1、上海市高级口译第一阶段笔试模拟 53 及答案解析(总分：300.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、SECTION 1 LISTENING (总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Part A Spot Dictatio(总题数：1，分数：30.00)Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; 1 is not conscience, 2 , nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no 3 , no
2、 influential motives, no vivifying principles. 4 makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman. It is well to be a gentleman, it is well to 5 , a delicate taste, a candid, 6 , a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life-these are the 7 ; they are the objects of a University.
3、I am advocating, I shall 8 upon them; but still, I repeat, they are 9 or even for conscientiousness, and they may 10 of the world, to the profligate, to 11 , alas, and attractive as he shows 12 . 13 , they do but seem to be what they are not; they look like 14 , but they are detected 15 , and 16 ; a
4、nd hence it is that they are popularly 17 , not, I repeat, from their own fault, but because their professors and their admirers 18 for what they are not, and are 19 for them a praise to which they 20 . （分数：30.00）三、Part B Listening Com(总题数：4，分数：20.00)Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following conve
5、rsation. （分数：5.00）A.They had to carry sacks of coal up steep ladders.B.They had to crouch in tiny tunnels and dig the coal out.C.They had to pull trucks of coal along passage that were only a few feet high.D.They had to dig wider tunnels for women and children to work in.A.Because there was a shorta
6、ge of men and women in the area.B.Because mining communities were then separated from the rest of the country.C.Because the mining tunnels were too low for the horses to pull trucks of coal through.D.Because the mine owners were unable to make men and women work longer hours and stay down the mine a
7、ll day.A.Women and young girls had to work in the mines with the men.B.Children were allowed to work underground all day long.C.Mine owners violated the Combination Laws.D.Most mining families were so poor that they had few clothes to wear.A.Miners were required to wear more clothes while working un
8、derground.B.Workers were not allowed to join together to fight for better conditions.C.Mine owners could no longer make their men work 12 hour or more at a time.D.Women and young girls were not permitted to work together with men in the coal mines.A.The mine workers demanded that there should be bre
9、aks for food.B.The mine owners had to improve conditions and introduce safety measures.C.The Combination Laws were brought into effect to help the mine owners.D.The mine unions made it illegal to use children in coal mines.Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following news. （分数：5.00）A.It blocked a UN
10、 Security Council statement against Israel.B.It criticized Israel for over-reacting to protests by Palestinian people.C.It drafted a statement together with Arab nations.D.It used its formal veto power to prevent possible condemnation against Israel.A.They made a raid on a public housing estate in w
11、est London on July 29.B.They attempted to blow up the London transit system.C.They killed 56 people in a series of bombings against subway stations.D.They set fire to several trains and buses in London.A.Most city dwellers still have the tradition of eating wild animals.B.More than half of urban int
12、erviewees give up wild animal consumption for health risk concerns.C.54 percent of urban interviewees said that they regard animals as their friends.D.The varieties of wild animals consumed by Chinese people are changing fast during the last several decades.A.Calling for action against runaway oil p
13、rices.B.The IMF“s role in monitoring national currency policies of member countries.C.The reform of member countries“ quota in decision making at the IMF.D.The efficiency of the IMF Board of Governors.A.It is a serious endemic disease in some areas of northwest China.B.It may lead to breast and pros
14、tate cancer.C.It benefits 144,000 newborn babies and women of child-bearing age in eight counties and cities in some areas of China.D.It is regarded by scientists as the most common cause of preventable mental retardation and brain damage.Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following interview. （分数：
15、5.00）A.The unusual habits of the centenarians.B.How to live to be 100?C.The incredible groups of senior citizens.D.How to be young forever?A.Because more people are living beyond their expectations.B.Because scientists are very much interested in it.C.Because more people are not living as long as th
16、ey expected.D.Because researchers found centenarians always have unconventional hobbies.A.Optimism.B.Mobility.C.Genetics.D.Strength to adapt to loss.A.All the residents studied have unusual hobbies.B.All the centenarians studied ate a highly nutritious diet.C.Some of the centenarians suggest that pe
