07年11月二级笔译实务考试真题

2007 年年 11 月二级笔译实务考试真题月二级笔译实务考试真题 英译汉必译题 Milton Friedman Free Markets Theorist Dies at 94 Milton Friedman the grandmaster of free market economic theory in the postwar era and a prime force in the movement of nations toward less government and greater reliance on individual responsibility died today in San Francisco where he lived He was 94 Conservative and liberal colleagues alike viewed Mr Friedman a Nobel prize laureate as one of the 20th century s leading economic scholars on a par with giants like John Maynard Keynes and Paul Samuelson Flying the flag of economic conservatism Mr Friedman led the postwar challenge to the hallowed theories of Lord Keynes the British economist who maintained that governments had a duty to help capitalistic economies through periods of recession and to prevent boom times from exploding into high inflation In Professor Friedman s view government had the opposite obligation to keep its hands off the economy to let the free market do its work The only economic lever that Mr Friedman would allow government to use was the one that controlled the supply of money a monetarist view that had gone out of favor when he embraced it in the 1950s He went on to record a signal achievement predicting the unprecedented combination of rising unemployment and rising inflation that came to be called stagflation His work earned him the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 1976 Rarely his colleagues said did anyone have such impact on both his own profession and on government Though he never served officially in the halls of power he was always around them as an adviser and theorist Among economic scholars Milton Friedman had no peer Ben S Bernanke the Federal Reserve chairman said today The direct and indirect influences of his thinking on contemporary monetary economics would be difficult to overstate Alan Greenspan the former Federal Reserve chairman said of Mr Friedman in an interview on Tuesday From a longer term point of view it s his academic achievements which will have lasting import But I would not dismiss the profound impact he has already had on the American public s view Mr Friedman had a gift for communicating complicated ideas in simple and lucid ways and it served him well as the author or co author of more than a dozen books as a columnist for Newsweek from 1966 to 1983 and even as the star of a public television series 英译汉二选一 试题 1 Panama goes to polls on upgrade for canal PANAMA CITY Voters were expected Sunday to approve the largest modernization project in the 92 year history of the Panama Canal a 5 25 billion plan to expand the waterway to allow for larger ships while alleviating traffic problems The government of President Mart n Torrijos has billed the referendum as historic saying the work would double the capacity of a canal already on pace to generate about 1 4 billion in revenue this year Critics claim the expansion would benefit the canal s customers more than Panamanians and worry that costs could balloon forcing this debt ridden country to borrow even more The project would build a third set of locks on the Pacific and Atlantic ends of the canal by 2015 allowing it to handle modern container ships cruise liners and tankers too large for its locks which are 33 meters or 108 feet wide The Panama Canal Authority the autonomous government agency that runs the canal says the project would be paid for by increasing tolls and would generate 6 billion in revenue by 2025 There is nothing Panamanians are more passionate about than the canal It s incomparable in the hemisphere said Samuel Lewis Navarro the country s vice president and foreign secretary It s in our heart part of our soul Public opinion polls indicate that the plan would be approved overwhelmingly Green and white signs throughout the country read Yes for our children while tens of thousands of billboards and bumper stickers trumpet new jobs The canal needs you television and radio ads implore It will mean more boats and that means more jobs said Damasco Polanco who was herding cows on horseback in Nuevo Provedencia on the banks of Lake Gat n an artificial reservoir that supplies water to the canal The canal employs 8 000 workers and the expansion is expected to generate as many as 40 000 new jobs Unemployment in Panama is 9 5 percent and 40 percent of the country lives in poverty But critics fear that the expansion could cost nearly double the government s estimate as well as stoke corruption and uncontrolled debt The poor continue to suffer while the rich get richer said Jos Felix Castillo 62 a high school teacher who was one of about 3 000 supporters who took to Panama City s streets to protest the measure on Friday Lewis Navarro noted that a portion of the revenue generated by each ton of cargo that passes through the waterway goes to education and social programs We aren t talking about 40 percent poverty as a consequence of the canal he said It s exactly the opposite 试题 2 缺 汉译英 试题一 旅游是一项集观光 娱乐 健身为一体的愉快而美好的活动 旅游业随着 时代进步而不断发展 20 世纪中叶以来 现代旅游在世界范围内迅速兴起 旅游人数不断增加 旅游产业规模持续扩大 旅游经济地位提升 旅游活动愈益成为各国人民交流 文化 增进友谊 扩大交往的重要渠道 对人类活动和社会进步发生越来越广 泛的影响 古往今来 旅游一直是人们增长知识 丰富阅历 强健体魄的美好追求 在古代 中国先哲们就提出了 观国之光 的思想 倡导 读万卷书 行万里 路 游历名山大川 承天地之灵气 接山水之精华 试题二 从 1979 到 2004 年实行改革开放这 27 年里 中国发生了巨大的变化 经 济每年增长 9 4 居民消费每年增长 7 进出口每年增长 16 7 2004 年 国民经济总产值达 1 6494 万亿美元 进出口总额达 1 1548 万亿美元 我们已 经基本上建立了社会主义市场经济 我们的生产力和综合国力在不断提高 社 会各项事业蓬勃发展 人民生活实现了从温饱到小康这一历史性的飞跃 如何在全球化加快的新形势下 从中国的实际出发 抓住机遇 迎接挑战 保持持续 快速 和谐和全面社会经济发展 是值得我们密切关注的重大战略 略问题 经过多年的实践和探索 我们找到了一条既符合中国实际和时代发展 趋势又反映人民愿望的发展道路 这就是具有中国特色的社会主义道路 我们 将沿着这条道路坚定不移地奋勇前进 试题二参考答案 The past 27 years of reform and opening up have brought about tremendous changes from 1979 to 2004 on annual average the Chinese economy grew by 9 4 consumption by 7 and import and export by 16 7 In 2004 the country s GDP topped US 1 6494 trillion Total import and export volume reached US 1 1548 trillion We have basically established a socialist market economy Our productivity and overall national strength are constantly growing Various social undertakings are flourishing and the historic leap