2019年英语翻译资格考试二级笔译模拟试题及答案(1)

2019年CATTI二级笔译英译汉真题及参考答案【第一篇】So where there is financial connection, we see that rapid improvements in quality of life can quickly follow. In our modern context, there are several important channels to achieving this greater financial connectivity. I want to highlight two today: increased capital mobility and increased financial inclusion.First, enabling capital to flow more freely. Allowing capital to flow across borders can help support inclusive growth. Right now, foreign direct investment —FDI — is only 1.9 percent of GDP in developing countries. Before the global financial crisis, it was at 2.5 percent. Making progress on major infrastructure needs will require capital flows to rise again and to be managed safely.Greater openness to capital flows can also bring down the cost of finance, improve the efficiency of the financial sector, and allow capital to support productive investments and new jobs.Challenges that come with opening up capital markets. Thankfully, we know from experience the elements that are required for success. These include sound financial regulation, transparent rules for investment, and attention to fiscal sustainability.We also need increased financial inclusion. A few numbers: close to half of the adult population in low and middle-income Asia-Pacific economies do not have a bank account. Less than 10 percent have ever borrowed from a financial institution.And yet, we know that closing the finance gap is an “economic must-have” for nations to thrive in the 21st century. IMF analysis shows that if the least financially inclusive countries in Asia narrowed the finance gap to the level of Thailand — an emerging market economy — the poverty rate in those countries could be reduced by nearly 4 percent.How can we get there? In part, through policies that enable more women and rural citizens to access financial services. The financial gender gap for women in developing countries is about 9 percent and has remained largely unchanged since 2011.There is no silver bullet, but we know that fintech can play a catalyzing role.In Cambodia, for example, strong public-private partnerships in supporting mobile finance has led to a tripling in the number of micro-financial institutions since 2011. These institutions have now provided loans to over 2 million new borrowers, representing nearly 20 percent of the adult population. Many of these citizens had never had a bank account. Now they can save for the future and perhaps even start a business of their own.These are ideas that can work everywhere. But countries have to be willing to partner and learn from each other.That is one of the major reasons why last October, the IMF and World Bank launched the Bali Fintech Agenda. The agenda lays out key principles — from developing financial markets to safeguarding financial integrity — that can help each nation as it strives for greater financial inclusion.【第一篇参考答案】哪里形成了金融联系，当地的生活质量就会很快改善。

全国翻译专业资格（水平）英语二级笔译实务模拟试卷一[问答题]1.Passage 1What exactly does gl（江南博哥）obalization mean? Concepts related to globalization include “internationalization”, “multidomestic marketing”, and “multinational or divansnational marketing”, suggesting that the basic criterion is divansactions across national boundaries.In the marketing and sdivategic management literature, globalization is conceptualized as a means to gain competitive advantage by locating different stages of production in different geographic regions according to the particular region’s comparative advantage.This conceptualization focuses only on the economic aspects of globalization; social, cultural and political factors are only considered in the context of achieving economic advantage.Thus, being “culturally sensitive” in global markets is being able to sell one’s product with enough ingenuity to avoid possible pitfalls arising from the seller’s ignorance of local customs.International marketing textbooks discuss such cultural pitfalls in great detail; however, the cultural contest of globalization is always framed by the economy.Broader conceptualization of globalization can be found in other disciplines such as sociology and anthropology.Waters defined globalization as “a social process in which the consdivaints of geography on social and cultural arrangements recede and in which people become increasingly aware that they are receding.” This conceptualization with its much broader scope, allows for the examination of a number of consequences of globalization, not jut economic but social, cultural and political ones.While there are a few different conceptualizations of globalization, researchers seem to be in agreement that there are at least three dimensions of globalization: economic, political and cultural.The economic aspects of globalization stem from the spread of the capitalist world economy and the resulting expansion of goods and services.The need for cheap raw materials, cheap labor and new markets saw the expansion of the capitalist world economy from one that was primarily Eurocendivic to one that encompassed the entire world.This process was achieved by various means and often involved overcoming political resistances in the new markets.The political aspects of globalization involved establishing condivol over marketsand raw materials through either the use of direct military power or the establishment of international institutions that condivol such markets.The rise of the nation-state is an example of the political aspect of globalization, although it is argued that advances in telecommunications and information systems and the resulting consdivuctions of institutions that divansience territorial boundaries are making the nation-state obsolete.If the economic and political aspects of globalization involve material and power exchanges, the cultural of globalization involves the expression of symbols that represents facts, meanings, beliefs, preferences, tastes and values.In fact, these symbolic exchanges are increasingly displacing economic and political exchanges in the spread of global mass culture.Traditional barriers of language pose no problems to modem means of cultural production such as satellite television and film.However, the new “global culture”, despite its manifestations through consumption of global products and symbols in different part of the globe, is essentially the culture of dominant groups centered in the West.参考答案：参考译文全球化到底意味着什么?与全球化有关的概念包括“国际化”、“国内多国市场”以及“多国或跨国市场”意味着全球化的基本标准是跨国际的交易。

2019年翻译资格考试二级笔译考前冲刺模拟题1Passage 1：汉译英人人有饭吃，是人类最基本的生存权利，是一切人权的基础。

全球农业发展取得了长足的进步，但饥饿和贫困依旧是一种“无声的危机”，是深深困扰全人类的“阿喀琉斯之踵”。

目前世界上还有8亿多贫困人口面临着食物不足、营养不良的威胁。

促进农业发展，消除饥饿和贫困，依旧是世界面临的重大挑战，也是全人类肩负的共同责任。

国际社会应当携起手来，增强农业合作，更多关注发展中国家、尤其是一些最不发达国家的诉求。

应减少贸易爱护，增强对最不发达国家农业技术、资金等支持，提升全球农业生产水平和粮食安全保障水平。

中国作为世界上的发展中国家，任何时候都是维护世界粮食安全的积极力量。

尽管中国农业进一步发展面临许多困难，但我们仍将不懈努力，用行动来兑现诺言，主要依靠自己的力量解决好吃饭问题。

我们愿与世界各国携手奋进，共同创造一个无饥饿、无贫困、可持续发展的世界。

Food for all is, for mankind, the most fundamental right of survival, which serves as the basis for all other human rights. Great progress has been made in the globalagricultural development. Yet hunger and poverty haveremained a "silent crisis". They are like the "Achilles heel", deeply troubling all human beings. Over 800 million poor people in the world still face the threat of food shortages and malnutrition. To promote agricultural development and eradicate hunger and poverty remains a major challenge of the world and a common responsibility of mankind. Theinternational community may join hands to enhanceagricultural cooperation and pay greater attention to the calls of developing countries, in particular certain least developed countries (LDCs). Efforts should be made to curb trade protectionism and increase the technical and financial assistance to the agricultural sector of the LDCs so as to raise the global agricultural productivity and increase food security.As the largest developing country, China will always be an active force for safeguarding world food security. Although China faces quite a few difficulties ahead in its agricultural development, we will continue to work tirelessly to deliver on our commitment through actions. We will ensure adequate food supply mainly on our own. We are ready to work with countries around the world to create a world of sustainable development that is free from hunger and poverty.Passage 2：英译汉You’ve temporarily misplaced your cell phone and anxiously retrace your steps to try to find it. Or perhaps you never let go of your phone—it's always in your hand, your pocket, or your bag, ready to be answered or consulted at a moment’s notice. When your battery life runs down at the end of the day, you feel that yours is running low as well. New research shows that there’s a psychological reason for such extreme phone dependence： According to the attachment theory, for some of us, our phone serves the same function as the teddy bear we clung to in childhood.Attachment theory proposes that our early life experiences with parents responsible for our well-being, are at the root of our connections to the adults with whom weform close relationships. Importantly, attachment in earlylife can extend to inanimate objects. Teddy bears, for example, serve as “transitional objects.” The teddy bear, unlike the parent, is always there. We extend our dependence on parents to these animals, and use them to help us move to an independent sense of self.A cell phone has the potential to be a “compensatory attachment” object. Although phones are often castigated for their addictive potential, scientists cite evidence that supports the idea that “healthy, normal adults also report significant emotional attachment to special objects”Indeed, cell phones have become a pervasive feature of our lives： The number of cell phone subs criptions exceeds the total population of the planet. The average amount of mobile or smartphone use in the U.S. is 3.3 hours per day. Phones have distinct advantages. They can be kept by yourside and they provide a social connection to the people you care about. Even if you’re not talking to your friends, lover, or family, you can keep their photos close by, read their messages, and follow them on social media. You cantrack them in real time but also look back on memorable moments together. These channels help you “feel less alone”.参考译文你有过这种经历吗?手机一时放错了地方，忘了在哪，急急忙忙返回寻寻;手机从不离身，总是握在手里，揣在兜里或者放在包里，时刻预备回复消息，查寻内容。

