MTI翻译硕士英语模拟题2解析
英语翻译硕士MTI模拟试题及答案解析(15)
英语翻译硕士MTI模拟试题及答案解析（15）(1/15)Translate the following terms into Chinese (15 points，1 point each)：第1题commencement ceremony下一题(2/15)Translate the following terms into Chinese (15 points，1 point each)：第2题trade liberalization上一题下一题(3/15)Translate the following terms into Chinese (15 points，1 point each)：第3题UCLA上一题下一题(4/15)Translate the following terms into Chinese (15 points，1 point each)：第4题venture investment上一题下一题(5/15)Translate the following terms into Chinese (15 points，1 point each)：第5题innovation-incentive mechanism上一题下一题(6/15)Translate the following terms into Chinese (15 points，1 point each)：第6题cultural heritage上一题下一题(7/15)Translate the following terms into Chinese (15 points，1 point each)：第7题PPI上一题下一题(8/15)Translate the following terms into Chinese (15 points，1 point each)：第8题symphony orchestra上一题下一题(9/15)Translate the following terms into Chinese (15 points，1 point each)：第9题put on airs上一题下一题(10/15)Translate the following terms into Chinese (15 points，1 point each)：第10题FIFA上一题下一题(11/15)Translate the following terms into Chinese (15 points，1 point each)：第11题economic turnaround(12/15)Translate the following terms into Chinese (15 points，1 point each)：第12题conglomerate上一题下一题(13/15)Translate the following terms into Chinese (15 points，1 point each)：第13题The Internet of Things上一题下一题(14/15)Translate the following terms into Chinese (15 points，1 point each)：第14题market positioning上一题下一题(15/15)Translate the following terms into Chinese (15 points，1 point each)：第15题cast pearls before a swine上一题下一题(1/15)Translate the following terms into English (15 points，1 point each)：第16题自主创业上一题下一题(2/15)Translate the following terms into English (15 points，1 point each)：第17题达人秀上一题下一题(3/15)Translate the following terms into English (15 points，1 point each)：第18题种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
考研英语二(翻译)模拟试卷2(题后含答案及解析)
考研英语二（翻译）模拟试卷2(题后含答案及解析) 题型有：1.3 billion, which will create a huge market for this new industry.正确答案：在上班时间去厕所一度是偷懒的一种办法，然而一切即将改变。
有数据显示，英国人每天平均查阅移动设备34次。
一旦空下来，人们就会无节制地使用手机。
热衷于充分利用员工这一习惯的精明老板如今给职员们提供特定任务的应用软件，以便他们能随时随地工作。
此举就以提供所谓的生产力“微瞬间”(micro-moments)的方式，催生了一种全新的工作方式。
这是更大趋势的一部分，而这个趋势是随着企业应用软件的兴起而发展起来的。
这些应用软件，即智能手机中与工作相关的应用程序，已经改变了我们私生活的方式。
据报道，明年移动工作者的数量将超过13亿，这将为这一新兴产业创造巨大市场。
解析：1．第一段由两个分句组成。
分句间由分号相隔，但根据上下文可知，它们之间明显包含转折之意，故建议增译“然而”、“但是”这类表转折的连接词。
另外，为了使表达更地道，翻译时某些词语需好好斟酌。
比如，visit the toilet不能简单直译为“拜访厕所”，译成“上(去)厕所”即可；avoid doing work 译为“避开工作”显得生硬，建议可译成“偷懒”。
2．第二段第二句是个结构复杂的长句，翻译的关键是理清句子的结构关系。
该句主句的主干为Clever employers are now providing employees with task-specific apps。
主语employer有两个修饰成分：Clever和keen to make．．．anything to do，第二个修饰语很长，若将它全部套在“老板”前面作定语，会导致译文头重脚轻和表意不清。
此处建议拆分第二个修饰语，将obsessively tapping．．．anything to do独立成句，译作“一旦空下来，人们就会无节制地使用手机”，剩余部分则译作另一句，并用“这一习惯”指代上句所述行为，即译为“热衷于充分利用员工这一习惯的精明老板如今给职员们提供……”。
英语翻译硕士MTI模拟试题及答案解析(5)
B.obligations
C.observations
D.regulations
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The fact that the golden eagle usually builds its nest on some high cliffs ______it almost impossible to obtain the eggs or the young birds.
A.keep up with
B.give away with
C.go back on
D.lose sight of
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Nicholas Chauvin, a French soldier, aired his veneration of Napoleon Bonaparte so______and unceasingly that he became the laughingstock of all people in Europe.
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The old lady has developed a_____cough which cannot be cured completely in as hort time.
