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汇总：中级口译历年真题听力原文合集80

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　　中级口译考试介绍：

　　具有大学英语四级和同等英语能力水平的考生可以报考。

　　凡获得“上海市英语中级口译岗位资格证书”者均具有良好的口语水平和基本口译技能，可从事一般的生活翻译、陪同翻译、涉外导游以及外事接待、外贸业务洽谈等工作。

　　上海中级口译的笔试和口试虽然是分开进行的，但其笔试的证书在社会上却有很高的认可度。现在中国受金融风暴的影响，各大公司纷纷裁员，但中高级口译等高等专业人才仍存在很大的缺口。

　　为了方便广大口译考生备战秋季的考试，新东方在线口译频道特别汇总整理了近九年来的中级口译听力原文，供考生复习备考。

　　中口0609听力原文

　　Questions 27 to 30 are based on the following conversation:

　　W: Chris, when you are only in the fourth grade, you decided to dedicate your life to studying dinosaurs. Many forth-graders are fascinated with dinosaurs, but they grow up to be police officers, doctors or lawyers. What inspired you at such an early age to choose the study of dinosaurs as your life career.

　　M: Actually it was a magazine, the September 7th, 1963 issue of Life magazine with dinosaurs on the cover. (Question 27) I still have the magazine today. I was visiting my grandfather’s house and this magazine was sitting on the porch table. I opened it up and found not just fantastic pictures of dinosaurs, early reptiles and sea monster, but an article entitled the Pageant of Life. It was the story of how evolution works. It was wonderful. What got me was not just that dinosaurs were near and grotesque but that they were part of a much bigger history, a Greek historical story. So in the fourth grade, in 1964 I announced to my parents that I spend the rest of my life studying dinosaurs. And my parents nodded their heads and said “That’s nice dear. It’s a stage. You’ll grow out of it.”

　　W: But you didn’t grow out of that stage, did you?

　　M: NO, I often wonder why most people cannot maintain their first love with nature, with dinosaurs or elephants or whales. You take any kids to a zoo or museums, and they’ll be captivated by what they see. But that captivation dies away in high school, why? Think part of is that the adult world tells kids, “Hey, to like zoos or museums is childish thing. (Question 28)You shouldn’t like them. Be interested in dating and cars or making money.” So they have lost their sense of wonder at nature. Nevertheless, you’ll find a lot of adults enjoying taking their kids to museums to look at dinosaurs.

　　W: You’re involved with many aspects of education and educational programs, and you lecture to groups of students all over the country. What are the most common questions the students ask you?

　　M: They often ask about the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. They ask “Is there any possibility of their still being a living dinosaur? (Question 29)No, for the following reason. You could hide one monster in Lock Ness. It’s a deep enough lake. But you could not hide a breeding population of monsters. If you want to preserve a species, you need a minimum of 500 so that they can breed every generation and can have enough diversity in their genes so that they can keep on going. You can’t hide 500 or 600 monsters because there’ll always be death. (Question 30) Dead animals float to the surface of lakes or swamps, they get washed up onshore. And someone is going to find them.

　　本文选自新东方口译名师裴晓栋的blog,blog链接地址：http://blog.hjenglish.com/peixiaodong