专八十套模拟题
专八十套模拟题
第一套：
中译英：
将近九十年以后，毛姆在一次广播讲话里用自己的话重申了这个看法，并作了发挥。如果我没有理解错的话，毛姆先生说的是：人的头脑的基本构造之中具有一种东西，它非常喜欢甚至要求听人讲故事，讲一个开头、中间、结尾都齐全的故事。他还说，现代有些作家过分热衷于剖析心理和进行论证，忽视讲故事要注意完整性这一重要特点，结果使得侦探故事普遍趋于一般化。我感到这两位十分不同的作家所作的精辟论断相得益彰，都是很有启发的。柯林斯是要“讲一个故事”，就在这讲故事的过程中，他形成了侦探小说家所需要的条理性和善于作细致描写的本领。
英译中：
Alice was a B-plus student through her first three years at college. During the winter holidays in her senior year, while she was driving during a storm, her car ran off the road and hit a tree. Alice banged her head on the steering stake but never lost consciousness. She was treated for bruises arel discharged from them hospital within a day.
But, back at her studies, she began to have difficulties. Suddenly her As and Bs were gone. She had trouble remembering what she'd read and was irritable and easily distracted.
Alice was referred to a neuropsychologist for further examination. Although her IQ hadn't changed and standard neurological tests were normal, detailed neuropsychological tests showed she was having memory problems. She could still process new information, but it took longer than before and she became "overloaded" if she tries to do too much at once.
Head injuries are often fatal, or of sufficient severity to require the hospitalization of victims. But there is a large group of people who sustain head injuries which can go undetected through ordinary medical examination. There are the people who seemingly recover from their injuries but still suffer subtle intellectual and behavioral effect that may seriously impair their ability to work and interact normally with other people. They are the victims of what experts call a "silent epidemic". Some never lost consciousness and others never even suffered a direct blow to the head, yet brain damage occurred.
作文：
China witnesses great success in economical development after its adoption of the policy of reform and openness to the outside world. But the economical prosperity, at the same time, brings about the overwhelming appearance of fake commodities causing enormous economical loss. Write an essay about 400 words, expressing your view on fake commodities.
In the first part of your paper you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to natural conclusion with a summary.
You should supply an appropriate title for your
essay.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Write your essay on Answer Sheet Four.
第二套
中译英：
爬山虎总是野心勃勃地企图占领每一寸墙。在那无数枝卷向上的藤蔓中，有一枝几乎攀上了那尖尖的屋顶，这是有一阵风刮来，把它悬在半空中。
刘川从窗口望出去，看到了对面墙上的这个镜头，下意识的笑了起来。“你是藤，我是墙。”有一天他对小梅说。
他眼中的那枝藤蔓化成了她的形象，在他向她说了这句话之后，她撅起嘴巴转身走了。“我没有模仿电影中的男主角，加快了脚步去追她。”他想。他俩也向所有年轻情侣那样天生好赌气，可末了，总是她来找他，一般不出一个星期。他很有信心。
英译中：
But the worst of it isn't society’s work -ethic morality; it’s your own, which you never knew you had. You find out how much self -satisfaction was gained from even the simplest work--related task; a well worded letter, a well-handled phone call --even a clean fire. Being useful to yourself isn't enough.
But then almost everyone has heard about the need to be a useful member of society .What you didn't know about was the loneliness. You've spent your life almost constantly surrounded by people, in classes, in dorms and at work. To suddenly find yourself with only your cat to talk to a day distorts your sense of reality. You begin to worry that flights of fancy might become one way.
But you always were, and still are, stronger than that. You maintain balance and perspective, mainly through resorting frequently to sarcasm and irreverence. Although something going wrong in any aspect of your life now seems to push you into temporary despair much more easily than before, you have done vey important things to hang on to --people who care, your sense of humor your talents, your cat and your hopes.
作文：
The pass of the act giving the legal status to euthanasia some countries has again aroused great concern to this question .Some are strongly against it because it violates the traditional concepts of life ,ethics, morality, etc. Some are for it because mercy killing release patients prom being afflicted from incurable diseases. Write an essay about 400 words, approve of with one of the above mentioned two opposing ideas.
