2017翻译考试中级口译模拟真题
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SECTION 2: STUDY SKILLS (50 minutes)
Directions: In this section, you will read several passage. Each passage is followed by several questions based on its content. 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 ANSWER BOOKLET.
Questions 1～5.
The bath was invented before the bath plug. The bath plug could not have been invented before the bath, except as a small object with which to play ice hockey. The order in which inventions are made is very important, much more important than has ever been realised, because we tend automatically to think that later inventions are better than earlier ones. A moment's thought will show this is not so. If, for example, a solution to today's urban traffic problems was proposed in the shape of a small man-powered two-wheeled vehicle which would make the motor car look like a cumbersome overpowered device, a space rocket trying to tackle suburban problems, we would greet it as a great technological break through.“Bicycle makes car obsolete!”we would cry. Unfortunately, the bike came first, so we shall unconsciously see it as a cruder version of the car.
Other things which may have been invented too early are the airship, the radio, the railway train, the piano-roll player and the cuff-link.
Consider also the zip. Zips represent a technological advance on buttons, being faster and more complete. They are also more liable to come adrift, break, jam, malfunction, stick and catch. Buttons can only go wrong if the thread is faulty. Even then, buttons can be mended by the user. Zips rarely can.
1. The expression“ice hockey”(sentence 2) means_________.
A. a freezing compartment B. a game played on an ice rink
C. a sweet flavoured frozen food D. a building in which ice is made.
2. If the bicycle were to be invented now the car would appear__________.
A. unsuitable for its purpose B. in advance of its time
C. unnecessarily expensive D. too fast for safety
3. The airship and the radio are examples of thins which__________.
A. were not fully appreciated at the time of their invention
B. are more suitable for use now than when they were invented
C. have been neglected in favour of more recent inventions
D. are less suited to their purpose than earlier inventions
4. According to the writer, buttons are preferable to zips because they__________.
A. are more convenient B. are more reliable
C. cost less to replace D. are safer to use
5. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. A Cumbersome Over-Powered Device
B. A Great Technological Breakthrough
C. Do Zips Represent A Technological Advance?
D. Does Technological Progress Work Backwards?
Questions 6～10
It took policeman John Pooley only an hour or two to solve the Case of the Thorpeness Burglary. It must be said, however, that the crime was not difficult. The description, though slight, narrowed the number of persons likely to commit such a crime...to one. Pooley, of course, knows everyone in the three villages in his care, and their children. But after he had made the arrest —something he has to do more rarely than once a month—he felt troubled because he not only knew the man, but also knew that he had family problems.
Like most village police men, John Pooley is in charge of a very large area by police standards, which includes the three villages of Middleton, Dunwich and Westleton, where he lives. With a total population of 1, 219, he has more than twice as many people to look after as the average policeman has. Moreover, he is attached to the Halesworth subdivision and is frequently given duties outside his home area. After 15 years as a policeman, he accepts these duties without question, but his villages are clearly where his heart and interest really lie. When he was first sent to Westleton, he lived in the police house whichwas both his home and the police station; when the system was changed, he bought the house where he now lives with his wife, Ann, and his two daughters.
He could hardly be better qualified for the job of village policeman. Before he joined the police, he was an agricultural worker for five years and a male nurse in a mental hospital for six years. He says:“If you haven't had another job before you join the police, you tend to think nothing but police.”
Crime in the country, of course, is somewhat different from city crime. Who was ever attacked while walking along the village street in Middleton? The things which John Pooley has to watch for are people stealing tools and equipment from farm vehicles, or wood from the surrounding forests. There are natural dangers too: he is so worried about the fire risk in forests that he has turned his bedroom window into a look-post.
