1、考研英语(翻译)模拟试卷 75 及答案解析(总分:60.00,做题时间:90 分钟)一、Reading Comprehensio(总题数:6,分数:60.00)1.Section II Reading Comprehension(分数:10.00)_2.Part CDirections: Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese.(分数:10.00)_【F1】 Were moving; into another era, as the toxic effec
2、ts of the bubble and its grave consequences spread through the financial system. Just a couple of years ago investors dreamed of 20 percent returns forever. Now surveys show that theyre down to a “realistic“ 8 percent to 10 percent range. But what if the next few years turn out to be below normal ex
3、pectations? Martin Barners of the Bank Credit Analyst in Montreal expects future stock returns to average just 4 percent to 6 percent. Sound impossible?【F2】 After a much smaller bubble that burst in the mid-1960s Standard that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind; that we c
4、annot right every wrong or reverse each adversity; and therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.“ History is the best cure for illusion.【F5】 Self-knowledge is the indispensable beginning of self-control, for the nation as well as for the individual, and history should fo
5、rever remind us of the limits of our passing perspectives. History is a doomed enterprise that we happily pursue because of the thrill of the hunt, because exploring the past is such fun, because of the intellectual challenges involved, because a nation needs to know its own history. Or so we histor
6、ians insist. Because in the end, a nations history must be both the guide and the domain not so much of its historians as its citizens.(分数:10.00)(1).【F1】(分数:2.00)_(2).【F2】(分数:2.00)_(3).【F3】(分数:2.00)_(4).【F4】(分数:2.00)_(5).【F5】(分数:2.00)_【F1】 Sending your child to piano or violin lessons in a bid to bo
7、ost their academic achievement is a waste of money, according to scientists. Although research has shown that youngsters who take music lessons are more likely to be top of their class, Professor Schellenberg claims this link is misleading.【F2】 Instead, improved academic performance may be because b
8、righter children from privileged backgrounds are more likely to learn an instrument, rather than music classes helping to boost their intelligence. “Music may change you a bit, but its also the case that different children take music lessons.“ said Professor Schellenberg, who added that parents educ
9、ation was the most influential factor on musicality.【F3】 Children who take music lessons come from families with higher incomes, they come from families with more educated parents, they also do more extracurricular activities, they have higher IQs, and they do better at school. 【F4】 In tests on 167
10、children who played piano or other instruments, they found their answer to personality tests could predict how likely it was for them to continue their music lessons. Those who were more outgoing and conscientious were more likely to continue to play. “We were motivated by the fact that kids who tak
11、e music lessons are particularly good students, in school they actually do better than you would predict from their IQ, so obviously something else is going on.“ Professor Schellenberg told the American Association for the Advancement of Science(A A AS)annual conference in Boston. 【F5】 Asked if so-c
12、alled helicopter parents were wasting their money sending their children to music lessons in the belief they could boost their school results, he said “yes“. “Clearly studying music changes the brain, but so does any learning. In fact, that is what learning is.“ he said.(分数:10.00)(1).【F1】(分数:2.00)_(
13、2).【F2】(分数:2.00)_(3).【F3】(分数:2.00)_(4).【F4】(分数:2.00)_(5).【F5】(分数:2.00)_Relativity theory has had a profound influence on our picture of matter by forcing us to modify our concept of a particle in an essential way.【F1】 In classical physics, the mass of an object had always been associated with an ind
14、estructible material substance, with some “stuff“ of which all things were thought to be made. Relativity theory showed that mass has nothing to do with any substance, but is a form energy. Energy, however, is a dynamic quantity associated with activity, or with processes.【F2】 The fact that the mass
