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全国翻译专业资格（水平）考试英语二级《笔译实务》试卷Section1:English-Chinese Translation(50points)Translate the following two passages into Chinese.Passage1There they come,trudging along,straight upright on stubby legs,shoulders swinging back and forth with each step,coming into focus on the screen just as I’m eating my first bite of popcorn.Then Morgan Freeman’s voice informs us that these beings are on a long and difficult journey in one of the most inhospitable places on earth,and that they are driven by their“quest for love.”I’ve long known the story of the emperor penguin,but to see the sheer beauty and wonder of it all come into focus in the March of the Penguins,the sleeper summer hit,still took my breath away.As the movie continues, everything about these animals seems on the surface utterly different from human existence;and yet at the same time the closer one looks the more everything also seems familiar.Stepping back and considering within the context of the vast diversity of millions of other organisms that have evolved on the tree of life—grass,trees, tapeworms,hornets,jelly-fish,tuna and elephants—these animals marching across the screen are practically kissing cousins to us.Love is a feeling or emotion—like hate,jealousy,hunger,thirst—necessary where rationality alone would not suffice to carry the day.Could rationality alone induce a penguin to trek70miles over the ice in order to mate and then balance an egg on his toes while fasting for four months in total darkness and enduring temperatures of minus-80degrees Fahrenheit?Even humans require an overpowering love to do the remarkable things that parents do for their children.The penguins’drive to persist in behavior bordering 笔译实务（英语·二级）试卷第1页（共4页）on the bizarre also suggests that they love to an inordinate degree.I suspect that the new breed of nature film will become increasingly mainstream because,as we learn more about ourselves from other animals and find out that we are more like them than was previously supposed,we are now allowed to“relate”to them,and therefore to empathize.If we gain more exposure to the real—and if the producers and studios invest half as much care and expense into portraying animals as they do into showing ourselves—I suspect the results will be as profitable,in economic as well as emotional and intellectual terms—as the March of the Penguins.Passage2After years of painstaking research and sophisticated surveys,Jaco Boshoff may be on the verge of a nearly unheard-of discovery:the wreck of a Dutch slave ship that broke apart239years ago on this forbidding,windswept coast after a violent revolt by the slaves.Boshoff,39,a marine archaeologist with the government-run Iziko Museums, will not find out until he starts digging on this deserted beach on Africa’s southernmost point,probably later this year.After three years of surveys with sensitive magnetometers,he knows,at least, where to look:at a cluster of magnetic abnormalities,three beneath the beach and one beneath the surf,near the mouth of the Heuningries River,where the450-ton slave ship,the Meermin,ran aground in1766.If he is right,it will be a find for the history books—especially if he recovers shackles,spears and iron guns that shed light on how147Malagasy slaves seized their captors’vessel,only to be recaptured.Although European countries shipped millions of slaves from Africa over four centuries,archaeologists estimate that fewer than10slave shipwrecks have been found worldwide.If he is wrong,Boshoff said in an interview,“I will have a lot of explaining to do.”笔译实务（英语·二级）试卷第2页（共4页）He will,however,have an excuse.Historical records indicate that at least30 ships have run aground in the treacherous waters off Struis Bay,the earliest of them in1673.Although Boshoff says he believes beyond doubt that the remains of a ship are buried on this beach—the jagged timbers of a wreck are sometimes uncovered during September’s spring tide—there is always the prospect that his surveys have found the wrong one.“Finding shipwrecks is just so difficult in the first place,”said Madeleine Burnside,the author of Spirits of the Passage,a book on the slave trade,and executive director of the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society in Key West, Florida.“Usually—not always—they are located by accident.”Other slave-ship finds have produced compelling evidence of both the brutality and the lucrative nature of the slave trade.Section2:Chinese-English Translation(50points)Translate the following two passages into English.Passage1改革开放27年来，中国发生了巨大变化。

英语二级笔译11月真题+答案解析

英译汉 passage1Apple may well be the only technical company on the planet that would dare compare itself to Picasso.苹果可能是世界上唯一敢自比毕加索的科技公司。

(相媲美的)1. dare：A. (have the courage)敢to dare (to) do [something]敢做某事she dare(s) not or daren't or doesn't dare leave the baby alone 她不敢让宝宝独自待着I dare say, ...也许，…B.激to dare [somebody] to do [something]激某人做某事somebody dared me to jump off the bridge有人激我从桥上跳下去I dare you to ask her (to dance)我谅你不敢邀请她（跳舞）dare加to和不加to是有不同意思的，要加以区别。

In a class at the company's internal university, the instructor （导师）likened the 11 lithographs that make up Picasso’s The Bull to the way Apple builds its smart phones and other devices. The idea is that Apple designers strive for simplicity just as Picasso eliminated details to create a great work of art.在苹果公司内部大学的一堂课上，讲师曾提到毕加索绘制名画《公牛》时的11 块石版画，他认为苹果打造智能手机等设备的过程与之类似。

11月翻译资格考题二级英语笔译实务试卷及答案

11月翻译资格考题二级英语笔译实务试卷及答案第一部分英译汉必译题This week and next, governments, international agencies and nongovernmental organizations are gathering in Mexico City at the World Water Forum to discuss the legacy of global Mulhollandism in water - and to chart a new course.They could hardly have chosen a better location. Water is being pumped out of the aquifer on which Mexico City stands at twice the rate of replenishment. The result: the city is subsiding at the rate of about half a meter every decade. You can see the consequences in the cracked cathedrals, the tilting Palace of Arts and the broken water and sewerage pipes.Every region of the world has its own variant of the water crisis story. The mining of groundwaters for irrigation has lowered the water table in parts of India and Pakistan by 30 meters in the past three decades. As water goes down, the cost of pumping goes up, undermining the livelihoods of poor farmers.What is driving the global water crisis? Physical availability is part of the problem. Unlike oil or coal, water is an infinitely renewable resource, but it is available in a finite quantity. With water use increasing at twice the rate of population growth, the amount available per person is shrinking - especially in some of the poorest countries.Challenging as physical scarcity may be in some countries, the real problems in water go deeper. The 20th-century model for water management was based on a simple idea: that water is an infinitely available free resource to be exploited, dammed or diverted without reference to scarcity or sustainability.Across the world, water-based ecological systems - rivers, lakes and watersheds - have been taken beyond the frontiers of ecological sustainability by policy makers who have turned a blind eye to the consequences of over- exploitation.We need a new model of water management for the 21st century. What does that mean? For starters, we have to stop using water like there"s no tomorrow - and that means using it more efficiently at levels that do not destroy our environment. The buzz- phrase at the Mexico Water forum is "integrated water resource management." What it means is that governments need to manage the private demand of different users and manage this precious resource in the public interest.参照译文：本周，世界水论坛在墨西哥城开幕，论坛将一直持续到下周。

全国翻译专业资格(水平)考试(二级笔译综合能力)单选题题库及答案解析

全国翻译专业资格（水平）考试（二级笔译综合能力）单选题题库及答案解析1.He plays tennis to theof all other sports.( )A.eradicationB.exclusionC.extensionD.inclusion答案：B解析：句意：所有运动里，他只打网球。

to the exclusion of排斥，排除。

是固定搭配。

eradication 清除。

extension延长范围。

inclusion包括，包含。

2.The party’s reduced vote wasoflack of support for its policies.( )A.indicativeB.positiveC.revealingD.evident答案：A解析：句意：该党选票的减少表明他所推行的政策缺乏支持。

indicative指示的，表明的，常用搭配be indicativeofo positive积极的，肯定的。

revealing有启迪作用的。

evident显然的，明显的。

3.If seller fails to provide good title， the contract will become null and( ).A.vacantB.voidC.brokeD.bubble答案：B解析：句意：如果卖方无法提供有效的所有权凭证，则该合同无效。

null and void无效的，为固定搭配。

4.In order to repair barns， build fences， grow crops and care for animals，a farmer must indeed be( ).A.restlessB.skilledC.strongD.versatile答案：D解析：句意：为了修粮仓，建篱笆，种庄稼，养牲畜，农民必须是个多面手。

