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英语高级口译岗位资格证书考试 问题列表
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单选题We may conclude from the passage that the four media luna departments ______.A
are mainly from western highlandsB
get united to fight against Mr. Morales’s presidencyC
want bigger share of gas exportD
have priority over the other three levels of autonomous organization
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单选题We can conclude from the passage that the author’s attitude towards Brazil is ______.A
with great respectB
neutral and understandingC
favorable with a bit contemptD
critical
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单选题It can be inferred from the passage that the author is most probably ______.A
an American congressmanB
a British politicianC
an American journalistD
a British environmentalist
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问答题Practice 2 Talk about fanciful thinking. One might as well ask if there will be a war that will end all wars, or a pill that will make us all good-looking. It is also a perfectly understandable question, given that half a million Americans will die this year of a disorder that is often discussed in terms that make it seem less like a disease than an unconquerable enemy. What tuberculosis was to the 19th century, cancer is to the 20th: an malevolent force that frightens people beyond all reason far more than, say, diabetes or high blood pressure. The welcome boom in cancer drugs owes its beginning to one of the 20th century’s greatest scientific insights: that cancer is caused not by depression or deteriorating environment or sexual repression, but by faulty genes. Every tumor begins with just one errant cell that has been unlucky enough to suffer at least two, but sometimes several, genetic mutations. Those mutations cause the cell to replicate wildly, allowing it to escape the control that genes normally maintain over the growth of new tissue. This realization has transformed cancer, in little more than a decade, from an utterly mysterious disease into a disorder whose molecular machinery is largely understood. This new view has sparked innovations that will manage the process and keep it from killing large numbers of people.
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问答题Practice 5 中华文明历来注重社会和谐。强调团结互助。中国人早就提出了“和为贵”的思想，追求天人和谐、人际和谐、身心和谐，向往“人人相亲，人人平等，天下为公”的理想社会。 今天，中国提出构建和谐社会，就是要建设一个民主法治、公平正义、诚信友爱、充满活力、安定有序、人与自然和谐相处的社会，实现物质和精神、民主和法治、公平和效率、活力和秩序的有机统一。 中国人民把维护民族团结作为自己义不容辞的职责，把维护国家主权和领土完整作为自己至高无上的使命。一切有利于民族团结和国家统一的行为，都会得到中国人民真诚的欢迎和拥护。一切有损于民族团结和国家统一的举动，都会遭到中国人民强烈的反对和抗争。
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问答题Practice 1 The catchphrase of the hour is that America is living beyond its means. The expression is used so much by politicians, economists and editorial writers that it is depreciating faster than the dollar. But there's no way around it. It tells the story. The Data Resources numbers show Americans increase their spending this year almost three times as fast as their after-tax income. What else can we explain it? What is more, as a nation, the U.S. has been doing the same thing throughout the 1990s. For years the country has been consuming more than it produces, making up the difference by borrowing abroad. It can't go on. The stock market's tumble, which has caused a loss of $1 trillion in paper wealth, is but the first step in a process that must sober the nation. At the same time, in the next few years the U. S. will have to throw its amazing dream machine into reverse and start paying its debts. Inevitably, this will mean a lowering in the U.S. standard of living as Americans are forced to produce more than they consume to service a soaring foreign debt. Per capital income may keep rising but more slowly than in the past. The trade account will go slowly towards balance or even surplus in the mid-1990s. But in the meantime, Americans will receive less for their exports because the dollar will fall considerably before U. S. exports are competitive. And pressures to reduce the federal deficit will tighten the lid on defense spending.
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问答题Passage 1 A CHEER went up from most students when the announcement came over the intercom at Centennial High School. Teachers across the province were going out on strike this morning, in protest against the Ontario government’s education reforms. But for other students, the news could not have been worse. “It really makes me angry,” says Sarah Wright, a senior preparing for college. “This is going to ruin my (school) year.” The showdown between teachers' unions and the government in Ontario, Canada’s largest province, will keep 2.1 million students out of class starting today. Last minuts talks still going yesterday, with former Chief Justice of Ontario Charles Dubin as referee. The teachers' union, in announcing the strike, said their actions were a 'political protest' as well as a strike. At issue is who will make policy: the cost-cutting Conservative government, or the unions that represent the 126,000 teachers. The teachers oppose education reforms in Bill 60, legislation now before the Ontario Legislature. They say certain sections of the bill cut them out of the decision-making process. “Teachers across this province are concerned about the undemocratic nature of this bill,” say Eileen Lennon, president of the Ontario Teachers' Federation. “Schools are put into the shared trust of teachers, parents, communities, and government. We want the parents, teachers, and communities to have some input into school policy.” The government wants teachers to spend time in the classroom, to extend the school year, and to have one standard set of examinations so students across the province are measured uniformly. The government also wants the freedom to make significant spending cuts. The premier of Ontario, Michael Harris, bought television time after the strike was announced to explain his government’s reforms. Harris, who was elected on a promise to cut taxes, said Ontario school taxes has doubled over the past 10 years performance on international test scores has declined. “Our plan is about moving the focus on education away from the blank-check spending mentality that has failed, to a new accountability where we focus on the student in the classrooms,” said harris.” Choosing an illegal strike punishes only parents and their children.” Harris criticized the time high school teachers spend in the classroom, just 3.75 hours a day. He also wants to use people other than teachers to handle non-academic subjects, such as car repair. The premier moved to win the support of parents by ordering local school boards to pay parents $ 40 a day to cover daycare costs while the teachers are out on strike. The talks have been so acrimonious that earlier this month the premier fired the education minister and appointed a new one, David Johnson, a move that has done little to placate the teachers. High school student Sarah Wright feels caught up in a political war. “We've been listening to the teachers side of the story for the past year,” she says. “Many students go along with the teachers because they don't know any better. I don't think they've really thought it through. If it goes on for a couple of months, I’ll go to another province to finish high school. This is stupid.” Local school boards, who employ the teachers, say they may take legal action against the union leaders and maybe the teachers who do not show up for work today. 1. Why do Ontario teachers oppose the government’s education reforms? 2. What does Ontario government say about the current education situation in high schools? 3. Why does the author cite the example of Sarah Wright?
