2010年5月二级笔译实务模拟试题.doc

天津翻译专修学院独家测试题姓名： 准考证号： 2010年度上半年全国翻译资格（水平）考试全真模拟试卷笔 译 实 务（英语二级）天津翻译专修学院制网址：二 一 年 五 月全国翻译资格（水平）考试英语二级笔译实务（英译汉）Section 1 English-Chinese Translation (英译汉) （60 points）This section consists of two parts: Part A “Compulsory Translation” and Part B “Optional Translation” which comprises “Topic 1” and “Topic 2”. Translate the passage in Part A and your choice from the passages in Part B into Chinese. The time for this section is 100 minutes.Part A Compulsory Translation (必译题) （30 points）In Battambang, Cambodia, a western province full of poor farmers barely managing to grow enough rice to live on, the top government official charged with fighting malaria is Ouk Vichea. His jobcontending with as many as 10,000 malaria cases a year in an area twice as large as Delawareis made even more challenging by ruthless, increasingly sophisticated criminals, whose handiwork Ouk Vichea was about to demonstrate. Standing in his cluttered lab only a few paces wide in the provincial capital, also called Battambang, he held up a small plastic bag containing two identical blister packs labeled artesunate, a powerful antimalarial. One was authentic. The other? Its 100 percent flour, he said. Before, I could tell with my eyes if they were good or bad. Now, its impossible.The problem that Ouk Vichea was illustrating is itself a scourge threatening hundreds of thousands of people, a plague that seems all the more cruel because it is brought on by cold, calculated greed. Southeast Asia is awash in counterfeit medications, none more insidious than those for malaria, a deadly infectious disease that is usually curable if treated early with appropriate drugs. Pharmacies throughout the region are stocked with the fake malaria medicine, which is generally cheaper than the real thing.Artesunate, developed by Chinese scientists in the 1970s, is a leading antimalaria drug. Its active ingredient, artemisinin, comes from the wormwood plant, which ancient Chinese herbalists prized for its fever-reducing properties. Between 1999 and 2003, medical researchers conducted two surveys in which they randomly purchased artesunate from pharmacies in Cambodia, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. The volume of fake pills rose from 38 percent to 53 percent.This is a very, very serious criminal act, Nicholas White, a malaria expert at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, says of the counterfeiting. Youre killing people. Its premeditated, cold-blooded murder. And yet we dont think of it like that.Nobody knows the full scope of the crime, although the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that counterfeit drugs are associated with up to 20 percent of the one million malaria deaths worldwide each year. Reliable statistics in Southeast Asia are hard to come by, partly because the damage seldom arouses suspicion and because victims tend to be poor people who receive inadequate medical treatment to begin with.Part B Optional Translation （二选一题） （30 points）Topic 1 (选择题一)This week, this remote Arctic settlement, which bills itself as perhaps the northernmost town in the world, is buzzing with excitement and expectation. It is not because a polar bear was spotted in the adjacent valley last week. It was deemed well-fed, and officials decided to let lumber on toward the coast, instead of shooting it as a matter of public safety.The 2,000 inhabitants of Longyearbyen, on an island 1,000 kilometers, or 600 miles, from the North Pole, are eagerly awaiting another visitor, whose arrival is just around the corner. From experience, they know this guest will warm the air and make the towns now filmy colors come alive: the white of the snow, the deep blue of the water, the red, yellow and green of the wooden homes and store, the banks, restaurants, schools and post office.On Saturday, the sun will once again rise in Longyearbyen, for the first time since October. While most of the world takes light and shadows for granted, for residents here, after months of living in perpetual darkness, the prospect of sunlight is a very, very big deal.With the sun climbing closer to the horizon, the period of daylight each day is 20 minutes longer than the day before, and also noticeably brighter; the film is slowly lifting. On Saturday, direct sunlight-with shadows and warmth-will arrive, starting with an actual sunrise.The arrival of daylight is like a yearly rebirth, transforming lives and routines. While people do not actually hibernate, of course, residents say they tire easily in the dark winter.On Friday, at the Royal Kindergarten (one of three preschools in the town), a dozen or so children who have lived in darkness for the winter were busily painting and cutting out paper suns that are now affixed to the schools snowy windows. They were learning a song for a festival that will bring together all the towns students this week: “The sun is good. The sun is great. The sun is warm. It browns the body. The sun shines every morning on me”. The day the sun arrives is a public holiday.Section 2 Chinese-English Translation (汉译英) （40 points）This section consists of two parts: Part A “Compulsory Translation” and Part B “Optional Translation” which comprises “Topic 1” and “Topic 2”. Translate the passage in Part A and your choice from the passages in Part B into English. The time for this section is 80 minutes.Part A Compulsory Translation (必译题) （20 points）世界博览会是人们灵感和思想的展示区。自从1851年在伦敦举办的所有国家的工业盛展，世界博览会已达到日益突出,作为盛大活动,为经济、科技和文化的交流,作为一个重要平台,展示历史经验,交流创新的意念,发扬团队精神,展望未来。中国有着悠久的文明，促进国际交流并热爱世界和平。中国赢得2010年世界博览会,靠的是国际社会的支持和信心,对中国改革开放。博览会将会是第一个注册的在发展中国家举办的世博会，这也寄予了全球人民对中国未