1、 06 年 3 月高口试题12006 年 3 月英语高级口译考试真题Part A: Spot DictationMarks to be a teacher, taking off from where the classroom, always prematurely, has stopped, and to be a thinker, looking beyond his specific subject at society, history, philosophy. Reduce him to a consumer guide, run his reviews on a Web site
2、 mixed in with the next-door neighbors pontifications, and you condemn criticism to obsolescence. Still, one would like to think that the blog is not the enemy, and that readers seeking enlightenment could find it on the right blog-just as in the past one went looking through diverse publications fo
3、r the congenial critic. But it remains up to the readers to learn how to discriminate.16. Which of the following expresses the authors reasoning when the author says that the “criticism“ over the lnternet, in blogs and chat rooms is “uncritical“?(A) If everyone is a critic, it is neither democracy n
4、or criticism.(B) When people only choose to express their opinions pseudonymously, what they were doing is to assault the others simply by waving the “ax“.(C) Real criticism should be expressed by giving the reasoning, the process of reasoning and letting the audience to reach their own conclusion.(
5、D) All the critics should be self-respecting and should be well-informed before they give their criticisms.17. When the author concludes that “what may be imperiled, more than 06 年 3 月高口试题14criticism, is the word“(para. 7), he possibly means that with the shrinking of print space, _(A) words will be
6、 less meaningful and criticism much more shallower(B) language dictionaries will be much thinner and simpler(C) people will not be interested in using dictionaries to learn the vocabulary(D) human language will be greatly affected and even deteriorate18. When the author thinks that the critic has th
7、ree duties of “novelist or playwright“, “teacher“ and “thinker“(para. 8), he probably means that a critic should be equipped with all of the following qualities EXCEPT_.(A) original thinking (B)enlightened instruction(C) philosophical insight (D) matter-of-fact attitude19. It can be concluded from t
8、he last paragraph that the author _(A) encourages the readers to make independent judgment(B) fails to advise readers to seek enlightenment on any of the blogs(C) never thinks that blogs will share the similar features with traditional publications(D) probably agrees that the blog is the enemy20. Wh
9、ich of the following shows the authors attitude towards the coming of the “uncritical age“?(A) sympathetic and supportive. (B) critical and sarcastic.(C) optimistic and welcoming. (D) neutral and indifferent.SECTION 3: TRANSLATION TESTThe popular view when discussing urban transportation in American
10、 cities to day is to decry its sorry state. Newspapers and journals are filled with talk of an “urban transportation crisis,“ of the “difficulties of getting from here to there,“ and so on at great length. Matters are reported to be getting worse - and very quickly. Everyone has his own favorite tra
11、umatic experience to report: of the occasion when many of the switches froze on New Yorks commuter railroads; of the sneak snowstorm in Boston that converted thirty-minute commuter trips into seven hour ordeals; of the extreme difficulties in Chicago and other Midwestern cities when some particularl
12、y heavy and successive snowstorms were endured. One reason for the talk of an urban transportation crisis in the United States today perhaps lies in a failure to meet anticipations. Many commuters expected to reduce their commuting times as systems improved, but instead found themselves barely able
13、to maintain the status quo in terms of time requirements. Another reason for talk of crisis, almost certainly, is that the rate of improvement in the performance of urban transportation systems during rush hours has been markedly inferior to that expected during off-peak hours. Specifically, the abi
14、lity to move quickly about 06 年 3 月高口试题15American cities during non-rush hors has improved in a truly phenomenal fashionSECTION 4: LISTENING TESTPart A: Note-taking And Gap-fillingToday, well be discussing EQ: emotional intelligence quotient. Your emotional intelligence quotient seems to indicate ho
15、w well you _ (1) your own emotions, and how well you _ (2) to others.EQ is not exactly a new idea, but the _ (3) itself is a new one. People have realized the way you control your feelings is just as important as your _ (4), maybe, even more important.The focus of todays session is: can you learn EQ
16、? Some _ (5) school teachers think that some kids have _ (6) EQs than others. Even at five or six years old, some of the kids tend to be much more _ (7) and _ (8) than others. Another example is that kids deal with _ (9) in different ways. One may get frustrated with a _ (10) problem, but another ch
