第一句难度中等，与现实颇为贴切，不需做太多笔记即能翻译，考生应注意前后语序的调整。
第二句出现了数字，但非常简单，20和twice，稍做笔记即可。
第三句中出现了列举，新东方课堂上特地强调过列举的重要性，不管是哪种词性都必须笔记，所以考生必须记下句中的Chinese laws, trade practices and culture。
第四句的主题是大家熟悉的环境问题，句中难词broad consensus（广泛一致），即使考生一时没有听懂，也可以根据句中but的转折关系判断出。
第五句讲的是人类的智商。一开始考生听到attributable可能会卡壳，但课上我特别提醒过，碰到不懂的字就放弃而不要过多纠缠。因此当听到之后的heredity和environment，就应该能正常联想到是影响智商的因素。
首发：新东方Stella发布9.13中口段落听译原文与评析
新东方口译研究中心 听力课题组 Stella
Passage Translation
1. I think examinations are much better than homework. I prefer having exams at the end of a school year to doing homework every week. For me, the problem with homework is that the pressure is on you all the time, and everything you do counts towards your final result. With examinations you can work really hard only in the final stages. I also like to get up early and go through my notes on the day of the exam. That way, everything is fresh in my mind.
2. Listening is one of the things we do most. Yet listening isn't easy. First we are surrounded by noise，people talking or shouting, the sound of traffic, or the roar of airplanes overhead, which makes any listening job a challenge. Second, we often don't seem to remember even when we do listen. By the time the speaker has finished a 10-minutes' speech, the average person has already forgotten half of what was said. Within 48 hours, another 50% has been forgotten. In other words, we quickly forget nearly all of what we hear.
第一篇段落听译中，每句话都不是很难，考生关键要记下关键字，比如第一句可以记成“exam > hmw”（将homework去元音缩写成hmw，这是新东方课堂上讲过的缩写原则第一条），第二行对应第一行的笔记位置，分别在“exam”和“hmw”下记下第二句的关键字“end”和“every wk”（将week用取头尾的方式缩写成wk，这是新东方课堂上讲过的缩写原则第二条）。往下继续牢记课堂上讲的“一句一行”的原则，记录每句的关键字。
第二段注意总分的结构，清晰地笔记方能还原文章，这种文体我在课堂上讲通货膨胀一文时特地强调过。段落中出现的数字并不难，虽都是两位数，考生也必须一一记录。
首发：新东方Flo发布9.13中口阅读P2题目+评析
新东方口译研究中心 阅读课题组 祁慧
中口阅读第二篇文章The Early Bird Gets the Bad Grade取自于新东方课堂上经常提到的英美主流报刊New York Times(2008年1月14日) 话题属于教育类和医疗健康类交叉话题。从体裁上看，依然没有逃离Research研究类型文章的大体框架。文章内容是有违传统的早期的鸟儿有虫吃的思路，而是一反常规，提出了学生早期会影响到他们的学习效率，建议能够推迟上课时间。所以第10题文章主旨是starting the first class late is advantageous in more than one way.
IT’S Monday morning, and you’re having trouble waking your teenagers. You’re not alone. Indeed, each morning, few of the country’s 17 million high school students are awake enough to get much out of their first class, particularly if it starts before 8 a.m. Sure, many of them stayed up too late the night before, but not because they wanted to. 第一段是以一个现象导入，不需要细读，直接去找下面一段的对例子的总结句。
Research shows that teenagers’ body clocks are set to a schedule that is different from that of younger children or adults. This prevents adolescents from dropping off until around 11 p.m., when they produce the sleep-inducing hormone melatonin, and waking up much before 8 a.m. when their bodies stop producing melatonin.
在研究类型文章中，文章的总结句多是以research/result/expert shows为开头，第6题的出题点也恰恰是在这二段里，人的body clock是受到了一种叫做melatonin的人体分泌物的影响，所以第6题应该选择A。
The result is that the first class of the morning is often a waste, with as many as 28 percent of students falling asleep, according to a National Sleep Foundation poll. Some are so sleepy they don’t even show up, contributing to failure and dropout rates.