versatile多才多艺的，多面手的。

翻译资格考试二级笔译真题及答案

翻译资格考试二级笔译真题及答案【英译汉必译题】Milton Friedman, Free Markets Theorist, Dies at 94.Milton Friedman, the grandmaster of free-market economic theory in the postwar era and a prime force in the movement of nations toward less government and greater reliance on individual responsibility, died today in San Francisco, where he lived. He was 94.Conservative and liberal colleagues alike viewed Mr. Friedman, a Nobel prize laureate, as one of the 20th century’s leading economic scholars, on a par with giants like John Maynard Keynes and Paul Samuelson.Flying the flag of economic conservatism, Mr. Friedman led the postwar challenge to the hallowed theories of Lord Keynes, the British economist who maintained that governments had a duty to help capitalistic economies through periods of recessionand to prevent boom times from exploding into high inflation.In Professor Friedman’s view, government had the opposite obligation: to keep its hands off the economy, to let the free market do its work.The only economic lever that Mr. Friedman would allow government to use was the one that controlled the supply of money—a monetarist view that had gone out offavor when he embraced it in the 1950s. He went on to record a signal achievement predicting the unprecedented combination of rising unemployment and rising inflation that came to be called stagflation. His work earned him the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 1976.Rarely, his colleagues said, did anyone have such impact on both his ownprofession and on government. Though he never served officially in the halls of power,he was always around them, as an adviser and theorist.“Among economic scholars, Milton Friedman had no peer,” Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, said t oday. “The direct and indirect influences of his thinking on contemporary monetary economics would be difficult to overstate.”Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, said of Mr. Friedman in an interview on Tuesday. “From a longer-term point of view, it’s his academicBut I would not dismiss the profound achievements which will have import.lasting import. Butimpact he has already had on the American public’s view.”Mr. Friedman had a gift for communicating complicated ideas in simple and lucid ways, and it served him well as the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, a columnist for Newsweek from 1966 to 1983 and even as the star of a public television series.【英译汉二选一】【英译汉二选一】试题1Panama goes to polls on upgrade for canalPANAMA CITY: V oters were expected Sunday to approve the largest modernization project in the 92-year history of the Panama Canal, a $5.25 billion planto expand the waterway to allow for larger ships while alleviating traffic problems.The government of President Martín Torrijos has billed the referendum as historic,saying the work would double the capacity of a canal already on pace to generateabout $1.4 billion in revenue this year. Critics claim the expansion would benefit the canal’s customers more than Panamanians, and worry that costs could balloon, forcing this debt- ridden country to borrow even more.The project would build a third set of locks on the Pacific and Atlantic ends of thcanal by 2015, allowing it to handle modern container ships, cruise liners and tankers too large for its locks, which are 33 meters, or 108 feet, wide.The Panama Canal Authority, the autonomous government agency that runs the canal, says the project would be paid for by increasing tolls and would generate $6 billion in revenue by 2025.There is nothing Panamanians are more passionate about than the canal.“It’s incomparable in the hemisphere,” said Samuel Lewis Navarro, the country’s vice president and foreign secretary. “It’s in our heart, part of our soul.”Public opinion polls indicate that the plan would be approved overwhelmingly. Green and white signs throughout the country read “Yesfor our children,” while tensof thousands of billboards and bumper stickers trumpet new jobs.“The canal needs you,” television and radio ads implore.“It will mean more boats, and that means more jobs,” said Damasco Polanco, whon, anwas herding cows on horseback in Nuevo Provedencia, on the banks of Lake Gatúartificial reservoir that supplies water to the canal.The canal employs 8,000 workers and the expansion is expected to generate asmany as 40,000 new jobs. Unemployment in Panama is 9.5 percent, and 40 percent ofthe country lives in poverty.But critics fear that the expansion could cost nearly double the government’s estimate, as well as stoke corruption and uncontrolled debt.“The poor continue to suffer while the rich get richer,” said José Felix Castillo, 62 a high school teacher who was one of about 3,000 supporters who took to Panama City’s streets to protest the measure on Friday.Lewis Navarro noted that a portion of the revenue generated by each ton of cargothat passes through the waterway goes to education and social programs.“We aren’t talking about 40 percent poverty as a consequence of the canal,” he said “It’s exactly the opposite.”【汉译英】【汉译英】【试题一】【试题一】旅游是一项集观光、娱乐、健身为一体的愉快而美好的活动。

