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2007年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英语翻译试卷Ⅰ．Multiple Choice Questions （30 points, 2 points for each）A．Directions: This part consists of ten sentences, each followed by four different versions marked A, B, C and D．Choose the one that is the closest equivalent of the original in terms of meaning and expressiveness.1．I always found myself a dread of west and a love of east in Eden.A．我总是在自己身上找到对伊甸之西的畏惧和对伊甸之东的喜爱。

B．我总是在我内心深处找到对伊甸之西的畏惧和对伊甸之东的喜爱。

C．我发现自己身上一直有对伊甸之西的畏惧，对伊甸之东的喜爱。

D．我发现自己一直对伊甸之西怀有畏惧，而对伊甸之东怀有喜爱。

2．No man is so foolish but he may give another good counsel sometimes.A．没有人如此愚笨，他有时也能给别人提出好的忠告。

B．没有人愚笨到偶尔也给别人提出好的忠告。

C．人再愚笨，有时也能给别人提出好的忠告。

D．偶尔愚笨的人也能给别人提出好的忠告。

3．A pretext was the last thing that Hastings was likely to want.A．最后，哈丁斯好像需要一个借口。

B．哈丁斯可能不需要任何借口。

C．最后，哈丁斯可能想要的那个东西就是借口。

D．借口好像是哈丁斯想要的最后的东西。

4．A powerful indictment of America’s disregard of ecology, Silent Spring was aimed chiefly at the wholesale use of chemical pesticide．especially DDT.A．有力地控诉了美国对生态的忽视，《沉默的春天》主要是针对大规模使用农药，特别是滴滴涕。

绝密★启用前2017年普通高等学校全国招生统一考试（北京卷）英语本试卷共16页，共150分。

考试时长120分钟。

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第一部分：听力理解(共三节，30分)第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下面5段对话。

每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。

听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。

每段对话你将听一遍。

例：Whatisthemangoingtoread?A．Anewspaper. B．Amagazine. C．Abook.答案是A。

1．Whenwillthefilmstart?A．At5:00. B．At6:00. C．At7:00.2．Whichclubwillthemanjoin?A．Thefilmclub. B．Thetravelclub. C．Thesportsclub. 3．Whatwastheweatherlikeinthemountainsyesterday?A．Sunny. B．Windy. C．Snowy. 4．Whatdoesthemanwanttocutoutofpaper?A．Afish. B．Abird. C．Amonkey. 5．Wheredoestheconversationmostprobablytakeplace?A．Inalibrary. B．Atabookstore. C．Inamuseum.第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，15分）听下面4段对话或独白。

每段对话或独白后有几道小题，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。

听每段对话或独白前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读每小题。

听完后，每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

每段对话或独白你将听两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6．Whydoesthewomanmakethecall?A．Tomakeaninvitation.B．Toaskforinformation.C．Todiscussaholidayplan.7．Howmuchdoesthewomanneedtopayfortheminibus?A．$50. B．$150. C．$350.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

英语作文常用谚语、俗语1、A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth. 说谎者即使讲真话也没人相信。

2、A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. 一知半解，自欺欺人。

3、All rivers run into sea. 海纳百川。

4、All roads lead to Rome. 条条大路通罗马。

5、All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 只会用功不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。

6、A bad beginning makes a bad ending. 不善始者不善终。

7、Actions speak louder than words. 事实胜于雄辩。

8、A faithful friend is hard to find. 知音难觅。

9、A friend in need is a friend indeed. 患难见真情。

10、A friend is easier lost than found. 得朋友难，失朋友易。

11、A good beginning is half done. 良好的开端是成功的一半。

12、A good beginning makes a good ending. 善始者善终。

13、A good book is a good friend. 好书如挚友。

14、A good medicine tastes bitter. 良药苦口。

15、A mother's love never changes. 母爱永恒。

16、An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 一天一苹果，不用请医生。

17、A single flower does not make a spring. 一花独放不是春，百花齐放春满园。

18、A year's plan starts with spring. 一年之计在于春。

2011.3原文：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。

A joint venture shall have a board of directors, which shall have its size and composition stipulated in the contract and the articles of association after consultation between the parties to the venture, and the directors shall be appointed and replaced by the parties to the venture.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。

