2001年专八真题

2001年英语专业八级考试全真试卷

Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension (40 min)

In Sections A, B and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully a nd then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct response to each ques tion on your Coloured Answer Sheet.

SECTION A TALK

Questions 1 to 5 refer to the talk in this section. At the end of the talk you w ill be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now list en to the talk.

1. Changes in the size of the World Bank’ s operations refer to ___. A. the expansion of its loan programme B. the inclusion of its hard loans C. the inclusion of its soft loans  D. the previous lending policies

2. What actually made the Bank change its overall lending strategy? A. Reluctance of people in poor countries to have small families. B. Lack of basic health services and inequality in income distribution.

C. The discovery that a low fertility rate would lead to economic development. D. Poor nutrition and low literacy in many poor countries of the world.

3. The change in emphasis of the Bank’s lending policies meant that the Bank would ___. A. be more involved in big infrastructure projects

B. adopt similar investment strategies in poor and rich countries

C. embark upon a review of the investment in huge dams and steel mills D.invest in projects that would benefit the low-income sector of society

4. Which of the following is NOT a criticism of the bank? A. Colossal travel expenses of its staff.  B. Fixed annual loans to certain countries. C. Limited impact of the Bank’s projects.  D. Role as a financial deal maker.

5. Throughout the talk, the speaker is ___ while introducing the Wor ld Bank. A. biased B. unfriendly C. objective D. sensational

SECTION B CONVERSATION

Questions 6 to 10 are based on a conversation. At the end of the conversation yo u will be given 15 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the conversatio n.

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6. The man sounds surprised at the fact that ___. A. many Australians are taking time off to travel B. the woman worked for some time in New Zealand C. the woman raised enough money for travel D. Australians prefer to work in New Zealand

7. We learn that the woman liked Singapore mainly because of its ___.

A. cleanness B. multi-ethnicity C. modern characteristics D. shopping opportunities

8. From the conversation we can infer that Kaifeng and Yinchuan impressed the woman with their ___.

A. respective locations B. historic interests  C. ancient tombs D. Jewish descendants

9. Which of the following words can best describe the woman’s feelings a bout Tibet? A. Amusement. B. Disbelief. C. Ecstasy. D. Delig ht

10. According to the conversation, it was that made the woman ready to stop traveling. A. the unsettledness of travel B. the difficulties of trekking C. the loneliness of travel

D. the unfamiliar environment

SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

Questions 11 and 12 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item , you will be given 30 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.

11. Mike Tyson was put in prison last August because he ___. A. violated the traffic law B. illegally attacked a boxer

C. attacked sb. after a traffic accident D. failed to finish his contract

12. The license granted to Tyson to fight will be terminated ___.

A. by the end of the year B. in over a year C. in August D. in a few weeks

Question 13 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you wil l be given 15 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.

13. The Russian documents are expected to draw great attention because ___. A. they cover the whole story of the former US president

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B. the assassin used to live in the former Soviet Union

C. they are the only official documents released about Kennedy D. they solved the mystery surrounding Kennedy’s assassination

Question 14 and 15 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 30 seconds to answer the questions. New listen to the news.

14. In the recent three months, Hong Kong’s unemployment rate has ___.

A. increased slowly B. decreased gradually C. stayed steady D. become unpredictable

15. According to the news, which of the following statements is TRUE? A. Business conditions have worsened in the past three months. B. The past three months have seen a declining trend in job offers.

C. The rise of unemployment rate in some sectors equals the fall in others. D. The unemployment rate in all sectors of the economy remains unchanged.

SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLING

Fill each of gaps with ONE word. You may refer to your notes. Make sure the word you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable.

The Press Conference

The press conference has certain advantages. The first advantage lies with the

(1)___ nature of the event itself; public officials are supposed to 1.___

submit to scrutiny by responding to various questions at a press conference.

Secondly, statements previously made at a press conference can be used as a

(2)___ in judging following statements or policies. Moreover, in case 2.___

of important events, press conferences are an effective way to break the news

to groups of reporters.

