1、高级口译（笔试）模拟试卷 41及答案与解析 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. Re
2、member you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE. 0 In Australia, reports about Aboriginal people often make for depressing reading. Just a few days ago, the latest official report oh the community documented increases in child abuse, and【 C1】 _ than that of other Australians. But on a pair of remote isla
3、nds off 【 C2】 _ the continent, Aboriginal life is very different. From the outside, the church【 C3】 _. It was built in the 1930s and its white timber walls dazzle in the tropical sunshine.【 C4】 _ and ancient mango trees provide shade at one end. At the top of【 C5】 _ is the front door. Its only when
4、you enter that you realise this is no ordinary place of worship. 【 C6】 _ is decorated with an extraordinary array of Aboriginal art work. The walls are covered in【 C7】 _, and above them is a parade of animalsstingrays, crocodiles, turtles and pelicans. Theres a painting of【 C8】 _ being held aloft by
5、 a bearded tribesman flanked by two【 C9】 _. The warrior wears a head dress and a red loincloth. In front of that is a tabernacle made of【 C10】 _. The most unusual of churches is the focal point of the tiny town of Nguiu, on Bathurst Island. Bathurst and neighbouring Melville are together known as th
6、e Tiwi islands. They lie【 C11】 _, the capital of the Northern Territory. “My people have lived on the islands forever,“ John Munkara, 【 C12】 _, tells me. “We were isolated for so long that were different to the Aborigines 【 C13】 _.“ So different, in fact, that the Tiwis knew neither the didgeridoo n
7、or the boomerang,【 C14】 _ believed they were the only people on earth. In the past, the only contact the Tiwis had with the tribes across the water was when they【 C15】 _ and carried out raids to steal women. These days relations are a bit more genial, but the two and a half thousand Tiwis are still
8、very different from their mainland cousins.【 C16】 _ as soon as you set foot on the islands. In a lot of Aboriginal communities theres【 C17】 _. You can hardly blame themcrime, domestic violence, unemployment and poor health are huge problems for many indigenous people. On the Tiwis, though, people sm
9、ile as soon as they see you.【 C18】_, adults wave and theres a real warmth in the welcome. Part of the reason is that the supply of alcohol is strictly controlled. The only place you can get a drink is the towns social club. The other reason for the【 C19】 _ is their isolation. They have a long histor
10、y of repelling outsidersfirst Macassan traders who【 C20】 _, or beche-de-mer, and then Dutch explorers. The British established a settlement here in the 1820s but disease, the heat and the hostility of the locals drove them away after five years. 1 【 C1】 2 【 C2】 3 【 C3】 4 【 C4】 5 【 C5】 6 【 C6】 7 【 C7
11、】 8 【 C8】 9 【 C9】 10 【 C10】 11 【 C11】 12 【 C12】 13 【 C13】 14 【 C14】 15 【 C15】 16 【 C16】 17 【 C17】 18 【 C18】 19 【 C19】 20 【 C20】 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
12、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. （ A） Not mentioned. （ B） Two. （ C） Five. （ D） None. （ A）
13、 In the Continent. （ B） Outside Europe. （ C） In the Italy. （ D） In the USA. （ A） Chair of Flaxco. （ B） Chief Production Officer (CPO). （ C） Vice President (Accounting). （ D） General Sales Manager. （ A） Flaxco has focused all its manufacturing facilities in Europe. （ B） Flaxco has concentrated its re
14、sources and efforts on high-end medicines. （ C） Flaxcos biggest research and development efforts are in the UK. （ D） Flaxco is expanding its basic research activity in some countries like USA and Italy. （ A） In a campaign debate. （ B） In a telephone briefing. （ C） At a press conference. （ D） At a sh
15、areholders meeting. （ A） John Edwards. （ B） Barack Obama. （ C） Hillary Clinton. （ D） Not clear yet. （ A） They showed their hearts to their slain enemies. （ B） They decorated the commanders office with human entrails. （ C） They sliced open the stomachs of pregnant women. （ D） They charged pregnant wo
16、men for predicting the sex of the unborn child. （ A） Before President Vladimir Putin was quoted yesterday. （ B） When US implements its plan to build a missile defense shield near Russias borders. （ C） When Washington had started it and all the parties involved are all ready to keep the consequences.
