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1、2016.11 CATTI 英语二级笔译实务科目试题E-CPassage 1Everyone knows that weddingsthe most elaborate and costly form of old school pageantry still acceptable in modern societyare stupid expensive. But it turns out Americans are now blowing even more money than ever before on whats supposed to be the most magical da

2、y of any couples life together. Money that, to be honest, could be spent on much, much cooler stuff.The Knot released its annual wedding survey this week, with findings showing that couples are spending a mind-numbing average of $32,641 on matrimonial celebrations. The study includes data from nearl

3、y 18,000 pairs across the country. While the cost of a wedding varied greatly from city to cityreaching a nauseating high of $82,300 in Manhattanthe price was steep no matter where couples chose to get hitched. All this despite the fact that weddings (and marriages in general, honestly) can be a fai

4、rly impractical thing to invest in. Seriously, even 50 Cent doesnt spend as much in a day as youre spending on a reception band alone. Think about that.So rather than buying into the Marriage Industrial Complex on a union that may or may not work out, wouldnt it make more sense to save your hard-ear

5、ned money by forgoing the big ceremony for the major expenses youre likely to face in married life You know, like a mortgage. Or braces for your wallet-draining children-to-be. And if your fiance is dead set on a fairytale wedding You could always just blow your financial load on a plenty fulfilling

6、 single life.With nearly $33,000 to spend in the life of a singledom, you could get pretty far when it comes to amenities and entertainment. Perhaps the best part of being free from the shackles of wedding planning is the opportunity to treat yourself. Like, why drop $1,400 on a frilly dress youll w

7、ear once before it turns to moth food when you can rock the most expensive shoes of the season and look great doing itAnd while weddings are supposed to be all about the happy couple, everyone knows thats bull, because you have to feed your guests and provide them entertainment and put a roof over t

8、heir heads for a couple of hours and likely go into debt doing it.In addition to simply having fun, there are some more practical ways to spend your wedding purse as well. For instance, purchasing and providing for a nice house cat rather than dropping major dough on finger bling intended for fendin

9、g off hotties for the rest of your life. Fluffy wont care if you bring home someone new every weekendhell just hate everyone indiscriminately.Passage 2My teenage son recently informed me that there is an Internet quiz to test oneself for narcissism. His friend had just taken it. “How did it turn out

10、” I asked. “He says he did great!” my son responded. “He got the maximum score!”When I was a child, no one outside the mental health profession talked about narcissism. People were more concerned by inadequate self-esteem, which at the time was thought to lurk behind nearly every issue. Like so many

11、 excesses of the 1970s, the self-love cult spun out of control and is now rampaging through our culture like Godzilla through Tokyo.A 2010 study in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science found that the proportion of college students exhibiting narcissistic personality traits based

12、on their scores on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, a widely used diagnostic test has increased by more than half since the early 1980s, to 30 per cent.In their book, The Narcissism Epidemic, psychology professors show that narcissism has increased as quickly as obesity has since the 1980s. E

13、ven our egos are getting fat. This is a costly problem. While full-blown narcissists often report high levels of personal satisfaction, they create havoc and misery around them. There is overwhelming evidence linking narcissism with reduced honesty and increased aggression. Its notable for occasions

14、 like Valentines Day that narcissists struggle to stay committed to romantic partners, in no small part because they find themselves superior.The full-blown narcissist might reply, “So what” But narcissism isnt an either-or characteristic. Its more of a set of progressive symptoms (like alcoholism)

15、than an identifiable state (like diabetes). Millions of Americans exhibit symptoms, but still have a conscience and a hunger for moral improvement. At the very least, they really do not want to be terrible people.A healthy self-love that leads to true happiness builds up ones intrinsic well-being, a

16、s opposed to feeding shallow cravings to be admired. Cultivating amour de soi requires being fully alive at this moment, as opposed to being virtually alive while wondering what others think. The soulful connection with another person, the enjoyment of a beautiful hike alone, or a prayer of thanks o

17、ver your sleeping child could be considered expressions of self-love.CEPassage 1浙江杭州是风景秀美之地，也是创新活力之城。G20杭州峰会的会标，就是用20根线条，勾画出一个桥型轮廓，同时辅以“2016年G20”的英文与篆隶“中国”印章。桥，在G20独具含义。曾几何时，全球经济治理为兴旺国家所垄断。G20是第一个兴旺国家与开展中国家同等参加全球经济治理的机制，是历史的进步。在这个意义上，G20本身就是一座桥，一座连接历史与将来、兴旺国家与开展中国家的桥梁。在2016年的杭州，在世界经济开展的当下，桥又有了新的含义。它