CATTI 二级笔译实务全真模拟题（一）（附参考译文）Section 1: English-Chinese Translation (50 points) Translate the following two passages into Chinese.Passage 1Although we now tend to refer to the various crafts according to the materials used to construct them-clay, glass, wood, fiber, and metal-it was once common to think of crafts in terms of function, which led to their being known as the “applied arts”. Approaching crafts from the point of view of function, we can divide them into simple categories: containers, shelters and supports. There is no way around the fact that containers, shelters, and supports must be functional. The applied arts are thus bound by the laws of physics, which pertain to both the materials used in their making and the substances and things to be contained, supported, and sheltered, These laws are universal in their application, regardless of cultural beliefs, geography or climate. If a pot has no bottom or has large openings in its sides, it could hardly be considered a container in any traditional sense. Since the laws of physics, not some arbitrary decision, have determined the general form of applied-art objects, they follow basic patterns, so much so that functional forms can vary only within certain limits, Buildings without roofs, for example, are unusual because they depart from the norm.Sensitivity to physical laws is thus an important consideration for the maker of applied-art objects. It is often taken for granted that this is also true for the maker of fine-art objects. This assumption misses a significant difference between the two disciplines. Fine-art objects are not constrained by the laws of physics in the same way that applied-art objects are. Because the primary purpose is not functional, they are only limited in terms of the materials used to make them. Sculptures must, for example, be stable, which requires an understanding of the properties of mass, weight distribution, and stress, Paintings must have rigid stretchers so that the canvas will be taut, and the paint must not deteriorate, crack, or discolor. These are problems that must be overcome by the artist because they tend to intrude upon his or herconception of the work. For example, in the early Italian Renaissance, bronze statues of horses with a raised foreleg usually had a cannonball under that hoof, This was done because the cannonball was needed to support the weight of the leg. In other words, the demands of the laws of physics, not the sculptor's aesthetic intentions, placed the ball there, That this device was a necessary structural compromise is clear from the fact that the cannonball quickly disappeared when sculptors leaned how to strengthen the internal structure of a statue with iron braces (iron being much stronger than bronze).【参考译文】英译汉:第一篇如今，人们往往根据工艺品的材质来称呼它们，比如陶土工艺品、玻璃工艺品、木制工艺品、纤维工艺品、金属工艺品等，但最初人们通常根据它们的功能将它们统称为“应用艺术”。

翻译二级笔译综合能力分类模拟题词汇和语法(一)一、词汇选择1、 There was a noisy ______ at the back of the hall when the speaker began his address.A. interactionB. irritationC. disturbanceD. interruption2、 Violence is just one of the many problems ______ in city life.A. abundantB. inherentC. substantialD. coherent3、 He gave his work to his friend to ______, because he found it hard to see his own mistakes.A. adjustB. compileC. reviseD. verify4、This is but a ______ of the total amount of information which the teenager has stored．A．friction B．fraction C．faction D．fracture5、They were tired, but not any less enthusiastic ______ that account．A．on B．by C．for D．with6、 The patient is not in good condition, so do not ______ your visit.A. lengthenB. delayC. extendD. prolong7、Rescue workers continued the delicate task of sifting through tons of concrete and ______ to try to reach possible survivors．A．scraps B．leftovers C．debris D．residues8、 Trees that ______ the view of the oncoming traffic should be cut down.A. blockB. inhibitC. spoilD. alter9、 A considerable amount of time and money has been invested in ______ this system.A. definingB. implyingC. reducingD. perfecting10、 People who like to wear red clothes are more likely to be talkative and ______.A．lucrative B．introverted C．vivacious D．perilous二、词汇选择11、 The teacher was ______ both in his marking of homework and also in his treatment of offenders.A. mercifulB. forgivingC. pitifulD. lenient12、The concept of a loyal opposition—the ______ of modern democracy—rarely prevails and． much more frequently, opposition is equated with treason and ruthlessly suppressed．A．100p B．essence C．equivalent D．velocity13、 Every chemical change either results from energy being sued to produce the change, or causes energy to be ______ in some form．A．given off B．put out C．set off D．used up14、 My students found the book ______ it provided them with an abundance of information on the subject.A. enlighteningB. confusingC. distractingD. amusing15、 Researchers at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh announced they had discovered ______ evidence that a virus is involved in what used to be called juvenile diabetes.A. incessantB. compellingC. identicalD. problematic16、______ David loves his daughters, he is strict with them．A．If B．Although C．When D．For17、Timmer is known as a touch manager who demands ______ results．A．credible B．undeniable C．dynamic D．tangible18、 The primordial fireball would have been a dense roiling stew of radiation and elementary particles condensing out of the ______ energy, annihilating each other, recondensing, then colliding and disappearing all over again.A. colossalB. audaciousC. ambientD. autonomous19、 Stephen Schneider, a climatologist at Stanford, notes that unlike greenhouse gases, which ______ rapidly around the globe, the sulfate droplets tend to concentrate over industrialized regions.A. unifyB. fragmentC. disperseD. shatter20、Our corporation's obligation under this ______ is limited to repair or replacement．A．warranty B．license C．market D．necessity21、 He has failed me so many times that I no longer place any ______ on what he promises.A. faithB. beliefC. creditD. reliance22、 It was a type of urban story that continues to ______ big-city dwellers forward each day, a tale of hard work and self-starting initiative, of taking matters into one's own hands to make dreams come true.A. propelB. penetrateC. baffleD. harness23、 Nobody yet knows how long and how seriously the shakiness in the financial system will ______ down the economy.A. putB. settleC. dragD. knock24、They are a firm of good repute and have large financial ______.A．reserves B．savings C．storages D．resources25、Now the public has an unprecedented chance to peer over the shoulders of archaeologists and his-torians and get a firsthand look at the ______ of the Mongols and their Asian predecessors．A. legacyB. bequestC. converseD. miracle26、 Now the juries, and ultimately the society they speak for, have to find some way to express ______ at the brutality that women and children face every day.A. aggressionB. extenuationC. outrageD. suppression27、 When workers are organized in trade unions, employers find it hard to lay them ______.A. offB. asideC. outD. down28、 In this factory the machines are not regulated ______ but are jointly controlled by a central computer system.A. independentlyB. individuallyC. irrespectivelyD. irregularly29、 In the search for solution to seemingly overwhelming problems, it became increasingly ______ to include radical, even revolutionary ideas.A. stableB. absoluteC. immortalD. plausible30、He has been plowing through a biography of Lyndon Johnson and a ______ of Henry Kissinger．A．casualty B．criteria C．dissection D．necessity三、词汇选择31、 Scientists generally hold that language has been so long in use that the length of time writing is known to cover is ______ in comparison.A. overwhelmingB. uninspiringC. astoundingD. trifling32、 Some authorities trace the jury system to Anglo Saxon or even more ______ Germanic times.A. remoteB. similarC. austereD. barbaric33、The director of the research institute came in person to ______ that everything was all right．A．make out B．make sure C．make clear D．make up34、The leaders of the two countries are planning their summit meeting witha ______ to maintain and develop good ties．A．score B．priority C．pledge D．reward35、 Hydrogeology is the study of water and its properties, including its ______ and movement in and through land areas.A. flowB. absorptionC. distributionD. evaporation36、 A person's psychological ______ has much to do with his or her happiness in life.A. stateB. territoryC. interestD. nation37、The Lewis and Clark expedition ______ the territory of the Louisiana Purchase and beyond as far as the Pacific Ocean.A. locatedB. searchedC. exploitedD. developed38、Monkeys are excellent climbers, and most are ______ tree dwellers．A．often B．primarily C．rarely D．savagely．39、 Malaria is an infectious parasitic disease that can be either acute or chronic and is frequently ______.A. repeatingB. terminalC. debilitatingD. recurrent40、 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the U. S. President when many businesses were ______ during the Great Depression.A. failingB. incorporatingC. buying stocksD. expanding41、 Brass concert music was ______ to a new level in the 1880s when John Philip Sousa took over the U. S. Marine Band.A. strengthenedB. headedC. liftedD. briefed42、 He didn't do so well in the race ______ his training.A. for allB. above allC. in allD. after all43、 Mercury is the nearest planet to the sun and its period of ______ is 88 days.A．movement B．evolution C．return D．revolution44、 Although the end of the term was close ______, Jim had not completed all of the projects he had hoped to finish.A. on handB. by handC. at handD. in hand45、 Heat exhaustion is a condition caused by ______ to sunlight or another heat source which often results in dehydration and salt depleti on.A. a reaction toB. overexposureC. an limitation ofD. an absence of46、 Grand Teton National Park ______ the most scenic portion of the glaciated, snow-covered Teton Range.A. excludesB. fulfilsC. dominatesD. expanding47、 A loan refers to anything given on condition of its return or repayment of its ______.A. excessB. debtC. currencyD. equivalent48、As a salesman, he works on a ______ basis，taking 10% of everything he sells．A．revenue B．commission C．salary D．pension49、Nepal is a country in central Asia that is landlocked and ______ by the Himalayas．A．secluded B．bordered C．integrated D．opened50、The only safe way of distinguishing between edible and poisonous mushrooms is to learn to ______ the individual species．A．identify B．classify C．isolate D．separate答案:一、词汇选择1、C[解析] 本题是说当演讲者开始演讲时，在礼堂后有一阵嘈杂的骚乱。

