高等院校英语专业八级考试第5套样题.doc

高等院校英语专业八级考试第5套样题http://www.hienglish.org/tem-8-sample5.htmSection A原 文徐霞客一生周游考察了16个省，足迹几乎遍及全国他在考察的过程中，从来不盲目迷信书本上的结论他发现前人研究地理的记载有许多不很可靠的地方为了进行真实细致的考察，他很少乘车坐船，几乎全靠双脚翻山越岭，长途跋涉；为了弄清大自然的真相，他总是挑选道路艰险的山区，人烟稀少的森林进行考察，发现了许多奇山秀景；他常常选择不同的时间和季节，多次重游各地名山，反复观察变换的奇景 参考译文（1）During his lifetime, Xu Xiake (1586-1641) visited 16 provinces, leaving his footprints in nearly every corner of the country. He never completely depended on books to guide him in his tours nor blindly accepted the conclusions given therein. As a result, he found many inaccuracies in the travel notes written by his predecessors. In order to get a detailed and truthful picture of the places he visited, he seldom traveled by cart or boat. He would walk across hills and dales, and trudge long distances, and to find out the true features of the great world of nature, he would venture far out into jungles seldom visited by human beings. The reward for his work was the discovery of many fantastically beautiful scenes. Famous mountains in various places would find him coming back for revisits during different seasons. There he was, marveling at the kaleidoscopic spectacles during the different hours of the day.参考译文（2 ）[本译文有待改进]：During his lifetime, Xu Xiake traveled around and conducted surveys in 16 provinces, leaving footsteps in virtually every part of the country. When conducting surveys and investigations, he never blindly embraced the conclusions recorded in previous documents and discovered that the documentations made by his predecessors in their geographical studies were not quite reliable in many aspects. In order to ensure that his surveys were real and detailed enough, he seldom traveled by ship or wagon. Instead, he climbed over mountains and hills and traveled long distances almost entirely on foot. In order to develop a true picture of the natural world, he chose to undertake his expeditions in those mountainous areas where roads were difficult to travel and in those woods which were sparsely populated, discovering many marvelous mountains and beautiful scenes. He frequently chose different times and seasons of the year and made repeated visits to the famous mountains across the country so that he could make repeated observations of their wonderful scenery that kept changing all year round. Section B原文：The thirty-second day out of Bombay began inauspiciously. In the morning a sea smashed one of the galley doors. We dashed in through lots of steam and found the cook very wet and indignant with the ship: “She’s getting worse every day. She’s trying to drown me in front of my own stove!” He was very angry. We pacified him, and the carpenter, though washed away twice from there, managed to repair the door. Through that accident our dinner was not ready till late, but it didn’t matter in the end because Knowles, who went to fetch it, got knocked down by a sea and the dinner went over the side. The ship’s captain, looking more hard and thin-lipped than ever, would not notice that the ship, asked to do too much, appeared to lose heart altogether for the first time since we knew her.参考译文：出孟买湾之后的第32天开始就透着些许的不祥。

清晨，海浪先是将一扇船门砸坏我们冒着浓浓的雾气冲了进去，发现厨师浑身湿透，正在对这条船大发牢骚它变得一天比一天不中用了它愣是要想法子把我淹死在这炉灶前他显得异常的愤怒我们设法让他平静下来，而木工尽管被海水冲走过两次，但还是努力把门修好由于发生了这一变故，我们的晚饭直到很晚才弄好，但这一点最终也变得无关紧要，因为前去厨房端饭菜的Knowles被汹涌的波涛掀倒在地，饭菜顺着船舷全都撒入海中船长脸上的表情变得愈发严峻，双唇紧咬他全然没能意识到，整条船由于被要求去完成许多它力所不能及的任务，打从我们认识它以来，首次出现了力不从心的迹象。