英语导游证考试模拟题1

全国英语导游人员资格考试模拟题1

I．Listening Comprehension (15’)

Omitted

II. Grammar and Vocabulary 20’

16. at the station, he found the train gone.

a. Arrived

b. Arriving

c. Having arrived

d. In arriving

17. He was charged with driving.

a. negligence

b. negligent

c. neglect

d. neglected

18. by the climb, he sat down to rest.

a. Exhaust

b. Exhausted

c. Exhausting

d. Having exhausted

19. He is lazy to revise his work.

a. so

b. very

c. too

d. much

20. He looked at me as if I a monster.

a. am

b.. were

c. was

d. have been

21. The meat bad if it is left in the sun.

a. go

b. goes

c. will

d. can go

22. All that is not gold.

a. glitter

b. glitters

c. glittering

d. glittered

23. By the end of the year I quite a lot of money.

a. will save

b. will be saving

c. will have saved

d. save

24. The receptionist suggested that the guest to the Summer Palace by taxi.

a. went

b. was going

c. had to go

d. go

25. I am looking forward to you soon.

a. see

b. in seeing

c. be seeing

d. seeing

26. The river was deep we could not cross.

a. too… that

b. so…that

c. very…that

d. so…an d

27. Though this kind of bean curd does not smell , it tastes .

a. well…well

b. well…good

c. good…well

d. good…good

28. The guest may the key in his room.

a. left

b. leave

c. to have left

d. have left

29. When the tourists the Yuyuan Garden, they went back to the hotel.

a. had visited

b. visited

c. have visited

d. having visited

30. In case a fire broke out, you can leave the building by the fire .

a. escape

b. ladder

c. stairs

d. steps

31. worried about is his son’s survival in the airplane crash on September 11, 2001.

a. The old man is

b. What is the old man

c. That the old man is D. What the old man is

32. How long you for us?

a. have…waited

b.will…wait

c. have…been waiting

d. had…been waiting

33. Covers had been for thirty guests.

a. lay

b. laid

c. lain

d. laying

34. We shall the flag when the sun .

a. raise…rises

b. raise…rose

c. raise…rise

d. raise…will rise

35. He enjoyed the Dim Sum so much that he accepted a second when it was offered.

a. offer

b. helping

c. sharing

d. portion

III. Reading Comprehension 15’

A

Until the 1980s, the American homeless population comprised mainly older males. Today, homelessness strikes much younger part of society. In fact, a 25-city survey by the U. S. Conference of Mayors in 1987 found that families with children make up the fastest growing part of the homeless population. Many homeless children gather in inner cities; this transient(变化无常的) and frequently frightened student population creates additional problems — both legal and educational — for already overburdened urban school administrators and teachers.

Estimates of the number of homeless Americans range from 350,000 to three million. Likewise, estimates of the number of homeless school children vary radically. A U.S. Department of Education report, based on state estimates, states that there are 220,000 homeless school-age children, about a third of whom do not attend school on a regular basis, But the National Coalition for the Homeless estimates that there are at least two times as many homeless children, and that less than half of them attend school regularly.

One part of the homeless population that is particularly difficult to count consists of the “throwaway” youths who have

been cast of their homes. The Elementary School Center in New York City estimates that there are 1.5 million of them, many of whom are not counted as children because they do not stay in family shelters and tend to live by themselves on the streets.

Federal law, the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987, includes a section that addresses the educational needs of homeless children. The educational provisions of the McKinney Act are based on the belief that all homeless children have the right to a free, appropriate education.

