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第五届广东大学生翻译大赛普高组 英语口译试题 Now please listen to the instructions for this exam. I’ll give you a brief introduction before each part of the exam begins and leave you enough time to do the interpreting. Let’s start with Part 1. Part 1 Consecutive Interpretation: English to Chinese In this part, you will hear part of a speech delivered in English by WIPO Director General Francis Gurry on World Intellectual Property Day .Please interpret this speech into Chinese. Let’s begin. Movies have always attracted global audiences. From the very first silent movies they were watched across the whole world with fascination, and with passion. More recently, we have witnessed the growth not only of global audiences, but also of global production. Where Hollywood was once the dominant player worldwide, now we see film industries flourishing across the world, be it Bollywood in India, Nollywood in Nigeria, or in Scandinavia, North Africa, China or other parts of Asia. So movies really are a global passion. // Movies are also a direct product of intellectual property (IP). Think about how a film is made. You start with a script, which is the intellectual property of an author or screenwriter. Then there are the actors, whose performances are their intellectual property. Then there is music, in which the composers and the performers have IP. Numerous players contribute to creating a film, and to enabling us to watch it as a seamless performance, woven from a multiplicity of intellectual property. IP underlies the whole film industry.// On World IP Day this year, I invite movie lovers everywhere, when next you watch a movie, to think for a moment about all the creators and innovators who have had a part in making that movie. And I would urge you also to think about the digital challenge which the Internet presents for film. I believe it is the responsibility not just of policy-makers b