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1、第 4 版块科技类题材一、背诵二、英译汉：相关表达1. （浙江工商大学 2014）Before we replace angst about housing, mortgages and credit marketswinxiety about rising oil pri, consider what weve learnedhe past several months. Wehad a housing bubble;ts now obvious.t how di it happen? Why was its bursti g sopainful? Without answers, we c

2、ant hope to reduce chanof a repeat.Boil it down to the three Rs: rocket scientists, regulators, and ratings agencies.The rocket scientists are the wizards of Wall Street who invented securitiest supedlydispersed risk widely but actually created muore leveragen proved wise.In a modern capitalist syst

3、em, regulators provide guardrails to keep markets from driving theeconomy off a cliff. The regulators failed. Whether regulators should or could have restrainedinnovation on Wall Street or prohibited business deals betis a tough question.n consenting, sophisticated adultsAmong their many failings, t

4、he regulators allowed lenders to make a fundamental mistake: Tolend not against the borrowers cash flow ande, but instead to lend against the seeminglyinexorable increasehe value of the collateral. Mortgages were made to people who couldntafford the payments because the lender (or investor) figuredt

5、 if the borrower defaulted, thehouse would always be worth moren the loan.Then there are the rating agencies, mainly Moodys and Standard & Poors. Credit-ratingagencies assigned high ratings to complex structured subprime debt based on inadequatehistorical data and, in some cases, flawed ms, the Fina

6、nl Stability Forum, a collection ofregulators and central bers, said in an April report. As investors realized this, they lostconfidence in ratings of securitized products more generally.But investors who red on the rating agencies - particularly supedly sophisticated penfunds and other institutions

7、 - are at fault, too. Rating firms became a crh for investors whosimply didnt want to spend the time and money required to be prudent investors aime whenlowerest rates had everyone reaching for higher returns without contemplating the higherrisks.A little back to basics in brepeat of the Panic of 08

8、.ing and investing would go a substantial way toward avoiding a2. （大学 2012） Unended consequencan be a byproduct of schange. WhenHenry Ford invented the automobile, the world was transformed by its speed and convenience,but few people considered what millions of automobiles might mean for the worlds

9、energy supply and climate a century down the road.Similarly, with the proliferation of theal computer, businesses and consumers quicklyrealized the cost- and time-saving benefits of theernet,and high-speed broadband.Information technology transformed the information age - and global commerce - by ma

10、king itdramatically easier to manage information, communicate, perform research, play and shop.Nowhere is this more evidentn in our nations efforts to reduce energy demand andgreenhouse gas emiss. The days when businesses could send a producto the marketplacewithoutconsidering how it might impact th

11、e environment are over.Dell Inc. was founded with the vit customers could be best served through directrelationships. Twenty-three years later, the direct relationship, now a cornerstone of many globalcompanies, can be one of our most valuable tools in collective efforts to reduce energy consumption

12、 and protect the environment.The ever-accelerating pace of innovation has created the need for manufacturers to look at, anddeal with, the entire lifecycle of the technology they create.We also should make a commitment to maain responsibility throughout a productire lifecycle. This starts with desig

13、n and ends when the product is no longer wanted. We should thenrecover it, and provide updates to customers and the public on our progress inthese steps.plishingGlobal industry has been a catalyst for innovation and opportunity since the early days of theindustrial revolution. Moren two centuries la

14、ter, the same entrepreneurial spirit andcompetitiontledtotheautomobileandalcomputercanbringnewenvironmental-friendly ventures.3. （对外经贸 2014）Homeownership has let us down. Fenerations, Americans bevedtowning a home was an axiomatic good. Our political leaders hammered home the po. FrlinRoosevelt held

15、t a country of homeowners was “unconquerable.” Homeownership could even,he words of Gee H.W. Bushs Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)， JackKemp, “save babies, save children, save famis and save America.” A house wifront lawnand a picket fence wasnt just a nice place to live or a risk-f

16、ree investment; it was a way totransform a nation. No wonder leaders of all political stripes wanted to spend morebillion a year on subsidies and tax breaks to encourage people to buy.n $100But the dark side of homeownership is now all too apparent: foreclosures and walkaways,neighborhoodsd by aband

17、oned properties and plummeting home values, a nation inwhich famis have $6 trillion less in housing wealthn they did just three years ago.,easy lending stimulated by the cult of homeownership may have triggered the finanl crisis andled directly to its biggest bailout,t onnie Mae and Freddie Mac. Hou

18、sing remains a drag onthe economy. Existing-home sales in July dropped 27% from the prior month, exacerbating fearsof a double-dip. And allt is just the obvious tale of a housing bubble and what happenedwhen it popped. The real story is deeper and darker still.三、汉译英：1. （大学 2014）科学是讲求实际的。科学是老老实实的学问，来

19、不得半点虚假，需要付出艰巨的劳动。同时,科学也需要创造，需要幻想，有幻想才能打破传统的，才能发展科学。科学工作者们，请幻想让诗人独占了。嫦娥奔月、龙宫探宝、封神演义上的许多幻想，由于科学发展，今天大都变成了现实。伟大的天文学家人的天职在勇于探索真理。说：我国人民历来是勇于探索，勇于创造，勇于的。要打破，披荆斩棘，开拓我国科学发展的道路。既异想天开，又实事求是，这是科学工作者特有的风格，让穷的宇宙长河中去探索无穷的真理吧!在无2. （青岛大学 2013）近日热播的片舌尖上的中国令 23 岁的胃口大开。中华美食 中新鲜的食材，精美的菜式，复杂精细的烹制过程以及饮食传统的多样性都令他为之着迷。然而，一系列食品安全事件却令中华美食名声受损。有关表示，长期 以来食品安全机制