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英语专业八级模拟试题22
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预览试卷内容
Part I Listening Comprehension
共 20分 / 33分钟
Section A
Mini-Lecture
10 小题
10分
Section B
Conversations
5 小题
5分
Section C
News Broadcast
5 小题
5分
Part II Reading Comprehension
共 20分 / 30分钟
Section A
Multiple Choice
20 小题
20分
Part III General Knowledge
共 10分 / 10分钟
Section A
Multiple Choice
10 小题
10分
Part IV Error Correction
共 10分 / 15分钟
Section A
Error Correction
10 小题
10分
Part V Translation
共 20分 / 60分钟
Section A
Translation (Chinese to English)
1 小题
10分
Section B
Translation (English to Chinese)
1 小题
10分
Part VI Writing
共 20分 / 45分钟
Section A
Writing
1 小题
20分
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Part VI
Part I Listening Comprehension
20分 / 33分钟
Part II Reading Comprehension
20分 / 30分钟
Part III General Knowledge
10分 / 10分钟
Part IV Error Correction
10分 / 15分钟
Part V Translation
20分 / 60分钟
Part VI Writing
20分 / 45分钟
Section A
In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET after the mini-lecture. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.
Now listen to the mini-lecture.
The real cause of the Revolution is the rigid social structure of French society during
1)
as the basis.
2)
to get larger income andlanded properties. The responsibilities of the clergy included: the
3)
of births, marriages and deaths; censoring books; serving as moral police; operating schools and hospitals; distributing relief to the poor. The clergy owned 10-15% of the land in the country.
4)
taxes. — They collected
5)
from peasantry population who lived on their land. — They also collected customary dues from peasants. The nobility owned
6)
of the total land in the country. They were also the
7)
of the arts.
8)
though they were wealthy. They owned 20% of all the land. They felt frustrated and blocked by the aristocracy. They were the group that wished
9)
— The peasantry: the victims of
10)
and lived in poverty. — The urban artisans: also lived in poverty.
Section B
In this section, you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will answer the questions.
Now, listen to the conversation.
11.
Which of the following is NOT a book published by Leslie Marmon Silko?
A) Laguna Woman.
B) Ceremony.
C) A Native American.
D) Almanac of the Dead.
12.
What is special about Leslie?
A) She was regarded as the first native American female novelist.
B) She was regarded as the first black American female novelist.
C) She was the first female novelist whose works were translated into quite a few other languages.
D) She was the first American novelist who wrote about Indian tribes.
13.
Which word best describes the Pueblo Community's education?
A) Primitive.
B) Poetic.
C) Storytelling.
D) Selfless.
14.
Why does Leslie tell the same ancient Pueblo stories and legends in her novels about modern society?
A) Because the old stories can be reinterpreted in the modern society.
B) Because storytelling has always been the style of the Pueblo Community literature.
C) Because readers are very interested in the stories and legends of native Americans.
D) Because people can learn exactly the same lessons taught by the old stories today.
15.
What is the time concept of the native people according to Leslie?
A) They think time is linear.
B) They think time is round.
C) They think everything is consequential in time.
D) They think time changes consequences.
Section C
In this section you will hear several news items. Listen to the news items carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
News Broadcast One
Questions 16 to 17 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will answer the questions.
Now, listen to the news.
16.
Why did the pilots and cabin crew of Air Zimbabwe go on strike?
A) They wanted a pay raise.
B) They wanted to improve their working condition.
C) They asked the delayed payments to be made.
D) They were against the airline's plan to sack pilots.
17.
What was the response of the airline company?
A) It would give in to pilots' demands.
B) It would negotiate with the pilots.
C) It would hire new pilots.
D) It fired the pilots.
News Broadcast Two
Questions 18 to 19 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will answer the questions.
Now, listen to the news.
18.
Which of the following is NOT true about the leaking of the waste sludge?
A) The accident was caused by on-the-job carelessness.
B) The sludge is a kind of toxic waste produced by an aluminum factory.
C) It is not determined whether the sludge has contaminated the Danube river.
D) It is suggested that the worst hit area should not be rebuilt.
19.
