【正文】 ce? A. They all wanted to divorce their wives. B. They were all heavily involved in debts. C. They were all recovering from drinking. D. They had bought new homes, yachts, etc.27. Which of the following statements contains a metaphor? A. His name came off the letterhead as the debts piled up. B. …they could see it, almost touch it when their dead partner... C. …, attached unwillingly at the hip by the bondage of mortgages... D. …, and for this he had received no small amount of grief.28. According to the passage, what is the main cause of Patrick stealing the money? A. Patrick was made a partner of the firm. B. The partners agreed to have the money transferred. C. Patrick had access to all the files in the firm. D. Bogan decided to hire Patrick nine years earlier.29. The lawyers were described as being all the following EXCEPT A. greedy. B. extravagant C. quarrelsome. D. badtempered.30. Which of the following implies a contrast? A. …, and it would be impossible to hide that kind of money in Biloxi, population fifty thousand. B. They had been joint defendants in several unwinnable lawsuits。 thus the bankruptcy. C. There had even been talk of a firm jet, a sixseater. D. His name came off the letterhead as the debts piled up.PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN) There are ten multiplechoice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question. Mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet31. The largest city in Canada is A. Vancouver. B. Montreal. C. Toronto D. Ottawa.32. According to the United States Constitution, the legislative power is invested in A. the Federal Government. B. the Supreme Court. C. the Cabinet. D. the Congress.33. Which of the following is the oldest sport in the United States? A. Baseball. B. Tennis. C. Basketball. D. American football.34. The head of the executive branch in New Zealand is A. the President. B. the GovernorGeneral. C. the British monarch, D. the Prime Minister.35. The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by A. William Langland. B. Geoffrey Chaucer. C. William Shakespeare. D. Alfred Tennyson.36. Who wrote The American? A. Herman Melville. B. Nathaniel Hawthorne. C. Henry James. D. Theodore Dreiser.37. All of the following are wellknown female writers in 20th century Britain EXCEPT A. George Eliot. B. Iris Jean Murdoch. C. Doris Lessing. D. Muriel Spark.38. Which of the following is NOT a design feature of human language? A. Arbitrariness. B. Displacement. C. Duality. D. Diachronicity.39. What type of sentence is “Mark likes fiction, but Tim is interested in poetry.”? A. A simple sentence. B. A coordinate sentence. C. A plex sentence. D. None of the above.40. The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called A. hyponymy. B. synonymy. C. polysemy. D. IV PROOFREADING amp。 ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as instructed. PART V TRANSLATION (60 MIN)SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH Translate the underlined part of the following text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE. 都市寸土千金，地價(jià)炒得越來越高，今后將更高。擁有一個(gè)小小花園的希望，對(duì)尋常之輩不啻是一種奢望，一種夢(mèng)想。 我想，其實(shí)誰都有一個(gè)小小花園，這便是我們的內(nèi)心世界。人的智力需要開發(fā)，人的內(nèi)心世界也是需要開發(fā)的。人和動(dòng)物的區(qū)別，除了眾所周知的諸多方面，恐怕還在于人有內(nèi)心世界。心不過是人的一個(gè)重要臟器，而內(nèi)心世界是一種景觀，它是由外部世界不斷地作用于內(nèi)心漸漸形成的。每個(gè)人都無比關(guān)注自己及至親至愛之人心臟的漸損，以至于稍有微疾便惶惶不可終日。但并非每個(gè)人都關(guān)注自己及至親至愛之人的內(nèi)心世界的陰晴。SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE Translate the following text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE. But, as has been true in many other cases, when they were at last married, the most ideal of situations was found to have been changed to the most practical. Instead of having shared their original duties, and as schoolboys would say, going halves, they discovered that the cares of life had been doubled. This led to some distressing moments for both our friends。 they understood suddenly that instead of dwelling in heaven they were still upon earth, and had made themselves slaves to new laws and limitations. Instead of being freer and happier than ever before, they had assumed new responsibilities。 they had established a new household, and must fulfill in some way or another the obligations of it. They looked back with affection to their engagement。 they had been longing to have each other to themselves, apart from the world, but it seemed they never felt so keenly that they were still units in modern society. PART VI WRITING (45 MIN)9