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2016考研英语翻译练习真题

我们之前说过，复习考研英语要注重真题，在记忆词汇和练习阅读理解、翻译题的时候要结合真题做搭配记忆，并辅以相应的练习，下面我们就以真题为例，从中摘取出容易出现的考点，不妨参考下尚考考研为大家从真题里摘取易考的考点。

The Tang Dynasty was the peak of Chinese classicalpoetry and many distinguished poets and poetryappeared during this period of less than 300years.Up till now，over 50，000 poems and 2，000poets of the Tang Dynasty have been well-knownamong people.The best-known poets during the Tang Dynasty are Li Bai and Du Fu. Beingindependent and full of talent，Li Bai created a great many poems to praise the wonderfulmountains and brilliant rivers.Du Fu's rough experiences when he was young made him knowbetter about the darkness society and the people's sufferings.The most popular Tang poemscollection might be the 300 Tang Poems compiled by the scholar Sun Zhu of the QingDynasty.Tang poetry has had an ongoing influence on world literature and modern poetry.参考翻译唐代是中国古典诗歌的鼎盛时期，在不到300年的时间里，产生了许多著名的诗人和诗作。

考研英语翻译集训模拟题(学生版)

考研英语翻译集训模拟题（学生版）（1）Gandhi’s pacifism can be separated to some extent from his other teachings.(1) Its motive was religious, but he claimed also for it that it was a definitive technique, a method, capable of producing desired political results. Gandh i’s attitude was not that of most Western pacifists. Satyagraha, (2) the method Gandhi proposed and practiced, first evolved in South Africa, was a sort of non-violent warfare, a way of defeating the enemy without hurting him and without feeling or arousing hatred. It entailed such things as civil disobedience, strikes, lying down in front of railway trains, enduring police charges without running away and without hitting back, and the like. Gandhi objected to “passive resistance” as a translation of Satyagraha: in Gujarati, it seems the word means “firmness in the truth”. (3) In his early days Gandhi served as a stretcher-bearer on the British side in the Boer War, and he was prepared to do the same again in the war of 1914-1918. Even after he had completely abjured violence he was honest enough to see that in war it is usually necessary to take sides. Since his whole political life centred round a struggle for national independence, he could not and, (4) indeed, he did not take the sterile and dishonest line of pretending that in every war both sides are exactly the same and it makes no difference who wins. Nor did he, like most Western pacifists, specialize in avoiding awkward questions. In relation to the late war, one question that every pacifist had a clear obligation to answer was: “What about the Jews? Are you prepared to see them exterminated? If not, how do you propose to save them without resorting to war?” (5) I must say that I have never heard, from any Western pacifist, an honest answer to this question, though I have heard plenty of evasions, usually of the “you’re another” type. But it so happens that Gandhi was asked a somewhat similar question in 1938 and that his answer is on record in Mr. Louis Fischer’s Gandhi and Stalin. According to Mr. Fischer, Gandhi’s view was that the German Jews ought to commit collective suicide, which “would have aroused the world and the people of Germany to Hitler’s violence.”篇章分析：本文是一篇介绍甘地的和平主义的文章。

