2007年5月CATTI_二级笔译实务真题及详解.doc

2007年5月二级笔译综合能力完型填空The number of immigrants living in American households rose 16 percent over the last five years, fueled largely by recent arrivals from Mexico, according to fresh data released by the Census Bureau.And increasingly, immigrants are bypassing the traditional gateway （states ）like California and New York and settling directly in parts of the country that （until） recently saw little immigrant activity regions（ like ）the Upper Midwest, New England and the Rocky Mountain States.Coming in the heart of an election season （in which） illegal immigration has emerged as an issue, the new data（ from ）the bureaus 2005 American Community Survey is certain to generate more（ debate）. But more than（ that）, demographers said, it highlights one reason immigration has become （such） a heated topic.Whats happening now is that immigrants are showing （up ）in many more communities all across the country than they have ever been（ in）,” said Audrey Singer, an immigration fellow at the Brookings Institution. So its easy for people to （look） around and not just see them, but feel the impact theyre （having ）in their communities. And a lot of （these ）are communities that are not accustomed to （seeing） immigrants in their schools, at the workplace, in their hospitals.”By far the largest numbers of immigrants continue to live in the six states that have traditionally attracted （them）: California, New York, Texas, Florida, New Jersey and Illinois.Immigrants also continue to flow into a handful of states in the Southeast, （like） Georgia and North Carolina, a trend that was discerned in the 2000 census. But it is in the less-expected immigrant destinations that demographers （find） the most of interest in the new data.Indiana saw a 34 percent increase in the number of immigrants; South Dakota saw a 44 percent rise; Delaware 32 percent; Missouri 31 percent; Colorado 28 percent; and New Hampshire 26 percent.Its the continuation of a pattern that we first began to see 10 or 15 years （ago）, said Jeff Passel, senior research associate at the Pew Hispanic Center, who has examined the new census data. But instead of being confined to areas （like） the Southeast, its beginning to spill over into some Midwestern states, like Indiana and Ohio. Its even moving （up ）into New England.”Over all, immigrants now （make up ）12.4 percent of the nations （population）, up from 11.2 percent in 2000. That amounts to an estimated 4.9 million additional immigrants for a total of 35.7 million, a number （larger than） the population of California.2007年5月二级笔译实务试题【英译汉必译题】Strolling beside Amsterdams oldest canals, where buildings carry dates like 1541 and 1603, it is easy to imagine the citys prosperity in the 17th century. Replace todays bicycles and cars with horse-drawn carts, add more barges on the waterways, and this is essentially how Amsterdam must have looked to Rembrandt as he did his rounds of wealthy merchants. Such musings are not, of course, unprompted. This year, Amsterdam is celebrating the 400th anniversary of Rembrandts birth, and it is hard to escape his shadow. His birthplace in Leiden, 20 miles south, has naturally organized its own festivities. But Amsterdam has two advantages: it boasts the worlds largest Rembrandt collection and tourists like to come here anyway. True, anniversaries can be pretty corny, but what city resists them? This year, Amsterdam is competing with Salzburg, where Mozart was born 250 years ago, and Aix-en-Provence, where Czanne died a century ago. A sign in Amsterdams tourist office by the Central Station hints at one motive for such occasions: “Buy your Rembrandt products here.” Still, if you start off by liking Rembrandt, as I do, there is much to discover. For instance, when in Amsterdam I always make a point of paying homage to the Rembrandt masterpieces in the Rijksmuseum, yet until now I had never bothered to visit Rembrandt House, where the painter lived from 1639 until driven out by bankruptcy in 1658. In brief, I had never much connected his art to his person. Now, at least, I have made a stab at doing so because, for this anniversary (he was born on July 15, 1606), Amsterdam has organized a host of events that offer insights into Rembrandts world. They highlight not only what is known about his life, but also the people he painted and the city he lived in from the age of 25 until his death at 63 in 1669. Although the Rijksmuseum is undergoing a massive renovation through 2009, the museum is not snubbing its favorite son. Throughout the year, in part of the building to be renovated last, it is presenting some 400 paintings and other 17th-century objects representing the Golden Age in which Rembrandt prospered. These include works by Jan Steen, Vermeer and Frans Hals as well as by Rembrandt and his pupils. And they climax with Rembrandts largest and best known oil, “The Night Watch,” itself the focus of “Nightwatching,” a light and sound installation by the British movie director and Amsterdam resident, Peter Greenaway.