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上海师范大学2005至2006学年第一学期翻译期末考试试题B 上海师范大学外国语学院标准试卷 ???????????????????????????考试日期????2006年????1??月 ??????????????????????????科目??????翻译????????(B卷) ?英语??专业?本科??2002?（四）年级?1、2、3、4?班?姓名??????学号??????? 题号 一 二 三 四 五 六 ???七 八 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 我认真遵守《上海师范大学考场规则》，诚信考试。??签名：????????????? 一、???????Translate the following English sentences or short paragraphs into Chinese. (30%) 1.??????Here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it. (6%) 2.??????Throughout history man has changed his physical environment in order to improve his way of life. With the tools of technology he has altered many physical features of the earth. He has transformed woodlands and prairies into farms and made lakes and reservoirs out of rivers for irrigation purposes or hydroelectric power. Man has also modified the face of the earth by draining marshes and cutting through mountains to build roads and railways. (10%) 3.??????Many factors result in this unpleasant phenomenon. Among them, hunting is the main factor that endangers wild life. Some people kill wild life for sport. They take pleasure in collecting heads and hides. Yet others specialize in commercial hunting like killing whales.(5%) ??????????????????????????????????? 4.??????The main reason for the population explosion is not so much a rise in birth rates as a fall in death rates as a result of improvements in public health services and medical care. (3%) 5.??????????Neither must we think that the life of a man begins when he can feed himself or walk alone, when he can fight or beget his like, for so he is contemporary with a camel or a cow; but he is first a man, when he comes to a certain steady use of reason, according to his proportion; and w