2013年上外高翻会议口译试题
上外高翻英语口译真题
上外高翻英语口译真题1、It was _____the policeman came_____the parents knew what had happened to their son. [单选题] *A.before…asB. until…whenC. not until…that(正确答案)D.until…that2、She _______ love cats, but one attacked her and she doesn’t like them anymore. [单选题]*A. got used toB. was used toC. was used forD. used to(正确答案)3、He asked for help from his friends who owned a computer company in New York. [单选题] *A. 拥有(正确答案)B. 经营C. 工作D. 了解4、There _______ some milk in the glass. [单选题] *A. is(正确答案)B. areC. haveD. has5、—______ you speak French?—Yes, I can.（）[单选题] *A. NeedB. Can(正确答案)C. MightD. Must6、There ______ a football match and a concert this weekend.（）[单选题] *A. isB. haveC. will be(正确答案)D. will have7、14．He is cutting the apple ________ a knife. [单选题] *A．inB．toC．with(正确答案)D．by8、It’s one of _______ means of transportation. [单选题] *A. cheapB. convenientC. second-handD. the most convenient(正确答案)9、Growing vegetables（）constantly watering. [单选题] *A. neededB. are neededC. were neededD. needs(正确答案)10、12．Who will ________ the Palace Museum after Shan Jixiang retires? [单选题] * A．in chargeB．in charge ofC．be in charge of (正确答案)D．be in the charge of11、Either you or the president（）the prizes to these gifted winners at the meeting. [单选题] *A. is handing outB. are to hand outC. are handing outD. is to hand out(正确答案)12、Have you kept in（）with any of your friends from college? [单选题] *A. contractB. contact(正确答案)C. continentD. touching13、( ) ____ eye exercises ___ good __ your eyes. [单选题] *A. Doing, is, for(正确答案)B. Doing, are, forC. Do, is, forD. Do, are, at14、We have made a _______ tour plan to Sydney. [单选题] *A. two dayB. two daysC. two-day(正确答案)D. two-days15、35．___________ good music the teacher is playing! [单选题] *A．What(正确答案)B．HowC．What aD．What the16、Becky is having a great time ______ her aunt in Shanghai. （）[单选题] *A. to visitB. visitedC. visitsD. visiting(正确答案)17、He’s so careless that he always _______ his school things at home. [单选题] *A. forgetsB. leaves(正确答案)C. putsD. buys18、I don’t like snakes, so I ______ read anything about snakes.（）[单选题] *A. alwaysB. usuallyC. oftenD. never(正确答案)19、You can borrow my book, _____ you promise to give it back to me by the end of this month. [单选题] *A.even ifB. as long as(正确答案)C. in caseD. even though20、The book is very _______. I’ve read it twice. [单选题] *A. interestB. interestedC. interesting(正确答案)D. interests21、My friends will _______ me at the airport when I arrive in London. [单选题] *A. takeB. meet(正确答案)C. receiveD. have22、The commander said that two _____ would be sent to the Iraqi front line the next day. [单选题] *A. women's doctorB. women doctorsC. women's doctorsD. women doctor(正确答案)23、E-mail is _______ than express mail, so I usually email my friends. [单选题] *A. fastB. faster(正确答案)C. the fastestD. more faster24、She’s _______ with her present _______ job. [单选题] *A. boring; boringB. bored; boredC. boring; boredD. bored; boring(正确答案)25、( ). The old man enjoys ______ stamps. And now he has1300 of them [单选题] *A. collectB. collectedC. collecting(正确答案)D. to collect26、My mother and my aunt are both _______. They work in a big supermarket. [单选题] *A. actressesB. doctorsC. salesmenD. saleswomen(正确答案)27、Yesterday I _______ a book.It was very interesting. [单选题] *A. lookedB. read(正确答案)C. watchedD. saw28、He was born in Canada, but he has made China his _______. [单选题] *A. familyB. addressC. houseD. home(正确答案)29、A small village cuts across the river. [单选题] *A. 切B. 穿过(正确答案)C. 划船D. 踢30、_____from far away, the 600-meter tower is stretching into the sky. [单选题] *A. SeeB. SeeingC. To seeD. Seen(正确答案)。
2013年上外高翻会议口译试题
