03--10年二级笔译真题《笔译实务》.doc

英语二级笔译2003-2011年
真题及部分参考答案
2003年12月英语二级笔译实务试题 1
2004年 5月英语二级笔译实务试题 8
2004年11月英语二级笔译实务试题 14
2005年5月英语二级笔译实务试题 19
2005年11月英语二级笔译实务试题 24
2006年5月英语二级笔译实务试题 31
2006年11月英语二级笔译实务试题 37
2007年5月英语二级笔译实务试题 42
2007年11月英语二级笔译实务真题 45
2008年5月英语二级笔译实务试题 49
2008年 11月英语二级笔译实务试题 53
2009年 5 月英语二级笔译实务试题 58
2009年11 月英语二级笔译实务试题 60
2010年5 月英语二级笔译实务试题 62
2010年11月英语二级笔译实务试题 65
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 your 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 pulsory Translation (必译题) (30 points)
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 didn’t want to reveal his real name). He’s an Indian immigrant who, like many other Indian engineers, came to America recently on an H-1B visa, which allows skilled workers to be employed by pany 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: weakening 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 that the Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) allow them to transfer their visa to the pany. And the law doesn’t allow them to earn a pay-check until all the pape