2013CATTI二级笔译真题(打印版)
2013到2011年CATTI二级笔译真题及参考答案
2013年11月英语二级《笔译实务》试题Part A Compulsory Translation（必译题）The archivists requested a donkey, but what they got from the mayor’s office were four wary black sheep, which, as of Wednesday morning, were chewing away at a lumpy field of grass beside the municipal archives building as the City of Paris’s newest, shaggiest lawn mowers. Mayor Bertrand Delano? has made the environment a priority since his election in 2001, with popular bike- and car-sharing programs, an expanded network of designated lanes for bicycles and buses, and an enormous project to pedestrianize the banks along much of the Seine.The sheep, which are to mow (and, not inconsequentially, fertilize) an airy half-acre patch in the 19th District intended in the same spirit. City Hall refers to the project as “eco-grazing,” and it notes that the four ewes will prevent the use of noisy, gas-guzzling mowers and cut down on the use of herbicides.Paris has plans for a slightly larger eco-grazing project not far from the archives building, assuming all goes well; similar projects have been under way in smaller towns in the region in recent years.The sheep, from a rare, diminutive Breton breed called Ouessant, stand just about two feet high. Chosen for their hardiness, city officials said, they will pasture here until October inside a three-foot-high, yellow electrified fence.“This is really not a one-shot deal,” insisted René Dutrey, the adjunct mayor for the environment and sustainable development. Mr. Dutrey, a fast-talking man in orange-striped Adidas Samba sneakers, noted that the sheep had cost the city a total of just about $335, though no further economic projections have been drawn up for the time being.A metal fence surrounds the grounds of the archives, and a security guard stands watch at the gate, so there is little risk that local predators — large, unleashed dogs, for instance — will be able to reach the ewes.Curious humans, however, are encouraged to visit the sheep, and perhaps the archives, too. The eco-grazing project began as an initiative to attract the public to the archives, and informational panels have been put in place to explain what, exactly, thesheep are doing here.But the archivists have had to be trained to care for the animals. In the unlikely event that a ewe should flip onto her back, Ms. Masson said, someone must rush to put her back on her feet.Part B Optional Translation（二选一题）Topic 1 （选题一）Norman Joseph Woodland was born in Atlantic City on Sept. 6, 1921. As a Boy Scout he learned Morse code, the spark that would ignite his invention.After spending World War II on the Manhattan Project , Mr. Woodland resumed his studies at the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia (it is now Drexel University), earning a bachelor’s degree in 1947.As an undergraduate, Mr. Woodland perfected a system for delivering elevator music efficiently. He planned to pursue the project commercially, but his father, who had come of age in “Boardwalk Empire”-era Atlantic City, forbade it: elevator music, he said, was controlled by the mob, and no son of his was going to come within spitting distance.The younger Mr. Woodland returned to Drexel for a master’s degree. In 1948, a local supermarket executive visited the campus, where he implored a dean to develop an efficient means of encoding product data. The dean demurred, but Mr. Silver, a fellow graduate student who overheard their conversation, was intrigued. He conscripted Mr. Woodland.An early idea of theirs, which involved printing product information in fluorescent ink and reading it with ultraviolet light, proved unworkable.But Mr. Woodland, convinced that a solution was close at hand, quit graduate school to devote himself to the problem. He holed up at his grandparents’ home in Miami Beach, where he spent the winter of 1948-49 in a chair in the sand, thinking.To represent information visually, he realized, he would need a code. The only code he knew was the one he had learned in the Boy Scouts.What would happen, Mr. Woodland wondered one day, if Morse code, with itselegant simplicity and limitless combinatorial potential, were adapted graphically? He began trailing his fingers idly through the sand.“What I’m going to tell you sounds like a fairy tale,” Mr. Woodland told Smithsonian magazine in 1999. “I poked my four fingers into the sand and for whatever reason — I didn’t know — I pulled my hand toward me and drew four lines. Now I have four lines, and they could be wide lines and narrow lines instead of dots and dashes.’ ”Today, bar codes appears on the surface of almost every product of contemporary life. All because a bright young man, his mind ablaze with dots and dashes, one day raked his fingers through the sand.201211 Passage 1Tucked away in this small village in Buckinghamshire County is the former Elizabethan coaching inn where William Shakespeare is said to have penned part of "A Midsummer Night's Dream."Dating from 1534, the inn, now called Shakespeare House, is thought to have been built as a Tudor hunting lodge. Later it became a stop for travelers between London and Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shakespeare was born and buried.It was "Brief Lives," a 17th-century collection of biographies by John Aubrey, that linked Shakespeare to the inn, saying that he had stayed there and drawn inspiration for the comedy while in the village.One of the current owners, Nick Underwood, said the local lore goes even further: "It is also said he appears at the oriel window on the top floor of the house on April 23 every year -- the date he is said to have been born and to have died.""In later years, the house later became a farmhouse, with 150 acres of land, but, over time, pieces were sold off," Mr. Underwood said. "In the 20th century, it was owned by two American families." Now, he and his co-owner, Roy Elsbury, have put the seven-bedroom property on the market at ￡1.375 million, or $2.13 million. Despite its varied uses and renovations over the years, the 4,250-square-foot, or 395-square-meter, inn has retained so much of its original character that the organization English Heritage lists it as a Grade II* property, indicating that it is particularly important and of "more than special interest." Only 27 percent of the 1,600 buildings on the organization's register have this designation.We knew of the house before we bought it and were very excited when it came up for sale. It is so unusual to find an Elizabethan property of this size, in this area, and when we saw it, we absolutely fell in love with it," Mr. Underwood said. "We have taken great pleasure in working on it and living here. This house is all about the history."In addition to being the owners' home, the property currently is run as a luxury guest house, with rooms rented for ₤99 to ₤250 a night."Shakespeare House is a wonderful example of Elizabethan architecture," said DeanHeaviside, the national sales director of Fine real estate agency, which is representing the owners. "It has been beautif-ully restored and offers a unique lifestyle, which brings a taste of the past together with modern-day comfort. It is rare to find a home like this on the market."Passage 2The ancient frozen dome cloaking Greenland is so vast that pilots have crashed into what they thought was a cloud bank spanning the horizon. Flying over it, you can scarcely imagine that it could erode fast enough to dangerously raise sea levels any time soon.Along the flanks in spring and summer, however, the picture is very different. For an increasing number of warm years, a network of blue lakes and rivulets of melt-water has been spreading ever higher on the icecap.The melting surface darkens, absorbing up to four times as much energy from the sun as snow, which reflects sunlight. Natural drainpipes called moulins carry water from the surface into the depths, in some places reaching bedrock.The process slightly, but measurably, lubricates and accelerates the grinding passage of ice towards the sea.Most important, many glaciologists say, is the break-up of huge semi-submerged clots of ice where some large Greenland glaciers, particularly along the west coast, squeeze through fiords as they meet the warming ocean. As these passages have cleared, this has sharply accelerated the flow of many of these creeping, corrugated and frozen rivers.Some glaciologists fear that the rise in seas in a warming world could be much greater than the upper estimate of about 60 centimetres this century made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year. (Seas rose less than 30 centimetres last century.)The panel's assessment did not include factors known to contribute to ice flows but not understood well enough to estimate with confidence. SCIENTIFIC scramble is under way to clarify whether the erosion of the world's most vulnerable ice sheets, in Greenland and west Antarctica, can continue to accelerate. The effort involves fieldand satellite analyses and sifting for clues from past warm periods,Things are definitely far more serious than anyone would have thought five years ago. Passage 1中国是一个发展中国家。
全国翻译专业资格水平考试二级笔译实务真题
全国翻译专业资格水平考试二级笔译实务真题全国翻译专业资格（水平）考试二级笔译实务真题【中译英】Passage 12000年，中国建成北斗导航试验系统，使我国成为继美、俄之后的世界上第三个拥有自主卫星导航系统的国家。
虽然目前它的定位精度与GPS还有一定的差距，但它具备了GPS 所没有的短报通信和位置报告的功能。
在没有手机信号的地方，用户也可以通过该系统发送短信。
2008年四川汶川大地震后，灾区电话无法接通，手机信号中断，救援员将北斗导航终端带入灾区，及时保持了与外界的通讯联络。
该系统的位置报告功能可以帮助交通管理部门掌握行驶车辆的位置，及时疏导交通，缓解交通拥堵状况。
虽然北斗卫星导航系统是中国独立发展、自主运行的卫星导航系统，但这并不影响它与世界上其他卫星导航系统之间的兼容性。
用户在同时使用北斗和GPS这两种导航系统时，定位和导航效果会更好。
Passage 2中国和欧洲是两大战略力量，肩负推动全球经济发展、促进人类文明进步、维护世界和平的'崇高使命，双方正在形成不断放大的战略交集，中国是最大的新兴市场国家，欧盟是最大的发达经济体，“最大”与“最大”交融，一切都有可能，“新兴”与“发达”携手，优势就会倍增，中欧在新兴和发达经济体合作中可以成为典范。
中国和欧洲分处欧亚大陆的两端，这块大陆是世界上面积最大的大陆，也是人口最多的大陆，市场空间广阔，发展机遇巨大。
中欧都主张国际关系民主化，在许多国际重大事务上有共同利益，双方关系具有越来越重要的全球影响。
中欧都有伟大的文明，中国推崇“和而不同”，欧盟倡导“多元一体”，13亿多中国人与7亿多欧洲人命运相连、前途相关，中欧在不同文明包容互鉴中可以成为引领。
