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英语二级笔译实务科目试题.11CATTIE-CPassage1Everyone knowsthat weddings-the mostelaborate andcostly formof oldschool pageantrystill acceptableinmodern society-are stupidexpensive.But it turns outAmericans arenow blowingeven moremoney thaneverbefore onwhafs supposedto bethe mostmagical dayof anycouples lifetogether.Money that,to behonest,could bespent onmuch,much coolerstuff.The Knotreleased itsannual weddingsurvey thisweek,with findingsshowing thatcouples arespending amind-numbing averageof$32,641on matrimonialcelebrations.The study includes datafrom nearly18,000pairs acrossthe country.While thecost of a weddingvaried greatlyfrom cityto city——reaching anauseatinghigh of$82,300in Manhattan—the pricewas steepno matterwhere coupleschose to get hitched.All thisdespitethe factthat weddingsand marriagesin general,honestly canbe afairly impracticalthing toinvest in.Seriously,even50Cent doesntspend asmuch in a dayas yourespending on a receptionband alone.Thinkabout that.So rather than buyinginto theMarriage IndustrialComplex on a unionthat mayor maynot workout,wouldntit makemore senseto saveyour hard-earned moneyby forgoingthe bigceremony for the majorexpenses yourelikelyto facein marriedlife Youknow,like amortgage.Or bracesfor yourwallet-draining children-to-be.And if your fianceeis deadset ona fairytalewedding Youcould alwaysjust blowyour financialload onaplenty fulfillingsingle life.With nearly$33,000to spendin thelife of a singledom,you couldget prettyfar whenit comesto amenitiesandentertainment.Perhaps thebest part of beingfree from the shacklesof weddingplanning is the opportunitytotreat yourself.Like,why drop$1,400onafrilly dressyoull wearonce beforeit turnsto mothfood whenyoucan rockthe mostexpensive shoesof theseason andlook greatdoing itAndwhile weddingsare supposedto be all about the happycouple,everyone knowsthafs bull,because youhaveto feedyour guestsand providethem entertainmentand puta roofover theirheads for a coupleof hoursandlikely gointo debtdoing it.In additionto simplyhaving fun,there aresome morepractical waysto spendyour weddingpurse aswell.Forinstance,purchasing andproviding for a nicehouse catratherthandropping majordough onfinger blingintendedfor fendingoff hottiesfbr therest ofyour life.Fluffy wontcare ifyou bringhome someonenew everyweekend-hell justhate everyoneindiscriminately.Passage2My teenageson recentlyinformed methat there is anInternet quizto testoneself fornarcissism.His friend hadjust takenit.“How diditturnout Iasked.“He sayshe didgreat!”my sonresponded.He cultureand kaitiakiof New Zealandstaonga.Our workprioritises culturaloutcomes andsupports educational,economic,andsocial outcomeslinking withthe workof a range ofother governmentagencies.C-EPassage1改革开放30数年来,西藏通过深化改革和扩大开放积极推进全区商业、对外贸易和旅游产业加紧发展,不仅增强了与内地的交流,同步也加强了与世界的联络和合作1993年,西藏与全国一道开始建立“框架一致、体制衔接”的社会主义市场经济体制,深化物资、粮食、日用消费品等领域价格流通改革并全面进入市场目前,西藏已经深深融入全国统一的市场体系,来自全国和世界各地的商品源源不停地进入西藏,丰富着城镇市场和百姓生活西藏的名、优、特产品及民族手工业产品,大量进入全国市场西藏与世界的经济联络日益亲密,全区进出口总额为
34.24亿美元,是1953年
0.04亿美元的850多倍,年均增长121%西藏立足区位优势,实行面向南亚的陆路贸易大通道建设,大力发展边境贸易Passage2频发的自然灾害让全球深受其害,炎热的酷暑、狂暴的飕风、刺骨的寒冷以及滔天的洪水近乎成了“常客”,风调雨顺已被视为“奢侈品二气象学家对此众说纷纭有的说是全球变暖所致,有的说是大气环流异常,尚有的认为厄尔尼诺是罪魁祸首尽管如此,大多数学者都认同这样一种观点全球气候变化速度正在加剧,极端灾害天气此后无疑将愈加频繁,并且其强度和范围都将走强面对日益脆弱的全球气候,人类需要更认真地思索,怎样切实有效地规范自身活动,珍爱我们共同的家园未来极端危害天气将对有关的行业,如水利、农业、林业、能源、健康和旅游业等有更大影响同步,上述原由于全球经济复苏带来更多变数英语二级笔译实务试题.11CATTIE-CPassage1The regionaround thisBelgian cityis busilypreparing tocommemorate the200th anniversaryin ofone of themajor battlesin Europeanmilitary history.But weavinga paththrough thepreparations isproving almostastricky asmaking onesway acrossthe battlefieldwas backthen,when theDuke ofWellington,as commanderofan internationalalliance offorces,crushed