翻译二级笔译实务分类模拟题9
catti二级考试题库及答案
catti二级考试题库及答案一、单选题（每题1分，共10分）1. 翻译中，以下哪个选项是正确的英译汉表达？A. "The weather is fine today." 翻译为“今天天气很好。
”B. "The weather is fine today." 翻译为“今天天气很坏。
”C. "The weather is fine today." 翻译为“今天天气一般。
”D. "The weather is fine today." 翻译为“今天天气很差。
”答案：A2. 在翻译中，如何处理专业术语？A. 直接使用原语言B. 用同义词替换C. 根据上下文进行解释D. 忽略不译答案：C3. 以下哪个选项是正确的汉译英表达？A. “他非常努力工作。
” 翻译为“He works very hard.”B. “他非常努力工作。
” 翻译为“He works very lazy.”C. “他非常努力工作。
” 翻译为“He works very slowly.”D. “他非常努力工作。
” 翻译为“He works very fast.”答案：A4. 翻译时，如何处理文化差异？A. 直接翻译，不作任何调整B. 完全按照原文，不考虑目标语言文化C. 适当调整，使译文符合目标语言文化习惯D. 忽略文化差异，只注重语言准确性答案：C5. 翻译中，如何处理长句？A. 直接翻译，保持原句结构B. 拆分成多个短句C. 合并成更短的句子D. 保持原句结构，但进行适当调整答案：D6. 在翻译中，以下哪个选项是错误的？A. 保持原文的语气和风格B. 确保译文的流畅性和准确性C. 忽略原文的修辞手法D. 尊重原文作者的意图答案：C7. 翻译中，如何处理习语和成语？A. 直接翻译，不作任何调整B. 用目标语言中的对应习语替换C. 根据上下文进行解释D. 忽略不译答案：B8. 翻译时，如何处理数字和单位？A. 直接翻译，保持原样B. 转换为目标语言的习惯表达C. 忽略不译D. 根据上下文进行适当调整答案：B9. 在翻译中，以下哪个选项是正确的？A. 翻译是一种语言的简单转换B. 翻译是一种语言和文化的转换C. 翻译是一种语言的复杂转换D. 翻译是一种语言的随意转换答案：B10. 翻译中，如何处理专有名词？A. 直接翻译，不作任何调整B. 用同义词替换C. 保持原样，不作翻译D. 根据上下文进行解释答案：C二、多选题（每题2分，共10分）1. 翻译中，以下哪些因素需要考虑？A. 语言准确性B. 文化差异C. 读者需求D. 作者意图答案：A, B, C, D2. 翻译时，以下哪些技巧是常用的？A. 直译B. 意译C. 增译D. 减译答案：A, B, C, D3. 翻译中，以下哪些是常见的错误？A. 语言不准确B. 文化误解C. 风格不一致D. 信息遗漏答案：A, B, C, D4. 在翻译中，以下哪些是重要的翻译原则？A. 忠实性B. 通顺性C. 美观性D. 准确性答案：A, B, D5. 翻译时，以下哪些是有效的策略？A. 了解背景知识B. 使用词典C. 参考类似文本D. 反复校对答案：A, B, C, D三、判断题（每题1分，共10分）1. 翻译是一种语言的简单转换。
翻译二级笔译综合能力模拟9
[模拟] 翻译二级笔译综合能力模拟9Vocabulary Selection In this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are 4 choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.第1题：I'll just ______ an eye over these figures before you type them.A.tossB.castC.flingD.throw参考答案：B答案解析：近义辨析。
这四个词都指“投，抛，掷”。
cast指转向或引向：All eyes were cast upon the speaker．所有目光皆投注在说话者身上。
toss：指以迅猛的速度突然移动或抬起(头)：tossing their heads in sprightly dance在轻盈活泼的舞步中抬起他们的头。
fling指摆动(身体一部分)：She flung back her head proudly．她傲气地把头一扬。
throw指发出，投射：She threw me a look of encouragement．她向我投来鼓励的目光。
第2题：After the ______ exercises of prayer and song, the speaker of the day gave an address.A.prejudicedB.previousC.prematureD.preliminary参考答案：D答案解析：形近识别A．prejudiced怀偏见的；B．previous在前的，早先的；C．premature未成熟的，早熟的，太早的；D．preliminary预备的，初步的；此句意为：在举行了祈祷和歌唱的开始仪式之后，当天的演讲人开始致辞。
翻译二级笔译综合能力分类模拟题80
翻译二级笔译综合能力分类模拟题80Vocabulary and GrammarError Correction1. Through many years of evolution, your body （江南博哥）has learned bow to respond to stress basing on its instinct for survival.A.based onB.taken onC.founded onD.built on正确答案：A[解析] 根据本句内容，划线部分应填部分是分词作宾语补足语；因此处于宾补与宾语(how to respond to stress)之间是被动关系，所以应填过去分词。
2. The experience of foreign countries is worth learning from and taking for reference.A.learning and referenceB.our learning and our referenceC.our learning from and taking for referenceD.our learning and make reference to正确答案：C[解析] be worth(doing) something常用来表示(某事有趣，有用或有益)值得去做。
例：A lot of the small towns in the area are definitely worth visiting. (这一地区的许多小镇很值得一游。
)在此句中something是：我们学习和借鉴，所以应用our learning from and taking for reference。
3. A good dictionary will help you up in your reading.A.inB.outC.downD.through正确答案：B[解析] help sb. out帮助某人解决难题/摆脱困境；而help sb. down搀扶某人下来。
人事部二级笔译英汉互译练习题集
翻译资格考试英汉互译练习题翻译资格考试英汉互译练习题(1)Since Darwin, biologists have been-firmly convinced that nature works without plan or meaning, pursuing no aim by the direct road of design. But today we see that this conviction is a fatal error. Why should evolution, exactly as Darwin knew it and described it, be planless and irrational? Do not aircraft design engineers work, at precisely that point where specific calculations and plans give out, according to the same principle of evolution, when they test the serviceability of a great number of statistically determined forms in the wind tunnel, in order to choose the one that functions best? Can we say that there is no process of natural selection when nuclear physicists, through thousands of computer operations, try to find out which materials, in which combinations and with what structural form, are best suited to the building of an atomic reactor? They also practise no designed adaptation, but work by the principle of selection. But it would never occur to anyone to call their method planless and irrational.【参考译文】达尔文以后的生物学家们一直相信，大自然的运行是没有计划没有意义的，不会按照预先设定的途径实现任何目的。
翻译二级笔译综合能力分类模拟题60
翻译二级笔译综合能力分类模拟题60(总分：92.20，做题时间：90分钟)一、Ⅰ Vocabulary and Grammar(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Part 1 Vocabulary Selection(总题数：10，分数：17.60)1.During the ______ of the rain, she returned home immediately.（分数：2.00）A.spinB.flickC.lull √D.notch解析：2.This movie involving a case is ______ of how information publicized once it falls into government hands.（分数：2.00）A.illustrative √B.illuminatedC.illustriousD.imaginative解析：3.John says that his present job does not provide him with enough ______ for his organizing ability. （分数：2.00）A.scopeB.space √C.capacityD.range解析：4.Although I spoke to her about the matter several times, she took little ______ of what I said. （分数：1.00）A.remarkB.warningC.notice √D.attention解析：[解析] take notice of为固定搭配，表示“注意，留心”。
此外，pay attention to也可表示“注意”的意思。
5.He is known as a ______, a man who hates woman.（分数：2.00）A.believerB.misogynist √C.philatelistD.deist解析：[解析] misogynist指“厌女”。
笔译二级实务(综合)模拟试卷9(题后含答案及解析)
笔译二级实务（综合）模拟试卷9(题后含答案及解析) 题型有：1. English-Chinese Translation 2. Chinese-English TranslationPART 1 English-Chinese Translation (60 points)This part consists of two sections: SECTIONA 1 “Compulsory Translation”and SECTION 2 “Optional Translation”which comprises “Topic 1”and “Topic 2”. Translate the passage in SECTION 1 and your choice from passages in SECTION 2 into Chinese. Write “Compulsory Translation”above your translation of SECTION 1 and write “Topic 1”or “Topic 2”above your translation of the passage from SECTION 2. The time for this part is 100 minutes.SECTION 1 Compulsory Translation (30 points)1．Tofu and a host of other products made from the mighty soybean are pushing aside meat, milk and even ice cream on grocery store shelves these days as scientists rave about the health benefits of soy. Hundreds of scientists around the globe are turning their microscopes to soy in search of ways to prove or disprove its cancer-fighting ability or its benefit as a natural alternative to hormone replacement therapy. Good science requires patience.正确答案：因科学家们为大豆有益健康的事实大声叫好，而使得如今杂货店的货架上的豆腐和各种豆制品正在把肉类、牛奶甚至冰淇淋挤到了一旁。
CATTI二级笔译实务模拟题
全国翻译专业资格（水平）考试英语二级笔译实务模拟试题Section 1: English-Chinese Translation (英译汉)This section consists of two parts, Part A - "Compulsory Translation" and Part B - "Choice of Two Translations" consisting of two sections "Topic 1" and "Topic 2". For the passage in Part A and your choice of passages in Part B, translate the underlined portions, including titles, into Chinese. Above your translation of Part A, write "Compulsory Translation" and above your translation from Part B, write "Topic 1" or "Topic 2" and write your translations on the ANSWER SHEET (60 points, 100 minutes).Part A Compulsory Translation (必译题)（30 points）The Dreadlock DeadlockIn the fall of 1993 Christopher Polk transferred from FedEx's hub in Indianapolis to take over a delivery route in Flatbush District, Brooklyn, N.Y. But moving to the country's largest community of Caribbean and African immigrants only precipitated a far more profound journey. "I was becoming culturally aware of the history of the black people," says Polk, now 31, "and that gave me these spiritual questions." His answer came providentially, by way of a music video featuring Lord Jamal, who raps about the Rastafarian belief in the sanctity of dreadlocks - the cords of permanently interlocked strands first worn by African chiefs perhaps 6,000 years ago.Now a practicing Rastafarian, Polk sports thick garlands that gently cascade onto his shoulders. "Your hair is your covenant," he says. "Once you grow your locks, it puts you on a path."Unfortunately, that path was a collision course with Federal Express's grooming policy, which requires men to confine their dos to "a reasonable style." After years of deliberation, Polk's bosses gave him a choice: shear his locks or be transferred to a lower-paid job with no customer contact. He refused both options and was terminated in June 2000.His tale is not unique. Although Rastafarians number about 5,000 nationally, today dreadlocks, twists or braids are at the height of fashion, nearly as common as Afros were 30 years ago. If Afros symbolized militancy, dreads signal a more spiritual self-declaration, a figurative locking with African ancestors. As Stanford professor Kennell Jackson, who teaches a course called "African Coiffures and Their New World Legacies," puts it, "There's a divinity to these locks."Divine or not, some employers consider them unacceptably outré. Six other New York-area FedEx employees have lost their jobs because of dreadlocks. They have sued, alleging religious discrimination; the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and New York's attorney general have also charged FedEx with violating religious protections in the Civil Rights Act.The dreadlock deadlock may be easing. FedEx altered its policy slightly a few weeks ago: in the future, observant employees who seek a waiver may wear their locks tucked under uniform hats, says a company spokeswoman. The concession isn't enough to settle the lawsuits yet. The EEOC also wantsreinstatement for the fired drivers, says trial attorney Michael Ranis. He's optimistic. Some new styles, he knows, grow more appealing over time.Part B Choice of Two Translations (二选一题)（30 points）Topic 1 (选题一)Eurasians: The New Face of AsiaFusion is in, not only as an abstract fashion concept, but in that most grounded of realities: mixed-blood people who walk, talk, and produce even more multiracial progeny. Most strange of all, these hybrids are finding themselves hailed as role models for vast masses in Asia with no mixed blood at all. "When I think of Asia, I don't necessarily think of people who look like me," says Declan Wong, a Chinese-Dutch-American actor and producer, "But somehow we've become the face that sells the new Asia."So maybe Asia's Eurasian craze is driven by the theories of that whitest of white men, economist Adam Smith. As the world gets smaller, we look for a global marketing mien, a one-size-fits-all face that helps us sell Nokia cell phones and Palmolive shampoo across the world."For any business, you can't think locally anymore," says Paul Lau, general manager at Elite Model Management in Hong Kong, who has built up a stable of Eurasians for his internationally minded clients. "At the very least, you need to think regionally. Ideally, you should think globally." A global image helps sell products, even if no one but Filipinos would ever want to buy duck-fetus eggs or Thais the most pungent variety of shrimp paste. Yanto Zainal, president of Macs909, a boutique ad agency in Jakarta, used all indos for a campaign for the local Matahari department store chain. "The store wanted to promote a more cosmopolitan image," he says. "Indos have an international look but can still be accepted as Indonesian."Channel V, the Asia-wide music television channel, was one of the first to broadcast the message of homogenized hybridism. "We needed a messenger that would fit in from Tokyo to the Middle East." Says Jonnifer Seeto, regional sales marketing manager for the channel, which began beaming its border-busting images in 1994. Star Veejay Asha Gill personifies the global look. When asked what her ethnic heritage is, Gill, a Malaysian citizen, simply shrugs. "Oh, who knows," she says. "I'm half Punjabi, mixed with some English, a little French and dribs and drabs of God knows what else." The 29-year-old speaks crisp British English, fluent Malay, and a smidgen of Punjabi. She grew up in a Kuala Lumpur neighborhood that was mostly Chinese, attended an English-speaking school and was pals with Malay and Indian kids. Gill's Channel V show, broadcast in English, has a strong following in Malaysia, Japan and the United Arab Emirates. "I'm Hitler's worst nightmare," she says. "My ethnicity and profession make me a global person who can't be defined in just one category."Topic 2 (选题二)MatterLook at all the things around us: chairs, desks, cupboards, papers and pensin our classroom; motor cars, bicycles and buses in the streets; trees, plants and animals in the countryside; birds, aeroplanes and clouds in the sky; f ishes, seaweeds and corals in the sea; stars, the moon and the sun in outer space. These and all other things including the human body, are examples of matter. Matter is anything that takes up space and has weight.What is Matter Made of?Since ancient times, learned men or philosophers have thought about matter and what it is made up of. One group of philosophers thought that matter was made up of a substance called "hyle" (实质). Another group of philosophers said that matter was made up of four substances, namely earth, water, air and fire. A third group believed that matter was made up of very tiny particles which were too small to be seen. These particles were so small that they could never be further divided into smaller particles. They gave the particles the name atoms which means "those which cannot be divided." The difference between the various kinds of atoms and the ways in which they were joined were supposed to result in the different kinds of matter.All these ideas arose purely from the mind and were not based on investigation. For many years, people believed in the second idea. But actually it is the third idea that is nearer to our present concept of matter.Dalton's Atomic TheoryIn the early nineteenth century, Dalton, an English school teacher, stated in this atomic theory that matter was made up of tiny, indivis ible particles, which he also called atoms. His laboratory work showed him that atoms could neither be divided into smaller parts nor could they be destroyed. He pictured matter as being made up of tiny solid spherical atoms. Today the idea of the atoms has been accepted. But further work has shown that contrary to Dalton's findings, atoms are made up of even smaller particles.Section 2: Chinese-English Translation (汉译英)This section consists of two parts, Part A —— "Compulsory Translation" and Part B - "Choice of Two Translations" consisting of two sections "Topic 1" and "Topic 2". For the passage in Part A and your choice of passages in Part B, translate the underlined portions, including titles, into English. Above your translation of Part A, write "Compulsory Translation" and above your translation from Part B, write "Topic 1" or "Topic 2" and write your translations on the ANSWER SHEET (40 points, 80 minutes).Part A Compulsory Translation (必译题)（20 points）中国政府高度重视人口与发展问题，将人口与发展问题作为国民经济和社会发展总体规划的重要组成部分列入议事日程，始终强调人口增长与经济社会发展相适应，与资源利用和环境保护相协调。
