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上海市中级笔译第一阶段笔试真题2011年9月 SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST A: Spot Dictation Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the word or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE. In America there are no nobles or men of letters, and the common folk mistrust the wealthy. Consequently, ?1 ? form the highest political class, and the most cultivated circle of society. They have therefore ?2 ? by innovation, which adds a conservative interest to their natural taste for ?3 ?. If I were asked where I place the American aristocracy, I should reply ?4 ? that it is not composed of the rich, who are united together by ?5 ?, but that it occupies the judicial bench and the bar. ? ?When I started researching this topic, I found an interesting ?6 ? Legal Reform Now. As the name suggests, this web site is devoted to ?7 ?, and it is definitely concerned about the dominance of lawyers in ?8 ?. There I read an article by a ?9 ? from the University of Wisconsin. One observation the UW article ?10 ? is that the legal profession is the dominant profession of the people ?11 ? to public office. ?For example, ?about half our representatives and ?12 ? of our senators are lawyers. No other profession ?13 ? having the same number of people in political office. ? ?Effectively, lawyers form our nations ?14 ? organized political constituency in America. ?Lawyers ?15 ? and lawyers interpret our laws. When judges are appointed, the American Bar Association is the only ?16 ? that is consulted to rate the fitness of potential judicial appointees. ? ?Our nation has been in existence for ?17 ? and lawyers have been this nations aristocracy since its ?18 ?. Our system works, but do we really want to have a single profession ?19 ? our nation. Specifically, do we want to have the legal profession in