【正确答案】正确答案： Tourism represents a kind of popular and pleasant activity that combines sightseeing, recreation and health care. Tourism has been developing all along with the progress of the times. Since the middle of the 20th century, modern tourism has been growing at a fast pace around the world. The number of tourists has ever been on the rise, the scale of the tourism industry has been on constant expansion, and the position of tourism in the economy has been obviously raised. Tourism serves gradually as an important bridge of cultural exchange, friendship and further exchanges and exerts more and more extensive influence on the human life and social progress among various countries. From ancient times till now, tourism has demonstrated the happy wish of the people for rich knowledge, varied experience and good health. In ancient times, Chinese thinkers raised the idea of " appreciating the landscape through sightseeing". Ancient people also proposed to "travel ten thousand li and read ten thousand books" , which shows they found pleasure in enriching themselves mentally and physically through traveling over famous mountains and rivers. After the founding of New China, especially since the "reform and opening up to the outside world, the Chinese government has paid great attention to the tourism work, which has been undergoing steady and fast growth as a newly emerging dynamic and potentially strong industry. Now, there are 29 places that have been listed as World Cultural and Natural Heritage sites.

【答案解析】解析： 本文是一段关于我国旅游业发展的短文。文中在介绍了旅游业概况和现代旅游业之后，重点从历史的角度追溯我国旅游业从古至今的发展，尤其是近期的迅猛发展。 本文要求应试者掌握一定的旅游业常识和与之相关的专门词汇和表达方式，这依赖于应试者平时的知识积累，是翻译的基本要求。此外，应试者还需要在听的短时间内，对汉语特色的流水句做出相应的分析，适当地将其切分为多个独立的英文句子。翻译时要把握好两种语言各自特色，做好双语间的转换。对于一些较为生僻的短语和表达法，不能死译、硬译，而应该充分联系上下文灵活变通，使译文通顺流畅。