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Paper Two

Part I Error Correction (15 minutes)

Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to add a word, cross out a word, or change a word. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (¡Ä) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you cross out a word, put a slash (/) in the blank. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank.



Most speakers are surprising to learn that people who 71._____

speak only one language form a minority of the world's

population that most people function in two or more languages. 72._____

While few people are truly balanced bilinguals or polyglots

who feel equal comfortable with all languages, 73._____

the fact is that most of the world's population functions

in more than language. Given this, it's somewhat surprising 74._____

that so much attention is paid to the English-speaking world

to the matter of learning a additional language. If so many 75._____

people seem to do it so easily, then just what is the problem?

The simplest answer is that there really isn't one.

Giving ample opportunity and time, most people can learn as 76._____

many languages as they want or need to. But as teachers

charged with the responsibility of adding English to the

linguistic inventory of non-English-speaking children, we

must be concerned precisely these matters¡ªproviding ample 77._____

and effective opportunity and using time as effectively as possible.

This chapter will look briefly how children become bilingual. 78._____

First, we'll examine the conditions lead to bilingualism 79._____

in preschoolers, then we'll turn our attention to language

learning in the classroom. In focusing on the differences between

language acquisition at home and at school, we'll see that there's

the potential for conflict from children's informal language 80._____

learning in the home and the more formal experience of the school.

Part II Translation from English to Chinese (15 minutes)

Directions: In this part, there are five items, which you should translate into Chinese, each item consists of one or two sentence. These sentences are all taken from the reading passages you have just read in the Second Part of the Test Paper.

You are allowed 15 minutes to do the translation. You can refer back to the passages so as to identify their meanings in the context.

81. (Lines 1ª²3, Para.3, Passage 1)

Normally, in tropical regions where the sun is very strong, the ocean salinity is somewhat higher than it is in other parts of the world where there is not as much evaporation.





82. (Lines 1ª²5, Para. 3, Passage 2)

Although much remains to be learned, the story of the Great Ice Age is being unfolded through the efforts of specialists in many fields. Recording field observation, new theories and methods, and worldwide studies of existing glaciers are bringing a clearer understanding of the Great Ice Age.

83. (Lines 14ª²17, Para. 2, Passage 3)

Older people have more illness than young or middle-aged people; unless they have wealth or private or government insurance, they must often ¡°go on welfare" if they have a serious illness.


84. (Lines 8ª²11, Para. 3, Passage 3)

While a few of these institutions are good, most of them are simply ¡°dumping grounds¡° for the dying in which ¡°care" is given by poorly paid, overworked, and under-skilled personnel.

85. (Lines 4ª²7, Para. 2, Passage 4)

Following any virus attack, the human body builds up antibodies which confer immunity to that strain of virus, but a virus with the capacity to change its character is able to by-pass this protection.

III Short Answer Questions (15 minutes)

Directions: In this part, there is a short passage with five questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words (not exceeding 10 words).

For most of us, work is the central, dominating fact of life. We spend more than half our conscious hours at work, preparing for work, travelling to and from work. What we do there largely determines our standard of living and to a considerable extent the status we are accorded by our fellow citizens as well. It is sometimes said that because leisure has become more important the indignities and injustices of work can be pushed into a corner, that because most work is pretty intolerable, the people who do it should compensate for its boredom, frustrations and humiliations by concentrating their hopes on the other parts of their lives. I reject that as a counsel of despair. For the foreseeable future the material and psychological rewards which work can provide, and the conditions in which work is done, will continue to play a vital part in determining the satisfaction that life can offer. Yet only a small minority can control the pace at which they work or the conditions in which their work is done; only for a small minority does work offer scope for creativity, imagination, or initiative.

Inequality at work and in work is still one of the cruelest and most glaring forms of inequality in our society. We cannot hope to solve the more obvious problems of industrial life, many of which arise directly or indirectly from the frustrations created by inequality at work, unless we tackle it headª²on. Still less can we hope to create a decent and humane society.

Questions:

86. According to the author, people judge others mainly by _____________________________________________.

87. The author believes that and the conditions in which work is done _____________________________________________ will continue to play a vital part in determining the satisfaction that life can offer.

88. The author believes that _____________________________________________is still one of the cruelest and most glaring forms of inequality in our society.

89. The author believes that only _______________________________________can control the pace at which they work or the conditions in which their work is done.

90. The author will go on to discuss ___________________________________in the following paragraph.