2017年9月英语高级口译第一阶段笔试真题及答案解析

2017年9月英语高级口译第一阶段笔试真题及答案解析(1~20/共20题)Part A Spot 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 the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE.Play00:0002:20VolumeFor years we have been talking about addiction to the Internet, and then to the mobile phone. A recent survey in UK found that__1__would rather live without their own children for a week than give up their mobile phone, while__2__admitted they were addicted to their handsets. Now we are putting together a support group for those who__3__. By speaking of the group, I mean, what we offer as some of the treatments are__4__for those people.The group itself becomes a therapeutic tool, because people are getting out of their rooms where they__5__or the mobile phone for many hours and even days, surfing the Internet or the WeChat. People are__6__and are dealing with other people face-to-face. They are getting__7__. They realize that it is not just them, that there are other people who are engaged in the same behavior and__8__, and also they can help each other strategize about what is the best way for them to__9__, to figure out other things to do. And also we__10__. it is important to figure out what is going on in the person´s life that is contributing to__11__. Why is the person spending so much time on__12__Are they avoiding something Or are they trying to__13__ As far as how many people are actually addicted to the Internet or the Wechat, there was one study which said__14__. I would say at least 5 percent of people who are__15__. The thing is, though, it is very easy to slip into and you don´t realize it,__16__. For instance, we have__17__where people can just go in, they__may__be__doing__18__on__the__computer, and__then__they just__19__and see what is going on, and then before they know it,__20__.第1题第2题第3题第4题第5题第6题第7题第8题第9题第10题第11题第12题第13题第14题第15题第16题第17题第18题第20题下一题(21~25/共20题)Part B Listening ComprehensionDirections: In this part of the test there will be some short talks and conversations. After each one, you will be asked some questions. The talks, conversations and questions 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.Play00:0003:55Volume第21题A.He wanted to see the Ice Hotel.B.He organized a fashion show there.C.He was on his winter vacation.D.He was on a business trip.第22题A.The hotel is a favorite haunt for movie stars.B.The hotel is located on a frozen river.C.The hotel is rebuilt every year.D.The hotel is submerged every summer.第23题A.He had to spend some time warming himself up in a bar.B.He had to run around the lake to get some exercises.C.He had to take enough food in a warm restaurant.D.He had to get a reindeer skin ready for the night.第24题A.Ice creams.B.Alcoholic drinks.C.Fashion shows.D.Polar lights.第25题A.It´s not her cup of tea.B.It´s not as good as the fashion show.C.It´s a place for cool people.D.It´s the shooting site of a movie.上一题下一题(26~30/共20题)Part B Listening ComprehensionDirections: In this part of the test there will be some short talks and conversations. After each one, you will be asked some questions. The talks, conversations and questions 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.Play00:0006:54第26题A.They need German men as godfathers.B.They have the right to register for social welfare.C.They can qualify for residency in Germany.D.They want to get paid in work as German citizens.第27题A.She was lost in Mountain Gate.B.She was abducted by unknown captors.C.She was taken to a local hospital.D.She was found bound alongside an interstate.第28题A.6.1%B.6.9%C.7.0%D.7.1%第29题A.Children were immunised with the wrong vaccine.B.Children were vaccinated with the same unsterilised syringe.C.The immunisation campaign was not led by the health minister.D.The administering team was not trained by the UNICEF.第30题A.84,000B.117,000C.248,000D.250,000上一题下一题(31~35/共20题)Part B Listening ComprehensionDirections: In this part of the test there will be some short talks and conversations. After each one, you will be asked some questions. The talks, conversations and questions 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.Play00:0006:26Volume第31题A.By taking a student loan.B.By consulting a specialist.C.By developing a budget.D.By finding a decent job.第32题A.Purchasing a new smart phone.B.Saving money for a vacation.C.Paying for college.D.Keeping track of their spending.第33题A.Because it avoids the possibility of additional tuition costs.B.Because it helps college students secure more scholarships.C.Because it can substitute credits for other elective courses.D.Because it shows their potential in finding a good job upon graduation.第34题A.They can have more access to educational resources.B.They can afford to take extra-curricular courses.C.They need to become more disciplined and focused.D.They need to spend more time on their home assignments.第35题A.It is not as easy as finding a part-time job.B.It is not as good as taking a part-time job.C.It should be recommended for college students.D.It should resolve the problem of budget shortfalls.