2015英语四级阅读理解翻译

2015 年英语专业四级阅读理解passage 2(翻译)

2015年专业四级英语真题（翻译）Passage 2（翻译）I was a second-year medical student at the university, and was on my second day of rounds at a nearby hospital. My university's philosophy was to get students seeing patients early in their education. Nice idea, but it overlooked one detail: second-year students know next to nothing about medicine.Assigned to my team that day was an attending - a senior faculty member who was there mostly to make patients feel they weren't in the hands of amateurs. Many attendings were researchers who didn't have much recent hospital experience. Mine was actually an arthritis specialist. Also along was a resident (the real boss, with a staggering mastery of medicine, at least to a rookie like myself). In addition there were two interns(住院实习医生). These guys were just as green as I was，but in a scarier way: they had recently graduated from the medical school, so they were technically MDs.I began the day at 6:30 am. An intern and I did a quick check of our eight patients; later, we were to present our findings to the resident and then to the attending. I had three patients and the intern had the other five - piece of cake.But when I arrived in the room of 71-year-old Mr. Adams，he was sitting up in bed, sweating heavily and panting (喘气). He'd just had a hip operation and looked terrible. I listened to his lungs with my stethoscope, but they sounded clear. Next I checked the log of his vital signs and saw that his respiration and heart rate had been climbing, but histemperature was steady. It didn't seem like heart failure, nor did it appear to be pneumonia. So I asked Mr. Adams what he thought was going on."It's really hot in here, Doc," he replied.So I attributed his condition to the stuffy room and told him the rest of the team would return in a few hours. He smiled and feebly waved goodbye.At 8:40 am., during our team meeting, "Code Blue Room 307!" blared from the loudspeaker. I froze.That was Mr. Adams's room.When we arrived, he was motionless.The autopsy (尸体解剖) later found Mr. Adams had suffered a massive pulmonary embolism (肺部栓塞). A blood clot had formed in his leg, worked its way to his lungs, and cut his breathing capacity in half. His symptoms had been textbook: heavy perspiration and shortness of breath despite clear lungs. The only thing was: I hadn't read that chapter in the textbook yet. And I was too scared, insecure, and proud to ask a real doctor for help.This mistake has haunted me for nearly 30 years, but what's particularly frustrating is that the same medical education system persists. Who knows how many people have died or suffered harm at the hands of students as naive as I, and how many more will?我是这所大学医学院的一名二年级学生，我在附近的一家医院进行了第二天的查房。

2015年12月4级翻译真题解析

2015年12月4级翻译真题解析2015年12月四级翻译真题1：Part IV Translation (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. Y ou should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.【题目】中国父母往往过于关注孩子的学习，以至于不要他们帮忙做家务。

他们对孩子的唯一要求就是努力学习，考得好，能上名牌大学。

他们相信这是为孩子好，因为在中国这样竞争激烈的社会里，只有成绩好才能保证前途光明。

中国父母还认为，如果孩子能在社会上取得大的成就，父母就会受到尊敬。

因此，他们愿意牺牲自己的时间、爱好和兴趣，为孩子创造更好的条件。

【参考译文】Chinese parents usually pay so excessive attention to the study of their kids that they don't spare the effort to assign any housework to children. The sole requirement they have on their children is that they should study hard, get good grades, and enter top-tier universities. Chinese parents are fully convinced that thi s is to the benefits of their children. Since in a country like China where competition is fierce and ubiquitous, good grades mean a promising future. In addition, they also believe that when their children make great achievements, they as parents would earn respects. Therefore, they are willing to sacrifice their time, hobbies and interest to create a more favorable condition for their kids.【题目】云南省的丽江古镇是中国著名的旅游目的地之一。

2015年6月英语四级翻译真题及答案（快递服务）

2015年6月英语四级翻译真题及答案（快递服务）2015年6月13日的英语四级考试刚刚结束，本次考试为多题多卷，整理了不同版本的真题及参考答案，供考生参考，下面是整理的2015年6月英语四级翻译真题及答案(快递服务)，欢迎查看。

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.据报道，今年中国快递服务(courier service)将递送大约120亿件包裹。

