翻译考试历年中级口译真题(14):答案及听力原文_第4页

Question 23 to 26 are based on the following talk.
     Women's fashions tend to change more rapidly and radically than men's. In the early 1900s , all women wore their skirts down to the ankle. Today, skirt length varies from floor-length to ten inches above the knee. Women's shoes have also gone through all sorts of changes in the last ninety years. For  example, boots for women were very  common around the turn of the 20th century.  Then,  for years, they were  not  considered  fashionable. Today they are back in style again in all colors, lengths, and materials. In fact, today's women can wear all sorts of clothes, even slacks and shorts, on almost any occasion. While all of these changes were taking place in women's fashions, men's clothing remained pretty much the same until a couple of years ago. In fact, most men still wear the traditional suit though bright colors and varieties in cut  are now more common.

Question No.23.     How did women in the early 1900s wear their skirts?
Question No.24.     What kind of shoes was considered for women at the turn of the 20th century?
Question No.25.     According to the Passage, when did men's clothing start to change?
Question No.26.     Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the talk?

Questions 27 to 30 are based on the following interview.
Woman:     Now let s go back to your first novel, Stand up Kids. When did you write that?
Man:          Stand up Kids, yes, I wrote that in 1970, a year after I left college.
Woman:     How old were you then?
Man:          Twenty-three? Yes. Twenty-three, because a year later I want to Indonesia.
Woman:     Mm. And of course it was your experience in Indonesia that inspired your film The Eastern Island.
Man:          Yes that's right, although I didn't actually make The Eastern Island until 1988.
Woman:     And you worked in television for a time too?
Man:          Yes, I started making documentaries for television in 1983, when I was 36. That was after I gave up farming.
Woman:     Farming?
Man:           Yes, that's right. You see, I stayed in Indonesia for eight years. I met my wife there in 1975, and after we came back e bought a farm in the West of England, in  1980. A kind of experiment, really.
Woman:      But you gave it up three years later.
Man:           Well, yes. You see it was very hard work, and I was also very busy working on my second novel, The Gold Touch, which came out in 1985.
Woman:      Yes, that was a best-seller, wasn't it?
Man:           Yes is was, and that's why only two years after that I was able to give up television work and concentrate on films.

Question No.27.     When did the man write his first novel, Stand up Kids?
Question No.28.     How old was the man when he started making documentaries for television?
Question No.29.     What did the man and his wife do when they came back from Indonesia?
Question No.30.     Which of the following has the man NOT taken up in his life career?

Part C: Listening and Translation 
 ⅠSentence Translation
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 5 English sentences. You will hear the sentences only once. After you have heard each sentence, translate it into Chinese and writ your version in the corresponding space in your ANSER BOOKLET. Now, let's begin with Sentence Translation with Sentence  No. 1.

Sentence No.1.      This might cost a lot, but in the long run you will see the benefits of doing it now.
Sentence No.2.      We  asked  the  secretary  to  take  charge  of  the  arrangements  for  the  board meeting.
Sentence No.3.      The manager said, in his opinion, the project had little chance of success.
Sentence No.4.      Police are to interview residents of the village where the missing businessman,  Tom Green, lived. This will mean interviewing up to 7000 people.
Sentence No.5.      Let me introduce Mr. Peter Collins. He  is doing  some management consultancy work for our company.

 ⅡPassage Translation
Directions: In this part  of the test, you will hear  2 passages. You will hear the passages only once. After you have heard each passage, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. You may take notes while you are listening. Now, let's begin Passage Translation with the first passage.

Passage 1:
     Yesterday at 10 o'clock in the morning on the North Highway,a lorry overturned. The electronic goods in the lorry spilled  onto the road. The driver was  injured and was taken to hospital. The accident caused a big traffic jam and it was two hours before the road was finally cleared. It was later reported that the driver had broken both legs.

Passage 2:
      Applying to graduate school is a time-consuming and unpredictable venture. Undergraduates must take the required graduate examination and, after deciding where  they would like to apply, write to the schools for application forms. They must ask three or four professors to write letters of recommendation and request the university to send off transcripts of their undergraduate records. But, there is no guarantee of acceptance.