2007年3月英语高级口译考试真题附参考答案
SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST
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 sp ace in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ON LY ONCE.
Most "unassertive" people are not confident and take no for an answer much too easily. There is a growing awareness in our society that this te ndency ________ (1) the rights of large numbers of people. For example, in recent years there has been an upsurge in ________ (2) and pressur e groups. This is a ________ (3) as there will always be a need for suc h organizations to ________ (4) individuals and minorities in a competitiv e society. The danger is that we ________ (5) for our rights and lose th e art of asserting ourselves. It is better for ________ (6) with other peo ple if you can learn ________ (7) for yourself.
Now, we have to learn to ignore some of the ________ (8) that may be ringing in our unconscious minds, such as: "If you ask once more, I'll fl atten you", and" ________ (9)".
The main technique that we use in ________ (10) to practice the art of persistence is called Broken Record. ________ (11) we hear one sentenc
e over and over again until we reach screaming pitch and ________ (1
2).
Broken Record is the skill of being able to repeat over and over again, _ _______ (13), what it is you want or need, until the other person gives in or ________ (14).
Now, this technique is extremely useful for dealing with situations where your rights are clearly________ (15), or coping with situations where you are likely to be diverted by clever, ________ (16).
The beauty of using Broken Record is that you________ (17) because yo u know exactly what you are going to say, however________ (18) the ot her person tries to be.
As with most assertive techniques, it must be used appropriately. It is __ ______ (19) and is not designed to foster deep, interesting conversations and friendships with people! It is primarily of use in situations where __ ______ (20).
Part B: Listening Comprehension
Directions: In this part of the test there will be some short talks and con versations. After each one, you will be asked some questions. The talks, conversations and questions will be spoken ONLY ONCE. Now listen caref ully and choose the right answer to each question you have heard and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding spac e in your ANSWER BOOKLET.
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following conversation.
1. (A) Education and health.
(B) Health in adolescence.
(C) Sleep deprivation in teens.
(D) Mysteries of sleep.
2. (A) A balance in cognitive thoughts and emotions.
(B) A chronic sleep deprivation.
(C) A huge wave of sleepiness.
(D) A mighty sleep hormone.
3. (A) Melatonin is the source of a big push from biology that makes tee nagers night owls.
(B) Melatonin is a simple signal that turns on in the morning and turns off in the evening.
(C) Melatonin is secreted several hours later in childhood than it will be during adolescence.
(D) Melatonin doesn't shut off until 11 o'clock P.M. every day.
4. (A) They have to struggle to stay up all night.
(B) They get severely sleep deprived.
(C) They very often oversleep.
(D) They fall asleep too soon at night.
5. (A) Alertness.
(B) Reaction time.
(C) Emotion.
(D) Concentration.
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following news.
6. (A) Corporate executives are confident in the stock market trends.
(B) Investors in general believe that the outlook for profits is worsening.
(C) Some major company executives are selling more shares than buying.
(D) The US stock market is expanding at a 5.6 percent annual rate this year.
7. (A) To inspect the shuttle for potentially critical heat shield damage.
(B) To rewire the space station for a permanent power source.
(C) To beat the odds to get off the launch pad in the first night-time la unch.
(D) To make a fiery ascent that turns night into day.
8. (A) 50.
(B) 80.
(C) 150.
(D) 180.
9. (A) Forty-five women were killed in the blaze at a drug treatment cen ter.
(B) The fire was not caused by arson according to a senior firefighter.
(C) Nine mentally ill patients died in the fire.
(D) People were trapped behind locked gates and barred windows.
10. (A) Two detectives investigating the case had tested positive for trac es of radiation.
(B) The ex-wife and the former mother-in-law of the spy were also pois oned.
(C) The Russian businessman who met the former spy in London has fal len ill.
(D) There is a high degree of probability that it is polonium that killed t he spy.
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following interview.
11. (A) Closed to the public. (B) Silent and empty.
(C) Packed with (D) Strangely crowded.
12. (A) New Mexico. (B) Minnesota.
(C) The coast of Florida. (D) The Caribbean.
13. (A) Several gallons of petrol. (B) Food for at least three days.
(C) Plenty of drinking water. (D) A sturdy pair of work boots.
14. (A) The potential damage.
(B) The unexpected temperature changes.
(C) The hurricane's possible path.
(D) The vulnerability of the locals.
15. (A) Watch, wait and try not to panic.
(B) Choose another place for a vacation.
(C) Ask for their money back if there's a hurricane.
(D) Plan for very bad weather.
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following talk.
16. (A) Car alarms.
(B) Sirens.
(C) Jack-hammers.
(D) Loud music.
17. (A) Break eggs on the road.
(B) Take certain legal action.
(C) Use some minor retaliatory step.
(D) Paint the windshield or front hood of a car.
18. (A) It can only alert the police.
(B) It is of no use.
(C) It can prevent the car being broken into.
(D) It is really too expensive.
19. (A) It makes them noisier than they were 20 years ago.
(B) It makes it difficult for them to fall asleep.
(C) It affects their work during the day.
(D) It does harm to their hearing.
20. (A) Many New Yorkers agree about banning this form of sonic polluti on.
(B) The police have formed a posse to reduce the amount of noise.
(C) Police can break into a car as soon as the alarm goes off.
(D) Car alarms are very effective at preventing theft.
SECTION 2: READING TEST
Directions: In this section you will read several passages. Each one is foll owed 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 ANSWER BOOKLET.
Questions 1-5
When Harvey Ball took a black felt-tip pen to a piece of yellow paper in 1963, he never could have realized that he was drafting the face that w ould launch 50 million buttons and an eventual war over copyright. Mr. B all, a commercial artist, was simply filling a request from Joy Young of th e Worcester Mutual Insurance Company to create an image for their "smi le campaign" to coach employees to be more congenial in their customer relations. It seems there was a hunger for a bright grin—the original or der of 100 smiley-face buttons were snatched up and an order for 10,00 0 more was placed at once.
The Worcester Historical Museum takes this founding moment seriously. " Just as you'd want to know the biography of General Washington, we re alized we didn't know the comprehensive history of the Smiley Face," say s Bill Wallace, the executive director of the historical museum where the exhibit "Smiley—An American Icon" opens to the public Oct. 6 in Worcest er, Mass.
