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2010年3月上海市高级口译第一阶段笔试真题

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1.

LISTENING TEST
Part A Spot Dictation
   Directions: 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. Now let ' s begin Part A with Spot Dictation.
   You probably know that asthma can cause breathing problems. So can kids with asthma play sports? (1) ! Being active and playing sports is an especially good idea if you have asthma. Why? Because it can (2) , so they work better. Some athletes with asthma have done more than develop stronger lungs. They've played (3) , and they've even won medals at the Olympic Games! Some sports are less likely to bother a person's asthma. (4) are less likely to trigger flare-ups, and soare sports like baseball, football and gymnastics.
    In some sports, you need to (5) . These activities may be harder for people with asthma. They (6) , cycling, soccer, basketball, cross-country skiing, (7) . But that doesn't mean you can't play these sports if (8) .In fact, many athletes with asthma have found
that with the (9) , they can do anysport they choose.
     But before playing sports, it's important that your asthma is (10) . That means you aren't having lots of (11) . To make this happen, it's very important that you (12) just as your doctor tells you to, even when (13) .
    Your doctor will also tell you some other things you can do to avoid flare-ups. This may mean (14) when there is lots of pollen in the air, wearing (15) when you play outside during the winter, or making sure you always have time for (16) .
    Make sure your coach and team-mates know about your asthma. That way, they will understand if you (17) because of breathing trouble. It's also helpful if your coach (18) if you have a flare-up. Listen to your body and (19) you’re your doctor gave you for handling breathing problems. And if you keep your asthma in good control, you'll be in the game and (20)!

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2.

Part B Listening Comprehension
  Directions: 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 ONLYONCE. 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. Now let's begin Part B with Listening Comprehension.
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following conversation.


(1)

(A) The kids.

(B) The traffic.
(C) The sports.

(D) The parking.

(2)

(A) She was trapped in traffic.

(B) She dropped her wallet.
(C) She broke her arm.

(D) She was fined for parking.

(3)

(A) She finds city living to be ideal.

(B) She thinks living in the city is a big deal.
(C) She feels uncomfortable with the dirt.

(D) She complains about noise

(4)

A) Watching gray buildings in the rain.

(B) Hiking in the surrounding woods.
(C) Mixing with tourists on the streets.

(D) Visiting the park on bright sunny days.

(5)

A) A big city.

(B) The country.
(C) A mountain village.

(D) A small town.

(6)

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following news.

(A) Mr. Gordon Brown's proposal was announced at the conference in Copenhagen.
(B) The fund would be available to the poorest and most vulnerable countries alone.
(C) The proposed fund is intended to help poorer countries deal with climate change.
(D) The total fund would be 10 billion British pounds in total over three years.


(7)

(A) 0.1%.

(B) 0.4%.
(C) 1.2%.

(D) 3%.

(8)

(A) To ask for a suspension of its massive debt repayments.
(B) To restore confidence of Western investors across the Gulf.
(C) To carefully plan a six-month delay on payments on Dubai Worl
(D) To turn to Asian countries for help in the global financial crisis.


(9)

(A) To demonstrate their support for the Doha Round of global trade negotiations.
(B) To ask to review all the activities of the world trade body in recent years.
(C) To accuse multinational companies of neglecting the interests of the poor.
(D) To protest against a WTO ministerial conference starting on Monday.


(10)

(A) At least 27 passengers dead.

(B) 26 killed and scores injured.
(C) Hundreds of people dead. (

D) Casualty figures yet unknown.

(11)

Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following interview.

(A) Making people live in harmony and balance with nature.
(B) Keeping evil spirits out of people's life.
(C) Ordering buildings, rooms and corridors conveniently.
(D) Making a home or office look clean and orderly.


(12)

(A) Scandinavian.

(B) Irish.
(C) Norwegian.

(D) British.

(13)

(A) Scandinavia.

(B) The US.
(C) Asia.

(D) Southern Europe.

(14)

(A) Asking a seismologist for advice before starting a building project.
(B) Building a house that would stay up in the earthquake.
(C) Having a one-way street sign removed.
(D) Pointing a road sign toward a house.


(15)

(A) He chose to buy his home because of feng-shui (风水).
(B) He arranged his office at home according to feng-shui.
(C) He made sure that his rooms have great views out the window.
(D) He had a feng-shui master put the furniture in his home.

(16)

Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following talk.

(A) A client at the shopping mall.
(B) A shopping mail employee.
(C) A shopping mall employer.
(D) A policeman suspected of child abuse.


(17)

(A) Spanking is done out of anger.
(B) Spanking a child is discipline.
(C) Spanking could be a form of child abuse.
(D) Spanking might earn up to five years in prison.


