中级口译历年真题--听力篇

中级口译历年真题—听力篇

2012年3月

听力Spot Dictation 原文+评析

Music affects us as profoundly as anything we experience. Very many people say that music is a big part of their everyday life. We can hear evidence of this in the blurring car radio and see the jogger with his personal stereo. That is the new portability of music. That brings it everywhere people live, play and work.

There are different kinds of music , for all tastes – classical, pop, rock, rap, jazz, folk – each culture has its own style. Different parts of the body resonate to different sounds and pitches, and most significantly, certain kinds of music resound powerfully in the human spirit.

We can listen to music anywhere and everywhere.

Listening to music can change your mood – sometimes dramatically. Sometimes, if you’re feeling low, it’s tempting to play slow sad music, but this would make you feel worse. And lifting tune or cheerful song can instantly improve your energy levels and your emotional well being.

Music in film and television shows us how music can affect mood. A romantic drama would have a very different film score to a thriller. The old “silent” films

originally had a pianist in the cinema playing along, trying to strike the right mood. At times, when watching a film or TV programme, you know what’s about to happen because of the music being played – you can anticipate the terror, such as in “Jaws”. There’re many times when I’ve turn down the sound during a TV programme and use subtitles because the music unsettles means so much.

Playing Mozart when studying is said to increase our IQ. A recent study has showed that children who learn a musical instrument are much quicker at developing spatial awareness and problem solving skills.

Relaxation music has a slow rhythm. Sounds are often synthesised and there may be added natural sounds, such as whalesong, birdsong, waves or gentle rain to help produce a feeling of calm and relaxation.

点评：这是一篇关于各种音乐与人之间的关系的文章。音乐在现今社会因为移动终端设备而变得在生活中无时不在，无处不在。不同的音乐对人的精神和情绪影响也各有不同。悲伤时，如果我们听慢调而悲伤的音乐，我们会更悲伤。而那些快乐的歌曲则能让我们的情绪迅速恢复过来。电影和电视剧中的音乐同样能够影响我们的情绪，例如恐怖片和浪漫爱情片的音乐是如此不同，另外还举了默片时代的音乐以及看电影电视剧时我们配着背景音乐时会做出的一些反应。最后谈到研究表明音乐能提高智商。舒缓的音乐节奏缓慢。同时，音乐中越来越多地加入原生态、大自然的元素来帮住人们获得更多平静和放松。

文章属于考生日常生活中都会接触到的娱乐休闲类的话题，正如文中所说，音乐在我们现今的社会无时、无处不在，相信考生对文中谈及的音乐及其作用都感同身受，从而能够比较轻松地完成这篇听写题目。

听力Statements 原文+评析

1. My computer doesn’t seem to be working. I have lots of e-mail letters that I have to reply this afternoon. can I use the one over there on the desk?

2. We had little choice about when to send the bidding documents. Yesterday was too soon to send it, and tomorrow will be too late.

3. Alice has been offered the manager’s job. Although she has hardly any relevant working experience, this is a big surprise even for herself.

4. You can learn something about a place by reading a travel book. But you will be more interested and more fascinated when you actually travel there.

5. There are many challenges we face today, but time permits me to concentrate on only one question. That is where shall we get the money for our new investment project?

6. I regret to say that we are still unable to send the goods you ordered. But we’d like to emphasize that the delay is entirely due to the circumstances beyond our control.

7. Rather than taking a chance on being grounded at the airport because of the impending strike, we decided to take the slower but surer route and arrived at Kansas City.

8. Sally turned down both the auditor’s job and the local school accountant job. The former involved working in the city, and the latter offered a very low pay.

9. A number of houses along the elevated subway route have been torn down, so as to make room for two new highways that are being built.

10. Today, it is as difficult for us to imagine family life without information technology as it would have been for our parents to imagine family life without electricity.

评析：10个statements主要还是以商务英语为主。这些句子是我们在商务口语对话，商务信函中常碰到的。难度不大，生词也不多。

听力TalksandConversations原文+评析

Talks and Conversations 1

M: May I help you?

W: Yes, I want to buy some shoes to replace the ones I am wearing.

M: What’s wrong with them?

W: They are too old and shabby.

M: I can see they have simply been worn out. Would you like the same color?

More or less?

W: Yes, and something a little less casual.

M: How about this light brown pair? They are similar to what you have, but a little bit dressier.

W: Yes. I was thinking of something along that line. I will try them on.

M: They certainly look charming.

W: The trouble is, they feel uncomfortable.

M: Then try on this other pair in the similar style, but by a different manufacturer.