这将使中国有可能赶超美国成为世界上最大的快递市场。

大多数包裹里装着网上订购的物品。

中国约有百万在线零售商以及其竞争力的价格销售商品的机会，仅在11月11日，中国消费者就在国内最大的购物平台买了价值90亿美元的商品。

中国有不少这样的特殊购物日，因此，快递能在中国扩展就不足为奇了。

2015年6月大学英语四级考试刚刚结束，刚刚走出考场的同学们应该深有体会，今年的四级翻译完全在我们的预测范围之内，难度不大，都是一些基本的常见句型和表达。

考后为大家第一时间推送翻译参考答案，希望大家提早核对。

祝大家都能考出好成绩!2015年6月四级翻译参考答案：It is reported that China's Courier Service will deliver about 12 billion packages this year. Thus China might overtake the United States to become the world's largest express market. Most of the packages are filled with items purchased online. There are millions of online retailers in China and provide competitive prices to sell goods. Only on Nov. 11 one day, Chinese consumers spend $9 billion on the largest shopping platform of the nation. China has many such special shopping days, therefore, there is no wonder Courier Service can express quickly in China.2015年6月13日英语四级考试已经结束，本次考试为多题多卷，收集整理了不同版本试题及参考答案，供考生参考，下面是英语四级翻译参考译文：快递。

2015年英语四级阅读练习及答案(1)

Passage One
Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
People's tastes in recreation differ widely. At a recent festival of pop-music in the Isle of Wight, crowds of teenagers flocked to listen to their favorite singers and musicians. They went with single railway tickets and slept in the open, a very risky thing to do in the climate of Britain, even in August. They were packed together like sardines for four days. There were innumerable thieves, a gang ofroughstried several times to break things up, and police were everywhere. At the end of the festival many young fans found themselves broke, with no moneyleft,andthey had difficulty in getting back home. Most people would consider these conditions a nightmare of discomfort; the fans appeared to enjoy it all enormously.

2015年12月四级真题三套翻译及其答案

• Chinese parents tend to pay so much attention to the academic performance of their children that they stop their kids from helping with the housework. The primary requirement for children is to study hard. Children are entitled to go to elite universities with high exam scores. Parents believe this is for the benefit of their children. Because in a highly competitive society like China, only high scores can guarantee kids a bright future. Chinese parents also think that they will be respected if their children make greater achievements in society. Therefore, parents are willing to sacrifice their own time, hobbies and interest to provide their children with better conditions.
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• 3Biblioteka • 今年在长沙举行了一年一度的外国人汉语演讲比赛。这项比赛证明是促进中国和世界其他地区文化交流的好方法。它为世界各地的年轻人提供了更好地了解中国的机会。来自87个国家共计126位选手聚集在湖南省省会参加了从7月6日到8月5日进行的半决赛和决赛。比赛并不是唯一的活动。选手们还有机会参观了中国其他地区的著名景点和历史名胜。

2015年6月英语四级翻译真题及答案

中国是世界上最古老的文明之一。

构成现在世界基础的许多元素都起源于中国。

中国现在拥有世界上发展最快的经济，并经历着一次新的工业革命。

中国还启动了雄心勃勃的太空探索计划，其实包括到2020年建成一个太空站。

目前，中国是世界上最大的出口国之一，并正在吸引大量外国投资。

同时，它也在海外投资数十亿美元。

2011年，中国超越日本成为第二大经济体。

译文China is one of the oldest cultures in the world, from which much that constructs the foundation of the modern world is derived. China is witnessing the fastest development of its economy and experiencing a new industrial revolution. Also, China has started the ambitious program for exploring the outer space, including to complete a space station by 2020. Currently, being one of the largest exporters in the world, China is attracting massive foreign investment. Simultaneously, it has invested billions of dollars overseas. In 2011, China surpassed Japan as the world’ssecond-largest economy.第二套：那些保持适应性情绪控制状态的人，把逆境看作是暂时性的，相信困难应该会过去的。

在一项危机中，他们很好地调整自己，坚信控制来源于激励的行动而非控制反应。

2015年6月英语四级阅读理解(一)翻译

2015年6月英语四级阅读理解（一）翻译Across the rich world, well-educated people increasingly work longer than the less-skilled. Some 65% of American men aged 62-74 with a professional degree are in the workforce, compared with 32% of men with only a high-school certificate. This gap is part of a deepening divide between the well-educated well-off and the unskilled poor. Rapid technological advance has raised the incomes of the highly skilled while squeezing those of the unskilled. The consequences, for individuals and society, are profound.在富人世界里，受过良好教育的人比受教育较少的人工作的时间越来越长。

