2010年四川大学博士生入学考试英语试题

Translation (30%)

Part A (20%)

要想真正生活得幸福和平安，一个人至少应该有两三种业余爱好，而且必须是真正的爱好。到了晚年才开始说“我要培养这个或那个兴趣”是毫无用处的，这种尝试只会增加精神上的负担。在与自己日常工作无关的领域中，一个人或许能获得渊博的知识，但却很难有所收益或得到放松。做自己喜欢的事是无益的，你得喜欢自己所做的事。广而言之，人可以分为三个类别：劳累而死的人、忧虑而死的人和无聊而死的人。对于那些体力劳动者来说，一周辛苦的工作使他们筋疲力尽，因此在周六下午给他们提供踢足球或者打棒球的机会是没有意义的。对于政界人士、专业人士或者商人来说，他们已经为棘手的事务操劳或者烦恼了六天，因此在周末请他们为琐事劳神同样毫无意义。

Part B (10%)

1.Chengdu is a city that makes you reluctant to leave once you’re here.

2.Do not lust for a windfall. Do not drink too much wine.

3.Courtesy seats. (Seats reserved for the elderly, infirm, sick, disabled and

pregnant.)

4.As a job seeker, dressing too casually can be detrimental to your odds of being

hired.

5.The survey shows that few people are able to devote themselves fully to their

career.

V. Writing (29%)

Sample

Go West, Revitalize Our Nation

As with the great appeal for the western frontier development in the 19th in the USA, there is also an urgent need for patriotic and energetic young people to go west and make contributions to the western region development nowadays in China. During the decades of years, the eastern region of China has been developing rapidly since its reform and opening up to the outside world. But the western region still remains undeveloped.

There are various reasons why the landlocked west has lagged behind in its economic development. The chief reason, I think, is that the opening up policies enables the east to lure more foreign capital and make a fantastic spurt in its development. As a result, the gap between the east and the west has been widened. In addition, the west’s unique unfavorable geographic positions greatly limit its development. In fact, most of the poor population, who still have subsistence problems, live there. If left unchanged, the underdevelopment in the west will greatly affect overall prosperity and even social stability.

The large-scale development of West China is of a profound significance. Firstly, it will open a broad development space for central and eastern regions. Besides, it’s essential to China’s overall economic progress. What’s more, it’s the

only effective way to decrease the imbalance of economic development in the East and West so as to revitalize our nation.

However, the western region development is a long-term systematic project. The chief goal is to build west China with economic prosperity, social progress, political stability and beautiful landscape. I am deeply convinced that with the joint participation of people from all walks, we can develop the western region soundly in the near future.

Sample 2

Developing western region is a contemporary social issue in China of common interests, in accordance with the “Go west, young man”, a history topic in the United States that people who are interested in making their lives worthy on the frontier. In the 19century, government has couraged more and more people to devoted their life arising from the striking economic development.

Patriotic and energetic young people going west are more likely to be promoted. It is found that there are a number of factors accounting for this phenomenon that make contributions to the western region, of which the following three may be the most significant. First, there are poor education in western, in contrast to the easter confronted stepping into a variety of education around the world. Second, in the western, the pace of economic development was slower than the easterns’. Finally, with many cities in the western dealing with divers social problems.

Correction:

As for me, there are a couple of reasons accounting for the urgent need to develop the western region of China. First, the west lags far behind the east in the standard of education, which is detrimental to cultivating talents. Second, by contrast, the pace of economic development in the west is much slower than that in the east, and that not only contributes largely to poverty and backwardness here but also triggers frequent occurrences of social unrest, which aggravates poverty and backwardness in turn.

In my opinion, never in the history has the issue of developing western region been more provocative than at present. It is imperative that we take the initiative to encourage young people, especially graduated students from college, to induce widely concern about the western development and make a variety of lifestyles in the western.