1999.3上海市英语中级口译笔试.3.docVIP

1999.3 上海市英语中级口译资格证书第一阶段考试 SECTLON 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 you ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage only once. Good afternoon, Id like to thank professor Leach for giving me the chance to talk to you students. My topic today is 揂ttitudes, Values and Tastes?An attitude, or the way we feel about something, can take different forms. On the one hand, there are attitr udes that are simply_______(1). There may change from year to year, month to month and even, day to day. On the other hand, there are attitudes that can be firmly fixed ____________(2) that rarely, if ever, change. Included in the first___________ (3) are statements like 揝ally has beautiful eyes? or 揑 hate icecream? Attitudes like these may simply firm____________(4) a person, al taste or preference that does not always affect other people. Nobody will get particularly ___________(5), for example, if you have a preference for tea ____________(6) coffee. The second type of attitude could _________(7) such statements as 揝moking should be banned in a_________(8)? and 揥ar is a terrible thing? With attitudes like these, however, we are expressing an opinion that we y ____________(9) about. Opinions such as these are very much a part of ____________(10) since they express the way we feel about certain __________(11) and events. If someone is a smoker, for example, it can become very difficult to ___________(12) that person if they smoke ____________(13) in our company. Preference and tastes refer to specific ______(14) , where values are general and include __________(15). There is big difference, for example, between these two ___________(16): 揧our boss is very rude ?and 揑 could never work under a boss? In the first statement, the speak