62-74岁的美国劳动力中，约65％有专业学位，而高中学位的只有32％。

这种差距是受过良好教育的富人和缺乏教育的穷人之间日益加深鸿沟的一部分。

快速的技术进步提高了高技能人才的收入，同时降低了低技能人员的收入。

其后果对个人和社会有深刻影响。

The world is facing an astonishing rise in the number of old people. And they will live longer than ever before. Over the next 20 years the global population of those aged 65 or more will almost double, from 600 million to 1.1 billion. The experience of the 20th century, when greater longevity (长寿) translated into more years in retirement rather than more years at work, has persuaded many observers that this shift will lead to slower economic growth, while the swelling ranks of pensioners will create government budget problems.世界上老年人的数量正在以惊人的速度在增长。

2015年英语四级翻译参考译文及预测题

翻译原文：美国华人社会自上世纪70年代以来经历了巨大的变化。

最显著的变化是随着许多中国人不断涌入美国，美国华人经济得到快速增长。

美国华人家庭的年均收入已超过美国白人家庭。

而且，近年来在美国如雨后春笋般涌现了一批杰出的华裔科技人才。

他们的成就引起了世界上科学家和技术专家的注意并得到了赞赏。

同时华人的政治地位也得到了显著提升，步入美国政治圈的华人逐渐增多。

参考译文：Since the 1970s the Chinese community in the USAhas undergone tremendous changes.The mostremarkable change is its rapid increase in economyas many Chinese have kept flooding intoAmerica.Chinese American family's annual averageincome has overtaken that of the US white family. And, prominent scientific and technical havetalents of Chinese descent have sprung up in the US in recent years.Their achievements haveattracted attention and gained admiration of scientists and technical experts in the world.Meanwhile, more Chinese Americans enter American political circles as they have risen evidentlyin political status.翻译原文：“月光族(the moonlight clan)”总是每个月花光收入，也没有存钱的计划。

2015年四级翻译

【卷一】中国是世界上最古老的文明之一。

构成现在世界基础的许多元素都起源于中国。

中国现在拥有世界上发展最快的经济，并经历着一次新的工业革命。

中国还启动了雄心勃勃的太空探索计划，其实包括到2020年建成一个太空站。

目前，中国是世界上最大的出口国之一，并正在吸引大量外国投资。

同时，它也在海外投资数十亿美元。

2011年，中国超越日本成为第二大经济体。

China is one of the world's oldestcivilizations. Many elements which formed the basis of the modern worldoriginated from China. Now, China has the world's fastest growing economy,experiencing a new industrial revolution. It also has launched an ambitiousspace exploration plan, including to build a space station by 2020. At present,China is one of the world's largest exporter, and is attracting a large numberof foreign investment. At the same time, it also has invested billions ofdollars abroad. In 2011, China overtook Japan and became the second largesteconomy。

