catti三级口译综合能力试题精选四.docx

1、catti三级口译综合能力试题精选四catti三级口译综合能力试题精选(四)一、Part （B）（共10小题,共20.0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 question

2、. You will hear both the statement and the question only once. 第1题 What does the speaker mean?a. People who throw dirt will be punished.b. People who throw dirt will meet resistance.c. People who throw dirt will lose justification and support.d. People who throw dirt will get dirty themselves.【正确答案】

3、：C【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】听力原文Those who throw dirt are sure to lose ground.第2题 What does Dr. Hansen mean?a. White House is active in coping with the change brought along by global warming.b. White House is shifting its working focus on global warming.c. White House does not want the public to pay much atte

4、ntion to the global warming.d. White House is busy with other eventualities in spotlight.【正确答案】：C【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】听力原文Dr. Hansen said the change might reflect White House eagerness to shift the spotlight away from global warming.第3题 What does the speaker mean?a. These results prove that the quality

5、of the teaching is not very good.b. These results are not convincing to prove anything.c. These results are not reliable to prove anything.d. These results are not obtained in a scientific way.【正确答案】：A【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】听力原文These results dont say much for the quality of the teaching.第4题 What did John

6、do?a. He injured his client.b. He made his client totally believe what he said.c. He made his client very angry.d. He made his client lose a fortune.【正确答案】：B【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】听力原文John soon had his client eating out of his hand.第5题 What does the speaker mean?a. This news has provided very important in

7、formation for his job-hunting.b. This news had mined his idea of finding a job in that company.c. This news had made him change his idea of finding a job in that company.d. This news had given him the idea of finding a job in that company sky-high.【正确答案】：B【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】听力原文This news has blown his

8、 idea of finding a job in that company sky-high.第6题 What does the speaker mean?a. His performance in the exams made him the head 0fhis class:b. His performance in the exams made him feel very exhausted.c. His performance in the exams was often mentioned by him.d. His performance in the exams made hi

9、m feel complacent.【正确答案】：D【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】听力原文The high scores in the final examinations really went to his head.第7题 What does the speaker mean?a. Mary sings the best in her grade.b. The speaker has no idea whether Mary sings well.c. Marys singing skills are inferior to a lot of her classmates.d. Ma

10、rys singing skills rank the second in her class.【正确答案】：A【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】听力原文I think Marys singing skills are second to none in her class.第8题 What does the speaker mean?a. Many people believed that he was giving a lot of support to the CEO.b. Many people believed that he was secretly controlling the

11、 CEO.c. Many people believed that he was secretly doing things against the CEO.d. Many people believed that he was secretly offering bribe to the CEO.【正确答案】：B【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】听力原文It was widely believed that he was pulling the strings behind the CEO.第9题 What does the speaker mean?a. It is not very po

12、ssible that this news may change the mind of David.b. It is not very possible that this news may cause much attention of David.c. It is not very possible that this news may be welcomed by David.d. It is not very possible that this news may do any good to David.【正确答案】：A【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】听力原文The possib

13、ility is quite low that this news may cut the ice with David.第10题 What does the speaker mean?a. The moving cost him much money.b. The moving made him very tired.c. The moving took him a lot of time.d. The moving made him lose many belongings.【正确答案】：B【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】听力原文Moving into the new apartment

14、 has taken a great deal out of him.解题思路 本题型考查考生对一些在语法、搭配、固定用法等方面并非浅显易懂而且在语义上一语双关的句子的理解。典型试题解析 第11题，原句为Those who throw dirt are sure to lose ground，这是一句双关语。“lose ground”在此引申义为“失去理据、失去支持”，与前面的“dirt”刚好相呼应，本题主要考查考生对“lose ground”这一搭配的意义理解。第17题中考查的词组为“second to none”，考生即使没有接触过该词组，也可以通过字面上的“前面没有名次更前的”而理解为“

15、最好”的意思。第18题考查的中心词组为“pull the strings”，考生可以比较轻松联想到“扯线玩偶”或者“傀儡”等词组，因此不难得出答案。二、Part （共15小题,共30.0分）Listen to the following passages and then choose the best answer to each question by blackening the corresponding circle. You may need to scribble a few notes in order to answer the questions satisfactoril

