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2010年11月英语二级笔译综合能力试题

Section 1: Vocabulary and Grammar (60 points)This section consists of 3 parts. Read the directions for each part before answering the questions.Part 1 Vocabulary SelectionIn this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are 4 choices marked by letters A, B, C and D respectively. 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.1.All the students of this university have free ________ to the Internet via abroadband connection.A. accessB. entranceC. permissionD. passageway2.It is rumored that Mr. Smith, the grandson of the founder of the university anda professor of philosophy, will be ________ as president in March.A. indulgedB. inauguratedC. inducedD. integrated3.When I visited the area after the hurricane, I became ________ by what I sawand heard there.compressedA.stressed B.impressed D.distressedC.4.When the actor appeared on the stage again, shouts and cheers broke________ from the crowd and continued for about five minutes.A. inB. offC. forthD. up5.The ________ value of a coin, i.e. the value of the metal in it, is usually lessthan the value of what it will buy.A. externalB. interior笔译综合能力（英语·二级）试卷第 1 页（共23页）C. intrinsicD. extrinsic6.Hotels and restaurants are an ________ part of the city, without which thetourist industry could not exist.A. additionalB. inseparableC. accommodatedD. integral7.We can find a full ________ of his political belief in his newly-publishedbooks.A. compositionB. expositionC. depositionD. disposition8.I don’t think you can persuade him; he always ________ to his ownprinciples.A. adaptsB. devotesC. adheresD. dedicates9.In the advanced course of our training, students must take objective tests atmonthly ________.A. distanceB. lengthC. gapsD. intervals10.Going around at the top of the mountain, we watched the fog ________ fromthe valley below; it seemed that we had entered a fairyland.A. descendB. decreaseC. ariseD. ascend11.Richard has an ________ manner, although he comes from a middle-classfamily background and has received his education at Cambridge.A. abruptB. absurdC. activeD. agreeable12.The history teacher told us the ring was a piece of ________ treasure becauseit had been handed down from an ancient king.A. invaluableB. valued笔译综合能力（英语·二级）试卷第 2 页（共23页）C. previousD. precise13.In the last few years, the ________ of regular folks going under the cosmeticknife skyrocketed.A. amountB. figuresC. groupD. number14.He was too busy to do any exercise at all until he turned 58. And he is in muchbetter ________ now than ever before.A. formB. conditionC. lookD. shape15.All of us in research have focused on a drug that is so ________ that it canchange brain chemistry.A. monstrousB. powerfulC. vigorousD. heavy16.He was only a ________ ruler of the country; the real one was his mother,who actually handled state affairs and possessed the power of making decisions.A. obliviousB. notableC. obscureD. nominal17.________ that she is interested in children, I am sure that teaching is the rightprofession for her.A. HoweverB. ProvidedC. GivenD. Unless18.She had ________ opportunity to exercise leadership, which she has dreamedof since she was young.A. utterB. utmostC. ambitiousD. ample19.They intend to remove the ________ rules and regulations that arediscouraging foreign investment in their country.笔译综合能力（英语·二级）试卷第 3 页（共23页）A. henpeckedB. garnishedC. unmitigatedD. onerous20.The Central Bank is interested in how much money is in ________ in theeconomy.A. circulationB. circleC. reserveD. rotationPart 2 Vocabulary ReplacementThis part consists of 20 sentences. In each of them one word or phrase is underlined, and below each, there are 4 choices marked by letters A, B, C and D respectively. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part without causing any grammatical error or changing the basic meaning of the sentence. There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.21.Tom felt sure he would get the post, but he was never even considered for it.That was a smack in the eye for him.A. nothing seriousB. nothing importantC. a humiliating rebuffD. an expected disappointment22.Our neighbors are so reserved and unfriendly that they never speak to us.A. aloofB. relievedC. airyD. resistant23.Security men believe the tit-for-tat murders were the result of the bombingwhich had occurred in the city center.A. furiousB. retaliatoryC. malevolentD. chain24.The conclusion reached at the workshop was that the manufacturing processwas obsolete.extantA.dilapidated B.笔译综合能力（英语·二级）试卷第 4 页（共23页）C.outdatedarchaic D.25.Some people wish to amend the law so that children must stay at school untilthey are 16.A. gratifyB. pacifyC. rectifyD. verify26.Prof. Clark disregarded the warning from his colleagues and continued hisresearch work.A. ignoredB. deploredC. exploredD. implored27.Some observers say the recent coup of a military government in that countrywill lead to anarchy.A. monarchB. maniacC. disorderD. discipline28.As a conductor, Leonard Bernstein was famous for his intensely vigorous andexuberant style.A. enticingB. enthusiasticC. extravertD. exultant29.His peers admonished him that he had to increase his study time as the finalexamination was around the corner.A. astonishedB. warnedC. threatenedD. alarmed30.Isolated cases of disaffection — or harbingers of a mass cross-bordermovement that threatens Europe’s economic stability? The question is pressing.A. singB. forerunner笔译综合能力（英语·二级）试卷第 5 页（共23页）C. messengerD. vanguard31.Justices of the Peace have jurisdiction over the trials of some civil suits and ofcriminal cases involving minor offenses.A. supremacyB. authorityC. guidanceD. administration32.What these young men and women need to do now is to develop amentality to reconcile their ideals with reality.A.interfaceinteract B.C. harmonizeD. pair33.The search for eternal youth is no less fervent now than it was 2,000 years ago.People are trying practically anything.A. prolongedB. externalC. protractedD. excessive34.SD Memory Cards are versatile, high-capacity storage cards that areextremely small —about the size of a postage stamp.A. adaptableB. adoptableC. variableD. veritable35.This book comes as a revelation to one who was nourished in his youth on theenlightened English socialist tradition represented by George Bernard Shaw.A. replacementB. discoveryC. representationD. resolution36.Johnson was so absorbed in his novel that he forgot about his dinner cookingin the oven.A. obtainedB. enlivenedC. obligedD. engrossed笔译综合能力（英语·二级）试卷第 6 页（共23页）37.The man we met this morning grows many kinds of plants in his garden, mostof which are flowers including succulent and cacti.A. risesB. raisesC. plantsD. plows38.The scientist contested the assumption of previous scientists that the fate ofhuman beings could not be predicatedA. suspendedB. rejectedC. suspectedD. repulsed39.In the last 10 years we have all witnessed an impressive growth in ourknowledge about the environment.A. imperativeB. observableC. importantD. obvious40.In their culture and in their eyes success all too often means imply outdoingother people by virtue of achievement judged by some single scale —income or honors.A. outfittingB. outbiddingC. outragingD. outshiningPart 3 Error CorrectionThis part consists of 20 sentences. In each of them there is an underlined part that indicates a grammatical error, and below each, there are 4 choices marked by letters A, B, C and D respectively. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part so that the error is corrected. There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.41.The managers discussed the plan that they would like to see be carrying outnext year.笔译综合能力（英语·二级）试卷第 7 页（共23页）A. carry outB. carrying outC. carried outD. to carry out42.The examiner failed some candidates, and 15 of them being students withoutwork experience.A. 15 beingB. among 15 wereC. 15 of them wereD. 15 of whom were43.Despite of their opposition, he went his own way and started his preparations.A. Despiting ofB. Despited ofC. DespiteD. Despitedwork television, magazine, and direct mail —that will be the big gainersin advertising revenues next year.A. whichB. theseC. theyD. all45.I hear that he knows four languages, such as Chinese, French, German andJapanese.A. for example,B. namely,C. likeD. as46.The more people you know, the less you have time to see them but you canalways reach them on the Internet.A. less you have the timeB. the less time you haveC. the less time do you haveD. less the time you have47.Having heard the weather forecast, the boat was stopped in the harbour.A. the boat did not sail out ofB. they did not sail out of笔译综合能力（英语·二级）试卷第 8 页（共23页）C. the boat remained inD. they were stopped in48.Once they had fame, fortune, secure futures; now all that left is utter poverty.A. that all is leftB. all that is leftC. all what is leftD. all which is left49.Mary must have received my mail; otherwise she would have replied beforenow.A. Mary shouldB. Mary ought toC. Mary shouldn’tD. Mary couldn’t50.We will ship the goods on Monday according to your order less we hear fromyou by Friday.A. neverthelessB. unlessC. lestD. until51.When this agreement is signed, a circular will be prepared for given to ourcustomers.A. given outB. given offC. dispatchesD. distribution52.It is now clear that no such creatures as vampires have been seen and nonebeen found in the world.A. was foundB. are foundC. have been foundD. have been found out53.My company is Excellent Kitchenware Company, there nearby is a big marketfor kitchenware in our city.A. there nearB. and there nearC. there nearlyD. and nearby there笔译综合能力（英语·二级）试卷第 9 页（共23页）54.The government has hardly taken measures to crack down on these crimeswhen new ones occurred.A. Hardly had the government takenB. The government took hardlyC. Hardly the government had takenD. The government is hardly taking55.The general manager demanded that the job will be completed before thesummer holidays.A. would beB. must beC. beD. had to be56.Our company will provide you with free transportation as you requested andcharge the installation.A. installation with a chargeB. in the installationC. freely installationD. installation in charge57.Doctors warned sun-starved tourists who received too much sunlight that theywere at serious risk than others of contracting skin cancer.A. with more seriousB. at seriouslyC. at more seriousD. seriously with58.We have sent an order slip to all that we have reason to believe are interestedin our books.A. who are believed by usB. with who we have reason to believeC. who we have reason to believeD. with whom we believe59.As an English major student at one of the most famous universities in China, Istrongly believe that business English is more practical than other fields.笔译综合能力（英语·二级）试卷第 10 页（共23页）A. a student in EnglishB. a major English studentC. an English majorD. an English student major60.The engineers are going through with their highway project, in spite that theexpenses have risen.A. just becauseB. even thoughC. as thoughD. now thatSection 2: Reading Comprehension (30 points)In this section you will find after each of the passages a number of questions or unfinished statements about the passage, each with 4 (A, B, C and D) choices to answer the question or complete the statement. You must choose the one which you think fits best. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.Questions 61-70 are based on the following passage.Next door to a lunch counter advertising a grilled cheese special is a gallery where Van Gogh’s “Irises” shares the walls with Monet landscapes and works from the Italian Renaissance.They are all fakes. They are all for sale. “A forger? Yes. We’re expert forgers you could say. But we make no attempt to deceive. We don’t pretend to sell original works. We have all the thrill of being a forger, but no risk.”With prices for original art rising into the tens of millions, some art lovers are turning to high-quality copies done by expert artists. In addition, some museums confronting skyrocketing insurance premiums are considering stashing the authentic pieces and displaying a reproduction.No major U.S. art museum is known to be displaying reproductions in place of originals. Such a practice would raise questions about why people visit museums in the first place. But museum security has become a growing concern.Bids for paintings have climbed at auction houses. But prices for fakes run only from about $1,000 to $10,000 for paintings of paintings, depending on the size and complexity of the original.笔译综合能力（英语·二级）试卷第 11 页（共23页）In Europe where copying masterpieces is a centuries-old craft, painters often use pigments and brushes typical of the period of the original. The painting is placed in a frame closely resembling its era. Sometimes the gallery purchases 17th century furniture to use the wood for frames. The final step is the antiquing process using chemicals and heat and humidity. “We can make special types of cracks from little spider-web types to long splits.”61.This passage is most probably taken out of a/an ________.A. court confession by a person suspected of making fakesB. commercial advertisement for a new profession in artsC. feature story in a newspaper, magazine, or a web pageD. industrial profile for a museum promoting a new show62.The word “Monet” underlined in Paragraph 1 refers to a ________.A. master artistB. master forgerC. famous dealerD. rich collector63.Both quotes in the passage are probably from a person who is a/an ________.A. master artistB. art piece forgerC. museum directorD. artworks thief64.The third sentence in the last paragraph implies that the gallery ________.A. carries 17th-century furniture as sideline exhibitsB. is part of the process in making fake paintingsC. provides the space only for forgers to produce fakesD. manufactures wooden frames for paintings as a sideline65.Obviously, the phrase “expert artists” underlined in Paragraph 3 refers topeople who are ________.A. experts in evaluating art worksB. painters decorating the museums笔译综合能力（英语·二级）试卷第 12 页（共23页）C. makers of faked famous paintingsD. experts who can identify forgeries66.“Such a practice” underlined in Paragraph 4 refers to the display of ________.A. forged works in place of genuine artworkB. original productions in place of their copiesC. both fake productions and original paintingsD. real reproductions and original masterpieces67.According to the passage, the word “stashing” underlined in Paragraph 3 issynonymous with ________.A. slashingB. smashingC. stackingD. storing68.As repeatedly stated in the passage, ________ was certainly the major reasonwhy forgeries are sold.A. insuranceB. securityC. qualityD. price69.The word “copies” underlined in Paragraph 3 does NOT refer to ________.A. fakesB. forgesC. reproductionsD. non-authentic works70.According to this passage, which of the following statements is true?A. The works on display are meant to sell as originals.B. The works meant to sell as originals are on display.C. Here you may purchase a masterpiece for $1,020.D. Here one may buy fast food any time and eat it there.Questions 71-80 are based on the following passage.笔译综合能力（英语·二级）试卷第 13 页（共23页）No revolutions in technology have as visibly marked the human condition as those in transport. Moving goods and people, they have opened continents, transformed living standards, spread diseases, fashions and folk around the world. Yet technologies to transport ideas and information across long distances have arguably achieved even more: they have spread knowledge, the basis of economic growth.The most basic of all these, the written word, was already ancient by 1000. By then China had, in basic form, the printing press, using carved woodblocks. But the key to its future, movable metal type, was four centuries away. The Chinese were hampered by their thousands of ideograms. Even so, they quite soon invented the primitive movable type, made of clay, and by the 13th century they had the movable wooden type. But the real secret was the use of an easily cast metal.When it came, Europe — aided by simple Western alphabets — leapt forward with it. One reason why Asia’s civilizations, in 1000 far ahead of Europe’s, then fell behind was that they lacked the technology to reproduce and diffuse ideas. On Johannes Gutenberg’s invention in the 1440s were built not just the Reformation and the Enlightenment, but Europe’s agricultural and industrial revolutions too.Yet information technology on its own would not have got far. Literally: better transport technology too was needed. That was not lacking, but here the big change came much later: it was railways and steamships that first allowed the speedy, widespread dissemination of news and ideas over long distances. And both technologies in turn required people and organizations to develop their use. They got them: for individual communication, the postal service; for wider publics, the publishing industry.Throughout the 19th century, the postal service formed the bedrock of national and international communications. Crucial to its growth had been the introduction of the stamp, combined with a low price, and payment by the sender. Britain put all three of these ideas into effect in 1840.笔译综合能力（英语·二级）试卷第 14 页（共23页）By then, the world’s mail was taking off. It changed the world. Merchants in America’s eastern cities used it to gather information, enraging far-off cotton growers and farmers, who found that New Yorkers knew more about crop prices than they did. In the American debate about slavery, it offered abolitionists a low-cost way to spread their views, just as later technologies have cut the cost and widened the scope of political lobbying. The post helped too to integrate the American nation, tying the newly opened west to the settled east.Everywhere, its development drove and was driven by those of transport. In Britain, travellers rode by mail coach to posting inns. In America, the post subsidized road-building. Indeed, argues Dan Schiller, a professor of communications at the University of California, it was the connection between the post, transport and national integration that ensured that the mail remained a public enterprise even in the United States, its first and only government-run communications medium, and until at least the 1870s, the biggest organization in the land.The change has not only been one of speed and distance, though, but of audience. About 200 years ago, a man’s words could reach no further than his voice, not just in range but in whom they reached. But, for some purposes, efficient communication is mass communication, regular, cheap, quick and reliable. When it became possible, it transformed the world.71.According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?A.T ransporting goods and people is the most important technology in thehistory of mankind.B.Technology in transporting goods and people has changed humanconditions more than anything else.C.Technology in spreading information has changed human conditions morethan transportation technology.D.T echnology in spreading information can’t change the economicdevelopment of society.笔译综合能力（英语·二级）试卷第 15 页（共23页）72. According to the passage, Asian civilizations, which were ahead of Europe’s, fell behind because ________.A. Asian languages were more difficult to learnB. European languages had simple alphabetsC. they didn’t have the technology to spread ideasD. people’s communication skills were not good enough73. Johannes Gutenberg’s invention probably refers to ________.A. printing technologyB. transportation technologyC. the Reformation and the EnlightenmentD. industrial revolution74. The word “dissemination” underlined in Paragraph 4 means ________.A. plantationB. distributionC. receptionD. direction75. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the postal service?A. American abortionists were not happy about it.B. The stamp was invented in Britain.C. It helped the independence of America.D. In the 1840s it was the major means of national communications in Britain.76. What can the postal service do?A. Colleting market prices of goods.B. Spreading ideas at a low cost.C. Promoting political lobbying.D. All of the above.77. In the United States, the postal service belongs to ________.A. a private companyB. the governmentC. road-building enterprisesD. national integration笔译综合能力（英语·二级）试卷第 16 页（共23页）78.The words “its development” underlined in Paragraph 7 refer to thedevelopment of ________.A. the American nationB. the mail coachC. road buildingD. the postal service79.The words “the change” underlined in Paragraph 8 refer to ________.A. time changeB. technology changeC. change in spreading ideasD. change of human abilities80.Which of the following statements is NOT true about mass communication?A. It can reach no further than human voice.B. It can reach a large audience.C. It is rapid and efficient.D. It can be trusted.Questions 81-90 are based on the following passage.Is test anxiety destructive? Can we make test anxiety work for us? The answer to both of these questions is yes. Test anxiety often interferes with student performance but this same test anxiety, if channeled correctly, can help improve performance.In order to lessen the destructive elements of test anxiety, the approach should be to develop improved confidence and knowledge. As your knowledge of the course material increases, your confidence in your ability to succeed will increase. As your confidence increases, your anxiety will go down, allowing your knowledge to come through more efficiently. The way you prepare for a test can reduce anxiety during the test.You will be surprised how confident you will feel if you know the material. Studies of memory show if you want to be able to recall information from text or lecture you have to review that material several times. It is important to know your own abilities and operate accordingly. If you know that you learn best by listening, prepare a tape of significant material and listen to the tape.笔译综合能力（英语·二级）试卷第 17 页（共23页）Study partners or study groups are often useful for self-testing. Experience in stressful situations tends to lessen anxiety in those situations. One way to help yourself retrieve material is through the use of mnemonic codes. Learn a code that lets you remember complex material. Developing an outline for an essay question that you know will be on the test or memorizing a formula are forms of code development.Students are often frustrated by the sheer volume of material that has to be studied in college. Many instructors conduct reviews, give hints, identify what is important to study, use handouts or overhead transparency outlines. These materials should be at the top of your study list. If the instructor took the time to identify them, you should assume that they will play an important part of the test. While knowledge acquired during test preparation can help reduce anxiety, it is another thing to take the test itself. Following are a few suggestions to help reduce anxiety during the test.When I arrive at a test, I often find students flipping text pages at the last minute trying to cram it all in at the end. You would be better off trying to relax, meditating a little, and clearing your mind to allow yourself the ability to concentrate on the questions that are coming.As soon as the instructor gives you the signal to start, dump out formulas, codes, outlines from your memory onto the test answer sheets so that you will not have to worry about whether you will remember the codes long enough until you get to the appropriate test question.You can build your confidence if you go through the test and answer all of the questions that you know first. Go back and work on those questions that need greater analysis, or that need to be worked out or need to be guessed at and your anxiety will not kick in until later in the test.For those of you whose anxiety increases as study and preparation increase, your goal should be to start concentrating on things that take your mind off the test, i.e., television, books, hobbies, movies, etc. Meditation and aerobic exercise have proven to be very useful methods for reducing undesirable effects of stress.The solution to reducing the destructive influences of stress is to plan to 笔译综合能力（英语·二级）试卷第 18 页（共23页）study. Map out a schedule of when you will study each day. Identify the specific topics that you will study each day. Identify the areas of the material that you have had problems with and study those. Your plan should include reading the text material, reviewing notes and homework assignments, identifying material that needs further explanation, developing codes for memory material and testing yourself. Once you have studied adequately, your confidence will be fairly high, your knowledge will be satisfactory to do well on the test and the stomach butterflies will help you focus on the task at hand.I’d wish you good luck on finals, but you and I both know that the more effectively you study, the luckier you will get.81.The word “channeled” underlined in Paragraph 1 means ________.A. directedB. usedC. runD. passed82.Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned as a good side of thetest anxiety?A. It can help improve performance if channeled correctly.B. It motivates us to study and prepare for the exam.C. It can help us to concentrate.D. It can always ensure us a good score in the test.83.What is the relationship between knowledge and confidence and test anxiety?A.As your knowledge of the course material increases, your confidence inyour ability to succeed will increase.B.As your test anxiety increases, your knowledge and confidence willincrease.C.As your confidence increases, your anxiety will go down, allowing yourknowledge to come through more effectively.D.Both A and C.笔译综合能力（英语·二级）试卷第 19 页（共23页）。

