高级口译2009年3月真题(附加答案).doc

Exercise 5 (09’3) Listening Part: 【Spot Dictation】 When Americans think about hunger, we usually think in terms of mass starvation in far-away countries. But hunger too often lurks_____________________________(1).In 2006, 35.1 million people, including__________________________________________(2) children, in the United States did not have access to enough food for an active healthy life. Some of these individuals relied on emergency food sources and_________________________________(3). Although most people think of hungry people and homeless people as the same, the problem of hunger reaches. __________________________________(4). While the number of people being hungry or _______________________________(5) may be surprising, it is the faces of those hungry individuals that would probably ________________________________(6). The face of hunger is_________________________ (7) who has worked hard for their entire lives only to find their savings___________________________________ (8); or a single mother who has to choose whether the salary from_________________________________ (9) will go to buy food or pay rent; or a child who struggles to ________________________________(10) because his family couldnt afford dinner the night before. A December 2006 survey estimated that________________________________(11) those requesting emergency food assistance were either children or their parents. Children______________________________ (l2) to live in households where someone experiences hunger and food insecurity than adults._________________________________(13) compared to one in five children live in households where someone suffers from hunger______________________________ (14). Child poverty is more widespread in the United States than in_______________________________(l5); at the same time, the U. S. government spends less than any industrialized country to________________________________ (l6). We have long known that the _______________________________(l7) of smal