考研英语一2016年真题的全文翻译

2016年考研英语一试题翻译SectionⅠ在柬埔寨，选择配偶对于年轻男性来说是件很复杂的事。

这不仅可能需要男女双方的父母朋友参与，同时也可能需要媒人的撮合。

年轻的成年男子可以自己确定一个合适的配偶，然后请求父母安排与对方家人商讨婚事，或者男方的父母为孩子挑好配偶，在此过程中，孩子几乎没有话语权。

在理论上，女方可以拒绝父母为其选择的配偶。

结婚对象选定之后，双方家庭就会开始调查了解对方，以确保自己的孩子嫁人或迎娶的是一户好人家。

传统婚礼持续的时间长且丰富多彩。

以前，婚礼仪式会持续三天，但到了20世纪80年代时，更为常见的是持续一天半。

佛教僧侣主持简短的讲道仪式，并念诵祝福的祷告文。

婚礼上的活动有仪式性的剪发，将在圣水中浸湿的棉线缠绕在新人的手腕上，以及婚姻幸福并受尊重的夫妇围成一圈，传递蜡烛为新人的结合祈福。

新婚夫妇按照传统会搬进女方父母家中与他们同住长达一年，直到他们能在附近建造一座新房子为止。

(在柬埔寨)离婚是合法且容易实现的，但并不普遍。

离过婚的人会遭受一些非议。

离婚时，夫妻双方的婚前财产仍归自己所有，而共同拥有的财产则会平均分配。

离异者可以再婚，但性别歧视在此时却会显现出来：离异的男性无需等待一定的时间就可以再婚，但女性则必须等待10个月才可以再婚。

SectionⅡText 1以全球时尚创新者身份为荣的法国判定其时尚业已不再拥有定义女性形体美的绝对权。

其立法机关上周初步通过了一项法规，规定雇用超瘦T台模特将会被定为犯罪。

议会还同意取缔那些通过宣传极端节食来“教唆过瘦身材”的网站。

这些措施有几个振奋人心的动机。

这些措施表明美不应该以最终损害健康为代价的外表来定义。

这是一个开端。

对超瘦模特的禁令似乎不仅仅是为了保护模特使其避免(为追求瘦而将自己)饿死——一些模特已死于饥饿。

这项禁令告知时尚业必须为其传递给女性(尤其是十几岁的女孩)的信号承担责任，这种信号涉及她们必须用以决定其个体价值的社会标尺。

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2016考研英语二模拟题.pdf解读

2016考研英语二测试题Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Although there are many skillful Braille readers, thousands of other blind people find it difficult to Learn that system. They arethereby shut 1 from the world of books and newspapers, having to2 on friends to read aloud to them.A young scientist named Raymond Kurzweil has now designed a computer which is a major 3 in providing aid to the 4 . His machine, Cyclops, has a camera that 5 any page, interprets the print into sounds, and then delivers them orally in a robot-like 6 through a speaker. By pressing the appropriate buttons 7 Cyclops’s keyboard, a blind person can “read” any 8 document in the English language.This remarkable invention represents a tremendous 9 forward in the education of the handicapped. At present, Cyclops costs ＄50,000. 10 , Mr. Kurzweil and his associates are preparing a smaller 11 improved version that will sell 12 less than half that price. Within a few years, Kurzweil 13 the price range will be low enough for every school and library to 14 one. Michael Hingson, Director of the NationalFederation for the Blind,hopes that 15 will be able to buy home 16 of Cyclops for the price of a good television set.Mr. Hingson’s organization purchased five machines and is now testing them in Maryland, Colorado, Iowa, California, and New York. Blind people have been 17 in those tests, makinglots of 18 suggestions to the engineers who helped to produce Cyclops.“This is the first time that blind people have ever done individual studies 19 a product was put on th e market,” Hingson said. “Most manufacturers believed that having the blind help the blind was like telling disabled people to teach other disabled people. In that 20 , the manufacturers have been the blind ones.”1. A) up B) down C) in D) off2. A) dwell B) rely C) press D) urge3. A) execution B) distinction C) breakthrough D) process4. A) paralyzed B) uneducated C) invisible D) sightless5. A) scans B) enlarges C) sketches D) projects6. A) behavior B) expression C) movement D) voice7. A) on B) at C) in D) from8. A) visual B) printed C) virtual D) spoken9. A) stride B) trail C) haul D) footprint10. A) Likewise B) Moreover C) However D) Though11. A) but B) than C) or D) then12. A) on B) for C) through D) to13. A) estimates B) considers C) counts D) determines14. A) settle B) own C) invest D) retain15. A) schools B) children C) families D) companies16. A) models B) modes C) cases D) collections17. A) producing B) researching C) ascertaining D) assisting18. A) true B) valuable C) authentic D) pleasant19. A) after B) when C) before D) as20. A) occasion B) moment C) sense D) eventSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ATEXT 1It was a little weird at first, Erin Tobin said, seeing Harry Potter right there on the stage without his pants, or indeed any of his clothes.Not actually Harry Potter, of course, since his is fictional, but the next best thing: Daniel Radcliffe, who plays him in the movies. Now 17, Mr. Radcliffe has cast off his wand, his broomstick and everything else to appear in the West End revival of Peter Shaffer's "Equus." He stars as Alan Strang, a disturbed young man who, in a distinctly un-Harry-Potterish moment of frenzied psychosexual madness, blinds six horses with a hoof pick.To make it clear what audiences are in for, at least in part, photographs of Mr. Radcliffe's buff torso, stripped almost to the groin, have been used to advertise the production. It is as jarring as if, say, Anne Hathaway suddenly announced that instead of playing sweet-natured princesses and fashion-world ingénues, she wanted to appear onstage as a nude, murderous prostitute.To explain how is surprising the change of Radcliffe to the audience, the author mentions Anne "Equus" opened last week, and the consensus so far is that Mr. Radcliffe has successfully extricated himself from his cinematic alter ego. Considering that playing Harry Potter is practically all he has done in his career, this is no small achievement."I think he's a really good actor, and I sort of forgot about Harry Potter," said Ophelia Oates, 14, who saw the play over the weekend." Anyway, you can't be Harry Potter forever."In The Daily Telegraph, Charles Spencer said that "Daniel Radcliffe brilliantly succeeds in throwing off the mantle of Harry Potter, announcing himself as a thrilling stage actor of unexpected depth and range."Mr. Radcliffe told The Daily Telegraph that "I thought it would be a bad idea to wait till the Potter films were all finished to do something else." There are still a few to go. The fifth, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," is scheduled for release on July 13, and Mr. Radcliffe has signed on for the final two installments as well. (Meanwhile, the seventh and last book in the series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," will hit stores on July 21.)Harry and Alan could not be more dissimilar as characters, even if both "come from quite weird backgrounds," as 13-year-old Ella Pitt, another recent theatergoer, put it. (And no, she declared, she was not too young for all the nakedness, swearing and sexuality.) Both characters have unresolved issues relating to their parents: Harry, because his are dead, and Alan, because his have driven him insane.But when it comes to romance, for instance, the celluloid Harry has yet to kiss a girl: the big moment comes in the forthcoming film. Meanwhile, Alan in "Equus" not only engages in some serious equi-erotic nuzzling with an actor playing a horse, but is also onstage, fully nude, for 10 minutes, during which he nearly has sex with an equally naked young woman.21.The author's mentioning of Hathaway is a ________.A. simileB. comparisonC. hyperboleD. analogy222. T he word "extricated" (Line 2, Para. 4) implies ________.A. rescuedB. freedC. clearedD. extracted23. T he audience's response to the new image of "Harry Potter" is ________.A. negativeB. positiveC. indifferentD. none of the above24. T he two dissimilar characters, i.e. Harry and Alan are common in that ________.A. they are both weirdB. their parents are weirdC. they have unresolved issuesD. they have weird families25. T he best title for this passage is ________.A. "Harry Porter" Is DisappearingB. The Naked "Harry Porter"C. The Successful Change of "Harry Porter"D. "Harry Porter" in "Enquus"TEXT 2Uruguay has been a proud exception to the privatizing wave that swept through South America in the 1990s. Its state-owned firms are more efficient that many of their counterparts in Argentina and Brazil ever were. In 1992, Uruguayans voted in a referendum against privatizing telecoms. They rightly observe that some of Argentina's sales were smashed, creating inefficient private monopolies. And with unemployment at 15%, nobody is enthusiastic about the job cuts privatization would involve.That leaves President Jorge Batlle with a problem. Uruguay has been in recession for the past two years, mainly because of low prices for its agricultural exports, and because of Argentina's woes. But public debt is at 45% of GDP, and rising. Some economists argue that privatization would give a boost to the economy, by attracting foreign investment, and by lowering costs. CERES, a think-tank, having compared tariffs for public services in Uruguay and its neighbors, believes liberalization could save businesses and households the equivalent of 4% GDP annually, raise growth and produce a net 45,000 jobs.The polls that show continuing support for public ownership also show growing opposition to monopolies. So Mr. Batlle plans to keep the state firms, but let private ones either compete with them or bid to operate their services under contract.The opposition Broad Front and the trade unions are resisting. They have gathered enough signatures to demand a "public consultation" next month on a new law to allow private operators in the ports and railway—a referendum on whether to hold a referendum on the issue. Alberto Bension, the finance minister, admits the vote will be a crucial indicator of how far the government can push. But he notes that, since 1992, attempts to overturn laws by calling referendums have flopped.The liberalization of telecoms has already begun. Bell South, an American firm, is the first private cell-phone operator. There are plans to license others, and talk of allowing competition for fixed-line telephones.A new law allows private companies to import gas from Argentina to generate electricity in competition with the state utility. Another play would strip Another plan would strip Ancap, the state oil firm, of its monopoly of imports. It has already been allowed to seek a private partner to modernize its refinery.Harder tasks lie ahead. The state-owned banks are burdened with problem loans to farmers and home owners. And Mr. Batlle shows no appetite for cutting the bureaucracy.After a year in office, the president is popular. He has created a cross-party commission to investigate "disappearances" during Uruguay's military dictatorship of 1976-85. The unions are weakened by unemployment.3At CERES, Ernesto Talvi argues that Mr. Batlle should note his own strength, and push ahead more boldly. But that is not the Uruguayan way.26.Uruguay in the 1990s ________..A. moved in the privatizing wave C. sticked to its old economic modeB. adopted the same measure as that of Argentina D. developed very slowly27.What can we infer from the first four paragraphs?A.Uruguay has been always trying to join in the privatizing wave.B.Economists argue that privatization is an efficient way to boost Uruguay's GDP.C.Mr. Battle plans to privatize the country's economy completely.D.The opposition Broad Front is in favor of privatization.28.The fifth paragraph suggests that ________.A.Bell South is built up in 1982B.There has been no law to regulate the electricityC.Ancap may modernize its refinery with the help of a private partnerD.Liberalization makes the economy slack29.What does the author mean by "flopped" (last line, Para. 4)?A. succeededB. failedC. followedD. provoked30.Which one is TRUE according to the passage?A.Privatization is thriving in Uruguay.B.Now, referenda have less strength to change some laws.C.Uruguayan people are satisfied with the government's actions with regard to theeconomy. D. The President is managing to keep the state companies efficient.TEXT 3Even at the Vatican, not all sacred beliefs are absolute: Thou shalt not kill, but war can be just. Now, behind the quiet walls, a clash is shaping up involving two poles of near certainty: the church's long-held ban on condoms and its advocacy of human life.The issue is AIDS. Church officials recently confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI had requested a report on whether it might be acceptable for Catholics to use condoms in one narrow circumstance: to protect life inside a marriage when one partner is infected with H.I.V. or is sick with AIDS.Whatever the pope decides, church officials and other experts broadly agree that it is remarkable that so delicate an issue is being taken up. But they also agree that such an inquiry is logical, and particularly significant from this pope, who was Pope John Paul II's strict enforcer of church doctrine."In some ways, maybe he has got the greatest capacity to do it because there is no doubt about his orthodoxy," said the Rev. Jon Fuller, a Jesuit physician who runs an AIDS clinic at the Boston Medical Center.The issue has surfaced repeatedly as one of the most complicated and delicate facing the church. For years, some influential cardinals and theologians have argued for a change for couples affected by AIDS in the name of protecting life, while others have fiercely attacked the possibility as demoting the church's long advocacy of4abstinence and marital fidelity to fight the disease.The news broke just after Benedict celebrated his first anniversary as pope, a relatively quiet papal year. But he devoted his first encyclical to love, specifically between a man and a woman in marriage.Indeed, with regard to condoms, the only change apparently being considered is in the specific case of married couples. But any change would be unpopular with conservative Catholics, some of faith than he did when he was still Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the papal adviser."It's just hard to imagine that any pope —and this pope —would change the teaching," said Austin Ruse, president of the Culture of Life Foundation, a Catholic-oriented advocacy group in Washington that opposes abortion and contraception.It is too soon to know where the pope is heading. Far less contentious issues can take years to inch through the Vatican's nexus of belief and bureaucracy, prayer and politics, and Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragán, the pope's top aide on health care issues, and other officials declined requests for interviews.31.By the first sentence in the first paragraph, the author actually means ________.A.the war can be supported by the churchB.the Vatican is always telling a lieC.some doctrines of the church are not so unchangeableD.people may do as they like32.The request from Pope Benedict XVI is particularly significant because ________.A.this pope strictly executed the Catholic doctrineB.this pope is powerfulC.this pope has been against the use of condoms all the timeD.This pope has been assisted the advocacy of human life33.The word "demoting" (Line 3, Para. 5) ________.A. degradingB. opposingC. supportingD. changing34. This issue is so complicated because ________.A. the pope has no capacity to deal with itB. it involve two poles of near certaintyC. it may affect the pope's orthodoxyD. there are two parties on this issue in the church35. According to the passage, the pope probably will ________.A. change the doctrine about the use of condomsB. give up his new ideasC. still carrying out the church beliefsD. None of the aboveTEXT 4Healthy soda? That may strike some as an oxymoron. But for Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, it's a marketing opportunity.In coming months, both companies will introduce new carbonated drinks that are fortified with vitamins and minerals: Diet Coke Plus and Tava, which is PepsiCo's new offering. They will be promoted as "sparkling beverages." The companies are not calling them soft drinks because people are turning away from traditional soda, which has been hurt in part by publicity about its link to obesity.5While the soda business remains a $68 billion industry in the United States, consumers are increasingly reaching for bottled water, sparkling juices and green tea drinks. In 2005, the amount of soda sold in this country dropped for the first in recent history. Even the diet soda business has slowed.Coca-Cola's chief executive, E. Neville Isdell, clearly frustrated that his industry has been singled out in the obesity debate, insisted at a recent conference that his diet products should be included in the health and wellness category because, with few or no calories, they are a logical answer to expanding waistlines."Diet and light brands are actually health and wellness brands," Mr. Isdell said. He asserted that Diet Coke Plus was a way to broaden the category to attract new consumers.Tom Pirko, president of Bevmark, a food and beverage consulting firm, said it was "a joke" to market artificially sweetened soft drinks as healthy, even if they were fortified with vitamins and minerals. Research by his firm and others shows that consumers think of diet soft drinks as "the antithesis of healthy," he said. These consumers "Comment on putting something synthetic and not natural into their bodies when they consume diet colas," Mr. Pirko said. "And in the midst of a health and welfare boom, that ain't good."The idea of healthy soda is not entirely new. In 2004, Cadbury Schweppes caused a stir when it unveiled 7Up Plus, a low-calorie soda fortified with vitamins and minerals. Last year, Cadbury tried to extend the healthy halo over its regular 7Up brand by labeling it "100 percent natural." But the company changed the label to "100 percent natural flavor" after complaints from a nutrition group that a product containing high-fructose corn syrup should not be considered natural, and 7Up Plus has floundered.The new fortified soft drinks earned grudging approval from Michael F. Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, A nutrition advocacy group and frequent critic of regular soft drinks, which it has labeled "liquid candy."A survey by Morgan Stanley found that only 10 percent of consumers interviewed in 2006 considered diet colas a healthy choice, compared with 14 percent in 2003. Furthermore, 30 percent of the consumers who were interviewed last year said that they were reluctant to drink beverages with artificial sweeteners, up from 21 percent in 2004.36.Coca-Cola and PepsiCo call their new drinks "sparkling beverages" instead of " soft drinks" because _______.A.the new name sounds more brilliant and attracts more peopleB.the old name reminds people that they may cause people adding weightC.the new drinks are fortified with vitamins and mineralsD.people are turning away from traditional soda37.The sentence "with few or no calories, they are a logical answer to expanding waistlines" (Para. 4) means________.A.they can give a reasonable answer to waistlinesB.they are the logical reason of make people expand waistlinesC.they will not cause obesity since they have few or no caloriesD.it is logical that they may expand people's waistlines38.Tom Pirko's attitude on promoting the soft drinks as healthy is ________.A. jokingB. positiveC. negativeD. indifferent39. The word "floundered" (Line 6, Para.7) implies ________.A. stumbledB. struggledC. flusteredD. troubled640.The data in the last paragraph implies ________.A.the soft drinks will be singled out in the near futureB.the marketing opportunities for these companies are not successfulC.people are paying more and more attention to theirhealth D. people think the soft drink is not healthyPart BDirections:You are going to read a list of headings and a text about a park naturalist. Choose the most suitable heading from the list A—F for each numbered paragraph (41—45). The first and last paragraphs of the text are not numbered. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET l. (10 points)[A]Becoming a naturalist[B]Seeing wonder in theordinary[C]A changing role[D]Disgusting and embarrassing moments[E]What does a park naturalist do?[F]What does it take to be a park naturalist?I have the best job in the Wisconsin State Park System. As a park naturalist at Peninsula State Park, I am busy writing reports, creating brochures about trees or flowers, and sometimes visiting schools．And, of course, I make sure Peninsula’s feathered friends are well fed.41. _____________As a park naturalist I am a writer, a teacher, a historian and, if not a social worker, at least a mentor to young people interested in the environment. I love the diversity of my job. Every day is different. Most tasks require creativity. Now that I am an experienced naturalist, I have the freedom to plan my own day and make decisions about the types of programs that we offer at Peninsula.42. _____________In my first naturalist job, I spent four out of five days leading school field trips and visiting classrooms. As a state park naturalist I still work with students, but more often lead programs like bird walks, nature crafts, outdoor skills, and trail hikes. I also find myself increasingly involved in management decisions. For example, sometimes the park naturalist is the person who knows where rare orchids grow or where ravens nest. When decisions are made about cutting trees, building trails, or creating more campsites. naturalists are asked to give the “ecological perspective.”43. _____________Perhaps the grossest thing I’ve done as a naturalist is to boil animal skulls. Visitors like seeing bones and skins—at least after they have been cleaned up! Once, our nature center needed more skulls. A trapper gave me muskrat, raccoon and fox skulls but I had to clean them. First, I boiled the skin and meat off. Boy, did that stink! Then I used dissecting tools and old toothbrushes to clean out the eyeballs. Finally, I soaked the skulls in a bleach solution. I’ve had some embarrassing experiences, too. On my first hike as Peninsula’s new naturalist, I was so excited that I identified a white pine tree as a red pine tree! That’s quite a mistake since the trees are so e asy to tell apart. White pine needles are in bundles of five and red pine needles are in bundles of two.44. _____________Not all state parks are as busy or as big as Peninsula. Not all park naturalists spend the seasons as I do. Nevertheless, park naturalists share certain common interests and responsibilities: A park naturalist might notice7that branches of a red maple growing in a field reach out to the side while those of a red maple in a thick forest reach up, and wonder why the trees look different. A naturalist makes things happen. It might be working with workers to clean up part of a river. Park naturalists share knowledge in different ways, but all of them communicate with people. A love of learning--from other people, from plants and animals, from books, and more—is an essential quality. Most naturalists don’t work in places of rare beauty. Many work in city parks or in places that show “wear and tear.” If you can wonder about an inchworm, a juniper bush, or a robin and cause others to wonder, too, then you are ready to become a park naturalist.45. _____________If you think you want to become a park naturalist, do the following:Explore your home landscape. Knowing how people have shaped the land where you live-and how the land has shaped them-will lend a comparison that will serve you well.Start a field sketch book ．Sketch what you see, where and when. The reason is not to practice art skills (though you may discover you have a talent) but, rather, to practice observation skills.Go to college. You will need a 4-year degree. There are several academic routes that lead to the naturalist’s road. I have found ornithology, plant taxonomy and human growth and development to be among my most helpful courses.Listen and learn. A college degree is like a ticket. It lets you board the plane but is only the beginning of the journey. Look and listen to those who have already traveled the road for ideas, knowledge and inspiration.Part C46. Direction：Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (15 points)Powering the great ongoing changes of our time is the rise of human creativity as the defining feature of economic life. Creativity has come to be valued, because new technologies, new industries and new wealth flow from it. And as a result, our lives and society have begun to echo with creative ideas. It is our commitment to creativity in its varied dimensions that forms the underlying spirit of our age.Creativity is essential to the way we live and work today, and in many senses always has been. The big advances in standard of living —not to mention the big competitive advantages in the marketplace —always have come from "better recipes, not just more cooking." One might argue that's not strictly true. One might point out, for instance, that during the long period from the early days on the Industrial Revolution to modern times, much of the growth in productivity and material wealth in the industrial nations came not just from creative inventions like the steam engine, but from the widespread application of "cooking in quantity" business methods like massive division of labor, concentration of assets, vertical integration and economies of scale. But those methods themselves were creative developments.Section III WritingPart A47. Directions:You are preparing for an English test and are in need of some reference books. Write a letter to the sales department of a bookstore to ask for:1)detailed information about the books you want,2)methods of payment,3)time and way of delivery.You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name, using "Li Ming"instead. Do not write the address. (10 points)Part B48. Directions:In this section, you are asked to write an essay based on the following table. In your essay, you should1)describe the table and,2)state your opinions drawn from it.You should write at least 150 words.You should write neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.（15 points）The changes of peoples’ diet1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Grain 15% 14% 14% 13% 12% 11% Meat 11% 13% 14% 15% 15% 13%Fruit and vegetable 20% 22% 25% 27% 28% 30%milk 22% 20% 20% 23% 24% 25%全国统一服务热线：400-668-2155 9。