W: These are much better, do you have the main red?

M: Yes, would you like both pairs?

W: Yes, if they won’t cost too much.

M: Oh, no. They won’t. The second pair is half price. Shall I put them both in a box for you?

W: Just the red and the old ones. I wear the new brown pair home.

Questions:

11. What did the woman’s shoes look like?

12. What was wrong with the first pair of shoes the woman tried on?

13. How many pairs of shoes did the woman buy?

14. Which shoes did the woman wear home?

点评：这段对话是女士买鞋子的场景。整体上来说，全篇没有难词，比较容易混淆的是对细节的考查。比如女士试了几双鞋，买了几双，为什么没有买，穿着哪双回家了等等，在听的时候学员注意排除干扰项，记下细节。

Talks and Conversations 2

I lived in a dread for a whole year, and I have to be honest and say that at first I wasn’t very happy. You see, I was homesick, I missed my family and I just wanted to go home. Part of the problem was my Spanish. I couldn’t communicate very well. But I love to eat, and that’s what really saved me. You see, once I discovered Tapas … oh ,let me explain — these delicious appetizers you eat. So I made some Spanish friends and we’d go out to Tapas bars. So I got to eat a lot of delicious food. And of course, my Spanish improved dramatically as well. But there was one thing that was difficult to adjust to, and that was that dinner was always served at a late hour. I wasn’t used to eating at eleven at night.

Questions:

15. How long did the woman live in a dread?

16. Which of following partially explains why the woman was so homesick at first?

17. What did the woman particularly like?

18. According to the woman, which was the thing that was difficult to adjust to?

点评：这篇小谈话谈论的是留学生活。女主人公先是谈到自己刚来西班牙时的恐惧状况，然后谈了自己因喜欢西班牙的食物，从而摆脱了不能用西班牙语交流造成的这种恐惧状况。最后她指出，她仍然不习惯西班牙很晚吃饭的习惯。

总体而言，本文比较简单。可能本文中一开篇出现的dread(恐惧、惧怕)一词会困扰部分考生，但其实根据整篇文章，并不难理解其词义。除此以外，针对文章的考查点，并无生僻词。这就提醒考生不要死抠某个单词，而影响整篇短文的把握。

Talks and Conversations 3

M: Mrs. Dereal, can you tell us something about further and continuous education in Britain?

W: Further and continuous education in Britain can be of different kinds. Apart

from the world famous Open University, there are other colleges that can provide programs of further education for adults students.

M: We are all quite familiar with the Open University, what about the other colleges?

W: Well, first there are the Polytechnics. The Polytechnics are colleges or institutions of further education. They are study centers that offer many different courses for students of all ages. These courses lead to Diplomats or to Degrees awarded by the Council for National Academic Awards, which was set up to award Degrees to adult students in non-university institutions.

M: And then what about Non-Degree courses for adult students?

W: Second, there are specialist colleges, such as the Agricultural Colleges, Colleges of Art or Music and so on. There are also a large number of local colleges of further education: Technical Colleges and Colleges of Commerce. All these special colleges provide a variety of Non-Degree courses for adult students.

M: What about the courses? Are they specially designed for adult students?

W: Courses for adult students may also be vocational or recreational. That is, they may be related to a person’s job or taken purely for interest and pleasure. Examples of popular recreational classes are pottery, woodwork, car maintenance, cookery and so on. At the same time, university lecturers may give up some of

their free time every week to talk to town and village clubs about anything from archeology to the sociological effects of the industrial revolution.

Questions:

19. What is the topic of the interview?

20. What are the polytechnics?

21. According to the interviewee, what is a vocational course?

22. Which of the following is not a subject for recreational classes?

点评：本段讲的是英国的各种成人进修和继续教育，总体难度适中。文章从不同的学校类型入手，分别介绍高职院校、专修学校的课程设置、学位授予等方面，以及职业型和娱乐型教育课程。题目设置基本进口每部分开头的介绍，而22题也考察了学生对细节和举例的把握。

Talks and Conversations 4

As a normal person, you see colors everywhere, so long as you have good eyesight. In fact, color plays a central role in our life. For example, color is used to communicate life-saving information. To the driver of a vehicle, the green color means “go”, and the red color means “stop”. You should always pull up when the traffic light turns red. Besides, colors can irritate or soothe your eyes, raise your appetite, or even change your mood. A delicious meal with appropriate colors can

certainly make your mouth watering. Good colors also help us in many other ways. Statistics show, that in sports competition a team wearing red has a higher chance of winning. Of course, it’s largely due to the psychology of wearing red. Luck and ability can be more important.