英语翻译资格考试-翻译二级口译实务模拟9
翻译二级口译实务模拟9Part ⅠInterpret the following passages from English into Chinese. Start interpreting at the signal and stop at the signal. You may take notes while you are listening. You will hear the passage only once. Now let's begin.1、Passage 1China is in the midst of a developmental stage where advanced management knowledge and techniques and advanced industrial automation technology and solutions are fundamental and necessary elements for China's sustained growth and global competitiveness.There is no one good definition of what industrial automation is. Perhaps the best definition is a simple one: industrial automation is the use of electronics to control and monitor a process or machinery. While there are many steps that China must take to ensure the appropriate development of its industrial base and supporting infrastructure, the utilization of advanced industrial automation is a critical step. Increases in productivity and efficiency are not possible without a high level of industrial automation. If we were to look at the growth in productivity of U.S. industry from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, two pivotal factors stand out. The first is a revolution in management techniques and consequent restructuring of the American corporation. Management became results-focused, flatter and more distributed, with great participation by the work force.The second pivotal factor was the infusion of advanced industrial automation into manufacturing and other automated processes. Together these two elements led to significant increases in productivity and efficiency. These increases led the way to sustained growth in the U.S. economy, so that by the late 1980s and the early 1990s the U.S. economy was growing faster than that of Japan for the first time in several decades.China, which is now at its own critical industrial and management systems crossroads, can borrow from some of these experiences. China has an unparalleled opportunity to adopt advanced industrial automation as this technolog y moves into the new millennium and into the information era.The future of industrial automation will be a networked future with a great reliance on wireless connectivity. Utilization of effective and open networks such as DeviceNet, ControlNet and Ethernet/IP, with their ability to connect to the Internet, allows for continuous control and feedback from the factory floor to the management office and beyond.The factory floor and the management office can be linked continuously and in real time with suppliers, sales force and customers. Every part of this chain will be able to monitor, input to and adjust the manufacturing process and supporting activities.The future of industrial automation will also very much be linked to software that is an open platform and is multifunctional. The right software package provides tremendous flexibility and agility in the manufacturing process. Industrial software provides the operator interface and gateway from the factory floor to the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and even to the Internet to provide seamless flow of data and information so that the "Information Enabled Enterprise" can be managed in a more flexible, integrated, and efficient manner.2、Passage 2Ludwig van Beethoven was an unhappy genius. He had deep feelings that he could not express in words. He found the way to express these feelings inmusic, and this led to a new kind of music that is expressive.Beethoven was born in the German city of Bonn, in 1770. His father was a singer in the Church choir, and he soon saw that Ludwig had musical ability. The father thought that Ludwig might be another wonder-child, like Mozart, and that he would make the family's name and fortune. He forced the little boy to practice long hours on the violin.Mozart's father had been kind, but Beethoven's father was impatient and often rough with him. Also, Beethoven's father was not reliable in earning a living for his family. As young Ludwig grew up he had to take a great deal of responsibility. When he was 15, and was working in the Church as assistance organist, Ludwig was practically supporting the family.But he had kind teachers and some good friends, and he was lucky enough to get a position playing the viola in the opera orchestra in Bonn. There he became familiar with the operas of Mozart and other composers, and he learned a great deal about the instruments of the orchestra and how they played together. This was to be valuable to him later in his own composing.When he decided to go to Vienna to study, the Archbishop at Bonn paid for his journey and other friends gave him letters to noblemen in Vienna. Beethoven was a very fine pianist, besides being able to play the violin and other stringed instruments. The Viennese music-lovers quickly adopted him as a favorite concert performer. But they criticized every new work of Beethoven's because it was too different.The Viennese soon realized that they had an extraordinary genius living among them, and they made every effort to keep him. When Beethoven had an offer to go to another city as an orchestra conductor, three noblemen of Vienna banded together to pay him a regular income every year if he would stay with them, He stayed, and went on composing his big, powerful symphonies, concertos, piano sonatas and many other works.But except for his music, Beethoven was not a happy man. Before he was 30, he began to grow deaf. This was a terrible misfortune for a musician. His deafness came slowly and he was able to continue playing concerts until he was 44. But 10 years later, when his great Ninth Symphony was performed for the first time, he could not hear at all. He was sitting on the stage at the performance, watching the conductor, and he had his back to the audience. One of the singers turned him around so that he could see the audience enthusiastically applauding this tremendous symphony.Beethoven was a lonely man. Although he had fallen in love several times, he never married. His deafness made him still more lonely, for he would not go out in public at all. But he rose above his loneliness and deafness through his music. Even when he was totally deaf, he went on creating music that he could not hear except in his mind, expressing all the feelings he could not express to anyone in words.Part ⅡInterpret the following passages from Chinese into English. Start interpreting at the signal and stop at the signal. You may take notes while you are listening. You will hear each passage only once. Now let's begin.3、Passage 1女士们、先生们：我非常高兴能利用英中贸协年会的机会向英国工商界朋友们致以诚挚的问候。
翻译二级笔译实务分类模拟题9
翻译二级笔译实务分类模拟题9(总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、Chinese-English Translation(总题数：4，分数：100.00)1.从减负的角度看，把英语考试选为高考改革的突破口似有道理。
因为学习英语的确要占用大量时间。
并且，从学习时间的构成比例来看，学习英语也确实占有其中不小的比重。
但问题在于，“减负”也好，更加科学地安排高考科目、调整高考功用也罢，以此为目标的改革，也并不是把占用学习时间最多的科目减掉那么简单。
如果以减负为标准进行改革，那么下一个在学生乃至家长欢呼声中被降低分值甚至被取消的高考科目也许就应该是数学!因为对于许多学生来讲，学习数学占用的时间一点也不比学习英语占用的时间少，而学习的效果却可能更差——许多学生擅长的“死记硬背”功夫在数学这个注重思维和方法的学科上更显事倍功半。
不过，城市学生与农村学生的英语分差拉大，原因在于城市教育资源和农村教育资源配置的严重失衡。
我曾经两次到农村学校支教，目睹了中国农村英语教学的困境。
在农村学校，英语师资极端匮乏，许多教英语的老师甚至都没有系统地学习过英语。
对于农村学生来说，英语离他们很远，英语所描述的绝大部分内容离他们更远。
加上视听设备、图书读物和网络资源的缺乏，许多农村考生的英语学习基本上处于放弃的状态。
但是，缩小城市考生和农村考生的英语分差，尽可能发挥高考的平衡公平的功用，应该通过增加农村英语教学资源，而不是降低城市学校英语教学的比重来实现。
其实，实现公平，还可以像美国大学吸纳少数族裔学生一样，施行平权政策。
具体说，就是在高考中制定单独针对农村考生的政策，对农村考生实行英语免考，并且在农村考生入学后，在大学英语教学上对其实行倾斜政策，补偿他们在高中以前的英语学习亏欠。
（分数：25.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：()解析：When it comes to cutting back study load, it may sound plausible to single out English exam as an ice-breaker for the proposed Gaokao reform/to take English out of the Gaokaosystem/fabric/architecture/configuration in the first place. After all, learning English is truly time-consuming.On top of that, a sizable portion/an inordinate amount of study time is currently devoted to English learning. Gaokao reform is designed either to reduce study load or reorient its functionality with a more balanced mix of subjects. That being said/That said/Having said that, for that to happen, it takes more than simply axing/removing/delisting English, the allegedly mosttime-intensive subject.A reduced study load is widely applauded by college candidates and their otherwise anxious parents. But if the reform looks at exactly how to relieve the burden of students/make Gaokao less burdensome/more student-friendly, then mathematics might as well be given less weight, if not the next to go. Admittedly for many students, math takes no less time than English, but might be less productive. Learning by rote, which many Chinese students feel perfectly comfortable with, doesn"t do the trick when it comes to math, a subject that dictates more thinking and method. The yawning/expanding divide in English scores between urban students and their ruralpeers/counterparts, however, shall be attributed to the acute urban-rural disparities in access to educational resources. I have been to rural schools twice as a volunteer teacher and am fully aware of the state of rural English teaching. In rural schools, there is an acute scarcity/ shortage of English-teaching faculty. Among those who teach English, many haven"t learned English systematically themselves. For rural students, English is not within their reach, and most of what is taught in English is even further from their real life. That, coupled with the absence of audio-visual equipment, extra-curricular reading materials and Internet access, means manyrural college candidates have to brush English aside/dismiss/disregard English.As we seek to narrow the urban-rural divide in English scores to make Gaokao more fair and equitable, we must make more English teaching resources available to rural schools rather than simply make English less weighty in urban schools. To level the playing field, we might draw on Affirmative Action, a policy adopted by American universities when admitting students of ethnic minorities. In China"s case, a pro-rural policy can be developed so that rural candidates will be exempted from English exam when sitting for Gaokao. At the next level, rural undergraduates may entail more support in English teaching so as to make up for/catch up on what they have missed in English learning back in high school.2.公司理念企业愿景及使命中国海油以科学发展观为指导，坚持“双赢、责任、诚信、创新、关爱”的企业理念，实施协调发展、人才兴企、科技领先和低成本战略，坚持特色发展道路，推动公司的高效高速发展，努力建设国际一流能源公司。
翻译二级笔译综合能力分类模拟题100
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2. As the crisis is sweeping across the country, many young people, especially college graduates, can't but get in ______ of themselves, not knowing what to do with their "future".A.backB.frontC.frontierD.backyard正确答案：B[解析] to get in front of oneself是一条美国口语，与汉语的“不知如何是好”或“慌了神儿”近意。
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全国翻译专业资格水平考试英语二级笔译综合能力模拟试题
