八级翻译模拟题

1、八级翻译模拟题1) A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The examination system does anything but that . What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, so the student is encouraged to memorize. Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, but to re

2、strict his reading; they do not enable him to seek more and more knowledge, but induce cramming. They lower the standards of teaching, for they deprive the teacher of all freedom. Teachers themselves are often judged by examination results and instead of teaching their subjects, they are reduced to

3、training their students in exam techniques which they despise. The most successful candidates are not always the best educated; they are the best trained in the technique of working under duress.(131 words)1中美两国应该以战略眼光和长远观点来审视和处理中美关系，重视相互关心的问题，为共同利益而结合在一起。中美两国应该严格遵循中美三个联合公报，通过平等协商，正确处理分歧，妥善处理台湾问题。我们

4、在建立和开展两国间的建设性战略伙伴关系上已取得了良好的开端。台湾问题始终是中美关系最重要、最敏感的核心问题。只要在台湾问题上出现麻烦，中美关系就会出现倒退。(171 words)2Bush sat at the planes window last Wednesday afternoon and watched the placid fields of Texas rise to claim him again. “Feels good, he said. No argument from his companions, many of whom had joined him when he

5、began his presidential quest in 1978. The pain of electoral defeat had eased. He wore his old, dark-blue Air Force One windbreaker. He held a new biography of his hero Theodore Roosevelt, given to him by Vic Gold, an aide and companion in his political struggle. No presidential briefing papers. No t

6、ense parley waiting. Heading home. “We are going to have a small, simple home. Bush said. “Barbara is going to do a book. But I have made no firm plans. Then his eyes drifted off over the long horizon, back toward Washington. “Ive done what I could, he said. “Time to get out of town. I intend to do

7、everything I can to honor the office so that Iraq is no problem for President Clinton now He was very gracious to us all day. I really wish him well. (178 underlined words)2) 和平和开展是当今世界的两大主题。维护世界和平，加强友好合作，促进共同开展是各国人民的共同愿望。当今，贫困、失业、难民、犯罪、人口膨胀、环境恶化、毒品泛滥、恐怖主义等问题仍然严峻，影响着全球的稳定和开展。中国同西方国家虽然国情不同，但在一系列重大国际问

8、题上具有广泛一致的利益。我对中国同西方各国关系的改善与开展感到快乐。中国政府和人民愿在相互尊重和平等互利的根底上，同包括西方国家在内的世界各国政府和人民一道，为和平与开展的崇高事业作出奉献。(159 underlined words)3The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contras

9、t between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old. On the afternoon of that eventful day, I stood on the porch, dumb, expectant. I was suggested vaguely from my mothers signs and from the hurrying to and fro in the house that someth

10、ing unusual was about to happen, so I went to the door and waited on the steps. The afternoon sun penetrated the mass of honeysuckle that covered the porch, and fell on my upturned face. My fingers lingered almost unconsciously on the familiar leaves and blossoms which had just come forth to greet t

11、he sweet southern spring. I did not know what the future held of marvel or surprise for me. Anger and bitterness had preyed upon me continually for weeks and a deep languor had succeeded this passionate struggle.(179words)3久在异国他乡，有时难免思念祖国的。思念极了，我也曾想：要是画一幅画儿，画出祖国的面貌特色，时刻挂的眼前，有多好。我把这心思跟一位擅长丹青的同志商量，求她画

12、。她说：“这可是个难题， 画什么呢？画点零山随水，一人一物都不行。再说，颜色也难调。你就是调尽五颜六色，又怎么能画得出祖国的面貌？(142字)4) Consume, consume, consume! Our society is consumer oriented!dangerously so. To keep the wheels of industry turning, we manufacture consumer goods in endless quantities, and, in the process, are rapidly exhausting our natural r

13、esources. But this is only half the problem. What do we do with manufactured products when they are worn out? They must be disposed of, but how and where? Unsightly junkyards full of rusting automobiles already surround every city in the nation. Americans throw away 80 billion bottles and cans each