However, from the point of view of (3)___, the press conference 3.___

possesses some disadvantages, mainly in its(4)___ and news source. 4.___

The provider virtually determines the manner in which a press conference

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proceeds. This, sometimes, puts news reporters at a(n)(5)___ , as can 5.___

be seen on live broadcasts of news conferences.

Factors in getting valuable information preparation: a need to keep up to date on journalistic subject matter;

—(6)___ of the news source: 6.___

1 ) news source’ s (7)___ to 7.___

provide information;

2)news-gathering methods.

Conditions under which news reporters cannot trust the information

provided by a news source

— not knowing the required information;

— knowing and willing to share the information, but without

(8)___ skills; 8.___

— knowing the information, but unwilling to share;

— willing to share, but unable to recall.

(9)___ of questions asked 9.___

Ways of improving the questions:

no words with double meanings;

no long questions;

— specific time, place, etc.;

— (10) questions; 10.___

— clear alternatives, or no alternatives in answers.

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改错

Part Ⅱ Proofreading and Error Correction (15 min)

The following passage contains TEN errors. Each line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way. For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and wri te the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line. For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line. For an unnecessary word cross out the unnecessary word with a slash “/’ and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line. Example

When∧art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) an it never／ buys things in

finished form and hangs (2) never them on the wall. When a natural history museum wants an exhibition, it must often build it. (3) exhibit

During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as the very lifeblood of Western Canada. People on city streets watched

the yields and the price of wheat in almost as much feeling as if 1.___ they were growers. The marketing of wheat became an increasing 2.___ favorite topic of conversation.

War set the stage for the most dramatic events in marketing the western crop. For years, farmers mistrusted speculative grain selling as carried on through the Winnipeg Grain Exchange.

Wheat prices were generally low in the autumn, so farmers could 3.___ not wait for markets to improve. It had happened too often that

they sold their wheat soon shortly after harvest when farm debts 4.___

were coming due, just to see prices rising and speculators getting rich. 5.___ On various occasions, producer groups, asked firmer control, 6.___ but the government had no wish to become involving, at 7.___ least not until wartime when wheat prices threatened to run wild.

Anxious to check inflation and rising life costs, the federal 8.___ government appointed a board of grain supervisors to deal with deliveries from the crops of 1917 and 1918. Grain Exchange trading was suspended, and farmers sold at prices fixed by the board. To handle with the crop of 1919, the government 9.___

appointed the first Canadian Wheat Board, with total authority to 10.___ buy, sell, and set prices.

阅读理解 A

Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 min)

SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION (30 min)

In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of fifteen multiple-choice

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questions. Read the passages and then mark answers on your Coloured Answer Sheet. TEXT A

“Twenty years ago, Blackpool turned its back on the sea and tried to make i tself into an entertainment centre. ” say Robin Wood, a local official. “Now t he thinking is that we should try, to refocus on the sea and make Blackpool a fami ly destination again.” To say that Blackpool neglected the sea is to put it mil d ly. In 1976 the European Community, as it then was called, instructed member nati ons to make their beaches conform to certain minimum standards of cleanliness wi thin ten years. Britain, rather than complying, took the novel strategy of conte nding that many of its most popular beaches were not swimming beaches at all. Be cause of Britain’s climate the sea-bathing season is short, and most people don ’ t go in above their knees anyway-and hence can’t really be said to be swimming. By averaging out the number of people actually swimming across 365 days of the y ear, the government was able to persuade itself, if no one else, that Britain ha d hardly any real swimming beaches. 

As one environmentalist put it to me: “You had the ludicrous situation in w hich Luxembourg had mere listed public bathing beaches than the whole of the Uni ted Kingdom. It was preposterous.”

Meanwhile, Blackpool continued to discharge raw sewage straight into the se a. Finally after much pressure from both environmental groups and the European U nion, the local water authority built a new waste-treatment facility for the who le of Blackpool and neighbouring communities. The facility came online in June 1 996. For the first time since the industrial revolution Blackpool’s waters are safe to swim in.

