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2004年5月CATTI真题和参考答案

2004年5月CATTI真题和参考答案
2004年5月CATTI真题和参考答案

2004年5月英语二级《笔译综合能力》试题

Section 1: Vocabulary and Grammar (25 points) The time for this section is 25 minutes.

Part 1 Vocabulary Selection

1 The explanation given by the manager yesterday was not at all _____ to us.

A. satisfy

B. satisfied

C. satisfactory

D. satisfying

2 Part of the funds will be used to ____ that old blbrary to its original splendor.

A. rest

B. recover

C. replace

D. restore

3 This silk has gone right _____ and we have not sold a single piece of it for weeks.

A. out of fad

B. out of pattern

C. out of custom

D. out of fashion

4 The new Personal Digital Assistance contained a large ___ of information about an individual life.

A. deal

B. amount

C. number

D. account

5 Primitive superstitions that feed racism should be _____ through education.

A. ignored

B. exalted

C. eradicated

D. canceled

6. _____ pollution control measures are expensive, many local governments hesitate to adopt them.

A. Although

B. However

C. Because

D. Moreover

7. The less the surface of the ground yields to the weight of the body of a runner, _____ to the body.

A. the stress it is greater

B. greater is the stress

C. greater stress is

D. the greater the stress

8. Annie Jump Cannon, _____ discovered so m any stars that she was called “the census taker of the sky.”

A. a leading astronomer,

B. who, as a leading astronomer,

C. was a leading astronomer,

D. a

leading astronomer who

9. Kingdom of Wonders, _____ in 1995 in Fremont, Calif., became an industry legend for two toys: a talking bear and a ray-gun game.

A. find

B. found

C. founded

D. founding

10. Over a very large number of trials, the probability of an event _____ is equal to the probability that it will not occur.

A. occurring

B. to occur

C. occurs

D. occur

11. Only one-fifth of Americans saw oil as the chief reason that the U.S. made a war on Iraq, but

75 percent of the French and of the Russians believed _____.

A. to

B. so

C. go

D. do

12. Sadly, while the academic industry thrives, the practice of translation continues to _____.

A. stack

B. stage

C. stagnate

D. stamp

13. Your blunt treatment of disputes would put other people in a negative frame of _____, with the

result that they would not be able to accept your proposal.

A. mind

B. idea

C. intention

D. wish

14. If you are an energetic person with strong views as to the right way of doing things, you find yourself _____ under pressures. A. variably B. invariably C. invaluably D. invalidly

15. Uncle Vernon, quite unlike Harry Potter who looked nothing like the rest of the family, was large, very fat, and _____, with an enormous black mustache. A. neck-less

B. neck-lace

C. reckless

D. rack-less

16. Home to _____ and gangsters, officials and laborers, refugees and artists, the city was, in its prime, a metropolis that exhibited all the hues of the human character. A. magnates

B. magnets

C. machine

D. magnitudes

17. His _____ behavior made everyone nervous. He was always rushing to open doors and perform other small tasks, apologizing unnecessarily for any inconvenience that he might have caused.

A. oblivious

B. observant

C. obsequious

D. obsolescent

18. He was completely __________ by her tale of hardship. A. taken away B. taken down

C. taken in

D. taken up

19. Americans who consider themselves _____ in the traditional sense do not usually hesitate to heap criticism in domestic matters over what they believe is oppressive or wasteful. A. pedestrian B. penchant C. patriarch D. patriotic

20. As technological advances put more and more time between early school life and the young person's final access to specialized work, the stage of _____ becomes an even more marked and conscious period.

A. adolescence

B. adjacency

C. advantage

D. adventure

Part 2 Vocabulary Replacement

21. That boy is suffering from unrequited love and pines away. A. fervent B. obsessive C. secret D. unreturned

22. For a long time in that vast region, this law was in abeyance. A. active use B. doubt C. discussion D. disuse

23. A court-martial has but recently decided to acquit him.

A. declare he is not guilty

B. upwardly mobile

C. excessively overweight

D. privately educated

24. There are more people who are obese today than 20 years ago.

A. gainfully employed

B. upwardly mobile

C. excessively overweight

D. privately educated

25. As a conductor, Leonard Bernstein is famous for his intensely vigorous and exuberant style.

A. enthusiastic

B. nervous

C. painful

D. extreme

26. When insects feed on decaying plant material in a compost pile, they help turn it into useful

garden soil.

A. available

B. organic

C. distasteful

D. decomposing

27. Researchers have discovered that dolphins are able to mimic human speech.

A. import

B. imitate

C. impair

D. humor

28. The dichotomy postulated by many between idealism is one of the standard clichés of the

ongoing debate over international affatrs. A. division B. combination of two parts

C. disparity

D. contradiction

29. Attempts have been made for nearly three decades to increase the amount of precipitation from clouds by seeding them with salt or silver iodide. A. Devices B. Hypotheses

C. Efforts

D. Suggestions

30. 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. obedience

31. The feeling of competition among the students in all the classrooms where the test was going

on was noticeable to everyone. A. discord B. discovery C. rivalry

D. cooperation

32. The artist spent years on his monumental painting, which covered the whole roof of the church, the biggest in the country.

A. archaic

B. sentimental

C. outstanding

D. entire

33. Many of the electric and electronic products we purchase and consume today are what some industrial experts call “homogeneous toys”. A. identical B. homosexual

C. unrelated

D. distinguishable

34. Anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff furthered her reputation as an authority on Native American culture with her study of the symbols, myths, and rituals of the Huichol people. A. deserved B. retained C. renewed D. advanced

35. This reflects the priority being attached to economic over political activity, partly caused by a growing reluctance to enter a calling blighted by relentless publicity that all too often ends in destroying careers and reputations.