A.perpetual
B.permanent
C.chronic
D.sustained
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C.should have to like
D.I should have liked to
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英语翻译二级笔译实务模拟试题及答案解析(2)
英语翻译二级笔译实务模拟试题及答案解析（2）(1/2)Section ⅠEnglish-Chinese TranslationTranslate the following two passages into Chinese.Part A Compulsory Translation第1题LONDON—Webster's Dictionary defines plague as "anything that afflicts or troubles; calamity; scourge." Further definitions include "any contagious epidemic disease that is deadly; esp., bubonic plague" and, from the Bible, "any of various calamities sent down as divine punishment." The verb form means "to vex; harass; trouble; torment."In Albert Camus' novel, The Plague, written soon after the Nazi occupation of France, the first sign of the epidemic is rats dying in numbers: "They came up from basements and cubby-holes, cellars and drains, in long swaying lines; they staggered in the light, collapsed and died, right next to people. At night, in corridors and side-streets, one could clearly hear the tiny squeaks as they expired. In the morning, on the outskirts of town, you would find them stretched out in the gutter with a little floret of blood on their pointed muzzles, some blown up and rotting, other stiff, with their whiskers still standing up."The rats are messengers, but—human nature being what it is—their message is not immediately heeded. Life must go on. There are errands to run, money to be made. The novel is set in Oran, an Algerian coastal town of commerce and lassitude, where the heat rises steadily to the point that the sea changes color, deep blue turning to a "sheen of silver or iron, making it painful to look at." Even when people start to die—their lymph nodes swollen, blackish patches spreading on their skin, vomiting bile, gasping for breath—the authorities' response is hesitant. The word "plague" is almost unsayable. In exasperation, the doctor-protagonist tells a hastily convened health commission: "I don't mind the form of words. Let's just say that we should not act as though half the town were not threatened with death, because then it would be."The sequence of emotions feels familiar. Denial is followed by faint anxiety, which is followed by concern, which is followed by fear, which is followed by panic. The phobia is stoked by the sudden realization that there are uncontrollable dark forces, lurking in the drains and the sewers, just beneath life's placid surface. The disease is a leveler, suddenly everyone is vulnerable, and the moral strength of each individual is tested. The plague is on everyone's minds, when it's not in their bodies. Questions multiply: What is the chain of transmission? How to isolate the victims?Plague and epidemics are a thing of the past, of course they are. Physical contact has been cut to a minimum in developed societies. Devices and their digital messages direct our lives. It is not necessary to look into someone's eyes let alone touch their skin in order to become, somehow, intimate. Food is hermetically sealed. Blood, secretions, saliva, pus, bodily fluids—these are things with which hospitals deal, not matters of daily concern.A virus contracted in West Africa, perhaps by a man hunting fruit bats in a tropical forest to feed his family, and cutting the bat open, cannot affect a nurse in Dallas, Texas, who has been wearing protective clothing as she tended a patient who died. Except that it does. "Pestilence is in fact very common," Camus observes, "but we find it hard to believe in a pestilence when it descends upon us."The scary thing is that the bat that carries the virus is not sick. It is simply capable of transmitting the virus in the right circumstances. In other words, the virus is always lurking even if invisible. Itis easily ignored until it is too late.Pestilence, of course, is a metaphor as well as a physical fact. It is not just blood oozing from gums and eyes, diarrhea and vomiting. A plague had descended on Europe as Camus wrote. The calamity and slaughter were spreading through the North Africa where he had passed his childhood. This virus hopping today from Africa to Europe to the United States has come in a time of beheadings and unease. People put the phenomena together as denial turns to anxiety and panic. They sense the stirring of uncontrollable forces. They want to be wrong but they are not sure they are.At the end of the novel, the doctor contemplates a relieved throng that has survived: "He knew that this happy crowd was unaware of something that one can read in books, which is that the plague bacillus never dies or vanishes entirely, that it can remain dormant for dozens of years in furniture or clothing, that it waits patiently in bedrooms, cellars, trunks, handkerchiefs and old papers, and that perhaps the day will come when, for the instruction or misfortune of mankind, the plague will rouse its rats and send them to die in some well-contented city."下一题(2/2)Section ⅠEnglish-Chinese TranslationTranslate the following two passages into Chinese.Part A Compulsory Translation第2题PARIS-When France won its second Nobel Prize in less than a week on Monday, this time for economics, Prime Minister Manuel Valls quickly took to Twitter, insisting with no shortage of pride that the accomplishment was a loud rebuke for those who say that France is a nation in decline."After Patrick Modiano, another Frenchman in the firmament: Congratulations to Jean Tirole!" Mr. Valls wrote. "What a way to thumb one's nose at French bashing! Proud of France."Some in the country were already giddy after Mr. Modiano, a beloved author, whose concise and moody novels are often set in France during the Nazi occupation, won the Nobel Prize for literature last week. The award helped to raise the global stature of Mr. Modiano, whose three books published in the United States—two novels and a children's book—before the Nobel had collectively sold fewer than 8,000 copies.Joining in the chorus, Le Monde suggested in an editorial that at a time of rampant French-bashing, Mr. Modiano's achievement was something of a vindication for a country where Nobel Prizes in literature flow more liberally than oil. Mr. Modiano was the 15th French writer, including Sartre and Camus, to win the award.Yet this being France, a country where dissatisfaction can be worn like an accessory, some intellectuals, economists and critics greeted the awards with little more than a shrug at a time when the economy has been faltering, Paris has lost influence to Berlin and Brussels, the far-right National Front has been surging, and Francois Hollande has become one of the most unpopular French presidents in recent history. Others sniffed haughtily that while France was great at culture, it remained economically and politically prostrate.Even Mr. Modiano may have unintentionally captured the national mood when, informed of his prize by his editor, he said he found it "strange" and wanted to know why the Nobel committee had selected him.Even Mr. Modiano may have unintentionally captured the national mood when, informed of hisprize by his editor, he said he found it "strange" and wanted to know why the Nobel committee