2007年5月CATTI二级笔译实务真题及题目详解2007年5月二级笔译综合能力完型填空The number of immigrants living in American households rose16percent over the last five years,fueled largely by recent arrivals from Mexico,according to fresh data released by the Census Bureau.And increasingly,immigrants are bypassing the traditional gateway(states)like California and New York and settling directly in parts of the country that(until)recently saw little immigrant activity—regions(like)the Upper Midwest,New England and the Rocky Mountain States.Coming in the heart of an election season(in which)illegal immigration has emerged as an issue,the new data(from)the bureau's2005American Community Survey is certain to generate more(debate).But more than(that),demographers said,it highlights one reason immigration has become(such)a heated topic."What's happening now is that immigrants are showing(up)in many more communities all across the country than they have ever been(in),”said Audrey Singer,an immigration fellow at the Brookings Institution."So it's easy for people to(look)around and not just see them,but feel the impact they're(having)in their communities.And a lot of(these)are communities that are not accustomed to(seeing)immigrants in their schools,at the workplace,in their hospitals.”By far the largest numbers of immigrants continue to live in the six states that have traditionally attracted(them):California,New York,Texas,Florida,New Jersey and Illinois.Immigrants also continue to flow into a handful of states in the Southeast,(like)Georgia and North Carolina,a trend that was discerned in the2000census.But it is in the less-expected immigrant destinations that demographers(find)the most of interest in the new data.Indiana saw a34percent increase in the number of immigrants;South Dakota saw a44 percent rise;Delaware32percent;Missouri31percent;Colorado28percent;and New Hampshire 26percent."It's the continuation of a pattern that we first began to see10or15years(ago),"said Jeff Passel,senior research associate at the Pew Hispanic Center,who has examined the new census data."But instead of being confined to areas(like)the Southeast,it's beginning to spill over into some Midwestern states,like Indiana and Ohio.It's even moving(up)into New England.”Over all,immigrants now(make up)12.4percent of the nation's(population),up from 11.2percent in2000.That amounts to an estimated4.9million additional immigrants for a total of 35.7million,a number(larger than)the population of California.2007年5月二级笔译实务试题【英译汉必译题】Strolling beside Amsterdam’s oldest canals,where buildings carry dates like1541and1603, it is easy to imagine the city’s prosperity in the17th century.Replace today’s bicycles and carswith horse-drawn carts,add more barges on the waterways,and this is essentially how Amsterdam must have looked to Rembrandt as he did his rounds of wealthy merchants.Such musings are not,of course,unprompted.This year,Amsterdam is celebrating the400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth,and it is hard to escape his shadow.His birthplace in Leiden,20 miles south,has naturally organized its own festivities.But Amsterdam has two advantages:it boasts the world’s largest Rembrandt collection—and tourists like to come here anyway.True,anniversaries can be pretty corny,but what city resists them?This year,Amsterdam is competing with Salzburg,where Mozart was born250years ago,and Aix-en-Provence,whereCézanne died a century ago.A sign in Amsterdam’s tourist office by the Central Station hints at one motive for such occasions:“Buy your Rembrandt products here.”Still,if you start off by liking Rembrandt,as I do,there is much to discover.For instance, when in Amsterdam I always make a point of paying homage to the Rembrandt masterpieces in the Rijksmuseum,yet until now I had never bothered to visit Rembrandt House,where the painter lived from1639until driven out by bankruptcy in1658.In brief,I had never much connected his art to his person.Now,at least,I have made a stab at doing so because,for this anniversary(he was born on July15,1606),Amsterdam has organized a host of events that offer insights into Rembrandt’s world.They highlight not only what is known about his life,but also the people he painted and the city he lived in from the age of25until his death at63in1669.Although the Rijksmuseum is undergoing a massive renovation through2009,the museum is not snubbing its favorite son.Throughout the year,in part of the building to be renovated last,it is presenting some400paintings and other17th-century objects representing the Golden Age in which Rembrandt prospered.These include works by Jan Steen,Vermeer and Frans Hals as well as by Rembrandt and his pupils.And they climax with Rembrandt’s largest and best known oil,“The Night Watch,”itself the focus of“Nightwatching,”a light and sound installation by the British movie director and Amsterdam resident,Peter Greenaway.【英译汉二选一】【试题1】The arsenal of antibiotics strong enough to squelch nasty bacteria is rapidly dwindling worldwide,which makes worried infectious-disease doctors more intent than ever that the drugs be deployed only when strictly needed.These specialists know that every antibiotic carries its own risks,and that the more frequently and broadly a drug is used,the more likely it is that harmful microbes will develop tricks to sidestep it.But a team of researchers in the Netherlands,where a more selective use of antibiotics has led to much lower levels of resistant bacteria than are circulating in the United States,thinks the medical finger-waggers have not gone far enough."As doctors,we've paid a lot of attention to questions of which antibiotics we should use totreat what sorts of infections,but have focused much less on how long that treatment should last," said Dr.Jan Prins of the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam.In a small but provocative study published in the June10issue of the British medical journal BMJ,Dr.Prins and colleagues from nine hospitals suggested that even some cases of pneumonia —a potentially life-threatening disease—could be treated with a three-day course of antibiotics, rather than the conventional7-to10-day treatment.The Dutch study analyzed the cure rates of186adults who had been hospitalized with mild to moderately severe pneumonia.All received three days of intravenous amoxicillin to start.After that,the119who were showing substantial improvement were randomly divided into two groups; about half continued with another five-day course of oral amoxicillin,and the others got look-alike sugar pills.Neither the patients nor the doctors knew who was getting which treatment until the end of their participation in the study.By the end of treatment,roughly89percent of the patients in each group were cured of their lung infections without further intervention.In a commentary accompanying the study,Dr.John Paul,a microbiologist at Sussex County Hospital in Brighton,England,writes that,at least for a subset of patients with uncomplicated,community-acquired pneumonia,the finding"suggests that current guidelines recommending7-10days should be revised."As lead investigator of the Dutch study,Dr.Prins was not ready to go quite that far.He cited the study's small size and the seriousness of the illness as a reason to wait until the finding is independently replicated before advising a wholesale change in practice.试题2【缺】【汉译英】【试题一】四川从今年开始将新建三个大熊猫自然保护区,使全省的大熊猫自然保护区达到40个,以确保50%左右的大熊猫栖息地和60%左右的野生大熊猫个体分布在保护区内。