1、9 月上海英語(yǔ)翻譯資格考試高級(jí)口譯聽力真題Was it envisioned for the euro to eventually become such a strong currency that it could compete with the dollar on a global level? Or was that a dream then and is it still a dream now?I think it was an attainable dream, and it is becoming actually, in some ways, less attainable

2、 right now.You may ask why?Well, the dream to give credit where credit is due was not only advocated by some European officials but by some American economists, including our Institute ' s director, Fred Bergsten, who was way out in the front with that. Richard Portes, who teaches at London Busi

3、ness School, also was way out in front with that. And they were very much against the tide of people like Martin Feldstein and others in London and the United States who were very skeptical towards the euro.At face value, the euro area is the same size in GDP as the United States, roughly speaking.

4、The euro area does have very large and deep financial markets, although the more you look in detail, there are still some things there that differentiate it from the United States. And the euro area has delivered price stability. They have a very low rate of inflation pretty consistently. So you put

5、 those three things together, on paper it looks like the euro should be at least a very clear second to the dollar in investor ' s portfolios, in government reserve holdings, in how much you invoice trade like oil orplanes or things like that.But what our research finds in this book - in particu

6、lar in good chapters by Kristin Forbes and Linda Goldberg - is the fact that if you look under the hood a bit, there is a huge shortfall between what you would expect just based on size and how much the euro is used. So there' s an awful lot of trade that 's still invoiced in dollars, not in

7、 euros, even between countries that are not dollar countries. There are huge amounts of financial flows that come to the United States, and the depth of European assets and financial flows is not commensurate with the size.【解析】本文節(jié)選自 Growing Pains for the Euro 。在段落一開始，作者就拋出了一個(gè)問 題：歐元最終成為一種能與美元相抗衡的國(guó)際貨幣

8、是不是一場(chǎng)夢(mèng)？并指出這個(gè)期 望相比曾經(jīng)，正變的越來越難以實(shí)現(xiàn)。文中指出，雖然歐元確實(shí)有廣闊的經(jīng)濟(jì)市場(chǎng)，而且通貨膨脹的概率也較小， 但是通過研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，如果一旦深探，就會(huì)看到期望值與歐元的實(shí)際使用率之間存 在著巨大差額，以致在一些非美元使用區(qū)中，流通的貨幣仍然為美元。本文的題材雖然為考生比擬懼怕的經(jīng)濟(jì)類，但是如果能夠聽懂首段作者的提 問，以及之后作者的態(tài)度 I think it was an attainable dream, and it is becoming actually, i n some ways, less atta in able right now, 就不難馬上領(lǐng)悟全文的主旨。

9、考生平時(shí)要多多關(guān)注?？嫉慕?jīng)濟(jì)類文章，有了平時(shí)的積累，才能在考場(chǎng)上發(fā) 揮自如。Listening comprehension 1W: So, one of the things that I really have trouble understanding is how jazz music developed to be so different from many other kinds of music? My class notes are terrible.M: Well, what can ' t you understand from your notes?W: Uh,

10、one thing is I copied down the musical training from the blackboard. What did it mean by that?M: Well, most people who became professional musicians have some kind of formal training in music. But the first people who play jazz music had almost none.W: OK, but so what? Doesn't it just mean that

11、they weren't very good musicians?M: Well, it 's not that the early jazz musicians weren't good; it's that they played their instruments differently. Let 's say you are receiving formal instruction in the trumpet. First you would learn the right way to place your mouth, and the ri

12、ght way to use your fingers, and the right way to blow air. And then you will practice single notes and different combination of notes until you could do those correctly. And only after that, would your teacher give you a piece of music to play.W: And the early jazz musician didn ' t learn to pl

13、ay this way?M: No, the first people who play jazz music learned to play their instrument by actually trying to play a song the way they like. They were humanity, and tried to play themselves on their instruments. Because they were mostly teaching themselves, they began to express themselves in ways

14、that formally traditionally trained musicians didn' t. In traditional instruction, there is one correct way to play something, and everyone who plays tries to make the correct sound. But in jazz.W: In jazz music, there isn 't one right way to play. In fact, individual musicians are supposed

