二、阅读(10个×2\'+5个×4\')
(篇幅太长了,都只贴出了第一段,然后注明了文章来源,大家动动手指吧哈哈~三四篇是问答题(5个),所以有注明考查的句子,问题主要是paraphrase/explain the sentence或者what does……imply/mean?一二篇的选择题(10个)就无能为力咯~)
第一篇:IF SEVERAL hundred million Indians do migrate from the countryside to cities between now and 2050, as the UN expects, it will be a fiendishly busy few decades for Vivek Aher, who runs a low-cost hostel, one of five, on the outskirts of Pune, a well-off city three hours’ drive from Mumbai. A fair few of the new arrivals will have their first experience of urban living bunking in one of the hostels’ 1,350 beds. Should recent experience be anything to go by, most of the new arrivals will test Mr Aher’s patience by tacking posters on his hostel’s walls, or endlessly complaining about the Wi-Fi.……
(选自the economist, Feb 23rd 2017,Business版块)
第二篇:THE fear that business travellers on transatlantic flights might have to stop working on spreadsheets and read a good book instead had been palpable. In recent weeks, agents at America’s Department of Homeland Security had been hinting to the media that a ban on large electronic devices in the cabins of flights between Europe and America was likely. After a meeting on May 17th in Brussels, between American and EU officials, however, reports suggest that threat has been averted. Airlines will be rejoicing if so.……
(选自the economist, May 18th 2017,Business版块 )
第三篇:“A SEA of sameness.” A veteran of the Mobile World Congress (MWC), Ben Wood of CCS Insight, a consultancy, was not expecting much from the mobile industry’s main trade show this week in Barcelona. As one product launch followed another, it was easy to lose track. Whether it was LG, Huawei or Wiko, they all showed off yet more black rectangles with slightly varying specifications.……
(选自the economist, Mar 2nd 2017,Business版块)
考查的句子:
1.“showed off yet more black rectangles with slightly varying specifications.”
2.“Mobile innovation is not doomed to be hidden in the network.”
第四篇: IN MAY 2013 Gloria James borrowed $200 from Loan Till Payday, a lender near her home in Wilmington, Delaware. Rather than take out a one- or two-month loan for a $100 fee, as she had done several times before, she was offered a one-year loan that would set her back $1,620 in interest, equivalent to an annual rate of 838%. Ms James, a housekeeper making $12 an hour, agreed to the high-interest loan but quickly fell behind on her payments. After filing a lawsuit in federal court, a Delaware judge ruled that the loan in question was not only illegal but “unconscionable”.……
(选自the economist, Apr 8th 2017,Finance and economics版块)
考查的句子:
3. “she was offered a one-year loan that would set her back $1,620 in interest”
4. “installment loans, which give borrowers more
time to get backon their feet.”
5. “consumers may not be
better off. ”
三、作文(30\')
题目大意:some say that machine translation will replace pure human work, while some other say that will never happen……他们认为就算机器翻译能够用于科技文本,但文学翻译仍然需要人翻译……your opinion?
二、词条翻译(英译汉15个×1\')
1.Food and Agricultural Organization
2.Greater Mekong Subregion
3.Gulf Cooperation Council
4.Special Drawing Right
5.stem cell research
6.Latin America and the Caribbean
7.economic deleveraging
8.digital divide
9.demographic dividend
10.Internet of Things
11.nature reserve
12.ecological footprint
13.nuclear non-proliferation
14.World Economic Forum
15.quantitative easing
(词条顺序可能有些颠倒~)
三、段落翻译(英译汉60\')
No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods to the experiences of our own short lives. Five years is a lot. Twenty years is the horizon to most people. Fifty years is antiquity. To understand how the impact of destiny fell upon any generation of men one must first imagine their position and then apply the time-scale of our own lives. Thus nearly all changes were far less perceptible to those who lived through them from day to day than appears when the salient features of an epoch are extracted by the chronicler. We peer at these scenes through dim telescopes of research across a gulf of nearly two thousand years. We cannot doubt that the second and to some extent the third century of the Christian era, in contrast with all that had gone before and most that was to follow, were a Golden Age for Britain. But by the early part of the fourth century shadows had fallen upon this imperfect yet none the less tolerable society. By steady, persistent steps the sense of security departed from Roman Britain. Its citizens felt by daily experience a sense that the world-wide system of which they formed a partner province was in decline.……
(后面还跟着一段跟这差不多长,可我实在找不到了。原文是Churchill的The Birth of Britain~)