翻译二级笔译实务真题2019年上半年-附答案解析.doc

翻译二级笔译实务真题2019年上半年 Section Ⅰ English-Chinese Translation Translate the following two passages into Chinese. 1、In 2009, Time magazine hailed School of One, an online math program piloted at three New York City public schools, as one of the year's 50 best innovations. Each day, School of One software generated individualized math "play lists" for students who then chose the "modality" in which they wished to learn — software, a virtual teacher or a flesh-and-blood one. A different algorithm sorted teachers' specialties and schedules to match a student's needs. "It generates the lessons, the tests and it grades the tests," one veteran instructor marveled. It saved salaries, too, thereby "teacher proofing"(as policy wonks say) education in a few clicks. ? ?Although School of One made only modest improvements in students' math scores and was adopted by only a handful of New York schools (not the 50 for which it was slated), it serves as a notable example of a pattern that Andrea Ga bor, who holds the Bloom berg chair of business journalism at Baruch College/CUNY, charts in "After the Education Wars." For more than three decades, an unlikely coalition of corporate philanthropists, educational technology entrepreneurs and public education bureaucrats has spearheaded a brand of school reform characterized by the overvaluing of technology and standardized testing and a devaluing of teachers and communities. ? ?The trend can be traced back to a hyperbolic 1983 report, "A Nation at Risk," issued by President Ronald Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education. Against the backdrop of an ascendant Japanese economy and consistent with President Reagan's disdain for public education (and teachers' unions), "A Nation at Risk" blamed America's ineffectual schools for a "rising tide of mediocrity" that was diminishing America's global role in a new high-tech world. ? ?Policymakers turned their focus to public education as a matter of national security, one too importa