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1、第 4 版塊科技類題材一、背誦二、英譯漢：相關表達1. （浙江工商大學 2014）Before we replace angst about housing, mortgages and credit marketswinxiety about rising oil pri, consider what weve learnedhe past several months. Wehad a housing bubble;ts now obvious.t how di it happen? Why was its bursti g sopainful? Without answers, we c

2、ant hope to reduce chanof a repeat.Boil it down to the three Rs: rocket scientists, regulators, and ratings agencies.The rocket scientists are the wizards of Wall Street who invented securitiest supedlydispersed risk widely but actually created muore leveragen proved wise.In a modern capitalist syst

3、em, regulators provide guardrails to keep markets from driving theeconomy off a cliff. The regulators failed. Whether regulators should or could have restrainedinnovation on Wall Street or prohibited business deals betis a tough question.n consenting, sophisticated adultsAmong their many failings, t

4、he regulators allowed lenders to make a fundamental mistake: Tolend not against the borrowers cash flow ande, but instead to lend against the seeminglyinexorable increasehe value of the collateral. Mortgages were made to people who couldntafford the payments because the lender (or investor) figuredt

5、 if the borrower defaulted, thehouse would always be worth moren the loan.Then there are the rating agencies, mainly Moodys and Standard & Poors. Credit-ratingagencies assigned high ratings to complex structured subprime debt based on inadequatehistorical data and, in some cases, flawed ms, the Fina

6、nl Stability Forum, a collection ofregulators and central bers, said in an April report. As investors realized this, they lostconfidence in ratings of securitized products more generally.But investors who red on the rating agencies - particularly supedly sophisticated penfunds and other institutions

7、 - are at fault, too. Rating firms became a crh for investors whosimply didnt want to spend the time and money required to be prudent investors aime whenlowerest rates had everyone reaching for higher returns without contemplating the higherrisks.A little back to basics in brepeat of the Panic of 08

8、.ing and investing would go a substantial way toward avoiding a2. （大學 2012） Unended consequencan be a byproduct of schange. WhenHenry Ford invented the automobile, the world was transformed by its speed and convenience,but few people considered what millions of automobiles might mean for the worlds

9、energy supply and climate a century down the road.Similarly, with the proliferation of theal computer, businesses and consumers quicklyrealized the cost- and time-saving benefits of theernet,and high-speed broadband.Information technology transformed the information age - and global commerce - by ma

10、king itdramatically easier to manage information, communicate, perform research, play and shop.Nowhere is this more evidentn in our nations efforts to reduce energy demand andgreenhouse gas emiss. The days when businesses could send a producto the marketplacewithoutconsidering how it might impact th

11、e environment are over.Dell Inc. was founded with the vit customers could be best served through directrelationships. Twenty-three years later, the direct relationship, now a cornerstone of many globalcompanies, can be one of our most valuable tools in collective efforts to reduce energy consumption

12、 and protect the environment.The ever-accelerating pace of innovation has created the need for manufacturers to look at, anddeal with, the entire lifecycle of the technology they create.We also should make a commitment to maain responsibility throughout a productire lifecycle. This starts with desig

13、n and ends when the product is no longer wanted. We should thenrecover it, and provide updates to customers and the public on our progress inthese steps.plishingGlobal industry has been a catalyst for innovation and opportunity since the early days of theindustrial revolution. Moren two centuries la

14、ter, the same entrepreneurial spirit andcompetitiontledtotheautomobileandalcomputercanbringnewenvironmental-friendly ventures.3. （對外經(jīng)貿(mào) 2014）Homeownership has let us down. Fenerations, Americans bevedtowning a home was an axiomatic good. Our political leaders hammered home the po. FrlinRoosevelt held

15、t a country of homeowners was “unconquerable.” Homeownership could even,he words of Gee H.W. Bushs Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)， JackKemp, “save babies, save children, save famis and save America.” A house wifront lawnand a picket fence wasnt just a nice place to live or a risk-f

16、ree investment; it was a way totransform a nation. No wonder leaders of all political stripes wanted to spend morebillion a year on subsidies and tax breaks to encourage people to buy.n $100But the dark side of homeownership is now all too apparent: foreclosures and walkaways,neighborhoodsd by aband

17、oned properties and plummeting home values, a nation inwhich famis have $6 trillion less in housing wealthn they did just three years ago.,easy lending stimulated by the cult of homeownership may have triggered the finanl crisis andled directly to its biggest bailout,t onnie Mae and Freddie Mac. Hou

18、sing remains a drag onthe economy. Existing-home sales in July dropped 27% from the prior month, exacerbating fearsof a double-dip. And allt is just the obvious tale of a housing bubble and what happenedwhen it popped. The real story is deeper and darker still.三、漢譯英：1. （大學 2014）科學是講求實際的?？茖W是老老實實的學問，來

19、不得半點虛假，需要付出艱巨的勞動。同時,科學也需要創(chuàng)造，需要幻想，有幻想才能打破傳統(tǒng)的，才能發(fā)展科學?？茖W工作者們，請幻想讓詩人獨占了。嫦娥奔月、龍宮探寶、封神演義上的許多幻想，由于科學發(fā)展，今天大都變成了現(xiàn)實。偉大的天文學家人的天職在勇于探索真理。說：我國人民歷來是勇于探索，勇于創(chuàng)造，勇于的。要打破，披荊斬棘，開拓我國科學發(fā)展的道路。既異想天開，又實事求是，這是科學工作者特有的風格，讓窮的宇宙長河中去探索無窮的真理吧!在無2. （青島大學 2013）近日熱播的片舌尖上的中國令 23 歲的胃口大開。中華美食 中新鮮的食材，精美的菜式，復雜精細的烹制過程以及飲食傳統(tǒng)的多樣性都令他為之著迷。然而，一系列食品安全事件卻令中華美食名聲受損。有關表示，長期 以來食品安全機制