英语翻译二级笔译实务模拟试题及答案解析（1）(1/2)Section ⅠEnglish-Chinese TranslationTranslate the following two passages into Chinese.Part A Compulsory Translation第1题"Wisdom of the Crowd": The Myths and RealitiesAre the many wiser than the few? Phil Ball explores the latest evidence on what can make groups of people smarter—but can also make them wildly wrong.Is The Lord of the Rings the greatest work of literature of the 20th Century? Is The Shawshank Redemption the best movie ever made? Both have been awarded these titles by public votes. You don't have to be a literary or film snob to wonder about the wisdom of so-called "wisdom of the crowd",In an age routinely denounced as selfishly individualistic, it's curious that a great deal of faith still seems to lie with the judgment of the crowd, especially when it can apparently be far off the mark. Yet there is some truth underpinning the idea that the masses can make more accurate collective judgments than expert individuals. So why is a crowd sometimes right and sometimes disastrously wrong?The notion that a group's judgement can be surprisingly good was most compellingly justified in James Surowiecki's 2005 book The Wisdom of Crowds, and is generally traced back to an observation by Charles Darwin's cousin Francis Galton in 1907. Galton pointed out that the average of all the entries in a "guess the weight of the ox" competition at a country fair was amazingly accurate—beating not only most of the individual guesses but also those of alleged cattle experts. This is the essence of the wisdom of crowds: their average judgment converges on the right solution.Still, Surowiecki also pointed out that the crowd is far from infallible. He explained that one requirement for a good crowd judgement is that people's decisions are independent of one another. If everyone let themselves be influenced by each other's guesses, there's more chance that the guesses will drift towards a misplaced bias. This undermining effect of social influence was demonstrated in 2011 by a team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. They asked groups of participants to estimate certain quantities in geography or crime, about which none of them could be expected to have perfect knowledge but all could hazard a guess—the length of the Swiss-Italian border, for example, or the annual number of murders in Switzerland. The participants were offered modest financial rewards for good group guesses, to make sure they took the challenge seriously.The researchers found that, as the amount of information participants were given about each other's guesses increased, the range of their guesses got narrower, and the centre of this range could drift further from the true value. In other words, the groups were tending towards a consensus, to the detriment of accuracy.This finding challenges a common view in management and politics that it is best to seek consensus in group decision making. What you can end up with instead is herding towards a relatively arbitrary position. Just how arbitrary depends on what kind of pool of opinions you start off with, according to subsequent work by one of the ETH team, Frank Schweitzer, and his colleagues. They say that if the group generally has good initial judgement, social influence can refine rather than degrade their collective decision.No one should need warning about the dangers of herding among poorly informed decision-makers: copycat behaviour has been widely regarded as one of the major contributing factors to the financial crisis, and indeed to all financial crises of the past.The Swiss team commented that this detrimental herding effect is likely to be even greater for deciding problems for which no objectively correct answer exists, which perhaps explains how democratic countries occasionally elect such astonishingly inept leaders.There's another key factor that makes the crowd accurate, or not. It has long been argued that the wisest crowds are the most diverse. That's a conclusion supported in a 2004 study by Scott Page of the University of Michigan and Lu Hong of Loyola University in Chicago.They showed that, in a theoretical model of group decision-making, a diverse group of problem-solvers made a better collective guess than that produced by the group of best-performing solvers.In other words, diverse minds do better, when their decisions are averaged, than expert minds. In fact, here's a situation where a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. A study in 2011 by a team led by Joseph Simmons of the Yale School of Management in New Haven, Connecticut found that group predictions about American football results were skewed away from the real outcomes by the over-confidence of the fans' decisions, which biased them towards alleged "favourites" in the outcomes of games.All of these findings suggest that knowing who is in the crowd, and how diverse they are, is vital before you attribute to them any real wisdom.Could there also be ways to make an existing crowd wiser? Last month, Anticline Davis-Stober of the University of Missouri and his co-workers presented calculations at a conference on Collective Intelligence that provide a few answers.They first refined the statistical definition of what it means for a crowd to be wise—when, exactly, some aggregate of crowd judgments can be considered better than those of selected individuals. This definition allowed the researchers to develop guidelines for improving the wisdom of a group. Previous work might imply that you should add random individuals whose decisions are unrelated to those of existing group members. That would be good, but it's better still to add individuals who aren't simply independent thinkers but whose views are "negatively correlated"—as different as possible—from the existing members. In other words, diversity trumps independence.If you want accuracy, then, add those who might disagree strongly with your group. What do you reckon of the chances that managers and politicians will select such contrarian candidates to join them? All the same, armed with this information I intend to apply for a position in the Cabinet of the British government. They'd be wise not to refuse.下一题(2/2)Section ⅠEnglish-Chinese TranslationTranslate the following two passages into Chinese.Part A Compulsory Translation第2题How much money can be made from trying to extract oil and gas from the layers of shale that lie beneath Britain?Answering that is proving to be a surprisingly difficult scientific question because knowing the basic facts about shale is not enough.The layers have been well mapped for years. In fact until recently geologists tended to regard shale as commonplace, even dull—a view that has obviously changed.The key tool is a seismic survey: sound waves are sent into the ground and the reflections reveal the patterns of the rocks. This describes where the shale lies but not much more.So we know, for example, that the Bowland Shale—which straddles northern England—covers a far smaller area than the massive shale formations of the United States but it is also much thicker than they are.That may mean that it is a potentially richer resource or that it is harder to exploit. Britain's geological history is long and tortured, so folds and fractures disrupt the shale layers, creating a more complex picture than across the Atlantic.To assess what the layers hold involves another step: wells have to be drilled into the rock to allow cores to be extracted so the shale can be analysed in more detail.As Ed Hough of the British Geological Survey told me: "We know the areas under the ground which contain gas and oil—what we don't know is how that gas and oil might be released from the different units of rock and extracted.""There's a lot of variability in these rocks—so their composition, their history and the geological conditions all come into play and are all variable."That means that neighbouring fracking operations might come up with very different results.In a lab at the BGS near Nottingham, I'm shown a simple but effective proof that shale does contain the hydrocarbons—gas and oil—at the heart of the current surge in interest.A few chunks of the rock are dropped into a beaker of water and gently heated until they produce tiny bubbles which rise like strings of pearls to the surface.It is a sight which is both beautiful and significant—the bubbles are methane, which the government hopes will form a new source of home grown energy.The gas and oil were formed millions of years ago when tiny plants and other organisms accumulated on the floor of an ancient and warm ocean—at one stage Britain lay in the tropics. This organic matter was then compacted and cooked by natural geological warmth which transformed it into the fuels in such demand now.So one question is the "total organic content" of the shale—how much organic material is held inside—and there can be large variations in this.But establishing that the shale is laden with fossil fuels is only one part of the story. The samples, extracted from deep underground, then need to be studied to see how readily they would release the fuels.So the BGS scientists fit small blocks of the shale into devices that squeeze it and heat it—trying to mimic the conditions that would be experienced during a fracking operation, when high pressure water and chemicals are injected into the shale to break it apart.Understanding how the shale behaves is essential to forming a judgment on how lucrative it might prove to be—or how unyielding or difficult, as some shale can turn out to be.Dr Caroline Graham, a specialist in geomechanics with the BGS, explained what the research into the rock samples was trying to achieve: "We'll be able to understand better how likely they are to produce certain amounts of gas, how easily they will frack and therefore it will give us a far better idea of how viable the UK deposits are economically speaking."These are early days for the science. And hopes that Britain will be able to copy America's shale revolution may be unrealistic.A senior executive from a global energy company once said a decision on whether to exploit a new shale "play" or area would only be made after 40-60 exploration wells had been dug. Professor Paul Stevens, an energy expert with the Royal Institute for International Affairs, said: "It's going to take a lot more wells to be drilled and a lot more wells to be fractured before we even get an idea of the extent to which we might expect a shale gas revolution and over what time period."So establishing that British shale is rich in oil and gas is only one step of a long journey. The current state of the science only goes so far. How much money can be made from trying to extract oil and gas from the layers of shale that lie beneath Britain?上一题下一题(1/2)Section ⅡChinese-English TranslationThis section consists of two parts, Part A—"Compulsory Translation" and Part B— "Choice of Two Translations" consisting of two sections "Topic 1" and "Topic 2". For the passage in Part A and your choice of passages in Part B, translate the underlined portions, including titles, into English. Above your translation of Part A, write "Compulsory Translation" and above your translation from Part B, write "Topic 1" or "Topic 2".第3题基础设施互联互通是融合发展的基本条件。