Worcester, often referred to by neighboring Bostonians as "that manufact uring town off Route 90," lays claim to several other famous commercial
firsts, the monkey wrench and shredded wheat among them. Smiley Face is a particularly warm spot in the city's history. Through a careful histori cal analysis, Mr. Wallace says that while the Smiley Face birthplace is un disputed, it took several phases of distribution before the distinctive roun ded-tipped smile with one eye slightly larger than the other proliferated i n the mainstream.
As the original buttons spread like drifting pollen with no copyright attach ed, a bank in Seattle next realized its commercial potential. Under the gu idance of advertising executive David Stern, the University Federal Saving s & Loan launched a very public marketing campaign in 1967 centered o n the Smiley Face. It eventually distributed 150,000 buttons along with pi ggy banks and coin purses. Old photos of the bank show giant Smiley Fa ce wallpaper.
By 1970, Murray and Bernard Spain, brothers who owned a card shop in Philadelphia, were affixing the yellow grin to everything from key chains to cookie jars along with "Have a happy day." "In the 1970s, there was a trend toward happiness," says Wallace. "We had assassinated a presid ent, we were in a war with Vietnam, and people were looking for [token s of] happiness. [The Spain brothers] ran with it."
The Smiley Face resurged in the 1990s. This time it was fanned by a leg al dispute between Wal-Mart, who uses it to promote its low prices, and Franklin Loufrani, a Frenchman who owns a company called SmileyWorld. Mr. Loufrani says he created the Smiley Face and has trademarked it ar ound the world. He has been distributing its image in 80 countries since 1971.
Loufrani's actions irked Ball, who felt that such a universal symbol should remain in the public domain in perpetuity. So in a pleasant proactive m ove, Ball declared in 1999 that the first Friday in October would be "Worl d Smile Day" to promote general kindness and charity toward children in need. Ball died in 2001.
The Worcester exhibit opens on "World Smile Day", Oct. 6. It features a plethora of Smiley Face merchandise—from the original Ball buttons to pl astic purses and a toilet seat—and contemporary interpretations by local artists. The exhibit is scheduled to run through Feb. 11.
1. According to the passage, the Worcester Historical Museum ______.
(A) concentrates on the collection of the most famous commercial firsts t he city has invented
(B) has composed a comprehensive history of the Smiley Face through t he exhibition
(C) treats Smiley Face as the other famous commercial firsts the city ha
s produced
(D) has organized the exhibit to arouse the Americans' patriotism
2. When the author used the expression "spread like drifting pollen "(par
a.4) to describe the gradual distribution of Smiley Face, he implies that _ _______.
(A) Harvey Ball did not claim the copyright of the yellow grin button
(B) the Smiley Face was immediately accepted by the public
(C) the button was not sold as an ordinary commercial product
(D) Harvey Ball had the intention to abandon the copyright of Smiley Fa ce
3. Why did Bill Wallace mention the assassination of the then American p resident and the Vietnam War in the 1970s?
(A) To have a review of the contemporary American history.
(B) To remind people that we should never forget the past.
(C) To explain why Americans liked the Smiley Face during that period.
(D) To show how the Spain brothers made a fortune through selling the yellow grin.
4. In the expression "Loufrani's actions irked Ball" (para.7), the word "irk ed" can best be replaced by ______.
(A) perplexed
(B) provoked
(C) irritated
(D) challenged
5. Which of the following is NOT true about the "World Smile Day"?
(A) It was established to commemorate the founder Harvey Ball.
(B) It was to promote general kindness and charity toward children in n eed.
(C) It was declared by Harvey Ball in 1999.
(D) It was decided to be held on the first Friday in October each year. Questions 6-10
Good teachers matter. This may seem obvious to anyone who has a chil d in school or, for that matter, to anyone who has been a child in schoo l. For a long time, though, researchers couldn't actually prove that teachi ng talent was important. But new research finally shows that teacher qua lity is a close cousin to student achievement: A great teacher can cram o ne-and-a-half grades' worth of learning into a single year, while laggards are lucky to accomplish half that much. Parents and kids, it seems, have been right all along to care whether they were assigned to Mrs. Smith or Mr. Brown.
Yet, while we know now that better teachers are critical, flaws in the wa y that administrators select and retain them mean that schools don't alw
ays hire the best.
Many ingredients for good teaching are difficult to ascertain in advance—charisma and diligence come to mind—but research shows a teacher's ow n ability on standardized tests reliably predicts good performance in the c lassroom. You would think, then, that top-scoring teachers would be swi mming in job offers, right? Not so, says Vanderbilt University professor D ale Ballou. High-scoring teaching applicants "do not fare better than other s in the job market," he writes. "Indeed, remarkably they do somewhat worse."
Even more surprising, given the national shortage of highly skilled math and science teachers, school administrators are more keen to hire educati on majors than applicants who have math or science degrees. No one kn ows for sure why those who hire teachers routinely overlook top talent. Perhaps they wrongly think that the qualifications they shun make little di fference for students. Also, administrators are probably naturally drawn to teachers who remind them of themselves.
But failing to recognize the qualities that make teachers truly effective (a nd to construct incentives to attract and retain more of these top perfor mers) has serious consequences. For example, because schools don't alw ays hire the best applicants, across-the-board salary increases cannot imp rove teacher quality much, and may even worsen it. That's because high er salaries draw more weak as well as strong applicants into teaching—a pplicants the current hiring system can't adequately screen. Unless admini strators have incentives to hire the best teachers available, it's pointless t o give them a larger group to choose from.
If public school hiring processes are bad, their compensation policies are worse. Most districts pay solely based on years of experience and the pr esence of a master's degree, a formula that makes the Federal General S chedule—which governs pay for U.S. bureaucrats—look flexible. Study afte r study has shown that teachers with master's degrees are no better tha n those without. Job experience does matter, but only for the first few y ears, according to research by Hoover Institution's Eric A. Hanushek. A te acher with 15 years of experience is no more effective, on average, than a teacher with five years of experience, but which one do you think is paid more?
This toxic combination of rigid pay and steep rewards for seniority causes average quality to decline rather than increase as teacher groups get ol der. Top performers often leave the field early for industries that reward their excellence. Mediocre teachers, on the other hand, are soon overcom pensated by seniority pay. And because they are paid more than their ski lls command elsewhere, these less-capable pedagogues settle in to provid e many years of ineffectual instruction.