36. It is implied in the first paragraph that ____.

A) the writer himself is homeless, even in his eighties

B) many older homeless residents are going on strike in 25 cities

C) there is a serious shortage of academic facilities

D) homeless children are denied the opportunity of receiving free education

37. The National Coalition for the homeless believes that the number of homeless children is _____.

A) 350,000B) 1,500,000C) 440,000D) 110,000

38. One part of the homeless population is difficult to estimate. The reason might well be ____.

A) the homeless children are too young to be counted as children

B) the homeless population is growing rapidly

C) the homeless children usually stay outside school

D) some homeless children are deserted by their families

39. The McKinney Act is mentioned in this passage in order to show that ___.

A) the educational problems of homeless children are being recognized

B) the estimates on homeless children are hard to determine

C) the address of grade-school children should be located

D) all homeless people are entitled to free education

40. The passage mainly deals with ____.

A) the legal problems of the homeless children

B) the educational problems of homeless children

C) the social status of older males

D) estimates on the homeless population

B

Being in a different place fro m one’s usual residence is an essential feature of tourism. This means that transportation companies are one vital aspect in the tourist industry.

For many years, railroads have formed the first successful system of mass transportation, carrying crowds of tourists from one place to another. However, the automobile has replaced the railroad for most local travel. The automobile offers convenience. The traveler can depart from his own home and arrive at his destination without transferring luggage or having to cope with any other difficulties. Nowadays, motor buses have partly replaced railroad passenger service on many local routes in a number of cities. However, railroad transportation is still very popular in many Asian countries for internal travels.

The airplane has become very commonplace for long distance travel. Now more and more people would like to take planes on their trips. Traveling by plane is faster and quite safe.

Ships still play an important part of tourism. A cruise is a voyage by ship that is made for pleasure rather than for a fixed destination. The cruise ship serves as the hotel for the passengers as well as their transportation. When the tourists reach a port, they are usually conducted on a one-day excursion, but they return to the ship to eat and sleep.

Without the modern high-speed forms of transportation available to large numbers of tourists, tourism would not have become such a successful industry.

41. Why has the automobile now replaced the railroad for most local travels?

a. because it is cheaper

b. because it is faster

c. because many people own cars

d. because the traveler can depart from his own home and arrive at his destination without transferring luggag

e.

42. The best advantage of air travel to tourists is that

a. it is cheaper than railroad travel

b. it is safer than railroad travel

c. it leaves more time for sightseeing for the traveler

d. it is easier to get air tickets than train tickets

43. What conveniences does a cruise ship offer?

a. It serves as a hotel for the passengers as well as their transportation

b. It reaches many ports

c. It offers good foo

d.

d. It can at any port the travelers wish.

44. A cruise is a voyage by ship made for

a. a fixed destination

b. travel

c. pleasure

d. relaxation

45. If there were no modern high-speed forms of transportation available to tourists

a. Tourists would have to go on foot from one place to another

b. Tourism would not be so successful

c. Nobody would like to travel

d. It would be impossible for people to travel

C

Cultural norms so completely surround people, so permeate thought and action that we never recognize the assumptions on which their lives and their sanity rest. As one observer put it, if birds were suddenly endowed with scientific curiosity they might examine many things, but the sky itself would be overlooked as a suitable subject; if fish were to become curious about the world, it would never occur to them to begin by investigating water. For birds and fish would take the sky and sea for granted, unaware of their profound influence because they comprise the medium for every fact. Human beings, in a similarly way, occupy a symbolic universe governed by codes that are unconsciously acquired and automatically employed. So much so that they rarely notice that the ways they interpret and talk about events are distinctively different from the ways people conduct their affairs in other cultures.

As long as people remain blind to the sources of their meanings, they are imprisoned within them. These cultural frames of reference are no less confining simply because they cannot be seen or touched. Whether it is an individual neurosis that keeps an individual out of contact with his neighbors, or a collective neurosis that separates neighbors of different cultures, both are forms of blindness that limit what can be experienced and what can be learned from others.

It would seem that everywhere people would desire to break out of the boundaries of their own experiential worlds. Their ability to react sensitively to a wider spectrum of events and peoples requires an overcoming of such cultural parochialism. But, in fact, few attain this broader vision. Some, of course, have little opportunity for wider cultural experience, though this condition should change as the movement of people accelerates. Others do not try to widen their experience because they prefer the old and familiar, seek from their affairs only further confirmation of the correctness of their own values. Still others recoil from such experiences because they feel it dangerous to probe too deeply into the personal or cultural unconscious. Exposure may reveal how tenuous and arbitrary many cultural norms are; such exposure might force people to acquire new bases for interpreting events. And even for the many who do seek actively to enlarge the variety of human beings with whom they are capable of communicating there are still difficulties.

