考试吧整理：英语六级历年翻译改错真题及答案

　　03.12

　　Thomas Malthus published his "Essay on the Principle of

　　Population" almost 200 years ago. Ever since then, forecasters

　　have being warning that worldwide famine was just around the S1________

　　next corner. The fast-growing population's demand for food,

　　they warned, would soon exceed their supply, leading to S2________

　　widespread food shortages and starvation.

　　But in reality, the world's total grain harvest has risen

　　steadily over the years. Except for relative isolated trouble spots S3________

　　like present-day Somalia, and occasional years of good harvests, S4________

　　the world's food crisis has remained just around the corner.

　　Most experts believe this can continue even as if the population S5________

　　doubles by the mid-21st century, although feeding 10 billion

　　people will not be easy for politics, economic and environmental S6________

　　reasons. Optimists point to concrete examples of continued

　　improvements in yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, S7________

　　more fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more than

　　double corn and wheat yields in an experiment. Elsewhere, rice S8________

　　experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with few stems S9_________

　　and more seeds. There is no guarantee that plant breeders can

　　continue to develop new, higher-yielding crop, but most

　　researchers see their success to date as reason for hope. S10________

　　04.6

　　Culture refers to the social heritage of a people - the

　　learned patterns for thinking, feeling and acting that characterize

　　a population or society, include the expression of these S1._______

　　patterns in material things. Culture is compose of non-material S2._______

　　culture -abstract creations like values, beliefs, customs

　　and institutional arrangements and material culture -

　　physical object like cooking pots, computers and bathtubs. S3._______

　　In sum, culture reflects both the ideas we share or everything S4._______

　　we make. In ordinary speech, a person of culture is

　　the individual can speak another language - the person who S5._______

　　is unfamiliar with the arts, music, literature, philosophy, or S6._______

　　history. But to sociologists, to be human is to be cultured,

　　because of culture is the common world of experience we S7._______

　　share with other members of our group.

　　Culture is essentially to our humanness. It provides a S8._______

　　kind of map for relating to others. Consider how you find

　　your way about social life. How do you know how to act in a

　　classroom, or a department store, or toward a person who

　　smiles or laugh at you? S9._______

　　Your culture supplies you by broad, standardized, S10._______

　　ready-made answers for dealing with each of these situations.

　　Therefore, if we know a persons culture, we can understand

　　and even predict a good deal of his behavior.