CATTI二级口译综合能力真题.docx

1、CATTI二级口译综合能力真题2005年5月CATTI二级口译(综合能力)真题一、Part （B）（共10小题,共10.0分）Listen to the following short statements and then choose one of the answers that best fits the meaning of each statement by blackening the corresponding circle. There are ten questions in this part of the test, one point for each questio

2、n. You will hear both the statement and the question only once. 第1题 What part of the museum flooded?A The central gallery.B The storerooms.C The gift shop.D The central and southern rooms.【正确答案】：B【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】特定信息的找寻和判断。根据题干要求，听的重点应注意博物馆哪一部分被淹，而原文涉及博物馆被淹情况的信息颇多，如第一句提到该馆保存的绘画和壁画被淹，后面相继提到该馆的部分屋顶倒塌

3、，雨水倾入两间储藏室(storeroom)，由此可见，符合题干要求的特定信息是储藏室。因此，选项b的说法是正确的。 注意：排除干扰项，锁定相关特定信息。第2题 How is the quartz heater different from other types of heaters?A It heats only the objects in a room.B It is lighter in weight.C It heats the room quicker.D It is more common.【正确答案】：A【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】原文介绍了几种散热器，其中重点介绍了qu

4、artz heater(石英散热器)。在描述该物时，说话者介绍“A quartz heater，on the other hand，heats the objects and people in a room without heating the air”即“而石英散热器在温暖房中的人和物时，却不会加热房中的空气”，选项a的说法与原文相符，因此是正确答案。 注意：识别信号词有助于迅速解题。文中谈到几种传统的散热器后使用了短语on the other hand这个表对比的词组来介绍石英散热器，由此可推测该物与前面提到的散热器肯定不同，通过背景常识，可帮助我们迅速猜测选项a有可能是正确答案。第3

5、题 What does the new system enable the farmers to do?A Produce vegetables of better taste.B Transport produce more quickly.C Grow crops in nontraditional climates.D Keep vegetables fresh for a longer period.【正确答案】：C【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】语义的推理和判断。文章占用大量篇幅详细而具体地介绍了在炎热地区种植耐寒作物芦笋。最后文章总结道“This stimulates plant

6、 growth and enables gardeners in tropical climates to grow crops from cooler climates”即“这种做法刺激了植物种植业，也使得热带地区的农户可种植耐寒作物”，由此可推测，农作物可在其非传统气候条件下种植成为可能，因此选项c的说法是正确的。 注意：善于通过文中的具体事例做出正确的总结，如cool climate vegetable种植在hot或tropical地区，可总结为选项c中的crops in nontraditional climates。第4题 The speaker mentioned all of t

7、he following as effects of mass transportation on cities EXCEPT?A Growth in city area.B Separation of commercial and residential areas.C Changes in life in the inner city.D Increased standards of living.【正确答案】：D【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】语义的判断理解。根据原文可知，mass transportation从三方面影响了美国人民的生活：1)it catalyzed physical

8、 expansion(使面积迅速扩展)，可与选项a对应；2)it sorted out people and land use(将土地使用分类)，可与选项b对应； 3)it accelerated the inherent instability of urban life(加速城市生活中内在的不稳定性)，可与选项c对应，由此可见，只有选项d在原文中没有对应关系，因此，该项是正确答案。 注意：掌握原文关键词语的正确解释，尤其注意抽象短语的具体化，如原文提到的受到影响的三种方式都使用了抽象的表达，而选项a、b、c均分别是它们的具体解释。第5题 Which market is Ubix trade

9、d on?A NASDAQ.B Denver.C Taiwan.D Indonesia.【正确答案】：A【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】特定信息的找寻和判断。根据题干中的关键词，可将听的重点放在原文第一句“Ubix is a publicly traded corporation actively traded on the NASDAQ”可立即找出答案为选项a。 注意：排除干扰项是迅速解题的关键。该文详细具体介绍了Ubix的各方面情况，如成立时间，股份持有情况，公司总部地址和公司业绩等信息，这要求听者一定要抓住题干中的关键词来判断哪个是相关信息。抓住此题中短语be traded on是解题

10、的关键。第6题 According to the speaker, what do people often think about astronomers?A They spend most of their time looking through telescopes.B They are constantly analyzing data.C They often live near observatories.D They devote a lot of time to theoretical problems.【正确答案】：A【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】观点意见的判断。根据题

