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英语翻译基础历年真题试卷汇编69 (总分：12.00，做题时间：90分钟) 一、 英汉互译(总题数：6，分数：12.00) 1.英译汉 （分数：2.00 ） __________________________________________________________________________________________ 2.As 56 million children return to the nation s 133, 000 elementary and secondary schools, the promise of reform is again in the air. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has announced $ 4 billion in Race to the Top grants to states whose proposals demonstrated, according to Duncan, a bold commitment to education reform and creativity and innovation [ that is ] breathtaking. What they really show is that few subjects inspire more intellectual dishonesty and political puffery than school reform. To be sure, some improvements have occurred in elementary schools. But what good are they if theyre erased by high school? There s also been a modest narrowing in the high-school achievement gaps between whites, blacks, and Hispanics, although the narrowing generally stopped in the late 1980s. (Average scores have remained stable because, although blacks and Hispanics scores have risen slightly, the size of these minority groups has also expanded. This means that their still-low scores exert a bigger drag on the average. The two effects offset each other. ) （分数：2.00 ） __________________________________________________________________________________________ 3.An equally exciting area for research is to genetically alter crops to get higher yields from soils that are infertile or too acidic, toxic, or saline for varieties now in use. Vast land areas of the earth are either not utilized, or are underutilized for economically important crop production. Marketable yields have been obtained in California with a salt-tolerant research line of barly irrigated with water from Pacific Ocean. This genetic approach to saline crop production has been proven with barley, and is applicable to other crops. Barley grown with sea