上海市高级口译第一阶段笔试分类模拟笔记题(五).doc

上海市高级口译第一阶段笔试分类模拟笔记题（五）（总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟）一、Note-taking and Gap-Filling（总题数：0，分数：0.00）二、A总题数：1，分数：50.00）Can we save the world"s 1 languages? The Hadza community lives in Tanzania. Theirlanguage Hadza is unique. However the language may not be 2 for long. There are now fewer than 1,000 Hadza 3 . The number will continue to 4 and their sing-song tongue, 5 with clicks and glottal stops, is no longer being learned by all Hadza children. The language is in danger of being 6 .The Hadza are not alone in facing the loss of their 7 tongue. Every 8 days a language dies. Over half of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken on the planet may 9 by the end of the 20th century. Eighty percent of the 10 languages have no 11 form. 12 the last speaker dies, so does the language. But eighty percent of the world"s population now speak just 13 of its languages. So, will the languages on the 14 be reduced to a 15 of tongues?Not if some people have their way, who are fighting back to 16 rarer tongues successfully. Perhaps the most successful example is 17 , which was dead two centuries ago but is a living language now. Other languages have also been brought back from the brink of 18 through the sheer will and determination of their communities. Language preservation works best when the language, culture and 19 of minority-speaker communities are 20 by national governments.Can we save the world"s 1 languages? The Hadza community lives in Tanzania. Theirlanguage Hadza is unique. However the language may not be 2 for long. There are now fewer than 1,000 Hadza 3 . The number will continue to 4 and their sing-song tongue, 5 with clicks and glottal stops, is no longer being learned by all Hadza children. The language is in danger of being 6 ._The Hadza are not alone in facing the loss of their 7 tongue. Every 8 days a language dies. Over half of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken on the planet may 9 by the end of the 20th century. Eighty percent of the 10 languages have no 11 form. 12 the last speaker dies, so does the language. But eighty percent of the world"s population now speak just 13 of its languages. So, will the languages on the 14 be reduced to a 15 of tongues?Not if some people have their way, who are fighting back to 16 rarer tongues successfully. Perhaps the most successful example is 17 , which was dead two centuries ago but is a living language now. Other languages have also been brought back from the brink of 18 through the sheer will and determination of their communities. Language preservation works best when the language, culture and 19 of minority-speaker communities are 20 by national governments.（分数：50.00）解析：dying 听力原文Can we save the world"s dying languages? After witnessing how one of our earliest languages isin danger of disappearing, we should look at efforts to preserve our oral culture.Along Lake Eyasi in northern Tanzania there lives the Hadza community sitting in male-and female-only groups, with the men playing small lute-like stringed instruments and applying a pre-hunt poisonous tree resin to their metal arrowheads. They light a small fire by rapidly twisting a hardwood twig into a softwood stick from the local Commiphora tree. It soon smolders and, intrigued, I have a go too. It"s surprisingly difficult, but with their help, I get it to smoke eventually.You have to travel four hours west from the city of Arusha to meet this ancient tribe ofhunter-gatherers, and join them in a bow-and-arrow hunt for prey among the thorn bushes. The Hadza people may have nothing no animals, land or possessions aside from the clothes on their backs, but they are rich in the skills and resourcefulness they need to produce everything from theirenvironment.That"s not all that sets them apart from most societies. The Hadza are thought to be the most ancient modern humans, the first surviving peoples to have split off from our ancestral family tree, and are not closely related genetically to any other peoples. Their language a clickingtongue, also called Hadza is unique and unrelated even to other clicking languages. Somelinguists believe Hadza may be close to humankind"s first ancestral language.However the language may not be around for long. The Hadza bushmen, who live in groups of around15 people, are believed to have been living in this remote area for at least 10,000 years, but there are now fewer than 1,000 Hadza left. Fewer than 400 of them continue to live a stone-age lifestyle they are among the last hunter-gatherers in a continent of farmers and pastoralists. The numbers will continue to drop, as their land is swallowed up by