201320135%1.Clinton's Global Initiative2.Elysee Palace3.Palace of Westminster4.Department of Interior5.lead from the behind6.bank run7.Libor8.Sequester9.Korean Armistice Agreement10.Muslim Brotherhood11.Lean In12.Troika13.Air Force One14.PM2.515.Anonymous (an organisation)16. China Railway Corporation5%1.2.3.4.5. .6. 5007.8.9.10.11. 5+112.13.14.Global Markets' Time Factor21 March 2013BARCELONA – In recent months, the dichotomy between booming financial markets, on the one hand, and sluggish economies and dysfunctional politics, on the other, has loomed large. Yet insufficient attention is being devoted to a critical factor – time, and who controls it – that could well mean the difference between an orderly global resolution of today’s growing inconsistencies and a return to a more troubled phase.Markets have been understandably buoyant in the first quarter of 2013. Most economic data confirm that, after the trauma caused by the global financial crisis, the United States’ economy is healing, and doing so in an accelerated fashion.The sequence is now well established. It started with large multinational companies, which are on as solid a financial footing as I can remember. Smaller firms are gradually recuperating; banks have rebuilt their capital cushions and reduced their dubious assets; the housing sector has stabilized; and a growing number of households are reestablishing healthier balance sheets, especially as employment gradually picks up.This private-sector recovery is helping government finances. The US budget deficit has been on a downward trend for now, helped by both higher revenues and lower pressure on spending (for example, payments to the unemployed have fallen as joblessness has declined).The healing process is also evident in Europe, though, unfortunately, it is effectively limited only to sovereign-bond markets. The real economy remains under enormous pressure in several countries, as economies contract and unemployment remains alarmingly high.After flirting with disaster last July, interest-rate spreads for eurozone bonds have generally been subdued, and financial segmentation has been slowly reversed (that is, at least before European officials embarked on the controversial path of trying to impose losses on guaranteed bank deposits in Cyprus). Moreover, as Ireland’s highlysuccessful €5 billion ten-year bond issue in mid-March demonstrated, some countries are in the process of restoring normal access to capital markets.The impact on markets of these trends has been turbocharged by central banks, which are risk markets’ best friends. This is not because they wish to play that role; rather, it is because higher asset prices are essential if central bankers stand any chance of delivering the desired economic outcomes of higher growth and stronger job creation.This is most evident in the US, where markets love the Federal Reserve’s trifecta of near-zero policy interest rates (negative in real terms), aggressive forward policy guidance, and asset purchases – all of which push investors to take more risk. Markets also welcome the fact that the Fed’s hyperactive experimentation is forcing other central banks around the world to pursue more expansionary policies.Indeed, from the Bank of Japan’s dramatic policy U-turn to the Bank of Mexico’s surprise interest-rate cuts, the Fed’s approach is affecting central banks in a growing number of countries. Pushed further away from best-case scenarios, they are unable to ignore the global liquidity impact of the Fed’s policies, yet they lack the right policy tools to address it.The mix of endogenous healing and strong central-bank tailwinds, including from a “whatever it takes” European Central Bank, has also helped markets shrug off troubling political uncertainties. Be it the US Congress’s paralyzing polarization or Italy’s protest vote against the established political order, politicians are being given time to overcome their dysfunction, thereby minimizing any immediate disruptive impact.Understandably, investors have interpreted all of this as a green light to take more risk. And with the hype this month over eight successive records for the Dow Jones index (and many other records around the world), excitement induces more investors to enter riskier asset markets.The excitement is not anxiety-free, however, and rightly so. Investors worry about the longer-term consequences of political dysfunction, another year of Europeaneconomic contraction, disastrously high unemployment, unprecedented – and thus untested – central bank policies, and increasing global tensions. And the recent bungling of the Cyprus rescue does not help. No wonder some have called the recent market rally “one of the most unloved” in history.This mix of excitement and anxiety is, in fact, a sign of the looming crossroads that faces