1、(A)英语翻译高级口译英译中社会人文(二)及答案解析(总分:99.97,做题时间:90 分钟)一、试题 1(总题数:1,分数:25.00)The line of demarcation between the adult and the child world is drawn in many ways. For instance, many American parents may be totally divorced from the church, or entertain grave doubts about the existence of God, but they send c
2、hildren to Sunday school and help them to pray. American parents struggle in a competitive world where sheer conning and falsehood are often rewarded and respected, but they feed their children with nursery tales in which the morally good is pitted against the bad, and in the end the good inevitably
3、 is successful and the bad inevitably punished. When American parents are in serious domestic trouble, they maintain a front of sweetness and light before their children. Even if American parents suffer a major business or personal catastrophe, they feel obliged to turn to their children and say, “H
4、oney, everything is going to be all right.“ This American desire to keep the childrens world separate from that of the adult is exemplified also by the practice of delaying transmission of the news to children when their parents have been killed in an accident. Thus, in summary, American parents fac
5、e a world of reality while many of their children live in a near-ideal unreal realm where the rules of the parental world do not apply, are watered down, or are even reversed.(分数:25.02)(1).The line of demarcation between the adult and the child world is drawn in many ways.(分数:4.17)_(2).For instance,
6、 many American parents may be totally divorced from the church, or entertain grave doubts about the existence of God, but they send children to Sunday school and help them to pray.(分数:4.17)_(3).American parents struggle in a competitive world where sheer conning and falsehood are often rewarded and
7、respected, but they feed their children with nursery tales in which the morally good is pitted against the bad, and in the end the good inevitably is successful and the bad inevitably punished.(分数:4.17)_(4).When American parents are in serious domestic trouble, they maintain a front of sweetness and
8、 light before their children. Even if American parents suffer a major business or personal catastrophe, they feel obliged to turn to their children and say, “Honey, everything is going to be all right./(分数:4.17)_(5).This American desire to keep the childrens world separate from that of the adult is
9、exemplified also by the practice of delaying transmission of the news to children when their parents have been killed in an accident.(分数:4.17)_(6).Thus, in summary, American parents face a world of reality while many of their children live in a near-ideal unreal realm where the rules of the parental
10、 world do not apply, are watered down, or are even reversed.(分数:4.17)_二、试题 2(总题数:1,分数:25.00)In-state tuition. For decades, it was the one advantage big state schools had that even the Ivy League couldnt match, in terms of recruiting the best and the brightest to their campuses. But these days, thats
11、 no longer necessarily the case. Starting this September, some students will find a Harvard degree cheaper than one from many public universities. Harvard officials sent shock waves through academia last December by detailing a new financial-aid policy that will charge families making up to 180,000
12、just 10% of their household income per year, substantially subsidizing the annual cost of more than 45,600 for all but its wealthiest students. The move was just the latest in what has amounted to a financial-aid bidding war in recent years among the U.S.s lite universities.Though Harvards is the mo
13、st generous to date, Princeton, Yale and Stanford have all launched similar plans to cap tuition contributions for students from low-and middle-income families. Indeed, students on financial aid at nearly every Ivy stand a good chance of graduating debt-free, thanks to loan-elimination programs intr
14、oduced over the past five years. And other exclusive schools have followed their lead by replacing loans with grants and work-study aid. And several more schools are joining the no-loan club this fall. Even more schools have taken steps to reduce debt among their neediest students.(分数:24.99)(1).In-s
15、tate tuition. For decades, it was the one advantage big state schools had that even the Ivy League couldnt match, in terms of recruiting the best and the brightest to their campuses.(分数:3.57)_(2).But these days, thats no longer necessarily the case. Starting this September, some students will find a
16、 Harvard degree cheaper than one from many public universities.(分数:3.57)_(3).Harvard officials sent shock waves through academia last December by detailing a new financial-aid policy that will charge families making up to 180,000 just 10% of their household income per year, substantially subsidizing
17、 the annual cost of more than 45,600 for all but its wealthiest students.(分数:3.57)_(4).The move was just the latest in what has amounted to a financial-aid bidding war in recent years among the U.S.s lite universities.(分数:3.57)_(5).Though Harvards is the most generous to date, Princeton, Yale and St
18、anford have all launched similar plans to cap tuition contributions for students from low-and middle-income families.(分数:3.57)_(6).Indeed, students on financial aid at nearly every Ivy stand a good chance of graduating debt-free, thanks to loan-elimination programs introduced over the past five year
19、s.(分数:3.57)_(7).And other exclusive schools have followed their lead by replacing loans with grants and work-study aid. And several more schools are joining the no-loan club this fall. Even more schools have taken steps to reduce debt among their neediest students.(分数:3.57)_三、试题 3(总题数:1,分数:25.00)So
20、many of the productions currently to be seen on the London stage are concerned with the more violent aspects of life that it is surprising to meet a play about ordinary people caught up in ordinary events. Thomas Sackvilles the Visitor is just such a playat least, on the surface. It seems to stand w
21、ell outside the mainstream of recent British drama. In fact the surface is so bland that attention is constantly focused on the care with which the play has been put together, and the clarity with which its argument develops; it seems natural to discuss it in terms of the notion of “the well-wrought