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1 The explanation given by the manager yesterday was not at all _____ to us.A. satisfyB. satisfiedC. satisfactoryD. satisfying2 Part of the funds will be used to ____ that old blbrary to its original splendor.A. restB. recoverC. replaceD. restore3 This silk has gone right _____ and we have not sold a single piece of it for weeks.A. out of fadB. out of patternC. out of customD. out of fashion4 The new Personal Digital Assistance contained a large ___ of information about an individual life.A. dealB. amountC. numberD. account5 Primitive superstitions that feed racism should be _____ through education.A. ignoredB. exaltedC. eradicatedD. canceled6. _____ pollution control measures are expensive, many local governments hesitate to adopt them.A. AlthoughB. HoweverC. BecauseD. Moreover7. The less the surface of the ground yields to the weight of the body of a runner, _____ to the body.A. the stress it is greaterB. greater is the stressC. greater stress isD. the greater the stress8. Annie Jump Cannon, _____ discovered so many stars that she was called “the census taker of the sky.”A. a leading astronomer,B. who, as a leading astronomer,C. was a leading astronomer,D. a leading astronomer who9. Kingdom of Wonders, _____ in 1995 in Fremont, Calif., became an industry legend for two toys: a talking bear and a ray-gun game.A. findB. foundC. foundedD. founding10. Over a very large number of trials, the probability of an event _____ is equal to the probability that it will not occur.A. occurringB. to occurC. occursD. occur11 The explanation given by the manager yesterday was not at all _____ to us.A. satisfyB. satisfiedC. satisfactoryD. satisfying12 Part of the funds will be used to ____ that old blbrary to its original splendor.A. restB. recoverC. replaceD. restore13 This silk has gone right _____ and we have not sold a single piece of it for weeks.A. out of fadB. out of patternC. out of customD. out of fashion14 The new Personal Digital Assistance contained a large ___ of information about an individual life.A. dealB. amountC. numberD. account15 Primitive superstitions that feed racism should be _____ through education.A. ignoredB. exaltedC. eradicatedD. canceled16. _____ pollution control measures are expensive, many local governments hesitate to adopt them.A. AlthoughB. HoweverC. BecauseD. Moreover17. The less the surface of the ground yields to the weight of the body of a runner, _____ to the body.A. the stress it is greaterB. greater is the stress1C. greater stress is D. the greater the stress18. Annie Jump Cannon, _____ discovered so many stars that she was called “the census taker of the sky.”A. a leading astronomer,B. who, as a leading astronomer,1C. was a leading astronomer, D. a leading astronomer who19. Kingdom of Wonders, _____ in 1995 in Fremont, Calif., became an industry legend for two toys: a talking bear and a ray-gun game.A. findB. foundC. foundedD. founding20. Over a very large number of trials, the probability of an event _____ is equal to the probability that it will not occur.A. occurringB. to occurC. occursD. occur21.Since writing home to their parents for money, they had lived ________hope.A inB forC onD through22.________get older, the games they play become increasingly complex.A ChildrenB Children, when theyC As childrenD For children to23.Martin has created enough memorable ________to make it easy to forgive his lows.A youngstersB noblesC highsD miserables24.Oranges are a ________source of vitamin C.A wellB betterC goodD very25.All students have free________to the library.A passagewayB entranceC permissionD access26.I''m so tired that I can''t take ________what you''re saying.A upB outC inD on27.Rice is the ________food of most Southeast Asians.A commonB generalC stapleD popular28.What they never take into account is the frazzled woman who is leading a________life —trying to be a good mother while having to pretend at work that she doesn''t have kids at all.A doubleB hardC two-wayD miserable29.Good pencil erasers are soft enough not ________paper but hard enough so that they crumble gradually when used.A by damagingB so that they damageC to damageD damaging30.We were working________time to get everything ready for the exhibition.A againstB inC onD ahead31. Only one-fifth of Americans saw oil as the chief reason that the U.S. made a war on Iraq, but 75 percent of the French and of the Russians believed _____.A. toB. soC. goD. do32. Sadly, while the academic industry thrives, the practice of translation continues to _____.A. stackB. stageC. stagnateD. stamp33. Your blunt treatment of disputes would put other people in a negative frame of _____, with the result that they would not be able to accept your proposal.A. mindB. ideaC. intentionD. wish34. If you are an energetic person with strong views as to the right way of doing things, you find yourself _____ under pressures.A. variablyB. invariablyC. invaluablyD. invalidly35. Uncle Vernon, quite unlike Harry Potter who looked nothing like the rest of the family, was large, very fat, and _____, with an enormous black mustache.A. neck-lessB. neck-laceC. recklessD. rack-less36. Home to _____ and gangsters, officials and laborers, refugees and artists, the city was, in its prime, a metropolis that exhibited all the hues of the human character.A. magnatesB. magnetsC. machineD. magnitudes37. His _____ behavior made everyone nervous. He was always rushing to open doors and perform other small tasks, apologizing unnecessarily for any inconvenience that he might have caused.A. obliviousB. observantC. obsequiousD. obsolescent38. He was completely __________ by her tale of hardship.A. taken awayB. taken downC. taken inD. taken up39. Americans who consider themselves _____ in the traditional sense do not usually hesitate to heap criticism in domestic matters over what they believe is oppressive or wasteful.A. pedestrianB. penchantC. patriarchD. patriotic40. As technological advances put more and more time between early school life and the young person's final access to specialized work, the stage of _____ becomes an even more marked and conscious period.A. adolescenceB. adjacencyC. advantageD. adventure41 .Only one-fifth of Americans saw oil as the chief reason that the U.S. made a war on Iraq, but 75 percent of the French and of the Russians believed________.A toB soC goD do42 .This is________work. It calls for a good eye and a steady hand.A preciseB precisionC exactD exactness43 .They''re the best team I''ve seen thus far, says ________men''s basketball coach Larry Brown.A American'sB USC the USAD United State of America44.He was facing charges on forgery in a court of law but he hired a good attorney toA get offB get throughC get byD get away45 .________ pollution control measures are expensive, many local governments hesitate to adopt them.A AlthoughB HoweverC BecauseD Moreover46 .Over a very large number of trials, the probability of an event ________is equal to the probability that it will not occur.A occurringB occurredC occursD occur47 .The countries that are being blamed for the extra greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are the rich and developed countries. On a different________, the developing countries feel they will suffer the most of it.A nodB noteC normD notion48 .We cannot see any possibility of business ________your price is on the high side of the prevailing market trend.A whichB sinceC thatD though49 .Being both spoiled and lazy, he________everyone else for his lack of success.A accusedB chargedC criticizedD blamed50 .Americans who consider themselves ________ in the traditional sense do not usually hesitate to heap criticism in domestic matters over what they believe is oppressive or wasteful.A pedestrianB penchantC patriarchD patriotic51 .Kingdom of Wonders, ________ in 5995 in Fremont, Calif., became an industry legend for two toys: a talking bear and a ray-gun game.A findB foundC foundedD founding52 .When insects feed on decaying plant material in a compost pile, they help turn it into useful garden soil.A availableB organicC distastefulD decomposing53 .When a hurricane is about to occur , the National Weather Bureau issues a warning.A adjacentB giganticC perilousD imminent54 .The graduate committee must be in full accord in their approval of a dissertation.A indecisiveB sullenC vocalD unanimous55 .The thief was apprehended, but his accomplice had disappeared.A people who saw himB the person who helped himC guns and knivesD stolen goods56 .Researchers have discovered that dolphins are able to mimic human speech.A importB imitateC impairD humor57 .For a long time in that vast region, this law was in abeyance .A active useB doubtC discussionD disuse58 .One of the things we have to do to prevent a pandemic is to make sure people understand and know what they can do to minimize the commotion .A commandB collusionC turmoilD tutelage59 .Daylight saving time was instituted to increase productivity.A reorganizedB startedC encouragedD taught60.Water makes up some 70 percentage points of the body, and drinking enough water —either tap water or expensive mineral water —will ensure that the body is properly lubricated and flushed.A per-centB per capitaC percentD percentage参考答案：1. C2. D3. D4. B5. C6. C7. D8. A9. C 10. A11. C 12. D 13. D 14. B 15. C 16. C 17. D 18. A 19. C 20. A 21.A 22.C 23.C 24.C 25.D 26.C 27.C 28.A 29.C 30.A 31. B 32. C 33. A 34. B 35. A 36. A 37. C 38. C 39. D 40. A 41.B 42.B 43.B 44.A 45.C 46.A 47.B 48.B 49.D 50.D 51. C 52.D 53.D 54.D 55.B 56.B 57.D 58.C 59.B 60.C。