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2.台湾海峡两岸的中国人都是骨肉同胞，手足兄弟。

3.中国经济成功地进行了“软着落”，这是宏观经济调控的结果。

它控制了通货膨胀，避免了经济的大起大落，保持了经济的快速增长。

4.切实抓好基础教育，特别是九年义务制教育和青壮年的扫盲工作。

5.该市地界巴山楚水，湖光山色秀丽，名胜古迹与自然风光融为一体，遍布其间，是理想的旅游胜地。

6.这里气候温和，四季分明，雨量充沛，日照充足，适合多种农作物生长栽培。

7.钱先生周岁使“抓周”，抓了一本书，因此得名“钟书”。

8.“俗话说得好，叫做‘杀鸡给猴看’，拿鸡子宰了，那猴儿自然害怕了。

”9.Hardly a day passes without him getting scratched or bruised as he scrambles fora place on a bus.10.Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapersor newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.11.After years of harboring tens of thousands of illegal foreign workers, Taiwan isgradually opening its door to legal laborers from Southeast Asia in an effort to relieve a chronic manpower shortage.12.Vice-President George Bush is looking to President Ronald Reagan, a starattraction at today’s opening of Republican national convention, to give some sparkle to his presidential campaign.13.The United Nations is attempting to settle conflicts around the world that havetaken a terrible toll and misused the earth’s resources.14.Eight years ago they (a black woman and a white man) were married. They havesurvived th eir families’ shock and disapproval and the stares and unwelcome comments of strangers.15.All told, China has roughly 380 million women between the ages of 15 and 55, anda few of them—particularly in the cities—want to look any less than the besttheir budget allows.II．Translate the following paragraphs into Chinese or English (15 x5) 1.The Oxford English Dictionary is a monumental achievement, without parallel inthe English language and in few others. Every dictionary thereafter is indebted to it. It is as unthinkable that any contemporary lexicographer be without the OED as it is that a professional photographer fails to own a tripod to supplement his camera when needed. It provides the solid base for all he does, and without it his work is apt to be as blurred and undefined as a picture taken in the twilight of underbrush with a hand-held camera.2.Shanghai, which means “above the sea”, is on the Whangpoo River, the lowesttributary at the mouth of the Yangtze. Whereas the territorial limits of Greater Shanghai, 320 square miles by government grant, reach up to the confluence of the two waters, the main city itself sits astride the Whangpoo, ten miles to the interior. Cosmopolitan Shanghai was born to the world in 1842 when the British man-of-war Nemesis, slipped unnoticed into the mouth of the Yangtze River, reduced the Woosung Fort and took the city without a fight.3.四十多年来，中国在发展经济的过程中，逐步改善了人民的生存条件，提高了人民的生活水平。

