英语翻译资格高级口译模拟24.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 1 [模拟] 英语翻译资格高级口译模拟24 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. To develop a little the line of the poet Edmund Spenser, who in the sixteenth century wrote, Sweet Thames run softly, till I end my song: it still runs softly enough but could never be called sweet in any gustatory__1__. If its brown-black color__2__sound sufficient warning we could, but will__3__recalling the dreadful things that Thames oarsmen say a mere mouthful will do to anyone__4__. Probably Spenser was using the word sweet in the sense of dear rather than of__5__. Not necessarily though, for the river was still, a century after Spenser, clear enough for__6__to dive into it from the terraces of their waterside mansions. However, Spenser would probably__7__to learn that today the river is chemically in better shape than it has been for many years—a fact borne out by the__8__of fish now to be found, and angled for, in the reaches of Central London, that is, between,__9__, Battersea and Tower Bridges. More important, perhaps, than its__10__or opacity, the Thames is an__11__vantage point from which to see London,__12__how the great machine works and how it has changed. The river traffic was once brisker: engravings of the Thames around London Bridge__13__depict almost as many craft on the water as buildings on the bank. Traders and ferries plied up, down and across,__14__at the numerous water-steps and warehouses__15__. For Romantics, seeking a location to sympathize with a mood, this is free; the river is a__16__source. By night the floodlighting of St. Paul’s, the myriad bulbs on Chelsea Bridge,__17__the black liquid ribbon that winds between them. By day there are a hundred visits to make the spirit__18