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《笔译综合能⼒》 1. 阅读第⼀篇选⾃《纽约时报》，原⽂标题为：Few Biologists but Many Evangelicals Sign Anti-Evolution Petition 节选部分内容如下： In the recent skirmishes over evolution, advocates who have pushed to dilute its teaching have regularly pointed to a petition signed by 514 scientists and engineers. The petition, they say, is proof that scientific doubt over evolution persists. But random interviews with 20 people who signed the petition and a review of the public statements of more than a dozen others suggest that many are evangelical Christians, whose doubts about evolution grew out of their religious beliefs. And even the petition's sponsor, the Discovery Institute in Seattle, says that only a quarter of the signers are biologists, whose field is most directly concerned with evolution. The other signers include 76 chemists, 75 engineers, 63 physicists and 24 professors of medicine. The petition was started in 2001 by the institute, which champions intelligent design as an alternative theory to evolution and supports a "teach the controversy" approach, like the one scuttled by the state Board of Education in Ohio last week. Institute officials said that 41 people added their names to the petition after a federal judge ruled in December against the Dover, Pa., school district's attempt to present intelligent design as an alternative to evolution. "Early on, the critics said there was nobody who disbelieved Darwin's theory except for rubes in the woods," said Bruce Chapman, president of the institute. "How many does it take to be a noticeable minority — 10, 50, 100, 500?" Mr. Chapman said the petition showed "there is a minority of scientists who disagree with Darwin's theory, and it is not just a handful." The petition makes no mention of intelligent design, the proposition that life is so complex that it is best explained as the design of an intelligent being. Rather, it states: "We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged." A Web site with the full list of those who signed the petition was made available yesterday by the institute at . The signers all claim doctorates in science or engineering. The list includes a few nationally prominent scientists like James M. Tour, a professor of chemistry at Rice University; Rosalind W. Picard, director of the affective computing research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Philip S. Skell, an emeritus professor of chemistry at Penn State who is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. It also includes many with more modest positions, like Thomas H. Marshall, director of public works in Delaware, Ohio, who has a doctorate in environmental ecology. The Discovery Institute says 128 signers hold degrees in the biological sciences and 26 in biochemistry. That leaves more than 350 nonbiologists, including Dr. Tour, Dr. Picard and Dr. Skell. Of the 128 biologists who signed, few conduct research that would directly address the question of what shaped the history of life. Of the signers who are evangelical Christians, most defend their doubts on scientific grounds but also say that evolution runs against their religious beliefs. Several said that their doubts began when they increased their involvement with Christian churches. Some said they read the Bible literally and doubt not only evolution but also findings of geology and cosmology that show the universe and the earth to be billions of years old. Scott R. Fulton, a professor of mathematics and computer science at Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y., who signed the petition, said that the argument for intelligent design was "very interesting and promising." He said he thought his religious belief was "not particularly relevant" in how he judged intelligent design. "It probably influences in the sense in that it makes me very interested in the questions," he said. "When I see scientific evidence that points to God, I find that encouraging." Roger J. Lien, a professor of poultry science at Auburn, said he received a copy of the petition from Christian friends. "I stuck my name on it," he said. "Basically, it states what I believe." Dr. Lien said that he grew up in California in a family that was not deeply religious and that he accepted evolution through much of his scientific career. He said he became a Christian about a decade ago, six years after he joined theAuburn faculty. "The world is broken, and we humans and our science can't fix it," Dr. Lien said. "I was brought to Jesus Christ and God and creationism and believing in the Bible." He also said he thought that evolution was "inconsistent with what the Bible says." Another signer is Dr. Gregory J. Brewer, a professor of cell biology at the Southern Illinois University medical school. Like other skeptics, he readily accepts what he calls "microevolution," the ability of species to adapt to changing conditions in their environment. But he holds to the opinion that science has not convincingly shown that one species can evolve into another. "I think there's a lot of problems with evolutionary dogma," said Dr. Brewer, who also does not accept the scientific consensus that the universe is billions of years old. "Scientifically, I think there are other possibilities, one of which would be intelligent design. Based on faith, I do believe in the creation account." Dr. Tour, who developed the "nano-car" — a single molecule in the shape of a car, with four rolling wheels — said he remained open-minded about evolution. "I respect that work," said Dr. Tour, who describes himself as a Messianic Jew, one who also believes in Christ as the Messiah. But he said his experience in chemistry and nanotechnology had showed him how hard it was to maneuver atoms and molecules. He found it hard to believe, he said, that nature was able to produce the machinery of cells through random processes. The explanations offered by evolution, he said, are incomplete. "I can't make the jumps, the leaps they make in the explanations," Dr. Tour said. "Will I or other scientists likely be able to makes those jumps in the future? Maybe." Opposing petitions have sprung up. The National Center for Science Education, which has battled efforts to dilute the teaching of evolution, has sponsored a pro-evolution petition signed by 700 scientists named Steve, in honor of Stephen Jay Gould, the Harvard paleontologist who died in 2002. The petition affirms that evolution is "a vital, well-supported, unifying principle of the biological sciences." Mr. Chapman of that institute said the opposing petitions were beside the point. "We never claimed we're in a fight for numbers," he said. Discovery officials said that they did not ask the religious beliefs of the signers and that such beliefs were not relevant. John G. West, a senior fellow at Discovery, said it was "stunning hypocrisy" to ask signers about their religion "while treating the religious beliefs of the proponents of Darwin as irrelevant." 2. 阅读第三篇选⾃《纽约时报》，原⽂标题为：Richard Prince Lawsuit Focuses on Limits of Appropriation 节选部分内容如下： In March a federal district court judge in Manhattan ruled that Mr. Prince — whose career was built on appropriating imagery created by others — broke the law by taking photographs from a book about Rastafarians and using them without permission to create the collages and a series of paintings based on them, which quickly sold for serious money even by today’s gilded art-world standards: almost $2.5 million for one of the works. (“Wow — yeah,” Mr. Prince said when a lawyer asked him under oath in the district court case if that figure was correct.) The decision, by Judge Deborah A. Batts, set off alarm bells throughout Chelsea and in museums across America that show contemporary art. At the heart of the case, which Mr. Prince is now appealing, is the principle called fair use, a kind of door in the bulwark of copyright protections. It gives artists (or anyone for that matter) the ability to use someone else’s material for certain purposes, especially if the result transforms the thing used — or as Judge Pierre N. Leval described it in an influential 1990 law review article, if the new thing “adds value to the original” so that society as a whole is culturally enriched by it. In the most famous test of the principle, the Supreme Court in 1994 found a possibility of fair use by the group 2 Live Crew in its sampling of parts of Roy Orbison’s “Oh Pretty Woman” for the sake of one form of added value, parody. In the Prince case the notoriously slippery standard for transformation was defined so narrowly that artists and museums warned it would leave the fair-use door barely open, threatening the robust tradition of appropriation that goes back at least to Picasso and underpins much of the art of the last half-century. Several museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan, rallied to the cause, filing papers supporting Mr. Prince and calling the decision a blow to “the strong public interest in the free flow of creative expression.” Scholars and lawyers on the other side of the debate hailed it instead as a welcome corrective in an art world too long in thrall to the Pictures Generation — artists like Mr. Prince who usedappropriation beginning in the 1970s to burrow beneath the surface of media culture. But if the case has had any effect so far, it has been to drag into the public arena a fundamental truth hovering somewhere just outside the legal debate: that today’s flow of creative expression, riding a tide of billions of instantly accessible digital images and clips, is rapidly becoming so free and recycling so reflexive that it is hard to imagine it being slowed, much less stanched, whatever happens in court. It is a phenomenon that makes Mr. Prince’s artful thefts — those collages in the law firm’s office — look almost Victorian by comparison, and makes the copyright battle and its attendant fears feel as if they are playing out in another era as well, perhaps not Victorian but certainly pre-Internet. In many ways the art world is a latecomer to the kinds of copyright tensions that have already played out in fields like music and movies, where extensive systems of policing, permission and licensing have evolved. But art lawyers say that legal challenges are now coming at a faster pace, perhaps in part because the art market has become a much bigger business and because of the extent of the borrowing ethos. 1. 英译汉第⼀篇选⾃《纽约时报》，原⽂标题为：Translation as Literary Ambassador 节选部分内容如下： The runaway success of Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy suggests that when it comes to contemporary literature in translation, Americans are at least willing to read Scandinavian detective fiction. But for work from other regions, in other genres, winning the interest of big publishing houses and readers in the United States remains a steep uphill struggle. Among foreign cultural institutes and publishers, the traditional American aversion to literature in translation is known as “the 3 percent problem.” But now, hoping to increase their minuscule share of the American book market — about 3 percent — foreign governments and foundations, especially those on the margins of Europe, are taking matters into their own hands and plunging into the publishing fray in the United States. Increasingly, that campaign is no longer limited to widely spoken languages like French and German. From Romania to Catalonia to Iceland, cultural institutes and agencies are subsidizing publication of books in English, underwriting the training of translators, encouraging their writers to tour in the United States, submitting to American marketing and promotional techniques they may have previously shunned and exploiting existing niches in the publishing industry. “We have established this as a strategic objective, a long-term commitment to break through the American market,” said Corina Suteu, who leads the New York branch of the European Union National Institutes for Culture and directs the Romanian Cultural Institute. “For nations in Europe, be they small or large, literature will always be one of the keys of their cultural existence, and we recognize that this is the only way we are going to be able to make that literature present in the United States.” For instance, the Dalkey Archive Press, a small publishing house in Champaign, Ill., that for more than 25 years has specialized in translated works, this year began a Slovenian Literature Series, underwritten by official groups in Slovenia, once part of Yugoslavia. The series’s first book, “Necropolis,” by Boris Pahor, is a powerful World War II concentration-camp memoir that has been compared to the best of Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi, and has been followed by Andrej Blatnik’s “You Do Understand,” a rather absurdist but still touching collection of sketches and parables about love and intimacy. Dalkey has also begun or is about to begin similar series in Hebrew and Catalan, and with Switzerland and Mexico, the last of which will consist of four books yearly for six years. In each case a financing agency in the host co u n t r y i s s u b s i d i z i n g p u b l i c a t i o n a n d p a r t i c i p a t i n g i n p r o m o t i o n a n d m a r k e t i n g i n t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s , a n e f f o r t t h a t c a n e a s i l y r e q u i r e $ 1 0 , 0 0 0 o r m o r e a b o o k . / p >。

英语笔译二级试题及答案

英语笔译二级试题及答案一、词汇翻译（共10分，每题1分）1. 翻译下列单词或短语：- 创新：innovation- 可持续发展：sustainable development- 人工智能：artificial intelligence- 经济增长：economic growth- 环境保护：environmental protection2. 翻译下列句子中的划线部分：- 他是一个多才多艺的艺术家。

(多才多艺)- 我们正在寻求一个平衡点来解决这个问题。

(寻求)- 这个项目的成功依赖于团队的协作。

(依赖于)- 政府已经采取了一系列措施来提高教育质量。

(采取了一系列措施)- 她对这个问题的看法非常独特。

(看法)二、句子翻译（共20分，每题4分）1. 随着科技的发展，远程工作变得越来越普遍。

With the advancement of technology, remote work is becoming increasingly common.2. 教育对于一个国家的繁荣至关重要。