In the first part of your paper you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to natural conclusion with a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Write your essay on Answer Sheet Four.
第三套
中译英
老头儿说我的毛病是太盛。又说，若
对手盛;则以柔化之。可要在化的同时，造成克势，柔不是弱，是容，是收，是含。含而化之，让对手入你的势。这势要你造，需要无为而无不为。无为即是道，也就是棋运之大可不变，你想变，就不是象棋，输不用说了，连棋边儿都沾不上。棋运不可悖，但每局的势要自己造，棋运和势既有，那可就无所不为了。玄是真玄，可细琢磨，是那么个理儿。
英译中：
One wet night I was coming home through Hyde Park from working late on a job in Paddington. Pain and wind and swept boughs and sickly gaslights on the wet asphalt; and poles and scaffolding about in preparation for the Jubilee celebration. I had sent a couple of attempts on the subject to the Bulletin, and had got encouragement in Answer to Correspondents. And now the idea of "Sons of the South" or "Song of the Republic" came. I wrote it and screwed up courage to go down to the Bulletin after hours, intending to chop the thing into the letter box, but just as I was about to do so, or rather making up my mind as to whether I'd shove it in, or take it home and have another look at the spelling and the dictionary, the door opened suddenly and a haggard woman stood there. And I shoved the thing into her hand and got away round the corner, feeling something like a person who had been nearly caught on the premises under suspicious circumstances and was not safe yet by any means.
I hadn't the courage to go near the Bulletin often again, but used to lie awake at night and get up very early and slip down to the nearest news-agent's on Thursday mornings, to have a pep at the Bulletin, in fear and trembling and half furtively, as if the news-agent-another hard -life woman, by the way, named Mrs. Furlong-would guess my secret. At last, sick with disappointment, I went to the office and saw Mr. Archibird, who seemed surprised, encouraged me a lot and told me that they were holding the "Song of a Republic" over for a special occasion-Eight Hours Day.
作文：
As the ever-increasing popularity of computer and internet, the life and the life style has greatly been altered. The future world would become an interactive world; the future leisure activities and future businesses would also change. Thus, the impact of science and technology on human civilization is very great. Write an essay about 400 words, expressing your view on the compact of science and technology on human civilization.
In the first part of your paper you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to natural conclusion with a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Write your essay on Answer Sheet Four.
4.第四套
中译英：
北京的道路旁多
植玫瑰，当槐花挂满枝头香飘回逸的时候，夏日就带着炎热与浓绿向人们涌来了。
清晨，骑上自行车，加入上班的“洪流”，眼前闪动的是人们五颜六色的夏服，而八月盛夏，最高气温达到三十七、八度时，不少姑娘穿起露肩、低胸、无袖的上衣，有的小伙子把背心上肚皮，在还没有普及空调的普通人家，人们注意听着电台的当日天气预报和查看日历，不时喊着“今天太热啦！”在惊呼、叹息之中，盛夏似乎走得太慢了。
英译中：
Protected by sweaters and a leather jacket against the biting blasts of wind, I walk along the hillside this afternoon. Snow lies drifted among the wild cherries. Where the wind has swept bare the ground, the soil is frozen and rocklike. On this day of bleak cold, the earth seems dead. Yet every field and hillside, like a child, has the seeds and powers of growth hidden within it. From cocoon to bur, on a winter's day, there is everywhere life, dormant but waiting.
Within the earth there are roots and seeds; on the bare twigs, there are winter buds; buried in soil and mud beneath ice-locked water are the turtles and frogs and dragonfly nymphs; hidden in decaying logs and under snow-covered debris are the fertilized queens of the wasps and bumblebees. Everywhere, on all sides of us, as far as winter reigns, life is suspended temporarily. But it has not succumbed. It is merely dormant for the time being, merely waiting for the magic touch of the spring. All the blooms of another summer, all the unfolding myriad leaves, all the lush green carpet of the grass, all the perfumes of the midsummer dusk, all the rush and glitter of the dragonfly's wings under the August sun--all these are inherent, locked up in the winter earth.
Nor is this time of suspended activity wholly wasted. Scientists have discovered that, for many kinds of seeds, a period of cold is essential to their proper spouting. They require the months of cold just as they do the days of spring.
