【六届通译杯比赛辅导】初赛题目分类介绍之听力选择题1

2016/9/9 通译翻译|同声传译

本届口译大赛初赛的第二道大题位听力选择题，想必此类题型同学们在平时的考试中见得很多，但是据很多同学反映每次在做此类题的时候都会手忙脚乱，最终导致有些选项根本没听到或听到了当时也不能及时反应出来正确答案。那么今天我们就来一起探讨一下做听力选择题的正确方法。

首先和所有的听力题一样，在录音开始播放前一定要先把选项都通读一遍，这里有一些小技巧需要大家牢记：

1. 读题不能只阅读题干，每个选项都要仔细读一遍。
2. 在读题时要能从题目中大致分析出这篇文章的主旨是什么。
3. 在掌握了文章主旨之后，建议大家用笔划出题干以及选项中的key words（关键词），明确听题的侧重点，这样在听录音选选项的时候大家的注意力就可以只关注在你所划的关键词上面，而不是整句话。
4. 在划关键词的时候，有一些词大家要特别敏感，就是那些“绝对词”，比如说all/never/only/too/exclusively/solely/absolutely/always/uniquely，一般可以把有这类词的选项先排除。
5. 在读题的同时，建议大家尽量将几道题的题干记在心里，这样在听录音的时候就能很快定位到某个题干了。

最后附一道模拟题供大家练习，希望大家练习的时候能够用到以上所讲的方法。

选择题

1. What is the good news the text is trying to tell readers?
A. You can have three or five cups of coffee each day.
B. For those who don’t like caffeinated coffee, now you can choose decaffeinated coffee or decaf to drink.
C. Drinking coffee is good for your health.
D. Coffee can protect all the disease if you drink three or five cups every day.
2. How many subjects involved in this large study?
A. 20,000
B. 200,000
C. 2,000
D. 300,000
3. The study shows that drinking coffee can prevent risk of death of certain diseases, not include,
A. Heart disease
B. Cardiovascular disease
C. Cancer
D. Type 2 diabetes
4. Which of the following can be inferred from the text?
A. Only decaffeinated coffee is good to people’s health.
B. Actually, drinking coffee too late in the evening does no harm to your sleep.
C. The recent Harvard study has been proven by everyone yet.
D. There is a cause and effect link between drinking coffee and living longer
5. What Willett is trying to tell readers in the text?
A. Even if you like coffee, you should not drink too much one day.
B. If you like coffee, you may feel guilty about drinking it in moderation.
C. If you don’t like coffee, you can start drinking it because it will help you to be healthier.
D. There is no necessary to force yourself drinking coffee if you don’t like it.

【原文】
Today we have more good news for all our coffee drinkers around the world. Another new study finds that drinking coffee can help you live longer.
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health recently discovered that drinking between three and five cups of coffee a day may prevent certain illnesses. They found that coffee can protect against heart disease, brain diseases, type 2 diabetes and suicide.
Walter Willett is a nutrition researcher at Harvard and co-author of the study. Willet says the findings extend to both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee – or decaf, as Americans often call it.
So, the health benefits come not just from the caffeine in coffee, but from the compounds in the beans.
The large study of about 200,000 subjects included data from three ongoing studies. Subjects in the study had to answer questions about their coffee drinking habits every four years over a 30-year period.
Researchers found that moderate coffee drinking was linked with a reduced risk of death from many diseases. These diseases include cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neurological diseases such as Parkinson's, and suicide.
However, the researchers found no link between coffee drinking and cancer.
Researchers also considered other habits such as smoking, obesity, and how active the subjects were. They also looked at what kinds of food the subjects ate, as well as how much alcohol -- and what type of alcohol -- they drank.
They published their findings in the journal Circulation.
This Harvard research adds to a growing body of evidence. This body of evidence finds that drinking a moderate of coffee may have many health benefits, including a longer life. This is according to one of the researchers involved in the study.
Frank Hu is senior author of the study. He is also a professor of nutrition and epidemiology. He studies how food affects illness.
Hu adds that data from the study support the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Report. This report found that drinking a moderate amount of coffee can be part of a healthy diet.
But how much and when you drink coffee is important.
You may remember another study we reported on recently. That study said that drinking coffee too late in the evening can disrupt your sleep.
Not everyone feels the recent Harvard study confirms anything.
The news organization NPR spoke with one expert who warns that not everyone reacts to coffee the same way. Andrew Maynard of Arizona State University told NPR that the health benefits documented in this new study are “small.”
Maynard says the study does not prove cause and effect between drinking coffee and living longer. He says the study points to an association,or link, between drinking coffee and living longer.
Even those involved in the research still have questions.
When NPR spoke with study co-author Walter Willett, he said he is not sure how coffee is linked to certain health benefits.
Willett says the take-home message– in other words, the important thing to learn – is that if you like coffee, do not feel guilty about drinking it in moderation. If you don’t like coffee, don’t feel you have to start drinking it to be healthy.