investors. One road, involving a relatively orderly handoff from policy-assisted recovery to self-sustaining growth, offers the possibility of even greater financial rewards, as rapidly improving economic and political conditions validate current artificial pricing and drive it higher.The other road is a lot less attractive. With insufficient endogenous healing and no economic escape velocity, the effectiveness of central banks’ policies wanes and political dysfunction increases, leading to financial losses, volatility spikes, and huge risk-management challenges.Given current policy and political uncertainties – and the multiple equilibria that they entail – it is difficult to predict with a high degree of confidence which road eventually will be taken and when. Those who claim otherwise may well fail to appreciate fully the exceptional nature of the current situation.In these circumstances, timing may not be everything, but it may prove to be a key determinant of the probabilities. If the journey to the crossroads is accelerated by a large geopolitical shock (originating in, say, the Middle East or North Korea) and/or a serious political breakdown in Europe (for example, a meltdown in Cyprus or prolonged political paralysis in Italy), the probability of taking the adverse path rises to an uncomfortably high level. If, however, central banks can contain domestic and global inconsistencies long enough, the combination of endogenous healing and eventual political progress would significantly improve the probability distribution.Have no doubt: today’s markets rely heavily on the old adage that “time heals all wounds.” The timekeepers are central banks. But their control of the clock is less than perfect; and it will become increasingly ineffective if economic improvement faces additional political headwinds in the months ahead.20%Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerptand the assignment below.Nowadays nothing is private: our culture has become tooconfessional and self-expressive. People think that to hide one’sthoughts or feelings is to pretend not to have those thoughts orfeelings. They assume that honesty requires one to express everyinclination and impulse.Adapted from J. David Velleman, “The Genesis of Shame”Assignment: Should people make more of an effort to keep some things private?Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue.Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading,studies, experience, or observations.2013201325%)The Crumbling BRICSNew Delhi-In 2001, when Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs coined the acronym BRIC to refer to Brazil, Russia, India, and China, the world had high hopes for the fouremerging economies, whose combined gross domestic product was expected to reach$128.4 trillion by 2050, dwarfing the United States’ projected GDP of $38.5 trillion. When the four countries’ leaders gather tomorrow in South Africa – which joined their ranks in 2010, contributing the ‘ S ’ – for the fifth BRICS summit, their progress and potential will be reassessed.The summit ’ s hosts have set ambitious goals, reflected in the summit ’ s theme:“ BRICS and Africa – a partnership for development, integration, andindustrialisation.” They seek to advance national interests, further the African agenda,and realign the world’s financial, political, and trade architecture – an agenda that encompasses objectives from previous summits, while reflecting South Africa’s goal of harnessing its membership to benefit all of Africa.But, while strengthening ties with African countries might seem like the kind of pragmatic development issue that should bring consensus, the seeds of doubt are already being sown. Lamido Sanusi, the governor of Nigeria ’ s central bank, has called for Africans to recognise that “their romance with China” has helped to bring about “a new form of imperialism”.Moreover, the central item on the summit ’ s agenda, a proposed “ BRICS development bank”, is one that has gone nowhere at previous summits. This time, armed with a “feasibility study” put together by the five BRICS finance ministers,some progress may at last be made. With trade, both among the BRICS countries