SECTION 1Compulsory Translation（30 points) The first outline of The Ascent of Man was writ

onth it was to serve as the test bed for the highly acclaimed third-generation mobile phones. A subsidiary of British Telecom (BT), the British phone company, cobbled together a network and prepared to hand out prototype mobile handsets to about 200 volunteers. But problems arose in the software that keeps track of each call as it moves from one tower's range to another's. BT postponed the trial until late summer, after a similar delay announced a few weeks earlier by NTT DoCoMo in Japan.

What's the big deal? Aren't thousands of mobile calls "handed off" every day from one "cell" to another without a glitch? They are indeed. But third-generation technology, or 3G, is so radically new that it requires a rethinking of just about every aspect of how mobile phones work, from the handset to the transmission masts to the software that runs them. For this reason, 3G are a massive engineering and construction project that will take years to complete and cost hundreds of billions of dollars. The magnitude of this effort has somehow been forgotten in the mad scramble to be first out.

The handover problem is a case in point. When you talk on a conventional mobile phone, your call is beamed as a continuous stream of digital data to the nearest receiver. The technology for handing these calls off from one area to the next was worked out years ago. But a 3G phone is different it bundle up the data into little packets and sends them through the airwaves, one at a time. This creates the impression of an Internet connection's being "always on," which is good news. But keeping rack of these data bundles from one region to the next is a daunting engineering problem -- and, more to the point, a brand-new one. NEC, the Japanese phone company that supplies BT with equipment for its Isle of Man trail, hasn't had time to work it out.

Handset makers also have work to do. The 3G technologies have so many features; only a wonder gizmo could handle all of them, which is why none exists. The phones are not only supposed to work with 3G networks but also with the less sophisticated ( but cheaper and more useful) General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology already being installed on the continent and also with the current mobile phone standard, Global System for Mobile(GSM). Phones for corporate executives are also supposed to adapt to dozens of other standards around the world. Doing all this requires powerful, custom-built computer chips, which are tough to make quickly.

A device that does so many things is bound to guzzle a lot of power. Prototype 3G phones drain so much juice that they've been known to get uncomfortably hot. Batteries that can keep a conventional phone running for days would fizzle in a 3G handset in a matter of minutes. Engineers are searching for alternative, but at the moment the lack of a long-lasting battery is a major hurdle.

None of these problems is insurmountable, but neither will they be resolved quickly. Analysts at Forrester Research in the Netherlands predict that even in 2005, when more than half of Europe's phones will be connected to the Internet, fewer than 15 percent of them will use 3G. That's a measure of this technology's complexity and immaturity.

女士们，先生们：

早上好!很荣幸参加此次论坛，与各位共同探讨环保与发展方面的问题。气候变化是环境问题，但归根到底是发展问题。这个问题是在发展进程中出现的，应该在可持续发展框架下解决。只有各方在促进自身发展过程中不断提高技术水平，积极建立适应可持续发展要求的生产和消费模式，才能从根本上应对气候变化的挑战。[TONE]∥[TONE]

国际社会在推动减少温室气体排放的同时，要充分考虑如何应对已经发生的气候变化，增强发展中国家特别是小岛屿国家和最不发达国家抵御灾害性气候的能力。环境保护是全人类的共同责任。但是，我们要坚持联合国所确立的区别对待的责任原则。这一原则反映了不同国家经济发展水平、历史责任、当前人均排放水平上的差异，是未来国际合作的基础。[TONE]∥[TONE]

根据这一原则，发达国家应该完成《京都议定书》确定的减排目标，向发展中国家提供帮助，并在2010年后继续率先承担减排义务。不久前，欧盟决定到2020年将温室气体排放减少20％。我们对此表示欢迎，同时希望其他发达国家也能做出类似承诺。[TONE]∥[TONE]