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In many ______ a lack of direction prompted the Republican Guard to call it a day.A. occasionsB. casesC. eventsD. days3. They did considerable work to ______ the masses of the United States with the elementary problems of Latin America.A. allowB. acquaintC. notifyD. propagate4. My mother says a teaching machine has to be _____ to fit the mind of each boy and girl it teaches and that each kid has to be taught differently.A. modifiedB. consideredC. adjustedD. remanufactured5. The big retailers are starting to think small, too. Sainsbury's and Tesco have launched convenience-store chains, called Local and Express, respectively - that have fast become _____ in British towns.A. ubiquitousB. establishedC. frequentedD. known6. The solidarity among the young, especially the 386 Generation, is so strong that it's helping to _____ the country's deep-rooted regional divide.A. enhanceB. dissolveC. weakenD. move7. The Wright brothers continued their flying in France and _____ all who saw them.A. saddenedB. frightenedC. astonishedD. alarmed8. We are will aware of the responsibilities that necessarily _____ to our office.A. attachB. confrontsC. givenD. face9. People say that what we are all _____ is a meaning for life, but I don't think that's what we all look for.A. seeingB. seekingC. watchingD. looking10. When Joe was left to live with those people, he found that they were so ____ of life that he couldn't stay with themA. painfulB. disdainfulC. meaningfulD. fruitful11. When you make the sacrifice in marriage, the psychologists say, you're sacrificing not to each other but to ______ in a relationship.A. unityB. utilityC. fraternityD. reality12. The constant changes in fashion, _____ with a view to higher sales, made greater demands on women as a class.A. predictedB. dictatedC. statedD. related13. It is easy to see why many little girls prefer to _____ with the male role, but the girl who does find the male role more attractive is faced with a dilemma.A. beautifyB. modifyC. identifyD. justify14. If we can _____ any kind of killing in the name of religion, the door is opened for all kinds of other justifications.A. purifyB. satisfyC. justifyD. verify15. I could easily perceive that his heart burnt to relieve his starving kids, but he seemed ashamed to ______ his inability to me.A. discoverB. recoverC. demonstrateD. impress16. It is a dangerous thing nowadays if you do not _____ others at arm's length, for they may hit you below the belt any time.A. bakeB. keepC. takeD. make17. I will never _____ the experiences of the four years at Howard University, though there were unhappy encounters.A. dischargeB. rechargeC. discardD. dispose18. We should not _____ the West, nor should we praise it to the skies and think great of everything that belongs to the West.A. forgiveB. forsakeC. forlornD. forage19. Bill Gates is one of those who are said to be _______, able to rack huge profits at every turn.A. on the shipB. on the planeC. on the gravy trainD. on the rocks20. He aimed at finding some workable _____ with a man who was a celebrity not only in the inward-reflecting world of Oxford but in the larger world outside.A. neighborhoodB. workmanshipC. relationshipD. craftsmanshipPart 2 Vocabulary ReplacementThis part consists of 15 sentences in which one word or phrase is underlined. Below each sentence, there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C, D. You are to select the ONE choice that can replace the underlined word without causing any grammatical error or changing the principal meaning of the sentence. There is only one right answer. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.21. It wasn't long before Franks was a marked man. After he served in Desert Storm, directing helicopter and ground units, the Army's high command gave him the job of remaking the service for the post-cold war world.A. a person whose conduct is watched with suspicion or hostilityB. a man destined to succeedC. a remarkable personD. a notable person22. The most notorious expression of that change was last year's bootleg publication of "The Japan That Can Say No" - the book written by right-wing politician Shintaro Ishihara and Sony chairman Akio Morita.A. free publicationB. pirate publicationC. lawful publicationD. commercial publication23. "No," Kojima said, "the point is, he spoke out, he stood up to America. Japan is just getting tired of being pushed around."A. he stood up and spoke to the American audienceB. he faced America boldlyC. he challenged AmericaD. he met the Americans' challenge proudly24. Traffic with criminals is dangerous.A. dealing with criminalsB. tracking the criminalsC. fighting the criminalsD. transporting criminals25. Some - such as liquid oxygen - are so cold that they embrittle many constructional materials and evaporate continuously if not refrigerated.A. weakenB. strengthenC. reduceD. cause … to become brittle26. A "Backgrounder" permits newspapermen to publish information given them though without attribution to the source.A. a person who remains behind the sceneB. a person providing the background knowledgeC. a press conferenceD. a news agency27. Is it possible that the entire tale is but a garbled account of that voyage and Biarni another name for LeifA. detailedB. plausibleC. distortedD. eye-witness28. Isolated cases of disaffection - or harbingers of a mass cross-border movement that threatens Europe's economic stability The question is pressing.A. signB. forerunnerC. messengerD. vanguard29. The man we met this morning grows many kinds of plants in his garden, most of which are flowers including succulents and cacti.A. risesB. raisesC. plantsD. plows30. The scientist contested the assumption of previous scientists that the fate of human beings could not be predicated.A. respectedB. supposedC. suspectedD. assumed31. One's knowledge of the world, according to humanists, is largely derived by observation, experience and their analysis of the things they observe and experience.A. come fromB. determinedC. resulted inD. resulted from32. In the last 10 years we have all witnessed an impressive growth in our knowledge about the environments.A. imperativeB. observableC. sustainableD. expressive33. In our culture and in our eyes success all too often means simply outdoing other people by virtue of achievement judged by some single scale - income or honors - and coming out at "the top".A. outfittingB. outbiddingC. outragingD. outshining34. Social taboos remained strong. Gambling was virtually prohibited except on the racecourses, and drinking of alcohol was discouraged by the closing of hotels at six o'clock and by the shortage of bottle beer.A. factuallyB. eventuallyC. consequentlyD. significantly35. Everyone must be responsible for their own behavior, and most of the young people today are interested, as far as I can perceive, in taking their knocks, just as adults must take theirs.A. taking their jobsB. sharing their ideas27. Is it possible that the entire tale is but a garbled account of that voyage and Biarni another name for LeifA. detailedB. plausibleC. distortedD. eye-witness28. Isolated cases of disaffection - or harbingers of a mass cross-border movement that threatens Europe's economic stability The question is pressing.A. signB. forerunnerC. messengerD. vanguard29. The man we met this morning grows many kinds of plants in his garden, most of which are flowers including succulents and cacti.A. risesB. raisesC. plantsD. plows30. The scientist contested the assumption of previous scientists that the fate of human beings could not be predicated.A. respectedB. supposedC. suspectedD. assumed31. One's knowledge of the world, according to humanists, is largely derived by observation, experience and their analysis of the things they observe and experience.A. come fromB. determinedC. resulted inD. resulted from32. In the last 10 years we have all witnessed an impressive growth in our knowledge about the environments.A. imperativeB. observableC. sustainableD. expressive33. In our culture and in our eyes success all too often means simply outdoing other people by virtue of achievement judged by some single scale - income or honors - and coming out at "the top".A. outfittingB. outbiddingC. outragingD. outshining34. Social taboos remained strong. Gambling was virtually prohibited except on the racecourses, and drinking of alcohol was discouraged by the closing of hotels at six o'clock and by the shortage of bottle beer.A. factuallyB. eventuallyC. consequentlyD. significantly35. Everyone must be responsible for their own behavior, and most of the young people today are interested, as far as I can perceive, in taking their knocks, just as adults must take theirs.A. taking their jobsB. sharing their ideasC. assuming their responsibilitiesD. shaking off their responsibilitiesPart 3 Correcting Grammatical ErrorsThis part consists of 15 sentences in which there is an underlined part that indicates a grammatical error. Below each sentence, there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C, D. You are to select the ONE choice and replace the underlined element(s) so that the error is erased and corrected. There is only one right answer. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.36. A survey asked British mums who work outside the home what they would most like for Mother's Day. And what did they reply "Flowers Chocolates Dinner in Paris " No, what 72% wanted was this: a little bit of time for mother.A. to myselfB. to momC. for momD. by myself37. Of course, nobody ever thought the prime minister's job shall be easy.A. wouldB. couldC. willD. should38. Downing Street is fighting fiercely for something it hopes it shall control: its reputation. "[The BBC] is now saying, 'Nobody ever said the prime minister told a lie,' but that's exactly what they're saying," Alastair Campbell, Blair's director of communications, told Newsweek. "That's pretty heavy."A. couldB. wouldC. canD. will39. The made-in-America idea of the global brand has built a name that people will buy on faith, and the pioneer was Coca-Cola.A. is buildingB. is to buildC. was to buildD. was building40. For the least, American roots are no longer an easy selling point. Through much of the postwar period, US brands could play off this cachet; Levi's ad campaigns used wholesome themes of boy-meets-girl in a heartland American setting until the early 1990s.A. At leastB. At the leastC. At mostD. At the most41. For me and my other classmates, trying to fathom what happened to our old school friend, we may never know if we really would grow up with a future terrorist.A. grow upB. are growing upC. grew upD. shall grow up42. When I was an editor, I always preferred to apologise promptly, what the merits of the case, rather than face the expense and, importantly, the time consuming complexities and debilitating worry of litigation, libel being one of the least satisfactory branches of the law.A. whichever, more importantlyB. whatever, more importantC. whichever, more important C. whatever, more importantly43. One morning my patience was growing thin during Mark talked once too often, and then I made a novice-teacher's mistake.A. whenB. asC. whileD. whenever44. One of the key features of CBI is the use of authentic "input" - in other words, "real" reading but listening material: magazine and newspaper articles, poems, short stories, brochures, excerpts from textbooks written for native speakers of English, radio interviews, lectures, and advertisements.A. andB. orC. and/orD. Nil45. In each person's life there are three stages. When one was young, people said, "He will do something." As he grew older and did nothing, they said, "He could do something if he found himself." When he was white-haired, people said of him, "He might do something if he could try anything."A. He should have done something if he has tried somethingB. He would have done something if he should have tried anythingC. He might do something if he would try something.D. He might have done something if he had tried anything46. China not only will endeavor to curb its population growth, but will also upgrade the education of its citizens.A. will not only … but also willB. will not only … but also willC. will not only … but alsoD. not only … but will also47. Of course, the notion suspects that while people work 50 weeks a year, their output is greater than they work 46or 47 weeks.A. p redicts … even ifB. assumes … ifC. assumes … whenD. predicts … when48. If they will not be able to reach agreement before the conference, they shall lose a good opportunity of involving themselves to do the project.A. will be unable … to involvingB. are unable … to involveC. are not be able … to involveD. will be able … to involving49. I was standing behind him and I did see Sandra handing the letter to Joe.A. handB. has handedC. handedD. was handing50. The President was talking to all the department heads while a group of unexpected important clients had arrived for a talk with him.A. when … were arrivingB. as … had arrivedC. when … arrivingD. when … arrivedSection 2: Reading Comprehension (50 Points, 70 minutes)In this section you will find after each of the passages a number of questions or unfinished statements about the passage, each with four (A. B.C and D) suggested answers or ways of finishing. You must choose the one which you think fits best. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.Questions 51-55 are based on the following passage.To Err Is Humanby Lewis ThomasEveryone must have had at least one personal experience with a computer error by this time. Bank balances are suddenly reported to have jumped from $379 into the millions, appeals for charitable contributionsare mailed over and over to people with crazy sounding names at your address, department stores send the wrong bills, utility companies write that they're turning everything off, that sort of thing. If you manage to get in touch with someone and complain,you then get instantaneously typed, guilty letters from the same computer, saying, "Our computer was in error, and an adjustment is being made in your account."These are supposed to be the sheerest, blindest accidents. Mistakes are not believed to be the normal behavior of a good machine. If things go wrong, it must be a personal, human error, the result of fingering, tampering a button getting stuck, someone hitting the wrong key. The computer, at its normal best, is infallible.I wonder whether this can be true. After all, the whole point of computers is that they represent an extension of the human brain, vastly improved upon but nonetheless human, superhuman maybe. A good computer can think clearly and quickly enough to beat you at chess, and some of them have even been programmed to write obscure verse. They can do anything we can do, and more besides.It is not yet known whether a computer has its own consciousness, and it would be hard to find out about this. When you walk into one of those great halls now built for the huge machines, and standing listening, it is easy to imagine that the faint, distant noises are the sound of thinking, and the turning of the spools gives them the look of wild creatures rolling their eyes in the effort to concentrate, choking with information. But real thinking, and dreaming, are other matters. On the other hand, the evidence of something like an unconscious, equivalent to ours, are all around, in every mail. As extensions of the human brain, they have been constructed the same property of error, spontaneous, uncontrolled, and rich in possibilities.51. The title of the writing "To Err Is Human" implies thatA. making mistakes is confined only to human beings.B. every human being cannot avoid making mistakes.C. all human beings are always making mistakes.D. every human being is born to make bad mistakes.52. The first paragraph implies thatA. computer errors are so obvious that one can hardly prevent it from happening.B. the computer is so capable of making errors that none of them is avoidable.C. computers make such errors as miscalculation and inaccurate reporting.D. Computers can't think so their errors are natural and unavoidable.53. The author uses his hypothesis that "computers represents an extension of the human brain" in order to indicate thatA. human beings are not infallible, nor are computers.B. computers are bound to make as many errors as human beings.C. errors made by computers can be avoided the same as human mistakes can be avoided.D. computers are made by human beings and so are their errors.54. The rhetoric the author employed in writing the third paragraph, especially the sentence "A good computer can think clearly and quickly enough to beat you at chess…" is usually referred to in writing asA. climaxB. personificationC. hyperboleD. onomatopoeia55. The author compared the faint and distant sound of the computer to the sound of thinking and regarded it as the product ofA. dreaming and thinkingB. some property of errorsC. consciousnessD. possibilitiesQuestions 56-60 are based on the following passage.The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Americanby Jeff SmithOur real American foods have come from our soil and have been used by many groups -- those who already lived here and those who have come here to live. The Native Americans already had developed an interesting cuisine using the abundant foods that were so prevalent.The influence that the English had upon our national eating habits is easy to see. They were a tough lot, those English, and they ate in a tough manner. They wiped their mouths on the tablecloth, if there happened to be one, and they ate until you would expect them to burst. European travelers to this country in those days were most often shocked by American eating habits, which included too much fat and too much salt and too much liquor. Not much has changed! And, the Revolutionists refused to use the fork since it marked them as Europeans. The fork was not absolutely common on the American dinner table until about the time of the Civil War, the 1860s. Those English were a tough lot.Other immigrant groups added their own touches to the preparation of our New World food products. The groups that came still have a special sense of self-identity through their ancestral heritage, but they see themselves as Americans. This special self-identity through your ancestors who came from other lands was supposed to disappear in this country. The term melting pot was first used in reference to America in the late 1700s, so this belief that we would all become the same has been with us for a long time. Thank goodness it has never worked. The various immigrant groups continue to add flavor to the pot, all right, but you can pick out the individual flavors easily.The largest ancestry group in America is the English. There are more people in America who claim to have come from English blood than there are in England. But is their food English Thanks be to God, it is not! It is American. The second largest group is the Germans, then the Irish, theAfro-Americans, the French, the Italians, the Scottish, and the Polish. The Mexican and American Indian groups are all smaller than any of the above, though they were the original cooks in this country.56. Which of the following statements is nearly identical in meaning with the sentence "they ate until you would expect them to burst" in the second paragraphA. You bet they would never stop to eat till they are full.B. What you can expect is that they would not stop eating unless there was no more food.C. The only thing you would expect is that they wouldn't stop eating till they had had enough of the food.D. the only thing is that they wouldn't stop eating till they felt sick.57. Which of the following statements is Not trueA. English people had bad table manners.B. American food was exclusively unique in its flavors and varieties.C. American diet contained a lot of fat, salt and liquor.D. Europeans were not at all accustomed to the American way of eating.58. The author's attitude towards the American food is thatA. American food is better than foods from other countries.B. American food is superior to European foods.C. the European food had helped enrich the flavors and varieties of the American foods.D. people from other countries could still identify from the American foods the food that was unique to their countries.59. Immigrant groups, when they got settled down in the United States, still have had their own sense of self-identity becauseA. their foods are easily identified among all the foods Americans eat.B. their foods stand out in sharp contrast to foods of other countries.C. they know pretty well what elements of the American food are of their own countries' origin.D. they know pretty well how their foods contribute to American cuisine.60. Which of the following statements is trueA. People from other cultures or nations start to lose their self-identity once they get settled down in America.B. The "melting pot" is supposed to melt all the foods but in reality it doesn't.C. The special sense of self-identity of people from other countries can't maintain once they become Americans.D. The "melting pot" finds it capable of melting all the food traditions into the American tradition.Questions 61-64 are based on the following passage."It's like being bitten to death by ducks." That's how one mother described her constant squabbles with her eleven-year-old daughter. And she's hardly alone in the experience. The arguments almost always involve mundane matters - taking out the garbage, coming home on time, cleaning up the bedroom. But despite its banality, this relentless bickering takes its adolescents - particularly mothers - report lower levels of life satisfaction, less marital happiness, andmore general distress than parents of younger children. Is this continual arguing necessaryFor the past two years, my students and I have been examining the day-to-day relationships of parents and young teenagers to learn how and why family ties change during the transition from childhood into adolescence. Repeatedly, I am struck by the fact that, despite considerable love between most teens and their parents, they can't help sparring. Even in the closest of families, parents and teenagers squabble and bicker surprisingly often - so often, in fact, that we hear impassioned recountings of these arguments in virtually every discussion we have with parents or teenagers. One of the most frequently heard phrases on our interview tapes is, "We usually get along but …"As psychologist Anne Petersen notes, the subject of parent-adolescent conflict has generated considerable controversy among researchers and clinicians. Until about twenty years ago, our views of such conflict were shaped by psychoanalytic clinicians and theorists, who argued that spite and revenge, passive aggressiveness and rebelliousness toward parents are all normal, even healthy, aspects of adolescence. But studies conducted during the 1970s on samples of average teenagers and their parents (rather than those who spent Wednesday afternoons on analysts' couches) challenged the view that family storm and stress was inevitable or pervasive. These surveys consistently showed that three-fourths of all teenagers and parents, here and abroad, feel quite close to each other and report getting along very well. Family relations appeared far more pacific than professionals and the public had believed.61. According to the passage, parents and teenagers are always at loggerheads with each other overA. the careless attitude of teenagers toward their parents' work pressure.B. who should take the lion's share of the housework.C. the finger-pointing attitude of the parents toward their children.D. disagreements on each other's behavioral patterns.62. The parents-children relationship changes from the relative positive to the relative negative whenA. the children reach 7 or 8 years of age.B. the children reach 13 or 14 years of age.C. the parents begin to have too many household responsibilities.D. the parents begin to feel there is too much burden in the house.63. Studies conducted during the 1970s on parents-children relationship indicated thatA. adolescence did not cause as much trouble as clinicians and theorists had stated.B. Children's aggressiveness and rebelliousness were growing.C. Children-parents relationship was declining.D. teenagers became even more abhorrent of their parents.64. The author's own discoveries from the day-to-day relationships of parents and young teenagers indicate thatA. storm and stress between the parents and the teenagers are normal.B. storm and conflicts are unavoidable.C. parents can never avoid the conflicts unless they love their children.D. parents' strictness lead to their children's disapproval of them.Questions 65-71 are based on the following passage.Questions of education are frequently discussed as if they bore no relation to the social system in which and for which the education is carried on. This is one of the commonest reasons for the unsatisfactoriness of the answers. It is only within a particular social system that a system of education has any meaning. If education today seems to deteriorate, if it seems to become more and more chaotic and meaningless, it is primarily because we have no settled and satisfactory arrangement of society, and because we have both vague and diverse opinions about the kind of society we want. Education is a subject which cannot be discussed in a void: our questions raise other questions, social, economic, financial, political. And the bearings are on more ultimate problems even than these: to know what we want in education we must know what we want in general, we must derive our theory of education from our philosophy of life. The problem turns out to be a religious problem.One might almost speak of a "crisis" of education. There are particular problems for each country, for each civilization, just as there are particular problems for each parent; but there is also a general problem for the whole of the civilized world, and for the uncivilized so far as it is being taught by its civilized superiors; a problem which may be as acute in Japan, in China or in India as in Britain or Europe or America. The progress (I do not mean extension) of education for several centuries has been from one aspect a drift, from another aspect a push; for it has tended to be。
2020下半年翻译考试二级笔译模拟题分享