18、寓意着对G20成为全球经济之桥、国际社会合作之桥、面对将来的共赢之桥的殷切期望。桥梁线条形似光纤，寓意信息技术应用带来的互联互通，具有剧烈的时代感。我们盼望，以杭州峰会为桥梁，各国间的联络将更加严密，世界经济的前景将更加广袤。Passage 2纵观世界文明史，人类先后经验了农业革命、工业革命、信息革命。每一次产业技术革命，都给人类消费生活带来宏大而深入的影响。如今，以互联网为代表的信息技术日新月异，引领了社会消费新变革，创建了人类生活新空间，拓展了国家治理新领域，极大进步了人类相识世界、改造世界的实力。互联网让世界变成了“鸡犬之声相闻”的地球村，相隔万里的人们不再“老死不相往来”。可以说，世界

19、因互联网而更多彩，生活因互联网而更丰富。中国正处在信息化快速开展的历史进程之中。中国高度重视互联网开展，自21年前接入国际互联网以来，我们根据主动利用、科学开展、依法管理、确保平安的思路，加强信息根底设施建立，开展网络经济，推动信息惠民。十三五时期，中国将大力施行网络强国战略、国家大数据战略、“互联网+”行动安排，开展主动向上的网络文化，拓展网络经济空间，促进互联网与经济社会交融开展。我们的目的，就是要让互联网开展成果惠及13亿多中国人民，更好地造福各国人民。2016.5 CATTI 英语二级笔译实务科目试题E-CPassage 1Jane Goodall was already on a L

20、ondon dock in March 1957 when she realized that her passport was missing. In just a few hours, she was due to depart on her first trip to Africa. A school friend had moved to a farm outside Nairobi and, knowing Goodalls childhood dream was to live among the African wildlife, invited her to stay with

21、 the family for a while. Goodall, then 22, saved for two years to pay for her passage to Kenya: waitressing, doing secretarial work, temping at the post office in her hometown, Bournemouth, on Englands southern coast. Now all this was for naught, it seemed.Its hard not to wonder how subsequent event

22、s in her life rather consequential as they have turned out to be to conservation, to science, to our sense of ourselves as a species might have unfolded differently had someone not found her passport, along with an itinerary from Cooks, the travel agency, folded inside, and delivered it to the Cooks

23、 office. An agency representative, documents in hand, found her on the dock. “Incredible,” Goodall told me last month, recalling that day. “Amazing.”Within two months of her arrival, Goodall met the paleontologist Louis Leakey Nairobi was a small town for its white population in those days and he im

24、mediately offered her a job at the natural-history museum where he was curator. He spent much of the next three years testing her capacity for repetitive work.He believed in a hypothesis first put forth by Charles Darwin that humans and chimpanzees share an evolutionary ancestor. Close study of chim

25、panzees in the wild, he thought, might tell us something about that common progenitor. He was, in other words, looking for someone to live among Africas wild animals. One night, he told Goodall that he knew just the place where she could do it: Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve, in the British colony

26、of Tanganyika (now Tanzania).In July 1960, Goodall boarded a boat and after a few hours motoring over the warm, deep waters of Lake Tanganyika, she stepped onto the pebbly beach at Gombe.Her finding, published in Nature in 1964, that chimpanzees use tools extracting insects from a termite mound with

27、 leaves of grass drastically and forever altered humanitys understanding of itself; man was no longer the natural worlds only user of tools.After two and a half decades of living out her childhood dream, Goodall made an abrupt career shift, from scientist to conservationist.Passage 2Scientists have

28、found the first evidence that briny water flowed on the surface of Mars as recently as last summer, a paper published on Monday showed, raising the possibility that the planet could support life.Although the source and the chemistry of the water is unknown, the discovery will change scientists think

29、ing about whether the planet that is most like Earth in the solar system could support present day microbial life.The discovery was made when scientists developed a new technique to analyze chemical maps of the surface of Mars obtained by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.They found tellt

30、ale fingerprints of salts that form only in the presence of water in narrow channels cut into cliff walls throughout the planets equatorial region.The slopes appear during the warm summer months on Mars, then vanish when the temperatures drop. Scientists suspected the streaks were cut by flowing wat

31、er, but previously had been unable to make the measurements.Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter makes its measurements during the hottest part of the Martian day, so scientists believed any traces of water, or fingerprints from hydrated minerals, would have evaporated.Also, the chemical-sensing instrument o

32、n the orbiting spacecraft cannot home in on details as small as the narrow streaks, which typically are less than 16 feet wide.But Ojha and colleagues created a computer program that could scrutinize individual pixels. That data was then correlated with high-resolution images of the streaks. Scienti

33、sts concentrated on the widest streaks and came up with a 100 percent match between their locations and detections of hydrated salts.C-EPassage 1人口问题归根结底是开展问题。我们要关注人口增长与经济社会开展的关系，统筹解决好人口数量、素养、构造与分布问题。我们要重点关注人口分布构造与社会经济开展的关系，把人口问题纳入到国家经济社会开展规划人口流淌与家庭构造改变将对公共效劳与社会治理带来挑战。大规模的人口流淌成为推动社会变迁的主要力气，同时也加快了家庭的

