中译英
也就在这一幅绚烂的图画旁边，在河湾之畔，一群羊正在低头觅食。它们几乎没有一个顾得上抬起头来，看一眼这美丽的黄昏。也许它们要抓紧时间，在即将回家的最后一刻再次咀嚼。这是黄河滩上的一幕。牧羊人不见了，他不知在何处歇息。只有这些美生灵自由自在地享受着这个黄昏。这儿水草肥美，让它们长得肥滚滚的，像些胖娃娃。如果走近了，会发现它们那可爱的神情，洁白的牙齿，那丰富而单纯的表情。
英译中
(5)Scientific and technological advances are enabling us to comprehend the furthest reaches of the cosmos, the most basic constituents of matter, and the miracle of life.
(6) At the same time, today, the actions, and inaction, of human beings imperil not only life on the planet, but the very life of the planet.?
(7) Globalization is making the world smaller, faster and richer. Still, 9/11, avian flu, and Iran remind us that a smaller, faster world is not necessarily a safer world.
(8) Our world is bursting with knowledge - but desper­ately in need of wisdom. Now, when sound bites are getting shorter, when instant messages crowd out essays, and when individual lives grow more crazy, college graduates capable of deep reflection are what our world needs.
(9) For all these reasons I believed - and I believe even more strongly today - in the unique and irreplaceable mis­sion of universities.
Part 3: general knowledge
1. the population in UK are decedents of except:
A . Anglos B. Celts C. Jutes D Saxons
2. Head of State of Canada
A. Monarch B. President C. PM D. Governor general
3. 独立宣言written by (注释：不会的话就找块豆腐撞死算了)
A. Thomas Jefferson
B. Washington
C. Hamilton
D. James Madison
4. original residents of Australia
A. Red Indians
B. Eskimos
C. Aborigines
D. Maoris
5. novel by Emily Bronte (注释：同3)
A. Oliver Twist
B. Middle march
C. Jame Eyre
D. Wuthering Heights
6． Yeats was
A. American
B. Canadian
C. Irish
D. Australian
7.推销员之死was written by (注释：同5)
A. Arthur Miller
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. Ralph Ellisom
D. James Baldwin
8.下面哪个是研究 internal structure of words and the rules of word formation
A. Phonology
B. morphology
C. Semantics
D. sociology
9.What’s the distinctive feature of speech variety except
A. lexical
B. syntactic
C. phonological
D. psychological
10. “tail” 曾经的意思是指”the tail of horse”, now ”the tail of any animal”,这个例子说明
A. widening of meaning
B. narrowing of meaning
C. meaning shift
D. loss of meaning
改错
rom what has been said, it must be clear that no one can makevery positive statements about how language originated.
There is no material in any language today and in the earliest(1)_________
records of ancient languages show us language in a new and(2)_________
emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language (3)_________
originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the necessaryevidence is entirely lacking: there are no remote tribes, no ancient(4)_________
records, providing evidence of a language with a large proportion ofsuch cries than we find in English. It is true that the absence(5)_________
of such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in other grounds too the theory is not very attractive. People of all races and languages(6)_________
make rather similar noises in return to pain or pleasure. The fact thatsuch noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmen and Malaysians(7)_________
whose languages are utterly different, serves to emphasize on thefundamental difference between these noises and language proper.We may say that the cries of pain or chortles of amusement are (8)____
largely reflex actions, instinctive to large extent, whereas language proper (9)________
does not consist of signs but of these that have to be learnt and that are wholly conventional. (10)____
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The language has always been the ultimate marker of Welsh identity, but a generation ago it looked as if Welsh would go the way of Manx, once widely spoken on the Isle of Man but now extinct. Government financing and central planning, however, have helped reverse the decline of Welsh. Road signs and official public documents are written in both Welsh and English, and schoolchildren are required to learn both languages. Welsh is now one of the most successful of Europe’s regional languages, spoken by more than a half million of the country’s three million people.
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May 23 issue - Getting to the heart of Kuwaiti democracy seems hilariously easy. Armed only with a dog-eared NEWSWEEK ID, I ambled through the gates of the National Assembly last week. Unscanned, unsearched, my satchel could easily have held the odd grenade or an anthrax-stuffed lunchbox. The only person who stopped me was a guard who grinned and invited me to take a swig of orange juice from his plastic bottle...
第四篇：(The miserable fate of Enron's employees...) 02/04/2002 Fortune Magazine
The miserable fate of Enron's employees will be a landmark in business history, one of those awful events that everyone agrees must never be allowed to happen again. This urge is understandable and noble: Thousands have lost virtually all their retirement savings with the demise of Enron stock. But making sure it never happens again may not be possible, because the sudden impoverishment of those Enron workers represents something even larger than it seems. It's the latest turn in the unwinding of one of the most audacious promises of the 20th century...
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