Seeds that lie on the frozen ground, that are coated with sleet and buried by snow, are thus the most favored of all. Bring those same seeds indoors, cuddle them, keep them warm, protect them from wind and cold and snow, and they sprout readily in the spring. The seeming punishment of winter is providing, in reality, invaluable aid. Similarly, the eggs of some insects, such as the Rocky Mountain locust, need cold for proper hatching.
Winter cold, the enemy of the easy life, thus is not the enemy of all life. It aids in the proper development of seed and egg. The death like inactivity of the winter earth is only an illusion. Life is every where in every foot of frozen soil, in every rocklike yard of solid ground-life is the endless variety of its normal forms.
作文：
The very word of networks changes people's life a great deal and in the world thousands and hundreds of people surf online everyday. So there occurs a quest
ion--should there be someone guard the Net-Cyber police.
Someone thinks that networks don't want Cyber police guards, but other people have different ideas.
Write an essay about 400 words, commenting and expressing you view on it.
In the first part of your paper you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to natural conclusion with a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Write your essay on Answer Sheet Four.
第五套
中译英：
随着西藏改革开放和现代化的发展，藏语翻译也得到了迅速发展。1993年成立了西藏翻译工作者协会，并先后成立了拉萨市和日喀则地区分会；共举办了7期翻译培训班，培训337人次；1994年在西藏举办了全国第二次暨西藏首届藏语文翻译学术研讨会，并先后派人参加了在北京、青海、甘肃、新疆等地举办的全国性翻译学术研讨会和在澳大利亚、韩国等国举办的世界翻译大会以及亚洲翻译论坛等学术活动。据不完全统计，目前西藏从事藏文翻译工作的有1000人左右，担负着法律、新闻、公文、科技、教育、文学、医学、影视等多种学科领域的繁重翻译任务，每年要完成3000多万字的翻译量。
英译中：
Before Keynes, economists were gloomy naysayers. “Nothing can be done”, “Don’t interfere,” “It will never work,” they intoned with Eyeore-like pessimism. But Keynes was an unswerving optimist. Of course we can lick unemployment! There is no reason to put up with recessions and depressions! The “economic problem is not-if we look into the future-the permanent problem of the human race,” he wrote.
Keynes was born in Cambridge, England, in 1883.His father John Neville Keynes was a noted Cambridge economist. His mother Florence Ada Keynes became mayor of Cambridge. Young John was a brilliant student but didn't immediately aspire to either academia or public life. He wanted to run a railroad. "It is so easy...and fascinating to master the principles of these things," he told a friend, with his usual modesty. But no railroad came along, and Keynes ended up taking the civil service exam. His lowest mark was in economics. "I evidently knew more about Economics than my examiners,” he later explained.
Keynes was posted to the India Office, but the Civil Service proved deadly dull, and he soon left. He lectured at Cambridge, edited an influential journal and socialized with his Bloomsbury friends, surrounded himself with artists and writers and led an altogether dilettantish life until Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo, and Europe was plunged into World War one. Keynes was called to Britain's Treasury to work on overse
as finances, where he quickly shone. Even his artistic tastes came in handy. He figured a way to balance the French accounts by having Britain's National Gallery buy paintings by Manet, Corot and Delacroix at bargain prices.
作文：
Nowadays, it’s a quite common phenomenon that people dining in restaurants tend to order more food than they can eat to show their generosity or hospitality.
You are to write a composition in no less than 400 words on the above topic. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Write your essay on Answer Sheet Four.