上一题下一题(36~40/共20题)Part B Listening ComprehensionDirections: In this part of the test there will be some short talks and conversations. After each one, you will be asked some questions. The talks, conversations and questions 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.Play00:0005:45Volume第36题A.They were all killed by an unexpected meteorite attack.B.They died out as a result of sudden climatic change.C.They were all killed by a sudden nuclear explosion.D.They died out because of their enormous size as land animals,第37题A.Their blood is in intimate contact with the water they live in.B.Their size is not big enough for them to live on land.C.They cannot hibernate in polluted water.D.They cannot survive the big animals in the Amazon rain forest.第38题A.Big animals usually could not survive little ones in major extinctions.B.It is a bad thing that we humans have brought animals from place to place.C.The introduction of foreign animals will spread diseases to us humans.D.The travel of big animals will spread diseases and disrupt the ecosystem.第39题A.Dinosaurs.B.Mammoths.C.Saber toothed cats.D.Tropical frogs.第40题A.The distance they have travelled should be at least 1,600 kilometers.B.The foreign animals run amuck as they have no natural predators.C.There should be land bridges connecting the continents.D.There are humans who bring pets from one continent to another.上一题下一题(41~45/共20题)SECTION 2 READING TESTDirections: In this section you will read several passages. Each one is followed by several questions about it. You are to choose ONE best answer, (A), (B), (C) or (D), to each question. Answer all the questions following each passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage and write tile letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.A major study of the grocery-buying habits of millions of Americans released late last year found that people using food stamps generally make the same unhealthy food choices as everyone else in America. Too many sweets, salty snacks and prepared desserts. Junk food, in other words. But when it came to soda and its sugary ilk, the results were more surprising, and not in a good way. According to the USDA-funded study, shoppers using food stamps spent a larger share of their budget—9.25% to be exact—on sugar-sweetened beverages than other shoppers. Even more startling Food-stamp shoppers bought more soda than any other single grocery item.The new data revived an old debate about banning soda from the $71 billion food-stamp program. In February, the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing to gather testimony about the pros and cons of such a restriction. It does seem counterproductive to spend billions of taxpayer dollars in an effort to improve the nutrition of low-income Americans on a product with little or no nutritional value. It is called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, after all. And soda had been identified as one of the prime culprits in soaring U.S. obesity and Type 2 diabetes rates.The study and committee debate raised some of the same uncomfortable issues that have caused the proposal to languish in the past. On the conservative side, folks have worried that this type of nannystate regulation will lead to other heavy-handed health-related restrictions. Liberals, meanwhile, have been concerned that it is patronizing and punitive to tell people how to spend their government benefits. Add in the opposition from beverage industry lobby and it´s no surprise this idea hasn´t gotten very far when it´s been proposed. In recent years, a handful of states and cities have tried to impose such a requirement, but were blocked by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.The difference now is that the attitude toward soda has rapidly soured as more evidence has poured in that beverages with added sugars are making people fat and sick. The USDA has issued dietary guidelines warning people to limit their consumption of food with added sugars, the largest sources of which are sweetened beverages. This belief helped San Francisco, Philadelphia and handful of other cities push through new taxes on soda. A handful more are considering their own soda levies.We know that there are detrimental health effects of drinking lots of soda, but we don´t know if barring SNAP recipients from spending their benefits on soda will really improve their health. It´s worth finding out by undertaking a limited pilot program, regardless of the qualms we mayhave about imposing restraints on the poor that better-off Americans don´t face. The assumption is that those billions of dollars not going to buy Coke will be spent on healthier food. But that may not be the case. What if consumption of other sugary items increases Or if SNAP recipients simply transferred their sweet drink habit ounce-for-ounce to more expensive and still sugar-laden fruit juice Or if they spent their non-SNAP money on soda Before making a permanent change, we need to know if it would improve nutrition or be pointlessly punitive.But it is a good step to take to gather data. And the argument that it would be too hard on grocers to carve out sugary drinks doesn´t hold water. As the study shows, modern grocery check stand technology is sophisticated enough to easily separate out purchases by UPC code. Indeed, SNAP already comes with restrictions on alcohol, tobacco and hot foods. Grocers don´t have a problem sorting them out. The Women, Infant and Children food-assistance program is even more prescriptive, permitting only specific items to be purchased milk, cheese, cereal and formula, for example, but absolutely nothing with added sugar or artificial sweetener. Ideally, a pilot program would also find ways to improve access to safe drinking water. Denying poor people the ability to use food aid to buy a Coke on a hot day may raise some unsettling questions. Yet the findings in the USDA´s study about excessive soda consumption shouldn´t be ignored.