How many people were seriously hurt in the accident?
A) 3.
B) 4.
C) 11.
D) 150.
News Broadcast Three
Questions 20 to 20 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will answer the questions.
Now, listen to the news.
20.
What is the purpose of Netanyahu's bill according to some of the commentators?
A) To build a new coalition with the right-wingers.
B) To stop non-Jewish people from becoming citizens of the country.
C) To turn Israel into a complete Jewish state.
D) To try to gain support for the government's peace talks with the Palestinians.
Section A
In this section there are several passages followed by some questions or unfinished staments, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.
Text A
Some years ago, the economist George Akerlof found himself faced with a simple task: mailing a box of clothes from India, where he was living, to the United States. The clothes belonged to his friend and colleague Joseph Stiglitz, who had left them behind when visiting, so Akerlof was eager to send the box off. But there was a problem. The combination of Indian bureaucracy and what Akerlof called "my own ineptitude in such matters" meant that doing so was going to be a hassle — indeed, he estimated that it would take an entire workday. So he put off dealing with it, week after week. This went on for more than eight months, and it was only shortly before Akerlof himself returned home that he managed to solve his problem: another friend happened to be sending some things back to the U.S., and Akerlof was able to add Stiglitz's clothes to the shipment. Given the vagaries of intercontinental mail, it's possible that Akerlof made it back to the States before Stiglitz's shirts did. There's something comforting about this story: even Nobel-winning economists procrastinate! Many of us go through life with an array of undone tasks, large and small, nibbling at our conscience. But Akerlof saw the experience, for all its familiarity, as mysterious. He genuinely intended to send the box to his friend, yet, as he wrote, in a paper called "Procrastination and Obedience" (1991), "each morning for over eight months I woke up and decided that the next morning would be the day to send the Stiglitz box." He was always about to send the box, but the moment to act never arrived. Akerlof, who became one of the central figures in behavioral economics, came to the realization that procrastination might be more than just a bad habit. He argued that it revealed something important about the limits of rational thinking and that it could teach useful lessons about phenomena as diverse as substance abuse and savings habits. Since his essay was published, the study of procrastination has become a significant field in academia, with philosophers, psychologists, and economists all weighing in. Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece. (This article will be no exception.) But the academic buzz around the subject isn't just a case of eggheads rationalizing their slothfulness. As various scholars argue in "The Thief of Time", edited by Chrisoula Andreou and Mark D. White (Oxford; $65) — a collection of essays on procrastination, ranging from the resolutely theoretical to the surprisingly practical — the tendency raises fundamental philosophical and psychological issues. You may have thought, the last time you blew off work on a presentation to watch "How I Met Your Mother", that you were just slacking. But from another angle you were actually engaging in a practice that illuminates the fluidity of human identity and the complicated relationship human beings have to time. Indeed, one essay, by the economist George Ainslie, a central figure in the study of procrastination, argues that dragging our heels is "as fundamental as the shape of time and could well be called the basic impulse." Ainslie is probably right that procrastination is a basic human impulse, but anxiety about it as a serious problem seems to have emerged in the early modern era. The term itself (derived from a Latin word meaning "to put off for tomorrow") entered the English language in the sixteenth century, and, by the eighteenth, Samuel Johnson was describing it as "one of the general weaknesses" that "prevail to a greater or less degree in every mind", and lamenting the tendency in himself: "I could not forbear to reproach myself for having so long neglected what was unavoidably to be done, and of which every moment's idleness increased the difficulty." And the problem seems to be getting worse all the time. According to Piers Steel, a business professor at the University of Calgary, the percentage of people who admitted to difficulties with procrastination quadrupled between 1978 and 2002. In that light, it's possible to see procrastination as the quintessential modern problem. It's also a surprisingly costly one. Each year, Americans waste hundreds of millions of dollars because they don't file their taxes on time. Seventy percent of patients suffering from glaucoma risk blindness because they don't use their eye drops regularly. Procrastination also inflicts major costs on businesses and governments. The recent crisis of the euro was exacerbated by the German government's dithering, and the decline of the American auto industry, exemplified by the bankruptcy of G.M., was due in part to executives' penchant for delaying tough decisions.