Education is crucial to the prosperity of a nation.3. 我们应当尊重每个人的文化差异。

We should respect the cultural differences of every individual.4. 这个政策旨在减少贫困并提高人们的生活水平。

This policy aims to reduce poverty and improve thestandard of living.5. 环境污染已经成为全球性的问题。

Environmental pollution has become a global issue.三、段落翻译（共30分，每题10分）1. 翻译下列段落：随着全球化的不断深入，各国之间的经济联系日益紧密。

国际贸易的增加促进了世界经济的增长，同时也带来了一些挑战，如贸易不平衡和市场保护主义。

catti二级笔译综合能力试题精选及答案解析

catti二级笔译综合能力试题精选及答案解析一、Vocabulary Selection（本大题1小题．每题1.0分，共1.0分。

In this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are four words or phrases respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. There is only one right answer. ）第1题The less the surface of the ground yields to the weight of the body of a runner, ________ to the body.A the stress it is greaterB greater is the stressC greater stress isD the greater the stress【正确答案】：D【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】固定用法。

the+比较级，the+比较级。

二、Vocabulary Replacement（本大题11小题．每题1.0分，共11.0分。

This part consists of 15 sentences in which one word or phrase is underlined. Below each sentence, there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. You are to select the ONE choice that can replace the underlined word without causing any grammatical error or changing the principal meaning of the sentence. There is only one right answer. ）第1题The thief was apprehended, but his accomplice had disappeared.A people who saw himB the person who helped himC guns and knivesD stolen goods模考吧网提供最优质的模拟试题，最全的历年真题，最精准的预测押题！【正确答案】：B【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】名词辨析。

CATTI二级笔译综合真题

CATTI二级笔译综合真题n 1: Vocabulary and Grammar (60 points)This n is divided into three parts。

Please read the ns for each part before XXX.Part 1: Vocabulary nThis part contains 20 XXX sentence。

there are four choices marked by letters A。

B。

C。

and D respectively。

Choose the word that best XXX。

There is only one correct answer。

Mark the corresponding letter on your machine-scoring answer sheet.1.From a young age。

children begin a continuous process of XXX in light of the ns and comments of those around them.2.If you're forced outside for hours on end。

especially doing something physical。

consider dumping water over your head or on your neck.3.One reason for the cost of wave power is the need to make the XXX.4.According to the study。

25% of people have missed XXX 20% have lost touch XXX.5.XXX attacked the XXX to the ground.6.These fish release XXX the growth of plankton。