Napoleon.A ramblingthough dilapidatedfarmstead calledHougoumont,which wascrucial to the battlesoutcome,isbeing painstakinglyrestored as an educationalcenter.Nearby,an undergroundvisitor centeris underconstruction,and roadsand monumentsthroughout therolling farmlandwhere oncethe sidesfought arebeingrefurbished.More than6,000military buffsare expectedto re-enact individualskirmishes.While thebattle endedtwo centuriesago,however,hard feelingshave endured.Memories arelong here,andnot everyonehere sharesBritains enthusiasmfor celebratingNapoleons defeat.Every year,in districtsof Wallonia,the French-speaking partof Belgium,there arefetes tohonor Napoleon,according toCount GeorgesJacobs deHagen,a prominentBelgian industrialistand chairmanofacommitteeresponsible forrestoring Hougoumont.Napoleon,for thesepeople,was verypopular/9Mr.Jacobs,73,saidover coffee.That iswhy,still today,there aresome enemiesof the project.”Belgium,of course,did notexist in
1815.Its Dutch-speaking regionswere partof theKingdom of theNetherlands,while the French-speaking portionhad beenincorporated into theFrenchEmpire.Among French,speakers,Mr.Jacobs said,Napoleon hada“huge influence—the administration,the CodeNapoleonZ orreformof thelegal system.While Dutch-speaking Belgiansfought underWellington,French speakersfoughtwith Napoleon.That distasteon thepartofmodern-day Frenchspeakers crystallizedin resistanceto aBritish proposalthat,aspart of the restorationof Hougoumont,a memorialbe raisedto theBritish soldierswho dieddefending itsnarrowNorth Gateat acritical momenton June18,1815,when Wellingtoncarried theday.“Every discussionin the committeewas filledwith highsensitivity,Mr.Jacobs recalled.said,This isa conditionfor thehelp oftheBritish/so theNorth Gatewon thebattle,and wegot themonument.^^If Belgiumwas reluctanttogetinvolved,France was at firsttotally uninterested.They toldus,We dontwantto takepart inthis Britishtriumphalism/said CountessNathalie,a writerand publicistwho ispresident ofacommittee representingfour townshipsthat ownthe landwhere thebattle raged.Passage2Bayer caresaboutthe bees.Or atleast thatswhat theytell youat the companys BeeCare Centeron itssprawlingcampus herebetween Dusseldorfand Cologne.Outside thecozy two-story buildingthat housesthecenter isa whimsicalyellow sculptureofabee.Inside,the sameimage isfashioned intopaper clips,or printedonnapkins andmugs.u Bayer is strictlycommitted to bee health/9said GillianMansfield,an officialspecializing instrategicmessaging atthe companysBayer CropSciencedivision.She wassitting atthe centerssemicircular coffeebar,which has a formidableespresso makerand,ifyouask,homegrown Bayerhoney.On thesurrounding walls,beefiin factsare writtenin English,like“A beecan flyat roughly16miles anhour”or,it takesnectar fromsometwo millionflowers inorder toproduce apound ofhoney.^^Next year,Bayer willopen anotherBee CareCenterin Raleigh,N.C.,and hasnot ruledout morein otherparts of the world.Bayeris one of the majorproducers ofa type of pesticidethat theEuropean Unionhas linkedto thelarge-scaledie-offs ofhoney beepopulations inNorth Americaand WesternEurope.They areknown asneonicotinoids,arelatively newnicotine-derived classof pesticide.The pesticidewas bannedthis yearfor useon manyfloweringcrops inEurope thatattract honeybees.Bayer andtwo competitors,Syngenta andBASF,have disagreedvociferously withthe ban,and arefighting intheEuropean courtsto overturnitHans Muilerman,a chemicalsexpert atPesticide ActionNetwork Europe,an environmentalgroup,accusedBayer ofdoing almostanything thathelps theirproducts remainingon themarket.Massive lobbying,hiringP.R.firms toframe andspin,inviting commissionersto showtheir plantsand theirsustainability.”Since theylearnedpeople careabout bees,they arehappy tostart thetypeofactions youmention,cbee carecenters9andsuch J he said.