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英语高级口译资格证书第一阶段考试 昂立模拟考试 (2009年3月) 试卷二 TEST BOOK 2 SECTION 4: LISTENING TEST (30 minutes) Part A: Note-taking And Gap-filling Directions: In this part of the test you will hear a short talk. You will hear the talk ONLY ONCE. While listening to the talk, you may take notes on the important points so that you can have enough information to complete a gap-filling task on a separate ANSWER BOOKLET. You will not get your ANSWER BOOKLET until after you have listened to the talk There are now over 700 millions motor vehicles in the world – and the number is rising by more than ________ (1) each year. This dependence on motor vehicles has given rise to major problems, including environmental ________ (2), depletion of oil resources, traffic congestion and ________ (3). First, ________ (4) from vehicles make air quality in urban areas unpleasant and sometimes dangerous to breathe. In ________ (5) City, vehicle pollution is a major health ________ (6). Until a hundred years ago, most journeys were made on a ________ (7) back within the 20 km range. Heavy ________ (8) could only be carried by water or ________ (9). Today about 90 per cent of inland freight in the United Kingdom is carried by ________ (10). In the United States, more land is assigned to car use than to ________ (11). Also urban sprawl means that life without a car is next to impossible. Though car transport is ________ (12) times as costly as rail travel in terms of the external social costs, cars easily surpass trains or ________ (13) as a flexible and ________ (14) mode of personal transport. It is unrealistic to expect people to give up private cars in favor of ________ (15) transit. One solution that has been put forward is the long-term solution of designing cities and neighborhoods so that car journeys are not ________ (16) – all essential services being located within ________ (17) distance or easily accessible by public transport. A more likely scenario seems to be a combination of mass ________ (18) sys