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1、英语二级笔译2003-2011年真题及部分参考答案2003年12月英语二级笔译实务试题22004年5月英语二级笔译实务试题92004年11月二级笔译实务试题152005年5月二级笔译实务试题202005年11月二级笔译实务试题252006年5月二级笔译实务试题322006年11月二级笔译实务试题382007年5月二级笔译实务试题432007年11月二级笔译实务考试真题462008年5月二级笔译实务试题502008 年 11 月英语二级笔译实务考试试题542009年 5 月英语二级笔译实务考试试题592009年 11 月英语二级笔译实务考试试题612010年 5 月英语二级笔译实务考试试题632
2、010年 11 月英语二级笔译实务考试试题662011年5月英语二级笔译实务试题712011年11月英语二级笔译实务试题782003年12月英语二级笔译实务试题Section 1: English Chinese Translation (英译汉)This section consists of two parts, Part A “Compulsory Translation” and Part B “Choice of Two Translations” consisting of two sections “Topic I” and “Topic 2”. For the passage
3、in Part A and your choice of passage in Part B, translate the underlined portions, including titles, into Chinese. Above your translation of Part A, write “Compulsory Translation” and above your translation from Part B, write “Topic I” or “Topic 2” (60 points, 100 minutes)Part A Compulsory Translati
4、on (必译题) （30 points）Nowhere to GoFor the latest on the pursuit of the American Dream in Silicon Valley, all you have to do is to talk to someone like “Nagaraj” (who didnt want to reveal his real name). Hes an Indian immigrant who, like many other Indian engineers, came to America recently on an H-1B
5、 visa, which allows skilled workers to be employed by one company for as many as six years. But one morning last month, Nagaraj and a half dozen other Indian workers with H-1Bs were called into a conference room in their San Francisco technology-consulting firm and told they were being laid off. The
6、 reason: weakening economic conditions in Silicon Valley, “It was the shock of my lifetime,” says Nagaraj.This is not a normal bear-market sob story. According to federal regulation, Nagaraj and his colleagues have two choices. They must either return to India, or find another job in a tight labor m
7、arket and hope that the Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) allow them to transfer their visa to the new company. And the law doesnt allow them to earn a pay-check until all the paperwork winds its way through the INS bureaucracy. “How am I going to survive without any job and without any
8、income?” Nagaraj wonders.Until recently, H-1B visas were championed by Silicon Valley companies as the solution to the regions shortage of programmers and engineers. First issued by the INS in 1992, they attract skilled workers from other countries, many of whom bring families with them, lay down ro
9、ots and apply for the more permanent green cards. Through February 2000, more than 81,000 worker held such visas but with the dot-com crash, many have been getting laid off. Thats causing mass consternation in U.S. immigrant communities. The INS considers a worker “out of status” when he loses a job
10、, which technically means that he must pack up and go home. But because of the scope of this years layoffs, the U.S. government has recently backpedaled, issuing a confusing series of statements that suggest workers might be able to stay if they qualify for some exceptions and can find a new company
11、 to sponsor their visa. But even those loopholes remain nebulous. The result is thousands of immigrants now face dimming career prospects in America, and the possibilities that they will be sent home. “They are in limbo. It is the greatest form of torture,” says Amar Veda of the Silicon Valley-based
12、 Immigrants Support Network.The crisis looks especially bad in light of all the heated visa rhetoric by Silicon Valley companies in the past few years. Last fall the industry won a big victory by getting Congress to approve an increase in the annual number of H-1B visas. Now, with technology firms r
13、etrenching, demand for such workers is slowing. Valley heavyweights like Intel, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard have all announced thousands of layoffs this year, which include many H-1B workers. The INS reported last month that only 16,000 new H-1B workers came to the United States in February down from
14、32,000 in February of last year.Last month, acknowledging the scope of the problem, the INS told H-1B holders not to panic,” and that there would be a grace period for laid-off workers before they had to leave the United States. INS spokeswomen Eyleen Schmidt promises that more specific guidance wil
15、l come this month. “We are aware of the cutbacks,” she says. “Were trying to be as generous as we can be within the confines of the existing law.”Part B Choice of Two Translations (二选一题) （30 points）Topic 1 (选题一)What Is the Force of Gravity?If you throw a ball up, it will come down again. What makes
16、it come down? The ball comes down because it is pulled or attracted towards the Earth. The Earth exerts a force of attraction on all objects. Objects that are nearer to the Earth are attracted to it with a greater force than those that are further away. This force of attraction is known as the force of gravity. The gravitational force acting on an object at
