SECTION ACHINESE TO ENGLISHDirections: Translate the following text into English. 我开始向

r blocks. The sense of belonging to a community tends to appear when you live thirty floors up in a skyscraper. Strange enough, whereas in the past the inhabitants of one street all knew each other, nowadays people on the same floor in high buildings even say hello to each other.

Country life, on the other hand, differs from this kind of isolated existence in that a sense of community generally keep the inhabitants of small villages together. People have the advantage of knowing that there is always someone to turn to when they need help. So country life has disadvantages too. For example, shopping becomes a major problem, and for anything slightly out of the ordinary you have to go for an expedition to the nearest large town. The country has the advantage of peace and quiet, but suffers with the disadvantage of being cut off. The city has noise and pollution which do harm to human health. But one of their main advantages is that you are at the center of things and that life doesn't come to an end even at ten at night. Some people have found a compromise among the two; they expressed their preference for the quiet life by leaving the city and moving to the country within commuting distance of the large city.

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院里的树荫没有庇覆它，花儿也不再在它身边生长。荒草便繁衍出来，枝蔓上下，慢慢地，竟锈上了绿苔、黑斑。我们这些做孩子 的，也讨厌起它来，曾合伙要搬走它，但力气又不足；虽时时咒骂它，嫌弃它，也无可奈何，只好任它留在那里去了。

They may have created appealing visuals with their favourite

colours on paper, moreover when they were asked by the famous hotel【M1】______

chain Nirula's to give new look to its Defence Colony restaurant【M2】______

here, the joy of the children of the Salaam Baalak Trust knew no

bounds.

Basing their mural under the subject "Rights of the Child", the【M3】______

children ranged in age from five years to 15 gave an insight 【M4】______

into their thought process through their paintings on the wall of

the restaurant.

For getting a chance to colour the wall and sensitise people

about their rights, the children must thank film-maker Mira Nair,

who after winning acclaim at home and oversea for her film 【M5】______

"Salaam Bombay"—based on lives of street and working 【M6】______

children—formed the non-government organisation.

The Salaam Baalak Trust established in 1988 caters the 【M7】______

needs of over 5,000 street children every year, besides providing

a support network for their medical and educational backing.

For Nirula's this is not its first so sponsored event. 【M8】______

Four years ago, the company had given little ones from the

Salaam Baalak Trust with a chance to paint the wall of its restaurant.【M9】______

Using the theme "Environment", the children had then

expressed their concern over the need to reserve Mother Earth.【M10】______

To create awareness about environment, Nirula's has taken up

important initiatives through its "Save the Yamuna", "Save the

Delhi Ridge", "Save Water" and "Do Not Use Plastic Bags"

campaigns. It has also co-sponsored social activities with

the World Wildlife Federation, Help Age India, Spastic Society

of India and Blind Relief School in the past.

【M1】

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

Second after the roof blew off the Koshak house, John yelled, "Up the stairs—into our bedroom! Count the kids." The children huddled in the pouring rain within the circle of adults. Grandmother Koshak implored, "Children, let's sing!" The children were too frightened to respond. She sang alone for a few notes, then her voice trailed away.

Debris flew as the living-room fireplace and its chimney collapsed. With two walls in the bedroom sanctuary beginning to disintegrate, John ordered, "Into the television room!" This was the room farthest from the direction of the storm.

For an instant, John put his arm around his wife. Janis understood. Shivering from the wind and rain and fear, clutching two children to her, she thought, Dear Lord, give me the strength to endure what I have to. She felt anger against the storm. We won't let it win.

within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who, in old age, Can see his life in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the things he cares for will continue. And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases, the thought of rest will be not unwelcome. I should wish to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do, and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

Small as it is, the pen has changed the course of history, shaped the destiny of nations, facilitated the commerce of peoples, imprisoned the elusive thoughts of man, recorded events, carried news, and done more work for mankind than all other tools or weapons.

Progress without it would have been almost impossible. The invention of the wheel and screw, the introduction of steam-power, the use of electricity, all these have changed the lives of millions; but the pen has done more. It has removed mountains. It has prepared the way for all advancement. Whatever plans have been drawn up, whatever laws formulated, have come from the pen.

nd pure mathematics than do the Greeks. The Romans were the best of the ancient engineers and architects. They were brilliant students of Greek geometry and trigonometry, and they applied their knowledge in the construction of fine bridges, road aqueducts, and public buildings. They used the iron they produced mainly for spears, swords, and shields rather for building construction. Although the Romans accomplished practical wonders, but they did very little theoretical and scientific thinking. Because of their frequent wars, much of their inventions were no more than improvements in the design of Greek weapons to which they were familiar. There are two reasons for the Roman neglect of philosophy and mathematics. First they were too busy conquesting nearby nations.

Secondly, they are handicapped by the rigidity of their numerical system which encouraged the study of pure mathematics.

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战。亚洲有49个国家和地区，大部分是发展中经济体。经济全球化，有利于它们更多地获得资金，尤其是跨国企业的投资，加快经济发展和结构调整；有利于它们更好地利用自身优势，开拓国际市场，发展对外经济贸易；有利于它们更快地得到先进技术、管理经验，发挥后发优势，实现技术跨越。

同时也必须看到，经济全球化是一把双刃剑。由于不合理、不公正的国际政治经济秩序没有得到根本改变，经济全球化加剧了各国各地区发展的不平衡性，尤其是使南北的发展差距、贫富差距进一步扩大。

why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is here for the sake of other men—above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received. My peace of mind is often troubled by the depressing sense that I have borrowed too heavily from the work of other men.

To ponder interminably over the reason for one's own existence or the meaning of life in general seems to me, from an objective point of view, to be sheer foxily. And yet everyone holds certain ideals by which he guides his aspiration and his judgment. The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort and happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

I am honored and humbled to stand here, where so many of America's leaders have come before me, and so many will follow.

We have a place, all of us, in a long story--a story we continue, but whose end we will not see. It is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, a story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into 'the world to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer. It is the American story--a story of flawed and fallible people, united across the generations by grand and enduring ideals.

The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born.

Americans are called to enact this promise in our lives and in our laws. And though our nation has sometimes halted, and sometimes delayed, we must follow no other course.

Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many nations.

Our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we carry but do not own, a trust we bear and pass along. And even after nearly 225 years, we have a long way yet to travel.