2002-3试卷高译

上海市英语高级口译资格证书第一阶段考试2002年3月

(Test Book)

SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST

(30 MINUTES)

Part A: Spot Dictation

Direction: 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 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. I’ve been reading some very interesting research recently. It is about how people’s moods are __________(1). In the past decade or so, there has been a great deal of speculation about the relationship between the tow. You know, how they always say that people __________(2) are more outgoing than those from the north. Well, it seems that there __________(3) in it. Through many years of research, some scientists have been able to show that if you are __________(4) a certain minimum amount of sunlight only, whether in summer or winter, you may well become __________(5). A researcher took a group of fifty people living in the northern part of Finland who went to their doctor in the winter months and __________(6). In that part of Finland, which is a Northern European country, there can be at most __________(7) a day. The researcher, in order to achieve greater validity, chose as wide __________(8) as he could – these were men and women, who were __________(9) and had different jobs or professional careers, as __________(10) as possible. There were __________(11) in the group as well as a couple of Americans. Half of the group __________(12 )a regular amount of time on a sunbed and the other half of the group were given some __________(13) which are used to relieve depression. After the treatment, the sunbed group actually showed a faster and __________(14) than the pill group. Twenty out of the 25 people in the sunbed group reported that they felt considerably better after only __________(15) whereas the same number of people in the pill group said that they __________(16) after seven days. All of the sunbed group said that they felt considerably better __________(17) of using the sunbed whereas two of the pill users still claimed that they __________(18) after six weeks of pill-taking and ten of the pill group still felt marginally better. __________(19) seemed particularly responsive to the sunbed treatment but there was __________(20) between the responses of different nationalities.

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 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.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following conversation.

1. (A) Because she is too busy finding information in the library.

(B) Because she sees the use of the Internet as too great a challenge for her. (C) Because she herself has not yet got connected to the Internet. (D) Because the sue of the Internet is not convenient or cheap.

2. (A) The places she is particularly interested in. (B) The places she has just found that day. (C) Some electronic company sites. (D) Some advertising pages.

3. (A) Marvell Electronics. (B) Andrew marvel.

(C) English language pages.

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(D) The University of California.

4. (A) An interactive page. (B) A village in Suffolk.

(C) A house surrounded by soldiers and tanks. (D) One of the regiments surrounding a house.

5. (A) A little bit sad. (B) Somewhat amused. (C) Quite happy.

(D) Very much daunted.

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following conversations. 6. (A) A big cut in the rate of unemployment. (B) A major increase in military spending. (C) A boost in funding for domestic security. (D) A reduction in government expenditure.

7. (A) An agreement on bilateral trade.

(B) An agreement to solve controversial labour union issues. (C) A treaty to settle the disputes over the territorial waters. (D) A basic accord concerning an investment pact.

8. (A) Three (B) Four. (C) Six. (D) Seven.

9. (A) The Indian troops penetrated the Pakistani territory.

(B) The Pakistani reserve divisions started to take up battle positions. (C) Both sides called for a temporary 24-hour cease-fire. (D) The two countries shelled each other’s territories.

10. (A) A group of five wanted to hijack the plane. (B) A man attempted to blow up the airliner.

(C) There was a mechanical fault with one engine. (D) One passenger was found to hold a false passport.

Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following news. 11. (A) When she was 50.

(B) Less than 20 years ago.

(C) A little more than 20 years ago. (D) Around 30 years ago.

12. (A) They find it difficult to get jobs in law. (B) They can’t practice full time.

(C) They get married and have children. (D) They find the pay is not competitive.

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13. (A) She feels that she is helping people solve problems. (B) She is completely free to schedule her own time. (C) She is amply rewarded through hard work. (D) She thinks that he career wins her high respect.

14. (A) Family cases are often reserved for female barristers. (B) Male and female barristers are not treated equally.

(C) Barristers have to wear wigs and gowns but solicitors are not allowed to. (D) The job is very demanding no her time.

