Physical recreation and intellectual activities are two important ways people usually take

2005 and 2007 were not. As a result, the number of young people who chose to tie the knot in the "blessed year" hit a historic high. What do you think of such a "wedding rush"? Write an essay of about 400 words to state your view.

WEDDING RUSH

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 follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Write your essay on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.

愚人买鞋

从前有个愚人，有一天想上市去买双新鞋。他便先用尺子把脚量了量。拿了根稻秆，记下尺码。可是因为急于赶路，把稻秆忘在家里了。他来到市上，找到了卖鞋的摊子，摸了摸口袋，记尺码的稻秆不见了，就对卖鞋的说：“尺码忘在家里了，不晓得大小，让我回家拿尺码去!”说罢，拔腿就跑。他急急忙忙回家拿了那根稻秆，又急急忙忙赶回市上来，一来一去，花了很多时间。等他赶回市上，天已晚了，集市已经散了。他白忙了一阵，还是没有买到鞋子。那时，有人问他：“你是给自己买鞋子，还是替别人代买?”愚人回答说：“我自己穿的呀!”那人又问他：“那么，你身上不是长着脚么?又何必带尺码呢!”

Few people would defend the Victorian attitude

of children, but if you were a parent in those days,【M1】______

at least you know where you stood; children were to【M2】______

be seen and not heard. Freud and company did away

with all that and parents have been bewildered ever

since. The child's happiness is all-important, the

psychologists say, but what about the parents' happiness

Parents suffer constantly with fear and guilt 【M3】______

while their children gaily romp about pull the place【M4】______

apart. A good old-fashion spanking is out of the 【M5】______

question; no modern child-rearing manual would

permit such barbarity. The trouble is you are not al

lowed even to shout at. Who knows what deep 【M6】______

psychological wounds you might inflict? The poor child

may recover from the dreadful traumatic experience.

So it is that parents bend over backwards to avoid

to give their children complexes which a hundred 【M7】______

years ago hadn't even been heard of. Certainly a

child needs love, and a lot of it. But the excessive

permissiveness of modern parents is surely doing

more harm than good. Psychologists have succeeded

in undermining parents' confidence in their own au

thority. And it has taken children long to get wind of【M8】______

the fact. There are countless articles in magazines

and newspapers. With so much unsolicited advice

fly about, parents do nothing at all. And the children【M9】______

take complete control. What else can the poor

parents do but obey? But the psychologists have

much to answer. They should keep their mouths shut【M10】______

and let the parents get on with the job. This will at

least belp the children to develop vigorous views of

their own and give them something positive to react

against.

【M1】

of exercise? Write an essay illustrating the benefits that exercise brings to us.

Requirements:

Your writing should have a good beginning paragraph which brings out the question and state briefly your view on it. The middle part should be devoted to illustrating your view by details or examples. The the essay should come to a natural conclusion or summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions will result in a lose of marks.

Length: Approximately 400 words.

Write your essay on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia was delivered to my house in Bethesda, Md. No card or note came with it. Calls to the florist were always in vain--it was a cash purchase. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender's identity and just delighted in the beauty and heady perfume of that one magical, perfect white flower nestled in soft pink tissue paper.

But I never stopped imagining who the anonymous giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming about someone wonderful and exciting but too shy or eccentric to make known his or her identity.

My mother contributed to these imaginings. She'd ask me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness who might be showing appreciation. Perhaps the neighbour I'd help when she was unloading a car full of groceries. Or maybe it was the old man across the street whose mail I retrieved? during the winter so he wouldn't have to venture down his icy steps. As a teenager, though, I had more fun speculating that it might be a boy I had a crush on or one who had noticed me even though I didn't know him.

Write a comment of about 400 words on the following question ..

1. What are the Qualifications for a Good Youth of Today?

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.

Michael Jordan, a basketball player in whom commentators have discerned aristocratic qualities and supernatural powers, has retired from the game that made him one of the world's best known and best paid sportsmen.

Last week's announcement was premature by most people's measurement -- Jordan is 30 and at the height of his playing and earning power but it was not, by his own account, taken hastily, or rashly. "This is," he said, with a rare stumble, "the perfect timing for me to walk away."

After three championships with the Chicago Bulls, a second gold medal with the US team at the 1992 Olympics, Jordan felt his motivation slipping away. "I'm at the pinnacle," he told a thronged press conference. "I just feel I don't have anything else to prove."

But this explanation may appear too simple to satisfy the skeptics, who have recently discovered that Jordan does not lead an untroubled private life. First came the allegations that he gambled -- in a country where gambling is mostly illegal -- and that his gambling was out of control. Then his father was shot dead on July 23.

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

Take a good, long look at the newspaper you're reading. What could it be used for? If you think this is an unimaginably draft question with blindingly obvious answers--such as reading or lining the cat-litter Way--then you are sadly lacking in creativity and inventiveness. For you are mired in "functional fixedness"--a slavish adherence to the belief that paperclips, pens and newspapers have but one use. This is why you have pointedly failed to make a million by dreaming up clockwork radios, airbags, waterproof mascara, bagless vacuum cleaners or gel-filled bras.

Happily, your prospects need not remain so dismal. According to Gary Fitzgibbon, a cheered psychologist and an expert on creativity, anyone can break out of their mental shackles and become a free-thinking individual, able to come up with dazzling ideas and novel ways to solve problems.

"Home, sweet home" is a phrase that expresses an essential

attitude in the United States. Whether the reality of life in the

family house is sweet or no sweet, the cherished ideal of home 【M1】 ______

has great importance for many people.

This ideal is a vital part of the American dream. This dream,

dramatized in the history of nineteenth century European settlers

of the American West, was to find a piece of place, build a house 【M2】 ______

for one's family, and started a farm. These small households were 【M3】 ______

portraits of independence: the entire family--mother, father, children,

even grandparents--live in a small house and working together to 【M4】 ______

support each other. Anyone understood the life-and-death importance 【M5】 ______

of family cooperation and hard work. Although most people in the

United States no longer live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership 【M6】 ______

is just as strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.

When U.S soldiers came home before World War Ⅱ, for example, 【M7】 ______

they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there was 【M8】 ______

a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically in

the suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but it satisfied 【M9】 ______

a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their 【M10】 ______

way of life.

【M1】

r is to pursue postgraduate study. For different senior students there should be a choice that is more suitable than the other. Which do you think is more suitable for you? Why do you think so? Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic:

Finding a Job or Going on Studying?