0312年二级笔译真题《笔译实务》CATTI.docx

1、0312年二级笔译真题笔译实务CATTI英语二级笔译2003-2012年真题及部分参考答案2003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 in Part A and you

2、r 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 Translation (必译题) （30 poin

3、ts）Nowhere to Go For 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 visa, which all

4、ows 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 reason: weakeni

5、ng 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 market and hope t

6、hat 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 income?” Nagaraj

7、 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 roots and apply fo

8、r 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, which technica

9、lly 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 to sponsor thei

10、r 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 Immigrants Supp

11、ort 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 retrenching, dema

12、nd 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 32,000 in Februa

13、ry 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 will come this mon

14、th. “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 it come down? T

15、he 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. Th

16、e gravitational force acting on an object at the Earths surface is called the weight of the object.All the heavenly bodies in space like the moon, the planets and the stars also exert an attractive force on objects. The bigger and heavier a body is, the greater is its force of gravity. Thus, since the moon is a smaller body than Earth, the force it exerts on an object at its surface is less than that exerted by the Earth on the same object on t