英译汉练习试卷1

一、1.Translation

Part V  Translation (20%)

0. Newspapers often have information on gardening, cooking and fashion as well as a small but very popular section on jokes and cartoons (漫画).

1. They were up very late on the Saturday evening, getting everything ready for the next day, and while they were busy they saw the glow of a fire start in the sky.

2. If an economist were asked which of three groups borrow most--people with rising incomes, stable incomes, or decreasing incomes, his probable answer would be those with decreasing incomes.

3. Richard Dienabier, psychology (心理学) professor at the University of Nebraska in London, believes that social attitudes account for much of the increase in cheating.

4. It began to decline (衰落) about a hundred years ago, when many girls left home to go into service in town many miles away, and men also left home in increasing number in search of work, and home was where work was.

5. Today, every American school child learns Lincoln"s Gettysburg Address by heart.

6. It has been demonstrated that rats will, when given a choice over a period of time, prefer water with vitamins to water without vitamins even though there is no difference in taste or smell between the two water bottles.

7. Along with each question the teacher writes the correct answer and also three statements that look like correct answers to students who have not learned the material properly.

8. In making investigations, we ought to get information about what similar items the competitors are offering on the market, what prices they are quoting (报价), what features their products have, who their regular customers are, etc.

9. Scientists who study sleep state that when dreaming occurs, your eyeballs begin to move more quickly (although your eyelids are closed).