17、 （ D） Before a Group of Eight (G8) summit in Germany on June 6. （ A） The Fair Russia party shall be headed by the future speaker of the Federation Council. （ B） The upper house of parliament shall call for its members to join Fair Russia. （ C） It will be reorganized into a public organization called
18、 the Peoples Front of Fight Against Corruption. （ D） Gennady Gudkov shall hold the partys last congress in its six-year history to announce the decision to all the members. （ A） Myasthenia （ B） Human Immunodeficiency Virus （ C） Pulmonary Tuberculosis （ D） Impaludism （ A） They want democracy. （ B） Th
19、ey want a reliable government. （ C） They want the entire Lebanese to join the revolution. （ D） They want the Syrian army to leave Lebanon. （ A） The assassination of the popular former prime minister months ago. （ B） The United States is encouraging democracy by challenging Syria. （ C） God bless Leba
20、nese people and their alliance, the USA. （ D） The Cedar Revolution started a fashion in Lebanon that people all speak out. （ A） The freedom and the democracy. （ B） The makeshift encampment. （ C） Money, food and happiness. （ D） Good weather in the desert. （ A） To decorate the wall. （ B） To wash his f
21、ace. （ C） To show his willingness. （ D） To make the smell better. （ A） Influencing Iraq. （ B） Lighting candles in the Square. （ C） Marching. （ D） Demonstrating against Syria. （ A） A collaboratory is an environment where people use and find many of the resources for inquiry learning. （ B） A collabora
22、tory is an environment where people can share resources and information. （ C） A collaboratory is an environment where people can make unlimited copies of digital resources. （ D） A collaboratory is an environment where only a few copies of any given resource were available. （ A） A specific circle of
23、interest. （ B） Instructors interested in inquiry learning. （ C） Netizens and their peers. （ D） The preservation of digital resources. （ A） Exchange information on dates. （ B） Perform computations. （ C） A means of communication. （ D） Process data. （ A） It could be complicated to make units easy to us
24、e and understand. （ B） It might be intertwined with some other points the speaker wants to talk about. （ C） People have to address the difficulty in adding hundreds more. （ D） It is hard to imagine what the form would look like then. （ A） The types of things members of a collaboratory can do. （ B） T
25、he reason why a collaboratory is a community, not a set of technologies. （ C） The immediate and future benefits of belonging to collaboratory. （ D） Description and terminology of a collaboratory. 一、 SECTION 2 READING TEST Directions: In this section you will read several passages. Each one is follow
26、ed 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
27、 BOOKLET. 40 Of all the troubles that US troops may face when they come home, getting their old jobs back should not be one. Uncle Sam supposedly took care of that with a law saying civilians turned soldiers cannot be fired for serving their countryor denied the right to sue in federal court. That i
28、s why returning veterans should hear the story of Michael Garrett. Thirteen years ago, Captain Garrett of the US Marine Corps traded his camouflage utility uniform for the business-casual dress of a Circuit City service manager. The electronics company was booming, and Garrett could still get his do
29、se of a soldiers life as a member of the Marine Reserve. For almost a decade, Garrett ascended the companys ranks. But in October 2002, with war in Iraq near certain, his bosses asked whether he would go on active duty, according to Garrett. He said it was possible, and within weeks, the sniping beg
30、an: his department took too long with repairs, one boss said, and its work was sometimes shoddy. Then, on March 17two days before the US invaded IraqGarrett got fired. The company declined to comment, saying only that it “supported the mission and values of the United States Armed Forces“. But Garre
31、tt said the timing was no coincidence: he lost his job because of his military status. If true, that would violate a 1994 federal law. So Garrett sued Circuit City, only to see it spring yet another surprise. Garrett, the company said, had to take his case to private arbitration, a quasi-legal proce
32、ss offering sharply limited rights. Garrett acknowledged that his employment contract required arbitration, but he argued that the 1994 Act overrode the contract. A federal judge in Dallas agreed in 2004, just before Garrett was activated for a 10-month tour in the Horn of Africa. Last year, though,
33、 the US Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed that decision, becoming the first court to rule that a contract crafted to help employers trump the law designed to protect the rights of veterans. “That just blows me away,“ says Garrett, whose case heads for arbitration. No one knows how many vetera
