2012年it runs in the family9月高级口译考试真题+答案+解析（完整版）
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Hunger and food incurity have been called America’s “hidden crisis.” At the same time, and apparently paradoxically, obesity has been declared a rious epidemic. Both obesity and hunger (and, more broadly, food incurity) are rious public health problems, sometimes co-existing in the same families and the same individuals. Their existence sounds contradictory, but tho with insufficient resources to purcha adequate food can still be overweight, for reasons that rearchers now are beginning to understand.
The apparent paradox of expanding wastelands and persistent hunger and food incurity in America is driven in part by the economics of buying food. Houholds without money to buy enough food first change their purchasing in eating habits, relying on cheaper high-calorie foods over more expensive neutral rich foods before they cut back on the amount of food. In order to cope with limited money for food and to stave off hunger, families try to maximize calories-intake for each dollar spent, which can lead to over-consumptions of calo
ries and a less healthful diet.
Rearch among low-income families shows that mothers first sacrifice their own nutrition by restricting their food intake during periods of food insufficiency in order to protect their children from hunger. The resulting chronic ups and downs in food intake can contribute, over the long run, to obesity among low-income women.
Dr. Larry Brown, executive director of the Center on Hunger and Poverty, reported, "A growing body of rearch shows that hunger and obesity po a dual threat for some people. We need to better understand this relationship if our nation is to grapple with the parallel threats to the well-being of Americans. We particularly need to avoid damaging policy prescriptions that assume hunger and obesity cannot coexist."
Renowned food experts and scientists call for a reform agenda to address both hunger and obesity. According to James Wells, president of the Food Rearch and Action Center, an agenda that riously tackles hunger and obesity among the poor must address their common roots. Tho roots include food incurity and the impact of povert
y. One answer is incread access to income supports and nutrition programs so that more families have sufficient resources to obtain healthier diets.疯狂英语900句
评析：本文选自《The Paradox of Hunger and Obesity in America》和《Hunger, obesity: two sides of same coin.》，命题者对两篇文章的内容进行了节选和组合，组成了一篇听写段落。本文属于社会经济类文章，介绍了hunger和obesity的“共存”和 “矛盾”方面的问题。文章的整体难度不是太大，涉及到obesity，agenda，food incurity，coexist，paradox，calories，nutrition等相关词汇也是高口常见的词汇，但考生要注意文章中长句子 的拆分，抓住句子的主干及核心信息，尤其是一些关键词更应该听懂听清。另外，grapple等一些难度相对比较大的词要求考生在平时需要注意相关词汇的积 累，多读一些经济报刊类的文章。
Listening Comprehension 1
Questions 1 to 5 are bad on the following conversation.
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M: Do you come from a particularly musical family?多少钱英语
W: Not really, my family are farming people and my parents have always lived on farms. My oldest brother is a born farmer and my cond brother works on a farm too, but he’s also got an office job to do with agriculture. And so they appreciate music, but they don’t really know much about classical, in inverted commas, that sort of things. They appreciate perhaps Scottish traditional music more and they like a good tune. And if they can trace a tune, and they can tap their feet tune or clap tune. They are quite happy, but they don’t know about Stravinsky or something like that. Then they are quite lost.我想你韩语
M: Why did you choo percussion? I mean, it’s not the obvious thing even for a musical student to choo.
W: No, but I liked it. I was always keen on percussion. Clarinet and percussion were my two instruments, and I like the sheer variety. But I feel I was very much influenced by a local girl who played the xylophone. And she was absolutely brilliant. And I just said “gosh, I want to do that too.” But then I discovered that percussion didn’t just consist of xylophone, it consisted of a lot more and so I liked that as well. And so, that’s how it really all began.
M: You started to play percussion quite young?read all about it
W: Yes, that’s when I was at condary school at the age of 12. I had a bit of job actually, starting percussion. Becau when you are a pupil at school, you all go through a music oral test, and which is done through a tape recorder. And you just listen and you write down answers, things like that. And afterwards, when I asked if I could play percussion, the obvious reaction of my teachers was “Well, look at the marks, they are not good”. But I said, “Well, really? I play the piano”. That was the only thing I could back mylf up with. Until eventually he said, “Well, the percussion teacher happens to be at school today. Perhaps she might want to go through and e what he says”. And so the percussion teacher said, “Well, I can’t really e why she shouldn’t be playing percussion”. And so it’s really just gone from there. But at the time,they didn’t know that I was wearing hearing aids and this sort of thing. And so when I told them, their reaction was much different. You know what I mean?
M: They didn’t know that when they gave you the test?
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W: Oh, no, and I refu to tell anyone. Rightly or wrongly, I’m not sure. But certainly, that was the ca. That’s how it all started really.
Questions:
1. Which type of family does the woman come from?
2. What kind of music does the woman say her family likes most?
3. Which of the following instruments does the woman play?
4. When did she start to play the musical instrument she’s talking about now?
5. Which of the following statements is true according to the conversation?
【解析】高口第一篇听力理解，主题是采访音乐人怎样开始play percussion的。文章难度中下，只有几个乐器名词和古典音乐人名，不影响理解。建议考生在听力过程中，多加留意题目的关键词语。 clarinet n. 单簧管；percussion n. 打击乐器；xylophone n. 木琴。
Listening Comprehension 2
Question 6 to 10 are bad on the following news.
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rhythm of the rainPresident Barack Obama is t to announce a $3billion plan to boost food curity and farm productivity in Africa, US officials say.
