上海市英语中级口译资格证书第一阶段考试试题(一)

SECTION 1： LISTENING TEST （40 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.

       It is common knowledge that computers can also produce something stupid, as some       (1) put it, GIGO, or ’garbage in, garbage out’. This means that if inaccurate information is      

         (2) a computer, the machine will produce the wrong information              (3).

       The reason for this is that computers cannot think                 (4). For example, imagine that a computer is given the information that                (5) has hour legs and that a dog has four legs. The machine might well             (6) when producing a list of suggested living-room and dining-room furniture.

       But today, groups of           (7) in the United States, Japan and Europe           (8) a new type of computer. These new models will be incapable of making such            (9).

       Instead of being programmed with lots of unrelated            (10), the new computers will contain knowledge of subjects that are           (11). The machines will then        

    (12) items of information, and will be able to reject conclusions that do not         (13).

       These new computers will already know that dogs are animals that             (14), bark, wag their tails and chase other animals. By            (15) with features of living-room and dining-room furniture, the computer will conclude that a dog is an            (16).

       Even a present-day computer could             (17) if given enough information and enough time. But it has to consider                  (18) one at a time before selecting the best. This means that it would                  (19) for even the most powerful computer to reach a               (20).