had selected him.Alain Finkielkraut, a professor of philosophy at the elite 图片Polytechnique, who recently published a book criticizing what he characterized as France's descent into conformity and multiculturalism, said that rather than showing that France was on the ascent, the fetishizing of the Nobel Prizes by the French political elite revealed the country's desperation."I find the idea that the Nobels are being used as a riposte to French-bashing idiotic," he said. "Our education system is totally broken, and the Nobel Prize doesn't change anything. I have a lot of affection for Mr. Modiano, but I think Philip Roth deserved it much more. To talk that all in France is going well and that the pessimism is gone is absurd. France is doing extremely badly. There is an economic crisis. There is a crisis of integration. I am not going to be consoled by these medals made of chocolate."Robert Frank, a history professor emeritus at the University of Paris 1—Sorbonne, and the author of The Fear of Decline, France From 1914 to 2014, echoed that the self-aggrandizement that had greeted the prizes among the French establishment reflected a country lacking in self-confidence. In earlier centuries, he noted, the prize had been greeted as something obvious.When French writers or intellectuals won Nobels in the mid-20th century, "there was no jolt at that time, because France still saw itself as important, so there wasn't much to add to that," he said. "Today, it may help some people to show that France still counts in certain places in the world. This doesn't fix the crisis of unemployment, however, that is sapping this society."In academic economic circles, Mr. Tirole's winning the 2014 Nobel in economic science for his work on the best way to regulate large, powerful firms, was greeted as a fitting tribute to a man whose work had exerted profound influence. It added to an already prominent year for French economists, as seen from Thomas Piketty's book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which became an immediate best-seller when translated into English six months ago.Mr. Tirole's work gained particular attention after the 2008 financial crisis, which revealed problems in the regulation of financial firms in the United States and Europe.But some noted the paradox of the award going to an economist from a nation where the economy was less than shimmering, and where many businesses and critics bemoan a culture of excessive red tape.Others like Sean Safford, an associate professor of economic sociology at Institut 图片Politiques de Paris, the elite institute for political studies known as Sciences Po, said Mr. Tirole, a professor of economics at the University of Toulouse in France, was notable for coming at a time of economic malaise and brain drain, when so many of the country's brightest are emigrating elsewhere in Europe or to the United States. "The average French person, who is struggling to pay the bills, is not going to rejoice," he said.At a time when France is trying to overhaul its social model amid withering resistance to change, others said the award had laid bare the country's abiding stratification between a small, hyper-educated elite and the rest of the country.Peter Gumbel, a British journalist living in France who most recently wrote a book on French elitism, said that while the prize would provide some sense of national validation, the two men did not reflect the country as a whole."Undoubtedly the French ecosystem produces incredibly smart people at the very top end, whoare capable of winning prizes, and who fall into a grand tradition, and that is what the French school system is geared to Produce," he said.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题中国是一个有着悠久历史的国家，一个经历了深重苦难的国家，一个实行中国特色社会主义制度的国家，一个世界上最大的发展中国家和正在发生深刻变革的国家。
英语翻译资格考试二级笔译模拟试卷试优选题包括答案
2019年英语翻译资格考试二级笔译模拟试题及答案(2) Part 3 Error Correction1.An “epigram ” is usually descried as a bright orwitty thought that is tersely and ingeniously expressed.A.describedB.discardedC.deservedD.disconcerted2.Human beings are superior to animals that theycan use language as a tool of communication.A. in thatB. in whichC. for thatD. for which3.The Xinjiang Airlines serve passengers and customersin the southeast of China only.A.servesB.to serveC.servingD.service4.The senior senator has in the past three terms both experienced the sweet taste of success and the bitterness of defeat in his legislation fights with his opponents.A. both experiencesB. experiences bothC. experience bothD. experienced both5.Our company has been made one of thelargest manufacturers in the field of chemical industry.A. become, inB. made, in field ofC. became, in the fieldD. been made of, in6.Daylight saving time was instituted to increase productivity.A.reorganizedB.startedC.encouragedD.taught7. Many students agreed to come, but some students against because they said they don’t have time.A. did not because they say they did notB. were against because they say they don’tC. did not because they said they did notD. were against coming because they said they don’t8.Some of the Low-end Made-in-China mechanical-electronic products are not selling well in export market as compared with what are termed as high-end ones.A. on export marketB. in exporting marketC. in exported marketD. in the export market9.Construction is expanding all over China, no doubtmany materials will be needed at a very big amount in future.A. China, no doubt many materials will be needed fora very big amountB. China, no doubt many materials will be needed in avery big amountC. China, no doubt many materials will be needed inlarge amountsD. China, no doubt many materials will be needed forlarge amounts10.The recent conference on the effective use ofthe seas and oceans was another attempt resolving major differences among countries with conflicting interests.A.resolveB.resolvesC. to resolveD. being resolved11.Water makes up some 70 percentage points of the body,and drinking enough water — either tap water or expensivemineral water — will ensure that the body is properly lubricatedand flushed.A.per-centB.per capitaC.percentD.percentage12. “We’re not bringing in millions of dollars,”says a director of development.“But we want to make sure the demand is there before we act to the project.”A. ofB. offC. onD. for13.By using new foreign textbooks, we could not onlylearn the right expression of business ideas, but also wewill know the lastest developments in the business world.A. but also will know the lastestB. but also know the lastestC. but also know the latestD. but also come to know the latest14.The affluent middle class created by the Asian boom now take up over from exports as the main engine of growth.A. take over from exportsB. take from exportsC. take exportsD. takes exports15.Japan and the newly industrialized countries are passing labor-intensive sects as garmentmaking over to less developed nations and moving into advanced technology and services.A. sects likeB. sectors likeC. sections asD. sections such as$age$Section 2 ： Reading Comprehension (50 points) The time for this section is 70 minutes.Questions 51—60 are based on the following passage.