and between the BRICS and the rest of Africa, expected to increase from roughly $340 billion in 2012 to more than $500 billion in 2015, there is also much to discuss on the commercial front.So far, the goal of “global realignment” away from the advanced countries has catalysed these five very disparate countries’ efforts to forge their own bloc. But the primacy given to“advancing national interests” has always precluded real concerted action, at least until now.This is why the idea of establishing a BRICS development bank has taken on such importance. And the recently conducted feasibility study might spur long-awaited progress. But toward what end?According to China ’ s official news agency, the development bank ’ s primary objective would be “to direct development in a manner that reflects the BRICS’priorities and competencies”. Once the bank is established, a working group will be tasked with building the necessary technical and governance capacity.But this stock rhetoric fails to address the discrepancies between the BRICS ’interests, or to define the bank’s role in reconciling and advancing them.The fact that China is already Africa ’ s top trading partner, for example, invites questions about the proposed bank’s potential contributions. And China’s answer –that the bank would foster the “development of more robust and inter-dependent tiesbetween the BRICS” – provides little substance. Is the bank supposed to serve as acounterweight to global multilateral development financiers such as the World Bank,or to reduce American and European dominance over the Bretton Woods institutions?Whatever the underlying objective, it must be identified, and its concomitant risks addressed, if the BRICS are to make genuine progress. For example, if the proposed bank is simply an additional funding institution aimed at supporting the BRICS ’s development agenda, the participating countries’ leaders must establish how it will interact with national institutions, such as the Brazilian Development Bank, the China Development Bank, and the Export-Import Bank of India.But the problem of aligning the BRICS’ interests is a much deeper one. Consider India ’ s need for massive investments in infrastructure, made evident in itsjust-proposed 2013-14 budget. Some hopeful Indians see a BRICS bank as a way to channel China’s surplus funds – as well as its expertise and experience – to such investments (especially railways), as well as to strengthen Sino-Indian ties. But given the two countries ’ many serious bilateral problems, will either government really want to bind itself so closely to the other? Although Wen Jiabao, in his final address as prime minister, highlighted the enduring obstacles to China ’ s economic development (many of which its fellow BRICS share), China’s new president, Xi Jinping, insists that his country will not sacrifice its “ sovereignty, security, ordevelopment interests” for the sake of more trade.Meanwhile, Russia’s impaired democracy and resource-driven economy are a poor example for its fellow BRICS – and, in fact, could serve as a warning to the others about the risks of excessive reliance on the state. And Brazil, like India a genuine democracy, also seems sui generis. Despite the commodities boom of the last decade,its industrial output relative to GDP is no higher than it was when the effort to create aBRICS bloc began.The BRICS’ ambitions – and the world’s expectations for them – may yet be fulfilled. But shared potential does not translate into collaborative action. On the contrary, each of the BRICS will have to pursue its goals, and confront its challenges, individually.25%30 “ ” “” “ ”10 38.9%1970-1980 10.5% 2001-2010 57.7%30 1.44-3 1.4-2.6 ;20“ ”“ ”。
2013.4孙犁口译指定范围
2013.4上外自考口译指定范围Unit 1 P366 EC 3 CE 1 4EC 3：As for this type of digital camera, there may be cheaper ones on the market. But when you look at the quality and the design, you will agree our price is the most favorable. KEY：就这类数码相机而言，市场上可能会有比它更便宜的，但如果你注意一下它的质量和设计，你会认可我们的价格是最优惠的。
CE 1：将近3倍的油价暴涨导致了两位数的通货膨胀率及全球经济的衰退。
（重点）KEY: The near-tripling of oil prices has led to double-digit inflation and global economic decline.CE 4：对我来说，创业时最大的障碍是搞清楚它是否切实可行。
要做到这一点真的很难，因为我以前从未涉足过这个行业。