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2020下半年翻译考试二级笔译模拟题美国的百万富翁都住在哪里?About 5.8 percent of the population – 7.2 million households – qualify as millionaires, meaning that they have at least $1 million laying around, excluding their real estate holdings, retirement plans and business partnerships.Kiplinger, publisher of business forecasts and personal finance advice, partneredwith Phoenix Marketing International to figure out how many millionaires live in 933 urban areas with populations of at least 50,000 residents.The Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk area of Connecticut takes the top spot. About 9 percent of its residents – 31,506 of the people who live there – can call themselves millionaires.Not only is this part of Connecticut close to New York City, but the enclave is also home to a number of hedge funds and prominent companies, including Priceline’s parent company, and the Xerox Corporation. These attributes are enough to givethis tony Connecticut locality an edge over Silicon Valley.The California regions of San Jose, Sunnyvale and Santa Clara, which includes Silicon Valley, comes in second with 61,264 millionaire households – 9 percent of all households. The area is home to some of the biggest tech companies in the world, and Google, Apple and Facebook are nearby.The nation’s capital slides into the third spot. Washington, D.C., and its suburbsdraw highly educated Americans looking for influential jobs. The 206,361 millionaire households in the region account for 8.9 percent of D.C.’s 2.3 million households. 2020下半年翻译考试二级笔译模拟题美墨达成新贸易协定U.S. President Donald Trump says the United States and Mexico have reached a trade agreement, leaving Canada as the odd man out in efforts to revise or replace the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).Speaking Monday from the White House, Trump said the new deal will be called the United States-Mexico Trade Agreement.Trump spoke to reporters as he spoke on the telephone to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. Trump called it a big day for trade and a big day for the country. Trump said: “This is something that is very special for our manufacturers and for our farmers, from both countries, for all of the people that work for jobs. It is also great trade, and it makes it a much more fair bill, and we are very, very excited about it. We have worked long and hard, your representatives have been terrific, my representatives have been fantastic too. They have gotten along very well, and they have worked late into the night for months. It is an extremely complex bill, and it is something that I think will be talked about for many years to come.”The Mexican leader expressed hope to “renew, modernize and update” NAFTA while Trump’s rhetoric indicated he sees that 24-year-old three-nation deal as dead. Canada, an original member of NAFTA, is not part of this deal. Trump said the United States would start negotiating with Canada very shortly.Trump said under the deal, Mexico has agreed to immediately begin purchasing as many U.S. agricultural products as possible. The White House is also expected to formally notify Congress by the end of this week of its intention to sign a new trade agreement within 90 days.美墨达成新贸易协定美国总统特朗普说，美国和墨西哥已经达成了一项贸易协定，这使加拿大在修订或取代《北美自由贸易协定》(NAFTA)的努力中成了局外人。
翻译二级笔译综合能力分类模拟题106
翻译二级笔译综合能力分类模拟题106Vocabulary ReplacementDirections: In this test there are 40 sentences, each having an（江南博哥） item underlined. Below each sentence, there are four choices respectively marked A, B, C and D. You are to read the whole sentence and decide on the item among the four choices that can best replace the underlined item without changing the meaning of the sentence. Tick the letter that represents the right answer. Please note: Short Answers are provided for 1-10 questions, which you may refer to after completing answering the first 10 question. This provision is thought to be helpful for aiding and guiding your practice in answering the rest questions.1. Hitler is a monster of wickedness, greedy in his lust for blood and plunder.A.insatiableB.inscrutableC.insensateD.insensible正确答案：A[解析] B项意为“不可理解的”，C项为“无生气的”，D项为“麻木不仁的”，所以A项的insatiable(难以满足的)是唯一的选择。
2020下半年翻译资格考试二级笔译模拟题
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2020下半年翻译资格考试二级笔译模拟题Schumpeter: Team SpiritBusinesses are embracing the idea of working in teams. Managing them is hard Teams have become the basic building-blocks of organisations. Recruitment ads routinely call for “team players”. Business schools grade their students in part on their performance in group projects. Office managers knock down walls to encourage team-building. Teams are as old as civilisation, of course: even Jesus had 12 co-workers. But a new report by Deloitte, “Global Human Capital Trends”, based on a survey of more than 7,000 executives in over 130 countries, suggests that the fashion for teamwork has reached a new high. Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.Companies are abandoning functional silos and organising employees into cross-disciplinary teams that focus on particular products, problems or customers. These teams are gaining more power to run their own affairs. They are also spending more time working with each other rather than reporting upwards. Deloitte argues that a new organisational form is on the rise: a network of teams is replacing the conventional hierarchy.The fashion for teams is driven by a sense that the old way of organising people is too rigid for both the modern marketplace and the expectations of employees. Technological innovation puts a premium on agility. John Chambers, chairman of Cisco, an electronics firm, says that “we compete against market transitions, not competitors. Product transitions used to take five or seven years; now they take one or two.” Digital technology also makes it easier for people to co-ordinate their activities without resorting to hierarchy. The “millennials” who will soon make up half the workforce in rich countries were reared from nursery school onwards to work in groups.The fashion for teams is also spreading from the usual corporate suspects (such as GE and IBM) to some more unusual ones. The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality and rank. The US Army has gone the same way. In his book, “Team of Teams”, General Stanley McChrystal describes how the army’s hierarchical structure hindered its operations during the early stages of the Iraq war. His solution was to learn something from the insurgents it was fighting: decentralise authority to self-organising teams.A good rule of thumb is that as soon as generals and hospital administrators jump on a management bandwagon, it is time to ask questions. Leigh Thompson of Kellogg School of Management in Illinois warns that, “Teams are not always the answer – teams may provide insight, creativity and knowledge in a way that a person working independently cannot; but teamwork may also lead to confusion, delay and poor decision-making.” The late Richard Hackman of Harvard University once argued, “I have no question that when you have a team, the pos sibility exists that it will generate magic, producing something extraordinary… But don’t count on it.”Hackman (who died in 2013) noted that teams are hampered by problems of co-ordination and motivation that chip away at the benefits of collaboration. High-flyers forced to work in teams may be undervalued and free-riders empowered. Groupthink may be unavoidable. In a study of 120 teams of senior executives, he discovered that less than 10% of their supposed members agreed on who exactly was on the t eam. If it is hard enough to define a team’s membership, agreeing on its purpose is harder still.Profound changes in the workforce are making teams trickier to manage. Teams work best if their members have a strong common culture. This is hard to achieve when, as is now the case in many big firms, a large proportion of staff are temporary contractors. Teamwork improves with time: America’s National Transportation Safety Board found that 73% of the incidents in its civil-aviation database occurred on a crew’s first day of flying together. However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use “team” as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.熊彼特：团队精神(节选)各公司都信奉以团队形式工作的理念。
英语翻译二级笔译实务模拟试题及答案解析(9)
英语翻译二级笔译实务模拟试题及答案解析（9）(1/2)Section ⅠEnglish-Chinese TranslationTranslate the following two passages into Chinese.Part A Compulsory Translation第1题PARIS-When France won its second Nobel Prize in less than a week on Monday, this time for economics, Prime Minister Manuel Valls quickly took to Twitter, insisting with no shortage of pride that the accomplishment was a loud rebuke for those who say that France is a nation in decline."After Patrick Modiano, another Frenchman in the firmament: Congratulations to Jean Tirole!" Mr. Valls wrote. "What a way to thumb one's nose at French bashing! Proud of France."Some in the country were already giddy after Mr. Modiano, a beloved author, whose concise and moody novels are often set in France during the Nazi occupation, won the Nobel Prize for literature last week. The award helped to raise the global stature of Mr. Modiano, whose three books published in the United States—two novels and a children's book—before the Nobel had collectively sold fewer than 8,000 copies.Joining in the chorus, Le Monde suggested in an editorial that at a time of rampant French-bashing, Mr. Modiano's achievement was something of a vindication for a country where Nobel Prizes in literature flow more liberally than oil. Mr. Modiano was the 15th French writer, including Sartre and Camus, to win the award.Yet this being France, a country where dissatisfaction can be worn like an accessory, some intellectuals, economists and critics greeted the awards with little more than a shrug at a time when the economy has been faltering, Paris has lost influence to Berlin and Brussels, the far-right National Front has been surging, and Francois Hollande has become one of the most unpopular French presidents in recent history. Others sniffed haughtily that while France was great at culture, it remained economically and politically prostrate.Even Mr. Modiano may have unintentionally captured the national mood when, informed of his prize by his editor, he said he found it "strange" and wanted to know why the Nobel committee had selected him.Even Mr. Modiano may have unintentionally captured the national mood when, informed of his prize by his editor, he said he found it "strange" and wanted to know why the Nobel committee had selected him.Alain Finkielkraut, a professor of philosophy at the elite 图片Polytechnique, who recently published a book criticizing what he characterized as France's descent into conformity and multiculturalism, said that rather than showing that France was on the ascent, the fetishizing of the Nobel Prizes by the French political elite revealed the country's desperation."I find the idea that the Nobels are being used as a riposte to French-bashing idiotic," he said. "Our education system is totally broken, and the Nobel Prize doesn't change anything. I have a lot of affection for Mr. Modiano, but I think Philip Roth deserved it much more. To talk that all in France is going well and that the pessimism is gone is absurd. France is doing extremely badly. There is an economic crisis. There is a crisis of integration. I am not going to be consoled by these medals made of chocolate."Robert Frank, a history professor emeritus at the University of Paris 1—Sorbonne, and the authorof The Fear of Decline, France From 1914 to 2014, echoed that the self-aggrandizement that had greeted the prizes among the French establishment reflected a country lacking in self-confidence. In earlier centuries, he noted, the prize had been greeted as something obvious.When French writers or intellectuals won Nobels in the mid-20th century, "there was no jolt at that time, because France still saw itself as important, so there wasn't much to add to that," he said. "Today, it may help some people to show that France still counts in certain places in the world. This doesn't fix the crisis of unemployment, however, that is sapping this society."In academic economic circles, Mr. Tirole's winning the 2014 Nobel in economic science for his work on the best way to regulate large, powerful firms, was greeted as a fitting tribute to a man whose work had exerted profound influence. It added to an already prominent year for French economists, as seen from Thomas Piketty's book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which became an immediate best-seller when translated into English six months ago.Mr. Tirole's work gained particular attention after the 2008 financial crisis, which revealed problems in the regulation of financial firms in the United States and Europe.But some noted the paradox of the award going to an economist from a nation where the economy was less than shimmering, and where many businesses and critics bemoan a culture of excessive red tape.Others like Sean Safford, an associate professor of economic sociology at Institut 图片Politiques de Paris, the elite institute for political studies known as Sciences Po, said Mr. Tirole, a professor of economics at the University of Toulouse in France, was notable for coming at a time of economic malaise and brain drain, when so many of the country's brightest are emigrating elsewhere in Europe or to the United States. "The average French person, who is struggling to pay the bills, is not going to rejoice," he said.At a time when France is trying to overhaul its social model amid withering resistance to change, others said the award had laid bare the country's abiding stratification between a small, hyper-educated elite and the rest of the country.Peter Gumbel, a British journalist living in France who most recently wrote a book on French elitism, said that while the prize would provide some sense of national validation, the two men did not reflect the country as a whole."Undoubtedly the French ecosystem produces incredibly smart people at the very top end, who are capable of winning prizes, and who fall into a grand tradition, and that is what the French school system is geared to Produce," he said.