中级口译笔试真题0503(12)

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(B) He liked to pick up his driving skill.

(C) He did not want to be caught in the storm.

(D) He was dong it a test.

18. The phrase ″take heavy″(para.6) is closest in meaning to ____.

(A) grind one‘s teeth

(B) damage one‘s health

(C) increase one‘s activity

(D) pay more at the toll gate

19. Which of the following in NOT true about 41-year-old Chris Heard?

(A) He used to play a role in a movie.

(B) He got a stack of speeding tickets.

(C) He found a job closer to home.

(D) He had a number of near collisions.

20. What is the best title for the passage?

(A) Are You a Reckless Driver?

(B) How Do You Improve Your Driving Skill?

(C) Are you Driving Yourself Sick?

(D) How Do you Design Smart Cars?

Questions 21-25

Transportation is the movement or conveying of persons and goods from one location to another. As human beings, from ancient times to he 21st century, sought to make their transport facilities more efficient, they have always endeavored to move people and property with the least expenditure of time, effort and cost. Improved transportation had helped make possible progress toward better living, the modern systems of manufacturing and commerce, and the complex, interdependent urban economy present in much of the world today.

Primitive human beings supplemented their own carrying of goods and possessions by starting to domesticate animals-training them to bear small loads and pull crude sleds. The invention of the wheel, probably in western Asia, was a great step forward in transport. As the wheel was perfected, crude carts and wagons began to appear in the Tigris-Euphrates valley about 3500 BC, and later in Crete, Egypt, and China. Wheeled vehicles could not use the narrow paths and trails used by pack