翻译考试历年中级口译真题(16)_第4页

Questions 6～10
      Hong Kong, where buildings rise and fall like mood swings, has never had much time for the  past.  Yet  even  by  those  normally  harried  standards,  authorities  face  a  remarkably  tight deadline for the transition between old and new airports. In the seven hours between  11:30 p.m. on  July  5, when  venerable Kai  Tak  shuts  down,  down,  and  6:30  a.m. on July  6 when HKIA opens,   a lumbering    menagerie    of  equipment    will  trek  the  39  km   from   one  to  the  other. Thousands of items have been logged and assigned a moving time.“The plan is a living thing, and it changes all the time,”says Michael Winarick, the ex-British Army colonel in charge of the  move.  The operation  actually  began    May   6,  when   the  first pieces  of  equipment   were transferred to the new site, and won't end until early August. But pressure will be greatest on the  critical night, when a parade of ungainly vehicles will take to the closed-off roads of“Kowloon — deck loaders”that equip planes, the tractors that nudgejumboj ets into position, the scuttling baggage trains and fire trucks and erect  moving staircases. Winarick admits to tense moments when  crews  discovered they  only  had  15cm to  spare under  some  overpasses:“We  looked  at letting out tire pressure.”Heaver items like the scaffolding used by maintenance crews will sail on  17 barges through Victoria Harbor. Thirty planes will take off from Kai Tak on a rare set of domestic flights, winging the  15 minutes to Chek Lap Kok. Some  1,000 police will watch over the move, which will be televised to discourage rubberneckers. But the greatest threat is beyond anyone's control: officials say that if a typhoon hits that night, they'll postpone HKLA'S opening for a week.

6. The word“trek”(paragraph 1) means__________.
   A. to go through wild country                    B. to walk slowly for pleasure
   C. to travel to a holy place                        D. to make a long hardjourney.
7. The passage suggests that authorities_________. http://tr.hjenglish.com
   A. nudgejumbojets into position before July 5
   B. watch over the move on July 6
   C. have a tight deadline for the transition
   D. look at letting out tire pressure
8. According to the passage, thirty planes will__________.
   A. trek the 39km from one to the other
   B. move along with tractors and fire trucks
   C. sail on 17 barges through Victoria Harbor
   D. fly from Kai Tak to Chek Lap Kok
9. According to the passage, the move will be televised to___________.
   A. discourage people who watch something with too much interest
   B. show to world the transition between old and new airports
   C. report the whole process of lumbering menagerie of equipment
   D. display the scuttling baggage trains, fire trucks and erect moving staircases
10.Which of the following can be the best title for this passage?
   A. Last Plane Out, Don't     Forget to Trek the 39km
   B. Last Plane Out, Don't Forget to Turn Off the Lights
   C. Last Plane Out, Don't Forget to Nudge Jumbo Jets into Position
   D. Last Plane Out, Don't Forget to Sail on 17 Barges through Victoria Harbor