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1、翻译二级笔译实务分类模拟题27英译汉1. Tofu and a host of other products made from the mighty soybean are pushing aside （江南博哥）meat, milk and even ice cream on grocery store shelves these days as scientists rave about the health benefits of soy. Hundreds of scientists around the globe are turning their microscopes to
2、soy in search of ways to prove or disprove its cancer-fighting ability or its benefit as a natural alternative to hormone replacement therapy. Good science requires patience. 正确答案：因科学家们为大豆有益健康的事实大声叫好，而使得如今杂货店的货架上的豆腐和各种豆制品正在把肉类、牛奶甚至冰淇淋挤到了一旁。全球数以百计的科学家正把他们的显微镜对准了大豆，想方设法地证明或反驳大豆具有抗癌能力或可作为取代激素补充疗法的一种自然选
3、择。真科学渴求忍耐和等待。2. Date palms have grown prolifically in both Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and Egypt for many thousands of years. Dates are rich in sugar, and in such warm climates fermentation into a liquid containing alcohol took place fairly quickly. Thus, while our first records of dates being made in
4、to wine come from the period 3000 B.C. to 2000 B.C., we feel certain that it was made much earlier. Since the fruit itself houses the yeast fungus that causes fermentation, making date wine was a fairly simple process. The only pieces of equipment needed were a jar to hold the date and a strainer us
5、ed at the end of the fermentation. 正确答案：伊拉克和埃及盛产枣椰有几千年的历史。枣椰含有丰富的糖分，在暖和气候条件下，很快就会发酵成含乙醇的液体。这样，尽管据记载枣椰酿酒开始于公元前3000年至公元前2000年间，但我们仍然可以确信这个时间有可能还更早些，因为水果本身就含有酵母菌，会引起发酵，而且酿制大枣酒的工艺相当简单，只需一个装枣椰用的坛子罐和一个发酵末期用的筛网就可以了。3. The genetic structure of any living organism is complex, and GM crop tests focus on short
6、-term effects. 正确答案：任何生物体的基因结构都很复杂，而转基因作物检测侧重于其短期影响。4. Humans can inadvertently eat foods which contain GM products meant as animal feed. 正确答案：有些动物饲料属于转基因产品，人类可能无意中食用含有此类产品的食物。5. We are currently growing at a rate that is using up the earths resources far faster than they can be sustainably replenis
7、hed, so we are eating into the future. 正确答案：以我们目前这么快的增长，耗尽地球资源的速度远远超过它们能够可持续补充的速度，所以我们在寅吃卯粮。6. If you thicken the earths CO2 blanket, the earth gets warmer. 正确答案：如果增加地球二氧化碳覆盖层的厚度，地球就会变暖。7. Children obesity mounts as junk food purveyors bombard children with advertising, even at school. 正确答案：垃圾食品供应商用
8、广告对儿童展开狂轰滥炸，即便在学校也不例外，所以儿童肥胖现象猛增。8. The significance of agriculture in the economy declined as towns grew, a decline made swifter by the depression. 正确答案：随着城镇的发展，农业在经济中的地位下降，大萧条更加剧了这一下降趋势。9. An energetic manufacturing sector pressed forward with a huge range of items, from ships and steam engines th
9、rough textiles to the enormous variety of small manufactured goods. 正确答案：制造业在英国蓬勃发展起来，产品种类繁多，包括船舶、蒸汽机、纺织品，以及五花八门的小工业品。10.Scientists Make Plants Grow Faster Genetic researchers have accelerated a plants growth by making its cells split fastera technique that could someday lead to healthier crops, sho
10、rter growing seasons and less use of herbicides. One outside scientist called the findings astonishing. But the technique needs more testing on a range of plants, and public fear of genetically modified food is jeopardizing support for such experiments, especially in Europe, researchers said. The ex
11、periment, reported Thursday in the journal Nature, was carried out by a team at Cambridge University. The researchers first took a gene promoting cell division from inside the arabidopsis plant, a flowering weed often used for genetic experiments. They transplanted that gene into a tobacco plant. Th
12、ere, in an especially potent form, the gene produced large amounts of a protein that, in combination with other chemicals naturally in the tobacco, made the plants cells divide more quickly at the tips of roots and shoots. Within a month after planting, the altered tobacco grew as much as twice as t
13、all as other tobacco plants. Ultimately, the other plants caught up, and both groups then appeared identical in all ways. Its sort of like theyve been able to make the plant go full throttle,1 said plant growth biologist John Schiefelbein at the University of Michigan. The leader of the study, Clair
14、e Cockcroft, said it is conceivable that the technique could be transferred to other species. Such plants, which probably would take years to develop commercially, might allow an extra planting in some climates or the introduction of crops in places where the growing season is too short, researchers
15、 said. The quick-growth plants would presumably take hold more easily, requiring less chemical herbicide to knock out weeds. Such plants might make easier and cheaper sources of some drugs. In scientific circles, the British research may also help settle an intense debate over what makes plants grow
16、. Some argue, like these researchers, that something at the cellular level switches on growth ; others look to hormones or other chemicals at a higher level of the plants makeup. This is astonishing. Normally you would expect growth regulation to be more complicated, said plant researcher Xuemin Wang at Kansas State University. This has huge implications in terms of ho
