英语考试题库
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英语考试题库一．翻译题英译汉Unit one1.Man has subdued and disciplined electricity and compelled it to serve the interests of society.人类降服并控制了电，迫使它为人类社会的利益服务。
2. However, despite their imperfect tools, they worked together stubbornly , collectively, and were able to attain results .然而，尽管工具不甚完备，他们却能同心协力，顽强工作，并总是有所收获3.At present the previous dynamic balance between man and nature and between nature and society as a whole, has shown ominous signs of breaking dow n.目前，人与自然以及自然与社会整体之间过去存在的动态平衡，已呈现崩溃的迹象。
4.Modern technology is distinguished by an ever increasing abundance of produced and used synthetic goods.现代技术的特征是生产和使用日益丰富的人工合成产品。
5.As time goes on the synthetic output of production turns into waste, and then substances that in their original form were not very toxic are transformed in the cycle of natural processes into aggressive agents .久而久之，这些合成物质转变成废弃物，那些原本毒性不大的物质在自然循环中变为极其有害的物质。
6.One of the ways to deal with the crisis situation in the "man-nature" system is to use such resources as solar energy, the power of winds, the riches of the seas and oceans and other, as yet unknown natural forces of the universe.解决人与大自然关系危机的方法之一，就是使用太阳能、风能、海洋能等资源，以及其他尚不为人所知的宇宙中的自然能。
Unit two1.By most standards, then, you would have to say that Americans are better off now than they were in the middle of the last century.那么，根据大多数标准衡量，你会说，现在的美国人比上个世纪中叶富裕多了。
2.But it's been left largely unexamined by economists and social scientists .然而，基本上还没有受到经济学家和社会学家们的关注。
3.In fact, one of happiness scholars' most important insights is that peopleadapt very quickly to good news .实际上，研究幸福的学者们最重要的观点之一是：人们对好消息很快便习以为常。
4.One famous study showed that although winners were very, very happywhen they won, their extreme excitement quickly evaporated , and aftera while their moods and sense of well-being were indistinguishable fromwhat they had been before the victory.一项重要的研究表明，尽管买彩票中奖的人中奖时会感到非常非常幸福，可这种兴奋很快就消逝了。
一段时间之后，他们的心情和幸福感与中奖之前没有什么两样。
5.Does our fast assimilation of technological progress mean, then, that technology makes no difference ?那么，我们对技术进步的快速吸收是否意味着技术没有发挥什么作用呢？6.Telemarketing , traffic jams, and identity theft all come to mind .譬如，我们马上会想到电话推销、交通阻塞以及身份资料失窃等情况7.But for the most part, modern critiques of technology have focused not so much on specific, bad technologies as the impact of technology on our human relationships.可是，现代的技术评论文章多半都没有把焦点集中在具体的、有害的技术上，而是集中在了技术对人际关系的影响上。
8.The notion that technology disrupts relationships and fractures community gained mainstream prominence as an attack on television.人们对电视的攻击主要集中在以下方面：技术扰乱了人际关系、破坏了社区交往.9.you're going to be stuck with the old one而你却还得使用旧款式的产品.10.It's as if disappointment were built into acquisition from the very beginning.这种失望感仿佛从开始购买这件产品时就已经存在了。
11.The point is obvious: the vast majority of people are happy to be alive, and the more time they get on earth, the better off they feel they'll be道理很清楚：绝大多数人很乐意活下去，他们在地球上生活的时间越长，感觉就越好。
12. it's also worth remembering how valuable for our spirits as well as our bodies are the benefits that medical technology has brought us.也应该记住，医疗技术带给我们身体上和精神上的好处是多么有价值13.On a deeper level, what the technological improvement of our health andour longevity emphasizes is a paradox of any discussion of happiness ona national or a global level :从更深的层次上说，我们在健康和长寿方面所取得的进步却强调了在国家和全球层面讨论幸福问题的一个自相矛盾的说法。
即使人们不会更幸福，即使他们更加富裕并拥有更多技术，他们还会像以前那样渴望长寿。
这就像那个古老的笑话一样：Unit four1.society could not care less whether we play it or not.我们玩不玩这个游戏社会是不会关注的2.what from the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his ownpoint of view voluntary play .从社会角度看是必需的劳动在他自己看来却是自愿的玩耍3.The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job这种差异与体力劳动和脑力劳动之间的差异并不吻合。
4.It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in e arlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy已经可以想象出这样一个社会：其人口的大多数，也就是其中的劳动者们，将会享受到早期贵族们才能享受到的几乎同样多的休闲。
5.The masses are more likely to replace an unchanging ritual by fashion which changes as often as possible in the economic interest of certain people .广大民众更有可能以时尚来取代一成不变的仪式，而时尚将会为了某些人的经济利益频繁地变化。
6.Workers seldom commit acts of violence, because they can put their aggression into their work, be it physical like the work of a smith , or mental like the work of a scientist or an artist.工作者很少从事暴力活动，他们可以把自己的“敌对心理”用在工作上，不管是工匠的体力活，还是科学家、艺术家的脑力活。
7. getting one's teeth into a problem紧紧咬住问题Unit seven1.Neither one of them,it turned out,was willing to restrict what theyconsidered their “real life“ into the brief time before work and the tired hours afterward.他们俩谁都不愿意把他们视为生活中最重要的部分仅仅局限于上班前的一小段时间和下班后已疲惫不堪的那几个小时.2.The construction of a world where family and friendship,work andplay,were all of a piece,构建一个把家庭和友谊、工作和娱乐融为一体的生活天地，3.Many of them well-made classic style from LL.Bean.其中许多还是出自L·L·比恩公司的做工精细的经典款式呢4.By sifting and discarding,by keeping track of what they have,通过筛选和丢弃并凭借他们对所拥有的东西的了解，5.The number of hand-thrown pottery dishes they own would not fill one. 他们家那几只手工陶制的碟子根本装不满一台洗碟机。