34、ns are in a similar bind, but the numbers are substantialand will grow as more troops return home. Complaints under the 1994 Act have increased steadily, to more than 1,500 in 2006 from about 800 in 2001. Some have become lawsuits, and employers may have tried to steer many toward arbitration, since
35、 about one-fifth of US companies require the procedure for workplace disputes. In defense of employers, its not easy reserving jobs for workers called to active duty. But Congress judged that the cost was worth the peace of mind of citizen soldiers, willing to sacrifice their time and perhaps lives
36、to the military. Like predecessor statutes dating from 1940, the 1994 Acts broad protections rest on the promise of a federal jury trialwith rights to evidence, a fair hearing and an appealif an employer fails to comply. Companies like Circuit City say binding arbitration is faster and cheaper than
37、going to court, though studies have cast doubt on both claims. What really bugs employees are the rights they lose in arbitrationand the apparent bias of arbitrators. There are strict limits on gathering evidence for arbitration hearings, and it is virtually impossible to appeal them. Arbitrators do
38、nt necessarily have to follow the law, and studies suggest they favor companies that regularly hire them. Still, the courts generally uphold arbitration clauses unless a law makes absolutely clear that the employee can go to court, arbitration be damned. That pretty much describes the 1994 Act, as t
39、hree federal courts have ruled. But the magic of law is that even federal judges can give it surprising twists, as the court of appeals judges did in Garretts case. Sure, they explained, the Act says the rights it grants cant be limited. But the judges said that referred to “substantive rights“ like
40、 the guarantee of a job. Whether such rights are enforced in court or arbitration, the judges thought, is just a matter of process. Its hard to believe, though, that Congress thought a second-class justice system like arbitration was just as good as the federal courts for veterans. As Bob Goodman, G
41、arretts lawyer, says, “Taking away the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial is no way to treat the troops.“ Or to welcome them home. 41 The case of Michael Garrett is mentioned in the passage to_. （ A） show that a large number of returned veterans are at the risk of losing their jobs （ B） condemn
42、 Circuit City companys unjustified dismission of its people （ C） introduce the issue of conflicts between American companies and their staff （ D） to explain why veterans are getting fired by their companies 42 The word “quasi-legal“ in the sentence “Garrett, the company said, had to take his case to
43、 private arbitration, a quasi-legal process offering.“ (Para. 6) is closest in meaning to_. （ A） standard （ B） private （ C） subordinate （ D） almost but not completely legal 43 Which of the following is NOT in the defense of employers? （ A） US Court of Appeals in New Orleans. （ B） The 1994 Act. （ C）
44、American Congress. （ D） Federal courts. 44 All of the following statements is true about arbitration EXCEPT that_. （ A） it is not of the first-class justice system （ B） it is very limited in protecting employees rights （ C） arbitrators always take a neutral stand in this process （ D） it is preferred
45、 by both employers and employees 45 By saying that “Taking away the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial is no way to treat the troops.“ (the last paragraph), Bob Goodman means that_. （ A） the Seventh Amendment could never be taken away from the Constitution （ B） the Seventh Amendment right is in
46、tended to protect the interests of veterans （ C） veterans are not so well treated under the Seventh Amendment as expected （ D） it is not justifiable to deny the federal jury trial that provide broad protection for employees 45 In early June, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
47、(OECD)the club of the worlds wealthy and almost wealthy nationsreleased a 208-page document perversely titled Pensions at a Glance. Inside is a rundown of how generous OECD members are to their burgeoning ranks of retirees. The US is near the bottom, with the average wage earner able to count on a g
48、overnment-mandated pension for just 52.4% of what he got (after taxes) in his working daysand higher-income workers even less. But the picture at the other end of the scale (dominated by Continental Europe) is misleading. Most of these governments havent put aside money for pensions. As the ranks of
49、 retirees grow and workforces do not, countries will have to either renege on commitments or tax the hides off future workers. What the OECD data seem to suggest is that you can run a retirement plan thats fiscally sound but stingy, or you can make big promises that will eventually go sour. The US fits mostly in the former categoryfor all the gnashing of teeth about Social Security, its funding problems are modest by global standa
