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Ⅰ. Translate the following passage into Chinese, using the answer sheet provided. (35points)

AN INSIDIOUS NARCOTIC

By Marie Winn

Because television is so wonderfully available a child amuser and child defuser, capable of rendering a volatile three-year-old harmless at the flick of a switch, parents grow to depend upon itin the course of their daily lives. And as they continue to utilize television day after day, itsimportance in their children’s lives increases. From a simple source of entertainment provided by parents when they need a break from childcare, televisiongradually changes into a powerful and disruptive presence in family life. But despite their increasing resentment of television’s intrusion into their family life, and despite their considerable guilt at not being able to control theirchildren’s viewing, parents do not take steps to extricate themselves from television’s domination. They can no longer cope without it.

In 1948 Jack Gould, the first television critic of The New York Times, described the impactof the then new medium on American families: “Children’shours on television admittedly are an insidious narcotic for the parent. With the tots fanned out on the floor in front of the receiver, astrange if wonderful quiet seems at hand....”

On first glance it may appear that Gould’s pen had slipped. Surely it was the strangely quiet children who were narcotised by the television set, not the parents. But indeed he had penetratedto the heart of the problem before the problem had fully materialized, before anyone dreamed that children would one day spend more of their waking hours watching television than at any othersingle activity. It is, in fact, the parents for whom television is an irresistiblenarcotic, not through their own viewing (although frequentlythis, too, is the case) but at a remove, through their children, fanned out in front of the receiver, strangely quiet. Surely there can be no more insidiousa drug than one that you must administer to others in order to achieve an effect for yourself.

Ⅱ. Translate the following passage into Chinese, using the answer sheet provided. (35 points)

April

By Josephine W.Johnson

The hillside is held up by clumps of flowers on hairy stems. The petals lavender and whiteand pink and purple and sometimes a rare,pale blue. The same spot of earth, riddled with moss, snail shells, oak leaves, produces this pale rainbow. They last very little longer than a rainbow, andreturning in a day or two, one finds no flowers, only hare green pods and a crop of odd-cut leaves.

These spring pools of flowers, rising year after year in the same place, are a recurring joy thatnever fails. It is one of the joys of living for years in the same place. This is not limited to wildland, nor to large places, but few stay long enough even on one small spot, or care enough to plant