1998年上海市英语中级口译资格证书第一阶段考试三(编辑修改稿)

1998年上海市英语中级口译资格证书第一阶段考试三(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

(2)_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ SECTION 2: STUDY SKILLS (50 minutes) Directions: In this section, you will read several passage. 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. The bath was invented before the bath plug. The bath plug could not have been invented before the bath, except as a small object with which to play ice hockey. The order in which inventions are made is very important, much more important than has ever been realised, because we tend automatically to think that later inventions are better than earlier ones. A moment39。 s thought will show this is not so. If, for example, a solution to today39。 s urban traffic problems was proposed in the shape of a small manpowered twowheeled vehicle which would make the motor car look like a cumbersome overpowered device, a space rocket trying to tackle suburban problems, we would greet it as a great technological break through.“ Bicycle makes car obsolete!” we would cry. Unfortunately, the bike came first, so we shall unconsciously see it as a cruder version of the car. Other things which may have been invented too early are the airship, the radio, the railway train, the pianoroll player and the cufflink. Consider also the zip. Zips represent a technological advance on buttons, being faster and more plete. They are also more liable to e adrift, break, jam, malfunction, stick and catch. Buttons can only go wrong if the thread is faulty. Even then, buttons can be mended by the user. Zips rarely can. 1. The expression“ ice hockey” (sentence 2) means_________. A. a freezing partment B. a game played on an ice rink C. a sweet flavoured frozen food D. a building in which ice is made. 2. If the bicycle were to be invented now the car would appear__________. A. unsuitable for its purpose B. in advance of its time C. unnecessarily expensive D. too fast for safety 3. The airship and the radio are examples of thins which__________. A. were not fully appreciated at the time of their invention B. are more suitable for use now than when they were invented C. have been neglected in favour of more recent inventions D. are less suited to their purpose than earlier inventions 4. According to the writer, buttons are preferable to zips because they__________. A. are more convenient B. are more reliable C. cost less to replace D. are safer to use 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 5. Which of the following is the best title for the passage? A. A Cumbersome OverPowered Device B. A Great Technological Breakthrough C. Do Zips Represent A Technological Advance? D. Does Technological Progress Work Backwards? Questions 6～ 10 It took policeman John Pooley only an hour or two to solve the Case of the Thorpeness Burglary. It must be said, however, that the crime was not difficult. The description, though slight, narrowed the number of persons likely to mit such a crime...to one. Pooley, of course, knows everyone in the three villages in his care, and their children. But after he had made the arrest— something he has to do more rarely than once a month— he felt troubled because he not only knew the man, but also knew that he had family problems. Like most village police men, John Pooley is in charge of a very large area by police standards, which includes the three villages of Middleton, Dunwich and Westleton, where he lives. With a total population of 1, 219, he has more than twice as many people to look after as the average policeman has. Moreover, he is attached to the Halesworth subdivision and is frequently given duties outside his home area. After 15 years as a policeman, he accepts these duties without question, but his villages are clearly where his heart and interest really lie. When he was first sent to Westleton, he lived in the police house which was both his home and the police station。 when the system was changed, he bought the house where he now lives with his wife, Ann, and his two daughters. He could hardly be better qualified for the job of village policeman. Before he joined the police, he was an agricultural worker for five years and a male nurse in a mental hospital for six years. He says:“ If you haven39。 t had another job before you join the police, you tend to think nothing but police.” Crime in the country, of course, is somewhat different from city crime. Who was ever attacked while walking along the village street in Middleton? The things which John Pooley has to watch for are people stealing tools and equipment from farm vehicles, or wood from the su。