So how can we separate the wheat from the chaff in the teaching profes sion? To make American schools competitive, we must rethink seniority p ay, the value of master's degrees, and the notion that a teacher can tea ch everything equally well—especially math and science—without appropri ate preparation in the subject.
Our current education system is unlikely to accomplish this dramatic rethi nking. Imagine, for a moment, that American cars had been free in rece nt decades, while Toyotas and Hondas sold at full price. We'd probably b e driving Falcons and Corvairs today. Free public education suffers from a lack of competition in just this way. So while industries from aerospace to drugs have transformed themselves in order to compete, public schooli ng has stagnated.
School choice could spark the kind of reformation this industry needs by motivating administrators to hire the best and adopt new strategies to ke ep top teachers in the classroom. The lesson that good teachers matter should be taught, not as a theory, but as a practice.
6. The beginning sentence "Good teachers matter." can mainly be explain ed as which of the following?
(A) Good teachers help students establish confidence.
(B) Good teachers determine the personality of students.
(C) Good teachers promote student achievement.
(D) Good teachers treat students as their own children.
7. According to the author, seniority pay favors ________.
(A) good teachers' with master's degrees
(B) young and effective teachers
(C) experienced and effective teachers
(D) mediocre teachers of average quality
8. The expression "separate the wheat from the chaff in the teaching pro fession" is closest in meaning to ________.
(A) distinguish better teachers from less capable ones
(B) differentiate young teachers from old ones
(C) tell the essential qualities of good teaching
(D) reevaluate the role of senior teachers
9. When the author uses the automobile industry as an example, she arg ues that ________.
(A) Japan's auto industry is exceeding America's auto industry
(B) the public schooling has stagnated because of competition
(C) the current American education system is better than the Japanese o ne
(D) competition must be introduced into the public education system
10. Which of the following CANNOT be concluded from the passage?
(A) Most average teachers want to leave school because of high pressur
e.
(B) Excellent teachers often leave schools for better jobs.
(C) The average quality of the teachers in America is declining.
(D) Teachers' quality is closely related to a number of factors. Questions 11-15
The British author Salman Rushdie is selling his personal archive to a we althy American university. The archive, which includes personal diaries wri tten during the decade that he spent living in hiding from Islamic extrem ists, is being bought by the Emory University in Atlanta for an undisclose d sum. The move has sparked concern that Britain's literary heritage is b eing lost to foreign buyers. The archive also includes two unpublished no vels.
Rushdie, 59, said last week that his priority had been to "find a good ho me" for his papers, but admitted that money had also been a factor. "I don't see why I should give them away," he said. "It seemed to me quit e reasonable that one should be paid." The sum involved is likely to mat ch or exceed similar deals. In 2003 Emory bought the archive of Ted Hu ghes, the late poet laureate, for a reported $600,000. Julian Barnes, the author of Flaubert's Parrot, is said to have sold his papers to the Univers ity of Texas at Austin for $200,000.
Rushdie was born in Bombay (Mumbai) but educated in Britain. His book Midnight's Children was voted the best Booker prize winner in 25 years and he is regarded as a leading British literary novelist. The sale of his p apers will annoy the British Library, which is about to hold a conference to discuss how to stop famous writers' archives being sold abroad. Yesterday Clive Field, the director .of scholarship and collections at the li brary, said: "I am pleased that Rushdie's papers will be preserved in a p ublicly accessible institution, but disappointed that we didn't have an opp ortunity to discuss the acquisition of the archive with him." Rushdie' said the British Library "never asked me about the archive".
Emory University enjoys a large endowment thanks to a student who bec ame a senior executive at Coca-Cola, and already holds the archives of t he poets W B Yeats and Seamus Heaney, as well as Hughes. "Emory see ms to be very serious about building a collection of contemporary literatu re," said Rushdie. "Not only do they have the papers of Hughes and Hea ney, but also Paul Muldoon and other writers. I got the sense that they want to collect contemporary novelists as well and it just felt very good t o be part of that."
Rushdie, who now lives in New York, has accepted a position as a visitin g fellow and will spend a month on the campus in Decatur, a leafy subu rb of Atlanta, every year until 2012. "They asked if I'd ever thought abo ut putting my archive anywhere and, to tell you the truth, until that mo
ment I really hadn't," Rushdie said.
"My archive is so voluminous that I don't have room in my house for it and it's in an outside storage facility. I was worried about that and want ed to feel it was in a safe place." The papers will be open for scholars t o study with one key exception: the "fatwa" diaries that Rushdie wrote u nder threat of death from Islamic extremists for writing The Satanic Vers es. He spent a decade in hiding under the protection of Scotland Yard af ter Ayatollah Khomeini, then leader of Iran, called the book "blasphemous against Islam" in 1989.
The author may use the diaries as the basis for a book: "I wouldn't wan t them out in the open, 1 want to be the first person to have a go at t he material, whether as a serious autobiography or as a memoir." He wa s ambivalent about the idea of scholars studying his papers. "The whole thing is very bizarre, you know, it's like imagining someone going throug h your underwear."
The two unpublished novels—The Antagonist, influenced by Thomas Pync hon, the American writer, and The Book of Peer—were written by Rushdi e in the 1970s: "The Antagonist was a contemporary London novel, set a round Ladbroke Grove where I was living at the time. I think it was emb arrassingly Pynchonesque."
Chris Smith, the former culture minister who chairs the UK Literary Herita ge Working Group, said: "It is a very sad day for British literature and sc holarship. Our literary heritage is arguably our greatest contribution to cul ture and we should be taking special care to protect that." Andrew Motio n, the poet laureate, last week called for the government to remove Vat from unbound papers, which increases the cost of purchases in this coun try. Stephen Enniss, of Emory University, said: "There is worldwide intere st in Rushdie. We are catering for the long-term care of the archive and will welcome scholars from all over the world."
11. It can be learned from the passage that the British author Salman R ushdie ______.
(A) lived in hiding under the protection of Scotland Yard for a decade
(B) had spent the decade living in Scotland Yard until 1998
(C) lived in hiding in New York for one decade
(D) had moved from place to place since the publication of The Satanic Verses
12. According to the passage, the British Library ______.
(A) is going to buy back Rushdie's personal archive from Amory Universit y
(B) opposes the American universities' acquisition of archives from British literary people
(C) has discussed with Salman Rushdie about the acquisition of his pers
onal archive
(D) has expressed much concern over foreign buyers' acquisition of Britai n's literary heritage
13. It can be concluded from the passage that the Emory University has collected the archives of all the following British poets EXCEPT ______.
