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第五部分：英译中（Part V Translation from English into Chinese） 共5题，考试时间为15分钟。在一篇长度约300词左右题材熟悉难度适中的短文中有5个划线的句子，要求考生，将这5个句子译成中文。英译中部分主要测试英语的理解和表达能力。 Practice One Translation from English into Chinese Directions: In this part there is a passage with 5 underlined sections, numbered 1 to 5. After reading the passage carefully, translate the underlined sections into Chinese. (1) When I was a boy I was always told, “Peter, the more you know, the further you go.” So I stayed in school until I graduated from college and then went forth into the world, holding firmly the idea and my new teaching certificate. During the first year of teaching, I was upset to find that a number of teachers, school principals and superintendents (主管) appeared to be unaware of their professional responsibilities and incompetent (无能的) in carrying out their duties. (2) For instance, my principal’s main concerns were that classrooms should be quiet and that no one should step on or near the flower beds. The superintendent’s main concerns were that all official forms should be submitted on time. The children’s education appeared farthest from their mind. At first I thought this was a special weakness of the local schools system in which I started to work as a teacher. So I applied for certification in another state. (3) I filled out the forms, enclosed the required documents and sent them off. Several weeks later, back my application and all the documents! No, (4) there was nothing wrong with my forms; they were all correctly filled out; an official departmental stamp showed that they had been received in good order. But an accompanying letter said, “The new regulations require that such forms cannot be accepted by the Department of Education unless they have been registered at the Post Office to ensure safe delivery.” Will you please re-mail the forms to the Department, making sure to register them this time? I began to suspect that the local school system did not have a monopoly (垄断) on incompetence.