[考研类试卷]2016年北京第二外国语学院英语翻译基础真题试卷.doc

[考研类试卷]2016年北京第二外国语学院英语翻译基础真题试卷.doc[考研类试卷]2016年北京第二外国语学院英语翻译基础真题试卷英译汉1 black art2 bank holiday3 squatter settlement4 strip the citizenship5 lottery industry6 Intellectual Property Rights7 the Hanging Monastery8 UAV9 WWF10 GATT11 FBI12 OPEC13 NASA14 Fool's haste is no speed.15 A close mouth catches no flies.汉译英16 日本茶道17 证券交易委员会18 医疗改革19 劳动密集型经济20 新闻自由21 世界反法西斯战争22 豆腐渣工程23 中国人民解放军24 科学发展观25 加快经济结构调整26 国家外汇管理局27 中国特色社会主义道路28 中国科学院29 国民生产总值30 非物质文化遗产英译汉31 Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, "Love me, love my dog." But there is more wisdom in this: "Love me, love my book." The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man's life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters.Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive but what is really good.Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us intothe presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.The great and good do not die, even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which on still listens.汉译英32 中国经济同亚太和世界经济的相互联系、相互依存不断加深。

2016 年硕士研究生入学考试模拟题英语翻译基础参考答案--新祥旭

词汇英译汉1. 第21 届联合国气候变化大会2. 伊斯兰国3. 知识产权4. 应用商店5. 全国人民代表大会6. 主题演讲7. 中国东盟自由贸易区8. 网络安全9. 仪式性：10. 超文本传输协议11. 气候变化12. 国情咨文13. 伦敦证券交易所/伦敦政治经济学院14. 对华政策15 中国通词汇汉译英1 hunger marketing2 foreign-aid project3 Greater China Region4 windshield5 graduation thesis/ dissertation6 butterfly effect7 literature review8 opening ceremony9 belt and road initiative10 sustainable development11 G20 summit12 red tape13 greenhouse gases14 market access15 personal remark篇章英译汉：管理香港岛和九龙北部公共交通运营的港铁集团被誉为是全世界地铁运营的典范。

2012 年，港铁收益约合50 亿美元。

除了在香港，港铁集团还在中国的北京、杭州和深圳设有独立运营地铁线，在伦敦有两条地铁线，另外，墨尔本和斯德哥尔摩的地铁系统全部由港铁运营。

在香港，地铁提供的服务在其他国家是看不到的：地铁站设有公共电脑、轮椅和推车，便捷的购票系统，清晰可辨的指示牌，另外长途旅行中，头等舱乘客还可以多付费用来获得可以伸伸腿的空间。

香港为什么可以支付得起这些？答案很简单，就是“溢价回收”。

港铁与其他城市系统不一样，它懂得寸土寸金的珍贵。

香港是世界上最挤的地方之一，只有城铁才能将商业活动所需的顾客从城市一头运到另一头。

因此，港铁与商铺店主达成协议：为了能够运送顾客，港铁需要收取部分商铺盈利、房产开发费用或者签订商业协议。

总之，港铁使自己成为商铺运营的一部分，这样就能对公共交通和顾客出行目的地进行双重管理。

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考研英语翻译模拟试题及答案(四)The Englishman has been called a political animal, and he values what is political and practical so much that ideas easily become objects of dislike in his eyes, and thinkers, miscreants, because practice is everything, a free play of the mind is nothing.(46) The notion of the free play of the mind upon all subjects being a pleasure in itself, being an object of desire, being an essential provider of elements without which a nation’s spirit, whatever compensations it may have for them, must in the long run, die of emptiness, hardly enters into an Englishman’s thoughts. It is noticeable that the word curiosity, which in other languages is used in a good sense, to mean, as a high and fine quality of man’s nature, just this disinterested love of a free play of the mind on all subjects, for its own sake—it is noticeable, I say, that this word has in our language no sense of the kind, no sense but a rather bad and disparaging one. But criticism, real criticism, is essentially the exercise of this very quality.(47)It obeys an instinct prompting it to try to know the best that is known and thought in the world, irrespectively of practice, politics, and everything of the kind; and to value knowledge and thought as they approach this best, without the intrusion of any other considerations whatever. (48)This is an instinct for which there is, I think, little originalsympathy in the practical English nature, and what there was of it has undergone a long benumbing period of blight and suppression in the epoch of Romanticism.(49)It is of the last importance that English criticism should clearly discern what rule for its course, in order to avail itself of the field now opening to it, and to produce fruit for the future, it ought to take. The rule may be summed up in one word-disinterestedness. And how is criticism to show disinterestedness? By keeping aloof from what is called “the practical view of things”; by resolutely following the law of its own nature, which is to be a free play of the mind on all subjects which it touches. (50)By steadily refusing to lend itself to any of those concealed, political, practical considerations about ideas, which plenty of people will be sure to attach to them, but which criticism has really nothing to do with. Its business is, as I have said, simply to know the best that is known and thought in the world, and by in its turn making this known, to create a current of true and fresh ideas. Its business is to do this with inflexible honesty, with due ability; but its business is to do no more.答案46.对所有事物的自由思考本身就是一种乐趣，一种愿望，为民族精神提供了赖以生存的重要因素。

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2016考研英语一翻译部分参考答案上海新东方无忧考研薛海滨46. We don’t have to learn how to be mentally healthy; it is built into us in the same way that our bodies know how to heal a cut or mend a broken bone.我们无需学习如何保持心理健康；这种能力与生俱来，正如我们身体上的伤口会自动愈合、骨折会自动修复一样。

47. Our mental health doesn’t really go anywhere; like the sun behind a cloud, it can be temporarily hidden from view, but it is fully capable of being restored in an instant.健康的心理其实不会离我们远去；就像太阳有时只是躲到云层后面，我们暂时看不见而已，但刹那间又会阳光普照。

48. Mental health allows us to view others with sympathy if they are having troubles, with kindness if they are in pain, and with unconditional love no matter who they are.健康的心理会让我们对陷入麻烦的人报以同情，对遭遇困苦的人予以友爱。

无论对方是谁，我们都能给予无条件的爱。

49. Although mental health is the cure-all for living our lives, it is perfectly ordinary as you will see that it has been there to direct you through all your difficult decisions.虽然心理健康是生活中的万能良药，但其极为普通，因为你会发现，它总是陪在你身边，指引你度过难关，做出抉择。