“The varroais thebiggest threatwe have“said ManuelTritschler,28,a third-generation beekeeperwho worksforBayer.“Its veryeasy seeto them,the mites,on the bees,“he said,holding atest tubewith deadmitessuspended inliquid.They suckthe beeblood,from theadults andfrom thelarvae,and inthis waytheytransport alot ofdifferent pathogens,virus,bacteria,fungus to thebeesJhe said.Conveniently,Bayer marketsproducts tokill themites too—one iscalled CheckMite—and Mr.Tritschlerswork atthe centerincluded helpingdesign a“gate toaffix tohives thatcoats beeswith suchchemicalcompounds.There isno disputingthat varroamites area problem,but Mr.Muilerman saidthey couldnot beseen as the onlythreat.The varroamite“cannot explain the massivedie-off onits own,“hesaid.We thinkthebeedie-off isa resultofexposure tomultiple stressors.”C-EPassage1矿产资源是自然资源的重要构成部分,是人类社会发展的重要物质基础新中国成立五十数年来,矿产资源勘查开发获得巨大成就,探明一大批矿产资源,建成比较完善的矿产品供应体系,为中国经济的持续迅速协调健康发展提供了重要保障目前,中国92%以上的一次能源、80%的工业原材料、70%以上的农业生产资料来自于矿产资源中国现已发现171种矿产资源,查明资源储量的有158种,矿产地近18000处,其中大中型矿产地7000余处目前,中国92%以上的一次能源、80%的工业原材料、70%以上的农业生产资料来自于矿产资源中国资源总量全球第三,可是人均全球第53,只有全球人均量的58%o矿产资源是自然资源的重要构成部分,是人类生存和社会发展的重要物质基础矿产资源远景评价和战略性矿产勘查,为全面建设小康社会提供资源基础保障矿产资源为全面建设小康社会提供资源基础保障Passage2我们将深入实行区域发展总体战略,加紧中西部地区开发开放地区差异和不平衡发展是中国一大问题,中西部地区地区广阔、资源丰富、潜力巨大,是中国重要的战略发展空间、回旋余地和新的经济增长点实行西部大开发战略10数年获得了明显成绩我们将以更大的力度推进中西部尤其是西部开发开放,搞好规划布局,完善政策措施,加紧大通道建设,大力发展优势特色产业,推进绿色、循环、低碳发展,把资源优势转化为经济优势,支持东部地区部分产业有序向中西部地区转移,统筹东中西、协调南北方,积极稳妥推进城镇化,发挥城镇化对扩内需、促发展、惠民生的潜力作用可以相信,伴随新一轮西部开发开放向纵深推进,中国经济将会增添强大活力,也可以逐渐处理不平衡不协调不可持续问题英语二级笔译实务试题.5CATTIE-CPassage1Marlene Castroknew thetall blondewoman onlyas Laurene,her mentor.They metevery fewweeks in a roughSiliconValley neighborhoodthe yearthat Ms.Castro was applying tocollege,and theye-mailed often,bondingover conversationsabout Ms.Castros difficultchildhood.Without Laureneshelp,Ms.Castro said,she mightnothave becomethe firstperson in her familyto graduatefrom college.It wasonly later,when she was afreshman atUniversity ofCalifornia,Berkeley,that Ms.Castro reada newsarticleand realized that Laurenewas SiliconValley royalty,the wifeof Applesco-founder,Steven P.Jobs.“I justbecame10times moreappreciative of her humilityand howhumble shewas inworking withus inEastPalo Alto,Ms.Castro said.The story,friends and colleagues say,is classicLaurene Powell Jobs.Famous becauseofherlast nameand fortune,she has always beenprivate andpublicity-averse.Herphilanthropic work,especially oneducation causeslike CollegeTrack,the collegeprep organizationshe helpedfoundand throughwhich shewas Ms.Castros mentor,has beenher priorityand focus.Now,less thantwo yearsafter Mr.Jobss death,Ms.Powell Jobsis becomingsomewhat lessprivate.She hastiptoedinto thepublic sphere,pushing her agenda in education aswell asglobal conservation,nutrition andimmigrationpolicy.“Shes beenmourning fora yearand wasgrieving forfive yearsbefore that,“said LarryBrilliant,who isan oldfriend of Mr.Jobs.Her lifewas about her familyand Steve,but sheis nowemerging asa potentforce on theworld stage,and thisis onlythe beginning.”But sheis doingit herway.“Its notabout gettingany publicrecognition fbrher giving,its tohelp touchand transformindividual lives,said LauraAndreessen,a philanthropistand lectureron philanthropyat Stanfordwho hasbeen closefriendswith Ms.Powell Jobsfor twodecades.While somepeople saidMs.Powell Jobsshould havestarted afoundation inMr.Jobss nameafter hisdeath,she didnot,nor hasshe increasedher publicgiving.Instead,she hasredoubled hercommitment toEmerson Collective,the organizationshe formedabout adecadeago to make grantsand investmentsineducationinitiatives and,more recently,other areas.