2010下半年英语二级《笔译综合》样卷及答案

全国翻译专业资格（水平）考试英语二级《笔译综合》试卷Section 1: Vocabulary and Grammar (60 points) This section consists of 3 parts. Read the directions for each part before answering the questions.Part 1 Vocabulary Selection In this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are 4 choices marked by letters A, B, C and D respectively. 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.1. All the students of this university have free _____ to the Internet via a broadband connection. A.acess B.entrance C.permission D.passageway 2. It is rumored that Mr. Smith, the grandson of the founder of the university and a professor of philosophy, will be _____ as president in March. A.indulged B.inaugurated C.induced D.integrated 3. When I visited the area after the hurricane, I became _____ by what I saw and heard there. A.stressed pressed C.impressed D.distressed 4. When the actor appeared on the stage again, shouts and cheers broke _____ from the crowd and continued for about five minutes. A.in B.off C.forth D.up 5. The _____ value of a coin, i.e. the value of the metal in it, is usually less than the value of what it will buy. A.external B.interior C.intrinsic D.extrinsic 6. Hotels and restaurants are an _____ part of the city, without which the tourist industry could not exist. A.additional B.inseparable C.accommodated D.integral 7. We can find a full _____ of his political belief in his newly-published books. position B.exposition C.deposition D.disposition 8. I don't think you can persuade him ; he always _____ to his own principles. A.adapts B.devotes C.adheres D.dedicates 9. In the advanced course of our training, students must take objective tests at monthly _____. A.distance B.length C.gaps D.intervals 10. 10. Going around at the top of the mountain, we watched the fog _____ from the valley below; it Going around at the top of the mountain, we watched the fog _____ from the valley below; it seemed that we had entered a fairyland. A.descend B.decrease C.arise D.ascend 11. 11. Richard has an _____ manner, although he comes from a middle-class family background and Richard has an _____ manner, although he comes from a middle-class family background and has received his education at Cambridge. A.abrupt B.absurd C.active D.agreeable 12. 12. The history teacher told us the ring was a piece of _____ treasure because it had been handed The history teacher told us the ring was a piece of _____ treasure because it had been handed down from an ancient king. A.invaluable B.valued C.previous D.precise 13. 13. In the last few years, the _____ of regular folks going under the cosmetic knife skyrocketed. In the last few years, the _____ of regular folks going under the cosmetic knife skyrocketed. A.amount B.figures C.group D.number 14. 14. He was too busy to do any exercise at all until he turned 58. And he is much better _____ He was too busy to do any exercise at all until he turned 58. And he is much better _____ now than ever before. A.form B.condition C.look D.shape 15. 15. All All All of of of us us us in in in research research research have have have focused focused focused on on on a a a drug drug drug that that that is is is so so so _____ _____ _____ that that that it it it can can can change change change brain brain chemistry. A.monstrous B.powerful C.vigorous D.heavy 16. 16. He was only a _____ ruler of the country, the real one was his mother, who actually handled He was only a _____ ruler of the country, the real one was his mother, who actually handled state affairs and possessed the power of making decisions. A.oblivious B.notable C.obscure D.nominal 17. 17. _____ that she is interested in children, I am sure that teaching is the right profession for her. _____ that she is interested in children, I am sure that teaching is the right profession for her. A.However B.Provided C.Given D.Unless 18. 18. She had _____ opportunity to exercise leadership, which she has dreamed of since she was She had _____ opportunity to exercise leadership, which she has dreamed of since she was young. A. utter B.utmost C.ambitious D.ample 19. 19. 19. They They They intend intend intend to to to remove remove remove the the the _____ _____ _____ rules rules rules and and and regulations regulations regulations that that that are are are discouraging discouraging discouraging foreign foreign investment in their country. A.henpecked B.garnished C.unmitigated D.onerous 20. 20. The Central Bank is interested in how much money is in _____ in the economy. The Central Bank is interested in how much money is in _____ in the economy. A.circulation B.circle C.reserve D.rotation Part 2 Vocabulary Replacement This part consists of 20 sentences. In each of them one word or phrase is underlined, and below each, there are 4 choices marked by letters A, B, C and D respectively. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part without causing any grammatical error or changing the basic meaning of the sentence. There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET. 21. 21. Tom Tom Tom felt felt felt sure sure sure he he he would would would get get get the the the post, post, post, but but but he he he was was was never never never even even even considered considered considered for for for it. it. it. That That That was was was a a smack in the eye for him. A.nothing serious B.nothing important C.a humiliating rebuff D.an expected disappointment 22. 22. Our neighbors are so reserved and unfriendly that they never speak to us. Our neighbors are so reserved and unfriendly that they never speak to us. A.aloof B.relieved C.airy D.resistant 23. 23. Security Security Security men men men believe believe believe the the the tit-for-tat tit-for-tat tit-for-tat murders murders murders were were were the the the result result result of of of the the the bombing bombing bombing which which which had had occurred in the city center. A.furious B.retaliatory C.malevolent D.chain 24. 24. The conclusion reached at the workshop was that the manufacturing process was obsolete. The conclusion reached at the workshop was that the manufacturing process was obsolete. A.dilapidated B.extant C.archaic D.outdated 25. 25. Some people wish to amend the law so that children must stay at school until they are 16. Some people wish to amend the law so that children must stay at school until they are 16. A.gratify B.pacify C.rectify D.verify 26. 26. Prof. Clark disregarded the warning from his colleagues and continued his research work. Prof. Clark disregarded the warning from his colleagues and continued his research work. A.ignored B.deplored C.explored C.implored 27. 27. Some Some Some observers observers observers say say say the the the recent recent recent coup coup coup of of of a a a military military military government government government in in in that that that country country country will will will lead lead lead to to anarchy. A.monarch B.maniac C.disorder D.discipline 28. 28. As As As a a a conductor, conductor, conductor, Leonard Leonard Leonard Bernstein Bernstein Bernstein was was was famous famous famous for for for his his his intensely intensely intensely vigorous vigorous vigorous and and and exuberant exuberant style. A.enticing B.enthusiastic C.extravert D.exultant 29. 29. His peers admonished him that he had to increase his study time as the final examination was His peers admonished him that he had to increase his study time as the final examination was around the corner. A.astonished B.warned C.threatened D.alarmed 30. 30. Isolated cases of disaffection Isolated cases of disaffection – or harbingers of a mass cross-border movement that threatens Europe’s economic stability? The question is pressing. A.sing B.forerunner C.messenger D.vanguard 31. 31. Justices of the Peace have jurisdiction over the trials of some civil suits and of criminal cases Justices of the Peace have jurisdiction over the trials of some civil suits and of criminal cases involving minor offenses. A.supremacy B.authority C.guidance D.administration 32. 32. What these young men and women need to do now is to develop a mentality to reconcile their What these young men and women need to do now is to develop a mentality to reconcile their ideals with reality. A.interact B.interface C.harmonize D.pair 33. 33. 33. The search for eternal youth is no less fervent now than it was 2,000 years ago. People are The search for eternal youth is no less fervent now than it was 2,000 years ago. People are trying practically anything. A.prolonged B.external C.protracted D.excessive 34. 34. SD Memory Cards are versatile high-capacity storage cards that are extremely small - about SD Memory Cards are versatile high-capacity storage cards that are extremely small - about the size of a postage stamp. A.adaptable B.adoptable C.variable D.veritable 35. 35. This book comes as a revelation to one who was nourished in his youth on the englightened This book comes as a revelation to one who was nourished in his youth on the englightened English socialitst tradition represented by George Bernard Shaw. A.replacement B.discovery C.representation D.resolution 36. 36. Johnson was so absorbed in his novel that he forgot about his dinner cooking in the oven. Johnson was so absorbed in his novel that he forgot about his dinner cooking in the oven. A.obtained B.enlivened C.obliged D.engrossed 37. 37. The man we met this morning grows many kinds of plants in his garden, most of which are The man we met this morning grows many kinds of plants in his garden, most of which are flowers including succulent and cacti. A.rises B.raises C.plants D.plows 38. 38. The The The scientist scientist scientist contested contested contested the the the assumption assumption assumption of of of previous previous previous scientists scientists scientists that that that the the the fate fate fate of of of human human human beings beings could not be predicated. A.suspended B.rejected C.suspected D.repulsed 39. 39. In In In the the the last last last 10 10 10 years years years we we we have have have all all all witnessed witnessed witnessed an an an impressive impressive impressive growth growth growth in in in our our our knowledge knowledge knowledge about about environment. A.impreative B.observable C.important D.obvious 40. 40. In their culture and in their eyes success all too often means imply outdoing other people by In their culture and in their eyes success all too often means imply outdoing other people by virtue of achievement judged by some single scale – income or honors. A.outfitting B.outbidding C.outraging D.outshining Part 3 Error Correction This part consists of 20 sentences. In each of them there is an underlined part that indicates a grammatical error, and below each, there are 4 choices marked by letters A, B, C and D respectively. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part so that the error is corrected. There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET. 41. 41. The managers discussed the plan that they would like to see be carrying out next year. The managers discussed the plan that they would like to see be carrying out next year. A.carry out B.carrying out C.carried out D.to carry out 42. 42. The The examiner failed some candidates, and 15 of them being students without work experience. A. 15 being B.among 15 were C.15 of them were D.15 of whom were 43. 43. Despite of their opposition, he went his own way and started his preparations. Despite of their opposition, he went his own way and started his preparations. A.Despiting of B.Despited of C.Despite D.Despited 44. 44. Network Network Network television, television, television, magazine, magazine, magazine, and and and direct direct direct mail mail mail –– that that will will will be be be the the the big big big gainers gainers gainers in in in advertising advertising revenues next year. A.which B.these C.they D.all 45. 45. 45. I hear that he knows four languages, such as Chinese, French, German and Japanese. I hear that he knows four languages, such as Chinese, French, German and Japanese. A.for example, ly, C.like D.as 46. 46. The The The more more more people people people you you you know, know, know, the the the less less less you you you have have have time time time to to to see see see them them them but but but you you you can can can always always always reach reach them on the Internet. A. A. less you have the time less you have the time B. the less time you have C. C. the less time do you have the less time do you have D. D. less the time you have less the time you have 47. 47. Having heard the weather forecast, the boat was stopped in the harbour. Having heard the weather forecast, the boat was stopped in the harbour. A. A. the boat did not sail out of the boat did not sail out of B. they did not sail out of C. C. the boat remained in the boat remained in D. they were stopped in 48. 48. Once they had fame, fortune, secure futures; now all that left is utter poverty. Once they had fame, fortune, secure futures; now all that left is utter poverty. A.that all is left B.all that is left C.all what is left D.all which is left 49. 49. Mary must have received my mail; otherwise she could have replied before now. Mary must have received my mail; otherwise she could have replied before now. A.Mary should B.Mary ought to C.Mary shouldn’t D.Mary couldn’t 50. 50. We will ship the goods on Monday according to your order less we hear from you by Friday. We will ship the goods on Monday according to your order less we hear from you by Friday. A.nevertheless B.unless C.lest D.until 51. 51. When this agreement if signed, a circular will be prepared for given to our customers. When this agreement if signed, a circular will be prepared for given to our customers. A.given out B.given off C.dispatches D.distribution 52. 52. It is now clear that no such creatures as vampires have been seen and none been found in the It is now clear that no such creatures as vampires have been seen and none been found in the world. A. was found B.are found C.have been found D.have been found out 53. 53. My My company is Excellent Kitchenware Company, there nearby is a big market for kitchenware in our city. A.there near B.and there near C.there nearly D.and nearby there 54. 54. The government has hardly taken The government has hardly taken measures to crack down on there crimes when new ones occurred. A. A. Hardly had the government taken Hardly had the government taken B. B. The government took hardly The government took hardly C. C. Hardly the government had taken Hardly the government had taken D. D. The government is hardly taking The government is hardly taking 55. 55. The general manager demanded that the job will be completed before the summer holidays. The general manager demanded that the job will be completed before the summer holidays. A.would be B.must be C.be D.had to be 56. 56. Our Our Our company company company will will will provide provide provide you you you with with with free free free transportation transportation transportation as as as you you you requested requested requested and and and charge charge charge the the installation. A.installation with charge B.in the installation C.freely installation D.installation in charge 57. 