15、to interpret the music in their own style. So you are saying that this aspect of jazz developed because the first people who play jazz didn't have any formal musical training?M: Yes, I believe so.Q1: What is the woman most probably according to the conversation?Q2: What is the problem the woman

16、has trouble understanding?Q3: How did early jazz musicians learn to play their instrument?Q4: Which of the following is true according to the conversation?Q5: Why did jazz music develop to be so different from many other kinds of music?【解析】本文難度并不大，圍繞著女生的疑問以及男生的解答，講述了爵士是如何發(fā) 展成一種與其他種類相距甚大的音樂的。對(duì)話中，女生無法

17、理解音樂訓(xùn)練這一點(diǎn)，于是男生答復(fù)說不同于其他正規(guī)音 樂指導(dǎo)，比方想要吹喇叭，就要從嘴部、手指，以及吹氣一步步訓(xùn)練起來。而最 早玩爵士樂的人并沒有如此的訓(xùn)練，而是單純用自己的風(fēng)格將音樂演奏出來，這 也就造就了爵士樂與其他音樂的大不同。Listening comprehension 2London, the United KingdomThe UK housing market is seeing a slight pick-up in activity with mortgage lending and prices both rising, figures have suggested. Gr

18、oss mortgage lending was up 4% in April, compared with March, to £ 12.1bn, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders. This was 21% higher than April 2021, but this data is skewed by the end of the stamp duty concession a year ago. Official figures show UK house prices rose by 2.7% in the pas

19、t twelve months. However, this was driven by rises in England and Wales, with property price falls in Scotland and Northern Ireland,according to the Office for National Statistics.【文章大意】英國(guó)房地產(chǎn)市場(chǎng)略有回暖，抵押借貸活動(dòng)增加，房?jī)r(jià)上漲。題 目考查數(shù)字細(xì)節(jié)。pick-up 上漲mortgage lending 抵押借貸skew 歪曲Paris, FranceDeveloped economies returne

20、d to growth in the first three months of the year, although the euro zone continued to lag behind the U.S. and Japan, according to figures released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Tuesday. The Paris-based research body said the combined gross domestic product of its 34

21、developed-country members grew by 0.4% from the final three months of 2021. There were “ diverging patterns across its members, but that largely involved a contrast between contractions in France, Italy and the euro zone as a whole, and a pickup in growth in Japan, the U.S. and the U.K. With growth

22、so unbalanced and business and consumer confidence weak in the face of uncertainties surrounding the outcome of the euro zone's fiscal crisis and fiscal difficulties in the U.S., economists don't expect a strong pickup in global growth in the near term.【文章大意】今年第一季度，興旺國(guó)家經(jīng)濟(jì)恢復(fù)增長(zhǎng)，歐元區(qū)仍落后于美國(guó) 日本?？疾?/p>

23、信息推斷。euro-zone 歐元區(qū)統(tǒng)一使用歐元的國(guó)家地區(qū)lag behind 落后diverge 分開，偏離Washington, the United StatesApple has been accused of being“ among America ' s largest tax avoiderscommittee said Apple had used “a complex web of offshore entities to avoidbillions of dollars in US income taxes. But it said there was no in

24、dication the firm acted illegally. Apple chief Tim Cook will go before the panel on Tuesday. In prepared testimony Apple said it did not use tax gimmicks. The US Senate had said that Apple paid little or nothing on billions of dollars in profits placed in Irish subsidiaries. The company says it is o

25、ne of the largest taxpayers in the US, having paid $6bn in federal corporate income tax in the 2021 fiscal year. US corporation tax is one of the highest in the world at 35%. However, companies typically pay far less, thanks to numerous deductions and exemptions.文章大意】蘋果公司被指避稅?？疾橹髦即笠狻ax avoidance 避稅

26、offshore 海外的gimmick 花招，手段exemption 豁免，免稅Oklahoma city, the United StatesAt least 91 people, including 20 children, are feared to have been killed by a huge tornado which tore through Oklahoma City suburbs, local officials say. Worst hit was Moore, south of the city, where neighborhoods were flattene

27、d and schools destroyed by winds of up to 200mph. About 120 people are being treated in hospitals. President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma. He also ordered federal authorities to join in the search efforts which have continued throughout the night. The official death toll is