下一题(2/2)Section ⅠEnglish-Chinese TranslationTranslate the following two passages into Chinese.Part A Compulsory Translation第2题"Wisdom of the Crowd": The Myths and RealitiesAre the many wiser than the few? Phil Ball explores the latest evidence on what can make groups of people smarter—but can also make them wildly wrong.Is The Lord of the Rings the greatest work of literature of the 20th Century? Is The Shawshank Redemption the best movie ever made? Both have been awarded these titles by public votes. You don't have to be a literary or film snob to wonder about the wisdom of so-called "wisdom of the crowd",In an age routinely denounced as selfishly individualistic, it's curious that a great deal of faith still seems to lie with the judgment of the crowd, especially when it can apparently be far off the mark. Yet there is some truth underpinning the idea that the masses can make more accurate collective judgments than expert individuals. So why is a crowd sometimes right and sometimes disastrously wrong?The notion that a group's judgement can be surprisingly good was most compellingly justified in James Surowiecki's 2005 book The Wisdom of Crowds, and is generally traced back to an observation by Charles Darwin's cousin Francis Galton in 1907. Galton pointed out that the average of all the entries in a "guess the weight of the ox" competition at a country fair was amazingly accurate—beating not only most of the individual guesses but also those of alleged cattle experts. This is the essence of the wisdom of crowds: their average judgment converges on the right solution.Still, Surowiecki also pointed out that the crowd is far from infallible. He explained that one requirement for a good crowd judgement is that people's decisions are independent of one another. If everyone let themselves be influenced by each other's guesses, there's more chance that the guesses will drift towards a misplaced bias. This undermining effect of social influence was demonstrated in 2011 by a team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. They asked groups of participants to estimate certain quantities in geography or crime, about which none of them could be expected to have perfect knowledge but all could hazard a guess—the length of the Swiss-Italian border, for example, or the annual number of murders in Switzerland. The participants were offered modest financial rewards for good group guesses, to make sure they took the challenge seriously.The researchers found that, as the amount of information participants were given about each other's guesses increased, the range of their guesses got narrower, and the centre of this range could drift further from the true value. In other words, the groups were tending towards a consensus, to the detriment of accuracy.This finding challenges a common view in management and politics that it is best to seek consensus in group decision making. What you can end up with instead is herding towards a relatively arbitrary position. Just how arbitrary depends on what kind of pool of opinions you start off with, according to subsequent work by one of the ETH team, Frank Schweitzer, and his colleagues. They say that if the group generally has good initial judgement, social influence can refine rather than degrade their collective decision.No one should need warning about the dangers of herding among poorly informed decision-makers: copycat behaviour has been widely regarded as one of the major contributing factors to the financial crisis, and indeed to all financial crises of the past.The Swiss team commented that this detrimental herding effect is likely to be even greater for deciding problems for which no objectively correct answer exists, which perhaps explains how democratic countries occasionally elect such astonishingly inept leaders.There's another key factor that makes the crowd accurate, or not. It has long been argued that the wisest crowds are the most diverse. That's a conclusion supported in a 2004 study by Scott Page of the University of Michigan and Lu Hong of Loyola University in Chicago.They showed that, in a theoretical model of group decision-making, a diverse group of problem-solvers made a better collective guess than that produced by the group of best-performing solvers.In other words, diverse minds do better, when their decisions are averaged, than expert minds. In fact, here's a situation where a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. A study in 2011 by a team led by Joseph Simmons of the Yale School of Management in New Haven, Connecticut found that group predictions about American football results were skewed away from the real outcomes by the over-confidence of the fans' decisions, which biased them towards alleged "favourites" in the outcomes of games.All of these findings suggest that knowing who is in the crowd, and how diverse they are, is vital before you attribute to them any real wisdom.Could there also be ways to make an existing crowd wiser? Last month, Anticline Davis-Stober of the University of Missouri and his co-workers presented calculations at a conference on Collective Intelligence that provide a few answers.They first refined the statistical definition of what it means for a crowd to be wise—when, exactly, some aggregate of crowd judgments can be considered better than those of selected individuals. This definition allowed the researchers to develop guidelines for improving the wisdom of a group. Previous work might imply that you should add random individuals whose decisions are unrelated to those of existing group members. That would be good, but it's better still to add individuals who aren't simply independent thinkers but whose views are "negatively correlated"—as different as possible—from the existing members. In other words, diversity trumps independence.If you want accuracy, then, add those who might disagree strongly with your group. What do you reckon of the chances that managers and politicians will select such contrarian candidates to join them? All the same, armed with this information I intend to apply for a position in the Cabinet of the British government. They'd be wise not to refuse.上一题下一题(1/2)Section ⅡChinese-English TranslationThis section consists of two parts, Part A—"Compulsory Translation" and Part B— "Choice of Two Translations" consisting of two sections "Topic 1" and "Topic 2". For the passage in Part A and your choice of passages in Part B, translate the underlined portions, including titles, into English. Above your translation of Part A, write "Compulsory Translation" and above your translation from Part B, write "Topic 1" or "Topic 2".第3题在经济全球化背景下，亚洲各国的发展，不可能独善其身，也不应该是“零和博弈”，而是你中有我、我中有你的互利合作，能产生“一加一大于二”的叠加效应，甚至是“二乘二大于四”的乘数效应。
07-13-翻译二级笔译实务分类模拟题10_真题-无答案
翻译二级笔译实务分类模拟题10(总分100,考试时间90分钟)English-Chinese Translation1. LONDON—Webster"s Dictionary defines plague as "anything that afflicts or troubles; calamity; scourge." Further definitions include "any contagious epidemic disease that is deadly; esp., bubonic plague" and, from the Bible, "any of various calamities sent down as divine punishment." The verb form means "to vex; harass; trouble; torment."In Albert Camus" novel, The Plague, written soon after the Nazi occupation of France, the first sign of the epidemic is rats dying in numbers: "They came up from basements and cubby-holes, cellars and drains, in long swaying lines; they staggered in the light, collapsed and died, right next to people. At night, in corridors and side-streets, one could clearly hear the tiny squeaks as they expired. In the morning, on the outskirts of town, you would find them stretched out in the gutter with a little floret of blood on their pointed muzzles, some blown up and rotting, other stiff, with their whiskers still standing up."The rats are messengers, but—human nature being what it is—their message is not immediately heeded. Life must go on. There are errands to run, money to be made. The novel is set in Oran, an Algerian coastal town of commerce and lassitude, where the heat rises steadily to the point that the sea changes color, deep blue turning to a "sheen of silver or iron, making it painful to look at." Even when people start to die—their lymph nodes swollen, blackish patches spreading on their skin, vomiting bile, gasping for breath—the authorities" response is hesitant. The word "plague" is almost unsayable. In exasperation, the doctor-protagonist tells a hastily convened **mission: "I don"t mind the form of words. Let"s just say that we should not act as though half the town were not threatened with death, because then it would be."The sequence of emotions feels familiar. Denial is followed by faint anxiety, which is followed by concern, which is followed by fear, which is followed by panic. The phobia is stoked by the sudden realization that there are uncontrollable dark forces, lurking in the drains and the sewers, just beneath life"s placid surface. The disease is a leveler, suddenly everyone is vulnerable, and the moral strength of each individual is tested. The plague is on everyone"s minds, when it"s not in their bodies. Questions multiply: What is the chain of transmission? How to isolate the victims? Plague and epidemics are a thing of the past, of course they are. Physical contact has been cut to a minimum in developed societies. Devices and their digital messages direct our lives. It is not necessary to look into someone"s eyes let alone touch their skin in order to become, somehow, intimate. Food is hermetically sealed. Blood, secretions, saliva, pus, bodily fluids—these are things with which hospitals deal, not matters of daily concern.A virus contracted in West Africa, perhaps by a man hunting fruit bats in a tropical forest to feed his family, and cutting the bat open, cannot affect a nurse in Dallas, Texas, who has been wearingprotective clothing as she tended a patient who died. Except that it does. "Pestilence is in fact **mon," Camus observes, "but we find it hard to believe in a pestilence when it descends upon us."The scary thing is that the bat that carries the virus is not sick. It is simply capable of transmitting the virus in the right circumstances. In other words, the virus is always lurking even if invisible. It is easily ignored until it is too late.Pestilence, of course, is a metaphor as well as a physical fact. It is not just blood oozing from gums and eyes, diarrhea and vomiting. A plague had descended on Europe as Camus wrote. The calamity and slaughter were spreading through the North Africa where he had passed his childhood. This virus hopping today from Africa to Europe to the United States **e in a time of beheadings and unease. People put the phenomena together as denial turns to anxiety and panic. They sense the stirring of uncontrollable forces. They want to be wrong but they are not sure they are.At the end of the novel, the doctor contemplates a relieved throng that has survived: "He knew that this happy crowd was unaware of something that one can read in books, which is that the plague bacillus never dies or vanishes entirely, that it can remain dormant for dozens of years in furniture or clothing, that it waits patiently in bedrooms, cellars, trunks, handkerchiefs and old papers, and that perhaps the day **e when, for the instruction or misfortune of mankind, the plague will rouse its rats and send them to die in some well-contented city."2. PARIS-When France won its second Nobel Prize in less than a week on Monday, this time for economics, Prime Minister Manuel V alls quickly took to Twitter, insisting with no shortage of pride that the accomplishment was a loud rebuke for those who say that France is a nation in decline."After Patrick Modiano, another Frenchman in the firmament: Congratulations to Jean Tirole!" Mr. Valls wrote. "What a way to thumb one"s nose at French bashing! Proud of France."Some in the country were already giddy after Mr. Modiano, a beloved author, whose concise and moody novels are often set in France during the Nazi occupation, won the Nobel Prize for literature last week. The award helped to raise the