翻译二级笔译综合能力-26_真题-无答案

翻译二级笔译综合能力-26(总分130.5,考试时间90分钟)Ⅰ V ocabulary and GrammarPart 1 V ocabulary Selection1. Many young people believe that war is stupid and unnecessary. To them, to lose one's life on the battlefield is ______ .A．glorious B．futile C．heroic D．courageous2. Leaving for work in plenty of time to catch the train will ______ worry about being late.A. rule offB. preventC. avoidD. obviate3. No one appreciated his work during his lifetime, but______it is clear that he was a great artist.A. in the aftermathB. by the timeC. in retrospectD. in this eventuality4. More and more people these days are clamoring for full-body plastic surgery popularity in the world.A．to attain B．to sustain C．gaining D．obtaining5. They are at the moment working ______ time to get everything ready for the conference.A．against B．in C．on D．ahead6. She answered with an ______ "No" to the request that she attend the public hearing.A. eloquentB. effectiveC. emotionalD. emphatic7. There has been a ______ lack of communication between the union and the management.A. regretfulB. regrettableC. regrettingD. regretted8. **pany's training plan was designed to help the employees to improve their work habits and ______.A. proficiencyB. sufficiencyC. insufficiencyD. efficiency9. Success as ______ by economic output bears no close relationship to human achievement.A．decided B．achieved C．assured D．measured10. The discovery of new oil-fields in various parts of the country filled the government with ______ hope.A. eternalB. infiniteC. ceaselessD. everlasting11. The campers ______ their tent in a sheltered valley.A. establishedB. installedC. pitchedD. fixed12. Over a very large number of trials, the probability of an event ______ is equal to the probability that it will not occur.A. occurringB. occurredC. occursD. occur13. The doctor's ______ was that she should go and see the specialist in this field.A. constraintB. counselC. coherenceD. consciousness14. His ______ behavior made everyone nervous. He was always rushing to open doors and perform other small tasks, apologizing unnecessarily for any inconvenience that he might have caused.A. obliviousB. observantC. obsequiousD. obsolescent15. As countries ______ to increase yields on existing croplands through intensified use of water, energy, and fertilizers, the cost of commodities will rise.A．encounter B．enchant C．enlarge D．endeavor16. Only one-fifth of Americans saw oil as the chief mason that the U.S. made a war on Iraq, but75 percent of the French and of the Russians believed ______.A. toB. soC. goD. do17. In order to obtain the needed information, you should write simply, clearly, and con cisely ______ the reader wants to know.A. whatB. thatC. so thatD. which18. I'll just ______ an eye over these figures before you type them.A. tossB. castC. flingD. throw19. He was always finding ______ with his daughter's friends.A. blameB. errorC. mistakeD. faultPart 2 V ocabulary Replacement20. Attempts have been made for nearly three decades to increase the amount of precipitation from clouds by seeding them with salt or silver iodide.A. DevicesB. HypothesesC. EffortsD. Suggestions21. The room was so cluttered with books and papers that it was difficult to find the missing key.A．disorganized B．flattered C．denounced D．fixated22. European conservatives, until the end of the 19th century, rejected democratic principles and institutions. Instead they opted for monarchies or for authoritarian government.A. choseB. constructedC. conceivedD. conserved23. We regret being unable to entertain your request for providing free boarding to 15 sportsmen for two weeks.A. receiveB. complyC. coincideD. consider24. The **mittee must be in full accord in their approval of a dissertation.A. indecisiveB. sullenC. vocalD. unanimous25. One of the effective ways to lessen environmental pollution is the reservation and protection of more swamps.A. vast thick coralsB. pockets of wetlandC. warm volcanoesD. millions of bees and wasps26. The incidence of this disease has been greatly reduced thanks to our health care program.A. seriousnessB. frequency of occurrenceC. mortalityD. cure rate27. "Holmes!" I whispered. "What on earth are you doing in this disgusting place?"A. humbleB. unpleasantC. underprivilegedD. noisy28. We anticipate being able to have our summer vacation in Italy.A. agitateB. expectC. suspectD. surmise29. Initially his book did not receive much attention, but two weeks after the critic's review appeared in the newspapers, it climbed to the best sellers' list.A. At firstB. First of allC. At first sightD. From the first30. John Smith has a blog at The Lonely Planet Times, and you can listen to a live audio stream by clicking this link below.A. steamB. water flowC. recordingD. programming31. Many of the electric and electronic products we purchase and consume today are what some industrial experts call "homogeneous toys".A. identicalB. homosexualC. unrelatedD. distinguishable32. Construction of the gigantic office building in this city was for years intermittent.A. stopping and starting at intervalsB. something that will happen soonC. being watched with keen interestD. anything **es and goes33. Any troop of wild animals should be approached warily.A. fearlesslyB. confidentlyC. silentlyD. prudently34. Several theories of evolution had historically preceded that of Charles Darwin, although he expounded upon the stages of development.A. found fault withB. explained in detailC. outlined brieflyD. offered in published formPart 3 Correcting Grammatical Errors35. Each year, in a never-ending cycle of death and rebirth, the rains sweep across southem Asia.A．regrowth B．regeneration C．reconstruction D．recycle36. Construction is expanding all over China, no doubt many materials will be needed at a very big amount in future.A. China, no doubt many materials will be needed for a very big amountB. China, no doubt many materials will be needed in a very big amountC. China; no doubt many materials will be needed in large amountsD. China; no doubt many materials will be needed for large amounts37. American Indian languages, which differ widely, tended to group many units of meaning into multisyllabic words.A. all tendB. and tendC. to tendD. tending38. By using new foreign textbooks, we could not only learn the right expression of business ideas,but also we will know the latest developments in the business world.A. but also will know the lastestB. but also know the lastestC. but also know the latestD. but **e to know the latest39. A professor of economic and history at Atlanta University, W．E．B．Du Bois, promoted full racial equality.A. economyB. economicsC. economicalD. economic40. The photoperiodic response of algae actually depends on the duration of darkness, but not on the response of light.A．is not on light B．but is' not on the lightC．and not on light D．the light is not on41. The earliest form of artificial lighting was fire, which also provided warm and protection.A. hotB. sunshineC. warmthD. safe42. He had studied hard, he would have been able to pass the exam.A. He had studied harderB. If only he studied moreC. Had he studied harderD. When he studied more43. Many students agreed to come, but some students against because they said they don't have time.A. did not because they say they did notB. were against because they say they don'tC. did not because they said they did notD. were **ing because they said they don't44. Fifty-three thousand shouting enthusiasts filled the stadium; they **e to watch the first game of the season and to cheer the home team.A．enthusiasts filled the stadium to comeB．enthusiasts, filling the stadium, **eC．enthusiasts filled the stadium; and **eD．enthusiasts filling the stadium, who **e45. When he realized he had been suggested to sign the contract by intrigue, he threatened to start legal proceedings to cancel the agreement.A. elicitedB. excitedC. deducedD. induced46. We are not conscious of the extent of which work provides the psychological satisfaction that can make the difference between a full and empty life.A. to whichB. in whichC. at whichD. by which47. Because it is not a serious problem, we are not necessary to take strict measures against the student.A. we not needB. not necessary for usC. it being unnecessaryD. it is not necessary for us48. All mammals have hair, but not always evident.A. but it is notB. but it isC. but they are notD. but they are49. I'm rather concerned how he will take in his school.A. take onB. take upC. take offD. take toⅡ Reading ComprehensionSocial control refers to social processes, planned or unplanned, by which people are taught, persuaded, or forced to conform to norms. In every society, some punishments or negative sanctions are established for deviant behavior. Without deviant behavior there would not be need for social control and without social control there would not be a way of recognizing the boundary between the acceptable and the unacceptable.Social control may be either formal or informal. Informal mechanisms include expressions of disapproval by significant others and withholding of positive rewards for disapproved behavior. Most people internalize norms in the course of socialization. This is any group's most powerful protection against deviance, in that the individual's own conscience operates as an agent of social control. When informal sanctions fail, formal agents of social control may be called upon. In contemporary society, such formal agents and agencies include psychiatry and other mental health professions; mental hospitals; police and courts of law; prisons; and social welfare agencies. All these formal agents function to limit, correct, and control violation of norms. Conflict theorists would also point out that social control agents and systems tend, in any society, to serve the interests of powerful groups and to enforce the norms most beneficial to those who make the rules and who, therefore, define unacceptable behavior.Social control, whether formal or informal, has a dual function. First, it punishes the wrongdoer and reaff'irms the boundaries of acceptable behavior. Second, and less recognized, it regulates the manner in which deviants are treated.50. Social control refers to processes by which ______.A. norms are developedB. norms are enforcedC. people are educated and trainedD. people are rewarded and punished51. Every society has its own ______.A. planned systemsB. controlled normsC. recognized boundaryD. established sanctions52. Informal mechanisms of social control include the following EXCEPT ______.A. a high level of interest in ensuring conformityB. expression of disapproval by significant othersC. withholding of positive rewards for the deviantsD. people's internalization of norms in socialization53. The most powerful protection against deviance is ______.A. negative sanctionsB. severe punishmentsC. the individual's conscienceD. unrestrained suppression54. Formal agents of social control include the following EXCEPT ______A. police stationsB. mental hospitalsC. welfare agenciesD. vocational schools55. The purpose of formal agents is to ______.A. make beneficial rulesB. preserve social ordersC. control violation of normsD. define acceptable behavior56. Which statement about social control agents is NOT true?A. They tend to serve the interest of those who enforce the norms.B. They tend to serve the interest of those who receive a benefit.C. They tend to serve the interest of those who make the rules.D. They tend to serve the interest of those who are powerful.57. According to conflict theorists, social control agents and systems are ______.A. liberalB. partialC. neutralD. overall58. In the third paragraph, "a dual function" refers to ______.A. formal and informalB. rewards and penaltiesC. approval and disapprovalD. clarification and regulation59. The perspective from which the author discusses social control is ______.A. biologicalB. sociologicalC. psychologicalD. anthropologicalLichens may grow on the bark of a tree in a steaming tropical rain forest, on the bricks of big city buildings, on rocks in hot springs, on wind-swept mountaintops, and in the driest desserts. In the arctic, they provide the principal food for caribou, and they are one of the few plants that grow inAntarctica. They are pioneers, appearing in barren rocky areas and starting the formation of soil in which mosses, then ferns, and then other plants can take root.Lichens are a partnership of two plants — fungi and algae. The lichen body is made up of a network of fungal strands. In the upper layers of these grow groups of algae. The two organisms live together to the benefit of both, a relationship known as symbiosis. The fungi provide support, absorb water, and shelter the tender algae from direct sunlight. The algae carry on photosynthesis and provide the fungi with food. The algae can live independently and are recognizable as a species that grows alone. The fungi, on the other hand, cannot live apart from their partners. They can be placed in known classes of fungi but are unlike any species that lives independently.So definite are the form, color, and characteristics of these double organisms that for hundreds of years, they were classified as one. More than 15,000 "species" were named. If these organisms are classified as separate species, it is difficult to fit them into the existing system of classification. But if they are classified separately, these species of fungi seem rather strange. Lichens are a splendid example of the difficulties faced by taxonomists in classifying species.60. Lichens may NOT grow ______ .A．in the tropical woods B．on the ceilings of city buildingsC．on rocks in hot springs D．in dry desserts61. What does the author imply about lichens in Paragraph 1?A．They require a lot of moisture to live.B．They primarily live in cold places.C．They can live anywhere except around people.D．They have adapted to a wide variety of environments.62. Why does the author call lichens pioneers?A．Because they developed so early in the history of the planet.B．Because of their primitive structure.C．Because they prepare soil for other plants.D．Because they were the first plants to live in Antarctica .63. The word "barren" underlined in Paragraph 1 most probably means _______ .A．lifeless B．frigid C．hard D．uncovered64. Which of the following is an example of symbiosis as it is described in Paragraph 2 ?A．Certain types of tall grass conceal tigers because of the tigers' striped markings.B．Fish called remoras attach themselves to sharks and eat the scraps of the sharks' meals.C．Mistletoe, a type of shrub, grows on trees and harms them by extracting water and nutrients.D．Protozoa in the intestines of termites digest the cellulose that the termites eat, and their waste products nourish the termites.65. Which of the following can be inferred about the effect of direct sunlight on lichens?A．It damages the algae.B．It helps the fungi absorb water.C．It is required for the algae to carry on photosynthesis.D．It destroys the fungi.66. According to the passage, the algae ______ .A．may not carry on photosynthesis alone B．supply food to the fungiC．can't live separately D．aren't recognizable as a species67. Why does the author say that "these species of fungi seem rather strange"?A．They are larger than typical fungi.B．Unlike other fungi, they can produce their own food.C．They exist only as partners of algae.D．They do not fit into any known class of fungi.68. Which of the following best expresses the main idea of Paragraph 2 ?A．Because of their characteristics as double organisms, it is difficult to classify lichens.B．Over 15,000 varieties of lichens have been identified.C．Double organisms should always be classified as separate species.D．Taxonomists always find it difficult to classify new species of plants.69. The word "splendid" underlined in Paragraph 3 most probably means ______ .A．unique B．improbable C．excellent D．famousIn most aspects of medieval life, the closed corporation prevailed. **pared to modern life, the medieval urban family was a very open unit: for it included, as part of the normal household, not only relatives by blood but a group of industrial workers as well as domestics whose relation was that of secondary members of family. This held for all classes, for young men from the upper classes got their knowledge of the world by serving as waiting men in a noble family: what they observed and overheard at mealtime was part of their education. Apprentices lived as members of the master craftsman's family. If marriage was perhaps deferred longer for men than today, the advantages of home life were not entirely lacking, even for the bachelor.The workshop was a family; likewise the merchant's counting house. The members ate together at the same table, worked in the same rooms, slept in the same or common hall, converted at night into dormitories, joined in the family prayers, participated in **mon amusements.The intimate unity of domesticity and labour dictated the major arrangement within the medieval dwelling-house itself. Houses were usually built in continuous rows around the perimeter of their gardens. Freestanding houses, unduly exposed to the elements, wasteful of the land on each side, harder to heat, were relatively scarce: even farmhouses would be part of a solid block that included the stables, barns and granaries. The materials for the houses came out of the local soil, and they varied with the region. Houses in the continuous row forming the closed perimeter of a block, with guarded access on the ground floor, served as a domestic wall: a genuine protection against felonious entry in troubled times.The earliest houses would have small window openings, with shutters to keep out the weather; then later, permanent windows of oiled cloth, paper and eventually glass. In the fifteenth century, glass, hitherto so costly it was used only for public buildings, became more frequent, at first only in the upper part of the window. A typical sixteenth-century window would have been divided into three panels: the uppermost panel, fixed, would be of diamond-parted glass; the next two panels would have shutters that opened inwards; thus the amount of exposure to sunlight and air could be controlled, yet on inclement days, both sets of shutters could be closed, without altogether shutting out our light. On any consideration of hygiene and ventilation this type of window was superior to the all-glass window that succeeded it, since glass excludes the bactericidal ultra-violet rays.70. The urban family unit described in the passage ______.A. consisted of people related by bloodB. was made up of workers, servants and family membersC. excluded domestics and craftsmenD. **posed of members of the same social class71. How did young noblemen receive their education?A. They were taught in their own homes.B. They received training in practical skills.C. They were sent to other households.D. They were educated with other young men.72. According to the writer, why were there few free-standing houses?A. Building land Was expensive.B. Such houses were costly to construct.C. Such houses suffered the effects of bad weather.D. There was no room left for a garden.73. Where could you have expected to find glass used in the fourteenth century?A. In small windows in private houses.B. In buildings designed for public use.C. Forming one part of a window protection.D. Behind protective shutters.74. In the writer's opinion, all-glass windows were not an improvement because they were less ______.A. healthyB. attractiveC. economicalD. hard-wearingⅢ Cloze TestHow many of us would temp for three years while we waited for the perfect job? Not many of us, perhaps. But Wentworth Miller, the "Prison Break" star, said he chose to wait even longer time (1) he found the right job."Actually I think it might have been three or four years until I was lucky enough to get guest (2) on TV shows," said Miller, 34, who rose to international stardom (3) to "Prison Break" in 2006. That kind of patience and strong will was portrayed in "Prison Break". Miller (4) engineering wizard Michael Scofield, who tries everything to break out of a Chicago (5) with his brother. Miller said he was fond of his character, (6) he said "exists in shades of grey".**es from a (7) of teachers. He said he didn't seem fated for a career in the arts, (8) his passion for acting. After (9) from Princeton with an English degree, he moved (10) his parents' request to Los Angeles to look for a stable life. He started (11) in a **pany that made television movies. This (12) simply faxing, filing, walking the boss' dog and going to the store for the boss' lunch. Every weekend during the summer, Miller (13) go to the office (14) hedidn't have air-conditioning. "I would hang (15) in the conference room and set up camp and rob **pany kitchen," recalled Miller.(16) , Miller realized he still had questions about his choice. He decided to quit. But the boss said he was making a mistake and offered him a well-paid assistant position. "I eventually (17) that if I did the corporate job, it would be great if I was successful, but I would always wonder about the (18) . If I did the acting and was successful, I would never wonder (19) that job," he explained. He quit and temped (20) many people in the entertainment industry.Now, he's a hot star and has **ing up to him at film festivals saying, "Weren't you the one who (21) to stand by the copy machine?""That was tough, but I'm glad I have that perspective. Because now I'm at a point (22) big shots laugh at all my jokes and I think, You know, I got coffee for people like you for six years'. So I know what's (23) , because I've seen the other side." But what if, when he was offered the corporate job, there had been more money? "It was never about the (24) There's a kind of excitement **es along with acting. I can't find it anywhere else. Even if I had to go back to temping, even if this is not the beginning of an amazing career, I would not (25) making that jump.\75.76.77.78.79.80.81.82.83.84.85.86.87.88.89.90.91.92.93.94.95.96.97.98.99.Ⅳ Writing100. Read the following English passage and then write a Chinese summary of approximately 300 words that expresses its main ideas and basic information.。