11、干要求注意文中大多数人的观点，发现原文的第一句提供了相关信息“Most people think of astronomers as people who spend their time in cold observatories peering through telescopes every night”即“大多数人认为天文学家每天在冰冷的天文台用望远镜观测夜空”，由此可判断选项a的说法与原文相符，是正确答案。 注意：掌握文中哪些是一些人的观点，哪些是文章的观点对解题很重要。听者可通过信号词或常用表达法来帮助判断。如文中使用most people think of的方式表示一些人的观点，

12、而用in fact形式来表述作者认为正确的观点。第7题 Which of the following is true about Lufthansas first-half net profit?A 392 million euros.B 16.8% more than that of last year.C 39 million euros.D 105million euros.【正确答案】：C【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】数字信息的找寻和判断。根据题干中关键词first-half net profit在原文中找寻相关信息，发现“The German carrier swung to a

13、 first-half net profit of 39 million euros”，将数字与各选项对照可知，只有选项C与原文相符，是正确答案。 注意：通过题干关键词的引导，排除干扰项。原文中关于数字的信息颇多，更需要听者抓住这一技巧。第8题 Which of the following would NOT cause a sea cucumber to release its internal organs into the water?A A touch.B Food.C Unusually warm water.D Pollution.【正确答案】：B【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】

14、事实细节的找寻和判断。根据题干要求可在文中发现以下内容“The sea cucumber will eviscerate and regenerate itself if it is attacked or even touched；it will do the same if the surrounding water temperature is too high or if the water becomes too polluted”即“若海参遭到攻击或碰触，它就会将自己的内脏抛出，再生出一副来；若海水温度过高或水质污染严重，海参也会这样做”，显然只有b的说法与原文不符，因此该项是正确

15、答案。 注意：掌握同义词替换，有助于迅速定位原文相关信息。如原文中单词eviscerate与题干中单词release意思在此文中相同，都有“取出内脏”的含义。第9题 Which of the following is true according to the passage?A The 1997 storm killed more than 250 people.B The economic losses caused by the 1997 storm were 90.8 billion yuan.C More than 1,800 people were wounded when the

16、 typhoon hit Zhejiang Province.D The government evacuated 40,000 people to avoid more casualties.【正确答案】：C【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】数字信息的找寻和判断。根据原文“Officials has evacuated 400,000 people to escape the typhoon that was forecast to be the worst”可知政府在做出台风预报后就疏散了人们，而不是如选项d所言疏散是为了避免更大的灾害，暗示疏散是台风发作之后才进行的；根据原文关于1997

17、年台风的描述“killing nearly 250 people and causing 19.8 billion yuan in economic losses”可知选项a中数字前more than与原文nearly不符，而19.8与选项b中90.8不符；根据原文“injured more than 1,800 as it battered southeastern Zhejiang Province”，选项c内容与之相符，因此该项是正确答案。 注意：掌握与数字及其相关的信息，可帮助正确判断选项。本题较为复杂，既考查听者听数字的能力，又考查听者对数字相关信息，如原文数字前的nearly等注意

18、情况。第10题 What was one of the main reasons for the change in architectural style in eighteenth-century North America?A More architects arrived in the colonies.B The colonists developed an interest in classical architecture.C Bricks were more readily available.D The colonists had more money to spend on

19、 housing.【正确答案】：D【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】因果关系的判断。根据原文有关18世纪北美殖民地建筑风格改变的描述是“As wealth increased，more and more colonists built fine houses”由此可见财富的增长是其原因。因此，选项d的说法是正确的。 注意：掌握表因果关系的信号词，有助于迅速在原文定位信息点，并做出正确的因果关系判断，该文中使用了信号词as。二、Part （共20小题,共40.0分）Listen to the following passages and then choose the best answer t

20、o each question by blackening the corresponding circle. You may need to scribble a few notes in order to answer the questions satisfactorily. There are three passages in this part, each with five questions. And each question carries two points. You will hear the passages only once. 第1题 What is the m

21、ain topic of the talk?A Jeffersons views about commercialized agriculture.B International trade in the nineteenth century.C Improvements in farm machinery in the United States.D Farmers loss of independence.【正确答案】：D【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】主旨题。本题要求听者掌握全文的主要内容。本文主要围绕l9世纪美国农民自己自足生活的改变进行，从历史发展的不同阶段分析了这种生活方式改变的

