【正文】 stions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage: Prior to the 20th century, many languages with small numbers of speakers survived for centuries. The increasingly interconnected modern world makes it much more difficult for small language munities to live in relative isolation, a key factor in language maintenance and preservation. It remains to be seen whether the world can maintain its linguistic and cultural diversity in the centuries ahead. Many powerful forces appear to work against it :population growth, which pushes migrant populations into the world’s last isolated locations。 After pouring billions into the National Health Service， British people moan about dirty hospitals， long waits and wasted money. In Germany the new chancellor, Angela Merkel, is under fire for suggesting changing the financing of its health system. Canada’s new Conservative Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, made a big fuss during the election about reducing the country’s lengthy medical queues. Across the rich world, affluence, ageing and advancing technology are driving up health spending faster than ine. But nowhere has a bigger health problem than America. Soaring medical bills are squeezing wages, swelling the ranks of the uninsured and pushing huge firms and perhaps even the government towards bankruptcy. Ford’s announcement this week that it would cut up to jobs by 2020 was as much a sign of it’s―legacy ‖ health –care costs as of the ills of the car industry. Pushed by polls that show health care is one of his main domestic problems and by forecasts showing that the retiring babyboomers (生育高峰期出生的人 ) will crush the government’s finances, Gee Bush is to unveil a reform 。 gratitude is unpaid. After all, few fulfill the contract, so why should anyone be the exception. Why not ? Six years ago, I took a student before the dean. He had turned in an essay with the vocabulary and sentence structure of PhD thesis. Up until that time, both his outofclass and inclass work were borderline passing. I questioned the person regarding his essay and he swore it I’d understand this copy would not have the time and attention an outofclass paper is given, but he had already a finished piece so he understood what was asked. He sat one hour, then turned in part of a page of unskilled writing and faulty logic. I confronted him with both essays. ―I promise…., I’m not lyin g. I swear to you that I wrote the essay. I’m just nervous today.‖ The head of the English department agreed with my finding, and the meeting with the dean had the boy’s parents present. After an hour of discussion, touching on eight of the boy’s previous essays and his gradepoint average, which indicated he was already on academic probation（留校察看） , the dean agreed that the student had plagiarized. His parents protested, ―He’s only a child‖ and we instructors are wiser and should be passionate. College people are not really children and most times would resent being labeled as such…. Except in this unfortable circumstance. to the author, students mit plagiarism mainly for_____. A． money B． degree C． higher GPA D． reputation sentence ― Once the situation is behind us , so are the promises’ implies that_________. A． students usually keep their promises B． some students tend to break their promises C． the promises are always behind the situation D． we cannot judge the situation in advance, as we do to the promises ―borderline passing‖（ Line 3,） probably means____________. A． fairly good B． extremely poor C． above average D． below average boy’s parents thought their son should be excused mainly because_______________. A． teachers should be passionate B． he was only a child C． instructors were wiser D． he was threatened 7 of the following might serve as the title of this passage? A． Human Nature B． Conditional Promises C． How to Detect Cheating D． The Sadness of Plagiarism Section IV Translation (20 points) Directions: In this section there is a passage in English Translate the passage into Chinese and write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET. Powering the great ongoing changes of our time is the rise of human creativity as the defining feature of economic life. Creativity has e to be valued, because new technologies, new industries and new wealth flow from it. And as a result, our lives and society have begun to echo with creative ideas. It is our mitment to creativity in its varied dimensions that forms the underlying spirit of our age. Creativity is essential to the way we live and work today, and in many senses always has been. The big advances in standard of living –not to mention the big petitive advantages in the marketplacealways have e from‖ better recipes, not just more cooking.‖ One might argue that’s not strictly true. One might point out, for instance, that during the long period from the early days on the Industrial Revolution to modern times, much of the growth in productivity and material wealth in the industrial nations came not just from creative inventions like the steam engine, but from the widespread application of ―cooking in quantity‖ business methods like massive division of labor ,concentration of assets, vertical integration and economies of scale. But those methods themselves were creative developments. 參考答案 人類創(chuàng)造力的提升，作為經(jīng)濟生活所定義的特征，為我們這個時代正在發(fā)生的巨大變化，提供了巨大的動力。 創(chuàng)造力對于我們今天的生活和工作是致關重要的，從許多意義上來說曾經(jīng)也是。但是這些方法本身就是創(chuàng)造性的發(fā)展