各类题型精析
考试试题题型构成：
英语高级口译资格证书考试分为第一阶段考试和第二阶段考试。第一阶段考试为笔试，试题题型包含以下几个种类：
第一部分：听力测试；
第二部分：阅读测试；
第三部分：翻译测试；
第四部分：听力测试；
第五部分：阅读测试；
第六部分：翻译测试。
考生通过第一阶段考试后，方可参加第二阶段考试。
第二阶段考试为口试，包含口语和口译。
口语试题有A卷或B卷之分，但题型一样，难易程度相当。
口译试题也有A卷或B卷之分。A卷或B卷均包含Part A and Part B 。
第一节 听力精析
该部分为听力测试，分为Part A：Spot Dictation和Part B：Listening Comprehension。Part A and Part B需要考生在30分钟内完成。题目需要如下：
SECTION l：LISTENINGTEST
I．Part A：Spot Dictation
Direction: 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.
该部分为听写填空题。该部分题材广泛，体裁多样。考试试题中有20处标号的空缺部分需要考生填写。空缺部分多为2-4个词组成的短语或习惯用语。听写内容播放后有3-5分钟间隙供考生填写。听写文字内容长度为300-400个词。（中级口译为250-350个词）
只念一遍，语速为每分钟100词左右。考生在听写开始前可提前浏览文章，做到心中有数，有些放矢。如此能够帮助考生听力理解。现就一听力实考试试题进行剖析。
Today I'm going to consider very briefly1 a problem concerned with the competition for land use, that is, whether crops should be used to produce food or should be used to ___ and in considering this problem I will look at ___ : the historical background to the problem, the economics2 involved in the competition for land use, some examples, and ___ to a potential problem.
In considering the historical background we should ___ of the 1970s due to the rapid trend in increasing oil prices. Many countries have looked for ___ to make them independent of other countries' ___ . Examples of alternative energy sources include such things as solar power, the ___ , and also the production of biogas. Biogas is methane3 which is produced from ___ .
A particularly interesting possibility for many developing countries has been the ___ to alcohol. This is interesting because in many developing countries there is a ___ and at the same time a small industrial sector4 and thus the ___ the agricultural sector to produce fuel is of interest to those countries.
Research is going on ___ , for example, from sugar and there are two main economic reasons for this. First of all, the world price of sugar ___ or the world price of sugar has fallen in very real terms ___ . This has caused a problem for those economics which are ___ their sugar production, as it gives them an alternative possibility for ___ . And secondly5 sugar is the most efficient source of alcohol; therefore, it is ___ to make fuel. by, distilling6 alcohol from it.
In addition to sugar there are ___ that can be used to make alcohol, for example, ___ such plants as the cassava plant and the sweet potato are good sources from which alcohol can be made and in non-tropical countries you have such things as ___ .