22、原因和结果，因此，涉及自己自足生活的改变的选项d是正确答案。 注意：文章首尾部分一般是全文的中心句，这就需要听者在听一篇文章时，要格外对首尾部分留神，如本文第三句“but in general they could get along just fine by relying on themselves”和最后一句“By the end of 19th century，the era of Jeffersons independent farmer had come to a close”都涉及到independence。因此与该词有关的选项有可能就是题解。第2题 What was the m

23、ajor change in agriculture during the 19th century?A Crop production became increasingly specialized.B Economic depressions lowered the prices of farm produce.C New banking laws made it easy to buy farmland.D The United States increased its agricultural imports.【正确答案】：A【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】语义逻辑关系的找寻和判断。

24、根据原文，其主要议题是美国19世纪农业的变迁史，分析变迁原因是本文的重要组成部分，文中谈到情况变化时，在第六句说道“But by the mid centuryfarmers began to specialize in raising crops”，而由此变化产生的结果则是农民“achieve a much higher standard of living but at a price”(第八句)即“农民的生活水平提高了，但也付出了代价”，这句话暗示农民生活变迁的结果就是后面提到的banks，national economic depressions等选项b和c的内容，至于选项d的内容原文

25、并没有明确提出，因此只有选项a是正确答案。 注意：该文涉及美国19世纪农业的变迁史，变迁的原因是重点内容，因此关于变迁原因的重点词汇或词组应反复出现。原文中specialize这个核心词汇反复出现，听者应予以注意，涉及该词的选项有可能就是正确答案。第3题 What was one result of the increased use of machinery on farms of the United States?A Prices for farm produce rose.B Farmers became more dependent on loans from banks.C Jef

26、ferson established government programs to assist farmers.D Farmers relied less on foreign markets.【正确答案】：B【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】因果关系的判断。根据文章第七句“revolutionary advances in farm machinery have vastly increased production of specialized crops”及第八句“By raising and selling specialized cropsachieve a much higher

27、 standard of living but at a price”可知，其逻辑关系是农业机械化的进步使专门作物的产量提高，而种植和销售该作物又可提高农民的生活水平，但这种变化也使农民付出了代价。后面具体列举了各项事实，实际上就是前面变化产生的结果，其中包括选项b的内容，因此该项是正确答案。 注意：根据暗示因果关系的单词或短语做出正确的因果判断。如本文中上下句间at a price(付出代价)的使用，暗示了前后句问存在因果关系。第4题 Why was the world market important for the United States agriculture?A It provi

28、ded evidence that Jeffersons ideal could be achieved.B It made farmers less dependent on local bankers.C It affected the prices that farmers could receive for their crops.D It decreased the power of the railroads to control farm prices.【正确答案】：C【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】语义因果关系的判断。文章最后说道“farmers now have to wo

29、rry aboutthe influence of world supply and demand on，for example，the price of wheat in Kansas”即“农民们现在不得不操心世界供需市场对他们的影响，如Kansas小麦的价格”，根据前后上下文可判断，这句话存在因果关系，因此涉及price的选项c的说法是正确的。 注意：正确解读语句间的逻辑关系是解答本题的关键。第5题 Which of the following is NOT a factor for the change in agriculture in the United States?A Adva

30、nces in machinery.B Specialization in farming.C The extensive network of railroads.D The change in world supply and demand on oil.【正确答案】：D【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】特定信息的找寻。本文主要讨论美国农业的变迁情况，而本题的设问比较宽泛，因此选项中，只要是文章中没有提到的内容就是答案。将各选项与原文一一对应，可发现，只有选项d的说法原文未提及，因此该项是正确答案。 注意：只需将选项与原文对应即可，但应掌握选项词性变换。第6题 When did the b

31、lasts hit the hotels?A At about 1:40 a.m. local time.B At about 1:14 a.m. local time.C One at about 1:14 a.m., while the other around 2:14 a.m.D One at about 1:40 a.m., while the other around 2:40 a.m.【正确答案】：A【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】特定信息的找寻。根据问题的要求，重点放在找寻爆炸的时间上，发现原文第二句“The blasts went off about 1:40 a.m.”即“爆炸发生于凌晨1:40”，选项a的说法与之相符，是正确答案。 注意：掌握同义词的替换。原文中的“went off”与选项中的“hit”同义，均指爆炸的发生。第7题 How many people were injured or killed in the blasts?A Nobody were killed, four injured.B Two were killed, five injured.C Two were killed, seven injured.D Nobody were killed, seven injured.【正确答案】：C