第三段的重点依然是落在了the result is that?这样一个结论句上面，说明起得早会影响第一节课的效率，对于有数字出现的内容则不用祥读。
Here’s an idea: stop focusing on testing and instead support changing the hours of the school day, starting it later for teenagers and ending it later for all children. Indeed, no one does well when they’re sleep-deprived, but insufficient sleep among children has been linked to obesity and to learning issues like attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. You’d think this would spur educators to take action, and a few have.
考生应该非常熟悉这一个词组 “Here’s an idea”后面提到了具体的解决方法：停止应试教育，把学校的上课时间和下课时间推迟。第七题的细节题依然也是围绕着主题：缺乏睡眠产生的影响，诸如obesity肥胖和attention scant注意力不集中的问题。
In 2002, high schools in Jessamine County in Kentucky pushed back the first bell to 8:40 a.m.,
from 7:30 a.m. Attendance immediately went up, as did scores on standardized tests, which have continued to rise each year. Districts in Virginia and Connecticut have achieved similar success. In Minneapolis and Edina, Minn., which instituted high school start times of 8:40 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. respectively in 1997, students’ grades rose slightly and lateness, behavioral problems and dropout rates decreased. Later is also safer. When high schools in Fayette County in Kentucky delayed their start times to 8:30 a.m., the number of teenagers involved in car crashes dropped, even as they rose in the state.
第8题根据题型考的是并列考点，应该选择的是C选项，虽然C选项在该段中出现了，但是C是误选项，因为推迟上课时间是导致青少年事故率下跌，但是整体的事故率还是上升的。
So why hasn’t every school board moved back that first bell? Well, it seems that improving teenagers’ performance takes a back seat to more pressing concerns: the cost of additional bus service, the difficulty of adjusting after-school activity schedules and the inconvenience to teachers and parents.
But few of these problems actually come to pass, according to the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement at the University of Minnesota. In Kentucky and Minnesota, simply flipping the starting times for the elementary and high schools meant no extra cost for buses.
There are other reasons to start and end school at a later time. According to Paul Reville, a professor of education policy at Harvard and chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Education, “Trying to cram everything our 21st-century students need into a 19th-century six-and-a-half-hour day just isn’t working.” He says that children learn more at a less frantic pace, and that lengthening the school day would help “close the achievement gap between disadvantaged students and their better-off peers.”
首发：新东方寅发布9.13中口阅读P3题目+评析
新东方口译研究中心 杨文寅
2009年9月 中级口译笔试部分 阅读
Section 2 passage ３
这篇文章于2008年4月18日刊登于
文章的第一段讲述了现在的问题的严重性，离家出走的孩子人数之多，而我们能帮助的人数之少，由此形成鲜明对比，在后面的第11题中就是简单的词汇题，只要结合上下文，sanctuary的意思显而易见。
文章的第二段到第四段都是有关用于社会团体和社工是如何通力合作，想尽办法为出走的儿童群策群力创造拯救条件，在第12，13，14题中也是针对救助措施进行发问。
文章的第五和第六段是有关于孩子们出走的原因和社工们让儿童回归家庭得到照顾的心愿，而第15题就是针对社工心声的表述。
我们发现，文章整体难度不高，话题熟悉，题目也大多是Fact Questions， 所以考生应该是应对自如，稳操胜券的。
1 It's estimated that every year 100,000 children aged 16 and under run away from home. The London Refuge, an unremarkable house on an unremarkable street, is the only place in Britain that will give them a bed. Last year it gave sanctuary to 238 children, of whom the youngest was 11. What happened to the other 99,762? Nobody knows, although it's a fair bet that some of them ended up on the streets, that some fell into inappropriate and dangerous company, that some didn't survive. “The mere fact that they're running away puts them at risk,” says Lorna Simpson, the refuge's deputy manager. “On the streets they'll mix with other young people. They're so naive; they don't understand that people who are nice to them will want payback. Our job is to make them safe.”