【卷二】在西方人心目中，和中国联系最为密切的基本食物是大米。

长期以来，大米在中国人的饮食中占据很重要的地位，以至于有谚语说“巧妇难为无米之炊”。

2015年6月英语四级阅读理解练习及解析

2015年6月英语四级阅读理解练习及解析1 There are people in Italy who can’t stand soccer. Not all Canadians love hockey.A similar situation exists in America, where there are those individuals you may be one of them who yawn or even frown when somebody mentions baseball. 『Baseball to them means boring hours watching grown men in funny tight outfits standing around in a field staring away while very little of anything happens.』① They tell you it’s a game better suited to the 19th century, slow, quiet, gentlemanly. These are the same people you may be one of them who love football because there’s the sport that glorifies “the hit”.By contrast, baseball seems abstract, cool, silent, still.On TV the game is fractured into a dozen perspectives, replays, close ups. The geometry of the game, however, is essential to understanding it. You will contemplate the game from one point as a painter does his subject; you may, of course, project yourself into the game. It is in this projection that the game affords so much space and time for involvement. The TV won’t do it for you.Take, for example, the third baseman. You sit behind the third base dugout and you watch him watching home plate. His legs are apart, knees flexed. His arms hang loose. He does a lot of this. The skeptic still cannot think of any other sports so still, so passive. 『But watch what happens every time the pitcher throws: the third baseman goes up on his toes, flexes his arms or bring the glove to a point in front of him, takes a step right or left, backward or forward, perhaps he glances across the field to check his first baseman’s position.』② Suppose the pitch is a ball. “Nothing happened,” you say. “I could have had my eyes closed.”The skeptic and the innocent must play the game. And this involvement in the stands is no more intellectual than listening to music is. Watch the third baseman. Smooth the dirt in front of you with one foot; smooth the pocket in your glove; watch the eyes of the batter, the speed of the bat, the sound of horsehide on wood. If football is a symphony of movement and theatre, baseball is chamber music, a spacious interlocking of notes, chores and responses.1. The passage is mainly concerned with ______.A. the different tastes of people for sportsB. the different characteristics of sportsC. the attraction of footballD. the attraction of baseball2. Those who don’t like baseball may complain that ______.A. it is only to the taste of the oldB. it involves fewer players than footballC. it is not exciting enoughD. it is pretentious and looks funny3. The author admits that ______.A. baseball is too peaceful for the youngB. baseball may seem boring when watched on TVC. football is more attracting than baseballD. baseball is more interesting than football4. By stating “I could have had my eyes closed. ” the author means (4th paragraph last sentence):A. The third baseman would rather sleep than play the game.B. Even if the third baseman closed his eyes a moment ago, it could make no different to the result.C. The third baseman is so good at baseball that he could finish the game with eyes closed all the time and do his work well.D. The consequent was too bad he could not bear to see it.5. We can safely conclude that the author ______.A. likes footballB. hates footballC. hates baseballD. likes baseball词汇与短语1. dugout n. 棒球场边供球员休息的地方2. pitcher n. 投手3. symphony n. 交响乐4. chamber n. 室内5. contemplate vt.沉思，注视长难句解析①【解析】此句的主干是“Baseball?means?watching?”，其中“in funny tight outfits”用来修饰“grown men”,“standing?”和“staring”用来做“grown men”的定语。

2015 年英语专业四级阅读理解passage 1(翻译)

2015年专业四级英语真题（翻译）Passage 1（翻译）Inundated by more information than we can possibly hold in our heads, we're increasingly handing off the job of remembering to search engines and smart phones. Google is even reportedly working on eyeglasses that could one day recognize faces and supply details about whoever you're looking at. But new research shows that outsourcing our memory —and expecting that information will be continually and instantaneously available —is changing our cognitive habits.Research conducted by Betsy Sparrow, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia University，has identified three new realities about how we process information in the Internet age. First, her experiments showed that when we don't know the answer to a question, we now think about where we can find the nearest Web connection instead of the subject of the question itself. A second revelation is that when we expect to be able to find information again later on, we don't remember it as well as when we think it might become unavailable. And then there is the researchers' final observation: the expectation that we'll be able to locate information down the line leads us to form a memory not of the fact itself but of where we'll be able to find it.But this handoff comes with a downside. Skills like critical thinking and analysis must develop in the context of facts: we need something to think and reason about, after all. And these facts can't be Googled as we go; they need to be stored in the original hard drive, our long-te rm memory. Especially in the case of children, “factual knowledge must precede skill”，says Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology，at the University of Virginia —meaning that the days of drilling the multiplication table and memorizing the names of the Presidents aren't over quite yet Adults, too, need to recruit a supply of stored knowledge in order to situate and evaluate new information they encounter. You can't Google context. Last, there's the possibility, increasingly terrifying to contemplate, that our machines fail us. As Sparrow puts it, "The experience of losing our Internet connection becomes more and more like losing a friend." If you' re going to keep your memory on your smart phone, better make sure it's fully charged.我们头脑中充斥着太多的信息，我们越来越多地把记忆的工作交给搜索引擎和智能手机。

2015年6月13日四级翻译、作文真题及参考答案

2015年6月13日大学英语四级短文翻译：中国介绍文章来源：文都教育2015年6月13日英语四级考试已经结束，本次考试为多题多卷，文都四六级考试网收集整理了不同版本试题及参考答案，供考生参考，下面是英语四级短文翻译：中国介绍。

