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Topic 2 (選題二)
Uganda’s eagerness for genuine development is reflected in its schoolchildren’s smiles and in the fact that so many children are now going to school. Since 1997, when the government began to provide universal primary education, total primary enrollment had risen from 3 million to 7.6 million in 2004. Schools have opened where none existed before, although there is some way to go in reaching the poorest areas of the country.
Uganda has also made strides in secondary and higher education, to the point that it is attracting many students from other countries. At the secondary level, enrollment is above 700,000, with the private sector providing the majority if schools. For those who want to take their education further, there are 12 private universities in addition to the four publicly funded institutions, together providing 75,000 places.
Education is seen as a vital component in the fight against poverty. The battle for better health is another, although it is one that will take longer to win in a country that carries a high burden of disease, including malaria and AIDS. Here, the solutions can only arise from a combination of international support and government determination to continue spending public money on preventive care and better public health information.
Current government plants include recruiting thousands of nurses, increasing the availability of drugs and building 200 new maternity units.
Uganda’s high rate of population growth, at 3.6 percent per annum, poses a special challenge in the fight against poverty, says Finance Minister Gerald Ssendaula, who points out that the fertility rate, at 6.9 children per female, is the highest in Africa.
The government’s newly revised Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) puts the “restoration of security” at the top of the current government agenda. This is because it estimates that Uganda has lost 3 percent of its gross domestic product each year that the conflict has persisted. Displaced people are not only a financial burden, they are unable to the economy.
The other core challenges identified by the revised PEAP are finding ways to keep the lowest income growing, improving the quality of education, giving people more control over the size of their families and using public resources transparently and efficiently. It is a document that other poor countries could learn from.
Section 2:
Chinese- English Translation(漢譯英)(40 point) The time for this section is 80 minutes.
Part A Compulsory Translation (必譯題)(20 points)
礦產(chǎn)資源是自然資源的重要組成部分，是人類社會發(fā)展的重要物質(zhì)基礎(chǔ)。中國是世界上最早開發(fā)利用礦產(chǎn)資源的國家之一。過去50年，中國在礦產(chǎn)資源勘探開發(fā)方面取得巨大成就。這為中國經(jīng)濟(jì)的持續(xù)、快速、健康發(fā)展提供了重要保障。
中國政府高度重視可持續(xù)發(fā)展和礦產(chǎn)資源的合理利用，把可持續(xù)發(fā)展確定為國家戰(zhàn)略，把保護(hù)資源作為可持續(xù)發(fā)展戰(zhàn)略的重要內(nèi)容。
中國是一個人口眾多、資源相對不足的發(fā)展中國家。中國主要依靠本國的礦產(chǎn)資源來保障現(xiàn)代化建設(shè)的需要。同時，中國又積極引進(jìn)國外資本和技術(shù)開發(fā)中國礦產(chǎn)資源，利用國外市場與國外礦產(chǎn)資源，并努力推動中國礦山企業(yè)和礦產(chǎn)品進(jìn)入國際市場。
Part B Optional Translations (二選一題)(20 points)
Topic 1(選題一)
眾所周知，鳥無翅膀不能飛，人無雙腿不能走。但對尹小星而言，鳥無翅膀不能飛，人無雙腿卻能走!
1970年出生于江蘇一戶農(nóng)民家庭的尹小星，出生僅8個月就患小兒麻痹癥并發(fā)急性肺炎。雖然最終保住了命，他卻再也不能站立。因?yàn)樯眢w殘疾，初中畢業(yè)后小星不得不輟學(xué)。生存的壓力對他來說顯得格外沉重，他販過水果，養(yǎng)過雞，還下功夫?qū)W習(xí)過中醫(yī)。
在他21歲的時候，這個年輕人竟懷揣一幅地圖，手持一個指南針，搖著輪椅踏上了走遍全中國的艱難路途。
近21年來小星手搖輪椅，足跡遍布31省、市、自治區(qū)，行程7萬多公里，用壞了4部輪椅。他實(shí)現(xiàn)了徒手攀登泰山、華山、衡山等20多座名山，孤身翻越海拔5231米的唐古拉山，手搖輪椅走過絲綢之路，穿越塔克拉瑪干(Taklimakan)大沙漠，徒手攀登上海東方明珠電視塔，圓滿完成從沙漠到香港的旅行。
Topic 2 (選題二)
長城是世界一大奇跡。現(xiàn)在，每年都有幾百萬人到長城游覽。在旺季，幾處最著名的景點(diǎn)總是讓成群結(jié)隊(duì)的游客擠得水泄不通。
中國人修筑城墻的歷史久遠(yuǎn)，可以追溯到戰(zhàn)國時期。歷史上，中國共修過大約20座長城。在所有這些長城中，明長城最長，達(dá)到6700公里。在當(dāng)時，中國技術(shù)在世界上處于領(lǐng)先地位，因此明長城的結(jié)構(gòu)也是最復(fù)雜的。明長城的修筑是為了抵御北方游牧民族的入侵。
清朝建立后，由于它的建立者本身也是游牧民族，他們覺得沒有必要繼續(xù)修筑長城。不過，清政府還是頒布法令對長城進(jìn)行保護(hù)，禁止拆磚。但是，歲月的流逝和連續(xù)戰(zhàn)亂使人們易到之處遭到了嚴(yán)重的破壞。
十幾年來，蓬勃發(fā)展的旅游業(yè)促進(jìn)了長城的修繕工程。目前，多處長城已經(jīng)修復(fù)，或正在修繕中。