2019年11月翻译资格考题二级英语笔译实务试卷及答案Passage 1“一带一路”倡议：实现金融互联互通的两个关键渠道开幕致辞国际货币基金组织总裁克里斯蒂娜•拉加德“一带一路”论坛，金融互联互通会议Belt and Road Initiative: Two Key Channels to Achieving Financial ConnectivityOpening RemarksBy Christine Lagarde, IMF Managing DirectorBelt and Road Forum Session on Financial ConnectivityApril 24, 2019Governor Yi, Minister Liu, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen — good morning! Zao Shang Hao!易行长，刘部长，尊敬的嘉宾，女士们、先生们——早上好! Zao Shang Hao!I would like to thank the People’s Bank of China and the Chinese Ministry of Finance for organizing this important event.首先，我想对中国人民银行和中国财政部组织这场重要的会议表示感谢。

As we meet during this beautiful springtime weather it brings to mind the words of the Chinese proverb, “ The whole year must be planned for in the spring.”在这个美丽的春天相聚，让人想起一句中国谚语——“一年之计在于春”。

Over the next three days we will consider the ways the Belt and Road Initiative —the BRI—can help better connect the world physically and financially for years to come. It is fitting that we begin these conversations with financial connectivity. Why? Because history teaches us that physical and financial connectivity go hand-in-hand.在接下来的三天中，我们将讨论未来若干年“一带一路”倡议将如何增进世界各国在基础设施和金融层面的互联互通。

2019年6月CATTI二级笔译实务参考答案及全面解析2019年6月CATTI二级笔译实务参考答案及全面解析（1）第一篇英译汉2009年，《时代周刊》称赞纽约市三所公立学校试行的一项在线数学课程为当年50项最佳创新之一。

该软件每天为学生生成个性化的数学“播放列表”，学生可以选择他们希望以哪种方式研究——软件、虚拟教师或真人在线授课。

不同的算法排序教师的专业和课程表，以满足学生的需求。

一位资深教师惊叹地说：“它生成课程、测试并评分。

”解析：首先，正确理解“Time magazine”应该是“Time周刊”，不是“时代杂志”。

其次，在翻译时要注重语境，确保单词或短语的指代清晰，如“the are”指代前文提到的“在线数学授课程序”；“flesh-and-blood one”指代真人在线授课。

最后，要注意词语的选择，如“different algorithm”可以翻译成“独特算法”，而不是简单的“不同的计算程序”。

在2009年，《时代周刊》发表文章，称赞一种在线数学教育新程序，将其列为当年50大杰出创新成果之一。

该程序已在纽约市的3所公立学校进行试点运行。

该课程软件每日更新授课内容，以满足学生不同的需求，并提供多种播放模式选择，包括软件或虚拟教师授课，以及真人在线教学。

该课程软件采用独特的算法，对教师的专业和排课时间进行分类，以满足每位学生的需求。

一位经验丰富的教师赞叹道，“该软件不仅提供在线课程，还有测试环节，并能对测试内容进行评分。

”原文中没有格式错误或明显有问题的段落）XXX’s future。

The report called for a series ofreforms that XXX school days and years。

morehomework。

higher standards and more testing。

It also called forschools to adopt “computer-based XXX.” This reportset the stage for a new era of school XXX.Andrea Gabor's book。

2019英语二翻译真题1.The nationalists are very keen to （） their customs and language. [单选题] *A.concealB.convinceC.conserve(正确答案)D. conspire答案解析：本题考查要点参见《小站教育2022考研英语课程讲义》第15课时“常考词根-serve(保存)”。

本句的意思是：民族主义者们沉迷于保存他们的文化习俗和语言。

选项A的意思是“隐藏”；选项B的意思是“使确信，使信服”；选项C的意思是“保存，保护”；选项D的意思是“与他人密谋”。

由此可见，本题的答案是选项C。

2.Many papers stayed （） by pushing journalists overboard. [单选题] *A.abideB.afloat(正确答案)C.aboundD.abundant答案解析：本题考查要点参见《小站教育2022考研英语课程讲义》第16课时“常考词根-flu-(流)”。

本句的意思是：许多报纸通过裁员来维持生计。

选项A的意思是“坚持，遵守”；选项B的本义是“漂浮的”，此处为引申含义“无债务的”；选项C 的意思是“富于，大量存在”；选项D的意思是“丰富的；充分的”。

从句意可知，本题的答案是选项B。

3.In 1992, when Time Warner was under fire for releasing Ice-T’s violent rap song Cop Killer, Levin described rap as a lawful expression of street culture, which deserves an （）. [单选题] *A.outskirtB.outlet(正确答案)C.outdoorD.outer答案解析：本句的意思是：1992年，当时代华纳公司发行Ice-T乐队的暴力说唱歌曲《警察杀手》而备受谴责时，莱文称说唱音乐是街头文化的合法表达方式，应该有其宣泄途径。

