中级口译笔试真题0503(10)

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13. The leaves of the plant Camellia sinensis ______.

(A) can be used to make green tea or black tea after proper treatments

(B) are turned into oolong or black tea leaves for the purpose of curing

(C) have powerful evidence to show its healing power for certain illnesses

(D) taste good yet do little more than warm up the drinker

14. According to the passage, what is ECGC?

(A) A medicine made from green tea.

(B) A powerful substance in green tea.

(C) An additive essential to green tea.

(D) A special treatment to make green tea.

15. If you are interested in tea festivals, which website would you most probably surf on?

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

Questions 16-20

A blue sedan nearly sideswipes my car. The driver gives me a weird look. No wonder : I‘m at the wheel of a Ford Taurus, with a tangle of wires taped to my face and neck, a respiration monitor strapped around my chest, and a bunch of other gizmos sending data about my vital signs to computers stacked on the front and back seats. I look like the star of A Commuter‘s Clockwork Orange.

University of lower assistant professor of engineering Thomas Schnell is crammed into the seat behind me. Schnell created this lab-on –wheels to gauge how a motorist‘s body reacts to driving . He wants carmakers to use his findings to design ―smart ‖cars that make driving less stressful. I‘m taking his rolling research facility of a white-knuckle evening spin in Chicago—home to some of the nation‘s worst rush-hour traffic-to learn what happens to the human body during a long, frustrating commute.

So at 5:15 on a Monday, with a storm whipping in off Lake Michigan. I pull out of a downtown parking lot and begin creeping along interstate 90, heading west behind a line of cars that stretches as far as the eye can see. Now and then, the pace picks up, just as quickly, it slows to a halt ,red brake lights glowing in the twilight.

If I had to do this every day, I‘d grind my teeth to dust. After 45minutes, Schnell and I have gone just 10 miles. As the car crawls along. Schnell occasionally asks, ―What is your level of fun?‖ He notes my responses, some of them unprintable,