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…”.
Topic 1: The Importance of Transportation for Shanghai’s Economic Development
Questions for Reference:
1. Give a general picture of transportation in Shanghai and then compare it with that in other cities in China or abroad.
2. What are the causes of the most serious transportation problems in the city?
3.Why is transportation more important in Shanghai today?
4.How to improve Shanghai’s transportation system?
Topic 2: My Opinion—Important Ways Towards Success
Questions for Reference:
1. What does success mean to you?
2. People often say: “Success comes out of diligence”. What do you think of it?
3.Can you give examples to show how people became successful in life or career?
4.What is the relationship between success and an individual’s personality, opportunity, ability, etc.
Topic 3: The Positive and Negative Effects of the Telephone
Questions for Reference:
1. What benefits has telephone brought to us in modern life? Explain with examples.
2. What negative effects does telephone have in daily life? Explain with examples.
3. How to keep the benefits and get rid of the negative effects in using the telephone?
Topic 4: A Remarkable Impression of a Famous Tourist Place
Questions for Reference:
1. How do you like travel?
2. Give a list of a few famous tourist spots you’ve been to.
3. What is the most remarkable impression you wish to tell others?
Topic 5: Should college students be encouraged to take up part-time jobs? Why or why not?
Questions for Reference:
1. Will a part-time job contribute to the student’s academic studies? How?
2. List advantages and/or disadvantages of taking a part-time job during a student’s university days.
3. Is part-time job experience helpful or necessary in the student’s future career? Why or why not? Cite examples.
Topic 6: Tea—A Popular Drink in China
Questions for Reference:
1. How much do you know about the Chinese tea?
2. The benefits and/or functions of tea in our life.
3. Which do you prefer? Tea or coffee? Cite your reasons.
Topic 7: The advantages and / or disadvantages of living in a big city.
Questions for Reference:
1. Which do you prefer, living in the city or living in the country? Cite reasons for your choice.
2. How long have you been living in Shanghai (or any other big cities)? What do you think of the city in general and in particular its safety,
entertainment, population, environment, transportation and communication, etc.
3. Describe the ideal place where you would like to live.
Topic 8: Which one is more important in your career: your educational background or your working experience? Cite reasons for your choice.
Questions for Reference:
1. What is a successful career in our society?
2. The importance of education and / or the importance of working experience.
3. Is it possible for an applicant without required educational background or working experience to find a satisfactory job? How? Cite
examples.
Topic 9: My view of a successful foreign language learner
Questions for Reference:
1. What is the relationship between learning grammatical knowledge and learning language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing, etc.)?
2. Which one is more important for a foreign language learner, natural environment or classroom setting? Or, are there any other important
factors? What are they?
3. What methods have you been following in learning a foreign language? Why?
Topic 10: How to make the best use of your spare time?
Questions for Reference:
1. What are your favorite hobbies? Describe them in detail.
2. What do you prefer to do in your spare time, study or play? Cite reasons for your preference.
3. Comment on the following statement “How to make use of one’s spare time makes the difference to one’s achievement.”
Topic 11: Who is the most influential person in your life?
Questions for Reference:
1. Give reasons for your choice. Cite a few examples to support your choice.
2. In what way(s) have you been influenced most by him/her?
3. What does he/she mean to you in your life? An idol, an instructor, a life-long companion or a close friend? Illustrate your points(s).
Topic 12: Is shanghai a Shoppers’ Paradise? Why or why not?
Questions for Reference:
1. What do you know about Shanghai’s most famous downtown areas and shopping centers?
2. What is most or least attractive about shops in Shanghai: the price, the quality, the fashion, the atmosphere, the variety, or anything else?
Give your reasons.
3. Describe one of your shopping experiences, which may well illustrate your point of view.
Topic 13: If you were studying in a university, which would you prefer: living on campus or off campus?
Questions for Reference:
1. Now some university students rent accommodation outside the campus. Do you know of any school regulations governing this?
