南昌大学研究生期末试卷

南昌大学2010 ~ 2011 学年第二学期非英语专业研究生
英语期末考试试卷
（非艺术类）
Part One:Translation ( 60 points)
1. Put the following paragraphs into Chinese: (30 points)
(1) Having a baby has been shown to decrease levels of happiness. The sleep deprivation and the necessity of putting aside personal pleasure in order to care for an infant mean that people with newborns are more likely to be depressed and find their marriage on the rocks. Nonetheless, over the long haul, raising a child is one of the most rewarding and meaningful of all human undertakings. The short-term sacrifice of happiness is outweighed by other benefits, like fulfillment, altruism and the chance to leave a meaningful legacy.
(2) When a sport comes to depend on entertaining a mass audience, those involved in the sport often revise their ideas about what is important in sport. This revision usually involves a shift in emphasis from what might be called an aesthetic orientation to a heroic orientation. In fact, the people in sport may even refer to games or matches as “show-time”, and they may refer to themselves as entertainers as well as athletes. This does not mean that aesthetic orientation disappear, but it does mean that they often take a back seat to the heroic actions.
(3) The British do not understand certain of the fundamentals of eating, as evidenced by their instinct to consume hamburgers with a knife and fork. To my continuing amazement, many of them also turn their fork upside-down and balance the food on the back of it. I’ve lived in England for a decad e and a half and I still have to quell an impulse to go up to strangers in pubs and restaurants and say, “Excuse me, can I give you a tip that’ll help stop those peas bouncing all over the table ?”
2. Put the following paragraphs into English: （30 points）
(1) 读书使人充实，讨论使人机智，写作使人准确。

固不常作文者须记忆特强，不常讨论者须天生聪颖，不常读书者须欺世有术，使无知显有知。

读史使人明智，读诗使人灵秀，数学使人周密，科学使人深刻，伦理学使人庄重，逻辑修辞
(rhetoric)使人善辩；读书补天然之不足，经验又补读书之不足，天生之才能犹如自然花草，读书后知如何修剪移接(pruning)；而书中所示，如不以经验限之，则又大而无当。

狡黠者（Crafty men）鄙读书，无知者羡读书，唯明智之士用读书，然而书并不以用处教人，用书之智不在书中，而在书外，全凭观察得之。

(2) 人类创造只有两种形式：科学和诗歌。

前者给我们便利，后者给我们安慰。

更通俗的说，前者让我们在肚子饿的时候有饭吃，后者让我们意识到吃饭不仅是吃饭，吃饭是一种很有趣的事。

只有科学没有诗歌，原子弹会引爆（detonate）；只有诗歌没有科学，诗人便会成为路上的冻死骨。

科学家不应该蔑视诗人，诗人不应该疏远科学家。

两个领域若互相对立，人类也就大祸临头。

实际上，最伟大的科学家都是具有诗性的人，如牛顿。

牛顿观察落地的苹果时，他既发现了万有引力定律（the gravity of the earth），也创作了一首优美的诗。

(3) 转基因技术使人类可以对生物生命进行“任意修改”。

科学家们担心，由这种技术创造出来的新型遗传转基因和生物可能会有害于人类。

它们可能是对生态造成新的污染，即所谓的遗传基因污染，而这种新的污染源很难消除。

另外，转基因农作物和以此为原料的制造的转基因食品对人体的影响也尚无定论。

目前，转基因西红柿、南瓜、玉米、大豆、鱼类和瘦肉型猪等已经成为普通百姓餐桌上的佳肴，但这些转基因食品的安全性问题在很多国家已成为了一个社会问题，消费者团体掀起了相当规模的反对转基因农作物和食品运动。

(转基因：transgenic 或GMO )
Part Two: Writing （20 points）
Students participate in some kind of paid work in their spare time. Some people think this is wrong, but others believe that such w ork will extend the student’s knowledge and increase their sense of responsibility. What is your opinion ? Write at least 250-300 words .(20%)
Answer Sheet(非艺术类)
Part One Translation （60 points ） 1. Put the following paragraphs into Chinese: (30 points) (1) (2) (3)
学院：
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专业：
姓名：
学号：
2. Put the following paragraphs into English: （30 points）(1)
(2)
(3)
Part Two Writing (20 points)。