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Professional Translation in the 21st Century

[填空题]The average life expectancy in 21 st century will be______.

[填空题]Perhaps the main social trend of the 21st century is the high level of and quickly increasing inequality between incomes from capital and labor.
In industrialized as well as in developing countries, minority of haves seems to derive ever-increasing profits in the stock market and in global economic ventures, while the large majority of have-nots is employed in insecure jobs earning stagnant or slowly rising incomes.
Global capital markets can contribute to economic development, but they become socially and economically questionable when they do not contribute to the prosperity of all.
A host of UN summits during the 1990s highlighted the global shortfalls in providing social protection, health and education. The question is how the full provision of these basic services can be financed at the global level.
66. ______
However, governments in most countries, and particularly in poor, developing ones, have little leeway to conduct their own economic and

[填空题]In the 21st century, most Americans will marry three or four times

[简答题]Peter has won the first prize at the 21st Century Speech Contest. Write a note of congratulations to him.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness.

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As the 21st century begins, a number of leaders in politics, education, and other professions believe that the United States must adopt some new values to go along with the older traditional ones. What new values should Americans adopt This is a very difficult question to answer. Certainly, a greater value should be placed on the conservation of natural resources; Americans should learn to use less and waste less. In addition, Americans may need to place a strong value on cooperation on a national scale to achieve important national objectives. The American idea of the national good has never been based on national cooperation but rather on the freedom of the individual, maintaining those conditions that provide the greatest freedom and prosperity for the individual. It is far more difficult for Americans to accept shared sacrifice for the common good and well-being of the entire country. For example, although the majority of Americans believe that it is extremely important to ba
A. it makes people suspicious of the government
B. it causes people to suspect rather than trust each other
C. it makes it impossible for people to cooperate on the local level
D. it encourages people to gain success through individual hard work

[填空题]By the middle of the 21st century, the vast majority of the world’s population______(将生活在城市而不是农村).

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As we enter the 21st century, a new global economy draws nations ever closer. But our growing interdependence (1) on much more than technology and trade. For we are linked intrinsically (本质地) by the physical and biological webs that (2) life on our planet—and, increasingly, by the threat of their unraveling (散开). Indeed, (3) we reach across borders and face this threat together, the next century may (4) an Earth in ecological crisis, with half of all (5) gone, and our grandchildren enduring deadly floods, drought and disease (6) by global warming.
When millions across America (7) the first Earth Day 30 years ago, our focus understandably was our own backyard. Our rivers were (8) on fire, and our skylines were disappearing behind a (9) of smog. America’s remarkable environmental progress in the years (10) is powerful testament (证明) to our national will, our technological p
A. forward
B. over
C. beyond
D. across