A. powerfulness

B. unwillingness

C. renaissance

D. apologeticness

Part 3 Error Correction

36. An epigram is usually defined being a bright or witty thought that is tersely and ingeniously expressed.

A. as

B. as be

C. as been

D. to being

37. Upon completing his examination over the patient, the doctor offered his judgment of her conditions.

A. of

B. off

C. about

D. around

38. If they spend some time on Chinese history, they will be more able to predict China’s future.

A. more

B. able

C. better

D. better able

39. When she returned back by abroad, she told us all about her experience as an illegal immigrant.

A. by

B. back

C. from

D. back from

40. He was looking impatient at the visiting salesman, who showed no signs of getting ready to leave.

A. patient

B. patience

C. impatience

D. impatiently

41. The recent conference on the effective use of the seas and ocean was another attempt resolving major differences among countries with conflicting interests. A. resolve B. resolves C. to resolve D. being resolved

42. Life insurance, before available only to young, healthy persons, can now be obtained for old people, and even for pets.

A. before young, healthy persons available only,

B. available only to young, healthy persons before,

C. available only to persons young, but more healthy,

D. before young and healthy persons only available to,

43. Following a year of fast development, by the first quarter of this year, China has had about 1,100 e-commerce websites.

A.China had about 1,100 e-commerce websites by the end of last March

B.by the end of the first quarter of this year, China has had about 1,100 e-commerce websites

C.by the end of this recent past March, China has about 1,100 e-commerce websites

D.by the end of this first quarter, China had about 1,100 or so e-commerce websites

44. Sino-foreign educational program on business is popular in China now, and the demand for high level interpretation is great.

A. programs in enterprises / high level interpreters

B. programs in international business / senior interpreters

C. program in international biz / senior interpretations

D. programs of business / high-level interpretations

45. Many students agreed to come, but some students against because they said they don’t have time.

A. were against because they said they did not

B. were against because they say they don’t

C. were against it because they said they did not

D. were against coming because they said they don’t

46. While it is essential that the text covers the subject adequately, it is also important that it is neither too detailed or too complex for the intended reader. A. for B. nor

C. no

D. not

47. Consumer porcelains in Jingdezhen are not selling well in export market as compared with those made in Liling, Hunan Province and Zibo, Shandong Province.

A. on export market

B. in exporting market

C. in exported market

D. in the export market

48. It is a market which sales value might be more than 10 billion yuan.

A. a market with a sales value that might be

B. a market which might be sales value

C. a market with sale value might be

D. market with sales might be a value

49. As an English major student, I think business English is more practical than other fields.

A. a English student / field

B. a English major student / regions

C. a English major / courses

D. an English student major / sciences

50. We should let more young parents and their children can enjoy scientific early education.

A.provide more young parents and their children to enjoy early education

B.provide more young parents and their children to enjoy early education and scientific

C.provide young parents and their children enjoy more scientific early education

D.provide young parents and their children with more early education services

Section 2: Reading Comprehension (50 points) The time for this section is 70 minutes. Questions 51 —60 are based on the following passage.

Social control refers to social processes, planned or unplanned, by which people are taught, persuaded, or forced to conform to norms. In every society, some punishments or negative sanctions are established for deviant behavior. Without deviant behavior there would not be need for social control and without social control there would not be a way of recognizing the boundary between the acceptable and the unacceptable.

Social control may be either formal or informal. Informal mechanisms include expressions of disapproval by significant others and withholding of positive rewards for disapproved behavior.

Most people internalize norms in the course of socialization. This is any group’s most powerful protection against deviance, in that the individual’s own conscience operates as an agent of social control. When informal sanctions fail, formal agents of social control may be called upon. In contemporary society, such formal agents and agencies include psychiatry and other mental health professions; mental hospitals; police and courts of law; prisons; and social welfare agencies. All these formal agents function to limit, correct, and control violation of norms. Conflict theorists would also point out that social control agents and systems tend, in any society, to serve the interests of powerful groups and to enforce the norms most beneficial to those who make the rules and who, therefore, define unacceptable behavior.

Social control, whether formal or informal, has a dual function. First, it punishes the wrongdoer and reaffirms the boundaries of acceptable behavior. Second, and less recognized, it regulates the manner in which deviants are treated.

51. Social control refers to processes by which ____.

A.norms are developed

B. norms are enforced

C. people are educated and trained

D.

people are rewarded and punished

52. Every society has its own ____. A. planned systems B. controlled norms C. recognized boundary D. established sanctions

53. Informal mechanisms of social control include the following EXCEPT ____.

A. a high level of interest in ensuring conformity

B. expression of disapproval by significant others

C. withholding of positive rewards for the deviants

D. people’s internalization of norms in socialization

54. The most powerful protection against deviance is ____.

A. negative sanctions

B. severe punishments

C. the individual’s conscience

D. unrestrained suppression

55. Formal agents of social control include the following EXCEPT ____.

A.police stations

B. mental hospitals

C. welfare agencies

D. vocational schools

56. The purpose of formal agents is to ____.

A. make beneficial rules

B. preserve social orders

C. control violation of norms

D. define acceptable behavior

57. Which statement about social control agents is NOT true?

A.They tend to serve the interest of those who enforce the norms.

B.They tend to serve the interest of those who receive a benefit.

C.They tend to serve the interest of those who make the rules.

D.They tend to serve the interest of those who are powerful.

58. According to conflict theorists, social control agents and systems are ____.

A. liberal

B. partial

C. neutral

D. overall

59. In the third paragraph, “a dual function” refers to ____.

A. formal and informal

B. rewards and penalities

C. approval and disapproval

D. clarification and regulation

60. The perspective from which the author discusses social control is ____.

A. biological

B. sociological

C. psychological

D. anthropological

Questions 61 —70 are based on the following passage.

