2014年六级翻译及仔细阅读 (2).doc

例题一围绕“思维意识是编织大师，它创造了我们内在性格与外部环境”这一主题，詹姆斯爱伦思考的人一书深入地探索了自助类读物的真谛。 【参考译文】With its theme that “Mind is the master weaver,” creating our inner character and outer circumstances, the book As a Man Thinking by James Allen is an in-depth exploration of the central idea of self-help writing.例题二爱伦的贡献在于，他拿出“我们并不是机器人，所以能控制自己的思想”这一公认的假设，并揭示了其错误所在。 【参考译文】Allens contribution was to take an assumption we all share-that because we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts-and reveal its erroneous nature.例题三因为我们大都相信意识是独立于物质存在的，所以我们认为能够将思想隐藏、并使之失去效力;这使得我们能够这样想却那样做。【参考译文】Because most of us believe that mind is separate from matter, we think that thoughts can be hidden and made powerless; this allows us to think one way and act another. 例题四但爱伦认为，潜意识和意识产生的作用一样大。 【参考译文】However, Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind.例题五而且，尽管我们或许可以单凭意识来维系“控制”这种错觉，现实中我们还是不断要面对一个问题：“我为什么不能让自己做这个或实现那个?” 【参考译文】And while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone, in reality we are continually faced with a question: “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that? 例题六由于愿望和意志会因为那些与愿望不一致的思想的出现而遭到破坏，爱伦做出如下总结：“所以我们所吸引的不是我们所想，而是我们本身所是。”【参考译文】Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire, Allen concluded: “We do not attract what we want, but what we are.”例题七成功降临是因为作为一个人你本身就是这种外部成功的体现;你不是“获得”成功，而是“变得”成功。【参考译文】Achievement happens because you as a person embody the external achievement; you dont “ get” success but become it. 例题八“意识”和“物质”之间没有间隔。【参考译文】There is no gap between mind and matter.请将下面这段话翻译成英文：一朵雪花的体态是轻盈的，宛如六枚小银针，千针万线，给南开大学校园绣出了合身的水晶外套。但是，正如童话世界也有缺陷一样，文史楼北墙边一株年轻的龙柏(cypress)，由于一夜风雪吹压，已经倾侧成30度斜角了。远处走来几个身背照相机的年轻人。其中那位穿黑呢大衣的姑娘真美，一双亮晶晶杏核儿大眼，似湖?似星?谁也说不清，只惹得路人不时侧目朝她张望。这群市大学生摄影协会会员准备捕捉大自然恩赐的美妙镜头，心情舒畅地说笑着，渐渐地走近这棵倾斜的龙柏。参考翻译：Snowflakes are light, each having six tiny silverneedles.Like thousands of needles and threads,theyworked together to weave a well-fitted caystal outfitfor the campus of Nankai University.However,nothing is perfect, not even in a fairyland. The youngdragon cypress at the north wall of the Literature and History Building was bent over at a 30degree angle after the nights snowstorm.Several students carne from a distance, each carrying a camera. Among them was a girl in ablack wool overcoat was a real beauty.Her almond-shaped eyes are like pools of clear water orbright stars in the sky,which was hard to tell. But she herself was certainly eye-catching!Thesemembers of College Photographers Association of the city had come out to capture thebeautiful scenery endowed by nature. Laughing and talking merrily, they were approaching theleaning cypress.考点分析：1.一朵雪花的体态是轻盈的，宛如六枚小银针，千针万线，给南开大学校园绣出了合身的水晶外套。分析:“千针万线，给南开大学校园绣出了合身的水晶外套。”用了拟人手法，译文中用they worked together to weave awell-fitted caystal outfit for the campus of NankaiUniversity即可传达原文的神韵。2. 远处走来几个身背照相机的年轻人。分析;本句采用“主谓+伴随状语”结构,译为: Several students carne from a distance, each carrying acamera.请将下面这段话翻译成英文：二十岁的时候：一听到名人就激动不已，就欢呼雀跃，就奋不顾身往前冲。 三十岁的时候：一听到名人就若有所失，就心烦意乱，就怒火中烧，就.不知道什么滋味，特别是年轻的，漂亮的，女的名人。 二十岁的时候：和某个人晚上一起去看了场电影，不经意中拉了一次手，结果幸福了整整一个夏天。 三十岁的时候：坐在香格里(Shangri-La Hotel)拉酒店的旋转餐厅陪客户吃自助餐，在缓缓的转动之中，莫名其妙地一阵空虚，突然间对一切感到索然无味. 参考答案：At the age of twenty,upon hearing a celebrity,Iwould rush forward,with wild excitement andecstasy.After thirty,upon hearing the names ofcelebrities,I feel lost,vexed,burning with anger,and Idont know what it is,especially the names of thosefamous females,who are young and pretty.At the age of twenty,one evening,I went to see a film with a young man.In the darkness,anincidental touch of hands filled me with joy all that summer.In my thirties,when I sit in therotating restaurant of Shangri-La Hotel,accompanying clinets to have a buffet,an indescribableemptiness suddenly seizes me in the slow rotating and I find everything dull and dry 考点解析：二十岁的时候：和某个人晚上一起去看了场电影，不经意中拉了一次手，结果幸福了整整一个夏天。分析:不经意中拉了一次手：汉语中的动词句译为名词词组“anincidental touch of hands”作译文中的主语，符合英语的表达习惯。