34、小型化、多样化、离散化。我们要大力推动流淌人口根本公共效劳均等化，着力提升流淌人口效劳管理程度，确保流淌人口公允公正地享受城镇公共资源与社会福利，全面参加政治、经济、社会与文化生活，实现经济立足、身份认同与文化交融。Passage 2本美术馆是以保藏、探讨、展示中国近现代至当代艺术家作品为重点的国家艺术博物馆，是新中国成立以后的国家文化标记性建筑。主体大楼为仿古阁楼式，黄色琉璃瓦大屋顶，四周廊榭围绕，具有显明的民族建筑风格。主楼建筑面积18000多平方米 ，共有17个展览厅，展览总面积8300平方米。本美术馆现保藏各类美术作品10万余件，以19世纪末至今中国艺术名家与各时期代表作品为主，兼有局

35、部古代书画与外国艺术作品，同时也包括丰富的民间美术作品。建馆以来，本美术馆已举办数千场具有影响的各类美术展览，也成为中国与国际艺术沟通的重要平台。本美术馆也注意通过网站及“数字美术馆”工程建立延展公众效劳内容与手段，网站3次改版，建成10多个美术数据库，日益成为美术信息发布、检索与共享平台。2015.11 CATTI 英语二级笔译实务科目试题E-CPassage 1Apple may well be the only technical company on the planet that would dare compare itself to Picasso.In a class at t

36、he companys internal university, the instructor likened the 11 lithographs that make up Picassos The Dull to the way Apple builds its smart phones and other devices. The idea is that Apple designers strive for simplicity just as Picasso eliminated details to create a great work of art.Steven P. Jobs

37、 established the Apple University as a way to inculcate employees into Apples business culture and educate them about its history, particularly as the company grew and the technical business changed. Courses are not required, only recommended, but getting new employees to enroll is rarely a problem.

38、Randy Nelson, who came from the animation studio Pixar, co-founded by Mr. Jobs, is one of the teachers of “Communicating at Apple.” This course，open to various levels of employees, focuses on clear communication, not just for making products intuitive, but also for sharing ideas with peers and marke

39、ting products.In a version of the class taught last year, Mr. Nelson showed a slide of The Bull, a series of 11 lithographs of a bull that Picasso created over about a month, starting in late 1945. In the early stages, the bull has a snout, shoulder shanks and hooves, but over the iterations, those

40、details vanish. The last image is a curvy stick figure that is still unmistakably a bull.“You go through more iterations until you can simply deliver your message in a very concise way, and that is true to the Apple brand and everything we do,” recalled one person who took the course.In “What Makes

41、Apple, Apple,” another course that Mr. Nelson occasionallyteachers, he showed a slide of the remote control for the Google TV, said an employee who took the class last year. The remote control has 78 buttons. Then, the employee said. Mr. Nelson displayed a photo of the Apple TV remote control, a thi

42、n piece of metal with just three buttons.How did Apples designers decide on three buttons They started out with an idea, Mr. Nelson explained, and debated until they had just what was needed 一 a button to play and pause a video, a button to select something to watch, and another to go to the main me

43、nu.The Google TV remote control serves as a counterexample. It had so many buttons, Mr. Nelson said, because the individual engineers and designers who worked on the project all got what they wanted.Passage 2Equipped with the camera extender known as a selfie stick, occasionally referred to as the w

44、and of narcissism,” tourists can now reach for flattering selfies wherever they go.Art museums have watched this development nervously, fearing damage to their collections or to visitors, as users swing their sticks with abandon. Now they arc taking action. One by one, museums across the United Stat

45、es have been imposing bans on using selfie sticks for photographs inside galleries (adding them to existing rules on umbrellas, backpacks and tripods), yet another example of how controlling crowding has become part of the museum mission.The Hirshhom Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington prohibi

46、ted the sticks this month, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston plans to impose a ban. In New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has been studying the matter for some lime, has just decided that it will forbid selfie slicks, too. New signs will be posted soon.“From now on, you will be ask

47、ed quietly to put it away,” said Sree Sreenivasan, the chief digital officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Its onething to take a picture at arms length, but when it is three times arms length, you arc invading someone elses personal space.The personal space of other visitors is just one probl

48、em. The artwork is another. “We do not want to have to put all the art under glass,” said Deborah Ziska, the chief of public information at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, which has been quietly enforcing a ban on selfie sticks, but is in the process of adding it formally to its printed g

49、uidelines for visitors.Last but not least is the threat to the camera operator, intent on capturing the perfect shot and oblivious to the surroundings. “If people are not paying attention in the Temple of Dendur, they can end up in the water with the crocodile sculpture” Mr. Sreenivasan said. “We have so many balconies you could fall from, and stairs you can trip on.”At the Metropolitan Mu