Cultural myopia persists not merely because of inertia and habit, but chiefly because it is so difficult to overcome. One acquires a personality and a culture in childhood, long before he is capable of comprehending either of them. To survive, each person masters the perceptual orientations, cognitive biases, and communicative habits of his own culture. But once mastered, objective assessment of these same processes is awkward since the same mechanisms that are being evaluated must be used in making the evaluations.

46. The examples of birds and fish are used to ______.

A. show that they, too, have their respective cultures

B. explain humans occupy a symbolic universe as birds and fish occupy the sky and the sea

C. illustrate that human beings are unaware of the cultural codes governing them

D. demonstrate the similarity between man, birds, and fish in their ways of thinking

47. The term "parochialism" (Line 3, Para. 3) most possibly means ______.

A. open-mindedness

B. provincialism

C. superiority

D. discrimination

48. It can be inferred from the last two paragraphs that ______.

A. everyone would like to widen their cultural scope if they can

B. the obstacles to overcoming cultural parochialism lie mainly in people's habit of thinking

C. provided one's brought up in a culture, he may be with bias in making cultural evaluations

D. childhood is an important stage in comprehending culture

49. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Individual and collective neurosis might prevent communications with others.

B. People in different cultures may be governed by the same cultural norms.

C. People's visions will be enlarged if only they knew that cultural differences exist.

D. If cultural norms are something tangible, they won't be so confining.

50. The passage might be entitled "______."

A. How to Overcome Cultural Myopia

B. Behavioral Patterns and Cultural Background

C. Harms of Cultural Myopia

D. Cultural Myopia-A Deep-rooted Collective Neurosis

IV. Translation (30 points)

A. Translation from Chinese into English (51-60) and vice versa (61-70) (10 points)

Directions:This part gives you 10 Chinese expressions to be translated into English, and 10 English words and expression to be translated into Chinese.

51 没收52误机

53 退票54三轮车

55 市区高架路56 林荫道

57 马术58音乐大师

59 花车巡游60 城市人馆

61 fresco 62 Confucianism

63 waterside pavilion 64 winding path

65 magnolia 66 oleander

67 embroidery 68 mounting

69 heatstroke/sunstroke 70 first aid

B. Short Passage Translation (20 points)

Directions:This part is composed of four short passages. The first two are to be translated from Chinese into English, and the second two from English into Chinese.

71. 旅游宣传广告通常采用的方式有报纸、杂志以及电视广播。旅游宣传的最有效手段莫过于游客的口碑，通过旅游者向他们的朋友介绍和推荐旅游景点。

72. 上海是一座充满魅力的大都市。它不仅是中国近代史的缩影和新中国改革开放的窗口，也是被誉为21世纪最具有活力的国际大都市。

73. With most of its residents being immigrants, Shanghai has a mixed culture. People from various places made their own contribution to the city’s culture. As they enjoy their own cultures, they help mold the Shanghai character of inclusiveness. The inclusive and open character makes Shanghai a gigantic receptor of modern technological development.

74. In terms of Chinese cuisine, people will naturally dwell on four main cuisines in China. Known as Shangdong Cuisine, Guangdong Cuisine, Huai-Yang Cuisine and Sichuan Cuisine, they represent cooking styles of different regions of China. They are unique for their distinctive flavor of salty, fresh, sweet, hot and spicy accordingly. As a country with a vast territory and various nationalities, its cuisines can be much more than what we have described above, due to the wide range of flavors of Chinese culinary culture.

V. Question and Answer 5’

75. Please list five pillar industries in Shanghai.

VII. Writing

Write a composition of 150--200 words on the giving topic.

What is the best quality a tour guide should have?