2019翻译资格考试catti二级口译练习试题1练习题1.Sports are perhaps the most popular form of relaxation that almost all can enjoy, whether boys or girls, men or women, young or old.2.Sports and games build our bodies, prevent us from getting too fat, and keep us healthy.3.Mixing strength and agility with style and grace, the gymnastics have provided many of the most breathtaking Olympic spectacles.4.The exact sequence of events in ancient Olympics is uncertain, but events included man's gymnastics, boxing, wrestling, horse racing and field events, though there were fewer sports involved than in the modem Olympic Games.5.In his prose Ode to Sport, Pierre de Coubertin passionately described sport as the embodiment of beauty, justice, courage, health, progress and peace.6.The Olympic Creed reads： "The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. "7.In ancient Greece, athletes who were discovered cheating were fined, and the money was used to make bronzestatues of Zeus, which were erected on the road to the stadium.8.Boxing brings into play the various groups of muscles almost as harmoniously as rowing, and like rowing has the advantage of ruling out one source of nervous fatigue holding back.9.Long-distance rally driving dates back to an eventthat took place in 1907 when vehicles set out on a two-month trek from China to France. Four years later in 1911, the famous Monte Carlo Rally was inaugurated as the world's leading annual international rallying event.10.Total well-being means applying healthy lifestyle habits such as not smoking, managing stress, and eating a smart diet, as well as exercising regularly.答案1.体育运动大概是几乎所有人都喜爱的最普遍的令人松弛的娱乐形式，男孩女孩，男女老少都很喜爱体育运动。

2019年全国英语二级(pets2)模拟试题及答案(一) AWhat will man be like in the future-in 5000 or even50,000 years from now? We can only make guesses, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today. For man is slowly changing all the time.Let us take an obvious example. Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. Now, on average, men are about three inches taller. Five hundred years isrelatively short period of time, so we may assume that man will continue to grow taller. Again, in the modern world we use our brains a great deal. Even so, we still make use of only about 20% of the brain's capacity. As time goes on, however, we shall have to use our brains more and more, and eventually we shall need larger ones! This is likely to bring about a physical change to the head, in particular the forehead, will grow larger.Nowadays our eyes are in constant use. In fact, we use them so much that very often they become weaker and we have to wear glasses. But over very long period of time it is likely that man's eyes will grow stronger.On the other hand, we tend to make less use of our arms and legs. These, as a result, are likely to grow weaker. At the same time, however, our fingers will grow more sensitive because they are used a great deal in modern life.But what about hair? This will probably disappear from the body altogether in course of time because it does notserve a useful purpose any longer. In the future, then, both sexes are likely to be bald.Perhaps all this gives the impression that future man will not be a very attractive creature to look at! This may well be true. All the same, in spite of all these changes, future man will still have a lot in common with use. He will still be a human being, with thoughts and emotions similar to our own.36. The passage mainly tells us that____.A. man's life will be different in the futureB. future man will look quite different from usC. man is growing taller and uglier as time passesD. man's organs' functions will be one the wane37. What serves as the evidence that man is changing?A. Man has got stronger eyes now than he ever had.B. Man's hair is getting thinner and thinner.C. Man's arms and legs have become lighter and weaker.D. Man has been growing taller over the past 500 years.38. The change in man's size of forehead is probably because____A. he makes use only 20 % of the brain's capacity.B. his brain has grown larger over the past centuries.C. the other 80% of his brain will grow in due time.D. he will use his brain more and more as time goes on.39. What is true about a human being in the future?A. He is hairless because hair is no longer useful.B. He has smaller eyes and wears better glasses.C. His fingers grow weaker because he doesn't have to make use of them.D. He thinks and feels in different way.40. It is implied that ____.A. human beings will become less attractive in the future.B. less use of a bodily organ may lead to its degenerationC. human beings hope for a change in the future lifeD. future life is always predictable.BWith the steady increase in the amount of leisure time that people enjoy today, the importance of businesses that deal with leisure products and services is also steadily increasing. One of the biggest such industries is the tourist industry. Providing transportation and accommodations for tourists —— and guides, brochures, souvenirs —— is one of the major industries in many countries. Since people are now having longer vacations and are more and more interested in seeing other parts of the world, this business will no doubt continue to grow. Another industry obviously devoted to。

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以下是整理的“2019年翻译资格考试⼆级笔译英译汉段落练习1”！祝⼤家备考顺利！ Intelligent Test There is more agreement on the kinds of behavior referred to by the term “intelligence” than there is on how to interpret or classify them. But it is generally agreed that a person of high intelligence is one who can grasp ideas readily make distinctions reason logically and make use of verbal and mathematical symbols in solving problems.An intelligence test is a rough measure of a child’s capacity for learning particularly for learning the kinds of things required in school. It does not measure character social adjustment physical endurance manual skills or artistic abilities. It is not supposed to-- it was not designed for such purposes.To criticize it for such failure is roughly comparable to criticizing a thermometer for not measuring wind velocity.Now since the assessment of intelligence is a comparative matter we must be sure that the scale with which we are comparing our subjects provides a “valid” or “fair” comparison. ⼈们对智⼒所指的有那些不同表现看法⽐较⼀致，⽽对这些表现如何进⾏解释和分类，意见就不那么⼀致了。