21.
What does the 1st paragraph of the passage mainly tell us?
A) Akerlof had difficulty mailing his friend's clothes from India to the United States.
B) Indian bureaucracy often made simple things much more complicated.
C) Akerlof postponed mailing his friend's clothes to the U.S. until eight months later.
D) Akerlof arrived in the United States before his friend's clothes did.
22.
What's the significance of Akerlof's personal story?
A) It gives comfort to ordinary people.
B) Nobel-winning economists procrastinate.
C) It's something very mysterious.
D) It reveals something important about human psychology.
23.
According to the passage, we can learn all the following from procrastination EXCEPT ________.
A) the limits of rational thinking
B) the fluidity of human identity
C) people's tendency to slothfulness
D) the relationship between human beings and time
24.
According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?
A) Procrastination is more than just a bad habit.
B) Many academics write papers to rationalize their slothfulness.
C) Procrastination may be a basic human impulse.
D) Anxiety about procrastination seems to have emerged in the early modern era.
25.
Procrastination is mentioned as a social problem in the following aspects EXCEPT ______.
A) education
B) health care
C) government
D) business
Text B
One hot evening in Padua they carried him up onto the roof and he could look out over the top of the town. There were chimney swifts in the sky. After a while it got dark and the searchlights came out. The others went down and took the bottles with them. He and Luz could hear them below on the balcony. Luz sat on the bed. She was cool and fresh in the hot night. Luz stayed on night duty for three months. They were glad to let her. When they operated on him she prepared him for the operating table; and they had a joke about friend or enema. He went under the anaesthetic holding tight on to himself so he would not blab about anything during the silly, talky time. After he got on crutches he used to take the temperatures so Luz would not have to get up from the bed. There were only a few patients, and they all knew about it. They all liked Luz. As he walked back along the halls he thought of Luz in his bed. Before he went back to the front they went into the Duomo and prayed. It was dim and quiet, and there were other people praying. They wanted to get married, but there was not enough time for the banns, and neither of them had birth certificates. They felt as though they were married, but they wanted everyone to know about it, and to make it so they could not lose it. Luz wrote him many letters that he never got until after the armistice. Fifteen came in a bunch to the front and he sorted them by the dates and read them all straight through. They were all about the hospital, and how much she loved him and how it was impossible to get along without him and how terrible it was missing him at night. After the armistice they agreed he should go home to get a job so they might be married. Luz would not come home until he had a good job and could come to New York to meet her. It was understood he would not drink, and he did not want to see his friends or anyone in the States. Only to get a job and be married. On the train from Padua to Milan they quarreled about her not being willing to come home at once. When they had to say good-bye, in the station at Milan, they kissed good-bye, but were not finished with the quarrel. He felt sick about saying good-bye like that. He went to America on a boat from Genoa. Luz went back to Pordonone to open a hospital. It was lonely and rainy there, and there was a battalion of arditi quartered in the town. Living in the muddy, rainy town in the winter, the major of the battalion made love to Luz, and she had never known Italians before, and finally wrote to the States that theirs had only been a boy and girl affair. She was sorry, and she knew he would probably not be able to understand, but might some day forgive her, and be grateful to her, and she expected, absolutely unexpectedly, to be married in the spring. She loved him as always, but she realized now it was only a boy and girl love. She hoped he would have a great career, and believed in him absolutely. She knew it was for the best. The major did not marry her in the spring, or any other time. Luz never got an answer to the letter to Chicago about it. A short time after he contracted gonorrhea from a sales girl in a loop department store while riding in a taxicab through Lincoln Park.
26.
What do you think is the setting of the short story?
A) A hospital during wartime.
B) A hotel before the war.
C) A hospital before the war.
D) A hotel during wartime.
27.
According to the first two paragraphs, what kind of person is the protagonist?
A) Lovely and passionate.
B) Restrained and considerate.
C) Cool and careful.
D) Patient and hardworking.
28.
What did Luz mainly write about in her letter to the protagonist after he went to America?
A) She was going to marry him soon.
B) She would not marry him.
C) She loved him very much.
D) She wished him a great career.
29.
