2000年11月上海市高级口译真题A卷
一、口语题
1、Topic: The information age and the promotion of China’s modernization
2、Question for Reference:
1. What do you know about the information age?
2. Discuss the importance of information technology to China’s modernization.
3. How could we prepare ourselves for the coming information revolution?
二、口译题
1、Part A （英译中）
Passage 1:
The 20th century has seen the rise and decline of a succession of industries in the United States. The automobile industry has had to struggle to meet the challenge of foreign competition. Many new industries have appeared. Many of the currently rising industries are among what are known as high-tech industries, because of their dependence on the latest developments in technology.∥
High-tech industries tend to be highly automated and thus need fewer workers than traditional industries such as steel-making. As high-tech industries have grown and older industries have declined in recent years, the proportion of American workers employed in manufacturing has declined. Service industries—industries that sell a service rather than make a product—now dominate the economy.
Passage 2:
Like other degenerative diseases, heart disease is ordinarily present for a very long time in the body before obvious and drastic symptoms appear. In fact, for most young people in our country, heart often begins in their early twenties. It grows worse over the years until finally the inevitable heart attack strikes.∥
For most people the first heart attack does not come until a certain age, say their fifties or sixties. But for thousands of people every year, the first heart attack comes in the twenties and occasionally even a person in his teens may experience a serious heart attack. In this way we can say that heart disease is more dangerous to the younger generation, since they are not at all prepared for it.
2、Part B（中译英）
Passage1:
欢迎各位游览东海世界公园。东海世界公园是一座集世界名胜之大成的主题公园，其规模为远东同类公园之冠。您置身于包括世界七大奇观在内的100处历史名胜与自然景观之中，一日便可游遍天下美景。∥
园内各类微型景观的选料多为汉白玉、大理石、花岗岩等优质石料，这些景观的制作工艺精湛无比，独具匠心，其复制程度之精确，形象之逼真，足可以假乱真，令游人叹为观止。
Passage 2:
国家统计局日前对100对经济学专家进行了调查。多数专家认为上半年经济走势趋好，经济状况较理想。对于下半年的宏观经济走势，超过80%的专家预期会比上半年更好一些。∥
所有专家都预期今年的经济增长速度将高于去年，平均预期值为8%左右。但与此同时，不少专家认为，如果没有进一步的资金投入，下半年的经济增长速度可能低于上半年。
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