Part V Translation (20%)
Section A
Directions: In this part there are five sentences which you should translate into Chinese. These sentences are all taken from the 3 passage you have just read in the part of Reading Comprehension. You can refer back to the passages so as to identify their meanings in the context.

76. They contain the quickest and the most efficient means of communicating within their respective culture.

77. Even though a government realizes the importance of a plentiful supply of trees, it is difficult for it to persuade the villagers to see  this.

78. So, unless the government has a good system of control, or can educate the people, the forests will slowly disappear.

79. But if all of them had worked separately and independently without division of labor, they certainly could not have made twenty pins in a day and not even one.

80. But he also took it for granted that division of labor is itself responsible for economic growth and development and it accounts for the difference between expanding economies and those that stand still.

Section B
Directions: In this part there are five sentences in Chinese. You should translate them into English. Be sure to write clearly.

81．正是那棵树在洪水中救了他们的命。

82．我们无法想象在那个遥远的星球上存在什么东西。

83．他今早上学又迟到了。昨晚他肯定是睡得太晚了。

84．父母没有预料到孩子的问题这样难回答。

85．然而，在那个国家还有成千上万的年轻人却很难找到工作。

2005年11月试题答案及详解
 
I阅读理解
Passage 1
这篇文章探讨的是语言和文化之间的密切关系，语言是文化的载体和不可分割的一部分；接着作者又谈到要想学好一门语言，学习者应该首先了解一些非语言因素，即该语言所反映的文化，它包括手势、肢体语言等；最后，作者分析了目光接触在学习英语中的重要作用。

Question 1：下列选项哪个是这篇文章的最好题目：D语言与文化。
【答案】D
【题解】该题为主旨考查题，本文主要探讨的就是语言与文化的关系，我们在第一句就可以得出这个结论，选项A、B和C只是选用了文章中的个别词语或例子来干扰考生，只要我们能领略全文意思，就能做出正确选择。

Question 2：根据文章的意思，学习一门外语的最好方式是：C从学习该语言的肢体语言开始。
【答案】C
【题解】该题为细节考查题，在这句话，“In learning a foreign language, the best beginning would be starting with the non-language elements of the language: its gestures, its body language,” 我们就可以确定答案。

Question 3：根据文章的意思，手势语属于：B一种非语言因素。
【答案】B
【题解】该题为细节考查题，在这句话，“In learning a foreign language, the best beginning would be starting with the non-language elements of the language: its gestures, its body language,” 我们就可以看出语言的非语言因素包括手势语、肢体语言等。因此可以确定答案为B。

Question 4：一个人说的语言越多，他的生活越丰富，其含义是：B如果一个人知道多种语言，他的生活将会更丰富有趣。
【答案】B
【题解】该题为细节考查题，考生要想深刻的理解这句话的意思，需要结合上下文，尤其是这句话前面的句子，“To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture.”；另外考生应该熟练运用“as …as”结构去理解文章中作者引用这句话的意思。所以我们要 “read between lines” (读懂文字的隐含意思)。