2. Do you approve, or disapprove, of living off campus? Give your reasons.
3. What might be your parents’ responses if you choose to live outside the campus? Will you take their views into consideration when you are
making the decision? Why or why not?
Topic 14: Respecting the aged and loving the young—an age-old tradition in China
Questions for Reference:
1. Do you think that we still keep this fine tradition, or the tradition is somewhat weakened nowadays? Give your reasons.
2. What should we do to maintain and develop this tradition in a modern society?
3. Is there any conflict between this tradition and the keen competition in our society? Cite examples to illustrate your point.
Topic 15: Developing Holiday Tourism
Questions for Reference:
1. Have you ever travelled to tourist spots during public holidays? Describe your own experiences or what you have heard from your friends or
relatives.
2. How would you spend public holidays? What do you think is the ideal way of enjoying one’s long holiday?
3.In what way can public holiday tourism contribute to the national economy?
Topic 16: How can we promote Chinese culture worldwide?
Questions for Reference:
1. Introduce briefly the treasures of Chinese culture?
2. What do you think are unique features of Chinese culture?
3. What is / are the most effective way(s) to promote Chinese culture worldwide.
Topic 17: The significance of holding the 2008 Olympics in Beijing
Questions for Reference:
1. China has won the bid the host the 2008 Olympics. What does this show to the world?
2. What will the 2008 Olympics bring to China, in terms of economic development and cultural exchange?
3. As young professionals or university students, what can we do to contribute to the Olympics sportsmanship?
Topic 18: The significance of the urban greening projects in Shanghai
Questions for Reference:
1. How do people or local residents feel when they find more green plots in the urban areas?
2. What are the benefits to have more trees and flowers in a big city like Shanghai?
3.What significance will the urban greening projects have on Shanghai?
4.What should we do to protect the green lots in our city?
Topic 19: The falling prices of electronic products
Questions for Reference:
1. What do you know about the changing prices for electronic goods such as TV sets and air conditioners?
2. What are the advantages and / or disadvantages of price reduction for electronic goods and other commodities?
3.Is price reduction and effective means of competition? Why or why not?
4.Now that China has entered the WTO, what impact will it have on the domestic market of electronic products? And to what extent?
Topic 20: Studying abroad: Do you consider this “brain drain” or “talent development”?
Questions for Reference:
1. Should Chinese students study abroad? What can they learn in universities and colleges abroad?
2. As more and more Chinese students choose to study abroad, some people hold that our country is losing talents needed for our social and
economic development. Do you agree with this assertion? Why or why not?
3. Others argue that those Chinese students trained overseas will contribute more to our country if they return home. What do you think the
returned students can do to contribute to our motherland?
Topic 21: Internet changes young people’s life
Questions for Reference:
1. What do you know about the Internet? What is your, or your friends’, experiences with the Internet?
2. What are the advantages and / or disadvantages of young people’s access to the Internet?
3. What would you like most when you are surfing on the Internet web-sites, e.g. yahoo, Shanghai online, sohu, sina or eastday dot com.?
Topic 22: The current job market situation for college graduates
Questions for Reference:
1. It seems more and more difficult for college graduates to find jobs. How would you account for this phenomenon? What possible solutions
could you offer?
2. If you were a graduating university student, what would you do to prepare yourself for the changing job market?
3. Imagine that you are unable to find a job or out of job for a time after graduation, what will you do?
Topic 23: What are the important factors involved in looking for an ideal job?
Questions for Reference:
1. What qualifications or personality do you think are of vital importance for an individual in his or her job hunting?
2. What is your primary concern in selecting a profession, your personal interest, income, specialization, or your working environment? Give
reasons for your answer.
3. Do you think a job interview is indispensable for a recruiting institution? Why or why not? How can we train ourselves to become
successful interviewees?
Topic 24: Which do you prefer, riding a bicycle or driving a car to work? Giver reasons for your choice.