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was set up in 1988 to assess information on climate change andits impact. Its Third Assessment Report predicts global℃ ℃.Although the issue of the changing climate is very complexand some changes are uncertain, temperature rises are expected to affect countries throughout the world and have a knock-on effect with sea-level rises.Scientists have argued about whether temperature risesare due to human activities or due to natural changes in our environment. The IPCC announced in 2001 that“most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is likely to be attributable to human activities”. This was a more forceful statement than in1996 when the Second Assessment Report stated that there was a“discernible human influence on the climate ” which was the first time they had concluded such a link. Many experts believe the faster the climate changes, the greater the risk will be.Key points of the projections for climate changeglobally include that by the second half of the 21st century, wintertime rainfall in the northern mid to high latitudes and Antarctica will rise, that meanwhile Australia, CentralAmerica and southern Africa are likely to see decreases in autumn precipitation, that some land areas in the tropicswill see more rainfall, and that there will generally be morehot days over land areas.16.IPCC probably does not ______.A. analyse climate change informationB. record weather changes on its premisesC. predict what is to happen to the earthD.collect weather date from many countries17.According to the passage, a Chinese city thatrecorded 45 degrees Celsius at noon on August 4,2004, willmost probably witness a temperature measuring _____ at 12 ：00 sharp in the year of 2100.℃℃C. 5.8 ℃D. a number that I do not know18. According to the author, climate researchers _____.A. are quite sure about why it ’s getting hotter andhotterB. declared that we humans are the cause why it’s getting hotterC. have discussed the possible cause why it ’s hotterD. have claimed that changes in nature are the rootsof hot days19.Based on the text, we know that temperature riseswill probably _____.A. knock off sea levelsB. have a serious effect on sea-level risesC. keep the sea level risingD. keep knocking at the sea20. The IPCC announcement three years ago that“most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is” _____.A. possibly due to human activitiesB. possibly because human activitiesC. due to likely human activitiesD. human activities likely attributable21. Which statement was more forceful?A. “℃and 5.8 ℃B.“Temperature rises are expected to affect countries throughout the world ”.C.“Most of the warming is likely to be attributable tohuman activities ”.D.There was a “discernible human influence on theclimate ”.22. The Second Assessment Report was released ____ years ago.A.fiveB.sixC.sevenD.eight23.“Such a link ” in the passage refers most probablyto _____.A. IPCC and climate changesB. global temperatures and sea levelsC. natural changes and human activitiesD. human activities and temperature rises24. “The risk ” mentioned i n the text probably refers to_____.A. a possibility that there will be more climate changesB. a potential that sea level will possibly keep risingC. temperature rises that are expected to affect allcountriesD. a prediction warning human beings not to ruin the environment25.Obviously, the word “precipitation ” most probably refers to _____.titudeB.rainfallC.temperatureD.projectionKEYS：Part 3共15题，每题分，满分为分1.A2. A3. A4. D5. A6. B7. C8. D9.C 10. C 11. C 12. C 13. D14. D 15. BSection 2共50题，每题1分，满分为50分16. B 17. D 18. C 19. B20. A21. C22. D 23. D 24. C 25. B。
MTI翻译硕士英语模拟题2
翻译硕士英语Part one: multiple choice1. The two most important in making a cake are flour and sugar.A. elementsB. componentsC. ingredientsD. constituents2. Cultural indicated that human beings hand their language down from one generation to another.A. translationB. transitionC. transmissionD. transaction3. We must look beyond and assumptions and try to discover what is missing.A. justificationsB. illusionsC. manifestationsD. specifications4. No one imagined that the apparently businessman was really a criminal.A. respectiveB. respectableC. respectfulD. respected5. If nothing is done to protect the environment, millions of species that are alive today will have become .A. deterioratedB. degeneratedC. suppressedD. extinct6. The of the scientific attitude is that the human mind can succeed in understanding the universe.A. essenceB. textureC. contentD. threshold7. The old lady has developed a cough which cannot be cured completely in a short time.A. perpetualB. permanentC. chronicD. sustained8. What the correspondence sent us is an news report. We can depend on it.A. evidentB. authenticC. ultimateD. immediate9. Having had her as a professor and adviser, I can tell you that she is an force who pushes her students to excel far beyond their own expectations.A. inspirationalB. educationalC. excessiveD. instantaneous10. Some researches feel that certain people have nervous systems particularly to hot, dry winds. They are what we call weather sensitive people.A. subjectiveB. subordinateC. liableD. vulnerable11. The harder the shrub is to grow , .A. the more higher price isB. the higher price it isC. the higher the price isD. the higher is the price12. It is that I would like to go to the beach.A. so nice weatherB. such nice weatherC. so nice a weatherD. such a nice weather13. Her little car isn’t to seat more than two people comfortably.A. big enoughB. enough bigC. so big enoughD. big as enough14. The dress is prettier, but it costs that one.A. twice more thanB. twice as much asC. as much twice asD. twice so much as15. She can speak in front of Mack, but she can’t eat in his restaurant.A. free, freeB. free, freelyC. freely, freeD. freely, freely16. The reason why many people sit before the television is that there will be a show.A. livingB. liveC. aliveD. lived17. When the three boys met one another, they found they looked very much .Then they knew they were triplet.A. likeB. alikeC. likelyD. liked18. You should spend in the study of the various senses and uses of the common words.A. much time as you canB. as time much as you canC. time as many as you canD. as much time as you can19. –When is Tom going to leave?