Section 1: English-Chinese Translation(英譯漢)(60 point)

　　This section consists of two parts: Part A “Compulsory Translation” and

　　Part B “Optional Translations” which comprises “Topic 1” and “Topic 2”. Translate the passage in Part A and your choice from passage in Part B into Chinese. Write “Compulsory Translation” above your translation of Part A and write “Topic 1” or “Topic 2” above your translation of the passage from Part B. The time for this section is 100 minutes.

　　Part A Compulsory Translation (必譯題)(30 points)

　　The first outline of The Ascent of Man was written in July 1969and the last foot of film was shot in December 1972. An undertaking aslarge as this, though wonderfully exhilarating, is not entered lightly. It demands an unflagging intellectual and physical vigour, a total immersion, which I had to be sure that I could sustain with pleasure; for instance, Ihad to put off researches that I had already begun; and I ought to explai-n what moved me to do so.

　　There has been a deep change in the temper of science in the last20 years: the focus of attention has shifted from the physical to the life sciences. As a result, science is drawn more and more to the study of in-dividuality. But the interested spectator is hardly aware yet how far-reaching the effect is in changing the image of man that science moulds. Asa mathematician trained in physics, I too would have been unaware, had not a series of lucky chances taken me into the life sciences in middle age. I owe a debt for the good fortune that carried me into two seminal fields of science in one lifetime; and though I do not know to whom the debt is due, I conceived The Ascent of Man in gratitude to repay it.

　　The invitation to me from the British Broadcasting Corporation was to present the development of science in a series of television programmes to match those of Lord Clark on Civilisation. Television is an admirable medium- for exposition in several ways: powerful and immediate to the eye, able to take the spectator bodily into the places and processes that are described, and conversational enough to make him conscious that what he witnesses are not events but the actions of people. The last of these merits is to my mind the most cogent, and it weighed most with me in agreeing to cast a personal biography of ideas in the form of television essays. The point is that knowledge in general and science in particular does not consist of abstract but of man-made ideas, all the way from its beginnings to its modern and idiosyncratic models. Therefore the underlying concepts that unlock nature must be shown to arise early and in the simplest cultures of man from his basic and specific faculties. And the development of science which joins them in more and more complex conjunctions must be seen to be equally human: discoveries are made by men, not merely by minds, so that they are alive and charged with individuality. If television is not used to make these thoughts concrete, it is wasted.

　　Part B Optional Translations (二選一題)(30 points)

　　Topic 1 (選題一)

　　It’s not that we are afraid of seeing him stumble, of scribbling a mustache over his career. Sure, the nice part of us wants Mike to know we appreciate him, that he still reigns, at least in our memory. The truth, though, is that we don’t want him to come back because even for Michael Jordan, this would be an act of hubris so monumental as to make his trademark confidence twist into conceit. We don’t want him back on the court because no one likes a show-off. The stumbling? That will be fun.

　　But we are nice people, we Americans, with 225 years of optimism at our backs. Days ago when M.J. said he had made a decision about returning to the NBA in September, we got excited. He had said the day before, “I look forward to playing, and hopefully I can get to that point where I can make that decision. It’s O.K., to have some doubt, and it’s O.K. to have some nervousness.” A Time/CNN poll last week has Americans, 2 to 1, saying they would like him on the court ASAP. And only 21 percent thought that if he came back and just completely bombed, it would damage his legend. In fact only 28 percent think athletes should retire at their peak.

　　Sources close to him tell Time that when Jordan first talked about a comeback with the Washington Wizards, the team Jordan co-owns and would play for, some of his trusted advisers privately tried to discourage him. “But they say if they try to stop him, it will only firm up his resolve,” says an NBA source.

　　The problem with Jordan’s return is not only that he can’t possibly live up to the storybook ending he gave up in 1998 — earning his sixth ring with a last-second championship-winning shot. The problem is that the motives for coming back — needing the attention, needing to play even when his 38-year-old body does not — violate the very myth of Jordan, the myth of absolute control. Babe Ruth, the 20th century’s first star, was a gust of fat bravado and drunken talent, while Jordan ended the century by proving the elegance of resolve; Babe’s pointing to the bleachers replaced by the charm of a backpedaling shoulder shrug. Jordan symbolized success by not sullying his brand with his politics, his opinion or superstar personality. To be a Jordan fan was to be a fan of classiness and confidence.

　　To come back when he knows that playing for Wizards won’t get him anywhere near the second round of the play-offs, when he knows that he won’t be the league scoring leader, that’s a loss of control.

　　Jordan does not care what we think. Friends say that he takes articles that tell him not to come back and tacks them all on his refrigerator as inspiration. So why bother writing something telling him not to come back? He is still Michael Jordan.

　　Topic 2 (選題二)

　　Even after I was too grown-up to play that game and too grown-up to tell my mother that I loved her, I still believed I was the best daughter. Didn’t I run all the way up to the terrace to check on the drying mango pickles whenever she asked?

　　As I entered my teens, it seemed that I was becoming an even better, more loving daughter. Didn’t I drop whatever I was doing each afternoon to go to the corner grocery to pick up any spices my mother had run out of?

