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Exercise 1(2009-3+5 Test 2)廿岁的人表现出五岁的心智，往往是因为办教育的人对学生采取一种“抱着走”的育婴方式。常常会听到一些大学校长说，“我把学生当自己的儿女看待”，一派慈祥。他也真做得像个严父慈母：规定学生不许穿拖鞋在校内行走，上课不许迟到，周会时要正襟危坐，睡眠要足八小时，熄灯前要洗澡如厕，清晨六点必须起床作操，讲话时不许口含食物，夏天不可穿短裤上课，看电影有害学业，看电视有伤眼睛，吃饭之前要洗手，等等等。我一直以为大学校长是高瞻远瞩，指导学术与教育大方向的决策人，而不是管馒头稀饭的保姆，但这也暂且不提。这一类型的教育者的用心，毋庸置疑，当然是善意的，问题是，我们论事的时候，用心如何根本不重要，重要的是实际的后果，而教育的后果何其严重！在这种过度呵护的幼儿教育下成长的大学生，遇事时，除了泪眼汪汪之外又能做什么呢？教育者或许会说：这些学生如果进大学以前，就已经学好自治自律的话，我就不必要如此提之携之，喂之哺之；就是因为基础教育没教好，所以我办大学的人不得不教。虽然是亡羊补牢，总比不教好。选自幼稚园大学，作者龙应台参考译文：Now I have always considered university presidents to be visionary policymakers who set the course of academic research and education rather than mere nannies in charge of feeding steamed bread and porridge to infants. But lets put this aside for the moment. There is no doubt, of course, that this type of educator has very good intentions. The problem is, when we pass judgment on something, what matters is not intentions but the actual consequences. And how serious the consequences of education are! Brought up in an educational system that pampers them like babies, what can you expect university students to do except “shed tears” when faced with an actual hardship or problem?Exercise 2(Spark Test 7) 为了看日出，我常常早起。那时天还没有大亮，周围非常清静，船上只有机器的响声。天空还是一片浅蓝，顔色很浅。转眼间天边出现了一道红霞，慢慢地在扩大它的范围，加强它的亮光。我知道太阳要从天边升起来了，便目不转睛地望着那里。果然过了一会儿，在那个地方出现了太阳的小半边脸，红是真红，却没有亮光。这个太阳好像负着重荷似地一步一步、慢慢地努力上升，到了最后，终于冲破了云霞，完全跳出了海面，顔色红得非常可爱。一刹那间，这个深红的原东西，忽然发出了夺目的亮光，射得人眼睛发痛，它旁边的云片也突然有了光彩。 有时太阳走进了云堆中，它的光线却从云里射下来，直射到水面上，这时候要分辨出哪里是水，哪里是天，倒也不容易，因为我就只看见一片灿烂的亮光。 这不是很伟大的奇观么？选自海上的日出，作者巴金参考译文：I would often get up early to watch sunrise when it was not yet quite light and all was quiet except for the droning of the ship engine. The sky was pale with a bluish blue. Soon a streak of pink dawn broke over the horizon, expanding gradually and becoming brighter and brighter. Knowing that the sun was about to rise, I had my eyes fixed on the distant edge of the sea. As expected, the sun soon appeared revealing half of its face, which was very red but not bright. It kept rising laboriously bit by bit as if weighted down with a heavy burden on its back until, after breaking through the rosy clouds, it completely emerged from the sea aglow with a lovely red.Exercise 3(2009-3+5 Test 4)在逃去如飞的日子里，在千门万户的世界里的我能做些什么呢？只有徘徊罢了，只有匆匆罢了；在八千多日的匆匆里，除徘徊外，又剩些什么呢？过去的日子如轻烟，被微风吹散了，如薄雾，被初阳蒸融了；我留着些什么痕迹呢？我何曾留着像游丝样的痕迹呢？我赤裸裸来到这世界，转眼间也将赤裸裸的回去罢？但不能平的，为什么偏要白白走这一遭啊？你聪明的，告诉我，我们的日子为什么一去不复返呢？选自散文匆匆，作者朱自清参考译文：What can I do, in this bustling world, with my days flying in their escape? Nothing but to hesitate, to rush. What have I been doing in that eight-thousand-day rush, apart from hesitating? Those bygone days have been dispersed as smoke by a light wind, or evaporated as mist by the morning sun. What traces have I left behind me? Have I ever left behind any gossamer traces at all? I have come to the world, stark-naked; am I to go back, in a blink, in the same stark nakedness? It is not fair though: why should I have made such a trip for nothing!Exercise 4(2011 Spark Test 2)幸福有时会同我们开一个玩笑,乔装打扮而来。机遇、友情、成功、团圆 它们都酷似幸福，但它们并不等同于幸福。幸福会借了它们的衣裙，袅袅婷婷而来，走得近了，揭去帏幔，才发觉它有钢铁般的内核。幸福有时会很短暂，不像苦难似的笼罩天空。如果把人生的苦难和幸福分置天平两端，苦难体积庞大，幸福可能只是一块小小的矿石。但指针一定要向幸福这一侧倾斜，因为它是生命的黄金。选自散文提醒幸福，作者毕淑敏参考译文：Sometimes happiness may play tricks on us by coming in disguise. Things like opportunity, friendship, success and reunion, though quite similar, can never be the true happiness. They may approach us with elegance and charm like happiness really comes. However, a closer to observation will unveil their steely core. Sometimes happiness is rather evanescent, in no way like its foe distress. Therefore, it is always said when both are put on the ends of a balance respectively, obviously, the size of distress will be much larger than that of happiness which is only the size of loadstone. Nevertheless, its needle will always point to the side of happiness, for it is the gold of life.Exercise 5(2011 Spark Test 5)这世上有些东西，最好别看透，留几分神秘，留一点朦胧，留一丝悬念，可能会更有意思些。