【试题2】
LAST week, Indonesia announced its 43rd human death from bird flu. It has now recorded more fatalities than any other nation, and in stark contrast to all other countries its death toll is climbing regularly. It looks as though things will get worse before they get better.
The Indonesian government claims to be committed to fighting the disease, caused by the H5N1 virus, but it does not seem to want to spend much of its own money doing so. After the international community pledged $900m in grants and slightly more in very soft loans to combat the spread of bird flu globally and to help nations prepare for a possible human flu pandemic[2], Indonesia put in a request for the full $900m—all of it in grants.
A national bird-flu commission was created in March to co-ordinate the country&39;s response but it has yet to be given a budget. Its chief, meanwhile, has just been given a second full-time job—heading efforts to rebuild the part of Java devastated by an earthquake in May.
Observers say that the available money is being mis-spent, with the focus on humans rather than on animals. The agriculture ministry, for example, is asking for less money for next year than it got this year. This is despite hundreds of thousands of hens dying every month, to say nothing of infected cats, quails, pigs and ducks. Farmers are being compensate at only 2,000 rupiah (21 cents) per bird, well below market price, thereby discouraging them from reporting outbreaks. The country&39;s veterinary surveillance services are inadequate. Pledges to vaccinate hundreds of millions of birds have not been met.
The UN&39;s Food and Agriculture Organisation is starting to establish local disease-control centres to cope with the effects of a virulent mutation, should one occur, but reckons that only one-third of the country will be covered by year&39;s end. A bunch of international do-gooders[4] that is trying to plug some of the gaps is finding it hard to raise money.
第1题
【英译汉必译题】
This week and next, governments, international agencies and nongovernmental organizations are gathering in Mexico City at the World Water Forum to discuss the 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 decade. 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 Pakistan 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 available 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 model 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 frontiers 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 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.
第2题
The conclusion reached at the workshop was that the manufacturing process was obsolete.
A.dilapidated
B.extant
C.archaic
D.outdated
第3题
Benjamin Franklin was remembered for his good judgment.
A.vigilance
B.guilty
C.sagacity
D.resolution
第4题
The Central Bank is interested in how much money is in______in the economy.
A.circulation
B.circle
C.reserve
D.rotation
第5题
In the advanced course of our training, students must take objective tests at monthly
A.distance
B.length
C.gaps
D.intervals
第6题
r of philosophy, will be______as president in March.
A.indulged
B.inaugurated
C.induced
D.integrated
第7题
降,但是如此数据仍令人心惊。尽管公安部出台了一系列的规定,对违反交通规则者予以惩罚,但结果并不显著,每年全国仍有许多交通事故。
毋庸讳言,所谓的“中国式过马路”其实已经成为城市交通管理的一种“痼疾”,这一现象折射出的,不仅是管理手段的乏力与无奈,还有国人规则意识的淡薄。有很多人认为造成这些事故的原因是司机横冲直撞,甚至把斑马线变成了死亡线。在抱怨之余,我们也该想一想,行人之责。我们在文化心理上有一个问题,那就是立了规矩却不严格按照规矩来执行,这也使得“不违法、小违规”在社会上大行其道。大环境中,人们很多时候不太守规矩。“中国式过马路”就折射出我们在发展过程中所出现的“不守规矩方式”。
第8题
会事业全面进步,人民生活从温饱不足发展到总体小康,中国社会迸发出前所未有的活力和创造力。
同时,我们清醒地认识到,中国仍然是世界上最大的发展中国家,中国在发展进程中遇到的矛盾和问题无论规模还是复杂性都是世所罕见。要全面建成惠及十几亿人口的更高水平的小康社会,进而基本实现现代化、实现全体人民共同富裕,还有很长的路要走。
我们将继续从本国国情出发,坚持中国特色社会主义道路,坚持改革开放,推动科学发展,促进社会和谐,全面推进经济建设、政治建设、文化建设、社会建设以及生态文明建设,全力做到发展为了人民、发展依靠人民、发展成果由人民共享。
第9题
holly.
A.integral
B.suitable
C.inevitable
D.compatible
第10题
unsettling.
A.fond
B.preferred
C.adapted to
D.accustomed to
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