1、来源：考友回忆分享 | 整理：CATTI 考试资料与资讯2016.11 CATTI 英语二级笔译实务科目试题E-CPassage 1Everyone knows that weddingsthe most elaborate and costly form of old school pageantry still acceptable in modern societyare stupid expensive. But it turns out Americans are now blowing even more money than ever before on whats suppos
2、ed to be the most magical day of any couples life together. Money that, to be honest, could be spent on much, much cooler stuff.The Knot released its annual wedding survey this week, with findings showing that couples are spending a mind-numbing average of $32,641 on matrimonial celebrations. The st
3、udy includes data from nearly 18,000 pairs across the country. While the cost of a wedding varied greatly from city to cityreaching a nauseating high of $82,300 in Manhattanthe price was steep no matter where couples chose to get hitched. All this despite the fact that weddings (and marriages in gen
4、eral, honestly) can be a fairly impractical thing to invest in. Seriously, even 50 Cent doesnt spend as much in a day as youre spending on a reception band alone. Think about that.So rather than buying into the Marriage Industrial Complex on a union that may or may not work out, wouldnt it make more
5、 sense to save your hard-earned money by forgoing the big ceremony for the major expenses youre likely to face in married life? You know, like a mortgage. Or braces for your wallet-draining children-to-be. And if your fiance is dead set on a fairytale wedding? You could always just blow your financi
6、al load on a plenty fulfilling single life.With nearly $33,000 to spend in the life of a singledom, you could get pretty far when it comes to amenities and entertainment. Perhaps the best part of being free from the shackles of wedding planning is the opportunity to treat yourself. Like, why drop $1
7、,400 on a frilly dress youll wear once before it turns to moth food when you can rock the most expensive shoes of the season and look great doing it?And while weddings are supposed to be all about the happy couple, everyone knows thats bull, because you have to feed your guests and provide them ente
8、rtainment and put a roof over their heads for a couple of hours and likely go into debt doing it.In addition to simply having fun, there are some more practical ways to spend your wedding purse as well. For instance, purchasing and providing for a nice house cat rather than dropping major dough on f
9、inger bling intended for fending off hotties for the rest of your life. Fluffy wont care if you bring home someone new every weekendhell just hate everyone indiscriminately.Passage 2My teenage son recently informed me that there is an Internet quiz to test oneself for narcissism. His friend had just
10、 taken it. “How did it turn out?” I asked. “He says he did great!” my son responded. “He 来源：考友回忆分享 | 整理：CATTI 考试资料与资讯got the maximum score!”When I was a child, no one outside the mental health profession talked about narcissism. People were more concerned by inadequate self-esteem, which at the time
11、 was thought to lurk behind nearly every issue. Like so many excesses of the 1970s, the self-love cult spun out of control and is now rampaging through our culture like Godzilla through Tokyo.A 2010 study in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science found that the proportion of colleg
12、e students exhibiting narcissistic personality traits based on their scores on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, a widely used diagnostic test has increased by more than half since the early 1980s, to 30 per cent.In their book, The Narcissism Epidemic, psychology professors show that narcissis
13、m has increased as quickly as obesity has since the 1980s. Even our egos are getting fat. This is a costly problem. While full-blown narcissists often report high levels of personal satisfaction, they create havoc and misery around them. There is overwhelming evidence linking narcissism with reduced
14、 honesty and increased aggression. Its notable for occasions like Valentines Day that narcissists struggle to stay committed to romantic partners, in no small part because they find themselves superior.The full-blown narcissist might reply, “So what?” But narcissism isnt an either-or characteristic.
