1997年3月上海市高级口译笔试真题
19. The statement that "contact with drugs is now part of growing up" can be paraphrased as _____.
(A) drug use is a kind of learning process necessary for young people
(B) most young people have contact with drugs
(C) young people try to learn certain social values through drugs
(D) drug abuse is mainly related to the teenagers
20. According to the passage, some schools were inclined to ignore the drugs problem because _____.
(A) there was no drugs problem in those schools
(B) the schools fear that their reputation would be damaged
(C) they felt it should be the government's responsibility to fight drug abuse
(D) drug abuse is mainly a social problem
SECTION 3: TRANSLATION TEST (30 minutes)
Directions: Translate the following passage into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.
Since Darwin, biologists have been firmly convinced that nature works without plan or meaning, pursuing no aim by the direct road of design. But today we see that this conviction is a fatal error. Why should evolution, exactly as Darwin knew it and described it, be planless and irrational? Do not aircraft design engineers work, at precisely that point where specific calculations and plans give out, according to the same principle of evolution, when they test the serviceability of a great number of statistically determined forms in the wind tunnel, in order to choose the one that functions best? Can we say that there is no process of natural selection when nuclear physicists, through thousands of computer operations, try to find out which materials, in which combinations and with what structural form, are best suited to the building of an atomic reactor? They also practise no designed adaptation, but work by the principle of selection. But it would never occur to anyone to call their method planless and irrational.
SECTION 4: LISTENING TEST (30 minutes)
Part A: Note-taking And Gap-filling
Directions: In this part of the test you will hear a short talk. You will hear the talk only once. While listening to the talk, you may take notes on the important points so that you can have enough information to complete a gap-filling task on your ANSWER BOOKLET afterwards. You are required to write ONE word or figure only in each blank:
In the past fifty years the invention of ______(1) devices and appliances has made housework much easier. Among these devices and appliances are _______(2) cleaners, electric irons, washing machines, and some others. Probably the most important piece of ________(3) equipment which has been widely used in the last twenty years is the _______(4). Washing up by hand is not only _______(5) but also extremely boring. Dishwashers are of different sizes and ________(6). Their capacity ranges from s