发展中国家工业化、城市化、现代化进程远未完成，发展经济、改善民生的任务艰巨。为了实现这些目标，发展中国家的能源需求将有所增长。因此，在现阶段对发展中国家提出强制性减排要求是不合适的。同时，我们发展中国家也应该在力所能及的范围内采取措施，为促进全球可持续发展做出积极贡献。[TONE]∥[TONE]

国际社会要加强合作，使更多国家在发展经济的同时保护生态环境。要实现这一目标，国际社会应该着眼未来，建立新的利益观和合作模式，积极开展务实合作。要加强研发和推广节能技术、环保技术、可再生能源技术等，并使广大发展中国家买得起、用得上这些技术。[TONE]∥[TONE]

doors to the world. Germany 2006 will be a place where people from all around the word will be welcomed by friends. The tournament is being held on the finest stage in the world, one whose symbolism far transcends the boundaries of sport. Hark back to Germany's triumph at the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland, which sealed the country's return to the international fold in the most beautiful manner possible. //

In 2006, Germans will have the opportunity to rectify certain clichés and preconceived ideas. The world will have the chance to see what a fantastic country Germany truly is: the beauty and diversity of its landscapes, its rich cultural heritage and the intelligence and good humor of its people. As for the legendary German work ethic and organizational skills, I am pleased to say those perennial qualities are alive and well—and we at FIFA are only too happy to take advantage of them. //

For at all levels, the overall investment in any World Cup tournament is immense. The event is financially supported by the German state, but also by the "lender" and the Host Cities. I would like to take this opportunity to offer my heartfelt thanks to all those who are currently working with such passion and commitment to make the occasion a memorable one. Today's efforts will bear fruit tomorrow. German football, for example, will boast twelve spanking new or vastly improved stadiums in 2006. The whole German population too will benefit in terms of better transport and reception infrastructures. //

Football clubs, schools and people all over the land have really got behind this great event, providing further proof, if any were needed, of the prominent role football plays in all our lives. In this respect I would like to congratulate the German Football Association for inviting people from all walls of life to take part in this great event. Like Mexico, Italy and France, Germany is now organizing its second FIFA World Cup. Back in 1974 when it first held the World Cup, only sixteen sides took part, including the now-defunct German Democratic Republic (GDR) and Zaire. The latter were the only representative from the African continent and conceded fourteen goals with no reply. //

The 2006 tournament will be a vastly different affair. Thirty-two teams will have qualified, including five from Africa, all of whom now perform. at a far higher level. These performances bear witness to FIFA' s efforts in the last quarter of a century to help me nations of the football world to compete on an equal footing. I will have the immense pleasure of welcoming you amongst my friends in Germany. We look forward to seeing you in 2006 to celebrate this unity! //

越加严重。面对这一现象，发展中国家不能容忍，发达国家也感到了危机。正因为如此，大家才把多哈回合定为发展回合。这是WTO历史上巨大的进步，也是各个成员富有远见的选择。果能如此，不论富国还是穷国，都会因为生活在一个更加和谐的世界而获得持久发展的环境。//

中国支持多哈回合达成平衡的协议，但所谓平衡，不是发达国家各自在谈判中有得有失的自我平衡，而必须是有助于发展中成员的全面平衡。因为事实上，发达国家和发展中国家的总体水平已经很不平衡了，这种失衡已严重影响到世界经济的全面发展。要找回平衡，只有发达国家为本轮谈判做出更多的贡献，为发展中国家提供足够的政策空间。//

农业是多哈谈判的核心。发达国家和发展中国家都面临压力，但富国和穷国的压力是不同的。在全球26亿农民中，发展中国家有25亿，而且大多数处在贫困状态。即使发展中国家有雄心、有诚意去推进贸易自由化，也不能不顾及几千万甚至几亿农民的基本生计。如果让那些已处于贫困线上的农民遭受更大的冲击，将引发灾难，届时发达国家也不得安宁。//

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Nowhere to Go

For the latest on the pursuit of the American Dream in Silicon Valley, all you have to do is to talk to someone like "Nagaraj"(who didn't want to reveal his real name). He's an Indian immigrant who, like many other Indian engineers, came to America recently on an H-1B visa, which allows skilled workers to be employed by one company for as many as six years. But one morning last month, Nagaraj and a half dozen other Indian workers with H-1Bs were called into a conference room in their San Francisco technology-consulting firm and told they were being laid off. The reason: weakening economic conditions in Silicon Valley, "It was the shock of my lifetime," says Nagaraj.