历年英语翻译资格考试二级笔译真题

历年英语翻译资格考试二级笔译真题E-C TranslationCompulsory TranslationThere was, last week, a glimmer of hope in the world food crisis. Expecting a bumper harvest, Ukraine relaxed restrictions on exports. Overnight, global wheat prices fell by 10 percent.By contrast, traders in Bangkok quote rice prices around $1,000 a ton, up from $460 two months ago.Such is the volatility of today’s markets. We do not know how high food prices might go, nor how far they could fall. But one thing is certain: We have gone from an era of plenty to one of scarcity. Experts agree that food prices are not likely to return to the levels the world had grown accustomed to any time soon.Imagine the situation of those living on less than $1 a day - the “bottom billion,” the poorest of the world’s poor. Most live in Africa, and many might typically spend two-thirds of their income on food.In Liberia last week, I heard how people have stopped purchasing imported rice by the bag. Instead, they increasingly buy it by the cup, because that’s all they can afford.Traveling though West Africa, I found good reason for optimism. In Burkina Faso, I saw a government working to import drought resistant seeds and better manage scarce water supplies, helped by nations like Brazil. In Ivory Coast, we saw a women’s cooperative running a chicken farm set up with UN funds. The project generated income - and food - for villagers in ways that can easily be replicated.Elsewhere, I saw yet another women’s group slowly expanding their local agricultural production, with UN help. Soon they will replace World Food Programrice with their own home-grown produce, sufficient to cover the needs of their school feeding program.These are home-grown, grass-roots solutions for grass-roots problems - precisely the kind of solutions that Africa needs. optionalTopic 1For a decade, metallurgists studying the hulk of the Titanic have argued that the storied ocean liner went down quickly after hitting an iceberg because the ship’s builder used substandard rivets that popped their heads and let tons of icy seawater rush in. More than 1,500 people died.Now a team of scientists has moved into deeper waters, uncovering evidence in the builder’s own archives of a deadly mix of great ambitio n and use of low-quality iron that doomed the ship, which sank 96 years ago Tuesday.The scientists found that the ship’s builder, Harland and Wolff, in Belfast, struggled for years to obtain adequate supplies of rivets and riveters to build the world’s three biggest ships at once: the Titanic and two sisters, Olympic and Britannic.Each required three million rivets, and shortages peaked during Titanic’s construction.“The board was in crisis mode,” said Jennifer Hooper McCarty, a member of the team that studied the company’s archive and other evidence. “It was constant stress. Every meeting it was, ‘There’s problems with the rivets, and we need to hire more people.’ “The team collected other clues from 48 Titanic rivets, using modern tests, computer simulations, comparisons to century-old metals and careful documentation of what engineers and shipbuilders of the era considered state of the art.The scientists say the troubles began when the colossal plans forced Harland and Wolff to reach beyond its usual suppliers of rivet iron and include smaller forges, as disclosed in company and British government papers. Small forges tended to have less skill and experience.Adding to the threat, the company, in buying iron for Titanic’s rivets, ordered No. 3 bar, known as “best,” not No. 4, known as “best-best,” the scientists found. They also discovered that shipbuilders of the day typically used No. 4 iron for anchors, chains and rivets.So the liner, whose name was meant to be synonymous with opulence, in at least one instance relied on cheap materials.The scientists argue that better rivets would have probably kept the Titanic afloat long enough for rescuers to have arrived before the icy plunge, saving hundreds of lives.C-E TranslationCompulsory Translation“中国制造”模式遭遇发展瓶颈，这种模式必须要改进和提高。