Questions for Reference:
1. Nowadays more and more Chinese citizens can afford to buy their own cars. Do you plan to buy a car?
2. Discuss the advantages and/ or disadvantages of riding a bicycle to work.
3. Discuss the advantage and/ or disadvantages of driving a car to work.
Topic 25: The popularity of South Korean movies
Questions for Reference:
1. What kind(s) of entertainment do you enjoy most in your leisure time?
2. Of all the films and movies you have watched, which is the most exciting or most impressive? Give your reasons.
3. Nowadays, many young people are fascinated by South Korean movies either on TV or in the cinema. Give an explanation for the
phenomenon.
Topic 26:
Questions for Reference:
1. The number of poor people in the countryside has been declining because the nation’s attention has been focused on rural poverty. But urban
poverty has become more serious. Cite examples to illustrate this phenomenon.
2. Worsening urban poverty may have negative impact on public security (group violence, crime, etc.) Could you say sth. in relation to this?
3. The government has done sth. to improve this situation. What measures should be taken to deal with the problem of urban poverty?
Topic 27: Who should pay the university tuition fees?
Questions for Reference:
1. Do you think that China’s university tuition fees are at a reasonable level? Why or why not?
2. Should the school tuition be paid by the families or by the state? Give your reasons.
3. What is your suggestion for reforming the school tuition system in China today? What should we do to help college students from poor
families?
News report: University tuition fees are not a small expense for many Chinese. It is calculated that the national average annual tuition was about 5,000 yuan in 2005, a dramatic increase from the amount of 800 yuan in 1995. The expense is even higher for students at new school sites, with an average of about 6,000 yuan or more. Today, the national income growth per capita is less than four times higher than it was a decade ago. China’s current gross domestic product per capita is about 10,500 yuan. However, school tuition in China is far above the internationally accepted ratio of about 20 percent of the average per capita GDP rate.
Topic 28: Should the pedestrian who runs a red traffic light be fined?
Questions for Reference:
1. In our society, some people behave in a way that is incongruous with a harmonious and civilized community. Consider running a red traffic
light. Is it an example of such behavior? What about spitting and littering in public? Why or why not?
2. How do you feel if you are left alone on the pavement waiting while all other pedestrians have run the red traffic light?
3. What can we do to prevent such wrong behavior and help people form good habits in their daily activities?
Topic 29: The Best Thing(s) To Do for Your Holiday
Questions for Reference:
1. If you have a long holiday, what do you plan to do?
2. Which do you prefer, a long holiday between long intervals or a short holiday between short intervals, say, a week-end holiday? Give
reasons for your choice.
3. Say something about the most rewarding or unforgettable holiday(s) you have experience. Why do you think so?
Topic 30: HSK: Bridge to China
Questions for Reference:
1. HSK stands for the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, a Chinese proficiency test for non-native Chinese speakers. In recent years, the number of
foreigners taking the HSK test has been increasing every year. Could you explain why these foreigners take this test? (to know their Chinese level; apply for jobs; apply to study at Chinese universities, etc.)
2. Will Chinese become an international language, as English has? Why or why not?
3. Which language is more important in your study and/or work, Chinese or English? Give your reasons.
Topic 31: Building a New Socialist Countryside
Questions for Reference:
1. Have you ever been to, heard or read of, any part of the rural areas of China? What is your general impression of the area? Be specific and
give examples.
2. The issues concerning agriculture are fundamental ones that have a bearing on China’s overall modernization drive. The government has
done many things to help the rural areas and farmers. Could you enumerate one or two of these things?
