精析：

从这组选择题系列与对话的开始，考生可以了解：这是一篇有关徽章搜集和用的对话。

Question No．1 What colour was theTidybadge?

依据提问的一般原则：提问顺序和情节进步是平行进行的，所以，该答案肯定在该篇对话的开始部分。听音原文中有如此一句话and then another one I remember-it was green-which had the word Tidy on it!Ha!，据此，考生可以判定theTidybadge的颜色为绿色。只有答案符合题意，所以正确答案为。考生在做此题时应注意听，切莫与So I got a little blue badge with the wordswimmingon it中的blue'相混淆。

Question NO．2 Which badge does Andrew Simpson think he has lost?

当考生听到I've got the swimming badge，but I think I Was so untidy that I must have lost the tidy badge years ago!便是否了解Andrew Simpson所丢失的是the tidy badge。项符合题意，为正确答案。听音时，考生同样需要注意不要将the tidy badge'混淆为the swimming badge。

Question NO．3 When do you think Andrew Simpson was born?

在对话中，并没直接谈到Andrew Simpson是何时生的，但通过对话，考生可以计算出他大致的出生时间。

F： Andyou started collecting badges，then，from that，the age of about nine?

M： Er，yeah，I guess so．．．eight or nine or so．That's right．In those days-we're talking about the early fifties-there weren't so many cars around as there are today.

通过这两句对话，大家可以了解we're talking about the early fifties是发生在50年代早期，当时他八九岁左右，此时开始搜集徽章，如此就能计算出他的出生大约是在1945年左右。因此，只有选项 Around l945．符合题意。

Question No．4 What is the slogan on the Wills's Woodbines badge?

该题答案较为明显，很容易听出。当考生听到I've got one in my collection for Wills's Woodbinesthey were the cheapest cigarettes in those daysand on the badge，at the bottom，it says，Smoked by Millions-no health warnings in those days．．．时，Smoked by Millions就比较容易印在脑海中。四个选项中，项为正确答案。

Question NO．5 How many main reasons are given by Andrew Simpson for people to wear badges?该问题体目前对话中也是直问直答。其中对话为：

F：Why do you think people do wear badges?

M：Well，I think there are probably three main reasons．

显然，大家戴徽章有3个主要方面是什么原因。因此答案为正确答案。

该部分为高级口译第一阶段测试中的第二部分，即：SECTION 2：Reading Test。该部分考试时间为30分钟。阅读材料均选自英语原版材料，共4篇。内容及题材具备多样性、常见性和社会性。需要考生应有肯定的词语量，与阅读理解技能，如概括中心思想能力，推理与解释能力；另外，还应有与英语国家社会和文化有关的常识面。现就历届考试试题中的一篇进行精析。

SECTION 2: READING TEST

Directions: In this section you will read several passages. Each one is followed by several questions about it. You are to choose ONE best answer, , , or to each question. Answer all the questions following each passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage and write the letter of the answer of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

Questions 1 ~ 5 are based on the following passage

British Aerospace1 is planning to set up its own university because it cannot recruit the skilled graduates it needs from existing institutions.

BAe has a team drafting a range of options for the university, which would award its own degrees. Work on the scheme is expected to start in the next few months.

Sir Richard Evans, chief executive of British Aerospace, has already launched a recruiting drive for engineers on the Continent because of a shortage of high-calibre domestic candidates. Advertising2 campaigns in France, Germany and other European countries will seek to attract students expecting to graduate in the summer.

Other engineering employers are expected to follow suit. The move to take on overseas graduates comes after BAe left one in five of its graduate places unfilled last year, blaming shortcomings in the education system.

If the scheme is approved, BAe will either build a full university or incorporate sites at its main research and manufacturing centres at Famborough, Surrey, and Warton, Lancashire. The company would have to convince the education authorities that the university had sufficient teaching capacity and autonomy for it to be allowed to award degrees. BAe said it was setting up its own education system and recruiting staff abroad because there is a shortage of engineering graduates, beth in terms of quantity and quality.