2017年上半年catti三級筆譯實(shí)務(wù)考前預(yù)測卷（第九套）

　　第 1 題：填空題:

　　The importance of agriculture cannot be overstated. More than 50 percent of the world''s labor force is employed in agriculture. The distribution in the early 1980s ranged from 67 percent of those employed in Africa to less than 5 percent in North America. In Western Europe, the figure was about 16 percent; in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, about 32 percent; and in Asia, about 68 percent.

　　Farm size varies widely from region to region. Recently the average for Canadian farms was about 186 ha (about 460 acres) per farm, and for U.S. farms, about 175 ha (about 432 acres). The average size of a single landholding in the Philippines, however, may be somewhat less than 3.6 ha (less than 9 acres), and in Indonesia, a little less than 1.2 ha (less than 3 acres).

　　Size also depends on the purpose of the farm. Commercial farming, or production for cash, is usually done on large holdings. The plantations of Latin America are large, privately owned estates worked by tenant labor. Single-crop plantations produce tea, rubber, cocoa. Wheat farms are most efficient when they comprise some thousands of hectares and can be worked by teams of people and machines. Australian sheep stations and other livestock farms must be large to provide grazing for thousands of animals.

　　Individual subsistence farms or small-family mixed-farm operations are decreasing in number in developed countries but are still numerous in the developing countries of Africa and Asia. A "back-to-the-land" movement in the U.S. reversed the decline of small farms in New England and Alaska in the decade from 1970 to 1980.

　　The conditions that determine what will be raised in an area include climate, water supply, and terrain.

　　Over the 10,000 years since agriculture began to be developed, peoples everywhere have discovered the food value of wild plants and animals and domesticated and bred them. The most important are cereals such as wheat, rice, barley, corn and rye.

　　Agricultural income is also derived from non-food crops such as rubber, fiber plants, tobacco, and oilseeds used in synthetic chemical compounds. Money is also derived from raising animals for pelt.

　　Much of the foreign exchange earned by a country may be derived from a single commodity; for example, Sri Lanka depends on tea, Denmark specializes in dairy products, Australia in wool, and New Zealand and Argentina in meat products. In the U.S., wheat has become a major foreign exchange commodity in recent years.

　　The importance of an individual country as an exporter of agricultural products depends on many variables. Among them is the possibility that the country is too little developed industrially to produce manufactured goods in sufficient quantity or technical sophistication. Such agricultural exporters include Ghana with cocoa, and Myanmar with rice. On the other hand, an exceptionally well-developed country may produce surpluses not needed by its own population; this has been true of the U.S., Canada, and some of the West European countries.

　　第 2 題：填空題:

　　論想象力的培養(yǎng)

　　我的講話是主張培養(yǎng)想象力。

　　那么，我是從什么意義上使用“想象力”這個(gè)詞的呢? “想象力”一詞的定義是：“構(gòu)思出理想圖畫的能力”;“向自己或他人描述不在眼前的事物的能力�！蔽以谙旅娴闹v話使用“想象力”這個(gè)詞時(shí)，就具有這樣的含義。

　　沿著這條思路，我相信可以把我的意思講清楚。不在眼前的事物是什么呢?例如歷史就是。歷史講的是過去的事情。從某種意義上來說，歷史并不存在于腦中——就是說，你看不到過去的事情;但是學(xué)習(xí)歷史能使你得到并增強(qiáng)理解不在眼前的事物的能力。因此我愿向你們推薦歷史課，那是一門最值得學(xué)習(xí)的課程。