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At present, Cyclops costs ＄50,000. 10 , Mr. Kurzweil and his associates are preparing a smaller 11 improved version that will sell 12 less than half that price. Within a few years, Kurzweil 13 the price range will be low enough for every school and library to 14 one. Michael Hingson, Director of the NationalFederation for the Blind,hopes that 15 will be able to buy home 16 of Cyclops for the price of a good television set.Mr. Hingson’s organization purchased five machines and is now testing them in Maryland, Colorado, Iowa, California, and New York. Blind people have been 17 in those tests, makinglots of 18 suggestions to the engineers who helped to produce Cyclops.“This is the first time that blind people have ever done individual studies 19 a product was put on th e market,” Hingson said. “Most manufacturers believed that having the blind help the blind was like telling disabled people to teach other disabled people. In that 20 , the manufacturers have been the blind ones.”1. A) up B) down C) in D) off2. A) dwell B) rely C) press D) urge3. A) execution B) distinction C) breakthrough D) process4. A) paralyzed B) uneducated C) invisible D) sightless5. A) scans B) enlarges C) sketches D) projects6. A) behavior B) expression C) movement D) voice7. A) on B) at C) in D) from8. A) visual B) printed C) virtual D) spoken9. A) stride B) trail C) haul D) footprint10. A) Likewise B) Moreover C) However D) Though11. A) but B) than C) or D) then12. A) on B) for C) through D) to13. A) estimates B) considers C) counts D) determines14. A) settle B) own C) invest D) retain15. A) schools B) children C) families D) companies16. A) models B) modes C) cases D) collections17. A) producing B) researching C) ascertaining D) assisting18. A) true B) valuable C) authentic D) pleasant19. A) after B) when C) before D) as20. A) occasion B) moment C) sense D) eventSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ATEXT 1It was a little weird at first, Erin Tobin said, seeing Harry Potter right there on the stage without his pants, or indeed any of his clothes.Not actually Harry Potter, of course, since his is fictional, but the next best thing: Daniel Radcliffe, who plays him in the movies. Now 17, Mr. Radcliffe has cast off his wand, his broomstick and everything else to appear in the West End revival of Peter Shaffer's "Equus." He stars as Alan Strang, a disturbed young man who, in a distinctly un-Harry-Potterish moment of frenzied psychosexual madness, blinds six horses with a hoof pick.To make it clear what audiences are in for, at least in part, photographs of Mr. Radcliffe's buff torso, stripped almost to the groin, have been used to advertise the production. It is as jarring as if, say, Anne Hathaway suddenly announced that instead of playing sweet-natured princesses and fashion-world ingénues, she wanted to appear onstage as a nude, murderous prostitute.To explain how is surprising the change of Radcliffe to the audience, the author mentions Anne "Equus" opened last week, and the consensus so far is that Mr. Radcliffe has successfully extricated himself from his cinematic alter ego. Considering that playing Harry Potter is practically all he has done in his career, this is no small achievement."I think he's a really good actor, and I sort of forgot about Harry Potter," said Ophelia Oates, 14, who saw the play over the weekend." Anyway, you can't be Harry Potter forever."In The Daily Telegraph, Charles Spencer said that "Daniel Radcliffe brilliantly succeeds in throwing off the mantle of Harry Potter, announcing himself as a thrilling stage actor of unexpected depth and range."Mr. Radcliffe told The Daily Telegraph that "I thought it would be a bad idea to wait till the Potter films were all finished to do something else." There are still a few to go. The fifth, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," is scheduled for release on July 13, and Mr. Radcliffe has signed on for the final two installments as well. (Meanwhile, the seventh and last book in the series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," will hit stores on July 21.)Harry and Alan could not be more dissimilar as characters, even if both "come from quite weird backgrounds," as 13-year-old Ella Pitt, another recent theatergoer, put it. (And no, she declared, she was not too young for all the nakedness, swearing and sexuality.) Both characters have unresolved issues relating to their parents: Harry, because his are dead, and Alan, because his have driven him insane.But when it comes to romance, for instance, the celluloid Harry has yet to kiss a girl: the big moment comes in the forthcoming film. Meanwhile, Alan in "Equus" not only engages in some serious equi-erotic nuzzling with an actor playing a horse, but is also onstage, fully nude, for 10 minutes, during which he nearly has sex with an equally naked young woman.21.The author's mentioning of Hathaway is a ________.A. simileB. comparisonC. hyperboleD. analogy222. T he word "extricated" (Line 2, Para. 4) implies ________.A. rescuedB. freedC. clearedD. extracted23. T he audience's response to the new image of "Harry Potter" is ________.A. negativeB. positiveC. indifferentD. none of the above24. 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But that is not the Uruguayan way.26.Uruguay in the 1990s ________..A. moved in the privatizing wave C. sticked to its old economic modeB. adopted the same measure as that of Argentina D. developed very slowly27.What can we infer from the first four paragraphs?A.Uruguay has been always trying to join in the privatizing wave.B.Economists argue that privatization is an efficient way to boost Uruguay's GDP.C.Mr. Battle plans to privatize the country's economy completely.D.The opposition Broad Front is in favor of privatization.28.The fifth paragraph suggests that ________.A.Bell South is built up in 1982B.There has been no law to regulate the electricityC.Ancap may modernize its refinery with the help of a private partnerD.Liberalization makes the economy slack29.What does the author mean by "flopped" (last line, Para. 4)?A. succeededB. failedC. followedD. provoked30.Which one is TRUE according to the passage?A.Privatization is thriving in Uruguay.B.Now, referenda have less strength to change some laws.C.Uruguayan people are satisfied with the government's actions with regard to theeconomy. D. The President is managing to keep the state companies efficient.TEXT 3Even at the Vatican, not all sacred beliefs are absolute: Thou shalt not kill, but war can be just. Now, behind the quiet walls, a clash is shaping up involving two poles of near certainty: the church's long-held ban on condoms and its advocacy of human life.The issue is AIDS. Church officials recently confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI had requested a report on whether it might be acceptable for Catholics to use condoms in one narrow circumstance: to protect life inside a marriage when one partner is infected with H.I.V. or is sick with AIDS.Whatever the pope decides, church officials and other experts broadly agree that it is remarkable that so delicate an issue is being taken up. But they also agree that such an inquiry is logical, and particularly significant from this pope, who was Pope John Paul II's strict enforcer of church doctrine."In some ways, maybe he has got the greatest capacity to do it because there is no doubt about his orthodoxy," said the Rev. Jon Fuller, a Jesuit physician who runs an AIDS clinic at the Boston Medical Center.The issue has surfaced repeatedly as one of the most complicated and delicate facing the church. For years, some influential cardinals and theologians have argued for a change for couples affected by AIDS in the name of protecting life, while others have fiercely attacked the possibility as demoting the church's long advocacy of4abstinence and marital fidelity to fight the disease.The news broke just after Benedict celebrated his first anniversary as pope, a relatively quiet papal year. But he devoted his first encyclical to love, specifically between a man and a woman in marriage.Indeed, with regard to condoms, the only change apparently being considered is in the specific case of married couples. But any change would be unpopular with conservative Catholics, some of faith than he did when he was still Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the papal adviser."It's just hard to imagine that any pope —and this pope —would change the teaching," said Austin Ruse, president of the Culture of Life Foundation, a Catholic-oriented advocacy group in Washington that opposes abortion and contraception.It is too soon to know where the pope is heading. Far less contentious issues can take years to inch through the Vatican's nexus of belief and bureaucracy, prayer and politics, and Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragán, the pope's top aide on health care issues, and other officials declined requests for interviews.31.By the first sentence in the first paragraph, the author actually means ________.A.the war can be supported by the churchB.the Vatican is always telling a lieC.some doctrines of the church are not so unchangeableD.people may do as they like32.The request from Pope Benedict XVI is particularly significant because ________.A.this pope strictly executed the Catholic doctrineB.this pope is powerfulC.this pope has been against the use of condoms all the timeD.This pope has been assisted the advocacy of human life33.The word "demoting" (Line 3, Para. 5) ________.A. degradingB. opposingC. supportingD. changing34. This issue is so complicated because ________.A. the pope has no capacity to deal with itB. it involve two poles of near certaintyC. it may affect the pope's orthodoxyD. there are two parties on this issue in the church35. According to the passage, the pope probably will ________.A. change the doctrine about the use of condomsB. give up his new ideasC. still carrying out the church beliefsD. None of the aboveTEXT 4Healthy soda? That may strike some as an oxymoron. But for Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, it's a marketing opportunity.In coming months, both companies will introduce new carbonated drinks that are fortified with vitamins and minerals: Diet Coke Plus and Tava, which is PepsiCo's new offering. They will be promoted as "sparkling beverages." The companies are not calling them soft drinks because people are turning away from traditional soda, which has been hurt in part by publicity about its link to obesity.5While the soda business remains a $68 billion industry in the United States, consumers are increasingly reaching for bottled water, sparkling juices and green tea drinks. In 2005, the amount of soda sold in this country dropped for the first in recent history. Even the diet soda business has slowed.Coca-Cola's chief executive, E. Neville Isdell, clearly frustrated that his industry has been singled out in the obesity debate, insisted at a recent conference that his diet products should be included in the health and wellness category because, with few or no calories, they are a logical answer to expanding waistlines."Diet and light brands are actually health and wellness brands," Mr. Isdell said. He asserted that Diet Coke Plus was a way to broaden the category to attract new consumers.Tom Pirko, president of Bevmark, a food and beverage consulting firm, said it was "a joke" to market artificially sweetened soft drinks as healthy, even if they were fortified with vitamins and minerals. Research by his firm and others shows that consumers think of diet soft drinks as "the antithesis of healthy," he said. These consumers "Comment on putting something synthetic and not natural into their bodies when they consume diet colas," Mr. Pirko said. "And in the midst of a health and welfare boom, that ain't good."The idea of healthy soda is not entirely new. In 2004, Cadbury Schweppes caused a stir when it unveiled 7Up Plus, a low-calorie soda fortified with vitamins and minerals. Last year, Cadbury tried to extend the healthy halo over its regular 7Up brand by labeling it "100 percent natural." But the company changed the label to "100 percent natural flavor" after complaints from a nutrition group that a product containing high-fructose corn syrup should not be considered natural, and 7Up Plus has floundered.The new fortified soft drinks earned grudging approval from Michael F. Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, A nutrition advocacy group and frequent critic of regular soft drinks, which it has labeled "liquid candy."A survey by Morgan Stanley found that only 10 percent of consumers interviewed in 2006 considered diet colas a healthy choice, compared with 14 percent in 2003. Furthermore, 30 percent of the consumers who were interviewed last year said that they were reluctant to drink beverages with artificial sweeteners, up from 21 percent in 2004.36.Coca-Cola and PepsiCo call their new drinks "sparkling beverages" instead of " soft drinks" because _______.A.the new name sounds more brilliant and attracts more peopleB.the old name reminds people that they may cause people adding weightC.the new drinks are fortified with vitamins and mineralsD.people are turning away from traditional soda37.The sentence "with few or no calories, they are a logical answer to expanding waistlines" (Para. 4) means________.A.they can give a reasonable answer to waistlinesB.they are the logical reason of make people expand waistlinesC.they will not cause obesity since they have few or no caloriesD.it is logical that they may expand people's waistlines38.Tom Pirko's attitude on promoting the soft drinks as healthy is ________.A. jokingB. positiveC. negativeD. indifferent39. The word "floundered" (Line 6, Para.7) implies ________.A. stumbledB. struggledC. flusteredD. troubled640.The data in the last paragraph implies ________.A.the soft drinks will be singled out in the near futureB.the marketing opportunities for these companies are not successfulC.people are paying more and more attention to theirhealth D. people think the soft drink is not healthyPart BDirections:You are going to read a list of headings and a text about a park naturalist. Choose the most suitable heading from the list A—F for each numbered paragraph (41—45). The first and last paragraphs of the text are not numbered. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET l. (10 points)[A]Becoming a naturalist[B]Seeing wonder in theordinary[C]A changing role[D]Disgusting and embarrassing moments[E]What does a park naturalist do?[F]What does it take to be a park naturalist?I have the best job in the Wisconsin State Park System. As a park naturalist at Peninsula State Park, I am busy writing reports, creating brochures about trees or flowers, and sometimes visiting schools．And, of course, I make sure Peninsula’s feathered friends are well fed.41. _____________As a park naturalist I am a writer, a teacher, a historian and, if not a social worker, at least a mentor to young people interested in the environment. I love the diversity of my job. Every day is different. Most tasks require creativity. Now that I am an experienced naturalist, I have the freedom to plan my own day and make decisions about the types of programs that we offer at Peninsula.42. _____________In my first naturalist job, I spent four out of five days leading school field trips and visiting classrooms. As a state park naturalist I still work with students, but more often lead programs like bird walks, nature crafts, outdoor skills, and trail hikes. I also find myself increasingly involved in management decisions. For example, sometimes the park naturalist is the person who knows where rare orchids grow or where ravens nest. When decisions are made about cutting trees, building trails, or creating more campsites. naturalists are asked to give the “ecological perspective.”43. _____________Perhaps the grossest thing I’ve done as a naturalist is to boil animal skulls. Visitors like seeing bones and skins—at least after they have been cleaned up! Once, our nature center needed more skulls. A trapper gave me muskrat, raccoon and fox skulls but I had to clean them. First, I boiled the skin and meat off. Boy, did that stink! Then I used dissecting tools and old toothbrushes to clean out the eyeballs. Finally, I soaked the skulls in a bleach solution. I’ve had some embarrassing experiences, too. On my first hike as Peninsula’s new naturalist, I was so excited that I identified a white pine tree as a red pine tree! T hat’s quite a mistake since the trees are so easy to tell apart. White pine needles are in bundles of five and red pine needles are in bundles of two.44. _____________Not all state parks are as busy or as big as Peninsula. Not all park naturalists spend the seasons as I do. Nevertheless, park naturalists share certain common interests and responsibilities: A park naturalist might notice7that branches of a red maple growing in a field reach out to the side while those of a red maple in a thick forest reach up, and wonder why the trees look different. A naturalist makes things happen. It might be working with workers to clean up part of a river. Park naturalists share knowledge in different ways, but all of them communicate with people. A love of learning--from other people, from plants and animals, from books, and more—is an essential quality. Most naturalists don’t work in places of rare beauty. Many work in city parks or in places that show “wear and tear.” If you can wonder about an in chworm, a juniper bush, or a robin and cause others to wonder, too, then you are ready to become a park naturalist.45. _____________If you think you want to become a park naturalist, do the following:Explore your home landscape. Knowing how people have shaped the land where you live-and how the land has shaped them-will lend a comparison that will serve you well.Start a field sketch book ．Sketch what you see, where and when. The reason is not to practice art skills (though you may discover you have a talent) but, rather, to practice observation skills.Go to college. You will need a 4-year degree. There are several academic routes that lead to the naturalist’s road. I have found ornithology, plant taxonomy and human growth and development to be among my most helpful courses.Listen and learn. A college degree is like a ticket. It lets you board the plane but is only the beginning of the journey. Look and listen to those who have already traveled the road for ideas, knowledge and inspiration.Part C46. Direction：Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (15 points)Powering the great ongoing changes of our time is the rise of human creativity as the defining feature of economic life. Creativity has come to be valued, because new technologies, new industries and new wealth flow from it. And as a result, our lives and society have begun to echo with creative ideas. It is our commitment to creativity in its varied dimensions that forms the underlying spirit of our age.Creativity is essential to the way we live and work today, and in many senses always has been. The big advances in standard of living —not to mention the big competitive advantages in the marketplace —always have come from "better recipes, not just more cooking." One might argue that's not strictly true. One might point out, for instance, that during the long period from the early days on the Industrial Revolution to modern times, much of the growth in productivity and material wealth in the industrial nations came not just from creative inventions like the steam engine, but from the widespread application of "cooking in quantity" business methods like massive division of labor, concentration of assets, vertical integration and economies of scale. But those methods themselves were creative developments.Section III WritingPart A47. Directions:You are preparing for an English test and are in need of some reference books. Write a letter to the sales department of a bookstore to ask for:1)detailed information about the books you want,2)methods of payment,3)time and way of delivery.You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name, using "Li Ming"instead. Do not write the address. (10 points)Part B48. Directions:In this section, you are asked to write an essay based on the following table. In your essay, you should1)describe the table and,2)state your opinions drawn from it.You should write at least 150 words.You should write neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.（15 points）The changes of peoples’ diet1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Grain 15% 14% 14% 13% 12% 11% Meat 11% 13% 14% 15% 15% 13%Fruit and vegetable 20% 22% 25% 27% 28% 30%milk 22% 20% 20% 23% 24% 25%全国统一服务热线：400-668-2155 9。