6. Why was John Pooley able to solve the Case of the Thorpeness Burglary so easily?
A. He had been given a full description of the criminal.
B. He knew everything that happened in the area.
C. There were few crime cases in his area.
D. There was only one possible suspect.
7. From the passage it appears that nowadays a village policeman, like John Pooley, has to _______.
A. live in a village police house
B. put out forest fires
C. go through a long period of training
D. look after more people than policemen elsewhere
8. According to the passage, we learn that he________.
A. is unpopular with the people in the villages
B. objects when he is given work outside his own area
C. prefers working in the villages of Middleton, Dunwich and Westleton
D. feels unhappy when he arrests anybody.
9. John Pooley thinks he is well qualified for hisjob because_________.
A. he had other jobs before he became a policeman
B. has has been a policeman for fifteen years
C. he has lived in Westleton all his life
D. he is a countryman at heart
10. Crime in this area is different from crime in a big city because_________.
A. it is hardly ever violent
B. people here have more family problems
C. the victim is easily attacked
D. it is connected with natural disasters
Questions 11～15
Another dropped stitch in life's rich tapestry: 15-year-old schoolboy who was caught in the Stock Market crash after a ￡100,000 shares gamble. Peeved stockbrokers to whom he owes ￡20,000 now say in injured tones:“He has been very naughty. We thought he was 19. ”
I must say that small fry finances have come on a bit since the era of Billy Bunter's nonarriving five bob postal order. While not in the same league as Britain's youngest yuppie, I see from a Health Education Authority survey that school teenagers are now spending ￡10 a week or more on records, clothes and booze. The good news is that nearly one in two of the big spenders holds, the girls either babysitting or working in shops and cafes.
I call this a very welcome trend. For a very long time, going right back to the golden age of the Welfate State, there was a real social stigma attached to the idea of school kids working. Local authorities frowned on it, teachers disapproved of it, parents felt guilty about it, and children themselves came to believe that having to earn their own pocket money was a great imposition.
To be sure, there is still opposition in some quarters. But by and large the pendulum seems to be swinging the right way again. The other day I heard of a gang of lads who station themselves outside a car wash every Saturday offering, much to the rage of the manager, to do the job half-price. Now that's enterprise. Back in the days of the Saturday penny. I was something of an entrepreneur myself. I had five paper rounds, a firewood business, a golf-caddying concession and a contract to carry groceries back to the convent for a bunch of local nuns. I was working a good twenty-four hours a week out of school, and as the saying goes, it never did me any harm. Indeed I'm sure it did me a good deal of good.
Ten pounds a week does seem an awful lot to be squandering on fripperies, but at least it's as often as not their own hard earned cash. More to the point, they learn at a tender age that while it may or may not be ture that money cannot buy happiness, at least happiness—in the form of satisfaction at a job well done, that is—can buy money.
But don't sink it all in futures, kids.
11.According to the passage, which of the following indicates the stockbrokers' attitude to the schoolboy?
A. Guilty B. Awful. C. Satisfied. D. Annoyed
12.According to the passage, which of the following is the most popular job for boys?
A. Baby-sitting. B. Working in cafes.
C. Paper rounds. D. Working in shops.
13. It can be concluded from the passage that local authorities and teachers frowned on children working part-time because_________.
A. it was socially unacceptable
B. nearly one in two of the big spenders got a poor mark
C. teenagers had spent too much money on records
D. money cannot buy happiness and progress
14. How did the writer earn extra money when he was a teenager?
A. Selling sandalwood. B. Working in shops.
C. Working in cafes. D. Delivering groceries.
15.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. Children may get satisfaction from working part-time.
B. School teenagers usually spend ￡10 a week on records.
C. A good 24 hours a week out of school is the right amount of time for kids.
D. School girls often work in shops and cafes.
Questions 16～20
In the mid-1980's no thrusting executive was complete without his her personal organiser— a leather binder containing everything from address-book and diary to a career-planning chart. Then came the portable telephone, whispered into with ostentatious discretion. Now the electronic organiser has arrived. Psion, a British firm which created the first such digital diarycum-calculator, sells about 200,000 a year. Competitors are piling into the market.
When Psion launched its hand-held computer in 1982, it foresaw two markets. One was in the salerooms and warehouses of large companies. Here, stocktakers and salesmen needed a portable way to talk to the big computers back at head office. About half of Psion's sales now come from companies—as well as many lucrative contracts to write software specially tailored to link its little machines into a firm's computer network.
The other half of Psion's sales come from individuals keen to organise themselves electronically. Most use the machine as a“personal data base”(i.e., address book and diary) or to crunch numbers too tough for their calculators to handle. It takes several times longer to tap a name or a date into the tiny keyboard of a hand-held computer than it does to write it down on an Asprey pad. But hundreds of thousands of people seem to think it worthwhile—maybe because the computer can search speedily through electronically stored names—or because it impresses their friends.
Whatever the reasons, other companies are impressed with the market the Psion Organiser Ⅱhas discovered. Japan's Sharp recently launched a similar machine, and Casio has been nibbling at the edges of the market for some time. Other companies are selling programs that enable Psion to do tasks ranging from complex financial calculations to rudimentary French-English translation.