(A) Ted Hughes
(B) Andrew Motion
(C) W B Yeats
(D) Seamus Heaney
14. According to the passage, the "fatwa" diaries (para.7) ______.
(A) were not included in the archive sold to the Emory University
(B) will not be open to the public in the near future
(C) were all about the writing of The Satanic Verses
(D) will soon be published to expose the persecution of Islamic extremist s
15. Why was Salman Rushdie ambivalent about the idea of scholars stud ying his papers?
(A) He was afraid that he would be pursued by Islamic extremists again.
(B) The scholars might use the papers to write a biography about him.
(C) He felt that his privacy might be easily exposed to the public.
(D) He could not imagine what kind of consequences would be following. Questions 16-20
At the tail end of the 19th century, Friedrich Nietzsche suggested that na tural history—which he saw as a war against fear and superstition—ought to be narrated "in such a way that everyone who hears it is irresistibly inspired to strive after spiritual and bodily health and vigour," and he gru mbled that artists had yet to discover the right language to do this. "Nonetheless," Nietzsche admitted, "the English have taken admirable step s in the direction of that ideal ... the reason is that they [natural history books] are written by their most distinguished scholars—whole, complete and fulfilling natures."
The English language tradition of nature writing and narrating natural hist ory is gloriously rich, and although it may not make any bold claims to i mproving health and wellbeing, it does a good job—for readers and the s ubjects of the writing. Where the insights of field naturalists meet the leg acy of poets such as Clare, Wordsworth, Hughes and Heaney, there emer ges a language as vivid as any cultural achievement.
That this language is still alive and kicking and read every day in a news paper is astounding. So to hold a century's worth of country diaries is, fo r an interloper like me, both an inspiring and humbling experience. But is this the best way of representing nature, or is it a cultural default? Will the next century of writers want to shake loose from this tradition? Wh
at happens next?
Over the years, nature writers and country diarists have developed an inc reasingly sophisticated ecological literacy of the world around them throug h the naming of things and an understanding of the relationships betwee n them. They find ways of linking simple observations to bigger issues by remaining in the present, the particular. For writers of my generation, a nostalgia for lost wildlife and habitats and the business of bearing witne ss to a war of attrition in the countryside colours what we're about. The anxieties of future generations may not be the same.
Articulating the "wild" as a qualitative character of nature and context for the more quantitative notion of biodiversity will, I believe, become a mo re dynamic cultural project. The re-wilding of lands and seas, coupled wit h a re-wilding of experience and language, offers fertile ground for writer s. A response to the anxieties springing from climate change, and a gene ral fear of nature answering our continued environmental injustices with v iolence, will need a reassessment of our feelings for the nature we like—cultural landscapes, continuity, native species—as well as the nature we d on't like—rising seas, droughts, "invasive" species.
Whether future writers take their sensibilities for a walk and, like a pack of wayward dogs unleashed, let them loose in hills and woods to sniff ou t some fugitive truth hiding in the undergrowth, or choose to honestly re count the this-is-where-I-am, this-is-what-I-see approach, they will be hitc hed to the values implicit in the language they use. They should challeng e these.
Perhaps they will see our natural history as a contributor to the commodi fication of nature and the obsessive managerialism of our times. Perhaps they will see our romanticism as a blanket thrown over the traumatised v ictim of the countryside. But maybe they will follow threads we found in the writings of others and find their own way to wonder.
16. The major theme of the passage is about ______.
(A) the 19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
(B) the development of the discipline of natural history
(C) the English language tradition of nature writing
(D) the style of nature writing and country diaries
17. In writing the essay, the author seems to be directly talking to the " future generations" and "future writers" probably because ______.
(A) they will carry forward the tradition of nature writing
(B) they will confront a changing environment and have their own persp ective of natural history
(C) they will study the causes of climate change and promote the notion and significance of biodiversity
(D) they will value more the sophisticated ecological literacy of the natur
e writers and country diarists
18. The author says that our feelings for the nature we like (as well as t he nature we don't like) will need a "reassessment" probably because __ ____.
(A) we should not like the cultural landscapes, continuity and native spe cies
(B) we should not hate the rising seas, droughts, and "invasive" species
(C) our feelings are often irrational and subjective
(D) our feelings are always focusing on ourselves
19. It can be concluded that the tone of the passage is basically ______.
(A) assertive and radical
(B) explicit and straightforward
(C) neutral and impartial
(D) implicit and explorative
20. Which of the following statements is NOT in agreement with the aut hor's view?
(A) The English tradition of nature writing should be reflected and recon sidered.
(B) The values implicit in the language of natural history should be chall enged.
(C) The re-wilding of human experience and language will greatly benefit us.
(D) The re-wilding of lands and seas will bring us more disasters. SECTION 3: TRANSLATION TEST
Direction: Translate the following passage into Chinese and write your ver sion in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.
Well before his death, Peter Drucker had already become a legend. Over his 95 prolific years, he had been a true Renaissance man, and teacher of religion, philosophy and political science. But his most important contr ibution, clearly, is in business. What John Keynes is to economics, Drucke rs is to management.
In the 1980s Peter Druckers began to have grave doubts about business and even capitalism itself. He no longer saw the corporation as the ideal space to create community. In fact, he saw nearly the opposite: a place where self-interest had triumphed over the egalitarian principles he long championed. In both his writings and speeches, Druckers emerged as one of Corporate America's most important critics. When conglomerates were the rage, he preached against reckless mergers and acquisitions. When executives were engaged in empire-building, he argued against excess sta ff and the inefficiencies of numerous "assistants to".
In a 1984 essay he persuasively argued that CEO pay had rocketed out of control and implored boards to hold CEO compensation to no more th an 20 times what the rank and file made. He maintained that multi-millio n-dollar severance packages had perverted management's ability to look o ut anything but itself. What particularly enraged him was the tendency of corporate managers to reap massive earnings while firing thousands of t heir workers. "This is morally and socially unforgivable," wrote Druckers, "and we will pay a heavy price for it."
SECTION 4: LISTENING TEST
Part A: Note-taking And Gap-filling
Direction: In this part of the test you will hear a short talk. You will hea r the talk ONLY ONCE. While listening to the talk, you may take notes o n the important points so that you can have enough information to comp lete a gap-filling task on a separate ANSWER BOOKLET. You will not get your TEST BOOK and ANSWER BOOKLET until after you have listened to the talk.