15、 of a particle is equivalent to a certain of energy means that the particle can no longer be seen as a static object, but has to be conceived as a dynamic pattern. This new view of particles was initiated by Dirac when he formulated a relativistic equation describing the behavior of electrons.【F3】 D
16、iracs theory was not only extremely successful in accounting for the fine details of atomic structure, but also revealed a fundamental symmetry between matter and anti-matter. It predicted the existence of an anti-matter with the same mass as the electron but with an opposite charge. This positively
17、 charged particle, now called the positron, was indeed discovered two years after Dirac had predicted it. The symmetry between matter and anti-matter implies that for every particle there exists an antiparticles with equal mass and opposite charge. Pairs of particles and antiparticles can be created
18、 if enough energy is available and can be made to turn into pure energy in the reverse process of destruction.【F4】 These processes of particle creation and destruction had been predicted from Diracs theory before they were actually discovered in nature, and since then they have been observed million
19、s of times. The creation of material particles from pure energy is certainly the most spectacular effect of relativity theory, and it can only be understood in terms of the view of particles outlined above.【F5】 Before relativistic particle physics, the constituents of matter had always been consider
20、ed as being either elementary units which were indestructible and unchangeable, or as composite objects which could be broken up into their constituent parts. The basic question was whether one could divide matter again and again, or whether one would finally arrive at some smallest indivisible unit
21、s.(分数:10.00)(1).【F1】(分数:2.00)_(2).【F2】(分数:2.00)_(3).【F3】(分数:2.00)_(4).【F4】(分数:2.00)_(5).【F5】(分数:2.00)_考研英语(翻译)模拟试卷 75 答案解析(总分:60.00,做题时间:90 分钟)一、Reading Comprehensio(总题数:6,分数:60.00)1.Section II Reading Comprehension(分数:10.00)_解析:2.Part CDirections: Read the following text carefully and then translat
22、e the underlined segments into Chinese.(分数:10.00)_解析:【F1】 Were moving; into another era, as the toxic effects of the bubble and its grave consequences spread through the financial system. Just a couple of years ago investors dreamed of 20 percent returns forever. Now surveys show that theyre down to
23、 a “realistic“ 8 percent to 10 percent range. But what if the next few years turn out to be below normal expectations? Martin Barners of the Bank Credit Analyst in Montreal expects future stock returns to average just 4 percent to 6 percent. Sound impossible?【F2】 After a much smaller bubble that bur
24、st in the mid-1960s Standard that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind; that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity; and therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.“ History is the best cure for illusion.【F5】 Self-knowledge is the i
25、ndispensable beginning of self-control, for the nation as well as for the individual, and history should forever remind us of the limits of our passing perspectives. History is a doomed enterprise that we happily pursue because of the thrill of the hunt, because exploring the past is such fun, becau
26、se of the intellectual challenges involved, because a nation needs to know its own history. Or so we historians insist. Because in the end, a nations history must be both the guide and the domain not so much of its historians as its citizens.(分数:10.00)(1).【F1】(分数:2.00)_正确答案:(正确答案:如同失去记忆的个人会失去方向、迷失自我
27、、不知道自己身在何地要去何方一样,一个拒绝认识过去的国家将会丧失处理当前及未来事务的能力。)解析:(2).【F2】(分数:2.00)_正确答案:(正确答案:当我们自身所处的时代和生活中有新的紧迫情况发生时,历史学家的关注点就会随之转移,最终探测到黑暗之处,使那些始终存在却被早期历史学家粗心地从集体记忆中删掉的事件突显出来。)解析:(3).【F3】(分数:2.00)_正确答案:(正确答案:人们只需要留意过去半个世纪里女权运动和民权运动是如何重新阐释并更新了美国的历史,便会理解这一点。)解析:(4).【F4】(分数:2.00)_正确答案:(正确答案:我们拥有世界上最强大的军事力量,而我认为,对于一
28、个力量过于强大的国家而言,历史意识是我们必须具有的道德责任。)解析:(5).【F5】(分数:2.00)_正确答案:(正确答案:对国家也好对个人也好,自知都是自控必不可少的前提,而历史应该是提醒我们认识到自身当前种种观点的局限性。)解析:【F1】 Sending your child to piano or violin lessons in a bid to boost their academic achievement is a waste of money, according to scientists. Although research has shown that youngst
