[真题] 2011年9月18日高级口译听力listening comprehension 3、4文本及解析 Q11-20

Questions 11-15 are based on the following interview.

W: Remember the setting for the movie the Truman show？It looked like a nice place to live. Well, for the most part, it wasn?t a set .The town actually exists and it was built on the concept of new Urbanism, the idea of using architecture and planning to nurture civic ties and to encourage interaction between neighbors. In central Florida, the World Disney Company is running its own experiment in new urbanism, a town called Celebration. Andrew Ross is a professor of American studies at New Y ork University. He spent a year living in Celebration, getting to know the town and its people. Now Professor Ross, could you say something about this?

M: The town more or less borrows very heavily from new urbanized p rinciples. That?s the town-planning movement that is pledged to create environmentally friendly alternatives to sprawl and to create communities around people rather than automobiles. But many aspects of that kind of design of town are really aimed at maximizing social interaction between residents.

W: And from your point of view, this would be laudable goals? I mean you go to some horrible sprawl communities and places like southern California, and you?ll see houses that only present garage doors to the street, and a community set-up where you absolutely have to drive to every single place and no one ever sees each other.

M: And what make Celebration unique? There are many things that make celebration unique but one of them is the very high level of media scrutiny. By the time I got there to spend my year in Celebration, this was a community of folks who are already the most scrutinized people on the planet and that generated a very high level of performance anxiety among the folks living there. Really, that trickle down all the way from the Disney boardrooms to the school restrooms, ceaselessly assessing how the community was doing, whether it was creating a vibrant sense of interaction and participation and whether it was being a success or a failure.

W: Now, despite all the planning that went into Celebration, it evolved in what turned out to be unpredictable ways. A lot of people were disappointed there, some people less disappointed.

M: A lot of folks who moved in there had very high expectations. A goodly number of them were Disney files, who had been accustomed to high levels of customer satisfaction from the company in their vacation experiences. Obviously, those high expectations would be inevitably thwarted at some level. But most folks, and we are talking about a self-selected group of pioneers who moved in there, were people who had moved from the cheerless isolation of a lot of other suburban places, were very hungry for community, very much looking for a town where they could fully participate and create and define the sense of community there.

W: What about the attempts of the planners to engineer community where there will be a mixture of incomes? Was that effective?

M: Initially it was effective and this is highly unusual in the American housing landscape to find fairly pricy houses just a spit away from multi-family rental apartment buildings. Y ou just don?t find that anywhere in American housing landscape. The problem is that a lot of new Urbanist Towns like Celebration become commercially successful and Celebration has indeed been that. What happens is the housing prices rise and the low-income folks can?t afford to live there anymore. That?s already beginning to happen. There were working-class people who I knew in Celebration who had moved in there as pioneers and Lord knows how they made ends meet and they did. Certainly, it wasn?t cheap to live in town but increasingly those low-income folks won?t be able to afford that.

11. About which of the following is Professor Ross being interviewed?

12. Which of the following is not promised by new urbanized principles?

13 . What, among many other things, makes the town of Celebration unique?

14 . What can we probably tell about Celebration from the interview?

15. Which of the following statements is true about those who had?

解析：

迪士尼公司在Florida中部建造了一个称为“Celebration”的社区，全程监控社区居民的邻里生活（类似电影“the Truman Show”）。这篇采访就是关于Ross教授（他在这个镇上生活了一年）对这种创造出来的新城市社区的看法。本文特点是用词难度中等，但较长的简单句偏多，总体较难。

New Urbanism：n 新城市主义

Social interaction：n 社交

Laudable：adj 值得赞扬的

Scrutiny：n 监视

Generate：v 产生

Performance anxiety：n表演焦虑症

trickle down：渗入到

Ceaselessly：adv 不停地

Thwarted：adj 挫败的

Listening Comprehension 4

Hello, I?m Amber and you?re listening to BBC learning https://www.360docs.net/doc/de2498153.html,. In London life today, we sit down to a traditional British breakfast in a smart London res taurant and a …greasy-spoon café?! A …greasy-spoon café?, or …caff?, is the opposite of a smart restaurant!