How did the protagonist feel at the end of the story?
A) Indifferent.
B) Satisfactory.
C) Despair.
D) Angry.
30.
What's the tone of the short story?
A) Extremely playful.
B) Somewhat ironic.
C) Seemingly objective.
D) Highly emotional.
Text C
The American dream for me, growing up in India in the 1970s, looked something like the opening credits of Dallas. The blockbuster TV series began with a kaleidoscope of big, brassy, sexy images — tracts of open land, shiny skyscrapers, fancy cars, cowboy businessmen and the very dreamy Victoria Principal. We watched bootlegged copies of the show, passed around on old Betamax cassettes. America (certainly the CBS soap-opera version of America) seemed dazzling and larger than life, especially set against the stagnant backdrop of India in the 1970s. Everyone I knew was fascinated by the U.S., whether they admitted it or not. Politicians who denounced the country by day would go home in the evenings and plot to send their kids to college in "the States". Of course, the 1970s were actually tough times in America — stagflation, malaise, the aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate — but they were brutal in the rest of the world. Hyperinflation racked most third-world countries; coups and martial law were familiar occurrences, even affecting staunchly democratic India, where emergency rule was enforced from 1975 to 1977. Set against this atmosphere of despair, the U.S. looked like a shining city on a hill. A few years later, when I got to America on a college scholarship, I realized that the real American Dream was somewhat different from Dallas. I visited college friends in their hometowns and was struck by the spacious suburban houses and the gleaming appliances — even when their parents had simple, modest jobs. The modern American Dream, for me, was this general prosperity and well-being for the average person. European civilization had produced the great cathedrals of the world. America had the two-car garage. And this middle-class contentment created a country of optimists. Compared with the fatalism and socialist lethargy that was pervasive in India those days, Americans had a sunny attitude toward life that was utterly refreshing. But when I travel from America to India these days, as I did recently, it's as if the world has been turned upside down. Indians are brimming with hope and faith in the future. After centuries of stagnation, their economy is on the move, fueling animal spirits and ambition. The whole country feels as if it has been unlocked. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the mood is sour. Americans are glum, dispirited and angry. The middle class, in particular, feels under assault. In a Newsweek poll in September, 63% of Americans said they did not think they would be able to maintain their current standard of living. Perhaps most troubling, Americans are strikingly fatalistic about their prospects. The can-do country is convinced that it can't. Americans have good reasons to worry. We have just gone through the worst recession since the Great Depression. The light at the end of the tunnel is dim at best. Sixteen months into the recovery, the unemployment rate is higher than it was in the depths of all but one of the postwar recessions. And as government spending is being pared back, the economy is showing new signs of weakness. Some experts say that in every recession Americans get gloomy and then recover with the economy. This slump is worse than most; so is the mood. Once demand returns, they say, jobs will come back and, with them, optimism. But Americans are far more apprehensive than usual, and their worries seem to go beyond the short-term debate over stimulus vs. deficit reduction. They fear that we are in the midst of not a cyclical downturn but a structural shift, one that poses huge new challenges to the average American job, pressures the average American wage and endangers the average American Dream. The middle class, many Americans have come to believe, is being hollowed out. I think they are right.
31.
Why does the writer mention the TV series
Dallas
?
A) It starred a very beautiful actress.
B) It embodied his American Dream.
C) It represented the dark side of India.
D) It showed the fascinating landscape of America.
32.
What was the reality of the 1970s?
A) America was much better than most other countries.
B) The times were brutal in the U.S.
C) American people felt despair in the 1970s.
D) India became a democratic country.
33.
According to the writer, what was the real American Dream?
A) People had two garages in their house.
B) Average people could lead a luxurious life.
C) Everyone in America had a sunny attitude towards life.
D) General prosperity for middle-class people.
34.
What's the current pervasive mood in America?
A) Hopeful.
B) Optimistic.
C) Spirited.
D) Pessimistic.
35.
What's the writer's attitude towards the prospects of America?
A) Cynical.
B) Indifferent.
C) Worried.
D) Light-hearted.
