【正文】 learning to walk or a headstrong toddler starting to talk. No matter how many times the little ones stumble in their initial efforts, most keep on trying, determined to master their amazing new skill. It is only several years later, around the start of middle or junior high school, many psychologists and teachers agree, that a good number of kids seem to lose their natural drive to succeed and end up joining the ranks of underachievers. For the parents of such kids, whose own ambition is often inextricably tied to their children39。(C) Both the children39。(D) Nine months.20. (A) The children39。(C) Once a month.(C) To investigate the impact of arts training.(C) Improve math, but not reading skills.(C) Swimming.(B) Tastingsmellinglooking.(D) Sacramento.13. (A) Being saucy and piquant.(C) The host of the show.(B) Fighting organized crime.(D) The eruption process was a sudden burst and has caused extensive damage and heavy casualty.9. (A) 6 to 7.(C) Misusing pany funds for personal spending.(C) Developed countries no longer depend on fossil fuels for transport and power.(B) Stay busy.(D) Diet, exercise, mitment to something they were interested in, and genetics.4. (A) The centenarians had a high calorie and fat intake.(C) What percentage of the population are centenarians in the state of Georgia.(B) In the United States, there are twice as many centenarians as there were ten years ago.2006年9月英語高級(jí)口譯真題Part A: Spot DictationDirections: 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 world 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.Play is very important for humans from birth to death. Play is not meant to be just for children. It is a form of ___________ (1) that can tap into your creativity, and can allow you the chance to find your inner child and the inner child of others. I have collected the ___________ (2) of play here.Play can stimulate you ___________ (3). It can go against all the rules, and change the same ___________ (4). Walt Disney was devoted to play, and his willingness to ___________ (5) changed the world of entertainment. The next time you are stuck in a ___________ (6) way of life, pull out a box of color pencils, modeling clay, glue and scissors, and ___________ (7) and break free. You will be amazed at the way your thinking ___________ (8).Playing can bring greater joy into your life. What do you think the world would be likeif ___________ (9) each day in play? I bet just asking you this question has ___________ (10). Play creates laughter, joy, entertainment, ___________ (11). Starting today, try to get 30 minutes each day to engage in some form of play, and ___________ (12) rise!Play is known ___________ (13). Studies show that, as humans, play is part of our nature. We have the need to play because it is instinctive and ___________ (14).With regular play, our problemsolving and ___________ (15) will be in much better shape to handle this plex world, and we are much more likely to choose ___________ (16) as they arise. It creates laughter and freedom that can instantly reduce stress and __________ (17) to our daily living.Play can ___________ (18), curiosity, and creativity. Research shows that play is both a ‘handson39。(C) All the people studied by these scientists from Georgia live in institutions for the elderly.(D) What the real secrets are to being an active and healthy 100yearold.3. (A) Diet, optimism, activity or mobility, and genetics.(B) The centenarians basically eat something different.(C) Stick to a balanced diet.(D) The impact of the global warming will be radically reduced by 2050.7. (A) Taking bribes.(D) Offering cash for political favors.8. (A) The nation has raised alert status to the highest level and thousands of people have moved to safety.(B) 8 to 10.(C) Investigating convictions of criminals.(D) The engineer who works on the water treatment plant.12. (A) Berkeley Springs.(B) Tasting sweet.(C) Smellinglookingtasting.(D) Making tea.Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following talk.16. (A) Enhance reading and math skills.(D) Develop reading, but not math skills.17. (A) To help the students appreciate the arts.(D) To enhance the students39。(D) Twice a month.19. (A) Six months.s attitude.s attitude and test scores.s success, it can be a bewildering, painful experience. So it39。t seem to have much. They say that by instilling confidence, encouraging some risk taking, being accepting of failure and expanding the areas in which children may be successful, both parents and teachers can reignite that innate desire to achieve.Figuring out why the fire went out is the first step. Assuming that a kid doesn39。 control, that their intelligence is malleable, says Lisa Blackwell, a research scientist at Columbia University who has worked with Dweck to develop and run the program, which has helped increase the students39。s academic performance. Howard and other educators say it39。(C) Ambition can be taught like other subjects at school.(B) cultivating the attitude of risk takings failure.(A) altered and developed(A) to free them of the idea search behavior. All but Google have handed over data, and now the Department of Justice has moved to pel the search giant to turn over the goods. What makes this case different is that the intended use of the information is not related to national security, but the government39。s strategy is that the experiment could conceivably sink its own case. If the builtin filters that each search engine provides are effective in blocking porn sites, the government will have wound up proving what the opposition has said all alongyou don39。m assuming that if something raised alarms, we would hand it over to the proper au