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Sentence Translation:
1. The report notes that obesity can lead to potentially fatal health problems including diabetes, stroke and cancer. But unfortunately, the obesity epidemic in America is getting worse.
2. This company has a very good reputation for job security and looking after its staff with things like good perks, good canteen and paid holidays, that sort of thing. Do those things actually motivate people at their work?
3. Many employees can assume that they're being watched while they work during the day. The majority of the U.S. companies keep watch on their workers with video cameras, tape recorders, computer surveillance.
4. Within a decade of the introduction of the Divorce Act, the total divorce rate rose from 14% of all marriages in 1989 to 30% in 2006.
5、The Chinese currency has appreciated by more than 8% since July, 2005, when the country allowed the Yuan to float against the U.S. dollar within a daily band of 0.3%.
Passage translation:
1. A growing number of educators in the United States have begun to question just how beneficial computers are in the classroom. The debate raging in the US is being closely watched by European and Asian educators who welcome technology but also want to learn from American mistakes. Statistic shows 26% of American school children aged 5 to 9 years old use computers at school. Yet, little research has been conducted to examine at what impact computers have on children's cognitive and emotional development. Our concern is that this is very powerful technology the effects of which we really don't know.
This morning, I am going to talk briefly about consumer price changes in five major countries. Let's look at the US figures. As you can see, the annual change in consumer prices rose from around 4% in 2002 to just under 6% in 2004. At present, the United States has the highest rate of inflation of the 5 countries considered. Now, turning to France. We can see that consumer prices rose less quickly than those in Britain and the US. Inflation rose over to over3% in 2005. By 2006, the inflation rate in France had fallen below that in Germany and was now equal to that in Japan.
评析：
听译部分要求考生在听懂和理解英语的基础上，译出其主要内容。属主观型试题。国内外其他英语考试均无此题型。听译不仅测试考生的听力理解，还测试其短期记忆和翻译能力，要求较高。考生普遍感觉听译题较难，拿分不易。历年来的阅卷结果也证实了考生的感觉：听译部分的合格率是整个听力部分四种题型中最低的，有不少考生只能拿几分（满分为30分），甚至有得零分的。
听译分为两个部分：单句听译和段落听译。单句听译5句，每句长度30个词左右；段落听译有2段，每段100个词左右。语速每分钟150个词。考试时录音只放一遍。单句后有50秒左右，段落后有200秒左右的空隙，供考生翻译后将答案写下来。
听译部分总分30分，其中单句15分，每句3分；段落听译15分，一段7分，另一段较长的8分。