farmers, government-designated conservation areas and private game reserves. And their sing-song tongue, punctuated with clicks and glottal stops, and which has no words for numbers past four, is no longer being learned by all Hadza children. As the modern world encroaches, the language is in danger of being lost as the Hadza make greater use of the widely spoken Swahili tongue. What is at risk is not simply the vocabulary and grammar of this unique language, but the Hadza"s, and by extension, part of humanity"s cultural heritage and expression.The Hadza are not alone in facing the loss of their native tongue. Every 14 days a language dies. Over half of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken on the planet may disappear by the end of the century. In the age of the Anthropocene, language extinction is happening faster than species extinction. Eighty percent of the endangered languages are African, including Hadza, and the majority have no written form. Once the last speaker dies, so does the language. And for an oral culture, preserving language becomes even more important for maintaining the identity and heritage of a community.It is said that with every language you speak you gain a new soul. But eighty percent of the world"s population now speak just 1.1% of its languages, and universal languages, like English, dominate the Internet, signage and the majority of published texts. So, is the Anthropocene becoming a duller place, in which the rich diversity of humanity"s full and wonderful language abilities is reduced to a handful of tongues: English, Mandarin, and a few others? Are we in danger of losing our soul?Not if some people have their way. They are fighting back to preserve rarer tongues, in some cases, with great success. Perhaps the most successful example is Hebrew, which was dead two centuries ago, before being revived and brought into the 20th century as a living language and the mother tongue of an entire generation of Israelis. Other languages have also been brought backfrom thebrink of extinction through the sheer will and determination of their communities, including Welsh, Cornish, Gaelic and New Zealand Maori.Language preservation works best when the language, culture and identity of minority-speaker communities are respected by national governments, rather than being banned; and if children are either fully taught in their mother tongue or given dedicated classes in it, in addition to learning the national or regional language. Evidence is mounting for the benefits of bi-or multi-lingualism, and for the social and psychological importance of mother-tongue conservation, which allows conversation across multiple generations and strengthens cultural continuity and community identity.解析： around 解析： left 解析： drop 解析： punctuated 解析： lost 解析： native解析14解析disappear解析endangered解析written解析Once解析1.1%解析planet解析handful解析preserve解析Hebrew解析extinction解析identity解析respected三、B（总题数：1，分数：50.00）As I applied to study 1 at the University of Illinois in 1978, my father 2 objected, and quotedme a 3 . "Every year, 4 performers compete for 200 available roles on Broadway." Someyears later, when I graduated from film school, I came to 5 my father"s concern. It was nearly unheard of fora Chinese newcomerto make it in the American film industry. I struggled 6 six years of 7 , hopeless uncertainty. Much of the time, I was helping film 8 with their equipment or working as editor"sassistant. My most painful experience involved touting a 9 at more than 30 production companiesand meeting with 10 rejection each time. That year, I 11 30. Yet, I couldn"t even support myself. What could I do? Give up my dream? My wife gave me 12 support.She worked at a small 13 research lab after graduation and her income was terribly 14 . To 15my ownfeelings of 16 , I took on cooking, cleaning, taking care of our sonin addition to reading, 17 films and writing scripts, which was rather 18 for a man. Afterward, I enrolled in a computercourse at a nearby community 19 . For the days that followed, I descended into malaise. So mywife said, "Ang, don"t forget your dream." And today, I"ve finally won that golden statue. I think my own perseverance and my wife"s immeasurable 20 have finally met their reward.As I applied to study 1 at the University of Illinois in 1978, my father 2 objected, and quotedme a 3 . "Every year, 4 performers compete for 200 available roles on Broadway." Someyears later, when I graduated from film school, I came to 5 my father"s concern. It was nearly unheard of fora Chinese newcomerto make it in the American film industry. I struggled 6 six years of 7 , hopeless uncertainty. Much of the time, I was helping film 8 with their equipment