2010年3月高级口译考试听力部分section1 完整听力原文。
[1] Spot Dictation
[2] Q1-Q5
[3] Q6-Q10
[4] Q11-Q15
[5] Q16-Q20
You probably know that asthma can cause breathing problems, so can kids with asthma play sports. You bet they can. Being active and playing sports is an especially good idea if you have asthma. Why? Because it can help your lungs get stronger. So they work better. Some athletes with asthma have done more than developed stronger lungs. They’ve played professional football and basketball and they’ve even won medals at the Olympic Games. Some sports are less likely to bother a person’s asthma. Golf and yoga are less likely to trigger flare-ups and so are sports like baseball, football and gymnastics. In some sports, you need to keep going for a long time. These activities may be harder for people with asthma. They include long-distance running, cycling ,soccer, basketball, cross-country skiing, and ice hockey. But that doesn’t mean you can’t play these sports if you really like them. In fact, many athletes with asthma have found that with the right training and medicine, they can do any sport they choose. But before playing sports, it’s important that your asthma is under control. That means you are having lots of symptoms or flare-ups. To make this happen, it’s very important that you take all asthma medicine just as your doctor tells you to. Even when you are feeling ok, your doctor will also tell you other things you can do to avoid flare-ups. This may mean skipping outdoor workouts when there is a lot of pollen in the air. wearing a scarf or a musk when you play outside during the winter. Or making sure you always have time for a careful warm-up and cool-down. Make sure your coach and teammates know about your asthma. That way, they will understand if you need to stop working out because of breathing trouble. It’s also helpful if your coach knows which steps to take if you have a flare-up. Listen to your body, and follow these instructions your doctor gave you for handling breathing problems. And if you can keep your asthma in good control, you will be in the game and not on the sidelines.
Part B Questions 1 to 5
A. Can you tell me about the different places you’ve lived, Bill?
B. I grew up in the big city, New York. But I always thought I would want to live somewhere else.
A. And did you move？
B. I did. What finally drove me out of New York was the traffic. I feel stuck in the city. Like I was trapped. I always spent summers in the country with my family in Maine,in the woods, on the lake, and I felt free there. But I wasn’t ready to be in the county full time. So for the next 7 years, we lived in a small town.
A. And was that better?
B. No, I never liked it. I moved back to New York because of my kids. I didn’t want them cheering for different sports teams.
A. Do you feel better about life in the city now?
B. Well, I have my ups and downs. What bothers me most about the urban lifestyle is still the traffic and the parking. Here is an example for you. One time my mother was dropping my daughter off after taking her to a play. This is just a law-abiding grandmother doing what normal grandmothers love to do-hanging out with her grandchildren and taking her to a show. Ok, so she comes to drop my daughter off and of course there is no parking. My mother is 75 and she needs a little break. So despite not having a legal parking spot she steps inside the house before driving another 45 minutes home. She was in the house 5 minutes. and it cost her 50 dollars She got a parking ticket. I mean taking a grandchild to a show doesn’t cost stress in the suburbs but in the big city, it’s a big deal.
A. how did your wife feel?
B. Well, for my wife, it is the dirt that bothers her.
A. Doesn’t that bother you, too?
B. No, I don’t really mind the dirt. I suppose I’m used to it. Other people complain about graffiti. But that doesn’t really bother me either.
A. So on the whole, would you say you prefer city living to other places?
B. Well, the thing is, I like big cities. I also like wild remote places in the country. I don’t like anything in-between, like small cities and suburbs. I think small towns are the worst.Ｉmean if you are going to have a lot of building and cars, at least you should have a lot of interesting people. People are the best part of cities. If you are not going to have people on the streets, then please give me some tress, strings, boulders, animals.
A. Well, besides the interesting people, is there any other you like about the city?
B. I know it’s weird, but I especially love the city on grey drizzly days.
A. You do?
B. Yeah, it’s beautiful how the gray of the buildings blends in with the sky. But on bright sunny days, I hate it. I want to be on the mountain , hiking in the woods, something like that. But because of the traffic, I don’t go anywhere except the park usually. It’s frustrating on those sunny days. So, I can only be truly happy in the city when the weather is bad.
A. So what’s your idea of the ideal place to live?
B. The ideal place to live would be a big city that ends suddenly and right away you are in the rural area. So on rainy days I stay home and watch the rain. And on sunny days I’d go mountain climbing. And at night, I have a choice. I could camp out and cook burgers or go home and order a Chinese take-out.
Questions
1.For which of the following factors did the man move out of New York city at first?
2.What happens to the man’s mother when she took her granddaughter to a show?
3.How does the man’s wife feel about living in the city?
4.Apart from the interesting people, which other thing did the man like about big cities?