That done, the town is now turning its attention to making the sea-front me re visually attractive. The promenade, once a rather elegant place to stroll, ha d become increasingly tatty and neglected. “It was built in Victorian times and needed a thorough overhaul anyway, ”says Wood, “so we decided to make aestheti c improvements at the same time, to try to draw people back to it.” Blackpool rec e ntly spent about .4 million building new kiosks for vendors and improving seat ing around the Central Pier and plans to spend a further $ 15 million on various amenity projects.

The most striking thing about Blackpool these days compared with 20 years a go is how empty its beaches are. When the tide is out, Blackpool’s beaches are a vast plain of beckoning sand. They look spacious enough to accommodate comforta bly the entire populace of northern England. Ken Welsby remembers days when, as he puts it,“ you couldn’t lay down a handkerchief on this beach, it was that c rowded.”

Welsby comes from Preston, 20 miles down the road, and has been visiting Bl ackpool all his life. Now retired, he had come for the day with his wife, Kitty, and their three young grandchildren who were gravely absorbed in building a san dcastle. “Two hundred thousand people they’d have on this beach sometimes.” W elsby said. “You can’t imagine it now, can you?”

Indeed I could not. Though it was a bright sunny day in the middle of summe r. I counted just 13 people scattered along a half mile or so of open sand. Exce pt for those rare times when hot weather and a public holiday coincide, it is li ke this nearly always now.

“You can’t imagine how exciting it was to come here for the day when we w er e young.” Kitty said. “Even from Preston, it was a big treat. Now children don ’t want the beach. They want arcade games and rides in helicopters and goodness kn ows what else.” She stared out over

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the glittery water. “We’ll never see thos e days again. It’s sad really.” “But your grandchildren seem to be enjoying it,” I pointed out. “For the moment, ”Ken said. “For the moment.”

Afterward I went for a long walk along the empty beach, then went back to th e town centre and treated myself to a large portion of fish-and-chips wrapped in paper. The way they cook it in Blackpool, it isn’t so much a meal as an invita t ion to a heart attack, but it was delicious. Far out over the sea the sun was se tting with such splendor that I would almost have sworn I could hear the water h iss where it touched.

Behind me the lights of Blackpool Tower were just twinkling on, and the str eets were beginning to fill with happy evening throngs. In the purply light of d usk the town looked peaceful and happy — enchanting even — and there was an engaging air of expectancy, of fun about to happen. Somewhat to my surprise, I r ealized that this place was beginning to grow on me. 16. At the beginning, the passage seems to suggest that Blackpool ___. A. will continue to remain as an entertainment centre B. complied with EC’s standards of clearliness C. had no swimming beaches all along

D. is planning to revive its former attraction

17. We can learn from the passage that Blackpool used to ___. A. have as many beaches as Luxumbourg B. have seriously polluted drinking water C. boast some imposing seafront sights D. attract few domestic holiday makers

18. What Blackpool’s beaches strike visitors most is their ___.

A. emptiness B. cleanliness C. modernity D. monotony

TEXT B

Pundits who want to sound judicious are fond of warning against generalizin g. Each country is different, they say, and no one story fits all of Asia. This is, of course, silly: all of these economies plunged into economic crisis within a few months of each other, so they must have had something in common.

In fact, the logic of catastrophe was pretty much the same in Thailand, Mal aysia, Indonesia and South Korea. (Japan is a very different story. ) In each ca se investors——mainly, but not entirely, foreign banks who had made short-term loans——all tried to pull their money out at the same time. The result was a co mbined banking and currency crisis: a banking crisis because no bank can convert all its assets into cash on short notice; a currency crisis because panicked in vestors were trying not only to convert long-term assets into cash, but to conve rt baht or rupiah into dollars. In the face of the stampede, governments had no good options. If they let their currencies plunge inflation would soar and compa nies that had borrowed in dollars would go bankrupt; if they tried to support th eir currencies by pushing up interest rates, the same firms would probably go bu st from the combination of debt burden and recession. In practice, countries’ s plit the difference—— and paid a heavy price regardless.

