翻译考试历年中级口译真题(16):答案及听力原文_第4页

Questions 23 to 26 are based on the following interview.
  (I=INTERVIEWER; W=WOMAN)
I:    What are your views about continuing education?
W:  I suppose it s a good thing. I ve been taking some classes myself at night, trying to get in control of my life, trying to learn some things that I need to know.
I:    I see. I see. So...
W:  ... to take care of myself and my family.
I:    So, you are using continuing education right now past the.., high school kind of level or...
W:  Yes, I ve got a high school diploma and now I m taking classes in... auto repair and...
I:    Ah ... auto repair! Is that ... uh ... a necessary thing for you to have, do you feel?
W:  I think it is. I m single. I ve got children and I need to know how to do things myself and  I have no one else to rely on. So I think it s an important skill for me to have.
I:    Uh-huh.  Uh...  Is there anything  else  that  you're..,  uh...  studying  or using continuing education for?
W:  Nothing else right now.I'm hoping next  term  to  take  some courses in plumbing or electrical repair, something like that.
I:     So, you are using continuing education to broaden your capabilities with in your own life.
W.   Right. On the practical aspect, rather than abstract courses that really won t help me on a day-to-day basis.

Question No. 23.    According to the woman, why did she take night classes?
Question No. 24.    Which of the following is TRUE about the women?
Question No. 25.    According to the woman, which course would she NOT take in using continuing education ?
Question No. 26.    What is the woman s attitude towards continuing education?

Questions 27 to 30 are based on the following conversation.
Woman:    Why do you think people travel so much nowadays? What s this modern craze for travel all about? The travel agencies are doing a roaring trade.
Man:         Well, you know, people travel for all sorts of reasons. Travelling for pleasure is only one  of them. People travel  on business, to  get  to  work,  for  adventure,  even  for education. Travel is supposed to broaden the mind, you know. There s more leisure and money about, so travel has become available to many people.
Woman:    In the old days, I suppose, people travelled very little because travel was so slow and difficult. It used to take a fortnight to travel from London to Edinburgh by coach. Now you can travel many times round the world in that time! |
Man:         And travel to the moon and back in a week!
Woman:    I know, isn t  it amazing! And to think that  the next  generation will take it  all  or granted.
Man:         Think of what Columbus and his contemporaries would have thought. Crossing the Atlantic  seemed  miraculous  to  them.  Distances  have  dwindled  to  nothing  in  this space age of ours. Travelling to far away places has become a common activity.
Woman:   Yes, but travelling on this planet is quite enough for me. You won t ever catch me  travelling to the moon in one of those space-ships, thank you very much!

Question No. 27.    Which of the following is NOT a reason for people to travel, according to the conversation?
Question No. 28.    Why did people travel less in the old days?
Question No. 29.    How long did it use to take to travel from London to Edinburgh by coach?
Question No. 30.    What will the next generation think about travelling to the moon?

Part C. Listening and Translation
I. Sentence 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 write 3,our version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Now let s begin Sentence Translation with Sentence No. 1.

Sentence No. 1.     The company is thinking of taking on extra staff to cope with the increasing demand.       
Sentence No. 2.     The manager of the supermarket, whose background I know quite well, is  100% honest.
Sentence No. 3.     They  are quite  similar, I  agree, but  if you  look really  carefully, you ll  see they are not quite the same.
Sentence No. 4.     I think all teachers should be forced to live in the outside world, rather than go from the classroom to the university and back to the classroom a again.
Sentence No.  5.    Sociologists have  found that  a  large number of women wish that  they  had been born men, and the number is said to be as high as 60 % in developed  countries.

 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 BOOKLE? You may take notes while you are listening. Now, let s begin Passage Translation with the first passage.

Passage 1:
     “Package holidays” are becoming more and more popular. The travel agency will arrange for the holiday-makers the transportation and the hotel accommodation and even order the food. That is why it is called a package holiday. Such holidays are usually very cheap. That is probably why they are so popular among wage-owners and pensioners.

Passage 2: 
     What  annoyed  me  most  about  parents  is their  inability  to  say No. Few  take the time to explain to their children why certain behaviour is wrong, and as a result children are allowed to decide for themselves what they want to do and when to do it. They are allowed to stay up too late. Watch unsuitable TV and have too many new toys. They don t need candies or toys. What they need is their parents time, which seems to be in increasingly short supply.