Americans' ________ (1) impulses keep generating surprises. Charitable gi ving plays an even larger role in the ________ (2). Demand for nonprofit services gets proportionately bigger as a locality's ________ (3) rises. T he philanthropy of the wealthy may not hinge on tax ________ (4) to th e degree many believe. The US _________ (5) the world in levels of cha ritable activity. Some experts see charity as a ________ (6) trait of the US, more than ________ (7) or business. But those forces may be_____ ___ (8), as many nonprofits—from healthcare to classical music—are selli ng________ (9) in a marketplace alongside for-profit ________ (10). Cha rity is no mere ________ (11) activity. It pays off for society in ways th at may ________ (12) the rates of return on many traditional investment s. Charity not only helps those on the ________ (13) end but also stren gthens the ________ (14) of society at large. Moreover, it appears to ma ke the givers themselves more_________ (15). The pattern that conserva tives are better givers than ________ (16) is less about politics than abo ut charity-linked ________ (17) most common to conservatives: religious commitment, marriage and children, and entrepreneurship. The main poin t is that more Americans, regardless of ideology, embrace giving as a too l for ________ (18). The urge to make a difference, and to take ______ __ (19) in it, outweighs ________ (20) considerations.
Part B: Listening and Translation
I. Sentence Translation
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 5 English sentences. Yo u will hear the sentences ONLY ONCE. After you have heard each senten
ce, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
II. Passage Translation
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 English passages. You will hear the passage ONLY ONCE. After you have heard each passage, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding spac
e in your ANSWER BOOKLET. You may take note while you are listening.
(1)
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SECTION 5: READING TEST
Direction: Read the following passage and then answer IN COMPLETE SE NTENCES the questions which follow each passage. Use only information from the passage you have just read and write your answer in the corre sponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.
Questions 1-3
America's population hit the 300 million mark yesterday—at 7:46 a.m. Eas tern time, according to Census Bureau estimates. Nobody knows exactly who became America's 300 millionth citizen. But demographers are summi ng up the milestone as a turning point that signals several trends to wat ch as the US—in contrast with Europe and Japan—deals with a steadily g rowing population.
Politically and demographically, experts say, the shifts will begin to have an impact on regions of the country not yet used to the new diversity pr ovided by the influx of Hispanics and Asians, which has already transform ed California, Arizona, Texas, Florida, and New York.
In coming years, Midwesterners, those in the Great Plains, rural areas, a nd small towns everywhere will begin to deal with the challenges of new ethnic and racial residents, says William Frey, a population expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington. And the country as a whole will be gin to be more dominated by a young/old divide than the current liberal/ conservative model that dominates political discourse.
"This means we are going to transform the current, red/blue political dich otomy to one where the nation is separated by age ... young vs. old," s ays Mr. Frey. "The issues of younger generations dealing with children an d opportunities for minorities will clash with those of the aging baby boo mers whose voters are concerned with issues of aging and Social Securit y and Medicare," he adds. "Both parties will have to adjust to this new d ichotomy."
The new milestone hasn't generated much hoopla. That's in sharp contras t to 1967, when President Johnson hailed the 200 millionth American, an d Life magazine dispatched a cadre of photographers to find a baby born at the exact moment. One reason is that population growth has become controversial, especially in an election year when immigration is a hot-bu tton issue and politicians are wary.
Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez says the Bush administration is not playing down the milestone, though he had no plans for Tuesday. "I wou ld hate to think that we are going to be low-key about this," he says, si nce growth helps the economy.
While it's hard to prove that population growth spurs economic growth, t he two often go hand in hand, according to experts quoted in the Monit or's recently published series: "US population: 300 million." For example: a nation with a rising population can support its retirees far more easily than one with a declining population. That's an advantage for the US, wh ich is virtually the only developed nation expected to grow this century. But population growth has less rosy implications, the Monitor series point s out. Some experts worry that the land can't sustain the extra 100 milli on people expected by 2043. Another challenge is sprawl, the dominant model of development, which gobbles up forest and prairie.
1. Why does the author say that the nation's reaction to the new milesto ne of 300 million is "in sharp contrast to 1967" (para.5)?
2. Introduce briefly population expert William Frey's comment on the chal lenges from the growth of America's population.
3. Why does the Monitor say that "population growth has less rosy implic ations" (para.8)?
Questions 4-6
British police forces are reviewing more than 450 unsolved crimes in a p ush to capitalise on dramatic advances in DNA forensic science. The adve nt of new ways to collect DNA from items at crime scenes, coupled with powerful analytical tools, has made it possible to obtain DNA profiles of suspects from undetected crimes or cold cases committed nearly 20 years ago, according to a Home Office spokeswoman. The operation has alrea dy identified 42 suspects.
The reviews focus on serious, often sexual offences and encompass at le ast 451 crimes committed between 1989 and 1995. Forensic scientists are returning to items of evidence stored at the time, from scraps of clothin g to microscope slides holding just a few cells obtained from victims. This week, scientists at the Forensic Science Service, which manages the police national DNA database, used the pioneering technique of familial s earching to help convict James Lloyd, a shoe fetishist who pleaded guilty to six sexual assaults at Sheffield crown court.
The conviction came after scientists recovered DNA from a 20-year-old sp erm sample held on a micropscope slide. While the DNA did not match a nyone on the DNA database, scientists searched again for similar DNA pr ofiles and found a close match with his sister.
The high-profile success follows the first use of a new intelligence tool kn own as pendulum list searching (PLS) which led to the conviction last mo nth of Duncan Turner for a sexual assault in Birmingham in August 2005. Scientists working on the case found a mixture of DNA from different p eople on a pair of sunglasses found at the crime scene. They used PLS t o generate a list of theoretical DNA profiles that could make up the mix. Some 500 pairs of theoretical DNA fingerprints were entered into the da tabase, and one matched Turner. The FSS ploughed a further ￡6m into r esearch last year and more powerful and precise techniques are in the pi peline.