The board of directors shall be the highest authority of a joint venture that shall decide all major matters concerning the joint venture.董事长由合营各方协商确定或由董事会选举产生The Chairman are determined by the parties to the venture or elected by the board of directors.。

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。

The chairman of the board is the legal representative of the joint venture. When the chairman is 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。

2007catti三级笔译考试英译汉真题+韩老师参考译文Section 1 English-Chinese Translation (英译汉) (60 points)Translate the following passage into Chinese. The time for this section is 120 minutes.One of the biggest decisions Andy Blevins has ever made, and one of the few he now regrets, never seemed like much of a decision at all. It just felt like the natural thing to do.In the summer of 1995, he was moving boxes of soup cans, paper towels and dog food across the floor of a supermarket warehouse, one of the biggest buildings here in southwest Virginia. The heat was brutal. The job had sounded impossible when he arrived fresh off his first year of college, looking to make some summer money, still a skinny teenager with sandy blond hair and a narrow, freckled face.But hard work done well was something he understood, even if he was the first college boy in his family. Soon he was making bonuses on top of his $6.75 an hour, more money than either of his parents made. His girlfriend was around, and so were his hometown buddies. Andy acted more outgoing with them, more relaxed. People in Chilhowie noticed that.It was just about the perfect summer. So the thought crossed his mind: maybe it did not have to end. Maybe he would take a break from college and keep working. He had been getting C's and D's, and college never felt like home, anyway."I enjoyed working hard, getting the job done, getting a paycheck," Mr. Blevins recalled. "I just knew I didn't want to quit."So he quit college instead, and with that, Andy Blevins joined one of the largest and fastest-growing groups of young adults in America. He became a college dropout, though nongraduate may be the more precise term.Many people like him plan to return to get their degrees, even if few actually do. Almost one in three Americans in their mid-20's now fall into this group, up from one in five in the late 1960's, when the Census Bureau began keeping such data. Most come from poor and working-class families.That gap had grown over recent years. "We need to recognize that the most serious domestic problem in the United States today is the widening gap between the children of the rich and the children of the poor," Lawrence H. Summers, the president of Harvard, said last year when announcing that Harvard would give full scholarships to all its lowest-income students. "And education is the most powerful weapon we have to address that problem."Andy Blevins says that he too knows the importance of a degree. Ten years after trading college for the warehouse, Mr. Blevins, 29, spends his days at the same supermarket company. He has worked his way up to produce buyer, earning $35,000 a year with health benefits and a 401(k) plan. He is on a path typical for someone who attended college without getting a four-year degree. Men in their early 40's in this category made an average of $42,000 in 2000. Those with a four-year degree made $65,000.Mr. Blevins says he has many reasons to be happy. He lives with his wife, Karla, and their year-old son, Lucas, in a small blue-and-yellow house in the middle of a stunningly picturesque Appalachian valley."Looking back, I wish I had gotten that degree," Mr. Blevins said in his soft-spoken lilt. "Four years seemed like a thousand years then. But I wish I would have just put in my four years."Why so many low-income students fall from the college ranks is a question without a simple answer. Many high schools do a poor job of preparing teenagers for college. Tuition bills scare some students from even applying and leave others with years of debt. To Mr. Blevins, like many other students of limited means, every week of going to classes seemed like another week of losing money."The system makes a false promise to students," said John T. Casteen III, the president of the University of Virginia, himself the son of a Virginia shipyard worker.网络译文：英译汉安迪布莱文思曾做过的最大的、同时也是他现在极少为之后悔的决定之一，看起来一点也不像个决定。

2007年Text 1If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006’s World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players are more likely to have been born in the earlier months of the year than in the later months. If you then examined the European national youth teams that feed the World Cup and professional ranks, you would find this strange phenomenon to be even more pronounced.如果你打算调查一下2006年世界杯锦标赛上所有足球运动员的出生证明，那么你很有可能发现一个值得注意的怪现象：优秀足球运动员更可能出生于每年的前几个月而不是后几个月。