题目：Part IV Translation (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.中国是世界上最古老的文明之一。

构成现在世界基础的许多元素都起源于中国。

中国现在拥有世界上发展最快的经济，并经历着一次新的工业革命。

中国还启动了雄心勃勃的太空探索计划，其实包括到2020年建成一个太空站。

目前，中国是世界上最大的出口国之一，并正在吸引大量外国投资。

同时，它也在海外投资数十亿美元。

2011年，中国超越日本成为第二大经济体。

参考译文:China is one of the world's oldest civilizations. Many of the elements that make up the foundation of the modern world originated in China. Nowadays China has not only the world's fastest growing economy, but also is experiencing a new industrial revolution. China also launches an ambitious space exploration plan, actually including building a space station by 2020.At present, China is one of the world's largest exporters, and is attracting a large number of foreign investment. At the same time, it also invests billions of dollars abroad. In 2011, China had surpassed Japan to become the second-largest national economy.2015年6月大学英语四级翻译参考译文：中国来源：文都教育2015年6月大学英语四级考试刚刚结束，刚刚走出考场的同学们应该深有体会，今年的四级翻译完全在我们的预测范围之内，难度不大，都是一些基本的常见句型和表达。

2015年12月四级翻译真题及译文

2015年12月四级翻译真题及译文2015年12月四级翻译真题及译文2015年12月19日全国大学英语四级考试已结束，本次考试为多题多卷，YJBYS小编收集整理不同版本试题，供考生参考，以下是2015年12月英语四级翻译真题及参考答案。

第一版云南省的丽江古镇是中国著名的旅游目的地之一。

那里的生活节奏比大多数中国(的城市)都要缓慢。

丽江到处都是美丽的自然风光，众多的少数民族同胞提供了各式各样，丰富多彩的文化让游客体验。

历史上，丽江还以“爱之城”而闻名。

当地人中流传着许多关于(人)生，为爱而死的故事。

如今，在中外游客眼中，这个古镇被视为爱情和浪漫的天堂。

(paradise)Lijiang， an ancient town of Yunnan Province， is one of the most famous tourist destinations。

Its pace of life is slower than that of most cities of China。

There are many natural beauties everywhere in Lijiang and many ethnical minorities provide tourists with a great variety of cultural experience。

Lijiang is also well-known as the “city of love” in history。

Many stories about life and dying for love have spreaded widely among the locals。

Nowadays， for tourists home and abroad， the ancient town is regarded as a paradise of love and romance。

2015 年英语专业四级阅读理解passage 2(翻译)

2015年专业四级英语真题（翻译）Passage 2（翻译）I was a second-year medical student at the university, and was on my second day of rounds at a nearby hospital. My university's philosophy was to get students seeing patients early in their education. Nice idea, but it overlooked one detail: second-year students know next to nothing about medicine.Assigned to my team that day was an attending - a senior faculty member who was there mostly to make patients feel they weren't in the hands of amateurs. Many attendings were researchers who didn't have much recent hospital experience. Mine was actually an arthritis specialist. Also along was a resident (the real boss, with a staggering mastery of medicine, at least to a rookie like myself). In addition there were two interns(住院实习医生). These guys were just as green as I was，but in a scarier way: they had recently graduated from the medical school, so they were technically MDs.I began the day at 6:30 am. An intern and I did a quick check of our eight patients; later, we were to present our findings to the resident and then to the attending. I had three patients and the intern had the other five - piece of cake.But when I arrived in the room of 71-year-old Mr. Adams，he was sitting up in bed, sweating heavily and panting (喘气). He'd just had a hip operation and looked terrible. I listened to his lungs with my stethoscope, but they sounded clear. Next I checked the log of his vital signs and saw that his respiration and heart rate had been climbing, but histemperature was steady. It didn't seem like heart failure, nor did it appear to be pneumonia. So I asked Mr. Adams what he thought was going on."It's really hot in here, Doc," he replied.So I attributed his condition to the stuffy room and told him the rest of the team would return in a few hours. He smiled and feebly waved goodbye.At 8:40 am., during our team meeting, "Code Blue Room 307!" blared from the loudspeaker. I froze.That was Mr. Adams's room.When we arrived, he was motionless.The autopsy (尸体解剖) later found Mr. Adams had suffered a massive pulmonary embolism (肺部栓塞). A blood clot had formed in his leg, worked its way to his lungs, and cut his breathing capacity in half. His symptoms had been textbook: heavy perspiration and shortness of breath despite clear lungs. The only thing was: I hadn't read that chapter in the textbook yet. And I was too scared, insecure, and proud to ask a real doctor for help.This mistake has haunted me for nearly 30 years, but what's particularly frustrating is that the same medical education system persists. Who knows how many people have died or suffered harm at the hands of students as naive as I, and how many more will?我是这所大学医学院的一名二年级学生，我在附近的一家医院进行了第二天的查房。

