2012年自考英语二模拟练习题（17）
将下列英语短文译成汉语（每题10分，共20分）
1.
In England, in addition to the long summer holiday, there are a few weeks at Christmas and Easter. During these holidays the students can go home. Many of them arrange to travel in July, August and September, partly for pleasure and partly for study. Some go to France or other European countries to study foreign languages, especially to get practice in conversation; others go mountain-climbing in the Alps, or visit places of historical interest. The students of some universities, who have to earn money to pay for their education, spend the summer doing various kinds of work. But it is not always easy to find employment.
2.
Scientists hope that if we can discover how the brain works the better use we will be able to put it to. For example, how do we learn language? Man differs most from all the other animals in his ability to learn and use language but we still do not know exactly how this is done. Some children learn to speak and read and write when they are very young compared to average children. But scientists are not sure why this happens. They are trying to find out whether there is something about the way we teach language to children which in fact prevents children from learning sooner
3
The flying fox is not a fox at all. It is an extra large bat that has got a fox’s head, and that feeds on fruit instead of insects. Like all bats, flying foxes hang themselves by their toes when it rest, and travel in great crowds when out flying. A group will live in one spot for years. Sometimes several hundreds of them occupy a single tree. As they return to the tree toward sunrise, they quarrel among themselves and fight for the best places until long after daylight.
4
Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother and father were of Puritan(清教徒的)religion. They left England and moved to the English colony of Massachusetts in order to escape persecution(迫害) for their religion. In Boston, Franklin left school when he was ten years old and worked for his father for two years. Then he went to work on his brother’s newspaper. He became the editor of this paper when he was sixteen. Because he wanted to be independent, he went to Philadelphia, There he bought his own newspaper .He worked hard and saved his money. And by the age of 24 he was one of the most successful men in Philadelphia.
5
Along with the many recent startling advancements in medical technology have come a number of complex moral questions which beg to be answered. We now have the ability to prolong the life of the human body for a very long time. But do patients and their families have rights to curtail cruel and unusual medical treatment that stretches life beyond its normal limits? This dilemma has produced a great ripple effect in history. Is the extension of life an unquestionable goal in itself, regardless of the quality of that life? Modern scientific technology has forced doctors to reevaluate the exact meaning and purpose of their profession.
6
Diligence is the key to success. It means persistent work and does not mean that we are to work ourselves all day and night without rest, food and sleep. The true meaning of diligence is the careful use of time for the purpose of improvement, or to work persistently without any waste of time. It’s a serious mistake to believe in luck. If there is any luck at all, it never comes to a lazy person. For example, if a farmer tills his land one day and sleeps away all his hours the next, then the best of luck would not bring him anything. There would be no harvest for him at all because laziness makes people useless.
将下列句子译成汉语
1、众所周知，吸烟有害健康。
2、她忙得没有时间照顾孩子。
3、这个项目下午在会上讨论。
4、如果我知道这件事，我早就通知你了。
5、你能告诉我哪儿能买到电脑吗？
6、由于天气不好，她没能准时参加会议。
7、他决心把一生献给教育事业。
8、在某种程度上我怀疑他说话的真实性。
9、我就是出生在这间房子里。
10、你最好学英语，而不是法语。
11、你肯定火车还没有开走吗？
12、我认为他们不会推迟这次旅行的。
13、学生应该充分利用课堂时间来学习知识。
14、我们不应当责备她，她已经尽了最大的努力。
15、现在，越来越多大学生想到国外继续学习深造。
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