英语六级历年翻译改错真题及答案

　　 03.9
　　 "Home, sweet home" is a phrase that expresses an essential attitude
　　 in the United States. Whether the reality of life in the family
　　 house is sweet or no sweet. The cherished ideal of home has great S1.________
　　 importance for many people.
　　 This ideal is a vital part of the American dream. This dream,
　　 dramatized in the history of nineteenth-century European settlers of the
　　 American West, was to find a piece of place, build a house for one's S2.________
　　 family, and started a farm. These small households were portraits of S3.________
　　 independence: the entire family--mother, father, children, even
　　 grandparents—live in a small house and working together to support　 S4.________
　　 each other. Anyone understood the life and death importance of family S5.________
　　 cooperation and hard work.
　　 Although most people in the United States no longer live on
　　 farms, but the ideal of home ownership is just as strong in the twentieth　 S6.________
　　 century as it was in the nineteenth.
　　 When U.S, soldiers came home before World War II, for　 S7.________
　　 example, they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there S8.________
　　 was a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically
　　 in the suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but it S9.________
　　 satisfied a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of　 S10.________
　　 their way of life.
　　 03.12
　　 Thomas Malthus published his "Essay on the Principle of
　　 Population" almost 200 years ago. Ever since then, forecasters
　　 have being warning that worldwide famine was just around the S1________
　　 next corner. The fast-growing population's demand for food,
　　 they warned, would soon exceed their supply, leading to S2________
　　 widespread food shortages and starvation.
　　 But in reality, the world's total grain harvest has risen
　　 steadily over the years. Except for relative isolated trouble spots S3________
　　 like present-day Somalia, and occasional years of good harvests, S4________
　　 the world's food crisis has remained just around the corner.
　　 Most experts believe this can continue even as if the population S5________
　　 doubles by the mid-21st century, although feeding 10 billion
　　 people will not be easy for politics, economic and environmental S6________
　　 reasons. Optimists point to concrete examples of continued
　　 improvements in yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, S7________
　　 more fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more than
　　 double corn and wheat yields in an experiment. Elsewhere, rice S8________
　　 experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with few stems S9_________
　　 and more seeds. There is no guarantee that plant breeders can
　　 continue to develop new, higher-yielding crop, but most
　　 researchers see their success to date as reason for hope. S10________
　　 04.6
　　 Culture refers to the social heritage of a people - the
　　 learned patterns for thinking, feeling and acting that characterize
　　 a population or society, include the expression of these S1._______
　　 patterns in material things. Culture is compose of non-material S2._______
　　 culture -abstract creations like values, beliefs, customs
　　 and institutional arrangements and material culture -
　　 physical object like cooking pots, computers and bathtubs. S3._______
　　 In sum, culture reflects both the ideas we share or everything S4._______
　　 we make. In ordinary speech, a person of culture is
　　 the individual can speak another language - the person who S5._______
　　 is unfamiliar with the arts, music, literature, philosophy, or S6._______
　　 history. But to sociologists, to be human is to be cultured,
　　 because of culture is the common world of experience we S7._______
　　 share with other members of our group.
　　 Culture is essentially to our humanness. It provides a S8._______
　　 kind of map for relating to others. Consider how you find
　　 your way about social life. How do you know how to act in a
　　 classroom, or a department store, or toward a person who
　　 smiles or laugh at you? S9._______
　　 Your culture supplies you by broad, standardized, S10._______
　　 ready-made answers for dealing with each of these situations.
　　 Therefore, if we know a persons culture, we can understand
　　 and even predict a good deal of his behavior.