【英译中】Passage 1Apple may well be the only tech company on the planet that would dare compare itself to Picasso.In a class at the company's internal university, the instructor likened the 11 lithographs that make up Picasso's "The Bull" to the way Apple builds its smartphones and other devicesThe idea is that Apple designers strive for simplicity just as Picasso eliminated details to create a great work of art.Steve Jobs established Apple University as a way to inculcate employees into Apple's business culture and educate them about its history, particularly as the company grew and the technical business changed. Courses are not required, only recommended, but getting new employees to enroll is rarely a problem.Randy Nelson, who came from the animation studio Pixar, co-founded by MrJobs, is one of the teachers of "Communicating at Apple." This course, open to various levels of employees, focuses on clear communication, not just for making products intuitive, but also for sharing ideas with peers and marketing products.In a version of the class taught last year, Nelson showed a slide of "The Bull," a series of 11 lithographs of a bull that Picasso created over about a month, starting in late 1945. In the early stages, the bull has a snout, shoulder shanks and hooves, but over the iterations, those details vanish. The last image is a curvy stick figure that is still unmistakably a bull."You go through more iterations until you can simply deliver your message in a very concise way, and that is true to the Apple brand and everything we do," recalled one person who took the course.In "What Makes Apple, Apple," another course that Nelsonoccasionally teaches, he showed a slide of the remote control for the Google TV, said an employee who took the class last year. The remote has 78 buttons. Then, the employee said, Nelson displayed a photo of the Apple TV remote, a thin piece of metal with just three buttons.How did Apple's designers decide on three buttons? They started out with an idea, Nelson explained, and debated until they had just what was needed - a button to play and pause a video, a button to select something to watch, and another to go to the main menu.The Google TV remote serves as a counter example; it had so many buttons because the individual engineers and designers who worked on the project all got what they wanted. But, Apple's designers concluded, only three were really needed.Passage 2Equipped with the camera extender known as a selfie stick, occasionally referred to as "the wand of narcissism,'' tourists can now reach for flattering CinemaScope selfies wherever they go.Art museums have watched this development nervously, fearing damage to their collections or to visitors, as users swing their sticks with abandon. Now they are taking action. One by one, museums across the United States have been imposing bans on using selfie sticks for photographs inside galleries(adding them to rules on umbrellas, backpacks, tripods),yet another example of how controlling crowding has become part of the museum mission.The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington prohibited the sticks this month, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston plans to impose a ban. In New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has been studying the matter for sometime, has just decided that it, too, will forbid selfie sticks,too.New signs will be posted soon."From now on, you will be asked quietly to put it away,'' said Sree Sreenivasan, chief digital officer at the Met. "It's one thing to take a picture at arm's length, but when it is three times arm's length, you are invading someone else's personal space.'' The personal space of other visitors is just one problem. The artwork is another. "We do not want to have to put all the art under glass,'' said Deborah Ziska, the chief of public information at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, which bans selfie sticks.Last but not least is the threat to the camera operator, intent on capturing the perfect shot and oblivious to the surroundings. "If people are not paying attention in the Temple of Dendur, they can end up in the water with the crocodile sculpture,'' Sreenivasan said. We have so many balconies you could fall from and stairs you can trip on”At the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thursday, Jasmine Adaos , a selfie-stick user from Chile, expressed dismay.”It’s just another product,” she said ”When you have a regular camera, it’s the same thing. I don’t see the problem if you’re careful,” But Hai Lin ,a student from Shandong, China, conceded that the museum might have at point .”You can hit people when they’re passing by.” she said.下载全文。
2013年考研英语二真题及答案(完整版)
