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高级口译0509听力原文汇总合集（6）

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　　2010秋季上海口译考试报名通知

　　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0509听力原文汇总合集（6）

　　SECTION 4: LISTENING TEST

　　Part A: Note-taking And Gap-filling

　　Today I’ll talk about the widespread use of pesticides and their harmful effects on our health. What you need to know about pesticides is really very simple. They’re all designed to kill. “-Cide” means kill, whether the word is pesticide, insecticide, herbicide, fungicide, or any other “-cide”. Pesticides are designed to kill unwanted living things, or pests, whether they are insects, leaves, fungi, termites, or bacteria. All pesticides are dangerous to living things, and that includes human beings. The few inorganic, that is, non-carbon-containing pesticides used before World War Two were called economic poisons because of their economic benefit to farmers. Economic poisons became pesticides, which became, in some circles, plant protectants. With each change in terminology, the sense of toxicity became more remote.

　　Though pesticide users speak of non-target organisms, pesticides do not discriminate between targeted and non-targeted living things. If you go into your backyard with a machine gun and blast back and forth, it is not very choosy about whom it will kill. Pesticides are like that too, says Doctor Janet Sherman, author of Chemical Exposure and Disease. While human beings are seldom, if ever, intentionally targeted for a lethal pesticide exposure, pesticides have killed some people. For example, in 1998, US naval lieutenant George Prior, a healthy 30-year-old, died an agonizing death after playing golf on a course that had been repeatedly spread with fungicide, which was pinpointed as the cause of death. The following example might sound dramatically tragic, for a man who wanted to take a break after burglarizing an empty house that was being fumigated. Crime did not pay. He went back into the house to eat a snack and watch television. Neighbors found him lying naked on the front lawn of the house. He had torn off his cloths in an attempt to rid himself of the pesticide contamination. He later died in a local hospital. Worldwide, anywhere from 1 million to 25 million people are estimated to suffer from accidental pesticide poisoning each year, with more than 20,000 dying, according to the World Health Organization. In fact, pesticides have become a drug of choice for committing suicide. WHO estimates that each year, 2 million people in undeveloped countries purposely ingest pesticides so easily available to them. Many more cases of pesticide poisoning worldwide, it is said, go unrecognized or unreported.

　　Obviously, pesticides are not something to fool around with. But most of us do not burglarize houses, or work for exterminators or lawn care companies. Where do we encounter pesticides? The answer is everywhere, or almost everywhere. People are exposed to pesticides in the food they eat, the water they drink and swim in, the air they breathe, and in their homes and workplaces. In their home, pesticides are used in treated fabrics for clothing, diapers or bedding, in bathroom and kitchen disinfectants, such as common household bleach, in insect repellant applied directly to human skin, in pet flea collars and in swimming pool additives. Their major uses is on crops. But pesticides are also used in homes, backyard gardens, stores, schools, restaurants, office buildings, industrial work places, sport facilities, hotels, hospitals, and theatres, on lawns and golf courses, along highway, rites of the way. As if these were not enough, add to the list, churches, synagogues, health clubs, forests, paint, carpeting, Durand soaps, shampoos, pressure treated wood, soil, groundwater and rain. And you have an idea of what can expose you to pesticides in 21st century America. According to some health specialists, as many as 20,000 Americans a year will develop cancer because of pesticide residues on produce that they eat. Pesticide residues have been ranked as the nation’s No. 3 cancer risk. Children are especially at risk from pesticides. Earlier this year, WHO estimated that at least 17% of the preschool population are exposed to various pesticides above safe levels, just from eating raw fruit alone. Children have a long life time of ingesting pesticides ahead of them. And their developing bodies are more susceptible to poisoning. Since a fourth of the American public are now contracting cancer by various means, there could be about 4.5 million cancer cases among present preschooler during their life times. As estimated by one national report, pesticides may cause 5000 of those cancers.

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