翻译考试历年中级口译真题(15):答案及听力原文_第3页

Question No. 11.      When the conversation started, what hobbies did the man say that he wanted to take up ?
Question No. 12.      According to the conversation, when did the woman start her hobbies? 
Question No. 13.      How did the woman learn to do most of the handy things in her hobbies?
Question No. 14.      Which of the following is not a hobby that the man would probably take up?

Questions 15 to 18 are based on the following lecture by a university professor. 
      In the last chapter, we've discussed certain animal behaviors. This chapter is devoted to the methods used in the  study  of animals. When  scientists  are  studying animals in the wild, they often want to follow the animals  movements. 

      One way that  scientists have  often  tracked wild animals in  the past  has been  with  radio transmitters. A radio collar could be attached to an animal, and the animal could be tracked on a radio receiver. The major problem has been that radio signals were not very reliable. They could come and go as those animals traveled too far.

      Now scientists are using a new way to track animals in the wild. This new way of tracking animals use satellites. Transmitters are attached to animals in the wild, and the transmitters send signals into the atmosphere  every  few  hours. Weather  satellites  circling the Earth receive the signals from the animals, and scientists get the information from the satellites.

Question No. 15.      What is the topic of the talk?
Question No. 16.      How did scientists follow animals in the past?
Question No. 17.      What is the new way of following animals?
Question No. 18.      In which course would this talk probably be given?

Questions 19 to 22 are based on the following interview.
I=Interviewer, M=Man
I:    What are your viewpoints about continuing education?
M:   What does that mean?
I:    Oh. Oh. I mean, by continuing education, that you ... go back to school after you you've finished, for example, high school or college.
M:   I wouldn't want to go back to school if I had to!
I:    Oh, well, why is that?
M:   Well. I went to school for twelve years..., it didn t do me a bit of good. I didn't get anything out of it and I... felt like I was a prisoner in school.
I:    Oh. How come you felt like you were a prisoner?
M:   Oh. I had to be there at eight o clock in the morning...They told me when I could eat lunch and when I could leave and  ... and if they  didn't  like the way I was dressed, then they d make me stay longer and it wasjust a terrible experience for me.
I:    I see. So—Well, what do you do now?
M:   Well, I work in construction and... I'm pretty free to hammer nails and things like that.
I:    I see. You are a construction worker and you don't have a favorable opinion about school and continuing education.
M:   Well, I think that school restricts my freedom. 

Question No. 19.     According to the woman, what does continuing education mean?
Question No. 20.     What did the man think about what he had learnt in school ?
Question No. 21.     Why did the man feel like a prisoner when he was in high school?
Question No. 22.     What was the man when he was interviewed?

Questions 23 to 26 are based on the following talk. 
      All  over  the world, it is adolescence that  eventually triumphs. Imaginative, energetic and untempered by tradition and convention, they more often than not outwit and surprise the adult world. I. et me tell you a story to illustrate my point. It took place about a hundred years ago in a small  village.   One  day  there  was  an  earthquake.      Nothing  was  destroyed  and  no  one  was injured, but a huge rock rolled down from the mountain and stopped in the middle of the main road in the village.

    When the earthquake stopped, many of the village people came out into the road and saw the large rock. They decided to try to move the rock since it was blocking the road. The rock was more or less shaped like a sphere, about one meter in diameter.

    Some  of the  strongest  men  in  the village  came to try to lift  the rock  out  of the road. No matter how hard they tried though, they couldn t move it. They tried to push it, they tried to roll it, they tried to pull it with ropes, but nothing worked. They couldn t move it.

    “Well,” they agreed. “It's impossible. The rock can't be moved. There's nothing we can do about it. We'll have to change the course of the road.”

      All of this time a young boy about  12 years old was watching the men trying to move the “he rock. “Excuse me, sirs,” he said, “but I think I can help you move the rock”. “You?” they shouted. “What are you talking about. You can't move this rock. All of us have just tried, and even together we can t move it at all.” The men all laughed at the boy. 

      The next  morning  some people came into the  street. One  of them  shouted. “The rock  is gone. It's gone.” More people ran out into the street to see for themselves, it was true. The rock wasn t in the road anymore.

      “This is impossible,” they  said. “Where did it go?” The twelve-year-old boy stood in the street, smiling. “I told you I could move it,” he said, I did it last night.

      The boy walked over to where the rock had been and uncovered some dirt with a shovel. “I buried it,” he said.