This is not a normal bear-market sob story. According to federal regulations, Nagaraj and his colleagues have two choices. They must either return to India, or find another job in a tight labor market and hope that the Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) allows them to transfer their visa to the new company. And the law doesn't allow them to earn a pay-check until all the paperwork winds its way through the INS bureaucracy. "How am I going to survive without any job and without any income?" Nagaraj wonders.

Until recently, H-1B visas were championed by Silicon Valley companies as the solution to the region's shortage of programmers and engineers. First issued by the INS in 1992, they attract skilled workers from other countries, many of whom bring families with them, lay down roots and apply for the more permanent green cards. Through February 2000, more than 81,000 workers held such visas—but with the dot-com crash, many have been getting laid off. That's causing mass consternation in U.S. immigrant communities. The INS considers a worker "out of status" when he loses a job, which technically means that he must pack up and go home. But because of the scope of this year's layoffs, the U.S. government has recently backpedaled, issuing a confusing series of statements that suggest workers might be able to stay if they qualify for some exceptions and can find a new company to sponsor their visa. But even those loopholes remain nebulous. The result is thousands of immigrants now face dimming career prospects in America, and the possibilities that they will be sent home. "They are in limbo. It is the greatest form. of torture," says Amar Veda of the Silicon Valley-based Immigrants Support Network.

The crisis looks especially bad in light of all the heated visa rhetoric by Silicon Valley companies in the past few years. Last fall the industry won a big victory by getting Congress to approve an increase in the annual number of H-1B visas. Now, with technology finns retrenching, demand for such workers is slowing. Valley heavyweights like Intel, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard have all announced thousands of layoffs this year, which include many H-1B workers. The INS reported last month that only 16,000 new H-1B workers came to the United States in February—down from 32,000 in February of last year.

Last month, acknowledging the scope of the problem, the INS told H-1B holders "not to panic," and that there would be a grace period for laid-off workers before they had to leave the United States. INS spokeswoman Eyleen Schmidt promises that more specific guidance will come this month. "We are aware of the cutbacks," she says. "We're trying to be as generous as we can be within the confines of the existing law."

ite counterparts, says the American Council on Education (ACE).

Twenty years ago, according to ACE's "Annual Status Report on Minorities in Higher Education," 30 percent of African American male high school graduates (ages 18 to 24) were enrolled in college, compared with 28 percent of same-age black females and 41 percent of white males.

Now, some 37 percent of black men are enrolled, compared with 42 percent of African American women and 44.5 percent of white males. So while there are more black males enrolling in college today than 20 years ago, other groups have outstripped them in enrolling and, even more importantly, in retention rates.

The graduation rate of black men is lower than that of any group. Only 35 percent of black males enrollees graduated within six years from colleges in 1996, compared with 59 percent of white males, 46 percent of Hispanic men, 41 percent of American Indian males and 45 percent of the black women who entered the same year.

Surveys and reports are hinting that the country's educational apparatus is stacked against the black male. Fewer than one in five students of color have graduated from high school, have a set of college-prep courses on their high school transcripts and "demonstrate basic literacy" -- the necessities for being "college ready."

Another glaring problem is that black males are disproportionately labeled as discipline and behavioral problems and fast tracked out of high schools through expulsions and suspensions.

As if that's not enough, says ACE's William Harvey, there's a virtual drying up of federal aid-to-education grant money coupled with jacked-up tuitions, which make it necessary for low-income students to assume an average ＄ 20,000 debt to finish a four-year curriculum.

"For those in the lower economic category, the availability of financial aid determines who gets to go to college and who doesn't," observes Harvey.