We find out what the traditional British breakfast is made of, and why it is becoming more and more popular, especially in London, to eat breakfast in a café before arriving at the office for a hard day?s work.

Now let?s listen to what an American anthropologist, Kaori O?Connor says. According to Kaori O?Connor, strangers to England have a …vague vision?, an unclear picture in their minds, of what the traditional British breakfast is –perhaps it?s served from silver dishes on a grand …sideboard?. As you listen, try to catch what Kaori lists as the three main ingredients of the great British breakfast.

She says …It?s a meal that everyone outside of Eng land has heard of, and dreams about, and we don?t know what it is, but when we come here, we want to eat it. And we have some vague vision of, you know, a sideboard with silver dishes and it?s just going to be the most wonderful thing on earth and I got here, and I went to a café and there was the bacon, eggs and chips, and I thought –gosh, is this all there is?!?

Did you catch it? Kaori says she went into a London café for breakfast and there it was …bacon, eggs and chips?! Bacon is meat from a pig that h as been salted and dried, and it is fried for a

traditional English breakfast!

The eggs are usually fried too, and there is also usually some kind of bread – perhaps fried bread or even, as Kaori saw, chips – fried potatoes!

So now let?s go to a smart Lond on restaurant where chef Lawrence Keogh is frying a traditional breakfast! Y ou can hear the sizzling in the background! He explains why he eats breakfast – the egg and bacon are …protein?, for example –protein is healthy. …it keeps you going all day?. It?s …sustenance?, nourishment, healthy food.

As you listen, try to catch what he says is a new trend, or fashion in London?s top restaurants. Lawrence Keogh says …I think it?s fundamental to the start of the day. If I?ve got a long day at work, I try and eat egg and bacon in the morning because it?s protein – it keeps you going all day. Y ou know really, we do a lot of business meetings as well now in the morning –the place is very busy –and I think you see it across London now, there?s lots more people havin g business meetings in top restaurants and it?s getting very fashionable to have breakfast.?

Well, Did you catch it? Laurence says that more and more people are having …business meetings in top restaurants and it?s getting very fashionable to have breakfast.?

Well our last stop today is a greasy-spoon café. Russell Davies is an expert on these! He?s written a book called …Egg, Bacon, Chips and Beans: 50 Great Cafes and the Stuff That Makes Them Great?. He explains what makes a great breakfast in a down-market London café. He writes in the book …I would say the café experience, you know, it?s less than 50% the food, as it were, there?s also the atmosphere, there?s the fact that in a decent cafe, they?re not going to hurry you out. There?s the smells, there?s the sounds, you know, the badly-tuned radio, the eccentric art on the wall, the kind of odd condiment choice and most cafes are so small that it?s the best place for eavesdropping and just kind of listening to other people?s conversations.

16. What is the main topic of this talk?

17. Which of the following is usually not included in the great British breakfast?

18. 18. What?s the new trend or fashion in London?s top restaurants according to Chef Lawrence Keogh?

19. Which of the following does not make the atmosphere in a down-market London café?

20. What can we conclude about a traditional British breakfast from the talk?

评析：

这是一片取自BBC的听力材料。主要讲述：统英国早餐的构成（bacon, eggs and chips）；越来越多的人选择在高级饭店开商务会议，且吃早餐也变成一种时尚；在不那么高档的咖啡厅里吃早餐也慢慢成为一种享受。这个听力材料内容接近生活，且在每一部分内容后都有一个“catch it ?”的提示词，降低了考生分析信息的难度。文章黑体部分为答案出处，考生可作参考。

高口听力理解题目的出题顺序大都和听力原文材料顺序一致，因此考生在没有题目只有选项的情况下，首先通过快速扫面选项可以预测听力材料的话题，做题经验丰富的同学甚至可以猜到题目是什么，做到心中有数。其次，在每个选项旁边要做好相关笔记，尤其是当选项内容很容易混淆的时候，更要注意对每个选项做好标记，这样在听到题目后就能迅速锁定答案。