1、笔译二级实务模拟试卷 21及答案与解析 SECTION 1 Compulsory Translation (30 points) 1 Dont have time to read anymore ? Now you can get free, quick literature via email. More than 100,000 people open their email each day to read a chapter of a book, through Chapter-A-Day, an online book club created two years ago. Its
2、a free email service that provides a short daily reading for busy people, exposing them to literature they may not find on their own, inspiring some to recommit to the reading habit. About 550 public library systems representing over 3 ,000 branch libraries already have signed up to offer Chapter-A-
3、Day. Via email, participants get about five minutes worth of reading every day. After three chapters are emailed, the installments stop, and those who want to keep reading can borrow the book at their public library or purchase it online. Chapter-A-Day has eight free book clubs, and sells thousands
4、of books each month. Chapter-A-Day started in 1999 when Suzanne Beecher, a lifelong book lover, realized how many of the women who worked part-time for her software development company didnt have time in their busy lives to read. She decided to type part of a chapter of a book, and send it to her em
5、ployees through email. The next day she typed a little more, and continued to send literary installments each day. She says she started getting feedback from the staff about how reading made them feel. “They were interested, and realized that, though they didnt have time in their busy lives for read
6、ing, just reading that little bit each day got them back in the habit“. Realizing that many other people could benefit, she decided to take the idea even further and start an email“ Chapter-A-Day“ book club to help others ease their way back into daily reading. “Reading makes changes in people s liv
7、es. “ Beecher says. Pat Dempsey, a librarian at a public library in Ohio, has found Chapter-A-Day helps her library clients get back in the habit of reading. “Its a different way to get people hooked on books,“ she says. 2 Chicago Public Schools are going to great lengths to hire teachers-now the sc
8、hool district recruits teachers from other countries to help solve a shortage of teachers. It all started in 1999, when Rouses Hannon, a math and physics teacher from Palestine, visited Chicago. He read about the teacher shortage at Chicago Public Schools and asked the school board if theyd hire him
9、. The board was interested and decided to create a special program for foreign-born teachers like Hannon, and he was the first teacher hired. The program is called the Global Educator Outreach or GEO, and its a partnership between in Chicago is so extreme, the Government allows the school district t
10、o temporarily hire foreign teaching candidates using Hl-B visas. The Government grants these vise only to skilled foreign-born citizens so they can work in highly specialized jobs that cant be filled with available U. S. workforce. Through the GEO, the school district has hired dozens of teachers fr
11、om 22 different countries. Applicants must pass an English language test and specialize in math, science, world language or bilingual education. Hannon and the first GEO teachers started in the classroom at the beginning of the 2000 -2001 school year. What do the GEO teachers think of the American c
12、lassroom? Hannon, who was hired to teach math at Gage Park High School, says classrooms in Chicago are very different from those in Palestine. For one thing, he says, the fixed schedule that forces students to attend the same classes at the same time each day becomes too dull. In Palestine, the clas
13、s schedule changes each week. He says in Palestine, the culture forces students to work hard because if they dont theyll be kicked out and put in vocational schools, which limits their career options. There is not nearly as much pressure for American students to do well. He says he has to do double
14、the amounts of work just to get his students interested. SECTION 1 Compulsory Translation (20 points) 3 虽然同一职业中男女的起点工资几乎相同，但是最近有人对男女的工资差别 进行了研究，并且预测在可以预见的将来从总体上消除工资差别的可能性微乎其微。这是由多种因素决定的。这些因素即便会改变，也极可能是非常缓慢的。工资差别难以消除的重要原因之一是妇女们集中在服务和文秘行业，而这些行业内的工资比传统的男性行业低。 造成男士和女士参加工作后工资差别日益增大的另一个重要原因是，即便在可以相比的职业中，妇