2013年12月六级考试仔细阅读模拟训练（1）On the last shopping day before Christmas, stores across the United States were busy but not jam-packed as shoppers scrambled for last-minute gifts, even though some refused to admit it. At Bostons Copley Mall, a small crowd gathered outside the main entrance of luxury department store Neiman Marcus, but no one waiting for the store to open would admit to being a last-minute shopper. Im really here to use a gift certificate and get something for myself and maybe someone else with whats left over, said Matt Doran, who lives in Boston and had been waiting since 8:30 a.m. for the stores 10 a.m. opening. Ilya Polykoff, who moved to Boston from Russia, said he was waiting because I had the day off and I wanted to get some perfume. But he insisted that he was really shopping early because for him Christmas comes in January. The Orthodox Christmas will be celebrated on Jan. 7.There are lots of men out there today, said Karen McDonald, a spokes-woman for mall operator Taubman Centers, after returning from the Lakeside Mall in Sterling Heights, Michigan. There is panic out there but people seem to be in good spirits, she said, adding that most shopping traffic peaked around midday. According to the International Council of Shopping Centers, December 24 was the sixth busiest holiday shopping day in 1997, while 44 percent of holiday sales were recorded in the December 15 to December 24 period. Ed Nally, manager of the Swatch Store known mostly for its brightly colored plastic watches, described the atmosphere as festive rather than crazed. He did say, however, that Dec. 21 was the turning point date, after which shoppers started. The closer to Christmas, the crazier they get, Nally said. They become more agitated, less patient. He said red-hot items this year were phones, beepers and the new digital swatch watch that costs $ 70 and came onto the market a week before Christmas.52. The best title for this passage is _.A) Last-Minute Christmas Shoppers Fill U.S. StoresB) Digital Watches Are the Red hot Items This YearC) The Excuse of the Last-Minute ShoppersD) Christmas, the Best Shopping Season53. From the passage we can infer that people would not admit to be a last-minute shopper because _.A) they wanted to use a gift certificateB) Christmas would be celebrated on Jan. 7thC) they did not want gifts recipients to know that they bought them gifts on the last dayD) they bought gifts during the shopping season lasting from December 15th to December 24th54. Which of the following statement is true?A) Most customers came to the mall early in the morning.B) Shop assistants were most busy at noon.C) There were more shoppers in the mall from 7:00 to 9:00 p. m.D) Less people went shopping around midday.55. Which of the following statement is NOT true?A) More people went shopping on Dee. 20th than on Dec. 22nd according to Ed Nally.B) On Dec. 24th, people were crowded outside Bostons Copley Mall, but they were happy.C) Dec. 24th was the sixth busiest holiday shopping day in 1997.D) One can buy brightly colored plastic watches in Swatch Store.56. The word festive in paragraph 2 can not be understood as _.A) cheery B) fetish C) joyous D) merry 答案：52-56 ACBAB解析：52.主旨题。第一段开始便提到，尽管是圣诞节前最后一天，人们却拒绝承认是last-minute shoppers。第一段首句即本文的中心句，后面描述的现象以及采访顾客的对答都是对本文论点的论证。其中，第一段第二句“but no one waiting for the store to open would admit to being a last-minute shopper”更是点睛之笔.因此，正确答案为A项。53.因果推断题。人们拒绝承认是last-minute shoppers是因为担心收到礼物的人认为该礼物是最后一刻才购买的，难免会让人失望。选项C文中并没有提及，但是按人之常情以及排除法可以断定正确答案为C项，其中，选项A是被采访的人不愿意承认的托词，选项B只是对来自俄罗斯的Polykoff说是如此。54.细节判断题。由第二段第二句“most shopping traffic peaked around midday”可以判断选项A、选项C、选项D选项错误。因此，正确答案为B项。2013年12月六级考试仔细阅读模拟训练（2）The radical transformation of the Soviet society had a profound impact on womens lives. Marxists had traditionally believed that both capitalism and the middle-class husbands exploited women. The Russian Revolution of 1917 immediately proclaimed complete equality of rights for women. In the 1920s divorce and abortion were made easily available, and women were urged to work outside the home and liberate themselves sexually. After Stalin came to power, sexual and familial liberation was played down, and the most lasting changes for women involved work and education.These changes were truly revolutionary. Young women were constantly told that they had to be equal to men, that they could and should do everything men could do. Peasant women in Russia had long experienced the equality of backbreaking physical labor in the countryside, and they continued to enjoy that equality on collective farms. With the advent of the five-year-plans, millions of women also began to toil in factories and in heavy construction, building dams, roads and steel