2015年6月英语四级翻译原文及参考译文

2015年6月英语四级翻译原文及参考译文【翻译原文】自上世纪90年代后期起，七夕节(the Double SeventhFestival )开始被称为“中国的情人节”。

这个节日可以追溯到汉朝，当时对恋人、女孩都是个特殊的日子。

这天，女孩会举行仪式，向织女(Zhinv)乞求智慧、技艺和美满婚姻，所以七夕节还被称为“乞巧节(the Begging for SkillsFestival)”。

如今，一些传统习俗已经弱化。

人们现在把七夕节当作浪漫的情人节来庆祝，尤其是在年轻人中间。

【参考译文】The Double Seventh Festival has been called ChineseValentine's Day since the late 1990s. The festival canbe traced back to the Han Dynasty. It was then aspecial day not only for lovers, but also for girls.Girls would hold a ceremony to beg Zhinv forwisdom, skills and a satisfying marriage. So it is also called “the Begging for Skills Festival”.Today some traditional customs have been weakened. Now the festival is celebrated as aromantic valentine's day, particularly among young people.【翻译原文】腊八节(the Laba Festival)在农历最后一个月的第八天庆祝，标志着春节庆祝活动的开始。

“腊”指“腊月(the 12thlunar month)”，是农历第十二个月，“八”指的是数字8。

2015大学英语四级阅读练习题及答案解析(3)

2015大学英语四级阅读练习题及答案解析(3)We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person''s knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It really is extraordinary that afterall these years, educationists have still failed to device anything more efficient and reliable than examinations. For all the piousclaim that examinations text what you know, it is common knowledgethat they more often do the exact opposite. They may be a good meansof testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person''s trueability and aptitude.As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the mark of success of failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in onefateful day. It doesn''t matter that you weren''t feeling very well,or that your mother died. Little things like that don''t count: the exam goes on. No one can give of his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a sleepless night, yet this is precisely what theexamination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of vicious competition where success and failure are clearly defined and measured. Can we wonder at the increasing number of ''drop-outs'': young people who are written off as utter failures before they have even embarked on a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students?A good education should, among other things, train you to thinkfor yourself. The examination system does anything but that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, so the student is encouraged to memorize. Examinations do not motivate a student toread widely, but to restrict his reading; they do not enable him to seek more and more knowledge, but induce cramming. They lower the standards of teaching, for they deprive the teacher of all freedoms. Teachers themselves are often judged by examination results and instead of teaching their subjects, they are reduced to trainingtheir students in exam techniques which they despise. The most successful candidates are not always the best educated; they are the best trained in the technique of working under duress.The results on which so much depends are often nothing more thana subjective assessment by some anonymous examiner. Examiners areonly human. They get tired and hungry; they make mistakes. Yet they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time. They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word carries weight. After a judge''s decision you have the right of appeal, but not after an examiner''s. There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a person''s true abilities. Is it cynical to suggest that examinations are merely a profitable business for the institutions that run them? This is what it boils down to in the last analysis. The best comment on the system is this illiterate message recently scrawled on a wall: ''I were a teenage drop-out and now I are a teenage millionaire.''1. The main idea of this passage is ______[A] examinations exert a pernicious influence on education.[B] examinations are ineffective.[C] examinations are profitable for institutions.[D] examinations are a burden on students.2. The author''s attitude toward examinations is ______[A]detest.[B] approval.[C] critical.[D] indifferent.3. The fate of students is decided by ______[A] education.[B] institutions.[C] examinations.[D] students themselves.4. According to the author, the most important of a good education is ______[A] to encourage students to read widely.[B] to train students to think on their own.[C] to teach students how to tackle exams.[D] to master his fate.5. Why does the author mention court? ______[A] Give an example.[B] For comparison.[C] It shows that teachers'' evolutions depend on the results of examinations.[D] It shows the results of court is more effectise.Vocabulary1. knack 窍门，诀窍2. embark 乘船，登记3. write off 勾销，注销。

