SECTION ACHINESE TO ENGLISHDirections: Translate the following text into English. 人类社会

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Directions: Translate the following text into English.

拜完了天地，黑大汉洪喜就有些按捺不住了。虽然看不到新娘的脸，但新娘修长的双臂、纤细的腰肢，都显示出这个胶州北乡女子超出常人的美丽来。洪喜是高密东北乡著名的老光棍，40岁了，一脸大麻子，不久由老娘做主，用自己的亲妹子杨花，换来了这个叫燕燕的姑娘。杨花是高密东北乡数一数二的美女，为了麻子哥哥，嫁给了燕燕的哑巴哥哥。妹妹为自己作出了巨大的牺牲，洪喜心中十分感动。想起妹妹将为哑巴生儿育女，他心情复杂，竟对眼前这个女子生出一些仇恨。哑巴，你糟蹋我妹子，我也饶不了你妹子。

eve students should have several short vacations throughout the year. Which view point do you agree with? Write an essay of 400 words on the following topic:

Long or Short Vacations?

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.

Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to fallow the above instruction may result in a loss of marks.

Universities are no longer relatively empty in

summer. As the students move out, holiday-makers

move, even to the most unlikely campuses. 【M1】______

That started in a small way a few years ago with 【M2】______

student residences being used as cheap bed-and

breakfast places for touring groups, often old or

foreign, is now turning to a money-spinner as more【M3】______

universities begin to enter the package holiday

business. Three years before most universities had to【M4】______

find ways of generating the more income after【M5】______

government spending cuts in the university sector.

Universities with suitable accommodation are letting【M6】______

it as a self-catering base for a touring holiday or, in

the more ambitious schemes such as those in Aberdeen

and Kent, building a package of visits around it.

The bargain-hunting public are responding well

with budget-priced accommodation with superb sports 【M7】______

and social facilities. Price range from the modest to【M8】______

the ridiculously cheap. Manchester University,

for instance, offers a week accommodation in a self-ca【M9】______

tering flat for $ 23 a head, half the price of one

night's bed and breakfast in a first-class city center hotel.

There are possible inconveniences in these universities,

e.g. , for couples it is the disadvantage 【M10】______

of single beds in separate rooms. But the welcome is

warm and genuine, everything is absolutely clean, and

facilities such as a laundry, bars and parking are all available.

【M1】

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

Be very wary of opinions that flatter your self-esteem. Both men and women, nine times out of ten, are firmly convinced of the superior excellence of their own sex. There is abundant evidence on both sides. If you are a man, you can point out that most poets and men of science are male; If you are a woman, you can retort that so are most criminals. The question is inherently insoluble, but self-esteem conceals this from most people. We are all, whatever part of the world we come from, persuaded that our own nation is superior to all others... The only way I know of dealing with this general human conceit is to remind ourselves that man is a brief episode in the life of a small planet in a little corner of the universe, and that for what we know, other parts of the cosmos may contain beings as superior to ourselves as we are to jelly-fish.

Anyone who opens a current account at a bank

he is lending the bank money, repayment of which he 【M1】______

may demand at any time, either cash or by drawing a 【M2】______

check in favor of another person. Primarily, the bankercustomer

relationship which is of debtor and creditor— 【M3】______

which is depending on whether the customer's

simple account is in credit or is overdrawn. But, in

addition on that basically simple concept, the bank and 【M4】______

its customer owe a large number of obligations to one

and another. Many of these obligations give rise to problems 【M5】______

and complications, but a bank customer, unlike, say, a buyer

of goods, cannot complain that the law is loaded against him.

The bank must obey its customer's instructions, and not

those of anyone else. When, for example, a customer

first opens an account, he instructs the bank to enter its

count only in respect of checks drawn by himself. 【M6】______

He gives the bank specimens of his signature, and there

is a very firm rule that the bank has no right or obligation

to pay out a customer's money on a check on which

its customer's signature has forged. It makes no difference 【M7】______

that the signature maybe a very skillful one: the bank must 【M8】______

recognize its customer's signature. For this reason there

are no risk to the customer in the modern practice, adopted 【M9】______

by some banks, of printing the customer's name on his

check. If this facilitates forgery, this is the bank which will 【M10】______

lose, not the customer.

【M1】

Identical twins possess exactly the same set of genes. Yet as they grow older,

they may begin to display subtle differences. They may start to look different,

develop different diseases or slide into different persons. 【M1】______

Women who are identical twins may differ with their fertility or 【M2】______

the age at which they reach menopause. These discrepancies

usually attributed to ill-defined differences in environment. 【M3】______

But a whole new level of explanation has been opened up by a generic survey 【M4】______

showing that identical twins, because they grow older, differ increasingly in 【M5】______

what is known as their epigenome. The term refers to natural

chemical modifications that occur in a person's genome shortly before 【M6】______

conception and that act on a gcne as a gas pedal or a brake,

marking it for higher or lower activity. 【M7】______

Identical twins have the same set of epigenetic mark on the genome 【M8】______

when they are born. But differences in the epigenome disappear 【M9】______

as the twins grow older and become greater the longer they live together, 【M10】______

say a team of researchers led by Dr. Manel Esteller of the Spanish National Cancer Center in Madrid.

【M1】

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

How was it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing worthy of note? I who cannot see find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough, shaggy bark of a pine. In the spring I touch the branches of trees hopefully in search of a bud the first sign of awakening Nature after her winter' s sleep. I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me. Occasionally, if I am very fortunate, I place my hand gently on a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song. I am delighted to have the cool waters of a brook rush thought my open finger. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. To me the page ant of seasons is a thrilling and unending drama, the action of which streams through my finger tips.

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Directions: Translate the following text into English.

徐霞客一生周游考察了16个省，足迹几乎遍及全国。他在考察的过程中，从来不盲目迷信书本上的结论。他发现前人研究地理的记载有许多不很可靠的地方。为了进行真实细致的考察，他很少乘车坐船，几乎全靠双脚翻山越岭，长途跋涉；为了弄清大自然的真相，他总是挑选道路艰险的山区、人烟稀少的森林进行考察，发现了许多奇山秀景；他常常选择不同的时间和季节，多次重游各地名山，反复观察变换的奇景。

sity graduates have to possess certain personal qualities that can enable us to realize our aim. What do you think is the most important personal quality of a university graduate? Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic:

1. On the Most Essential Social Value

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 A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Directions: Translate the following text into English.

我以为世间最可宝贵的就是“今”，最易丧失的也是“今”。因为它最容易丧失，所以更觉得它宝贵。

为什么“今”最可宝贵呢?最好借哲人爱默森所说的话回答这个疑问：“尔若爱千古，尔当爱现在。昨日不能唤回来，明天还不确实，尔能确有把握的就是今日。今日一天当明日两天。”

为什么“今”最易丧失呢?因为宇宙大化刻刻流转，绝不停留。