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[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语(二)翻译分类模拟题26 Translation问题:1. Karaoke is a very popular form of entertainment in Asia. Karaoke was first made popular by Daisuke Inoue in Kobe, Japan, in 1971. By the 1980s, there was a vast array of karaoke products on the market in Asia. The video game, Karaoke Revolution, was released in the year of 2003. In this game, players could receive a score based on their singing performance. Karaoke services then became available through mobile phones, and users could also play karaoke songs using software on their personal computers. Websites started popping up all over the Internet, creating a global karaoke community. On these sites, singers can record and even video themselves performing. Even some car manufacturers jumped on the karaoke bandwagon and had karaoke players installed as part of a cars DVD player. There are even VCDs available now for Chinese opera karaoke, so that the elderly can have fun singing songs of the past.答案: 卡拉OK是一种风靡亚洲的娱乐形式。第一台卡拉OK机是由日本神户的井上大佑于1971年发明的。到20世纪80年代，亚洲市场出现了大量的卡拉OK产品。2003年发行了名为《卡拉OK革命》的电子游戏。在这款游戏里，人们的唱歌表演会被打分。人们可以通过手机或电脑软件获得卡拉OK服务。网上开始出现各种网站，形成全球性的卡拉OK社区。在这些网站上，歌手可以录制甚至拍摄自己的表演。甚至有些汽车制造商也来赶卡拉OK的时髦，在车载DVD机里安装了卡拉OK。现在甚至连中国戏曲卡拉OK VCD都有，可满足老年人演唱老歌的需求。问题:2. Intelligence quotients (IQs) testing is controversial and regarded by some as a crude indicator of ability or potential. When comparing nations, measured average IQ tends to be affected by class, nutrition, and cultural factors including education. There is also disagreement over the influences of nature and nurture. IQs have risen in developed nations for almost a century. But in Britain, research has found a reversal of this trend. The average had declined by two points on average, but by as much as six points among teenagers in the top half of the IQ scale, a fall that wiped out the previous two decades of gains in that group.  No cause for this fall in IQs has been established: the internet, the dumbing down of education, and an obsession with ex