29、ers who take music lessons are more likely to be top of their class, Professor Schellenberg claims this link is misleading.【F2】 Instead, improved academic performance may be because brighter children from privileged backgrounds are more likely to learn an instrument, rather than music classes helpin
30、g to boost their intelligence. “Music may change you a bit, but its also the case that different children take music lessons.“ said Professor Schellenberg, who added that parents education was the most influential factor on musicality.【F3】 Children who take music lessons come from families with high
31、er incomes, they come from families with more educated parents, they also do more extracurricular activities, they have higher IQs, and they do better at school. 【F4】 In tests on 167 children who played piano or other instruments, they found their answer to personality tests could predict how likely
32、 it was for them to continue their music lessons. Those who were more outgoing and conscientious were more likely to continue to play. “We were motivated by the fact that kids who take music lessons are particularly good students, in school they actually do better than you would predict from their I
33、Q, so obviously something else is going on.“ Professor Schellenberg told the American Association for the Advancement of Science(A A AS)annual conference in Boston. 【F5】 Asked if so-called helicopter parents were wasting their money sending their children to music lessons in the belief they could bo
34、ost their school results, he said “yes“. “Clearly studying music changes the brain, but so does any learning. In fact, that is what learning is.“ he said.(分数:10.00)(1).【F1】(分数:2.00)_正确答案:(正确答案:科学家称,为了提高孩子的学习成绩而把孩子送去学弹钢琴或拉小提琴,纯属浪费钱。)解析:(2).【F2】(分数:2.00)_正确答案:(正确答案:事实上,更优秀的学习成绩可能是因为这些家庭背景更优越的小孩更聪明,更可能
35、去学习乐器,而并非学音乐有助于提高他们的智力。)解析:(3).【F3】(分数:2.00)_正确答案:(正确答案:上音乐班的小孩来自收入更高的家庭,他们的父母受教育程度更高,他们参加的课外活动也更多,而且他们的智商也更高,在学校的成绩也更好。)解析:(4).【F4】(分数:2.00)_正确答案:(正确答案:研究人员对 167 个弹钢琴或其他乐器的小孩进行了性格测试,发现从他们的回答可以预测出他们继续学音乐的可能性。)解析:(5).【F5】(分数:2.00)_正确答案:(正确答案:在被问及那些“直升机父母”送孩子去上音乐班,以为这样能提高孩子学习成绩是否是浪费钱时,舍伦贝格教授回答说“是的”。)解
36、析:Relativity theory has had a profound influence on our picture of matter by forcing us to modify our concept of a particle in an essential way.【F1】 In classical physics, the mass of an object had always been associated with an indestructible material substance, with some “stuff“ of which all things
37、 were thought to be made. Relativity theory showed that mass has nothing to do with any substance, but is a form energy. Energy, however, is a dynamic quantity associated with activity, or with processes.【F2】 The fact that the mass of a particle is equivalent to a certain of energy means that the pa
38、rticle can no longer be seen as a static object, but has to be conceived as a dynamic pattern. This new view of particles was initiated by Dirac when he formulated a relativistic equation describing the behavior of electrons.【F3】 Diracs theory was not only extremely successful in accounting for the
39、fine details of atomic structure, but also revealed a fundamental symmetry between matter and anti-matter. It predicted the existence of an anti-matter with the same mass as the electron but with an opposite charge. This positively charged particle, now called the positron, was indeed discovered two
40、 years after Dirac had predicted it. The symmetry between matter and anti-matter implies that for every particle there exists an antiparticles with equal mass and opposite charge. Pairs of particles and antiparticles can be created if enough energy is available and can be made to turn into pure ener
41、gy in the reverse process of destruction.【F4】 These processes of particle creation and destruction had been predicted from Diracs theory before they were actually discovered in nature, and since then they have been observed millions of times. The creation of material particles from pure energy is certainly the most spectacular effect of relativity theory, and it can only be understood in terms of the v
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