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苏州大学中国地方文化英语导读 课程试卷（ 3 ）卷 共 页 年级 专业 学号 姓名 成绩 Achievement Test For Highlights of Chinese Civilization and Local Culture Course Paper Type: 3 Directions: 1. The test lasts one and a half hours. You are required to finish your test on time. To keep the test site quiet, we kindly require that you not hand in your test paper ahead of time. 2. Please do NOT bring into the test room any material irrelevant to the test, such as textbooks, revision materials, electronic dictionaries, communication equipment, etc. 3. Please provide all necessary personal information on the Answer Sheet. ATTENTION: Please write on the Answer Sheet all the answers and the TYPE of your test paper. 4. When your test time is over, please leave the test room quietly to guarantee an ideal test environment for others. 5. We thank you very much for not taking out of the room any test material. Part I. Reading Comprehension 10% Directions: Read the following passage carefully and then answer each question at the end of the passage. Please write your answers on the Answer Sheet. The Wisdom of Laotse simplified part of introduction While Confucius is more popularly known to the average man in the West, a small group of critics and scholars in this country, for some years now, have been strong admirers of Laotse and his extraordinary little volume. In fact, I may venture the opinion that among scholars who know the Orient, there are more devotees of Laotse than of Confucius. Probably because of its small size, the Book of Tao is also the most translated of all Chinese texts, there being twelve translations in English and nine in German. For while good sense belongs to Confucius, wit and depth and brilliance belong to the Taoist sage, whose name has been aptly and affectionately translated as the “Old Boy”. Laotse wrote two chapters discussing Nothingness, depicting humanity and justice and criticizing the study of li Confucianism , but his admirers seem to think them even better than the Five