3,V.Translation翻译题库(英文)
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Passage 1
(1) There are four major types of education in China: basic education, vocational and technical education, higher education and adult education
(2) And adult education includes literacy classes,night school education and other forms of education provided for adults
Passage 2
(3) The Chinese government is devoting increasing attention to preschool education.
(4) help them express themselves orally and encourage them to get into a good habit of learning,
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Passage 2
(1) Archaeology is a source of history, not just a humble auxiliary discipline.
(2) Archeological data are all changes in the material world resulting from human action or, more succinctly, the fossilized results of human behavior.
(3) They were, as a group,semiliterate,proud, and stubborn,as dogged in their insistence on their own way of life as pine roots cracking granite to grow.
(4) They outlasted recurrent plagues of smallpox and malaria and a steady progression of natural accidents.
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Passage 3
(1) I spent some of the most exciting days of my life working on the eastern shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana,searching for the fossilized remains of our early ancestors.
(2) The environment was not too different from the wetter grasslands of Africa today,but it was full of amazing animals that are now long extinct.
(3) It is estimated that more than95% of the species that have existed over the past 400 million years are gone.
(4) We konw that the well-being of the human race is tied to the well-being of many other species, and we can't be sure which species are most important to our own survival.
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Passage 4
(1) Sleep is part of a person's daily activity cycle.
(2) When you first drift off into slumber,your eyes will roll about a bit ,your temperature will drop slightly, your muscles will relax, and your breathing will slow and become quite regular.
(3) A critical factor that plays a part in susceptibility to colds is age.
(4) Infants are the most cold-ridden group, averaging more than six colds in their first years. Boys have more colds than girls up to age three.
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Passage 5
(1) The growing interest of consumers in the safety and nutritional quality fo the typical North American diet is a welcome development.
(2) Although most of these claims are not supported by scientific evidence, the preponderance of written material advancing such claims makes it difficult for the general public to separate fact from fiction.
(3) One thing that most organically grown food products seem to have in common is that they cost more than conventionally grown foods.
(4) So there is real cause for concern if consumers particularly those with limited incomes, distrust the regular food supply and buy only expensive organic foods instead.
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Passage 6
(1) The city of Machida(町田市）,Japan, is finding some new ways t
o solve the prodlem of what to do with the large amounts of wastes or garbage produced by modern society.
(2) Now 3,000,000 persons live in Machida,and they produce about 220 tons of garbage each day.
(3) To solve this problem, they built a 300-million-dollar waste treatment center that opened in 1984.
(4) Citizens of Machida separate their garbage into different kinds first: reusable, polluting, poisonous and that which will burn or that which will not burn.
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Passage 7
(1) The advantages are obvious--robots can do things humans just don't want to do, and they are usually more cost effective.
(2) But, as with any machine, a robot can break down and even cause disaster.
(3) No one will deny that the introduction of modern technology has improved the structure of society,
(4) dairy farmers could clone their champion cows, making it possible to produce more milk from smaller herds.
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Passage 8
(1) Communities around the world organized events to promote awareness of children's health issues, which included drawing contests for schoolchildren in Vietnam, street plays in India, puppet shows in Namibia, and professional lectures for policy makers in Germany and elsewhere.
(2) Each year the WHO chooses a theme to highlight areas of particular concern. Last year's theme. Move for Health, focused on promoting physical activity as part of healthy living.
(3) Championships in Portugal,Greece, the Nether-lands and Scotland are nearly always won by just two or three clubs.
(4) None of this has impeded the global popularity of football, which has done far better as an export industry than America's more equal sports.
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Passage 9
(1) A recent poll indicated that half the teenagers in the United States believe that communication between them and their parents is poor and further that one orthe prime causes of this gap is deficient listening behavior.
(2) She was so convinced that she took her to an audiologist to have her ear tested.
(3) The typical pre-industrial family not only had a good many children, but numerous other dependents as well--grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins.
(4) Industrialism demanded masses of workers ready and able to move off the land in pursuit of jobs, and to move again whenever necessary.
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Passage 10
(1) Many people think that our generation, who have been and are being influenced by both Chinese and western cultures, seem to be positioned in an embarrassing place ,where we can neither deeply understand Chinese conventional culture nor entirely accommodate to western ways of thinking.
(2) The romance in the Valentine's and the liveliness by the Thanksgiving used to bring us sense of passion and novelty,but nowadays many of us have been annoyed via such festivals.
(3) Everyone will re-turn home to spend this day with their families.
(4) In this day, people will enjoy delicious foods, and eve
ryone will have fun.
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Passage 11
(1) The problem of international tourism has caused wide public concern over the recent years.
(2) But what these people fail to see is that the international tourism may bring about a disastrous impact on our environment and local history.
(3) Proper measures must be taken to limit the number of foreign tourists and the great efforts should be made to protect local environment and history from the harmful effects of international tourism.
(4) Consequently, the fast rise in number of foreign tourists may eventually lead to the decline of local tourism.
