专业英语八级考试:TEM(15)
PART IV: TRANSLATION (60 MIN.)
SECTION A: CHINESE TO ENGLISH (30 MIN.)
Translate the following part of the text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
我们历来不大相信裁军谈判会有什么效果，但是我们是赞成谈判的。有人说中国好战，其实中国最希望和平。中国希望至少二十年不打仗。我们面临发展和摆脱落后的任务。我们摆在第一位的任务是在本世纪末实现现代化的一个初步目标，这就是达到小康水平。如果能实现这个目标，我们的情况就比较好了。更重要的是我们取得了一个新起点，在花三十年到五十年时间，接近发达国家的水平。我们不是说赶上，更不是超过，而是接近。所以我们希望有一个和平的国际环境。
SECTION B: ENGLISH TO CHINESE (30 MIN.)
Translate the following underlined part of the text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
My own first hint of spring comes when the greatest Balm of Gilead tree across the meadow from my kitchen window puts on a golden corona of buds. Then I know I can put on boots and mittens to climb to where the alpine flowerets are pushing their mauve way up through the snow, hundreds of hundreds of tiny blossoms clustered together, their feel trembling in icy moss. Lower along the creek ways and in boggy places beside the roads, the little red willows make purple shadows on the blue-white snow. The air is still chill (it is March), but the promise has been made.
The creeks are low, but air pockets under the ice let small chuckling sounds through. April comes, fierce with buffeting winds and lashings of icy rain, and one begins to see the earth, brown and soggy beneath honeycombed snow banks. Horses, shaggy in their winter coats, roll in the fields, leaving patches of hair that the birds will pick up for their nests. Little colts appear as if by magic, and sheep men are up night after night with the lambing.
As the laden cold begins to life, people seem warmer, too. \come.\crocuses, and the startled birds complain plaintively. Then a week of sunshine, pale and wan perhaps, but sun, nevertheless. And the earth knows. The snow retreats, exposing long, humped tunnels of pocket gophers and moles. Tiny two-bladed plants poke their way up, strong enough to push aside good-sized pebbles.
PART V: WRITING (60 MIN.)
Advantages And Disadvantages of Studying Abroad
Directions: Write an essay of about 300 words within 60 minutes.
In the first paragraph you should present the advantages of studying abroad. In the second paragraph you should put forth the disadvantages of studying abroad. And in the last paragraph you should clearly state your own opinion about whether you prefer to study abroad or study in your own country.
Mark will be awarded for content, organization, grammar, and appropriacy. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. 【
专业英语八级考试TEM(15)
