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III. Translate the following sentences into Chinese and write the translation on your Answer Sheet.(10 points,2 points for each)
26.Some say the death penalty is what the criminal deserves while others object to it because death is irreversible.
27.Since then the justice system has undergone a lot of fine tuning making this extremely unlikely today.
28.I personally would not mind paying the little bit extra just so I know for sure that there’s one less murderer on our planet.
29.They have caused a great deal of grief to the family and friends of the victim or victims and it seems like the only way justice could be served is for the criminal to die.
30.If capital punishment were carried out more it would prove to be the crime deterrent it was partly intended to be.
IV.Answer the following essay question in English within 80~1 00 words.Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.(10 points)
31.Do you argue for or against capital punishment? List three of your arguments.
V. The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks,followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only.(25 points,1 point for each)
When I was graduating from college,my generation also found the world in a 32 .The economic machinery had broken 33 almost everywhere:In this country nearly a quarter of the 34 was out of work. A major war seemed all 35 likely.As a college newspaper editor at that time,I protested against this 36 as vehemently as student activists are protesting today.
I wonder if this blandness of our diet doesn’t explain 37 so many of us are overweight and even dangerously so.When things had flavor, we knew what we were eating all the 38
— and it satisfied us.A 39 of my mother-in-law’s wild strawberry jam will entirely satisfy your j am desire.But,of the 40 tinned or glass-packed strawberry jam,you need half a cupful to get the 41 of what you're eating.
Literacy may not be an inalienable human right,but it is 42 that the highly literate Founding Fathers might not have found unreasonable or even 43 .We are not only not attaining it 44 a nation,statistically speaking,but we are falling further and further 45 of attaining it.And,while 1 would not be so simplistic as to suggest that television is the cause,I believe it 46 and is an influence.
To share a bedroom with one of these fellows is to lose one’s 47 in human nature,for, even after the 48 eventful day, there is no comparing notes with them,no midnight confidence,no casting 49 the balance of the day’s pleasure and pain.They sink, 50
once,into stupid,heavy slumber,leaving you to your own 51 devices.And they all snore abominably!
Downtown,she 52 her car in a garage.Everything was getting ready for this moment.She did not carry the flowers in her 53 but she carried them in her heart.Now she was going to find out 54 it was death or life.Either 55 could tolerate.It did not 56 to her that the newsreel might not be there.
VI.Translate the following sentences into English and write the translation on your Answer Sheet.(20 points,2 points each for 57~60,4 points for 61,8 points for 62)
57.然而假如一位病人的哲学观接受安乐死,那么我们不明白为什么他人要用宗教上的反对意见来干预他的死亡。
58.一个国家的妇女通过她们在生活中的行为来塑造这个国家的道德、宗教和政治。
59.多数无所事事的富人免于从事单调乏味的工作之苦,但代价是难以言表的无聊。
60.因此,以科学的名义做错事时,给我的感觉就像自己最喜欢的叔叔染上了酒瘾。
61.死亡是富有戏剧性的一次性危机,而老年则是日复一日、年复一年地与强大的内外力量的抗争,是一种苦乐参半的逐渐接受自己的个性和生活的过程。
62.阿拉伯人曾习惯于靠吃几个枣子节俭度日。当他们获得东罗马帝国的财富,居住在几乎令人难以置信的豪华宫殿中时,他们并未因此就闲居不动。饥饿不再是一个动机,因为只需轻轻一点头,希腊奴隶就会奉上精美佳肴。