【正文】 ing to survive(C) active in providing food for the village and tourists(D) surprisingly energetic considering the little demand for them local grocer’s shop is expanding even though________. (A) town shops are more attractive(B) town shops are larger and less wellknown(C) people like to shop where they are less wellknown(D) people get extra service in townshops do the village grocer’s assistants feel about delivering goods? (A) They tend to forget it. (B) They will not consider it.(C) They take it for granted. (D) It does not seem worth their while aspect of personal service available in the village shop is that_________. (A) there is a wide range of goos available(B) goods not in stock can be obtained whenever they are needed(C) special attention is given to the needs of wealthier customers(D) goods are always restocked before they run out what way is the village shoemaker a “formidable figure”? (A) He seems to pay little attention to public opinion.(B) He refuses to mend cheap,massproduced shoes.(C) He has a very rough temper. (D) He has very high standards of workmanship. Questions 610 Drivers on the Basingstoke bypass used to have their attention diverted by a sign that read—A MOMENT39。 is a part of the road where there are no signs. 8. 39。s hidden away behind an archway which leads into a small scullery. Here there39。t want their kids to miss 39。S INATTENTION CAUSES ACCIDENTS39。 it is not enough for him to leave his chauffeur or a friend to attend to the boring formalities while he goes off on more important business. If you have been involved in an accident and have stopped, you must give your name, address, and registration number to anyone who has a good reason for requesting it。s recent ments“I carmot think of one good reason for (letting youngsters) have a cellphone and I would like everyone to discuss whether cellphones are really necessary: the report remended that parents, guardians, schools and all parties concerned should cooperate among themselves, so that elementary school pupils and junior high school students do not have a cellphone unless there is a pelling reason for them to do so. But since many parents believe in the necessity of cellphones as a safety tool, it is unrealistic to expect everyone to do away with them. Rather, it would make more sense for guardians, schools and cellphone panies to consider, from their respective standpoints,how cellphones should be used by children. We suggest that parents sit down with their offspring and talk about their “houserules”for cellphone use. For instance, sct the hours allowed, so the kids won39。s tools for improving health are so powerful and inexpensive that health conditions could be reasonably good even in poor countries if policy makers spent even relatively little in the right places. Recent research for the Copeghagen Consensus idenifies several highly costeffective options that would tackle some of the planet39。s eye(C) danger spots such as sharp corners and crossroads(D) places where there are man roadsigns 9. As required by the law, you must stop after an accident, if ______. (A) you have been injured by somebody.(B) your car has been damaged.(C) you have injured somebody else(D) you have witnessed the accident l 0. After an accident it is remended that you wait for the police because _________. (A) it is against the law to drive off(B) they have to examine your licence and insurance certificate(C) they have to noto the position of your car(D) somebody may give them a false account of the accident Questions 1115 Just as word oil scarcity is already causing intemational conflicts, so will the scarcity of water reach a point where wars will break out. The statistics on water arealready scary. Already well over l billion people suffer from water shortages and 30 countries get more than a third of their water from outside their borders—an obvious source of disputes and instability especially as the climate changes. The whole of the subSaharan Africa, most of South Asia and western South America are most at risk. The reason: the rapid melting of glaciers due to global warning. At the meeting of the coalition of 27 Intemaional charities last month, Gareth Thomas, minister of Intenatonal Development of the British government, wrote to prime minister Gordon Brown demanding action to ensure fresh water to billion people with poor supplies. If we do not act now, the reality is that water supplies may bee the subject of international conflict in the years ahead. We need to invest now to prevent us having to pay that price in the future, Thomas said. The department warned that twothirds of theword39。09年春季上海英語中級口譯證書第一階段考試 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 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. You might think that hamburgers were invented in the United States, but that is not totally true. These________ (1), or patties, actually came from Germany in the middle of the nineteenth century. They were brought to the United States by________(2) who came from the city of Hamburg. That is why ________(3)was hamburger steak’ However, people in other place________(4) that ’they invented the hamburger. Perhaps we’ll never have a ________(5).the there’s no question that the hamburger was a________ (6). Why? Perhaps because at that time, industry was growing and a kind of food was need_________(7) for workers. The hamburger became even more popular_________(8) when the first chain of fast food restaurants was started. This chain was called “White Castle”. It served tiny hamburgers that were