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厦门大学2003年招收攻读硕士学位研究生 入 学 考 试 试 题 招生专业： 英语语言文学 考试科目及代码：写作与英汉互译 319 研究方向：_________________ 注意：答案必须标明题号，按序写在专用答题纸上，写在本试卷上或草稿纸上者一律不给分。 Translate the following two passages into Chinese. (35 points) (45 min.) (1) Icebergs are among nature’s most spectacular creations, and yet most people have never seen one. A vague air of mystery envelops them. They come into being --- somewhere --- in faraway, frigid waters, amid thunderous noise and splashing turbulence, which in most cases no one hears or sees. They exist only a short time and then slowly waste away just as unnoticed. Objects of sheerest beauty, they have been called. Appearing in an endless variety of shapes, they may be dazzlingly white, or they may be glassy blue, green or purple, tinted faintly or in darker hues. They are graceful, stately, inspiring in calm, sunlit sea. (2) Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in history of human knowledge. For many thousands of years it was the one field of awareness about which humans had anything more than the vaguest of insights. It is impossible to know today just what our Stone Age ancestors knew about plants, but from what we can observe of preindustrial societies that still exist, a detailed learning of plants and their properties must be extremely ancient. This is logical. Plants are the basis of the food pyramid for all living things, even for other plants. They have always been enormously important to the welfare of peoples, not only for food, but also for clothing, weapons, tools, dyes, medicines, shelter, and a great many other purposes. Translate the following two passages into English. (40 points) (45 min.) (1) 坚持党的思想路线，解放思想，实事求是，与时俱进，使我们党坚持先进性和增强创造力的决定性因素, (2) 先生不知何许人也，亦不详其姓字。宅边有五柳树，因以为号焉。闲静少言，不慕荣利。好读书，不求甚解；每有会意，便欣然忘食。性嗜酒，家贫而不能常得。亲旧知其如此，或置酒而招之。造饮辄尽，期在必醉。常著文章自娱。颇示己志。忘怀得失，以此自终。 译注：（供理解用，不必翻译） [1] 号：古人除名、字之外，还有别号。[2] 造：去、到。 WRITING It seems only human for people to want to improve their position in