3. What should we, as young educated people, do to help develop our rural areas?
突然想到9月中我也该考中口了...再不开始准备就太对不起这个暑假了~ 麦刀终于开始学术了~ 考试分两个阶段：笔试、口试 笔试共分四部分。总考试时间为150分钟，满分为250分。（150分合格） 1: 听力40分钟/90分； 2：阅读50分钟/60分； 3：英译汉30分钟/50分； 4：汉译英30分钟/50分。 凡第一阶段合格的考生方可参加第二阶段口试 5. 第二阶段口试共分两部分：口语与口译。考试时间为25分钟左右 6. 每年的3月、9月进行笔试，笔试后1个月左右进行口试。 考试时间安排 笔试：全程考试时间为150分钟，中间不收试卷，其中听力部分考试时间为45分钟（Section 1），阅读部分时间为45分钟（Section 2），翻译部分时间为60分钟（Section 3&Section 4）。 以下为笔试详细流程： 时间考试流程 13：30 考生可以入场 13：40 考考官宣读考生须知，并发布考试试卷及答题纸；考生调试收音机频道，确认收听频率 14：00 考试正式开始，电台开始播放录音 14：00—14：45 考生做Section1 听力部分听力部分时间为45分钟 14：45—15：30 考生做Section2 阅读部分阅读部分时间为45分钟
15：30—16：30 考生做Section3和Section4 翻译部分 翻译部分时间为60分钟 16：30 全部考试结束，考官收回全部试卷和答题纸 这张表格很重要！ 科目 时间长度 题目 类型 建议 听力（2： 00开 始，共约45分 钟） 约5分 钟 Part A: Q1-Q20 Spot Dictation 预读：大意、接近的空格、长词、题号顺序 检查：名词、动词单复数、词性、拼写 约25分 钟 Part B: Q1-Q10 Statements 预读选项：话题－高频词、词组； 考点－句子成分差异处 Part B: Q11-Q30 Talks And Conversations 预读选项（同上）； 听题：程度副词、转折词、观点 约15分 钟 Part C: Listening And Translation Sentence Translation (5句） 笔记：数字＋并 列信息 笔头：常识补充， 务必成句 Passage Translation (2段） 笔记：框架＋数字＋并列信息 笔头：常识补充，务必成段 阅读（2： 45-3：30） 约45分 钟 Section 2：Q1-30 选择题 先做翻译、后做阅读、先看问题、判断话题、预测结构、估估难易、先易后难 翻译（3： 30-4：30） 30分钟 Section 3 第一篇 英译汉 认真阅读；先视译再下笔；语句流畅；断句为先；遇难词看上下文；
上海中级口译考试怎样准备？ 中口考试分为两阶段。第一阶段笔试，一般在每年3月和9月中旬周日下午，时间150分钟，总分250分。共分四部分： 第一部分听力90分，分为三部分，均为30分。Part A是复合式听写，20个空，跟四六级考试有点类似，但区别在于全文只能听一遍，每个空要填2-4个单词，语速大约130词/分。Part B是听力理解，包括单句理解，长对话和短文。单句理解就是从四个选项中找出和所听到的句子意思最接近的一个，长对话和短文与四六级差不多。Part C是听译，分为单句听译和篇章听译，都是英译汉，即听力放英语句子和文章，然后留出一段时间，考生写出汉语翻译。 第二部分阅读60分，六篇文章，每篇文章后5个选择题。 第三部分英译汉50分，第四部分汉译英50分，要求考生不借助任何词典、参考资料和其它媒介，将一篇长度为180个单词（汉字）左右的英（汉）语文章段落译成汉（英）语。译文需忠实原文的意思，且语言通顺，符合译语规范。 合格为150分。凡第一阶段合格的考生方可参加第二阶段口试。笔试成绩两年内有效，即笔试通过后可以参加四次口试，只要任何一次通过即可拿到口译证书。 第二阶段口试，每年5月和11月，共分两部分：口语与口译。口语部分要求考生就指定话题作三分钟左右的命题发言，话题后面有三个提示问题，但不要求一定要按照问题阐述观点。考生拿到口语试题后有五分钟的准备时间。口译分英译汉和汉译英两部分，每部分均要求口译主题各不相同的两个段落。各两段，每段四断，每断两或三句，每断单独评分。答对11句及以上可以通过。 考生只有在通过笔试和口试两个阶段以后才能获得《上海市英语中级口译岗位资格证书》。考试的指定培训教材：《中级听力教程》（周国强编著），《中级阅读教程》（陈汉生编著），《中级翻译教程》（孙万彪、冯慎宇编著），《中级口语教程》（严诚忠、朱妙南编著），《中级口译教程》（梅德明编著），均由上海外语教育出版社出版。听力和口译教程配有磁带，mp3网上可以下载到。 推荐参考书：《中级口译真题解析》，同济大学出版社，内有八套真题并配有详细解析，必买；新东方口试考试培训班指定辅导用书系列，汪海涛、邱政政主编，世界图书出版公司，一套四本，中口用到《词汇必备》，《口试备考精要》和《中口笔试备考精要》三本；《英语中级口译实用教程》，康志峰主编，华东理工大学出版社；《英语中高级口译笔试冲刺》和《口试导考》，都是谭宝泉编著，前者是上海译文出版社，后者是东华大学出版社；《实战口译》，（英）林超伦编著，外语教学与研究出版社，讲口译速记符号的。 考试准备 1.背单词 单词是肯定要背的。口译的准备一般从寒假开始，这时离你四六级考试或英语期末考试结束已经有一段时间了，背单词可以唤醒你丧失的英语记忆。而且上面也提到口译单词涉及到诸多方面，其中绝大部分都是具有中国特色、与我国现阶段国情紧密相关的，社会实用性很强，这些都是大学英语教学所欠缺的。有些单词你可能以前都没有接触过，通过背单词，可以初步了解口译考试的考点。 我用的是新东方的《中/高级口译考试词汇必备》，这也是迄今为止我所知道的最好的口译单词书。它打破了单词书按字母顺序编写的常规，将口译常用单词和词组分为若干类，既有英译中，也有中译英，充分考虑了口译的双向性。所选内容除了来自教程外，还参考了国内外多种资料和媒体，很多翻译（特别是对外口径）都是“权威”表达。 背单词点到为止，千万不要花太多时间，毕竟考试不是考默写单词。另外这本单词书有不少
9月中级口译真题+参考答案(4) Questions 16-20 We are moving inexorably into the age of automation. Our aim is not to devise a mechanism which can perform a thousand different actions of any individual man but, on the contrary, one which could by a single action replace a thousand men. Industrial automation has moved along three lines. First there is the conveyor belt system of continuous production whereby separate operations are linked into a single sequence. The goods produced by this well-established method are untouched by the worker, and the machine replaces