Some people prefer to work for a large company. Others prefer to work for a small company.

【M1】______

mind as the instrument. The commonest way that has been used to find out the relative

intellectual level of creatures at different stage of evolutionary complexity has been to 【M2】______

study the way they behave when giving different kinds of puzzles. For example, an ant 【M3】______

possesses a complex routine of behaviour, but can it think? The answer is what if an ant is 【M4】______

forced to go through a maze of passages; many of which are dead ends, on its way to its

nestle, it starts by making a lot of mistakes and taking a great many wrong turnings. In the 【M5】______

end, however, after it has to worry its way through often enough, it does learn to get to its 【M6】______

nest without going into any of the blind alleys. As one moves up the evolutionary scale the

test of mind-power exemplified by solving the problem of getting through a maze be 【M7】______

comes very simple. Among mammals, for example, the maze is an inadequate test. The 【M8】______

learning problem does not tax enough attributes of the mind. In this sort of learning, as a

matter of fact, rats can hit university undergraduates and have, in fact, repeatedly done so. 【M9】______

The next, more subtle test of mental ability is to see what level an animal can think about 【M10】______

something when it is not there.

【M1】

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

Possession for its own sake or in competition with the rest of the neighborhood would have been Thoreau's idea of the low levels. The active discipline of heightening one's perception of what is enduring in nature would have been his idea of the high. What he saved from the low was time and effort he could spend on the high. Thoreau certainly disapproved of starvation, but he would put into feeding himself only as much effort as he would keep him functioning for more important efforts.

Effort is the gist of it. There is no happiness except as we take on life-engaging difficulties. Short of the impossible, as Yeats put it, the satisfaction we et from a lifetime depends on how high we choose our difficulties. Robert Frost was thinking in something like the same terms when he spoke of "The pleasure of taking pains". The mortal flaw in the advertised version of happiness is in the fact that it purports to be effortless.

We demand difficulty even in our games. We demand it because without difficulty there can be no game. A game is a way of making something hard for the fun of it. The rules of the game are an arbitrary imposition of difficulty. When someone ruins the fun, he always does so by refusing to play by the rules. It is easier to win if you are free, at your pleasure, to change the wholly arbitrary rules, but the fun is in winning within the rules. No difficulty, no fun.

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

In a way, D-Day sums up for us the whole of World War II. It was the frontal clash of two ideas, a collision between the possibility of human freedom and its nullification. Even now, we are still learning what to make of it, still trying to know whether we are dwarfed by the scale of such an effort or whether what happened that day still enlarges us. It certainly enlarges the veterans of Normandy and their friends who died in every zone of that war.

It's tempting to politicize the memory of a day so full of personal and national honor, too easy to allude to the wars of our times as if they naturally mirrored World War II. The ironic starkness of the forces that met on the beaches of Normandy makes that temptation all the greater. But beyond the resemblance of young soldiers dying in wars 60 years apartl, there is no analogy, and that is something we must remember today as well. D-Day was the result of broad international accord. By D-Day, Europe had been at war—total war—for nearly five years, at profound cost to its civilian population. American civilians, in turn, had willingly made enormous material sacrifices to sustain the war effort. There was no pretense that ordinary life would go on uninterrupted and no assumption that America could go it alone.

Those harboring doubts about micro-blogging should

now be convinced that micro blogs can play an ineffective 【1】______

role in mobilizing society for a just course.

Today, micro blogs have become an important new

medium for people obtain news, express their opinions, 【2】______

engage in social networking and participate in public campaigns.

For journalists, micro blogs are a source of news and a

platform. for spreading news. Furthermore, the increasing 【3】______

popularity of micro blogs has become a double-edge sword. 【4】______

One of the top 10 phony news stories last year first

appeared via micro blog, correctly announcing the death of 【5】______

legendary kung fu novel writer Louis Cha. Other micro blog 【6】______

message falsely claimed contemporary online literature was

replaced modern literary works in school textbooks. 【7】______

The sad thing is unusual mainstream news media face 【8】______

the danger of losing sight of their own news values and ethics. They often sacrifice their own news and reporting

agendas and devote their resources to follow up the bogus 【9】______

claims of micro blogs as "potential" news leads.

