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.
　
可能没有其他地方会比一月份的哈尔滨更寒冷彻骨，但这并不意味着人们会因此只呆在家里不出门。相反，届时会有许多来自世界各地的人们相聚在冰天雪地的哈尔滨，庆祝一年一度的冰雕节。冰雕节与每年的1月5日至2月25日举行，来自世界各地的参赛选手间参加角逐，竞争最佳冰雪艺术奖。入夜，当千万盏闪烁的彩灯照亮冰雕时，五彩缤纷的冰雕显得更加迷人了。

SECTION B: ENGLISH TO CHINESE (30 MIN.)
　
Translate the following underlined part of the text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
　
Pushed by rural poverty, pulled by the hope of a better life in the cities, tens of millions of country people uproot themselves every year to join the swelling urban slums. The migrants find no houses waiting for them, no water supplies, no sewerage systems, no schools -- and no welcome. They are usually resented by wealthier citizens and ignored, at best, by the authorities. They have to settle on land no one else wants, land that is too wet, too dry, too steep or too polluted for normal habitation. They throw up makeshift hovels, made of whatever they can find -- sticks, fronds, cardboard, tarpaper or petrol tins. If they are lucky, they may use corrugated iron.
　
Infant morality rates in city slums in Bangladesh are 50 times higher even than in the deprived countryside the migrants left behind; in Manila's slums they are three times higher -- and tuberculosis is nine times more common -- than in the rest of the city. Worldwide, the UN estimates, at least 250 million urban dwellers cannot get safe drinking water and many of those who do, have to rely on standpipes that run for only for a few hours a day. At least 400 million are without latrines for sanitation. By 2000, most children in Third World towns will be born to such desperately poor families. Already more than 100 million homeless children struggle to survive on the streets.
　
PART V: WRITING (60 MIN.)　

My View on Opportunity
　
Directions: For this topic, different people have different ideas. Then what's yours?　
Write an essay of about 300 words within 60 minutes.　
In the first paragraph you should present your thesis statement and in the following paragraphs you should support your statement with appropriate details or examples.　
Mark will be awarded for content, organization, grammar, and appropriacy. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.