第41题What is the passage mainly aboutA.The investigation of the grocery-buying habits of Americans.B.New taxes on soda to be levied to restrict the use of food stamps.C.A comparison between SNAP and Women, Infant and Children food-assistance program.D.An argument over SNAP recipients´ use of food stamps to buy soda.第42题The expression nannystate regulation (para.3) ______.A.reveals the confrontation between the conservatives and liberalsB.displays the affirmative attitude of the conservativesC.shows the conservatives´ contemptuous opinion towards the regulationD.tells us the concerning and caring nature of such regulation第43题Which of the following CANNOT be true about the SNAPA.It is a government program involving the distribution of $71-billion food-stamps.B.It has restrictions on the purchase of alcohol, tobacco and hot foods.C.It targets at the American population of obesity and Type 2 diabetes patients.D.It triggers heated argument about the use of food-stamps to purchase soda.第44题The word qualms from the expression regardless of the qualms we may have(para.5) can be paraphrased as ______.A.non-descriptive sentimental emotionsB.feelings of uncertaintyC.empathies and concernsD.fears and depressions第45题Which of the following shows the author´s approach towards the soda issueA.Subjective, critical and negative.B.Objective, analytical and explorative.C.Descriptive, neutral and imaginative.D.Vehement, concerning and sympathetic.上一题下一题(46~50/共20题)SECTION 2 READING TESTDirections: In this section you will read several passages. Each one is followed by several questions about it. You are to choose ONE best answer, (A), (B), (C) or (D), to each question. Answer all the questions following each passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage and write tile letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.Any downtime such as the Easter weekend break takes me back to the summer of 2007 when I went on holiday and nearly died. It was the year the iPhone was born. The world was beginning to gorge on the gold rush of the Internet, social networks and mobile phones—the so called triple revolution. I was no exception. With a new business and a new baby, I was exhausted. Whenever possible, I was going online in a world which, a decade on, posts more than 6,000 tweets a second, where 60% of Britons are on Facebook and 14m of us are on Instagram.There is a cost to all this connectedness and being always on. In 2007, arriving in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, famous for its lack of technology as much as its shingle shore, I went for a gentle jog along the beach to get in the holiday mood. Yet I felt myself grinding to a halt. I bad ignored a cold for months. Now I had the strange sensation that I was filling up with the shingle beneath me. Dragging myself back to the cottage, I muttered I think I have overdone it. My husband and our children looked on with scepticism wasn´t I just incapable of switching off Three days later I was in Ipswich Hospital with pneumonia and sepsis. I was a few hours from all my organs shutting down.During my recovery I mulled on what had happened to me and whether I was uniquely bad at managing my life. I began to notice there was something unhealthy about this new era of infobesity and time poverty which has steadily worsened. I´ve been studying the effects of connectedness and its discontents and have been devising strategies to counteract the impact that the Age of Overload is having on our health. I´m now publishing my findings about what I call social health. In it I recommend ways in which we can get the best of the fully connected era and not suffer its worst excesses. I have started by looking at the history of connectedness itself. The human has fought to become king of the jungle in 200,000 short years. But in just an evolutionary nanosecond—150 years—we have jumped into an entirely new era. Everything from the telephone to central heating and. of course, the computer has transformed us for ever.Yet we are seeing a society and a system that are not, for want of a better word, healthy. Evidence shows we are not happier, more productive, or always safer more than 10m working days a year in the UK are lost to stress, anxiety and depression and global productivity is stagnant and, if anything, falling. Now that we live cheek by jowl with a new species, technology, we must preserve the very essence of what makes us human and which led us to the top of the animal kingdom our instincts, our communication skills, our organisational abilities. They