global stature of Mr. Modiano, whose three books published in the United States—two novels and a children"s book—before the Nobel had collectively sold fewer than 8,000 copies.Joining in the chorus, Le Monde suggested in an editorial that at a time of rampant French-bashing, Mr. Modiano"s achievement was something of a vindication for a country where Nobel Prizes in literature flow more liberally than oil. Mr. Modiano was the 15th French writer, including Sartre and Camus, to win the award.Yet this being France, a country where dissatisfaction can be worn like an accessory, some intellectuals, economists and critics greeted the awards with little more than a shrug at a time when the economy has been faltering, Paris has lost influence to Berlin and Brussels, the far-right National Front has been surging, and Francois Hollande has become one of the most unpopular French presidents in recent history. Others sniffed haughtily that while France was great at culture, it remained economically and politically prostrate.Even Mr. Modiano may have unintentionally captured the national mood when, informed of his prize by his editor, he said he found it "strange" and wanted to know why the **mittee had selected him.Even Mr. Modiano may have unintentionally captured the national mood when, informed of hisprize by his editor, he said he found it "strange" and wanted to know why the **mittee had selected him.Alain Finkielkraut, a professor of philosophy at the elite Polytechnique, who recently published a book criticizing what he characterized as France"s descent into conformity and multiculturalism, said that rather than showing that France was on the ascent, the fetishizing of the Nobel Prizes by the French political elite revealed the country"s desperation."I find the idea that the Nobels are being used as a riposte to French-bashing idiotic," he said. "Our education system is totally broken, and the Nobel Prize doesn"t change anything. I have a lot of affection for Mr. Modiano, but I think Philip Roth deserved it much more. To talk that all in France is going well and that the pessimism is gone is absurd. France is doing extremely badly. There is an economic crisis. There is a crisis of integration. I am not going to be consoled by these medals made of chocolate."Robert Frank, a history professor emeritus at the University of Paris 1—Sorbonne, and the author of The Fear of Decline, France From 1914 to 2014, echoed that the self-aggrandizement that had greeted the prizes among the French establishment reflected a country lacking in self-confidence. In earlier centuries, he noted, the prize had been greeted as something obvious.When French writers or intellectuals won Nobels in the mid-20th century, "there was no jolt at that time, because France still saw itself as important, so there wasn"t much to add to that," he said. "Today, it may help some people to show that France still counts in certain places in the world. This doesn"t fix the crisis of unemployment, however, that is sapping this society."In academic economic circles, Mr. Tirole"s winning the 2014 Nobel in economic science for his work on the best way to regulate large, powerful firms, was greeted as a fitting tribute to a man whose work had exerted profound influence. It added to an already prominent year for French economists, as seen from Thomas Piketty"s book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which became an immediate best-seller when translated into English six months ago.Mr. Tirole"s work gained particular attention after the 2008 financial crisis, which revealed problems in the regulation of financial firms in the United States and Europe.But some noted the paradox of the award going to an economist from a nation where the economy was less than shimmering, and where many businesses and critics bemoan a culture of excessive red tape.Others like Sean Safford, an associate professor of economic sociology at Institut Politiques de Paris, the elite institute for political studies known as Sciences Po, said Mr. Tirole, a professor of economics at the University of Toulouse in France, was notable **ing at a time of economic malaise and brain drain, when so many of the country"s brightest are emigrating elsewhere in Europe or to the United States. "The average French person, who is struggling to pay the bills, is not going to rejoice," he said.At a time when France is trying to overhaul its social model amid withering resistance to change, others said the award had laid bare the country"s abiding stratification between a small, hyper-educated elite and the rest of the country.Peter Gumbel, a British journalist living in France who most recently wrote a book on French elitism, said that while the prize would provide some sense of national validation, the two men did not reflect the country as a whole."Undoubtedly the French ecosystem produces incredibly smart people at the very top end, who are capable of winning prizes, and who fall into a grand tradition, and that is what the Frenchschool system is geared to Produce," he said.3. "Wisdom of the Crowd": The Myths and RealitiesAre the many wiser than the few? Phil Ball explores the latest evidence on what can make groups of people smarter—but can also make them wildly wrong.Is The Lord of the Rings the greatest work of literature of the 20th Century? Is The Shawshank Redemption the best movie ever made? Both have been awarded these titles by public votes. You don"t have to be a literary or film snob to wonder about the wisdom of so-called "wisdom of the crowd",In an age routinely denounced as selfishly individualistic, it"s curious that a great deal of faith still seems to lie with the judgment of the crowd, especially when it can apparently be far off the mark. Yet there is some truth underpinning the idea that the masses can make more accurate collective judgments than expert individuals. So why is a crowd sometimes right and sometimes disastrously wrong?The notion that a group"s judgement can be surprisingly good was **pellingly justified in James Surowiecki"s 2005 book The Wisdom of Crowds, and is generally traced back to an observation by Charles Darwin"s cousin Francis Galton in 1907. Galton pointed out that the average of all the entries in a "guess the weight of the ox" competition at a country fair was amazingly accurate—beating not only most of the individual guesses but also those of alleged cattle experts. This is the essence of the wisdom of crowds: their average judgment converges on the right solution.Still, Surowiecki also pointed out that the crowd is far from infallible. He explained that one requirement for a good crowd judgement is that people"s decisions are independent of one another. If everyone let themselves be influenced by each other"s guesses, there"s more chance that the guesses will drift towards a misplaced bias. This undermining effect of social influence was demonstrated in 2011 by a team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. They asked groups of participants to estimate certain quantities in geography or crime, about which none of them could be expected to have perfect knowledge but all could hazard a guess—the length of the Swiss-Italian border, for example, or the annual number of murders in Switzerland. The participants were offered modest financial rewards for good group guesses, to make sure they took the challenge seriously.The researchers found that, as the amount of information participants were given about each other"s guesses increased, the range of their guesses got narrower, and the centre of this range could drift further from the true value. In other words, the groups were tending towards a consensus, to the detriment of accuracy.This finding challenges a common view in management and politics that it is best to seek consensus in group decision making. What you can end up with instead is herding towards a relatively arbitrary position. Just how arbitrary depends on what kind of pool of opinions you start off with, according to subsequent work by one of the ETH team, Frank Schweitzer, and hiscolleagues. They say that if the group generally has good initial judgement, social influence can refine rather than degrade their collective decision.No one should need warning about the dangers of herding among poorly informed decision-makers: copycat behaviour has been widely regarded as one of the major contributing factors to the financial crisis, and indeed to all financial crises of the past.The Swiss **mented that this detrimental herding effect is likely to be even greater for deciding problems for which no objectively correct answer exists, which perhaps explains how democratic countries occasionally elect such astonishingly inept leaders.There"s another key factor that makes the crowd accurate, or not. It has long been argued that the wisest crowds are the most diverse. That"s a conclusion supported in a 2004 study by Scott Page of the University of Michigan and Lu Hong of Loyola University in Chicago.They showed that, in a theoretical model of group decision-making, a diverse group of problem-solvers made a better collective guess than that produced by the group of best-performing solvers.In other words, diverse minds do better, when their decisions are averaged, than expert minds.In fact, here"s a situation where a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. A study in 2011 by a team led by Joseph Simmons of the Yale School of Management in New Haven, Connecticut found that group predictions about American football results were skewed away from the real outcomes by the over-confidence of the fans" decisions, which biased them towards alleged "favourites" in the outcomes of games.All of these findings suggest that knowing who is in the crowd, and how diverse they are, is vital before you attribute to them any real wisdom.Could there also be ways to make an existing crowd wiser? Last month, Anticline Davis-Stober of the University of Missouri and his co-workers presented calculations at a conference on Collective Intelligence that provide a few answers.They first refined the statistical definition of what it means for a crowd to be wise—when, exactly, some aggregate of crowd judgments can be considered better than those of selected individuals.This definition allowed the researchers to develop guidelines for improving the wisdom of a group. Previous work might imply that you should add random individuals whose decisions are unrelated to those of existing group members. That would be good, but it"s better still to add individuals who aren"t simply independent thinkers but whose views are "negatively correlated"—as different as possible—from the existing members. In other words, diversity trumps independence.If you want accuracy, then, add those who might disagree strongly with your group. What do you reckon of the chances that managers and politicians will select such contrarian candidates to join them? All the same, armed with this information I intend to apply for a position in the Cabinet of the British government. They"d be wise not to refuse.4. How much money can be made from trying to extract oil and gas from the layers of shale that lie beneath Britain?Answering that is proving to be a surprisingly difficult scientific question because knowing the basic facts about shale is not enough.The layers have been well mapped for years. In fact until recently geologists tended to regard shale as commonplace, even dull—a view that has obviously changed.The key tool is a seismic survey: sound waves are sent into the ground and the reflections reveal the patterns of the rocks. This describes where the shale lies but not much more.So we know, for example, that the Bowland Shale—which straddles northern England—covers a far smaller area than the massive shale formations of the United States but it is also much thicker than they are.That may mean that it is a potentially richer resource or that it is harder to exploit. Britain"s geological history is long and tortured, so folds and fractures disrupt the shale layers, creating a **plex picture than across the Atlantic.To assess what the layers hold involves another step: wells have to be drilled into the rock to allow cores to be extracted so the shale can be analysed in more detail.As Ed Hough of the British Geological Survey told me: "We know the areas under the ground which contain gas and oil—what we don"t know is how that gas and oil might be released from the different units of rock and extracted.""There"s a lot of variability in these rocks—so **position, their history and the geological conditions **e into play and are all variable."That means that neighbouring fracking operations **e up with very different results.In a lab at the BGS near Nottingham, I"m shown a simple but effective proof that shale does contain the hydrocarbons—gas and oil—at the heart of the current surge in interest.A few chunks of the rock are dropped into a beaker of water and gently heated until they produce tiny bubbles which rise like strings of pearls to the surface.It