For animals, color reflects their environments and their characteristics. For instance, a male peacock has its tail feathers of bright colors to win the attention of female peacocks. A tree frog can be so green as to indicate its poisonous nature. So don’t eat it, or you might die. A wasp, with its bright yellow color, may warn us that it has a sting, and it is not afraid to use that sting. People often think that rainbow is the most colorful, but for our artists, all they need are three colors, namely, red, blue and yellow. They are called the primary colors——colors that cannot be made by mixing others together. And our artists can mix them together to create any color in the rainbow, and hundreds of other shades in making art.

Questions：

23. Why are green and red colors important to drivers?

24. According to statistics, what team has a higher chance of winning in sports competition?

25. which animal has green color that warns us of its poisonous nature?

26. what is a primary color?

点评：本篇文章探讨了关于颜色的话题。颜色在我们生活中扮演了很重要的角色，既可用于交通中给司机传达指令，又可在日常生活中发挥其他的作用。此外，颜色对于动物来说也很重要。有的动物利用颜色来吸引雌性;而有的动物则利用身上的颜色来警告其他动物禁止侵犯。虽然在我们眼里，颜色是多种多样的，但是所有的 颜色都来源自三种颜色：红、蓝和黄。文章内容贴近我们现实生活，文中也并没有出现很多生词。考生只需要适当地做些笔记，结合平常的生活常识，在听的过程中即可选出正确答案。

Talks and Conversations 5

W: Of course, we ought to be permitted to think, speak, and feel as we like, provided we don’t do any harm to anyone else.

M: How do you know when you are doing harm or not?Would you permit people to take drugs, for example?

W: That depends on the drugs, some of them can be harmful in all sorts of ways, like too much drink and smoking as many cigarettes as you do.

M: Well, I have been trying to give up smoking for a long time. But you know, it’s not easy. And I’m afraid I don’t have that strong will.

W: I think the government should banned smoking in all the public places and they should levy heavier taxes on selling and buying cigarettes.

M: What really makes me mad is the attitude toward morals. Some people are

really shocked, because in the theaters today actors are allowed to walk about the stage with little or without any clothes on. And they think it’s right that the police should be able to walk into our galleries and decide whether pictures are works of art or obscene. But the same people aren’t shocked by advertisements which persuaded the public to buy things which can do real harm, like cigarettes and alcohol, for example. I think a lot of advertisements are much more immoral than so-called pornographic or dirty plays and books. Because they lie, or at least disguise the truth.

W: How do you know that pornographic pictures in books don’t do harm?

M: I didn’t say they did no harm, I’m just suggesting that the whole question of morality is relative. I think the behavior of some businessman is relative more immoral than that of some of the young people they criticize.

W: You seem to think that everything will be alright if you just allow people to be natural. I personally feel we all need some kind of outside authority to help us discipline ourselves.

Questions:

27. What has the man been trying to do for a long time?

28. According to the man, what things can do real harm to people?

29. Why does the man think that advertisements are much more immoral than dirty place and books?

30. According to the woman, what do we need to discipline ourselves?

点评：此对话主要是谈论哪些行为是会对他人造成伤害。女士认为烟酒对他人造成极大伤害，因此国家应该禁止公众场合的吸烟行为或者征收更多的税，而男士却认为只要不过量，烟酒就不会造成伤害。男士认为人们的道德观会对他人造成极大伤害，并以人们对现代艺术和广告的虚假信息两种事物的态度来举例说明。最后，女士总结男士的观点是人们应顺其自然地要求自我，而女士的观点则是希望通过外界的权威来约束自我。

本文紧紧围绕中心观点进行讨论，其中关于不良书籍的说法可能会造成一定干扰，但切忌勿因小失大，而忘记听真正要考查的重要信息。

听力Sentence Translation 答案+评1. Sydney is an important commercial, industrial and tourist center on the south-east coast of Australia. It is Australia’s largest city with a population of more than 3 million.

译文：位于澳大利亚东南部海岸的悉尼，是澳大利亚重要的商业、工业和旅游中心。悉尼拥有300万人口，是澳大利亚最大的城市。

2. For those who worry too much about their future, my advice is to live for the present, find some joy in each day, and help others in need.

译文：对于那些过度为自己未来担忧的人来说，我的建议就是活在当下，每天都要找

到生活的乐趣，并且为需要帮助的人伸出援助之手。

3. A woman lawyer has some advantages in the court. For example, if my client is a woman who claim rights from her divorced husband, a woman lawyer can understand better and do a better job.

