新东方2010年秋口T-C原文及点评

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　　新东方2010年秋口T-C原文及点评

　　2010秋9.12口译考试题目与解析，新东方第一时间放送——

　　Questions 11-14
　　W: Jack, tell me about yourself.
　　M: I was born in L.A., but my family is from china. My father came to U.S. to study. He got a PH.D in computer science and he stayed on as a professor at a college in California.
　　W: Is your mother from china too?
　　M: No. My mom is from here. She is an Asian-American. Her folks came to the U.S. during the 19th century. In fact, one of her great grandfathers actually helped build the first railroad across the United States in the 1860s. What about you?
　　W: well, I am a third generation Mexican-American. My grandparents were born in Veracruz and they immigrated to this country a long time ago. We still have a lot of relatives in Mexico.
　　M: Do you keep in touch with them?
　　W: We visit whenever we can.
　　M: By the way, how’s your Spanish?
　　W: It’s pretty good. We speak it at home most of the time. Do you speak Chinese?
　　M: Yeah, I’m quite fluent. And I am now learning to write it. I think someday I might be back in china and take up my career there.

　　1. What does the man’s father do for a living?

　　2. What does the man say about his mother?

　　3. According to the woman, why can she speak very good Spanish?

　　4. What is the man doing now?

　　本文是两位移民后裔的对话，分别介绍了自己的家庭背景。男士来自亚裔家庭，祖父还曾参与贯穿美国国土第一条铁路的建设。而女士来自墨西哥裔家庭，由于在家经常练习，所以西班牙语非常流利。作为热身的第一篇，这4道题考生完全可以做到全对。

　　Questions 15-18
　　Most of us use oil in some way, and it is difficult to imagine the modern world without oil. But oil is not easy to find and get out of the earth as it is trapped deep down in the ground. We must first study the rocks carefully. When we think that the rocks in a certain place may contain oil, we load a metal tower in the location either on the land or under sea. This metal tower is called a derrick. The derrick is equipped with oil drilling machinery. The machine will cut a narrow hole down into the ground. Meanwhile a steel pipe is pushed down to stop the sides from falling and to keep out water. At last, if we have judged correctly, the oil would rush up the pipe with great force. This is basically how an oil well is set up. Oil, as we can see, is obtained more easily than coal. For coal, very often we must dig it from a mine and have it sent up to the ground surface. But for oil, it rushes up a pipe. If an oil well is made near the middle of the oil field, then natural gas can be obtained. In parts of the world, such gas is often sent through pipes to distant towns and cities, so that it can be used like coal gas in houses and factories

　　5. Why is it difficult to find oil?

　　6. What is a derrick?

　　7. Why does the speaker say that oil is more easily to obtain than coal?

　　8. According to the speaker, what can be obtained when an oil well is made in the middle of the oil field?

　　本文介绍的是石油的开采以及与煤炭开采的区别，听上去酷似世博会石油馆的解说词。虽然考到了专业术语“derrick”，但文中作者有很明确的解释，不要被它吓倒，耐心往下听就有答案。

　　Questions 19-22
　　W:Good evening, Mr. Smith. It's nice to meet you and your boy in such nice and cozy weather. Is John going to school this year?
　　M: Yes, we are thinking of sending him to a private boarding school instead of the local state school.
　　W: Really? I wouldn't dream of sending my little boy away to some strange institution for months on end every year. It will break my heart every time.
　　M: I don't think so. I would say that a boarding school education is good for children because it teaches them to have confidence in themselves. In a boarding school they can learn to be more independent of themselves and less dependent on their parents.
　　W: But not every child can afford to go to a private school. My nephew only went to his local state school and he's just been awarded the scholarship to study classics at Cambridge.
　　M: Anyway a private school is more innovative and open-minded in teaching children to learn. You will get the value of your money and it's worthwhile.
　　W: Still I don't know what I will do with my little boy next year. I don't want him to go to that big new school. The children of all the common people in the area go there.
　　M: Well they are closing all the old schools. If you don't like the new state school you will just have to pay to send him to a private school, won't you?

　　9. According to the man, what is good about a private boarding school?

　　10. Why does the woman mention her nephew in this conversation?

　　11. Which of the following can be concluded from the conversation?

　　12. What is the woman worried about?

　　本文为教育题材，围绕的是对话双方对私人寄宿制学校（private boarding school）和当地公立学校（local state school）利弊的讨论。为孩子选择合适的学校，这也是当下的热门话题，听来倍感亲切。

　　Questions 23-26
　　Earthquakes are violent, destructive and unpredictable. The overall history of earthquakes leads to one general rule --- the more time that has passed since the earthquake, the bigger the chance one will strike. Scientists therefore use information about past earthquakes to guess probabilities about future earthquakes. For example, they say that within the next 30 years, there is a 60% probability that an earthquake will hit somewhere in southern California. But exactly where or when is a mystery. In at least one case, an earthquake in Northern China has been predicted by paying attention to clues from nature.
　　In China, earthquakes-happen study for nearly 4000 years. And there are records of more than 9000 earthquakes going back to the year 1831 BC. The official earthquake records of the state of California only go back to 1930. In their long, hard look at earthquakes, the Chinese have observed many things. Before an earthquake, animals start to act strangely. The ground changed shape, and the earth magnetic field gets stronger in the earthquake area. The water in wells bubbles up and then returns to its normal level. Also a serious of small earthquakes can mean that a big quake is on its way. The Chinese use these clues in 1974 to make the first successful prediction of an earthquake. The United States’ geological survey, on the other hand, has never predicted a major earthquake.

　　13. What is the general rule about the occurrence of an earthquake?

　　14. According to the speaker, which area is likely to be hit by an earthquake within the next 30 years?

　　15. How long have the Chinese studied earthquakes?

　　16. Which of the following is not a clue that is used by the ancient Chinese to predict an earthquake?

　　近年来地球调至振动档，地震在全球范围此起彼伏。去年9月，已经考过了张衡的地动仪，今年又来介绍中国古人就观察到的地震发生前夕的异常现象，并介绍了中美预测地震不同的方法。虽然都不太靠谱，但美国一发未中的成绩显得更逊一筹。

　　Questions 27-30
　　M: How did you like the fireworks last night?
　　W: I really didn’t enjoy them too much. There was such a big crowd that we couldn’t get very close.
　　M: I thought you were going early.
　　W: We did. But even though we got there at 7 o’clock, the park was already jammed. It was so crowded that we had a hard time finding a place even to stand.
　　M: That’s too bad, because the fireworks were really spectacular.
　　W: What did you do? How did you manage to get a good view?
　　M: We went early. We decided to have a picnic dinner in the park. So we’d be sure to get there early enough to find a good spot.
　　W: I guess that’s what I should do next 4th of July.
　　M: We found a place on top of some rocks where nobody could get in front of us.
　　W: Wasn’t it pretty hot? The temperature was up to the eighties yesterday.
　　M: It was nice and cool where we were, because there were a lot of trees right behind us. So we had some shade to sit in.
　　W: What did you do about going home? I’ve never been pushed and shoved so much in my whole life.
　　M: Well, they ran extra buses until midnight, so we didn’t have any problem.
　　W: I think you were lucky.
　　M: It wasn’t luck, it was good planning. You have to come with us next year.
　　W: I don’t know whether I want to try it next year, even though I like fireworks, I don’t like big crowds.
　　M: Well, next year is still a long time away. And next weekend we are going to the beach, a whole bunch of us, would you like to come with us?
　　W: Yes, thank you, I would. And maybe I can find how you go about planning things.