--He is going to leave this week.A. sometimesB. some timeC. sometimeD. somewhat20. He works .A. loneB. lonelyC. aloneD. lonesomePart two: reading and comprehensionPassage OneThere are few more sobering online activities than entering data into college-tuition calculators and gasping as the Web spits back a six-figure sum. But economists say families about to go into debt to fund four years of partying, as well as studying, can console themselves with the knowledge that college is an investment that, unlike many bank stocks, should yield huge dividends.A 2008 study by two Harvard economists notes that the “labor-market premium to skill”—or the amount college graduates earned that’s greater than what high-school graduates earned—decreased for much of the 20th century, but has come back with a vengeance since the 1980s. In 2005, the typical full-time year-round U.S. worker witha four-year college degree earned＄50,900, 62% more than the＄31,500 earned by a worker with only a high-school diploma. There’s no question that going to college is a smart economic choice. But a look at the strange variations in tuition reveals that the choice about which college to attend doesn’t come down merely to dollars and cents. Does going to Columbia University (tuition, room and board ＄49,260 in 2007-2008) yield a 40% greater return than attending the University of Colorado at Boulder as anout-of-state student(＄35,542)? Probably not. Does being an out-of-state student at the University of Colorado at Boulder yield twice the amount of income as being an in-state students(＄17,380) there? Not likely. No, in this consumerist age, most buyers aren’t evaluating college as an investment, but rather as a consumer product—like a car or clothes or a house. And with such purchases, price is only one of many crucial factors to consider.As with automobiles, consumers in today’s college marketplace have vast choices, and people search for the one that gives them the most comfort and satisfaction in line with their budgets. This accounts for the willingness of people to pay more for different types of experiences(such as attending a private liberal-arts college or going to anout-of-state public school that has a great marine-biology program). And just as two auto purchasers might spend an equal amount of money on very different cars, college students (or, more accurately, their parents)often show a willingness to pay essentially the same price for vastly different products. So which is it?21. What’s the opinion of economists about going to college?A) Huge amounts of money is being wasted on campus socializingB) It doesn’t pay to run into debt to receive a college educationC) College education is rewarding in spite of the starting costsD) Going to college doesn’t necessarily bring the expected retu rns22. The two Harvard economists note in their study that, for much of the 20th century, _______A) enrollment kept decreasing in virtually all American colleges and universitiesB) the labor market preferred high-school graduates to college graduatesC) competition for university admissions was far more fierce than todayD) the gap between the earnings of college and high-school graduates narrowed23. Student who attend an in-state college or university can_______A) save more on tuitionB) receive a better educationC) take more liberal-arts coursesD) avoid traveling long distances24. In this consumerist age, most parents_______A) regard college education as a wise investmentB) place a premium on the prestige of the collegeC) think it crucial to send their children to collegeD) consider college education a consumer product25. What is the chief consideration when students choose a college today?A) Their employment prospects after graduationB) A satisfying experience within their budgetsD) Its facilities and learning environmentD) Its ranking among similar institutionsPassage TwoCrippling health care bills, long emergency-room waits and the inability to find a primary care physician just scratch the surface of the problems that patients face daily. Primary care should be the backbone of any health care system. Countries withappropriate primary care resources score highly when it comes to health outcomes and cost. The US takes the opposite approach by emphasizing the specialist rather than the primary care physician.A recent study analyzed the providers who treat Medicare beneficiaries. The startling finding was that the average Medicare patient saw a total of seven doctors---two primary care physicians and five specialists---in given one year. Contrary to a popular belief, the more physicians taking care of you doesn't guarantee better care. Actually, increasing fragmentation of care results in a corresponding rise in cost and medical errors. How did we let primary care slip so far? The key is how doctors are paid. Most physicians are paid whenever they perform a medical service. The more a physician does, regardless of quality or outcome, the better he's reimbursed. Moreover, the amount a physician receive leans heavily toward medical or surgical procedures. A specialist who performs a procedure in a 30-minute visit can be paid three times more than a primary care physician using that same 30 minutes to discuss a patient's disease. Combined this fact with annual government threats to indiscriminately cut reimbursements, physicians are faced with no choice but to increase quantity to boost income. Primary care physicians who refuse to compromise quality are either driven out of business or to each-only practices, further contributing to the decline of primary care. Medical students aren't blind to this scenario. They see how heavily the reimbursement deck is stacked against primary care.How do we fix this problem?It starts with reforming the physician reimbursement system. Remove the pressure for primary care physicians to squeeze in more patients per hour, and reward them for optimally managing their diseases and practicing evidence based medicine. Make primary care more attractive to medical students by forgiving student loans for those who choose primary care as a career and reconciling the marked difference between specialist and primary care physician salaries.26.The author's chief concern about the current US health care system is_________.A. the inadequate training of physiciansB. The declining number of doctorsC. the shrinking primary care resourcesD. the ever-rising health care costs27.We learn from the passage that people tend to believe that________.A. The more costly the medicine, the more effective the cureB. seeing more doctors may result in more diagnostic errorsC. visiting doctors on a regular basis ensures good healthD. the more doctor taking care of a patient, the better28.Face with the government threats to cut reimbursements indiscriminately, primary care physicians have to__________.A. increase their income by working overtimeB. improve their expertise and serviceC. Make various deals with specialistsD. see more patients at the expense of quality29.Why do many medical graduates refuse to choose primary care as their career?A. They find the need for primary care declining.B. The current system works against primary care.C. Primary care physicians command less respect.D. They think working in emergency rooms tedious.30.What suggestion does the author give in order to provide better health care?A . Bridge the salary gap between specialist and primary care physicians.B. Extend primary care to patients with chronic diseases.C. Recruit more medical students by offering loans.D. Reduce the tuition of students who choose primary care as their major.Passage ThreeRising costs of office space, time lost to stressful commuting, and a slow recognition that workers have lives beyond the office - all are strong arguments for letting staff work from home. For the small business, there are additional benefits too - staff are more productive, and happier, enabling firms to keep their headcounts and their recruitment costs to a minimum. It can also provide competitive advantage, especially when small businesses want to