Part of the push to review cold cases of sexual assaults comes from the development of a technique called Fish, or Fluorescent In Situ Hybridisati on, which allows forensic experts to identify and pluck just a few male c ells from a swab of female cells taken from the victim. The technique ide ntifies male cells by dyeing green only those carrying the male Y chromo some. Once they are stained, another new tool, laser microdissection, is used to cut them out and collect them, so a full profile can be obtained. Jim Fraser, a forensic scientist who served as an expert witness in the c ase of Michael Stone, who was convicted of a double murder in Kent in 1996, said advances in DNA science had already led to suspects being id entified beyond the grave and would continue to become more powerful. "The long arm of the law is getting considerably longer—there's really n o hiding place now," he said.
According to Cathy Turner, a consultant forensic scientist at the FSS, the rapid advances in DNA technology have transformed the role of forensic scientists. "We've gone beyond corroborating allegations to using DNA a nd other techniques to provide fresh intelligence," she said. The swelling of the police national DNA database, which now holds profiles for 3.5m p eople, has in the last five years quadrupled the number of cases in whic h DNA is used. It provides police with some 3,000 matches to suspects e very month.
The national DNA database has been criticised by privacy groups, who fe ar the privatised database could potentially be misused, but for police for ces it is an invaluable resource, said Dr Fraser. "None of this evidence is infallible, irrefutable or unarguable. But it's pretty much the best evidenc e that'll ever be presented to the criminal justice system by some consid erable way," he said.
4. What is the function of PLS? Illustrate the use of PLS by scientists.
5. Explain the sentence "The long arm of the law is getting considerably longer". (para.7)
6. What is the controversy over the use of the national DNA database? Questions 7-10
The new SAT scores are out, and buried in them is a sign of hope for A merican education. True, the scores are actually a bit lower than last yea r's; the combined average for the SAT's math and reading sections fell 7 points, to 1021, the biggest decrease since 1975, when the score dropp ed 16 points, to 1010. But statistically speaking, a 7-point decline (out of a possible 1600 on those two sections) isn't much. It's less than the val ue of a single question, which is about 10 points. Also, the SAT was radi cally changed last year. The College Board made it longer and added Alg ebra II, more grammar and an essay. Fewer kids wanted to take the ne w 3-hr. 45-min. test more than once, so fewer had an opportunity to im prove their performance. Scores were bound to slide.
But tucked into the reams of data the College Board included with the n ew scores was some wonderful news: 1 was wrong. In 2003 I spent six months tracking the development of the new SAT. I sat through hours of test-development sessions and even learned how to grade SAT essays. T IME ran my resulting story on its cover that October.
The story did make some predictions that turned out to be right. For inst ance, the new test favors girls more than the old one did. It is a long-st anding tenet of testmaking that girls outperform boys on writing exams. For reasons I am not foolish enough to speculate about in print, girls are better than boys at fixing grammar and constructing essays, so the addi
tion of a third SAT section, on writing, was almost certain to shrink the male-female score gap. It did. Girls trounced boys on the new writing se ction, 502 to 491. Boys still outscored girls overall, thanks largely to boys ' 536 average on the math section, compared with girls' 502. But boys n ow lead on the reading section by just 3 points, 505 to 502; the gap wa s 8 points last year. What changed? The new test has no analogies ("bir d is to nest" as "dog is to doghouse"), and boys usually clobbered girls on analogies.
My story also predicted that the addition of the writing section would da mage the SAT'S reliability. Reliability is a measure of how similar a test's results are from one sitting to the next. The pre-2005 SAT had a stand ard error of measurement of about 30 points per section. In other words, if you got a 500 on the math section, your "true" score was anywhere between 470 and 530. But the new writing section, which includes not o nly a multiple-choice grammar segment but also the subjective essay, has a standard error of measurement of 40 points. That means a kid who g ets a 760 in writing may actually be a perfect 800—or a clever-but-no-ge nius 720. In short, the College Board sacrificed some reliability in order t o include writing.
Finally, I was right about one other thing: that the graders would reward formulaic, colorless writing over sharp young voices. The average essay score for kids who wrote in the first person was 6.9, compared with 7.2 for those who didn't. (A 1 -to-12 scale is used to grade essays. That sco re is then combined with the score on the grammar questions and transl ated into the familiar 200 to 800 points.) As my editors know well, first-person writing can flop. But the College Board is now distributing a guide called "20 Outstanding SAT Essays"—all of them perfect scores—and ma ny are unbearably mechanical and cliched.
Still, there's good news. The central contention of my 2003 story was th at the SAT'S shift from an abstract-reasoning test to a test of classroom material like Algebra 11 would hurt kids from failing schools. I was worri ed that the most vulnerable students would struggle on the new version. Instead, the very poorest children—those from families earning less than $20,000 a year—improved their SAT performance this year. It was a mo dest improvement (just 3 points) but significant, given the overall slump i n scores. And noncitizen residents and refugees saw their scores rise an i mpressive 13 points. It was middleclass and rich kids who account for th e much reported decline.
What explains those wonderfully unpredictable findings? The College Boar d has no firm answers, but its top researcher, Wayne Camara, suggests a (somewhat self-serving) theory: the new SAT is less coachable. When designing the new test, the board banned analogies and "quantitative co
mparisons". "1 think those items disadvantaged students who did not hav e the resources, the motivation, the awareness to figure out how to appr oach them," says Camara. "By eliminating those, the test becomes much less about strategy." Because it focuses more on what high schools teach and less on tricky reasoning questions, the SAT is now more, not less, egalitarian.
Sometimes it's nice to be wrong.
7. What are some of the "right" predictions the author made about the n ew SAT a few years ago?
8. Why does the author say that the addition of the writing section woul
d "damag
e the SAT's reliability" (para.4)?
9. What is the "good news" (para.6) about the SAT according to the pas sage?
10. What does Wayne Camara mean by saying that "the new SAT is less coachable" (para. 7)?
SECTION 6: TRANSLATION TEST
Directions: Translate the following passage into English and write your ve rsion in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.
