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广东外语外贸大学广东外语外贸大学 2004 年硕士研究生入学考试年硕士研究生入学考试 广东外语外贸大学广东外语外贸大学 年硕士研究生入学考试年硕士研究生入学考试 英语写作与翻译英语写作与翻译 英语写作与翻译英语写作与翻译 Part One Writing (100) Task 1: Summary Writing (40%) Directions: Read carefully the following passage and summarize its contents in 150200 words. Note that you must not copy complete sentences directly from the original. Failure to do so would incur deduction of your scores. Passage Plato - who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to real people and everyday events - knew what intellectual experiences make for tree humanity. He suggested that the future citizens of his ideal republic begin their literary education with the telling of myths, rather than with mere facts or so-called rational teachings. Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said, The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth. Modem thinkers who have studied myths and fairy tales from a philosophical or psychological viewpoint arrive at the same conclusion, regardless of their original persuasion. Mircea Eliade, for one, describes these stories as models ~for human behavior [that],,:by that very fact, give .meaning and value to life. Drawing on anthropological parallels, he and others suggest that myths and fairy tales were derived from, or give symbolic expression to, initiation rites or rites of passage - such as metaphoric death of an old, inadequate self in order to be reborn on a higher plane of existence. He feels that this is why these tales meet a strongly felt need and are carders of such deep meaning. Other investigators with a depth-psychological orientation emphasize the similarities between the fantastic events in myths and