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
   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.