2016考研英语二翻译模拟题及答案(2)_毙考题

2016考研英语二翻译模拟题及答案（2）考研冲刺复习阶段，大家还是要多做题多练习，进行自我测试和查漏补缺，下面是小编唐静老师给英语二同学出的翻译模拟题，配有译文，大家检验检验自己什么水平。

2016考研英语二翻译模拟题及答案（2）这一篇是2011年真题剩下部分的改篇，所以我取了一个名字，叫英语二翻译同源模拟。

来源相同嘛。

注意，这个改编之后的试题请大家转发可以，做题可以，如果有同行看到了，不要使用来作为出版物哦，毕竟也是我辛辛苦苦改编的嘛，对吧，谢谢，谢谢。

考英语二的同学可以用来模考，注意：计时，不超过25分钟，最好控制在25分钟以内。

做完可以跟评论在微博，或者微信，微信可以评论。

或者直接回复我微信平台消息。

如果有空，我看到之后会简单地帮你给个分。

或者简单的一句话提醒你的翻译问题。

我不能承诺我可以帮你批改。

真的没有时间，这段时间我课比较多。

欢迎各位大爷各位公举打赏。

一周之内给这篇文章的答案。

以后每周模考一次英语二，慢慢再给点英语一模考试题。

英语二翻译同源模拟题2(完美模拟2011年真题)Google and other big tech providers are taking some measures to control CO2emissions. Google claims to be more efficient than most. Recently, industry andgovernment agencies from the US,Europe and Japan reached an agreement,orchestrated by an American company, on how to improve the energy efficiency ofdata centers.Simple things - such as turning devices off when they are not in use - canhelp to reduce the impact of our love affair with all things digital. Researchfrom the National Energy Foundation in the UK found that nearly 20 per cent ofworkers don t turn their PCs off at the end of the day, wasting 1.5 billionkilowatt-hours of electricity per year, which equates to the annual CO2 producedby 200,000 small family cars. Technology could have a huge role to play inreducing energy consumption – just think of the number of car and bus journeyssaved by something as simple as online banking.Google and other big tech providers aretaking some measures to control CO2emissions.谷歌和其他大型的技术供应商正在采取措施控制二氧化碳排放。

考研英语翻译模拟题及答案

英语翻译模拟题及答案考研英语中翻译也占有相当一部分的比例，其实，不要忽略翻译题，这个也是你超越别人的一个点。

模拟一：Gandhi’s pacifism can be separated to some extent from his other teachings. (1)(Its motive was religious, but he claimed also for it that it was a definitive technique, a method, capable of producing desired political results. Gandhi’s attitude was not that of most Western pacifists. Satyagraha,) (2(the method Gandhi proposed and practiced, first evolved in South Africa, was a sort of non-violent warfare, a way of defeating the enemy without hurting him and without feeling or arousing hatred.) It entailed such things as civil disobedience, strikes, lying down in front of railway trains, enduring police charges without running away and without hitting back, and the like. Gandhi objected to “passiveresistance” as a translation of Satyagraha: in Gujarati,it seems, the word means “firmness in the truth”. (3(In his early days Gandhi served as a stretcher-bearer on the British side in the Boer War, and he was prepared to do the same again in the war of 1914-1918.) Even after he had completely abjured violence he was honest enough to see that in war it is usually necessary to take sides. Since his whole political life centred round a struggle for national independence, he could not and, (4)(indeed, he did not take the sterile and dishonest line of pretending that in every war both sides are exactly the same and it makes no difference who wins.) Nor did he, like most Western pacifists, specialize in avoiding awkward questions. In relation to the late war, one question that every pacifist had a clear obligation to an swer was: “What about the Jews? Are you prepared to see them exterminated? If not, how do you propose to save them without resorting towar?” (5)(I must say that I have never heard, from any Western pacifist, an honest answer to this question, though I have heard plenty of evasions, usually of the “you’re another” type.) But it so happens that Gandhi was asked a somewhat similar question in 1938 and that his answer is on record in Mr. Louis Fischer’s Gandhi and Stalin. According to Mr. Fischer, Gandhi’s view was that the German Jews ought to commit collective suicide, which “would have aroused the world and the people of Germany to Hitler’s violence.” 总体分析：本文是一篇介绍甘地的和平主义的文章。

2016考研英语(一)真题及参考答案--翻译

2016考研英语(一)真题及参考答案--翻译Part CDirections:Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)Mental health is our birthright. (46) we dont have to learn how to be mentally healthy, it is built into us in the same way that our bodies know how to heal a cut or mend, a broken bone. Mental health cant be learned, only reawakened. It is like immune system of the body, which under stress or through lack of nutrition or exercise can be weakened, but which never leaves us. When we dont understand the value of mental health and we dont know how to gain access to it, mental health will remain hidden from us. (47) Our mental health doesnt go anywhere; like the sun behind a cloud, it can be temporarily hidden from view, but it is fully capable of being restored in an instant.Mental health is the seed that contains self-esteem confidence in ourselves and an ability to trust in our common sense. It allows us to have perspective on our lives-the ability to not take ourselves too seriously, to laugh at ourselves, to see the bigger picture, and to see that things willwork out. Its a form of innate or unlearned optimism. (48) Mental health allows us to view others with sympathy if they are having troubles, with kindness if they are in pain, and with unconditional love no matter who they are. Mental health is the source of creativity for solving problems, resolving conflict, making our surroundings more beautiful, managing our home life, or coming up with a creative business idea or invention to make our lives easier. It gives us patience for ourselves. And toward others as well as patience while driving, catching a fish, working on our car, or raising a child. It allows us to see the beauty that surrounds us each moment in nature, in culture, in the flow of our daily lives.(49)Although mental health is the cure-all for living our lives, it is perfecting ordinary as you will see that it has been there to direct you through all your difficult decisions. It has been available even in the most mundane of life situations to show you right from wrong, good from bad, friend from foe. Mental health has commonly been called conscience, instinct, wisdom, common sense, or the inner voice, we think of it simply as a health and helpful flow of intelligent thought. (50) As you will come to see, knowing that mental health is always available and knowing to trust it allow us to slow down to the moment and live life happily.【参考译文】46. 我们不必一定去学习如何做到心理健康，这种能力植根于我们自身，就像我们的身体知道如何愈合伤口，如何修复断骨。

