Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in English. After you have heard each sentence or paragraph, interpret it into Chinese. Start interpreting at the signal…and stop it at the signal…You may take notes while you are listening. Remember you will hear the passages only once. Now let us begin Part A with the first passage.
Passage 1 is about the relation between happiness and work and achievements
Passage l：
After I gave a talk on the subject of happiness，a woman stood up and said, “I wish my husband had come.” “Much as I loved him,” she explained, “it wasn’t easy being married to so unhappy a man, like my husband.”//
I told her that each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, and our friends to be as happy as we can. I was not particularly happy, and like most people, I took pleasure in my anger.//
Anyone could be unhappy. But the true happiness lay in struggling for achievements. We have to work for happiness.
We assume that happiness is a feeling that comes as a result of good things.But happiness is largely under our control.To achieve a happy life，we need to overcome a lot of difficulties in our
Life.
(参考答案)
在我做了一场以快乐为主题的报告之后，一位女士站起来说：“要是我丈夫也能来听这个报告就好了。"她解释说：“尽管我非常爱他，可是同一个不快乐的人做夫妻真不是一件容易的事情。"//
我告诉她，我们每个人为了自己的配偶、孩子和朋友都应当尽可能地快乐。我不是一个特别快乐的人，像大多数人一样，我喜形于恼怒。//
任何人都可以不开心。而真正的快乐在于为成就而努力奋斗之中。我们必须努力去争取快乐。//
我们都以为，快乐是一种感觉，是我们碰到好事的结果。然而，快乐很大程度上在我们控制之中。要想获得幸福的生活，我们需要克服生活中的许多困难。
Passage 2 is a brief introduction to Oxford Brookes University
Passage 2：
Welcome to Oxford Brookes University. Our university is widely regarded as the best new university in Britain. We started in Oxford in 1865 as a school of art. //
We gradually grew and became a college of technology and then a polytechnic college. About ten years ago, we became a university.
I say we are the best new university because for the last seven years the Times newspaper has reckoned us the best new university and this year the Financial Times also reckoned us the best new university. //
We’re a comprehensive university with a large number of professional courses. We have about 16,000 students and about 20%of them are from outside of UK from over one hundred different countries.
(参考答案)
欢迎来到牛津布鲁克斯大学。我校在英国被广泛认为是最好的新兴大学。我校于1865年在牛津建立时是一所工艺学校。//
此后我校逐渐发展成技术专科学校，后来又发展成综合性工艺学校，直到10年前，我们才成为一所综合性大学。//
我说我们是最佳新兴大学，是因为过去7年来《泰晤士报》一直把我校评为最佳新兴大学，而今年《金融时报》也评我们为最佳新兴大学。//
我校是一所综合性大学，有大量的专业课程。我校有在校生16000名，其中约20%是英国之外的海外学生，他们来自100多个不同国家。
Part B
Directions：In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in Chinese. After you have heard each passage, interpret it into English. Start interpreting at the signal... and stop it at the signal… you may take notes while you're listening. Remember you will hear the passages only once. Now, let us begin Part B with the first passage.
Passage 1：
欢迎各位千里迢迢前来参加“首届松江新城投资洽谈会”。松江位于上海西南，是上海的发祥地，有1500多年的历史。//
近年来，随着改革并放的不断深入，松江已由一个郊县发展成一个市区，并成为上海软件产业最重要的区域之一。//
如今，越来越多的海外团体与个人投资者对在松江投资表示了极大的兴趣。出现这一投资热有多种缘由。//
除了中国是世界上经济增长最快的国家之一这个原因之外，中国政府和上海市政府很重视对外开放，提供了许多投资优惠政策。//
(参考答案)
Welcome all of you coming all the way to attend “The First Consultation on Investment in Songjiang New Town，Shanghai”. Located in the Southwest of the city, Songjiang, known as the cradle of Shanghai，has a history of more than 1500 years.//
In recent years，with the deepening of reform and opening up of the Country, Songjiang has developed from a county into an urban district and become one of the most important areas of software exploration.//
Today an increasing number of overseas institutional and individual investors have shown a great interest in the investment in Songjiang of Shanghai. There are various reasons for such a rising investment fever.//
Apart from the fact that China is one of the fastest growing economies in the world，The Chinese central and Shanghai governments have focused their attention on opening up to the outside world and provided many favorable investment policies.//
Passage 2
中国是一个发展中国家，但政府一直把儿童教育置于整个教育事业发展的优先地位，取得了瞩目的成就。 //
近年来，中国的儿童教育事业有了很大发展，许多指标优先于其他发展中国家_有的已接近发达国家水平。//‘
近年来，我们以政府拨款为主，并通过多种渠道筹措教育经费，使学生人均教育费用逐年增长。 //
中国政府清醒地看到，由于中国人口众多，经济基础较薄弱，儿童工作还存在许多困难;有待于进一步改善。//
(参考答案)
Although China is a developing country, the Chinese Government has always given priority to children’s education in the promotion of education in general and has made remarkable achievements.//
Children。S education in China has seen great progress in the past few years，many indexes higher than those of other developing countries and some close to those of developed countries.//
In recent years，China has established all educational fund—raising system with the governmental allocations as the predominant source and finds collected through other channels as a supplement，thus ensuring a year-by-year growth of average educational appropriations for every student.//
The Chinese Government is clearly aware of the fact that since China has a large population and since its economic foundation is still comparatively weak，many difficulties remain in the work for children，and there is much room for improvement.