第六套
汉译英
偶然也会有一坐小岛出现在地平线上，我们不知其名，但它却给人以神秘之感，那是海底峰峦的顶部，孤独、凄凉、无暇、偏僻地伫立在海上。人们喜爱岛屿，是否因为在这难以驾驭的广大世界里有这样一小块易于管理的领地，人们就不知不觉地要据为已有？我想到那座到雨一直就在那里（除非它不过是耐心的珊瑚虫的作品），并且倘若我返回发现它在等待着我时，这小岛还会仍然在原地不动。当我想到这些，我就感受到一种奇特的情感。为什么会这样，我自己也说不清。
英译汉
The staff got right to business and conferred all day. Victor Henry worked with the planners , on the level below the chiefs of and their deputies where Burne-Wilke operated, and of course far below the summit of the President , the Prime Minister , and their advisers .Familiar problems came up at once: excessive and contradictory requests from the British services , unreal plans, unfilled contracts , jumbled priorities , fouled communications . One cardinal point the planners hammered our fast. Building new ships to replace U-boat sinkings came first. No war material could be used against Hitler until it had crossed the ocean. This plain truth, so simple once agreed on ,ran a red line across every request ,every program , every projection .Steel aluminum, rubber, valves , motors , machine tools ,copper wire , all the thousand things of war ,would go first to ships. This simple yardstick rapidly disclosed the poverty of the “arsenal of democracy”, and dictated – as a matter of frightening urgency- a gigantic job of building new steel mills, and plants to turn the steel into combat machines and tools.
作文
There is a saying “We must live in the present. If we dwell on the past, we will lose the present.” To what extent and in what ways do you agree or disagree with this statement? Explain and illustrate your answer.
You are to write a composition in no less than 400 words on the above topic. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Write your essay on Answer Sheet Four.
Model Test Seven
A Chinese to
English
公款吃喝，上有禁令，下有批评。然而，吃归吃，再穷的地方朝阳在不断地吃。而这些吃客们不知道是否想过：他们吃掉的岂止是美味佳肴，还有中国的希望呵！把“希望”称作“工程”的，在我国历史上绝无仅有。邓小平同志亲笔为之题词，并以“一个老共产党员”的名义为其捐款，看着那些瘦弱身体、眼巴巴渴望学习的孩子们，有识之士纷纷伸出援助之手，但三年里仅得一亿多元，实在是杯水车薪哪！
ENGLISH TO CHINESE
My guess is that English will retain its currency in the world for the next 50 or so, but it is difficult to see it retaining it beyond them. If the Chinese could establish some reasonable way of writing their language by forming some sort of alphabeticisation, then give the exponential population growth among Chinese communities, their language would rapidly gain in importance. And let’s not forget Spanish; some predict that there will be a Spanish majority in the United States within twenty years. So it is not impossible to conceive that another language might come to dominate besides English one day.
An equally important trend will be the fragmentation of English. Many countries are now using English so much that they are starting to each their own particular brand of the language with different forms of sentence construction, for example. They no longer want native speakers to teach English, but locals whose version of English contains the same forms as the local use of the language. This is not just true in colonial countries, it’s happening as far apart as Germany and the Pacific Rim. It’s a strongly democratic move and I think we will see a lot more local publishing as a result.
Yet while forms of English become increasingly localized, the information explosion is also making our use of language more global, it’s not a letter, not a postcard. And it has own casual style, often without complete sentences. English is especially well adapted to this style, as it can easily be shortened. So I suspect English will continue to be advanced than other languages on the worldwide web-it will remain the language of science and technology.
Writing
Nowadays the telephone plays a very important role in our life. It makes our life more convenient. However, it has its disadvantages.
You are to write an essay of approximately 400 words on both the positive and negative effects of the telephone on modern life. Support your ideas with reasons and examples.
In the first part of your paper you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to natural conclusion with a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Write your essay on A
nswer Sheet Four.
第八套
汉译英
新加坡报纸说，中国是世界四大文明古国之一，地大物博，拥有茂密的森林、壮丽的山河，如利剑直插云霄的高峰、雄伟壮丽的瀑布、秀丽的湖泊及富有中华文化光辉的名胜古迹、令世界各国人民神往。但是，更重要的是，中国具有五千多年的历史，遗留下无数的历史文物、珍珠宝藏、古迹、名胜、宫殿及数不尽的雄伟建筑，令人惊叹不已。这种种原因都促使中国成了许多人梦寐以求的旅游胜地。
英译汉
The greatest legacy of the baby boom generation’s early adulthood has been that it asked all the right question but resolved nothing .Raised by parents whose sacrifices during the Great Depression and World War II purchased for us the luxury of being able to question , we all understood the standards from which some of were choosing deviate .
