Mass urbanization of the world’s population is an unprecedented trend worldwide. The most important reason why people are moving to cities is economic. People are moving to the cities because that’s where they can find jobs and earn money. Until the 20th century, the major source of employment, full and part-time, was farming. Now, according to recent statistics, no more than 15 percent of all jobs are connected to farming. Jobs now are being created in information technology, manufacturing and service areas, such as tourism and financing, and all of these new jobs are in or around major cities.

譯文：世界人口大規(guī)模的城市化在世界范圍內(nèi)達(dá)到史無(wú)前例的規(guī)模。驅(qū)使人們不斷涌向城市的最重要原因是經(jīng)濟(jì)因素。人們都涌向城市是因?yàn)樵诔抢锟梢哉业焦ぷ骱蛼赍X(qián)。在20世紀(jì)以前，就業(yè)的主要途徑，不管是全職還是兼職，一直都是農(nóng)耕。而現(xiàn)在，根據(jù)最近的統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)據(jù)，只有不到15%的工作是和農(nóng)業(yè)相關(guān)的。越來(lái)越多的工作產(chǎn)生于信息技術(shù)產(chǎn)業(yè)、制造業(yè)和服務(wù)行業(yè)，如旅游業(yè)和融資，而所有這些新興工作都在大城市及其周邊地區(qū)。

評(píng)析：本題是高口熱點(diǎn)話(huà)題“城市化”，在07年9月的高口NTGF部分也涉及到過(guò)城市化的問(wèn)題，前一題的句子翻譯S2也提到了“人們搬進(jìn)大城市的原因，是追求高品質(zhì)的生活”，而這里主要圍繞工作展開(kāi)?？疾樵~匯都在大綱范圍內(nèi)，像urbanization, manufacturing等都屬于常見(jiàn)熱詞，考生在平時(shí)對(duì)這些詞匯有所積累，翻譯起來(lái)并不難。相對(duì)passage 2, 這段話(huà)稍微有點(diǎn)長(zhǎng)，這也提醒考生注意平時(shí)多練習(xí)聽(tīng)寫(xiě)記筆記，熟悉常考話(huà)題，這樣在考試時(shí)才能拿高分。