57. Doctors warned sun-starved tourists who received too much sunlight that they were at serious Doctors warned sun-starved tourists who received too much sunlight that they were at serious risk than others of contracting skin cancer. A.with more serious B.at seriously C.at more serious D.seriously with 58. 58. We have sent an order slip to all that we have reason to believe are interested in our books. We have sent an order slip to all that we have reason to believe are interested in our books. A. A. who are believed by us who are believed by us B. B. with who we have reason to believe with who we have reason to believe C. C. who we have reason to believe who we have reason to believe D. D. with whom we believe with whom we believe 59. 59. As As As an an an English English English major major major student student student at at at one one one of of of the the the most most most famous famous famous universities universities universities in in in China, China, China, I I I strongly strongly believe that business English is more practical than other fields. A.a student in English B.a major English student C.an English major D.an English student major 60. 60. The engineers are going through with their highway project, in spite that the expenses have The engineers are going through with their highway project, in spite that the expenses have risen. A.just because B.even though C.as though D.now that Section 2: Reading Comprehension (30 points) In this section you will find after each of the passage a number of questions or unfinished statements about the passage, each with 4 (A, B, C and D) choices to answer the question or complete the statement. You must choose the one which you think fits best. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET. Question 61-70 are based on the following passage. Next Next door door door to to to a a a lunch lunch lunch counter counter counter advertising advertising advertising a a a grilled grilled grilled cheese cheese cheese special special special is is is a a a gallery gallery gallery where where where V V an Gogh’s ―Irisesǁ shares the walls with Monet landscapes and works from the Italian Renaissance. They are all fakes. They are all for sale. ―A forger? Yes. We’re expert forgers you could say. But we make no attempt to deceive. We don’t pretend to sell original works. We have all the thrill of being a forger, but no risk.ǁ With With prices prices prices for for for original original original art art art rising rising rising into into into the the the tens tens tens of of of millions, millions, millions, some some some art art art lovers lovers lovers are are are turning turning turning to to high-quality copies done by expert artists. In addition, some museums confronting skyrocketing insurance premiums are considering stashing the authentic pieces and displaying a reproduction. No No major major major U.S. U.S. U.S. art art art museum museum museum is is is known known known to to to be be be displaying displaying displaying reproductions reproductions reproductions in in in place place place of of of originals. originals. Such Such a a a practice practice practice would would would raise raise raise questions questions questions about about about why why why people people people visit visit visit museums museums museums in in in the the the first first first place. place. place. But But museum security has become a growing concern. Bids for paintings have climbed at auction houses. But prices for fakes run only from about $1,000 to $10,000 for paintings, depending on the size and complexity of the original. In Europe where copying masterpieces is centuries-old craft, painters often use pigments and brushes typical of the period of the original. The painting is placed in a frame closely resembling its era. Sometimes the gallery purchases 17th century furniture to use the wood for frames. The final step is the antiquing proce ss using chemicals and heat and humidity. ―We can make special types of cracks from little spider-web types to long splits.ǁ 61. 61. This passage is most probably taken out of a/an _____. This passage is most probably taken out of a/an _____. A. A. court confession by a person suspected of making fakes court confession by a person suspected of making fakes B. B. commercial advertisement for a new profession in arts commercial advertisement for a new profession in arts C. C. feature story in a newspaper, magazine, or a web page feature story in a newspaper, magazine, or a web page D. D. industrial profile for a museum promoting a new show industrial profile for a museum promoting a new show 62. 62. The word ―Monetǁ underlined in Paragraph 1 refers to a _____.The word ―Monetǁ underlined in Paragraph 1 refers to a _____. A. master artist B. master forger C. famous dealer D. rich collector 63. 63. Both quotes in the passage are probably from a person who is a/an _____. Both quotes in the passage are probably from a person who is a/an _____. A. master artist B. art piece forger C. museum director D. artworks thief 64. 64. The third sentence in the last paragraph implies that the gallery _____. The third sentence in the last paragraph implies that the gallery _____. A. A. carries 17th-century furniture as sideline exhibits carries 17th-century furniture as sideline exhibits B. B. is part of the process in making fake paintings is part of the process in making fake paintings C. C. provides the space only for forgers to produce fakes provides the space only for forgers to produce fakes D. D. manufactures wooden frames for paintings as a sideline manufactures wooden frames for paintings as a sideline 65. 65. Obviously, Obviously, Obviously, the the the phrase phrase phrase ―expert ―expert artistsǁ artistsǁ underlined underlined underlined in in in Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph 3 3 3 refers refers refers to to to people people people who who who are are _____. A. A. experts in evaluating art works experts in evaluating art works B. B. painters decorating the museums painters decorating the museums C. C. makers of faked famous paintings makers of faked famous paintings D. D. experts who can identify forgeries experts who can identify forgeries 66. 66. ―Such a practiceǁ underlined in Paragraph 4 refers to the display of _____.―Such a practiceǁ underlined in Paragraph 4 refers to the display of _____. A. A. forged works in place of genuine artwork forged works in place of genuine artwork B. B. original productions in place of their copies original productions in place of their copies C. C. both fake productions and original paintings both fake productions and original paintings D. D. real reproductions and original masterpieces real reproductions and original masterpieces 67. 67. According to the passage, the word ―stashingǁ underlined in Paragraph 3 is synonymous with According to the passage, the word ―stashingǁ underlined in Paragraph 3 is synonymous with _____. A. slashing B. smashing C. stacking D. storing 68. 68. As repeatedly stated in the passage _____ was certainly the major reason why forgeries are As repeatedly stated in the passage _____ was certainly the major reason why forgeries are sold. A. insurance B. security C. quality D. price 69. 69. The word ―copiesǁ underlined in Paragraph 3 does NOT refer to _____.The word ―copiesǁ underlined in Paragraph 3 does NOT refer to _____. A. fakes B. forges C. reproductions D. non-authentic works 70. 70. According to this passage, which of the following statements is true? According to this passage, which of the following statements is true? A. A. The works on display are meant to sell as originals. The works on display are meant to sell as originals. B. B. The works meant to sell as originals are on display. The works meant to sell as originals are on display. C. C. Here you may purchase a masterpiece for $1,000. Here you may purchase a masterpiece for $1,000. D. D. Here one may buy fast food any time and eat it here. Here one may buy fast food any time and eat it here. Questions 71-80 are based on the following passage. No No revolutions revolutions revolutions in in in technology technology technology have have have as as as visibly visibly visibly marked marked marked the the the human human human condition condition condition as as as those those those in in transport. Moving goods and people, they have opened continents, transformed living standards, spread spread diseases, diseases, diseases, fashions fashions fashions and and and folk folk folk around around around the the the world. world. world. Y et Y et technologies technologies technologies to to to transport transport transport ideas ideas ideas and and information across long distances have arguably achieved even more: they have spread knowledge, the basis of economic growth. The most basic of all these, the written word, was already ancient by 1000. By then China had, in basic form, the printing press, using carved woodblocks. But the key to its future, movable metal type, was four centuries away. The Chinese were hampered by their thousands of ideograms. Even Even so, so, so, they they they quite quite quite soon soon soon invented invented invented the the the primitive primitive primitive movable movable movable type, type, type, made made made of of of clay, clay, clay, and and and by by by the the the 13th 13th century they had the movable wooden type. But the real secret was the use of an easily cast metal. When When it it it came, came, came, Europe Europe Europe –– aided aided by by by simple simple simple Western Western Western alphabets alphabets alphabets –– leapt leapt forward forward forward with with with it. it. it. One One reason reason why why why Asia’s Asia’s Asia’s civilizations, civilizations, civilizations, in in in 1000 1000 1000 far far far ahead ahead ahead of of of Europe’s, Europe’s, Europe’s, then then then fell fell fell behind behind behind was was was that that that they they lacked the technology to reproduce and diffuse ideas. On Johannes Gutenberg’s invention in the 1440s were built not jus t the Reformation and the Enlightenment, but Europe’s agricultural and industrial revolutions too. et Y et information information information technology technology technology on on on its its its own own own would would would not not not have have have got got got far. far. far. Literally: Literally: Literally: better better better transport transport technology too was needed. That was not lacking, but there the big change came much later: it was railways and steamships that first allowed the speedy, widespread dissemination of news and ideas ideas over over over long long long distances. distances. distances. And And And both both both technologies technologies technologies in in in turn turn turn required required required people people people and and and organizations organizations organizations to to develop develop their their their use. use. use. They They They got got got them: them: them: for for for individual individual individual communication. communication. communication. The The The postal postal postal service: service: service: for for for wider wider publics, the publishing industry. Throughout Throughout the the the 19th 19th century, the the postal postal postal service service service formed formed formed the the the bedrock bedrock bedrock of of of national national national and and international international communications. communications. communications. Crucial Crucial Crucial to to to its its its growth growth growth had had had been been been the the the introduction introduction introduction of of of the the the stamp, stamp, combined with a low price, and payment by the sender. Britain put all three of these ideas into effect in 1840. By By then, then, then, the the the world’s world’s world’s mail mail mail was was was taking taking taking off. off. off. It It It changed changed changed the the the world. world. world. Merchants Merchants Merchants in in in America’s America’s eastern eastern cities cities cities used used used it it it to to to gather gather gather information, information, information, enraging enraging enraging far-off far-off far-off cotton cotton cotton growers growers growers and and and farmers, farmers, farmers, who who found that the New Yorkers knew more about crop prices than they did. In the American debate about about slavery, slavery, it it offered offered abolitionists abolitionists a a a low-cost low-cost low-cost way way way to to to spread spread spread their their their views, views, views, just just just as as as later later technologies have cut the cost and widened the scope of political lobbying. The post helped too to integrate the American nation, tying new newly opened west to the settled east. Everywhere, its development drove and was driven by those of transport. In Britain, travelers rode by mail coach to posting inns. In America, the post subsidized road-building. Indeed, argues Dan Schiller, a professor of communications at the University of California, it was the connection between the post, transport and national integration that ensured that the mail remained a public enterprise even in the United States, its first and only government-run communications medium, and until at least the 1870s, the biggest organization in the land. The change has not only been one of speed and distance, though, but of audience. About 200 years ago, a man’s words could reach no further than his voice, not just in range but in whom they reached. But, for some purposes, efficient communication is mass communication, regular, cheap, quick and reliable. When it became possible, it transformed the world. 71. 71. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true? According to the passage, which of the following statements is true? A. A. Transporting Transporting Transporting goods goods goods and and and people people people is is is the the the most most most important important important technology technology technology in in in the the the history history history of of mankind. B. B. Technology in transporting goods and people has changed human conditions more than Technology in transporting goods and people has changed human conditions more than anything else. C. C. Technology Technology in spreading information has changed human conditions more than transportation technology. D. D. Technology in spreading information can’t change the economic development of society.Technology in spreading information can’t change the economic development of society. 72. 72. Accord Accord According ing ing to to to the the the passage, passage, passage, Asian Asian Asian civilizations, civilizations, civilizations, which which which were were were ahead ahead ahead of of of Europe’s, Europe’s, Europe’s, fell fell fell behind behind because _____. A. A. Asian languages were more difficult to learn. Asian languages were more difficult to learn. B. B. European languages had simple alphabets European languages had simple alphabets C. C. they didn’t have the technology to spread ideas they didn’t have the technology to spread ideas D. D. people’s com people’s com munication skills were not good enough 。