15、 Its more of a set of progressive symptoms (like alcoholism) than an identifiable state (like diabetes). Millions of Americans exhibit symptoms, but still have a conscience and a hunger for moral improvement. At the very least, they really do not want to be terrible people.A healthy self-love that l
16、eads to true happiness builds up ones intrinsic well-being, as opposed to feeding shallow cravings to be admired. Cultivating amour de soi requires being fully alive at this moment, as opposed to being virtually alive while wondering what others think. The soulful connection with another person, the
17、 enjoyment of a beautiful hike alone, or a prayer of thanks over your sleeping child could be considered expressions of self-love.CEPassage 1浙江杭州是风景秀美之地，也是创新活力之城。G20 杭州峰会的会标，就是用 20 根线条，勾勒出一个桥型轮廓，同时辅以“2016 年 G20”的英文和篆隶“中国”印章。桥，在 G20 独具含义。曾几何时，全球经济治理为发达国家所垄断。G20 是第一个发达国家和发展中国家平等参与全球经济治理的机制，是历史的进步。在这个意
18、义上，G20 本身就是一座桥，一座连接历史与未来、发达国家与发展中国家的桥梁。在 2016 年的杭州，在世界经济发展的当下，桥又有了新的含义。它寓意着对 G20 成为全球经济之桥、国际社会合作之桥、面向未来的共赢之桥的殷切期望。桥梁线条形似光纤，寓意信息技术应用带来的互联互通，具有强烈的时代感。我们希望，以杭州峰会为桥梁，各国间的联系将更加来源：考友回忆分享 | 整理：CATTI 考试资料与资讯紧密，世界经济的前景将更加广阔。Passage 2纵观世界文明史，人类先后经历了农业革命、工业革命、信息革命。每一次产业技术革命，都给人类生产生活带来巨大而深刻的影响。现在，以互联网为代表的信息技术日新
19、月异，引领了社会生产新变革，创造了人类生活新空间，拓展了国家治理新领域，极大提高了人类认识世界、改造世界的能力。互联网让世界变成了“鸡犬之声相闻”的地球村，相隔万里的人们不再“老死不相往来” 。可以说，世界因互联网而更多彩，生活因互联网而更丰富。中国正处在信息化快速发展的历史进程之中。中国高度重视互联网发展，自 21 年前接入国际互联网以来，我们按照积极利用、科学发展、依法管理、确保安全的思路，加强信息基础设施建设，发展网络经济，推进信息惠民。十三五时期，中国将大力实施网络强国战略、国家大数据战略、 “互联网+”行动计划，发展积极向上的网络文化，拓展网络经济空间，促进互联网和经济社会融合发展。
20、我们的目标，就是要让互联网发展成果惠及 13 亿多中国人民，更好地造福各国人民。2016.5 CATTI 英语二级笔译实务科目试题E-CPassage 1Jane Goodall was already on a London dock in March 1957 when she realized that her passport was missing. In just a few hours, she was due to depart on her first trip to Africa. A school friend had moved to a farm outside Na
21、irobi and, knowing Goodalls childhood dream was to live among the African wildlife, invited her to stay with the family for a while. Goodall, then 22, saved for two years to pay for her passage to Kenya: waitressing, doing secretarial work, temping at the post office in her hometown, Bournemouth, on
22、 Englands southern coast. Now all this was for naught, it seemed.Its hard not to wonder how subsequent events in her life rather consequential as they have turned out to be to conservation, to science, to our sense of ourselves as a species might have unfolded differently had someone not found her p
23、assport, along with an itinerary from Cooks, the travel agency, folded inside, and delivered it to the Cooks office. An agency representative, documents in hand, found her on the dock. “Incredible,” Goodall told me last month, recalling that day. “Amazing.”Within two months of her arrival, Goodall m
24、et the paleontologist Louis Leakey Nairobi was a small town for its white population in those days and he immediately offered her a job at the natural-history museum where he was curator. He spent much of the next three years testing her capacity for repetitive 来源：考友回忆分享 | 整理：CATTI 考试资料与资讯work.He be
25、lieved in a hypothesis first put forth by Charles Darwin that humans and chimpanzees share an evolutionary ancestor. Close study of chimpanzees in the wild, he thought, might tell us something about that common progenitor. He was, in other words, looking for someone to live among Africas wild animal
26、s. One night, he told Goodall that he knew just the place where she could do it: Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve, in the British colony of Tanganyika (now Tanzania).In July 1960, Goodall boarded a boat and after a few hours motoring over the warm, deep waters of Lake Tanganyika, she stepped onto the
27、 pebbly beach at Gombe.Her finding, published in Nature in 1964, that chimpanzees use tools extracting insects from a termite mound with leaves of grass drastically and forever altered humanitys understanding of itself; man was no longer the natural worlds only user of tools.After two and a half dec
28、ades of living out her childhood dream, Goodall made an abrupt career shift, from scientist to conservationist.Passage 2Scientists have found the first evidence that briny water flowed on the surface of Mars as recently as last summer, a paper published on Monday showed, raising the possibility that
29、 the planet could support life.Although the source and the chemistry of the water is unknown, the discovery will change scientists thinking about whether the planet that is most like Earth in the solar system could support present day microbial life.The discovery was made when scientists developed a
30、 new technique to analyze chemical maps of the surface of Mars obtained by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.They found telltale fingerprints of salts that form only in the presence of water in narrow channels cut into cliff walls throughout the planets equatorial region.The slopes appear
31、 during the warm summer months on Mars, then vanish when the temperatures drop. Scientists suspected the streaks were cut by flowing water, but previously had been unable to make the measurements.Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter makes its measurements during the hottest part of the Martian day, so scient
32、ists believed any traces of water, or fingerprints from hydrated minerals, would have evaporated.Also, the chemical-sensing instrument on the orbiting spacecraft cannot home in on details as small as the narrow streaks, which typically are less than 16 feet wide.来源：考友回忆分享 | 整理：CATTI 考试资料与资讯But Ojha