如果你再调查一下那些为世界杯和各大职业联赛提供球员的欧洲国家青年队，你会发现这一奇怪的现象更为明显。

What might account for this strange phenomenon? Here are a few guesses: a) certain astrological signs confer superior soccer skills; b) winter-born babies tend to have higher oxygen capacity, which increases soccer stamina; c) soccer-mad parents are more likely to conceive children in springtime, at the annual peak of soccer mania;d) none of the above.什么可以解释这一奇怪的现象呢？下面是一些猜测：a）某种星象学的征兆使人具备更高的足球技能；b）冬季出生的婴儿往往有较高的血氧含量，这增加了踢足球所需要的耐力；c）热爱足球的父母更可能在春季（每年足球狂热的鼎盛时期）怀孕；d）以上各项都不对。

近三年考研英语翻译真题解析（三）三、2007年（1）Traditionally，legal learning has been viewed in such institutions as the special preserve of lawyers，rather than a necessary part of the intellectual equipment of an educated person.评析：从全句角度去把握意思，而非拘泥于某一个词，是做翻译不容易达到的境界。

本句有institutions和preserve都容易混淆如何处理。

难点：词义的处理和服从上下文。

重点：rather than的意义是取舍关系。

翻译：传统上来说，法学知识一直被认为是律师们的专利，而非受过教育的人们必需的知识装备。

（2）On the other， it links these concepts to everyday realities in a manner which is parallel to the links journalists forge on a daily basis as they cover and comment on the news.评析：这句话的关键在于对which角色的理解，其实是联系了前后的links，并作出比较。

难点：从句很长，要把修饰关系理清楚，links同时也是forge的宾语。

重点：从句，还有cover，forge的翻译。

翻译：另一方面，法律把日常生活和这些概念联系起来的方式，与记者们在日常基础上，在报道和评论新闻时联系这两者的方式很相似。

（3）But the idea that the journalist must understand the law more profoundly than an ordinary citizen rests on an understanding of the established conventions and special responsibilities of the new media.评析：表示因果关系的动词考研经常重复，有lie/rest/depend with/upon一般翻成“取决于”，“依赖于”。

2005年4月全国高等教育自学考试英语翻译试题PART ONE （30 POINTS）I. Multiple Choice Questions (30 points, 2 points for each)A. Directions: This part consists of ten sentences, each followed by four different versions marked A,B,C, and D. Choose the one that is the closest equivalent of the original in terms of meaning and expressiveness. 1．Egypt’s very soil was born in the Nile’s annual flood; with the flood came the life-giving mud that made Egypt the granary of the ancient world.（ b ）A．埃及的土地就是尼罗河每年泛滥而形成的。

河水泛滥，万物得以生长，埃及就这样成了古代世界的粮仓。

B．埃及的土地就是尼罗河每年泛滥而形成的。

河水泛滥带来泥沙，万物得以生长，埃及就这样成了古代世界的粮仓。

C．因为每年河水泛滥，泥沙形成了埃及的土地，万物得以生长，埃及就这样成了古代世界的粮仓。

D．万物之所以能生长，是因为埃及的土地是尼罗河每年泛滥带来的泥沙而形成的。

埃及就这样成了古代世界的粮仓。

2．Since economic reform began in 1978, an average growth rate of almost 10% a year has seen China’s GNP nearly quadruple.（b）A．自1978年经济改革以来，中国经济以年均10%的速度增长，使其国民生产总值翻了两番。

