20175月二级笔译考试真题和答案解析

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2016年5月英语二级笔译真题

Section 1: English-Chinese Translation (50 points)

Passage 1

Jane Goodall was already on a London dock in March 1957 whe n she realized

that her passport was miss ing. In just a few hours, she was due to depart on her first trip to Africa. A

school friend had moved to a farm outside Nairobi and, knowing Goodall ' s childhood dream was to live

among the African wildlife, invited her to stay with the family for a while. Goodall, then 22, saved for two

years to pay for her passage toKe nya: waitress ing, doing secretarial work, temp ing at the post office in

her hometown, Bournemouth, on England ' southern coast. Now all this was for n aught, it seemed.

It ' s hard not to wonder how subsequent events in her liferather conseque—ial as they have turned

out to be to con servati on, to scie nee, to our sense of ourselves as a species— might have un folded

differe ntly had some one not found her passport, along with an it in erary from Cook ' s, the travel

age ncy, folded in side, and delivered it to the

Cook' s office. An agency representative, documents in hand, found her on the dock.

“In credible, ” Goodall told me last mon th, recalli ng that day. “ Amazi

ng.

With in two mon ths of her arrival, Goodall met the pale on tologist Louis Leakey

——Nairobi was a small town for its white population in those days ——and he immediately offered her a

job at the n atural-history museum where he was curator. He spe nt much of the n ext three years test ing

her capacity for repetitive work.

He believed in a hypothesis first put forth by Charles Darwin that humans and chimpa nzees share

an evoluti onary an cestor. Close study of chimpa nzees in the wild, he thought, might tell us someth ing

about that com mon proge nitor. He was, in other words, look ing for some one to live among Africa ' s

wild an imals. One ni ght, he told Goodall that he knew just the place where she could do it: Gombe

Stream Chimpa nzee Reserve, in the British colony of Tangany ika (now Tanzani a).

In July 1960, Goodall boarded a boat and after a few hours motoring over the

warm, deep waters of Lake Tangany ika, she stepped onto the pebbly beach at Gombe.

Her finding, published in Nature in 1964, that chimpanzees use tools — extract ing in sects from a 完美WORD格式

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termite mound with leaves of grass — drastically and forever altered huma nity ' understa nding of itself;

man was no Ion ger the n atural world ' s only user of tools.

After two and a half decades of liv ing out her childhood dream, Goodall made an abrupt career

shift, from scie ntist to con servati oni st.

Passage 2

Scien tists have found the first evide nee that briny water flowed on the surface of Mars as rece ntly

as last summer, a paper published on Mon day showed, rais ing the possibility that the pla net could

support life.

Although the source and the chemistry of the water is unknown, the discovery will cha nge scie

ntists ' thinking about whether the pla net that is most like Earth in the solar system could support prese

nt day microbial life.

The discovery was made whe n scie ntists developed a new tech nique to an alyze chemical maps of

the surface of Mars obtained by NASA s Mars Reconnaissanee Orbiter spacecraft.

They found telltale fingerprints of salts that form only in the presence of water in narrow channels

cut into cliff walls throughout the planet region. s equatorial

The slopes appear duri ng the warm summer mon ths on Mars, the n vanish whe n the temperatures

drop. Scien tists suspected the streaks were cut by flow ing water, but previously had bee n un able to

make the measureme nts.

Mars Reconn aissa nce Orbiter makes its measureme nts duri ng the hottest part of the Martian day,

so scientists believed any traces of water, or fingerprints from hydrated mi nerals, would have

evaporated.

Also, the chemical-se nsing in strume nt on the orbit ing spacecraft cannot home in on details as

small as the n arrow streaks, which typically are less tha n 16 feet wide.

But Ojha and colleagues created a computer program that could scrutinize

in dividual pixels. That data was the n correlated with high-resolutio n images of the streaks. Scie ntists

concen trated on the widest streaks and came up with a 100 perce nt match betwee n their locati ons and

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Section 2: Chinese-English Translation (50 points)

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人口问题归根结底是发展问题。 人口的急剧增长，社会经济的迅速发展，给 资源和环境带来了空前压力。我们要关注人口增长与经济社会发展的关系， 统筹 解决好人口数量、素质、结构和分布问题。

人口流动和家庭结构变化将对公共服务和社会治理带来挑战。 大规模的人口 流动成为推动社会变迁的主要力量，同时也加快了家庭的小型化、多样化、离散 化。

我们要大力推进流动人口基本公共服务均等化， 着力提升流动人口服务管理

水平，确保流动人口公平公正地享受城镇公共资源和社会福利，全面参与政治、 经济、社会和文化生活，实现经济立足、社会接纳、身份认同和文化交融。