（重点）KEY: To me, the biggest challenge to get the business running is to find out whether it would be feasible at all. It is not easy to do so, as I have never been involved in the industry ever before.Unit 2 P382 CE 2CE 2：医学证明，如果你吸烟，那你得心脏病和其他疾病的/癌症几率就会上升。
然而，吸烟的人口还在不断增长。
（重点）KEY：Medical science has approved that your chances of having a heart attack and other diseases increase if you smoke. However, the number of people who smoke is still on the rise.Unit 3 P395 CE 5CE 5：在其社会化的进程中，孩子应学会照顾自己和独立生活。
2013年9月高级口译听力答案Passage Translation
2013年9月高级口译听力答案Passage Translation难度：容易作者：沪江英语来源：沪江英语评论：22013年秋季上海中高级口译考试于今日9月15日开考，沪江英语在考后第一时间提供真题、解析、答案信息，本文为2013年9月高级口译听力答案Passage Translation 部分，由沪江网校提供。
Passage Translation E-C 1A person's age no longer tells you anything about his or her social position, marriage or health. There's no longer a particular year in which one goes to school or goes to work or gets married or starts a family. The social clock that keeps us on time and tells us when to go to school, get a job, or stop working isn't as strong as it used to be. It doesn't surprise us to hear of a 29-year-old university president or a 35-year-old grandmother, or a 70-year-old man who has become a father for the first time. Public ideas are changing. We start looking with surprised at old people who act in useful ways.【参考译文】一个人的年龄不再能够说明他或她的社会地位、婚姻以及健康状况。
2013年9月中级口译英译汉真题及答案解析
2013年9月中级口译英译汉真题及答案解析2013年09月16日18:17 沪江英语微博我有话说编辑点评：2013年秋季上海中高级口译考试于今日9月15日开考，沪江英语在考后第一时间提供真题、解析、答案信息，本文为2013年9月中级口译英译汉答案部分。
原文：American are much more likely than citizens of other nations to believe that they live in a meritocracy, i.e. Government by people selected according to merit. But this self-image is a fantasy: America actually stands out as a the advanced country in which it matters most who your parents were, the country in which those born on one of society’s lower rungs have the least chance of climing to the top or even to the middle。
And if you ask why America is more class-bound in practice than the rest of the Western world, a large part of the reason is that our government falls down on the job of creating equal opportunity。
The failure starts early: in America, the holes in the social safety net mean that both low-income mothers and their children are all too likely to suffer from poor nutrition and receive inadequate health care. It continues once children reach school age, where they encounter a system in which the afflent send their kids to good, well-financed public schools or, if they choose, to private schools, while less-advantaged children get a far worse education。
上海外国语大学英语翻译硕士MTI真题
2013上外MTI_翻译硕士英语考研真题之勘阻及广创作Making the most of diversityFrom ReutersThu Nov 15, 2012 4:22pm ESTBy Chrystia FreelandNEW YORK Nov 15 (Reuters) - For America, 2012 will go down in history as the year of the Latinos, the blacks, the women and the gays. That rainbow coalition won President Barack Obama his second term. This triumph of the outsiders is partly due to America's changing demographics. And it is not just the United States that is becoming more diverse. Canada is, too,as is much of Europe.That is why it is worth thinking hard about how to make diverse teams effective, and how people who straddle two cultural worlds can succeed. Three academics, appropriately enough a diverse group based in Asia and America, have been doing some provocative research that suggests that our ability to comfortably integrate our different identities - or not - is the key.In "Connecting the Dots Within: Creative Performance and Identity Integration," Chi-Ying Cheng of Singapore Management University, Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, and Fiona Lee, also at the University of Michigan, argue that ethnic minorities and women in male-dominated professions are most creative when they have found a way to believe that their "multiple and conflicting social identities are compatible.""We tried to see how people who have to deal with seemingly in-conflict culture or gender identities cope," Cheng told me. Their conclusion was that people who have found a way to reconcile their two identities - Asian-Americans, for example, or women who work in male-dominated jobs