【正文】 to announce a $3billion plan to boost food security and farmproductivity in Africa, US officials say.They say the initiative is aimed at alleviating shortages as world food supplies are being stretchedby rising demand in Asia39。建議考生在聽力過程中，多加留意題目的關(guān)鍵詞語。【Listening Comprehension】Listening Comprehension 1Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following conversation.M: Do you e from a particularly musical family?W: Not really, my family are farming people and my parents have always lived on farms. Myoldest brother is a born farmer and my second brother works on a farm too, but he’s also got anoffice job to do with agriculture. And so they appreciate music, but they don’t really know muchabout classical, in inverted mas, that sort of things. They appreciate perhaps Scottishtraditional music more and they like a good tune. And if they can trace a tune, and they can taptheir feet tune or clap tune. They are quite happy, but they don’t know about Stravinsky orsomething like that. Then they are quite lost.M: Why did you choose percussion? I mean, it’s not the obvious thing even for a musical studentto choose.W: No, but I liked it. I was always keen on percussion. Clarinet and percussion were my twoinstruments, and I like the sheer variety. But I feel I was very much influenced by a local girl whoplayed the xylophone. And she was absolutely brilliant. And I just said “gosh, I want to do thattoo.” But then I discovered that percussion didn’t just consist of xylophone, it consisted of a lotmore and so I liked that as well. And so, that’s how it really all began.M: You started to play percussion quite young?W: Yes, that’s when I was at secondary school at the age of 12. I had a bit of job actually, startingpercussion. Because when you are a pupil at school, you all go through a music oral test, andwhich is done through a tape recorder. And you just listen and you write down answers, thingslike that. And afterwards, when I asked if I could play percussion, the obvious reaction of myteachers was “Well, look at these marks, they are not good”. But I said, “Well, really? I play thepiano”. That was the only thing I could back myself up with. Until eventually he said, “Well, thepercussion teacher happens to be at school today. Perhaps she might want to go through and seewhat he says”. And so the percussion teacher said, “Well, I can’t really see why she shouldn’t beplaying percussion”. And so it’s really just gone from there. But at the time,they didn’t know that Iwas wearing hearing aids and this sort of thing. And so when I told them, their reaction was muchdifferent. You know what I mean?M: They didn’t know that when they gave you the test?W: Oh, no, and I refuse to tell anyone. Rightly or wrongly, I’m not sure. But certainly, that wasthe case. That’s how it all started really.Questions:1. Which type of family does the woman e from?2. What kind of music does the woman say her family likes most?3. Which of the following instruments does the woman play?4. When did she start to play the musical instrument she’s talking about now?5. Which of the following statements is true according to the conversation?【解析】高口第一篇聽力理解，主題是采訪音樂人怎樣開始play percussion的。文章的整體難度不是太大，涉及到obesity，agenda，food insecurity，coexist，paradox，calories，nutrition等相關(guān)詞匯也是高口常見的詞匯，但考生要注意文章中長句子的拆分，抓住句子的主干及核心信息，尤其是一些關(guān)鍵詞更應(yīng)該聽懂聽清。2012 年9 月高級口譯考試真題和答案【Spot Dictation】Hunger and food insecurity have been called America’s “hidden crisis.” At the same time, andapparently paradoxically, obesity has been declared a serious epidemic. Both obesity and hunger(and, more broadly, food insecurity) are serious public health problems, sometimes coexisting inthe same families and the same individuals. Their existence sounds contradictory, but those withinsufficient resources to purchase adequate food can still be overweight, for reasons thatresearchers now are beginning to understand.The apparent paradox of expanding wastelands and persistent hunger and food insecurity inAmerica is driven in part by the economics of buying food. Households without money to buyenough food first change their purchasing in eating habits, relying on cheaper highcalorie foodsover more expensive neutral rich foods before they cut back on the amount of food. In order tocope with limited money for food and to stave off hunger, families try to maximize caloriesintakefor each dollar spent, which can lead to overconsumptions of calories and a less healthful diet.Research among lowine families shows that mothers first sacrifice their own nutrition byrestricting their food intake during periods of food insufficiency in order to protect their childrenfrom hunger. The resulting chronic ups and downs in food intake can contribute, over the long run,to obesity among lowine women.Dr. Larry Brown, executive director of the Center on Hunger and Poverty, reported, A growingbody of research shows that hunger and obesity pose a dual threat for some people. We need tobetter understand this relationship if our nation is to grapple with these parallel threats to thewellbeing of Americans. We particularly need to avoid damaging policy prescriptions thatassume hunger and obesity cannot coexist.Renowned food experts and scientists call for a reform agenda to address both hunger and obesity.According to James Wells, president of the Food Research and Action Center, an agenda thatseriously tackles hunger and obesity among the poor must address their mon roots. Thoseroots include food insecurity and the impact of poverty. One answer is increased access to inesupports and nutrition programs so that more families have sufficient resources to obtain healthierdiets.評析：本文選自《The Paradox of Hunger and Obesity in America》和《Hunger, obesity: two sidesof same coin.》，命題者對兩篇文章的內(nèi)容進(jìn)行了節(jié)選和組合，組成了一篇聽寫段落。本文屬于社會(huì)經(jīng)濟(jì)類文章，介紹了hunger 和obesity的“共存”和“矛盾”方面的問題。另外，grapple等一些難度相對比較大的詞要求考生在平時(shí)需要注意相關(guān)