译文：在法庭上，女性律师是有些优势的。比如说，如果委托人是一名与离婚丈夫发生权利纠纷的女性的话，那么女性律师更能够理解这位委托人，也就能够更好地完成工作。

4. Researchers suggest that playing video games has similar effects to observing violent television content. Children imitate the aggressive actions from a video game just as they imitate violent television content.

译文：有研究表明，玩电子游戏产生的负面影响和观看暴力电视节目产生的影响有些类似。小孩子会像模仿电视节目中的暴力行为一样模仿电子游戏中的过激行为。

5. Every day, Americans use 450 billion gallons of water, such amount would cover New York City to a depth of 96 feet. We must remember that water is not inexhaustible on earth.

译文：美国人每天要使用4500亿加仑的水。这个用水量可以把纽约市淹没至高达96英尺的水位。我们必须谨记，地球的水资源不是取之不尽用之不竭的。

解析：这一部分总体难度适中，所涉内容基本与日常生活相关，几乎没有出现生僻的词汇。句型都比较简单，对理解题意不会造成影响。第四题的句式较其他几句稍复杂，需

要理顺句中进行对比的两部分的关系，才能很好地理解题意并翻译出来。

听力Passage Translation 答案+评析

Passage Translation 1：

People often wonder why they have spend so much money at the supermarket, and often on things they didn’t intend to buy in the first place. A recent survey indicates that 75% of all grocery shoppers make at least one impulse buying. They may be attracted by eye-catching display, or colorful package. For those shoppers, there is a simple way of avoiding impulse buying, and saving money on groceries. That is, they should make a shopping list beforehand, and stick to it.

译文：人们经常疑惑为什么他们去超市花了那么多钱，又经常买回一些他们原先没有打算要买的商品。一项最近的调查显示，75%逛杂货店的人至少有过1次冲动消费。他们或是被商品显眼的摆放所吸引，或是被五颜六色的包装所吸引。对于这些消费者来说，有一种简单的方法既能够帮助他们避免冲动消费又能省钱。那就是，提前列好购物清单，并严格执行。

点评：本篇文章内容贴近现实生活，解释了一下“为什么很多人在超市会花掉很多钱”的疑问，并在最后提出了解决方案。整篇内容基本无难词，文中出现的数字也比较简单。考生需要注意的是一些关键短语的意思不要弄错，如impulse buying (冲动消费)，beforehand (事先)，stick to it (坚持下去)。

Passage Translation 2：

Daily exercise makes you feel good. It helps you think better and believe it or not, it helps you sleep better and feel more relaxed. Once you start exercising regularly, you will feel stronger and keep improving at physical activities. When you exercise, you breathe more deeply and get more oxygen into your lungs with each breath. Your heart pumps more oxygen-filled blood to all parts of your body with each beat. Your muscles and joints feel flexible. Exercise also helps you to stay at a healthy weight.

译文：每天运动会让你感觉很棒。运动有助于思考，而且，信不信由你，它还有助于睡眠，让你更好地放松自己。一旦你开始了有规律的锻炼，你就会发现自己更加健壮了，体育运动的水平也在不断提高。你在运动的时候，做了更多的深呼吸，每次呼吸吸入肺部的氧气都会更多。血液的含氧量也会增加，心脏每次向身体各部分输送的血流量也会增多。同时，你的肌肉和关节也会变的灵活了。此外，锻炼也能帮助你保持健康的体重。

评析：这是一篇以日常生活为主题的段落，讲述了锻炼身体会给人们带来的好处。内容非常贴近生活，考生可根据常识推断段落的内容和大意。所用的词汇和句子都比较常见，难度不大。

段落语义虽容易理解，但考生要切忌word by word 的直译。比如段落多次出现feel这个单词，如果全部翻译成“感觉”，就显得呆板，不切文意。考生翻译的时候，要根据语境进行调整。如“it helps you sleep better and feel more relaxed.”中的feel可淡化，将relaxed从形容词转译为动词，译为“放松自己”。“you will feel stronger”中的feel可译为“发现”。另外，“Your heart pumps more oxygen-filled blood to all parts of your body with each beat.”这句如果直译的话，会造成句子意群过多，长度过长，不符合汉语的表达习惯，所以要注意切分句子，化长句会小句。本句中暗含着两层意思，一个

是血液的含氧量会增加，另一个是，心脏每次向身体各部分输送的血流量会增多。纵观该段落，只要考生在平时多关注生活常识，对此类文章多加练习，一定会得到不错的分数。