28、 51, but local authorities say the figure is expected to rise as another 40 bodies have been found.【文章大意】俄克拉荷馬城遭巨型龍卷風(fēng)襲擊，至少91 人恐已死亡?？疾閿?shù)字細(xì)節(jié)。tornado 龍卷風(fēng)death toll 死亡人數(shù)Dubai, Saudi ArabiaA Saudi woman has made history by reaching the summit of the world mountain. Raha Moharrak, 25, not only became the f

29、irst Saudi woman to attempt the climb but also the youngest Arab to make it to the top of Everest. She is part of a four-person expedition that also includes the first Qatari man and the first Palestinian man attempting to reach the summit. They are trying to raise $1m for education projects in Nepa

30、l. Originally from Jeddah, Ms Moharrak is a university graduate currently based in Dubai. Coming from Saudi Arabia - a conservative Muslim country where women ' s rights are very restricte-d- she had to break a lot of barriers to achieve her goal, her climb team said.【文章大意】一名沙特女性成功登上珠峰?？疾橹髦即笠狻u

31、mmit 頂峰Everest 珠穆朗瑪峰e(cuò)xpedition 探險(xiǎn)隊(duì)Qatari 卡塔爾的Q6. According to the official figures, by how much did UK house prices increase in the past year?Q7. Which of the following statements best describes the economic state of the world ' s developed countries?Q8. What has the Apple company been accused o

32、f by a US senate committee?Q9. At least how many people are feared to have been killed by a huge tornado in Oklahoma?Q10. According to the report, what has a Saudi woman done recently to make history?Listening comprehension 3W: Hi, Paul. Thanks very much for joining us today. You ' ve spent the

33、past 20 years as a physician working in some of the poorest places on earth. And over that time, you 've written a lot about inequality and health care. How has the connection affected your work?M: I think in a way, studying in difficult places at a squatter settlement in central Haiti has been

34、very helpful to our work. Because there 's an extremity hid there in terms of the health status of the people. And what ' s available to them that you just have to confront early on. There isn't health infrastructure. There aren't people there to deliver health services whether preve

35、ntion or care. And yet, that ' s precisely where the sickest people are. I think looking back to 20 something years ago, it was because we started in that setting that we had to develop models that would work in places with very scant health infrastructure and knowing that we would build it over

36、 time. But that there was a lot that you could do immediately - train local people to be community health workers, erect modest facilities and try to provide high quality care. That 's how it started for us in Haiti. And really, that ' s the model we've taken to the other nine countries

37、in which we work.W: It sounds so you needed to deal with issues that many people might not consider medical like housing and water, and things like that.M: That is true. There are two ways to look at this. I think as a physician or a provider of services. If I ' m in the Harvard training hospita

38、l and I 'm a surgeon, then no one's going to expect me to diagnose and treat the disease but also build the operating room and find electricity and supplies. But that ' s very much what we have to do. So, there's that side of the model and that leads as you've said to listening h

39、ard to what patients say about their other problems. If you have someone who has typhoid, they got that because they don't have clean drinking water. So, you can keep spending your whole life treating typhoid which can be a fatal disease as you probably know. Or you can treat typhoid and try to

40、put in clean water.Q11. What's the man' s job most probably?Q12. For how many years has the man worked in Haiti?Q13. Why does the man think starting work in Haiti has been very helpful to his work?Q14. They did several things to build a model in Haiti. Which of the following is not one of th

41、ese things?Q15. Apart from diagnosing and treating the disease, what should a doctor do when he works in Haiti?【解析】根據(jù)女性的問題可以聽出，該訪談的對(duì)象是一名在海地 Haiti 工作的醫(yī)生。 該醫(yī)生除了治病救人之外，還十分關(guān)注海地社會(huì)中的不平等以及該國(guó)的醫(yī)療衛(wèi)生 狀況。在貧困地區(qū)進(jìn)行的研究給他的工作帶來了巨大的幫助，那里醫(yī)療根底設(shè)施 條件差、醫(yī)療效勞從業(yè)者稀少，但是他們克服了重重阻礙，建立起了醫(yī)療設(shè)施， 訓(xùn)練 當(dāng)?shù)厝顺蔀樯鐓^(qū)醫(yī)療效勞者，為當(dāng)?shù)匾约捌渌毨?guó)家和地區(qū)醫(yī)療衛(wèi)生事 業(yè)的開