mills in summer heat and winter frost. Most of the opportunities open to men through education were also open to women. Determined women pursued their studies and entered the ranks of the better-paid specialists in industry and science. Medicine practically became a womans profession. By 1950, 75 percent of doctors in the Soviet Union were women.Thus Stalinist society gave woman great opportunities but demanded great sacrifices as well. The vast majority of women simply had to work outside the home. Wages were so law that it was almost impossible for a family or couple to live only on the husbands earnings. Moreover, the fun-time working woman had a heavy burden of household tasks in her off hours, for most Soviet men in the 1930s still considered the home and the children the womans responsibility. Men continued to monopolize the best jobs. Finally, rapid change and economic hardship led to many broken families, creating further physical, emotional, and mental strains for women. In any event, the often-neglected human resource of women was mobilized in Stalinist society.52. The main idea of this passage is that women in Stalinist society _.A) had economic opportunities that had never been available beforeB) had difficulty balancing their work and family responsibilitiesC) had new opportunities but also many hardshipsD) moved quickly into the highest levels of government53. In the last paragraph, monopolize probably means _.A) hold B) earn C) leave D) pay54. The authors main purpose in writing this passage is to _.A) compare different systems of governmentB) tell stories about women in Soviet UnionC) amuse the readerD) provide information55. The authors tone in this passage can best be described as _.A) disapproving B) emotionalC) objective D) sympathetic56. We can conclude that the economic and social status of women in Stalinist society _.A) had been improvedB) was worse than beforeC) had not Changed muchD) was better than that in capitalistic countries答案：52-56 CADCA解析：52.主旨题。文章第一段作者提出话题，苏联的根本性社会变革对女性的生活产生了深刻的影响。第二段作者描述了这些变化：女性获得了参与各种工作和受教育的同等机会，甚至进入了一些专业领域。第三段作者指出，女性在获得机会的同时电不得不付出巨大的代价。因此，纵观全文，作者既写到了变革带给女性的机会，电提到了她们面对的困难。故正确答案为C项。53.词义推断题。第三段作者陈述了变革后女性面对的各种困境。女性参与工作导致工资水平下降。这又反过来迫使她们不得不出去工作，补充丈夫的收入来养家，但女性还得同时兼顾家庭。除此之外，在工作方面，男性继续垄断了好的工作机会。因此，这里和“monopolize”意思最为接近的是“hold”，故答案为A项。54.写作目的题。结合第一题主旨题可以看出作者写作此文不是为了娱乐读者(选项C)，也不是在讲故事(选项B)，更没有比较不同的政府体制(选项A)，作者只陈述了苏联社会变革对女性的生活产生了深刻的影响，是属于提供信息，故答案为D项。2013年12月六级考试仔细阅读模拟训练（3）Women who apply for jobs in middle or senior management have a higher success rate than men, according to an employment survey. But of course far fewer of them apply for these positions. The study, by recruitment (征召新成员) consultants NB Selection, shows that while one in six men who appear on interview shortlist get jobs, the figure rises to one in four for women.Reasons for higher success rates among women are difficult to isolate. One explanation suggested is that if a woman candidate manages to get on a shortlist, then she has probably already proved herself to be an exceptional candidate. Dr. Marx said that when women apply for positions they tend to be better qualified than their male counterparts but are more selective and conservative in their job search. Women tend to research thoroughly before applying for positions or attending interviews. Men, on the other hand, seem to rely on their ability to sell themselves and to convince employers that any shortcomings they have will not prevent them from doing a good job.Managerial and executive progress made by women is confirmed by the annual survey of boards of directors carried out by Korn International. This year the survey shows a doubling of the number of women serving as non-executive directors compared with the previous year. However, progress remains painfully slow and there were still only 18 posts filled by women out of a total of 354 non-executive positions surveyed.In Europe a recent feature of corporate life in the recession has been the de-layering of management structures. Hilary Sears said that this has halted progress for women in as much as de-layering has taken place either where women are working or in layers they aspire to. Sears also noted a positive trend from the recession, which has been the growing number of women who have started up on their own.In business as a whole, there