Text D
Natasha Kai holds two Olympic gold medals in soccer, but her arms are the most formidable parts of her body. They're covered in an embroidery of Polynesian tattoos: symbols and flowers that serve as an homage to her native Hawaii. "Most of them are out of boredom," Kai, 27, says. "Some people go shopping. When I have nothing to do, I go to a tattoo shop." She did that on Oct. 9, 2008, when she stepped into Kat Von D's Los Angeles parlor. "She wanted a rendition of God's hands holding the Chinese character for the word Believe," Von D writes in her new book, The Tattoo Chronicles. "Natasha told me 'Believe' is an affirmation that's used in the Olympics. 'If we believe in each other, then great things will come!" Two decades ago, the only cultural icons with tattoos were rowdy and extreme — Dennis Rodman, Steven Tyler, Cher. Their inked up arms conjured images of rebellious behavior, life on the road, Hell's Angels. But today, even the most elaborate tattoos have gone mainstream — and the most innocuous celebrities, like Hilary Duff, Alyssa Milano, Jessica Alba, and Heidi Klum, are flaunting them. Tattoos are so widespread that a recent Visa commercial showcased the ultimate dilemma: running out of money mid-design. "It's definitely growing; kids are aspiring tattoo artists," says Von D, the star of TLC's tattoo reality show, LA Ink. "Before, that wasn't a real job." Kai's tattoo journey was partly inspired by Von D, who got her first tattoo — the letter "J," for her boyfriend James — at age 14. While Kai doesn't exactly disappear in a crowd, she doesn't stand out, either. About 38 percent of millennials — people between the ages of 18 and 29 — are inked, compared with 15 percent of their Baby Boomer parents, according to a study by the Pew Research Center. For that, we have pop culture to thank — or blame. "I definitely think the success of [my show] has contributed to the open-mindedness that people have inherited over the past few years," says Von D, who is not only a celebrity tattoo artist but also tattoos images of celebrities on fans. "When Michael Jackson died and Farrah Fawcett died, I got a lot of requests for portraits of them." In 1991, Myrna Armstrong, a professor of health sciences, conducted a study of 154 working women with tattoos. Back then, the majority of respondents said their tattoos were hidden in places like their breast, groin, or upper thigh. "They wanted to control who saw them," Armstrong says. "They knew it was a mark some people didn't like." That fear has all but vanished, especially in a celebrity culture where nothing is private. Web sites are devoted to explaining the origins and meanings of all of Angelina Jolie's tattoos. "Drew Barrymore, with all her daisy tattoos, she inspired a whole tattoo movement!" Von D says. "There's nothing prettier than a girl with a flower." TV has kept up with the times. In 1984, when Jack Tripper on Three's Company got drunk and came home with a tattoo on his tush, he immediately rushed to the hospital to have it removed. In the 1990s, tattooed characters — Tony on Who's the Boss, Uncle Jesse on Full House — were trying to escape their wild pasts. On Friends, Rachel conceals a heart tattoo on her hip. More recently, tattoos have become more pivotal to the intricate plots of Lost and Prison Break. "We're beginning to see in college students an increased prevalence of religious tattoos," says Jerome Koch, a professor of sociology at Texas Tech University who studies tattoos. "Instead of showing deviance, it shows faith." Still, it's sometimes hard to overcome old stigmas about tattoos and deviant behavior. Von D says her conservative parents objected at first. "I wasn't a bad kid," she says. "but they associated tattoos with criminal activity." Kai felt a similar pushback from home. "My family is Mormon; it's not accepted in the church," she says. "My mom told me after my sixth one, I wasn't allowed to get any more." So much for that: from head to toe, care to guess how many tattoos Natasha Kai has? A grand total of 45 — for now.
36.
Kai had her first tattoo for the following reasons EXCEPT that _______.
A) she felt bored
B) the tattoo is related to her career
C) the tattoo is very meaningful
D) she loved Chinese characters
37.
The word "rowdy" at the beginning of the 2nd paragraph means _____.
A) noisy
B) gaudy
C) brilliant
D) gentle
38.
Which of the following is NOT true about tattoos nowadays?
A) They have become mainstream.
B) It's very cheap to have tattoos.