14、year, enough to build more than ten stacks to the moon. There isnt room for much more waste, and yet the factories grind on. They cannot stop because everyone wants a job. Our standard of living, one of the highest in the world, requires the consumption of manufactured products in ever-increasing am

15、ounts. Man, about to be buried in his waste, is caught in a vicious cycle. “Stop the world, I want to get off, is the way a popular song put mans dilemma.(167 words)4“黄河之水天上来，奔流到海不复回， 这是唐朝大诗人李白对源远流长、雄伟奇险的黄河景象的写照。 在中国古代史上，黄河被称为中华民族的“母亲，她哺育了千千万万中华儿女。黄河流域是中华民族的“摇篮，也是中国文化的发祥地。远古时代，这里曾经草木茂密，植物繁盛，中华民族的祖先便

16、在这块广阔的土地上劳动生息。经过数十万年原始社会以后，中国辽阔的国土上，这里最先进入农业文明， 也是最早进入阶级社会。 (147 words, )5) One evening I look out of the window of my secluded cabin, and there are soft languid flakes falling in the golden lamplight. They fall all night, while the voice of the Teal River becomes more and more hushed and the noises

17、 of the forest die away. By dawn, the whole world of stream and wood and mountain has been kindled to a white flame of beauty. I go out in the early morning there is such a silence that even breath is a profanation. The mountain to the north has a steel-blue light on it, and to the west the sky stil

18、l holds something of the darkness of the night. I look up and see the morning star keeping white watch over a white world. Soon the whole sky is azure and flamingo. Every branch of every tree is weighted with cold and stillness; every stump is crowned with crystal; every fallen log is overlaid with

19、silver. (158 words)5) 前几日，一位阔别多年的文友经过辗转曲折的多方“寻觅，终于通过另外一位朋友向我转达了他急于同我重建联系的渴望。这位友人多年前就跻身商海，今日已很有成就，他对中间传话的友人说：“我找他找了十几年了！这一句话，我听后顿觉心头一热，眼眶内便有冲动的液体涌流出来。不是我过于脆弱，而实在是身处当今这物欲横流的时代，还有什么比听到一句相知的话语，而更令人冲动的呢？(178 words)6) There is a proposal in Washington to set aside $100 million to support single mothers on

20、 welfare who want to get married. This novel idea is a sign that some of our politicians are coming to understand that the state of our national union depends greatly on the stage of our domestic unions on the health of the marriage institution in America. Divorce rates remain very high by historica

21、l standards, and the children of the first generation of easy divorce are well into their own adult lives. Beyond all the statistics and anecdotal accounts of this vast subject, what are the key dynamics that are leading to health or sickness for the institution of marriage? Where are we going wrong

22、? And how can we get back on track? The central question is whether we have allowed a culture to develop that disables people for the challenges of marriages. Social emphasis on selfishness and self-centeredness, and the achievement-oriented ethic of our business world, all encourage us to put famil

23、y in second place. Marriage often represents the transition from such a world of selfishness to a world of giving. Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions

24、. (158 underlined words)6从长远看，亚太地区依然是世界经济开展最具活力的地区。只要各国、各地区同舟共济，携手合作、克服困难，亚太地区必将迎来一个新的开展阶段。从亚太经合组织的共同利益出发，各成员应加强宏观调控政策协调，深化经济结构改革，稳定金融市场，为经济恢复和持续开展创造良好的宏观环境。兴旺成员是经济全球化的主要收益者和世界经济增长的重要力量，应尽快采取进一步措施，重建市场信心，扩大需求，促进世界和本地区经济早日恢复和开展。(202 words, 40)7) Psychologists tell us that to be happy we need a blend

25、of enjoyable leisure time and satisfying work. I doubt that my great-grandmother, who raised 14 children and took in washing, had much of either,. She did have a network of close friends and family, and maybe this is what fulfilled her. If she was happy with what she had, perhaps it was because she

26、didnt expect life to be very different. We, on the other hand, with so many choices and such pressure to succeed in every area, have turned happiness into one more thing we “gotta have. Were so self-conscious about our “right to it that its making us miserable. So we chase it and equate it with weal