2007年3月高级口译真题与答案【Spot Dictation】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 tendency ________ (1) the rights of large numbers of people. For example, in recent years there has been an upsurge in ________ (2) and pressure groups. This is a ________ (3) as there will always be a need for such organizations to (4) individuals and minorities in a competitive society. The danger is that we (5) for our rights and lose the art of asserting ourselves. It is better for ________ (6) with other people 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 flatten 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 sentence over and over again until we reach screaming pitch and ________ (12).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 you know exactly what you are going to say, however________ (18) the other 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).【Listening Comprehension】Listening Comprehension 11. (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 teenagers 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.Listening Comprehension 26. (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 launch.(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 center.(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 traces of radiation.(B) The ex-wife and the former mother-in-law of the spy were also poisoned.(C) The Russian businessman who met the former spy in London has fallen ill.(D) There is a high degree of probability that it is polonium that killed the spy.Listening Comprehension 311. (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.Listening Comprehension 416. (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 pollution.(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.【上半场阅读理解第一篇】Questions 1—5When 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 would launch 50 million buttons and an eventual war over copyright. Mr. Ball, a commercial artist, was simply filling a request from Joy Young of the Worcester Mutual Insurance Company to create an image for their "smile campaign" to coach employees to be more congenial in their customer relations. It seems there was a hunger for a bright grin—the original order of 100 smiley-face buttons were snatched up and an order for 10,000 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 realized we didn't know the comprehensive history of the Smiley Face," says Bill Wallace, the executive director of the historical museum where the exhibit "Smiley—An American Icon" opens to the public Oct.6 in Worcester, Mass.Worcester, often referred to by neighboring Bostonians as "that manufacturing 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 historical analysis, Mr. Wallace says that while the Smiley Face birthplace is undisputed, it took several phases of distribution before the distinctive rounded-tipped smile with oneeye slightly larger than the other proliferated in the mainstream.As the original buttons spread like drifting pollen with no copyright attached, a bank in Seattle next realized its commercial potential. Under the guidance of advertising executive David Stern, the University Federal Savings & Loan launched a very public marketing campaign in 1967 centered on the Smiley Face. It eventually distributed 150,000 buttons along with piggy banks and coin purses. Old photos of the bank show giant Smiley Face 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 president, we were in a war with Vietnam, and people were looking for [tokens of] happiness. [The Spain brothers] ran with it."The Smiley Face resurged in the 1990s. This time it was fanned by a legal 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 around 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 move, Ball declared in 1999 that the first Friday in October would be "World 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 plastic 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 the city has invented(B) has composed a comprehensive history of the Smiley Face through the exhibition(C) treats Smiley Face as the other famous commercial firsts the city has produced(D) has organized the exhibit to arouse the Americans' patriotism2. When the author used the expression "spread like drifting pollen "(para.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 Face3. Why did Bill Wallace mention the assassination of the then American president 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 "irked" can best be replaced by ______.(A) perplexed (B) provoked (C) irritated (D) challenged5. 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 need.(C) It was declared by Harvey Ball in 1999.(D) It was decided to be held on the first Friday in October each year.【上半场阅读理解第二篇】Questions 6—10Good teachers matter. This may seem obvious to anyone who has a child in school or, for that matter, to anyone who has been a child in school. For a long time, though, researchers couldn't actually prove that teaching talent was important. But new research finally shows that teacher quality is a close cousin to student achievement: A great teacher can cram one-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 way that administrators select and retain them mean that schools don't always 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 own ability on standardized tests reliably predicts good performance in the classroom. You would think, then, that top-scoring teachers would be swimming in job offers, right? Not so, says Vanderbilt University professor Dale Ballou. High-scoring teaching applicants "do not fare better than others 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 education majors than applicants who have math or science degrees. No one knows for sure whythose who hire teachers routinely overlook top talent. Perhaps they wrongly think that the qualifications they shun make little difference 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 (and to construct incentives to attract and retain more of these top performers) has serious consequences. For example, because schools don't always hire the best applicants, across-the-board salary increases cannot improve teacher quality much, and may even worsen it. That's because higher salaries draw more weak as well as strong applicants into teaching—applicants the current hiring system can't adequately screen. Unless administrators have incentives to hire the best teachers available, it's pointless to 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 presence of a master's degree, a formula that makes the Federal General Schedule—which governs pay for U.S. bureaucrats—look flexible. Study after study has shown that teachers with master's degrees are no better than those without. Job experience does matter, but only for the first few years, according to research by Hoover Institution's Eric A. Hanushek. A teacher 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 older. Top performers often leave the field early for industries that reward their excellence. Mediocre teachers, on the other hand, are soon overcompensated by seniority pay. And because they are paid more than their skills command elsewhere, these less-capable pedagogues settle in to provide many years of ineffectual instruction.So how can we separate the wheat from the chaff in the teaching profession? To make American schools competitive, we must rethink seniority pay, the value of master's degrees, and the notion that a teacher can teach everything equally well—especially math and science—without appropriate preparation in the subject.Our current education system is unlikely to accomplish this dramatic rethinking. Imagine, for a moment, that American cars had been free in recent decades, while Toyotas and Hondas sold at full price. We'd probably be 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 schooling 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 keep 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 explained 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 quality8. The expression "separate the wheat from the chaff in the teaching profession" 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 teachers9. When the author uses the automobile industry as an example, she argues 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 one(D) competition must be introduced into the public education system10. Which of the following CANNOT be concluded from the passage?