15. (A) The female judges are tougher on women than male judges.

(B) The male judges are not so sympathetic to women as female judges.

(C) Clients are sometimes trained as to how to behave towards female barristers. (D) Male and female barristers retire at approximately the same age.

Questions 16 to are based on the following talk.

16. (A) Offering explanations for a broken personality. (B) Advertizing a product for relieving depression. (C) Discussing what is responsible for low moods. (D) Recommending ways to fight bad feelings.

17. (A) A radio announcer. (B) A television presenter. (C) A psychiatrist. (D) A magazine editor.

18. (A) Loneliness is only something that we suffer from sometimes. (B) Only a few people around us feel lonely from time to time. (C) Lonely people are advised to take some tablets. (D) Eating and drinking at fixed times kill loneliness.

19. (A) Join a local sports club. (B) Attend evening classes.

(C) Ask people round to stay with you. (D) Do shopping with new friends.

20. (A) Buy a leaflet on loneliness.

(B) Send an envelope to Weekly News. (C) Phone the speaker again. (D) Go to se a psychiatrist.

SECTIONS 2: READING TEST

(30 minutes)

Directions: In this section you will read several passages. Each one is followed 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 the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your

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ANSWER BOOKLET.

Questions 1~5 Helen Beasley says she did not set out to become a surrogate mother. The 26-year-old legal secretary from Shrewsbury, England, a single mom with a 0-year-old son, was thinking more about becoming a paid egg donor. When she bought her first computer and did some research on the Internet, the tales of childless couples she came across broke her heart, she says, and made her think of going one step further, as some 20,000 surrogate moms do each year in the U.S. ―The more I though about it,‖ she says, ―the more I thought of happy endings.‖ Six-and-a-half months after her first surrogate pregnancy began, as twin babies kick inside her, Beasley could not be much farther from a happy ending. She’s mired in a bitter legal battle with Charles Wheeler and Martha Berman, the San Francisco attorneys who found her classified ad on the Internet and flew her over last March for a trip to a fertility clinic. Pregnant with one more baby than Wheeler and Berman wanted, Beasley says, she has received only $1,000 of the $20,000 they originally agreed to pay her. The fate of the twins she’s carrying but does not want or have legal rights to will be decided by a California court, in one of the most bizarre surrogacy cases yet. Beasley acknowledges that Wheeler and Berman, who have refused to talk to the media, made it clear in their discussions that they wanted just one child. What’s more, notes Stanford law professor Deborah Rhode, ―theirs was a very extensive contract. There were 50 clauses providing for every contingency,‖ including the case of a multiple pregnancy, a real possibility given that three donor eggs fertilized by Wheeler’s sperm were implanted in Beasley’s womb. The contract required Beasley to honor the couple’s decision about whether to have a selective reduction, the termination of one or more fetuses in a multiple pregnancy. Still, Beasley says, ―I didn’t realize they would go so ballistic‖ over the idea of twins. Beasley claims she would have gone through with the selective reduction had Wheeler and Berman made the arrangements early in the pregnancy. But, as she tells it, there was a lengthy e-mail row between the tow sides after Beasley returned to England: it was a petty affair in which each accused the other of going on vacation without warning, but it took weeks to mediate. By the time Wheeler and Berman booked Beasley’s flight to California for the reduction, it was week 13 of her pregnancy, she says. At that stage, Beasley felt that terminating a fetus was wrong. Plus, the late date increased the risk that both fetuses would be lost in the procedure. Her high blood pressure was already complicating the pregnancy. Beasley claims that Wheeler and Berman’s lawyer, who declined to comment, presented her with tow options: to terminate one fetus as requested or terminate both and still get paid. Unwilling to do either, Beasley tried to compromise option of seeking other potential parents. She says both sides offered candidates but fought over what—if anything—the newcomers would pay Wheeler and Berman for their in-vitro fertilization and donor-egg expenses. In Britain the matter would have been simpler. There, surrogate mothers have full legal rights to the babies they bear for at least the first six weeks. But since the contract was signed in California, Beasley, now living in San Diego, supported by her lawyer there, is suing to sever the couple’s rights over the children and claim unspecified damages. By last Thursday the blood was so bad that Berman had the man who came to serve her with papers thrown out of her office building. This very public debacle has surrogacy supporters pretty steamed too. ―The only victims I see in this case are those babies and surrogate parenting itself,‖ says Shirley Zager, director of the Illinois-based Organization of Parents Through Surrogacy, herself a surrogate mother. According to law professor Rhode, changes of heart happen in only 4 out of every 10,000 legal surrogate arrangements; however, such cases usually involve the surrogate mom wanting to keep her offspring after they’re born. And even though they have been through a lot together, Beasley has no such plans for the twins. ―Financially, emotionally, I don’t have the means,‖ she says. Their happy ending will have to wait.