16、y. 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 Which of the following is beyond the capability of Heather Sellers?a. To remember the name of a TV show she has seen.b. To retell the plot of a novel sh

17、e has read.c. To recall the address of her friends.d. To pick out her sister in a group photo.【正确答案】：D【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】听力原文 21-25 Some people never forget a face. Heather Sellers never remembers one. She finds it almost impossible to recognize people simply by looking at them. She remembers the book

18、s she reads as well as anyone else, but movies and TV shows are impossible to follow because all of the actors faces seem so similar. She can recall a name or a telephone number with ease, but she is unable to remember her own face well enough to pick it out in a group photograph. Dr. Sellers, a pro

19、fessor of English at Hope College in Holland, Mich., has a disorder called prosopagnosia, or face blindness, and she has had it since birth. I see faces that are human, she said, but they all look more or less the same. Its like looking at a bunch of dogs: some may seem a little older or smaller or

20、bigger, but essentially they ail look alike. Face blindness can be a rare result of a stroke or a brain injury, but a study published in the July issue of American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A is the first report of the prevalence of a congenital or developmental form of the disorder: The rese

21、archers say the phenomenon is much more common than previously believed: they found that 2.47 percent of 689 randomly selected students in Miinster, Germany, had the disorder. Dr.Gruter is himself prosopagnosic. His wife and co-author, Dr. Martina Gruter of the Institute for Human Genetics of the Un

22、iversity of Munster, did not realize he was face blind until she had known him more than 20 years. The reason, she says, is he was so good at compensating for his deficits. How do you recognize a face? she asked. For most people, this is a silly question. You just do. But people who have prosopagnos

23、ia can tell you exactly why they recognize a person. Thomas consciously looks for the details that others notice unconsciously. Dr. Thomas Gruters experience in this respect is typical of people with face blindness. They develop alternate strategies for identifying people they remember their clothes

24、, manners, gait, hairstyle or voice, and by using such techniques, many can compensate quite well. Until very recently, not remembering faces was not considered to be a medical condition, Dr. Thomas Gruter said. It was not even known to most physicians as such. The term prosopagnosia was not taught

25、to students of medicine or psychology. Most people would consider it a bad habit, he said, much like forgetting the names of people you are introduced to, or being unable to find your way around town. Dr. Martina Gruter said many considered her husband and his father, who is also face blind, to be s

26、imply absent-minded professors who occasionally may net recognize someone because they are preoccupied with higher thoughts. People with face blindness can typically understand facially expressed emotions -they know whether a face is happy or sad, angry or puzzled. They can detect subtle facial cues

27、, determine gender and even agree with everyone else about which faces are attractive and which are not. In other words, they see the face clearly, they just do not know whose face they are looking at, and cannot remember it once they stop looking. Even familiar faces can be unrecognizable. Dr. Sell

28、ers, for example, said she could summon no picture in her mind of her own mothers face. Dr. Sellers discovered her own problem only a year ago, at the age of 40. She was doing research for a novel involving a character with schizophrenia. I kept coming across the term face recognition, she said. It

29、kept ringing a bell, although the phenomenon is quite different for people with schizophrenia. But once I had the term, I searched for it on the Internet. The minute I knew the concept of face blindness existed, I knew I had it. The phenomenon has been investigated with functional MRI brain scans, a

30、 form of imaging that shows in real time which parts of the brain are active, and it is known that a part of the brain called the fusiform gyms responds much more strongly to faces than to other objects. Researchers have detected differing responses in this part of the brain among people with face b

31、lindness compared with normal subjects. If you show a normal person two different faces in a row, said Bradley Duchaine, a lecturer in psychology at University College London, their brain response is different with each one. With some prosopagnosics, you dont see this different response. It looks li

32、ke something is not working in those areas of the brain involved with faces. Face blindness is sometimes accompanied by other problems, especially difficulty in finding ones way around or, for example, distinguishing one car or dog from another.第2题 What is the proportion of prosopagnosia in the survey carried out in Munster, Germa