“In thebroadest sense,we wantto useour knowledgeand ournetwork andour relationshipsto tryto effectthegreatest amountof goodJ Ms.PowellJobssaid in one ofa seriesof interviewswith TheNew YorkTimes.Passage2In thepast fewyears,Ive taughtnonfiction writingto undergraduatesand graduatestudents atHarvard,Yale,and ColumbiasGraduate Schoolof Journalism.Each semester I hope,and fear,that Iwill havenothing toteachmy studentsbecause theyalready knowhow towrite.And eachsemesterIdiscover,again,that theydont.The teachingof the humanities hasfallen onhard times.So saysa newreport on the stateof the humanities bytheAmerican Academyof Artsand Sciences,and sosays theexperience ofnearly everyonewho teachesat acollegeor university.Undergraduates willtell youthat theyreunder pressure-from theirparents,from theburden ofdebt theyincur,from societyat large一to choosemajors theybelieve willlead asdirectly aspossible to good jobs.Too often,that meansskipping the humanities.In otherwords,thereisa newand narrowingvocational emphasisin theway studentsand theirparents thinkaboutwhat tostudyincollege.There isa certainliteral-mindedness in the recentshift awayfrom the humanities.It suggestsa numberofthings.One,the rushtomakeeducation payoff presupposesthat onlythe mostimmediately applicableskills areworthacquiring.Two,thehumanitiesoften do a bad job ofexplaining whythehumanitiesmatter.And three,thehumanities oftendoabadjobof teachingthehumanities.What manyundergraduates donot know-and whatso many of theirprofessors have been unable to tellthem-is howvaluable themost fundamentalgift of thehumanitieswill turnout to be.That giftis clearthinking,clearwriting and a lifelongengagement withliterature.Writing wellused tobeafundamental principleof thehumanities,as essentialastheknowledge ofmathematicsand statisticsin thesciences.But writingwell isntmerely autilitarian skill.It isabout developinga rationalgraceand energyin yourconversation withthe worldaround you.C-EPassage1上海合作组织成立12年来,组员国结成紧密的命运共同体和利益共同体面对复杂的国际和地区形势,维护地区安全稳定和增进组员国共同发展,过去、目前乃至未来相称长时期内都是上海合作组织的首要任务和目的安全上,组员国要继续坚定支持彼此维护国家安全和社会稳定的努力,加大打击“三股势力”和毒品犯罪力度值得注意的是,目前,地区恐怖主义和毒品犯罪互相勾结的现象愈演愈烈,反恐和禁毒成为需要双管齐下的系统工程中方认为有必要赋予上海合作组织地区反恐怖机构禁毒职能,加强其综合打击“毒恐勾结”的能力经济上,组员国要大力推进务实合作我们维护地区安全稳定的最终目的是实现共同发展繁华各方有必要加紧实行交通、能源、通信、农业等优势领域合作项目,加紧研究建立上海合作组织开发银行,以处理项目融资难题和应对国际金融风险Passage2改革开放以来,中国金融业伴随现代化建设而迅速成长,但实现持续发展仍然任重道远目前,中国金融业资产已超过150万亿元人民币,外汇储备达
3.4万亿美元,盘活金融资产、激活金融市场潜力很大下一步,我们将坚定不移推进金融市场化改革,健全现代金融体系,加紧发展多层次资本市场,稳步推进利率市场化、汇率市场化的改革同步,深化境外战略投资者与中资银行的合作,稳步推进股票、债券、保险市场对外开放,增进人民币跨境使用,逐渐实现人民币资本项目可兑换,拓展金融业对外开放的广度和深度以开放促改革发展、促转型创新,实现中国经济持续健康发展,也会给世界经济增长及金融业发展提供机遇got themaximum score!”When Iwasachild,no oneoutside themental healthprofession talkedabout narcissism.People weremoreconcerned byinadequate self-esteem,which atthe timewas thoughtto lurkbehind nearlyevery issue.Like somanyexcesses of the1970s,the self-love cultspun outof controland isnow rampagingthrough ourculture likeGodzillathrough Tokyo.A studyin thejournal SocialPsychological andPersonality Sciencefound thatthe proportionof collegestudentsexhibiting narcissisticpersonality traits-based on their scoreson theNarcissistic PersonalityInventory,a widelyused diagnostictest-has increasedby morethan halfsince theearly1980s,to30per cent.In theirbook,The NarcissismEpidemic,psychology professorsshow thatnarcissism hasincreased asquicklyas obesityhas sincethe1980s.Even ouregos aregetting fat.This isa costlyproblem.While full-blownnarcissists oftenreport highlevels ofpersonal satisfaction,they createhavoc andmisery aroundthem.There isoverwhelmingevidence linkingnarcissism withreduced honestyand increasedaggression.Its notablefbroccasions likeValentines Daythat narcissistsstruggle tostay committedto romanticpartners,in nosmall partbecausethey findthemselves superior.The