2015年6月英语四级阅读理解二翻译

2015年6月英语四级阅读理解(二）翻译Some of the world’s most significant problems never hit headlines.One example comes from agriculture. Food riots and hunger make news。

But the trend lying behind these matters is rarely talked about。

This is the decline in the growth in yields of some of the world’s major crops.A new study by the University of Minnesota and McGill University in Montreal looks at where， and how far, this decline is occurring 。

一些世界上最有影响的问题从不上头条新闻。

其中一个例子就是农业问题。

粮食暴动和饥饿产生新闻，但躺在这些问题背后的趋势却很少被谈及。

这是因为一些世界主要农作物产区的产量在下降.蒙特利尔的明尼苏达和麦吉尔大学的一项新研究着眼于研究这种正在发生的下降趋势在哪，还有多远。

The authors take a vast number of data points for the four most important crops: rice, wheat corn and soybeans(大豆)。

They find that on between 24％ and 39% of all harvested areas, the improvement in yields that tood place before the 1980s slowed down in the 1990s and 2000s。

2015 年英语专业四级阅读理解passage 1(翻译)

2015年专业四级英语真题（翻译）Passage 1（翻译）Inundated by more information than we can possibly hold in our heads, we're increasingly handing off the job of remembering to search engines and smart phones. Google is even reportedly working on eyeglasses that could one day recognize faces and supply details about whoever you're looking at. But new research shows that outsourcing our memory —and expecting that information will be continually and instantaneously available —is changing our cognitive habits.Research conducted by Betsy Sparrow, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia University，has identified three new realities about how we process information in the Internet age. First, her experiments showed that when we don't know the answer to a question, we now think about where we can find the nearest Web connection instead of the subject of the question itself. A second revelation is that when we expect to be able to find information again later on, we don't remember it as well as when we think it might become unavailable. And then there is the researchers' final observation: the expectation that we'll be able to locate information down the line leads us to form a memory not of the fact itself but of where we'll be able to find it.But this handoff comes with a downside. Skills like critical thinking and analysis must develop in the context of facts: we need something to think and reason about, after all. And these facts can't be Googled as we go; they need to be stored in the original hard drive, our long-te rm memory. Especially in the case of children, “factual knowledge must precede skill”，says Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology，at the University of Virginia —meaning that the days of drilling the multiplication table and memorizing the names of the Presidents aren't over quite yet Adults, too, need to recruit a supply of stored knowledge in order to situate and evaluate new information they encounter. You can't Google context. Last, there's the possibility, increasingly terrifying to contemplate, that our machines fail us. As Sparrow puts it, "The experience of losing our Internet connection becomes more and more like losing a friend." If you' re going to keep your memory on your smart phone, better make sure it's fully charged.我们头脑中充斥着太多的信息，我们越来越多地把记忆的工作交给搜索引擎和智能手机。

2015 年英语专业四级阅读理解passage 3(翻译)

