四六级
翻译技巧分享以及长难句解读
Elsie Huang
Contents
CET 6级
Translation
Reading
Q&A
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Translation
• 翻译部分测试学生把汉语所承载的信息用英语表 达出来的能力，所占分值比例为15%，考试时间 30分钟。翻译题型为段落汉译英。翻译内容涉及 中国的历史、文化、经济、社会发展等。四级长 度为140-160个汉字，六级长度为180-200个汉字。
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Section B Directions:In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
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• 丝绸之路：1.闻名于世的丝绸之路是一系列连接 东西方的路线。2. 丝绸之路延伸6，000多公里， 得名于古代中国的丝绸贸易。3. 丝绸之路上的贸 易在中国、南亚、欧洲和中东文明发展中发挥了 重要作用。4. 正是通过丝绸之路，中国的造纸、 火药、指南针、印刷术等四大发明才被引介到世 界各地。5. 同样，中国的丝绸、茶叶和瓷器 (porcelain)也传遍全球。6. 物质文化的交流是双向 的，欧洲也通过丝绸之路出口各种商品和植物， 满足中国市场的需求。
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Chinese have been celebrating their harvests in mid-Autumn since ancient times. This/which is very similar to the North American custom of Thanksgiving celebrations. Popular throughout China since Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated in lunar-增译，中国特色 August the 15th for moon worshiping, when Chinese people will reunite with families and enjoy the bright and round moon. In 2006, the Mid-Autumn Festival was listed as one of China’s cultural heritages, and the celebration day was designated by law as a public holiday in 2008. Moon cakes, indispensable in the Mid-Autumn Festival, are always sent to relatives as gifts by Chinese or eaten at family reunion parties/ gatherings.
Traditional moon cakes were always engraved with Chinese characters
such as “寿（longevity）,” “福（happiness）” and “和(harmony).”
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Reading
• 阅读理解部分包括1篇长篇阅读和3篇仔细阅读，测试学生在不同层面 上的阅读理解能力，包括理解篇章或段落的主旨大意和重要细节、综 合分析、推测判断以及根据上下文推测词义等能力。该部分所占分值 比例为35%，其中长篇阅读占10%，仔细阅读占25%。考试时间40分钟。 长篇阅读部分采用1篇较长篇幅的文章，总长度四级约1000词，六级 约1200词。阅读速度四级约每分钟100词；六级约每分钟120词。篇章 后附有10个句子，每句一题。每句所含的信息出自篇章的某一段落， 要求考生找出与每句所含信息相匹配的段落。有的段落可能对应两题， 有的段落可能不对应任何一题。 仔细阅读部分要求考生阅读3篇短文。2篇为多项选择题型的短文理解 测试，每篇长度四级为300-350词，六级为400-450词；1篇为选词填空， 篇章长度四级为200-250词，六级为250-300词。短文理解每篇后有若 干个问题，要求考生根据对文章的理解，从每题的四个选项中选择最 佳答案。选词填空要求考生阅读一篇删去若干词汇的短文，然后从所 给的选项中选择正确的词汇填空，使短文复原。
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The College Essay: Why Those 500 Words Drive Us Crazy
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A) Meg is a lawyer-mom in suburban Washington, D.C., where lawyermoms are thick on the ground(everywhere). Her son Doug is one of several hundred thousand high-school seniors who had a painful fall. The deadline for applying to his favorite college was Nov. 1,and by early October he had yet to fill out the application. More to the point, he had yet to settle on a subject for the personal essay accompanying the application. According to college folklore, a well-turned essay has the power to seduce (诱惑) an admissions committee. “He wanted to do one thing at a time,” Meg says, explaining her son’s delay. “But really, my son is a huge procrastinator (拖延者). The essay is the hardest thing to do, so he’s put it off the longest.” Friends and other veterans of the process have warned Meg that the back and forth between editing parent and writing student can be traumatic (痛苦的).
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The world-renown Silk Road is a series of routes connecting the East and the West/, which connects the East and the West. Extending more than 6000 kilometers, it was named after ancient China’s silk trade. Trade in the Silk Road played an important role in the development of civilizations in China, South Asia, Europe and the Middle East. It was through the Silk Road that China’s four inventions including papermaking, compass, gunpowder and movable type were introduced to other places around the world. So were Chinese silk, tea and porcelain. Material and cultural exchanges were mutual that Europe also exported all kinds of commodities and plants to satisfy the needs of Chinese market through the Silk road.
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• B) Back in the good old days—say, two years ago, when the last of my children suffered the ordeal (折磨)—a high-school student applying to college could procrastinate all the way to New Year’s Day of their senior year, assuming they could withstand the parental pestering (烦扰).But things change fast in the nail-biting world of college admissions.The recent trend toward early decision and early action among selective colleges and universities has pushed the traditional deadline of January up to Nov. 1 or early December for many students. • C) If the time for heel-dragging has been shortened, the true source of the anxiety and panic remains what it has always been. And it’s not the application itself. A college application is a relatively straightforward questionnaire asking for the basics: name, address, family history employment history. It would all be innocent enough—20 minutes of busy work—except it comes attached to a6/2014