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1、翻译二级笔译实务 2006年 11月及答案解析(总分:130.00,做题时间:90 分钟)一、Section English-Ch(总题数:0,分数:0.00)二、Part A Compulsory Tr(总题数:1,分数:30.00)1.This week and next, governments, international agencies and nongovernmental organizations are gathering in Mexico City at the World Water Forum to discuss the legacy of global Mulh
2、ollandism in waterand to chart a new course. They could hardly have chosen a better location. Water is being pumped out of the aquifer on which Mexico City stands at twice the rate of replenishment. The result: the city is subsiding at the rate of about half a meter every decade. You can see the con
3、sequences in the cracked cathedrals, the tilting Palace of Arts and the broken water and sewerage pipes. Every region of the world has its own variant of the water crisis story. The mining of groundwaters for irrigation has lowered the water table in parts of India and Pakistan by 30 meters in the p
4、ast three decades. As water goes down, the cost of pumping goes up, undermining the livelihoods of poor farmers. What is driving the global water crisis? Physical availability is part of the problem. Unlike oil or coal, water is an infinitely renewable resource, but it is available in a finite quant
5、ity. With water use increasing at twice the rate of population growth, the amount available per person is shrinkingespecially in some of the poorest countries. Challenging as physical scarcity may be in some countries, the real problems in water go deeper. The 20th-century model for water management
6、 was based on a simple idea: that water is an infinitely available free resource to be exploited, dammed or diverted without reference to scarcity or sustainability. Across the world, water-based ecological systemsrivers, lakes and watershedshave been taken beyond the frontiers of ecological sustain
7、ability by policy makers who have turned a blind eye to the consequences of over-exploitation. We need a new model of water management for the 21st century. What does that mean? For starters, we have to stop using water like there“s no tomorrowand that means using it more efficiently at levels that
8、do not destroy our environment. The buzz-phrase at the Mexico Water forum is “integrated water resource management.“ What it means is that governments need to manage the private demand of different users and manage this precious resource in the public interest. (分数:30.00)_三、Part B Choice of Two(总题数:
9、0,分数:0.00)四、Topic 1(总题数:1,分数:30.00)2.John Kenneth Galbraith, the iconoclastic economist, teacher and diplomat, died Saturday at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 97. Mr. Galbraith was one of the most widely read authors in the history of economics; among his 33 books was “The Affluent S
10、ociety“ (1958), one of those rare works that forces a nation to re-examine its values. He wrote fluidly, even on complex topics, and many of his compelling phrasesamong them “the affluent society,“ “conventional wisdom“ and “countervailing power“became part of the language. An imposing presence, lan
11、ky and angular at 6 feet 8 inches tall, Mr. Galbraith was consulted frequently by national leaders, and he gave advice freely, though it may have been ignored as often as it was taken. Mr. Galbraith clearly preferred taking issue with the conventional wisdom he distrusted. Mr. Galbraith, a revered l
12、ecturer for generations of Harvard students, nonetheless always commanded attention. From the 1930“s to the 1990“s Mr. Galbraith helped define the terms of the national political debate, influencing both the direction of the Democratic Party and the thinking of its leaders. He tutored Adlai E. Steve
13、nson, the Democratic nominee for president in 1952 and 1956, on Keynesian economics. He advised President John E Kennedy (often over lobster stew at the Locke-Ober restaurant in their beloved Boston) and served as his ambassador to India. Though he eventually broke with President Lyndon B. Johnson o
14、ver the war in Vietnam, he helped conceive of Mr. Johnson“s Great Society program and wrote a major presidential address that outlined its purposes. In 1968, pursuing his opposition to the war, he helped Senator Eugene J. McCarthy seek the Democratic nomination for president. In the course of his lo
15、ng career, he undertook a number of government assignments, including the organization of price controls in World War II and speechwriting for Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson. He drew on his experiences in government to write three satirical novels. He took on the Harvard econo
16、mics department with “A Tenured Professor,“ ridiculing, among others, a certain outspoken character who bore no small resemblance to himself. At his death, Mr. Galbraith was the emeritus professor of economics at Harvard, where he had taught for most of his career. A popular lecturer, he treated eco
17、nomics as an aspect of society and culture rather than as an arcane discipline of numbers. (分数:30.00)_五、Topic 2(总题数:1,分数:30.00)3.LAST week, Indonesia announced its 43rd human death from bird flu. It has now recorded more fatalities than any other nation, and in stark contrast to all other countries
18、its death toll is climbing regularly. It looks as though things will get worse before they get better. The Indonesian government claims to be committed to fighting the disease, caused by the H5N1 virus, but it does not seem to want to spend much of its own money doing so. After the international com
19、munity pledged $900m in grants and slightly more in very soft loans to combat the spread of bird flu globally and to help nations prepare for a possible human flu pandemic, Indonesia put in a request for the full $900mall of it in grants. A national bird-flu commission was created in March to co-ord
20、inate the country“s response but it has yet to be given a budget. Its chief, meanwhile, has just been given a second full-time jobheading efforts to rebuild the part of Java devastated by an earthquake in May. Observers say that the available money is being mis-spent, with the focus on humans rather
21、 than on animals. The agriculture ministry, for example, is asking for less money for next year than it got this year. This is despite hundreds of thousands of hens dying every month, to say nothing of infected cats, quails, pigs and ducks. Farmers are being compensated at only 2,000 rupiah (21 cent
22、s) per bird, well below market price, thereby discouraging them from reporting outbreaks. The country“s veterinary surveillance services are inadequate. Pledges to vaccinate hundreds of millions of birds have not been met. The UN“s Food and Agriculture Organisation is starting to establish local dis
23、ease-control centres to cope with the effects of a virulent mutation, should one occur, but reckons that only one-third of the country will be covered by year“s end. A bunch of international do-gooders that is trying to plug some of the gaps is finding it hard to raise money. (分数:30.00)_六、Section Ch
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