英语六级历年翻译改错真题及答案

　　改错: 历年全真试题及参考答案 (00.1-06.12)
　　 00.1
　　 Until the very latest moment of his existence, man
　　 has been bound to the planet on which he originated and
　　 developed. Now he had the capability to leave that planet S1._______
　　 and move out into the universe to those worlds which he
　　 has known previously only directly. Men have explored S2._______
　　 parts of the moon, put spaceships in orbit around another
　　 planet and possibly within the decade will land into another S3._______
　　 planet and explore it. Can we be too bold as to S4._______
　　 suggest that we may be able to colonize other planet S5._______
　　 within the not - too - distant future ? Some have advocated
　　 such a procedure as a solution to the population
　　 problem: ship the excess people off to the moon. But
　　 we must keep in head the billions of dollars we might S6._______
　　 spend in carrying out the project. To maintain the
　　 earth's population at its present level. we would have
　　 to blast off into space 7,500 people every hour of
　　 every day of the year.
　　 Why are we spending so little money on space S7._______
　　 exploration ? Consider the great need for improving S8._______
　　 many aspects of the global environment, one is surely
　　 justified in his concern for the money and resources
　　 that they are poured into the space exploration efforts. S9._______
　　 But perhaps we should look at both sides of the
　　 coin before arriving hasty conclusions. S10._______
　　 00.6
　　 When you start talking about good and bad manners
　　 you immediately start meeting difficulties. Many
　　 people just cannot agree what they mean. We asked a
　　 lady, who replied that she thought you could tell a
　　 well-mannered person on the way they occupied the S1._______
　　 space around them—for example, when such a person
　　 walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of S2._______
　　 others. Such people never bump into other people.
　　 However, a second person thought that this was
　　 more a question of civilized behavior as good manners. S3._______
　　 Instead, this other person told us a story, it he S4._______
　　 said was quite well known, about an American who
　　 had been invited to an Arab meal at one of the countries S5._______
　　 of the Middle East. The American hasn't been S6._______
　　 told very much about the kind of food he might
　　 expect. If he had known about American food, he S7._______
　　 might have behaved better.
　　 Immediately before him was a very flat piece of
　　 bread that looked, to him, very much as a napkin (餐巾). S8._______
　　 Picking it up, he put it into his collar, so that it
　　 falls across his shirt. His Arab host, who had been S9._______
　　 watching, said of nothing, but immediately copied S10._______
　　 the action of his guest.
　　 And that, said this second person, was a fine
　　 example of good manners.
　　 01.6
　　 More people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than of any
　　 other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably
　　 been the case in quite a while. During the early stages of S1. ________
　　 the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh S2. ________
　　 deaths in Europe's crowded cities were caused by the S3. ________
　　 disease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing the S4. ________
　　 global picture, saw the trouble going into decline. With
　　 occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and
　　 infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily S5. ________
　　 through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, the
　　 introduction of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened the
　　 trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed
　　 to be imported to poor countries. Medical researchers S6. ________
　　 declared victory and withdrew.
　　 They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of S7. ________
　　 infections and deaths started to pick up again around the
　　 world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in S8. ________
　　 many places where it had never been away, it grew better. S9. ________
　　 The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7
　　 billion people (a third of the earth's population) suffer
　　 from tuberculosis. Even when the infection rate was
　　 falling, population growth kept the number of clinical
　　 cases more or less constantly at 8 million a year. Around S10. ________
　　 3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor
　　 countries.