SECTION BENGLISH TO CHINESEDirections: Translate the following text into Chinese. It has b

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

Politics and English

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British role in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of political parties. Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they can carry: this is called transfer of population or rectification of frontiers. People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them.

The inflated style. is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, such as "keeping out of politics:. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.

ls’dormitory, while you can visit boys’domitory at any time. What is your view?

You are to write a letter of approximately 400 words on this issue to the House Council of students’Dormitory.

In the first part of your letter you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion with a summary.

Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Directions: Translate the following text into English.

新加坡报纸说，中国是世界四大文明占国之一，地大物博，拥有茂密的森林、壮丽的山河，如利剑直插云霄的高峰、雄伟壮丽的瀑布、秀丽的湖泊及富有中华文化光辉的名胜古迹，令世界各国人民神往。但是，更重要的是，中国具有五千多年的历史，遗留下无数的历史文物、珍珠宝藏、古迹、名胜、宫殿及数不尽的雄伟建筑，令人惊叹不已。这种种原因都促使中国成了许多人梦寐以求的旅游胜地。

provincial university decided to try their hand at business in order to get prepared for the future. They opened six small shops near their university. Their teachers and classmates had different opinions about this phenomenon. Some thought that the students' time ness experience would help them adapt better to society after graduation, while others held a negative view, saying that running shops might occupy too much of the students' time and energy which should otherwise be de voted to their academic study. What do you think? Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic:

Should University Students Go in for Business?

In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have writ ten to a natural conclusion or a summary.

Mark will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Directions: Translate the following text into English.

我轻轻地扣着板门，刚才那个小姑娘出来开了门，抬头看了我，先愣了一下，后来就微笑了，招手叫我进去。这屋予很小很黑，靠墙的铺板上，她的妈妈闭着眼平躺着，大约是睡着了，被头上有斑斑的血痕，她的脸向里侧着，只看见她脸上的乱发，和脑后的一个大髫。门边一个小炭炉，上面放着一个小沙锅，微微地冒着热气。这小姑娘把炉前的小凳子让给我坐了。她自己也蹲在我旁边，不住地打量我。我轻轻地问：“大夫来过吗?”她说：“来过了，给妈妈打了一针……她现在很好。”她又像安慰我似地说：“你放心，大夫明早还要来的。”我问：“她吃过东西吗?这锅里是什么?”她笑着说：“红薯稀饭——我们的年夜饭。”我想起了我带来的桔子，就拿出来放在床边的小矮桌上，她没作声，只伸手拿过一个最大的桔子来，用小刀削去上面的一层皮，又用两只手把底下的一大半轻轻地揉捏着。

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

The threat from global warming, he reports, "Is very real. It is only a matter of time before the temperature of the surface of the Earth becomes uncomfortable warm. What can we do? Well frankly, l don't believe we'll ever be able to supply our power needs by simple devices such as windmills. I think the restriction of emissions of greenhouse gases will require the building of nuclear power stations in many places. The single most important development would be if there were some agreement on world population, because global warming will depend intrinsically on how much energy is consumed."

"But one of the reasons why the human population is growing so fast -- it is unlikely to stop this side of eight billion is precisely because we opted out of natural selection."

Our planet Earth is 4,600 million years old. If we reduce 【M1】______

this inconceivable time-span into an understandable concept, we

can liken the Earth with a person of 46 years of age. Nothing 【M2】______

is known about the first 7 years of this persons' life, and whilst

only scattered information exists about the middle span, we

know that only at the age of 42 did the Earth begin to flower.

Dinosaurs and the great reptiles did appear until one year 【M3】______

ago, when the planet was 45. Mammals arrived only 8 months

ago; in the middle of last week man-like apes revolved into 【M4】______

ape-like men, and at the weekend the past ice age enveloped 【M5】______

the Earth.

Modem man has been around for 4 hours. During the last

hour Man discovered the agriculture. The industrial revolution

began a minute early. During those sixty seconds of biological 【M6】______

time, Modem Man made a rubbish tip of the Paradise. He 【M7】______

has multiplied numbers to plague proportions, caused the 【M8】______

the extinction of 500 species of animals, ransacked the

planet of fuels and now stands like a brutish infant, gloating 【M9】______

over his meteoric rise to ascendancy, on the near brink of a 【M10】______

war to end all wars and of effectively destroying this oasis of

life in the solar system.

【M1】

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

The bird, however hard the frost may he, flies briskly to his customary roosting-place, and, with beak tucked into his wing, falls asleep. He has no apprehensions; only the hot blood grows colder and colder, the pulse feebler as he sleeps, and at midnight, or in the early morning, he drops from his perch—dead.

Yesterday he lived and moved, responsive to a thousand external influences, reflecting earth and sky in his small brilliant brain as in a looking-glass; also he had a various language, the inherited knowledge of his race, and the faculty of flight, by means of which he could shoot, meteor-like, across the sky, and pass swiftly from place to places and with it he was able to drop himself plumb down from the tallest tree-top, or out of the void air, on to a slender spray, and scarcely cause its leaves to tremble.

Now, on this morning, he lies stiff and motionless; so easy and swift is the passage from life to death in wild nature! But he was never miserable.

est in observing exotic festivals like Christmas and the Valentine's Day in China. There are two clear-cut camps on this issue. Some people show a strong favor for such practice while some others have a strong opposition to it. Which camp do you side with ? Write an essay of about 400 words to illustrate your attitude.

1. Should We Celebrate Exotic Festivals?

In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion with a summary.

Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new Nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now, we are engaged in a great Civil War, testing whether that Nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who gave their lives that Nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us; that from these honored dead, we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that this Nation, under GOD, shell have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the People by the People and for the People shall not perish from the earth.