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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． He was glaring because we had passed him and for that offensive action he pursued us to the next stoplight so as to express his indignation and affirm his masculinity.

27． When the light turned green I raced ahead. He didn’t merely follow, he chased, and with his headlights turned off.

28． They seemed so orderly and considerate, so reasonable, staying in the right-hand lane unless passing, signaling all intentions.

29． The bus doors reopened and the driver appeared, apparently giving the fellow a good piece of his mind.

30． It seems to me that it is a new America we see on the road now. It has the mentality of a hoodlum and the backbone of a coward.

Ⅳ． Answer the following essay question in English within 80-100 words. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (10 points)

31． How can we improve our driving habits for the sake of safety?

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 blacken the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. (25 points, 1 point for each)

The child was fairly eating me up with her cold, steady eyes, and no expression on her face whatever. She did not move and seemed, inwardly,  32 ; an unusually attractive little thing, and as strong as a heifer in  33 . But her face was flushed, she was breathing .  34 , and I realized that she had a high fever. She had magnificent  35  hair, in profusion. One of those picture children often reproduced in  36  leaflets and the photogravure sections of the Sunday papers.

It is still women—about three million volunteers—who do most of this work in the American political world. The best any of  37  can hope for is the honor of being district or county vice-chairman, a kind of separate-but-equal position with which a woman is  38  for years of faithful envelope stuffing and card-party  39 . In such a job, she gets a number of free trips to state and  40  national meetings and conventions, where her   41  is supposed to be to vote the way her male chairman votes.

The value of art-snobbery to living artists is considerable. True, most art-snobs  42  only the works of the dead; for an Old Master is both a  43  investment and a holier culture-symbol than a  44  master. But some art-snobs are also modernity-snobs. There are  45  of them, with the few eccentrics who like works of art for their own  46 , to provide living artists with the means of subsistence.

Without thinking, we are making an important confession about ourselves as a nation. We are  

 47  quality—even, to some extent, the quality of people. The “best” is becoming too  48  for us. We are suckling  49  on machine-made mediocrity. It is bad for our souls, our minds, and our digestion. It is the  50  our wiser and calmer forebears  5l , not people, but hogs: as much as possible and as fast as possible, with no standard of quality.

There is a difference between my schooling and the wisdom of the street corner. I  52  the life of a black man in Watts is larger than a federal  53  program. If there is no future for the black ghetto, the future of all Negroes is  54 . What affects it, affects me, for I am a  55  of the ghetto. When they do it to Watts, they do it to me, too. I’ll never escape from the ghetto. I have  56  my all on its future. Watts is my home.

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．例如，每当我们开展新的广告宣传时，最先上当的总是公司内部的人。

58．她建议我应该用尽可能多的方式来朗读同一句话。

59．那个职员用一封家信来做抽签用的签。

60．在过去的十年里，我最想做的事就是把政治写作变为一种艺术。

61．就这样我们在国内突然面临一个可憎的局面，义愤填膺的感觉不复存在；即便有，也是来自那些被过去的侮辱折磨得精疲力尽的人。

62．市场领导者创造并保持一种环境，鼓励雇员将新想法带入公司，同样重要的是他们还要倾听并考虑这些想法，无论其多么不符合常规。其他公司看到的是他们营销计划中的差错或对他们的产品种类构成的威胁，而致力于产品领导型的公司看到的则是机遇并迅速抓住它。