1英语翻译高级口译分类模拟听写题

英语翻译高级口译分类模拟听写题(一)

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Space was explored as early as the fourth century BC, through ancient astronomy. It was only in the twentieth-century that man sent out 1 to explore space. Space exploration, then, can be 2 : astronomy, unmanned probes, and manned probes. Although 3 just drawn, man is the explorer in all of these categories; it is 4 , technology, and understanding of science that forms the basis of all forms of space exploration. The exploration of space 5 , that is, man has "reason" to send men to the moon and to 6 , just to name a couple of such values. From ancient times to well into the twentieth-century, the 7 to explore space was astronomy, the studying of the millions of 8 , which invade night sky, as they have done for billions of years. The 9 and the ebbing of stars across the sky had originally 10 , but as man's understanding of the science of astronomy increased, 11 , and not dogma, took form. And, as a solid foundation was laid with 12 , man walked resolutely into the Space Age, upon the advent of 13 . Given this stepping stone of the liquid fueled rocket, man was able to enter the cosmic "ocean". 14 , during the Cold War era, allocated millions of dollars to the exploration of space, but 15 in the later part of the

twentieth-century. 16 , as a function of government and public support, came 17 , with the Apollo program. The public has generally been more supportive of 18 , but the costs and the values at risk are malignant to the support of space exploration as a whole. Today, economic resources for space exploration are scarce and public, and thus 19 . The glorious Apollo missions are impossible to reconstruct, and instead there has been a steady trend 20 .

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My topic today is how to address the problem of hunger and starvation which still exists in many parts of the world. Ending hunger starts with 21 . A dangerous and patronizing clicheacute we often hear is, "Give a man a fish and feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and 22 ." People living with chronic hunger have generations of wisdom about "fishing", the problem

is 23 .

The Hunger Project, announced recently 24 , cuts through the barbed wire, addressing the underlying social conditions that 25 the opportunity they need to end their own hunger. When we invest in The Hunger Project, we 26 and giving people a chance to translate their hard work 27 . We are ensuring that people get 28 .

Too often, hungry people are isolated, 29 . Mobilizing communities and building local organizations is critically important both to 30 , and to get more out of our precious resources and efforts. When people come together to work, a kind of social capital is created that can compensate for 31 in rural areas.

In Africa, 32 of The Hunger Project's work is to organize villages to 33 to produce food for food banks. This fosters 34 for a better future for all.

Another example is in 35 , such as India and Bangladesh, where Hunger