[外语类试卷]专业英语八级(翻译)模拟试卷8及答案与解析.doc
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1、专业英语八级(翻译)模拟试卷 8及答案与解析 SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese. 1 Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organization, set an end-of-June deadline yesterday for a deal to cut farm subsidies and tariffs on agricultural and industrial goods, warning
2、 that global trade talks were running out of time. Up to 40 trade ministers are expected to join the negotiations in Geneva in the last week of June, in a final attempt to wrap up an accord seen as the core of the Doha global trade round launched in 2001. The repeated failure of WTO members to agree
3、 an interim pact setting detailed guidelines for reducing tariffs and subsidies has held up progress in all other areas of the round, ranging from services to simpler customs procedures. However, there is general agreement that the talks must conclude this year so that the US Congress can ratify the
4、 final Doha package before US negotiating authority expires in mid-2007. 2 Perhaps the most spectacular feature of the Grand Canyon, its Redwall limestone cliff, stands about half way up the chasm and is practically vertical. Its average height is 550 feetalmost exactly that of the Washington Monume
5、nt. Though it is actually gray-blue limestone, the surface of the cliff has been stained to a sunset hue by iron salts washing out of the rocks. Above the Redwall come alternating layers of red sandstone and shale 1,000 feet thick, then comes the next pale-blue layer. The topmost layers are a yellow
6、ish limestone. Though the two rims face each other across only 12 miles, it is a journey of 214 miles by car from one to the other. Nor can you visit the North Rim except in summer; some 1,200 feet higher than the South Rim, it is snow covered much of the year except in July and August. But there is
7、 no day that you may not visit the South Rim and find the sun warm on your face and the air perfumed with the incense of smoke from an Indian hearth. The Grand Canyon is an unearthly sight. No wonder an American writer and journalist said, “I came here an atheist, and departed a devout believer.“ 3
8、Built 4,000 years ago, the three great pyramids in the Egyptian desert remain the most colossal buildings ever constructed. The pyramids were built by Egyptians under the orders of the Egyptian leader, whose title was Pharaoh. There was a sequence of Pharaohs culminating around 2615 B.C., with the P
9、haraoh Cheops who built the biggest thing ever built, the Great Pyramid, also known as Khufu. Cheops built a pyramid 770 feet on one side and 481 feet tall. How ancient builders managed to build these massive structures has never been fully answered but the effort clearly required brains and brawn.
10、The Pharaohs may have set out to build magnificent tombs for themselves, but in the end they created monuments to human potential. Theres a universal message in the pyramids. The pyramids belong to Egypt, but the pyramids also belong to the world. Thats why we can all identify the pyramids as an ear
11、ly monument of human greatness. 4 This natural wonders unparalleled beauty inspired the US government to create the worlds first national park. For a young country just coming of age in the early 1800s, the discovery of Yellowstone helped define Americas identity with its vast, bold landscape. Today
12、, Yellowstones identity is closely associated with its powerful, natural geysers such as the ever present Old Faithful. Old Faithful erupts about every 85 to 87 minutes. Its 130 to 140 feet tall; its magnificent. The incredible geysers and picture-postcard landscape brought Yellowstone its fame. But
13、 today, its wildlife population is just as popular. The most controversial of these is Yellowstones wolf population. Until recently, the wolf was almost extinct. This world has been obsessed with killing wolves. We have been killing wolves for centuries, probably for thousands of years. Afraid of th
14、e threat wolves would pose to their livestock, government bounty hunters in the early 1900s killed Yellowstones grey wolves for the price of fifteen dollars a head. They were hunted to near extinction. It would be almost a century before an effort would begin to reverse this damage. 5 Sand, sun and
15、fun make Pattaya one of the most popular destinations for visitors to Thailand. Pattaya, on the eastern coast of the Gulf of Thailand, is a cosmopolitan city dedicated to the pursuit of excitement, pleasure and adventure. Easy to get to from Bangkok by air conditioned bus, Pattaya offers every imagi
16、nable form of water sports, plentiful and affordable golf courses, and stimulating nightlife. In the last few years Pattaya has, in an effort to broaden its appeal to family vacationers, toned down some of the rowdy behavior that had given it a dubious reputation. But you will still find a profusion
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