full-blown narcissistmight reply,So what”But narcissismisnt aneither-or characteristic.Its moreof asetof progressivesymptoms likealcoholism thanan identifiablestate likediabetes.Millions ofAmericansexhibit symptoms,but stillhave aconscience and a hungerfor moralimprovement.At thevery least,they reallydonot wanttobeterrible people.A healthyself-love thatleads totrue happinessbuilds upones intrinsicwell-being,as opposedto feedingshallowcravings tobe admired.Cultivating amourde soirequires beingfully aliveat thismoment,as opposedtobeing virtuallyalive whilewondering whatothers think.The soulfulconnection with another person,theenjoyment ofa beautifulhike alone,oraprayer ofthanks overyour sleepingchild couldbe consideredexpressionsof self-love.C—EPassage1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,勾勒出一种桥型轮廓,同步辅以“G20”的英文和篆隶“中国”印章桥,在G20独具含义曾几何时,全球经济治理为发达国家所垄断G20是第一种发达国家和发展中国家平等参与全球经济治理的机制,是历史的进步在这个意义上,G20自身就是一座桥,一座连接历史与未来、发达国家与发展中国家的桥梁在的杭州,在世界经济发展的当下,桥又有了新的含义它寓意着对G20成为全球经济之桥、国际社会合作之桥、面向未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,具有强烈的时代感我们但愿,以杭州峰会为桥梁,各国间的联络将愈加紧密,世界经济的前景将愈加广阔Passage2纵观世界文明史,人类先后经历了农业革命、工业革命、信息革命每一次产业技术革命,都给人类生产生活带来巨大而深刻的影响目前,以互联网为代表的信息技术日新月异,引领了社会生产新变革,发明了人类生活新空间,拓展了国家治理新领域,极大提高了人类认识世界、改造世界的能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迅速发展的历史进程之中中国高度重视互联网发展,自前接入国际互联网以来,我们按照积极运用、科学发展、依法管理、保证安全的思绪,加强信息基础设施建设,发展网络经济,推进信息惠民十三五时期,中国将大力实行网络强国战略、国家大数据战略、“互联网+”行动计划,发展积极向上的网络文化,拓展网络经济空间,增进互联网和经济社会融合发展我们的目的,就是要让互联网发展成果惠及13亿多中国人民,更好地造福各国人民英语二级笔译实务科目试题.5CATTIE-CPassage1Jane Goodallwas alreadyonaLondon dockin March1957when sherealizedthather passportwas missing.Injust a few hours,shewasdue todepart onher firsttrip toAfrica.A schoolfriendhadmoved toa farmoutsideNairobi and,knowing Goodairschildhood dreamwas tolive amongthe Africanwildlife,invited herto staywiththe familyforawhile.Goodall,then22,saved fortwo yearsto payfor herpassage toKenya:waitressing,doing secretarialwork,temping atthe postoffice inher hometown,Bournemouth,on Englandssouthern coast.Now allthis wasfor naught,it seemed.Its hardnot towonder howsubsequent eventsinherlife-rather consequentialas theyhave turnedout tobe toconservation,to science,to our sense ofourselves asa species-might haveunfolded differentlyhad someonenotfound herpassport,along with an itineraryfrom Cooks,the travelagency,folded inside,and deliveredit totheCooks office.An agencyrepresentative,documents inhand,found heron thedock.Incredible,Goodalltold melast month,recalling thatday.Amazing.”Within twomonths ofher arrival,Goodall metthe paleontologistLouis Leakey-Nairobi wasa smalltown foritswhite populationin thosedays—and heimmediately offeredherajob atthe natural-history museumwherehe wascurator.He spentmuch of the nextthree yearstesting hercapacity forrepetitivework.He believedin ahypothesis firstput forthby CharlesDarwin thathumans andchimpanzees shareanevolutionary ancestor.Close studyof chimpanzeesin thewild,he thought,might tellus somethingabout thatcommonprogenitor.He was,in otherwords,looking forsomeone tolive amongAfricas wildanimals.Onenight,he toldGoodall thathe knewjust theplace whereshe coulddo it:Gombe StreamChimpanzee Reserve,inthe Britishcolony ofTanganyika nowTanzania.In July1960,Goodall boardeda boatand afterafewhours motoringover the warm,deep watersof LakeTanganyika,she steppedonto thepebbly beachat Gombe.Her finding,published inNature in1964,that chimpanzeesuse tools——extracting insectsfrom atermitemound withleaves ofgrass—drastically andforever alteredhumanitys understandingof itself;man wasnolonger thenatural worldsonly userof tools.After twoandahalf decadesof livingoutherchildhood dream,Goodall madean abruptcareer shift,fromscientist toconservationist.Passage2Scientists havefound thefirst