新东方9.16上海高级口译听力原文及权威解析

SECTION 1 ： LISTENING TEST (30 minutes)

Part A: Spot Dictation

　　Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage only once.

　　Good afternoon, everybody. I’m pleased to be here with you, graduate of 2007. I’m a career counselor and students often approach me with concerns about their future. You see, we are living in a society of great changes with the presence of advanced technology. The process of getting a job in today’s world has changed for the majority of the US population.

　　Well, how can you use new technologies to help you? First, let’s look at how you find a job. The traditional method of hunting for a job in the past required first doing research on jobs that were available in your field, typically by looking in newspapers, periodicals and magazines, as well as TV ads and making phone calls to prospective employers. Then you decided where and for what post you are going to apply. Put your resume with a cover letter in a stamped envelope and waited anxiously for someone to get back to you.

　　Well, today, maybe the job search and application process are very much the same but the tools used are much more advanced and they required more skills and expertise. In fact, technology has not so much changed the process as enhanced it. The benefit both for the employer and employee is that this makes the search more open to people of different social-economic background all over the world. But as more people are involved, it becomes more competitive for the applicant than it ever was before.

　　The secret to preparing yourself for the working world today is learning these new and ever-changing tools and combining them with the older methods people have been using for years. For example, on the internet, you can search for employment not only in your own city but also in your state, in your country, and even other countries. You can copy information from a webpage and paste it into a Microsoft word document that’s easy to access and edit at any time. In many ways, it’s easier now. Just type your job application, click and send it through email. It gets there in an instant.

　　SD 部分简要分析：　

　　此次听写填空部分难度偏低，语速也比较慢，根据统计达到 127WMP ，较之考纲 150WMP 的要求还是有一些差距的，加之其主题比较简单，也是广大考生比较熟悉的工作场景（这一场景在我们上海新东方的口译课堂上已经反复提及，并且作为重点要求大家掌握了），应该说是近年来比较容易的一篇文章。

　　显而易见，文中的说话人是一个职业咨询师（ career counselor ），专门为广大毕业生解决就业问题提供咨询。她首先比较了过去和现在找工作的不同之处，进而指出在现代社会中，找工作的过程需要更多的技术含量，使用到很多技术手段和方法。而这些技术本身与其说是改变了找工作的进程，不如说是提高了找工作的效率，透明度，当然，同时也使得就业竞争变得更为激烈。

　　这位咨询师提出的意见是结合新老方法，到网上搜索信息，编辑、整理、并且发送自己的简历。

　　Part B: Listening Comprehension

　　Directions: In this part of the test there will be some short talks and conversations. After each one, you will be asked some questions. The talks, conversations and questions will be spoken only once. Now listen care fully and choose the right answer to each question you have heard and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

　　中高级口译考试的听力出题注重实用性和时效性，因此“关注时事，参与思考”这一点在课堂上反复强调。

　　Q1-Q5

　　讲评：

　　本段两人主要讨论的是当前媒体新闻娱乐化的现象。新闻内容更偏重 Entertaining, 例如如何减肥 lose weight ，名人八卦 celebrity 等，但对时事、政治等新闻却报道不足，甚至以将时政新闻报道娱乐化，要求： ”instant gratification”, gratification 这个词略有难度，但这种关键词在考试中说话人必然马上会跟一句解释“ something doesn’t require you to think”, 即无需动脑，与文中反复出现的 quick, shllaow, easy 等一切与文化快餐特点相关的词符合。于是，新闻内容变得 Easy ， Quick and shallow. 而报纸在内容深度上要比电视要好（ more in depth ） . 但报道内容受篇幅限制。虽然现在网络和广播可以提供相对专门化和有针对性的信息，但女士接受新闻的主要方式还是通过电视这种大众媒介。

　　Q6-Q10
　　原文 :

　　Washington

　　All eyes are focusing in on Las Vegas as the Sporting Goods industry closes in on its first true industry gathering in years. The much anticipated spring market will make its debut June 11th to 13th in Las Vegas, and the industry's leading sporting goods companies will be on hand to display their latest gear. The exhibit floor will showcase the latest in, athletic footwear, fitness-related equipment, accessories for fitness, as well as spring teen sports products. "In today's trade show environment, the marketplace demands that we offer more than just the opportunity to promote new products", explained Tom Cove, president of Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, "we're committed to drive the exchange of cutting-edge knowledge and best practices to complement the action on the floor." Along with many of the industry's most influential brands, a number of groups, associations and media organizations within the sporting goods industry have decided to use the trade show as a business rendezvous.

　　San Francisco

　　Apple today introduced Safari 3, the world's fastest and easiest-to-use web browser for Windows PCs and Macs. Safari has always been the fastest browser on the Mac, and now it's the fastest browser on the Windows, loading and drawing web pages up to twice as fast as Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, and up to 1.6 times faster than Mozilla Firefox 2. Safari 3 features easy-to-manage bookmarks, effortless browsing with easy-to-organize tabs, and a built-in RSS reader to quickly scan the latest news and information. Other Safari features now available to Windows users includes snapback, one-click access to an initial search query, resizable text fields, and private browsing to ensure that information about an individual's browsing history isn't stored.

