Paper Two
Part V Translation (30 minutes, 10 points)
Directions: Translate the following passage into Chinese and put your translation on the ANSWER SHEET.
The great advantage of the railroad has always been its superior carrying capacity. It can carry massive and heavy loads at relatively high speeds for long distances; one engine can pull a load of several hundred tons. Coal and grain are typical commodities for which rail transportation is employed over long distances, when water transportation is not available.
But rail transportation suffers from one serious disadvantage, it is inflexible; it is confined to rails, and obviously there cannot be as close a network of rails as of roads. Road transportation goes from door to door. The lower cost pre mile of rail transportation is more than balanced by the greater cost of loading and unloading at the beginning and end of many journeys. Therefore, road transportation system has developed much faster than the rail system over the past twenty years.
Part VI writing (30 minutes, 15 points)
Directions: You are to write in no less than 120 words about the title “Sports”. You should base your composition on the outline give in Chinese below:
1. 体育运动很重要，几乎每个人都喜欢体育运动;
2. 不同的人喜爱不同的体育运动。
3. 我喜爱的体育运动是___________________。
参考答案
Part I Dialogue Communication (15 minutes, 15 points)
Section A Dialogue Completion
1----5 C C B D D
Section B Dialogue Comprehension
6----10 A C C A B
Part II Vocabulary and Structure (20 minutes, 10 points)
11---20 B B A D B D D A B D
21---30 C B B D B C D A A C
Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes, 40 points)
31---40 D B A C B B AC D B
41---50 A B C D C A B D C B
Part IV Cloze Test (15 minutes, 10 points)
51---60 D C B A D B A C B D
Part V Translation (30 minutes, 10 points)
铁路运输的最大优点是它的巨大载货能力。它能够长距离，快速的运送大量沉重的货物。一台火车头能够拉动几百吨的重物。当水路运输无法进行时，煤炭和粮食是长距离铁路运输的典型货物。
但是铁路运输有它的严重的缺陷。即，收到铁轨的限制，它不够灵活。它不能像公路网那样的密集。公路运输能够直接将货物送的门口。铁路运输每英里的底成本被运输过程中的装和卸的高成本所抵消。因此，在过去的20年间，公路运输要比铁路运输发展得快得多。
