On a Chinese college campus, usually several college students share a dormitory. Unfortuna

defend themselves though they are not at war. Some people propose that the money should be used to help the poor and disadvantaged people in these countries. Write an essay of about 400 words on the topic given below.

1. MORE WEAPONS OR BETTER LIVES?

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-or 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.

When flying over Nepal, it's easy to soar in your imagination and pretend you're tiny—a butterfly—and drifting above one of those three-dimensional topographical maps architects use, the circling contour lines replaced by the terraced rice paddies that surround each high ridge.

Nepal is a small country, and from the windows of our plane floating eastward at 12,000 feet, one can see clearly the brilliant white mirage of the high Himalayas thirty miles off the left window.

Out the right window, the view is of three or four high terraced ridges giving sudden way to the plains of India beyond.

There were few roads visible below, most of the transportation in Nepal being by foot along ancient trails that connect and bind the country together. There is also a network of dirt airstrips, which was fortunate for me, as I didn't have time for the two-and-a-half week trek to my destination. I was on a flight to the local airport.

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

Good manners are the art of making those easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.

As the best law is founded upon reason, so are the best manners. And as some lawyers have introduced unreasonable things into common law, so likewise many teachers have introduced absurd things into common good manners.

One principal point of this art is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men; our superiors, our equals, and those below us. For instance, to press either of the two former to eat or drink is a breach of manners; but a farmer or a tradesman must be thus treated, or else it will be difficult to persuade them that they are welcome. Pride, iii nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of iii manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself iii for want of experience; or of what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world. I defy any one to assign an incident wherein reason will not direct us what we are to say or do in company, if we are not misled by pride or nature.

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Directions: Translate the following text into English.

加拿大的温哥华1986年刚刚度过百岁生日，但城市的发展令世界瞩目。以港立市，以港兴市，是许多港口城市生存发展的道路。经过百年开发建设，有着天然不冻良港的温哥华，成为举世闻名的港口城市，同亚洲、大洋洲、欧洲、拉丁美洲均有定期班轮，年货物吞吐量达到8000万吨，全市就业人口中有三分之一从事贸易与运输行业。

温哥华(Vancouvcr)的辉煌是温哥华人智慧和勤奋的结晶，其中包括多民族的贡献。加拿大地广人稀，国土面积比中国还大，人口却不足3000万。吸收外来移民，是加拿大长期奉行的国策。可以说，加拿大除了印第安人外，无一不是外来移民，不同的只是时间长短而已。温哥华则更是世界上屈指可数的多民族城市。现今180万温哥华居民中，有一半不是在本地出生的，每4个居民中就有1个是亚洲人。而25万华人对温哥华的经济转型起着决定性的作用。他们其中有一半是近5年才来到温哥华地区的，使温哥华成为亚洲以外最大的中国人聚居地。

Educational attainment in rural America reached a historic

height in 2000, with nearly one in six rural adults holding a 【M1】______

4-year college degree, and more than three in four complete 【M2】______

high school. As the demand of workers with higher educational 【M3】______

qualifications rises, many rural policymakers

have come to view local educational levels as a critical

determinant of job and income growth in their communities.

But policymakers are facing with two key questions. 【M4】______

First, does a better educated population lead to greater

economic growth? According to a recent study, rural counties

with higher educational levels saw rapid earnings and 【M5】______

income growth over the past two decades than counties with

lower educational levels. However, economic returns to

education for rural areas continue to lag that for urban areas. 【M6】______

Second, are there Ways to improve local educational attainment,

particularly through improvements in elementary and high

schools, It can enhance the economic well-being of rural 【M7】______

residents and communities? In fact, preliminary research

demonstrates a connection between better schools and positive

outcomes in terms of earnings and Income growth for rural

workers and rural communities.

Ultimately, the strength of the tie between education and

economic outcomes is influenced in part by the extent which 【M8】______

small rural counties lose young adults through

outmigration. The loss of potential workers from rural areas, as

young adults leave college and work opportunities in urban 【M9】______

areas, has concerned rural observers for many decades. This

rural "brain drain" not only deprives rural employers of an

education workforce, but also depletes local resources because 【M10】______

communities that have invested in these workers' education

reap little return on that investment.

【M1】

Write a composition of about 400 wards on the following topic:

Is Euthanasia Humane?

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 or 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 B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

The most distinguished of living Englishmen, who, great as he is in many directions, is perhaps inherently more a man of letters than anything else, has been overheard mournfully to declare that there were more booksellers, shops in his native town sixty years ago, when he was a boy in it, than are today to be found within its boundaries. And yet the place "all unabashed" now boasts its bookless self a city!

Mr. Gladstone was, of course, referring to second-hand bookshops. Neither he nor any other sensible man puts himself out about new books. When a new book is published, read an old one, was the advice of a sound though surly critic. It is one of the boasts of letters to have glorified the term "second-hand", which other crafts have "soiled to all ignoble use". But why it has been able to do this is obvious. All the best books are necessarily second-hand. The writers of today need not grumble. If their books are worth anything, they, too, one day will be second-hand. If their books are not worth anything there are ancient trades still in full operation among us—the pastrycooks and the trunk-makers—who must have paper.

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your homework before moving to another state, you may find that your insurer has

dropped you or raised your monthly premiums on hundreds of dollars. Florida, for 【M2】______

example, does not have a guaranteed-issue law, and the state's program as the insurer

of last resort has not accepted new applicants in nearly 15 years despite of legislative【M3】______

efforts to reopen it. That comes as a shock to many early retirers moving to Florida, 【M4】______

said Wayne Sakamoto, a health insurance agent in Naples who is also president of the

Florida Association of Health Underwriters. After being turned off by nearly every 【M5】______

company that offers individual policies in Florida, the Johnsons was worried. They 【M6】______

said that they were basically healthy for their age and that they took some medications 【M7】______

--Mr. Johnson for high blood pressure and Mrs. Johnson for arrhythmia--that were

white flags for some insurers. But having a high-deductible policy allows them to 【M8】______

make pretax contributions to a health saving account, up to their deductible. Any 【M9】______

money they do not spend on health care can be rolled over to following years. As

is the case with an individual retirement account, any withdrawals made before

the age of 65 would be taxed and hit with a 10 percent penalty. After 65,

there is no penalty, but any withdrawals for medical expenses would be taxed. 【M10】______

【M1】

eated debate all over the world. You are to write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic.

HUMAN CLONING OR NOT?

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 or a summary.

Marks will be awarded for content, organisation, 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.

第一回进山东，春正发生，出潼关沿着黄河古道走，同车里坐着几个和尚——和尚使我们与古代亲近——恍惚里，春秋战国的风云依然演义，我这是去了鲁国之境了。鲁国的土地果然肥沃，人物果然礼仪，狼虎的秦人能被接纳吗?深沉的胡琴从那一簇蓝瓦黄墙的村庄里传来，音韵绵长，和那一条并不知名的河，在暮色苍茫里蜿蜒而来又蜿蜒而去，弥漫着，如麦田上浓得化也化不开的雾气，我听见了在泅水岸上，有了“逝者如斯夫”的声音，从孔子一直说到现在。