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单选题What is the root cause of the report?A
Global financial crisis impactB
Worry of down-graded education levelC
Pay dispute in 2006D
Government investigation
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问答题Passage 2 The USes Big Three carmakers, General Motors (GM), Chrysler and Ford, are presently fighting for their survival. The first two have now unveiled major new plans to see them through a period of global downturn, falling consumer demand, and loss of their market share. They involve job and production cuts, and seeking more US government aid—and the numbers concerned are huge. The pair are seeking $ 21. 6bn (￡15. 2bn) in financial support, on top of the combined $17. 4bn they have already received. In return, they have promised substantial cuts, including axing 50, 000 jobs. The crisis comes as the Big Three have seen US market share decline from 70% in 1998 to 53% in 2008, amid fears that they will not return to viability unless North American consumer demand for cars returns. “The very simple take on how the US industry has got into this situation is that they have been making the wrong vehicles, having concentrated on light trucks,” Mike Tyndall, an auto specialist at Nomura in London, told the BBC website.” “The slowdown in light truck sales in 2008 left them in a position with nothing to do.” “If you look at the production mix in 2007—a total of 55% of production was in light trucks, which includes pickups and SUVs.” “Demand for these stopped when the gasoline price went to $ 4 a gallon in the US.” “Also, people in construction tend to drive pickups, and when the housing market slowed down—coinciding with a tightening of credit—then that also hit sales of these vehicles.” In December 2008 the US government said it would provide $17. 4bn in loans to help GM and Chrysler survive. At the time, President George W Bush said allowing the US car industry to fail would not be “a responsible course of action”. And, although demand for light trucks has risen slightly—helped by the oil price coming down—since the two carmakers went to the US government in December, overall vehicle sales have been hit by rising unemployment. “That is a key driver of sales,” says Mr. Tyndall. “People who are about to lose their jobs do not tend to buy new cars. So, overall, the situation is probably worse than it was in December.” As part of their new survival schemes both GM and Chrysler said they had examined the possibility of going into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. However they decided that this option would be more expensive in the long run than a straightforward cash bail-out. “The [bail-out] requests pale in comparison to what it might cost taxpayers if GM or Chrysler go bankrupt,” warns Aaron Bragman, auto industry analyst for the consulting firm IHS Global Insight. American manufacturing.” Automotive jobs are also the lifeblood of manufacturing in Michigan, the state with highest unemployment, where jobless rates are well above the national average. And those jobless figures appear set to get bigger, with the firms planning to axe a total of 50, 000 workers in total, although more than half of those posts will be shed outside the US. Meanwhile, those jobs figures could potentially be higher in the end, as not everyone believes vehicle makers should be saved at any cost necessary. “We continue to believe that government support is not open-ended,” says Gregg Lemos-Stein, auto analyst at SP in New York “Accordingly, in our opinion, even if this plan is approved and additional funding is provided, bankruptcy risk will remain high because of very uncertain consumer demand for light vehicles and other serious risks—for example weak credit markets, and potential supplier failures.” GM has outlined plans to return to break-even status in 2010 as part of a reduced production volume of 11.5 million to 12.0 million vehicles—or units as the industry calls them—for the year. However, analysts at Citi Investment Research predict that to also achieve a “significant recovery in unit profitability” GM will probably need improved pricing and content, as well as substantial lower raw material costs. “While successful product launches and an improving economy could eventually drive a unit profit recovery, such a bounce by 2010 seems optimistic,” its analysts’ note says. Meanwhile, a lot of work remains to be done before both GM’s and Chrysler’s drastic proposals could become reality. “Much as we would like to see a rapid solution, there are some very delicate negotiations with unions, and bondholders, and the government, still ahead,” says Nomura’s Mr. Tyndall. “So the fact that there are so many interested parties means it will take a while to resolve.” 1. What is the strategy that has led to the difficulty of the Big Three carmakers? 2. Briefly describe GM’s attitude toward bankruptcy? According to the outsiders, is GM likely to go bankrupt and why? 3. List the possible ways given by analysts to help GM return to break-even status.
