模擬題（1）>>>
Directions: Talk on the following topic for at least 5 minutes. Be sure to make your points clear and supporting details adequate. You should also be ready to answer any questions raised by the examiners during your talk. You need to have your name and registration number recorded. Start your talk with “My name is…, “ “My registration number is…”.
Topic: My view of a successful foreign language learner
Questions for Reference:
is the relationship between learning grammatical knowledge and learning language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing, etc.)?
h one is more important for a foreign language learner, natural environment or classroom setting? Or, are there any other important factors? What are they?
methods have you been following in learning a foreign language? Why?
Part A
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in English. After you have heard each sentence or paragraph, interpret it into Chinese. Start interpreting at the signal…and stop it at the signal…You may take notes while you are listening. Remember you will hear the passages only once. Now let us begin Part A with the first passage.
Passage 1:
We are meeting here to call for changes in the US patent laws. We believe such changes in the US patent laws are needed to deal with new business models related to the Internet.//
US patent laws are designed to protect the commercial rights of people who have invested in new products or techniques. And I propose that the period of protection should be cut form 17 years to 3 years.//
From my experience of working with Hi-Technology companies in California’s Silicon Valley, the biggest problems arise when existing patent protections for business methods are combined with the Internet.//
If changes in the patent laws are going to have any real impact, they must be made soon. Some of my colleagues in the industry have already begun lobbying lawmakers to make the changes.//
（參考答案）
我們在此集會，要求/呼籲修改美國專利法。我們認爲專利法必須加以修改才能應付與互聯網有關的一些新商業模式。.//
制訂美國專利法是爲了保護那些投資開發新產品或新技術的人的商業權利。我在這裏提議專利權的.保護期應該從原來的17年縮短爲3年。//
憑我在加州硅谷高科技公司的工作經驗，當現行的商務行爲的專利保護同因特網聯繫在一起時,就會出現最嚴重的問題。//
如果想讓專利法的修改能真正起到作用，那就必須加快(修訂)速度。我的一些同行已經開始遊說立法者修改(法律)。//
Passage 2:
It has been a fashion nowadays that people own private cars. It has been rightly said that owning a private car is a symbol of living a high-quality life.//
But, personally, when a man is sitting behind a steering wheel, his car becomes the extension of his personality. There is no doubt that the motor-car often brings out a man’s very worst qualities.//
People who are normally quiet and pleasant may become unrecognizable when steering a wheel. The surprising thing is that society smiles so kindly on the motorist and seems to forgive his for his behavior.//
Because of heavy traffic, many cities and towns become almost uninhabitable. And year in year out, mass annual slaughter in traffic accidents becomes more a statistic figure, to be conveniently forgotten.
（參考答案）
如今，人們擁有私車是一種時髦。有人說的對，擁有私車象徵着享有高質量的生活。//
然而我以爲當一個坐在方向盤後時，他的車子便是他個性的延伸.毫無疑問，汽車常常展示一個人最糟的品質。//
平時溫文爾雅之士，一旦坐於方向盤後，可能會判若兩人。令人吃驚的是，社會竟對開車者笑臉相迎，悅目以待，對其行爲似乎網開一面。//
由於交通擁擠，城市和鄉鎮變得幾乎難以居住，年復一年，每年大規模的車毀人亡，成了只不過是個統計數字，不久便會被忘卻。
