[外语类试卷]笔译二级实务(综合)模拟试卷7及答案与解析.doc
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1、笔译二级实务(综合)模拟试卷 7及答案与解析 SECTION 1 Compulsory Translation (30 points) 1 Before the car was towed to a wrecking yard, Morris went through to see it one more time. 2 Unlike officers who eat off crockery, enlisted sailors and marines are served on sectional plastic trays. 3 Smith cradled the back of his
2、head with his hand. 4 She pulls meat from the claw, dips it into a silver pot of butter and pops it into her mouth. 5 Sometimes half the drop-offs at the local U-Haul rental places come from California. 6 A Western intelligence agency estimates between 20 to 30 people have died in the power struggle
3、 between military groups and the government. 7 But the official of the UN said that the talk of financial aid is premature. 8 Local newspaper editorials are demanding an inquiry into what has happened. 9 I can flatly tell you we know how we will do that. 10 The two attackers escaped in a car and the
4、re has been no claim for responsibility. 11 About Archives At some point most of us realize that having a personal archival strategy is an inescapable aspect of modern life: one has to draw the line somewhere. What should the policy be toward childrens drawings and report cards? Toward personal lett
5、ers and cancelled checks? Toward family photographs and wedding mementos? Toward favorite but no longer usable articles of clothing? People work out ad hoc answers to such questions, usually erring, I suspect, on the side of overaccrual. My father who is an artist, still has all his art school sketc
6、hbooks from when he was in his early teens, and he has some 10, 000 Polaroid photographs of himself that he took over the years in order to capture details of lighting and drapery. He has a field of newspaper clippings about Fordham football games from the 1930s. Almost everyone seems to save to “cu
7、rate“ , as archaeologists say issues of National Geographic. That is why in garbage landfills copies of that magazine are rarely found in isolation; rather they are found in herds, when an entire collection has been discarded after an owner has died or moved. I happen to be an admirer of the archivi
8、ng impulse and an inveterate archivist at the household level. Though not quite one of those people whom public-health authorities seem to run across every few years, with a house in which neatly bundled stacks of newspaper occupy all but narrow aisles. I do tend to save almost everything that is pe
9、rsonal and familial, and even to supplement this private hoard with oddities of a more public nature a calling card of Thomas Nasts, for instance, and a baseball bat of Luis Aparicios and Kim Philbys copy of The Joy of Cooking. I cannot help wondering, though, whether as a nation we are compiling ar
10、chives at a rate that will exceed anyones ability ever to make sense of them. A number of observers have cited the problem of “information overload“ as if it were a recent development, largely the consequence of computers. In truth, the archive backlog has been a problem for millennia. The excavatio
11、n of thousands of cuneiform tablets in the ancient archives of Ebla, in what is now Syria, was hugely important, but it will be many decades before the tablets are fully translated, and by then further discoveries will no doubt have dug scholars more deeply as it were, into a hole. A few years ago a
12、 Vatican official spent a morning taking me through the rich labyrinths and frescoed recesses of the Vatican Library: “Do you even know what you have?“ I asked at one point. He shrugged and said that although the name of every item probably existed in the records somewhere “ Here, like this,“ he sai
13、d, pulling out an 18th century ledger and pointing to an entry in an elegant hand he guessed that no one had actually opened up and looked at two-thirds of the collection. Writings great advantage over memory has ever been that it allows one to remember what one can then forget about an invitation t
14、o warehousing. The process keeps speeding up, and Roy Williams, a researcher at the California Institute of Technologys Center for Advanced Computing Research, has attempted to calculate how fast. He notes that the amount of information now stored in all printed sources everywhere in the world is ro
15、ughly equivalent to two hundred petabytes, a petabyte being one quadrillion bytes. In contrast, Williams has calculated, the amount of information that will have accumulated in online media alone by the year 2000 that is in the course of a mere couple of decades is two and a half times as much as th
16、at, and he conceded that this figure may be a gross underestimation. 12 Evening Train and the Woman I am worried about the woman. I am afraid she might hurt herself, perhaps has already hurt herself theres no way to know which of the return dates stamped on the book of poetry was hers. The book, Den
17、ise Levertoves Evening Train, belongs to the New York City Public Library. I checked it out yesterday and can keep it for three weeks. Ever since my husband and I moved to the city several months ago, Ive been homesick for my books, the hundreds of volumes stored in my brothers basement. I miss havi
18、ng them near me, running my hands over their spines, recalling when and where I acquired each one, and out of what need. Theres no way to know for certain that the phantom library patron is a woman, but all signs point in that direction. On one page is a red smear that looks like lipstick, and betwe
19、en two other pages, lying like a bookmark, is a long, graying hair. The underlinings, which may or may not have been made by the woman, are in pencil pale, tentative marks. I study carefully, reverently, the way an archaeologist traces a fossils delicate imprint. The rest is dream, conjecture, the m
20、aking of my story. Its a weird obsession, I know, studying other readers leavings and guessing the lives lived beneath. Even as my reasonable mind is having its way (This makes no sense. How can you assume? The marks could have been made by anyone, for any reason, over any period of time), my other
21、self is leaving on its journey. Ive always been a hungry reader, what one friend calls a “selfish reader“. But is there any other kind? Dont we all read to answer our own needs to complete the lives weve begun, to point us toward some light? Some of the underlinings in Evening Train have been partia
22、lly erased (eraser crumbles have gathered in the center seams), as if the woman reconsidered her first responses or tried to cover her tracks. The markings do not strike me as those of a defiant woman but rather of one who has not only taken her blows but feels she might deserve them. She has underl
23、ined “ serviceable heart“ in one poem; in another, “Grey-haired, I have not grown wiser. “ If she exists, I would like to sit with this woman. We seem to have a lot in common. We chose the same book. We both wear red lipstick, and I thought I am not so honest (the graying in my hair is hidden beneat
24、h an auburn rinse). I am probably her age or thereabouts. And from what she has left behind on the pages of Levertovs poems, it appears that our hearts have worn down in the same places. This is the part that worries me. Though my heart has mended, for the time being at least, hers seems to be in th
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