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1、1）建議練習(xí)方式： 先整理總結(jié)學(xué)習(xí)筆記, 歸納梳理 打印此材料, 按考試規(guī)定時間完成（三級筆譯3 小時 , 二級筆譯同比例壓縮, 考試時是 3 小時四篇, 練習(xí)時可一個半小時兩篇） 使用紙質(zhì)詞典, 紙筆完成練習(xí), 不進行網(wǎng)絡(luò)搜索. 練習(xí)完成后, 私信或郵件發(fā)送答案照片索要答案交流群群號.漢譯英：天柱縣位于貴州省東部, 是川渝黔通往兩廣、江浙的重要門戶.素有“黔東第一關(guān)”, “中國重晶石之鄉(xiāng)”, “貴州高原黃金縣”之稱.天柱縣總面積2201 平方千米 , 轄 16 個鄉(xiāng)鎮(zhèn) , 326 個行政村 , 總?cè)丝?41 萬余人 , 以侗 , 苗族為主的少數(shù)民族人口占98.3%, 是貴州省少數(shù)民族比例最多

2、的縣份之一. 天柱蘊藏著豐富的自然資源, 氣候溫和 , 土壤肥沃, 是貴州重要糧食生產(chǎn)基地, 素有 “黔東糧倉”的美譽 . 當(dāng)?shù)啬戤a(chǎn)煙葉2.6 萬擔(dān) （一擔(dān)=50kg） , 是中國煙葉主產(chǎn)區(qū). 這里林業(yè)資源豐富, 森林面積達(dá)185 萬畝（一畝=1/15 公頃） , 覆蓋率達(dá) 56%, 是貴州十大林業(yè)基地之一. 重晶石、黃金、煤等礦產(chǎn)資源豐富.天柱乘西部大開發(fā)的東風(fēng), 迅速崛起. 全縣國民經(jīng)濟穩(wěn)步發(fā)展,綜合實力日益增長, 人民生活水平不斷提高, 產(chǎn)業(yè)結(jié)構(gòu)調(diào)整日益優(yōu)化 , 基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施建設(shè)加強, 城鎮(zhèn)面貌日新月異. “生態(tài)環(huán)境優(yōu)美 , 綜合服務(wù)優(yōu)越, 人居條件優(yōu)良, 經(jīng)濟充滿活力”的新天柱呈現(xiàn)在世人面

3、英譯漢：For generations, coal has been the lifeblood of this mineral-rich stretch of eastern Utah. Mining families proudly recall all the years they toiled underground. Supply companies line the town streets. Above the road that winds toward the mines, a soot-smudged miner peers out from a billboard wit

4、h the slogan“ Coal = Jobs.”But recently, fear has settled in. The state s oldest coal-fired power plant, tucked among the canyons near town, is set to close, a result of new, stricter federal pollution regulations.As energy companies tack away from coal, toward cleaner, cheaper natural gas, people h

5、ere have grown increasingly afraid that their community may soon slip away. Dozens of workers at the facility here, the Carbon Power Plant, have learned that they must retire early or seek other jobs. Local trucking and equipment outfits are preparing to take business elsewhere.“ There are a lot of

6、people worried”, said Kyle Davis, who has been employed at the plant since he was 18.But Rocky Mountain Power, the utility that operates the plant, has determined that it would be too expensive to retrofit the aging plant to meet new federal standards on mercury emissions. The plant is scheduled to

7、be shut by April 2015.For the last several years, coal plants have been shutting down across the country, driven by tougher environmental regulations, flattening electricity demand and a move by utilities toward natural gas.The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the stricter emissions re

8、gulations for the plants will result in billions of dollars in related health savings, and will have a sweeping impact on air quality.“ Coal plants are the single largest source of dangerous carbon pollution in the United States, and we have ready alternatives like wind and solar to replace them”, s

9、aid Bruce Nilles, director of the Sierra Club s Beyond Coal campaign, which wantsto shut all of the nation s coal plants.For many here, coal jobs are all they know. The industry united the area during hard times, too, especially during the dark days after nine men died in a 2007 mining accident some

10、 35 miles down the highway. Virtually everyone around Price knew the men, six of whom remain entombed in the mountainside.But there is quiet acknowledgment that Carbon County will have to change if notnow, soon.Pete Palacios, who worked in the mines for 43 years, has seen coal roar and fade here. Now 86, his eyes grew cloudy as he recalled his