翻译三级笔译实务分类真题3及答案解析.doc
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1、翻译三级笔译实务分类真题 3及答案解析(总分:100.00,做题时间:90 分钟)一、BSection Engli(总题数:2,分数:60.00)1.A year ago, this lush coastal field near Rome was filled with orderly rows of delicate durum wheat, used to make high quality Italian pasta. Today it overflows with rapeseed, a tall, gnarled weedlike plant bursting with coars
2、e yellow flowers that has become a new manna for European farmers: rapeseed can be turned into biofuel.Lured by generous new subsidies to develop alternative energy sourcesand a measure of concern about the future of the planetEuropean farmers are plunging into growing crops that can be turned into
3、fuels meant to produce fewer emissions than gas or oil when burned. They are chasing after their counterparts in the Americas who have been cropping for biofuel for more than five years.“This is a much-needed boost to our economy, our farms,“ said Marcello Pini, a farmer, standing in front of the se
4、a of waving yellow flowers he planted for the first time this year. “Of course we hope it helps the environment, too.“In March, the European Commission, disappointed by the slow growth of the biofuels industry in Europe, approved a directive that included a “binding target“ requiring member states t
5、o use 10 percent biofuel for transport by 2020the most ambitious and specific goal in the world.Most EU states are currently far from achieving the target, and are introducing new incentives and subsidies to boost production.As a result, bioenergy crops have now replaced food as the most profitable
6、crop in a number European countries. In this part of Italy, for example, the government guarantees the purchase of biofuel crops at 22 per 100 kilograms, or $13.42 per 100 poundsnearly twice the 11-to-12 rate per 100 kilograms of wheat on the open market last year. Better still, European farmers are
7、 allowed to plant biofuel crops on “set-aside“ fields, land that EU agriculture policy would otherwise require them to leave fallow to prevent an oversupply of food.But an expert panel convened by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization this month pointed out that the biofuels boom produces both be
8、nefits as well as tradeoff and risksincluding higher and wildly fluctuating global food prices. In some markets grain prices have nearly doubled because farmers are planting for biofuels.“At a time when agricultural prices are low, in comes biofuel and improves the lot of farmers and injects life in
9、to rural areas,“ said Gustavo Best, an expert at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. “But as the scale grows and the demand for biofuel crops seems to be infinite, were seeing some negative effects and we need to hold up a yellow light.“Josette Sheeran, the new head of the
10、UN World Food program, which fed nearly 90 million people in 2006, said that biofuels created new dilemmas for her agency. “An increase in grain prices impacts us because we are a major procurer of grain for food. So biofuels are both a challenge and an opportunity.“In Europe, the rapid conversion o
11、f fields that once grew wheat or barley to biofuel oils like rapeseed is already leading to shortages of ingredients for making pasta and brewing beer, suppliers say. That could translate into higher prices in supermarkets.“New and increasing demand for bioenergy production has put high pressure on
12、the whole world grain market,“ said Claudia Conti, a spokeswoman for Barilla, one of the largest Italian pasta makers. “Not only German beer producers, but Mexican tortilla makers have see the cost of their main raw material growing quickly to historical highs.“For some experts, more worrisome is th
13、e potential impact to low-income consumers from the displacement of food crops by bioenergy plantings. In the developing world, the shift from growing food to growing more lucrative biofuel crops destined for richer countries could create serious hunger and damage the environment in places where wil
14、d land is converted to biofuel cultivation, the FAO expert panel concluded.But officials at the European Commission say they are pursuing a measured course that will prevent the worst price and supply problems that have plagued American markets.“We see in the United States farmers going crazy growin
15、g corn for biofuels, but also producing shortages of food and feed,“ said Michael Mann, a commission spokesman. “So we see biofuel as a good opportunitybut it shouldnt be the be-all and end-all for agriculture.“In a recent speech, Mariann Fischer Boel, the EU agriculture and rural development commis
16、sioner, said that the 10 percent EU target was “not a shot in the dark,“ but rather carefully chosen to encourage a level of biofuel industry growth that would not produce undue hardship for the Continents poor. Over the next 14 years, she calculated, it would push up raw material prices for cereal
17、by 3 percent to 6 percent by 2020, while prices for oilseed may rise between 5 percent and 18 percent. But food prices on the shelves would barely change, she said.(分数:30.00)_2.LONGYEARBYEN, NorwayWith plant species disappearing at an alarming rate, scientists and governments are creating a global n
18、etwork of plant banks to store seeds and sprouts, precious genetic resources that may be needed for man to adapt the worlds food supply to climate change. This week, the flagship of that effort, the Global Seed Vault near here, received its first seeds, millions of them. Bored into the middle of a f
19、rozen Arctic mountain topped with snow, the vaults goal is to store and protect samples of every type of seed from every seed collection in the world. As of Thursday, thousands of neatly stacked and labeled gray boxes of seedspeas from Nigeria, corn from Mexicoreside in this glazed cavelike structur
20、e, forming a sort of backup hard drive, in case natural disasters or human errors erase the seeds from the outside world. Descending almost 500 feet under the permafrost, the entrance tunnel to the seed vault is designed to withstand bomb blasts and earthquakes. An automated digital monitoring syste
21、m controls temperature and provides security akin to a missile silo or Fort Knox. No one person has all the codes for entrance. The Global Vault is part of a broader effort to gather and systematize information about plants and their genes, which climate change experts say may indeed prove more valu
22、able than gold. In Leuven, Belgium, scientists are scouring the world for banana samples and preserving their shoots in liquid nitrogen before they become extinct. A similar effort is under way in France on coffee plants. A number of plants, most from the tropics, do not produce seeds that can be st
23、ored. For years, a hodgepodge network of seed banks has been amassing seed and shoot collections in a haphazard manner. Labs in Mexico banked corn species. Those in Nigeria banked cassava. Now these scattershot efforts are being urgently consolidated and systematized, in part because of better techn
24、ology to preserve plant genes and in part because of the rising alarm about climate change and its impact on world food production. “We started thinking about this post-9/11 and on the heels of Hurricane Katrina,“ said Cary Fowler, president of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, a nonprofit group that
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