33、and colleagues created a computer program that could scrutinize individual pixels. That data was then correlated with high-resolution images of the streaks. Scientists concentrated on the widest streaks and came up with a 100 percent match between their locations and detections of hydrated salts.C-E
34、Passage 1人口问题归根结底是发展问题。我们要关注人口增长与经济社会发展的关系，统筹解决好人口数量、素质、结构和分布问题。我们要重点关注人口分布结构与社会经济发展的关系，把人口问题纳入到国家经济社会发展规划人口流动和家庭结构变化将对公共服务和社会治理带来挑战。大规模的人口流动成为推动社会变迁的主要力量，同时也加快了家庭的小型化、多样化、离散化。我们要大力推进流动人口基本公共服务均等化，着力提升流动人口服务管理水平，确保流动人口公平公正地享受城镇公共资源和社会福利，全面参与政治、经济、社会和文化生活，实现经济立足、身份认同和文化交融。Passage 2本美术馆是以收藏、研究、展示中国近现代
35、至当代艺术家作品为重点的国家艺术博物馆，是新中国成立以后的国家文化标志性建筑。主体大楼为仿古阁楼式，黄色琉璃瓦大屋顶，四周廊榭围绕，具有鲜明的民族建筑风格。主楼建筑面积 18000 多平方米 ，共有 17 个展览厅，展览总面积8300 平方米。本美术馆现收藏各类美术作品 10 万余件，以 19 世纪末至今中国艺术名家和各时期代表作品为主，兼有部分古代书画和外国艺术作品，同时也包括丰富的民间美术作品。建馆以来，本美术馆已举办数千场具有影响的各类美术展览，也成为中国与国际艺术交流的重要平台。本美术馆也注重通过网站及“数字美术馆”项目建设延展公众服务内容和手段，网站 3 次改版，建成 10 多个美术
36、数据库，日益成为美术信息发布、检索与共享平台。2015.11 CATTI 英语二级笔译实务科目试题E-CPassage 1Apple may well be the only technical company on the planet that would dare compare itself to Picasso.In a class at the companys internal university, the instructor likened the 11 lithographs that make up Picassos The Dull to the way Apple
37、builds its smart phones and other devices. The idea is that Apple designers strive for simplicity just as Picasso eliminated details to create a great work of art.来源：考友回忆分享 | 整理：CATTI 考试资料与资讯Steven P. Jobs established the Apple University as a way to inculcate employees into Apples business culture
38、and educate them about its history, particularly as the company grew and the technical business changed. Courses are not required, only recommended, but getting new employees to enroll is rarely a problem.Randy Nelson, who came from the animation studio Pixar, co-founded by Mr. Jobs, is one of the t
39、eachers of “Communicating at Apple.” This course，open to various levels of employees, focuses on clear communication, not just for making products intuitive, but also for sharing ideas with peers and marketing products.In a version of the class taught last year, Mr. Nelson showed a slide of The Bull
40、, a series of 11 lithographs of a bull that Picasso created over about a month, starting in late 1945. In the early stages, the bull has a snout, shoulder shanks and hooves, but over the iterations, those details vanish. The last image is a curvy stick figure that is still unmistakably a bull.“You g
41、o through more iterations until you can simply deliver your message in a very concise way, and that is true to the Apple brand and everything we do,” recalled one person who took the course.In “What Makes Apple, Apple,” another course that Mr. Nelson occasionallyteachers, he showed a slide of the re
42、mote control for the Google TV, said an employee who took the class last year. The remote control has 78 buttons. Then, the employee said. Mr. Nelson displayed a photo of the Apple TV remote control, a thin piece of metal with just three buttons.How did Apples designers decide on three buttons? They
43、 started out with an idea, Mr. Nelson explained, and debated until they had just what was needed 一 a button to play and pause a video, a button to select something to watch, and another to go to the main menu.The Google TV remote control serves as a counterexample. It had so many buttons, Mr. Nelson
44、 said, because the individual engineers and designers who worked on the project all got what they wanted.Passage 2Equipped with the camera extender known as a selfie stick, occasionally referred to as the wand of narcissism,” tourists can now reach for flattering selfies wherever they go.Art museums
45、 have watched this development nervously, fearing damage to their collections or to visitors, as users swing their sticks with abandon. Now they arc taking action. One by one, museums across the United States have been imposing bans on using selfie sticks for photographs inside galleries (adding the
46、m to existing rules on umbrellas, backpacks and tripods), yet another example of how controlling crowding has become part of the museum mission.The Hirshhom Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington prohibited the sticks this month, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston plans to impose a ban. In Ne
47、w York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 来源：考友回忆分享 | 整理：CATTI 考试资料与资讯which has been studying the matter for some lime, has just decided that it will forbid selfie slicks, too. New signs will be posted soon.“From now on, you will be asked quietly to put it away,” said Sree Sreenivasan, the chief digit
48、al officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Its onething to take a picture at arms length, but when it is three times arms length, you arc invading someone elses personal space.The personal space of other visitors is just one problem. The artwork is another. “We do not want to have to put all the
49、 art under glass,” said Deborah Ziska, the chief of public information at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, which has been quietly enforcing a ban on selfie sticks, but is in the process of adding it formally to its printed guidelines for visitors.Last but not least is the threat to the camera operator, intent on capturing the perfect shot and oblivious to the surroundings. “If people are not paying attention in the Temple of Dendur, they can end up in the water with the crocodile sculpture” Mr. Sreenivasan said. “We have so ma