evidencethat brinywater flowedon thesurface ofMars asrecently aslastsummer,a paperpublished onMonday showed,raising thepossibility thatthe planetcould supportlife.Although thesource and the chemistryof thewater isunknown,the discoverywill changescientists,thinkingabout whetherthe planet that ismost likeEarth in the solarsystem couldsupport presentday microbiallife.The discoverywas madewhen scientistsdeveloped anew techniqueto analyzechemical mapsof thesurface ofMarsobtained byNASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiterspacecraft.They foundtelltale fingerprintsof saltsthat formonly inthe presenceof waterin narrowchannels cutinto cliffwallsthroughout theplanets equatorialregion.The slopesappear during thewarmsummer monthson Mars,then vanishwhen thetemperatures drop.Scientists suspectedthe streakswere cutby flowingwater,but previouslyhad beenunabletomake themeasurements.MarsReconnaissanceOrbiter makesits measurementsduringthehottest partoftheMartian day,so scientistsbelievedany tracesof water,or fingerprintsfrom hydratedminerals,would haveevaporated.Also,the chemical-sensing instrumentontheorbiting spacecraftcannot homeinondetails assmall asthenarrow streaks,which typicallyare lessthan16feet wide.But Ojhaandcolleaguescreated acomputer programthat couldscrutinize individualpixels.That datawas thencorrelatedwith high-resolution imagesofthestreaks.Scientists concentratedonthewidest streaksand cameupwith a100percent matchbetween theirlocations anddetections ofhydrated salts.C-EPassage1人口问题归根结底是发展问题我们要关注人口增长与经济社会发展的关系,统筹处理好人口数量、素质、构造和分布问题我们要重点关注人口分布构造与社会经济发展的关系,把人口问题纳入到国家经济社会发展规划人口流动和家庭构造变化将对公共服务和社会治理带来挑战大规模的人口流动成为推进社会变迁的重要力量,同步也加紧了家庭的小型化、多样化、离散化我们要大力推进流感人口基本公共服务均等化,着力提高流感人口服务管理水平,保证流感人口公平公正地享有城镇公共资源和社会福利,全面参与政治、经济、社会和文化生活,实现经济立足、身份认同和文化交融Passage2本美术馆是以收藏、研究、展示中国近现代至现代艺术家作品为重点的国家艺术博物馆,是新中国成立后来的国家文化标志性建筑主体大楼为仿古阁楼式,黄色琉璃瓦大屋顶,四面廊榭围绕,具有鲜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平方米本美术馆现收藏各类美术作品10万余件,以19世纪末至今中国艺术名家和各时期代表作品为主,兼有部分古代书画和外国艺术作品,同步也包括丰富的民间美术作品建馆以来,本美术馆已举行数千场具有影响的各类美术展览,也成为中国与国际艺术交流的重要平台本美术馆也重视通过网站及“数字美术馆”项目建设延展公众服务内容和手段,网站3次改版,建成10多种美术数据库,日益成为美术信息公布、检索与共享平台英语二级笔译实务科目试题.11CATTIE-CPassage1Apple maywell bethe onlytechnical companyontheplanetthatwould darecompare itselfto Picasso.In aclass atthe companysinternal university,the instructorlikened the11lithographs thatmake upPicassosThe Dulltotheway Applebuilds itssmart phonesand otherdevices.The ideais thatApple designersstrive forsimplicityjust asPicasso eliminateddetails tocreate a great workof art.Steven P.Jobs establishedthe AppleUniversity asa wayto inculcateemployees intoApples businesscultureand educatethem aboutits history,particularly asthecompanygrew andthe technicalbusiness changed.Courses are not required,only recommended,but gettingnew employeesto enrollis rarelya problem.Randy Nelson,who camefromtheanimation studioPixar,co-founded byMr.Jobs,isoneoftheteachers of“Communicating atApple.This course,open tovarious levelsof employees,focuses onclear communication,not justfor makingproducts intuitive,but alsofor sharingideas withpeers andmarketing products.In aversion ofthe classtaught lastyear,Mr.Nelson showeda slideof TheBull,a seriesof11lithographs ofabull thatPicasso createdover abouta month,starting inlate
