2008年9月上海英语高级口译第一阶段考试
SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST (30 minutes)
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 ONL Y ONCE.
When you stop and think about your high school or college alma mater, were your experiences more positive or negative? Do your feelings of ____________ (1) in that school have anything to do with whether or not your school was single-sex or coed? ____________ (2) to send their children to single-sex schools, because they feel both ______________(3) when they study in the company of students of the same sex. They _______________ (4).
For years, only parents who could afford to send their children to private schools or who had ______________ (5) chose single-sex education for their children. Single-sex schooling was ______________ (6) for most American families. Today, however, along with _______________ (7), public schools are experimenting with the idea of _____________(8).
Girls may be the ones who benefit most from single-sex schooling. Studies have shown that _____________ (9) in coed classrooms because teachers sometimes pay more attention to boys. Girls' _____________ (10) toward their studies tends to disappear as they began to feel less successful. They start to ______________(11) outperform them in math and science. As boys ____________ (12), girls start to lose it. Moreover, adolescence is _____________(13) for girls. As they experience adolescent changes some girls become depressed, develop an addiction or suffer from _____________(14).
In the early 1990s, some influential people said that being in single-sex classes could ______________ (15). Schools across the country began creating single-sex classrooms and schools but many critics claim that ______________ (16) may actually be detrimental to a girls' education, because they ______________ (17) of sex differences.
The renewed interest in single-sex schooling ________________ (18) among Americans. Those who give it full endorsement believe girls need an all-female environment to take risks and find their own voices. Those who ______________ (19) of single-sex schooling wonder whether students' lack of achievement warrants returning to an educational system that divides the sexes. They believe there is no _______________ (20).
Part B: Listening Comprehension
Directions: In this part of the test there will be some short talks and conversations. After each one, you will be asked some questions. The talks, conversations and questions will be spoken ONL Y ONCE. Now listen carefully and choose the right answer to each question you have heard and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following conversation.