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2010考研英语二翻译真题、参考答案和来源分析"Sustainability" has become a popular word these days, but to Ted Ning,the concept will always have personal meaning. Having endured a painful period of unsustainability in his own life made it clear to him that sustainability-oriented values must be expressed through every day action and choice.当今，“可持续性”已经成为了一个流行的词语.但是，对特德宁来说，它对这个词有着自身的体会.在忍受了一段痛苦的、难以为继的生活之后，他清楚地认识到，以可持续发展为导向的生活价值必须通过日常的活动和做出的选择表现出来.Ning recalls spending a confusing year in the late 1990s selling insurance. He'd been through the dot-com boom and burst and, desperate for a job, signed on with a Boulder agency.宁回忆了在上个世纪90年代末期的某一年，他卖保险，那是一种浑浑噩噩的生活.在经历了网络经济的兴盛和衰败之后，他非常渴望得到一份工作，于是和一家博德的代理公司签了合约.It didn't go well. "It was a really bad move because that's not my passion," says Ning, whose dilemma about the job translated, predictably, into a lack of sales. "I was miserable. I had so much anxiety that I would wake up in the middle of the night and stare at the ceiling. I had no money and needed the job. Everyone said,” Just wait, you'll turn the corner, give it some time.''事情进展不顺，“那的确是很糟糕的一种选择，因为那并非是我的激情所在，”宁如是说.可以想象，他这种工作上的窘境是由于销售业绩不良造成的.“我觉得很悲哀.我太担心了，以至于我会在半夜醒来，盯着天花板.没有钱，我需要这份工作.每个人都会说，等吧，总会有转机的，给点时间吧.”原文：原文是来自一份杂志，叫“experience life”，出题人做了部分改动，原文和改动的文章如下：Sustainability has become something of a buzzword(出题人把这个单词改为popular word) these days, but to Ted Ning, the concept will always have personal meaning. Having endured a painful period of unsustainability in his own life made it clear to him that sustainability-oriented values must be expressed through everyday action and choice.Ning, director of LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability), the Boulder, Colo.–based information clearinghouse on sustainable living, recalls spending a tumultuous（出题人把这个词改为了confusing）year in the late ’90s selling insurance. He’d been throug h the dot-com boom and bust（出题人似乎把这个词改为burst了） and, desperate for a job, signed on with a Boulder agency.It didn’t go well. “It was a really bad move because that’s not my passion,” says Ning, whose ambivalence about the job translated, predictably, into a lack of sales. “I was miserable. I had so much anxiety that I would pull alongside of the highway and vomit, or wake up in the middle of the night and stare at the ceiling.I had no money and needed the job. Everyone said, ‘Just wait, you’ll turn the cor ner, give it some time.’”Ning stuck it out for a year because he simply didn’t know what else to do, but felt his happiness and health suffer as a result. He eventually quit and stumbled upon LOHAS in a help-wanted ad for a data analyst. “I didn’t know what LOHAS was,” he says, “but it sounded kinda neat.” It turned out to be a better fit than he could have ever imagined.At the time, the LOHAS organization did little more than host a small annual conference in Boulder. It was a forum where progressive-minded companies could gather to compare notes on how to reach a values-driven segment of consumers —the LOHAS market — who seemed attracted to products and services that mirrored their interest in health, environmental stewardship, social justice, personal development and sustainable living.In contrast with his disastrous foray into the insurance business, Ning’s new job felt like coming home. Growing up in the foothills of the Rockies outside of Denver, he’d developed a love of the outdoors and a respect f or the earth, while his parents provided a model of social activism —the family traveled widely, and at one point his parents created and operated a nonprofit that offered microcredit loans to small businesses in Vietnam and Guatemala. He has three adopted sisters from Vietnam and Korea. He studied international relations and Chinese at Colorado University and slipped easily into the Boulder lifestyle — commuting by bike, eating organics, buying local and the rest —though he stopped short of the patchouli-and-dreadlocks phase embraced by many of his peers. (He opted instead for the university’s ski team and, after graduating, wound up coaching the Japanese development team during the Nagano Olympics in 1998.)From his ground-level job, Ning moved quickly up the ranks in the organization, becoming its executive director in 2006. “When I got the job, LOHAS was a sleepy conference in Boulder,” says Ning. Today, the forum is booming, the organizationis expanding and the market is evolving. Ning has more than grown into the position he stumbled on in the want ads. “I don’t consider this a job. It is really more of a calling.”Ning, 41, coordinates the conference and oversees the organization’s annual journal and Web site (), while compiling research on trends and opportunities for businesses. He also travels the country promoting —and explaining —the LOHAS concept and the burgeoning market it represents.First identified by sociologist Paul Ray in the mid-1990s as “cultural creatives,” the U.S. market segment that embraces LOHAS today has grown to about 41 million consumers, or roughly 19 percent of American adults. But those LOHAS consumers are powerfully influencing the attitudes and behaviors of others (witness the rise of interest in yoga, all-natural products, simplicity and hybrid vehicles). Which is why LOHAS-related products now generate an estimated $209 billion annually.“Over the last two years a green tidal wave has come over us,” says Nin g. Riding that wave, says Ning, is not about jumping on a trend bandwagon. It’s connecting with — and acting on —a set of shared, instrinsic values. “People know what is authentic. You can’t preach this lifestyle and not live it,” he says. He and his wife, Jenifer, live in a solar-powered home, raise organic vegetables in their backyard and drive a car that gets 48 miles to the gallon. He even buys carbon offsets to negate the global warming impact of his cell phone.Ning emphasizes that there are many dif ferent ways of “living LOHAS.” Ultimately, it’s really about finding a way of life that makes sense and feels good —now and for the long haul. “People are looking internally,” he says, “asking themselves, ‘What really makes me happy?’ Is it the fact that I can go out and buy that giant flat-screen TV, or is it that I can have a quiet evening with my family just hanging out and playing a game of Scrabble?”For Ning, it’s a no-brainer. He’ll take Scrabble every time.Laine Bergeson is an Experience Life senior editor.2011考研英语二翻译真题、参考答案和来源分析Who would have thought that, globally, the IT industry produces about the same volumes of greenhouse gases as the world’s airlines do-rough 2 percent of all CO2 emissions?全球范围内，信息技术行业与航空业产生的温室气体总量相同——约占二氧化碳排放总量的2%，这有谁曾想到过？Many everyday tasks take a surprising toll on the environment. A Google search can leak between 0.2 and 7.0 grams of CO2 depending on how many attempts are needed to get the “right” answer. To deliver results to its users quickly, then, Google has to maintain vast data centres round the world, packed with powerful computers. While producing large quantities of CO2, these computers emit a great deal of heat, so the centres need to be well air-conditioned, which uses even more energy.许多日常工作对环境造成的损失大得惊人.每一次谷歌搜索能释放0.2到0.7克的二氧化碳，这取决于为了获得“正确”答案你试过多少次.为了迅速向用户提供搜索结果，谷歌不得不在世界各地建立大型数据中心，安装一台台强大的计算机.这些计算机不仅产生大量的二氧化碳，还释放大量热能，因此这些数据中心需要良好的空调设备，这甚至会耗费更多的能源.However, Google and other big tech providers monitor their efficiency closely and make improvements. Monitoring is the first step on the road to reduction, but there is much to be done, and not just by big companies.然而，谷歌和其他大型技术供应商严密地监控其效果，并做出改进.监控是减排的第一步，仍有太多问题需要解决，并且不只是由大公司来解决.原文：Who would have thought that, globally, the IT industry produces about the same volume of greenhouse gases as the world's airlines do - roughly 2 per cent of all CO2 emissions?Many everyday tasks take a surprising toll on the environment. A Google search can leak between 0.2 and 7.0 grams of CO2, depending on how many attempts are needed to get the "right" answer. At the upper end of the scale, two searches create roughly the same emissions as boiling a kettle.To deliver results to its users quickly, Google has to maintain vast data centres around the world, packed with powerful computers. As well as producing large quantities of CO2, these computers emit a great deal of heat, so the centres need to be well air-conditioned - which uses even more energy.However, Google and other big tech providers such as BT, IBM, Microsoft and Amazon monitor their efficiency closely and make improvements. (Google claims to be more efficient than most.) Recently, industry and government agencies from theUS, Europe and Japan reached an agreement, orchestrated by the Green Grid, an American industry consortium, on how to benchmark the energy efficiency of data centres. Monitoring is the first step on the road to reduction, but there's much more to be done, and not just by big companies.Simple things - such as turning devices off when they are not in use - can help to reduce the impact of our love affair with all things digital. Research from the National Energy Foundation in the UK found that nearly 20 per cent of workers don't turn their PCs off at the end ofthe day, wasting 1.5 billion kWh of electricity per year - which equates to the annual CO2 produced by 200,000 small family cars.Technology could have a huge role to play in reducing energy consumption - just think of the number of car and bus journeys saved by something as simple as online banking. But the sector must still work harder to get its own house in order.Jason Stamper is NS technology correspondent and editor of Computer Business Review2012考研英语二翻译真题、参考答案和来源分析When people in developing countries worry about migration, they are usually concerned at the prospect of their best and brightest departure to Silicon Valley or to hospitals and universities in the developed world. These are the kind of workers that countries like Britain, Canada Australia try to attract by using immigration rules that privilege college graduates.发展中国家的人们若为移民问题操心，往往是想到硅谷或发达国家的医院和大学去创造自己最辉煌的未来.英国、加拿大和澳大利亚等国给大学毕业生提供的优惠移民政策，就是为了吸引这部分人群.Lots of studies have found that well-educated people from developing countries are particularly likely to emigrate. A big survey of Indian households in 2004 found that nearly 40% of emigrants had more than a high-school education, compared with around 3.3% of all Indians over the age of 25. The “brain drain” has long bothered policymakers in poor countries. They fear that it hurts their economies, depriving them of much-needed skilled workers who could have taught at their universities, worked in their hospitals and come up with clever new products for their factories to make.诸多研究表明，发展中国家受过良好教育的人才往往可能有移民倾向.2004年，曾针对印度家庭进行过一次大型调查，结果发现，近40%有移民倾向的人受过中学以上教育，而25岁以上的印度人只有约3.3%受过中学以上教育.“人才流失”问题长期以来一直让发展中国家的决策者很苦恼，他们担心这种情况会危及其经济发展，夺去他们紧缺的技术人才，而这些人才本该在他们自己的大学任教，在他们自己的医院工作，为他们自己的工厂研发新产品.原文：WHEN people in rich countries worry about migration, they tend to think of low-paid incomers who compete for jobs as construction workers, dishwashers or farmhands. When people in developing countries worry about migration, they are usually concerned at the prospect of their best and brightest decamping to Silicon Valley or to hospitals and universities in the developed world. These are the kind of workers that countries like Britain, Canada and Australia try to attract by using immigration rules that privilege college graduates.Lots of studies have found that well-educated people from developing countries are particularly likely to emigrate. By some estimates, two-thirds of highly educated Cape Verdeans live outside the country. A big survey of Indian households carried out in 2004 asked about family members who had moved abroad. It found that nearly 40% of emigrants had more than a high-school education, compared with around 3.3% of all Indians over the age of 25. This “brain drain” has long bothered policymakers in poor countries. They fear that it hurts their economies, depriving them of much-needed skilled workers who could have taught at their universities, worked in their hospitals and come up with clever new products for their factories to make.Many now take issue with this view (see article). Several economists reckon that the brain-drain hypothesis fails to account for the effects of remittances, for the beneficial effects of returning migrants, and for the possibility that being able to migrate to greener pastures induces people to get more education. Some argue that once these factors are taken into account, an exodus of highly skilled people could turn out to be a net benefit to the countries they leave. Recent studies of migration from countries as far apart as Ghana, Fiji, India and Romania have found support for this “brain gain” idea.The most obvious way in which migrants repay their homelands is through remittances. Workers from developing countries remitted a total of $325 billion in 2010, according to the World Bank. In Lebanon, Lesotho, Nepal, Tajikistan and a few other places, remittances are more than 20% of GDP. A skilled migrant may earn several multiples of what his income would have been had he stayed at home. A study of Romanian migrantsto America found that the average emigrant earned almost $12,000 a year more in America than he would have done in his native land, a huge premium for someone from a country where income per person is around $7,500 (at market exchange rates).It is true that many skilled migrants have been educated and trained partly at the expense of their (often cash-strapped) governments. Some argue that poor countries should therefore rethink how much they spend on higher education. Indians, for example, often debate whether their government should continue to subsidise the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), its elite engineering schools, when large numbers of IIT graduates end up in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street. But a new study of remittances sent home by Ghanaian migrants suggests that on average they transfer enough over their working lives to cover the amount spent on educating them several times over. The study finds that once remittances are taken into account, the cost of education would have to be 5.6 times the official figure to make it a losing proposition for Ghana.There are more subtle ways in which the departure of some skilled people may aid poorer countries. Some emigrants would have been jobless had they stayed. Studies have found that unemployment rates among young people with college degrees in countries like Morocco and Tunisia are several multiples of those among the poorly educated, perhaps because graduates are more demanding. Migration may lead to a more productive pairing of people's skills and jobs. Some of the benefits of this improved match then flow back to the migrant's home country, most directly via remittances.The possibility of emigration may even have beneficial effects on those who choose to stay, by giving people in poor countries an incentive to invest in education.A study of Cape Verdeans finds that an increase of ten percentage points in young people's perceived probability of emigrating raises the probability of their completing secondary school by around eight points. Another study looks at Fiji.A series of coups beginning in 1987 was seen by Fijians of Indian origin as permanently harming their prospects in the country by limiting their share of government jobs and political power. This set off a wave of emigration. Yet young Indians in Fiji became more likely to go to university even as the outlook at home dimmed, in part because Australia, Canada and New Zealand, three of the top destinations for Fijians, put more emphasis on attracting skilled migrants. Since some of those who got more education ended up staying, the skill levels of the resident Fijian population soared.。

2006-2011二级笔译实务真题及答案

2011年5月翻译考试二级笔译实务原文第一篇英译汉Farms go out of business for many reasons, but few farms do merely because the soil has failed. That is the miracle of farming. If you care for the soil, it will last —and yield —nearly forever. America is such a young country that we have barely tested that. For most of our history, there has been new land to farm, and we still farm as though there always will be.Still, there are some very old farms out there. The oldest is the Tuttle farm, near Dover, N.H., which is also one of the oldest business enterprises in America. It made the news last week because its owner —a lineal descendant of John Tuttle, the original settler — has decided to go out of business. It was founded in 1632. I hear its sweet corn is legendary.The year 1632 is unimaginably distant. In 1632, Galileo was still publishing, and John Locke was born. There were perhaps 10,000 colonists in all of America, only a few hundred of them in New Hampshire. The Tuttle acres, then, would have seemed almost as surrounded as they do in 2010, but by forest instead of highways and houses.It was a precarious operation at the start —as all farming was in the new colonies—and it became precarious enough again in these past few years to peter out at last. The land is protected by a conservation easement so it can’t be developed, but no one knows whether the next owner will farm it.In a letter on their Web site, the Tuttles cite “exhaustion of resources”as the reason to sell the farm. The exhausted resources they list include bodies, minds, hearts, imagination, equipment, machinery and finances. They do not mention soil, which has been renewed and redeemed repeatedly.It is too simple to say, as the Tuttles have, that the recession killed a farm that had survived for nearly 400 years. What killed it was the economic structure of food production. Each year it has become harder for family farms to compete with industrial scale agriculture — heavily subsidized by the government — underselling them at every turn. In a system committed to the health of farms and their integration with local communities, the result would have been different. In 1632, and for many years after, the Tuttle farm was a necessity. In 2010, it is suddenly superfluous, or so we like to pretend.尽管导致农民破产的原因有很多，但很少农民仅仅是因为土地失去肥力而破产，这可以算是一个农业奇迹。

翻译资格catti二级笔译阅读真题

11月翻译资格catti二级笔译阅读真题为大家整理了2010年11月翻译资格catti二级笔译阅读真题，仅供参考！！阅读第一篇原文出自NY TimesEurope Finds Clean Energy in Trash, but U.S. LagsBy ELISABETH ROSENTHALPublished: April 12, 2010HORSHOLM, Denmark —The lawyers and engineers who dwell in an elegant enclavehere are at peace with the hulking neighbor just over the back fence: a vast energy plant that burns thousands of tons of household garbage and industrial waste, round the clock.Far cleaner than conventional incinerators, this new type of plant converts local trash into heat and electricity. Dozens of filters catch pollutants, from mercury to dioxin, that would have emerged from its smokestack only a decade ago.In that time, such plants have become both the mainstay of garbage disposal and a crucial fuel source across Denmark, from wealthy exurbs like Horsholm to Copenhagen’s downtown area. Their use has not only reduced the country’s energy costs and reliance on oil and gas, but also benefited the environment, diminishing the use of landfills and cutting carbon dioxide emissions. The plants run so cleanly that many times more dioxin is now released from home fireplaces and backyard barbecues than from incineration.With all these innovations, Denmark now regards garbage as a clean alternative fuel rather than a smelly, unsightly problem. And the incinerators, known as waste-to-energy plants, have acquired considerable cachet as communities likeHorsholm vie to have them built.Denmark now has 29 such plants, serving 98 municipalities in a country of 5.5 million people, and 10 more are planned or under construction. Across Europe, there are about 400 plants, with Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands leading the pack in expanding them and building new ones.By contrast, no new waste-to-energy plants are being planned or built in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency says —even though the federal government and 24 states now classify waste that is burned this way for energy as a renewable fuel, in many cases eligible for subsidies. There are only 87 trash-burning power plants in the United States, a country of more than 300 million people, and almost all were built at least 15 years ago.Instead, distant landfills remain the end point for most of the nation’s trash. New York City alone sends 10,500 tons of residential waste each day to landfills in places like Ohio and South Carolina.“Europe has gotten out ahead with this newest technology,” said Ian A. Bowles, a former Clinton administration official who is now the Massachusetts state secretary of energy.Still, Mr. Bowles said that as America’s current landfills topped out and pressure to reduce heat-trapping gases grew, Massachusetts and some other states were “actively considering” new waste-to-energy proposals; several existing plants are being expanded. He said he expected resistance all the same in a place where even a wind turbine sets off protests.Why Americans Are ReluctantMatt Hale, director of the Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery of theUnited States Environmental Protection Agency, said the reasons that waste-to-energy plants had not caught on nationally were the relative abundance of cheap landfills in a large country, opposition from state officials who feared the plants could undercut recycling programs and a “negative public perception.” In the United States, individual states and municipalities generally decide what method to use to get rid of their waste.阅读第二篇Fluency with information technology (abbreviated as FITness) goes beyond traditional notions of computer literacy. As noted in Chapter 1, literacy about information technology might call for a minimal level of familiarity with technological tools like word processors, e-mail, and Web browsers. By contrast, FITness requires that persons understand information technology broadly enough to be able to apply it productively at work and in their everyday lives, to recognize when information technology would assist or impede the achievement of a goal, and to continually adapt to the changes in and advancement of information technology. FITness therefore requires a deeper, more essential understanding and mastery of information technology for information processing, communication, and problem solving than does computer literacy as traditionally defined. (Box 2.1 addresses the difference between literacy and FITness in more specific terms.) Note also that FITness as described in this chapter builds on many other fundamental competencies, such as textual literacy, logical reasoning, and knowledge of civics and society.Information technology is a medium that permits the expression of a vast array of information, ideas, concepts, and messages, and FITness is about effectively exploiting that expressive power. FITness enables a person to accomplish a variety of different tasks using information technology and to develop different ways of accomplishing agiven task.FITness comes in degrees and gradations and is tied to different purposes. FITness is thus not an “end state” that is independent of domain, but rather develops over a lifetime in particular domains of interest involving particular applications. Aspects of FITness can be developed by using spreadsheets for personal or professional budgeting, desktop publishing tools to create or edit documents or Web pages, search engines and database management tools for locating information on the Web or in large databases, and design tools to create visualizations in various scientific and engineering disciplines.The wide variety of contexts in which FITness is relevant is matched by the rapid pace at which information technology evolves. Most professionals today require constant upgrading of technological skills as new tools become useful in their work; they learn new word processing programs, new computer-assisted design environments, or new techniques for searching the World Wide Web. Different applications of informationtechnology emerge rather frequently, both in areas with long traditions of using information and information technology and in areas that are not usually seen as being technology-intensive. Perhaps the major challenge for individuals embarking on the goal of lifelong FITness involves deciding when to learn a new tool, when to change to a new technology, when to devote energy to increasing technological competency, and when to allocate time to other professional activities.The above comments suggest that FITness is personal, graduated, and dynamic. FITness is personal in the sense that individuals evaluate, distinguish, learn, and use new information technology as appropriate to their own sustained personal andprofessional activities. What is appropriate for an individual depends on the particular applications, activities, and opportunities for FITness that are associated with the individual’s area of interest or specialization, and what is reasonable for a FIT lawyer or a historian to know and be able to do may well differ from what is required for a FIT scientist or engineer. FITness is graduated in the sense that it is characterized by different levels of sophistication (rather than a single FIT / not-FIT judgment), and it is dynamic in that it requires lifelong learning as information technology evolves.考生可收藏翻译资格频道，查看更多关于翻译资格考试相关的信息！！。