27、th and success, without noticing that the people who have those things arent necessarily happier. While happiness may be more complex for us, the solution is the same as ever. Happiness isnt about what happens to usits about how we perceive what happens to us. Its the knack of finding a positive for

28、 every negative, and viewing a setback as a challenge. Its not wishing for what we dont have, but enjoying what we do possess. (134 words)7接读朋友的来信，尤其是远自海外的犹带着异国风云的航空信，确是人生的一大快事，如果无须回信的话。回信，是读信之乐的一大代价。久不回信，屡不回信，接信之乐必然相对减少，以至于此，此时，友情便暂告中断了，直到有一天在赎罪的心情下，你毅然回起信来。蹉跎这么久，接信之乐早变成了欠信之苦，我便是这么一个累犯的罪人，交友千百，几乎每一

29、位朋友都数得出我的前科来的。(175 words)8) When I try to understand what it is that prevents so many Americans from being as happy as one might expect, it seems to me that there are two causes, of which one goes much deeper than the other. The one that goes least deep is the necessity for subservience in some larg

30、er organizations. If you are an energetic man with strong views as to the right way of doing the job with which you are concerned, you find yourself invariably under the orders of some big man at the top who is elderly, weary and cynical. Whenever you have a bright idea, the boss puts a stopper on i

31、t. The more energetic you are and the more vision you have, the more you will suffer from the impossibility of doing any of the things that you feel ought to be done. When you go home and moan to your wife, she tells you that you are a silly fellow and that if you became proper sort of yes-man your

32、income would soon be doubled. If you try divorce or remarriage it is very unlikely that there will be any change in this respect. And so you are condemned to gastric ulcers and premature old age. (206 words, 40)8) 1945 年之后，由于在各种问题上的态度，加拿大被公认为联合国的维和派和中间力量， 当时的情况与此同时867年我国所面临的情形没什么两样：一个相对弱小的国家至少在军事实力方

33、面周旋于大国之间，通过各种方法来保护自身的利益；推进平衡并竭力扩张相对中立的地位，确立在轨迹事务中的作用；以对我们最有利的方式协调与欧洲的关系。总之，针对变化中的世界不断调整我们的外交政策。176 words9) I ask you seriously: could anything be more unutterably beautiful? The sensation of falling asleep is to me the most delightful in the world. I relish it so much that I even look forward to dea

34、th itself with a sneaking wonder and desire. Well, here is sleep poetized and made doubly sweet. Here is sleep set to the finest music in the world. I match this situation against any that you can think of. It is only enchanting; it is also, in a very true sense, ennobling. In the end, when the lady

35、 grows prettily miffed and throws me out, I return to my sorrows somehow purged and glorified. I am a better man in my own sight. I have gazed upon the fields of asphodel. I have been genuinely, completely and unregrettably happy.( 134words, 27 )9) 我跟所有其余的人一样，生活在这世界上，是为着来征服生活。我也曾参加这个“搏斗里面。我有我的爱，我的恨。

36、有我的快乐也有我的痛苦。但是我并没有失去我的信仰：对于生活的信仰。我的生活还不会结束，我也不知道在前面还有什么东西在等着我。然而我对于将来却也有一点概念。因为过去并不是一个沉默的哑子，它会告诉我们一些事情。 (155 words)10) The influence of the forms and actions in nature is so needful to man, that, in its lowest functions, it seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty. To the body and mind w

37、hich have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself. The health of the eye seems to demand

38、a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. But in other hours, Nature satisfies by its loveliness, and without any mixture of corporeal benefit. I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might s

39、hare. (146 words)10) 中国的方案生育政策取得了巨大的成绩。1970的出生率为千分之33。43，1991年底降到千分之19。68。1991年的人口自然增长率约为千分之12。98。 中国始终坚持政府引导与群众自愿相结合的方针，执行方案生育政策，始终把宣传教育放在首位。其目的是要使人们意识到，方案生育是一项直接关系到国家繁荣和人们家庭幸福的根本国策。与此同时，政府也采取了一些必要的经济和行政措施作为有效贯彻方案生育的辅助手段。185 words, 3311) It used to be said that English people take their pleasures s

