1、翻译三级笔译实务分类模拟题 3及答案解析(总分：25.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、English Chinese Tran(总题数：5，分数：25.00)Many schools argue that the “sticker“ prices show in the U.S. News index are misleading. Since most students, not just those who might be described as truly “needy“, usually are eligible for some form of financial aid. 1
2、In fact, tuition discounting has become so widespread that on many campuses what began as a subsidy for the minority has turned into an entitlement for the majority. Some schools actually encourage students to bargain for larger aid packages by implicitlyor explicitly-promising “to meet the competit
3、ion“. 2 Naturally, the something-for-nothing generosity of this strange system comes at a price, as increases in financial aid usually have to be funded by raising already high tuition higher still. 3 Unhappily, college loans have become as much a part of student life as Friday night beer busts. Bet
4、ween 1990 and 1995, the $103billion combined with the total of undergraduate loans exceeded the sum of all the debt incurred by all the college students during the preceding three decades. 4 Statistics like these trouble Charles Manning, chancellor of the West Virginia University System, who worries
5、 that high levels of debt could “wind up negatively influencing students“ lifestyles, their choices of careers, their willingness to go to graduate and professional schools and their ability to buy homes, cars and other consumer products.“ Of even greater concern is that many of these debtors may al
6、so wind up, at least temporarily, in jobs that do not offer what have come to be thought of as college-level salaries. The disturbing truth is that there are simply too many college graduates competing for too few college-level jobs. In her latest study, Kristina J. Shelley, a Bureau of Labor Statis
7、tics specialist in the post-college-employment market, estimates that at least 22 percent of all college graduates entering the work force between 1994 and 2005 were or will be either unemployed or in jobs for which a bachelor“s degree is not ordinarily considered a necessity. 5 Working with some bi
8、g companies is an honorable first job, but the salaries they offer rarely enable graduates both to repay a student loan and to enjoy a life style appropriate with their expectations.（分数：5.00）_We are learning new computer knowledge everyday. The technology, which has already transformed newspapering,
9、 doesn“t sit still. We journalists have ceased all that grieving about how we were going to hang on to our typewriters and how this new staff was simply barbaric, an affront to the very concept of the written word. 6 That“s gone, as everything we know about human history should have told us that in
10、all the current worries over problems created by the arrival of the computer age, one thing that should be exempted from worry is the capacity of human beings to adapt to it. Our grandparents, for instance, easily traversed lifetimes that saw at least as much astonishing change as we havefrom horsed
11、rawn carriages to jet air travel, from pre-telephone communication by written letter to communication by car phone, or fax. 7 Just as people around the world have in recent times shown themselves remarkably able to accommodate this kind of rapid change, so it didn“t ever seem to trouble them. They a
12、bsorbed the developing bounty without a peep and quickly came to depend on it, even though it collapsed all their accustomed notions of time and distance. 8 The human machine, in this infinite ability to adjust to radically changed environments, seems considerably more wondrous than the invented mac
13、hine. But it is not the individual human ability to adapt that is the problem in the new age. Rather, the problem is the ability of our institutions and economics and societies to do so. 9 No matter how upbeat one is about all the blessings that flow to this country from the new technology in terms
14、of teaching, medicine, marketing, law enforcement and the rest, it is necessary to acknowledge that the blessing is mixed. You can accept that in the long run jobs will be created, not lost, as a result of the innovation. But in the short run there is bound to be economic displacement and loss. 10 Y
15、ou can also believe that our legal systems can in time withstand the challenge all this presents and still acknowledge that at least for the moment iudicial problems have been created by it in the realms of privacy, competition, property fights and many others. The question is not whether we adjust
16、to the electronic miracles all around us, but whether, as a society, we do it enthusiastically and well.（分数：5.00）_Man may be called the animal with language. Only by language can man create and carry with him the body of concepts, attitudes and skills that constitute civilization. 11 Only by languag
17、e can he have a clear notion of himself as an individual: “I think, therefore I am“ and forge the bonds of a societya society as distinguished from some sort of instinctual herd. Ordinarily and superficially, we regard language as merely a convenient device for communicating preexisting ideas or att
18、itudes. It is indeed hard to overestimate the value of language in communication but it is even harder to overestimate it in thinking. 12 How often have we felt that we knew our own minds on something, or knew all about something, only to find, when we started to put what we knew into words, that we
19、 didn“t know our own minds at all. When we frame even the simplest sentence, we are forced to establish a set of meaningful relations. That is, we are forced to think more clearly. Writing things out is only a more rigorous way of trying to understand a subject and understand oneself in relation to
20、that subject. We not only think things out, we feel things out, too. And language is fundamental to this “feeling out“. 13 A human being isn“t merely a machine for logical thought. A considerable part of our use of language involves our instinctive attempt to clarify our feelings. It helps us to und
21、erstand feelings as well as ideas, and thus in the end, helps us to understand ourselves. 14 If you are beginning your college career, much of your instruction will be in language. And will be required to respond in language. After college, in most occupations, language will become more, not less, i
