Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in English. After you have heard each sentence or paragraph, interpret it into Chinese. Start interpreting at the signal…and stop it at the signal…You may take notes while you are listening. Remember you will hear the passages only once. Now let us begin Part A with the first passage.
Passage 1 is about the relation between happiness and work and achievements
Passage l：
After I gave a talk on the subject of happiness，a woman stood up and said, “I wish my husband had come.” “Much as I loved him,” she explained, “it wasn’t easy being married to so unhappy a man, like my husband.”//
I told her that each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, and our friends to be as happy as we can. I was not particularly happy, and like most people, I took pleasure in my anger.//
Anyone could be unhappy. But the true happiness lay in struggling for achievements. We have to work for happiness.
We assume that happiness is a feeling that comes as a result of good things.But happiness is largely under our control.To achieve a happy life，we need to overcome a lot of difficulties in our
Life.
(参考答案)
在我做了一场以快乐为主题的报告之后，一位女士站起来说：“要是我丈夫也能来听这个报告就好了。"她解释说：“尽管我非常爱他，可是同一个不快乐的人做夫妻真不是一件容易的事情。"//
我告诉她，我们每个人为了自己的配偶、孩子和朋友都应当尽可能地快乐。我不是一个特别快乐的人，像大多数人一样，我喜形于恼怒。//
任何人都可以不开心。而真正的快乐在于为成就而努力奋斗之中。我们必须努力去争取快乐。//
我们都以为，快乐是一种感觉，是我们碰到好事的结果。然而，快乐很大程度上在我们控制之中。要想获得幸福的生活，我们需要克服生活中的许多困难。
Passage 2 is a brief introduction to Oxford Brookes University
Passage 2：
Welcome to Oxford Brookes University. Our university is widely regarded as the best new university in Britain. We started in Oxford in 1865 as a school of art. //
We gradually grew and became a college of technology and then a polytechnic college. About ten years ago, we became a university.
I say we are the best new university because for the last seven years the Times newspaper has reckoned us the best new university and this year the Financial Times also reckoned us the best new university. //
We’re a comprehensive university with a large number of professional courses. We have about 16,000 students and about 20%of them are from outside of UK from over one hundred different countries.
(参考答案)
欢迎来到牛津布鲁克斯大学。我校在英国被广泛认为是最好的新兴大学。我校于1865年在牛津建立时是一所工艺学校。//
此后我校逐渐发展成技术专科学校，后来又发展成综合性工艺学校，直到10年前，我们才成为一所综合性大学。//
我说我们是最佳新兴大学，是因为过去7年来《泰晤士报》一直把我校评为最佳新兴大学，而今年《金融时报》也评我们为最佳新兴大学。//
我校是一所综合性大学，有大量的专业课程。我校有在校生16000名，其中约20%是英国之外的海外学生，他们来自100多个不同国家。
