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英译汉试卷一 Translate the following sentences into Chinese. (25%) Research have established that when people are mentally engaged, biochemical changes occur in the brain that allow it to act more effectively in cognitive areas such as attention and memory. And someone with a history of doing more rather than less will go into old age more cognitively sound than someone who has not had an active mind. Too often we believe what accounts for others’ success is some special secret or lucky break. But rarely is success so mysterious. The latter ignores the higher cost of providing full services to a scattered community and the cost in both money and time of the journeys to work for the suburban resident. For the population as a whole, we must be more concerned with the delayed effects of absorbing small amounts of the pesticides that invisibly pollute our world. Translate the following passage into Chinese. (30%) Today the ancient, ancestral wisdom of the hand has been largely replaced by the simple movements of the machine operator, our glass and china, furniture, books, and textiles are almost entirely products of the machine. That machine-made goods can be well designed and good-looking no one denies; nevertheless, there are many who believe that if the old skills of the hand-worker were to die out altogether it would be a disaster. Their arguments are, roughly, three. First, that the machine is by its nature a mass producer, and that objects made in ones and twos can be made better, even cheaper, by an individual craftsman than by a machine; secondly that the human hand with relatively simple tools can produce objects of a quality permanently beyond the reach of the machine; thirdly, that it is not good for mankind if people lose the ability to create with their hands. Translate the following passage into Chinese. (45%) The traditional pattern of classroom experience at the college level brings the professor and a group of 20 to 30 students together for a 45-to-50-minu