both unskilled and semiskilled. Secondly, there is automation with feedback control of the quality of the product: here mechanisms are built into the system which can compare the output with a norm, that is, the actual product with what it is supposed to be, and then correct any shortcomings. The entire cycle of operations dispenses with human control except in so far as monitors are concerned. One or two examples of this type of automation will illustrate its immense possibilities. There is a factory in the U.S.A. which makes 1,000 million electric light bulbs a year, and the factory employs three hundred people. If the preautomation techniques were to be employed, the labour force required would leap to 25,000. A motor manufacturing company with 45,000 spare parts regulates their entire supply entirely by computer. Computers can be entrusted with most of the supervision of industrial installations, such as chemical plants or oil refineries. Thirdly, there is computer automation, for banks, accounting departments, insurance companies and the like. Here the essential features are the recording, storing, sorting and retrieval of information. The principal merit of modern computing machines is the achievement of their
中口口试必备口语试题准备材料（topic1-20） Topic1. China’s Developments and Achievements No one can refuse to admit that there are many achievements of China in recent decades. I know some of them, such as economic reform, joining to the WTO, and successfully bidding to host the Olympic Games in 2008 and so on. They are significant and outstanding achievements. Chinese people benefit a lot from these great achievements. Firstly, people’s living standards have been improved significantly over the past 10 years. A huge number of families have a TV, a computer, a refrigerator and so on, and the most important thing is that most families have a bright and big house. Secondly, peop le’s daily life becomes more colorful and meaningful, recent years bring people a lot of recreational activities, such as computer video games, movies, and internet. Conversely, 10 years ago, we still had not these abundant and colorful campaigns. Of course, there are still a lot of things which should be done in the next 10 years. We should continue to support our economic development and investment, to protect the environment, to cut down the greenhouse gas emissions and to consolidate our military and defense systems. Topic2. An unforgettable graduation ceremony I’d like to say the graduation cerem ony of my senior high school. The only thing that I don’t forget is the speech of principal in my senior high school hall. During the ceremony, I clearly listened to his words with great spirits for all of us. His eyes were filled with hope, which seems like that he told us about how to overcome so many difficulties in the future. His words really attracted all the students and teachers. He told us that we shouldn’t give up at any time, because we must try our best to do everything we could. After the graduation ceremony, I promised to myself that I should continue to study harder in order to have enough experience and knowledge to be a better person who can make more contributions to the whole society.
