英语六级历年翻译改错真题及答案

　　 02.1
　　 Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting
　　 behavior. Viewing biologically, the modern footballer is revealed as a S1.________
　　 member of a disguised hunting pack. His killing weapon has turned into
　　 a harmless football and his prey into a goal-mouth. If his aim is inaccurate S2.________
　　 and he scores a goal, enjoys the hunter's triumph of killing his prey. S3._________
　　 To understand how this transformation has taken place we
　　 must briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over a S4.________
　　 million year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their very survival S5._______
　　 depended on success in the hunting-field. Under this pressure their whole
　　 way of life, even if their bodies, became radically changed. They became S6.________
　　 chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers, throwers and prey-killers.
　　 They co-operate as skillful male-group attackers. S7.________
　　 Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immensely long S8.________
　　 formative period of hunting for food, they became farmers. Their
　　 improved intelligence, so vital to their old hunting life, were put to a new S9._______
　　 use-that of penning ( 把……关在圈中), controlling and domesticating
　　 their prey. The food was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The
　　 risks and uncertainties of farming were no longer essential for survival. S10._______
　　 02.6
　　 A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which
　　 are nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale.
　　 Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not found
　　 new one. And any large or rich city is going to attract poor S1._________
　　 immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperity S2._________
　　 which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns
　　 on the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were S3._________
　　 on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early nine-
　　 teenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. Descriptions S4._________
　　 written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico
　　 City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, S5._________
　　 are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today - the S6._________
　　 poor can still be numbered in millions.
　　 The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity,
　　 but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as a S7._________
　　 promised land, that attracts immigrants from rural poverty S8._________
　　 and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the S9._________
　　 country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late, S10._________
　　 sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.
　　 03.6
　　 The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm that
　　 has recognized the need for change and done something about
　　 it. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversity
　　 of the communities to which they provide information.
　　 It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risk　 S1._______
　　 losing their readers' interest and their advertisers' support.
　　 Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial　 S2.________
　　 minorities, the paper has put into place policies and
　　 procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The S3._______
  　 underlying reason for the change is that for information to be
　　 fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the　 S4._________
　　 same kind of population that reads it.
　　 A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and
　　 photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times'　 S5.________
　　 content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about
　　 diversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content　 S6.________
　　 audit(审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner of
　　 representation of woman and people of color in photographs.　 S7._________
　　 Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too
　　 infrequently and were pictured with a disproportionate
　　 number of negative articles. The audit results from　 S8.________
　　 improvement in the frequency of majority representation and　 S9.________
　　 their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with a　 S10._______
　　 result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.
　　 The diversity training and content audits helped the Seattle
　　 Times Company to win the Personnel Journal Optimal Award
　　 for excellence in managing change.