英语高级口译岗位资格证书考试题库【历年真题及详解(一~三)】【

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上海市英语高级口译岗位资格证书考试真题及详解（一）

第一阶段考试

SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST (30 minutes)

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.

We already live in an over-communicated world that will only become more so in the next tech era. We’ve _____(1) that gets us so much information. We’ve got _____(2)every second, we’ve got computers and laptops, we’ve got personal organizers and we’re just being _____(3) and every advance in technology seems to create more and more communications at us. We are sort of _____(4).

Research suggests that all the multi-tasking may actually make our brains _____(5), producing a world-wide increase in IQ _____(6) and more in recent decades. Is there any real benefit in _____(7) we now have to go through?

We’re not becoming a race of _____(8), but many do think certain skills are enhanced and certain are not. You know the ability to _____(9), to answer a dozen mails in five minutes, or to fill out _____(10). That’s enhanced. But when someone is out there with his kids _____(11) or something like that, he’s got his cell phone in

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his pocket. He’s always wondering, “Gee, did I get a voicemail?” This might have negative effects _____(12).

Creativity is something that happens slowly. It happens when your brain is just _____(13), just playing, when it _____(14) which you hadn’t thou ght of, or maybe you have time to read a hook. You are a businessperson but you have time to _____(15), or about a philosopher and something that happened long ago or something or some idea _____(16). Actually, it might occur to you that you _____(17) in t hat way, and so it’s this mixture of unrelated ideas that feeds your productivity, _____(18). And if your mind is disciplined to answer every e-mail, then you don’t have time for that playful nodding. You don’t have time for _____(19). So I think maybe we’re getting smarter in some senses, hut over-communication is _____(20) and to our reflection.

【答案】

1. developed technology

2. cell phones ringing

3. bombarded with communication

4. overwhelmed by the information flow

5. work better and faster

6. up to 20 points

7. all these mental gymnastics

8. global idiots

9. make fast decisions

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10. maybe big aptitude tests

11. playing in his little league

12. on our own brain patterns

13. nodding around

14. puts together ideas

15. read a book about history

16. somebody thought of long ago

17. can think of your own business

18. feeds your creativity

19. those unexpected conjunctions

20. a threat to our creativity

【录音原文】

We already live in an over-communicated world that will only become more so in the next tech era. We’ve developed technology that gets us so much information that we’ve got cell phones ringing every second, we’ve got computers and laptops, we’ve got personal organizers and we’re just being bombarded with communication and every advance in technology seems to create more and more communications at us. We are sort of overwhelmed by the information flow.

Research suggests that all the multi-tasking may actually make our brains work better and faster, producing a world-wide increase in IQ up to 20 points and more in recent decades. Is there any real benefit in all these mental gymnastics we now

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have to go through?

We’re not becoming a race of glob al idiots, but many do think certain skills are enhanced and certain are not. You know the ability to make fast decisions, to answer a dozen e-mails in five minutes, or to fill out maybe big aptitude tests. That’s enhanced. But when someone is out there wi th his kids playing in his little league or something like that, he’s got his cell phone in his pocket. He’s always wondering, “Gee, did I get a voicemail?” This might have negative effects on our own brain patterns.

Creativity is something that happens slowly. It happens when your brain is just noodling around, just playing, when it puts together ideas which you hadn’t thought of, or maybe you have time to read a book. You are a businessperson but you have time to read a book about history, or about a philosopher and something that happened long ago or something or some idea somebody thought of long ago. Actually, it might occur to you that you can think of your own business in that way, and so it’s this mixture of unrelated ideas that feeds your produc tivity, feeds your creativity. And if your mind is disciplined to answer every e-mail, then you don’t have time for that playful noodling. You don’t have time for those unexpected conjunctions. So I think maybe we’re getting smarter in some senses, but over-communication is a threat to our creativity and to our reflection.

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 same questions. The talks,

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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. Now let’s begin Part B wi th Listening

Comprehension.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following conversation.

1. (A) The designing of a new town.

(B) The most livable small town in America.

(C) The financing of a housing project.

(D) The updating of old building codes.

2. (A) Houses with front porches.

(B) Houses that are very close together.

(C) Quarter-of-an-acre or half-an-acre private yard space.

(D) Easy access to the town center and to the vital institutions.

3. (A) It has nothing to do with a sense of nostalgia for the past.

(B) It has failed in the new town mentioned in the conversation.

(C) People prefer to stay in an air-conditioned front porch.

(D) People spend very much time on front porches in hot climates.

4. (A) You are not allowed to use red curtains facing the street.

(B) You couldn’t attach a satellite dish to your house.

(C) You should remove plastic products from front porches.

(D) You mustn’t park your car in front of your house for long.

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5. (A) Some of these rules seem to go a little too far.

(B) Some of these rules are contradictory.

(C) These rules are all dictated by the local laws.

(D) These rules have not been approved by the developer.

【答案与解析】

1.A 对话开头男士便提到“in designing this new town…”，接着回顾了美国以前的小

城镇把最好的设计元素结合在一起，例如联排别墅，人行道，前廊和两边种着树的街道等。之后女士向男士提到“…give us a sense of how this new town was designed”，接下来对话中又多次提到new town，可推测本段对话主要围绕新城镇建设展开，因此选项A正确。

2.C 对话开头男士在回顾美国以前的小城镇时提到“houses close toget her...front

porches...easy, non-automobile-dependent access to the town center and to your neighbors and to the school and the other institutions that are vital”。

而在建造新城镇时把这些设计元素加进去并进行修改可以营造出社区感，可见只有选项C的内容没有被提及。

3.B 男士讲述完新城镇的设计后，女士提到新城镇将会带有一种怀旧感，就像过去很多房

子有门廊一样，男人接着指出这样会创造出“front porch culture”，对此进行解释后男士提到“But that really has been one of the failures that we observed during our two years in this new town...”，因此选项B与录音内容相符。

4.D 对话最后男士谈论了新城镇的规则制度，其中提到规定面向街道窗帘的颜色，并曾让

一位女士换掉红色窗帘，对应A项；此外这些规则要求“You couldn’t attach a satellite dish to your house”，对应B项；而且还规定“remove plastic flowers

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