[外语类试卷]笔译二级实务模拟试卷6及答案与解析.doc
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1、笔译二级实务模拟试卷 6及答案与解析 SECTION 1 Compulsory Translation (30 points) 1 Until recently, scientists knew little about life in the deep sea, nor had they reason to believe that it was being threatened. Now, with the benefit of technology that allows for deeper exploration, researchers have uncovered a remar
2、kable array of species inhabiting the ocean floor at depths of more than 660 feet, or about 200 meters. At the same time, however; technology has also enabled fishermen to reach far deeper than ever before, into areas where bottom trawls can destroy in minutes what has taken nature hundreds and in s
3、ome cases thousands of years to build. Many of the worlds coral species, for example, are found at depths of more than 200 meters. It is also estimated that roughly half of the worlds highest seamounts areas that rise from the ocean floor and are particularly rich in marine life are also found in th
4、e deep ocean. These deep sea ecosystems provide shelter, spawning and breeding areas for fish and other creatures, as well as protection from strong currents and predators. Moreover, they are believed to harbor some of the most extensive reservoirs of life on earth, with estimates ranging from 500,0
5、00 to 100 million species inhabiting these largely unexplored and highly fragile ecosystems. Yet just as we are beginning to recognize the tremendous diversity of life in these areas, along with the potential benefits newly found species may hold for human society in the form of potential food produ
6、cts and new medicines, they are at risk of being lost forever. With enhanced ability both to identify where these species-rich areas are located and to trawl in deeper water than before, commercial fishing vessels are now beginning to reach down with nets the size of football fields, catching everyt
7、hing in their path while simultaneously crushing fragile corals and breaking up the delicate structure of reefs and seamounts that provide critical habitat to the countless species of fish and other marine life that inhabit the deep ocean floor. Because deep sea bottom trawling is a recent phenomeno
8、n, the damage that has been done is still limited. If steps are taken quickly to prevent this kind of destructive activity from occurring on the high seas, the benefits both to the marine environment and to future generations are incalculable. And they far outweigh the short-term costs to the fishin
9、g industry. SECTION 2 Optional Translation (30 points) 2 Its not that we are afraid of seeing him stumble, of scribbling a mustache over his career. Sure, the nice part of us wants Mike to know we appreciate him, that he still reigns, at least in our memory. The truth, though, is that we dont want h
10、im to come back because even for Michael Jordan, this would be an act of hubris so monumental as to make his trademark confidence twist into conceit. We dont want him back on the court because no one likes a show-off. The stumbling? That will be fun. But we are nice people, we Americans, with 225 ye
11、ars of optimism at our backs. Days ago when M.J. said he had made a decision about returning to the NBA in September, we got excited. He had said the day before, “I look forward to playing, and hopefully I can get to that point where I can make that decision. Its O.K. to have some doubt, and its O.K
12、. to have some nervousness.“ A Time/CNN poll last week has Americans, 2 to 1, saying they would like him on the court ASAR And only 21 percent thought that if he came back and just completely bombed, it would damage his legend. In fact only 28 percent think athletes should retire at their peak. Sour
13、ces close to him tell Time that when Jordan first talked about a comeback with the Washington Wizards, the team Jordan co-owns and would play for, some of his trusted advisers privately tried to discourage him. “But they say if they try to stop him, it will only firm up his resolve,“ says an NBA sou
14、rce. The problem with Jordans return is not only that he cant possibly live up to the storybook ending he gave up in 1998 earning his sixth ring with a last-second championship-winning shot. The problem is that the motives for coming back needing the attention, needing to play even when his 38-year-
15、old body does not violate the very myth of Jordan, the myth of absolute control. Babe Ruth, the 20th centurys first star, was a gust of fat bravado and drunken talent, while Jordan ended the century by proving the elegance of resolve; Babes pointing to the bleachers replaced by the charm of a backpe
16、daling shoulder shrug. Jordan symbolized success by not sullying his brand with his politics, his opinion or superstar personality. To be a Jordan fan was to be a fan of classiness and confidence. To come back when he knows that playing for Wizards wont get him anywhere near the second round of the
17、play-offs, when he knows that he wont be the league scoring leader, thats a loss of control. Jordan does not care what we think. Friends say that he takes articles that tell him not to come back and tacks them all on his refrigerator as inspiration. So why bother writing something telling him not to
18、 come back? He is still Michael Jordan. 3 Even after I was too grown-up to play that game and too grown-up to tell my mother that I loved her, I still believed I was the best daughter. Didnt I run all the way up to the terrace to check on the drying mango pickles whenever she asked? As I entered my
19、teens, it seemed that I was becoming an even better, more loving daughter. Didnt I drop whatever I was doing each afternoon to go to the corner grocery to pick up any spices my mother had run out of? My mother, on the other hand, seemed more and more unloving to me. Some days she positively resemble
20、d a witch as she threatened to pack me off to my second uncles home in provincial Barddhaman a fate worse than death to a cool Calcutta girl like me if my grades didnt improve. Other days she would sit me down and tell me about “Girls Who Brought Shame to Their Families“. There were, apparently, a m
21、illion ways in which one could do this, and my mother was determined that I should he cautioned against every one of them. On principle, she disapproved of everything I wanted to do, from going to study in America to perming my hair, and her favorite phrase was “over my dead body“. It was clear that
22、 I loved her far more than she loved me that is, if she loved me at all. After I finished graduate school in America and got married, my relationship with my mother improved a great deal. Though occasionally dubious about my choice of a writing career, overall she thought Id shaped up nicely. I thou
23、ght the same about her. We established a rhythm: Shed write from India and give me all the gossip and send care packages with my favorite kind of mango pickle; Id call her from the United States and tell her all the things Id been up to and send care packages with instant Vanilla pudding, for which
24、shed developed a great fondness. We loved each other equally or so I believed until my first son, Anand, was born. My sons birth shook up my neat, organized, in-control adult existence in ways I hadnt imagined. I went through six weeks of being shrouded in an exhausted fog of postpartum depression.
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