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PART V TRANSLATION （60 MIN）提示：今年专八翻译部分的选材均出自《散文佳作108篇(汉英·英汉对照)》作者： 乔萍 翟淑蓉 宋洪玮，建议大家熟读此书。点...

维吉尼亚·伍夫（1882-1941），英国小说家，在她的小说里，缩小作者作为叙述者或评论者的作用。她同时也是一位公认的评论家。注释blur模糊;使模糊不...

答案解析：1. investing应改为invested。这里说“投资于”普通股中的捐赠金价值损失惨重，既然是投资，就是指人去投资，即endowments (that were)heavily invested ...

PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30MIN)In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your coloured ...

Text BEvery street had a story, every building a memory. Those blessed with wonderful childhoods can drive the streets of their hometowns and happily roll back the years. The rest are pulled home by d...

Text CCampaigning on the Indian frontier is an experience by itself.Neither the landscape nor the people find their counterparts in any other portion of the globe.Valley walls rise steeply five or six...

Text D“Museum”is a slippery word. It first meant (in Greek) anything consecrated to the Muses:a hill,a shrine,a garden,a festival or even a textbook.Both Plato?s Academy and Aristotle?s Lyceum had...

TEXT BWilfred Emmanuel-Jones was a teenager before he saw his first cow in his first field. Born in Jamaica, the 47-year-old grew up in inner-city Birmingham before making a career as a television pro...

TEXT CIn Barcelona the Catalonians call them castells, but these aren’t stereotypical castles in Spain. These castles are made up of human beings, not stone. The people who perform this agile feat o...

TEXT DThe law firm Patrick worked for before he died filed for bankruptcy protection a year after his funeral. After his death, the firm’s letterhead properly included him: Patrick S. Lanigan, 1954-...