　　My mother, on the other hand, seemed more and more unloving to me. Some days she positively resembled a witch as she threatened to pack me off to my second uncle’s home in provincial Barddhaman — a fate worse than death to a cool Calcutta girl like me — if my grades didn’t improve. Other days she would sit me down and tell me about “Girls Who Brought Shame to Their Families”. There were apparently, a million ways in which one could do this, and my mother was determined that I should be cautioned against every one of them. On principle, she disapproved of everything I wanted to do, from going to study in America to perming my hair, and her favorite phrase was “over my dead body.” It was clear that I loved her far more than she loved me — that is, if she loved me at all.

　　After I finished graduate school in America and got married, my relationship with my mother improved a great deal. Though occasionally dubious about my choice of a writing career, overall she thought I’d shaped up nicely. I thought the same about her. We established a rhythm: She’d write from India and give me all the gossip and send care packages with my favorite kind of mango pickle; I’d call her from the United States and tell her all the things I’d been up to and send care packages with instant vanilla pudding, for which she’d developed a great fondness. We loved each other equally — or so I believed until my first son, Anand, was born.

　　My son’s birth shook up my neat, organized, in-control adult existence in ways I hadn’t imagined. I went through six weeks of being shrouded in an exhausted fog of postpartum depression. As my husband and I walked our wailing baby up and down through the night, and I seriously contemplated going AWOL, I wondered if I was cut out to be a mother at all. And mother love — what was that all about?

　　Then one morning, as I was changing yet another diaper, Anand grinned up at me with his toothless gums. Hmm, I thought. This little brown scrawny thing is kind of cute after all. Things progressed rapidly from there. Before I knew it, I’d moved the extra bed into the baby’s room and was spending many nights on it, bonding with my son.

　　Section 2: Chinese- English Translation(漢譯英)(40 point)

　　This section consists of two parts: Part A “Compulsory Translation” and Part B “Optional Translations” which comprises “Topic 1” and “Topic 2”.Translation the passage in Part A and your choice from passage in Part B into English. Write “Compulsory Translation” above your translation of Part A and write “Topic 1” or “Topic 2” above your translation of the passage from Part B. The time for this section is 80 minutes.

　　Part A Compulsory Translation (必譯題)(30 points)

　　奧林匹克運動的生命力和非凡魅力在于在奧林匹克運動中居核心地位的奧林匹克精神。體育的目的在于追求人類身心全面發(fā)展，并在此基礎上促進社會的發(fā)展和進步。現(xiàn)代奧林匹克運動的創(chuàng)始人顧拜旦(Pieere de Coubertin)認為體育是全人類的一項偉大事業(yè)。他將奧林匹克運動的目標設定為促進不同國家、不同文化之間的相互理解，從而促進和維護世界和平，推進人類文明。這一理想使奧林匹克運動得以經(jīng)百年而不衰。作為全世界奧林匹克大家庭成員的一個盛大聚會，奧林匹克運動已經(jīng)成為促進世界和平、進步與發(fā)展的一只重要社會力量。

　　Part B Optional Translations (二選一題)(20 points)

　　Topic 1(選題一)

　　近年來，中國經(jīng)濟保持快速發(fā)展，為世界經(jīng)濟發(fā)展注入了活力。實踐證明了中國在加入世貿(mào)組織之前的預言：中國的發(fā)展離不開世界，世界的發(fā)展需要中國。未來 20 年，在全面建設小康社會的進程中，中國一定會對世界經(jīng)濟的發(fā)展和實現(xiàn)全人類的共同進步做出歷史性的貢獻。為此，中國將繼續(xù)擴大外貿(mào)，大力實施西部大開發(fā)戰(zhàn)略，進一步改善投資環(huán)境，為外商提供更大的商機。同時，中國將引導和支持更多有比較優(yōu)勢的企業(yè)對外投資，開展平等互利、形式多樣的經(jīng)濟技術合作。中國將進一步加強雙邊、多邊和區(qū)域經(jīng)濟合作，實現(xiàn)世界各國各地區(qū)的共同發(fā)展。

　　Topic 2 (選題二)

　　移動電話正在成為 21 世紀一個主要的技術領域。在幾年之內(nèi)，移動電話將會發(fā)展成為多功能的通信工具，除了語音之外，還可以傳輸和接收視頻信號、靜止圖像、數(shù)據(jù)和文本。個人通信的新紀元即將到來。

　　在一定程度上多虧了無線網(wǎng)絡的發(fā)展，電話正在與個人電腦和電視融合起來。不久之后，配有高分辨率顯示屏的輕巧手機便可以與衛(wèi)星連接。人們可以隨時隨地通話，收發(fā)電子郵件或者參加視像電話會議。這種手機也許還會吸收電腦的許多主要功能。移動通信工具有望帶來一些互聯(lián)網(wǎng)所能提供的新服務，如股票交易、購物及預訂戲票和飛機票。

　　電信革命已在全球范圍內(nèi)展開。不久之后，用一臺裝置就可以收到幾乎任何形式的電子通信信號。最有可能的是一部三合一手機。在家里它可以用作無繩電話，在路上用作移動電話，在辦公室里用作內(nèi)部通話裝置。有些專家甚至認為移動視像電話將超過電視，成為主要的視頻信息來源。