1999年上海市英语中级口译资格证书第一阶段考试五(编辑修改稿)

1999年上海市英语中级口译资格证书第一阶段考试五(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

(2)_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SECTION 2: STUDY SKILLS (50 minutes) Directions: In this section, you will read several passages. Each passage is followed by several questions based on its content. You are to choose ONE best answer, A., B., C. or D., to each question. Answer all the questions following each passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Questions 1～ 5 Today one in every ten of us has difficulty getting to sleep and, according to Dr. Ian Oswald of Edinburgh university, the reason is simple. Most people who can39。 t sleep are their own worst enemies. They go to bed too early. For every person who works most efficiently on the usual eight hours of sleep a night, two work best on five or six, and two on nine or ten. Voltaire made do with three hours but Sir Winston Churchill would happily sleep for 12～ 14 hours at a stretch if he could. So how much sleep does a person really need? It seems that the national average for men is seven hours and ten minutes, and for women ten minutes less, but everyone39。 s needs are different. Find out what you need and, according to Dr. Ernest Hartmann, one of America39。 s leading sleep scientists, you39。 re well on your way to allowing your body to work at its greatest efficiency. After studying the sleep habits of nearly 1000 people, Dr Hartmann believes it39。 s the amount of deep sleep we get that really matters. We all need roughly the same amount— about 75 minutes a night. The rest, a shallower type of sllep, vaies greatly from person to person. How much of the second type of sleep, you need seems to depend on what sort of person you are. According to Dr. Hartmann short sleepers— those sleeping less than six hours a night— were busy, active people, employed in demanding jobs, and often worked a 60 or 70hour week. Most of them had started sleeping shorter hours to deal with the pressure of schoolwork or business and fornd that a few hours sleep a night was quite enough. Their defence against worry and stress was usually “ to keep so busy that I don39。 t have time to think about these things. ...” Most of the long sleepers — those needing at least nine hours — were selfemployed. Almost all of them had slept for nine hours a night since late childhood, long before their work pattern became fixed. They tended to plain more than the short sleepers and several admitted that sleeping was an escape from life. In the past it was believed that too much sleep could be just as disturbing as too little, but now a study in America has shown that many people can enjoy ten hours or more and still be able to sleep through the following night. 中国最大的管理资源中心 (大量免费资源共享 ) 第 6 页 共 12 页 A sleep researcher says:“ No one should worry about not sleeping unless they are not feeling well or cannot do their work properly. Lack of sleep doesn39。 t matter greatly if we are resting— the body can still get on with its repain work. But worrying about not sleeping can sometimes do you harm. There would be far less sleeplessness about if we planned our sleeping lives as carefully as we plan our waking ones.” 1. According to the passage, people have difficulty getting to sleep because. A. they work more than sixty hours a week B. they have too many enemies C. they do not sleep happily D. they are not tired enough 2. In parison with Voltaire, Sir Winston Churchill. A. was happier with three hours of sleep B. would sleep more when stretched out C. world enjoy a longer sleep if possible D. was less happy when he was asleep 3. Studies show that the average woman. A. sleeps less than the average man B. sleeps longer when she goes out to work C. has difficulty in getting to sleep D. sleeps over eight hours a night 4. Dr. Harmann is mentioned in the passage. A. as the opponent of Dr. Ian Oswald B. because he has strange sleeping habits C. as the pioneering sleep scientist D. because of his observation and analysis of sleep habits 5. Not being able to sleep can be dangerous if we. A. are feeling well B. worry about it too much C. repair our bodies by resting D. plan our sleeping lives carefully Questions 6～ 10 I think it was De Mandeville who suggested a river party for the staffs of the various embassies. Nor, on the face of it, was the idea a bad one. All winter long the logs e down the River Sava until the frost locks them in: now with the spring thaw the river has a pontoon of treetrunks some forty feet wide lining the bank under the willows so that you can walk out over the river, avoiding the margins, and swim in the deep water. These logs had been made into a hundred feet by sixty— big enough even to dance on. While everyone was dancing。