(记忆版)2010全国外语翻译资格证考试英语二级笔译试题

2010全国外语翻译资格证秋季考试英语二级笔译试题（2010.11.13）(记忆版)2010年11月13日在厦门大学参加2010年全国外语翻译资格证英语二级笔译考试，凭回忆将题目及考试启示整理如下：考题来源：英译汉英美散文，特别是美文。

《经济学人》等英美报刊杂志的原文。

汉译英：作家作品序言，特别是散文。

人民日报等报纸的社论、评论文章。

启示：要广泛阅读，最大限度地提高英文水平。

同时要不遗余力地看中文报刊杂志，提高中文水平。

努力，努力，再努力，这就是这次的全国外语翻译资格证考试带给我的启示。

我的水平还很不够。

英译汉Passage1 Saying it with silenceOften silence makes people uncomfortable, accustomed as they are to the noise and commotion of the world, but silence is all about coming home to ourselves.When we sit in silence we relax and slip into an exquisite nothingness. We look within and drop our opinionated mind and learn to feel everything around us more deeply.Often it happens that when we wait in silence, life rushes back to fill those crevices in our souls. There are times when silence becomes the most potent way of communication and is more effective than words.Lovers all over the world are said to communicate with silence. Understand each other‟s silence. The famous telepathy between two people who have strong feelings for each other happens in a compelling silence.Undeniably, silence needs a special kind of power and authority of mind and saying it with silence needs a certain …command of language‟. To say nothing is often more difficult than expressing the anger, love and betrayal with words.However, being silent with a natural and calm stillness within is like a spiritual reflex. Analyze it too much or think too much about it and it degenerates itself into something superficial and edgy. If we become self-conscious about silence then we begin to work against it. We rush to fill it with inane talks and nervous gestures, and the silence loses its value.But we can certainly develop this powerful way of communicating by practicing a calm mind. By realizing that between stimulus and response, there is a space and in that space is our power to choose ourresponse because in our response lies our growth and our freedom. That “space” is silence.Each time when I feel that I just cannot take another step forward in life, I seek refuge in silence. And sure enough I get recharged with fresh dose of faith, hope and confidence.Passage2 来自《经济学人》Women and workDec 30th 2009From The Economist print editionThe rich world‟s quiet revolution: women are gradually taking over the workplaceGetty ImagesAT A time when the world is short of causes for celebration, here is a candidate: within the next few months women will cross the 50% threshold and become the majority of the American workforce. Women already make up the majority of university graduates in the OECD countries and the majority of professional workers in several rich countries, including the United States. Women run many of the world’s great companies, from PepsiCo in America to Areva in France.Women’s economic empowerment is arguably the biggest socialchange of our times. Just a generation ago, women were largely confined to repetitive, menial jobs. They were routinely subjected to casual sexism and were expected to abandon their careers when they married and had children. Today they are running some of the organisations that once treated them as second-class citizens. Millions of women have been given more control over their own lives. And millions of brains have been put to more productive use. Societies that try to resist this trend—most notably the Arab countries, but also Japan and some southern European countries—will pay a heavy price in the form of wasted talent and frustrated citizens.Click here to find out more!This revolution has been achieved with only a modicum off riction (see article). Men have, by and large, welcomed women’s invasion of the workplace. Yet even the most positive changes can be incomplete or unsatisfactory. This particular advance comes with two stings. The first is that women are still under-represented at the top of companies. Only 2% of the bosses of America’s largest companies and 5% of their peers in Britain are women. They are also paid significantly less than men on average. The second is that juggling work and child-rearing is difficult. Middle-class couples routinely complain that they have too little time for their children.汉译英Passage1在这里，作者有时候会无所事事。

2010年11月CATTI_二级笔译实务英翻汉真题及详解(精)

第一篇Offshore supply vessels resembling large, floating flat-backed trucks fill Victoria Dock, unable to find charters in a sign of the downturn in Britain's oil industry.With UK North Sea oil and gas production 44 percent below its peak, self-styled oil capital of Europe Aberdeen fears the slowdown is not simply cyclical.The oil industry that at one stage sparked talk of Scotland as "the Kuwait of the West" has already outlived most predictions.Tourism, life sciences, and the export of oil services around the world are among Aberdeen's targeted substitutes for North sea oil and gas -- but for many the biggest prize would be to use its offshore oil expertise to build a renewable energy industry as big as oil.The city aims to use its experience to become a leader in offshore wind, tidal power and carbon dioxide capture and storage.Alex Salmond, head of the devolved Scottish government, told a conference in Aberdeen last month the market for wind power could be worth 130 billion pounds, while Scotland could be the "Saudi Arabia of tidal power.""We're seeing the emergence of an offshore energy market that is comparable in scale to the market we've seen in offshore oil and gas in the last 40 years," he said. Another area of focus, tourism, has previously been hindered by the presence of oil. Eager to put Aberdeen on the international tourist map, local business has strongly backed a plan by U.S. real estate tycoon Donald Trump for a luxury housing and golfproject 12 km (8 miles) north of the city, even though it means building on a nature reserve.The city also hopes to reorientate its vibrant oil services industry toward emerging offshore oil centers such as Brazil. "Just because the production in the North Sea starts to decline doesn't mean that Aberdeen as a global center also declines," said Robert Collier, Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive. "That expertise can still stay here and be exported around the world."第二篇We mark the passing of 800 years, and that is indeed a remarkable span for any institution. But history is never an even-flowing stream, and the most remarkable thing about modern Cambridge has been its enormous growth over the past half century. Since I came up as an undergraduate in 1961 the student population has more than doubled. More students have meant more teachers, and, even more significantly, more scholars devoted solely to research: every category has more than doubled in numbers. This huge increase has been partly absorbed by an expansion of the colleges: they all have more students and more Fellows than they did 50 years ago; and, since 1954, no fewer than 11 of the 31 colleges are either brand new foundations, or have been conjured up as new creations from existing but quite different bodies. From being a university primarily driven by undergraduate education, Cambridge's reputation is now overwhelmingly tied to its research achievements, which can be simply represented by the fact that more than three-quarters of its current annual income is devoted to research. This has brought not just new laboratories but new buildings to house wholefaculties and departments: in the mid-20th century few faculties had a physical manifestation beyond, perhaps, a library and a couple of administrative offices. Cambridge attracts the best students and academics because they find the University and the colleges stimulating and enjoyable places in which to live and work. The students are thrown in with similarly able minds, learning as much from each other as from their teachers; the good senior academics know better than to be too hierarchical or to cut themselves off from intellectual criticism and debate.One generation dismisses another: not even Erasmus or Newton, Darwin or Keynes stand unscathed by the passage of time; nor can we be but humbled, especially in our day when so much information is so easily accessible, by the vast store of knowledge which we can approach but never really control. Our library and museum collections bring us into contact with many lives lived in the past. They serve as symbols of the continuity of learning, or the diversity of views, of an obligation to wrestle with fact and argument, to come to our own conclusions, and in turn to be accountable for our findings. The real quest is not for knowledge, but for understanding.。

2010-2020英二翻译参考译文

2010年英语二翻译真题参考译文最近，“承受力”成了一个流行词汇，但对泰德·宁来说，他对这个词的涵义有自己的切身体会。

在经历了一段难以承受的痛苦生活后，他清楚地认识到，以承受力为导向的价值观必须透过日常行动和抉择才能得以体现。

宁回忆起20世纪90年代后期他卖保险时那困窘的一年。

在经历了互联网泡沫的繁荣与破灭后，他急需找到一份工作，因此与一家博尔德代理公司签了约。

但情况并不顺利。

“那真是糟糕的一步，因为它根本激不起我的工作热情，“宁说。

不出所料，工作上的进退维谷造成他销售业绩不佳。

“我很痛苦，异常焦虑，以至于经常半夜醒来盯着天花板发呆。

我没有钱，需要这份工作。

大家都说，｀等等看，情况会有好转的，给它点时间。

”2011年英语二翻译真题参考译文谁会想到信息技术行业产生的温室气体总量会与航空业不相上下，约占全球二氧化碳排放量的2%?信息技木行业的许多日常工作对环境造成了意想不到的危害。

每用谷歌搜索一次就会释放出0.2克至7.0克的二氧化碳，释放量的多少取决于使用者需要搜索多少次才能得到“正确”答案。

为了把搜索结果迅速传输给用户，谷歌不得不在全世界范围内建立大型数据中心，并配备大功率计算机。

除了排放大量二氧化碳，这些计算机还释放许多热量，因此数据中心还需要良好的空调环境，而这又会消耗更多的能量。

不过，谷歌和其他大型技术供应商已在密切监控其数据中心的工作效率并做出改进。

监控只是减排的第一步，需要做的还有很多，而且这不单单是大公司的事情。

2012年英语二翻译真题参考译文发展中国家的人考虑移民时，通常关心的是到硅谷或发达国家的医院和大学里工作这样最美好最光明的前景。

这些人正是英国、加拿大和澳大利亚等国家想要通过对大学毕业生提供优惠的移民条例来吸引的人才。

许多研究表明，发展中国家受过良好教育的人尤其可能移民。

2004年对印度家庭的一项大规模调查表明，将近40:《移居国外的人受过高中以上教育，而与之形成对比的是：全印度25岁以上受过高中以上教育的人约为3.3%。

11月翻译资格考题二级英语笔译实务试卷及答案

11月翻译资格考题二级英语笔译实务试卷及答案Section 1: English-Chinese Translation （英译汉）（ 60 point ）This section consists of two parts: Part A "Compulsory Translation" and Part B "Optional Translations" which comprises "Topic 1" and "Topic 2". Translate the passage in Part A and your choice from passage in Part B into Chinese. Write "Compulsory Translation" above your translation of Part A and write "Topic 1" or "Topic 2" above your translation of the passage from Part B. The time for this section is 100 minutes.Part A Compulsory Translation （必译题）（30 points）Until recently, scientists knew little about life in the deep sea, nor had they reason to believe that it was being threatened. Now, with the benefit of technology that allows for deeper exploration, researchers have uncovered a remarkable array of species inhabiting the ocean floor at depths of more than 660 feet, or about 200 meters. At the same time, however, technology has also enabled fishermen to reach far deeper than ever before, into areas where bottom trawls can destroy in minutes what has taken nature hundreds and in some cases thousands of years to build.Many of the world's coral species, for example, are found at depths of more than 200 meters. It is also estimated that roughly half of the world's highest seamounts - areas that rise from the ocean floor and are particularly rich in marine life - are also found in the deep ocean.These deep sea ecosystems provide shelter, spawning and breeding areas for fish and other creatures, as well as protection from strong currents and predators. Moreover, they are believed to harbor some of the most extensive reservoirs of life on earth, with estimates ranging from 500,000 to 100 million species inhabiting these largely unexplored and highly fragile ecosystems.Yet just as we are beginning to recognize the tremendous diversity of life in these areas, along with the potential benefits newly found species may hold for human society in the form of potential food products and new medicines, they are at risk of being lost forever. With enhanced ability both to identify where these species-rich areas are located and to trawl in deeper water than before, commercial fishing vessels are now beginning to reach down with nets the size of football fields, catching everything in their path while simultaneously crushing fragile corals and breaking up the delicate structure of reefs and seamounts that provide critical habitat to the countless species of fish and other marine life that inhabit the deep ocean floor.Because deep sea bottom trawling is a recent phenomenon, the damage that has been done is still limited. If steps are taken quickly to prevent this kind of destructive activity from occurring on the high seas, the benefits both to the marine environment and to future generations are incalculable. And they far outweigh the short-term costs to the fishing industry.Part B Optional Translations （二选一题）（ 30 points ）Topic 1 （选题一）Most of the world's victims of AIDS live - and, at an alarming rate, die - in Africa. The number of people living with AIDS in Africa was estimated at 26.6 million in late 2003. New figures to be published by the United Nations Joint Program on AIDS （ UNAIDS ）， the special UN agency set up to deal with the pandemic, will probably confirm its continued spread in Africa, but they will also show whether the rate of spread is constant, increasing or falling.AIDS is most prevalent in Eastern and Southern Africa, with South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya having the greatest numbers of sufferers; other countries severely affected include Botswana and Zambia. AIDS was raging in Eastern Africa - where it was called "slim", after the appearance of victims wasting away - within a few years after its emergence was established in the eastern Congo basin; however, the conflicting theories about the origin of AIDS are highly controversial and politicized, and the controversy is far from being settled.Measures being taken all over Africa include, first of all, campaigns of public awareness and device, including advice to remain faithful to one sexual partner and to use condoms. The latter advice is widely ignored or resisted owing to natural and cultural aversion to condoms and to Christian and Muslim teaching, which places emphasis instead on self-restraint.An important part of anti- AIDS campaigns, whether organized by governments, nongovernmental organizations or both, is the extension of voluntary counseling and testing （ VCT ） .In addition, medical research has found a way to help sufferers, though not to cure them.Funds for anti- AIDS efforts are provided by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and affected communities around the world; the fund was launched following a call by the UN Secretary-General in 2001. However, much more is needed if the spread of the pandemic is to be at least halted.Topic 2 （选题二）As a leader of a least developed country, I speak from experience when I say that poverty is too complex a phenomenon, and the strategies for fighting it too diverse and dependent on local circumstances, for there is no single silver bullet in the war on poverty.We have learned the hard way over the years. We have experimented with all kinds of ideas.Yet a report recently released by the World Economic Forum shows that barely a third of what should have been done by now to ensure the world meets its goals to fight poverty, hunger and disease by 2015 is done. I am now convinced that the Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations in 2000 can only be attained through a global compact, anchored in national policies that take into account local circumstances.Aid and trade are both necessary, but they are not enough on their own. Neither is good governance enough in itself. Above all, nothing can move without the direct participation of local communities. I fear that we lecture too much. This is not the best way.I will give an example of how such a compact worked in Tanzania to achieve universal basic schooling.In the mid-1990s, almost all indicators for basic education were in free fall. The gross enrollment rate had fallen from 98 percent in the early 1980s to 77.6 percent in 2000. The net enrollment rate had likewise fallen, from over 80 percent to only 58.8 percent.Then several things happened. We decided at the top political level that basic education would be a top priority, and adopted a five-year Primary Education Development Plan to achieve universal basic education by 2006 - nine years ahead of the global target.Good governance produced more government revenues, which quadrupled over the last eight years. In 2001, we received debt relief under the World Bank's enhanced HIPC （ heavily indebted poor countries ） Initiative. Subsequently, more donors put aid money directly into our budget or into a pooled fund for the Primary Education Development Program （ PEDP ） .The government's political will was evidenced by the fact that over the last five years the share of the national budget going to poverty reduction rose by 130 percent. We abolished school fees in primary schools.Then we ensured that all PEDP projects are locally determined, planned, owned,implemented and evaluated. This gave the people pride and dignity in what they were doing. After only two years of implementing PEDP, tremendous successes have been achieved.Section 2: Chinese- English Translation （汉译英）（ 40 point ）This section consists of two parts: Part A "Compulsory Translation" and Part B "Optional Translations" which comprises "Topic 1" and "Topic 2".Translation the passage in Part A and your choice from passage in Part B into English. Write "Compulsory Translation" above your translation of Part A and write "Topic 1" or "Topic 2" above your translation of the passage from Part B. The time for this section is 80 minutes.Part A Compulsory Translation （必译题）（ 20 points ）进入新世纪，国际形势继续发生深刻复杂的变化。