attract new staff but don't have the budget to offer huge salaries. While company managers have known about the benefits for a long time, many have done little about it, skeptical of whether they could trust their employees to workto full capacity without supervision, or concerned about the additional expensestele-working policies might incur as staff start charging their home phone bills to the business. Yet this is now changing. When communications provider Inter-Tel researched the use of remote working solutions among small and medium sized UK businesses in April this year, it found that 28% more companies claimed to be practicing flexible working practices than a year ago.The UK network of Business Links confirms that it too has seen a growing interestin remote working solutions from small businesses seeking its advice, and claims that as many as 60-70% of the businesses that come through its doors now offer some form of remote working support to their workforces. Technology advances, including the widespread availability of broadband, are making the introduction of remote working a no-brainer. "If systems are set up properly, staff can have access to all the resources they have in the office wherever they have an internet connection," says Andy Poulton,e-business advisor at Business Link for Berkshire and Wiltshire. "There are some very exciting developments which have enabled this." One is the ubiquity of broadband, which now covers almost all of the country (BT claims that, by July, 99.8% of its exchanges will be broadband enabled, with alternative plans in place for even the most remote exchanges). "This is the enabler," Poulton says. Yet while broadband has come down in price too, those service providers targeting the business market warn against consumer services masquerading as business-friendly broadband. "Broadband is available for as little as £15 a month, but many businesses fail to appreciate the hidden costs of such a service," says Neil Stephenson, sales and marketing director at Onyx Internet, an internet service provider based in the north-east of England. "Providers offering broadband for rock-bottom prices are notorious for poor service, with regular outages and heavily congested networks. It is always advisable for businesses to look beyond the price tag and look for a business-only provider that can offer more reliability,with good support." Such services needn't break the bank – quality services can be found for upwards of £30 a month. The benefits of broadband to the occasional home worker are that they can access email in real time, and take full advantage of services such as internet-based backup or even internet-based phone services.Internet-based telecoms, or VoIP (Voice over IP) to give it its technical title, is an interesting tool to any business supporting remote working. Not necessarily because of the promise of free or reduced price phone calls (which experts point out is misleading for the average business), but because of the sophisticated voice services that can be exploited by the remote worker - facilities such as voicemail and call forwarding, which provide a continuity of the company ←image for customers and business partners.By law, companies must "consider seriously" requests to work flexibly made by a parent with a child under the age of six, or a disabled child under 18. It was the need to accommodate employees with young children that motivated accountancy firm Wright Vigar to begin promoting tele-working recently. The company, which needed to upgrade its IT infrastructure to provide connectivity with a new, second office, decided to introduce support for remote working at the same time.Marketing director Jack O'Hern explains that the company has a relatively young workforce, many of whom are parents: "One of the triggers was when one of our tax managers returned from maternity leave. She was intending to work part time, but could only manage one day a week in the office due to childcare. By offering her the ability to work from home, we have doubled her capacity - now she works a day a week from home, and a day in the office. This is great for her, and for us as we retain someone highly qualified.” For Wright Vigar, which has now equipped all of its fee-earners to be able to work at maximum productivity when away from the offices (whether that's from home, or while on the road), this strategy is not just about saving on commute time or cutting them loose from the office, but enabling them to work more flexible hours that fit around their home life.O'Hern says: "Although most of our work is client-based and must fit around this,we can't see any reason why a parent can't be on hand to deal with something important at home, if they have the ability to complete a project later in the day." That staff can do this without needing a fixed telephone line provides even more efficiency savings. "With Wi-Fi [fast, wireless internet connections] popping up all over the place, even on trains, our fee-earners can be productive as they travel, and between meetings, instead of having to kill time at the shops," he adds. The company will also be able to avoid the expense of having to relocate staff to temporary offices for several weeks when it begins disruptive office renovations soon. It has enabled the company to dispense with its business premises altogether, following the realization that it just didn't need them any more. "The main motivation behind adopting home working was to increase my own productivity, as a single mum to an 11-year-old," says Hargreaves. "But I soon realized that, as most of our business is done on the phone, email and at off-site meetings, we didn't need our offices at all. We're now saving £16,000 a year on rent, plus the cost of utilities, not to mention what would have been spent on commuting."31.What is the main topic of this passage?A. How business managers view hi-techB. Relations between employers and employees.C. How to cut down the costs of small businesses.D. Benefits of the practice of tele-working.32. From the research conducted by the communication provider Inter-Tel, we learn that______A. attitudes toward IT technology have changed.B. More employees work to full capacity at home.C. More businesses have adopted remote working solution.D. Employees show a growing interest in small businesses.33. What development has made flexible working practices possible according to Andy Poulton?A. Reduced cost of telecommunications.B. Improved reliability of internet service.C. Availability of the VolP service.D. Access to broadband everywhere.34. What is Neil Stephenson’s advice to firms contracting internet services?A. They look for reliable business-only providers.B. They contact providers located nearest to them.C. They carefully examine the contract.D. They contract the cheapest provider.35. Internet-based telecoms facilitates remote working by ______.A. offering sophisticated voice servicesB. providing calls completely free of chargeC. helping clients discuss business at homeD. giving access to emailing in real time36. The accountancy firm Wright Vigar promoted tele-working initially in order to ______.A. present a positive image to prospective customersB. support its employees with children to take care ofC. attract young people with IT expertise to work for itD. reduce operational expenses of a second office37. According to marketing director Jack O’hern, tele-working enabled the company to ______.A. minimize its office spaceB. keep highly qualified staffC. enhance its market imageD. reduce recruitment costs38. Wright Vigar’s practice of allowing for more flexible working hours not only benefits the company but helps improve emp loyees’ ________.39. With fast, wireless internet connections, employees can still be __________ when travelling.40. Single mother Lynne Hargreaves decided to work at home mainly to increase . Part three, write an essay.Tourism has already become a multibillion-dollar industry that supports economic development. You are going to write an article entitled: Travel Helps Promote Communication Between Countries.(at least 400 words)。