二级笔译考试样题答案

二级笔译考试样题答案一、词汇选择（每题1分，共10分）1. The company is currently undergoing a period ofsignificant ________.A. inflationB. transitionC. stagnationD. fluctuation答案：B2. The government has taken measures to ________ the spreadof the virus.A. containB. sustainC. accelerateD. mitigate答案：A3. The ________ of the project was delayed due to bad weather.A. implementationB. inaugurationC. executionD. commencement答案：D4. The new policy aims to ________ the gap between the rich and the poor.A. bridgeB. widenC. deepenD. ignore答案：A5. The company has decided to ________ its operations in the overseas market.A. expandB. contractC. suspendD. dissolve答案：A6. The ________ of the old factory will lead to the creation of new jobs.A. renovationB. demolitionC. relocationD. adaptation答案：B7. The team's ________ to the challenge was impressive.A. responseB. reactionC. acceptanceD. submission答案：A8. The ________ of the new law has been postponed due to political disagreements.A. enforcementB. establishmentC. formulationD. implementation答案：D9. The ________ of the old bridge was necessary for safety reasons.A. repairB. maintenanceC. replacementD. inspection答案：C10. The company is seeking to ________ its product line with more innovative items.A. diversifyB. specializeC. standardizeD. streamline答案：A二、阅读理解（每题2分，共20分）Passage 1In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the number of people choosing to work remotely. This trend has been driven by advancements in technology, which have made it easier for employees to connect with their colleagues and access company resources from anywhere. As a result, many companies have adopted flexible work policies, allowing employees to work from home or other locations outside the traditional office setting.11. What is the main reason for the increase in remote work?A. The need for more office spaceB. Technological advancementsC. The desire for a better work-life balanceD. The high cost of office rentals答案：B12. What is one benefit of remote work mentioned in the passage?A. Reduced commuting timeB. Increased job opportunitiesC. Improved office productivityD. Lower energy consumption答案：APassage 2The concept of a circular economy has gained traction in recent years as a way to address environmental concerns. In a circular economy, resources are kept in use for as long as possible, and waste is minimized by designing out waste and making sure that products can be reused, repaired, or recycled. This approach contrasts with the traditional linear economy, where resources are used once and then discarded.13. What is the primary goal of a circular economy?A. To increase consumer spendingB. To reduce waste and extend resource useC. To encourage the production of new productsD. To promote the use of renewable resources答案：B14. How does a circular economy differ from a linear economy?A. It focuses on resource conservationB. It emphasizes product innovationC. It relies on non-renewable resourcesD. It prioritizes economic growth over the environment答案：A三、翻译（英译汉，每题15分，共30分）15. The integration of artificial intelligence into various industries has the potential to revolutionize the way we work and live, offering new opportunities for innovation and efficiency.答案：人工智能在各个行业的融合有潜力彻底改变我们的工作和生活方式，为创新和效率提供新的机会。

二笔翻译真题

2003年12月Part A Compulsory Translation（必译题）（20 points）中华民族历来尊重人的尊严和价值。

还在遥远的古代，我们的先人就已提出“民为贵”的思想，认为“天生万物，唯人为贵”，一切社会的发展和进步，都取决于人的发展和进步，取决于人的尊严的维护和价值的发挥。

中国共产党领导人民进行革命、建设和改革，就是要实现全中国人民广泛的自由、民主和人权。

今天中国所焕发出来的巨大活力，是中国人民拥有广泛自由、民主的生动写照。

中国在公元一世纪人口就已达到过六千万左右，众多人口的衣食住行，几千年来一直是中国历代政府所要解决的首要人权问题。

今天的中国是一个有十二亿多人口的发展中大国，仍然必须首先保障最广大人民的生存权和发展权，不然一切其他权利都无从谈起。

中国确保十二亿多人的生存权和发展权，这是对世界人权进步事业的重大贡献。

Part B Choice of Two Translation （二选一题）（20 points）Topic 1（选题一）艾滋病艾滋病是一种威胁生命的疾病，它侵袭人体内的自然免疫系统，破坏人体的自卫能力。

艾滋病本身并不致命，但是，由于人体的免疫系统遭到破坏，病人几乎没有能力低于其他许多疾病的侵袭，例如，肺炎、癌症、致盲性疾病和精神错乱。

艾滋病毒存在于人的体液中。

这种病毒可以通过性生活或共用静脉注射器传播，也可以通过血制品传播，并且可以从患艾滋病的孕妇身上传播给她的妊娠婴儿。

有关艾滋病传播的许多说法是错误的。

与艾滋病患者一起工作或上学不会传染上艾滋病，触摸他们用过的饮水杯或其他东西也不会传染上艾滋病。

专家们说：没有人因为与艾滋病患者一起生活、照料艾滋病患者或触摸艾滋病患者而染上艾滋病。

Topic 2 （选题二）时间之谜如果你能够看懂时钟，你就可以知道一天的时间。

但是谁也不知道，时间本身究竟是什么。

时间是看不到、摸不着、听不见的，我们只能记录时间消逝的办法才知道时间的存在。

catti二年级笔译综合能力试题及答案解析

c a t t i二年级笔译综合能力试题及答案解析文件排版存档编号：[UYTR-OUPT28-KBNTL98-UYNN208]2014年catti二级笔译综合能力试题及答案解析(三)catti二级笔译综合能力试题及答案解析(三)一、Vocabulary Selection(本大题14小题.每题1.0分,共14.0分。

In this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are four words or phrases respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. There is only one right answer. )第1题The explanation given by the manager yesterday was not at all ________ to us.A satisfyB satisfiedC satisfactoryD satisfying【正确答案】:C【本题分数】:1.0分【答案解析】同义辨析。

satisfactory令人满意的:The result of the match was highly satisfactory.比赛结果非常令人满意。

satisfy使满足:I offered him $1,000 to keep quiet,but that did not satisfy him and he wanted even more.我给了他一千美元让他保持沉默,但他并不满足,他还要更多的钱。

satisfied满意的,满足的:I'm not fully satisfied with the standard of your work.我对你的工作水准不太满意。

二级笔译必译真题

从19世纪40年代之后的鸦片战争、甲午战争，到庚子之乱乃至20世纪30年代的日本侵华战争，中国惨遭东西方列强的屠戮和极其野蛮的经济掠夺；再加上封建腐败和连年内乱，中国主权沦丧、生灵涂炭、国力衰弱、民不聊生。

深重的灾难、惨痛的事实使中华民族深知和平之珍贵、发展之重要。

这样的历史实践形成了中国人民渴望和平、企求安定的心理，坚定了中国人民走和平发展道路的信念。

1949年新中国成立后，我们在发展道路上艰辛探索，既经历过成功的喜悦，也经受过失败的挫折。

从1978年开始，中国开启了新的征程，从计划转向市场，从封闭转向开放，从自成一体转向融入经济全球化，走独立自主地建设中国特色社会主义的道路，取得了举世瞩目的辉煌成就。

实践充分证明，坚持走和平发展的道路是正确的，既符合中国国情，又顺应时代潮流。

中国将沿着这条和平发展的道路，坚定不移地走下去。

参考译文：From the Opium War and the First Sino-Japanese War after the 1840s, China's War on Foreign Invaders 1900 to the Japanese War of Aggression against China in 1930s, China was subject to the butchering of the then strong powers in the West and East and their extremely barbarian economic depredation. This, coupled with feudal corruption and years of successive civil strife and chaos, led to the loss of China's sovereignty and the horrendous suffering of her people, her national strength failing and people barely surviving. The grave disasters and the harsh facts have ingrained deeply into the Chinese nation the value of peace and the importance of development. Such a historic experience has shaped the psychology of the Chinese people in our quest for peace and hope for stability, consolidating our belief in following a path to peaceful development. After the founding of New China in 1949, we have made arduous explorations in the course of our development, going through both the joys of success and the frustrations of failure. Starting from 1978, China has embarked on a new journey of transforming from a planned to a market economy, from cloistered up to opening up, from exclusive self-sustaining to integration into globalization. By following a path of building socialism with Chinese characteristics in an independent and self-reliant manner, we have scored glorious achievements that attracted worldwide attention. Practice has amply demonstrated that it is right to adhere to a path of peaceful development, as it conforms to both China's reality and the trend of the times. China will unswervingly march onward alongside this path to peaceful development.。