2012年在职攻读硕士学位全国联考英语模拟试卷1及答案

Part V Translation (30 minutes, 10 points)

Directions: Translate the following passage into Chinese and put your translation on the ANSWER SHEET.

The great advantage of the railroad has always been its superior carrying capacity. It can carry massive and heavy loads at relatively high speeds for long distances; one engine can pull a load of several hundred tons. Coal and grain are typical commodities for which rail transportation is employed over long distances, when water transportation is not available.

But rail transportation suffers from one serious disadvantage, it is inflexible; it is confined to rails, and obviously there cannot be as close a network of rails as of roads. Road transportation goes from door to door. The lower cost pre mile of rail transportation is more than balanced by the greater cost of loading and unloading at the beginning and end of many journeys. Therefore, road transportation system has developed much faster than the rail system over the past twenty years.

Part VI writing (30 minutes, 15 points)

Directions: You are to write in no less than 120 words about the title “Sports”. You should base your composition on the outline give in Chinese below:

1. 体育运动很重要，几乎每个人都喜欢体育运动;

2. 不同的人喜爱不同的体育运动。

3. 我喜爱的体育运动是___________________。