1、笔译二级实务模拟试卷 15（无答案）SECTION 1 Compulsory Translation (30 points)1 Over the past 50 years, technology has changed the fishing industry dramatically. Today, the romantic, rugged individual fisherman is as threatened a species as the cod and tuna that once swarmed into his nets. This is the cumulative re
2、sult of more sophisticated fishing gear, more powerful boat engines and a lack of regard for local fishing environments by the multinational enterprises that have come to dominate this business.There are about 30 million professional fishermen worldwide, but 50 percent of the fish caught at sea are
3、captured by only 1 percent of the boats, notes Xavier Pastor, European vice-president for Oceans, a non-profit international advocacy group for the worlds oceans. “ Industrialized fishing is leading to the disappearance of the small fisherman,“ he observes, with concomitant damage to both fish stock
4、 and to local economies and social structures.“Some fleets are just too big,“ Pastor says. “They are very efficient at taking the last fish in an area, then they move on to something else. “This transformation has led to a global fishing crisis that is endangering most of the planets commercial stoc
5、ks. Oceans reports that industrial fishing worldwide yields between 80 million and 100 million tons of fish, but it also generates 27 million tons of discards (marine organisms thrown back into the water after they have been caught), causing negative effects on the ecosystem that will last for decad
6、es.According to the Food and Agricultural Organization, the commercial productivity of the oceans is at an all-time low, with 75 percent to 80 percent of the worlds major fisheries overexploited, fully exploited or recovering from depletion.“We are not anti-fishing,“ emphasizes Pastor. “Fishing is i
7、mportant. We want to make sure that future generations can do the same. “2 If Asian policy makers have a grand vision, it is that someday people from Japan and China to Malaysia and Myanmar will pay for groceries using the same currency.The idea of a single East Asian currency will be debated this w
8、eek at the Asian Development Banks annual meeting in the South Korean resort island of Jeju, where a European Central Bank board member, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, will share with Asian finance ministers “ lessons“ from a 50-year journey that has led to 12 European nations sharing the euro.Should the c
9、ountries of East Asia aim for their own “ Asian dollar“ ?The rationale for a single currency is simple. For exporters in one Asian country selling to importers in another, being paid in Asian dollars would mean their profits were protected no matter what happened to the U. S. currency. Consumers wou
10、ld benefit from easier price comparisons, and travelers would save money by not having to change their currency from country to country.East Asia is home to a third of the worlds population and is its fastest-growing region. The World Bank estimates that East Asian economies will collectively expand
11、 6. 3 percent this year. The regions central banks hold $ 2 trillion of foreign currency reserves, which, if pooled, would make an Asian dollar a tough target for currency speculators to pull down.A single East Asian currency would require an accord similar to the European Unions Stability and Growt
12、h pact, which would require governments to live within their means a tall order for countries such as the Philippines that are plagued by chronic budget deficits.Monetary cooperation could eventually lead to a single currency. Still, if East Asia wants to follow Europe, it must speed up efforts for
13、freer movement of goods and people across national boundaries. Then will come the painful part: trying to get Asian states to accept a unifying agency along the lines of the European Central Bank.The Asian dollar may not be here soon. But to say it will never arrive is to underestimate the power of
14、progress.SECTION 1 Compulsory Translation (20 points)3 中国等发展中国家向美国提供了大量价廉物美的商品，使美国传统制造业腾出财力物力用于发展高新技术。这加快了美国工业的升级换代，推进了美国产业结构的优化，使美国及时摆脱传统工业的束缚，保持了它在世界经济中的领先地位。因此，中国的出口不会威胁美国的经济。在中国扩大出口的同时，进口也在快速增长。实际上，美国产品早已进人中国百姓的日常生活。现在，不少中国人乘坐的是波音飞机，开的是别克轿车，看的是美国电影，穿的是苹果牌牛仔裤，喝的是可口可乐，用的是摩托罗拉手机和 IBM 电脑，而电脑里运行的是微软软
15、件。中国进出口能力的不断提高为包括美国经济在内的世界经济做出了积极贡献。4 阿尔伯特 爱因斯坦(Albert Einstein)出生于德国南部的一个犹太中产阶级家庭。母亲非常喜欢音乐。爱因斯坦受她的影响很大。她鼓励小爱因斯坦对小提琴和古典音乐的爱好。他的父亲，一位工程师，对爱因斯坦的影响甚微。不过，是他送给了他五岁儿子那个著名的玩具指南针，促发了小爱因斯坦的第一次“思想试验” ：玩具中的针为什么总是指向北?爱因斯坦后来成为一位伟大的物理学家。他是那个科学独领风骚的世纪的著名科学家。那个时代的一些标志性科研成果，如原子弹、量子物理学以及电子学，无不带有他的烙印。即使现在，科学家们仍为广义相对论表现出的胆识所折服。他们认为他的思想已超出了科学范围，影响着从绘画到诗歌的现代文化。
