitored their blood pressure, heart rate and muscle tone. He found that laughter has a similar effect to physical exercise. It speeds up the heart rate, increases blood pressure and quickens breathing. It also makes our facial and stomach muscles work. Fry thinks laughter is a type of jogging on the spot.Laughter can even provide a kind of pain relief. Fry had proved that laughter produces endorphins-chemicals in the body that relieve pain. Researchers divided forty university students into four groups. The first group listened to a funny cassette for twenty minutes. The other three groups listened to either an informative tape, or a cassette intended to relax them, or no tape at all. Researchers found that if they produce pain in the students, those who had listened to the humorous tape could tolerate the discomfort much longer. Some doctors are convinced that humour should be a part of every medical consultation, as there is evidence to suggest that laughter stimulates the immune system.Part B: Listening ComprehensionⅠStatementsDirections: In this part of the test you will hear several short statements. These statements will be spoken only once, and you will not find them written on the paper, so you must listen carefully. When you hear a statement, read the answer choices and decide which one is closets in meaning to the statement you have heard. Then write the letter or the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your answer booklet. Now let’s begin with question number one. Question No. 1. Florence had four tickets for the concert, but she gave two to her brother. Question No. 2. There is no additional charge for the use of the pool, and towels may be rented for a nominal fee.Question No. 3. Mr. Johnson insisted that he hadn’t lied about his whereabouts the night of the murder.Question No. 4. Forty students came to professor Green’s first lecture on economics, but aftera fortnight, all but fifteen had dropped out.Question No. 5. According to the recipe, you don’t have to cook it more than 10 minutes unless you want it well done.Question No. 6. Trash is normally collected Monday and Thursday, but this week the holiday will cause a delay.Question No. 7. There is no stronger desire than the desire to seek happiness or good health.Question No. 8. If I knew Peter’s telephone number, I wouldn’t have to write this letter~ Question No. 9. Pre-school children usually like to play with toy cars and trucks or anything that makes noise.Question No. 10. Martin sent the telegram on Monday, but I received it only yesterday.ⅡTalks and ConversationsDirections: In this part of the test, you will hearseveral short talks and conversations. After each of these, you will hear a few questions. Listen carefully, because you will hear the talk or conversation and questions only once. When you hear a question, read the .four answer choices and choose the best answer to that question. Then write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your answer booklet.Questions 11 to 14 are based on the following talk.One of the most deadly plants in the world is poison hemlock. This plant grows in many parts of the world. It is quite dangerous to humans; people can die if they eat it.One thing that makes poison hemlock really dangerous is that it looks like some plants that people normally eat. Hemlock belongs to the same family of plants as the carrot. The leaves of the plant look very much like parsley, and its roots look like carrots. People will die when they have made a mistake and have eaten poison hemlock when they thought that they were eating either parsley or carrots.Question No. 11. What is the topic of the talk?Question No. 12. Where is hemlock found?Question No. 13. What is true about hemlock?Question No. 14. What can happen to someone who eats hemlock?Questions 15 to 18 are based on the following conversationW: Hi, Jack.M: Hi, Wanda. Where are you rushing to?W: I’m heading for a meeting of the ski club. It starts at three o’clock.M: The ski club?W: Yes, the ski club. Do you want to come along?M: What does the ski club do?W: Well, you get to know other people who enjoy skiing, listen to lectures and presentations on skiing, techniques and equipment, and--best of all--plan skiing trips. Doesn’t that sound good ?M: It does sound great, but I don’t exactly know how to ski very well.W: That doesn’t matter. You don’t have to know how to ski. You just have to want to learn how to ski.M: That sounds like my kind of club. I guess I’ll come along with you and try it.W: We’ve got to hurry. It’s almost three o’clock.Question No. 15. What time does the meeting begin?Question No. 16. What do people do at ski club meetings?Question No. 17. What problem does the man have?Question No. 18. What will the man probably do next?Questions 19 to 22 are based on the following talk.I’m sure you all enjoyed that trip along the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River. It’s quite amazing, isn’t it?The next stop on our tour is the Petrified Forest. This is a huge desert forest that is not exactly made of trees. You see, the trees are so old that they have fallen and have turned to stone. They look just like fallen logs, but they are no longer made of wood. Instead they are made of beautifully colored stone, such as jasper, agate, carnelian, and onyx. It’s unbelievable to see all of these fallen trees from a distance and then up close see that they are really stone and not wood.When we arrive at the Petrified Forest, please be sure to keep in mind that it is against the law to take any petrified wood out of the forest with you. You may think about picking up just a tiny little piece, but please don’t do it.Question No. 19. Where have they just been?Question No. 20. Where are they heading now?Question No. 21. What has happened to the trees?Question No. 22. What does the man ask them not to do?Questions 23 to 26 are based on the following conversation.M: I was reading an article in the paper about a new type of fast-food packaging. It’s really great!W: What’s so great about this packaging for fast food?M: What’s great isthat the packaging is edible.W: Edible?M: That’s right. With this new packaging, you can go to fast-food restaurant, order a burger and fries, and then eat the wrappings that the burger and fries came in.W: So, you’d be eating paper.M: (laughs) Oh, no. The wrappers sort of look and feel like paper, but they’re really made from things like soybeans, corn and flour.W: It sounds like the wrappers might be even better for you than the fast food!Question No. 23. Where did the man learn about the new fast-food packaging?Question No. 24. What is interesting about the new fast-food packaging?Question No. 25. Which of the following is used in making the fast-food packaging? Question No. 26. What does the woman think about the new fast-food packaging?Questions 27 to 30 are based on the following talk.Today dogs are being trained in a variety of ways. One way that dogs are being trainedinvolves “smell.” For example, dogs are being trained to use their sense of smell to find missing persons, hidden drugs, or explosives such as dynamite.Dog trainers have found that almost all types of dogs have equally good senses Of smell. Even though different types of dogs have equivalent sense of smell, they are not equally good at different tasks. However, certain types of dogs are better at certain tasks because of other characteristics they have. For example, beagles are small and friendly, so they are often used at crowded airports to smell for illegal food products in luggage. German shepherds have quick reactions, so they are often used to smell for explosives such as dynamite. Golden retrievers work well in the cold, so they are often used to find people lost in the snow.Question No. 27. What is the topic of the talk?Question No. 28. What is true about the various types of dogs?Question No. 29. According to the talk, what are golden retrievers trained to find?Question No. 30. Why are German shepherds used to find explosives?Part C: Listening and TranslationI Sentence TranslationDirections: 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 A with Sentence Translation with Sentence No. 1.Sentence No. 1. This particular wine is regarded as one of the finest in the world.Sentence No. 2. As he intended to expand his shop, he made an offer for the premises next door.Sentence No. 3. I’m just not prepared to put up with your inefficiency any longer. You’re fired! Sentence No. 4. At the meeting someone suggested that there should be a staff representative on the committee.Sentence No. 5. In its simplest sense the word “advertising”means “drawing attention to something”, or notifying or informing somebody of something.ⅡPassage TranslationDirections: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages. 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 the first passage.Passage 1:May I have your attention, please. The library is closing in a few minutes. Please return the reference books to the shelves they belong to. Those who want to check out reserved books for overnight use may do so now. Thank you very much for your co-operation.Passage 2:Thirty years ago, when I was a small child, my father arranged for me to spend two summer holidays at a farm in the countryside. He thought it would be good for me, and he was right. It taught me a great deal about the importance of independence. The place was so isolated that the owner’s daughter, who must have been in her early twenties, said that she had never been away from home or seen a locomotive.。