17、ild, with a higher EQ, might be able to handle the situation better. She might try _ (11) ways to approach the problem, or ask for _ (12).Can you _ (13) to have a higher EQ? People seem to have different views on this question. Most of the people believe that the answer to this question is _ (14). F
18、or example, kids can be _ (15) to have patience and not to give up when things go wrong. They learn to respond well to their _ (16). But others dont agree. They find that some people never learn to _ (17) their EQ. The problem is that people with a low EQ have a _ (18) time seeing how their behavior
19、 affects other people. They see no reason to _ (19). Theyll probably never adjust their _ (20).Part B: Listening and Translation1. Sentence Translation. Passage TranslationSECTION 5: READING TESTThird-generation corn farmer Paul Siegel says working the land will always be his true love. “Theres noth
20、ing like planting a seed, nurturing it and harvesting it,“ says the owner of Siegels Cottonwood Farms in Crest Hill, Ill., near Chicago. But Siegel admits that it is his animal Pumpkin Fest that keeps his farms afloat. Started in 1990, with a pumpkin patch and hayrides. Siegels fall festival has mus
21、hroomed into a full-fledged theme park complete with haunted barns, a petting zoo, a 10-acre corn maze and snacks such as smoked turkey legs, kettle corn and funnel cake. The festival attracts more than 30,000 visitors each fall and brings in three times the revenue of Siegels 400 acres of corn, soy
22、bean and grain crops. “I still get to plant in the spring and harvest in the fall.“ says Siegel, “but I have four kids to feed and send to college. We have to make it.“For Gia Wilson, 31, who visited the farm with her husband and kids, ages 2 and 5, on a recent Sunday, Cottonwood Farms is just good,
23、 old-fashioned fun. “The idea 06 年 3 月高口试题16of being outdoors, the animals, the nature-except for reading about it in storybooks or seeing picture, this isnt something the kids would get to experience.“ she says. Such enthusiasm has helped thousands of farmers like Siegel to thrive in the growing bu
24、siness of agricultural tourism. At a time when profit margins for crops have been slashed razor thin by rising costs, “you have to consider agritainment,“ says Kay Hollabaugh, president of the North American Farmer Direct Marketing Association. An estimated 62 million people visited farms in 2001, t
25、he latest figures available. Annual agritourism revenues range from $20 million in Vernon to $200 million in New York. In Hawaii, revenues rose 30%, to $34 million, from 2000 to 2003.Although there are a few Christmas attractions, such as reindeer and sleigh rides on tree farms, the weeks leading up
26、 to Halloween and Thanksgiving are the peak season for agritourism, especially in the Midwest, where the phenomenon is booming. Youngs Jersey Daily in Yellow Springs, Ohio, attracts more than 1.4 million visitors a year to its dairy farm, which also offers baseball batting cages, a miniature-golf co
27、urse and homemade ice cream, Eckerts Country Farm one I just received from a famous London museum begins, typically. “We notice you have a number of images on your website which are of portraits in the collection of our museum. Unauthorized reproduction of such content may be an infringement.“I now
28、respond with a two-part letter. First, I patiently and tediously explain that museums do not and cannot own the copyrights to paintings that have been in the public domain for hundreds of year. And then I simply say: “You should be ashamed of yourselves.“ Museums exist to educate the public about ou
29、r shared cultural heritage. The abuse of copyright to corner that heritage is a moral crime.The excuse normally given, the producing digital reproductions is costly and time- consuming, and museums need to be able to recoup that cost, is entirely bogus. Just give us permission, and Wikipedians will
30、go to any museum in the world immediately to make high-quality digital images of any artwork. The solution to preserving our heritage and communicating it in a digital form is not to lock it up, but to get out of our way.This issue, public-domain artworks, is about an abuse of existing law. But the
31、law itself is also a problem. Copyrights have been repeatedly extended to absurd lengths for all kinds of works, whether the author aims to protect them or not. Even works that have no economic value are locked away under copyright, 06 年 3 月高口试题18preventing Wikipedians from rewriting and updating th
32、em.Every school system in the world faces the problem of expensive text. Wikipedia show a way to a solution, and we have founded a supporting project called Wikibooks to implement that solution. Here, thousands of volunteers are working to write textbooks to implement that solution. If we still live
33、d in an era of reasonable copyright lengths (14 to 28 years, with registration), it would be no problem for us to seek out works of lapsed copyright, abandoned by their owners, and update them quickly. We could cut the costs of textbooks in schools radically, not just in the Untied States and other