2013年研究生入学考试英语一真题与解析英语二完型Section I Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Given the advantages of electronic money, you might think that we would move quickly to the cashless society in which all payments are made electronically.___1___, a true cashless society is probably not around the corner. Indeed, predictions of such a society have been ___2___ for two decades but have not yet come to fruition. For example, Business Week predicted in 1975 that electronic means of payment “would soon revolutionize the very ___3___ of money itself,” only to ___4___ itself several years later. Why has the movement to a cashless society been so ___5___ in coming?Although e-money might be more convenient and may be more efficient than a payments system based on paper, several factors work __6___ the disappearance of the paper system. First, it is very ___7___ to set up the computer, card reader, and telecommunications networks necessary to make electronic money the___8___ form of payment. Second, paper checks have the advantage that they___9___ receipts, something that many consumers are unwilling to ___10___. Third, the use of paper checks gives consumers several days of "float"-it takes several days ___11___ a check is cashed and funds are ___12___ from the issuer's account, which means that the writer of the check can earn interest on the funds in the meantime. ___13___ electronic payments are immediate, they eliminate the float for the consumer. Fourth, electronic means of payment ___14___ security and privacy concerns. We often hear media reports that an unauthorized hacker has been able to access a computer database and to alter information ___15___ there.Because this is not an ___16___ occurrence, unscrupulous persons might be able to access bank accounts in electronic payments systems and ___17___ funds by moving them from someone else’s accounts into their own. The ___18___ of thistype of fraud is no easy task, and a whole new field of computer science has developed to ___19___ security issues. A further concern is that the use of electronic means of payment leaves an electronic ___20___ that contains a large amount of personal data on buying habits. There are worries that government, employers, and marketers might be able to access these data, thereby encroaching on our privacy.1. [A] However [B] Moreover [C] Therefore [D] Otherwise2. [A] off [B] back [C] over [D] around3. [A] power [B] concept [C] history [D] role4. [A] reward [B] resist [C] resume [D] reverse5. [A] silent [B] sudden [C] slow [D] steady6. [A] for [B] against [C]with [D] on7. [A] imaginative [B] expensive [C] sensitive [D] productive8. [A] similar [B] original [C] temporary [D] dominant9. [A] collect [B] provide [C] copy [D] print10. [A] give up [B] take over [C] bring back [D] pass down11. [A] before [B] after [C] since [D] when12. [A] kept [B] borrowed [C] released [D] withdrawn13. [A] Unless [B] Until [C] Because [D] Though14. [A] hide [B] express [C] raise [D]ease15. [A] analyzed [B] shared [C] stored [D] displayed16. [A] unsafe [B] unnatural [C] uncommon [D] unclear17. [A] steal [B] choose [C] benefit [D] return18. [A] consideration [B] prevention [C] manipulation [D] justification19. [A] cope with [B] fight against [C] adapt to [D] call for20. [A] chunk [B] chip [C] path [D] trail答案：1-5: ADBDC6-10: BBDBA11-15: ADCCC16-20: CABAD英语二阅读原文及出处：Text 1In an essay, entitled “Making It in America,”in the latest issue of The Atlantic, the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, “a man and a dog. The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines。
CATTI二级笔译汉译英真题2013年5月
CATTI二级笔译汉译英真题2013年5月(总分：50.00，做题时间：120分钟)一、Chinese -English Translation (总题数：1，分数：25.00)1. 稀土是不可再生的重要自然资源，在经济社会发展中的用途日益广泛，如光学、电子信息、航空航天、核工业等尖端科技领域。
目前我国的稀土储量占世界的30%，却长期以来供应了国际97%的市场需求。
我国的稀土储量全球最高。
2010年，中国稀土储量达到3600万吨，占到全球稀土储量的36.4%。
同时中国也是全球最大的稀土生产国，中国稀土矿产量达到12.9万吨，占到全球产量的97%。
中国稀土行业的快速发展，为全球稀土供应作出了重要贡献。
但同时也为此付出了巨大代价。
由于稀土资源的稀缺性和开采高污染性，全球稀土储量国许多厂都关闭了，直接从中国进口稀土。
目前，我国稀土私采乱挖、浪费资源等情况依然猖獗。
一些私采乱挖的矿山，稀土开采的吨回收率甚至只有5%，稀土资源被大量浪费，并由此引发巨大环境问题。
我们需要制定相关政策，减少稀土资源的过度开采。
在稀土的开采、生产、出口等环节综合采取措施，加大资源和环境保护的力度，努力促进稀土行业持续健康发展。
（分数：25.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：二、SECTION 2 Optional Translation (20 points)(总题数：1，分数：25.00)2. 中国特色社会主义法律体系的形成，总体上解决了有法可依的问题。
在这种情况下，有法必依、执法必严、违法必究的问题就显得更突出、更紧迫。
这也是广大人民群众和社会各方面普遍关注的问题。
因此，我们要采取以下措施，切实保障宪法和法律的有效实施。
一要维护宪法和法律的权威和尊严。
CATTI人事部二级笔译实务真题
CATTI二级笔译实务真题汇总目录2014年11月二级笔译实务 (1)2014年5月二级笔译实务 (6)2013年11月二级笔译实务 (10)2013年5月二级笔译实务 (12)2012年11月二级笔译实务 (16)2012年5月二级笔译实务 (21)2011年11月二级笔译实务 (26)2011年5月二级笔译实务 (29)2010年11月二级笔译实务 (33)2010年5月二级笔译实务 (36)2009年5月二级笔译实务 (40)2008年11月二级笔译实务 (45)2008年5月二级笔译实务 (46)2007年11月二级笔译实务 (50)2007年5月二级笔译实务 (54)2006年11月二级笔译实务 (59)2006年5月二级笔译实务 (64)2014年11月二级笔译实务Part 1 English to Chinese TranslationPassage 1The region around this Belgian city is busily preparing to commemorate the 200th anniversary in 2015 of one of the major battles in European military history. But weaving a path through the pre parations is proving almost as tricky as making one’s way across the battlefield was back then, when the Duke of Wellington, as commander of an international alliance of forces, crushed Napoleon.A rambling though dilapidated farmstead called Hougoumont, which was crucial to the battle’s outcome, is being painstakingly restored as an educational center. Nearby, an underground visitor center is under construction, and roads and monuments throughout the rolling farmland where once the sides fought are being refurbished. More than 6,000 military buffs are expected to re-enact individual skirmishes.While the battle ended two centuries ago, however, hard feelings have endured. Memories are long here, and not everyone here shares Britain’s enthusiasm for celebrating Napoleon’s defeat.Every year, in districts of Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium, there are fetes to honor Napoleon, according to Count Georges Jacobs de Hagen, a prominent Belgian industrialist and chairman of a committee responsible for r estoring Hougoumont. “Napoleon, for these people, was very popular,” Mr. Jacobs, 73, said over coffee. “That is why, still today, there are some enemies of the project.”Belgium, of course, did not exist in 1815. Its Dutch-speaking regions were part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, while the French-speaking portion had been incorporated into the French Empire. Among French speakers, Mr. Jacobs said, Napoleon had a “huge influence — the administration, the Code Napoléon,” or reform of the legal system. Whi le Dutch-speaking Belgians fought under Wellington, French speakers fought with Napoleon.That distaste on the part of modern-day French speakers crystallized in resistance to a British proposal that, as part of the restoration of Hougoumont, a memorial be raised to the British soldiers who died defending its narrow North Gate at a critical moment on June 18, 1815, when Wellington carried the day. “Every discussion in the committee was filled with high sensitivity,” Mr. Jacobs recalled. “I said, ‘This is a condition for the help of the British,’ so the North Gate won the battle, and we got the monument.”If Belgium was reluctant to get involved, France was at first totally uninterested. “They told us, ‘We don’t want to take part in this British triumphalism,’ ” said Countess Nathalie, a writer and publicist who is president of a committee representing four townships that own the land where the battle raged.比利时滑铁卢——2015年，这座比利时小镇热闹非凡，人们正在紧锣密鼓地筹备滑铁卢战役200周年的纪念活动。
catti二级笔译综合能力试题精选及答案解析
catti二级笔译综合能力试题精选及答案解析一、Vocabulary Selection（本大题1小题．每题1.0分，共1.0分。
In this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are four words or phrases respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. There is only one right answer. ）第1题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 greaterB greater is the stressC greater stress isD the greater the stress【正确答案】：D【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】固定用法。
the+比较级，the+比较级。
二、Vocabulary Replacement（本大题11小题．每题1.0分，共11.0分。
This 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 and 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. ）第1题The thief was apprehended, but his accomplice had disappeared.A people who saw himB the person who helped himC guns and knivesD stolen goods模考吧网提供最优质的模拟试题，最全的历年真题，最精准的预测押题！【正确答案】：B【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】名词辨析。
CATTI笔译综合能力二级翻译真题2006-2013
2006年5月【英译汉必译题】For all the natural and man-made disasters of the past year, travelers seem more determined than ever to leave home.Never mind the tsunami devastation in Asia last December, the recent earthquake in Kashmir or the suicide bombings this year in London and Bali, among other places on or off the tourist trail. The number of leisure travelers visiting tourist destinations hit by trouble has in some cases bounced back to a level higher than before disaster struck."This new fast recovery of tourism we are observing is kind of strange," said John Koldowski, director for the Strategic Intelligence Center of the Bangkok-based Pacific Asia Travel Association. "It makes you think about the adage that any publicity is good publicity."It is still too soon to compile year-on-year statistics for the disasters of the past 12 months, but travel industry experts say that the broad trends are already clear. Leisure travel is expected to increase by nearly 5 percent this year, according to the World Tourism and Travel Council.Tourism and travel now seem to bounce back faster and higher each time there is an event of this sort," said Ufi Ibrahim, vice president of the London-based World Tourism and Travel Council. For London, where suicide bombers killed 56 and wounded 700 on July 8, she said, "It was almost as if people who stayed away after the bomb attack then decided to come back twice."Early indicators show that the same holds true for other disaster-struck destinations. Statistics compiled by the Pacific Asia Travel Association, for example, show that monthly visitor arrivals in Sri Lanka, where the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami left more than 30,000 people dead or missing, were higher than one year earlier for every month from March through August of this year.A case commonly cited by travel professionals as an early example of the trend is Bali, where 202 people were killed in bombings targeting Western tourists in October 2002. Visitor arrivals plunged to 993,000 for the year after the bombing, but bounced back to 1.46 million in 2004, a level higher than the two years before the bomb, according to the Pacific Asia Travel Association.Even among Australians, who suffered the worst casualties in the Bali bombings, the number of Bali-bound visitors bounced back within two years to the highest level since 1998, according the Pacific Asia Travel Association.Bali was hit again this year by suicide bombers who killed 19 people in explosions