2016年6月18日英语六级真题及答案

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　　conversation 2

　　M:Todaymy guest is Dana who has worked for the last twenty years as aninterpreter. Dana, welcome.

　　W:ThankYou.

　　M:Now,I’d like to begin by saying that I have on the occasions used an interpretermyself as a foreign correspondent.So I’m full of memo rations for what youdo.6. But I think your profession is sometimes underrated and many people thinkanyone who speaks more than one language can do it.

　　W:Thereare any interpreters I know who don’t have professional qualifications and

　　training. You only really get profession after many years in the job.

　　M:Andsay you can divide what you do into two distinct methods simultaneous and

　　consecutive interpreting.

　　W:That’sright.7. The techniques you use aredifferent.And a lot of interpreters would say one is easier than the other,less stressful.

　　M:Simultaneousinterpreting, putting someone’s words into another language more or less asthey speak, sounds to me like the more difficult.

　　W:Well,actually no.8.Most people in the business would agree that consecutiveinterpreting is the more stressful. You have to wait for the speaker to deliverquite a chunk of language before you then put it into the second language whichputs your short term memory under in tense stress.

　　M:Youmight know presumably?

　　W:Absolutely.Anythinglike numbers, names, places have to be noted down, but the rest is never

　　translated word for word. You have found the way of summarizing it. So that themessages arethere, turning every single word into the target language wouldput too much strain on the interpreter and slow down the whole process toomuch.

　　M:Butwhile simultaneous interpreting you start translating almost as soon as the

　　other person starts speaking, you must have some preparation beforehand.

　　W:Well,hopefully, the speakers will outline of the topic a day or two in advance, you

　　have a low time to do research prepare technical expressions and so on

　　Q:5.Whatare the speakers mainly talking about?

　　6.Whatdoes the man think of Dana’s profession?

　　7.Whatis Dana say about the interpreters she knows?

　　8.Whatdo most of interpreters think of consecutive interpreting?

　　Section B

　　Passage 1

　　Mothers have been warnedfor years that sleeping with their new born infant is a bad idea because it increases the risk that the baby might die unexpectedly during the night.But now Israeli researchers are reporting that even sleeping in the same room can have negative consequences, not for the child, but for the mother.Mothers who slept in the same room with their infants, whether in the same bed or just the same room, have poor sleep the mother whose baby slept else where in the house. They woke up more frequently or awake approximately 20 minutes longer per night and have shorter period of uninterrupted sleep. These results how true even taking into account that many of the women in the study were breast-feeding their babies. Infants, on the other hand, didn’t appear to have worse sleep whether they slept in the same or different room from their mothers. The researchers acknowledge that since the families they studied were all middle classes Israelis. It is possible that the results will be different in different cultures. Lead author TTTT wrote in an email that the research team also didn’t measure father sleep. So it is possible that patterns could also be causing the sleep disruptions for mums. Right now, to reduce the risk of sudden infant death in the room, the AmericanAcademy of PD recommends the mothers not sleep in the same bed with their babies, but sleep in the same room. The Israeli study suggests that doing so, may be best for the baby, but may take at all on mum.

　　9What is the long health view about the mother sleeping with new-born babies?

　　10 What do Israeli researchers’ findings show?

　　11What does the American Academy’s PD recommend mothers do?

　　Passage2

　　The US has already lost more than a third of the native languages that existed before European colonization and the remaining 192 are classed by the UNESCO as ranging between unsafe and extinct."We need more funding and more effort to return these languages to everyday use," says Fred Nowosky of the National museum of the American Indians, "we are making progress, but money needs to be spent on revitalizing languages, not just documenting them." Some reported languages mainly in California and Oklahoma where thousands of Indians were forced to relocate in the 19th century have fewer than 10 native speakers. Part of the issue is that tribal groups themselves don't always believe their languages are endangered until they are down to the last handful of speakers. "But progress is being made through emerging schools, because if you teach children when they are young, it will stay with them as adults and that is the future." says Fred Nowosky. Such schools have become a model in Hawaii, but the islanders' native language are still classed by the UNESCO as critically endangered because only 1000 people speak it. The decline in the American African languages has historical roots. In the mid 19th century, the US government adopted a policy of Americanizing Indian children by removing them from their homes and cultures. Within a few generations, most have forgotten their native tongues. Another challenge to language survival is television. It has brought English into homes, and pushed out traditional storytelling and family time together, accelerating the extinction of native languages.

　　Questions 12-15 are based on the passage you just heard.

　　12. What can we learn from the report?

　　13. For what purpose does Fred Nowosky appeal from the funding?

　　14. What is the historical cause of the decline of the American Indian Languages?

　　15. What does the speaker say about television?