SECTION BENGLISH TO CHINESEDirections: Translate the following text into Chinese. Ever sin

Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic

How Important is Money?

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 n 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 A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Directions: Translate the following text into English.

说到书，我很动感情。因为它给我带来温暖，我对它满怀感激。

书是我的恩师。贫穷剥夺了我童年的幸福，把我关在学校大门的外面，是书本敞开它宽厚的胸 脯，接纳了我。给我以慷慨的哺育。没有书，就没有我的今天。也许我早就委弃于沟壑。

书是我的良友。它给我一把金钥匙，诱导我打开浅短的视界，愚昧的头脑，闭塞的心灵。从不吝 惜对我帮助。

书是我青春期的恋人，中年的知己，暮年的伴侣。有了它，我就不再忧愁寂寞，不再怕人情冷暖， 世态炎凉。它使我成为精神世界的富翁。我真的是“不可一日无此君”。当我忙完了，累极了；当我 愤怒时，苦恼时，我就想亲近它，因为这是一种绝妙的安抚。

Banks are closely concerned about the flow of money in to and out of the 【M1】______

economy. They often cooperate with governments by efforts to stabilize economies 【M2】______

and to prevent inflation. They are specialists in the business of providing

capital. Banks originated as places in which people took their valuables for safe- 【M3】______

keeping, but today the great banks of the world have many functions in

addition to acting as guardians of valuable private possession.

Banks normally receive money from their customers in two distinctive 【M4】______

forms: on current account, and on deposit account. With a current account, a

customer can issue personal cheques. No interest is paid by the bank on this

type of account. With a deposit account, therefore, the customer undertakes 【M5】______

to leave his money in the bank for a minimum specific period of time. Interest 【M6】______

is paid on this money.

The bank in return lends the deposited money to customers who need 【M7】______

capital. This activity earns interest for the bank, and this interest is almost

always at a higher rate than any interest which the bank provides to its 【M8】______

deposits. In this way the bank makes its profit.

We can say that the primary function of a bank today is to act for an 【M9】______

intermediary between depositors who wish to make interest on their savings,

and borrowers who wish to obtain capital. The bank is a reservoir of loanable

money, with streams of money flowing in and out. For this reason,

economists and financiers often talk of money being "liquid", or of the

"liquidity" of money. Many small sums which might not thus be used as 【M10】______

capital are tendered useful simply because the bank acts as a reservoir.

【M1】

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Directions: Translate the following text into English.

我多少次想把这一段经历记录下来，但不是为这段经历感到懊悔，便是为觉察到自己要隐瞒这段经历中的某些事情而感到羞耻，终于搁笔。自己常常是自己的对立面。阳光穿窗而入，斜晖在东墙上涂满灿烂的金黄。停留在山水轴上的蛾于蓦地飞起来，无声地在屋里旋转。太阳即将走完自己的路，但她明日还会升起，依旧沿着那条亘古不变的途径周而复始：蛾子却也许等不到明天便会死亡，变成一撮尘埃。世上万千生物活过又死去，有的自觉，有的不自觉，但都追求着可笑的长生或永恒。而实际上，所有的生物都获得了永恒，哪怕它只在世上存在过一秒钟。那一秒钟里便有永恒。我并不想去追求虚无缥缈的永恒。永恒，已经存在于我的生命中了!

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Directions: Translate the following text into English.

和平共处五项原则

中国用以指导自己同各国发展关系的一贯原则，是“互相尊重主权和领土完整、互不侵犯、互不干涉内政、平等互利、和平共处”五项原则。我们的国家有100多年被侵略、被压迫的苦难经历，中国人民决不愿再回到过去的屈辱地位，也决不会把任何其他民族置于我们过去那样的屈辱地位。中华人民共和国的成立，既消灭了我国屈从外国侵略的社会根源，也消灭了我国对外侵略的社会根源。恩格斯说过，“任何民族当它还在压迫别的民族时，不能成为自由的民族。”这是颠扑不破的真理。我们马克思列宁主义者相信共产主义最后一定会在全世界实现，但是革命决不能输出，它只能是各国人民自己选择的结果。正是基于这样的认识，我们始终坚持和平共处的五项原则。我们没有在任何外国留驻一兵一卒，没有侵占任何外国一寸领土，没有侵犯过任何外国的主权，没有以不平等关系强加于任何外国。在任何情况下，我们永远不称霸。

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Directions: Translate the following text into English.