人事部二级笔译真题_2004年5月至2010年11月部分真题集锦

The Gap Between Rich and Poor Widened in U.S. CapitalWashington D.C. ranks first among the 40 cities with the widest gap between the poor and the rich, according to a recent report released by the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute on July 22nd. The top 20 percent of households in D.C. have an average yearly income of $186,830, 31 times that of the bottom 20 percent, which earns only $6,126 per year. The income gap is also big in Atlanta and Miami, but the difference is not as pronounced.The report also indicates that the widening gap occurred mainly during the 1990s. Over the last decade, the average income of the top 20 percent of households has grown 36 percent, while the average income of the bottom 20 percent has only risen 3 percent."I believe the concentration of the middle- to high-income families in the D.C. area will continue, therefore, the income gap between rich and poor will be hard to bridge," David Garrison told the Washington Observer. Garrison is a senior researcher with the Brookings Institution, specializing in the study of the social and economic policies in the greater Washington D.C. area.The report attributed the persistent income gap in Washington to the area's special job opportunities, which attract high-income households. Especially since the federal government is based in Washington D.C., Government agencies and other government related businesses such aslobbying firms and government contractors constantly offer high-paying jobs, which contribute to the trend of increasing high-income households in the D.C. area. For example, a single young professional working in a law firm in D.C. can earn as much as $100,000 in his or her first year out of law school."In addition, high-quality housing available in Washington D.C. is one of the main reasons why high-income families choose to live here, while middle and low-income families, if they can afford it, choose to move out of Washington D.C. to the Virginia and Maryland suburbs so that their kids can go to better schools," stated Garrison."As rich families continue to move into D.C. and middle and low-income families are moving out, the poorest families are left with nowhere to move, or cannot afford to move. This creates the situation we face now: a huge income gap between the rich and poor."The Washington D.C. area to which Garrison refers is the District of Columbia city itself, not including the greater Washington metro area. "The greater Washington metro area has a large population of about 5 million, but the low-income households are often concentrated in D.C. proper," Garrison explained.Tony Blalock, the spokesperson for Mayor Anthony Williams, said resignedly, "No matter what we seem to do to bring investment into the District, a certain population is not able to access the unique employmentopportunities there. The gap between the rich and poor is the product of complex forces, and won't be fixed overnight."Garrison believes that the D.C. government should attract high-income families. By doing so, the District's tax base can grow, which in turn can help improve D.C.'s infrastructure. "But in the meantime, the District government should also take into consideration the rights of the poor, set up good schools for them, and provide sound social welfare. All these measures can alleviate the dire situation caused by income disparity. " Garrison, however, is not optimistic about the possibility of closing the gap between the rich and poor. He is particularly doubtful that current economic progress will be able to help out the poor. "Bush's tax-cut plan did bring about this wave of economic recovery, and the working professionals and rich did benefit from it. It is unfair to say that the plan did not help the poor at all… it just didn't benefit them as much as it did the rich, " Garrison said. "The working class in America, those who do the simplest work, get paid the least, and dutifully pay their taxes, has not benefited from Bush's tax-cut plan much."Garrison concludes, "A lot of cities in America did not enjoy the positive impact of the economic recovery. Washington D.C., on the other hand, has always been sheltered by the federal government. The wide gap between rich and poor in the District, therefore, deserves more in-depth study and exploration."英译汉参考答案美国首都贫富不均情况加重美国首都独立研究机构华盛顿特区财政政策研究院（DC Fiscal Policy Institute）于7月22日公布的一份其最新的研究报告显示，华盛顿特区的贫富差距居全美40个大都会区之冠，20%最富有的家庭其年收入高达$186,830美元，是20%最贫穷家庭年收入（仅$6,126美元）的31倍。

CATTI真题2010年11月

英译汉：New York Times第一篇：Offshore supply vessels resembling large, floating flat-backed trucks fill Victoria Dock, unable to find charters in a sign of the downturn in Britain's oil industry.With UK North Sea oil and gas production 44 percent below its peak, self-styled oil capital of Europe Aberdeen fears the slowdown is not simply cyclical.The oil industry that at one stage sparked talk of Scotland as "the Kuwait of the West" has already outlived most predictions.Tourism, life sciences, and the export of oil services around the world are among Aberdeen's targeted substitutes for North sea oil and gas -- but for many the biggest prize would be to use its offshore oil expertise to build a renewable energy industry as big as oil.The city aims to use its experience to become a leader in offshore wind, tidal power and carbon dioxide capture and storage.Alex Salmond, head of the devolved Scottish government, told a conference in Aberdeen last month the market for wind power could be worth 130 billion pounds, while Scotland could be the "Saudi Arabia of tidal power.""We're seeing the emergence of an offshore energy market that is comparable in scale to the market we've seen in offshore oil and gas in the last 40 years," he said.Another area of focus, tourism, has previously been hindered by the presence of oil. Eager to put Aberdeen on the international tourist map, local business has strongly backed a plan by U.S. real estate tycoon Donald Trump for a luxury housing and golf project 12 km (8 miles) north of the city, even though it means building on a nature reserve.The city also hopes to reorientate its vibrant oil services industry toward emerging offshore oil centers such as Brazil. "Just because the production in the North Sea starts to decline doesn't mean that Aberdeen as a global center also declines," said Robert Collier, Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive. "That expertise can still stay here and be exported around the world."第二篇~We mark the passing of 800 years, and that is indeed a remarkable span for any institution. But history is never an even-flowing stream, and the most remarkable thing about modern Cambridge has been its enormous growth over the past half century. Since I came up as an undergraduate in 1961 the student population has more than doubled. More students have meant more teachers, and, even more significantly, more scholars devoted solely to research:every category has more than doubled in numbers. This huge increase has been partly absorbed by an expansion of the colleges: they all have more students and more Fellows than they did 50 years ago; and, since 1954, no fewer than 11 of the 31 colleges are either brand new foundations, or have been conjured up as new creations from existing but quite different bodies. From being a university primarily driven by undergraduate education, Cambridge's reputation is now overwhelmingly tied to its research achievements, which can be simply represented by the fact that more than three-quarters of its current annual income is devoted to research. This has brought not just new laboratories but new buildings to house whole faculties and departments: in the mid-20th century few faculties had a physical manifestation beyond, perhaps, a library and a couple of administrative offices.Cambridge attracts the best students and academics because they find the University and the colleges stimulating and enjoyable places in which to live and work. The students are thrown in with similarly able minds, learning as much from each other as from their teachers; the good senior academics know better than to be too hierarchical or to cut themselves off from intellectual criticism and debate.One generation dismisses another: not even Erasmus or Newton, Darwin or Keynes stand unscathed by the passage of time; nor can we be but humbled, especially in our day when so much information is so easily accessible, by the vast store of knowledge which we can approach but never really control. Our library and museum collections bring us into contact with many lives lived in the past. They serve as symbols of the continuity of learning, or the diversity of views, of an obligation to wrestle with fact and argument, to come to our own conclusions, and in turn to be accountable for our findings. The real quest is not for knowledge, but for understanding.汉译英：１９７２年，联合国教科文组织向全世界发出了“走向阅读社会”的号召，要求社会成员人人读书，使读书成为每个人日常生活不可或缺的一部分。

catti二级笔译考试真题及答案

catti二级笔译考试真题及答案CATTI二级笔译考试真题及答案一、英译汉1. The rapid development of technology has brought about significant changes in our daily lives, from communication to transportation, and has also created new challenges for society.答案：技术的快速发展已经给我们的日常生活带来了显著的变化，从通信到交通，同时也为社会创造了新的挑战。

2. In the context of globalization, cultural exchange plays a crucial role in fostering mutual understanding and cooperation among nations.答案：在全球化的背景下，文化交流在促进国家间的相互理解和合作中扮演着至关重要的角色。

二、汉译英1. 随着互联网的普及，越来越多的人开始利用网络资源进行学习和工作。

答案：With the widespread of the Internet, an increasing number of people have begun to utilize online resources for study and work.2. 中国政府一直致力于推动可持续发展，以实现经济、社会和环境的和谐统一。

答案：The Chinese government has been committed to promoting sustainable development to achieve a harmoniousunity of economy, society, and environment.三、篇章翻译1. 英译汉原文：In recent years, there has been a surge in the number of people choosing to study abroad. This trend is driven by a variety of factors, including the desire for a higher quality education, exposure to different cultures, and the opportunity to develop global perspectives.答案：近年来，选择出国留学的人数激增。

catti二级笔译考试真题及答案

catti二级笔译考试真题及答案CATTI二级笔译考试真题及答案一、英译汉1. The rapid development of technology has brought about significant changes in the way we live and work. With the advent of the internet, communication has become faster and more efficient. People can now collaborate on projects regardless of their geographical location, which was not possible a few decades ago.答案：技术迅速发展已经带来了我们生活和工作方式的重大变化。

随着互联网的出现，沟通变得更加快速和高效。

人们现在可以不受地理位置限制地合作项目，这在几十年前是不可能的。

2. Environmental conservation is a global issue that requires the collective effort of all nations. It is crucial to reduce pollution and protect natural resources for the sake offuture generations.答案：环境保护是一个需要所有国家共同努力的全球性问题。

为了后代的利益，减少污染和保护自然资源至关重要。

二、汉译英1. 中国的传统节日春节，是家人团聚的重要时刻。

在这个节日里，人们会放下工作，回家与家人共度时光，享受美食和亲情的温暖。

答案：The traditional Chinese festival, Spring Festival, isan important time for family reunions. During this festival, people will put down their work and go home to spend time with their families, enjoying delicious food and the warmth of family affection.2. 随着经济的快速发展，城市化进程加快，越来越多的人选择在城市生活和工作。

11月CATTI二级笔译综合能力阅读题

11月CATTI二级笔译综合能力阅读题2010年11月CATTI二级笔译综合能力阅读题点击查看>> 2010年11月CATTI二级笔译实务英译汉真题(1)2010年11月CATTI二级笔译实务英译汉真题(2What is Fluency with Information Technology?Fluency with information technology (abbreviated as FITness) goes beyond traditional notions of computer literacy. As noted in Chapter 1, literacy about information technology might call for a minimal level of familiarity with technological tools like word processors, e-mail, and Web browsers. By contrast, FITness requires that persons understand information technology broadly enough to be able to apply it productively at work and in their everyday lives, to recognize when information technology would assist or impede the achievement of a goal, and to continually adapt to the changes in and advancement of information technology. FITness therefore requires a deeper, more essential understanding and mastery of information technology for information processing, communication, and problem solving than does computer literacy as traditionally defined. (Box 2.1 addresses the difference between literacy and FITness in more specific terms.) Note also that FITness as described in this chapter builds on many other fundamental competencies, such as textual literacy, logical reasoning, and knowledge of civics and society.Information technology is a medium that permits the expression of a vast array of information, ideas, concepts, and messages, and FITness is about effectively exploiting that expressive power. FITness enables a person to accomplish a variety of different tasks using information technology and to develop different ways of accomplishing a given task.FITness comes in degrees and gradations and is tied to different purposes. FITness is thus not an “end state” that is independent of doma in, but rather develops over a lifetime in particular domains of interest involving particular applications. Aspects of FITness can be developed by using spreadsheets for personal or professional budgeting, desktop publishing tools to create or edit documents or Web pages, search engines and database management tools for locating information on the Web or in large databases, and design tools to create visualizations in various scientific and engineering disciplines.The wide variety of contexts in which FITness is relevant is matched by the rapid pace at which information technology evolves. Most professionals today require constant upgrading of technological skills as new tools become useful in their work; they learn new word processing programs, new computer-assisted design environments, or new techniques for searching the World Wide Web. Different applications of informationtechnology emerge rather frequently, both in areas with long traditions of using information and information technology and in areas that are not usually seen as being technology-intensive. Perhaps the major challenge for individuals embarking on the goal of lifelong FITness involves deciding when to learn a new tool, when to change to a new technology, when to devote energy to increasing technological competency, and when to allocate time to other professional activities.The above comments suggest that FITness is personal, graduated, and dynamic. FITness is personal in the sense that individuals evaluate, distinguish, learn, and use new information technology as appropriate to their own sustained personal and professional activities. What is appropriate for an individual depends on the particularapplications, activities, and opportunities for FITness that are associated with the individual’s area of interest or specialization, and what is reasonable for a FIT lawyer or a historian to know and be able to do may well differ from what is required for a FIT scientist or engineer. FITness is graduated in the sense that it is characterized by different levels of sophistication (rather than a single FIT / not-FIT judgment), and it is dynamic in that it requires lifelong learning as information technology evolves.Being Fluent with Information Technology, National Academy Press, Washington, DC.。

2010年考研英语二真题全文翻译答案超详解析

2010 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语（二）试题答案与解析Section I Use of English一、文章题材结构分析本文是取材于新闻报道，叙述了猪流感的爆发，产生的严重影响以及政府采取的针对性措施。

首段和第二段简述了猪流感的爆发引起世界各国的重视。

第三段引用专家的观点，认为瘟疫并不严重。

第四段和第五段以墨西哥及美国的情况为例，说明了猪流感的严重性和致命性。

第六段叙述了联邦政府针对猪流感的具体措施。

二、试题解析1.【答案】D【解析】上文提到“… was declared a global epidemic…”，根据 declare 的逻辑（“宣布为”），可知应该选 D 项designated“命名，制定”，而不是 C 项 commented“评论”，这是典型的近义词复现题目。

2．【答案】C【解析】本题目可依据“句意”找到意思线索，选出答案，难度在于出处句是个长难句。

本句的理解应该抓住 alert、meeting 和 a sharp rise 三者的关系，根据after a sharp rise 可知是rise（“病例数的增加”）是 meeting（“日内瓦专家会议”）的原因，由此可推导出alert 并非是meeting 的原因，而是结果，即 meeting 使得 alert 升级。

根据上述分析可以排除B、D 选项，B 项activated“激活，激起”，D 项“促使，引起”，此两项的选择都在讲 alert 导致了 meeting的召开。

而C 项followed 意思是“紧随，跟在……之后”，体现出after 的逻辑，完全满足本句 rise 之后是 meeting，meeting 之后是alert 的逻辑，所以是正确项。

而 A 项proceeded“继续”，属不及物动词，不可接宾语，用法和逻辑用在此处都不合适。

3．【答案】B【解析】本题目应该关注并列连词and，从并列呼应来看：空格后的表达 in Britain…对应前面的 in Australia，所以空格处 rising _____ 应该对应 a sharp rise in cases（“病例数的剧增”），因此空格处是“数量”的逻辑才对。