　　Afghanistan

　　Floods triggered by heavy rain killed 23 people and destroyed scores of houses in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Badakhshan, the provincial governor said on Friday. Authorities were searching for missing people after the flooding, which hit on Thursday night in an area of impoverished and mountainous province near the border with Tajikistan, China, and Pakistan. After years of harsh drought, Afghanistan received much more snow and rain this year.

　　Cuba

　　Two Cuban soldiers tried to hijack a passenger plane to escape to a foreign country with hostages on Monday, but were arrested after killing an unarmed military officer on board, the government said. The soldiers, who had escaped from an army base where they were doing military service, hijacked a bus with passengers, took it to the domestic terminal of Havana Airport, and seized an

　　empty passenger jet before dawn. They killed one of the hostages, an army lieutenant colonel, when he tried to stop the hijacking, but were then captured by a military unit, the government said in a statement.

　　Canada

　　The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a welcome addition to any piggy bank on Wednesday -- a monster gold coin with a face value of 1 million Canadian dollars that it says is the world's biggest, purest and highest denomination coin. The Canadian mint introduced the mega-coin, which is the size of an extra-large pizza, and weighs in at 100 kilograms alongside the one-ounce gold bullion coins it is mass producing at its Ottawa plant. Originally designed to promote the new one-ounce coins, the colossal coins will be issued in a very limited quantity. While they have a 1 million Canadian dollar face value, the coins are worth twice that amount, given the current gold price of $683.30 per ounce.

　　Question 6: What is happening in Las Vegas from June 11th to 13th?

　　Question 7: What has Apple introduced today?

　　Question 8: What happened in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Badakhshan?

　　Question 9: Which of the following statements is true about the hijacking of a

passenger plane in Cuba?

　　Question10: What is the current worth of the mega coin produced by the Royal Canadian Mint?

　　Q6-Q10

　　权威讲评：

这次考试的新闻难度较以往有所降低，新闻倒三角形的文字结构体现无遗，其中对每条新闻的第一句导语的理解对解题起着决定性的作用，这次新闻中也不乏出现难词，但在新东方出版的《词汇》都有出现。 06 年 --07 年属于苹果公司， Apple 的任何动作都是头条。其中涉及对手微软的超级浏览器 Safari 的推出具有特殊的意义，我们在上海新东方口译暑假班最后作为考前的热点串讲中压中。

　　Washinton

　　拉斯维加斯举办的体育用品业数年来第一次真正的行业集会。

　　首句开始便是连读串，但只要抓住 sporting good industry 和 first true industry gathering 两大重要信息，结合新闻中反复出现的与体育运动用品相关的词汇，确定正确答案。

　　San Fransisco

　　苹果染指“视窗”

　　苹果推出的快捷迅速的浏览器 safari 3 如今在 windows 运行。首句抓住及能迅速选中答案，但事先了解时尚先锋苹果公司的重要新闻，答案岂不是更如囊中之物。新闻做题的首句原则只是考试技巧，真正实力永远靠日积月累。

　　Afghanistan

　　阿富“旱”，久旱逢洪水！

　　阿富汗西南部降大雨，造成洪水使死亡 23 人，几十户房屋冲毁。首句第一个词 Flooding 非常明显，随后也出现 flooding, heavy rain 等简单词汇，抓住即可。阿富汗，伊朗，巴格达，等十七个热点地区一直作为高频地名，虽然地名未必影响考试，但建议在考试前对新东方口译课堂中总结的高频地名多加熟悉，心中更有底气。

　　Cuba

　　劫机事件 .

　　两名古巴士兵劫持了一架民航客机试图逃往国外，但在机上杀害了一名军官后被捕。 高级口译考试新闻中多次出到劫机话题，此类高频考点的相关词汇在串讲中已有详细总结，这段新闻首句中 Hijack ， hostage 两个词，加上后半句转折 but were arrested 这一重要结果。

　　Canada

　　超级金币 　

　　难点在于其面值 1 million Canadian dollar 和由于金价上涨造成当前实际价值 current value 达到面值两倍，听时对于 face value 印象很深，但问题却问 current value 。考试也有几次出过这种小的急转弯，所以首句原则很重要，但听好问题才是双保险。

　　Q11-Q15
　　原文

　　W: Hi, Frank! I just saw a program on TV that said that juvenile crime was increasing. And I want to ask your opinion about how to stop… well… how to prevent juvenile crime, because I know that you work with a lot of young people.