Every group has a culture, however uncivilized it may seem to us. To the professional

anthropologist, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture over another, just as to the professional linguist, there is no intrinsic hierarchy among languages.

People once thought of the languages of backward groups as undeveloped. While it if possible that language in general began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of “backward” languages that no spoken tongue answers that description today. Most languages of uncivilized groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely complex. They differ from Western languages not in their sound patterns or grammatical structures, which usually are fully adequate for all language needs, but only in their vocabularies, which reflect the objects and activities known to their speakers. Even in this aspect, two things are to be noted. First, all languages seem to possess the machinery for vocabulary expansion, either by putting together words already in existence or by borrowing them from other languages and adapting them to their own system. Second, the objects and activities requiring names and distinctions in “backward”languages, while different from the West, are often surprisingly numerous and complicated. A Western language distinguishes merely between two degrees of remoteness (“this”and “that”). But some languages of the American Indians distinguish between what is close to the speaker, or to the person addressed, or removed from both, or out of sight, or in the past, or in the future.

61. Every group of human beings has ____.

A. its own set of ideas, beliefs and ways of life

B. an extremely complex and delicate language

C. its own elegant music, literature, and other arts

D. the process of growing crops or raising animals

62. To the professional linguists, ____.

A. there is no intrinsic superiority of cultures

B. there is no intrinsic hierarchy of languages

C. all languages came from grunts and groans

D. all languages are most severe and standard

63. Most languages of uncivilized groups are ____.

A. adequate

B. numerous

C. ingenious

D. ingenuous

64. “Backward” languages fall behind Western languages in ____.

A. ways to transfer ideas

B. forms to satisfy needs

C. abilities to answer description

D. systems to expand vocabulary

65. All languages, whether civilized or not, have their own ____.

A. ways to transfer ideas

B. forms to satisfy needs

C. abilities to answer description

D. systems to expand vocabulary

66. Which of the following statements is implied in the passage?

A. Anthropologists have nothing to do with linguists.

B. Linguists have nothing to do with anthropologists.

C. The study of languages casts light upon the study of cultures.

D. The study of cultures casts no light upon the study of languages.

67. It is implied that all cultures have to be viewed ____.

A. profoundly

B. intrinsically

C. independently

D. professionally

68. According to this passage, to learn a foreign language would require one to ____.

A. do more activities

B. learn about a new culture

C. meet more people

D. need more names

69. The author’s attitude shown in this passage toward “backward” languages is ____.

A. restrained

B. subjective

C. objective

D. resolute

70. This passage is on the whole ____.

A. narrative

B. instructive

C. prescriptive

D. argumentative

Questions 71 —80 are based on the following passage.

The field of medicine has always attracted its share of quacks and charlatans —disreputable women and men with little or no medical knowledge who promise quick cures at cheap prices. The reasons why quackery thrives even in modern times are easy to find.

To begin with, pain seems to be a chronic human condition. A person whose body or mind “hurts”will often pay any amount of money for the promise of relief. Second, even the best medical treatment cannot cure all the ills that beset men and women. People who mistrust or dislike the truths that their physicians tell them often turn to more sympathetic ears.

Many people lack the training necessary to evaluate medical claims. Given the choice between (a) a reputable physician who says a cure for cancer will be long, expensive and may not work at all, and (b) a salesperson who says that several bottles of a secret formula “snake oil” will cure not only cancer but tuberculosis as well, some individuals will opt for “snake oil”.

Many “snake oil” remedies are highly laced with alcohol or narcotic drugs. Anyone who drinks them may get so drunk or stoned that they drown their pains in the rising tide of pleasant intoxication. Little wonder that “snake oil” is a popular cure-all for minor aches and hurts! But let there be no misunderstandings. A very few “home remedies”actually work. However, most remedies sold by quacks are not only useless, but often can be harmful as well.

71. In this passage, a quack or a charlatan is someone who ____.

A. has a special ability

B. has little knowledge

C. is not a good doctor

D. pretends to be a doctor

72. The sentence “pain seems to be a chronic human condition” means pain seems to ____.

A. be very serious

B. be very difficult

C. last for a long time

D. be always happening

73. Quackery thrives even in modern times because ____.

A. patients pay any amount of money

B. patients do not like their physicians

C. quacks say that they can help patients

D. best medical treatment costs very much

74. People who seek the advice of quacks and charlatans are those who ____.

A. are poorly educated

B. are highly educated

C. dislike medical treatments

D. mistrust physicians’ truths

75. To evaluate medical claims, one must ____.

A. turn to reputable doctors

B. make an adequate choice

C. have the necessary training

D.disbelieve promise of relief

76. According to the author, a very few home remedies are ____.

A. useless

B. harmful

C. pleasant

D. effective

77. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Quacks are really sympathetic.

B. “Snake oil” does not work.

C. Doctors cannot cure all ills.

D. Patients are often impatient.

78. Many individuals opt for “snake oil” because they ____.

A. are misled by a secret formula

B. cannot afford a treatment

C. lack medical knowledge

D. do not trust physicians

79. “Snake oil” is a popular cure-all for minor aches and hurts because it has ____.

A. actually worked

B. some fruit stones

C. been misunderstood

D. alcohol or narcotic drugs

80. Which of the following would be the best title of this passage?

A. Distrust of Physicians

B. Medical Treatment

C. Snake Oil Remedies

D. Guard Against Quackery

Questions 81 —90 are based on the following passage.

Modern industrial society grants little status to old people. In fact, such a society has a system of built-in obsolescence. There is no formal system for continuing our education throughout our life in order to keep up with rapidly changing knowledge. When our education and job skills have grown obsolete, we are treated exactly like those who have never gained an education or job skills and are not encouraged or given the opportunity to begin anew.