As professional journalists, they should welcome

citizens joining us in reporting news. However, they should 【10】______

not shirk their responsibility in making sure they get right all the news elements: who, what, when, where, why and how.

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SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

His message perplexed his mind to that degree that he was fain, several times, to take off his hat to scratch his head. Except on the crown, which was raggedly bald, he had stiff black hair, standing jaggedly all over it, and growing down hill almost to his broad, blunt nose. It was so like smith' s work, so much more like the top of a strongly spiked wall than a head of hair, that the best of players at leap-frog might have declined him, as the most dangerous man in the world to go over.

While he trotted back with the message he was to deliver to the night watchman in his box at the door of Tellson' s Bank, by Temple Bar, who was to deliver it to greater authorities within, the shadows of the night took such shapes to him as arose out of the message, and took such shapes to the mare as arose out of her private topics of uneasiness. They seemed to be numerous, for she shied at every shadow on the road.

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

When I am in a serious humor, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of ~e buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances, that are common to all mankind could not but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons; who had left no other memorial of them, but that they were horn and that they died.

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

"To be or not to be." Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famous in all the literature of the world. They were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but for every thinking man and woman. To be or not to be — to live or not to live, to live richly and abundantly and eagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcely. A philosopher once wanted to know whether he was alive or not, which is a good question for everyone to Out to himself occasionally. He answered it by saying: "I think, therefore I am."

But the best definition of existence I ever saw was one written by another philosopher who said: "To be is to be in relations." If this is true, then the more relations a living thing has, the more it is alive. To live abundantly means simply to increase the range and intensity of our relations. Unfortunately we are so constituted that we get to love our routine. But apart from our regular occupation how much are we alive? If you are interested only in your regular occupation, you are alive only to that extent. So far as other things are concerned — poetry and prose, music, pictures, sports, unselfish friendships, politics, international affairs — you are dead.

You should not fear spiders thanks to their poison. Of all the spiders in 【M1】______

North America, only one kind is really dangerous and most would not bite if

they were handled. They much prefer to run away or dropping to the ground 【M2】______

on a thread of silk. Even so, when a spider runs directly toward a person, it

gives impression that it is about to attack. Actually, it cannot see the person 【M3】______

on its way. The spider is too short-sighted to see things at the distance. It 【M4】______

only wanted to go where it won' t be disturbed. In America one kind of spider 【M5】______

is responsible for the frightened reputation of the rest. It is the Black Widow.【M6】______

Such called because the female, which is larger than the male, often eats her 【M7】______

husband after making love. The Black Widow is found in all states or is most 【M8】______

common in the south and the west. She constructs a loose, irregular web

under a pile of ruin or near the foundations of buildings where she is seldom 【M9】______

disturbed. She is not an attacking spider and many people have proven this by

letting her to crawl over their hands. When she bites, it is usually in self- 【M10】______

defense. In spite of the stories you may have had heard, it is rare for a person

to be bitten by a Black Widow and even more unusual for the bite to prove

fatal But remember that her poison is powerful and even though she is shy,

she should be respected.

【M1】

which motivates people much more than individual competition does." Do you agree? Write an essay of about 400 words to state your view.

In the first part of your essay you should present your own view. In the second part you should support your choice with appropriate reasons. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make 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.

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Directions: Translate the following text into English.

秦淮河的水是碧阴阴的;看起来厚而不腻，或者是六朝金粉所凝么?我们初上船的时候，天色还未断黑，那漾漾的柔波是这样的恬静，委婉，使我们一面有水阔天空之想，一面又憧憬着纸醉金迷之境了。等到灯火明时，阴阴的变为沉沉了：黯淡的水光，像梦一般，那偶然闪烁着的光芒，就是梦的眼睛了。我们坐在舱前，因了那隆起的顶棚，仿佛总是昂着首向前走着似的；于是飘飘然如御风而行的我们，看着那些自在的湾泊着的船，船里走马灯般的人物，便象是下界一般，迢迢的远了，又像在雾里看花，尽朦朦胧胧的。