A fledgling British firm has launched an electronic“Agenda”with a new, faster way of entering“lunch with Desdemona ”. It uses the Microwriter keyboard, which was invented some years ago by Mr. Cy Endfield, a film director whose other works include“Zulu”. His idea soon gained the support of Sir Mark Weinberg, chairman of an insurance group. Allied Dunbar. He is a 30% shareholder in Microwriter and has written its notably undaunting instruction book.
In addition to the standard letter keys, the Microwriter has a second keyboard consisting of five unmarked keys, one for each finger. By pressing the keys in various combinations, one can learn quickly to“type”almost as fast as on a full keyboard. The Microwriter was first peddled as a sort of hand-held word-processor, but only about 7,000 were sold. Now the firm is hoping that the boom in electronic organisers will revive its fortunes.
16. According to the passage, which of the following is true about a personal organiser popular in the mid-1980's?
A. It had an expensive binding.
B. It contained all the information needed.
C. It was an impact made on status-conscious friends.
D. It was indispensable to ambitious executives.
17. The advantage of the Psion product over earlier personal organisers is.
A. that information can be retrieved more quickly
B. the ability to provide a quicker input of information
C. improved electronics
D. its processing of numbers
18. Compared to traditional calculators, the Psion product .
A. is cheaper B. is more durable
C. has greater capacity D. has a longer quality guarantee
19.According to the author, the response of other companies to Psion has been to .
A. criticize its technology
B. launch more competitively priced products
C. capitalise on its success
D. produce bilingual models
20. We can learn from the passage that one novel feature of the Microwriter is .
A. its instruction book
B. the fact that it was invented by a film director
C. its dual keyboard
D. the fact that it is a word-processor
Questions 21～25
Great emotional and intellectual resources are demanded in quarrels; stamina helps, as does a capacity for obsession. But no one is born a good quarreller; the craft must be learned.
There are two generally recognised apprenticeships. First, and universally preferred, is a long childhood spent in the company of fractious siblings. After several years of rainy afternoons, brothers and sister develop a sure feel for the tactics of attrition and the niceties of strategy so necessary in first-rate quarrelling.
The only child, or the child of peaceful or repressed households, is likely to grow up failing to understand that quarrels, unlike arguments, are not about anything, least of all the pursuit of truth. The apparent subject of a quarrel is a mere pretext; the real business is the quarrel itself.
Essentially, adversaries in a quarrel are out to establish or rescue their dignity. Hence the elementary principle: anything may be said. The unschooled, probably no less quarrelsome by inclination than anyone else, may spend an hour with knocking heart, sifting the consequences of calling this old acquaintance a lying fraud. Too late! With a cheerful wave the old acquaintance has left the room.
Those who miss their first apprenticeship may care to enrol in the second, the bad marriage. This can be perilous for the neophyte; the mutual intimacy of spouses makes them at once more vulnerable and more dangerous in attack. Once sex is involved, the stakes are higher all round. And there is an unspoken rule that those who love, or have loved, one another are granted a licence for unlimited beastliness such as is denied to mere sworn enemies. For all that, some of our most tenacious black belt quarrellers have come to it late in lie and mastered every throw, from the Grushing Silence to the Gloating Apology, in less than ten years of marriage.
A quarrel may last years among brooding types with time on their hands, like writers, half a lifetime is not uncommon. In its most refined form, a quarrel may consist of the participants not talking to each other. They will need to scheme laboriously to appear in public together to register their silence.
Brief, violent quarrels are also known as rows. In all cases the essential ingredient remains the same; the original must be forgotten as soon as possible. From here on, dignity, pride, self-esteem honour are the crucial issues, which is why quarrelling, like jealousy, is an all-consuming business, virtually a profession. For the quarreler's very sefl-hood is on the line. To lose an argument is a brief disappointment, much like losing a game of tennis, but to be crushed in a quarrel...rather bite off your tongue and spread it at your opponent's feet.