全国翻译专业资格(水平)考试英语二级笔译综合能力模拟试题全国翻译专业资格（水平）考试英语二级笔译综合能力模拟试题Section 1: Vocabulary and Grammar (25 Points)This section consists of three parts. Read the directions for each part before answering the questions. The time for this section is 25 minutes.Part 1 Vocabulary SelectionIn this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are four words or phrases respectively marked by letters A, B, C, D. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. There is only one right answer. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.1. The streets of the Dual Springs neighborhood, a migrant-worker hub in northern Beijing, are ______. That's no surprise; more than 13,000 people have been quarantined in China's capital to halt the insidious spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).A. desertedB. vacatedC. unlived inD. removed2. In many ______ a lack of direction prompted the Republican Guard to call it a day.A. occasionsB. casesC. eventsD. days3. They did considerable work to ______ the masses of the United States with the elementary problems of Latin America.A. allowB. acquaintC. notifyD. propagate4. My mother says a teaching machine has to be _____ to fit the mind of each boy and girl it teaches and that each kid has to be taught differently.A. modifiedB. consideredC. adjustedD. remanufactured5. The big retailers are starting to think small, too. Sainsbury's and Tesco have launched convenience-store chains, called Local and Express, respectively - that have fast become _____ in British towns.A. ubiquitousB. establishedC. frequentedD. known6. The solidarity among the young, especially the 386 Generation, is so strong that it's helping to _____ the country's deep-rooted regional divide.A. enhanceB. dissolveC. weakenD. move7. The Wright brothers continued their flying in France and _____ all who saw them.A. saddenedB. frightenedC. astonishedD. alarmed8. We are will aware of the responsibilities that necessarily _____ to our office.A. attachB. confrontsC. givenD. face9. People say that what we are all _____ is a meaning for life, but I don't think that's what we all look for.A. seeingB. seekingC. watchingD. looking10. When Joe was left to live with those people, he found that they were so ____ of life that he couldn't stay with themA. painfulB. disdainfulC. meaningfulD. fruitful11. When you make the sacrifice in marriage, the psychologists say, you're sacrificing not to each other but to ______ in a relationship.A. unityB. utilityC. fraternityD. reality12. The constant changes in fashion, _____ with a view to higher sales, made greater demands on women as a class.A. predictedB. dictatedC. statedD. related13. It is easy to see why many little girls prefer to _____ with the male role, but the girl who does find the male role more attractive is faced with a dilemma.A. beautifyB. modifyC. identifyD. justify14. If we can _____ any kind of killing in the name of religion, the door is opened for all kinds of other justifications.A. purifyB. satisfyC. justifyD. verify15. I could easily perceive that his heart burnt to relieve his starving kids, but he seemed ashamed to ______ his inability to me.A. discoverB. recoverC. demonstrateD. impress16. It is a dangerous thing nowadays if you do not _____ others at arm's length, for they may hit you below the belt any time.A. bakeB. keepC. takeD. make17. I will never _____ the experiences of the four years at Howard University, though there were unhappy encounters.A. dischargeB. rechargeC. discardD. dispose18. We should not _____ the West, nor should we praise it to the skies and think great of everything that belongs to the West.A. forgiveB. forsakeC. forlornD. forage19. Bill Gates is one of those who are said to be _______, able to rack huge profits at every turn.A. on the shipB. on the planeC. on the gravy trainD. on the rocks20. He aimed at finding some workable _____ with a man who was a celebrity not only in the inward-reflecting world of Oxford but in the larger world outside.A. neighborhoodB. workmanshipC. relationshipD. craftsmanshipPart 2 Vocabulary ReplacementThis part consists of 15 sentences in which one word or phrase is underlined. Below each sentence, there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C, D. You are to select the ONE choice that can replace the underlined word without causing any grammatical error or changing the principal meaning of the sentence. There is only one right answer. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.21. It wasn't long before Franks was a marked man. After he served in Desert Storm, directing helicopter and ground units, the Army's high command gave him the job of remaking the service for the post-cold war world.A. a person whose conduct is watched with suspicion or hostilityB. a man destined to succeedC. a remarkable personD. a notable person22. The most notorious expression of that change was last year's bootleg publication of "The Japan That Can Say No" - the book written by right-wing politician Shintaro Ishihara and Sony chairman Akio Morita.A. free publicationB. pirate publicationC. lawful publicationD. commercial publication23. "No," Kojima said, "the point is, he spoke out, he stood up to America. Japan is just getting tired of being pushed around."A. he stood up and spoke to the American audienceB. he faced America boldlyC. he challenged AmericaD. he met the Americans' challenge proudly24. Traffic with criminals is dangerous.A. dealing with criminalsB. tracking the criminalsC. fighting the criminalsD. transporting criminals25. Some - such as liquid oxygen - are so cold that they embrittle many constructional materials and evaporate continuously if not refrigerated.A. weakenB. strengthenC. reduceD. cause … to become brittle26. A "Backgrounder" permits newspapermen to publish information given them though without attribution to the source.A. a person who remains behind the sceneB. a person providing the background knowledgeC. a press conferenceD. a news agency27. Is it possible that the entire tale is but a garbled account of that voyage and Biarni another name for LeifA. detailedB. plausibleC. distortedD. eye-witness28. Isolated cases of disaffection - or harbingers of a mass cross-border movement that threatens Europe's economic stability The question is pressing.A. signB. forerunnerC. messengerD. vanguard29. The man we met this morning grows many kinds of plants in his garden, most of which are flowers including succulents and cacti.A. risesB. raisesC. plantsD. plows30. The scientist contested the assumption of previous scientists that the fate of human beings could not be predicated.A. respectedB. supposedC. suspectedD. assumed31. One's knowledge of the world, according to humanists, is largely derived by observation, experience and their analysis of the things they observe and experience.A. come fromB. determinedC. resulted inD. resulted from32. In the last 10 years we have all witnessed an impressive growth in our knowledge about the environments.A. imperativeB. observableC. sustainableD. expressive33. In our culture and in our eyes success all too often means simply outdoing other people by virtue of achievement judged by some single scale - income or honors - and coming out at "the top".A. outfittingB. outbiddingC. outragingD. outshining34. Social taboos remained strong. Gambling was virtually prohibited except on the racecourses, and drinking of alcohol was discouraged by the closing of hotels at six o'clock and by the shortage of bottle beer.A. factuallyB. eventuallyC. consequentlyD. significantly35. Everyone must be responsible for their own behavior, and most of the young people today are interested, as far as I can perceive, in taking their knocks, just as adults must take theirs.A. taking their jobsB. sharing their ideas27. Is it possible that the entire tale is but a garbled account of that voyage and Biarni another name for LeifA. detailedB. plausibleC. distortedD. eye-witness28. Isolated cases of disaffection - or harbingers of a mass cross-border movement that threatens Europe's economic stability The question is pressing.A. signB. forerunnerC. messengerD. vanguard29. The man we met this morning grows many kinds of plants in his garden, most of which are flowers including succulents and cacti.A. risesB. raisesC. plantsD. plows30. The scientist contested the assumption of previous scientists that the fate of human beings could not be predicated.A. respectedB. supposedC. suspectedD. assumed31. One's knowledge of the world, according to humanists, is largely derived by observation, experience and their analysis of the things they observe and experience.A. come fromB. determinedC. resulted inD. resulted from32. In the last 10 years we have all witnessed an impressive growth in our knowledge about the environments.A. imperativeB. observableC. sustainableD. expressive33. In our culture and in our eyes success all too often means simply outdoing other people by virtue of achievement judged by some single scale - income or honors - and coming out at "the top".A. outfittingB. outbiddingC. outragingD. outshining34. Social taboos remained strong. Gambling was virtually prohibited except on the racecourses, and drinking of alcohol was discouraged by the closing of hotels at six o'clock and by the shortage of bottle beer.A. factuallyB. eventuallyC. consequentlyD. significantly35. Everyone must be responsible for their own behavior, and most of the young people today are interested, as far as I can perceive, in taking their knocks, just as adults must take theirs.A. taking their jobsB. sharing their ideasC. assuming their responsibilitiesD. shaking off their responsibilitiesPart 3 Correcting Grammatical ErrorsThis part consists of 15 sentences in which there is an underlined part that indicates a grammatical error. Below each sentence, there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C, D. You are to select the ONE choice and replace the underlined element(s) so that the error is erased and corrected. There is only one right answer. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.36. A survey asked British mums who work outside the home what they would most like for Mother's Day. And what did they reply "Flowers Chocolates Dinner in Paris " No, what 72% wanted was this: a little bit of time for mother.A. to myselfB. to momC. for momD. by myself37. Of course, nobody ever thought the prime minister's job shall be easy.A. wouldB. couldC. willD. should38. Downing Street is fighting fiercely for something it hopes it shall control: its reputation. "[The BBC] is now saying, 'Nobody ever said the prime minister told a lie,' but that's exactly what they're saying," Alastair Campbell, Blair's director of communications, told Newsweek. "That's pretty heavy."A. couldB. wouldC. canD. will39. The made-in-America idea of the global brand has built a name that people will buy on faith, and the pioneer was Coca-Cola.A. is buildingB. is to buildC. was to buildD. was building40. For the least, American roots are no longer an easy selling point. Through much of the postwar period, US brands could play off this cachet; Levi's ad campaigns used wholesome themes of boy-meets-girl in a heartland American setting until the early 1990s.A. At leastB. At the leastC. At mostD. At the most41. For me and my other classmates, trying to fathom what happened to our old school friend, we may never know if we really would grow up with a future terrorist.A. grow upB. are growing upC. grew upD. shall grow up42. When I was an editor, I always preferred to apologise promptly, what the merits of the case, rather than face the expense and, importantly, the time consuming complexities and debilitating worry of litigation, libel being one of the least satisfactory branches of the law.A. whichever, more importantlyB. whatever, more importantC. whichever, more important C. whatever, more importantly43. One morning my patience was growing thin during Mark talked once too often, and then I made a novice-teacher's mistake.A. whenB. asC. whileD. whenever44. One of the key features of CBI is the use of authentic "input" - in other words, "real" reading but listening material: magazine and newspaper articles, poems, short stories, brochures, excerpts from textbooks written for native speakers of English, radio interviews, lectures, and advertisements.A. andB. orC. and/orD. Nil45. In each person's life there are three stages. When one was young, people said, "He will do something." As he grew older and did nothing, they said, "He could do something if he found himself." When he was white-haired, people said of him, "He might do something if he could try anything."A. He should have done something if he has tried somethingB. He would have done something if he should have tried anythingC. He might do something if he would try something.D. He might have done something if he had tried anything46. China not only will endeavor to curb its population growth, but will also upgrade the education of its citizens.A. will not only … but also willB. will not only … but also willC. will not only … but alsoD. not only … but will also47. Of course, the notion suspects that while people work 50 weeks a year, their output is greater than they work 46or 47 weeks.A. p redicts … even ifB. assumes … ifC. assumes … whenD. predicts … when48. If they will not be able to reach agreement before the conference, they shall lose a good opportunity of involving themselves to do the project.A. will be unable … to involvingB. are unable … to involveC. are not be able … to involveD. will be able … to involving49. I was standing behind him and I did see Sandra handing the letter to Joe.A. handB. has handedC. handedD. was handing50. The President was talking to all the department heads while a group of unexpected important clients had arrived for a talk with him.A. when … were arrivingB. as … had arrivedC. when … arrivingD. when … arrivedSection 2: Reading Comprehension (50 Points, 70 minutes)In this section you will find after each of the passages a number of questions or unfinished statements about the passage, each with four (A. B.C and D) suggested answers or ways of finishing. You must choose the one which you think fits best. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.Questions 51-55 are based on the following passage.To Err Is Humanby Lewis ThomasEveryone must have had at least one personal experience with a computer error by this time. Bank balances are suddenly reported to have jumped from $379 into the millions, appeals for charitable contributionsare mailed over and over to people with crazy sounding names at your address, department stores send the wrong bills, utility companies write that they're turning everything off, that sort of thing. If you manage to get in touch with someone and complain,you then get instantaneously typed, guilty letters from the same computer, saying, "Our computer was in error, and an adjustment is being made in your account."These are supposed to be the sheerest, blindest accidents. Mistakes are not believed to be the normal behavior of a good machine. If things go wrong, it must be a personal, human error, the result of fingering, tampering a button getting stuck, someone hitting the wrong key. The computer, at its normal best, is infallible.I wonder whether this can be true. After all, the whole point of computers is that they represent an extension of the human brain, vastly improved upon but nonetheless human, superhuman maybe. A good computer can think clearly and quickly enough to beat you at chess, and some of them have even been programmed to write obscure verse. They can do anything we can do, and more besides.It is not yet known whether a computer has its own consciousness, and it would be hard to find out about this. When you walk into one of those great halls now built for the huge machines, and standing listening, it is easy to imagine that the faint, distant noises are the sound of thinking, and the turning of the spools gives them the look of wild creatures rolling their eyes in the effort to concentrate, choking with information. But real thinking, and dreaming, are other matters. On the other hand, the evidence of something like an unconscious, equivalent to ours, are all around, in every mail. As extensions of the human brain, they have been constructed the same property of error, spontaneous, uncontrolled, and rich in possibilities.51. The title of the writing "To Err Is Human" implies thatA. making mistakes is confined only to human beings.B. every human being cannot avoid making mistakes.C. all human beings are always making mistakes.D. every human being is born to make bad mistakes.52. The first paragraph implies thatA. computer errors are so obvious that one can hardly prevent it from happening.B. the computer is so capable of making errors that none of them is avoidable.C. computers make such errors as miscalculation and inaccurate reporting.D. Computers can't think so their errors are natural and unavoidable.53. The author uses his hypothesis that "computers represents an extension of the human brain" in order to indicate thatA. human beings are not infallible, nor are computers.B. computers are bound to make as many errors as human beings.C. errors made by computers can be avoided the same as human mistakes can be avoided.D. computers are made by human beings and so are their errors.54. The rhetoric the author employed in writing the third paragraph, especially the sentence "A good computer can think clearly and quickly enough to beat you at chess…" is usually referred to in writing asA. climaxB. personificationC. hyperboleD. onomatopoeia55. The author compared the faint and distant sound of the computer to the sound of thinking and regarded it as the product ofA. dreaming and thinkingB. some property of errorsC. consciousnessD. possibilitiesQuestions 56-60 are based on the following passage.The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Americanby Jeff SmithOur real American foods have come from our soil and have been used by many groups -- those who already lived here and those who have come here to live. The Native Americans already had developed an interesting cuisine using the abundant foods that were so prevalent.The influence that the English had upon our national eating habits is easy to see. They were a tough lot, those English, and they ate in a tough manner. They wiped their mouths on the tablecloth, if there happened to be one, and they ate until you would expect them to burst. European travelers to this country in those days were most often shocked by American eating habits, which included too much fat and too much salt and too much liquor. Not much has changed! And, the Revolutionists refused to use the fork since it marked them as Europeans. The fork was not absolutely common on the American dinner table until about the time of the Civil War, the 1860s. Those English were a tough lot.Other immigrant groups added their own touches to the preparation of our New World food products. The groups that came still have a special sense of self-identity through their ancestral heritage, but they see themselves as Americans. This special self-identity through your ancestors who came from other lands was supposed to disappear in this country. The term melting pot was first used in reference to America in the late 1700s, so this belief that we would all become the same has been with us for a long time. Thank goodness it has never worked. The various immigrant groups continue to add flavor to the pot, all right, but you can pick out the individual flavors easily.The largest ancestry group in America is the English. There are more people in America who claim to have come from English blood than there are in England. But is their food English Thanks be to God, it is not! It is American. The second largest group is the Germans, then the Irish, theAfro-Americans, the French, the Italians, the Scottish, and the Polish. The Mexican and American Indian groups are all smaller than any of the above, though they were the original cooks in this country.56. Which of the following statements is nearly identical in meaning with the sentence "they ate until you would expect them to burst" in the second paragraphA. You bet they would never stop to eat till they are full.B. What you can expect is that they would not stop eating unless there was no more food.C. The only thing you would expect is that they wouldn't stop eating till they had had enough of the food.D. the only thing is that they wouldn't stop eating till they felt sick.57. Which of the following statements is Not trueA. English people had bad table manners.B. American food was exclusively unique in its flavors and varieties.C. American diet contained a lot of fat, salt and liquor.D. Europeans were not at all accustomed to the American way of eating.58. The author's attitude towards the American food is thatA. American food is better than foods from other countries.B. American food is superior to European foods.C. the European food had helped enrich the flavors and varieties of the American foods.D. people from other countries could still identify from the American foods the food that was unique to their countries.59. Immigrant groups, when they got settled down in the United States, still have had their own sense of self-identity becauseA. their foods are easily identified among all the foods Americans eat.B. their foods stand out in sharp contrast to foods of other countries.C. they know pretty well what elements of the American food are of their own countries' origin.D. they know pretty well how their foods contribute to American cuisine.60. Which of the following statements is trueA. People from other cultures or nations start to lose their self-identity once they get settled down in America.B. The "melting pot" is supposed to melt all the foods but in reality it doesn't.C. The special sense of self-identity of people from other countries can't maintain once they become Americans.D. The "melting pot" finds it capable of melting all the food traditions into the American tradition.Questions 61-64 are based on the following passage."It's like being bitten to death by ducks." That's how one mother described her constant squabbles with her eleven-year-old daughter. And she's hardly alone in the experience. The arguments almost always involve mundane matters - taking out the garbage, coming home on time, cleaning up the bedroom. But despite its banality, this relentless bickering takes its adolescents - particularly mothers - report lower levels of life satisfaction, less marital happiness, andmore general distress than parents of younger children. Is this continual arguing necessaryFor the past two years, my students and I have been examining the day-to-day relationships of parents and young teenagers to learn how and why family ties change during the transition from childhood into adolescence. Repeatedly, I am struck by the fact that, despite considerable love between most teens and their parents, they can't help sparring. Even in the closest of families, parents and teenagers squabble and bicker surprisingly often - so often, in fact, that we hear impassioned recountings of these arguments in virtually every discussion we have with parents or teenagers. One of the most frequently heard phrases on our interview tapes is, "We usually get along but …"As psychologist Anne Petersen notes, the subject of parent-adolescent conflict has generated considerable controversy among researchers and clinicians. Until about twenty years ago, our views of such conflict were shaped by psychoanalytic clinicians and theorists, who argued that spite and revenge, passive aggressiveness and rebelliousness toward parents are all normal, even healthy, aspects of adolescence. But studies conducted during the 1970s on samples of average teenagers and their parents (rather than those who spent Wednesday afternoons on analysts' couches) challenged the view that family storm and stress was inevitable or pervasive. These surveys consistently showed that three-fourths of all teenagers and parents, here and abroad, feel quite close to each other and report getting along very well. Family relations appeared far more pacific than professionals and the public had believed.61. According to the passage, parents and teenagers are always at loggerheads with each other overA. the careless attitude of teenagers toward their parents' work pressure.B. who should take the lion's share of the housework.C. the finger-pointing attitude of the parents toward their children.D. disagreements on each other's behavioral patterns.62. The parents-children relationship changes from the relative positive to the relative negative whenA. the children reach 7 or 8 years of age.B. the children reach 13 or 14 years of age.C. the parents begin to have too many household responsibilities.D. the parents begin to feel there is too much burden in the house.63. Studies conducted during the 1970s on parents-children relationship indicated thatA. adolescence did not cause as much trouble as clinicians and theorists had stated.B. Children's aggressiveness and rebelliousness were growing.C. Children-parents relationship was declining.D. teenagers became even more abhorrent of their parents.64. The author's own discoveries from the day-to-day relationships of parents and young teenagers indicate thatA. storm and stress between the parents and the teenagers are normal.B. storm and conflicts are unavoidable.C. parents can never avoid the conflicts unless they love their children.D. parents' strictness lead to their children's disapproval of them.Questions 65-71 are based on the following passage.Questions of education are frequently discussed as if they bore no relation to the social system in which and for which the education is carried on. This is one of the commonest reasons for the unsatisfactoriness of the answers. It is only within a particular social system that a system of education has any meaning. If education today seems to deteriorate, if it seems to become more and more chaotic and meaningless, it is primarily because we have no settled and satisfactory arrangement of society, and because we have both vague and diverse opinions about the kind of society we want. Education is a subject which cannot be discussed in a void: our questions raise other questions, social, economic, financial, political. And the bearings are on more ultimate problems even than these: to know what we want in education we must know what we want in general, we must derive our theory of education from our philosophy of life. The problem turns out to be a religious problem.One might almost speak of a "crisis" of education. There are particular problems for each country, for each civilization, just as there are particular problems for each parent; but there is also a general problem for the whole of the civilized world, and for the uncivilized so far as it is being taught by its civilized superiors; a problem which may be as acute in Japan, in China or in India as in Britain or Europe or America. The progress (I do not mean extension) of education for several centuries has been from one aspect a drift, from another aspect a push; for it has tended to be。