对文化遗产不感兴趣，这是目前我们社会的一个普遍现象。这些年，走宝、毁宝的事一而再、再而三地发生，见报的只是冰山的一角，没见报的更是不得了。新山书香楼“收宝”反映的是新加坡人“走宝”，另外还有毁宝事件更令人伤心，以下仅举一例：

读者某君要搬家了，清理祖父遗物时，发现一个陈旧不堪的木箱里有些字画，画的是奔马、飞鸟等，上面的华文他看不懂，于是打电话去向某华文报求助。

记者上门去一看。天呀，那是徐悲鸿的遗作!由于收藏不得法，用手轻轻一碰宇画马上破碎，奔马变“碎马”，还有的早巳在箱子里“解体”!记者眼睁睁看着艺术瑰宝被毁，无限惋惜与痛心。

lmost all public space has some advertisements in sight and all forms of media, from newspapers to the Internet, are also filled with adverts. Whilst this helps companies sell their produces, and helps consumers to learn what is on offer, many believe that this huge amount of advertising can be harmful. What do you think? Write an essay of about 400 words.

In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary.

You should supply an appropriate title for your essay.

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 essay on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.

Greenpeace is an international environmental organization founded in

Vancouver, Canada in 1971. Its goal is to assure the ability of the earth to 【M1】______.

nurture life in all its diversity.

Greenpeace has identified global climate change as one of the greatest threats

to the planet. Governments mid scientists likely have agreed that the problem is 【M2】______.

mil, and serious. Last year at the climate summit, industrialized countries a

greed, at most on paper, to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and other green 【M3】______.

house gases they pump into the atmosphere. But crucial details, which the success 【M4】______.

or failure of the agreements rests, are still under negotiation, and in the meantime

a little real action is being taken to address the problem. 【M5】______.

Greenpeace is therefore campaigning for governments to face about to their 【M6】______.

responsibilities and urgently address this problem. The longer action is delayed,

the more drastically it will need to be in order to avoid dangerous interference 【M7】______.

with the planet's climate from the go called greenhouse gases.

Governments. should be leading the way to a fundamental new energy 【M8】______.

direction based on clean renewable energy, like wind or solar power. But at

present many governments instead use taxpayers' money to support the agenda

of the companies which continue to spend billions of dollars in development【M9】______.

of coal, oil or gas--the climate-damaging fossil fuels.

Scientists estimate that we can only afford to release a limited amount

of carbon into the atmosphere, nevertheless, we pass the "safe" limits of【M10】______.

climate change. Greenpeace believes that a temperature increase of I degree

C is the absolute maximum that should be allowed.

【M1】

A simplified language derived from two or more languages is

called a pidgin. It is a contact language developed and used by

people who do not share a common language in given 【1】______

geographical area. It is used in a limited way and the structure is

very simplistic. Since they serve as a single simplistic purpose,【2】______

they usually die out. Furthermore, if the pidgin is used long 【3】______

enough, it begins to evolve into a more complex language with a

more complex structure and rich vocabulary. Once the pidgin has 【4】______

evolved and has acquired native speakers (the children learn from【5】______

the pidgin as their first language), it is then called a Creole. An

example of this is the Creole from Papua New Guinea, Tok

Pisin, which has become a national language.

Reasons for the development of Pidgins

In the nineteenth century, when slaves from Africa were

brought over North America to work on the plantations, they 【6】______

were separated from the people of their community and mixed

with people of various other communities, therefore they were

able to communicate with each other. So they couldn't come up 【7】______

with a plot to escape back their land. Therefore, in order to 【8】______

finally communicate with their peers on the plantations, and with

their bosses, they needed to form. a language which they could 【9】______

communicate. Pidgins also arose because of colonization.

Prominence languages such as French., Spanish, Portuguese, 【10】______

English, and Dutch were the languages of the colonizers. The

people of the colonies tried to communicate with the colonizers

using a mixed language.

【M1】

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

A person, like a commodity, needs packaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration, however, does no harm when it shows the person' s unique qualities to their advantages. To display personal charm in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of one self. A master packager knows how to integrate art and nature without any traces of embellishment, so that the person so packaged is no commodity but a human being, lively and lovely.

A young person, especially a female, radiant with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted by God. Any attempt to make up would be self- defeating. Youth, however, comes and goes in a moment of doze. Packaging for the middle - aged is primarily to conceal the furrows ploughed by time. If you still en joy life' s exuberance enough to retain self - confidence and pursue pioneering work, you are unique in your natural qualities, and your charm and grace will remain. Elderly people are beautiful if their river of life has been, through plains, mountains and jungles, running its course as it should. You have really lived your life which now arrives at a complacent stage of serenity, indifferent to fame or wealth. There is no need to resort to hair - dyeing--the snow - capped mountain is itself a beautiful scene of fairyland. Let your looks change from young to old synchronizing with the natural ageing process so as to keep in harmony with nature, for harmony itself is beauty, while the other way round will only end in unpleasantness. To be in the elder' s company is like reading a thick book of deluxe edition that fascinates one so much as to be reluctant to part with.

As long as one finds where one stands, one knows how to package oneself, just as a commodity establishes its brand by the right packaging.