Harvey points out that, over the years, federal funding has undergone a "complete reversal," from "a 70 percent to 30 percent grant-to-loan ratio 20 years ago" to the exact opposite today.

"An 18-year-old male will be more inclined to say, 'I want money in my pocket now' and attempt to get a job," adds Harvey. "But many take on the debt, become part-time students, work 20-plus hours a week and become five-year students at a four-year college."

The inequity of that educational apparatus is especially clear when you look at the black males who persevere -- those who go on to finish high school, earn a bachelor's degree and even finish grad school.

A recently released Census report shows that, whether they have a high school diploma or a master's degree, black men will earn roughly 25 percent less than Whites.

富的源泉。知识能通过网络分享，我们生活在一个由网络连通的智慧时代。我们分享资源并形成各种伙伴关系。知识与经验的交流和分享创造了一个互惠互利的共同进步的环境。

在21世纪，创造和运用知识是竞争的关键，也是国家繁荣和积累财富的关键。这要求国民在工作中不断积累知识，提高技术水平。国民必须接受多层次的教育与培训，而最根本的做法就是普及教育，也就是让人人都获得接受教育的机会。而要达到普及教育的目的，我们必须通过“开放式学习”方法和技术来扩大教育范围，极大地增加学生接受教育的机会。

在开放式学习系统里，学生能学会如何成功地参与团队活动。在这样的团队活动中，学生能够互动，谦虚倾听别人的见解，学会尊重他人的观点，同时也培养批判性思维的能力。

在经济全球化的背景下，我们看到有更多的跨经济、跨国界的合作伙伴出现。一个国家要在经济全球化的竞争中取胜，必须为其公民提供普及教育以优化个人对社会的贡献。而普及教育只有在开放式学习中才能实现。

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Recent polls show that the majority of Americans actually do believe that Sino-American relationship, bothpolitically and economically, is vitally important. Please allow me to offer some suggestions on what we can dotogether to cultivate our relationship, and to continue the progress of the last years so that we can work towardseducating our policymakers and citizens about the benefits of free trade to our economies. [TONE]∥[TONE]

First, we must seek out opportunities to continue the exchange of views between our two countries.We must encourage students to study abroad--here I must admit we have a much harder time to getAmericans to travel than our friends in China. We should also urge the exchanges of academics,scientists and artists. [TONE]//[TONE]

Second, we need more exchange of business leaders. I recall the Fortune Global Forum that was held inShanghai in 1999, where more than 800 representatives, including 300 Chairmen, presidents and CEOs fromthe world's leading multinationals came to China to meet with over 200 Chinese entrepreneurs to exchangeopinions and share the experiences that affect their businesses. [TONE]∥[TONE]

Third, I would urge you to come to the United States to learn about the factors that shape Americanthinking and the formulation of its policies. Ask your friends and contacts to make introductions for you tomeet with business leaders and policymakers. [TONE]∥[TONE]

Fourth, explore opportunities to invest in the United States. American legislators respond to nothingmore than to their constituents. Many of you already have subsidiaries in the US Here, the Haier Groupcomes to mind. Haier has invested over $15 million in a building in New York and over $40 million inCamden, South Carolina, employing significant numbers of Americans. We need to work together tomake sure that policymakers understand that our bilateral trade relationship is beneficial to both of oureconomies. This is a pattern that the Japanese used in the 1970s and 1980s to develop markets as well asto exert influence. [TONE]∥[TONE]

Finally, we should work together to make the APEC viable again. We defined in 1994 that we would reach free trade among many APEC nations by the year 2005. We have lost momentum. China and the USshould work together to reinvigorate the APEC process. [TONE]∥[TONE]

Let me conclude by saying that Sino-American relations are the best they have ever been. We have beenable to collaborate on important political and security matters that are vital to the well-being of our peoples.Our economic interests are closely linked as well. China and the US both seek economic growth and stability.Although we may choose to pursue our interests through different policies, we strive to liberalize our marketsand provide businesses with transparent and predictable access for goods and services. [TONE]∥[TONE]