翻译资格考试 CATTI 二级笔译实务全真模拟题(二)(附参考译文)
CATTI 二级笔译实务全真模拟题（二）（附参考译文）Section 1: English-Chinese Translation (50 points) Translate the following two passages into Chinese.Passage 1Successful Olympic Games start with a vision focused on how the Games could advance local and regional development goals. Developing the right vision requires creative thinking consensus building and big ideas. Reliable information can help transform those ideas into action that delivers desired outcomes. This document is intended to contribute to that process.The information presented here has been compiled from previous Olympic Winter Games to help cities make informed decisions about the costs and benefits of hosting future Games. It offers data on key cost and revenue drivers at the two most recent Olympic Games (Vancouver2010, Sochi 2014) and the forthcoming Games in PyeongChang 2018, as well as information on the number of venues and other factors that offer insights on Games requirements.The data can be used to complement feasibility studies and to support the development of realistic Games operations budgets. However, it is important to bear in mind the local context in considering past experiences in other cities. There is no one-size-fits-all template for the Olympic Games. Cities should view the Games through their own unique context and develop plans that address local and regional needs. The international Olympic Committee (IOC) offers assistance at every stage to assist the organization of Games that benefit local communities.This document provides a snapshot of three very different cities that delivered Games that reflected their starting points and their goals.Vancouver started its Olympic Games planning with several existing venues and a well-established ski resort in nearby Whistler. Sochi pursued a vision to transform a summer resort city into a year-round tourist destination with new world-class winter sports facilities. PyeongChang, now in the final stages of preparation, is also creatinga new winter sport destination in its own unique context.Other important factors that all cities should consider in the local context include labour and construction costs; the availability of winter sports expertise; and the vibrancy of the domestic commercial sports market.Changes in society and within the Olympic Movement will also have an impact on cost and revenue for future Games.By most any measure, the Olympic Winter Games are more popular than ever, reaching record global audiences via traditional television, digital platforms and social media. Exciting new events are helping to attract new audiences and new commercial partners.The expansion of the sports programme-from 86 events in Vancouver, to 96 events in Sochi and the possibility of more events in the future-not only increases the appeal of the Games, it also increases the number of competition venues.At the same time, sports organizations, including Organizing Committees for the Olympic Games (OCOG), have responded to societal expectation for more accountability, more transparency, more social responsibility and more sustainability.【参考译文】英译汉:第一篇奥运会的成功,始于通过奥运会推进地方和区域发展目标的愿景。
英语翻译二级笔译实务模拟试题及答案解析(20)
英语翻译二级笔译实务模拟试题及答案解析（20）(1/2)Section ⅠEnglish-Chinese TranslationTranslate the following two passages into Chinese.Part A Compulsory Translation第1题It was a hot afternoon in July when my shuttle bus stuttered to a halt on the dusty banks of the Yukon River. I squinted, bleary-eyed, at the Frontier-style houses of Canada´s Dawson City opposite.Thanks to our slow progress along the scantily paved Top of the World Highway, my 10-hour, 620km journey from Fairbanks, Alaska had been long and uncomfortable. But as I was on a quest to discover the landscapes immortalised in the books of US writer, Jack London, a man who braved Canada´s sub-zero temperatures and wilderness before roads like the highway even existed, it seemed inappropriate to complain.In October 1897, London had arrived in Dawson City on a hastily constructed boat in far more arduous circumstances than I, including a dangerous, 800kin voyage downriver from the Yukon´s headwaters in British Columbia. An aspiring but still-unknown 21-year-old writer from the San Francisco Bay area, London was one of tens of thousands of "stampeders" lured north by the Klondike Gold Rush. He went on to spend a frigid winter working a claim on Henderson Creek, 120km south of Dawson, where he found very little gold, but did contract a bad case of scurvy. He also discovered a different kind of fortune: he later would turn his experiences as an adventurous devil-may-care prospector into a body of Klondike-inspired fiction—and into $1 million in book profits, making him the first US author to earn such an amount.The Klondike Gold Rush ignited in 1896, when three US prospectors found significant gold deposits in a small tributary in Canada´s Yukon Territory. When the news filtered to Seattle and San Francisco the following summer, the effect on a US still reeling from severe economic recession was unprecedented. Thousands risked their lives to make the sometimes year-long journey to the subarctic gold fields. Of an estimated 100,000 people who set out for the Klondike over the following four years, less than half made it without turning around or dying en route; only around 4% struck gold.Dawson City, which sprang up on the banks of the Yukon in 1896 close to the original find, quickly became the gold rush´s hub. Today, its dirt streets and crusty clapboard buildings—all protected by Canada´s national park service—retain their distinct Klondike-era character. But as our bus crept along Front Street past bevies of tourists strolling along permafrost-warped boardwalks, I reflected how different London´s experience must have been. Contemporary Dawson City is a civilised grid of tourist-friendly restaurants and film set-worthy streets, with a permanent population of around 1,300. By contrast, in 1898 it was a bawdy boomtown of 30,000 hardy itinerants who tumbled out of rambunctious bars and crowded the river in makeshift rafts.The roughshod living would not have intimidated London. Born into a working class family in San Francisco in 1876, his callow years were short on home comforts. As a teenager, he