2014年5月英语三级笔译实务试题及答案

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年

5

月英语三级笔译实务试题及答案

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As icebergs in the Kayak Harbor pop and hiss while melting away, this remote

Arctic town and its culture are also disappearing in a changing climate.

Narsaq’s

largest

employer,

a

shrimp

factory,

closed

a

few

years

ago

after

the

crustaceans

fled

north

to

cooler

water.

Where

once

there

were

eight

commercial

fishing vessels, there is now one.

As a result, the population here, one of southern Greenland’s major towns, has

been halved to 1,500 in just a decade. Suicides are up.

“Fishing is the heart of this town,” said Hans Kaspersen, 63, a fisherman. “Lots

of people have lost their livelihoods.”

But

even

as

warming

temperatures

are

upending

traditional

Greenlandic

life,

they

are

also

offering

up

intriguing

new

opportunities

for

this

state

of

57,000

—

perhaps nowhere more so than here in Narsaq.

Vast

new

deposits

of

minerals

and

gems

are

being

discovered

as

Greenland’s

massive ice cap recedes, forming the basis of a potentially lucrative mining industry.

One of the world’s largest depo

sits of rare earth metals

—

essential for manufacturing

cellphones, wind turbines and electric cars

—

sits just outside Narsaq.

This could be momentous for Greenland, which has long relied on half a billion

dollars

a

year

in

welfare

payments

from

Denmark,

its

parent

state.

Mining

profits

could

help

Greenland

become

economically

self

sufficient

and

render

it

the

first

sovereign nation created by global warming.

“One

of

our

goals

is

to

obtain

independence,”

said

Vittus

Qujaukitsoq,

a

prominent labor union leader.

But the rapid transition from a society of individual fishermen and hunters to an

economy

supported

by

corporate

mining

raises

difficult

questions.

How

would

Greenland’s insular settlements tolerate an influx of thousands of Polish or Chinese

construction

workers,

as

has

been

proposed?

Will

mining

despoil

a

natural

environment

essential

to

Greenland’s

national

identity

—

the

whales

and

seals,

the

silent

icy

fjords,

and

mythic

polar

bears?

Can

fisherman

reinvent

themselves

as

miners?

“I

think

mining

will

be

the

future,

but

this

is

a

difficult

phase,”

said

Jens

B.

Frederiksen,

Greenland’s

housing

and

infrastructure

minister

and

a

deputy

premier.

“It’s a plan that not everyone wants. It’s about traditions, the freedom of a boat, family

professions.

”

The Arctic is warming even faster than other parts of the planet, and the rapidly

melting

ice

is

causing

alarm

among

scientists

about

sea-level

rise.

In

northeastern

Greenland, average yearly temperature have risen 4.5 degrees in the past 15 years, and

scientists predict the area could warm by 14 to 21 degrees by the end of the century.

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几年前，

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短短十年间这里的人口减少了一半，

仅剩

1500

人。自杀率也正在上升。

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为采矿业发展提供了良好条件，

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是手机、

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