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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.Some say the death penalty is what the criminal deserves while others object to it because death is irreversible.
27.Since then the justice system has undergone a lot of fine tuning making this extremely unlikely today.
28.I personally would not mind paying the little bit extra just so I know for sure that there’s one less murderer on our planet.
29.They have caused a great deal of grief to the family and friends of the victim or victims and it seems like the only way justice could be served is for the criminal to die.
30.If capital punishment were carried out more it would prove to be the crime deterrent it was partly intended to be.
IV.Answer the following essay question in English within 80~1 00 words.Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.(10 points)
31.Do you argue for or against capital punishment? List three of your arguments.
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 write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only.(25 points,1 point for each)
When I was graduating from college,my generation also found the world in a 32 .The economic machinery had broken 33 almost everywhere:In this country nearly a quarter of the 34 was out of work. A major war seemed all 35 likely.As a college newspaper editor at that time,I protested against this 36 as vehemently as student activists are protesting today.
I wonder if this blandness of our diet doesn’t explain 37 so many of us are overweight and even dangerously so.When things had flavor, we knew what we were eating all the 38
— and it satisfied us.A 39 of my mother-in-law’s wild strawberry jam will entirely satisfy your j am desire.But,of the 40 tinned or glass-packed strawberry jam,you need half a cupful to get the 41 of what you're eating.
Literacy may not be an inalienable human right,but it is 42 that the highly literate Founding Fathers might not have found unreasonable or even 43 .We are not only not attaining it 44 a nation,statistically speaking,but we are falling further and further 45 of attaining it.And,while 1 would not be so simplistic as to suggest that television is the cause,I believe it 46 and is an influence.
To share a bedroom with one of these fellows is to lose one’s 47 in human nature,for, even after the 48 eventful day, there is no comparing notes with them,no midnight confidence,no casting 49 the balance of the day’s pleasure and pain.They sink, 50
once,into stupid,heavy slumber,leaving you to your own 51 devices.And they all snore abominably!
Downtown,she 52 her car in a garage.Everything was getting ready for this moment.She did not carry the flowers in her 53 but she carried them in her heart.Now she was going to find out 54 it was death or life.Either 55 could tolerate.It did not 56 to her that the newsreel might not be there.
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.然而假如一位病人的哲學(xué)觀接受安樂死,那么我們不明白為什么他人要用宗教上的反對意見來干預(yù)他的死亡。
58.一個(gè)國家的婦女通過她們在生活中的行為來塑造這個(gè)國家的道德、宗教和政治。
59.多數(shù)無所事事的富人免于從事單調(diào)乏味的工作之苦,但代價(jià)是難以言表的無聊。
60.因此,以科學(xué)的名義做錯(cuò)事時(shí),給我的感覺就像自己最喜歡的叔叔染上了酒癮。
61.死亡是富有戲劇性的一次性危機(jī),而老年則是日復(fù)一日、年復(fù)一年地與強(qiáng)大的內(nèi)外力量的抗?fàn)帲且环N苦樂參半的逐漸接受自己的個(gè)性和生活的過程。
62.阿拉伯人曾習(xí)慣于靠吃幾個(gè)棗子節(jié)儉度日。當(dāng)他們獲得東羅馬帝國的財(cái)富,居住在幾乎令人難以置信的豪華宮殿中時(shí),他們并未因此就閑居不動(dòng)。饑餓不再是一個(gè)動(dòng)機(jī),因?yàn)橹恍栎p輕一點(diǎn)頭,希臘奴隸就會(huì)奉上精美佳肴。