But riven by disagreement, we have encouraged our children to believe that there are no touchstones, no true answers, no commitments worthy of sacrifice .There are no firm principles. That for every cause there is a counter cause. That for every reason to fight there is a reason to run. That for every yin the there is a yang.
How will our children react to this philosophical quagmire? My bet is that will surprise us with their stability, that they will perhaps be slower to make commitments, bur more serious when they do.
Someone who has bounced between two parents will not marry with the thought that “we can always get a divorce if it doesn’t work.” Someone who has viewed the nightmarish results of political policies and recreational activities that were rather innocently begun will be more careful to consider the implications of new seductions at the outset. In the end, just as my tiny daughter eased my personal turmoil years ago, she and her contemporaries may become the arbiters of the generation that spawned them.
Thinking of these things as I sat in the quiet of her bedroom, listening to the yellow music box that still reminds me of the adoration in Amy’s eyes, I understood another truth: we, the members of a creative, sometimes absurd, always narcissistic postwar generation, will soon receive a judgment. Whatever it is, our children have earned the right to make it.
Writing
The costs of medical health care are increasing all the time. Governments are finding it difficult to balance the health care budget. Should citizens be totally responsible for their own health costs and take out private health insurance, or is it better to have a comprehensive health care system which provides free health services for all?
In the first part of your paper you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to natural conclusion with a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organiz
ation, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Write your essay on Answer Sheet Four.
第九套
汉译英
窗前挂着一串紫色的风铃，仿佛也和我拥有着同样的寂寞，似乎已经忘记了它在夏季中怎样唱歌。在此时，一个冷冷地冬季，留下寂寞的风铃，在窗前苦苦等待。难道，风儿真的也把它的友伴遗忘了吗？可是，分明听见风儿在空中无奈地呼唤，有力拍打着窗棂，却没有一点点回响。我突然想到，是窗把它们隔开了。于是，我打开窗户，风儿涌了进来，那静默已久的风铃，发出“叮叮咚咚”的声音，仿佛又和友伴诉不完的思念和话语。
英译汉
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of the field, as a final resting place for those who gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow —this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have that for so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation , under God, shall a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, for the people, by the people shall not perish from the earth.
第十套
汉译英
行路难，但人生之路谁都要走。有的人在赶路，心急切切，步匆匆，眼中只有目标却忽略了风景。可路迢迢不知哪儿是终点。有的人如游客，不急不慌，走走停停，看花开花落，看云卷云舒，又是也在风中走，雨中行，心却想张开的网，放过焦躁苦恼。
人生之路谁不走？只是走路别忽略了一路的良辰美景。
一个人工作的地方时晓得，居住的家是小的，社交的圈是小的，有的人就越来越不满这缺乏变化的单调，有的人却总是怡然自得，随遇而安。
英译汉
In the spirit of frankness which I hope will characterize our talk this week, let us recognize at the outset these points: We have at tim
es in the past been enemies. We have great differences today, what brings us together is that we have common interests which transcend those differences. As we discuss differences, either of us will compromise our principles. But while we can not close the gulf between us, we can try to bridge it so that we may be able to talk across it.
So, let us, in these next five days, start a long march together, not in lockstep, but on different roads leading to the same goal. The goal of building a world structure of peace and justice in which all may stand together with equal dignity and in which each nation, large or small, has a right to determine its own form of government, free of outside interference or domination. The world watches. The world listens. The world waits to see what we will do .What is the world? Ina personal sense, I think of my eldest daughter whose birthday is today. As I think of her, I think of all the children in the world, in Asia, in Africa, in Europe, in the Americans, most of whom were born since the date of the foundation of the People’s Republics of China.
What legacy shall we leave our children? Are they destined to die for the hatreds which have plagued the old world, or are they destined to live because we had the vision to build a new world?
作文
At present, there is heated discussion on the losses caused by road accidents and the suggested ways to reduce road accidents. Then what ate your comments on the issue?
You are to write a paper of approximately 400 words on this issue.
In the first part of your paper, you should present the losses caused by road accidents and in the second part you should suggest some ways to reduce road accidents with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion with a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Write your essay on Answer Sheet Four.