As a society becomes more highly developed, the overall status of older people diminishes. Improved health technology creates a large pool of old people, who compete for jobs with the young. However, economic technology lowers the demand for workers and creates new jobs for which the skills of the aged are obsolete, forcing older people into retirement. At the same time, young people are being educated in the new technology and are keeping pace with rapid changes in knowledge. Finally, urbanization creates age-segregated neighborhoods. Because the old live on fixed incomes, they must often live in inferior housing. All these factors —retirement, obsolete knowledge and skills, inferior standards of living —lower the status of the aged in society.

A century ago, when one could expect to live only to 50 or so, the life span more or less coincided with the occupation and family cycle. But today the average life span allows for fifteen to twenty years of life after these cycles. It appears that our life span is outpacing our usefulness in society.

81. By “a system of build-in obsolescence” the author means ___.

A. no formal systems exist in modern industrial society

B. old people have no status in modern industrial society

C. young people have chances in modern industrial society

D. knowledge changes rapidly in modern industrial society

82. According to the first paragraph, which of the following is true?

A. People don’t have to gain education.

B. People don’t have to learn job skills.

C. People don’t have to be treated as equals.

D. People don’t have chances to begin anew.

83. The more highly developed a society is, ____.

A. the more advanced technology will be

B. the larger the number of people will be

C. the more diminished old people’s status will be

D. the lower the overall status of the people will be

84. The high development of economic technology ____.

A. makes job skills out of fashion

B. lowers the demand for workers

C. forces old people into retirement

D. creates new jobs for older people

85. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Retired people could only live on fixed incomes.

B. Retired people are more skillful than young people.

C. Young people are educated in the new technology.

D. Young people are keeping pace

with rapid changes.

86. According to this passage, the status of the aged is lowered by their ____.

A. forced retirement

B. inferior housing

C. longer life span

D. fixed incomes

87. The sentence “our life span outpaces our usefulness” means we can live longer ____.

A. and make progress

B. and do more work

C. but move slowly

D. but become useless

88. The author’s attitude toward the aged is ____.

A. realistic

B. optimistic

C. pessimistic

D. sympathetic

89. It can be deduced from this passage that one should ____.

A. learn new skills

B. be open-minded

C. have a good personality

D. keep pace with the times

90. Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

A. The Problem of Aging

B. Social Structures

C. Economic Technology

D. Continuing Education

Questions 91 —100 are based on the following passage.

When you first drift off into slumber, your eyes will roll about a bit, your temperature will drop slightly, your muscles will relax, and your breathing will become quite regular. Your brain waves slow down a bit, with the alpha rhythm predominating for the first few minutes. This is the first stage of sleep. For the next 30 minutes or so, you will drift down through Stage 2 and Stage 3. The lower your stage of sleep, the slower your brain waves will be. About 40-60 minutes after you lose consciousness, you will reach the last stage. Your brain waves will show the delta rhythm. You may think that you stay at this deep stage all the rest of the night, but that turns out not to be the case. About 80 minutes after you fall into slumber, your activity cycle will increase slightly. The delta rhythm will disappear, to be replaced by the activity pattern of Rapid Eye Movements lasts for 8-15 minutes and is called REM sleep.

During both light and deep sleep, the muscles in your body are relaxed but capable of movement. As you slip into REM sleep, a very odd thing occurs —most of the voluntary muscles in your body become paralyzed. Although your brain shows very rapid bursts of neural activity during REM sleep, your body is incapable of moving. REM sleep is accompanied by extensive muscular inhibition.

91. On the part of an average sleeper, there ____ of sleep in cycles.

A. is one stage

B. are two stages

C. are six stages

D. are four stages

92. When a person falls into the state of sleep, his ____. A. eyeballs will roll about a bit

B. mind will relax more and more

C. breathing will slow for minutes

D. temperature will increase slightly

93. The lower your stage of sleep, ____. A. the faster your eyes will roll about B. the quieter your breath will become C. the slower your brain waves will be D. the higher your temperature will be

94. After you have reached the deepest sleep, ____.

A. you will stay at the fourth stage the rest of the night

B. you will lose your consciousness for 40-60 minutes

C. your brain waves will show the delta rhythm

D. your brain waves will show the alpha rhythm

95. In the REM sleep, ____. A. the delta rhythm will disappear B. the

activity pattern will appear C. something will occur in front of you D. your eyes will begin to dart around

96. You will fall into the fourth stage of sleep ____.

A. about 80 minutes after you fall into slumber

B. some 10 minutes after you fall into REM sleep

C. about 40 minutes after you lose consciousness

D. some 30 minutes after you brain waves slow

97. The first paragraph of this passage tells us about ____. A. the rhythms of brain waves

B. the daily activities of sleep

C. the stages of sleep in cycles

D. the daily activities in cycles

98. In this passage, the word “paralyzed” means unable to ____.

A. move

B. think

C. work

D. speak

99. The phrase “extensive muscular inhibition” means ____.

A. the body is incapable of movement

B. the muscles in the body are relaxed

C. voluntary muscles are capable of movement

D. the brain shows rapid burst of neural activity 100. The best title for this passage would be ____.

A. Brain Waves

B. Sleep Cycles

C. Daily Activities

D. Body Activities

Section 3: Cloze Test (25 points)

In the following passage, there are 25 blanks representing words that are missing from the context. You are to put back in each of the blanks the missing word. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. The time for this section is 25 minutes.

Some consumer researchers distinguish ____ (1) “rational”motives and “emotional”(or “non-rational”) motives. They use the term “rationality” ____ (2) the traditional economic sense that assumes ____ (3) consumers behave rationally when they carefully consider all alternatives ____ (4) choose those that give them the greatest utility (i.e., satisfaction). ____ (5) a marketing context, the term “rationality”implies that the consumer selects goods based ____ (6) totally objective criteria, such ____ (7) size, weight, price, and so on. “Emotional”motives imply the selection of goods ____ (8) to personal or subjective criteria —the desire ____ (9) individuality, pride, fear, affection or status.