1945.In theearly stages,the bullhasasnout,shoulder shanksand hooves,but overthe iterations,those detailsvanish.The lastimage isa curvystick figurethatis stillunmistakably abull.“You gothrough moreiterations untilyou cansimply deliveryour messageinavery conciseway,and thatistrue tothe Applebrand andeverything wedo Jrecalled oneperson whotook thecourse.In WhatMakes Apple,Apple,“another coursethat Mr.Nelson occasionallyteachers,he showeda slideoftheremote controlfor theGoogle TV,said anemployee whotook theclass lastyear.The remotecontrol has78buttons.Then,the employeesaid.Mr.Nelson displayeda photooftheAppleTV remotecontrol,a thinpiece ofmetal withjust threebuttons.How didApple sdesigners decideon threebuttons Theystarted outwithanidea,Mr.Nelson explained,anddebated untilthey hadjust whatwas needed一a buttonto playand pausea video,a buttonto selectsomethingto watch,and anothertogotothemain menu.The GoogleTV remotecontrol servesasacounterexample.It hadso manybuttons,Mr.Nelson said,becausethe individualengineers anddesigners whoworked ontheprojectall gotwhat theywanted.Passage2Equipped withthe cameraextender knownasa selfie stick,occasionally referredto asthe wandof narcissislTl/,tourists cannow reachfbr flatteringselfies whereverthey go.Art museumshave watchedthis developmentnervously,fearing damageto theircollections orto visitors,asusers swingtheir stickswith abandon.Now theyarc taking action.One byone,museums acrossthe UnitedStateshavebeenimposing banson usingselfie sticksfor photographsinside galleriesadding themto existingruleson umbrellas,backpacks andtripods,yet anotherexample ofhow controllingcrowding hasbecome partofthe museummission.The HirshhomMuseum andSculpture Gardenin Washingtonprohibited thesticks thismonth,andtheMuseumof FineArts inHouston plansto imposea ban.In NewYork,the Metropolitan Museum of Art,which hasbeenstudying thematter forsome lime,has justdecided thatit willforbid selfieslicks,too.New signswill bepostedsoon.“From nowon,you willbe askedquietly toput itaway,“said SreeSreenivasan,the chiefdigital officerat theMetropolitanMuseum ofArt.Its onethingto takea pictureat arms length,but whenit isthree timesarmslength,you arcinvading someoneelsespersonal space.The personalspace ofother visitorsis justone problem.The artworkis another.We donot wantto haveto putallthe artunder glassJ saidDeborah Ziska,the chiefof publicinformation atthe NationalGallery ofArt inWashington,which hasbeen quietlyenforcing aban onselfie sticks,but isintheprocess ofadding itformallyto itsprinted guidelinesfor visitors.Last butnot leastis thethreat tothe cameraoperator,intent oncapturing theperfect shotand obliviousto thesurroundings.uIf peoplearenotpaying attentionintheTemple ofDendur,they canend upinthewater withthecrocodile sculpture^Mr.Sreenivasan said.We haveso manybalconies youcould fallfrom,and stairsyou cantripon.”At theMetropolitanMuseumofArton Thursday,Jasmine Adaos,aselfie-stick userfrom Chile,expresseddismay.It sjust anotherproductshe said.u Whenyou havea regularcamera,it sthe samething.I dont seetheproblem ifyou recareful.But HaiLin,a studentfrom Shandong,China,conceded thatthe museummighthave apoint.ctYou canhit peoplewhen theyrepassing by,“she said.C-EPassage1,中国建成北斗导航试验系统,这使中国成为继美、俄之后世界上第三个拥有自主卫星导航系统的国家,虽然目前它的定位精度与GPS尚有一定的差距,但它具有了GPS所没有的短报通信和位置汇报的功能在没有手机信号的地方,顾客也可以通过该系统发送短信四川汶川大地震后,灾区电话无法接通,手机信号中断救援人员将北斗导航终端带入灾区,及时保持了与外界的通讯联络该系统的位置汇报功能可以协助交通管理部门掌握行驶车辆的位置,及时疏导交通,缓和交通拥堵状况虽然北斗卫星导航系统是中国独立发展、自主运行的卫星导航系统,但这并不影响它与世界上其他卫星导航系统之间的兼容性顾客在同步使用北斗和GPS这两种导航系统时,定位和导航效果会更好Passage2中国和欧洲是两大战略力量,肩负推进全球经济发展、增进人类文明进步、维护世界和平的崇高使命,双方正在形成不停放大的战略交集中国是最大的新兴市场国家,欧盟是最大的发达经济体,“最大”与“最大”交融、一切均有也许,“新兴”与“发达”携手、优势就会倍增,中欧在新兴和发达经济体合作中可以成为典范中国和欧洲分处欧亚大陆的两端,这块大陆是世界上面积最大的大陆,也是人口最多的大陆,市场空间广阔,发展机遇巨大中欧都主张国际关系民主化,在许多国际重大事务上有共同利益,双方关系具有越来越重要的全球影响中欧均有伟大的文明,中国推崇“和而不一样”,欧盟倡导“多元一体”13亿多中国人与7亿多欧洲人命运相连、前途有关,中欧在不一样文明包容互鉴中可以成为引领英语二级笔译实务试题.5CATTIE-CPassage1Along arugged,wide NorthSea beachhere ona recentday,children formedteams ofeight to10,taking theirplacesbeside moundsof sandcarefully cordonedby candy-cane stripedtape.They hadone hourfor theirsandcastle competition.Some builtfishlike structures,complete withscales.Others spenttheir timeon elaborateditchand dikelabyrinths.Each castlewas adornedon topwithawhite