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2013 年 11 月三级笔译实务真题 Section 1: English-Chinese Translation (50 points) Stroll through the farmers ’ market and you will hear a plethora of languages and see a rainbow of faces . Drive down Canyon Road and stop for halal meat or Filipino pork belly at adjacent markets . Along the highway , browse the aisl es ofa giant Asian supermarket stockingfresh napa cabbage and mizuna or fr esh kimchi . Head toward downtown and you ’ ll seeloncheras — taco trucks — on street corners and hear Spanish bandamusic . On the city ’ snorthern edge , you can sample Indian chaat . e to Beaverton ,a Portland suburb that is home to Oregon ’s fastest gr owing immigrant population . Once a munity , Beaverton , populati on 87,000, is now the sixth largestcity in Oregon — with immigration rates hi gher than those of Portland , Oregon ’s largest city . Best known as the world headquarters for athletic pany Nike , Beav erton has changeddramatically over the past 40 years . Settled by immigrants from northern Europe in the 19 thcentury , today it isa place where 80 langua ges from Albanian to Urdu are spoken in the publicschools and about 30 perce nt of students speak a language besides English , according toEnglish as a Sec ond Language program director Wei Wei Lou . Beaverton ’s wave of new residents began arriving in the 1960 s, with Koreans and Tejanos ( Texans of Mexican origin ), who were the first permanent Latino s. In 1960, Beaverton ’s population of Latinos and Asians was less than p ercent . By 2000, Beaverton hadproportionately more Asian and Hispanic resid ents than the Portland metro area . Today , prise 10 percent and His panics 11 percent of Beaverton ’s population . Mayor Denny Doyle says that many in Beaverton view the immigrants who ar e rapidly reshapingBeaverton as a source of enrichment . “ Citizens here especially in the arts and munity think it’s fantasti c that we have all these different possibilities here ,” he says . Gloria Vargas , 50, a Salvadoran immigrant , own