新東方：英語(yǔ)四級(jí)考試閱讀30天學(xué)習(xí)筆記

　　注：考得是二段末句

　　Even better, Paley's Remote Scanning Services Company could detect crop problems before they became visible to the eye. Mounted on a plane flown at 3,000 feet at night, an infrared scanner measured the heat emitted by crops. The data were transformed into a color-coded map showing where plants were running "fevers". Farmers could then spot-spray, using 50 to 70 percent less pesticide than they otherwise would.

　　39. The application of infrared scanning technology to agriculture met with some difficulties due to ______.

　　A) the lack of official support

　　B) its high cost

　　C) its failure to help increase production

　　D) the lack of financial support

　　注：考得是三段的第二句，因果關(guān)系due to ，B項(xiàng)為錯(cuò)誤推理

　　The bad news is that Paley's company closed down in 1984, after only three years. Farmers resisted the new technology and long-term backers were hard to find. But with the renewed concern about pesticides on produce, and refinements in infrared scanning, Paley hopes to get back into operation. Agriculture experts have no doubt the technology works.

　　40. Infrared scanning technology may be brought back into operation because of ________.

　　A) growing concern about the excessive use of pesticides on crops

　　B) the desire of farmers to improve the quality of their produce

　　C) the forceful promotion by the Department of Agriculture

　　D) full support from agriculture experts

　　注：因果關(guān)系詞 because of

　　"This technique can be used on 75 percent of agricultural land in the United States," says George Qerther of Texas A& M. Ray Jackson, who recently retired form the Department of Agriculture, thinks remote infrared crop scanning could be adopted by the end of the decade. But only if Paley finds the financial backing which he failed to obtain 10 years ago.

　　一、翻譯標(biāo)準(zhǔn)：忠實(shí)、通順

　　1.忠實(shí)指意義忠實(shí)于原文

　　2.通順指符合中文表達(dá)習(xí)慣。

　　3.“信、達(dá)、雅”

　　二、評(píng)分情況(每題2分)

　　1.全句結(jié)構(gòu)(句子當(dāng)中各個(gè)成分位置順序安排是否恰當(dāng)合理)0.5分

　　2.除全句結(jié)構(gòu)0.5分之外，剩下1.5分分布于句子當(dāng)中三個(gè)重要給分點(diǎn)(通常為重要詞組或者重要結(jié)構(gòu))

　　重要結(jié)構(gòu)：定語(yǔ)從句、比較結(jié)構(gòu)、虛擬語(yǔ)氣、倒裝結(jié)構(gòu)、雙重否定

　　例：Researchers have established that when people are mentally engaged, biochemical changes occur in the brain that allow it to act more effectively in cognitive (認(rèn)知的) areas such as attention and memory.

　　研究人員證實(shí)人們?cè)趧?dòng)腦筋時(shí)，頭腦里會(huì)產(chǎn)生生化變化，使頭腦在注意力和

　　0.5

　　記憶力這類認(rèn)知領(lǐng)域中更加有效的活動(dòng)。(全句結(jié)構(gòu)0.5)

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　　三、翻譯過程

　　1.找到需翻譯語(yǔ)句對(duì)應(yīng)文中的位置

　　2.理解階段

　　1)根據(jù)上下文關(guān)系 2)分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)