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2010春季英语中级口译资格证书第一阶段模考 （新东方口译研究中心发布，转载请注明出处！） SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST （45 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 ward 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. Mary Kathlyn Wagner was born in the state of Texas in 1918. For much of her childhood, she __________(1) her sick father while her mother worked long hours at a public eating place. Mary Kay married Ben Rogers when she was seventeen years old. They had three children before he left home to __________(2) World War II. When he returned, their marriage ended. Mary Kay looked for a job so she could __________(3). Mary Kay began selling different kinds of products. __________(4), she sold books. Later, she visited peoples’ homes to show how home care products such as __________(5) helped ease housework. One night, Mary Kay was __________(6) at the home of Ova Heath Spoonemore. Later in the evening, Missus Spoonemore began giving her guests some __________(7) skin care products. The products were developed by her father, J.W.Heath, in Arkansas. Mary Kay tried the skin care products and found they made her skin smooth. Mary Kay was successful selling home care products. Her __________(8) praised her work. But they never increased her earnings. She left the company after a man she trained was given __________(9) job than she had. Mary Kay said later that she learned from__________(10). It taught her that men did not believe that a woman could __________(11). She decided to prove them wrong. So she bought the rights to Mister Heath’s skin care products and started her own company. She paid 500 dollars for the legal rights to the products. The Mary Kay Cosmetics Company __________(12) in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. Mary Kay’s twenty-year-old son Richard was the