(A) Most average teachers want to leave school because of high pressure.(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.【上半场阅读理解第三篇】Questions 11—15The British author Salman Rushdie is selling his personal archive to a wealthy American university. The archive, which includes personal diaries written during the decade that he spent living in hiding from Islamic extremists, is being bought by the Emory University in Atlanta for an undisclosed sum. The move has sparked concern that Britain's literary heritage is being lost to foreign buyers. The archive also includes two unpublished novels.Rushdie, 59, said last week that his priority had been to "find a good home" 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 quite reasonable that one should be paid." The sum involved is likely to match or exceed similar deals. In 2003 Emory bought the archive of Ted Hughes, 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 University 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 bestBooker prize winner in 25 years and he is regarded as a leading British literary novelist. The sale of his papers 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 library, said: "I am pleased that Rushdie's papers will be preserved in a publicly accessible institution, but disappointed that we didn't have an opportunity 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 became a senior executive at Coca-Cola, and already holds the archives of the poets W B Yeats and Seamus Heaney, as well as Hughes. "Emory seems to be very serious about building a collection of contemporary literature," said Rushdie. "Not only do they have the papers of Hughes and Heaney, 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 to be part of that."Rushdie, who now lives in New York, has accepted a position as a visiting fellow and will spend a month on the campus in Decatur, a leafy suburb of Atlanta, every year until 2012. "They asked if I'd ever thought about putting my archive anywhere and, to tell you the truth, until that moment 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 wanted to feel it was in a safe place." The papers will be open for scholars to study with one key exception: the "fatwa" diaries that Rushdie wrote under threat of death from Islamic extremists for writing The Satanic Verses. He spent a decade in hiding under the protection of Scotland Yard after 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 want them out in the open, 1 want to be the first person to have a go at the material, whether as a serious autobiography or as a memoir." He was ambivalent about the idea of scholars studying his papers. "The whole thing is very bizarre, you know, it's like imagining someone going through your underwear."The two unpublished novels—The Antagonist, influenced by Thomas Pynchon, the American writer, and The Book of Peer—were written by Rushdie in the 1970s: "The Antagonist was a contemporary London novel, set around Ladbroke Grove where I was living at the time. I think it was embarrassingly Pynchonesque."Chris Smith, the former culture minister who chairs the UK Literary Heritage Working Group, said: "It is a very sad day for British literature and scholarship. Our literary heritage is arguably our greatest contribution to culture and we should be taking special care to protect that." Andrew Motion, the poet laureate, last week called for the government to remove Vat from unbound papers, which increases the cost of purchases in this country. Stephen Enniss, of Emory University, said: "There is worldwide interest 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 Rushdie ______.(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 Verses12. According to the passage, the British Library ______.(A) is going to buy back Rushdie's personal archive from Amory University(B) opposes the American universities' acquisition of archives from British literary people(C) has discussed with Salman Rushdie about the acquisition of his personal archive(D) has expressed much concern over foreign buyers' acquisition of Britain's literary heritage13. 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 Heaney14. 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 extremists15. Why was Salman Rushdie ambivalent about the idea of scholars studying 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.【上半场阅读理解第四篇】Questions 16—20At the tail end of the 19th century, Friedrich Nietzsche suggested that natural 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 grumbled that artists had yet to discover the right language todo this."Nonetheless," Nietzsche admitted, "the English have taken admirable steps 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 history is gloriously rich, and although it may not make any bold claims to improving health and wellbeing, it does a good job—for readers and the subjects of the writing. Where the insights of field naturalists meet the legacy of poets such as Clare, Wordsworth, Hughes and Heaney, there emerges a language as vivid as any cultural achievement.That this language is still alive and kicking and read every day in a newspaper is astounding. So to hold a century's worth of country diaries is, for 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? What happens next?Over the years, nature writers and country diarists have developed an increasingly sophisticated ecological literacy of the world around them through the naming of things and an understanding of the relationships between 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 witness 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 more dynamic cultural project. The re-wilding of lands and seas, coupled with a re-wilding of experience and language, offers fertile ground for writers. A response to the anxieties springing from climate change, and a general fear of nature answering our continued environmental injustices with violence, will need a reassessment of our feelings for the nature we like—cultural landscapes, continuity, native species—as well as the nature we don'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 out some fugitive truth hiding in the undergrowth, or choose to honestly recount the this-is-where-I-am, this-is-what-I-see approach, they will be hitched to the values implicit in the language they use. They should challenge these.Perhaps they will see our natural history as a contributor to the commodification of nature and the obsessive managerialism of our times. Perhaps they will see our romanticism as a blanket thrown over the traumatised victim 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 diaries17. 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 perspective 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 nature writers and country diarists18. The author says that our feelings for the nature we like (as well as the nature we don't like) will need a "reassessment" probably because ______.(A) we should not like the cultural landscapes, continuity and native species(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 ourselves19. 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 explorative20. Which of the following statements is NOT in agreement with the author's view?(A) The English tradition of nature writing should be reflected and reconsidered.(B) The values implicit in the language of natural history should be challenged.(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.【Translation Test(英译汉)】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 contribution, clearly, is in business. What John Keynes is to economics, Druckers is to management.In the 1980s Peter Druckers began to have grave doubts about business and even capitalism itself. He no longer saw。