(18)

(A) Spanked children don't respect their parents.
(B) Spanking teaches children to fear their parents
(C) Children learn to solve problems with violence.
(D) Pain helps children learn right and wrong.


(19)

(A) There are many harmful effects of spanking.
(B) Spanking can lead to more violent behavior in children.
(C) Sometimes spanking is the best way to get a child's attention.
(D) Corporal punishment is not as effective as other forms of discipline.


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(A) 85%.

(B) 70%.
(C) 62%.

(D) 36%.

3.

READING TEST
  Directions: In this section you will read several passages. Each one is followed by severa 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 the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWERBOOKLET.
    On the worst days, Chris Keehn used to go 24 hours without seeing his daughter with her eyes open. A soft-spoken tax accountant in Deloitte's downtown Chicago office, he hated saying no when she asked for a ride to preschool. By November, he'd had enough. "I realized that I can have control of this," he says with a small shrug. Keehn, 33, met with two of the firm's partners and his senior rmanager, telling them he needed a change. They went for it. In January, Keehn started telecommuting four days a week, and when Kathryn, 4, starts T-ball this summer, he will be sittin along the baseline.
   In this economy, Keehn's move might sound like hopping onto the mommy track--or off the career track. But he’s actually making a shrewd move. More and more, companies are searching for creative ways to save--by experimenting with reduced hours or unpaid furloughs or asking employees to move laterally. The up-or-out model, in which employees have to keep getting promoted quickly or get lost, may be growing outmoded. The changing expectations could persist after the economy reheats. Companies are increasingly supporting more natural growth, letting employees wend their way upward like climbing vines. It's a shift, in other words, from a corporate ladder to the career-path metaphor long preferred by Deloitte vice chair Cathy Benko: a lattice.
    At Deloitte, each employee's lattice is nailed together during twice-a-year evaluations focused not just on career targets but also on larger life goals. An employee can request to do more or less travel or client service, say, or to move laterally into a new role--changes that may or may not
come with a pay cut. Deloitte's data from 2008 suggest that about 10% of employees choose to "dial up" or "dial down" at any given time. Deloitte's Mass Career Customization (MCC) program began as away to keep talented women in the workforce, but it has quickly become clear that women are not the only ones seeking flexibility. Responding to millennials demanding better work-life balance, young parents needing time to share child-care duties and boomers looking to ease gradually toward retirement, Deloitte is scheduled to roll out MCC to all 42,000 U. S. employees by May 9,010.Deloitte executives are in talks with more than 80 companies working on similar programs.
    Not everyone is on board. A 33-year-old Deloitte senior manager in a southeastern office, who works half-days on Mondays and Fridays for health reasons and requested anonymity because she was not authorized to speak on the record, says one "old school" manager insisted on scheduling meetings
when she wouldn't be in the office. "He was like, "Yeah, I know we have the program, '"she recalls, "'but I don't really care. '"
    Deloitte CEO Barry Salzberg admits he's still struggling to convert "nonbelievers," but says they are the exceptions. The recession provides an incentive for companies to design more latticeoriented careers. Studies show telecommuting, for instance, can help businesses cut real estate costs20% and payroll 10%. What's more, creating a flexible workforce to meet staffing needs in a changing economy ensures that a company will still have legs when the market recovers. Redeploying some workers from one division to another-or reducing their salaries--is a whole lot less expensive than laying everyone off and starting from scratch.
     Young employees who dial down now and later become managers may reinforce the idea that moving sideways on the lattice doesn't mean getting s

(1)

The author used the example of Chris Keehn______.

(A) to show how much he loved his daughter and the family
(B) to tell how busy he was working as a tax accountant
(C) to introduce how telecommuting changed the traditional way of working
(D) to explore how the partners of a company could negotiate and cooperate smoothly


(2)

What is the major purpose of shifting from a corporate ladder to the career path of lattice?______

(A) To take both career targets and larger life goals of employees into consideration.
(B) To find better ways to develop one's career in response to economic crisis.
C) To establish expectations which could persist after the economy reheats.
(D) To create ways to keep both talented women and men in the workforce.


(3)

The expression "on board" in the sentence "Not everyone is on board. " (para. 4) means______

(A) going to insist on old schedules
(B) concerned about work-life balance
(C) ready to accept the flexible working system
(D) accustomed to the changing working arrangement


(4)

Which of the following is NOT the possible benefit of lattice-oriented careers for businesses?______

(A) reducing the costs on real estate.
(B) cutting the salaries of employees.
(C) forming a flexible workforce to meet needs in a changing economy.
(D) keeping a workforce at the minimal level.