40、adly. No doubt this would still be true it they had any pleasures to take but the price of alcohol and tobacco in my country has provided sufficient external causes for melancholy. I have sometimes thought that the habit of taking pleasures sadly has crossed the Atlantic, and I have wondered what it

41、 is that makes so many English-speaking people somber in their outlook in spite of good health and a good income. In the course of my travels in America I have been impressed by a kind of fundamental malaise which seems to me extremely common and which poses difficult problems for the social reforme

42、r. Most social reformers have held the opinion that, if poverty were abolished and there were no more economic insecurity, the millennium would have arrived. But when I look at the faces of people in opulent cars whether in your country or in mine, I do not see that look of radiant happiness which t

43、he aforesaid social reformers had led me to expect. In nine cases out of ten, I see instead a look of boredom and discontent and an almost frantic longing for something that might tickle the jaded palate.(207 words, 40)11) 中国的改革是从农村开始的，农村改革是从解决农民对土地的生产经营自主权开始的。农村的土地是集体所有。我们在改革开始的时候就实行了家庭承包经营的根本经济制度，

44、就是说，农民拥有对土地的生产和经营自主权，此后土地承包期不断延长。现在我可以直接答复你，农民对土地的生产经营自主权将长期不变，也就是永远不变。 (148 words)12) The first value discipline we call operational excellence. Companies that pursue this are not primarily product or service innovators, nor do they cultivate deep, one-to-one relationship with customers. Instead, o

45、perationally excellent companies provide middle-of-the-market products at the best price with the least inconvenience. Their proposition to customers is simple: low price or hassle-free service, or both.The second value discipline we call product leadership. Its practitioners concentrate on offering

46、 products that push performance boundaries. Their proposition to customers is an offer of the best product, period. Moreover, product leaders do not build their positions with just one innovation; they continue to innovate year after year, product cycle after product cycle.The third value discipline

47、 we have named customer intimacy. Its adherents focus on delivering not what the market wants but what specific customers want. Customer-intimate companies do not pursue one-time transactions; they cultivate relationships. They specialize in satisfying unique needs, which often only they recognize,

48、through a close relationship with and intimate knowledge of the customer. Their proposition to the customer: We have the best solution for you, and we provide all the support you need to achieve optimum results, or value, or both, from whatever products you buy.(142 words) 12) 连长向我说了以上的情形，他的声调是缓慢的，他

49、的情感是沉重的。他说在阵地上掩埋烈士的时候，他掉了眼泪。但他接着说：“你不要以为我是为他们伤心，我是为他们骄傲！我觉得我们的战士太伟大了，太可爱了，我不能不被他们感动得掉下泪来。 朋友们， 当你听到这段英雄事迹的时候，你的感想如何呢？你不觉得我们的战士是可爱的吗？你不以我们的祖国有这样的英雄而自豪吗？17213) An individual human existence should be like a riversmall at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulder

50、s and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who, in old age, can see his life in this way, will not suffer from th

51、e fear of death, since the things he cares for will continue. And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases, the thought of rest will be not unwelcome. I should wish to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do, and content in the thought that what

52、was possible has been done.(137 words)13 在感情上，不要只跟着自己的感觉走， “自我感觉这东西并不实在，夜晚里闪着银光的路上，往往是一片泥水。 如果你不爱，请千万别回转身，不要管身后的人怎样泪流满面，那只是一时的感受，要知道爱应该是相互的。当岁月流逝，身后的人找到属于自己的幸福，他和她相互爱慕，你应该感到欣慰。扬起头，潇洒地向前走吧，不要那么心事重重，这不是你的错。你的路上会鲜花常开，你完全有权利采到自己最喜欢最满意的一朵。14) And here lived a philosopher of repute, the desire to see whom

53、 had been to me one of the incentives of a somewhat arduous journey. He was the greatest authority in China on the Confucian learning. He was said to speak English and German with facility. He had been for many years secretary to one of the Empress Dowager' s greatest viceroys, but he lived now in retirement. On certain days in the week, however, all through the year he opened his doors to such as those who sought after knowledge, and discoursed on the teaching of Confucius.