The stability of our relations is much like the stability of a three-legged stool. The legs consist ofstrategic, political, and economic relations. If anyone of the legs is either missing or weak, the stool isunstable and is in danger of collapsing. It is our responsibility to maintain the strength of these legs.[TONE]∥[TONE]

尊敬的来宾，女士们，先生们：

早上好! 我很高兴来参加《财富》全球论坛，也很荣幸在此与大家交流一下我的看法。

27年前，“开放”对于中国还是一个很陌生的词汇。在27年问，国民生产总值增加了1,100%，平均增速达9.4%。开放给中国人民带来了实惠，中国人从心里喜欢开放。[TONE]∥[TONE]

今天，中国的对外开放进入了一个新的时期。

首先，中国的开放水平上了一个新台阶。自加入WTO以后，经过3年多的过渡期，我们已经按照有关规则和承诺，调整了国内的经济体制，关税总水平已经降到了10%以下，所有非关税壁垒已被取消，国内各行业尤其是服务业的对外开放程度已大幅度提高。[TONE]∥[TONE]

第二，中国的市场规模越来越大，方兴未艾。谁也不怀疑，中国正在成为世界上成长最快的巨大市场，已经成为世界最大的电视机、电冰箱和手机消费国；住房、家用轿车和国内外的旅游已经成为新的消费热点。去年，中国国内市场消费了2万亿美元以上的生产资料和生活资料，中国东部近5亿人口的地区，人均GDP已经达到了2,000美元。在中国的银行里，居民储蓄已超过1.5万亿美元。[TONE]∥[TONE]

第三，中国不仅有较高素质的蓝领工人，还将有众多白领工人，过去，中国靠廉价的劳动力优势来竞争；今天，在继续保有这一优势的同时，高素质人才也成长起来了。今年，中国大学毕业生将超过300万人，中国人力资源的智力水平和外语普及程度都将不断提高。[TONE]∥[TONE]

第四，中国的基础设施日臻完善，目前，中国高速公路总里程已达到3万公里；铁路总营运里程7.2万公里，居世界第三；港口吞吐量41亿吨，居世界首位；电话用户总数已超过6.5亿户，居世界第一；互联网用户数超过9,400万户，居世界第二。中国已有条件在完善和通畅的条件下与世界合作。

现在，恐怕全世界绝大多数人都不怀疑中国的稳定和秩序了。[TONE]∥[TONE]

her. Our annual University Awards recognize and honor the best in our community. Some have excelled in educating students. Some have scaled new heights in research while others have served the country with distinction. Each of our winners has scaled impressive heights. Your endeavors have helped raise the standing of our university. Your achievements have made a contribution to our country. We take pride in your achievements.

Is there a formula to achieving excellence? Can excellence be measured by determining one's achievements and contributions? In this age, we tend to measure things quantitatively. But how do we grade excellence?

If there should be a formula, I would like to mention the two Ps and two Cs here. The two Ps refer to Perspiration and Perseverance. The two Cs are Curiosity and Courage. All these make up the quintessential qualities in our quest for excellence. Today I would like to focus on the quality of curiosity.

Curiosity, or what Einstein called a child-like sense of wonder, makes us question things that others normally do not even notice. The great French novelist Anatole France, Nobel laureate in Literature, had this to say: "The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of your minds..." The teacher's role is to draw our students' curiosity, to inspire them, to make them see the world with fresh perspectives, and to lead them to ask different and interesting questions.

Curiosity is also a powerful force that drives research. The researcher sustains his or her joy in knowledge and creative expression and follows a child-like curiosity, leading him to untrodden paths of discovery. As Einstein put it, "I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious."

Therefore, at the core of the best universities is an intellectual method that encourages questioning. The skepticism towards existing wisdom leads to new ways of thinking, and breakthroughs in knowledge. Deepening this spirit of enquiry is the most important challenge for our universities.