【正文】 ng in the Games. 16. In ancient Greece, the Olympic Games ________. [A] were merely national athletic festivals [B] were in the nature of a national event with a strong religious colour [C] had rules which put foreign participants in a disadvantageous position [D] were primarily national events with few foreign participants 17. In the early days of ancient Olympic Games ________. [A] only male Greek athletes were allowed to participate in the games [B] all Greeks, irrespective of sex, religion or social status, were allowed to take part [C] all Greeks, with the exception of women, were allowed to pete in Games [D] all male Greeks were qualified to pete in the Games 18. The order of athletic events at the ancient Olympics ________. [A] has not definitely been established [B] varied according to the number of foreign petitors [C] was decided by Zeus, in whose honor the Games were held [D] was considered unimportant 19. Modern athletes’ results cannot be pared with those of ancient runners because ________. 6 [A] the Greeks had no means of recording the results [B] they are much better [C] details such as the time were not recorded in the past [D] they are much worse 20. Nowadays, the athletes’ expenses are paid for ________. [A] out of the prize money of the winners [B] out of the funds raised by the peting nations [C] by the athletes themselves [D] by contributions Text 3 In science the meaning of the word “explain” suffers with civilization’s every step in search of reality. Science cannot really explain electricity, magism, and gravitation。 their effects can be measured and predicted, but of their nature no more is known to the modern scientist than to Thales who first looked into the nature of the electrification of amber, a hard yellowishbrown gum. Most contemporary physicists reject the notion that man can ever discover what these mysterious forces “really” are. “Electricity,” Bertrand Russell says, “is not a thing, like St. Paul’s Cathedral。 67. 我們懇切希望你早日給我們一個答復(fù) 。 69. 這件事至今還沒有得出正確的結(jié)論 。 Section VIII: EnglishChinese Translation Translate the following passage into Chinese. Only the underlined sentences are to be translated. (20 points) Have there always been cities? (71) Life without large urban areas may seem inconceivable to us, but actually cities are relatively recent development. Groups with primitive economics still manage without them. The trend, however, is for such groups to disappear, while cities are increasingly being the dominant mode of man’s social existence. (72) Historically, city life has always been among the elements which form a civilization. Any high degree of human endeavor and 14 achievement has been closely linked to life in an urban environment. (73) It is virtually impossible to imagine that universities, hospitals, large businesses or even science and technology could have e into being without cities to support them. To most people, cities have traditionally been the areas where there was a concentration of culture as well as of opportunity. (74) In recent years, however, people have begun to bee aware that cities are also areas where there is a concentration of problems. What has happened to the modern American city? Actually, the problem is not such a new one. Long before this century started, there had begun a trend toward the concentration of the poor of the American society into the cities. Each great wave of immigration from abroad and from the rural areas made the problem worse. During this century, there has also been the development of large suburban areas surrounding the cities, for the rich prefer to live in these areas. Within the cities, sections may be sharply divided into high and low rent districts, the “right side of town” and the slums. Of course, everyone wants to do something about this unhappy situation. But there is no agreement as to goals. Neither is there any systematic approach or integrated program. Opinions are as diverse as the people who give them. (75) But one basic difference of opinion concerns the question of whether or not the city as such is to be preserved. Perhaps transportation and the means of munication have really made it possible for there to be an end to the big cities. Of course, there is the problem of persuading people to move out of them of their own free will. (76) And there is also the objection that the city has always been the core from which cultural advancement has radiated. Is this, however, still the case today in the presence of easy transportation and munication? Does culture arise as a result of people living together munally, or is it too the result of decisions made at the level of government and the munications industry? It is probably true to say that most people prefer to preserve the cities. Some think that the cities could be cleaned up or totally rebuilt. This is easy to say。 (2分 ) 72. 從歷史上看，城市生活始終是文明的一個組成部分 。 (3分 ) 74. 可是，近幾年來人們開始意識到城市也是問題成堆的地方 。 (3分 ) 76. 同時也有人反對說，文化方面的進步，始終是以城市為中心而向外輻射的 。 (2分 ) 78. 遺憾的是，過去我們在總目標方面意見是一致的，但涉及到各個具體目標時，意見就不一致，因而也就根本沒有什么