Part 1

Translation from English into Chinese 1 hour 30 minutes

Read the following two passages.

Translate them into Chinese.

Write your answers on the answer sheets.

You may use additional paper for your draft but you must copy your answers onto the answer sheets.

Passage 1

Head Injuries

Alice was a B-plus student throughout her first three years at college. During the winter holidays in her senior year, while she was driving during a storm, her car ran off the road and hit a tree. Alice banged her head on the steering wheel but never lost consciousness. She was treated for bruises and discharged from the hospital within a day.

But, back at her studies, she began to have difficulties. Suddenly her As and Bs were becoming Cs. She had trouble remembering what she'd read and was irritable and easily distracted.

Alice was referred to a neuropsychologist for further examination. Although her IQ hadn't changed and standard neurological tests were normal, detailed neuropsychological tests showed she was having memory problems. She could still process new information, but it took longer than before and she became “overloaded” if she tried to do too much at once.

Head injuries are often fatal, or of sufficient severity to require the hospitalization of victims. But there is a large group of people who sustain head injuries which can go undetected through ordinary medical examination. These are the people who seemingly recover from their injuries but still suffer subtle intellectual and behavioural effects that may seriously impair their ability to work and interact normally with other people. They are the victims of what experts call a “silent epidemic”. Some never lost consciousness and others never even suffered a direct blow to the head, yet brain damage occurred.

Passage 2

Museums

Over the last couple of decades there's been a tremendous explosion in museum attendance, and I see that continuing. As the population grows older, with more people studying in their retirement, and as schools and universities develop more imaginative ways of presenting knowledge, museums and galleries will be at the centre of the educational process.

To make the most of that position, they must not just open their doors but ensure that their material is engagingly presented, with flesh-and-blood teachers as well as displays that draw on information technology.

I'm not a great fan of the audio tour that leads you to a piece of art and then tells you what to think about it. I much prefer the interactive calling-up of information, on a free-will basis, via a little handset. That way, technology helps you find out more about a particular aspect of a work of art as you stand in front of it.

A century ago, no one could have guessed there would be a museum dedicated to air and space travel in the centre of Washington DC, so it's impossible to say what new museums we might have in 100 years. But we may turn back to neglected areas of history. They've just laid the foundation stone for the Museum of the Native American in Washington, and I can see a resurgence in our interest in the ancient world ahead.

Part 2

Translation from Chinese into English 1 hour 30 minutes

Read the following two passages.

Translate them into English.

Write your answers on the answer sheets.

You may use additional paper for your draft but you must copy your answers onto the answer sheets.