rode the rails, became an oyster pirate and was jailed briefly for vagrancy. He also acquired an unquenchable appetite for books. Passionate, determined and impatient, London was naturally drawn to the Klondike Gold Rush. In the summer of 1897, weeks after hearing news of the gold strike, he was on a ship to Dyea in Alaska with three partners, using money raised by mortgaging his sister´s house. My bus dropped me outside the Triple J Hotel, which like all buildings inDawson looks like a throwback to the 1890s—televisions and wi-fi aside. Too tired to watch the midnight sun, I fell asleep early to prepare for the next day´s visit to the Jack London Interpretive Center. Dawson City´s premiere Jack London attraction, it is a small museum whose prime exhibit—a small wooden cabin, roof covered in grass and moss—sits outside in a small garden surrounded by a white fence. On first impressions, it looks painfully austere. But the story of how the cabin got here is a tale worthy of London´s own fiction.In the late 1960s, Dick North, the centre´s former curator, heard of an old log emblazoned with the handwritten words "Jack London, Miner, Author, Jan 27 1898". According to two backcountry settlers, it had been cut out of a cabin wall by a dog-musher named Jack MacKenzie in the early 1940s.Excited by the find, North got hand-writing experts to authenticate that the scrawl on the so-called signature slab was London´s before setting out to find the long forgotten cabin from which MacKenzie had plucked it. North wandered with a dog mushing team for nearly 200km until he located the humble abode where London had spent the inclement winter of 1897-8 searching for gold. So remote was the location that when a team of observers arrived to aid North in April 1969, they became stuck in slushy snow and had to be rescued.Once removed, the cabin was split in two. Half of the wood (along with the reinserted signature slab) was used to build a cabin in Jack London Square in Oakland, California, near where the author grew up. The other half was reassembled next to the Interpretive Centre in Dawson City.London left the Klondike Gold Rush in July 1898 virtually penniless, having earned less than $10 from panned gold. But he had unwittingly stumbled upon another gold mine: stories. During the rush, his cabin had been located at an unofficial meeting point of various mining routes; other stampeders regularly dropped by to share their tales and adventures. Mixed with London´s own experiences and imagination, these anecdotes laid the foundations for his subsequent writing career, spearheaded by the best-selling 1903 novel The Call of the Wild.The Klondike Gold Rush finished by 1900. Despite its brevity—and its disappointment for thousands who staked everything on its get-rich-quick promises—it is a key part of US folklore and fiction thanks, in large part, to the tales of Jack London. Later, on a bus heading south to Whitehorse, I looked out at the brawny wilderness of scraggy spruce trees and bear-infested forest where the young, resolute London had once toiled in temperatures as low as-50～C. I felt new admiration for the writer—and for his swaggering desire to turn adversity into art.__________下一题(2/2)Section ⅠEnglish-Chinese TranslationTranslate the following two passages into Chinese.Part A Compulsory Translation第2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 thecrowd",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 ofbest-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.__________上一题下一题(1/2)Section ⅡChinese-English TranslationTranslate the following two passages into English.Part A Compulsory Translation第3题从减负的角度看，把英语考试选为高考改革的突破口似有道理。
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翻译硕士英语
Part one: multiple choice
1-5 CCBBD 6-10 ACBAD 11-15 CBABC 16-20 BBDCC
Part two: reading and comprehension
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Part three: write an essay
Travel Helps Promote Communication Between Countries
With the steady growth in the world's economy as well as the people's living standard, nowadays more and more people are able to afford to go to travel abroad. Thus people of different races and colors have more chances to meet each other and understand each other. Such activities among people help promote the understanding and communication between countries, which helps to make this world a better and more harmonious place.
Different countries are striving to develop their national tourism because tourism really has a lot of advantages. Firstly, beautiful scenery, attractive tourist spots and splendid culture allure tourists with different parts of the world, which provides many opportunities to promote exchanges among people from different backgrounds. For example, since the reform and opening-up, China, a country which has rich tourist resources, receives millions of foreign tourists every year. The frequent contacts between foreign tourists and Chinese people promote the exchanges of culture and science, creating international friendship and promoting deeper understanding and strengthening ties. Meanwhile this has accelerated the development of these countries. Secondly, travel enriches one's knowledge, widens one's vision and enhances mutual understanding. In the past, Chinese people knew little of the outside world. Since the reform and opening-up, with people's living standard greatly improved, more and more people have the chances to go abroad for sightseeing. Through traveling, we Chinese have expanded our scope of knowledge, and we have come to know the world better and have been learning how to develop our own country better. Thirdly, tourism boosts local economy and promotes commercial exchanges. Singapore is such a good example. It is a small country with scarce natural resources. But owing to the prosperous tourism, the country's economy develops very well and it is named one of the four economic "tigers" in northeastern Asia.
But some people say that tourism cannot work so well as people expect. They argue that the purpose of the tourists is just to enjoy sightseeing and in fact tourism
has its disadvantages. Firstly, tourism does great harm to the tranquility and sanitation of the local place, and sometimes it even causes pollution to the natural environment. Secondly, many tourists cannot even speak a word of the language of the country they are visiting. There is little possibility that they will have a deep understanding of the country in such a short period of time. Thirdly, during the trip, poor service and language barrier may even give rise to unwanted misunderstanding. Also the tourists' wealth may make the local people more aware of their own poverty and lead to jealousy and psychological imbalance.
As the proverb goes, "No garden is without weeds." In my opinion, compared with the advantages, disadvantages of tourism have become trivial things. It is important for a country to develop its tourism to upgrade its international position and at the same time promote global understanding to remove prejudice and bias. We should make good use of our rich tourist resources to make our motherland more beautiful and attract more foreign friends.。