1.    Today’s families have been budgeted to the limits of their new two-paycheck status. As a result, they have lost the parachute they once had in times of financial setback---a back-up earner (usually Mom) who could go into the workforce if the primary earner got laid off or fell sick. This “added-worker effect” could support the safety net offered by unemployment insurance or disability insurance to help fmilies weather bad times. (07年真题)
2.    Meanwhile, the theft of information about some 40 million credit-card accounts in America, disclosed on June 17th, overshadowed a hugely important decision a day earlier by America’s Federal Trade Commission that put corporate America on notice that regulators will act if firms fail to provide adequate data security.(07年真题)
3. China’s aging problem has been surfacing since 1998, when the population at the age of 60 and above totalled 120 million, which was about 9% of the country’s total population.

    逻辑思辨能力训练
说明：思想在脑海中是以星云状态存在的，并非以有序的语言方式存在。那么有序易懂的语言是如何产出的呢？需要借助作者或说话人的逻辑思辨。

    逻辑语义图
    语义图的启示
1. 思想需要经过逻辑切分方能形成所有读者都能理解的语法结构；
2. 英汉反应语义图的语法机制根本不同。


例证分析
1. 大学生要博览群书，增长知识。
2. 赢以创新，合致久远。
3. 温家宝总理敦促当地官员，要采取有效措施，减轻农民负担，提高农民收入，增强农民积极性。
4. 中国经济的发展，不仅造福中国百姓，也为世界各国提供了更多的投资机遇和更广阔的市场，正在推动亚太和世界经济的发展。
    考生的宏观语篇意识
1. 信息单位关系的换算
2. 衔接
   这种意识，对于考生的阅读，写作和翻译，毋庸置疑，具有根本性的影响作用。

    信息单位关系的换算
1. 长江，被誉为世界上的黄金水道。
   京广铁路，是中国的交通大动脉。
   在这两者交汇的地方，矗立着一座名城—武汉。
2. 维苏威火山海拔高达1800米。古罗马最繁华的城市，庞贝就矗立着它的南面。
3.    如今能源十分紧张。核电站没有污染，成本又低，能提供大量的能源。然而许多人担心核的安全性，对核电站持反对态度。
4. In a company I studied, the first 12 women to go to work among its 400 male staff immediately set the rumour mill in motion.
5. By common consent, the tripartite functions of higher learning in most societies are those of education, research and service. However, today’s academia, which has little difficulty in perceiving its obligations with respect to the first two, does not look the issue of service in the same way. Indeed, it often sees it as a distraction.
6.
A. Pat Taylor strode into the room. The room was packed. He greeted students called “Taylor’s kids”. He nodded to their parents and teachers.
B. This was a wealthy Louisana oilman. He had promised his “kids” free college educations. He was determined to make higher education available to all qualified but disadvantaged students.
C. The students welcomed Taylor. Their voices joined in singing. They sang “You Are the Wind beneath My Wings.” Their faces beamed with hope. Their eyes flashed with self-confidence.
D. The students had thought a college education was beyond their dreams. It seemed too costly. It seemed too demanding.
E. Taylor had to ease the costs and the demands of getting to college. He created a bold plan. The plan consisted of scholarships, tutoring, and counseling.

    衔接：信息之间的过度联系
说明：英语句子的造句总原则为由近及远，这已经和汉语存在着语序相反的情形。然而如果把衔接问题考虑进来的话，翻译的过程就会变得复更加杂起来。
1. We approach productive management (of conflicts) by examining some of the insights provided by Georage Bach and Peter Wylie in their influential Intimate Enemy. Their simple but powerful guides go a long way towards making our conflicts more productive.
2. In Europe, as elsewhere, multi-media groups have been increasingly successful, groups which bring together television, radio, newspapers, magazines and publishing houses that work in relation to one another. One Italian example would be the Berlosconi group. (05年真题)
3. Clearly, only the biggest and most flexible television companies are going to be      able to compete in such a rich and hotly-contested market. This alone demonstrates that the television business is not an easy world to survive in, a fact underlined by statistics that show that out of eighty European television networks, no less than 50% took a loss in 1989.
4.    Politicians have repeatedly “backloaded” public-sector pay deals, keeping the pay increases modest but adding to holidays and especially pensions that are already generous.（12年真题）