Was the crisis a punishment for bad economic management? Like most cliches, the catchphrase“ crony capitalism” has prospered because it gets at something r eal: excessively cozy

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relationships between government and business really did l ead to a lot of bad investments. The still primitive financial structure of Asia n business also made the economies peculiarly vulnerable to a loss of confidence . But the punishment was surely disproportionate to the crime, and many investme nts that look foolish in retrospect seemed sensible at the time.

Given that there were no good policy options, was the policy response mainl y on the fight track? There was frantic blame-shifting when everything in Asia s eemed to be going wrong: now there is a race to claim credit when some things ha ve started to go right. The international Monetary Fund points to Korea’s recov e ry—— and more generally to the fact that the sky didn’t fall after all —— a s proof that its policy recommendations were right. Never mind that other IMF cli ents have done far worse, and that the economy of Malaysia —— which refused IM F help, and horrified respectable opinion by imposing capital controls ——also seems to be on the mend. Malaysia’s prime Minister, by contrast, claims full cr e dit for any good news——even though neighbouring economies also seem to have bo ttomed out.

The truth is that an observer without any ax to grind would probably concl ude that none of the policies adopted either on or in defiance of the IMF’s adv i ce made much difference either way. Budget policies, interest rate policies, ban king reform —— whatever countries tried, just about all the capital that could flee, did. And when there was no mere money to run, the natural recuperative po wers of the economies finally began to prevail. At best, the money doctors who p urported to offer cures provided a helpful bedside manner; at worst, they were l ike medieval physicians who prescribed bleeding as a remedy for all ills.

Will the patients stage a full recovery? It depends on exactly what you me an by “full”. South Korea’s industrial production is already above its pre-cr isi s level; but in the spring of 1997 anyone who had predicted zero growth in Korea n industry over the next two years would have been regarded as a reckless doomsa yer. So if by recovery you mean not just a return to growth, but one that brings the region’s performance back to something like what people used to regard as the Asian norm, they have a long way to go.

19. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT the writer’s opinion? A. Countries paid a heavy price for whichever measure taken. B. Countries all found themselves in an economic dilemma. C. Withdrawal of foreign capital resulted in the crisis. D. Most governments chose one of the two options. 20. The writer thinks that those Asian countries ___. A. well deserved the punishment

B. invested in a senseless way at the time C. were unduly punished in the crisis

D. had bad relationships between government and business

21. It can be inferred from the passage that IMF policy recommendations ___. A. were far from a panacea in all cases B. were feasible in their recipient countries C. failed to work in their recipient countries

D. were rejected unanimously by Asian countries

22. At the end of the passage, the writer seems to think that a full reco very of the Asian economy is ___.

A. due B. remote C. imaginative D. unpredictable

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TEXT C

Human migration: the term is vague. What people usually think of is the per manent movement of people from one home to another. More broadly, though, migrat ion means all the ways——from the seasonal drift of agricultural workers within a country to the relocation of refugees from one country to another.

Migration is big, dangerous, compelling. It is 60 million Europeans leaving home from the 16th to the 20th centuries. It is some 15 million Hindus, Skihs, and Muslims swept up in a tumultuous shuffle of citizens between India and Pakis tan after the partition of the subcontinent in 1947.

Migration is the dynamic undertow of population change: everyone’s solutio n , everyone’s conflict. As the century turns, migration, with its inevitable eco n omic and political turmoil, has

been called“ one of the greatest challenges of the coming century.” 

But it is much more than that. It is, as has always been, the great adventu re of human life. Migration helped create humans, drove us to conquer the planet , shaped our societies, and promises to reshape them again.

“You have a history book written in your genes, ”said Spencer Wells. The bo ok he’s trying to read goes back to long before even the first word was written , and it is a story of migration.