2016年手译

2016 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语（二）试题Section Ⅱ Reading ComprehensionPart A:Text 1It’s true that high-school coding classes aren’t essential for learning computer science in college.Students without experience can catch up after a few introductory courses, said TomCortina, the assistant dean at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science.However, Cortina said, early exposure is beneficial.When younger kids learn computer science, they learn that it’s not just a confusing, endless string of letters and numbers — but a tool to build apps, or create artwork, or test hypotheses. It’s not as hard for them to transform their thought processes as it is for older students. Breaking down problems into bite-sized chunks and using code to solve them becomes normal. Giving more children this training could increase the number of people interested in the field and help fill the jobs gap, Cortina said.Students also benefit from learning something about coding before they get to college, where introductory computer-science classes are packed to the brim, which can drive the less-experienced or -determined students away.The Flatiron School, where people pay to learn programming, started as one of the many coding bootcamps that’s become popular for adults looking for a car eer change.The high-schoolers get the same curriculum, but “we try to gear lessons toward things they’re interested in,” said Victoria Friedman, an instructor.For instance, one of the apps the students are developing suggests movies based on your mood. The students in the Flatiron class probably won’t drop out of high school and build the next Facebook.Programming languages have a quick turnover, so the “Ruby on Rails” language theylearned may not even be relevant by the time they enter the job market.But the skills they learn —how to think logically through a problem and organize the results —apply to any coding language, said Deborah Seehorn, an education consultant for the state of North Carolina.Indeed, the Flatiron students might not go into IT at all.But creating a future army of coders is not the sole purpose of the classes.These kids are going to be surrounded by computers — in their pockets, in their offices, in their homes — for the rest of their lives.The younger they learn how computers think, how to coax the machine into producing what they want — the earlier they learn that they have the power to do that — the better.21. Cortina holds that early exposure to computer science makes it easier to ______.[A] complete future job training[B] remodel the way of thinking[C] formulate logical hypotheses[D] perfect artwork production22. In delivering lessons for high-schoolers, Flatiron has considered their ______.[A] experience[B] academic backgrounds[C] career prospects[D] interest23. Deborah Seehorn believes that the skills learned at Flatiron will ______.[A] help students learn other computer languages[B] have to be upgraded when new technologies come[C] need improving when students look for jobs[D] enable students to make big quick money24. According to the last paragraph, Flatiron students are expected to ______.[A] compete with a future army of programmers[B] stay longer in the information technology industry[C] become better prepared for the digitalized world[D] bring forth innovative computer technologies25. The word “coax”[A] challenge[B] persuade[C] frighten[D] misguideText 2Biologists estimate that as many as 2 million lesser prairie chickens — a kind of bird living on stretching grasslands — once lent red to the often grey landscape of the midwestern and southwestern United States.But just some 22,000 birds remain today, occupying about 16% of the species’ historic range.formally list the bird as threatened.“The lesser prairie chicken is in a desperate situation,” said USFWS Director Daniel Ashe.Some environmentalists, however, were disappointed. They had pushed the agency to designate the bird as “endangered,” a status that gives federal officials greater regulatory power to crack down on threats.But Ashe and others argued that the “threatened” tag gave the federal government flexibility to try out new, potentially less confrontational conservations approaches.In particular, they called for forging closer collaborations with western state governments, which are often uneasy with federal action, and with the private landowners who control an estimated 95% of the prairie chicken’s habitat.Under the plan, for example, the agency said it would not prosecute landowner or businesses that unintentionally kill, harm, or disturb the bird, as long as they had signed a range-wide management plan to restore prairie chicken habitat.Negotiated by USFWS and the states, the plan requires individuals and businesses that damage habitat as part of their operations to pay into a fund to replace every acre destroyed with 2 new acres of suitable habitat.The fund will also be used to compensate landowners who set aside habitat.USFWS also set an interim goal of restoring prairie chicken populations to an annual average of 67,000 birds over the next 10 years.And it gives the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA), a coalition of state agencies, the job of monitoring progress. Overall, the idea is to let “states” remain in the driver’s seat for man aging the species,” Ashe said.Not everyone buys the win-win rhetoric.Some Congress members are trying to block the plan, and at least a dozen industry groups, four states, and three environmental groups are challenging it in federal court.Not surprisingly, industry groups and states generally argue it goes too far, environmentalists say it doesn’t go far enough.“The federal government is giving responsibility for managing the bird to the same industries that are pushing it to extinction,” says biologist Jay Lininger.26. The major reason for listing the lesser prairie as threatened is ______.[A] its drastically decreased population[B] the underestimate of the grassland acreage[C] a desperate appeal from some biologists[D] the insistence of private landowners27. The “threatened” tag disappointed some environmentalists in that it ______.[A] was a give-in to governmental pressure[B] would involve fewer agencies in action[C] granted less federal regulatory power[D] went against conservation policies28. It can be learned from Paragraph 3 that unintentional harm-doers will not be prosecuted if they[A] agree to pay a sum for compensation[B] volunteer to set up an equally big habitat[C] offer to support the WAFWA monitoring job[D] promise to raise funds for USFWS operations29. According to Ashe, the leading role in managing the species is ______.[A] the federal government[B] the wildlife agencies[C] the landowners[D] the states30. Jay Lininger would most likely support ______.[A] industry groups[B] the win-win rhetoric[C] environmental groups[D] the plan under challengeText 3That everyone’s too busy these days is a cliché.But one specific complaint is made especially mournfully: There’s never any time to read.What makes the problem thornier is that the usual time-management techniques don’t seem sufficient.The web’s full of articles offering tips on making time to read: “Give up TV” or “Carrya book with you at all times.”But in my experience, using such methods to free up the odd 30 minutes doesn’t work.Sit down to read and the flywheel of work-related thoughts keeps spinning —or else you’re so exhausted that a challenging book’s the last thing you need.The modern mind, Tim Parks, a novelist and critic, writes, “is overwhelmin gly inclined towardcommunication… It is not simply that one is interrupted; it is that one is actually inclined to interruption.”Deep reading requires not just time, but a special kind of time which can’t be obtained merely bybecoming more efficient.I n fact, “becoming more efficient” is part of the problem.Thinking of time as a resource to be maximised means you approach it instrumentally, judging any given moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward some goal. Immersive reading, by contrast, depends on being willing to risk inefficiency, goallessness, even time-wasting.Try to slot it as a to-do list item and you’ll manage only goal-focused reading — useful, sometimes, but not the most fulfilling kind.“The future comes at u s like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt,” writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time, and “we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles (days, hours, minutes) as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them.” No mind-set could be worse for losing yourself in a book.So what does work? Perhaps surprisingly, scheduling regular times for reading.You’d think this might fuel the efficiency mind-set, but in fact, Eberle notes, such ritualistic behaviour helps us “step outside time’s flow” into “soul time.”You could limit distractions by reading only physical books, or on single-purpose e-readers. “Carry a book with you at all times” can actually work, too— providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care ofbusiness, before dropping back down.On a really good day, it no longer feels as if you’re “making time to read,” but just reading, and making time for everything else.31. The usual time-management techniques don’t work because ______.[A] what they can offer does not ease the modern mind[B] what challenging books demand is repetitive reading[C] what people often forget is carrying a book with them[D] what deep reading requires cannot be guaranteed32. The “empty bottles” metaphor illustrates that people feel a pressure to ______.[A] update their to-do lists[B] make passing time fulfilling[C] carry their plans through[D] pursue carefree reading33. Eberle would agree that scheduling regular times for reading helps ______.[A] encourage the efficiency mind-set[B] develop online reading habits[C] promote ritualistic reading[D] achieve immersive reading34. “Carry a book with you at all times” can work if ______.[A] reading becomes your primary business of the day[B] all the daily business has been promptly dealt with[C] you are able to drop back to business after reading[D] time can be evenly split for reading and business35. The best title for this text could be ______.[A] How to Enjoy Easy Reading[B] How to Find Time to Read[C] How to Set Reading Goals[D] How to Read ExtensivelyText 4Against a backdrop of drastic changes in economy and population structure, younger Americans are drawing a new 21st-century road map to success, a latest poll has found.Across generational lines, Americans continue to prize many of the same traditional milestones of a successful life, including getting married, having children, owning a home, and retiring in their sixties.But while young and old mostly agree on what constitutes the finish line of a fulfilling life, they offer strikingly different paths for reaching it.Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public services and a faster pace of life, to agree that couples should be financially secure before getting married or having children, and to maintain that children are best served by two parents working outside the home, the survey found.From career to community and family, these contrasts suggest that in the aftermath of the searing Great Recession, those just starting out in life are defining priorities and expectations thatwill increasingly spread through virtually all aspects of American life, from consumer preferences to housing patterns to politics.Young and old converge on one key point: Overwhelming majorities of both groups said they believe it is harder for young people today to get started in life than it was for earlier generations. While younger people are somewhat more optimistic than their elders about the prospects for those starting o ut today, big majorities in both groups believe those “just getting started in life”face a tougher climb than earlier generations in reaching such signpost achievements as securing a good-paying job, starting a family, managing debt, and finding affordable housing.Pete Schneider considers the climb tougher today. Schneider, a 27-year-old auto technicianfrom the Chicago suburbs, says he struggled to find a job after graduating from college.Even now that he is working steadily, he said, “I can’t afford t o pay my monthly mortgage payments on my own, so I have to rent rooms out to people to make that happen.”Looking back, he is struck that his parents could provide a comfortable life for their children even though neither had completed college when he was young. “I still grew up in an upper middle-class home with parents who didn’t have college degrees,” Schneider said. “I don’t think people are capable of that anymore.”36. One cross-generation mark of a successful life is ______.[A] trying out different lifestyles[B] having a family with children[C] working beyond retirement age[D] setting up a profitable business37. It can be learned from Paragraph 3 that young people tend to ______.[A] favor a slower life pace[B] hold an occupation longer[C] attach importance to pre-marital finance[D] give priority to childcare outside the home38. The priorities and expectations defined by the young will ______.[A] become increasingly clear[B] focus on materialistic issues[C] depend largely on political preferences[D] reach almost all aspects of American life39. Both young and old agree that ______.[A] good-paying jobs are less available[B] the old made more life achievements[C] housing loans today are easy to obtain[D] getting established is harder for the young40. Which of the following is true about Schneider?[A] He found a dream job after graduating from college.[B] His parents believe working steadily is a must for success.[C] His parents’ good life has little to do with a college degree.[D] He thinks his job as a technician quite challenging.Part B:As adults, it seems that we’re constantly pursuing happiness, often with mixed results.Yet children appear to have it down to an art-and for the most part they don’t need self-helpbooks or therapy.Instead, they look after their wellbeing instinctively, and usually more effectively than we do as grownups.Perhaps it’s time to learn a few lessons from them.What does a child do when he's sad? He cries. When he’s angry? He shouts. Scared?Probably a bit of both. As we grow up, we learn to control our emotions so they are manageable and don’t dictate our behaviours, which is in many ways a good thing.But too often we take this process too far and end up suppressing emotions, especially negative ones.That’s about as effective as brushing dirt under a carpet and can even make us ill.What we need to do is find a way to acknowledge and express what we feel appropriately, and then——again, like children——move on.A couple of Christmases ago, my youngest stepdaughter, who was 9 years old at the time, gota Superman T-shirt for Christmas.It cost less than a fiver but she was overjoyed, and couldn’t stop talking about it.Too often we believe that a new job, bigger house or better car will he the magic silver bullet that will allow us to finally be content, but the reality is these things have little lasting impact on our happiness levels. Instead, being grateful for small things every day is a much better way to improve wellbeing.Have you ever noticed how much children laugh?If we adults could indulge in a bit of silliness and giggling, we would reduce the stress hormones in our bodies, increase good hormones like endorphins, improve blood flow to our hearts andeven have a greater chance of fighting off infection. All of which would, of course, have a positive effect on our happiness levels.The problem with being a grownup is that there’s an awful lot of serious stuff to deal with- work, mortgage payments, figuring out what to cook for dinner.But as adults we also have the luxury of being able to control our own diaries and it’s important that we schedule in time to enjoy the things we love.Those things might be social, sporting, creative or completely random (dancing around the living room, anyone?) -it doesn't matter, so long as they’re enjoyable, and not likely to have negative side effects, such as drinking too much alcohol or going on a wild spending spree if you’re on a tight budget.Having said all of the above, it’s important to add that we shouldn’t try too hard to be happy. Scientists tell us this can backfire and actually have a negative impact on our wellbeing.As the Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu is reported to have said: “Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.”And in that, once more, we need to look to the example of our children, to whom happiness is not a goal but a natural byproduct of the way they live.Section III TranslationThe supermarket is designed to lure customers into spending as much time as possible withinits doors.The reason for this is simple: The longer you stay in the store, the more stuff you'll see, and the more stuff you see, the more you'll buy. And supermarkets contain a lot of stuff.The average supermarket, according to the Food Marketing Institute, carries some 44,000different items, and many carry tens of thousands more. The sheer volume of available choice is enough to send shoppers into a state of information overload.According to brain-scan experiments, the demands of so much decision-making quickly become too much for us.After about 40 minutes of shopping, most people stop struggling to be rationally selective, and instead begin shopping emotionally - which is the point at which we accumulate the 50 percent of stuff in our cart that we never intended buying.。