22、 play“.The story is about an unremarkable family evening in middle-class suburbia. The husband and wife have invited a friend to dinner. The friend turns up in due course and they talk about their respective lives and interests. During this conversation, in which the author shows a remarkable talent
23、 for writing dialogue which is entertaining and witty without being so sparkling as to draw too much attention to itself; the characters are carefully fleshed out and provided with a set of credibleif unremarkablemotives. Through innumerable delicate touches in the writing they emerge: pleasant, hum
24、orous, ordinary, and ineffectual. And if they are never made vibrantly alive in terms of the real world, one feels that this is deliberate; that the author is content to give them a theatrical existence of their own, and leave it at that.(分数:24.96)(1).So many of the productions currently to be seen
25、on the London stage are concerned with the more violent aspects of life that is surprising to meet a play about ordinary people caught up in ordinary events.(分数:3.12)_(2).Thomas Sackvilles the Visitor is just such a playat least, on the surface. It seems to stand well outside the mainstream of recen
26、t British drama.(分数:3.12)_(3).In fact the surface is so bland that attention is constantly focused on the care with which the play has been put together, and the clarity with which its argument develops; it seems natural to discuss it in terms of the notion of “the well-wrought play“.(分数:3.12)_(4).T
27、he story is about an unremarkable family evening in middle-class suburbia. The husband and wife have invited a friend to dinner. The friend turns up in due course and they talk about their respective lives and interests.(分数:3.12)_(5).During this conversation, in which the author shows a remarkable t
28、alent for writing dialogue which is entertaining and witty without being so sparkling as to draw too much attention to itself.(分数:3.12)_(6).The characters are carefully fleshed out and provided with a set of credibleif unremarkablemotives.(分数:3.12)_(7).Through innumerable delicate touches in the wri
29、ting they emerge: pleasant, humorous, ordinary, and ineffectual.(分数:3.12)_(8).And if they are never made vibrantly alive in terms of the real world, one feels that this is deliberate; that the author is content to give them a theatrical existence of their own, and leave it at that.(分数:3.12)_四、试题 4(总
30、题数:1,分数:25.00)For years I have been mercilessly lampooned by friends and acquaintances alike for my unorthodox lifestyle choice of having no TV. In an age of increasingly large flat-screens and surround sound which accost you the minute you walk into someones house, people regularly look at me like
31、Im either severely handicapped or chronically hard done by when I mention that I have no television. I can see the mixture of genuine pity, raw pathos and sheer disbelief in their faces as they stare at me open-mouthed. And no, contrary to the jokes and insinuations from the equally incredulous youn
32、g people I mentor, its not because I cant afford to pay the TV license.To be sure, television is a great invention, if handled in moderation. The composite etymological derivation (from the Greek and the Latin wordsliterally meaning “to see from afar“) tells of a tremendous technological feat which
33、certainly deserves to be applauded. Whats more, if one is discerning, it can be the source of some quality entertainment, instruction and enjoyment. Some of the nature documentaries and arts programmers on BBC 2 are truly fantastic. But the sad reality is that young people are rarely discerning and,
34、 by dint of poor time management skills, often end up wasting an inordinate amount of precious, never-returning time watching trash, their brains wallowing in a trough of mental lethargy.(分数:25.00)(1).For years I have been mercilessly lampooned by friends and acquaintances alike for my unorthodox li
35、festyle choice of having no TV. In an age of increasingly large flat-screens and surround sound which accost you the minute you walk into someones house, people regularly look at me like Im either severely handicapped or chronically hard done by when I mention that I have no television.(分数:5.00)_(2)
36、.I can see the mixture of genuine pity, raw pathos and sheer disbelief in their faces as they stare at me open-mouthed. And no, contrary to the jokes and insinuations from the equally incredulous young people I mentor, its not because I cant afford to pay the TV license.(分数:5.00)_(3).To be sure, tel
37、evision is a great invention, if handled in moderation. The composite etymological derivation (from the Greek and the Latin wordsliterally meaning “to see from afar“) tells of a tremendous technological feat which certainly deserves to be applauded.(分数:5.00)_(4).Whats more, if one is discerning, it
38、can be the source of some quality entertainment, instruction and enjoyment, Some of the nature documentaries and arts programmers on BBC 2 are truly fantastic.(分数:5.00)_(5).But the sad reality is that young people are rarely discerning and, by dint of poor time management skills, often end up wastin
39、g an inordinate amount of precious, never-returning time watching trash, their brains wallowing in a trough of mental lethargy.(分数:5.00)_(A)英语翻译高级口译英译中社会人文(二)答案解析(总分:99.97,做题时间:90 分钟)一、试题 1(总题数:1,分数:25.00)The line of demarcation between the adult and the child world is drawn in many ways. For instan
40、ce, many American parents may be totally divorced from the church, or entertain grave doubts about the existence of God, but they send children to Sunday school and help them to pray. American parents struggle in a competitive world where sheer conning and falsehood are often rewarded and respected,
41、 but they feed their children with nursery tales in which the morally good is pitted against the bad, and in the end the good inevitably is successful and the bad inevitably punished. When American parents are in serious domestic trouble, they maintain a front of sweetness and light before their chi
42、ldren. Even if American parents suffer a major business or personal catastrophe, they feel obliged to turn to their children and say, “Honey, everything is going to be all right.“ This American desire to keep the childrens world separate from that of the adult is exemplified also by the practice of delaying transmission of the news to children whe