15、女常常在职业生涯的关键时候退出工作来操持家庭。我们的研究反复表明在 25岁至 35岁的年龄段，坚持不懈地努力工作对取得晋升及工作保障至关重要。而正是在这个年龄段，妇女可能会生孩子并开始 在收入上落后于男士。 4 “地球一小时 ”活动于去年在澳大利亚最大的城市悉尼 (Sydney)首次举行。当时全市约有 220万居民集体熄灯，没有灯光的悉尼歌剧院沐浴在月光里，海湾大桥(Harbour Bridge)也熄灯响应。 活动组织者安迪 -里德利说，悉尼的 “熄灯一小时 ”活动引起了世界各国的极大兴趣。目前，亚太、北美、欧洲以及中东地区的 23个城市已报名参加今年的活动。最新响应的八个城市包括：美国的亚特
16、兰大、旧金山和菲尼克斯、泰国首都曼谷、加拿大的渥太华、温哥华和蒙特利尔，以及爱尔兰的都柏林 。 此外，参与该活动的城市还包括：澳大利亚的悉尼、珀斯、墨尔本、堪培拉、布里斯班、阿德莱德，丹麦的哥本哈根、阿胡斯、奥尔堡和欧登塞，菲律宾首都马尼拉，斐济最大的城市苏瓦，新西兰的基督城；芝加哥：特拉维夫以及多伦多。 由 “世界自然基金会 ”发起的 “地球一小时 ”活动计划于当地时间 3月 29日晚八点准时开始。他表示，希望这一理念能越过国界，影响更多的国家。 笔译二级实务模拟试卷 21答案与解析 SECTION 1 Compulsory Translation (30 points) 1 【正确答案】
17、难道再也没有时间阅读书籍吗 ?现在你可以利用电子邮件从书籍里面解放出来。通过两年前创建的在线图书俱乐部 “一日一章 ”，有 10万多的人们可以通过打开邮件阅读一本书中的一章。这种免费的邮件服务可给忙碌人士提供每日短暂的阅读，提供他们自己可能找不到的一些文学作品，同时让他们形成阅读的好习惯。大约 550个公共图书馆系统所包含的超过 3000个分支图书馆已经签约提供 “一日一章 ”电子邮件，参与每日五分钟阅读价值这种活动。当邮件提供到三章后就停止为读者电邮分期连载的文学作品，但那些想继续坚持阅读的人可 以通过公共图书馆阅读或者在线搜寻。 “一日一章 “拥有八个免费的图书俱乐部，销售大约上千本图书。
18、 “一日一章 ”是由一位终身的图书爱好者 苏珊娜 -比彻创立于 1999年。当时，她意识到那些在软件开发公司做兼职的女士一生忙碌却没有时间阅读。她决定打出一本书中的一章，通过电子邮件发给她的员工。第二天她又打多了一点，继续每天都发送一些文章。她说她开始得到员工每天阅读的感受， “那些书太有意思了，同时意识到，虽然在她们忙碌的一生里几乎没有时间阅读，但是每日一点的阅读就使她们形成了习惯 ”。她意识到其他的人同样可以从 中受益，所以她决定开发这种思想，同时创立 “一日一章 “图书俱乐部，以帮助其他人恢复每日阅读的习惯。比彻说： “阅读改变了人们的生活。 ” 一位在俄亥俄公共图书管的图书商 帕特 -
19、戴姆森已经建立了 “一日一读 ”帮助她的员工恢复阅读的习惯。她说： “这是一种让人们热衷于读书的特殊方法 ”。 2 【正确答案】 芝加哥公立学校将大量的聘请教师，现在学校开始通过从其他国家大量的招募老师来解决教师的短缺。这种方法从 1999年一位来自巴基斯坦的数学兼物理老师 柔丝 -汉农访问芝加哥开始使用。他当时了解到芝加哥教师 的短缺，主动询问学校的董事会是否可以雇佣自己。董事会对此非常感兴趣同时决定为来自国外像汉农这样的外国教师制定一个特殊的项目。从此汉农成了第一个被聘请的教师。 该项目叫做全球教育者扩大服务项目或者缩写成为 GEO。这是一种在芝加哥公立学校和美国政府之间的合作关系。因为芝
20、加哥的教师奇缺，所以政府允许校方暂聘请那些有 H1一 B的外国教师。政府的签证只给予那些出生在国外的有技能的公民，这样他们就可以从事高度专业化的工作，而这类工作无法依靠现有的美国劳动力来得到满足。 通过 GEO，学校已经聘请了来自 22个 国家的许多教师。求职者必须通过英语考试并且在数学，科学，世界语言或者双语教育方面有特长。 2000-2001年学期之初，汉农和第一位 GEO老师开始在教室授课。 GEO老师们对美国教学有什么感受呢 ?受聘于盖奇帕克高中教数学的老师汉农说，在芝加哥的课堂教学不同于巴基斯坦。他说，其中的一项就是，迫使学生每天在同一时间同一教室学习固定的课程会很枯燥。在巴基斯坦，
21、每个星期都会更改课程。他说，在巴基斯坦，国 家文化促使学生努力的学习，因为如果不努力他们就会被开除进人职业学校，那样的话将来的择业面就会很窄。在美国学生的压力却没有那么大。他说要想让学生对他所教授的课程感兴趣他不得不下双倍的功夫。 SECTION 1 Compulsory Translation (20 points) 3 【正确答案】 Although men and women in the same occupation are almost the same as the starting salary, a recent study on the wage gap between m
22、en and women have forecast that it is minimal to eliminate the possibility of wage differentials as a whole in the foreseeable future. This is caused by various factors. Even if these factors will change, they are also likely to be very slow. The unavailable of elimination in the wage gap between me
23、n and women is that women are concentrated in clerical and service sectors, and in these traditional sectors male wage is more than female. Another important reason that leads to the growing wage gap between men and women is that, even in comparable occupations, women are often shift work to homemak
24、ers in her career at the crucial moment. Our research repeatedly shows that in the 25-year-old to 35-year-old age group, the unremitting efforts of the work is very important to get promotion. It is precisely in this age group that women may give birth to a child and therefore begin to lag behind me
25、n in income. 4 【正确答案】 The “Earth Hour“ initiative started in Australias biggest city Sydney last year when an estimated 2. 2 million people flicked the switchleaving the Sydney Opera House bathed in moonlight and the Harbour Bridge blacked out. Organizer Andy Ridley said Sydneys 60-minutes of darkne
26、ss generated huge interest around the world and 23 other cities from the Asia Pacific, North America, Europe and the Middle East had now signed up to be part of the event. The eight latest cities to join “ Earth Hour“ are Atlanta, San Francisco and Phoenix in the US; Thailands capital Bangkok; Ottaw
27、a, Vancouver and Montreal in Canada and Dublin in Ireland. They join Australian cities Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide; Denmarks Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg and Odense; the Philippine capital Manila, Fijis biggest city Suva, Christchurch in New Zealand; Chicago; Tel Aviv and Toronto. Ridley said he expected the “Earth Hour“ concept, which is managed by the conservation group WWF, to extend beyond the borders of these countries on the scheduled start time of 8:00 pm local time on Saturday March 29.