历年上海英语中级口译翻译英译汉真题及答案 原文： 出自Newsweek Why We Must Fire Bad Teachers The relative decline of American education at the elementary- and high-school levels has long been a national embarrassment as well as a threat to the nation’s future. Once upon a time, American students tested better than any other students in the world. Now, ranked against European schoolchildren, America does about as well as Lithuania, behind at least 10 other nations. For much of this time—roughly the last half century—professional educators believed that if they could only find the right pedagogy, the right method of instruction, all would be well. They tried New Math, open classrooms, Whole Language—but nothing seemed to achieve significant or lasting improvements. Yet in recent years researchers have discovered something that may seem obvious, but for many reasons was overlooked or denied. What really makes a difference, what matters more than the class size or the textbook, the teaching method or the technology, or even the curriculum, is the quality of the teacher. Much of the ability to teach is innate—an ability to inspire young minds as well as control unruly classrooms that some people instinctively possess (and some people definitely do not). Teaching can be taught, to some degree, but not the way many graduate schools of education do it, with a lot of insipid or marginally relevant theorizing and pedagogy. In any case the research shows that within about five years, you can generally tell who is a good teacher and who is not. 我们为什么必须叫停“不称职”的老师?
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1上海市英语中级口译证书第二阶段考试试题集锦 (201009) 口语题 Directions: Talk on the following topic for at least 3 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…” Topic: Can shopping vouchers increase consumption? Questions for Reference: 1.To stimulate consumption, which is more effective, tax reduction or shopping vouchers? 2.What are the major purposes of issuing shopping vouchers? 3.In what way can the shopping vouchers best be distributes? Shall every citizen be given the same amount of shopping vouchers or should the vouchers be limited to the lower-income people only? 口译题 Part A Directions:In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in English. After you heard each paragraph, 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 As for us Americans, you may think that we give too much importance to individualism and personal gains, so much so that it might sacrifice collective benefits, and even bring harm to the harmony of the society.// Yes, but you don’t have to be worried. American work ethic is more individual-oriented. We often value the results and accomplishments of work more than its process.// If I am not mistaken, the traditional Chinese work ethic is based on Confucianism, which stresses the benefit of communal harmony rather than individual freedom.// It’s really very hard to say which is better because if the cultural differences. With the economic globalization, cultural exchanges have become more and more extensive and Americans and Chinese will know and understand each other better. 至于我们美国人，你们会感到我们太看重个人主义，太看重个人利益，这样可能会牺牲集体的利益，甚至会损害社会的和谐。// 是的，但你们不必担忧。我们美国人的工作理念更强调个人主义。我们一般重视的是结果和成就，而不是过程。// 如果我没理解错的话，中国传统的够工作理念是以儒家学说为基础的，这种思想强调整体和谐高于个体自由。// 由于文化差异的存在，真的很难说哪种理念更好。随着经济全球化，文化交流也随之变得越来越广泛，美国人民和中国人民将会更加互相了解和理解。
