answer sheet two
test for english majors [2003]
-grade eigiht-
part ii proofreading & error correction (15 min)
the passage contains ten errors. each indicated line contains a maximum of one error. in each case, only one word is involved you should proof, read the passage and correct it in the following way:
for a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank pro-vided at the end of the line.
for a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a "^" sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.
for an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash "/" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.
example
when ^ art museum wants a new exhibit, it never buys things in finished form and hangs them on the wall. when a natural history museum wants an exhibition, it must often build it.
demographic indicators show that americans in the postwar
period were more eager than ever to establish families. they quickly
brought down the age at marriage for both men and women and brought
the birth rate to a twentieth century height after more than a hundred (1)__
years of a steady decline, producing the “baby boom.” these young (2)__
adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively large
families that went for more than two decades and caused a major (3)__
but temporary reversal of long-term demographic patterns. from
the 1940s through the early 1960s, americans married at a high rate (4)__
and at a younger age than their europe counterparts.(5)__
less noted but equally more significant, the men and women on who (6)__
formed families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the (7)__
divorce rate after a postwar peak; their marriages remained intact to
a greater extent than did that of couples who married in earlier as well (8)__
as later decades. since the united states maintained its dubious (9)__
distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world, the
temporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in (10)__
europe. contrary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinner and
homemaker was not abandoned.
test for english majors (2003)
-grade eight-
paper two
time limit: 120 min
part iv translation (60 min)
section a chinese to english
translate the following text into english. write your translation on answer sheet three.
得病以前，我受父母寵愛，在家中橫行霸道，一旦隔離，拘禁在花園山坡上一幢小房子裡，我頓覺打入冷宮，十分鬱郁不得志起來。 一個春天的傍晚，園中百花怒放，父母在園中設宴，一時賓客雲集，笑語四溢。我在山坡的小屋裡，悄悄掀起窗簾，窺見園中大千世界，一片繁華，自己的哥姐，堂表弟兄，也穿插其間，個個喜氣洋洋。一霎時，一陣被人擯棄，為世所遺的悲憤兜上心頭，禁不住痛哭起來。
section b english to chinese
translate the following text into chinese. write your translation on answer sheet three.
in his classic novel, “the pioneers”, james fenimore cooper has his hero, a land developer, take his cousin on a tour of the city he is building. he describes the broad streets, rows of houses, a teeming metropolis. but his cousin looks around bewildered. all she sees is a forest. “where are the beauties and improvements which you were to show me?” she asks. he’s astonished she can’t see them. “where! why everywhere,” he replies. for thought they are not yet built on earth, he has built them in his mind, and they are as concrete to him as if they were already constructed and finished.
cooper was illustrating a distinctly american trait, future-mindedness: the ability to see the present from the vantage point of the future; the freedom to feel unencumbered by the past and more emotionally attached to things to come. as albert einstein once said, “life for the american is always becoming, never being.”
part v writing (60 min)
an english newspaper is currently running a discussion on whether young people in china today are (not) more self-centered and unsympathetic than were previous generations. and the paper is inviting contributions from university students. you have been asked to write a short article for the newspaper to air your views.
your article should be about 300 words in length. in the first part of your article you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. in the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.
you should supply a title for your article.
marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. failure to following the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.