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Passage 12
(1) American black bears appear in a variety of colors despite their name. In the eastern part of their range, most of these bears have shiny black fur, but in the west they grow brown, red, or even yellow coats.
(2) Black bears are the smallest of all American bears, ranging in length from five to six feet, weighing from three hundred to five hundred pounds.
(3) Since there is such an abundance of food in the sea, it is understandable that some of the efficient, highly adaptable, warm-blooded mammals--that evolved on land should have returned to the sea.
(4) A second kind, the seal, has produced what is probably the greatest population of large carnivorous mammals on Earth.
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Passage 13
(1) Sooner or later, we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream.
(2) Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot more often, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more, cry less. Life must be lived as we go along. The station will come soon enough.
(3) To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.
(4) Broadly speaking, human beings may be divid-ed into three classes; those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.
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Passage 14
(1) No one can doubt the essential fact that the traffic problem over the last years has caused wide public concern all over the world.
(2) Another primary reason is that there seems to be many private cars and not enough public buses.
(3) Moreover, many people, including drivers and cyclists, do not obey the traffic rules properly, especially at busy intersections.
(4) The number of private cars in urban areas should be limited while the number of public buses should be increased.
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Passage 15
(76) Museums of the second generation are museums of industry and technology which display achievements brought about by industrial civilization in different historical periods.
(77) Although those two types of museums play the role of disseminating knowledge, they regard their visitors only as passive on-lookers.
(78) The third-generation museums are
built upon a completely new notion. Visitors can operate with their own hands and observe with their own eyes. Thus, they are brought closer to advanced scientific and technological achievement and offered an access to the mystery of science and technology.
(79) The In-ternet has enabled any radio station anywhere to become an international broadcaster with only a minor investment. Although its sound quality is far from perfect, it excels that of short-wave.
(80) There is much talk these days about the Internet being the "third force in broadcasting", alongside radio and television.
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Passage 16
(76) That is somewhat higher than used to be considered full employment, but it is not a serious figure in the aggregate.
(77) The unemploy-ment problem today is serious in that it most affects black youths, who are not being brought into the work force.
(78) It takes only a little over two hours to fly from Shanghai to Tokyo and just as much time to Hangzhou from Beijing.
(79)The historical experiences of both China and other countries have once again proved the culture needs exchanging.
(80) Through exchang only can we give full play to human wisdom and enjoy the common fruits of civilization.
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Passage 17
(76) He started the Fordes magazine to write about the doers who were doing things, people who make things happen in business.
(77) My grandfather used to say,the purpose of business is not to pile up millions or billions, but to produce happiness.
(78) The first value is the sense of family togetherness; members of multi-generation families are all there to have a big reunion dinner.Everyone will follow this custom.
(79) The female members are always held responsible for preparing the dinner, and some rich families may take on extra hands.
(80) The second value lies in the happy visits mutually made between friends and relatives, a good way to strengthen kinship and friendship.
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Passage 18
(76) But that, Pearson points out, is only the start of man-machine integration,"It will be the beginning of the long process of integration that will ultimately lead to a fully electronic human before the end of the next century."
(77) And home appliances will also become so smart that controlling and operating them will result in the breakout of a new psychological disorder--kitchen rage.
(78) But even more important, it was the farthest that scientists had been able to look into the past, for what they were seeing were the patterns and structues that existed 15 billion years ago.
(79) The existence of the giant clouds was virtually required for the Big Bang, first put forward in the 1920s, to maintain its reign as the dominant explanation of the cosmos.
(80) Over billions of years, the gas was compressed by gravity into galaxies, stars, planets and eventually, even humans.
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(76) Science moves forward, they say, not so much through the insights of great men of genius as because of more ordinary things like improved techniques and tools.
(77) "The scientific revolution, as we call it, was largely the improvement and use of a series of instruments that expanded the reach of science in innumerable directions."
(78) Over the years, tools and technology themselves as a source of fundamental innovation have largely been ignored by historians and philosophers of science.
(79) Galileo's greatest glory was that in 1609 he was the first person to turn the newly invented telescope on the heavens to prove that the planets revolve around the sun rather than around the Earth.
(80) Whether the Gov-ernment should increase the financing of pure science at the expense of technology or vice versa often depends on the issue of which is seen as the driveing force.
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Passage 20
(76) There will be television chat shows hosted by robots, and cars with pollution monitors that will disable them when they offend.
(77) Children will play with dolls equipped with personality chips(芯片）, computers with in-built personalities will be regarded as workmates rather than tools, relaxation will be in front of smell-television, and digital age will have arrived.
(78) Under modern conditions, this requires varying measures of centralized control and hence the help of specialized scientists such as economists and operational research experts.
(79) Furthermore, it is obvious that the strength of a country's economy is directly bound up with the efficiency of its agriculture and industry, and that this in turn rests upon the efforts of scientists and technologists of all kinds.
(80) It also means that governments are increasingly compelled to interfere in these sectors in order to step up production and ensure that it is utilized to the best advantage.