(5)

According to the passage, the idea that "moving sideways on the lattice doesn't mean getting sidelined"______

(A) would discourage employees from choosing telecommuting
(B) might encourage more employees to apply for flexible work hours
(C) would give employees more chances for their professional promotion
(D) could provide young employees with more financial incentives


4.

   Right now, there's little that makes a typical American taxpayer more resentful than the huge bonuses being dispersed at Wall Street firms. The feeling that something went terribly wrong in the way the financial sector is run--and paid--is widespread. It's worth recalling that the incentive
structures now governing executive pay in much of the corporate world were hailed as a miracle of human engineering a generation ago when they focused once-complacent ECOs with laser precision on steering companies toward the brightest possible futures.
   So now there's a lot of talk about making incentives smarter. That may improve the way companies or banks are run, but only temporarily. The inescapable flaw in incentives, as 35 years of research shows, is that they get you exactly what you pay for, but it never turns out to be what you
want. The mechanics of why this happens are pretty simple. Out of necessity, incentives are often based on an index of the thing you care about--like sound corporate leadership--that is easily measured. Share price is such an index of performance. Before long, however, people whose
livelihoods are based on an index will figure out how to manipulate it--which soon makes the index a much less reliable barometer. Once share price determines the pay of smart people, they'll find away to move it up without improving--and in some cases by jeopardizing--their company.
    Incentives don't just fail; they often backfire. Swiss economists Bruno Frey (University of Zurich) and Felix Oberholzer-Gee (Harvard Business School) have shown that when Swiss citizen sare offered a substantial cash incentive for agreeing to have a toxic waste dump in their community,
their willingness to accept the facility falls by half. Uri Gneezy (U. C. San Diego's Rady School of Management) and Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota) observed that when Israeli day-carecenters fine parents who pick up their kids late, lateness increases. And James Heyman (University of St.
Thomas) and Dan Ariely (Duke's Fuqua School of Business) showed that when people offer passers-by a token payment for help lifting a couch from a van, they are less likely to lend a hand than if they are offered nothing.
    What these studies show is that incentives tend to remove the moral dimension from decisionmaking. The day-care parents know they ought to arrive on time, but they come to view the fines as a fee for a service. Once a payoff enters the picture, the Swiss citizens and passersby ask, "What's in my best interest?" The question they ask themselves when money isn't part of the equation is quite different. "What are my responsibilities to my country and to other people?" Despite ou abiding faith in incentives as a way to influence behavior in a positive way, they consistently do
there verse.
    Some might say banking has no moral dimension to take away. Bankers have always been interested in making money, and they probably always will be, but they've traditionally been well aware of their responsibilities, too. Bankers worried about helping farmers get this year's seed into the ground. They worried about helping a new business get off to a strong start or a thriving one to expand. They worried about a couple in their 50s having enough to retire on, and about one in their30s taking on too big a mortgage. These bankers weren't saints, but they served the dual masters of profitability and community service.
    In case you think this style of banking belongs to a horse-and-buggy past, consider credit unionsand community development banks. Many have subprime mortgage portfolios that remain healthy to this day. In large part, that's because they approve loans they intend to keep on their books rather
than securitizing and selling them to drive up revenue, which would in turn boost annual bonuses. And help bring the world economy to its knees.
    At the Group of 20 gathering in September, France and Germany proposed strict limits on (1)

According to the passage, the incentive structures governing today's executive pay in the
corporate world______

(A) are perfect and shall be continued
(B) have gone wrong somewhere and should be remedied
(C) are with inescapable flaws and must be stopped
(D) have fundamentally improved the corporate management


(2)

Which of the following best paraphrases the sentence "Incentives don't just fail; they of
tenbackfire. " (para. 3)?______

(A) Incentives cannot promote the management of companies and banks; they often lead to corporate bankruptcy.
(B) Incentives are only material stimulation, they can be used to destroy human morality.
(C) Incentives do not achieve desired results, moreover, they often produce negative effect.
(D) Incentives do not treat everything in terms of money and they are often used to change human mentality.


(3)

According to the passage, with the current incentive structures, the rising of share
prices______.

(A) is surely the reliable barometer of a company's performances
(B) will endanger the company and do harm to the share holders
(C) is often driven up by corporate managers to boost their bonuses
(D) proves the necessity of reforms for the financial sector


(4)

The author introduced the "dual masters of profitability and community service" of the traditional bankers______.

