Humour （also spelled humor) is the ability or quality of people, objects, or situations to

It is hardly necessary for me to cite all the evidences of the depressing 【M1】______.

state of literacy. These sums from the Department of Education are 【M2】______.

sufficient: 27 million Americans cannot read at all, a further 35 million read

on a level that is less than sufficient to survive in our society. 【M3】______.

But my own worry today is more that of the overwhelming problem of 【M4】______.

elemental literacy than it is of the slightly more luxurious problem of the

decline in the skill even of the middle-class reader, of his unwillingness to afford

those spaces of silence, those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentrating, 【M5】______.

that surrounds the image of the classic act of reading. It has been suggested 【M6】______.

that almost 80 percent of America's literate, educated teenagers can no

longer read with accompanying noise (music) in the background or a

television screen flickered at the corner of their field of perception. We know 【M7】______.

very little about the brain and how it dealt with simultaneous conflicting 【M8】______.

input, but every common-sense intuition suggests we should be profoundly

alarmed. This violation of concentration, silence, solitude goes to the very

heart of our notion of literacy; this new form. of par--reading, of part-

perception against background distraction, renders impossibly certain 【M9】______.

essential acts of apprehension and concentration, leave alone that most

important tribute any human being can pay on a poem or a piece of prose he or 【M10】______.

she really loves, which is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the

expression is vital.

【M1】

The Open University was established in 1969 to provide degree

courses in correspondence for students of 21 years and over, 【1】______

regardless whether they have the entrance qualifications normally 【2】______

required by the universities. The university now has some 75

thousand students, the majority of which have full time jobs. They【3】______

study at their home about 12-15 hours a week for about 30 weeks of【4】______

the year. Most of their work is with printed, self-instructional

materials and textbooks, even these are 【5】______

supplement by some television and radio programs (broadcast 【6】______

specially by the BBC ), and some face-to-face tuition is also

available. Certain courses entail a week for summer school. Courses【7】______

are available in art, social sciences, educational studies, mathematics【8】______

and technology. Each year, approximately one for every 16 students【9】______

graduating from UK institutions is from the Open University.

Similar institutions offering high education by distance teaching【10】______

have been set up in several other countries, including Pakistan and

Germany.

【M1】

s Olympic Games and they have become the focus of the media. However, some people hold that too much money and public attention would spoil these successful athletes. Write an essay of about 400 words on the topic given below to support this view with your own ideas.

TOO MUCH MONEY AND PUBLIC ATTENTION WOULD SPOIL

A SUCCESSFUL ATHLETE

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.

The role of the manager as merely an overseer of workers is an artifact of the Industrial Age paradigm, no longer appropriate to the Knowledge Age. Increasingly, middle managers' heads are on the chopping blocks of budget-tightening corporations, and those who fail to transform. themselves into "player/coaches" will become obsolete, suggests Thomas H. Davenport, director of Accenture Institute for Strategic Change.

"There is still an important role, albeit a different one, for management in the future," Davenport writes in The Future of Leadership. "The single most important factor driving the change in what management entails is the rise and prevalence of knowledge work. "

In advanced economies, knowledge workers now make up more than 50% of workers-or more, depending on how you define "knowledge worker". Davenport reports, "I know of a CEO of a large pizza chain who argues that every worker in the organization is a knowledge worker, and unless they all use knowledge to manage costs, serve customers well, and maintain high quality standards, the organization will not succeed. However, if pizza makers are knowledge workers, who isn't?"

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Directions: Translate the following text into English.

在逝去如飞的日子里，在千门万户的世界里的我能做些什么呢?只有徘徊罢了，只有匆匆罢了；在八千多日的匆匆里，除徘徊外，又剩些什么呢?过去的日子如轻烟却被微风吹散了，如薄雾。被初阳蒸融了；我留着些什么痕迹呢?我何曾留着像游丝样的痕迹呢?我赤裸裸来到这世界，转眼间也将赤裸裸地回去罢?但不能平的，为什么偏要白白走这一遭啊?

你聪明的，告诉我，我们的日子为什么一去不复返呢?

Artists use caricature to distort the human

face or comic affect, while at the same time 【1】______

capturing an identifiable likeness and suggests the 【2】______

essence of the personality or character beneath the

surface. The humor lies in the fact the caricature is【3】______

recognizable, and yet exaggerated.

From their origin in Europe as witty sketches, 【4】______

caricature grew through the eighteenth and

nineteenth century, becoming enormously popular 【5】______

in the United States early in this century. In 1920s

and 1930s especially, this lively form. of illustration

was appeared in newspapers and magazines through- 【6】______

out the country. The caricaturists in this era drew his【7】______

portraits of important figures primary to entertain. In【8】______

spirit their work was close to the humor of the fast-【9】______

developing comic strip and gag cartoon than to the

string of political satire. Their subjects were more

often amusing than offended by their amiable at- 【10】______

tacks.

【M1】

through interviews or some other forms of exams. The chosen students need not take part in the entrance examination, thus just waiting for the opening of the college life. Whether this method of enrolling students should be encouraged or not?

Write a composition 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 far 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.

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Directions: Translate the following text into English.

偶然也会有一座小岛出现在地平线上，我们不知其名，但它却给人以神秘之感，那是海底峰峦的顶部，孤独、凄凉、无瑕、偏僻地矗立在海上。人们喜爱岛屿，是否因为在这难以驾驭的广大世界里有这样一叫、块易于管理的领地，人们就不知不觉地要据为已有?我想到那座岛屿一直就在那里(除非它只不过是耐心的珊瑚虫的作品)，并且倘若我返回发现它在等待着我时，这小岛还会仍然在原地不动。当我想到这些时，我就感受到一种奇特的情感。为什么会这样，我自己也说不清。

achieve it. What are the principles of successful learning? Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic:

Successful Learning

n modern society. Monitor, as a new gadget, has been installed in some classrooms. Some think it is useful to help students with their study, and others think it caused many problems. What is your opinion? Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic:

Should Monitors Be Installed?