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2016考研英语翻译模拟练习题（4(1(A ny discussi on of the America n educati onal system would be less tha n complete if it did not mention the emphasis that many colleges and universities place upon the non academic, social, “ extracurricular ” aspect of educati on, astperdefiinied growth. Perhaps a useful way of viewing the notion of personal growth would be topicture the very large and gen eral term subsetseducationembraKsirtog^irirgcuidi ng aswithi n it academic and non academic comp onents.This may be one of the most difficult con cepts to convey to some one who is not in timately familiar with America n higher educati on. Few educati onal systems in other coun tries place the same emphasis on this ble nd of academic and pers onal educati on. The majority of colleges and uni versities in the Un ited States make some attempt to in tegrate pers onal and in tellectual growth in the un dergraduate years. (2( If the ultimate goal of un dergraduate educati on in America were simply to convey a set body of kno wledge, the term of studies could un doubtedly be reduced. Yet the terms of studies are exte nded in order to give stude nts a cha nee to grow and develop in other ways.Numerous opport un ities are made available to stude nts to become invo Ived in sports, stude nt gover nment, musical and dramatic orga ni zati ons, and coun tless other orga ni zed and in dividual activities desig ned to enhance one ' s pers onal growth and provide somerecreati on and enjo yme nt outside of the classroom. (3(Experie nee with campus orga ni zati ons and off-campus com mun ity invo Iveme nt can be highly valuable in preparing international students for future leadership in their professional field upon their return home.The typical American college ' s support for extracurricular activity is perhaps unique in the world, This special educatio nal dime nsion, bey ond the classroom and laboratory experie nee, does not mean that extracurricular participati on is required to gain anAmerica n degree. It rema ins an en tirely optio nal activity, but (4(it is no ted here becauseAmerica ns have tradti on ally viewed success in one ' s role as a citize n as closely lin ked to a “ wero un ded ” life that in corporates a variety of social, athletic, and cultural activities into aperson ' s experienee.A great many America n campuses and com mun ities have orga ni zed special extracurricular activities for students from other countries. (5(On most campuses, one can find an international club, which includes Americans,where students can get to know and learn socially from stude nts from other coun tries, as well as America ns. Intern ati onal stude nts are almost always in vited, through orga ni zed hospitality activities, into the homes of America ns liv ing in or outside the academic com muni ty.答案1. 如果对美国教育体系的讨论未能涉及许多学院及大学教育中非学术性的、社会的及课程外”的方面,即其对个性成长的重视，那么这种讨论就不全面。

2. 假如美国本科教育的最终目的只是传授一定量的知识，那么学习的期限无疑就可以缩短。

3. 参与校园内的各种组织活动和校外团体活动的经验在培养国际学生归国后在其专业领域发挥领导作用方面是极有价值的。

4. 在这里特别提到的是因为美国人历来认为，一个人作为社会公民的成功是与包括各种各样的社会、体育和文化活动的个人经历的全方位的生活紧密相关的。

5. 在大多数的校园里都有国际俱乐部，成员包括美国学生。

在俱乐部里，学生(包括美国学生通过与来自其他国家的学生的社会交往相互认识并学习。

总体分析本文主要介绍了美国教育系统注重培养学生课外活动能力，促进学生个性发展的特点第一至二段：指出美国本科教育努力将个性发展和智力发展相结合。

第三至五段：这种教育特点与美国人关于成功的社会公民的观念相关，并有利于培养国际学生的领导和交际能力。

试题精解1. ［精解］本题考核的知识点是：条件状语从句、后置定语。

该句子是含条件状语从句的主从复合句。

句子的主干是：Anydiscussion …would be less than complete条件从句翻译时应前置，其中代词it指代主句主语Any discussion 。

…条件句中又含有that引导的定语从句修饰theemphasis 定语从句的主干是：…universities place (emphasisupon the •句education,子最后的分词结构(which isdefined as personal growth是前面名词短语the non academic, social, “ extracurricular ” aspect的f后置定语fo n 由于名词短语中已含有多个形容词做定语，因此，句末的后置定语应采用拆译法，译成同位语。

词汇方面:place emphasis upon (sth强调，重视［extracurricular课外的，业余的,extra-前缀意为在外,外面” ；personal growt个人成长。

2. ［精解］本题考核的知识点是：条件状语从句、词义的选择。

该句是含if条件句的主从复合句，而且是虚拟语气。

词汇方面:convey意思是运送;传达,表达”文中和knowledge搭配应译为传授”。

a body of原意是大量,大批，大堆”加入set后,可译为一定量的”。

term意思是学期,期限；条款，条件，术语”等，根据上下文将它确定为期限”。

3. ［精解］本题考核的知识点是：介词短语、词性转换这是个简单句，其主干是experienee can be valuabl句子中的修饰成分基本上都是介词短语。

主语experienee后with…involvemen结构做后置定语，翻译时将它提前;in preparing 结构做状语，译为在 ....................... 方面”词汇方面:off-campus校外,off-前缀意为不在.... 上，离开去掉” ;involvemen意为参与，加入”文中转译为动词。

Upon可意为“••…之后”4•［精解］本题考核的知识点是：状语从句、后置定语。

该句是含原因状语从句的主从复合句，主句是it is noted here> Because引导的从句的主干是:America ns …viewed success …as closely lin ked to a -roun d e dv e llife,i n one' s role as a 0也做后置定语修饰success,life后接有that引导的定语从句做定语。

由于主句很短，而状语从句长且复杂，因此可以保留句子原来顺序。