【正文】 and, in the general, it passes between children of the ____6____same age, or nearly so, since it is unmon for the differnce in agebetween playmates to be more than five years. If, therefore, a playgroundrhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or ____7____even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitted overand over, very possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three ____8____hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live ____9____after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the ____10____original wording.【翻譯】PART V TRANSLATION (60 MIN)SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISHTranslate the underlined part of the following text into English.。s 29,029foothigh crest like a bright, weling banner.His breathing calmed, he slowly, stiffly struggled forward and up the rough stone steps tothe monastery entrance. There he was greeted with a respectful nameste I recognize the divinein you from a tall, slim monk of about 35 years, who hastily set aside a twig broom he hadbeen using to sweep the flagstones of the inner courtyard. While he did so, the visitor noticedthat the monk was missing the small finger on his left hand. The stranger spoke a few formalwords in Tibetan, and then the two disappeared inside.Early the next morning the emissary lightened of his load appeared at the monasteryentrance, acpanied by the same monk and the elderly abbot. After a bow of his head, whichwas returned much more deeply by the two ocherrobed residents, he took his leave. The twosolemn monks watched, motionless, until he dipped over the ridge on which the monastery sat,and out of sight.Then, without a word, they turned and went back inside the monastery.26. Which of the following words in Paragraph One implies difficulty in walking?A. threaded.B. dropping.C. trudged.D. daunting.27. In the passage the contrast between the Tibetans and the man is indicated in all the followingaspects EXCEPTA. clothing.B. height.C. social status.D. personal belongings.28. It can be inferred from the passage that one can get ______ of the region from themonastery.A. a narrow viewB. a hazy viewC. a distant viewD. a panoramic view29. Which of the following details shows that the man became relaxed after he reached themonastery?A. ...he reached the crest of the spur and shuffled to a stop...B. ...he removed his hand from the bundle...C. His narrowed eyes took in the open sweep of the quiet grounds...D. ...he slowly, stiffly struggled forward and up the rough stone steps...30. From how it is described in the passage the monastery seems to evokeA. a sense of awe.B. a sense of piety.C. a sense of fear.D. a sense of mystery.【人文知識(shí)】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 sheet.31. The Head of State of New Zealand isA. the governorgeneral.B. the Prime Minister.C. the high missioner.D. the monarch of the United Kingdom.32. The capital of Scotland isA. Glasgow.B. Edinburgh.C. Manchester.D. London.33. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and later became the . President?A. Thomas Jefferson.B. George Washington.C. Thomas Paine.D. John Adams.34. Which of the following cities is located on the eastern coast of Australia?A. Perth.B. Adelaide.C. Sydney.D. Melbourne.35. Ode to the West Windwas written byA. William Blake.B. William Wordsworth.C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.D. Percy B. Shelley.36. Who among the following is a poet of free verse?A. Ralph Waldo Emerson.B. Walt Whitman.C. Herman MelvilleD. Theodore Dreiser.37. The novel Sons and Lovers was written byA. Thomas Hardy.B. John Galsworthy.C. . Lawrence.D. James Joyce.38. The study of the mental processes of language prehension and production isA. corpus linguistics.B. sociolinguistics.C. theoretical linguistics.D. psycholinguistics.39. A special language variety that mixes languages and is used by speakers of different languages for purposes of trading is calledA. dialect.B. idiolect.C. pidgin.D. register.40. When a speaker expresses his intention of speaking, such as asking someone to open thewindow, he is performingA. an illocutionary act.B. a perlocutionary act.C. a locutionary act.D. none of the above. 【改錯(cuò)】 PART IV PROOFREADING amp。 and Everest to the rest of us. And over the great barrier of Nuptse She demurely peaks.It was late in the afternoon when the great shadows cast by the colossal mountains weredescending into the deep valley floors before he reached the crest of the spur and shuffled to a stop just past Tengboche39。s eyes sweep 12 miles up the stupendous Dudh Kosi canyonto the sixmilelong granite wall of cliff of Nuptse at its head. If Ama Dablum is the Gatekeeper,then the sheer cliff of Nuptse, never less than four miles high, is the Final Protector of the highest and mightiest of them all: Chomolongma, the Mother Goddess of the World, to the Tibetans。s picture of relations between man and wife in Wigan Pier (Paragraph Two) describes arelationship which the author of the passageA. thinks is the natural one.B. wishes to see preserved.C. believes is fair.D. is sure must change.23. Which of the following words is used literally, NOT metaphorically?A. Abrasive (Paragraph Five).B. Engines (Paragraph Four).C. Convention (Paragraph Two).D. Heavily (Paragraph One).24. The last paragraph stresses that if women are to hold important jobs, then they mustA. sometimes make the first advances in love.B. allow men to flirt with many women.C. stop accepting presents of flowers and chocolates.D. avoid making their husbands look like Mary Anns.25. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about the present form of courtship?