1997年3月上海市高级口译笔试真题
1. Which of the following can be concluded from the first paragraph?
(A) These tourist attractions do not appeal to the local people spiritually.
(B) Disneyland is no longer a typical example of tourist attractions.
(C) Both tourists and local people are equally drawn by these tourist attractions.
(D) Madam Tussaud's exhibition is not one of saleable tourist commodities.
2. "Nature imitates Art" means that__________ .
(A) Art is two-dimensional and Nature is three-dimensional
(B) Disney created a two-dimensional art form
(C) the facsimiles are three-dimensional
(D) Disneyland is a life-like copy of the original film cartoons
3. To be repeatable at will, a tourist attraction must be __________.
(A) artificial (B) attractive
(C) fictitious (D) facetious
4. The locals all over the world in order to satisfy the travelling agents and tourists__________.
(A) make their festivals more material
(B) adorn and exaggerate their traditional ceremonies
(C) change into dishonest tourist attractions
(D) decorate their villages for the tourists
5. According to the passage, modern tourist guide books ___________.
(A) help make tourists excited
(B) give VIPs like Kaiser Wilhelm instructions for him to appear
(C) are also a source of information for the natives
(D) can be used as scripts for acting on stage
Question 6~10
New vocational qualifications to provide an alternative to GCSE and transform school life for 14-to 16-year-olds are expected to be announced on Thursday by the Government.
Ministers have decided to run a pilot next year in 90 of 4,000 secondary schools. Courses for under-16s could be available in all schools by 1997. Vocational courses for over-16s have proved extremely popular, and hundreds of schools are thought to have volunteered for next year's pilot.
The General National Vocational Qualification courses are not designed as training for a particular job. They are class-room-based, so a pupil taking, for instance, manufacturing, might do work experience in a local factory but would not have to make anything.
Last week Sir Ron Dearing, chairman of the Schools Curriculum and Assessment Authority, said 40 per cent of the timetable for 14-to 16-year-olds would be freed so that some pupils could pursu
