PARTⅠ Translation (30 minutes , 20points)
Section A
准化教育测试或心理测试现在广泛应用于协助选拔、分类、委派或提升学生、雇员和军事人员，这些测试一直是某些人近年来在图书、杂志、日报、甚至国会中抨击的目标。把这种标准化测试作为抨击的目标是不对的，因为，在抨击这类测试时，批评者没有考虑其弊病来自人们对测试不甚了解或使用不当。这些测试本身只是一种工具，其各种特性是可以在规定的条件下用相当的精度来测定的测试的结果是有价值的，还是无意义的，甚至是误导的，部分取决于这种工具本身，但主要取决于测试的使用者
Section B
A survey made recently indicates that most of buildings in China, no matter for office or residential purpose, all consume more electricity and water resources compared to that of foreign countries. For instance, energy consumption for Beijing residents is three times as much as that of the families in north German under the similar whether conditions. As China is an energy shortage country, therefore we Chinese should save (economize) resources so as to ensure the sustainable development for Chinese economy.
PARTⅡ Writing (30 minutes , 15points)
Who and How to Take Care of seniors?
Since China adopted one-child policy, together with improvement made in the social undertakings such as welfare and health care, there has emerged a problem of how to support seniors in recent years.
As every coins has two sides, the side effect of one-child policy is appeared, for example, the child regarded by other family members as the little prince or princess, always has his wishes satisfied without difficulty. Growing up is this family, no wonder they lack in sense of caring for others and learning to be independent of parents. Can they support their aging parents whose life expectancy has been prolonged?
To effectively cope with this social problem of taking care of seniors today, I may put forward several suggestions as follows:
First, young adults in a family should spend more time with their elder members, giving financial help, chatting over favorite topics, doing family work. Secondly, the governments at all levels should finance the construction of more seniors care centers for aged people who wish to lessen the burden of their children. Last but not the least, the sense of responsibility for caring the seniors should be planted to the heart of everyone.
To sum up, I firmly hold that taking care of the seniors is one of the traditional virtue in China and it involves the effort of young adults together with love from every corner of the society, particular social institutions. Only by doing so can we build a harmonious society. |