17、ople drink alcohol and eat pork in order to live a long life.D.Most of the studied centenarians“ friends are still alive.A.Try not to lose any of your family members.B.Learn to relax yourself now and then.C.Do some sort of regular physical activity everyday.D.Always find something to laugh about.Que
18、stions 16 to 20 are based on the following talk. （分数：5.00）A.Pasteurizing the food.B.Pickling the food.C.Cooking the food.D.Drying the food.A.Milk can“t be treated into powder.B.It“s safe to drink the milk coming directly from the cow and raw milk makes people stronger and healthier.C.If milk is heat
19、ed and then cooled, the harmful germs can be killed and the milk is safe to drink.D.Louis Pasteur was the Frenchman who first sold pasteurized milk in the world.A.Grind them to powder.B.Freeze or can them.C.Heat and cool them.D.Dry and put them in the freezer.A.Drive to the supermarket and do the da
20、ily shopping.B.Buy more than the amount for a few days or even a week when they are in the season and freeze the rest.C.Choose the frozen vegetables rather than the fresh ones.D.Store a lot of vegetable in a freezer for the winter.A.Cleaning them.B.Putting them in a tray and freezing them.C.Storing
21、them in a plastic bag.D.Killing any harmful germs in them.四、SECTION 2 READING TE(总题数：4，分数：50.00)Questions 15 There has been an ecological triumph in the province of Sweden where I“ve spent the past three weeks. The wolf and the lynx have both returned to the forests. The naturalists have been rejoic
22、ing. There“s been a TV documentary. Meanwhile the local farmers and hunters have disappeared into the forests with their rifles. Jan and Lennart, the sons of the farmer at the end of the lake, were particularly aggrieved that the lynx (that“s a wild cat to you townies) was killing “their“ deer, and
23、the urban bureaucrats who had decided to protect it only increased their rage. They vowed to track the animal down. “Did they kill it?“ I asked one local man. “They didn“t say“, he replied with a hint of a wink. What does the word “rural“ mean to you? Organic, perhaps. Wholesome. Gemeinschaft (or do
24、 I mean Gesellschaft ?). Conservative. Marx“s “rural idiocy“ maybe. To me the countryside is about paranoia. It breeds independence and idiosyncrasy and other nice things but also the sort of people who wander onto Capitol Hill in order to kill some senators or declare war on the FBI for being an es
25、sentially socialist organization. For people who live in and off the countryside, there always seems to be the idea that “they“the bureaucrats, the government, the city folkare out to get them. What they despise almost as much as city folk themselves are the sort of things that city folk like about
26、the countryside, footpaths, beauty spots, old buildings, rare flora and fauna, ancient sites of historical interest. To select from my experience of the past few weeks, the land that was once owned by my late grandparents contained a meadow that was famous across Sweden (well, it was once featured o
27、n the front page of the local newspaper) for its rare plants. A couple of weeks ago my cousinan engineer and part-time farmer with a flock of four sheep and one ramfenced the meadow off, set the sheep loose into it and within two days it duly looked like a bit of scrub in a corner of a derelict indu
28、strial estate. Incidentally, when your correspondent went to investigate this vandalism, the said ram pursued him across the field in a way that was later said to be hilarious to onlookers. Another local man carries around a special bullet in case he should ever get on the trail of a wolf. The norma
29、l bullets used for hunting deer and elk have soft tips so that they spread out on contact and cause devastating fatal wounds. But this special wolf bullet has a hard tip so that it will pass right through the animal, leaving a relatively small (though almost certainly fatal) wound. The dying wolf wi
30、ll then probably walk tens of miles before it dies, thus preventing “them“ from identifying the slayers of this absurdly protected predator. And this happens in a province which has a wolf as its official symbol. There“s more. A neighboring lake has become home to what I was informed is an exceeding
31、ly rare kind of hawk. But the local people who have spotted it have kept its presence a closely guarded secret. If they told ornithologists about it, then the next thing that would happen is that they would probably want to come into the area and start to look at the bloody thing, and once these bur
32、eaucrats and scientists get their claws into an area, who knows where it will end? Much of this is probably true of rural areas everywhere, but in Sweden it has been exacerbated by the Byzantine bureaucracy that was generated by 40 years of social democracy, a system that led both to some of the fin
33、est public services and to the situation in which the country“s greatest living artist, Ingmar Bergman, under suspicion of a minor tax transgression, was publicly arrested and interrogated in a manner that might have been thought excessive by Beria. One of the fundamental Swedish rights is entitled