Wells, a tall, blond geneticist at Stanford University, spent the summer of 1998 exploring remote parts of Transcaucasia and Central Asia with three collea gues in a Land Rover, looking for drops of blood. In the blood, donated by the p eople he met, he will search for the story that genetic markers can tell of the long paths human life has taken across the Earth. Genetic studies are the latest technique in a long effort of modern humans t o find out where they have come from. But however the paths are traced, the basi c story is simple: people have been moving since they were people. If early huma ns hadn’t moved and intermingled as much as they did, they probably would have c ontinued to evolve into different species. From beginnings in Africa, most resea rchers agree, groups of hunter-gatherers spread out, driven to the ends of the E arth.

To demographer Kingsley Davis, two things made migration happen. First, hum an beings, with their tools and language, could adapt to different conditions wi thout having to wait for evolution to make them suitable for a new niche. Second , as populations grew, cultures began to differ, and inequalities developed betw een groups. The first factor gave us the keys to the door of any room on the pla net; the other gave us reasons to use them.

Over the centuries, as agriculture spread across the planet, people moved t oward places where metal was found and worked and to centres of commerce that th en became cities. Those places were, in turn, invaded and overrun by people later generations called barbarians.

In between these storm surges were steadier but similarly profound fides in which people moved out to colonize or were captured and brought in as slaves. F or a while the population of Athens, that city of legendary enlightenment was as much as 35 percent slaves.

“What strikes me is how important migration is as a cause and effect in th e great world events. ”Mark Miller, co-author of The Age of Migration and a prof essor of political science at the University of Delaware, told me recently.

It is difficult to think of any great events that did not involve migration . Religions spawned pilgrims or settlers; wars drove refugees before them and ma de new land available for the

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conquerors; political upheavals displaced thousand s or millions; economic innovations drew workers and entrepreneurs like magnets; environmental disasters like famine or disease pushed their bedraggled survivor s anywhere they could replant hope.  “It’s part of our nature, this movement,” Miller said, “It’s just a fact of the human condition.” 23. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT? A. Migration exerts a great impact on population change. B. Migration contributes to Mankind’s progress.

C. Migration brings about desirable and undesirable effects. D. Migration may not be accompanied by human conflicts.

24. According to Kingsley Davis, migration occurs as a result of the foll owing reasons EXCEPF ___.

A. human adaptability B. human evolution C. cultural differences D. inter-group inequalities

25. Which of the following groups is NOT mentioned as migrants in the pas sage? A. Farmers. B. Workers. C. Settlers. D. Colon izers.

26. There seems to be a(n) ___ relationship between great events an d migration. A. loose B. indefinite C. causal D. rem ote TEXT D

 How is communication actually achieved? It depends, of course, either on a common language or on known conventions, or at least on the beginnings of these. If the common language and the conventions exist, the contributor, for example, the creative artist, the performer, or the reporter, tries to use them as well as he can. But often, especially with original artists and thinkers, the problem is in one way that of creating a language, or creating a convention, or at leas t of developing the language and conventions to the point where they are capable of bearing his precise meaning. In literature, in music, in the visual arts, in the sciences, in social thinking, in philosophy, this kind of development has o ccurred again and again. It often takes a long time to get through, and for many people it will remain difficult. But we need never think that it is impossible; creative energy is much more powerful than we sometimes suppose. While a man is engaged in this struggle to say new things in new ways, he is usually more than ever concentrated on the actual work, and not on its possible audience. Many ar tists and scientists share this fundamental unconcern about the ways in which th eir work will be received. They may be glad if it is understood and appreciated, hurt if it is not, but while the work is being done there can be no argument. T he thing has to come out as the man himself sees it.