or working as editor"sassistant. My most painful experience involved touting a 9 at more than 30 production companiesand meeting with 10 rejection each time. That year, I 11 30. Yet, I couldn"t even support myself. What could I do? Give up my dream? My wife gave me 12 support.She worked at a small 13 research lab after graduation and her income was terribly 14 . To 15 _my ownfeelings of 16 , I took on cooking, cleaning, taking care of our sonin addition to reading, 17 films and writing scripts, which was rather 18 for a man. Afterward, I enrolled in a computer course at a nearby community 19 . For the days that followed, I descended into malaise. So mywife said, "Ang, don"t forget your dream." And today, I"ve finally won that golden statue. I think my own perseverance and my wife"s immeasurable 20 have finally met their reward.（分数：50.00 ）解析：film 听力原文In 1978, as I applied to study film at the University of Illinois, my father vehemently objected. He quoted me a statistic: "Every year, 50,000 performers compete for 200 available roles onBroadway." Against his advice, I boarded a flight to the U.S. This strained our relationship.In the two decades following, we exchanged less than a hundred phrases in conversation.Some years later, when I graduated from film school, I came to comprehend my father"s concern.It was nearly unheard of for a Chinese newcomer to make it in the American film industry. Beginning in 1983, I struggled through six years of agonizing, hopeless uncertainty. Much of the time, I was helping film crews with their equipment or working as editor"s assistant, among other miscellaneous duties. Mymost painful experience involved touting a screenplay at more than thirty different production companies, and being met with harsh rejection each time.That year, I turned 30. There"s an old Chinese saying. "At 30, one stands firm." Yet, I couldn"t even support myself. What could 1 do? Keep waiting, or give up my movie-making dream? My wife gave me invaluable support.My wife was my college classmate. She was a biology major, and after graduation, went to work for a small pharmaceutical research lab. Her income was terribly modest. At the time, we already had our elder son, Haan, to raise. To appease my own feelings of guilt, I took on all housework cooking, cleaning, taking care of our son in addition to reading, reviewing filmsand writing scripts. Every evening after preparing dinner, I would sit on the front steps withHaan, telling him stories as we waited for his mother the heroic huntress to come home withour sustenance.This kind of life felt rather undignified for a man. At one point, my in-laws gave their daughter (my wife) a sum of money, intended as start-up capital for me to open a Chinese restaurant hoping that a business would help support my family. But my wife refused the money. When I found out about this exchange, I stayed up several nights and finally decided. This dream of mine is not meant to be. I must face reality.Afterward (and with a heavy heart), I enrolled in a computer course at a nearby community college. At a time when employment trumped all other considerations, it seemed that only a knowledge of computers could quickly make meemployable. For the days that followed, I descended into malaise. My wife, noticing my unusual demeanor, discovered a schedule of classes tucked in my bag. She made no comment that night.The next morning, right before she got in her car to head off to work, my wife turned back and, standing there on our front steps, said, "Ang, don"t forget your dream."And that dream of mine drowned by demands of reality came back to life. As my wife drove off,I took the class schedule out of my bag and slowly, deliberately tore it to pieces. And tossed it in the trash.Sometime after, I obtained funding for my screenplay, and began to shoot my own films. And after that, a few of my films started to win international awards. Recalling earlier times, my wife confessed, "I"ve always believed that you only need one gift. Your gift is making films. There are so many people studying computers already, they don"t need an Ang Lee to do that. If you want that golden statue, you have to commit to the dream."And today, I"ve finally won that golden statue. I think my own perseverance and my wife"s immeasurable sacrifice have finally met their reward. And I am now more assured than ever before: I must continue making films.You see, I have this never-ending dream.解析： vehemently解析： statistic解析： 50,000解析： comprehend解析： through解析： agonizing解析： crews解析： screenplay 解析： harsh 解析： turned解析： invaluable 解析： pharmaceutical 解析： modest 解析： appease 解析： guilt 解析： reviewing 解析： undignified 解析： college 解析： sacrifice