66.The Duanwu Festival, also called the Dragon Boat Festival, is to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.Qu Yuan was a loyal and highly esteemed minister, who brought peace and prosperity to the state but ended up drowning himself in a river as a result of being vilified.People got to the spot by boat and cast glutinous rice dumplings into the water, hoping that the fishes ate the dumplings instead of Qu Yuan’s body. For thousands of years, the festival has been marked by glutinous rice dumplings and dragon boat races,especially in the southern provinces where there are many rivers and lakes.
Part IV Translation Directions：This part, numbered 56 to 66, is to test your ability to translate Chinese into English or English into Chinese.Each of ten sentences（No.56 to No.65）is followed by four choices of suggested translation marked A, B, C and D.Make the best choice and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.Write your translation of the paragraph（No.66）in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet. 56. 虽然我们是多年的老朋友 , 但他也不会借钱给我。
Takes 2 Directions：This task is the same as Task 1.The five questions or unfinished statements are numbered 41 to 45I once knew a young man, nineteen years of absolute youthabsolute of about confidence and self-possession for a number of years before I discovered that he could not read or write.His various methods of trick, which were also skills of self-protection, were so skillful and so desperate（绝望）that neither I nor any of his other adult friends were aware of his entire helplessness in face of written words until we went to dinner one night at a local restaurant-and suddenly discovered that he could not read. Even here, it was not the first time we went out to eat the that Peter’s desperation shocked me.The first time, he was clever enough to cover the truth.He studied the menu for a moment, then looked up to the waitress and asked he could have“just a coke and a hamburger.”He told me later that he had done the same thing many times before and that he had learned to act as if he were examining the menu： “Then I ask for a coke and ahamburger...Sometimes they give me a hamburger on a plate with salad and potatoes...Then I ask them for a roll and make my own hamburger.” As we began to go out to eat more frequently, Peter would ask to go to Howard Johnson’s.I soon discovered the reason for his choice, attached in cellophane（玻璃纸）containers to each of the standard items on the menu, could help him not to struggle with the shape of words at all.Howard Johnson’s, whether intentionally of not, had provided the perfect escape for he endangered pride of an adult who was illiterate（文盲）.41.When he went to a restaurant, Peter would_.
