高级口译0703听力原文汇总合集（5）

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　　高级口译0703听力原文汇总合集（5）

　　Question 16-20

　　Modern life is full of nasty noises especially in the cities. Sirens can shatter serenity at any moment.And jackhammers, loud music, and useless mufflers can all send us over the edge.For many people in New York City, there is one form of sonic pollution at the top of the list. They are calling for its banning. Even though, some nervous New Yorkerssavorthe sound for security reasons. It’s late. You’re tired. Finally after an exhausting day, you are ready to surrender to the world of dreams. Your head sinks into your pillow. Then a big alarm. After being awakened at night many times, so that you have just gotten to sleep, and then the alarm goes off. Each night, hundreds of people who live in Brooklyn are jolted out of their sleep by thenagging wailof car alarm. You just waited it out but you don’t know if that’s going to happen again. You don’t know when you are going to be reawakened for a second or third time even. And sometimes, theeffect of the alarm will go on for hours. A music producer and composer who is a resident of Manhattan’s upper west side got fed up with car alarm disturbing his sleep and his work. He got together with some similarly frazzled neigbours and started off with a note saying: fix your car alarm. It has disturbed hundreds of people last night. If that doesn’t help. They quite often use some minor retaliatory step by breaking an egg on their windshield or on the front hood, which doesn’t hurt anything but it’s a little bit of the mess to clean up. The egg man who prefers to remain anonymous says some vigilantes take even more drastic action, like smearing axle grease on door handles. Another classic is to smear vaseline all over the windshield, which is incredibly hard to get off. In other neighbourhoods, there might be even broken windshields and things like that. A young lady was a target of vigilante retribution. It happened one night when unannounced to her, the car alarm malfunctioned. In the worst case a car owner notice that on the passenger front-door, there were a lot of dent marks. It looks like the heel of someone’s shoe as if someone had kicked the innocent car, because the alarm hadn’t even been going off on night. The repairs cost her a couple of hundred dollars. Most people I talked to believed that the car alarm produces no effect it has been intended to. To test the theory, a woman set off her alarm in the restaurant parking lot. Not a single person bothered to see if a car was being broken into. Are car alarms really effective? She says absolutely not. Not even when she called the police. One night, there was a real incredible racket and a little MG was being mutilated to death. The alarm was going off. So, she called 911. Well, about forty minutes later, the police drove up. Little remained of the car by then. The streets are much noisier than before. Many people complain that the noise affects not only their ability to sleep at night but for the most part their ability to work during the day. And even parents have started to complain. What is the impact on children? And there are more and more studies that show that young people in particular that are exposed to a sustained amount of loud noise have hearing loss. So, it’s a health issue. It’s the quality of life issue.

　　Question 16: What form of sonic pollution is this report concerned with?

　　Question 17: What will an egg man often do after giving a note?

　　Question 18: What do most people interviewed think of the car alarm?

　　Question 19: How can loud noise be particularly harmful to young people?

　　Question 20: Which of the following statement is true according to the talk?

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