2015年专业四级英语真题（翻译）Passage 3（翻译）The war on smoking, now five decades old and counting, is one of the nation's greatest public health success stories - but not for everyone.As a whole, the country has made amazing progress. In 1964, four in ten adults in the US smoked; today fewer than two in ten do. But some states - Kentucky, South Dakota and Alabama to name just a few - seem to have missed the message that smoking is deadly.Their failure is the greatest disappointment in an effort to save lives that was started on Jan. 11, 1964, by the first Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health. Its finding that smoking is a cause of lung cancer and other diseases was major news then. The hazards of smoking were just starting to emerge.The report led to cigarette warning labels, a ban on TV ads and eventually an anti-smoking movement that shifted the nation's attitude on smoking. Then, smokers were cool. Today, many are outcasts, rejected by restaurants, bars, public buildings and even their own workplaces. Millions of lives have been saved.The formula for success is no longer guesswork: Adopt tough warning labels, air public service ads, fund smoking cessation programs and impose smoke-free laws. But the surest way to prevent smoking, particularly among price-sensitive teens, is to raise taxes. If you can stop them from smoking, you've won the war. Few people start smokingafter turning 19.The real-life evidence of taxing power is powerful. The 10 states with the lowest adult smoking rates slap an average tax of $2.42 on every pack -- three times the average tax in the states with the highest smoking rates.New York has the highest cigarette tax in the country, at $4.35 per pack, and just 12 percent of teens smoke, far below the national average of 18 percent. Compare that with Kentucky, where taxes are low (60 cents), smoking restrictions are weak and the teen smoking rate is double New York's. Other low-tax states have similarly dismal records.Enemies of high tobacco taxes cling to the tired argument that they fall disproportionately on the poor. True, but so do the deadly effects of smoking, far worse than a tax. The effect of the taxes is amplified further when the revenue is used to fund initiatives that help smokers quit or persuade teens not to start.Anti-smoking forces have plenty to celebrate this week, having helped avoid 8 million premature deaths in the past 50 years. But as long as 3,000 adolescents and teens take their first puff each day, the war is not won.禁烟斗争已经持续了50年，而且还在持续，它是美国最伟大的公共卫生成功案例之一——但并非对每个人都是如此。

2015年6月英语四级阅读理解练习及解析

2015年6月英语四级阅读理解练习及解析1 There are people in Italy who can’t stand soccer. Not all Canadians love hockey.A similar situation exists in America, where there are those individuals you may be one of them who yawn or even frown when somebody mentions baseball. 『Baseball to them means boring hours watching grown men in funny tight outfits standing around in a field staring away while very little of anything happens.』① They tell you it’s a game better suited to the 19th century, slow, quiet, gentlemanly. These are the same people you may be one of them who love football because there’s the sport that glorifies “the hit”.By contrast, baseball seems abstract, cool, silent, still.On TV the game is fractured into a dozen perspectives, replays, close ups. The geometry of the game, however, is essential to understanding it. You will contemplate the game from one point as a painter does his subject; you may, of course, project yourself into the game. It is in this projection that the game affords so much space and time for involvement. The TV won’t do it for you.Take, for example, the third baseman. You sit behind the third base dugout and you watch him watching home plate. His legs are apart, knees flexed. His arms hang loose. He does a lot of this. The skeptic still cannot think of any other sports so still, so passive. 『But watch what happens every time the pitcher throws: the third baseman goes up on his toes, flexes his arms or bring the glove to a point in front of him, takes a step right or left, backward or forward, perhaps he glances across the field to check his first baseman’s position.』② Suppose the pitch is a ball. “Nothing happened,” you say. “I could have had my eyes closed.”The skeptic and the innocent must play the game. And this involvement in the stands is no more intellectual than listening to music is. Watch the third baseman. Smooth the dirt in front of you with one foot; smooth the pocket in your glove; watch the eyes of the batter, the speed of the bat, the sound of horsehide on wood. If football is a symphony of movement and theatre, baseball is chamber music, a spacious interlocking of notes, chores and responses.1. The passage is mainly concerned with ______.A. the different tastes of people for sportsB. the different characteristics of sportsC. the attraction of footballD. the attraction of baseball2. Those who don’t like baseball may complain that ______.A. it is only to the taste of the oldB. it involves fewer players than footballC. it is not exciting enoughD. it is pretentious and looks funny3. The author admits that ______.A. baseball is too peaceful for the youngB. baseball may seem boring when watched on TVC. football is more attracting than baseballD. baseball is more interesting than football4. By stating “I could have had my eyes closed. ” the author means (4th paragraph last sentence):A. The third baseman would rather sleep than play the game.B. Even if the third baseman closed his eyes a moment ago, it could make no different to the result.C. The third baseman is so good at baseball that he could finish the game with eyes closed all the time and do his work well.D. The consequent was too bad he could not bear to see it.5. We can safely conclude that the author ______.A. likes footballB. hates footballC. hates baseballD. likes baseball词汇与短语1. dugout n. 棒球场边供球员休息的地方2. pitcher n. 投手3. symphony n. 交响乐4. chamber n. 室内5. contemplate vt.沉思，注视长难句解析①【解析】此句的主干是“Baseball?means?watching?”，其中“in funny tight outfits”用来修饰“grown men”,“standing?”和“staring”用来做“grown men”的定语。