In this sense it is true that it is the duty of society to create condition s in which such men can live. For whatever the value of any individual contribut ion, the general body of work is of immense value to everyone. But of course thi ngs are not so formal, in reality. There is not society on the one hand and thes e individuals on the other. In ordinary living, and in his work, the contributor shares in the life of his society, which often affects him both in minor ways a nd in ways sometimes so deep that he is not even aware of them. His ability to m ake his work public depends on the actual communication system: the language its elf, or certain visual or musical or scientific conventions, and the institution s through which the communication will be passed. The effect of these on his act ual work can be almost infinitely variable. For it is not only a communication s ystem outside him; it is also, however original he may be, a communication syste m which is in fact part of himself. Many contributors make active use of this ki nd of internal

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communication system. It is to themselves, in a way, that they fi rst show their conceptions, play their music, present their arguments. Not only as a way of getting these clear, in the process of almost endless testing that a ctive composition involves. But also, whether consciously or not, as a way of pu tting the experience into a communicable form. If one mind has grasped it, then it may be open to other minds.

In this deep sense, the society is in some ways already present in the act of composition. This is always very difficult to understand, but often, when we have the advantage of looking back at a period, we can see, even if we cannot e xplain, how this was so. We can see how much even highly original individuals ha d in common, in their actual work, and in what is called their “structure of fe e ling”, with other individual workers of the time, and with the society of that t ime to which they belonged. The historian is also continually struck by the fact that men of this kind felt isolated at the very time when in reality they were beginning to get through. This can also be noticed in our own time, when some of the most deeply influential men feel isolated and even rejected. The society an d the communication are there, but it is difficult to recognize them, difficult to be sure.

27. Creative artists and thinkers achieve communication by ___. A. depending on shared conventions B. fashioning their own conventions C. adjusting their personal feelings D. elaborating a common language

28. A common characteristic of artists and scientists involved in creativ e work is that ___. A. they cave about the possible reaction to their work B. public response is one of the primary conceits

C. they are keenly aware of public interest in their work D. they are indifferent toward response to their work

29. According to the passage, which of the following statements is INCORR ECT? A. Individual contributions combined possess great significance to the publ ic. B. Good contributors don’t neglect the use of internal communication syste m. C. Everyone except those original people comes under the influence of socie ty. D. Knowing how to communicate is universal among human beings.

30. It is implied at the end of the passage that highly original individu als feel isolated because they ___.

A. fail to acknowledge and use an acceptable form of communication B. actually differ from other individuals in the same period C. have little in common with the society of the time

D. refuse to admit parallels between themselves and the society 翻译

试卷二 (120 min) 

Part Ⅳ Translation (60 min)

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SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Translate the following underlined part of the text into English. Write your t ranslation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.

乔羽的歌大家都熟悉。但他另外两大爱好却鲜为人知，那就是钓鱼和喝酒。晚年的乔羽喜爱垂钓，他说：“有水有鱼的地方大都是有好环境的，好环境便会给人好 心情。我认为最好的钓鱼场所不是舒适的、给你准备好饿鱼的垂钓园，而是那极其有吸引力 的大自然野外天成的场所。”钓鱼是一项能够陶冶性情的运动，有益于身心健康。乔羽说： “钓鱼可分三个阶段：第一阶段是吃鱼；第二阶段是吃鱼和情趣兼而有之；第三阶段主要是 的趣，面对一池碧水，将忧心烦恼全都抛在一边，使自己的身心得到充分休息。”

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Translate the following underlined part of the text into Chinese. Writer your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.

Possession for its own sake or in competition with the rest of the neighbo rhood would have been Thoreau’s idea of the low levels. The active discipline o f heightening one’s perception of what is enduring in nature would have been his idea of the high. What he saved from the low was time and effort he could spend on the high. Thoreau certainly disapproved of starvation, but he would put into feeding himself only as much effort as would keep him functioning for more impor tant efforts.

Effort is the gist of it. There is no happiness except as we take on life- engaging difficulties. Short of the impossible, as Yeats put it, the satisfactio n we get from a lifetime depends on how high we choose our difficulties. Robert Frost was thinking in something like the same terms when he spoke of “The pleas u re of taking pains”. The mortal flaw in the advertised version of happiness is in the fact that it purports to be effortless.