2013年3月上海中级口译考试翻译真题及答案解析汇总 【原文】 朝气蓬勃，充满活力，丰富多彩的上海是现代中国的缩影。虽然上海的文化遗迹不能与北京媲美，但是上海迷人的城市风貌，风格各异的万国建筑为这座城市注入了无限的魅力。今日之上海，已经成为享誉中外的国际大都市。 漫步在这座日新月异的现代大都市里，你会发现许多精彩的历史亮点，隐现在众多摩天大楼背后的是上海发展变化的轨迹。它们记述了上海自十九世纪末开埠以来，尤其是新中国成立以后，是如何迅猛发展的。 【参考译文】 Shanghai is a dynamic, diverse and stimulating city - the very epitome of modern China. Though Shanghai cannot rival Beijing in cultural heritage, its varied architectural styles and cosmopolitan feel give it a charm of its own. Today's Shanghai has become a world-famous international metropolis. A walk through this booming city reveals many glimpses of its colorful past. Hidden amongst the skyscrapers are remains of the original Shanghai. They keep on showing how Shanghai has been developing fast and enormously since its opening as a commercial port in the late 19th century, especially after the founding of new China. 【评析】 该篇翻译属于经典话题，类似于上海城市介绍，考生如果熟悉教材，注意积累相关句型词汇，特别是对“朝气蓬勃、充满活力dynamic, diverse and stimulating、缩影epitome、遗迹heritage、城市风貌cosmopolitan feel、万国建筑varied architectural styles”等常考的表达，应该可以顺利取得高分。 If you’ve ever been on a jury, you might have noticed that a funny thing happens the minute you get behind closed doors. Everybody starts talking about themselves. They say what they would have done if they had been the plaintiff or the defendant. Being on a jury reminds me why I can’t tolerate talk radio. We Americans seem to have lost the ability to talk about anything but our own experiences. We can’t seem to generalize without stereotyping or to consider evidence that goes against our own experience. I heard a doctor on a radio show talking about a study that found that exercise reduces the incidence of Alzheimer’s. And caller after caller couldn’t wait to make essentially the opposite point: “Well, my grandmother never exercised and she lived to 95.”We are in an age summed up by the saying: “I experience, therefore I’m right.”Historically, the hallmarks of an uneducated person were the lack of ability to think critically, to use deductive reasoning to distinguish the personal from the universal. Now that seems an apt description of many Americans. 【参考译文】 如果你曾经当过陪审员，你可能会注意到一件有趣的事情：一旦关上了门，所有人就开始谈论他们自己。他们会讨论，如果自己是原告或被告的话会做什么。担任陪审员的经历让我明白了我为什么无法忍受谈话性的广播节目。我们美国人似乎只剩下了谈论自己经历的能力。我们似乎无法抛开固有的成见进行总结，也无法客观地分析与自身经历相悖的证据。 我曾听过一位医生在之声节目上讲述一项研究，该研究发现锻炼能降低阿兹海默症（老
中级口译历年真题--翻译篇 2012年春季（3月） 英译汉原文： When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960′s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it we re the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. 英译汉参考译文： 我年轻的时候，有本非常好的杂志《全球目录》，这是我们那代人的“圣经”之一。杂志的创办人是斯图尔特·布兰德，创办地是在离这里不远的门罗公园，他赋予了这本杂志诗一样的美感。六十年代后期，个人电脑和桌面排版尚未出现，所以这本杂志完全利用打字机、剪刀、偏光镜来完成，有点像平装本的谷歌，却出现在谷歌问世三十五年前。这本杂志充满了理想色彩，充满了整齐利落的工具、不同寻常的见解。 斯图尔特和他的团队出版了几期《全球目录》，在它完成使命后，他们出版了最后一期杂志。那是在七十年代中期，那时我和你们的年龄相仿。杂志最后一期的封底上是张清晨的乡村公路的照片，那样的路，如果你有些冒险精神，可能会一路搭车走过。照片下面有两句话：“求知若饥，虚怀若愚”，这是他们停刊的告别语，“求知若饥，虚怀若愚”，我总是以此鼓励自己。现在，当你们即将毕业踏上新的旅程，我给予你们同样的期望。 翻译评析： 这篇短文取自于乔布斯在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上的演讲。语言比较口语化，词汇不难。因为是演讲类短文，所以考生在翻译的时候大可以顺序驱动。