翻译考试中级口译仿真试题（2）
2017年翻译考试中级口译仿真试题
Questions 6-10
A million motorists leave their cars full up with petrol and with the keys in the ignition every day. The vehicles are sitting in petrol stations while drivers pay for their fuel. The Automobile Association (AA) has discovered that cars are left unattended for an average three minutes — and sometimes considerably longer — as drivers buy drinks, sweets, cigarettes and other consumer items — and then pay at the cash till. With payment by the credit card more and more common, it is not unusually for a driver to be out of his car for as long as six minutes, providing the car thief with a golden opportunity.
In an exclusive AA survey, carried out at a busy garage on a main road out of London, 300 motorists were questioned over three days of the holiday period. Twenty four percent admitted that they 'always' or 'sometimes' leave the keys in their car. This means that nationwide, a million cars daily become easy targets for the opportunist thief.
For more than ten years there has been a bigger rise in car crime than in most other types of crime. An average of more than two cars a minute are broken into, vandalized or stolen in the UK. Car crime accounts for almost a third of all reported offences with no signs that the trend is slowing down.
Although there are highly professional criminals involved in car theft, almost 90 percent of car crime is committed by the opportunist. Amateur thieves are aided by our own carelessness.
When AA engineers surveyed on town center car park last year, ten percent of the cars checked were unlocked, a figure backed by a Home Office national survey that found 12 percent of drivers sometimes left their cars unlocked. The AA recommends locking up whenever you leave the car — and for however short a period. A partially open sun-roof or window is a further come-on to thieves.
There are many other traps to avoid. The Home Office has found little awareness among drives about safe parking. Most motorists questioned made no efforts to avoid among drive
s about safe parking. Most motorists questioned made no efforts to avoid parking in quiet spots away from street lights — just the places thieves love. The AA advises drivers to park in places with people around — thieves don't like audiences. Leaving valuables in view is an invitation to the criminals. A Manchester Probationary Service research project, which interviewed almost 100 car thieves last year, found many would investigate a coat thrown on a seat. Never leave any documents showing your home address in the car. If you have a garage, use it and lock it — a garage car is at substantially less risk.
expressed翻译6. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
(A) The use of credit cards may increase the risk of car theft.
(B) It is advised that the drivers take car keys with them.
(C) Most cars are stolen by professional thieves.
(D) The AA advises that motorists leave their cars locked.
7. Where in the passage does the author mention leaving valuables in view is an invitation to
the criminals?
(A) The first paragraph.
(B) The second paragraph.
(C) The third paragraph.
(D) The last paragraph.
8. The car theft is due to all of the following EXCEPT _______.
(A) people's carelessness
(B) unawareness of safe parking
(C) coat left on the car seat
(D) poor quality of a car lock
9. In order to prevent car theft, people are recommended to _______.
(A) park cars in quiet places
(B) use a garage and lock it
(C) leave a spare car key at home
(D) become a member of AA
10. The main purpose of this passage is to _______.
(A) analyse the car theft rise in Britain
(B) report the survey results by AA
(C) suggest the ways to investigate car theft
(D) compare car crime with other types of crime
Questions 11-15
Travellers arriving at Heathrow airport this year have been met by the smell of freshly-cut grass, pumped from a discreet corner via an 'aroma box', a machine which blows warm, scented air into the environment. It can scent the area of an average high street shop with the smell of the chocolate, freshly-cut grass, or sea breezes, in fact any synthetic odours that can be made to smell like the real thing.
Heathrow's move into 'sensory' marketing is the latest in a long line of attempts by businesses to use sensory psychology — the scientific study of the effects of the senses on our behaviour to help sell products. Marketing people call this 'atmospherics' — using sounds or smells to manipulate consumer behaviour. On Valentine's Day two years ago the chain of

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