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The Road to Happiness

It is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by pursuing it. This is only true if you pursue it unwisely. Gamblers at Monte Carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead, but there are other ways of pursuing money which often succeed. So it is with happiness. If you pursue it by means of drink, you are forgetting the hang-over. Epicurus pursued it by living only in congenial society and eating only dry bread, supplemented by a little cheese on feast days. His method proved successful in his case, but he was a valetudinarian, and most people would need something more vigorous. For most people, the pursuit of happiness, unless supplemented in various ways, is too abstract and theoretical to be adequate as a personal rule of life. But I think that whatever personal rule of life you may choose it should not, except in rare and heroic cases, be incompatible with happiness. Read the rest of this entry »

一、翻译标准：忠实、通顺

1.忠实指意义忠实于原文

2.通顺指符合中文表达习惯。

3.“信、达、雅”

二、评分情况(每题2分） Read the rest of this entry »

Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:

36. Plants will emit an increased amount of heat when they are _________.

A) sprayed with pesticides本文来源:考试大网

B) in poor physical condition

C) facing an infrared scanner

D) exposed to excessive sun rays

注：when /as/ if 为条件句引导词，定位条件句 Read the rest of this entry »

●短文回答内容应该简洁

例：Why are the students enthusiastic (热情的） for the positions in students’ organization?

1. Because they are respected.（可以）

2. They are respected.（可以）

3. The students are enthusiastic for the positjions in students’ organization because they are respected.（太复杂，不可以）

如何做答：优选顺序：单词–词组–句子；以下情况用句子：Why?和 What opinion/result/suggestion/belief

●短文回答语言方面要求 Read the rest of this entry »

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:

21. People who are cognitively healthy are those _________.

A) whose minds are alert and receptive

B) who are highly intelligent.

C) who can remember large amounts of information

D) who are good at recognizing different sounds

22. According to Fozard’s argument, people can make their brains work more efficiently by _________. Read the rest of this entry »

Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage:

61. By “… challenges explanation” ( Line 2, Para. 1) the author means that _________

A) no explanation is necessary for such an obvious phenomenon

B) no explanation has been made up to now

C) it’ s no easy job to provide an adequate explanation

D) it’ s high time that an explanation was provided

62. The third paragraph is mainly about ________

A) the development of babies’ early forms of language

B) the difficulties of babies in learning to speak

C) babies’ strong desire to communicate Read the rest of this entry »