节选的这个短文有几处的词汇和短语大家可以注意下： poetic：充满诗情画意的 idealistic: 理想主义的 run his course: 完成使命 hitchhiking: 搭乘 sign off: 停止签发，停止 汉译英： 吸烟之危害，可谓大矣，其严重性是不能低估的。吸烟污染空气，损害健康，使肺癌发病率大大增加。为了使各国人民关注烟草的盛行及预防吸烟导致的疾病和死亡，世界卫生组织已将每年的5月31日定为“世界无烟日”。 瘾君子们说，一天饭不吃可以，一个时辰不抽烟就难捱了，不能戒。只要真正意识到吸烟有百害而无一利，于人于己都是一种祸害，就有可能下决心摆脱烟草的诱惑。戒烟贵在坚持，坚持下去就是收获。 参考译文： Smoking does great harm to human and its gravity should not be underestimated. Smoking pollutes air, damages health, and increases the incidence of lung cancer. To arouse the awareness about the prevalence of tobacco in all the countries and to prevent smoking-induced diseases and deaths, the WHO (World Health Organization) has defined May 31st in every year as World No-Tobacco Day. The tobacco addicts say that smoking is impossible to quit because they could do without meals in a day but would feel tortured without tobacco in two hours. However, when one realizes that smoking is harmful in many ways but beneficial in no way and that it is a curse to others as well
中级口译第二部分口试-3 (总分：20.00，做题时间：90分钟) 一、Part A(总题数：0，分数：0.00) 二、Passage 1(总题数：1，分数：5.00) 1. （分数：5.00） __________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(很多美国商人和他们的律师现在认识到，为了更有效地和他们的新贸易伙伴做生意，他们必须研究中国的法律、贸易惯例和文化。 美国人还可以与他们的中国贸易伙伴共享可能有助于建立两国间更好的贸易关系的某些经验和信息。 人们希望让中国学生更好地了解美国人对国际贸易与投资的看法，从而他们在与美国商人、律师和公司做生意时将更加胜任。 这种理解将为美国和中国带来更加和谐与有利可图的贸易关系。) 解析：[听力原文] Many American businessmen and their lawyers now understand that they must study the laws, trade practices, and culture of China in order to be more effective in doing business with their new trading partners. Americans also can share with their Chinese trading partners certain experience and information that may be helpful in creating better trade relations between our two countries. It is hoped that by providing Chinese students with a better understanding of American perspectives on international trade and investment, they will be better qualified to do business with American businessmen, attorneys and corporations. Such understanding should lead to a more harmonious and profitable trade relationship for the Untied States and China. 三、Passage 2(总题数：1，分数：5.00) 2. （分数：5.00） __________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(由于各公司都意识到要想在今天的国际市场上保持竞争力就必须创新，所以创新正在推动整个工商业的发展。 上世纪，公司试图通过提高生产力来加强自己的竞争能力。今天，公司旨在通过在创新上投资来发展高端产品。 尽管国际市场发生了金融混乱，美国今天仍享有经济的繁荣，这表明我们正在收获创新产生的效益。 我认为，制药业是研究创新的重要性及其价值的最佳案例。) 解析：[听力原文] Innovation is now driving the growth of the whole business and manufacturing industry as companies realize they must innovate to remain competitive in today's global market.
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2010年9月中级口译真题 Part A: Spot Dictation Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the word or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE. British people are far more sophisticated about beverages than they were 50 years ago. Witness the Starbucks revolution and you'll know where ___________ (1) goes. However, spurred on by recent studies suggesting that it can cut the risk of ___________ (2) and retard the aging process, tea is enjoying a ___________ (3). Although tea is available in more places than ever, it remains to be _____________ (4) of a typical British family. If you are invited to an English home,