2019年6月上半年全国翻译专业资格(水平)考试二级笔译实务真题(人事部CATTI考试)

2019年6月全国翻译专业资格（水平）考试英语二级《笔译实务》真题编辑：李振龙2019年6月全国翻译专业资格（水平）考试

英语二级《笔译实务》试题

Section 1: English-Chinese translation(英译汉)(50points) Passage 1

What Role Do Teachers Play in Education?（来源：纽约时报）

In 2009, Time magazine hailed an online math program piloted at three New Y ork City public schools, as o ne of the year’s 50 best innovations. Each day, the software generated individualized math “playlists” for students who then chose the “modality” in which they wished to learn —software, a virtual teacher or a flesh-and-blood one. A different algorithm so rted teachers’ specialties and schedules to match a student’s needs. “It generates the lessons, the tests and it grades the tests,” one veteran instructor marveled.

Although the program made only modest improvements in students’ math scores and was adopted by only a handful of New Y ork schools (not the 50 for which it was slated), it serves as a notable example of a pattern that Andrea Gabor charts in “After the Education Wars.” For more than three decades, an unlikely coalition of corporate philanthropists, educational technology entrepreneurs and public education bureaucrats has spearheaded a brand of school reform characterized by the overvaluing of technology and standardized testing and a devaluing of teachers and communities. The trend can be traced back to a hyperbolic 1983 report, “A Nation at Risk,” issued by President Ronald Reagan’s National Commission on Excellence in Education. Against the backdrop of an ascendant Japanese economy and consistent with President Reagan’s disdain for public education (and teachers’ unions), “A Nation at Risk” blamed America’s ineffectual schools for a “rising tide of mediocrity” that was diminishing America’s global role in a new high-tech world.

Policymakers turned their focus to public education as a matter of national security, one too important (and potentially too profitable) to entrust to educators. The notion that top-down decisions by politicians, not teachers, should determine what children need. “Accountability” became synonymous with standardized tests, resulting in a testing juggernaut with large profits going to commercial publishing giants like Pearson.

The education wars have been demoralizing for teachers, over 17 percent of whom drop out within their first five years. No one believes that teaching to the test is good pedagogy, but what are the options when students’ future educational choices,