can be complemented but not comprehensively outsourced to technology or we pay a price inefficiency, inaccuracy, incompetence. And disaffection, low productivity, stress and economic weakness.Yet we all hurtle on. The Road Runner Show cartoon tells a smart bird outruns the hapless Wile E Coyote who chases him, overrunning the cliff edge, legs spinning hopelessly in perpetuity.It is useful to look at the postwar period because that is when the modern concept of health was first conceived with the creation of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Within its original definition is the goal of physical and mental health, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. It refers to social well-being but with no detail. We need an updated definition fit for purpose in this century.What exactly is social health It means managing all forms of connectedness, online and offline. It means getting our diet of information from people as much as from algorithms. It means developing habits around connectedness—much as we do around keeping fit and watching what we eat. It means managing your networks as systematically as you would your finances. And it means one thing above all managing your time and your diary like you do your body. Choose carefully what exactly goes in it. Social health is both a mindset and a behaviour; it is having trusted sources to find out what you need to know. Strong and diverse networks are crucial to social health and very different from the work the room association of old-style networking. Social health means having networks where you meet people who might challenge you, teach you, inspire you, not just help you get on and up. Social health means not believing everything you read or thinking that being on Facebook is better than being face to face.Today we all know the difference between a carb and a protein, how to value our sleep intake, our alcohol consumption. We can copy what we have achieved in mental and physical health and adapt it to develop social health. My own antidote I have a weekly techno Shabbat when I go offline and reconnect only in real time, with real people, and real conversations. I favour small, intimate networks over large ones and I control my information intake just like my Easter eggs in moderation.第46题The author introduced her personal experience during the triple revolution ______.A.to give a vivid description of the enormous changes brought by such connectednessB.to reveal the possible impacts of infobesity era and its negative implicationsC.to explain the developing history of connectedness in human evolutionD.to expose the destructive power and transformation brought by the computer第47题Which of the following can be concluded from the passageA.We are happier, more productive, and much safer with the computer era.B.The Internet, social networks and mobile phones reduce greatly anxiety and depression.C.Global productivity is enormously promoted with the help of new technology.D.The arrival of the era of connectedness is accompanied by many of its excesses.第48题The author would agree with all of the following EXCEPT ______.A.the instincts, the communication skills and organisational abilities are essentialB.our communication skills and organisational abilities should be outsourced to technologyC.inefficiency, inaccuracy, incompetence would be the price for total reliance on technologyD.the triple revolution could lead us to disaffection, stress, anxiety or depression第49题Which of the following is NOT related to the definition of social healthA.The exploitation of the profound implications of the triple revolution.B.The healthy absorption of information both from people and the social media.C.The cultivation of good habits around diverse networks.D.The management of all forms of connectedness, both online and offline.第50题Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the passageA.The Age of Overload is rapidly harming both our mental and physical health.B.Social health should be closely connected to mental and physical health.C.The triple revolution is causing the separation of the real world and the virtual world.D.We Should and can find ways to survive and thrive in an Age of Overload.上一题下一题(51~55/共20题)SECTION 2 READING TESTDirections: In this section you will read several passages. Each one is followed by several questions about it. You are to choose ONE best answer, (A), (B), (C) or (D), to each question. Answer all the questions following each passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage and write tile letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.Ads are everywhere. They are on our trains, they are on our planes, they are wrapped around our automobiles. They are even on the homeless. Yes, really; homeless people have been used as media space by marketers thinking outside the box; charmingly, it´s called bumvertising. Still, despite the constant creep of commercialism there is one final frontier that has, as yet, remained blissfully ad-free the graveyard.This isn´t to say that death doesn´t sell. On the contrary, posthumous fame is often the most lucrative. In Mark Twain´s play Is He Dead, an artist fakes his death