at three restaurants.Visits are also on the upswing to post-tsunami Thailand, where the giant waves killed 5,400 and left more than5,000 missing.Although the tsunami killed more than 500 Swedes on the Thai resort island of Phuket, the largest number of any foreign nationality to die, Swedes are returning to the island in larger numbers than last year, according to My Travel Sweden, a Stockholm-based group that sends 600,000 tourists overseas annually and claims a 28 percent market share for Sweden."We were confident that Thailand would eventually bounce back as a destination, but we didn"t think that this year it would come back even stronger than last year," said Joakim Eriksson, director of communication for My Travel Sweden. "We were very surprised because we really expected a significant decline."Eriksson said My Travel now expects a 5 percent increase in visitors to both Thailand and Sri Lanka this season compared with the same season last year. This behavior is a sharp change from the patterns of the 1990s, Eriksson said."During the first Gulf war we saw a sharp drop in travel as a whole, and the same after Sept. 11," Eriksson said. "Now the main impact of terrorism or disasters is a change in destination."【参考译文】尽管去年发生了许多自然灾害和人为的灾害，但是旅游者比以往更加坚决地出门旅行。
CATTI二级笔译综合真题
Section 1 V ocabulary and Grammar (60 points)This section consists of 3 parts. Read the direction for each part before answering the questions.Part 1 V ocabulary SelectionIn this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are 4 choices marked by letters A, B, C, and D respectively. Choose the word which best completes each sentence. There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.1. From a young age, children begin a continuous process of evaluating themselves in the _____ of the opinions and comments of those around them.a. contrastb. returnc. lightd. spite2. If you’re forced outside for hours ____ end, especially doing something physical, consider dumping water over your head or on your neck.a. atb. toc. ind. on3. One reason for the cost of wave power is the need to make the equipment _____ to storm damage and corrosion.a. impassableb. impertinentc. imperiousd. impervious4. The study found that one in four people has missed an important appointment, and that nearly one in five has fallen ____ with a friendover a forgotten date.a. outb. inc. throughd. across5. Neil made a thrust at the person who was holding a knife towards him and violently overthrew him horse and ______.a. dogb. footc. toed. cart6. These fish excrete nitrates that develop plankton – the enemy of corals, for they make the sea water ____ and block sunlight which is an essential ingredient for coral survival.a. shakyb. huskyc. riskyd. murky7. It’s the ____ of ad that is intended to appeal to teachers, lawyers, doctors, and other professionals.a. sampleb. sortc. shaped. set8. The _______ secretary is very conscientious about correcting even the smallest errors.a. mediocreb. meticulousc. meand. mendacious9. The doctor has made an initial ______, but there will be an additional examination by a specialist.a. dosageb. disposalc. diagnosisd. detection10. Instead of making the same old New Year resolutions, it would be more meaningful to _____ the pump with the very qualities you would like to see in your life.a. primeb. strikec. drived. hit11. A share price represents the value of the share – it tells you next to _____ about the value of the stock of a company in an unregulated market.a. everythingb. nothingc. anythingd. something12. It is _____ for anyone to make any irresponsible remarks on a country’s national defense building aimed at safeguarding national security and territorial integrity.a. unsettledb. unreservedc. unshakeabled. untenable13. The “smoothie” theory contends that people save for a rainy day in a boom and then _____ out savings to maintain living standards during a recession.a. cutb. getc. drawd. lay14. The cost of living in the city is greater, but salaries are supposed to be _______ higher.a. respectivelyb. proportionatelyc. correspondinglyd. accordingly15. To make everyone develop in every aspect with complete freedom is the ideal that human beings have been _______ pursuing.a. indefatigablyb. necessarilyc. completelyd. exceptionally16. Communal nests have advantages and disadvantages for animals like mice: they enable the animals to maintain body heat, but leave them more ____ to discovery by predators.a. flexibleb. vulnerablec. delicated. insensitive17. One by one, she ______ almost all of her supporters until, in the end, only a handful of her closest allies really wanted her to stay in office.a. liberatedb. representedc. decomposedd. alienated18. Everyone in my office pays the same tax, irrespective ____ whether they’re married or single.a. ofb. withc. tod. from19. The number of stay-at-home fathers reached a record high last year as families saw a rise in that of female ____.a. awardwinnersb. breadwinnersc. cashwinnersd. prizewinners20. Traditional fairytales are being ditched by parents because they are too ____ for their young children.a. scantyb. stylishc. scaryd. stingyPart 2 V ocabulary ReplacementThis part consists of 20 sentences. In each of them one word or phrase is underlined, and below each, there are 4 choices marked by letters A, B, C and D respectively. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part without causing any grammatical error or changing the basic meaning of the sentence. There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.21. One problem is that these changes add to the already exorbitant costsof MBA courses.a. extravagantb. excessivec. extensived. expedient22. The World Health Organization says that despite great progress in preventing malaria in many countries, a shortage of funds could lead to a resurgence of the disease.a. regressionb. recessionc. revivald. renovation23. Beef, pork, and chicken are staples for the local people, but some diners also tuck into other exotic animals in the belief that they have medicinal qualities.a. strangeb. outboundc. tamed. diverse24. Samsung is not the first company to come under government scrutiny for its warranty practices.a. investigationb. arbitrationc. censorshipd. review25. The idea that beauty is capital epitomizes the idea that good looks are the key to increased opportunities for social and career success.a. employsb. empowersc. emulatesd. embodies26. Some researchers set out to explore claims that warm indoor temperatures have helped to bring about rising obesity levels.a. contributed tob. emerged withc. searched ford. benefited from27. Several studies have found that chemical compounds can be sued to subdue or even delete memories in mice (and maybe someday inhumans).a. supportb. supplantc. suppressd. supply28. Education can help students carve out a better future for themselves, but studying abroad can come with a high price tag sometimes.a. attainb. obtainc. retaind. entertain29. Scientists still don’t understand what parts of the brain linked to deviant social behaviors associated with conditions like autism and schizophrenia.a. abnormalb. ambientc. ambitiousd. acute30. If you are habitually later for routine business and for events that don’t cause you much discomfort, then the problem is mainly self-discipline.a. rhythmicallyb. intermittentlyc. customarilyd. momentarily31. Ecologists have worriedly predicted the extent to which water and air pollution will seriously endanger the environment.a. confidentlyb. angrilyc. sadlyd. entirely32. Although the jobs on offer do not appear overly appealing, they have become quite sought after.a. inadequatelyb. exceedinglyc. moderatelyd. reasonably33. If is difficult to discern the stains on the sample unless the microscope is adjusted properly.a. disposeb. definec. discardd. detect34. They bestowed the gift to the person who rescued their child from a big fire.a. precededb. presentedc. presumedd. preserved35. Rapid thawing of the Arctic could trigger a catastrophic “economic time bomb”which would cost trillions of dollars and weaken the global financial system.a. undercutb. underminec. underscored. underpin36. Sally Verner, a former state senator who preached judicial restraint, was expected to align herself with conservatives when she was appointed to the United States Supreme Court.a. advocatedb. admiredc. adoptedd. advanced37. Whether the giant panda belonged to the bear or cat families was a matter of zoological contention for years.a. controversyb. confusionc. conceptiond. complication38. If you have a great goal in mind, don’t give it up, no matter how apathetic, exhausted, or frustrated you might feel.a. indifferentb. inadvertentc. intolerantd. indulgent39. Malnutrition, so often caused by sheer poverty, can be ameliorated with nutritious easy-to-grow vegetables to augment the starchy local diet.a. underminedb. improvedc. exterminatedd. repealed40. By afternoon I was all sweated out and parched up, but still we sawno sight of water.a. consortedb. burnishedc. dosedd. scorchedPart 3 Error CorrectionThis part consists of 20 sentences. In each of them there is an underlined part that indicates a grammatical error, and below each, there are 4 choices marked by letters A, B, C and D respectively. Choose the word and phrase that can replace the underlined part so that the error is corrected. There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.41. During severe winter snowstorms, schools would close, the same as post offices and other government agencies.a. as shouldb. as wouldc. as dod. as did42. Early musical training does more good to kids than only to make it easier for them to enjoy music.a. only makingb. making onlyc. makingd. to make43. Eating popcorn in the cinema may be irritated not just for fellow moviegoers, but for advertisers: a group of researchers have concluded that chewing makes us immune to film advertising.a. may be to irritateb. may be irritatingc. may have irritatedd. may irritate44. A report found a quarter of men have fallen asleep while driving, making them almost twice likely as women (13 percent) to do so.a. twice as likely asb. likely as twicec. as twice as likelyd. as twice likely。
