本书是为全国翻译专业资格（水平）考试指定教材之《英语口译综合能力（二级）》编写的教材辅导篇，承袭了该教材的编纂体例，每课包括听力、阅读、口语和写作等内容，目的是通过这些练习，提高学习者听、说、读、写的基本技能，为从事口译工作奠定一个坚实的基础。

本书内容涵盖国际政治、人文、科技、生态、健康等人们时下关注的热点问题，题材丰富多样，语言生动鲜活。本书的取材大多直接来源于英语国爱的各类媒体、书刊和网上的真实语料，从而保证选用语言的规范和地道。每篇课文后列出本课出现的生词和习语，可供学习者参考。

Unit 1

Section I Listening Comprehension

Section II Reading The God That Fmled

Section III Speaking Up

Section IV Summary Writing Slowly, the Virus Is Being Fought

Transcripts for Exercises

Keys for Exercises

Unit 2

Section I Listening Comprehension

Section II Reading Seouls "Green Revolution

Section III Speaking Up

Section IV Summary Writing Pyramid Selling Rebranding Americas Diet

Transcripts for Exercises

Keys for Exercises

Unit 3

Section I Listening Comprehension

Section II Reading In Legendary Birthplace of Coffee, an Un-Starbucks

Section III Speaking Up

Section IV Summary Writing Talk Is Cheap and Surprisingly Effective

Transcripts for Exercises

Keys for Exercises

Unit 4

Section I Listening Comprehension

Section II Reading Let Them Eat Canned Tomatoes

Section III Speaking Up

Section IV Summary Writing World Domination Postponed

Transcripts for Exercises

Keys for Exercises

Unit 5

Section I Listening Comprehension

Section II Reading Always with Us?

Section III Speaking Up

Section IV Summary Writing The Future of the Past

Transcripts for Exercises

Keys for Exercises

Unit 6

Section I Listening Comprehension

Section II Reading Cant Buy It?

Section III Speaking Up

Section IV Summary Writing Malaria Research Gets a Shot in the Arm

Transcripts for Exercises

Keys for Exercises

Unit 7

Section I Listening Comprehension

Section II Reading A Chance to Talk

Section III Speaking Up

Section IV Summary Writing Money, Politics and Justice

Transcripts for Exercises

Keys for Exercises

Unit 8

Section I Listening Comprehension

Section II Reading Guarding Nature

Section III Speaking Up

Section IV Summary Writing Muon-assured Defence

Transcripts for Exercises

Keys for Exercises

Unit 9

Section I Listening Comprehension

Section II Reading Flags of Convenience

Section III Speaking Up

Section IV Summary Writing Fat Cats Turn to Low Fat

Transcripts for Exercises

Keys for Exercises

Unit 10

Section I Listening Comprehension

Section II Reading Big Apple Blues

Section III Speaking Up

Section IV Summary Writing Post-election Blues

Transcripts for Exercises

Keys for Exercises

Unit 11

Section I Listening Comprehension

Section II Reading Democracy and Its Discontents

Section III Speaking Up

Section IV Summary Writing Turning It Off

Transcripts for Exercises

Keys for Exercises

Unit 12

Section I Listening Comprehension

Section II Reading Darwins Revenge

Section III Speaking Up

Section IV Summary Writing Almost Like One Country

Transcripts for Exercises

Keys for Exercises

Unit 13

Section I Listening Comprehension

Section II Reading Can Foreigners Prop Them Up

Section III Speaking Up

Section IV Summary Writing Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Transcripts for Exercises

Keys for Exercises

Unit 14

Section I Listening Comprehension

Section II Reading Profiting from Obscurity

Section III Speaking Up

Section IV Summary Writing Behind All the Glitter

Transcripts for Exercises

Keys for Exercises

Unit 15

Section I Listening Comprehension

Section II Reading Cold Fusion

Section III Speaking Up

Section IV Summary Writing Nanotechnology Cures Cancer

Transcripts for Exercises

Keys for Exercises

Unit 16

Section I Listening Comprehension

Section II Reading Third World Medicine

Section III Speaking Up

Section IV Summary Writing Oil Fears Send Dow Skidding 107 Points

Transcripts for Exercises

Keys for Exercises

全国翻译专业资格(水平)考试问答