上海市英语中级口译资格证书第一阶段考试
SECTION 1：LISTENING TEST （40 minutes） Part A: Spot Dictation
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the word or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE.
Many people nowadays are concerned about violence on television. Most of
them fear that it stimulates (1) to violent or aggressive acts. However, in my lecture today, I’d like to show you, from our (2), that the consequences of experiencing television’s symbolic world of violence can be much (3).
We have found that television dramatically demonstrates not only the
(4) in our society, but also the risks involved in breaking society’s rules. Violence-filled programs on television show us who (5) what, and against whom. These programs teach the role of victim, and help us to
accept violence as (6) which we must learn to live with or (7).
We have found that people who watch a lot of television see the real world
as more (8) than those who watch very little. Heavy TV viewers are (9) of strangers on the street and more fearful of the world. Their fear may well bring increasing demands for (10), and election of law-and-order politicians. When we asked viewers to (11) their own chances of being involved in some type of violence during any given week,
they provide (12) that television can induce fear and alertness: the heavy viewers were (13) percent more likely than the light viewers to pick such fearful estimates as 50-50 or one in 10, (14) a more plausible one in 100.
We have found that violence on prime-time (15) cultivates exaggerated assumptions about the (16) in the real world. Fear is a universal emotion, and naturally, easy to (17). The exaggerated sense of risk and insecurity my lead to increasing demands for protection, and to (18) for the use of force by established authority. Therefore, instead of stimulating individual (19) and threatening the social order, television may have become our chief instrument of (20).
Part B: Listening Comprehension Ⅰ. Statements
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear several short statements. These statements will be spoken ONLY ONCE, and you will not find them written on the paper; so you must listen carefully. When you hear s statement, read the answer choices and decide which one is closest in meaning to the statement you have heard. Then write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. 1. (A) I was the last to know about the MBA program.
(B) I learned a great deal from the MBA program.
(C) I misunderstood only the most difficult part of the program. (D) I dropped out of the program because it was difficult. 2. (A) Our fall schedule will be discussed next Monday and Tuesday.
(B) The Vice President has more meetings than her assistants do.
(C) The Vice President and her assistants are not available on Monday and Tuesday.
(D) The Vice President and her assistants usually have full schedules two days a week.
3. (A) Few people did shopping at the supermarket because of the holiday
break.
(B) Most people did not like shopping during the holiday break.
(C) The general manager was surprised that people paid little attention to his supermarkets.
(D) The general manager did not expect to see so many customers at his supermarkets.
4. (A) I don’t think he has the qualifications for such a post.
(B) I am not sure if he has enough money to pay his college tuition. (C) He is not qualified to teach in the advanced Computing program. (D) He takes courses in Computing because he needs more qualifications. 5. (A) Nothing can stop Jack from buying that projector.
(B) The projector is so old that it becomes useless. (C) Repairing the projector is quite easy for Jack. (D) Jack has checked and found nothing in the projector.
6. (A) Jenny and I do not get along because of our differences of opinion.
(B) Jenny and I usually get up early most of the mornings. (C) Jenny and I can generally have a harmonious relationship. (D) Jenny and I do not get along because we make no effort to do so. 7. (A) Typing the memorandum is sometimes unnecessary.