专业英语八级考试:TEM-8Exercise6(13)
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PAPER TWO (Time Limits: 120 MIN.)
PART IV TRANSLATION (60 MIN.)
SECTION A: CHINESE TO ENGLISH (30 MIN.)
Translate the following underlined part of the text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
尊老爱幼的优良传统在海外华人中一直保持着。不论是单个儿的华人家庭,还是华人集中居住的区域,人们都把尊敬老人,爱护幼小看作自己民族的美德,并希望它世世代代发扬下去。根据1982年新加坡对5538民老人的调查,有88%的老人与亲人同住;1983年新加坡对3000民妇女的调查,97%认为子女有责任奉养年老体弱的父母,89%反对子女将父母送老人院照顾。这很好地说明了“父母养育子女,子女孝敬父母”这一优良传统观念在海外华人中的深远影响。
SECTION B: ENGLISH TO CHINESE (30 MIN.)
Translate the following text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
As we drove to New York’s tenement district my mind went back to the years when I had known Benny Cremona. He had a one-chair barbershop in the neighborhood, where I was born and brought up. In that brawling neighborhood, a tough tenement jungle, a cockpit of different nationalities and customs and feuds, Mr. Cremona’s barbershop was an oasis of beauty and good will.
He scorned the usual barbershop trappings of those days: the racy calendars, the crime-and-sex gazettes. "The way I’m working," he would say, "I’m always looking down at heads. A man’s got to have something to look up to, too." When we youngsters had our hair cut we gazed on reproductions of the Mona Lisa, the Winged Victory, the Adoration of the Magi, Michelangelo’s David. We learned who Dante was, and Shakespeare, by hearing for the first time the splendid, gleaming lines of poetry.
Mr. Cremona was a round butter-ball of a man with an enormous, flowing black mustache, and he acted our everything he told us. He was versatile with his scissors. They might be a conductor’s baton, the brush between Rembrandt’s fingers, or -- as he pirouetted in a Shakespearean duel -- a rapier.
Part V: Writing (60 MIN.)
Is Money all powerful?
Directions: Some people think money is all powerful. What is your opinion about it? Write an essay of about 300 words within 60 minutes.
In the first part you should clearly state your opinion about this topic and in the following parts you should support your opinion with appropriate detail or examples.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar, and appropriacy. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