(A) to support the view that "banking has no moral dimension"
(B) to prove that bankers have always been interested in making money
(C) to display that the traditional banking is healthier and more successful
(D) to argue that bankers could be saints so long as they serve the community


(5)

Which of the following can be the major conclusion of the author?______

(A) Strict limits should be imposed by the government on executive pay.
(B) The time-dishonored tradition of incentive structures could jeopardize companies.
(C) The financial sector could be reformed on the basis of compensation structures.
(D) The moral dimension should be separated from incentive structures.


5.

    Quick quiz: Who has a more vitriolic relationship with the US? The French or the British. If you guessed the French, consider this: Paris newspaper polls show that 72 percent of the French hold a favorable impression of the United States. Yet UK polls over the past decade show a lower percentage
of the British have a favorable impression of the United States.
    Britain's highbrow newspaper, The Guardian, sets the UK's intellectual tone. On any given day you can easily read a handful of stories sniping at the US and things American. The BBC's Radio 4, which is a domestic news and talk radio station, regularly laments Britain's social wart sand follows them up with something that has become the national mantra, "Well, at least we're not as bad as the Americans. "
     This isn't a new trend: British abhorrence of America antedates George W. Bush and the invasion of Iraq. On 9/11 as the second plane was slamming into the World Trade Center towers my wife was on the phone with an English friend of many years. In the background she heard her friend's teenage son shout in front of the TV, "Yeah! The Americans are finally getting theirs. "The animosity may be unfathomable to those raised to think of Britain as "the mother country" for whom we fought two world wars and with whom we won the cold war.
    So what's it all about?
    I often asked that during the years I lived in London. One of the best answers came from an Englishwoman with whom I shared a table for coffee. She said, "It's because we used to be big and important and we aren't any more. Now it's America that's big and important and we can never forgive you for that. " A detestation of things American has become as dependable as the tides on the Thames rising and falling four times a day. It feeds a flagging British sense of national self-importance.
    A new book documenting the virulence of more than 30 years of corrosive British animosity reveals how deeply rooted it has become in the UK's national psyche. "[T]here is no reasoning with people who have come to believe America is now a 'police state' and the USA is a 'disgrace across
most of the world,'" writes Carol Gould, an American expatriate novelist and journalist, in her book "Don't Tread on Me. "
     A brief experience shortly after George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq illustrates that. An American I know was speaking on the street in Lndon one morning. Upon hearing his accent, a British man yelled, "Take your tanks and bombers and go back to America. " Then the British thug punched him
repeatedly. No wonder other American friends of mine took to telling locals they were from Canada. The local police recommended prosecution. But upon learning the victim was an American, crown prosecutors dropped the case even though the perpetrator had a history of assaulting foreigners.
     The examples of this bitterness continue:
      I recall my wife and I having coffee with a member of our church. The woman, who worked at Buckingham Palace, launched a conversation with, "Have you heard the latest dumb America nioke?" which incidentally turned out to be a racial slur against blacks. It's common to hear Britsroutinely dismiss Americans as racists (even with an African-American president), religious nuts, global polluters, warmongers, cultural philistines, and as intellectual Untermenscher.
    The United Kingdom's counterintelligence and security agency has identified some 5,000Muslim extremists in the UK hut not even they are denounced with the venom directed at Americans. A British office manager at CNN once informed me that any English high school diploma was equal to an American
university degree. This predilection for seeing evil in all things American defies intellect and reason By themselves, these instances might be able to be brushed off, but combined the

(1)

Which of the following is NOT the example given by the author to show the British abhorrence of
America?

(A) A boy shouted "The Americans are finally getting theirs. " when watching TV on 9/11.
(B) A woman working at Buckingham Palace told an American joke against blacks.
(C) An American speaking on a London street was punched and no prosecution followed.
(D) An English author once wrote, "the English mind is always in a rage. "


(2)

The word "animosity" used in the passage can best be replaced by ______.

(A) strong hatred

(B) total indifference
(C) great sympathy

(D) sheer irrelevance

(3)

The author quoted from the American novelist Carol Gould's book______.

(A) to reveal how America has become a police state
(B) to expand on the British attitude to America
(C) to explain the changing course of British mentality to America
(D) to document the past 30 years of relationship between Britain and America


(4)

The author argues that the UK public opinion about America will______.

(A) undermine the relations between the UK and the US
(B) be self-destructive to Great Britain
(C) destroy the self-esteem of both the UK and the US
(D) hurt the United States except the United Kingdom


(5)

What is the best title for the passage?

(A) "Police state": America in the eyes of the UK public
(B) "The mother country": Britain and America fought two world wars
(C) The British national psyche of self-importance
(D) The ally the British love to hate


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