34、wealthy countries, but in the developing world as well.And finally, the example set by Wikipedia and Wikibooks is beginning to spread, in an explosion of creativity. Another of my projects, the for-profit Wikicities, allows communities to form and build knowledge bases or other works on any topic of
35、 interest. Again, thousands of people are working to write the definitive guides to humor, films, books, etc., and they are doing this work voluntarily and placing it all under free licenses as a gift to the world. And, of course, here we have again all the same problems of abusive application of co
36、pyright law as at Wikipedia and Wikibooks. We obey the law; we are not about civil disobedience. We want only to be good, to do good and to share knowledge in a million different ways.We have the people to do it. We have the technology to do it. And we will do it, bad law or no. But good law, law th
37、at recognizes a new paradigm of collaborative creativity, will make our job a lot easier. Copyright reform is not about kids stealing music. It is about recognizing the astounding possibilities inherent in the honest and intelligent use of new technologies.4. What are Wikipedia and Wikibooks? Why di
38、d the author start such projects?5. Explain the statement “the abuse of copyright to corner that heritage is a moral crime.“ (para.3)6. What is the authors attitude to the current copyright laws and what is his suggestion? Give your comments.Questions 7-10It took nearly eight years the new heart dru
39、g BiDil to win approval from the Food and Drug Administration-and it won that approval only after its maker, a small company called NitroMed, repositioned it as a treatment earmarked for African Americans. But if NitroMed thought getting BiDil past the FDA was hard, wait until it tries marketing the
40、 drug to its target group. Even during its clinical trials, BiDil ran into resistance. Says Dr. Theodore Addai of Nashvilles Meharry Medical College, who had to enlist black patients for a 2001 trial: “We had to try to persuade them that this was not another Tuskegee.“Hes referring to the infamous T
41、uskegee experiment conducted by the U.S. government from the 1930s to the early 70s, during which doctors denied nearly 06 年 3 月高口试题19400 black men in Alabama treatment for syphilis in other to observe the diseases long-term effects The scars left by Tuskegee are slow to heal in the African-American
42、 community and many blacks remain deeply suspicious of anything that approaches the emotionally changed intersection of race and medicine.The AIDS epidemic is a prime example. According to the Centers for Disease Control, blacks account for 50% of new HIV and AIDS cases in the U.S. although they rep
43、resent only 13% of the population. African-American women are especially at risk, their annual AIDS case rate is 25 times that of white women. Citing those statistics significant numbers of black Americans subscribe to various AIDS conspiracy theories. According to a poll conducted for the Rand Corp
44、, last January 53% of black Americans surveyed believe there is a cure for AIDS that is being withheld from the poor and 15% believes the disease was created by the government in order to control the black population Phil Wilson, director of the Black AIDS institute, says such attitudes are hamperin
45、g his work with antiretroviral drugs. “The most common thing we bear with AIDS drugs is “Oh, theyre going to experiment on you,“ he says. “The most cited example is the Tuskegee trials even though most of us dont even know what Tuskegee was.“Tuskegee aside, the discrepancies in medical care between
46、blacks and whites in the U.S. are real and persistent and not explained by differences in economic status alone. In March 2003 a study by the institute of Medicine as the National Academy of Sciences found that even after controlling for such factors as income and insurance coverage, minorities in t
47、he U.S. routinely received lower quality health care than whites. Matters were not improved in the early 90s when some Governors and state officials tried to mandate the use of a newly approved five-year birth control device called Norplant as a way of curbing teenage pregnancy and reducing welfare
48、costs, a campaign that instantly acquired racial overtones.In that context, its not surprising that the idea behind BiDil-the first drug approved for a specific race-has been controversial from the start. The drug is actually a combination of one older generic medicines. When it was first tested on
49、the general population as a treatment for congestive heart failure-a gradual weakening of the heart-the FDA ruled that the results were not statistically significant. It was only when the drug was retested on patients who identified themselves as African Americans that the benefits converged a 43% reduction in the death note and a 39% reduc