2010、2011、2012考研英语二翻译真题解析

2010考研英语二翻译真题、参考答案和来源分析"Sustainability" has become a popular word these days, but to Ted Ning,the concept will always have personal meaning. Having endured a painful period ofunsustainability in his own life made it clear to him that sustainability-orientedvalues must be expressed through every day action and choice.当今，“可持续性”已经成为了一个流行的词语.但是，对特德宁来说，它对这个词有着自身的体会.在忍受了一段痛苦的、难以为继的生活之后，他清楚地认识到，以可持续发展为导向的生活价值必须通过日常的活动和做出的选择表现出来.Ning recalls spending a confusing year in the late 1990s selling insurance. He'dbeen through the dot-com boom and burst and, desperate for a job, signed on witha Boulder agency.宁回忆了在上个世纪90年代末期的某一年，他卖保险，那是一种浑浑噩噩的生活.在经历了网络经济的兴盛和衰败之后，他非常渴望得到一份工作，于是和一家博德的代理公司签了合约.It didn't go well. "It was a really bad move because that's not my passion," saysNing, whose dilemma about the job translated, predictably, into a lack of sales."I was miserable. I had so much anxiety that I would wake up in the middle of thenight and stare at the ceiling. I had no money and needed the job. Everyone said,”　Just wait, you'll turn the corner, give it some time.''事情进展不顺，“那的确是很糟糕的一种选择，因为那并非是我的激情所在，”宁如是说.可以想象，他这种工作上的窘境是由于销售业绩不良造成的.“我觉得很悲哀.我太担心了，以至于我会在半夜醒来，盯着天花板.没有钱，我需要这份工作.每个人都会说，等吧，总会有转机的，给点时间吧.”原文：原文是来自一份杂志，叫“experience life”，出题人做了部分改动，原文和改动的文章如下：Sustainability has become s omething of a buzzword(出题人把这个单词改为popular word) these days, but to Ted Ning, the concept will always have personal meaning. Having endured a painful period of unsustainability in his own life made it clear to himthat sustainability-oriented values must be expressed through everyday action andchoice.Ning, director of LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability), the Boulder,Colo.–based information clearinghouse on sustainable living, recalls spending atumultuous（出题人把这个词改为了confusing）year in the late ’90s selling insurance. He’d been throug h the dot-com boom and bust（出题人似乎把这个词改为burst了） and, desperate for a job, signed on with a Boulder agency.It didn’t go well. “It was a really bad move because that’s not my passion,”　says Ning, whose ambivalence about the job translated, predictably, into a lack of sales. “I was miserable. I had so much anxiety that I would pull alongside of thehighway and vomit, or wake up in the middle of the night and stare at the ceiling.I had no money and needed the job. Everyone said, ‘Just wait, you’ll turn the cor ner, give it some time.’”Ning stuck it out for a year because he simply didn’t know what else to do, butfelt his happiness and health suffer as a result. He eventually quit and stumbledupon LOHAS in a help-wanted ad for a data analyst. “I didn’t know what LOHAS was,”　he says, “but it sounded kinda neat.” It turned out to be a better fit than hecould have ever imagined.At the time, the LOHAS organization did little more than host a small annualconference in Boulder. It was a forum where progressive-minded companies couldgather to compare notes on how to reach a values-driven segment of consumers —the LOHAS market — who seemed attracted to products and services that mirrored theirinterest in health, environmental stewardship, social justice, personal development and sustainable living.In contrast with his disastrous foray into the insurance business, Ning’s new job felt like coming home. Growing up in the foothills of the Rockies outside of Denver, he’d developed a love of the outdoors and a respect f or the earth, while his parents provided a model of social activism —the family traveled widely, and at one point his parents created and operated a nonprofit that offered microcredit loans to small businesses in Vietnam and Guatemala. He has three adopted sisters from Vietnam and Korea. He studied international relations and Chinese at Colorado University andslipped easily into the Boulder lifestyle — commuting by bike, eating organics,buying local and the rest —though he stopped short of the patchouli-and-dreadlocks phase embraced by many of his peers. (He opted instead for the university’s skiteam and, after graduating, wound up coaching the Japanese development team during the Nagano Olympics in 1998.)From his ground-level job, Ning moved quickly up the ranks in the organization,becoming its executive director in 2006. “When I got the job, LOHAS was a sleepy conference in Boulder,” says Ning. Today, the forum is booming, the organizationis expanding and the market is evolving. Ning has more than grown into the positionhe stumbled on in the want ads. “I don’t consider this a job. It is really moreof a calling.”Ning, 41, coordinates the conference and oversees the organization’s annual journal and Web s ite (), while compiling research on trends and opportunitiesfor businesses. He also travels the country promoting —and explaining —the LOHAS concept and the burgeoning market it represents.First identified by sociologist Paul Ray in the mid-1990s as “cultural creatives,”　the U.S. market segment that embraces LOHAS today has grown to about 41 millionconsumers, or roughly 19 percent of American adults. But those LOHAS c onsumers are powerfully influencing the attitudes and behaviors of others (witness the rise ofinterest in yoga, all-natural products, simplicity and hybrid vehicles). Which iswhy LOHAS-related products now generate an estimated $209 billion annually.“Over the last two years a green tidal wave has come over us,” says Nin g. Riding that wave, says Ning, is not about jumping on a trend bandwagon. It’s connectingwith — and acting on — a set of shared, instrinsic values. “People know what is authentic. You can’t preach this lifestyle and not live it,” he says. He and his wife, Jenifer, live in a solar-powered home, raise organic vegetables in theirbackyard and drive a car that gets 48 miles to the gallon. He even buys carbon offsetsto negate the global warming impact of his cell phone.Ning emphasizes that there are many dif ferent ways of “living LOHAS.”　Ultimately,it’s really about finding a way of life that makes sense and feels good —now and for the long haul. “People are looking internally,”　he says, “asking themselves,‘What really makes me happy?’　Is it the fact that I can go out and buy that giant flat-screen TV, or is it that I can have a quiet evening with my family just hanging out and playing a game of Scrabble?”For Ning, it’s a no-brainer. He’ll take Scrabble every time.Laine Bergeson is an Experience Life senior editor.2011考研英语二翻译真题、参考答案和来源分析Who would have thought that, globally, the IT industry produces about the samevolumes of greenhouse gases as the world’s airlines do-rough 2 percent of all CO2 emissions?量的2%，这有谁曾想到过？Many everyday tasks take a surprising toll on the environment. A Google search can leak between 0.2 and 7.0 grams of CO2 d epending on how many attempts are needed to get the “right”　answer. To deliver results to its users quickly, then, Google has to maintain vast data centres round the world, packed with powerful computers. While producing large quantities of CO2, these computers emit a great deal of heat, so the centres need to be well air-conditioned, which uses even more energy.许多日常工作对环境造成的损失大得惊人.每一次谷歌搜索能释放0.2到0.7克的二氧化碳，这取决于为了获得“正确”答案你试过多少次.为了迅速向用户提供搜索结果，谷歌不得不在世界各地建立大型数据中心，安装一台台强大的计算机.这些计算机不仅产生大量的二氧化碳，还释放大量热能，因此这些数据中心需要良好的空调设备，这甚至会耗费更多的能源.However, Google and other big tech providers monitor their efficiency closelyand make improvements. Monitoring is the first step on the road to reduction, butthere is much to be done, and not just by big companies.然而，谷歌和其他大型技术供应商严密地监控其效果，并做出改进.监控是减排的第一步，仍有太多问题需要解决，并且不只是由大公司来解决.原文：Who w ould have thought that, globally, the IT industry produces about the same volume of greenhouse gases as the world's airlines do - roughly 2 per cent of allCO2 emissions?Many everyday tasks take a surprising toll on the environment. A Google search can leak between 0.2 and 7.0 grams of CO2, depending on how many attempts are needed to get the "right" answer. At the upper end of the scale, two searches create roughly the same emissions as boiling a kettle.To deliver results to its users quickly, Google has to maintain vast data centres around the world, packed with powerful computers. As well as producing largequantities of CO2, these computers emit a great deal of heat, so the centres needto be well air-conditioned - which uses even more energy.However, Google and other big tech providers such as BT, IBM, Microsoft andAmazon monitor their efficiency closely and make improvements. (Google claims tobe more efficient than most.) Recently, industry and government agencies from the量的2%，这有谁曾想到过？Many everyday tasks take a surprising toll on the environment. A Google search can leak between 0.2 and 7.0 grams of CO2 d epending on how many attempts are needed to get the “right”　answer. To deliver results to its users quickly, then, Google has to maintain vast data centres round the world, packed with powerful computers. While producing large quantities of CO2, these computers emit a great deal of heat, so the centres need to be well air-conditioned, which uses even more energy.许多日常工作对环境造成的损失大得惊人.每一次谷歌搜索能释放0.2到0.7克的二氧化碳，这取决于为了获得“正确”答案你试过多少次.为了迅速向用户提供搜索结果，谷歌不得不在世界各地建立大型数据中心，安装一台台强大的计算机.这些计算机不仅产生大量的二氧化碳，还释放大量热能，因此这些数据中心需要良好的空调设备，这甚至会耗费更多的能源.However, Google and other big tech providers monitor their efficiency closelyand make improvements. Monitoring is the first step on the road to reduction, butthere is much to be done, and not just by big companies.然而，谷歌和其他大型技术供应商严密地监控其效果，并做出改进.监控是减排的第一步，仍有太多问题需要解决，并且不只是由大公司来解决.原文：Who w ould have thought that, globally, the IT industry produces about the same volume of greenhouse gases as the world's airlines do - roughly 2 per cent of allCO2 emissions?Many everyday tasks take a surprising toll on the environment. A Google search can leak between 0.2 and 7.0 grams of CO2, depending on how many attempts are needed to get the "right" answer. At the upper end of the scale, two searches create roughly the same emissions as boiling a kettle.To deliver results to its users quickly, Google has to maintain vast data centres around the world, packed with powerful computers. As well as producing largequantities of CO2, these computers emit a great deal of heat, so the centres needto be well air-conditioned - which uses even more energy.However, Google and other big tech providers such as BT, IBM, Microsoft andAmazon monitor their efficiency closely and make improvements. (Google claims tobe more efficient than most.) Recently, industry and government agencies from the量的2%，这有谁曾想到过？Many everyday tasks take a surprising toll on the environment. A Google search can leak between 0.2 and 7.0 grams of CO2 d epending on how many attempts are needed to get the “right”　answer. To deliver results to its users quickly, then, Google has to maintain vast data centres round the world, packed with powerful computers. While producing large quantities of CO2, these computers emit a great deal of heat, so the centres need to be well air-conditioned, which uses even more energy.许多日常工作对环境造成的损失大得惊人.每一次谷歌搜索能释放0.2到0.7克的二氧化碳，这取决于为了获得“正确”答案你试过多少次.为了迅速向用户提供搜索结果，谷歌不得不在世界各地建立大型数据中心，安装一台台强大的计算机.这些计算机不仅产生大量的二氧化碳，还释放大量热能，因此这些数据中心需要良好的空调设备，这甚至会耗费更多的能源.However, Google and other big tech providers monitor their efficiency closelyand make improvements. Monitoring is the first step on the road to reduction, butthere is much to be done, and not just by big companies.然而，谷歌和其他大型技术供应商严密地监控其效果，并做出改进.监控是减排的第一步，仍有太多问题需要解决，并且不只是由大公司来解决.原文：Who w ould have thought that, globally, the IT industry produces about the same volume of greenhouse gases as the world's airlines do - roughly 2 per cent of allCO2 emissions?Many everyday tasks take a surprising toll on the environment. A Google search can leak between 0.2 and 7.0 grams of CO2, depending on how many attempts are needed to get the "right" answer. At the upper end of the scale, two searches create roughly the same emissions as boiling a kettle.To deliver results to its users quickly, Google has to maintain vast data centres around the world, packed with powerful computers. As well as producing largequantities of CO2, these computers emit a great deal of heat, so the centres needto be well air-conditioned - which uses even more energy.However, Google and other big tech providers such as BT, IBM, Microsoft andAmazon monitor their efficiency closely and make improvements. (Google claims tobe more efficient than most.) Recently, industry and government agencies from the量的2%，这有谁曾想到过？Many everyday tasks take a surprising toll on the environment. A Google search can leak between 0.2 and 7.0 grams of CO2 d epending on how many attempts are needed to get the “right”　answer. To deliver results to its users quickly, then, Google has to maintain vast data centres round the world, packed with powerful computers. While producing large quantities of CO2, these computers emit a great deal of heat, so the centres need to be well air-conditioned, which uses even more energy.许多日常工作对环境造成的损失大得惊人.每一次谷歌搜索能释放0.2到0.7克的二氧化碳，这取决于为了获得“正确”答案你试过多少次.为了迅速向用户提供搜索结果，谷歌不得不在世界各地建立大型数据中心，安装一台台强大的计算机.这些计算机不仅产生大量的二氧化碳，还释放大量热能，因此这些数据中心需要良好的空调设备，这甚至会耗费更多的能源.However, Google and other big tech providers monitor their efficiency closelyand make improvements. Monitoring is the first step on the road to reduction, butthere is much to be done, and not just by big companies.然而，谷歌和其他大型技术供应商严密地监控其效果，并做出改进.监控是减排的第一步，仍有太多问题需要解决，并且不只是由大公司来解决.原文：Who w ould have thought that, globally, the IT industry produces about the same volume of greenhouse gases as the world's airlines do - roughly 2 per cent of allCO2 emissions?Many everyday tasks take a surprising toll on the environment. A Google search can leak between 0.2 and 7.0 grams of CO2, depending on how many attempts are needed to get the "right" answer. At the upper end of the scale, two searches create roughly the same emissions as boiling a kettle.To deliver results to its users quickly, Google has to maintain vast data centres around the world, packed with powerful computers. As well as producing largequantities of CO2, these computers emit a great deal of heat, so the centres needto be well air-conditioned - which uses even more energy.However, Google and other big tech providers such as BT, IBM, Microsoft andAmazon monitor their efficiency closely and make improvements. (Google claims tobe more efficient than most.) Recently, industry and government agencies from the。