The assumption underlying this distinction is ____ (10) subjective or emotional criteria do not maximize utility or satisfaction, ____ (11), it is reasonable to assume that consumers always attempt to select alternatives that, ____ (12) their view, serve to maximize satisfaction. Obviously, the assessment of satisfaction is a very personal process, based ____ (13) the individual’s own needs as ____ (14) as on past behavioral, social, and learning experiences. What may appear ____ (15) irrational to an outside observer may be perfectly rational ____ (16) the context of the consumer’s own psychological field. For example, a product purchased to enhance one’s self-image (such as a fragrance) is a perfectly rational form of consumer behavior. ____ (17) behavior did not appear rational to the person who undertakes it ____ (18) the time that it is undertaken, obviously he or she would not do it. ____ (19) the distinction between rational and emotional motives does not appear to be warranted.

Some researchers go so far ____ (20) to suggest that emphasis ____ (21) “needs” obscures the rational, or conscious, nature of most consumer motivation. They claim that consumers act consciously ____ (22) maximize their gains and minimize their losses; that they act not ____ (23) subconscious drives but from rational preferences, ____ (24) what they perceive to be ____ (25) their own best interests.

2004年5月英语二级《笔译实务》试题

Section 1: English-Chinese Translation(英译汉)(60 point)The time for this section is 100 minutes. Part A Compulsory Translation(必译题)(30 points)

The first outline of The Ascent of Man was written in July 1969 and the last foot of film was shot in December 1972. An undertaking as large as this, though wonderfully exhilarating, is not entered lightly. It demands an unflagging intellectual and physical vigour, a total immersion, which I had to be sure that I could sustain with pleasure; for instance, I had to put off researches that I had already begun; and I ought to explain what moved me to do so.

There has been a deep change in the temper of science in the last20 years: the focus of attention has shifted from the physical to the life sciences. As a result, science is drawn more and more to the study of individuality. But the interested spectator is hardly aware yet how far-reaching the effect is in changing the image of man that science moulds. As a mathematician trained in physics, I too would have been unaware, had not a series of lucky chances taken me into the life sciences in middle age. I owe a debt for the good fortune that carried me into two seminal fields of science in one lifetime; and though I do not know to whom the debt is due, I conceived The Ascent of Man in gratitude to repay it.

The invitation to me from the British Broadcasting Corporation was to present the development of science in a series of television programmes to match those of Lord Clark on Civilisation. Television is an admirable medium- for exposition in several ways: powerful and immediate to the eye, able to take the spectator bodily into the places and processes that are described, and conversational enough to make him conscious that what he witnesses are not events but the actions of people. The last of these merits is to my mind the most cogent, and it weighed most with me in agreeing to cast a personal biography of ideas in the form of television essays. The point is that knowledge in general and science in particular does not consist of abstract but of man-made ideas, all the way from its beginnings to its modern and idiosyncratic models. Therefore the underlying concepts that unlock nature must be shown to arise early and in the simplest cultures of man from his basic and specific faculties. And the development of science which joins them in more and more complex conjunctions must be seen to be equally human: discoveries are made by men, not merely by minds, so that they are alive and charged with individuality. If television is not used to make these thoughts concrete, it is wasted.

Part B Optional Translations (二选一题)(30 points)

Topic 1 (选题一)

It’s not that we are afraid of seeing him stumble, of scribbling a mustache over his career. Sure, the nice part of us wants Mike to know we appreciate him, that he still reigns, at least in our memory. The truth, thou gh, is that we don’t want him to come back because even for Michael Jordan, this would be an act of hubris so monumental as to make his trademark confidence twist into conceit. We don’t want him back on the court be cause no one likes a show-off. The stumbling? That will be fun.

But we are nice people, we Americans, with 225 years of optimism at our backs. Days ago when M.J. said he had made a decision about returning to the NBA in September, we got excited. He had said the day before, “I look forward to pl aying, and hopefully I can get to that point where I can make that decision. It’s O.K., to have some doubt, and it’s O.K. to have some nervousness.”

A Time/CNN poll last week has Americans, 2 to 1, saying they would like him on the court ASAP.

And only 21 percent thought that if he came back and just completely bombed, it would damage his legend. In fact only 28 percent think athletes should retire at their peak.

Sources close to him tell Time that when Jordan first talked about a comeback with the Washington Wizards, the team Jordan co-owns and would play for, some of his trusted advisers privately tried to discourage him. “But they say if they try to stop him, it will only firm up his resolve,” says an NBA source.

The problem with Jordan’s return is not only that he can’t possibly live up to the storybook ending he gave up in 1998 — earning his sixth ring with a last-second championship-winning shot. The problem is that the motives for coming back — needing the attention, needing to play even when his 38-year-old body does not —violate the very myth of Jordan, the myth of absolute control. Babe Ruth, the 20th century’s first star, was a gust of fat bravado and drunken talent, while Jordan ended the century by proving the elegance of resolve; Babe’s poin ting to the bleachers replaced by the charm of a backpedaling shoulder shrug. Jordan symbolized success by not sullying his brand with his politics, his opinion or superstar personality. To be a Jordan fan was to be a fan of classiness and confidence.

To come back when he knows that playing for Wizards won’t get him anywhere near the second round of the play-offs, when he knows that he won’t be the league scoring leader, that’s a loss of control.

Jordan does not care what we think. Friends say that he takes articles that tell him not to come back and tacks them all on his refrigerator as inspiration. So why bother writing something telling him not to come back? He is still Michael Jordan.

Topic 2 (选题二)

Even after I was too grown-up to play that game and too grown-up to tell my mother that I loved her, I still believed I was the best daughter. Didn’t I run all the way up to the terrace to check on the drying mango pickles whenever she asked?