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单选题Shadow chancellor George Osborne holds that ______.A
London is not capable of hosting the summitB
Lord Myners should not have signed off Sir Fred Goodwin’s pensionC
there was no “common ground” on the G20D
the UK government’s entire economic strategy has fallen apart
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问答题Practice 6 None of us can afford to be complacent about our command of English. For most of the time, of course, there is no problem: we are dealing with family and friends on everyday affairs; and what is more, we are usually talking to them, not writing. It is in ordinary talk to ordinary people on ordinary matters that we are most at home, linguistically and otherwise. And fortunately, this is the situation that accounts for the overwhelming majority of our needs in the use of English. Problems arise as soon as the context is somewhat out of the ordinary. We suddenly need to address a cousin about the death of her husband; or we are writing to our employer to explain temporary absence; composing the minutes of a particularly delicate committee meeting; even just drafting an announcement to pin on the club notice board. This is when we may—or should—pause and wonder about idiom, good usage, the most appropriate way of putting things. There is the risk of sounding too casual, too colloquial, too flippant. There is the converse risk of seeming ponderous, distant, pompous, unnatural; of using an expression which, instead of striking a resonant note, falls flat as a hackneyed cliché.
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单选题The expression “flummoxed by” in the sentence “Politicians, obsessed with inputs and outputs, targets and controls, are flummoxed by immeasurable concepts such as the value people place on spending time with their families.”(para.2) can best be replaced by ______.A
confronted withB
fascinated withC
perplexed byD
haunted by
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单选题Which of the following is lest important than the other three in the first-time-treatment of cardiac arrest?A
Tracking outcomes of the cases.B
Well-organized EMS systems.C
Readily accessible defibrillators.D
Bystanders who will perform CPR.
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问答题Passage 5 This summer sees a significant change to the process of applying to university. It is called “the adjustment period”. Despite the rather anodyne name, this is intended as a big step towards a system in which students apply to universities after they have received the results of their A-levels or equivalent qualifications. This aim, eventually, is to replace the current system of applications based on predicted grades. Three years ago the government said it wanted to introduce “a full post-qualifications application system by 2012”. This is seen as fairer since official figures show that 55% of predicted grades are inaccurate. Moreover, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), predicted grades are more likely to be inaccurate for students from the lowest socio-economic groups. There is also evidence that many bright students from poorer homes are put off applying to top universities like Oxford and Cambridge because they think their grades will not be good enough. By the time they receive their better-than-expected results it is too late. So, that is why this year there is a significant change. The “adjustment period” will apply to university applicants who, in August, find they have done better than expected in their exams. If their grades are better than required for the university offers they are holding, they will now get a further opportunity to apply elsewhere to see if they can, in effect, “upgrade”. They will have five days after the results come out to achieve this upgrade. This change means, in theory, an intense period of “speed dating” between top universities and those students who have exceeded exam expectations. So far, so good. But here is the rub. Expectations have been raised. A student who, for example, gets three A grades may decide that they could have been more ambitious than the offer they already hold and, buoyed by their success, may then seek a place at a more prestigious university. They will get on the phone to a top university, explain their improved grades, and will, quite reasonably, expect to be considered for a place. But the reality is that there will rarely be any places left. And this is the flaw in the system. Popular universities are heavily oversubscribed. They do not keep back spare places for last-minute applicants. Nor have they been required to do so for this new “adjustment period”. As one senior person at UCAS acknowledged recently, the chance of places remaining available on the most popular courses is “quite remote”. Senior vice-chancellors agree with that assessment. Indeed, this time round there is even less prospect than in previous years of there being any places spare on popular courses. That is because universities have been busy making offers since the end of last year, but at the start of this year, the government suddenly announced that the planned expansion of places is to be cut back. There will now be 5, 000 fewer university places than were envisaged just a few months ago. Since universities face financial penalties if they over-recruit, some will now be wishing to reduce the number of offers they had been planning to make. They will not be able to retract offers already made, but they will certainly not be offering additional places for the “adjustment period” in August. The result is that students are being hoodwinked. The “adjustment period” looks like a small oasis for those who have done better than expected in their exams. They will expect a reward for their achievement. But they will find it is a mirage. So why has this been allowed to happen? The truth is that, despite the government’s enthusiasm for a post-qualifications application system, the universities are reluctant to change the status quo. It would mean changes to the school examinations timetable or to university term dates, or a combination of the two. The adjustments need not be that great, particularly as technology has speeded up the pace of exam marking. But, for now, there has not been enough political will to force through the change and caution has won the day. If, as seems likely, this year’s “adjustment period” results in hardly any applicants managing to upgrade their offers, then the whole issue must be looked at again. Either the government should set out a clear timetable towards full post qualification applications or it should admit it does not have the stomach for the change. This halfway house looks like a cruel hoax on students. 1. Who will benefit from the adjustment period and how? 2. Describe the reason why top universities now have fewer places left than previous years on popular courses. 3. What can be done to generate a better result from the adjustment period this year? What will be its future?