22、mportant. There are letters and reports to be written, conferences to be held, policies to be drawn up and debated and many other forms of communication that require skill in language. 15 If a man lacks competence in language, he will spend much of his life exploring in a kind of twilight world in w
23、hich ideas and feelings are perceived only dimly and often in distorted shapes.（分数：5.00）_It is natural for young people to be critical of their parents at times and to blame them for most of misunderstandings between them. 16 They have always complained that their parents are out of touch with moder
24、n ways; that they are possessive and dominant; that they do not trust their children to deal with crisis. 17 It is universally acknowledged that parents often underestimate their teenage children and also fade in their memory how they themselves felt when young. Young people often irritate their par
25、ents with their choices in clothes and hairstyles, in entertainers and music. This is not their motive. 18 They feel cut off from the adult world into which they have not yet been accepted so they create a culture and society of their own. Then, if it turns out that their music or entertainers or vo
26、cabulary or clothes or hairstyles irritates their parents, this gives them additional enjoyment. They feel they are superior, at least in a small way, and that they are leaders in style and taste. Sometimes they are resistant and proud because they do not want their parents to approve of what they d
27、o. If their parents did approve, it looks as if they are betraying their own age group. But in that case, they are assuming that they are the underdog: you can“t win but at least you can keep your honor. This is a passive way of looking at things. 19 It is natural enough after long years of childhoo
28、d, when they were completely under their parents“ domination. But it ignores the fact that they are now beginning to be responsible for themselves. My advice to young people is as follows: if you plan to control your life, cooperation can be pan of that plan. 20 You can charm others, especially your
29、 parents, into doing things the way you want. You can impress others with your sense of responsibility and initiative, so that they will give you the authority to do what you want to do.（分数：5.00）_There is a difference between science and technology. Science is a method of answering theoretical quest
30、ions; technology is a method of solving practical problems. 21 Science has to do with discovering the facts and relationships between observable phenomena in nature and with establishing theories that serve to organize these facts and relationships. Technolggy has to do with tools, techniques, and p
31、rocedures for implementing the findings of science. Another distinction between science and technology has to do with the progress in each. Progress in science excludes the human factor. 22 Scientists, who seek to comprehend the universe and know the truth with the highest degree of accuracy and cer
32、tainty, cannot pay attention to their own or other people“s likes or dislikes, or to popular ideas about the fitness of things. What scientists discover may shock or anger peopleas did Darwin“s theory of evolution. But even an unpleasant truth is more than likely to be useful; besides, we have the o
33、ption of refusing to believe it! 23 But hardly so with technology; we do not have the option of refusing to hear the sonic boom produced by a supersonic aircraft flying overhead; we do not have the option of refusing to breathe polluted air. 24 The legitimate purpose of technology is to serve people
34、people in general, not merely some people; and future generation, not merely those who presently wish to gain advantage for themselves. We are all familiar with the abuses of technology. 25 Many people blame technology itself for widespread pollution, and even social decayso much so that the promise
35、 of technology is obscured. That promise is a cleaner and healthier world. If wise applications of science and technology do not lead to a better world, what else will?（分数：5.00）_翻译三级笔译实务分类模拟题 3答案解析(总分：25.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、English Chinese Tran(总题数：5，分数：25.00)Many schools argue that the “sticker“ prices
36、 show in the U.S. News index are misleading. Since most students, not just those who might be described as truly “needy“, usually are eligible for some form of financial aid. 1 In fact, tuition discounting has become so widespread that on many campuses what began as a subsidy for the minority has tu
37、rned into an entitlement for the majority. Some schools actually encourage students to bargain for larger aid packages by implicitlyor explicitly-promising “to meet the competition“. 2 Naturally, the something-for-nothing generosity of this strange system comes at a price, as increases in financial
38、aid usually have to be funded by raising already high tuition higher still. 3 Unhappily, college loans have become as much a part of student life as Friday night beer busts. Between 1990 and 1995, the $103billion combined with the total of undergraduate loans exceeded the sum of all the debt incurre
39、d by all the college students during the preceding three decades. 4 Statistics like these trouble Charles Manning, chancellor of the West Virginia University System, who worries that high levels of debt could “wind up negatively influencing students“ lifestyles, their choices of careers, their willi
40、ngness to go to graduate and professional schools and their ability to buy homes, cars and other consumer products.“ Of even greater concern is that many of these debtors may also wind up, at least temporarily, in jobs that do not offer what have come to be thought of as college-level salaries. The
41、disturbing truth is that there are simply too many college graduates competing for too few college-level jobs. In her latest study, Kristina J. Shelley, a Bureau of Labor Statistics specialist in the post-college-employment market, estimates that at least 22 percent of all college graduates entering
42、 the work force between 1994 and 2005 were or will be either unemployed or in jobs for which a bachelor“s degree is not ordinarily considered a necessity. 5 Working with some big companies is an honorable first job, but the salaries they offer rarely enable graduates both to repay a student loan and to enjoy a life style appropriate with their expectations.（分数：5.00）_
