翻译考试历年中级口译真题(15)_第3页

Ⅱ. Passage 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 you ANSWER BOOKLET. You may take notes while you are listening.
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SECTION 2: STUDY SKILLS (50 minutes)

Directions: In this section, you will read several passages. Each passage is followed by several questions based on its content. You  are to choose ONE best  answer, A., B., C. or  D., to each question.  Answer  all  the  questions  following  each  passage  on  the  basis  of  what  is  stated  or implied in that passage and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

Questions 1～5
     Today one in every ten of us has difficulty getting to sleep and, according to Dr. Ian Oswald of Edinburgh university, the reason is simple. Most people who can't sleep are their  own worst enemies. They go to bed too early.

      For every person who works most efficiently on the usual eight hours of sleep a night, two work  best  on  five  or  six,  and  two  on  nine  or  ten. Voltaire  made  do with  three hours but  Sir Winston Churchill would happily sleep for 12～14 hours at a stretch if he could.

      So how much sleep does a person really need? It seems that the national average for men is seven hours and ten minutes, and for women ten minutes less, but everyone's needs are different. Find out what you need and, according to Dr. Ernest Hartmann, one of America's leading sleep scientists, you're well on your way to allowing your body to work at its greatest efficiency.

      After studying the sleep habits of nearly 1000 people, Dr Hartmann believes it's the amount of  deep  sleep  we  get  that  really  matters.  We  all  need  roughly  the  same  amount—about  75 minutes a night. The rest, a shallower type of sllep, vaies greatly from person to person.

      How much of the second type of sleep, you need seems to depend on what sort of person you are. According to Dr. Hartmann short sleepers—those sleeping less than six hours a night— were busy, active people, employed in demanding  jobs, and often worked a 60 or 70-hour week. Most  of  them  had  started  sleeping  shorter  hours  to  deal  with  the  pressure  of  schoolwork  or business and fornd that a few hours sleep a night was quite enough. Their defence against worry and stress was usually to keep so busy that I don't have time to think about these things. ...”

      Most  of the  long  sleepers  — those needing  at  least  nine  hours  — were  self-employed. Almost all of them had slept for nine hours a night since late childhood, long before their work pattern became fixed. They tended to complain more than the short sleepers and several admitted that sleeping was an escape from life.

      In the past it was believed that too much sleep could be just as disturbing as too little, but now a study in America has shown that many people can enjoy ten hours or more and still be able to sleep through the following night.

      A sleep researcher says: “No one should worry about not sleeping unless they are not feeling well or cannot do their work properly. Lack of sleep doesn't matter greatly if we are resting—the body can still get  on with its repain work. But worrying about not sleeping can  sometimes do you  harm.  There  would  be  far  less  sleeplessness  about  if  we  planned our sleeping  lives  as carefully as we plan our waking ones.”

1.According to the passage, people have difficulty getting to sleep because.
   A. they work more than sixty hours a week
   B. they have too many enemies
   C. they do not sleep happily
   D. they are not tired enough
2. In comparison with Voltaire, Sir Winston Churchill.
   A. was happier with three hours of sleep
   B. would sleep more when stretched out
   C. world enjoy a longer sleep if possible
   D. was less happy when he was asleep           
3. Studies show that the average woman.
   A. sleeps less than the average man
   B. sleeps longer when she goes out to work
   C. has difficulty in getting to sleep
   D. sleeps over eight hours a night
4. Dr. Harmann is mentioned in the passage.
   A. as the opponent of Dr. Ian Oswald
   B. because he has strange sleeping habits
   C. as the pioneering sleep scientist
   D. because of his observation and analysis of sleep habits
5. Not being able to sleep can be dangerous if we.
   A. are feeling well                            B. worry about it too much
   C. repair our bodies by resting         D. plan our sleeping lives carefully