We demand difficulty even in our games. We demand it because without diffi culty there can be no game. A game is a way of making something hard for the fun of it. The rules of the game are an arbitrary imposition of difficulty. When someone ruins the fun, he always does so by refusing to play by the roles. It is e asier to win at chess if you are free, at your pleasure, to change the wholly ar bitrary roles, but the fun is in winning within the rules. No difficulty, no fun. 写作

Part Ⅴ Writing (60 min)

The Internet is about to take off in China. As many as 9 million people are online, a number that is estimated to hit 20 million by the end of 2000. It is predicted that this phenomenal growth will have great impact on our society and economy. Choose ONE aspect of our society or economy where you think the impact will be most strongly felt, and write an essay of about 300 words entitled.

THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET ON ...

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 deta ils. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclu sion or a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failur e to follow the above instructions may

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result in a loss of marks.

Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.

1-5 ACDDC 6-10 BDBCA 11-15 CABCC

Section d note-taking and gad-filling 1.答案：symbolic 2.答案：reference 3.答案：reporters 4.答案：format 5.答案：disadvantage 6.答案：component 7.答案：competence 8.答案：verbal 9.答案：nature 10.答案：asking

PART ⅡPROOFREADING AND ERROR CORRECTION 1.答案：as→so

2.答案：increasing→increasingly 3.答案：so→but 4.答案：soon或shortly

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5.答案：rich→richer 6.答案：asked∧→for 7.答案：involving→involved 8.答案：1ife→living

9.答案：handle→deal或with 10.答案：total→full READING 16-20 DBADC 21-25 ABDBA 26-30 CBDCA 31-35 ADCAB 36-40 DDBAB

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH 参考译文

Qiao Yu took to fishing in his old age. He said: “Where there is fish and w ater, there is good environment, and good environment fills one’s heart with joy (makes one feel delighted, delights everyone, gives delight to everyone). I thi nk the best place for fishing is not a comfortable man-made fish-pond where hung ry fish are ready (provided) for you, but an enchanting place in the wild where everything is natural. ”Fishing (Angling) is a game that can help improve one’s temperament (character). It is good for mental and bodily health. Qiao Yu said: “Fishing falls into three stages. The first stage is just for eating fish. The s econd stage is for eating fish and for enjoying the pleasure of fishing as well. (The second stage is for enjoying the pleasure of fishing as well as eating fis h. )

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The third stage is mainly for the pleasure of fishing facing a pool of gree n water, one casts (throws) aside all anxieties and worries and enjoys (takes) a good rest, both mental and physical.”

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE 参考译文

梭罗所理解的“低层次”，即为了拥有而去拥有，或与所有的邻居明争暗斗而致拥有。他心目中的“高层次”，则是这样一种积极的人生戒律，即要使自己对自然界永恒之物的感悟臻于完美。对于他从低层次上节省下来的时间和精力，他可将其致力于对高层次的追求。勿庸置疑，梭罗不赞成忍饥挨饿，但他在膳食方面所投入的精力仅果腹而已，只要可确保他能去从事更为重要的事务，他便别无所求。

付出努力才是其本质所在，除非我们终生与困难为伴，否则就无幸福可谈。正如济慈所言，除去不可能做的事，我们一生获得的满足有多大，取决于我们选择的困难有多强。罗伯特•福剂罗斯特谈到“苦中求乐”时，也有异曲同工之理。就通常宣传的幸福而言，其致命弱点在于声称不用付出努力即可获得幸福。

我们甚至在竞赛中寻求困难。我们需要困难，因为没有困难也就无所谓竞赛，竞赛是制造困难以求得乐趣之道。竞赛规则就是任意强加的困难。违犯竞赛规则就是破坏乐趣。下棋时，随心所欲，肆意更改强制之规更易获胜。然而乐趣源于获胜而又遵守规则。没有困难就没有乐趣。

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