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高级口译0409听力原文汇总合集（1）

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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。

　　高级口译0409听力原文汇总合集（1）

　　Part A: Spot Dictation

　　Every nation and region in the world has its own set of folk heroes. Sometimes, the heroes from _______ (1) are strikingly similar. When this is true, the stories connected with these figures can _______ (2) between two seemingly different cultures. Often, however, heroes from one culture or region are _______ (3). When this is the case, the heroic figure demonstrates the unique aspects of a specific people, not merely _______ (4) to similar circumstances. Now, in this lecture, we will look at a number of American folk heroes in order to focus on several aspects of _______ (5).

　　By folk heroes, we mean figures whose stories have evolved over time and whose legends cannot be _______ (6). Instead of being created by a single writer, folk heroes evolve through time and reflect the efforts and creativity of _______ (7). Of course, professional writers sometimes _______ (8) folk heroes, just as those who create folk heroes often incorporate aspects of _______ (9) into their stories. Nonetheless, folk heroes and the folklore concerning them are _______ (10) by people who perform _______ (11) their audiences. One example of this process might be the poet Homer reciting his heroic tales to a _______ (12) audience of ancient Greeks. This was a favorite form of entertainment long before _______ (13).

　　America is a diverse country in which various people and sub-cultures embrace their own unique history and lore. _______ (14) under these circumstances, a wide variety of heroes have become a part of _______ (15). Any yet many of these heroes share similarities that make them distinctively American, in spite of _______ (16). By focusing on these similarities, we can _______ (17) of America and its people.

　　For hundreds of years, Americans have struggled to understand their place in the New World. There were _______ (18) in the New World. In addition, the social and economic position of people was not as _______ (19) as in Europe, Africa and Asia. As a result, storytellers created heroes _______ (20) the unique opportunities and challenges that America provided.

　　1. different geographical regions

　　2. review underlined similarities

　　3. quite distinctive

　　4. universal responses

　　5. the American experience

　　6. identified with one particular author

　　7. a variety of anonymous story-tellers

　　8. borrow or transform

　　9. formal literature

　　10. created informally