As I entered my teens, it seemed that I was becoming an even better, more loving daughter. Didn’t I drop whatever I was doing each afternoon to go to the corner grocery to pick up any spices my mother had run out of?

My mother, on the other hand, seemed more and more unloving to me. Some days she positively resembled a witch as she threatened to pack me off to my second uncle’s home in provincial Barddhaman — a fate worse than death to a cool Calcutta girl like me — if my grades didn’t improve. Other days she would sit me down and tell me about “Girls Who Brought Shame to Their Families”. There were apparently, a million ways in which one could do this, and my mother was determined that I should be cautioned against every one of them. On principle, she disapproved of everything I wanted to do, from going to study in America to perming my hair, and her favorite phrase was “over my dead body.” It was clear that I loved her far more than she loved me — that is, if she loved me at all.

After I finished graduate school in America and got married, my relationship with my mother improved a great deal. Though occasionally dubious about my choice of a writing career, overall she thought I’d shaped up nicely. I thought the same about her. We established a rhythm: She’d write from India and give me all the gossip and send care packages with my favorite kind of mango pickle; I’d call her from the United States and tell her all the things I’d been up to and send care packages with instant vanilla pudding, for which she’d dev eloped a great fondness. We loved each other equally — or so I believed until my first son, Anand, was born.

My son’s birth shook up my neat, organized, in-control adult existence in ways I hadn’t imagined. I went through six weeks of being shrouded in an exhausted fog of postpartum depression. As my husband and I walked our wailing baby up and down through the night, and I seriously contemplated going AWOL, I wondered if I was cut out to be a mother at all. And mother love — what was that all about?

Then one morning, as I was changing yet another diaper, Anand grinned up at me with his toothless gums. Hmm, I thought. This little brown scrawny thing is kind of cute after all. Things progressed rapidly from there. Before I knew it, I’d moved the extra bed into the baby’s room and was spending many nights on it, bonding with my son.

Section 2: Chinese- English Translation(汉译英)(40 point)The time for this section is 80 minutes. Part A Compulsory Translation (必译题)(30 points)

奥林匹克运动的生命力和非凡魅力在于在奥林匹克运动中居核心地位的奥林匹克精神。体育的目的在于追求人类身心全面发展,并在此基础上促进社会的发展和进步。现代奥林匹克运动的创始人顾拜旦(Pieere de Coubertin)认为体育是全人类的一项伟大事业。他将奥林匹克运动的目标设定为促进不同国家、不同文化之间的相互理解,从而促进和维护世界和平,推进人类文明。这一理想使奥林匹克运动得以经百年而不衰。作为全世界奥林匹克大家庭成员的一个盛大聚会,奥林匹克运动已经成为促进世界和平、进步与发展的一只重要社会力量。

Part B Optional Translations (二选一题)(20 points)

Topic 1(选题一)

近年来,中国经济保持快速发展,为世界经济发展注入了活力。实践证明了中国在加入世贸组织之前的预言:中国的发展离不开世界,世界的发展需要中国。未来 20 年,在全面建设小康社会的进程中,中国一定会对世界经济的发展和实现全人类的共同进步做出历史性的贡献。为此,中国将继续扩大外贸,大力实施西部大开发战略,进一步改善投资环境,为外商提供更大的商机。同时,中国将引导和支持更多有比较优势的企业对外投资,开展平等互利、形式多样的经济技术合作。中国将进一步加强双边、多边和区域经济合作,实现世界各国各地区的共同发展。

Topic 2(选题二)

移动电话正在成为 21 世纪一个主要的技术领域。在几年之内,移动电话将会发展成为多功能的通信工具,除了语音之外,还可以传输和接收视频信号、静止图像、数据和文本。个人通信的新纪元即将到来。

在一定程度上多亏了无线网络的发展,电话正在与个人电脑和电视融合起来。不久之后,配有高分辨率显示屏的轻巧手机便可以与卫星连接。人们可以随时随地通话,收发电子邮件或者参加视像电话会议。这种手机也许还会吸收电脑的许多主要功能。移动通信工具有望带来一些互联网所能提供的新服务,如股票交易、购物及预订戏票和飞机票。

电信革命已在全球范围内展开。不久之后,用一台装置就可以收到几乎任何形式的电子通信信号。最有可能的是一部三合一手机。在家里它可以用作无绳电话,在路上用作移动电话,在办公室里用作内部通话装置。有些专家甚至认为移动视像电话将超过电视,成为主要的视频信息来源。

2004年5月英语二级《笔译综合能力》试题参考答案

Section 1 共计25分

Part 1共20题,每题0.5分,满分为10分

1. C

2. D

3. D

4. B

5. C

6. C

7. D

8. A

9. C 10. A 11. B 12.

C 13. A 14. B 15. A 16. A 17. C 18. C 19.

D 20. A

Part 2 共15题,每题0.5分,满分为7.5分

21. D 22. D 23. A 24. C 25. BA 26. D 27. B 28. A 29. C 30. B 31.

C 32. C 33. A 34.

D 35 .B

Part 3 共15题,每题0.5分,满分为7.5分

36. A 37. A 38. D 39. C 40. D 41. C 42. B 43. A 44. B 45. C 46.

B 47. D 48. A 49.