　　M: Well, first… I think the media exacerbated the problem, and so does the school system. Where I live, we have thousands of security guards in the schools, and metal detectors, too. And the kids get searched as they go into school. Now all of that presents the wrong message. The kids don’t feel like they’re going to school. They feel like they’re going to jail. And so they are more likely to lash out and become violent. I think it’s a cause-and-effect relationship. The students get violent because the system makes them like that.

　　W: So you’re saying that the messages kids get from the media, and even from school, are responsible for making them do bad things?

　　M: Yes, I am. I think that every young person is essentially good. I mean you see violent students, students who are violent in class, but put them on a one-to-one basis, and they are usually very friendly. It’s not that they’re really bad. It’s that they’re product of their environment. If you give them a more caring environment, you really can change the kind of actions they take.

　　W: Well, what about all the social support systems?

　　M: You see the problem is that social support systems have really fallen apart. Take for example, Big Brother Big Sister Programs or After School Programs. I don’t mean just letting them stay in school until 6 o’clock, doing whatever they want. They should be doing healthy, supervised activities, a structured program of activities, instructional programs, or it could be athletics. A lot of our schools used to have football team, or basketball team, or baseball teams, but the funding for programs like those has been cut. They’ve been eliminated. So that leaves the child with a lot of energy and nothing to do with it.

　　W: What do the Big Brother Big Sister programs do?

　　M: Well, they have people a little older, say in their 20s, who are willing to spend time on an individual basis with the students in the middle school or in high school. See, the problem is that a lot of kids don’t get the one-on-one attention they need. But kids need to see that somebody really cares about them.

　　W: But what about kids who really do commit crimes? Stealing, pick pocketing or drug abuse, or something worse. I mean you do get cases where kids become involved in really serious crimes. I mean what should be done with kids like that?

　　M: Well, let me say that preventing crime is definitely better than punishing it. It’s better to have good role models and stop crime before it starts. But we also need harsher punishments. You see some countries where drug crimes carry a maximum sentence of 20 years or life imprisonment, and the crime numbers go down very fast. Having stronger punishment does reduce crime. But you have to be sure that the punishments are fair. We’re talking about juvenile crime. But white collar crime needs to be punished, too.

　　权威讲评：

　　采访性对话的前两个回合揭示主题，重中之重。这篇对话的主题集中在如何阻止少年犯罪现象， juvenile crime, 近来的美国校园枪击事件屡屡不断，再次反映了中高级口译考试出题的时事性原则。因此关注时事，并参与思考是很好的习惯。采访中，男士就当前少年犯罪现象的原因进行分析，指出媒体的夸大，校园及周围环境的过分紧张反而使得学生去做坏事 , 听时应注意文中 a violent environment 和 a caring environment 的对比。青少年的活动应当健康并加以引导（ healthy and superviced activities, structured and instructional program or atheletic activities ），他们需要的是真正的关心，但 Big Brother Big Sister 能提供学生需要的 one on one 式交流的组织，却因的经费太少无法进行下去（ fall apart ， be eliminated ）使青少年的活动失去方向。对于参加吸毒 drug abuse ，偷盗，等犯罪行为的少年，重要的在于防患于未然， preventing crime is better than punishing it ，但文中反复强调 punishment 一词，指出惩戒也是必要的， harsher punishment, stronger punishment 震慑作用的存在，使得犯罪数量的确骤减。

　　Q16-Q20
　　权威讲评：

文章主要论述了女性面临的问题不仅仅是艾滋病危机，工作问题，媒体对于女性的态度问题而已，目前联合国正在关注女性在语言性别歧视方面遭遇到的问题。比如说在日常生活中，男性往往是外向善于表达的一方，而女性则保持沉默。

人们的思考方式和表达方式之间存在一定关系。即使仅仅是说“ chair （主席）”，人们通常也会联想到男性，而不是女性。虽然我们还不完全清楚语言和思想的关系，但是语言很可能会影响到人们的思维方式。比如人们总是说“ chairman （主席）”，那么女性就会想当然地认为只有男性才能够成为领导者。

而且，其它语言也有同样的问题。西班牙语有阴阳性而德语则有阴性、阳性和中性。每种语言都有自己的性别问题。这是一个全球化问题。而美国女权运动也正在努力解决语言歧视问题。

这里说话人试图从客观的角度分析这种语言性别歧视的现象，探究其原因，但是并没有给出具体可行的解决措施。无庸置疑，语言题是高口听力始终关注的问题，在上海新东方的口译课堂上，我们也多次提及，包括歧视问题，我们在上课时也已经全部分析过，而这里的性别歧视问题，就是我们课上论述的三种歧视之一，这显然也是一个全球化的问题。

因此，听力理解部分的最后一篇讲话，难度仅仅属于中等偏下，应对这种题材和难度的文章对于上海新东方的绝大多数口译学员而言，应该不在话下。

　　［徐星海：上海新东方高级口译听力名师，口译教研组听力课题组组长，悉尼大学教育学硕士，高级同传。］

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