C) Many young people want to be tattoo artists.
D) Having tattoos is not something uncommon.
39.
Tattoos are popular nowadays for the following reasons EXCEPT that _________.
A) people have become more open-minded
B) the fear that others may dislike their tattoos disappear
C) TV shows make more people accept tattoos
D) tattoos become a kind of elaborate art
40.
What's the main idea of the passage?
A) Tattoos become very popular among students.
B) Celebrities promote tattoos.
C) The past decades have seen gradual popularity of tattoos.
D) Children nowadays are more rebellious.
Section A
There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.
41.
After the Glorious Revolution came the Age of ________, a monarchy with powers limited by Parliament.
A) the Commonwealth
B) the Federal Republic
C) the Constitutional Monarchy
D) the special monarch
42.
________ has been called the "cradle of American liberty".
A) Philadelphia
B) Boston
C) Plymouth
D) Chicago
43.
The largest city in New Zealand is ________.
A) Auckland
B) Christchurch
C) Dunedin
D) Wellington
44.
In 1608, Samuel de Champlain, the French explorer established his "habitation" in what is now ________, to lay the roots of French Canada.
A) Windsor
B) Hamilton
C) Quebec
D) Oshawa
45.
Of the following writings by James Joyce, which is a prime example of modernism in literature?
A)
Dubliners
.
B)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
.
C)
Ulysses
.
D)
Finnegans Wake
.
46.
Which of the following books is regarded as the first American prose epic?
A)
Moby-Dick
.
B)
The Scarlet Letter
.
C)
Walden
.
D)
Nature
.
47.
Animal Farm
, published in 1945 and written by ________, tells the revolt of a group of animals on a farm against their human masters.
A) E.M. Forster
B) George Orwell
C) John Ruskin
D) Elizabeth Gaskell
48.
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is also known as linguistic ________.
A) reliability
B) relativity
C) reversibility
D) reachability
49.
Sometimes, two varieties of a language exist side by side throughout the community, with each having a definite role to play. This phenomenon is ________.
A) bilingualism
B) diglossia
C) pidgin
D) creole
50.
Which of the following is NOT the specific instance of directives?
A) Inviting.
B) Advising.
C) Warning.
D) Swearing.
Section A
Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET as instructed. The following passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maxinum 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 write 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 the unnecessary word with a slash "/" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.
As for
Charlotte's Web
, I like animals and my barn is a very pleasant place
51.
52.
thinking of ways to save a pig's life. I had been watching a big grey spider at her
53.
54.
Some of my readers want me to visit their school. Some want me to send a
55.
56.
57.
books. This is not true — books are made by the publisher. If a writer wants a
58.
59.
60.
truth about the way people and animals feel and think and act.
Section A
Translate the underlined part of the following text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET.
一位老人有三个儿子。大儿子是一个非凡的水手:坚强、勇敢、尽职,而且富于冒险精神。老人很爱他,认为他是一个做父亲的骄傲。可是,在一次暴风雨中,这个坚强而勇敢的儿子,葬身于大海的狂涛骇浪里了。 二儿子是一个健壮的矿工,力气比一般伙伴都更大,什么重活都累不倒他。此外,他诚实又守信义,乐意帮他人。所以矿工们,尤其是青年们,都和他做朋友,以得到他的友谊为快乐。他父亲也很爱他,将他视为天之所赐,是对大儿子之死的极大补偿。可是,祸不单行,二儿子也殉身于自己的勇敢和自我牺牲的精神了。这一天他在煤矿中工作,矿坑因为支柱损坏而崩塌,他英勇地撑住一根支柱,救出了许多伙伴,而他自己却被压在了井中。
Section B
Translate the following text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET.
Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death. In the young there is a justification for this feeling. Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have been cheated of the best things that life has to offer. But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat pitiful and ignoble. The best way to overcome it — so at least it seems to me — is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained 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.
Section A
Nowadays many schools require their students to wear school uniforms. Some people believe it's a good rule for better discipline in school. Others hold that school uniforms inhibit the development of students' individuality. Write an essay of about 400 words on the following topic:Should Wearing School Uniforms Be a Requirement for Students? 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.
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