2010下半年英语二级《笔译综合》样卷及答案

全国翻译专业资格（水平）考试英语二级《笔译综合》试卷Section 1: Vocabulary and Grammar (60 points)This section consists of 3 parts. Read the directions for each part before answering the questions.Part 1 Vocabulary SelectionIn this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are 4 choices marked by letters A, B, C and D respectively. 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.1. All the students of this university have free _____ to the Internet via a broadband connection.A.acessB.entranceC.permissionD.passageway2. It is rumored that Mr. Smith, the grandson of the founder of the university and a professor of philosophy, will be _____ as president in March.A.indulgedB.inauguratedC.inducedD.integrated3. When I visited the area after the hurricane, I became _____ by what I saw and heard there.A.stressedpressedC.impressedD.distressed4. When the actor appeared on the stage again, shouts and cheers broke _____ from the crowd and continued for about five minutes.A.inB.offC.forthD.up5. The _____ value of a coin, i.e. the value of the metal in it, is usually less than the value of what it will buy.A.externalB.interiorC.intrinsicD.extrinsic6. Hotels and restaurants are an _____ part of the city, without which the tourist industry could not exist.A.additionalB.inseparableC.accommodatedD.integral7. We can find a full _____ of his political belief in his newly-published books.positionB.expositionC.depositionD.disposition8. I don't think you can persuade him ; he always _____ to his own principles.A.adaptsB.devotesC.adheresD.dedicates9. In the advanced course of our training, students must take objective tests at monthly _____.A.distanceB.lengthC.gapsD.intervals10. Going around at the top of the mountain, we watched the fog _____ from the valley below; it seemed that we had entered a fairyland.A.descendB.decreaseC.ariseD.ascend11. Richard has an _____ manner, although he comes from a middle-class family background and has received his education at Cambridge.A.abruptB.absurdC.activeD.agreeable12. The history teacher told us the ring was a piece of _____ treasure because it had been handeddown from an ancient king.A.invaluableB.valuedC.previousD.precise13. In the last few years, the _____ of regular folks going under the cosmetic knife skyrocketed.A.amountB.figuresC.groupD.number14. He was too busy to do any exercise at all until he turned 58. And he is much better _____ now than ever before.A.formB.conditionC.lookD.shape15. All of us in research have focused on a drug that is so _____ that it can change brain chemistry.A.monstrousB.powerfulC.vigorousD.heavy16. He was only a _____ ruler of the country, the real one was his mother, who actually handled state affairs and possessed the power of making decisions.A.obliviousB.notableC.obscureD.nominal17. _____ that she is interested in children, I am sure that teaching is the right profession for her.A.HoweverB.ProvidedC.GivenD.Unless18. She had _____ opportunity to exercise leadership, which she has dreamed of since she was young.A. utterB.utmostC.ambitiousD.ample19. They intend to remove the _____ rules and regulations that are discouraging foreign investment in their country.A.henpeckedB.garnishedD.onerous20. The Central Bank is interested in how much money is in _____ in the economy.A.circulationB.circleC.reserveD.rotationPart 2 Vocabulary ReplacementThis part consists of 20 sentences. In each of them one word or phrase is underlined, and below each, there are 4 choices marked by letters A, B, C and D respectively. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part without causing any grammatical error or changing the basic meaning of the sentence. There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.21. Tom felt sure he would get the post, but he was never even considered for it. That was a smack in the eye for him.A.nothing seriousB.nothing importantC.a humiliating rebuffD.an expected disappointment22. Our neighbors are so reserved and unfriendly that they never speak to us.A.aloofB.relievedC.airyD.resistant23. Security men believe the tit-for-tat murders were the result of the bombing which had occurred in the city center.A.furiousB.retaliatoryC.malevolentD.chain24. The conclusion reached at the workshop was that the manufacturing process was obsolete.A.dilapidatedB.extantC.archaicD.outdated25. Some people wish to amend the law so that children must stay at school until they are 16.A.gratifyB.pacifyC.rectifyD.verify26. Prof. Clark disregarded the warning from his colleagues and continued his research work.A.ignoredB.deploredC.explored C.implored27. Some observers say the recent coup of a military government in that country will lead to anarchy.A.monarchB.maniacC.disorderD.discipline28. As a conductor, Leonard Bernstein was famous for his intensely vigorous and exuberant style.A.enticingB.enthusiasticC.extravertD.exultant29. His peers admonished him that he had to increase his study time as the final examination was around the corner.A.astonishedB.warnedC.threatenedD.alarmed30. Isolated cases of disaffection – or harbingers of a mass cross-border movement that threatens Europe’s economic stability? The question is pressing.A.singB.forerunnerC.messengerD.vanguard31. Justices of the Peace have jurisdiction over the trials of some civil suits and of criminal cases involving minor offenses.A.supremacyB.authorityC.guidanceD.administration32. What these young men and women need to do now is to develop a mentality to reconcile their ideals with reality.A.interactB.interfaceC.harmonizeD.pair33. The search for eternal youth is no less fervent now than it was 2,000 years ago. People are trying practically anything.A.prolongedB.externalC.protractedD.excessive34. SD Memory Cards are versatile high-capacity storage cards that are extremely small - about the size of a postage stamp.A.adaptableB.adoptableC.variableD.veritable35. This book comes as a revelation to one who was nourished in his youth on the englightened English socialitst tradition represented by George Bernard Shaw.A.replacementB.discoveryC.representationD.resolution36. Johnson was so absorbed in his novel that he forgot about his dinner cooking in the oven.A.obtainedB.enlivenedC.obligedD.engrossed37. The man we met this morning grows many kinds of plants in his garden, most of which are flowers including succulent and cacti.A.risesB.raisesC.plantsD.plows38. The scientist contested the assumption of previous scientists that the fate of human beings could not be predicated.A.suspendedB.rejectedC.suspectedD.repulsed39. In the last 10 years we have all witnessed an impressive growth in our knowledge about environment.A.impreativeB.observableC.importantD.obvious40. In their culture and in their eyes success all too often means imply outdoing other people by virtue of achievement judged by some single scale – income or honors.A.outfittingB.outbiddingC.outragingD.outshiningPart 3 Error CorrectionThis part consists of 20 sentences. In each of them there is an underlined part that indicates a grammatical error, and below each, there are 4 choices marked by letters A, B, C and D respectively. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part so that the error is corrected. There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.41. The managers discussed the plan that they would like to see be carrying out next year.A.carry outB.carrying outC.carried outD.to carry out42. The examiner failed some candidates, and 15 of them being students without work experience.A. 15 beingB.among 15 wereC.15 of them wereD.15 of whom were43. Despite of their opposition, he went his own way and started his preparations.A.Despiting ofB.Despited ofC.DespiteD.Despited44. Network television, magazine, and direct mail –that will be the big gainers in advertisingA.whichB.theseC.theyD.all45. I hear that he knows four languages, such as Chinese, French, German and Japanese.A.for example,ly,C.likeD.as46. The more people you know, the less you have time to see them but you can always reach them on the Internet.A. less you have the timeB. the less time you haveC. the less time do you haveD. less the time you have47. Having heard the weather forecast, the boat was stopped in the harbour.A. the boat did not sail out ofB. they did not sail out ofC. the boat remained inD. they were stopped in48. Once they had fame, fortune, secure futures; now all that left is utter poverty.A.that all is leftB.all that is leftC.all what is leftD.all which is left49. Mary must have received my mail; otherwise she could have replied before now.A.Mary shouldB.Mary ought toC.Mary shouldn’tD.Mary couldn’t50. We will ship the goods on Monday according to your order less we hear from you by Friday.A.neverthelessB.unlessC.lestD.until51. When this agreement if signed, a circular will be prepared for given to our customers.A.given outB.given off5/13C.dispatchesD.distribution52. It is now clear that no such creatures as vampires have been seen and none been found in the world.A. was foundB.are foundC.have been foundD.have been found out53. My company is Excellent Kitchenware Company, there nearby is a big market for kitchenware in our city.A.there nearB.and there nearC.there nearlyD.and nearby there54. The government has hardly taken measures to crack down on there crimes when new ones occurred.A. Hardly had the government takenB. The government took hardlyC. Hardly the government had takenD. The government is hardly taking55. The general manager demanded that the job will be completed before the summer holidays.A.would beB.must beC.beD.had to be56. Our company will provide you with free transportation as you requested and charge the installation.A.installation with chargeB.in the installationC.freely installationD.installation in charge57. Doctors warned sun-starved tourists who received too much sunlight that they were at serious risk than others of contracting skin cancer.A.with more seriousB.at seriouslyC.at more seriousD.seriously with58. We have sent an order slip to all that we have reason to believe are interested in our books.A. who are believed by usB. with who we have reason to believeC. who we have reason to believeD. with whom we believe59. As an English major student at one of the most famous universities in China, I strongly believe that business English is more practical than other fields.A.a student in EnglishB.a major English studentC.an English majorD.an English student major60. The engineers are going through with their highway project, in spite that the expenses have risen.A.just becauseB.even thoughC.as thoughD.now thatSection 2: Reading Comprehension (30 points)In this section you will find after each of the passage a number of questions or unfinished statements about the passage, each with 4 (A, B, C and D) choices to answer the question or complete the statement. You must choose the one which you think fits best. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.Question 61-70 are based on the following passage.Next door to a lunch counter advertising a grilled cheese special is a gallery where Van Gogh’s ―Irises‖ shares the walls with Monet landscapes and works from the Italian Renaissance.They are all fakes. They are all for sale. ―A forger? Yes. We’re expert forgers you could say. But we make no attempt to deceive. We don’t pretend to sell original works. We have all the thrill of being a forger, but no risk.‖With prices for original art rising into the tens of millions, some art lovers are turning tohigh-quality copies done by expert artists. In addition, some museums confronting skyrocketing insurance premiums are considering stashing the authentic pieces and displaying a reproduction.No major U.S. art museum is known to be displaying reproductions in place of originals. Such a practice would raise questions about why people visit museums in the first place. But museum security has become a growing concern.Bids for paintings have climbed at auction houses. But prices for fakes run only from about $1,000 to $10,000 for paintings, depending on the size and complexity of the original.In Europe where copying masterpieces is centuries-old craft, painters often use pigments and brushes typical of the period of the original. The painting is placed in a frame closely resembling its era. Sometimes the gallery purchases 17th century furniture to use the wood for frames. The final step is the antiquing proce ss using chemicals and heat and humidity. ―We can make special types of cracks from little spider-web types to long splits.‖61. This passage is most probably taken out of a/an _____.A. court confession by a person suspected of making fakesB. commercial advertisement for a new profession in artsC. feature story in a newspaper, magazine, or a web pageD. industrial profile for a museum promoting a new show62. The word ―Monet‖ underlined in Paragraph 1 refers to a _____.A. master artistB. master forgerC. famous dealerD. rich collector63. Both quotes in the passage are probably from a person who is a/an _____.A. master artistB. art piece forgerC. museum directorD. artworks thief64. The third sentence in the last paragraph implies that the gallery _____.A. carries 17th-century furniture as sideline exhibitsB. is part of the process in making fake paintingsC. provides the space only for forgers to produce fakesD. manufactures wooden frames for paintings as a sideline65. Obviously, the phrase ―expert artists‖ underlined in Paragraph 3 refers to people who are _____.A.B. painters decorating the museumsC. makers of faked famous paintingsD. experts who can identify forgeries66. ―Such a practice‖ underlined in Paragraph 4 refers to the display of _____.A. forged works in place of genuine artworkB. original productions in place of their copiesC. both fake productions and original paintingsD. real reproductions and original masterpieces67. According to the passage, the word ―stashing‖ underlined in Paragraph 3 is synonymous with _____.A. slashingB. smashingC. stackingD. storing68. As repeatedly stated in the passage _____ was certainly the major reason why forgeries are sold.A. insuranceB. securityC. qualityD. price69. The word ―copies‖ underlined in Paragraph 3 does NOT refer to _____.A. fakesB. forgesC. reproductionsD. non-authentic works70. According to this passage, which of the following statements is true?A. The works on display are meant to sell as originals.B. The works meant to sell as originals are on display.C. Here you may purchase a masterpiece for $1,000.D. Here one may buy fast food any time and eat it here.Questions 71-80 are based on the following passage.No revolutions in technology have as visibly marked the human condition as those in transport. Moving goods and people, they have opened continents, transformed living standards, spread diseases, fashions and folk around the world. Yet technologies to transport ideas and information across long distances have arguably achieved even more: they have spread knowledge, the basis of economic growth.The most basic of all these, the written word, was already ancient by 1000. By then China had, in basic form, the printing press, using carved woodblocks. But the key to its future, movable metal type, was four centuries away. The Chinese were hampered by their thousands of ideograms. Even so, they quite soon invented the primitive movable type, made of clay, and by the 13th century they had the movable wooden type. But the real secret was the use of an easily cast metal.When it came, Europe –aided by simple Western alphabets –leapt forward with it. One reason why Asia’s civilizations, in 1000 far ahead of Europe’s, then fell behind was that they lacked the technology to reproduce and diffuse ideas. On Johannes Gutenberg’s invention in the 1440s were built not jus t the Reformation and the Enlightenment, but Europe’s agricultural and industrial revolutions too.Yet information technology on its own would not have got far. Literally: better transport technology too was needed. That was not lacking, but there the big change came much later: it was railways and steamships that first allowed the speedy, widespread dissemination of news and ideas over long distances. And both technologies in turn required people and organizations to develop their use. They got them: for individual communication. The postal service: for wider publics, the publishing industry.Throughout the 19th century, the postal service formed the bedrock of national and international communications. Crucial to its growth had been the introduction of the stamp, combined with a low price, and payment by the sender. Britain put all three of these ideas into effect in 1840.By then, the world’s mail was taking off. It changed the world. Merchants in America’s eastern cities used it to gather information, enraging far-off cotton growers and farmers, who found that the New Yorkers knew more about crop prices than they did. In the American debate about slavery, it offered abolitionists a low-cost way to spread their views, just as later technologies have cut the cost and widened the scope of political lobbying. The post helped too to integrate the American nation, tying new newly opened west to the settled east.Everywhere, its development drove and was driven by those of transport. In Britain, travelers rode by mail coach to posting inns. In America, the post subsidized road-building. Indeed, argues Dan Schiller, a professor of communications at the University of California, it was the connection between the post, transport and national integration that ensured that the mail remained a public enterprise even in the United States, its first and only government-run communications medium, and until at least the 1870s, the biggest organization in the land.The change has not only been one of speed and distance, though, but of audience. About 200 years ago, a man’s words could reach no further than his voice, not just in range but in whom they reached. But, for some purposes, efficient communication is mass communication, regular, cheap, quick and reliable. When it became possible, it transformed the world.71. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?A. Transporting goods and people is the most important technology in the history of mankind.B. Technology in transporting goods and people has changed human conditions more than anything else.C. Technology in spreading information has changed human conditions more than transportation technology.D. Technology in spreading information can’t change the economic development of society.72. Accord ing to the passage, Asian civilizations, which were ahead of Europe’s, fell behind because _____.A. Asian languages were more difficult to learn.B. European languages had simple alphabetsC. they didn’t have the technology to spread ideasD. people’s com munication skills were not good enough73. Johannes Gutenberg’s invention probably refers to _____.A. printing technologyB. transportation technologyC. the Reformation and the EnlightenmentD. industrial revolution74. The word ―dissemination‖ underli ned in Paragraph 4 means _____.A. plantationB. distributionC. receptionD. Direction75. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the postal service ?A. American abortionists were not happy about it.B. The stamp was invented in Britain.C. It helped the independence of America.D. In the 1840s it was the major means of national communications in Britain.76. What can the postal service do?A. Collecting market prices of goods.B. Spreading ideas at a low cost.C. Promoting political lobbying.D. All of the above.77. In the United States, the postal service belongs to _____.A. a private companyB. the governmentC. road-building enterprisesD. national integration78. The word ―its development‖ underlined in Paragraph 7 refers to the development of _____.A. the American nationB. the mail coachC. road buildingD. the postal service79. The words ―the change‖ underlined in Paragraph 8 refer to _____.A. time changeB. technology changeC. change in spreading ideasD. change of human abilities80. Which of the following statements is NOT true about mass communication?A. It can reach no further than human voice.B. It can reach a large audience.C. It is rapid and efficient.D. It can be trusted.Questions 81-90 are based on the following passage.Is test anxiety destructive? Can we make test anxiety work for us? The answer to both of these questions is yes. Test anxiety often interferes with student performance but this same test anxiety, if channeled correctly, can help improve performance.In order to lessen the destructive elements of test anxiety, the approach should be to develop improved confidence and knowledge. As your knowledge of the course material increases, your confidence in your ability to succeed will increase. As your confidence increases, your anxiety will go down, allowing your knowledge to come through more efficiently. The way you prepare for a test can reduce anxiety during the test.You will be surprised how confident you will feel if you know the material. Studies of memory show if you want to be able to recall information from text or lecture you have to review that material several times. It is important to know your own abilities and operate accordingly. If you know that you learn best by listening, prepare a tape of significant material and listen to the tape.Study partners or study groups are often useful for self-testing. Experience in stressful situations tends to lessen anxiety in those situations. One way to help yourself retrieve material is through the use of mnemonic codes. Learn a code that lets you remember complex material. Developing an outline for an essay question that you know will be on the test or memorizing a formula are forms of code development.Students are often frustrated by the sheer volume of material that has to be studied in college. Many instructors conduct reviews, give hints, identify what is important to study, use handouts or overhead transparency outlines. These materials should be at the top of your study list. If the instructor took the time to identify them, you should assume that they will play an important part of the test. While knowledge acquired during test preparation can help reduce anxiety, it is another thing to take the test itself. Following are a few suggestions to help reduce anxiety during the test.When I arrive at a test, I often find students flipping test pages at the last minute trying to cram it all in at the end. You would be better off trying to relax, meditating a little, and clearing your mind to allow yourself the ability to concentrate on the question that are coming.As soon as the instructor gives you the signal to start, dump out formulas, codes, outlinesfrom your memory onto the test answer sheets so that you will not have to worry about whether you will remember the codes long enough until you get to the appropriate test question.You can build your confidence if you go through the test and answer all of the questions that you know first. Go back and work on those questions that need greater analysis, or that need to be worked out or need to be guessed at and your anxiety will not kick in until later in the test.For those of you whose anxiety increases as study and preparation increase, your goal should be to start concentrating on things that take your mind off the test, i.e., television, books, hobbies, movies, etc. Meditation and aerobic exercise have proven to be very useful methods for reducing undesirable effects of stress.The solution to reducing the destructive influences of stress is to plan to study. Map out a schedule of when you will study each day. Identify the specific topics that you will study each day. Identify the areas of the material that you have had problems with and study those. Your plan should include reading the text material, reviewing notes and homework assignments, identifying material that needs further explanation, developing codes for memory material and testing yourself. Once you have studied adequately, your confidence will be fairly high, your knowledge will be satisfactory to do well on the test and the stomach butterflies will help you focus on the task at hand.I’d wish you good luck on finals, but you and I both kno w that the more effectively you study, the luckier you will get.81. The word ―channeled‖ underlined in Paragraph 1 means _____.A. directedB. usedC. runD. passed82. Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned as a good side of the test anxiety?A. It can help improve performance if channeled correctly.B. It motivates us to study and prepare for exam.C. It can help us to concentrate.D. It can always ensure a good score in the test.83. What is the relationship between knowledge and confidence and test anxiety?A. As your knowledge of the course material increases, your confidence in your ability to succeed will increase.B. As your test anxiety increases, your knowledge and confidence will increase.C. As your confidence increases, your anxiety will go down, allowing your knowledge to come through more effectively.D. Both A and C.84. Which of the following test preparation ways cannot help one reduce anxiety during the test?A. You should know your own abilities and operate accordingly and learn as much as you can.B. Study partners or study groups are useful for self-testing.C. You can retrieve materials by using mnemonic codes.D. You should pay more attention to the materials identified by the teacher.85. What should be at the top of your study list when you prepare a test?A. The most complex materials.B. The questions asked by students.C. The materials reviewed and hints given by the teacher.D. The materials mastered by most students.86. The suggestions to help reduce anxiety during the test are _____.A. relaxing, mnemonic codes and easy questions firstB. relaxing, dumping and easy questions firstC. relaxing, easy questions first and extreme anxietyD. aerobic exercise, relax and dumping87. According to the passage, useful means for reducing undesirable effects of stress are _____.A. knowledge and confidenceB. learning ability and instructor’s hintsC. meditation and aerobic exerciseD. rest and meditation88. The author’s attitude towar d reducing the test anxiety is _____.A. negativeB. positive。

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它改变了我们的沟通、工作和学习方式。

2. 翻译实践（汉译英）原文：随着全球化的深入发展，跨文化交流变得越来越重要。

掌握一门外语，能够帮助我们更好地理解不同文化背景下的人们。

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