【英译汉二选一】【试题1】The arsenal of antibiotics strong enough to squelch nasty bacteria is rapidly dwindling worldwide, which makes worried infectious-disease doctors more intent than ever that the drugs be deployed only when strictly needed. These specialists know that every antibiotic carries its own risks, and that the more frequently and broadly a drug is used, the more likely it is that harmful microbes will develop tricks to sidestep it. But a team of researchers in the Netherlands, where a more selective use of antibiotics has led to much lower levels of resistant bacteria than are circulating in the United States, thinks the medical finger-waggers have not gone far enough.As doctors, weve paid a lot of attention to questions of which antibiotics we should use to treat what sorts of infections, but have focused much less on how long that treatment should last, said Dr. Jan Prins of the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam.In a small but provocative study published in the June 10 issue of the British medical journal BMJ, Dr. Prins and colleagues from nine hospitals suggested that even some cases of pneumonia a potentially life-threatening disease could be treated with a three-day course of antibiotics, rather than the conventional 7- to 10-day treatment.The Dutch study analyzed the cure rates of 186 adults who had been hospitalized with mild to moderately severe pneumonia. All received three days of intravenous amoxicillin to start. After that, the 119 who were showing substantial improvement were randomly divided into two groups; about half continued with another five-day course of oral amoxicillin, and the others got look-alike sugar pills. Neither the patients nor the doctors knew who was getting which treatment until the end of their participation in the study. By the end of treatment, roughly 89 percent of the patients in each group were cured of their lung infections without further intervention. In a commentary accompanying the study, Dr. John Paul, a microbiologist at Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, England, writes that, at least for a subset of patients with uncomplicated, community-acquired pneumonia, the finding suggests that current guidelines recommending 7-10 days should be revised.As lead investigator of the Dutch study, Dr. Prins was not ready to go quite that far. He cited the studys small size and the seriousness of the illness as a reason to wait until the finding is independently replicated before advising a wholesale change in practice.试题2【缺】【汉译英】【试题一】四川从今年开始将新建三个大熊猫自然保护区，使全省的大熊猫自然保护区达到40个，以确保50左右的大熊猫栖息地和60左右的野生大熊猫个体分布在保护区内。四川省今年将建的保护区包括位于邛崃山系的芦山县黄水河大熊猫自然保护区和位于大小相岭的荥经县泡草湾大熊猫自然保护区。同时，位于乐山市金口河区的八月林保护区正在审批中，有望在年内获准建立。 目前，四川省共有37个大熊猫自然保护区，占地200多万公顷，其中国家级大熊猫自然保护区11个。据第三次全国大熊猫普查，四川省野外的大熊猫数量为1206只，约占全国的76。全省大熊猫栖息地面积达到177万公顷，占全国的77。 20世纪50年代，中国就创立了第一个以保护大熊猫为目的的自然保护区。1992年中国政府启动了一个旨在全面彻底保护大熊猫栖息地的“中国保护大熊猫及其栖息地工程”，1998年开展了天然林保护、退耕还林等生态工程建设，这些工程开展以后，大熊猫生存繁衍状况明显好转。 大熊猫是世界上最珍贵的濒危动物之一，被称为活化石。目前，野生大熊猫仅存1590只左右，主要分布在四川和陕西。【试题二】能源是人类社会赖以生存和发展的重要物质基础。纵观人类社会发展的历史，人类文明的每一次重大进步都伴随着能源的改进和更替。能源的开发利用极大地推进了世界经济和人类社会的发展。过去100多年里，发达国家先后完成了工业化，消耗了地球上大量的自然资源，特别是能源资源。当前，一些发展中国家正在步入工业化阶段，能源消费增加是经济社会发展的客观必然。中国是当今世界上最大的发展中国家，发展经济，摆脱贫困，是中国政府和中国人民在相当长一段时期内的主要任务。20世纪70年代末以来，中国作为世界上发展最快的发展中国家，经济社会发展取得了举世瞩目的辉煌成就，成功地开辟了中国特色社会主义道路，为世界的发展和繁荣作出了重大贡献。中国是目前世界上第二位能源生产国和消费国。能源供应持续增长，为经济社会发展提供了重要的支撑。能源消费的快速增长，为世界能源市场创造了广阔的发展空间。中国已经成为世界能源市场不可或缺的重要组成部分，对维护全球能源安全，正在发挥着越来越重要的积极作用。【试题二参考答案】Energy is an essential material basis for human survival and development. Over the entire history of mankind, each and every significant step in the progress of human civilization has been accompanied by energy innovations and substitutions. The development and utilization of energy has enormously boosted the development of the world economy and human society. Over more than 100 years in the past, developed countries have completed their industrialization, consuming an enormous quantity of natural resources, especially energy resources, in the process. Today, some developing countries are ushering in their own era of industrialization, and an increase of energy consumption is inevita