to increase the value of his work. As one of the characters explains A painter has so much more talent when he´s dead. Indeed, the deader he is, the better he is. However, death normally doesn´t sell consumer brands. Nobody wants to see ads for burgers at a crematorium. Or be reminded that the unstoppable march of time means we are all going to die. Death is not aspirational and exploiting loss for money is inappropriate.Well, perhaps it´s not quite clear to everyone that it is. Last week, McDonald´s got a lot of grief for a TV advert that seemingly exploited bereaved children to flog fish sandwiches. More than 150 people complained to the Advertising Standards Authority about the dead dad ad and it has now been pulled with the usual PR fauxpology. We respect our customers and their money very much and regret implying that a fried fish fillet could replace a father´s love etc etc.McDonald´s execs can take some solace in the fact that they aren´t the only marketing minds to have inexplicably decided that invoking family tragedy would be a winning strategy. In 2015 Nationwide aired an ad featuring a drowned child during the Super Bowl. The camera cuts abruptly away to an ominously overflowing bath before reminding you that Nationwide can make safe happen. And, hey, if safe doesn´t happen then at least you´ll get some life insurance money. Now, to be clear, I don´t think that the McDonald´s or Nationwide ads were made by Machiavellian monsters, cynically mining pain for profit. They were just bad ads created by an industry so high on its own puffery that it truly believes fast food brands have important things to say about bereavement.Nevertheless, there does appear to be a growing trend of brands engaging in griefsploitation. For instance, every time a celebrity dies, there follows a flurry of very bad tweets by companies trying to muscle their brand into the conversation. When Prince died last year, for example,Cheerios tweeted Rest in peace on a purple background—with a cheerio replacing the dot above the i. Fans were not impressed and Cheerios quickly deleted the tweet. But Homebase didn´t even bother making it look as if they cared about anything other than promoting themselves.Brands aren´t just leveraging celebrity deaths for product placement; national tragedies also make great content opportunities. Who could forget AT&T´s twin towers tweets In 2013, the telecommunications company posted a tweet on 11 September that showed someone holding a phone up over the Tribute in Light memorial in New York City with the caption Never Forget. And, after the Boston marathon bombing in 2013, the food website Epicurious tweeted In honor of Boston......may we suggest wholegrain cranberry scones! Shoehorning your brand into a social media conversation about a tragedy may be tasteless but it is a fairly rudimentary form of griefsploitation. Far more insidious is the way in which brands are now using our personal data to target us at the moments when we´re feeling most vulnerable.Facebook has told advertisers it can identify when teenagers are feeling stressed, defeated, overwhelmed, anxious and useless, for example. It has also explicitly furnished advertisers with advice on how best to exploit—sorry, I mean help—people dealing with the grief of a breakup. Facebook´s research explains that heartbreak is the ideal marketing opportunity for those in the travel business in the month after a newly single Facebook user has announced their breakup, there is an increase of 25% more travel-related purchases. Apparently travel therapy has replaced retail therapy 55% of people surveyed by Facebook said that travelling after their breakup helped them move on, while only 8% of people said that shoes helped them move on. To be honest, some of these people probably just aren´t buying the right shoes. I mean, if you get boots that are made for walking, then that´s just what they´ll do. Anyway, if you break up with someone and find yourself suddenly bombarded with online ads for Virgin Holidays, this is probably why. Facebook is trying to help you heal. They care. They don´t want grief to consume you, they want you to consume your way out of grief. It´s really very sweet of them. At the very least, it´s better than a slap in the face with a wet filet of fish.第51题In the passage the author quoted Mark Twain´s play Is He Dead ______.A.to remind us that the deader a person is, the better he is rememberedB.to give us an example that death can be used to promote selling brandsC.to illustrate that posthumous fame might be used to make more profitsD.to tell us that an artist could make more money after death第52题The expression with the usual PR fauxpology (para.3) is used ______.A.to show McDonald´s sincere apology to the public after the incidentB.to reveal the particular PR posture with the marketing mind behindC.to display the marketing minds of ever expanding commercialismD.to criticise the practice of using family tragedy to promote brands第53题What is the writer´s attitude towards the issue discussed in the passageA.Matter-of-fact, indifferent and neutral.B.Critical, cynical and satirical.C.Humorous, joking and explanatory.menting and pessimistic.。