中国政府高度重视保护环境，认为保护环境关系到国家现代化建设的全局和长远发展，是造福当代、惠及子孙的事业。中国政府将环境保护确立为一项基本国策，在推进经济发展的同时，采取一系列措施加强保护环境。特别是近年来，中国政府坚持预防为主、综合治理、全面推进、重点突破，着力解决危害人民群众健康的突出环境问题；坚持创新体制机制，领先科学进步，强化环境法治，发挥社会各方面的积极性。经过努力，环境污染和生态破坏加剧的趋势减缓，部分流域污染治理初见成效，部分城市和地区环境质量有所改善，全社会保护环境意识进一步增强。
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SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST
Part A: Spot Dictation
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6. your self-esteem and relationships
7. the art of persistence
8. not-so-pleasant messages
9. “Don’t make a scene”
10. assertiveness training
C o l l e g e E n g l i s h B a n d T h r e e Part I Listening Comprehension 1. A) To cancel his trip. B) To go to bed early. C) To catch a later flight. D) To ask for a wake-up call. 2. A) They have different opinions as to what to do next. B) They have to pay for the house by installments. C) They will fix a telephone in the bathroom. D) The man’s attitude is more sensible than the woman’s. 3. A) She will save the stamps for the man’s sister.B) She will no longer get letters from Canada. C) She can’t give the stamps to the man’s sister.D) She has given the stamps to the man’s roommates. 4. A) Visiting the Brownings. B) Writing a postcard. C) Looking for a postcard. D) Filling in a form. 5. A) The man should work with somebody else. B) The man should meet his partner’s needs. C) They should come to a compromise. D) They should find a better lab for the project. 6. A) She can’t finish her assignment, either.B) She can’t afford a computer right now. C) The man can use her computer. D) The man should buy a computer right away. 7. A) The visiting economist has given several lectures. B) The guest lecturer’s opinion is different from Dr. Johnson’s. C) Dr. Johnson and the guest speaker were schoolmates. D) Dr. Johnson invited the economist to visit their college. 8. A) She’s never watched a better game.B) Football is-her favorite pastime. C) The game has been canceled. D) Their team played very badly. 9. A) The man should stick to what he’s doing.B) The man should take up a new hobby. C) The man should stop playing tennis. D) The man should find the cause for his failure. 10. A) An invented story. B) A real life experience. C) An imaginary situation. D) A terrible nightmare. Section B Passage 1 11. A) The name of a German town B) A resident of Frankfurt. C) A kind of German sausage. D) A kind of German bread. 12. A) He sold fast food. B) He raised dogs. C) He was A cook. D) He was a Cartoonist. 13. A) Because the Americans found they were from Germany. B) Because people thought they contained dog meat. C) Because people had to get used to their taste. D) Because it was too hot to eat right away. Passage 2 14. A) They give out faint cries. B) They make noises to drive away insects. C) They extend their water pipes. D) They become elastic like rubber bands. 15. A) Quiet plants. B) Well-watered plants. C) Healthy plants. D) Thirsty plants.
97年11月上海高级口译考试真题(B卷) 一、口语题 Directions: Talk on the following topic for at least 5 minutes. Be sure to make your points clear and supporting details adequate. You should also be ready to answer any questions raised by the examiners during your talk. You need to have your name and registration number recorded. Start your talk with “My name is...” “My registration number is...” 1、Topic: Many people like to travel a lot on holidays. People may travel by air, by sea, by train, by coach or on foot. What do you think is the ideal way of traveling? Explain your argument. 2、Question for Reference: 1. Describe one of your interesting traveling experiences. 2. Make a comparison between air travel and train travel. 3. What do you think is the reward of traveling? 二、口译题 1、Part A （英译中） Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in English. After you have heard each passage, interpret it into Chinese. Start interpreting at the signal… and stop it at the signal… You may take notes while you are listening. Remember you will hear the passages only once. Now let’s begin Part A with the first passage. Passage 1: The trouble with education in Britain lies with the teachers. I don’t think teachers get enough training in actually how to teach rather than the subject they are teaching. They are too serious, too academic and not imaginative enough.//
2013年大学英语三级考试（CET3）A级模拟试题及答案考试题型： |考试时间：6月份下旬周日开考 （1）PART I Section A B listening comprehension(15minutes) Section A B （2）PART I Section C listening comprehension(15minutes) Section C （3）PART Ⅱ Structure(15minutes) Section A （4）PART Ⅱ Structure(15minutes) Section B （5）PART Ⅲ Reading Comprehension(40minutes) Section A B （6）PART Ⅲ Reading Comprehension(40minutes) Section C D E （7）PART Ⅳ Translion(25minutes) （8）PART Ⅴ Writing(25minutes) Part I 听力略 Part II Vocabulary & Structure Directions: This part is to test your ability to construct grammatically correct sentences. It consists of 2 sections. Section A Directions: In this section, there are 10 incomplete sentences. You are required to complete each one by deciding on the most appropriate word or words from the 4 choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then you should mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. 16. Although ，he insisted _________going there together with us. A) to B) on C) at D) for 17. I’ll ask Mr. Smith to ring you up _________he comes back to the office. A) when B) where C) because D) although 18. They regard _________as their duty to provide the best service for their customers. A) this B) what C) it D) that 19. Not until the day before yesterday _________to give a speech at the meeting. A) he agreed B) does he agree C) he agrees D) did he agree 20. _________up at the clock on the wall，the secretary found it was already midnight. A) Looking B) Look C) To look D) Looked 21. The first textbook _________for teaching English as a foreign language came out in the
2019年公共英语三级考试作文试题 Direetions： Read the text below. Write an essay in about 120 words, in which you should summarize the key points of the text and make comments on them. Try to use you own words. The Princess of Cambridge has finally been revealed to the world as Charlotte Elizabeth Dianain a touching nod to her grandfather, her grandmother and her great-grandmother. The name has long tradition which can be traced hack to the royal background. Charlotte, derived from French name, pays tribute to her grandfather, prince of Wales. And Charlotte is also Kate's sister, Pippa Middleton's middle name. Kensington Palace revealed the royal baby's full name yesterday after days of speculation and close friends of Princess Diana immediately said the choice means the spirit of Prince William's beloved mother 'lives on'. William was, however, clear that his baby girl should not have Diana as a first name. "It would have been a millstone around her neck," said one of the princess' s longtime friends. Within minutes of the name being announced this afternoon, Diana's closest friend Rosa Monckton said： "Diana's spirit lives on in her sons, and now her name lives on in her granddaughter 'Charlotte Elizabeth Diana'. "Diana was the godmother of Mrs. Monckton's daughter Dominica The British citizens show their satisfaction with this name via Intemet. They said it is the perfect name for their lovely princess.
