Part C Translation

　　46. Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese. Write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET 2. (15 points)

　　The supermarket is designed to lure customers into spending as much time as possible within its doors. The reason for this is simple: The longer you stay in the store, the more stuff you’ll see, and the more stuff you see, the more you’ll buy. And supermarkets contain a lot of stuff. The average supermarket, according to the Food Market Institute, carries some 44,000 different items, and many carry tens of thousands more. The sheer volume of available choice is enough to send shoppers into a state of information overload. According to brain-scan experiments, the demands of so much decision-making quickly become too much for us. After about 40 minutes of shopping, most people stop struggling to be rationally selective, and instead began shopping emotionally—which is the point at which we accumulate the 50 percent of stuff in our cart that we never intended buying.

　　參考譯文

　　超市旨在吸引顧客在店里停留盡可能長的時間。原因非常簡單：顧客在店里停留的時間越長，看到的商品越多;看到的商品越多，買的也就越多。超市陳列了大量的商品。根據食品市場科的調查，一般超市里有約44000種不同的商品，許多超市都有上萬種。如此眾多的選擇足以使顧客陷入信息量超載的狀態。根據腦部掃描實驗，需要迅速地做出這么多決定就會使我們太累。大約購物40分鐘以后，大多數人就放棄了去做理性的選擇，取而代之的是沖動購物——正是此時，我們在購物車里已經裝了一半根本沒想買的東西。

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　　Section Ⅲ Writing

　　Part A

　　47. Directions:

　　Suppose you won a translation contest and your friend, Jack, wrote an email to congratulate you and ask for advice on translation. Write him a reply to

　　1) thank him, and

　　2) give you advice

　　You should write about 100 on the ANSWER SHEET.

　　Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use Li Ming instead.

　　Do not write the address. (10 points)

　　參考范文

　　Dear Jack,

　　Your letter of congratulations was received. Thank you for your nice words on my winning the contest. In the letter, you asked me about the skills to do translation, so the following are my advice for you.

　　Firstly, you should analyze the sentence structure, thus catching the meaning of the sentence. Secondly, find the proper words to translate the meaning of the source language into the target language. Thirdly, revise your translation at least three times to check if there are any mistranslations or missed meanings.

　　I hope my advice helpful. Wish to see you soon.

　　Yours sincerely,

　　Li Ming

　　Part B:

　　48. Directions:

　　Write an essay based on the chart below. In your writing, you should

　　1) interpret the chart, and

　　2) give your comments.

　　You should write about 150 words on the ANSWER SHEET. (15 points)

　　參考范文：

　　Portrayed in the above pie chart is a survey of college students' purposes of traveling. The number of students who take traveling as a chance to see beautiful scenes accounts for 37%, while students who would like to travel to relieve pressure from study take up 35 %.

　　There are several reasons behind the trend revealed in the above chart. To begin with, as the present society is filled with fierce competition, most college students nowadays are under great pressure to stand out among others or to lunch a decent job after graduation. Therefore, they tend to choose traveling as an outlet to relieve their stress. Secondly, with the fast advancement of the living standards of Chinese families, traveling is increasingly affordable to most college students. For this reason, students prefer to travel to see different views to enjoy themselves or to make some friends.

　　From my perspective, no matter what reason it is for, traveling is of great benefit for students to acquire a broader perspective of life. If time permits, we college students should go to see the outside world more often.