2022年上海高级口译必备练习题 (22)

2022年上海高级口译必备练习题 (22)

　　上海高级口译相对来说难度更大，对于基础和中级口译来说，上海高级口译考察大家英语知识点会更广泛。这对于大家来说是备考的难点。那么在实际的备考中，这部分内容应该如何进行积累学习呢?下面小编为大家整理了“2022年上海高级口译必备练习题 (22)”，让我们一起来看看吧!

　　本文是环保类话题，关键词是geo-engineering。全文如下：

　　A former Government chief scientist once told methat we should always have

　　a Plan B ready in casePlan A doesn’t work – or doesn’t happen. He wasspeaking in

　　relation to the possibility of “geo-engineering” the climate if it becomes

　　obvious thatglobal warming is beginning to tip irrevocablytowards a potentially

　　dangerous state.

　　He could only say this once he was out of office ofcourse because the

　　official Government view at thetime – as it is now – was that “there is no Plan

　　B” in relation to climate change, that the onlyconceivable way of avoiding

　　dangerous global temperature increases in the future is to curbthe production of

　　greenhouse gas emissions now.

　　Geo-engineering is defined as the deliberate, large-scale intervention in

　　the Earth’s climatesystem in order to limit undesirable climate change, but it

　　is seen by many as a technical fixtoo far. At its most outlandish,

　　geo-engineering envisages putting giant mirrors in space todeflect incoming

　　solar radiation, but it also includes more benign interventions, such as

　　solarpowered “artificial trees” in the desert for soaking up carbon dioxide in

　　the air.

　　Despite the official view of there being no Plan B, however, last week’s

　　fifth report by theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has placed

　　geo-engineering firmly on theagenda – even if the scientific panel rather

　　denigrates the idea as probably unworkable andpotentially dangerous.

　　Nevertheless, for some critics of geo-engineering the mere mention ofthe concept

　　in such an official and high-profile publication is enough to see red.

　　Indeed, the Canadian-based ETC Group of environmentalists, perceived a

　　Russian-ledconspiracy to subvert the IPCC process. Russia had insisted on the

　　addition of geo-engineering to the report and it is Russia where many

　　geo-engineering projects are beingtested, the ETC Group claims.

　　Before getting carried away with the inclusion for the first time of

　　geo-engineering in an IPCCreport, it is worth pointing out that the panel

　　emphasises the inherent flaws of the proposalsto counter rising temperatures.

　　Deflecting sunlight with artificially created white clouds over theoceans, for

　　instance, would do nothing to prevent the acidification of the oceans and, if it

　　hadto be stopped for any reason, global surface temperatures would soon rise

　　again even higherthan before.

　　In short, if we rely on a technical fix to combat climate change, rather

　　than addressing theroot problem, we could become addicted to the illusion that

　　all is well when, in fact, all that weare doing is delaying the inevitable,

　　while increasing the risk of some serious unintendedconsequences, which history

　　tells us are never far away from big engineering proposals of thiskind.

　　Take for instance the relatively small-scale geo-engineering project to

　　divert the rivers runninginto the Aral Sea of the former Soviet Union. Half a

　　century ago the Aral Sea was the fourthlargest lake in the world with a thriving

　　commercial fishery, but by 2007 it had declined toabout 10 per cent of its

　　original size, with fishing boats stranded in the middle of a toxic saltpan.

　　Soviet scientists diverted water from two rivers running into the Aral Sea

　　to irrigate fields ofcotton and other crops. But in the end they created a

　　barren, dusty landscape where oncethere was a sea filled with wildlife. Toxins

　　and salt blown from the Aral’s parched basementeven threatened the very crops

　　that the project was meant to generate.

　　So when some people talk about the possibility of “fixing” the climate with

　　technologicalinterventions rather than cuts in carbon dioxide emissions, let’s

　　not forget history. Perhaps HMGovernment is right: there is no Plan B.

　　Talking of carbon dioxide, I have just returned from an interesting visit

　　to the Czech Republicwhere health tourism, rather than being frowned upon, is

　　positively encouraged.

　　What has this got to do with carbon dioxide, you may ask? Well one of the

　　more curious, ifnot bizarre “medical” treatments you can buy is a dip in a dry

　　bath of carbon dioxide. For 20minutes or so you bathe everything below your

　　waist (fully clothed) in an atmosphere of“natural” carbon dioxide pumped from

　　underground sources.

　　It is said by those who sell it to cure a range of conditions and even acts

　　like a dose of Viagra.Strictly in the interests of science I volunteered. I

　　intend to publish my findings in a peer-reviewed scientific journal – that is if

　　I can find one prepared to overlook my limited set ofdata points.

　　本文后附上三个题目：

　　1. What is geo-engineering? What are the possible international measures of

　　geo-engineering?

　　2. What are the views of the critics of geo-engineering?

　　3. Why does the author introduce the small scale geo-engineering

　　project?

　　从题目中可以看出，本文的中心词是geo-engineering，文章对geo-engineering还提出了相当的质疑，并提出可以实验小型geo-engineering。从文章第三段开始，可以找到geo-engineering的定义。接着正好是各国可以采用的手段和人们提出的质疑。文章后三段相熟了小型的geo-engineering。

　　以上就是为大家整理的“2022年上海高级口译必备练习题 (22)”，希望大家能够更好的学习上海高级口译，取得理想的成绩。