題目樣例：(1)The number of British universities offering specialist modern-language courses is in sharp decline. This collapse might be partly down to the rise of free translation software such as Google
Translate. Is it possible that automatic translation technology will eliminate foreign language learning? Write an essay of about 400 words to state your view.
(2)For this part, you are allowed 15 minutes to write an email (at least 150 words) to an American friend of yours, who is considering joining a cultural exchange program in China. He is worrying about his Chinese proficiency level and limited knowledge of Chinese culture. Please give him some advice on the following aspects: 1. how to boost his confidence; 2. how to get culturally prepared for the program.
題目樣例：How do you measure progress? That is the question Kyle Van Houtan, an ecologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, in California, found himself asking when he faced the task of working out whether methods of boosting the populations of endangered species in the wild have improved over the years.
In normal circumstances, those keen on studying the effectiveness of research write reviews of the scientific literature. ...(全文 略)
According to the passage, the main purpose of Dr. Van Houtan getting
computers involved in his study is .
A. to control machines to lift heavy things
B. to help humans review thousands of papers
C. to study several new natural-language-processing systems
(2)For this part, you are required to translated the following passage from English into Chinese.
If you look around at the men and women whom you can call happy, you will see that they all have certain things in common. The most important of these things is an activity which at most gradually builds up something that you are glad to see coming into existence. Women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family. Artists and authors and men of science get happiness in this way if their own work seems good to them. But there are many humbler forms of the same kind of pleasure. Many men who spend their working life in the city devote their weekends to voluntary and unremunerated toil in their gardens, and when the spring comes, they experience all the joys of having created beauty.