2 Simpson, a former social worker, is a calm woman of great warmth. The refuge has six beds and has been open since 1993, often with the threat of closure hanging over it. The problem has nothing to do with the quality of its service – Ofsted ranks it as outstanding - and everything to do with funding. A week's placement costs ?2,278 and three successive governments have argued that the annual running costs of ?720,000 should be locally funded. But because it is used by children from many parts of London, and beyond, local authorities are reluctant to contribute.
3 The Government has now agreed to work on a strategy to support runaway children in England and Wales, which is rich after its withdrawal of funding from the refuge in December. Since then the NSPCC(英国)全国防止虐待儿童学会, which runs the refuge in conjunction with St Christopher's Fellowship, has financed it through a donation from an individual, but that money will last only until late next year. “Without this facility there's nothing; children who run away are on the street,” says Nasima Patel, the assistant director of the NSPCC. “One of the strengths of the refuge is that children who have left home can ring up directly and will get a bed and supportive staff without having to go through a process of assessment. That's hard to re-create in statutory法定arrangements and if you're on the run you need somewhere to go and someone to talk to. We're convinced that direct access will always be needed.”
4 The refuge accommodates six children plus staff. Many of the admissions are at night and children can stay up to 21 days in three months, although most stay for three to five days. They find it through social services, through Child Line (although the number is given only to children who have already left home) and through word of mouth; only when they arrive do staff discover their circumstances. Simpson recalls the injured young boy who ran four miles without shoes after his dad had beaten him.
5 “They're running away from everything you can think of,” she says. “Arguments with step-parents, sexual abuse, alcoholic parents, being left to bring up their younger siblings, neglected children who have been failed by social services, girls who have been trafficked. We get doctors' and lawyers' children who run away because they want more pocket money, or want to stay out later than their parents allow. They've been given everything, they get to 15 and no one thinks to pull the reins in. By that time it's too late; they rebel.”
6 Most of the children are from families known to social services, and for them the refuge's ordered regimen生活规则is a welcome contrast to the chaos they know. Staff listens without judging and without encouraging dependency, trying to establish why the children have run away. The aim is to get them home or into the care of social services and, after discharge from the refuge, a family support worker is available.
首发：新东方寅发布9.13中口阅读P4评析
新东方口译研究中心 杨文寅
2009年9月中级口译笔试部分 阅读
Section 2 passage 4
这篇文章于2006年8月21日发表在英国卫报上, 原题为< More Americans swap beach for the office>,讲述了一个大家都非常熟悉的工作压力话题, 由于话题非常热门,根据新东方多年的教学经验,考生面对这样的文章基本上心就会比较定。由于在课堂中，我们新东方的老师也一直补充英美文化的知识，所以我们的学生应该看到工作压力问题就知道美国人工作压力要比欧洲人大得多，对文章有一个基本的预计和判断。
文章的第一段，第二段就开宗明义，说明了工作压力问题，美国人的工作压力太大，甚至有一些“闲无能”了。后面的第16题就说了美国人对欧洲人的看法，这只要具备基本的英美文化知识，这道题就是迎刃而解了。
从第三段到第五段，文章中说了现在美国人繁重的工作量，似乎没有什么时间去放假休闲，第17，18题就是针对这部分的问题，特别是第17题提到了人名，那去第三段找答案就很方便了。
第六段，第七段中说明了即使美国人放假也没有办法“放心”，神经一直是紧绷着，第19题就是针对它的提问。
第八段是对帮助美国人脱离这样的困境所提出的建议，第20题就是对其发问，提干中本身就有长串名词的提示，所以找到答案应该是没有难度的。
1 It is already common knowledge, on the beaches and in the cafes of mainland Europe, that Americans work too hard - just as it is well known on the other side of the Atlantic that Europeans, above all the French and the Germans, are slackers who could do with a bit of America's vigorous