上海市英语中级口译资格证书第一阶段考试.doc

上海市英语中级口译资格证书第一阶段考试.doc上海市英语中级口译资格证书第一阶段考试2001年9月
上海市英语中级口译资格证书第一阶段考试2001年9月
(Test Book)
SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST
(40 minutes)
Part A: Spot Dictation
Direction: 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 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.
Welcome to this edition of “Human Nature”— a series of lectures delivered by the local Community College. Today, we’d like to discuss another aspect of ___________(1). We are all human, and one part of human nature is to try to ‘sum one another up’. The first day in class, for example, we ___________(2) the teacher and our classmates. The same is true with our first day ___________(3) where we are most likely to sum up our boss or
colleagues. We do this in order to ___________(4) two things. Firstly, to discover what kind of people they are, and secondly, to find out if we might like to ___________(5).
There are two main ways in which we sum up other people, that is, by ___________(6). If the person we are watching sends messages through his behaviour and actions that we find ___________(7), our first impression of him will be as an annoying person. We will, therefore, try to avoid or simply___________(8) this kind of person. If one the other hand, we are pleased by what he says as well as the way he speaks, ___________(9), we will probably try to become friendly with him.
Some people, however, seem ___________(10) the kind of person they really are. They try their utmost to ___________ (11) their real personality and purposes so that we never know how they feel about us and what they ___________(12). Since we can not e sure of ___________(13) or
intentions, we are not sure how we feel about them either.
When e get to know people, there are certain things that we tell them ___________ (14). For example, our name, address, ___