C 50. D

Section 2 共50题,每题1分,满分为50分

51. B 52. D 53. A 54. C 55. D 56. C 57. B 58. B 59. D 60. B

61. A 62. B 63. C 64. B 65. D 66. C 67. C 68. B 69. C 70. B

71. D 72. D 73. C 74. D 75. C 76. D 77. A 78. A 79. D 80. D

81. B 82. D 83. C 84. C 85. B 86. A 87. D 88. D 89. D 90. A

91. D 92. A 93. C 94. C 95. D 96. C 97. C 98. A 99. A 100. B Section 3 共25题,每题1分,满分为25分

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2004年5月英语二级《笔译实务》试题参考译文

Section 1: 英译汉(60分)Part A (必译题)(30分)

《人类的进程》一书的提纲初稿是1969年7月完成的,影片的最后一部分是在1972年12月拍摄的。像这样大的一个项目,虽然异常精彩,令人激动,却并不是轻易上马的。它要求我保持旺盛的脑力和体力,专心致志地投入工作。我必须确保持之以恒,并从中得到乐趣;比方说,我不得不停下已经开始的研究工作;我还应当说明一下,究竟是什么促使我承担这项工作的。

二十年来,科学的发展趋势发生了深刻的变化:关注的焦点已经从自然科转移到生命科学。结果,便把科学越来越吸引到个体特征的研究上来。然而感兴趣的旁观者几乎没有意识到此事对于改变科学塑造的人的形象产生了多么深远的影响。我是一个研究数学的人,以前学过物理学,若不是中年有幸有几次机会涉足生命科学,我也不会有所认识。我应当感谢我交的好运,是它使我在一生中参与了两个启发性的科学领域。尽管我并不知道应该向谁表示感谢,我编写了《人类的进程》一书,以表示我的感激之情。

英国广播公司邀请我做的是通过一套电视节目来表现科学的发展过程,以与克拉克勋爵制作的关于文明的电视节目相匹配。通过电视来进行解说有几大好处:它有力、直观,能使观众身临其境或亲身参与所描述的过程,它的语言亲切,能使观众觉得他所看到的是人们的行动而不是事件。这些优点之中,我认为最后一点最为突出,它是一股最大的动力促使我同意以电视散文的方式从个人的角度来讲述各种思想的发展史。重要的是知识总体,尤其是科学知识不是由抽象的思想构成的,而是由人的思想构成的,自有知识开始直到现代千奇百怪的模式莫不是如此。所以介绍打开自然界之门的基本思想,必须表现出它们很早就已产生,而且是产生在人类最淳朴的文化之中,产生于人类基本的、具体的感官之中。同时还必须表现出使种种思想形成越来越复杂的结合体的科学的发展也同样是人类的贡献:种种发现都是人的产物,而不仅仅是头脑的产物,因此它们都是有生气的,而且具有个人的特色。如果电视未能把这些思想表现得很具体,那岂不是浪费!

Part B二选一题(30分)

选题一

不是因为我们害怕看到他会因失误而给他辉煌的生涯画上遗憾的一笔。从善意的角度说,我们想让迈克知道,我们仍然欣赏他,至少在我们的记忆中,他仍然是英雄。事实上,我们不想让他重返球场,即使他是迈克尔·乔丹。我们觉得这是个贸然之举,我们不想看到自信的商标蜕变成一种自负的象征。我们不想让他重返球场,因为没有人喜欢卖弄。失误呢?那将会很有趣。

但是我们是有着225年乐观历史的美国人,我们都是好心人。当乔丹几天前宣布他将在九月重返NBA时,我们曾为之一振。宣布的前一天,他说过:“我盼望能打球,并希望事情能如愿以偿。有些人怀疑,有些人紧张,都属正常。”《时代》周刊和美国有线新闻网上周做的一项民意调查表明,每两个美国人当中就有一个人希望乔丹尽快重返赛场。只有21%的人们认为,如果他的重返导致一场彻底失败,将会损害他的传奇。事实上只有28%的人认为运动员应该在他的运动巅峰时期引退。

与乔丹关系密切的人告诉《时代》周刊,当乔丹第一次谈到重返它与其他人共同拥有的华盛顿奇才队并为之效力时,一些他最信任的顾问试图私下打消他的愿望。“但他们说,如果试图阻止他,只能鉴定他的决心,”一位NBA人士如是说。

乔丹复出所产生的问题不仅仅在于他不可能重现1998年的神话,那一年,他以一个精彩的最后一秒投篮,使球队赢得了冠军,也为自己赢得了第六只金指环。问题是他重返的动机——他需要人们的关注,需要在38岁体力不支时,仍然打球。这一切都有悖于他所创造的神话——一个展示绝对控制力的神话。如果说二十世纪的第一个球星巴比·鲁斯是一个身材魁梧肥胖的鲁莽之夫和酒鬼天才,乔丹则证明了刚毅所能带来的优雅风度,并以此结束了二十世纪。巴比对观众的颐指气使被乔丹无奈耸肩的魅力所取代。乔丹代表着成功,因为他的名字没有被他的政治倾向、他的观点或是他的超级明星个性所玷污。乔丹迷就是典雅和自信迷。

明明知道加盟奇才队他将不可能进入联赛第二轮赛事,明明知道他将与联赛最佳投手无缘,他的重返赛场就是一种失控。

乔丹并不在乎我们在想什么。他的朋友说:他把所有奉劝他不要复出的文章都贴在冰箱上作为激励。那么,我们为什么还要喋喋不休地告诉他不要复出呢?他依然是迈克尔·乔丹。选题二

即使我长大些,不再适合做这样的游戏,不再对母亲说我爱她,我仍然相信自己是世上最好的女儿。难道不是吗?每当母亲吩咐,我不是总一路跑着到阳台去查看晒在那儿的腌芒果?

当我步入少年,我好像变成了一个更乖更可爱的女儿。难道不是吗?每天下午,当妈妈需要新的调料,我不是总放下手头的工作去街角的杂货店帮她买?