21. Unschooled quarrelers are said to be at disadvantage because_________.
A. their insults fail to offend their opponent
B. they reveal their nervousness to their opponent
C. they suffer from remorse for what they've said
D. they are apprehensive about speaking their minds
22. According to the writer, quarrels between married couples may be_________.
A. physically violent B. extremely frequent
C. essentially trivial D. sincerely regretted
23. When quarreling, both children and married couples may__________.
A. be particularly brutal B. use politeness as a weapon
C. employ skillful maneuvers D. exaggerate their feelings
24. The difference between a quarrel and an argument is said to be that__________.
A. the former involves individual egos
B. the former concerns strong points of view
C. the latter has well-established rules
D. the latter concerns trivial issues
25. In the passage as a whole, the writer treats quarreling as if it were__________.
A. a military campaign B. a social skill
C. a moral evil D. a natural gift
Questions 26～30
When an individual enters the presence of others, they commonly seek to acquire information about him or to bring into play information about him already possessed. They will be interested in his general socio-economic status, his conception of self, his attitude towards them, his competence and his trustworthiness. Although some of this information seems to be sought almost as an end in itself, there are usually quite practical reasons for acquiring it. Information about the individual helps to define the situation, enabling others to know in advance what he will expect of them and what they may expect of him. Informed in these ways, the others will know how best to act in order to call forth a desired response from him.
For those present, many sources of information become accessible and many carriers (or“sign-vehicles”) become available for conveying this information. If unacquatinted with the individual, observers can glean clues from his conduct and appearnce which allow them to apply their previous experience with individuals roughly similar to the one before them or, more important, to apply untested stereotypes to him. They can also assume from past experience that only individuals of a particular kind are likely to be found in a given social setting. They can rely on what the individual says about himself or on documentary evidence he provides as to who and what he is. If prior to the interaction, they can rely on assumptions as to the persistence and generality of psychological traits as a means of prediciting his present and future behaviour
However, during the period in which the individual is in the immediate presence of the others, few events may occur which directly provide the others with the conclusive information they will need if they are to direct wisely their own activity. Many crucial facts lie beyond the time and place of interaction to lie concealed within it. For example,“true”or real attitudes, beliefs and emotions of the individual can be ascertained only indirectly, through his avowals or through what appears to be involuntary expressive behaviour. Similarly, if the individual offers the others a product or service, they will often find that during the interaction there will be no time and place immediately available for eating the pudding that the proof can be found in. They will be forced to accept some e vents as conventional or natural signs of something not directly available to the senses.
26. In paragraph 2, what does the underlined word “ them”in“ ...which allow them to apply their previous experience with individuals...”refer to?
A. beliefs B. emotions
C. individuals D. observers
27. The expression“untested stereotypes”(paragraph 2) means_________.
A. unstable mental characteristics
B. the capacity not proved by a person's earning power
C. fixed views that have not been questioned
D. areas of information not available
28. When people meet someone they generally want to find out all of the following EXCEPT_____.
A. his general socio-economic status
B. his general attitude towards life
C. his future behaviour
D. key information about his education
29. Which of the following is NOT true about the points given by the author about self-presentation?
A. Key factors in self-presentation are to do with personality, characteristics and socio-economic status.
B. People carry sign-vehicles—such as appearance and conduct—that give information about them.
C. Self-presentation may mask deeper realities
D. Self-presentation is important for successful interpersonal communication.
30. According to the passage, how can people find out about another person's“real”beliefs and attitudes?
A. By studying crucial facts B. by talking with the person.
C. Only directly. D. Only indirectly.
SECTION 3: TRANSLATION TEST (1) (30 minutes)
Directions: Translate the following passage into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.
One way an organization can find staff for j ob vacancies is to recruit outside the company. It may opt to put an advertisement in a newspaper or magazine which gives a short description of the j ob and invites introductory letters from applicants. Since the company would not desire applicants who do not have a good profile. it is important that an application form sent to a profile. it is important that an application form sent to a prospective applicant should request clear information about such things as the applicant's age, qualifications and work experience as well as references from other individuals who know the applicant well. This information assists the company's management in making a final decision on those applicants they can short-list for an interview.
The staff conducting an interview together are called an“interview panel”, who, prior to the interview, carefully review the j ob descriptions, personnel specifications, and applications. To help the panel in their selection, an interview assessment form is often used during the interview when each applicant is checked according to a number of criteria indicated on the form.
SECTION 4: TRANSLATION TEST (2) (30 minutes)
Directions: Translate the following passage into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.
这所大学的任务是培养德智体全面发展，能熟练运用外语从事外事和文化交流工作的合格人才。本科生分四年制和五年制两种，学生毕业考试及格并且通过论文后，即可获得学士学位。通用语种的学生，在能熟练使用外语后，还要接受诸如外事翻译、语言学、文学、新闻、国际文化交流等方面的'专业训练。这样，毕业生在掌握一门外语 外还须具备上述专业的基础知识。
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