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(2000年9月) 上海市英语中级口译资格证书第一阶段考试 SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST (40 minutes) Part A: Spot Dictation Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the word or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE. It is common knowledge that computers can also produce something stupid, as some ____________ (1) put it, GIGO, or garbage in, garbage out. This means that if inaccurate information is ____________ (2) a computer, the machine will produce the wrong information ____________ (3). The reason for this is that computers cannot think as ____________ (4). For example, imagine that a computer is given the information that ____________ (5) has four legs and that a dog has four legs. The machine might well ____________ (6) when producing a list of suggested living-room and dining-room furniture. But today, groups of ____________ (7) in the United States, Japan and Europe ____________ (8) a new type of computer. These new models will be incapable of making such ____________ (9). Instead of being programmed with lots of unrelated ____________ (10), the new computers will contain knowledge of subjects that are ____________ (11). The machines will then ____________ (12) items of information, and will be able to reject conclusions that do not ____________ (13). These new computers will already know that dogs are animals that ____________ (14), bark, wag their tails and chase other animals. By comparing ____________ (15) with features of living-room and dining-room furniture, the computer will conclude that a dog is an ____________ (16). Even a present-day computer could ____________ (17) if given enough information and enough time. But it has to consider ____________ (18) one at a time before selecting the best. This means that it would ______________ (19) for even the most powerful computer to r