42、展樹立了模范。本篇聽力難度適中，對(duì)于一些專有名詞如 Haiti、typhoid，如果聽不出，不用過分糾結(jié)，重點(diǎn)是把握大意，抓住一些重點(diǎn)細(xì)節(jié)，如數(shù)字、時(shí)間、工作具體內(nèi)容關(guān)鍵詞physician 內(nèi)科醫(yī)師inequality 不平等extremity 極端；險(xiǎn)境infrastructure 根底設(shè)施facility 設(shè)施diagnose 診斷Listening comprehension 4Thank you all for coming to my talk this evening. It ' s nice to see so many people in the audience.

43、For those of you who don' t know very much about PS Camping. Let me start by giving you some background information about the company.The company started 25 years ago. It actually opened as a retail chain selling camping equipment. And then twenty years ago, it bought a small number of campsites

44、 in the UK, and began offering camping holidays. The company grew rapidly and has been providing holidays in continental Europe for the last fifteen years.If you book a camping holiday with us, you 'll have a choice of over three hundred sites. In Italy we now have some 64 sites that we either o

45、wn, or have exclusive use of. France is where we have the majority of sites, and we currently have a project to expand into Switzerland. We also have a number of sites in Northern Spain, particularly in the mountainous region of Picos de Europa. We 've upgraded all these Spanish sites, and impro

46、ved them considerably from their original three-star rating.We believe our holidays offer superb facilities for the whole family. Parents who want their children to be fully occupied for all or part of the day can take advantage of our children 's activities. These are organized by our well-qual

47、ified and enthusiastic staff. Each day kicks off with a sports match, perhaps football, or volleyball, followed by an hour of drama for everyone. This may include singing or dancing, mime or other activities. In the afternoon, there ' s a different art activity for each day of the week including

48、 a poster competition or model making. What' s more, our sites are truly child-friendly, and, with this in mind, we operate a no-noise rule in the evenings. Children 's evening activities usually finish at 9:30, or occasionally 10, and from 10:30 holiday-makers are expected to be quiet in th

49、e areas where there are tents.We want nothing to go wrong on a PS Camping holiday, but if it does, we also want all customers to be insured. If you haven't organized an annual insurance policy of your own you 'll need to take out the low-cost cover we offer and we require that you arrange th

50、is when you make your holiday reservation.There are many advantages to choosing PS Camping, and to recommending it to others. As a regular customer, you' ll be kept informed of special offers. And you can benefit from ten per cent off their holiday, or book a luxury tent for the price of a stand

51、ard one. In return, we 'll send you a thank-you present, which you can choose from a list of high-quality items.Q16. How many years ago was the company PS Camping established in the UK?Q17. What was the company' s business when it opened in the UK?Q18. In which of the following countries doe

52、s the company have the majority of camping sites?Q19. There are several kinds of activities which can fully occupy children for all or part of the day. Which of the following is not one of these?Q20. Which of the following is an advantage that a regular customer can enjoy from the company?【解析】本篇聽力取材于雅思考試真題，內(nèi)容是一家名叫 PS Camp ing公司的介紹，包 括公司歷史，業(yè)務(wù)范圍，各項(xiàng)活動(dòng)，優(yōu)惠政策等等。該公司成立于 25 年前，原 本是一家露營(yíng)裝備銷售商，后來轉(zhuǎn)向?yàn)槁稜I(yíng)假日活動(dòng) 組織者，在歐洲大陸業(yè)務(wù)開展迅速。 該公司能夠?yàn)榭蛻艚M織各種活動(dòng)供全家娛樂，但要求客戶投保，最 后還提供了給老客戶的多項(xiàng)優(yōu)惠政策。除了專有名詞Picos de Europa 歐羅巴山之外，全文沒有生僻詞匯。五個(gè)題 目均是常見的細(xì)節(jié)題，而文中細(xì)節(jié)要素比擬多，要求考生注意力集中，抓住細(xì)節(jié) 做好筆記，選出正確答案。Note Taking and