魔术，如果让观众看透了手法，知道了诀窍，这门艺术也就寿终正寝了；变脸，正因为迄今为止大伙都没有看透其技术真相，才能屡演屡新，大受欢迎，成为国粹。交朋友，各有目的；或为友谊，志同道合；或为利益，互相利用；或为酒肉，吃喝玩乐 都能好得如兄弟一般。但如果以鹰隼般犀利的眼神，看透每一个朋友的交友动机，你可能就成了孤家寡人，“人至察则无徒”。当然，也不能糊涂到朋友把你卖了，你还替他数钱。选自读者年第期散文留点东西别看透，作者陈鲁民参考译文：If tricks and knacks had been seen through by the viewers, the art of magic would have come to its end. Also, if people had gained insight into the Face-changing skills, Face-changing Show would not be performed over and over again, not to mention its popularity among public and being honored as the quintessence of Chinese culture.Different people have different purposes in making friends, some with those of the same ambitions and goals for the sake of friendship; some with those of whom they can take advantage for the sake of benefit; while some with those they can play with for the sake of enjoyment. Despite those differences in purpose, their relationships all work out as well as brothers. However, if any of those had such an incisive eye to penetrate into his friends intention, he might be isolated from the masses. For just as the old saying goes “no company can bear one whose requirements are too critical”. Of course, we shouldnt be too ignorant to be kept in the dark after being deceived.Exercise 6(2010-3+5 Test 4)我时常收到好心的编辑寄来的电脑报刊, 面对那些每个字都认识、就是看不懂的天书，心想，这不是给文盲寄报刊吗？说来惭愧，别说上网，我连打字都不会，几次走近电脑，几次又离开它，它一点儿也不让我感到亲近。我怕一切机器，怕那些键子，那个蹦来蹦去的鼠标。让我感到安慰的是，白岩松写稿子也是手写的。他说，笔尖触着纸的感觉是种享受。我有同感，也找到了一个说法儿。可到了1999年，我不能心安理得了。那天给师母送稿子，手写的，又有点儿乱。师母说：“没关系，我在电脑上打出来。” “您?” 师母说：“是啊，我70岁学的。”惊得我一下子没了话。出了门，第100次下决心，该学电脑了。选自新周刊年第期散文我非时尚中人参考译文：From time to time I receive PC magazines from well-meaning editors. Reading them, I recognize the individual characters, but the whole thing is Greek to me. When faced with such publications, I think to myself, “They might as well send newspapers or magazines to an illiterate.” I hate to say it, but I have to confess I dont even know how to type, much less how to surf the Internet. Several times Ive tried to learn to use a computer and each time I gave up in the end, for it is not really very user-friendly. I was afraid of all mechanical devices, afraid of the keyboard and the mouse with its jumpy cursor. I was consoled by the fact that Bai Yansong also wrote his scripts by hand. He said that feeling the point of the pen touching the surface of the paper gave him a kind of pleasure. I had the same feeling and found it a good excuse not to use a computer.Exercise 7(2010-3+5 Test 2)8月17日的下午,约克逊号邮船无数的窗眼里,飞出五色飘扬的纸带,远远的抛到岸上,任凭送别的人牵挂的时候,我的心是如何的飞扬而凄恻!痴绝的无数的送别者,在最远的江岸,仅仅牵着这终于断绝的纸条儿,放这庞然大物,载着最重的离愁,飘然西去!船上生活,是如何的清新而活泼.除了三餐外,只是随意游戏散步.海上的头三日,我竟完全回到小孩子的境地中去了,套圈子,抛沙袋,乐此不疲,过后又绝然不玩了。后来自己回想很奇怪，无他，海唤起了我童年的回忆，海波声中，童心和游伴都跳跃到我脑中来。选自纸船，作者冰心参考译文：Those sentimental individuals, standing in large numbers on the increasingly distant shore, could only hold on to the paper streamers until they would eventually break, reluctantly letting the iron mammoth sail westward, loaded down as it was with the heavy grief of parting!Daily life on the ship was refreshing and active. Outside of the three meals, all my time was spent playing games and taking walks on the decks as I pleased. For the first three days, I seemed to have totally reverted to my childhood. I tossed rings and small beanbags, never tiring of playing these games. Then three days later, I cut all connection with such pastimes. As I recalled it all later, I felt very strange though there was nothing more to it than this: this sea had unmoored my childhood memories, and midst the sound of the surging waves, a sense of childlike innocence and my young playmates flooded my mind.Exercise 8(2011 Spark Test 1)如果“义”代表一种伦理的人生态度，“利”代表一种功利的人生态度，那么，我所说的“情”更代表一种审美的人生态度。它主张率性