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英语三级考试试卷真题 及答案 -CAL-FENGHAI-(2020YEAR-YICAI)_JINGBIAN
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2016年大学英语三级考试真题-英语三级考试A级及答案 Part II Structure (15 minutes) 第二部分结构（15分钟） Directions: This part is to test your ability to construct grammatically correct sentences. It consists of 2 sections. 方向：这部分是测试你的语法正确的句子的能力建设。它由2个部分组成。 Section A 第1课时 Directions: In this section, there are 10 incomplete sentences. You are required to complete each one by deciding on the most appropriate word or words from the 4 choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then you should mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. 方向：在这一节，有10个不完整的句子。您需要完成每一个决定的最适当的词或词的4个选择标记为A，B），C和D）。这个你应该在答题纸上用中间一行标出相应的字母。 16. We must find a way to cut prices ________ reducing our profits too much. A) without B) despite C) with D) for 16。我们必须找到一个方法来降低价格________减少我们的利润太多。 a)没有b）尽管c）与d） 17. She didn’t know ________ to express her ideas in English clearly in public. A) which B) why C) what D) how 17。她不知道________表达自己的想法用英语清楚的公共。A）B）为什么C）什么D）如何 18. ________ the weather improves, we will suffer a huge loss in the tourist industry. A) As B) Since C) While D) Unless 18。________天气好转，我们会在旅游业的巨大损失。a）作为b）由于c）d，除非 19. We are happy at the good news ________ Mr. Black has been awarded the Best Manager. A) that B) which C) what D) whether 19。我们很高兴听到这个好消息，________布莱克先生被授予“最佳经理。A），B），C）D）是什么 20. It is important that we ________ the task ahead of time. A) will fish B) finished
2011年3月高级口译翻译真题及答案（汉译英） 合营企业设董事会，其人数组成由合营各方协商，在合同、章程中确定，并由合营各方委派。董事会是合营企业的最高权力机构，决定合营企业的一切重大问题。董事长由合营各方协商确定或由董事会选举产生。董事长是合营企业法定代表人。董事长不能履行职责时，应授权其他董事代表合营企业。 An equity joint venture shall have a board of directors; the number of the directors thereof from each party and the composition of the board shall be stipulated in the contract and articles of association after consultation among the parties to the venture; such directors shall be appointed by the relevant parties. The highest authority of the joint venture shall be its board of directors, which shall decide all major issues concerning the joint venture. The chairman shall be determined through consultation by the parties to the venture or elected by the board of directors. The chairman of the board is the legal representative of the joint venture. Should the chairman be unable to perform his duties, he shall authorize another director to represent the joint venture. 董事会会议由董事长负责召集并主持。董事会会议应当有2/3以上董事出席方能举行。董事不能出席的，可以出具委托书委托他人代表其出席和表决。董事会会议应用中文和英文作详细记录，并在会议结束后14日内送交每位董事，由出席董事会会议的各位董事签字确认。 The board meeting shall be called and presided over by the chairman of the board. A board meeting requires a quorum of over two-thirds of the directors. Should a director be unable to attend, he may make a proxy authorizing someone else to represent him and vote in his stead. Detailed minutes of the board meeting shall be prepared in Chinese and English and shall be delivered to each director within fourteen days of the conclusion of the meeting to be signed and confirmed by each of the directors who attended the board meeting. 2011年3月高级口译翻译真题及答案（英译汉） When President Obama took the stage here Wednesday to address a community —and a nation —traumatized by Saturday’s shootings rampage in Tucson, Arizona, it invited comparisons to President George W. Bush’s speech to the nation af ter the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the memorial service President Bill Clinton led after the bombing of a federal office building killed 168 people in Oklahoma City in 1995. 本周三，奥巴马总统登台演讲，就上周六亚利桑那州图森市所发生的枪击惨案向饱受心灵创伤的公众及全国发表演讲，人们不禁联想到，布什总统在2001年911袭击之后的演讲、以及1995年克林顿总统为俄克拉荷马州联邦政府大楼爆炸中的168名遇害者举行的追悼会。 But Osama’s appearance presented a deeper challenge, reflecting the tenor of his
Part ⅠDialogue Completion (15 points) Directions: There are 15 short incomplete dialogues in this part, each followed by 4 choices marked A, B, C, D. Choose the best one to complete the dialogue and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. 1. Rita: You said we could discuss a problem you had when you first came to the U．S．Would you like to tell me your problem Anna:___A________ ,of course. , I’d love to . , as you said. don’t think so. 2. Jack:Hello, this is Jack London. May I speak to Dr．Lee Receptionist:I’m ’s with a A. What’s up I help you？ you wait do you want to see her？ :’m Peter ’t you new here Wendy: _____A_____ I transferred from UCLA. ,I once was here. ’m Wendy Chan. don’t know you. ,fist time here :Hey,Larry!Good to see you!____A______ Larry:Terrible!I just found out I failed my math test,and I studied all night for it! ’s it going do you do are you about you？ 5. Wife:How about picking up some soft drinks on your way home Husband:___D____ Anything else？ ’d love to . don’t mind. pleasure. problem. 6. Sian: Let’s eat out don’t feel like cooking. Vincent:___A____ What do you fancy？ Sian:I think Japanese food would make a nice change. too. B. Do you , why not D. So what？ 7. Kato:Shall we have Chinese or American food Mori:_____D_________ Kato:There is a good steak house around the corner. have nothing in mind doesn’t matter. have no choice! you say! : How are things going with you and your roommate？ Jon:Not very well. We’re _____A___,but I end up feeding him three meals a day. to divide the house work B. supposed to share the groceries C. on good terms D. kind of broke :Shall I pick you up at 5 or 6 Joei:____A____ Mike:OK,I will pick you up at 5. doesn’t make any difference. B. It’s fine with me. you said. bothers me. :Sue,can you drive Jane and me to the doctor on Monday Sue: when you need help. can always count on me B. I’ll be glad to ’ll mark it on my calendar D. You can think of me 11. Mei:Is joining us for dinner Susie:____D_________ Mei:I was hoping she would come with us. think so . B. Not that I know of. said so. that she said. :Sorry,I clock didn’t go off this morning. Francie:__Ａ_____ Perhaps you should buy a new one. should put that right. clock never works. you set the alarm :Hi,’t seen you for a whileHow is Cathy Mike:We’re not seeing each other any more. Ryan:What happened ____Ｂ_________ you fire her you break up believe it. ’s fine. 14. Jack:I heard you’re going out with Jane. Fred: Where did you get that idea？ Jack:______Ｄ___ Jane is a very nice girl,someone you meet only once in a