2019年翻译资格考试catti二级笔译试题及答案Translate the following passage into Chinese随着社会主义市场经济的逐步完善，中国大多数企业的社会责任意识也在不断增强。

它们恪守诚信，合法经营，努力为国内外消费者提供高质量的商品，注重节约，保护环境，努力履行社会义务。

一些企业还主动发布社会责任报告，公开履行社会责任状况，自觉接受社会监督。

当然，受经济发展水平和发展阶段的制约，中国经济增长方式还比较粗放，能源资源消耗多，环境保护压力大，少数企业还存在一些片面追求经济效益、忽视社会责任的行为。

企业社会责任运动自上世纪80年代兴起后，已经成为世界潮流。

强调企业社会责任，就是要求企业对投资者负责的同时，对员工负责，对消费者负责，对商业伙伴负责，对环境和社会负责。

国内外企业的成功经验表明，社会责任也是企业的品牌，是企业核心竞争力的组成部分，是企业长盛不衰的重要法宝。

企业要生存和发展，就必须增强社会责任意识，积极履行社会义务。

我们有理由相信，未来的企业竞争，将不再仅仅是产品的竞争、技术的竞争和人才的竞争，更是履行社会责任的竞争。

“赠人玫瑰，手有余香”。

企业在履行社会责任、促进社会和谐的同时，自身也会得到更大的发展。

答案As the socialist market economy gradually improves, there is also a growing sense of social responsibility among the vast majority of Chinese companies. They abide by the code of ethics and lawful operation andare committed to providing high-quality products for domestic and foreign consumers. They pay attention to conservation, environmental protection and CSR fulfillment.Some companies go even further by publishing their CSR reports to disclose their CSR performance and to voluntarily subject themselves to public scrutiny. Of course, constrained by the level and stage of its economic development, China still practices a rough-edged economic growth model, featuring high energy and resources consumption and high environmental costs. A handful of companies are still single-mindedly seeking profits and turning a blind eye to their social responsibilities.Since the 1980s, CSR has become to a global trend. Putting emphasis on CSR means companies not only have to be responsible to their investors, but also to their employees, customers, business partners, and to the environment and society. International success stories also show that CSR is part of a company's brand image and its core competitiveness. It is a vital source of sustained prosperity for business. So in order to survive and grow, it is imperative that companies should raise their CSR awareness and actively fulfill their social responsibilities. We have every reason to believe that future business competition will diversify from specific products, technology and talents toward CSR performance. As the proverb goes, "The rose is in her hand and thefragrance in mine". Companies benefit from their efforts to honor CSR and promote social harmony.Translate the following passage into Chinese.Born in 1451, the son of an Italian weaver, Christopher Columbus took to the sea at an early age, making up for his lack of formal education by teaching himself geography, navigation, and Latin. By the 1480s Columbus - a tall, red-haired, long-faced man with a ruddy complexion, oval eyes, and a prominent nose - was an experienced seaman. Dazzled by the prospect of Asian riches, he hatched a scheme to reach the Indies (India, China, the East Indies, or Japan) by sailing west. After the courts of Portugal, England, and France showed little interest in his plan, Columbus turned to Spain for backing. He won the support of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Spanish monarchs, and himself raised much of the money needed to finance the voyage. The legend that the queen had to hock the crown jewels is as spurious as the fable that Columbus set out to prove the earth was round.Columbus chartered one seventy-five-foot ship, the Santa Maria, and the Spanish city of Palos supplied two smaller caravels, the Pinta and Nina. From Palos this little squadron, with eighty-seven officers and men, set sail westward for what Columbus thought was Asia. The first leg of the journey went well, thanks to a strong trade wind. But then the breeze lagged, the days passed, and the crew began to grumble about。

二级笔译考试模拟题及答案【试题一】The first outline of The Ascent of Man was written in July1969and the last foot of film was shot in December 1972. An undertaking aslarge 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, Ihad to put off researches that I had already begun; and I ought to explai-n what moved me to do so.There has been a deep change in the temper of science in thelast20 years: the focus of attention has shifted from the physical tothe life sciences. As a result, science is drawn more and more to the study of in-dividuality. But the interested spectator is hardly awareyet how far-reaching the effect is in changing the image of man that science moulds. Asa 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 isan 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 ideasin 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 aliveand charged with individuality. If television is not used to make these thoughts concrete, it is wasted.参考答案：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。

2019年6月CATTI二级笔译实务参考答案及全面解析（1）第一篇英译汉In 2009, Time magazine hailed an online math program piloted at three New York City public schools, as one of the year’s 50 best innovations. Each day, the software generated individualized math “playlists” for students who then chose the “modality” in which they wished to learn — software, a virtual teacher or a flesh-and-blood one. A different algorithm sorted teachers’ specialties and schedules to match a student’s needs. “It generates the lessons, the tests and it grades the tests,” one veteran instructor marveled.解析：不是《时代杂志》，而是《时代周刊》。

原文的理解不是停留在表层，而是深入理解原文的意义、内涵、句法结构和逻辑思路。

具体体现在某些单词的指代要清晰，词语选择要到位。

the software generated individualized math “playlists” for students who then chose the “modality” in which they wished to learn 在这里看到the software前面的the就要知道指代前文提到的在线数学授课程序。