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2012级的同学们：大家好！ 本学期开学以来，大家虽然都被分到了不同的读译班，但并未进行课堂面授。 期末将至，很多同学对期末考试的读译部分还有很多疑问，现统一作答，并附上相关的模拟练习，以便同学们了解考试形式并有针对性的进行准备。 本次期末考试的读译部分与大家9月初参加的分班考试形式基本一致，阅读文章共有六篇，其中4篇常规阅读理解、1篇逻辑排序、1篇概括段落大意，还有英译汉、汉译英各一段。现附上相关模拟练习，大家可以根据所呈现的内容和难度进行准备。这几篇练习也是这两周的阅读材料，后面附有答案，做完练习后可自行核对。 Section A (15 points) Directions: In this section, you are going to read 3 passages. Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D and mark the corresponding letter on the machine scoring Answer Sheet. Passage 1 Unlike the carefully weighted and planned compositions of Dante, Goethe’s writings have always the sense of immediacy and enthusiasm. He was a constant experimenter with life, with ideas, and with forms of writing. For the same reason, his works seldom have the qualities of finish or formal beauty which distinguish the masterpieces of Dante and Virgil. He came to love the beauties of classicism but these were never an essential part of his make-up. Instead, the urgency of the moment, the spirit of the thing, guided his pen. As a result, nearly all his works have serious flaws of structure, of inconsistencies, of excesses and redundancies and extraneities. In the large sense, Goethe represents the fullest development of the romanticist. It has been argued that he should not be so designated because he so clearly matured and outgrew the kind of romanticism exhibited by Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats. Shelley and Keats died young; Wordsworth lived narrowly and abandoned his early attitudes. In contrast, Goethe lived abundantly and developed his faith in the spirit, his understanding of nature and human nature, and his reliance on feelings as man’s essential motivating force. The result was an all-encompassing vision of reality and a philosophy of life broader and deeper than the partial visions and attitudes of other romanticists. Yet the spirit of youthfulness, the impatience with close reasoning or “logic-chopping,” and the continued faith in nature remained his to the end, together with an occasional