34、allamansrdtt , which permits anybody to walk, pick berries or mushrooms virtually anywhere. Some local businessmen have hired Polish workers to come up to Sweden and pick mushrooms but they haven“t been to our area more than once. When they emerged from this forest they found that the tyres in their
35、 bikes and cars were mysteriously flat. It“s somehow a typically Swedish paradox: you have the legal right to go where you like, hut don“t let that give you the idea that you can just go anywhere.（分数：12.50）(1).The attitude held by the locals towards the bureaucrats and the government can best be des
36、cribed as _.（分数：2.50）A.hatedB.distrustC.contemptD.reverence(2).The experience described by the author in third paragraph is intended to show that _.（分数：2.50）A.local farmers hate the good things valued by the city folk because they hate city folk themselvesB.vandalism is of common occurrence in the c
37、ountrysideC.my cousin had a deep affection for his sheep and ramD.correspondents were unwelcome to the land(3).In the fourth paragraph, which adjective(s) can be best applied to the local man for his behavior?（分数：2.50）A.Funny.B.Cunning.C.Cruel and meanD.Resourceful and creative.(4).The writer thinks
38、 that Byzantine bureaucracy _.（分数：2.50）A.is too stringent in carrying out the lawsB.deserves compliments for its achievements in preventing crimesC.is highly democraticD.contributes little to the public welfare(5).The writer gave the description in a _ tone.（分数：2.50）A.dispassionateB.eulogizingC.posi
39、tive and exaggeratingD.negative and bitterQuestions 610 Steven Spielherg has taken Hollywood“s depiction of war to a new level. He does it right at the start of Saving Private Ryan , in a 25 minute sequence depicting the landing of American forces on Omaha Beach in 1944. This is not the triumphant v
40、ersion of D-Day we“re used to seeing, but an inferno of severed arms, spilling intestines, flying corpses and blood-red tides. To those of us who have never fought in a war, this reenactmentnewsreel-like in its verisimilitude, hallucinatory in its impactleaves you convinced that Spielberg has taken
41、you closer to the chaotic, terrifying sights and sounds of combat than any filmmaker before him. This prelude is so strong, so unnerving, that I feared it would overwhelm the rest of the film When the narrative proper begins, there“s an initial feeling of diminishment, it“s just a movie, after all,
42、with the usual banal music cues and actors going through their paces. Fortunately, the feeling passes. Saving Private Ryan reasserts its grip on you and, for most of its 2 hour and 40 minute running time, holds you in thrall. Our heroes are a squad of eight soldiers lucky enough to survived Omaha Be
43、ach. Now they are sent, under the command of Captain Miller (Tom Hanks), to find and safely return from combat a Private Ryan (Matt Damon), whose three brothers have already died in action. Why should they risk their lives to save one man? The question haunts them, and the movie. The squad is a fami
44、liar melting-pot assortment of World War Two gruntsthe cynical New Yorker (Edward Burns) who doesn“t want to risk his neck; the Jew (Adam Goldberg); the Italian (Vin Diesel); the Bible-quoting sniper from Tennessee (Barry Pepper); the medic (Giovanni Ribisi). The most terrified is an inexperienced c
45、orporal (Jeremy Davies) brought along as a translator. Davies seems to express every possible variety of fear on his eloquently scrawny face. Tom Sizemore is also impressive as Miller“s loyal second in command. As written by Robert Rodat, they could be any squad in any war movie. But Spielberg and h
46、is actors make us care deeply about their fate. Part of the movie“s power comes from Hank“s quietly mysterious performance as their decent, reticent leader (the men have a pool going speculating about what he did in civilian life). There“s an unhistrionic fatalism in Captain Miller; he just wants to
47、 get the job done and get home alive, but his eyes tell you he doesn“t like the odds. The level of work in Saving Private Ryan from the acting to Janusz Kaminski“s brilliantly bleached-out color cinematography to the extraordinary sound design by Gary Rydstormis state of the art. For most of Saving
48、Private Ryan , Spielberg is working at the top of his form, with the movie culminating in a spectacularly staged climactic battle in a French village. The good stuff is so shattering that it overwhelms the lapses, but you can“t help noticing a few Hollywood moments. Sometimes Spielberg doesn“t seem
49、to trust how powerful the material is, and crosses the line into sentimentality. There“s a prelude and a coda, set in a military cemetery, which is written and directed with a too-heavy hand. But the truth is, this movie so wiped me out that I have little taste for quibbling. When you emerges from Spielberg“s cauldron, the world doesn“t look quite the same.（分数：12.50）(1).The movie Saving Private Ryan is up to a new level because _.（分数：2.50）A.it depicts the landing of American forces on Omaha Beach in 1944B.the landing is not successfulC.it reproduces the ter
