2009年閱讀真題
Text3
1. Progress in both areas is undoubtedly necessary for the social, political and intellectual development of these and all other societies; however, the conventional view that education should be one of the very highest priorities for promoting rapid economic development in poor countries is wrong.
譯文：毫無疑問，在這兩個領(lǐng)域取得的進(jìn)步對于這些貧窮國家以及其他國家的社會、政治、智力發(fā)展都是必不可少的。傳統(tǒng)觀點認(rèn)為教育應(yīng)成為促進(jìn)貧困國家經(jīng)濟(jì)快速發(fā)展首要考慮的因素之一，然而這種觀點是錯誤的。
2. We are fortunate that is it, because building new educational systems there and putting enough people through them to improve economic performance would require two or three generations.
譯文：我們很慶幸這種觀點錯了，因為在這些國家建立新的教育體制并通過這種體制培養(yǎng)足夠的人才來提高經(jīng)濟(jì)水平需要兩三代人的時間。
3. More recently, while examining housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English- speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building industry's work.
譯文：更近些時候，研究者在調(diào)查房屋建筑業(yè)時發(fā)現(xiàn)，盡管建筑業(yè)的工作很復(fù)雜，但是在德克薩斯州休斯敦市的那些不識字、不會說英語的墨西哥工人卻能一直達(dá)到勞動生產(chǎn)率最佳實踐標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。
2010年閱讀真題
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1. In a move that has intellectual-property lawyers abuzz the U.S. court of Appeals for the federal circuit said it would use a particular case to conduct a broad review of business-method patents.
譯文：美國聯(lián)邦巡回上訴法院宣稱，它將利用一項特殊案例對商業(yè)方法專利開展廣泛復(fù)審，這一舉措令知識產(chǎn)權(quán)律師們議論紛紛。
2. Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with is 1998 decision in the so-called state Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets.
譯文：對商業(yè)方法專利申請的控制是一個突然的180度大轉(zhuǎn)變，因為正是聯(lián)邦巡回法院在1998年被稱為"道富銀行案"的決議中引入了這類專利，當(dāng)時法庭對一種"匯集各種公有基金資產(chǎn)"的方法授予了專利。
3. That ruling produced an explosion in business-method patent filings, initially by emerging internet companies trying to stake out exclusive rights to specific types of online transactions.
譯文：這項裁決帶來了商業(yè)方法專利申請案卷的激增，起初是新興的網(wǎng)絡(luò)公司試圖對特定類型的在線交易方法占得獨家權(quán)利醫(yī)學(xué)全.在.線.提供. gydjdsj.org.cn。
4. The Federal Circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the court's judges, rather than a typical panel of three, and that one issue it wants to evaluate is weather it should" reconsider" its state street Bank ruling.
譯文：聯(lián)邦巡回法院發(fā)布了一項不同尋常的法令，聲明這個案子將由法院的全部12名法官共同聽審，而不是典型的三人聽審團(tuán)；法令還宣布法院希望評估是否需要"重新考慮"對道富銀行案的判決。
Text3
1. Marketers have embraced the two-step flow because it suggests that if they can just find and influence the influentials, those selected people will do most of the work for them.
譯文：營銷人員已經(jīng)采納了這個兩級流動理論，因為該理論表明，他們只需找到有影響力人士就可以為他們完成大部分的工作。
2. Yet it is precisely these non-celebrity influentials who, according to the two-step-flow theory, are supposed to drive social epidemics by influencing their friends and colleagues directly.
譯文：而根據(jù)兩級流動理論，恰恰是這些不是名人但具有影響力的人，通過直接影響他們的朋友和同事，推動了社會流行潮。
3. For a social epidemic to occur, however, each person so affected, must then influence his or her own acquaintances, who must in turn influence theirs, and so on; and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initial influential.
譯文：但是，一種社會流行潮要最終形成，每個受到有影響力影響的人都必須接著影響自己的熟人，繼而這些熟人必須再影響自己的熟人，如此循環(huán)不已；這些人中的每個人能得到多少關(guān)注與最初的有影響力人士并無多大關(guān)系。
