和谐英语

英语六级历年翻译改错真题及答案

2008-12-20来源:和谐英语
   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.