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2013年上半年CATTI二级笔译真题独家提供Section1English-Chinese Translation(50points) Translate the following two passages into Chinese.Passage1For more than a decade,archaeologists and historians have been studying the contents of a ninth-century Arab dhow that was discovered in1998off Indonesia’s Belitung Island.The sea-cucumber divers who found the wreck had no idea that it eventually would be considered one of the most important maritime discoveries of the late20th century.The dhow was carrying a rich cargo—60,000ceramic pieces and an array of gold and silver works—and its discovery has confirmed how significant trade was along a maritime silk road between Tang Dynasty China and Abbasid Iraq.It has also revealed how China was mass-producing trade goods even then and customizing them to suit the tastes of clients in West Asia.“Shipwrecked:Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds”at the new,lotus-shaped Art Science Museum designed by Moshe Safdie presents items from the Belitung wreck. Curated by the Asian Civilizatons Museum here in Singapore and the Arthur M.Sackler Gallery in Washington,the show is expected to travel to museums around the world over the next five to six years.“This exhibitions tells us a story about an extraordinary moment in globalization,”said Julian Raby,Director of the Arthur M.Sackler Gallery.“It brings to life the tale of Sinbad sailing to China to make his fortune.It shows us that the world in the ninth century was not as fragmented as we assumed.There were two great export powers:the Tang in the East and Abbasid based in Baghdad.”Until the Belitung find,historians had thought that Tang China traded primarily through the land routes of Central Asia,mainly on the Silk Road.Ancient recrods told of Persian fleets sailing the Southeast Asian seas,but no wrecks had been found,until the Belitung dhow.Its cargo confirmed that a huge volume of trade was taking place along a maritime route,said Heidi Tan,a curator at the Asian Civilizations Museumand a curator of the exhibitinon.Mr.Raby said:“The size of the find gives us a sense of two things:a sense of China as a country already producing things on an industrialized scale and also a China that is no longer producing ceramics to bury.”He was referring to the production of burial pottery like camels and horses,which was banned in the late eighth century.“Instead,kilns looked for other markets and they started producing tableware and they built an export market.”Passage2Madeira is more than500kilometers from the African coast and is officially one of the“outermost regions”of the European Union.Despite that far-flung status, Madeira catapulted into the center of the Union’s agricultural and environmental affairs last year when Portugal asked the European Commission for permission to impose an unprecedented ban on growing biotech crops there.Last week,the commission quietly let the deadline pass for opposing Portugal’s request,allowing Madeira,which is one of Portugal’s autonomous regions,to become the first E.U.territory to get formal permission from Brussels to remain entirely free of genetically modified organisms.Madeira now will probably go ahead and implement the ban,a spokeswoman for the Portuguese government said Friday.Individual European countries and regions have banned certain genetically modified crops before.Many consumers and farmers in countries like Austria,France and Italy regard the crops as potentially dangerous and likely to contaminate organically produced food.But the case of Madeira represents a significant landmark, because it is the first time the commission,which runs the day-to-day affairs of the European Union,has permitted a country to impose such a sweeping and definitive rejection of the technology.The Madeirans’main concerns focused on preserving the archipelago’s biodiversity and its forest of subtropical laurel trees.Such forests,known as laurisilva, were once widespread on the European mainland but were wiped out thousands of years ago during an earlier period of climate change.That has left Madeira with “much the largest extent of laurel forest surviving in the world,with a unique suite of plants and animals,”according to the United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization,which named the Madeiran laurisilva a World Heritage Site in1999.The forest also is a growing attraction for tourists,who make up a significant portion of Madeira’s earnings.In seeking to ban biotechnology on Madeira,the Portuguese government told the commission that it would be impossible to separate crops containing genetically engineered material from other plant life.The“risk to nature presented by the deliberate release of GMOs is so dangerous and poses such a threat to the environmental and ecological health of Madeira,that it is not worthwhile risking their use,either directly in the agricultural sector or even on an experimental basis,”the Portuguese told the commission.Section2Chinese-English Translation(50points) Translate the following two passages into English.Passage1稀土是不可再生的重要自然资源，在新能源、新材料、节能环保、航空航天及电子信息等领域的应用日益广泛。