are a number of factors encouraging the prospect of greater equality in the workforce. Demographic trends suggest that the number of women going into employment is steadily increasing. In addition a far greater number of women are now passing through higher education, making them better qualified to move into management positions. Organizations such as the European Womens Management Development Network provide a range of opportunities for women to enhance their skills and contacts.However, Ariane Antal, director of the International Institute for Organization Change for Archamps in France, said that there is only anecdotal evidence of changes in recruitment patterns. And she said: Its still so hard for women to even get on to shortlists -there are so many hurdles and barriers. She agreed that there have been some positive signs but said: Until there is a belief among employers, until they value the difference, nothing will change.47. From the passage, we can see that males applicants _ female applicants for top posts.48. Women are more _ than men when they apply for positions or attending interviews.49. What aspect of company structuring has disadvantaged women in getting management positions?50. According to Sears; the number of female-run business is _.51. Which group of people should change their attitude to recruitment so as to have a greater equality in the workforce?47. exceed/are more than48. well-prepared/better qualified49. De-layering.50. increasing/on the increase51. The employers. /Employers.Part Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth)Section A47.第一段第一句说女性在应聘中、高管理职位的时候成功率比男性高。紧接着作者又补充了“But of course far fewer of them apply for these positions.”，可见应聘中、高管理职位的女性要比男性少。这也是她们成功率高的原因之一。因此，应该填写的答案是“超过”的意思，可以填“exceed”或者“are more than”。48.第二段在分析女性管理职位申请者成功率高的时候，提及“Women tend to research thoroughly before applying for positions or attending interviews.”，可见在应聘或者面试前，女性会做充分而彻底的调研，以对公司和工作有所了解，使自己成为“exceptional candidate”，因此女性比男性准备更充分。所以我们可以概括为“well-prepared”。另外，从第二段第三句“Dr. Marx said that when women apply for positions they tend to be better qualified than their male counterparts but are more selective and conservative in their job search.”可见女性考虑周到、准备充分使自己更为合格。因此，我们电可以填写“better qualified”。49.第四段第一句说欧洲最近经济不景气，公司出现管理结构等级减少的特点。“de-layering”的意思和“layering”相反，是指公司在经济萧条的时候，精减原有的管理机构，使等级变少，人员减少。作者接着补充了“.this has halted progress for women in as much as de-layering has taken place either where women are working or in layers they aspire to.”可见管理机构的精简使女性获得管理职位的希望变小了。因此，答案为“De-layering.”。50.根据第四段最后一句“Sears also noted a positive trend from the recession，which has been the growing number of women who have started up on their own.”可知Sears还注意到在萧条时期的一个积极的趋势：越来越多的女性自己开办企业。因此，正确答案是“increasing”或者含义相似的表达。51.由文章最后一句“Until there is a belief among employers，until they value the difference， nothing will change.”可见要改变态度的是雇主们。因此，答案为“The employers./ Employers.”。2013年12月六级考试仔细阅读模拟训练（4）The General Electric Company, often criticized for the complexity of its structure and the resulting opacity of its numbers, said yesterday that it would break GE Capital, by far its largest business, into four businesses. The reorganization effectively eliminates the job of Denis J. Nayden, 48, the chairman of GE Capital. Each of the new units will have its own chief, who Will report directly to Jeffrey R. Immelt, G. E.s chairman. The reason for doing this is simple. I want more direct contact with the financial services teams, Mr. Immelt said.The new businesses are GE Commercial Finance, GE Insurance, SE Consumer Finance and GE Equipment Management. Some support functions within GE Capital, including risk management and treasury, will now report to Dennis Dammerman, 57, a G. E. vice chairman who preceded Mr. Nayden as GE Capitals chlef. Mr, Nayden will remain at G. E. as an adviser for now, but is expected to leave shortly to start a financial services firm.Mr. Dammerman insisted that the reorganization had nothing to do with the increasing clamor from investors, regulators and the news media for greater transparency in accounting and for chief executives to take more responsibility for businesses: Analysts seem to believe him. This is just what it appears to be, a managerial, reorganization which gives leaders more direct access to the office of the chairman, said Martin A. Sankey, a G. E. a