like engineering - are the best at finding creative solutions to problems."Those who see their identities as compatible, they are better at combining ideas from the two identities to come up with something new," Cheng said. "While those who also share these two social identities, but see them as being in conflict, they cannot come up with new ideas."Cheng, Sanchez-Burks and Lee devised a research strategyto probe this issue that you do not need a Ph.D. to appreciate: They asked Asian-Americans to invent new fusion cuisine dishes using both typically Asian and typically American ingredients, and they asked female engineers to design products geared specifically to women. In both cases, people who were at peace with their dual identities performed better."Asian-Americans who had higher bicultural integration could create more creative recipes, and they believed it was possible to come up with more recipes," Cheng said. "By contrast, Asian-Americans who feel their two identities are in conflict cannot come up with as many creative recipes.''Cheng has her own experience of being a minority. She is from Taiwan but went to graduate school in the United States; she is a woman but has taught in the male-dominated environment of graduate business schools. She does not minimize the challenge of coming to terms with this sort of diversity."People who have high identity integration, it is not that they are more easygoing. It is that they find peace between the two different worlds," Cheng said. "It is notthat easy. Pretending doesn't work. There has to be real understanding and integration between the two worlds. They find a way for the two worlds to coexist inside a person."This academic work is a useful prism for understanding the man who may be the world's most prominent integrator of two potentially conflicting identities: President Obama. He has gained admission to what used to be the most exclusive white club of all, the White House, while remaining patently at ease with his black identity.As Cheng advises, Obama does not ignore the complexities of straddling these two worlds: He governs with an acute awareness of the particular challenges a black skin poses for the man Americans still like to describe as the leader of the free world. But the president is also deeply at ease with his various identities, a psychological state that may help him use them to powerful effect - as in the election campaign, when he rallied pretty much all Americans who think of themselves as different.The conclusions of Cheng, Sanchez-Burks and Lee suggest a tantalizing follow-up question: How can we achieve thepersonal integration these scholars have identified as crucial to making a virtue of diversity? Further research by Cheng offers one answer: "You can integrate your identities if you have positive bicultural experiences. The macrosystem can influence the microsystem."In other words, if the world around us tells us our dual identities are compatible, we will believe that, and act accordingly. If female engineers work in a company that treats their gender as a virtue, they will do better. If Asian-Americans live in a community that celebrates both aspects of their identity, they will be more effective. America's rainbow coalition won at the ballot box this month, but in other settings the nation has become a little weary of diversity-cheering movements like multiculturalism and even explicit feminism. Cheng's work suggests that cynicism may be misplaced. Diversity can work, but we have to work at it.上面划线部份为完型填空的谜底1、According to the author, what it takes for a minorityperson to succeed in the US?2、Why the author considers barak obama a success?3、Elaborate the author’s argument “The macros ystem caninfluence the microsystem.”4、What are the author alluding to with the phrase“rainbow coalition”?Write in English 500 words about your comment on how to succeed in an increasingly diverse environment.。
2013年上海外国语大学考研翻硕MTI翻译基础真题回忆版分享
上海外国语大学考研
2013年翻硕翻译基础真题回忆版分享
一用中文解释（10个，总共15分）
the Great Depression，the 18th CPC Congress，ASEAN，CNN，GDP，IMF， Capitol Hill，US pivot to Asia，the Gaza Strip，QE3
二用英文解释（10个，总共15分）
科学发展观，可持续发展，纳米技术，中等收入陷阱，替代能源，长三角，独立自主的和平外交政策，钓鱼岛争端
三英译中