另一方面,我的母亲对我的爱却好像越来越少。有时她活像个巫婆,因为她威胁如果我的学习成绩还没有起色,就要把我送到远在巴哈马乡下的二叔家——这对于像我这样心高气奥德加尔各答女孩而言,将是比死亡更悲惨的命运。有时她又会让我坐着听她讲有关“带给家庭耻辱的女孩”的故事。显然一个人会面对许多变坏的可能,因此母亲决心让我对每个可能都保持警惕。基本上,她对我想做的每一件事都持反对意见,从去美国学习到烫头发。她的口头禅是“除非我死了”。很明显,我对母亲的爱远远超过了她对我的爱——如果她爱我的话。

当我结束了在美国的研究生学习并结了婚,我和母亲的关系改善了许多。虽然偶尔她还对我的当作家的选择表示怀疑,但总的来说她认为我做的事情还算不错。对于她我也这样认为。我们之间建立起一种循环:她从印度写信给我,告诉我各种趣闻,并寄来我最喜欢的腌芒果;我从美国打电话给她,告诉她我都忙了些什么事情,并寄去她最喜欢的香草布丁。我们的爱是对等的——至少在我的儿子阿南德出生前,我是这样认为的。

儿子的降生一下子打乱了我的平静、规律、有秩序的生活,使我措手不及。出院后的六周里,我一直被产后抑郁症的阴影包围着。当夜里我和我的丈夫抱着哭闹不止的儿子,走来走去哄他睡觉,我开始认真考虑是否要“撤退”。我怀疑自己是否适合做母亲。母爱——究竟是什么?

有一天清晨,我在为阿南德换尿布,他突然咧开没有牙的嘴,冲我笑起来。那一刻我在想,这个褐色的瘦弱的小东西毕竟还是很可爱的。之后事情就进展得很顺利了。不知不觉之间,我已在婴儿室里添了一张床并在很多天晚上睡在那儿,陪着我心爱的宝贝。

Section 2: 汉译英(40分)Part A (必译题)(20分)

The vitality and special appeal of the Olympic Games lie in the Olympic spirit, which is the soul of the soul of the Games. The goal of sports is to pursue comprehensive physical and mental development and, on the basis of this, to accelerate social progress. Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympiad, considered sports a great undertaking of humanity. The goal of the Olympic Movement defined by him is to promote undertaking among different countries and cultures, maintain world peace and advance human civilization. This ideal has enabled the Olympic Games to thrive for more than a century. The Olympic Games have been a grand gathering of members of the Olympic family throughout the world, and the Olympic Movement has become a major social force to promote world peace, progress and development.

Part B二选一题(30分)

选题一

In recent years, China’s economy has maintained rapid development, injecting vigor into global economic growth. Facts have confirmed the prediction made by China before its WTO accession: China’s development cannot be sustained without the world, and world development needs China. In the coming 20 years, China is bound to make historic contributions to global economic development and to the common progress of mankind, while building a well-off society in an all-round way. To achieve this, China will continue to expand foreign trade, energetically implement its west development strategy, further improve its investment environment, and provide overseas investors with greater business opportunities. Meanwhile, it will guide and support competitive enterprises to invest overseas and carry out diverse forms of economic and technological cooperation on the basis of equality and mutual benefit. China will further intensify bilateral, multilateral and regional economic cooperation, so as to achieve common development in all countries and regions in the world.

选题二

The cell phone is becoming one of the major technologies of the 21st century. Within a few years, it will become a multi-functional communicator of transmitting and receiving not only sound, but also video, still images, data and text. A new era of personal communication is on the way.

Thanks in part to the growth of wireless networks, the telephone is converging with the personal computer and the television. Soon light-weight phones outfitted with high-resolution screens will be connected to satellites. People can talk, send and receive e-mail, or take part in video conferences anytime, anywhere. These phones might also absorb many of the key functions of computers. Mobile devices are expected to be ideal for some of the new services that are available via the Internet, such as trading stocks, shopping and booking theater and airline tickets.

The telecommunication revolution is developing around the globe. It will soon be possible to receive almost all forms of electronic communication through a single device. A three-in-one

phone is most likely. It can serve as a cordless at home, a cell phone on the road and an intercom at work. Some experts even suggest that cell videophones could overtake television as the major source of visual information.

2015上半年CATTI三级笔译真题及参考答案

2015上半年CATTI三级笔译真题及参考答案——英译汉 Section1: English-Chinese Translation (50 points) Forgenerations, coal has been the lifeblood of this mineral-rich stretch ofeastern Utah. Mining families proudly recall all the years they toiledunderground. Supply companies line the town streets. Above the road that windstoward the mines, a soot-smudged miner peers out from a billboard with theslogan “Coal =Jobs.” 犹他州东部有一个矿产丰富的小镇,那里的人们祖祖辈辈都以采煤为生。一提起在地下辛苦采煤时的情景,每个家庭总是倍感骄傲。街道两旁的煤炭供应公司一个挨着一个。在通往矿井的蜿蜒小路上方的广告牌上,一个满脸炭灰的矿工凝视着远方,旁边的标语写着“煤炭=工作”。 Butrecently, fear has settled in. The state’s oldest coal-fired power plant,tucked among the canyons near town, is set to close, a result of new, stricterfederal pollution regulations. 但是最近,小镇的人们心里充满了恐惧。联邦政府新颁布了一套更为严格的污染管理条例,这使得小镇附近峡谷之中的一家美国最古老的燃煤电厂频临倒闭。 As energy companies tack away from coal, toward cleaner, cheaper natural gas, people here have grown increasingly afraid that their community may soon slip away. Dozens of workers at the facility here, the Carbon Power Plant, have learned that they must retire early or seek other jobs. Local trucking and equipment outfits are preparing to take business elsewhere. 由于能源公司纷纷弃用煤炭,转而使用更清洁、更廉价的天然气,小镇的人们越来越害怕,他们的家园可能很快就会人去楼空。卡本电厂的几十名工人早就意识到,他们要么提前退休,要么另谋职业。当地的货运和装配人员正准备开发外地的业务。

2019年CATTI二级笔译英译汉真题及参考答案

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