1. According to the passage, Helen Beasley became a surrogate mother mainly because ________. (A) she wanted to have a daughter of her own (B) she liked to be a voluntary egg donor

(C) she had much sympathy for those childless families (D) she needed the money from surrogate parenting

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2. The word ―row‖ in the sentence ―there was a lengthy e-mail row between the two sides‖ (para.4) can be replaced by ________. (A) negotiation (B) argument

(C) communication (D) dialogue

3. It can be found from the passage that the contract between Beasley and wheeler and Berman ________. (A) was unfair to the surrogate mother

(B) was quite comprehensive and accepted by both parties (C) did not include clauses related to multiple pregnancy

(D) specified the reduction of payment in case of multiple pregnancy

4. According to the passage, Beasley refused to terminate one of the fetuses out of all the following reasons EXCEPT that ________.

(A) her high blood pressure would lead to danger in operation (B) both of the twin fetuses would face the risk of being lost

(C) the termination would be too late after week 13 of her pregnancy (D) the decision to reduce fetuses was cruel and unethical

5. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? (A) Beasley is going to keep the twins herself. (B) Both sides are seeking potential parents.

(C) The laws concerning surrogate mothering are different in the two countries. (D) The case is quite unusual compared with most other surrogate cases.

Questions 6~10 Disaster crushes one man now, afterward others —Euripidies. If there are any bystanders left in the world—people on the sidelines, unaffected by major events of war, terrorism, global capitalism and technological change—they are very few. Inhabitants of remote Pacific islands or the forests of the Amazon might merit the description if they were not directly affected by environmental problems and the encroachment of commercial hunger for raw materials. Similarly, countries which claim neutrality are not really on no one’s side, they are on everyone’s side—as revealed by the fact that escaped allied prisoners could find safety in Switzerland during the war against Nazism, while at the same times their pursuers could equally safely bank their money there. But it is otherwise impossible for anyone now to stand aside from world affairs. It is an illusion to think that one can avoid the line of fire, or claim exemption from the effect of forces that smash and grind against each other internationally. Civilian populations are now frontline troops; they became so in the 20th century’s wars, suffering bombing and deprivation, their mobilization in those immense struggles making them a target even in their homes, the aim being as much to unnerve as to kill them—for a demoralized enemy is as good as a defeated one. Terrorism has exactly the aim, as its name implies, of frightening civilian populations into forcing their governments to concede. It takes only a few determined people to achieve this, applying the lesson—learned from the Spartans at Thermopylae via the Russian bands which harassed napoleon’s retreating Grand Armee, to the resistance fighters and insurgents everywhere in the modern world—that small forces can defeat big ones; in the case of whole populations, by means of psychological war. Thus a well-directed terrorist attack is destructive far beyond its primary site; it can paralyze communications, clog the wheels of ordinary life, panic millions, wipe value off stock exchanges, destroy industries and thereby livelihoods—all as a function of purely psychological aftershock, whose effectiveness lies in its reaching further outward in space and time, radiating outwards from the original focus, in some respects intensifying in the process.

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