is a sight which is both beautiful and significant—the bubbles are methane, which the government hopes will form a new source of home grown energy.The gas and oil were formed millions of years ago when tiny plants and other organisms accumulated on the floor of an ancient and warm ocean—at one stage Britain lay in the tropics. This organic matter was **pacted and cooked by natural geological warmth which transformed it into the fuels in such demand now.So one question is the "total organic content" of the shale—how much organic material is held inside—and there can be large variations in this.But establishing that the shale is laden with fossil fuels is only one part of the story. The samples, extracted from deep underground, then need to be studied to see how readily they would release the fuels.So the BGS scientists fit small blocks of the shale into devices that squeeze it and heat it—trying to mimic the conditions that would be experienced during a fracking operation, when high pressure water and chemicals are injected into the shale to break it apart.Understanding how the shale behaves is essential to forming a judgment on how lucrative it might prove to be—or how unyielding or difficult, as some shale can turn out to be.Dr Caroline Graham, a specialist in geomechanics with the BGS, explained what the research into the rock samples was trying to achieve: "We"ll be able to understand better how likely they are to produce certain amounts of gas, how easily they will frack and therefore it will give us a far better idea of how viable the UK deposits are economically speaking."These are early days for the science. And hopes that Britain will be able to copy America"s shale revolution may be unrealistic.A senior executive from a global **pany once said a decision on whether to exploit a new shale "play" or area would only be made after 40-60 exploration wells had been dug.Professor Paul Stevens, an energy expert with the Royal Institute for International Affairs, said: "It"s going to take a lot more wells to be drilled and a lot more wells to be fractured before we even get an idea of the extent to which we might expect a shale gas revolution and over what time period."So establishing that British shale is rich in oil and gas is only one step of a long journey. The current state of the science only goes so far. How much money can be made from trying to extract oil and gas from the layers of shale that lie beneath Britain?5. It was a hot afternoon in July when my shuttle bus stuttered to a halt on the dusty banks of the Yukon River. I squinted, bleary-eyed, at the Frontier-style houses of Canada"s Dawson City opposite.Thanks to our slow progress along the scantily paved Top of the World Highway, my 10-hour, 620km journey from Fairbanks, Alaska had been long and uncomfortable. But as I was on a quest to discover the landscapes immortalised in the books of US writer, Jack London, a man who braved Canada"s sub-zero temperatures and wilderness before roads like the highway even existed, it seemed inappropriate to complain.In October 1897, London had arrived in Dawson City on a hastily constructed boat in far more arduous circumstances than I, including a dangerous, 800kin voyage downriver from the Yukon"s headwaters in British Columbia. An aspiring but still-unknown 21-year-old writer from the San Francisco Bay area, London was one of tens of thousands of "stampeders" lured north by the Klondike Gold Rush. He went on to spend a frigid winter working a claim on Henderson Creek, 120km south of Dawson, where he found very little gold, but did contract a bad case of scurvy. He also discovered a different kind of fortune: he later would turn his experiences as an adventurous devil-may-care prospector into a body of Klondike-inspired fiction—and into $1 million in book profits, making him the first US author to earn such an amount.The Klondike Gold Rush ignited in 1896, when three US prospectors found significant gold deposits in a small tributary in Canada"s Yukon Territory. When the news filtered to Seattle and San Francisco the following summer, the effect on a US still reeling from severe economic recession was unprecedented. Thousands risked their lives to make the sometimes year-long journey to the subarctic gold fields. Of an estimated 100,000 people who set out for the Klondike over the following four years, less than half made it without turning around or dying en route; only around 4% struck gold.Dawson City, which sprang up on the banks of the Y ukon in 1896 close to the original find, quickly became the gold rush"s hub. Today, its dirt streets and crusty clapboard buildings—all protected by Canada"s national park service—retain their distinct Klondike-era character. But as our bus crept along Front Street past bevies of tourists strolling along permafrost-warped boardwalks, I reflected how different London"s experience must have been. Contemporary Dawson City is a civilised grid of tourist-friendly restaurants and film set-worthy streets, with a permanent population of around 1,300. By contrast, in 1898 it was a bawdy boomtown of 30,000 hardy itinerants who tumbled out of rambunctious bars and crowded the river in makeshift rafts. The roughshod living would not have intimidated London. Born into a working class family in San Francisco in 1876, his callow years were short on **forts. As a teenager, he rode the rails, became an oyster pirate and was jailed briefly for vagrancy. He also acquired an unquenchable appetite for books. Passionate, determined and impatient, London was naturally drawn to the Klondike Gold Rush. In the summer of 1897, weeks after hearing news of the gold strike, he wason a ship to Dyea in Alaska with three partners, using money raised by mortgaging his sister"s house. My bus dropped me outside the Triple J Hotel, which like all buildings in Dawson looks like a throwback to the 1890s—televisions and wi-fi aside. Too tired to watch the midnight sun, I fell asleep early to prepare for the next day"s visit to the Jack London Interpretive Center. Dawson City"s premiere Jack London attraction, it is a small museum whose prime exhibit—a small wooden cabin, roof covered in grass and moss—sits outside in a small garden surrounded by a white fence. On first impressions, it looks painfully austere. But the story of how the cabin got here is a tale worthy of London"s own fiction.In the late 1960s, Dick North, the centre"s former curator, heard of an old log emblazoned with the handwritten words "Jack London, Miner, Author, Jan 27 1898". According to two backcountry settlers, it had been cut out of a cabin wall by a dog-musher named Jack MacKenzie in the early 1940s.Excited by the find, North got hand-writing experts to authenticate that the scrawl on the so-called signature slab was London"s before setting out to find the long forgotten cabin from which MacKenzie had plucked it. North wandered with a dog mushing team for nearly 200km until he located the humble abode where London had spent the inclement winter of 1897-8 searching for gold. So remote was the location that when a team of observers arrived to aid North in April 1969, they became stuck in slushy snow and had to be rescued.Once removed, the cabin was split in two. Half of the wood (along with the reinserted signature slab) was used to build a cabin in Jack London Square in Oakland, California, near where the author grew up. The other half was reassembled next to the Interpretive Centre in Dawson City. London left the Klondike Gold Rush in July 1898 virtually penniless, having earned less than $10 from panned gold. But he had unwittingly stumbled upon another gold mine: stories. During the rush, his cabin had been located at an unofficial meeting point of various mining routes; other stampeders regularly dropped by to share their tales and adventures. Mixed with London"s own experiences and imagination, these anecdotes laid the foundations for his subsequent writing career, spearheaded by the best-selling 1903 novel The Call of the Wild.The Klondike Gold Rush finished by 1900. Despite its brevity—and its disappointment for thousands who staked everything on its get-rich-quick promises—it is a key part of US folklore and fiction thanks, in large part, to the tales of Jack London. Later, on a bus heading south to Whitehorse, I looked out at the brawny wilderness of scraggy spruce trees and bear-infested forest where the young, resolute London had once toiled in temperatures as low as-50～C. I felt new admiration for the writer—and for his swaggering desire to turn adversity into art.。
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翻译二级笔译实务分类模拟题9(总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、Chinese-English Translation(总题数：4，分数：100.00)1.从减负的角度看，把英语考试选为高考改革的突破口似有道理。
因为学习英语的确要占用大量时间。
并且，从学习时间的构成比例来看，学习英语也确实占有其中不小的比重。
但问题在于，“减负”也好，更加科学地安排高考科目、调整高考功用也罢，以此为目标的改革，也并不是把占用学习时间最多的科目减掉那么简单。
如果以减负为标准进行改革，那么下一个在学生乃至家长欢呼声中被降低分值甚至被取消的高考科目也许就应该是数学!因为对于许多学生来讲，学习数学占用的时间一点也不比学习英语占用的时间少，而学习的效果却可能更差——许多学生擅长的“死记硬背”功夫在数学这个注重思维和方法的学科上更显事倍功半。
不过，城市学生与农村学生的英语分差拉大，原因在于城市教育资源和农村教育资源配置的严重失衡。
我曾经两次到农村学校支教，目睹了中国农村英语教学的困境。
在农村学校，英语师资极端匮乏，许多教英语的老师甚至都没有系统地学习过英语。
对于农村学生来说，英语离他们很远，英语所描述的绝大部分内容离他们更远。
加上视听设备、图书读物和网络资源的缺乏，许多农村考生的英语学习基本上处于放弃的状态。
但是，缩小城市考生和农村考生的英语分差，尽可能发挥高考的平衡公平的功用，应该通过增加农村英语教学资源，而不是降低城市学校英语教学的比重来实现。
其实，实现公平，还可以像美国大学吸纳少数族裔学生一样，施行平权政策。
具体说，就是在高考中制定单独针对农村考生的政策，对农村考生实行英语免考，并且在农村考生入学后，在大学英语教学上对其实行倾斜政策，补偿他们在高中以前的英语学习亏欠。
（分数：25.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：()解析：When it comes to cutting back study load, it may sound plausible to single out English exam as an ice-breaker for the proposed Gaokao reform/to take English out of the Gaokaosystem/fabric/architecture/configuration in the first place. After all, learning English is truly time-consuming.On top of that, a sizable portion/an inordinate amount of study time is currently devoted to English learning. Gaokao reform is designed either to reduce study load or reorient its functionality with a more balanced mix of subjects. That being said/That said/Having said that, for that to happen, it takes more than simply axing/removing/delisting English, the allegedly mosttime-intensive subject.A reduced study load is widely applauded by college candidates and their otherwise anxious parents. But if the reform looks at exactly how to relieve the burden of students/make Gaokao less burdensome/more student-friendly, then mathematics might as well be given less weight, if not the next to go. Admittedly for many students, math takes no less time than English, but might be less productive. Learning by rote, which many Chinese students feel perfectly comfortable with, doesn"t do the trick when it comes to math, a subject that dictates more thinking and method. The yawning/expanding divide in English scores between urban students and their ruralpeers/counterparts, however, shall be attributed to the acute urban-rural disparities in access to educational resources. I have been to rural schools twice as a volunteer teacher and am fully aware of the state of rural English teaching. In rural schools, there is an acute scarcity/ shortage of English-teaching faculty. Among those who teach English, many haven"t learned English systematically themselves. For rural students, English is not within their reach, and most of what is taught in English is even further from their real life. That, coupled with the absence of audio-visual equipment, extra-curricular reading materials and Internet access, means manyrural college candidates have to brush English aside/dismiss/disregard English.As we seek to narrow the urban-rural divide in English scores to make Gaokao more fair and equitable, we must make more English teaching resources available to rural schools rather than simply make English less weighty in urban schools. To level the playing field, we might draw on Affirmative Action, a policy adopted by American universities when admitting students of ethnic minorities. In China"s case, a pro-rural policy can be developed so that rural candidates will be exempted from English exam when sitting for Gaokao. At the next level, rural undergraduates may entail more support in English teaching so as to make up for/catch up on what they have missed in English learning back in high school.2.公司理念企业愿景及使命中国海油以科学发展观为指导，坚持“双赢、责任、诚信、创新、关爱”的企业理念，实施协调发展、人才兴企、科技领先和低成本战略，坚持特色发展道路，推动公司的高效高速发展，努力建设国际一流能源公司。
企业价值观追求人、企业、社会与自然的和谐进步，做员工自豪、股东满意、伙伴信任、社会欢迎、政府重视的综合型能源公司。
经营理念以人为本从关注和满足人的需求出发，通过制度安排做到尊重人的价值，提升人的素质，发挥人的能力，保障人的权益，凝聚人的心气，使人与企业共同发展。
担当责任公司竭力为国家发展提供优质能源，为社会进步提供强力支持；坚持科学发展观和走可持续发展道路，实现经济效益、社会效益和环境效益的和谐统一。
员工以一流的素质和业绩为公司及社会创造价值，具有符合社会道德要求的正义感和责任心，永远对客户负责，对公司负责，对个人行为负责。
和合双赢从长远发展的角度思考和讨论问题，寻求互惠互利的合作方案，通过资源整合，优势互补，和气共生，发挥潜能，达到资源的最佳配置、组织的最优组合、人才的最好利用、价值的最大实现，使得利益关联各方都有满意的结果。
诚实守信公司在经营过程中讲信用，守承诺，公开透明，诚实不欺，在不损害社会利益和其他相关方利益的前提下追求公司价值最大化。
员工品质优良，行为正派，不欺瞒，不作假，有良好职业操守和荣誉感。
变革创新培植创造素质和开拓能力，吸收新信息、新知识、新观念，转换思维角度，突破成规局限，采用超前方式和措施，建立先进理念和体系，创造最好技术和工艺，开创一流业绩和局面。
核心发展战略协调发展要立足于打造各业务板块国际竞争力和资源配置优势，持续提升协调发展境界，使各板块发挥综合竞争优势，形成更强的国际竞争力。
科技驱动要提高公司的研发能力，完善科技创新的体制机制，加强科技人才队伍建设，靠科技水平的提高谋求公司的长远发展，不断提升科技进步对发展的贡献率。