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考研英语（二）历年翻译真题 2007 年真题 Powering the great ongoing changes of our time is the rise of human creativity as the defining feature of economic life. Creativity has come to be valued, because new technologies, new industries and new wealth flow from it. And as a result, our lives and society have begun to echo with creative ideas. It is our commitment to creativity in its varied dimensions that forms the underlying spirit of our age. Creativity is essential to the way we live and work today, and in many senses always has been. The big advances in standard of living — not to mention the big competitive advantages in the marketplace— always have come from “betterrecipes, not just more cooking. ”One might argue that ’s not strictly true. One might point out, for instance, that during the long period from the early days on the Industrial Revolution to modern times, much of the growth in productivity and material wealth in the industrial nations came not just from creative inventions like the steam engine, but from the widespread application of “cookingin quantity business” methods like massive division of labor, concentration of assets, vertical integration and economies of scale. But those methods themselves were creative developments. 2008 年真题 The term “business model” first came into widespread use with the invention of personal computer and the spreadsheet (空白表格程序 ). Before the spreadsheet, business planning usually meant producing a single forecast. At best, you did a little sensitivity analysis around the projection. The spreadsheet ushered in a much more analytic approach to planning because every major line item could be pulled apart, its components and subcomponents analyzed and tested. You could ask what if questions about the critical assumptions on