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翻译专业资格考试（二级口译综合能力）备考试题及答案（四） Part I 1.Mark used to be treated badly by people who think of gays as something nasty. 答案：B 解析：录音中指出作为gay的Mark Strasser有自己的孩子，并且可以像正常人一样生活，他不得不使劲想最后一次因他是gay而被别人说nasty是什么时候，他说道“That would have been in the late 1980s,I think”,题干中used to do指“过去常常做某事”，录音中并未指出他在过去曾因是gay而常常受到恶劣的待遇。 【录音原文】 Gays who have children-and a quarter of gay couples do-gravitate towards them for the same reason that straight parents do: better schools, bigger gardens, peace and quiet.Mark Strasser, for example, lives with his male partner and their two children in Columbus, Ohio.He says they encounter no hostility eating out as a gay couple or picking up the children from their private school.He has to rack his memory for the last time anyone called him anything nasty for being gay.That would have been in the late 1980s, I think, he says.His employer, a private university, offers the same health insurance to employees gay partners as to spouses. 2.Michael Weisskopf won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the War on Iraq. 答案：B 解析：录音中提到作为时代杂志记者的Michael Weisskopf对national politics and investigations进行报道，是1996年普利策国内新闻报道奖的决赛选手，而非题干描述的“Michael Weisskopf因其对伊拉克战争的报道获得了普利策奖”。 【录音原文】 Michael Weisskopf, who works for Time magazine, is an award-winning correspondent based in Washington.He covers national politics and investigations and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for national reporting. 3.European and Japanese regulators do not wish to tell the public about their fast screening methods for sick animals. 答案：B 解析：该段录音中指出“官员们并没有给出建议但表明欧洲和日本监管部门已通过三小时的检验对百万只动物进行检查，速度足够快到避免使生病的动物被用来食用”，因此题干有误。 【录音原文】 The officials declined to say exactly what they would recommend but acknowledged that European and Japanese regulators screen millions of animals using tests that take only three hours-fast enough to stop diseased carcasses from being cut up for food. 4.Many American people are better off these days as they dont have to pay their hospital bills. 答案：B 解析：录音最后提到很少有美国人乐意找