flag.Then theywatched thesea invadeand devourtheir work,seeing whosecastle couldwithstand thetide longest.The laststanding flagwon.Theirs wasno ordinaryday atthe beach,but anewly minted,state-sanctioned competitionfor schoolchildrentoraise awarenessofthedangers ofrising sea levels ina countryof precariousgeography thathas providedlessonsfortheworld aboutwater management,but thatfears thatits nextgeneration willgrow complacent.Fifty-five percent oftheNetherlands iseither belowsealevelor heavilyflood-prone.Yet thanksto itsrenownedexpertise andlarge watermanagement budgetabout
1.25percentofgross domesticproduct,the Netherlandshasaverted catastrophesince aflooding disasterin
1953.Experts heresay thatthey nowworry thatthe famedDutch watermanagement systemactually workstoo welland that citizenswill beginto takefor grantedthe nationssuccess instaying dry.As globalclimate changethreatensto raisesea levelsby asmuch asfour feetby theendofthe century,the authoritieshere areworking tomakereal tochildren theforecasts thatmay seemfar-off,but thatwill shapetheir lives in adulthoodand oldage.“Everything worksso smoothlythat peopledont realizeanymore thatthey aretakingarisk indevelopingurban areasin low-lying areas,said RaimondHafkenscheid,the leadorganizer ofthe competitionandawaterexpert withthe ForeignMinistry.Before thecompetition,the children,ages6to11,were coachedby expertsin dikebuilding andwatermanagement.Volunteers stoodby,manyofthem freshlygraduated civilengineers,giving last-minute adviceonhow bestto battlethe risingwater.A recentlyreleased reportby theOrganization forEconomic Cooperationand Developmenton watermanagementintheNetherlands pointedto anawareness gap“among Dutchcitizens.The findingdid muchtoget thesand castlecontest offthe ground.Passage2Early Maoriadapted thetropically basedeast Polynesianculture inline withthe challengesassociated withalarger andmore diverseenvironment,eventually developingtheir owndistinctive culture.Even thoughthe majorityofthepopulation nowlivesincities,much ofNew Zealandsart,literature,film andhumorhas ruralthemes.The Britishand Irishimmigrants broughtaspects oftheir ownculture toNew Zealandand alsoinfluencedMaori culture.More recentlyAmerican,Australian,Asian andother Europeancultures haveexerted influenceonNew Zealand.New Zealandmusic hasbeen influencedby blues,jazz,country,rock androll andhip hop,with manyof thesegenresgiven a unique New Zealand interpretation.Maori developedtraditional chantsand songsfrom theirancientSouth-East Asianorigins,and aftercenturies ofisolation createdaunique“monotonous anddoleful“sound.Our visionrecognises thatour distinctiveculture iscore towhat makes NewZealandagreatplace tolive.Cultural expression,engagement andunderstanding arefundamental toa vibrantand healthysociety andhelpdefine whatit istobea NewZealander.Maori culturemakesNewZealand uniqueinaglobalised worldand iscentral tooursenseof place,identifyingus asa nation.Active participationby Maoriin distinctte aoMaori activity,will ensureMaori cultureisprotected andflourishes.Manatu Taonga/the Ministryfor Cultureand Heritagethe MinistryistheGovernments leadingadvisor onculturalmatters;funds,monitors andsupports arange ofcultural agencies;and deliversarangeof highqualitycultural productsand services.The Ministryprovides advicetotheGovernment onwhere tofocus itsinterventions inthe culturalsector.TheMinistry seeksto ensurethat Votefunding isinvested aseffectively andefficiently aspossible,andthattheGovernments prioritiesare met.The Ministryhasastrong trackrecord ofdelivering highquality publicationsincluding websites,managingour significantheritage andcommemorations,and actingas guardianofNewZealands。
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