Broken BRICs ---by Richir Sharma（可以网上找得到，输入标题作者即可，有篇中英双文的，本来想复制粘贴过来的，但是好像URL不行）
四中译英
中国间谍，美国间谍之类的东西，（今年题量加大，难度下降，来不及做呐，25分钟战中译英，还有两小段没译，我那个运笔如飞，那个行书狂草，但是还是来不及呐。
大家以后合理安排时间吧）
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高译教育-上海对外经贸大学考研英语翻译基础真题2013
上 海 对 外 贸 易 学 院 2013年 攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试《英语翻译基础》试题适用翻译硕士专业（全部试题均做在答题纸上，否则不予得分）一、Phrases translation: (60 points)1. a seasoned general manager2. Saint Laurent, Chanel, Gucci, Amarni and other brands in the emerging market3. Double-digit growth in sales and operating profit4. Exceptional poised, articulate, and effective5. P&L experience6. Outstanding executive presence and communication skills7. To leverage customer relationships8. To quantify the financial impact of marketing and business decision 9. State-of-the art policy10. R uled out a few additional niche acquisitions11. T o increase pretax margins by 20%12. T o beg off 13. D rag one’s feet新浪 @ 鬼谷一喵 姚洋老师授课丗1312-6505-007电联14. E nough’s enough 15. F iduciary responsibility1. 行业知识丰富2. 极具合作精神，在跨部门项目中表现出色3. 获得极为正面的客户反馈4. 提升品牌质量和现场销售管理质量5. 自有品牌产品6. 负责3亿美元的产品业务7. 负责多个职能部门8. 组织一次全国销售会议9. 远见和个人魅力 10. 在风险重重的十字路口 11. 有创造力，出色的市场意识 12. 设定高绩效的标准13. 有号召力，能领导复杂项目14. 有机增长15. 担任更多的职务，增加业界间知名度二、Paragraphs translation: (90 points)1. Translate the following passage into Chinese :《Give respect and get performance 》新浪 @ 鬼谷一喵 姚洋老师授课丗1312-6505-007电联It sounds clichéd, but to get the best from your people, you have to showrespect for them. This can result in surprising decisions. There was a time when some people regarded workers in England as lazy and careless, but I recognized that England has a very strong appreciation of craftsmanship and tradition, so wepurchased a high-end footwear company, Church’s shoes. People in Italy thought this was crazy.Our first challenge was to decide what to do with the factories. Church’sowned a plant in the middle of Northampton that employed 600 people, and the smart move appeared to be to relocate it out of town, which would give us more space at less cost. But when I visited the factory, I saw that peopl e’s lives were organizedaround its location. Most employees lived nearby and would go home for lunch. If we moved them out of town, we’d be robbing them of an hour at home and forcing them to bring sandwiches to work. Their quality of life would be compromised, and they wouldn’t be getting anything in return. So we kept the factory in town.That decision has paid dividends. We retained nearly all the company’s veryhardworking and talented people, who have rewarded us with increased productivity. And we’ve proved a larger point: English workers are both cheaper and more industrious than Continental workers.You could say that work is about duties. People have a duty to work hardfor me, but I have a duty to respect them as individuals. Another duty I have is to help them learn. That’s a duty I owe to the company as well as to my employees, because a company whose managers take seriously the obligation to help their people improve will be a lot more competitive. Prada is rather good at developing talented employees. Many of our senior managers joined us as young people, and many of the people who have left us have gone on to launch successful businesses of their own.2. Translate the following passage into English :《重用年轻经理》我特别推崇年轻人。
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2013年上海外国语大学高级翻译学院会议口译试题（上午笔试题）注：本试卷是一考生回忆版本，含有上午笔试题，中午口译题，和下午笔试题，试题内容不能有偿出卖，不能用于培训，供英语学习爱好者学习交流之用，试卷版权归上海外国语大学高翻学院所有。
一、名词解释：（用英文解释分值5%）1.Clinton's Global Initiative2.Elysee Palace3.Palace of Westminster4.Department of Interior5.lead from the behind6.bank run7.Libor8.Sequester9.Korean Armistice Agreement10.Muslim Brotherhood11.Lean In12.Troika13.Air Force One14.PM2.5二、名词解释：（用中文解释分值5%）1.大部制改革2.全口径预算3.寻租行为4.塞浦路斯救助5.杰克.卢6.标普5007.福克兰群岛8.碳足迹9.华西村10.知青11.伊核问题5+112.点心债券13.女性赋权14.