5.The man and his family have lived in several places, which of the following is not one
of these places?
Question6-10 are based on the following news
London
British Prime Minister Gorden Brown proposed a Copenhagen launch fund to help poorer countries tackle climate change immediately as part of a global climate agreement to be reached in Copenhagen in December. The Prime Minister’s office annouced on Friday. Brown said he was optimistic that developped countries would support the mesure of ten billion US dollars. Half of the funding would go towards helping developping countries, reduce green house gases. The other half would help developping countries to adapt to climate change, with priority for the poorest and most vulnerable. According to the Prime Minister, the British government would contribute 800 million pounds in total over three years which has already been budgeted for.
Toronto
Real gross domestic product, GDP of Canada increased 0.1% in the third quarter,the first quarterly gain since the third quarter of 2008, according to Statistis Canada on Monday. Domestic demand, including consumer spending, housing, government spending and even business investment performed better than the previous quarter. Final domestic demand advanced 1.2 percent as capital investment and personal expenditures both increased. Real GDP was up 0.4 percent in September as most major industrial sectors inreased their production according to Statistis Canada.
Dubai
Confidence of western investors across the Gulf has been shaken by the Dubai government’s shock decision to ask creditor banks for a 6-month delay on its massive debt repayments on Thursday. Western investors turned to the oil-exporting Gulf region for help during the global financial crisis. But now, European stock market dropped sharply on the news, with European exchanges particularly hard hit. The US markets were closed for the Thanksgiving holiday, and the dollar edged up from 14-year lows as renewed risk aversion prompted investors to shed riskier assets. However, a Dubai’s senior official said the suspensional payments on Dubai world was carefully planned and done in full knowledge of how the market would react.
Geneva
A group of demonstrators protesting against the World Trade Organisation smashed shop windows and set fire to several cars in central Geneva on Saturday, witnesses said. Police in riot gear had to intervene and tried to head off the vandalizing protesters in the city’s main shopping street, leading to clashes, they said. An estimated three thousand people took part in the march which meant to protest against a WTO ministerial conference starting on Monday. The conference aims to review all the activities of the world trade body including the long-running Doha Round of global trade negociations. Anti-WTO activists have accused the body of adopting trade policies in favor of multi-national companies while neglecting the intersts of the poor. Similar protests have happened during previous WTO ministerial meetings.
United Nations
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Monday voiced his heart-felt condolences over the tragic loss of lives in the wake of the derailment of an express train running from Moscow to St. Petersburg in Russia on Friday, November 27, 2009, a UN statement issued here. The statement issued by his spokesperson said: At this moment of grief his thoughts go out to the victims and their families. He wishes the many injured a swift recovery and hopes that investigations currently being conducted will shed more light on the circonstances surrounding this tragic incident. A home-made chemical bomb planted on the tracks in an apparent act of terrorism derailed the high-speed train in Russia, carrying hundreds of people Friday night, killing at least 26 and injurying scores more.
Q6: Which of the following statements is true about British Prime Minister’s proposal?
Q7: At what percentage did real GDP of Cananda increase in the third quarter of the year?
Q8: What did the Dubai government decide to do on Thursday?
Q9: Why did an estimated three thousand people march in central Geneve’s main shopping street?
Q10: What casualties did the derailment of an express train cause in Russia?
When you walk into a building, are you able to thought of immediately sense whether it has good fengshui, or not? A good flow of the Qi(气)?
Yes, and so are you. Anytime you walk into any room, you get a feeling about it: whether you feel good about being there, or not so good. So everyone has experienced good fengshui. Anytime they walked into anybody’s home, or even an office, were suddenly they think, “Oh, this is pleasant. I feel good.” You know, maybe their moods are little happier, or maybe they are more relaxed, whatever. It is the positive reaction you get when you are in the mist of good fengshui.
So fengshui is exactly what? A way of ordering buildings, rooms, corridors in your life to keep out evil spirits?
Well, I wouldn’t say to keep out evil spirits. That sounds so superstitious. But I would say, it’s a system of arranging all the objects around you at home or at work. In such a way that they are in harmony and balance with nature, in the way that fengshui teaches us to do. Then, therefore, you are in harmony and balance and so is your life.
Now, this is something that’s very important to Asia. In fact, it’s part of the architecture of buildings. How the staircases go up? Where buildings are lined? But what’s your particular interest in it? You sound as if you have a Scandinavian background. I mean is fengshui something important in Scandinavia?
