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高级口译0603听力原文汇总合集（5）

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　　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0603听力原文汇总合集（5）

　　Questions 16 to 20

　　With thousands of people traveling everyday as a part of their jobs, there is a great concern about the effect of jetlag on business travelers. In the world of international business, many men and women have trouble performing their jobs because they feel tired and sick from all their traveling. Business people are not the only professionals who suffer from jetlag. Professional sports players also find that jetlag affects their performance. I have recently read a health report and it looks at the problem of jetlag in professional baseball. You see, researchers have wondered about how a jetlag affects the job performance of people who travel for a living. The problem is that it is very difficult to measure exactly how jetlag affects most travelers, how we can measure the performance of, say, an executive who travels to another country to make a business deal. This is where the idea of looking at baseball comes in. So, by looking at whether baseball teams win or lose games, researchers believe that we can see how jetlag affects performance in sports, business, and other jobs. In the study, doctors looked at baseball records from 2001 to 2004. They studied the performance of 19 teams from the eastern and pacific time zones. Looking at the results of the 2 games immediately after a team traveled from one coast to the other. The study shows that changing time zones may hurt the performance of west coast baseball teams traveling east for a game, but not the east coast teams traveling west. The reason, the researchers think, is that people traveling east

　　suffer more from the symptoms of a jetlag. An example of this effect can be seen in the best of the 7 big championship series played in 2003 between the San Francisco Giants and the Atlanta Braves. The games are played in the home cities of each team. So, in 2003, the Atlanta Braves and San Francisco Giants played the first 2 games in Atlanta, the next 3 games in San Francisco, and the last 2 games in Atlanta. In this contest, Atlanta won 4 of the 7 games, and was the winner of the series. Researchers believe that San Francisco Giants lost because they played more games away from home and therefore, had more jetlag. We know from past studies that the symptoms of a jetlag are stronger when a person travels east. This is because when we travel east, our day becomes shorter, and a shorter day is more difficult to adjust to. So the players from San Francisco were at a disadvantage when they traveled east for a game in Atlanta. The researchers think that the San Francisco team had more of the symptoms caused by jetlag problems such as headaches, tiredness and difficulty thinking clearly. All of these symptoms could result in poor performance by baseball players. However this is only the first study to look at the effect of jetlag on sports, and more research is needed. Other scientists say that this research doesn’t prove that jetlag causes poor performances in baseball games. This study only looked at baseball records for three years, and much more information must be studied before we can decide if the losses are truly a result of the jetlag and not some other reason. What about the home-team advantage? Yes, the positive effects of the home team advantage are well known. It’s much easier for a team to play a game at home where they can sleep in their own beds, and the local fans can come to the game and cheer for the team. However, jetlag adds to the disadvantage for the team that’s playing away from home. So, when the San Francisco team traveled east to play in Atlanta, they were added a disadvantage in two ways. They were playing away from home, and they had strong jetlag from traveling east。

　　16. How do business people often feel from all their traveling?

　　17. According to the report, why did researchers study jetlag in baseball?

　　18. Researchers analyzed the performance of some baseball teams, where are these teams from?

　　19. Which of the following is not mentioned as a symptom of jetlag?

　　20. Which of the following statements is true according to the health report?

　　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