亚布力论坛三、完形填空（没有找到原文，歉意，和2012年的形式一样，附上2012年真题完形原文，具体的空也不记得了，大概就是在中间随意挖20个空，分值20%）Reagan,Clinton'great'?Not so fastHistorians routinely rank presidents.They tend to agree on the truly great but also hold subjective views.Perhaps there should be an edict that no president can be pronounced"great"until50 years after leaving office.Reagan's sycophants contend he was truly great because he made Americans feel good about themselves and his policies made many of them richer.But,unlike Clinton,about whom we know too much,Reagan may be better remembered as a national enigma.He is credited with tamping down the Cold War.But that overlooks his near pathological hatred of the Soviet Union.And one biographer of his wife,Nancy, makes a convincing case that it was she who nudged him into serious arms-reduction talks.And although the Cold War was winding down on his watch,the Soviet Union ultimately,and perhaps inevitably,imploded of its own backwardness.Even Reagan's purported greatness gets wobbly when superimposed over the likes ofJean Edward Smith's brilliant new biography correctly recognizes Eisenhower as"the most successful president of the20th century,"with the exception of FDR.Yet,when Eisenhower left office51years ago,he was not highly regarded and was dismissively referred to as mediocre,a caretaker,a better general than chief executive.Americans are notoriously impatient to pass judgment.Perhaps it's a function of the pace of the world in which we live.We need to remember that no president is ever as bad as his enemies aver,and very few are equal to the adulation they receive.Public pronouncements of presidential greatness often suffer from myopia. Fortunately,time has its own perspective.Walter Rodgers,a former senior international correspondent for CNN,is a columnist for The Christian Science Monitor.四、写作：（题目来源于SAT1考试写作20%）Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.Nowadays nothing is private:our culture has become too confessional and self-expressive.People think that to hide oneone’’s thoughts or feelings is to pretend not to have those thoughts or feelings.They assume that honesty requires one to express every inclination and impulse.Shame””Adapted from J.David Velleman,“The Genesis of ShameAssignment:Should people make more of an effort to keep some things private? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies,experience,or observations.范文：I cannot help but believe,despite my slight ambivalence over the issue of privacy,that the trends which now-a-days indicate a slight reluctance on part of people to keep some things private,are dangerous.Shows like"Jerry Springer"in the USA tend toreveal information that is inherently dangerous for young children,and thus should be kept private.A problem with capitalism that I have become cognizant of,through my observations, is that if some activity can help amass profits,it is widely employed.This almost insane drive to attain profit maximization not only ignores external and societal costs, but is setting dangerous cultural precedents.Since lurid,sensationalist confessions by 'average'people are quite appealing to the general television viewer,it is unsurprising that myriad shows have propped up on television,which pander to these very wants by exposing stories and information which is better kept dissembled.In this context,the show'Jerry Springer'epitomizes my argument.In this show,an array of family problems are presented to an audience,not for informationdissemination,but for'entertainment';In this case,which means—and I think this is quite obvious—nothing but mockery and amusement over the antics of people whochoose to expose their problems.These'personal predicaments'range from some less disturbing ones,such as people cheating on their friends or marital partners,to extremely grave ones,such as people sleeping with their relatives.I am not someone who would like to contravene principles like freedom of expression, or freedom of choice.But democracy as a system doesn’t herald absolute freedom for its own sake;rather,it champions the cause of'live and let live'.The latter principal is surely being violated by people who choose to expose such stories—for no plausible reasons I can conjure,since no family problem has actually been solved by such shows—to impressionable young children;for TV ratings and parental supervision do not always work.Am I exaggerating?Is it not harmful or psychologically detrimental when a child is exposed to such ideas?You be the judge.2013年上海外国语大学高级翻译学院会议口译试题（中午口译题）我今天要讲的题目是展望今后十年，第一个问题，发展优势的创造。