Well, there is a huge digression coming. My name is Scandinavian. I was name for a Norwegian opera singer. I identify as Irish though. So I don’t know if there is any fengshui in Scandinavia. But their designs are so clean. I was suspected so. Yes, fengshui is huge in Asia. I believe it practiced widely in mainland China. Even though it’s officially frowned upon as superstition, but it’s also huge here in the U.S. In Los Angeles, for instance, some people would no more start working on a building project without a fengshui master than he would without a seismologist to tell him that a building would stay up an earthquake. That’s because these observations that amount to fengshui have developed over thousands of years.
That’s quite true as far as I know.
I know, for instance, that people in San Francisco, if a one-way street sign is put up pointing toward a house, were there are some Chinese living, they can approach the city Traffic Sign Department, and have the sign removed. Not necessarily pointed back in the opposite direction, but have the sign removed, or at least not pointing at their house.
Did you choose your home because of fengshui?
We didn’t choose our home because of fengshui. But, I arranged my office at home according to fengshui. And it’s a real basic example that illustrates a couple of principles. I’m luck enough to have a view out the window at the far end of my office. I was going to put my desk facing out the window, but I wouldn’t have my back to the door, which I don’t feel good about. You know, it’s not just fengshui. It’s also a bad idea to sit with your back to the door. Anybody who comes into your office can surprise you. They surprise you with the things they have to say. You are constantly off guard. So, I turned my desk so that I still have the view at one hand, and I have the door and the rest of the room at the other hand. And then I put the other furniture in the office where it worked around that. I’ve got a better floor plan that I would figure out for myself.
Q11 According to the man being interviewed, what’s the function of fengshui?
Q12 What background does the man have?
Q13 According to the man, there is fengshui in many parts of the world, which of the following is not one of the places that he mentions in the interview?
Q14 Which of the following is a good example of fengshui being huge in the U.S?
Q15 Which of the following of the statements is true about the man being interviewed?
A father was recently arrested by the police for spanking his child, starting a debate among the American public about spanking. Is spanking or other types of corporal punishment an acceptable form of discipline for children, or is it a form of child abuse?
The case that has everyone is talking is the arrest of Mr. Dale Cover, a 36-year old father of three, shopping at a big mall in St. Louise Missouri. He was arrested after an employee at the mall saw him spanking his 5-year old son, Donny, and call the police. The father was arrested for child abuse. He could get up to for 5 years in prison if he is convicted of child abuse. Mr. Cover admits that he hit his son, but says that wasn’t child abuse. He says it was discipline.
Across the country, parents disagree on this issue. What is the difference between loving discipline and child abuse? Some parents see a clear difference between spanking and child abuse. The majority view among the parents in a survey conducted by New York University is a little bit of pain is necessary to teach a child what is right and wrong. Pain is nature’s way of teaching us. Spanking is done out of love, child abuse is done out of anger when the parent loses control. One father said, “When I spank my children, I always talk to them before and afterward and explain why they’re being spanked. I explained what they did wrong, and they remember not to do it again. They respect me as a parent. My children understand\that I’m spanking them for their own good. Parents need to control their children better, and corporal punishment is one way to do that.”
Some other parents feel that parents should never hit their children for any reason. They want their children to learn right and wrong, but not out of fear of being hit. Spanking teaches children to fear their parents, not to respect them. When a parent spanks a child, what the child learns is that problems should be solved with violence.
Parents are split about corporal punishment, and education experts also disagree about the issue. Some experts think that our child abuse laws sometimes go too far. Today, many children don’t respect their parents. Children need strong, loving discipline. Sometimes spanking is the best way to get a child’s attention, to make sure that a child listens to the parent. However, most experts say that there are many harmful effects of spanking. Spanking can lead to more violent behavior in children. Study shows that children who are spanked are more violent when they grow up. Spanking doesn’t work well. It’s not as effective as other forms of discipline. A child may stop misbehaving for the moment, but over time, children who are spanked eventually misbehave more than children who are not spanked.
Research shows that if you want a peaceful family, don’t spank your kids. What are the long –term effects of spanking as a child gets older and becomes an adult? Violent criminals were almost always spanked and hit when they were children. This corporal punishment teaches children to be violent when they are very young. So, when they are adults, they commit crimes and abuse their wives and children. And then, their children go up to be violent. And the cycle continues.
In the United States, the number of parents who spank their kids is decreasing. In 1970, 85% of the parents in the United States said they use corporal punishment. Today, 62% say they spank their children. The issue of spanking and corporal punishment will continue to be debated among parents, and in the courts.
Q16 According to the talk, who is arrested recently for spanking a 5-year old boy?
Q17 What does Mr. Dale Cover believe about spanking?
Q18 Which of the following statements is true according the majority view among the parents in the New York University survey?
Q19 Which of the following views do most experts probably disagree with?
Q20 What percentage of parents in the United States today say they use corporal punishment?