07春季高口真题阅读部分评析战鼓敲响：东风吹，战鼓擂……3 月18 日上午9 ：00 ，听力部分言犹在耳，本年度第一次高级口译考试笔试阅读部分正式开考。

速度与准确率比拼；技巧与实力的PK ——英语技能的终极体验之阅读篇：题目更难，读字更快，篇幅更长。

四篇文章背景知识考察不深，但是生词多，长句多，逻辑难度大。

第二部分硝烟弥漫：开篇较易入手：美国smiling face 的来由…… 阿甘正传看过吗？Enjoy the questions J . 如果没有看过的话也没关系，这是一片典型的文化介绍型的文章，相信大家应该在我们新东方bbs的”报刊英语精华”中看到很多似曾相识的词汇。

第二篇是如何成为一名优秀的教师。

文章不难的！第三篇文章难度加大，讲一位作家Salmon Rushdie 的生平。

这类文章尤其会以大量生词迷惑考生。

我们说过，高口更加注重结构性，评价型的内容。

第四篇文章难度较大，主题是一位哲学家Friedrich Nietzsche 自然历史的观察。

观点结构，我们多次强调的观点，就是这道题目主要的考点和得分点。

抓住得分点很容易。

但是要想没有遗漏的看懂全文，基本上，很难。

第五部分尸横遍野:第一篇美国选举年，人口突破三亿反响平淡。

基本上是一片社会问题文章，夹杂政治词汇。

这两部分复习过笔记的话，应该没有问题。

第二篇科技文章，DNA 在破案中的作用，看来CSI 深入人心啊。

大家要紧跟潮流了。

第三篇还是社会类，新SAT 考试的合理性。

文章虽然长，但是找信息答题还是完全可以做到的。

关键是不要阅读过细。

事实型题目占到一半应该可以得分。

两个句意理解题目也可以总结段意来回答。

但是很多同学第三篇文章（4 道题目）没有来的及做完，很可惜。

不过只要遵循要先易后难的原则就可以了。

鸣金收兵：28 －29 分钟后，阅读题目基本答案应该水落石出了，考生应该利用最后1 －2 分钟仔细誊写答案到答题纸上。

但是现场仍然看到有些彪悍的考生第三篇还没有读完，他们不是一个人！多快好省的阅读还是任重而道远啊。