11月二筆考試實務(1)

1、姓名：_ 班級：_ 學號：_-密-封 -線- 11月二筆考試實務(1)考試時間：120分鐘 考試總分：100分題號一二三四五總分分數(shù)遵守考場紀律，維護知識尊嚴，杜絕違紀行為，確?？荚嚱Y(jié)果公正。11月二筆考試實務english to chinesepulsory translationthis week and next, governments, international agencies and nongovernmental organizations are gathering in mexico city at the world water forum to discuss the

2、 legacy of global mulhollandism in water - and to chart a new course.they could hardly have chosen a better location. water is being pumped out of the aquifer on which mexico city stands at twice the rate of replenishment. the result: the city is subsiding at the rate of about half a meter every dec

3、ade. you can see the consequences in the cracked cathedrals, the tilting palace of arts and the broken water and sewerage pipes.every region of the world has its own variant of the water crisis story. the mining of groundwaters for irrigation has lowered the water table in parts of india and pakista

4、n by 30 meters in the past three decades. as water goes down, the cost of pumping goes up, undermining the livelihoods of poor farmers.what is driving the global water crisis? physical availability is part of the problem. unlike oil or coal, water is an infinitely renewable resource, but it is avail

5、able in a finite quantity. with water use increasing at twice the rate of population growth, the amount available per person is shrinking - especially in some of the poorest countries.challenging as physical scarcity may be in some countries, the real problems in water go deeper. the 20th-century mo

6、del for water management was based on a simple idea: that water is an infinitely available free resource to be exploited, dammed or diverted without reference to scarcity or sustainability.across the world, water-based ecological systems - rivers, lakes and watersheds - have been taken beyond the fr

7、ontiers of ecological sustainability by policy makers who have turned a blind eye to the consequences of over- exploitation.we need a new model of water management for the 21st century. what does that mean? for starters, we have to stop using water like there”s no tomorrow - and that means using it

8、more efficiently at levels that do not destroy our environment. the buzz- phrase at the mexico water forum is “integrated water resource management.” what it means is that governments need to manage the private demand of different users and manage this precious resource in the public interest.二級筆譯實務

9、topic 1john keh galbraith, the iconoclastic economist, teacher and diplomat, died saturday at a hospital in cambridge, massachusettshe was 97.mr. galbraith was one of the most widely read authors in the history of economics; among his 33 books was “the affluent society” （1958）, one of those rare wor

10、ks that forces a nation to re-examine its values. he wrote fluidly, even onplex topics, and many of hispelling phrases among them “the affluent society,” “conventional wisdom” and “countervailing power” became part of the language.an imposing presence, lanky and angular at 6 feet 8 inches tall, mr.

11、galbraith was consulted frequently by national leaders, and he gave advice freely, though it may have been ignored as often as it was taken. mr. galbraith clearly preferred taking issue with the conventional wisdom he distrusted.mr. galbraith, a revered lecturer for generations of harvard students,

12、nheless alwaysmanded attention.from the 1930”s to the 1990”s mr. galbraith helped define the terms of the national political debate, influencing both the direction of the democratic party and the thinking of its leaders.he tutored adlai e. stevenson, the democratic nominee for president in 1952 and

13、1956, on keynesian economics. he advised president john f. kennedy （often over lobster stew at the locke-ober restaurant in their beloved boston） and served as his ambassador to india.though he eventually broke with president lyndon b. johnson over the war in vietnam, he helped conceive of mr. johns

14、on”s great society program and wrote a major presidential address that outlined its purposes. in 1968, pursuing his opposition to the war, he helped senator eugene j. mccarthy seek the democratic nomination for president.in the course of his long career, he undertook a number of government assignmen

15、ts, including the organization of price controls in world war ii and speechwriting for presidents franklin d. roosevelt, kennedy and johnson.he drew on his experiences in government to write three satirical novels. he took on the harvard economics department with “a tenured professor,” ridiculing, among others, a certain outspoken character who bore no small resemblance to himself.at his death, mr. ga