Section B

Directions: Put the underlined part in each sentence into Chinese.

1. Very often you find it impossible to escape from some idle or inquisitive chatter-box, or from somebody who wants something for nothing.

2．Have you never rushed dripping from the bath, or chewing from the table, or dazed from the bed, only to be told that you are a wrong number?

3. When a man is driving a car for long distances along a main road or motorway, two of his

problems are to keep the car at a fairly steady speed and to make sure that he does not run into the car in front of him.

4．This system will be particularly useful to driver stuck in long queues of cars, as the computer would control not only the speed and the distance from the car in front, but also the steering.

5．Between ten and midnight the United States is politically leaderless—there is no center of information anywhere in the nation except in the New York headquarters of the great broadcasting companies and two great wire services.

6．Good or bad, whatever the decision, America will accept the decision—and cut down any man who goes against it, even though for millions the decision runs contrary to their own votes.

7. People who have such an addiction are compulsive, i.e., they have a very powerful psychological need that they feel they must satisfy.

8．Their pleasure in spending enormous amounts is actually greater than the pleasure that they get from the things they buy.

9. But blue can also mean sadness (I’m feeling blue), white is often for purity, although in China white is worn at weddings and black for funerals.

10．Night brought passivity, and a general slowing down of metabolism; day brought with it the possibility of action, and increase in the metabolic rate, thus providing us with energy and initiative.