Section 2: 汉译英
Part A
From the Opium War and the First Sino-Japanese War after the 1840s, China's War on Foreign Invaders 1900 to the Japanese War of Aggression against China in 1930s, China was subject to the butchering of the then strong powers in the West and East and their extremely barbarian economic depredation. This, coupled with feudal corruption and years of successive civil strife and chaos, led to the loss of China's sovereignty and the horrendous suffering of her people, her national strength failing and people barely surviving. The grave disasters and the harsh facts have ingrained deeply into the Chinese nation the value of peace and the importance of development. Such a historic experience has shaped the psychology of the Chinese people in our quest for peace and hope for stability, consolidating our belief in following a path to peaceful development.
After the founding of New China in 1949, we have made arduous explorations in the course of our development, going through both the joys of success and the frustrations of failure. Starting from 1978, China has embarked on a new journey of transforming from a planned to a market economy, from cloistered up to opening up, from exclusive self-sustaining to integration into globalization. By following a path of building socialism with Chinese characteristics in an independent and self-reliant manner, we have scored glorious achievements that attracted worldwide attention. Practice has amply demonstrated that it is right to adhere to a path of peaceful development, as it conforms to both China's reality and the trend of the times. China will unswervingly march onward alongside this path to peaceful development.
Part B
Topic 1
When I came from Beijing to Shanxi, the only person I worried about was my mom in hometown. She was blind and had nobody around, and was counting her days in the world. To part from her was the most anguishing to me, and the only way my mother could convey herself to me was through these tiny stamps.
As mom was blind, her letters were all written by other, with stereotyped contents. But the stamps were exclusively sticked by mum through effort-making feeling. She had stamped a pile of envelopes in preparation for use so as not to add troubling labor to others.
Each time I received a letter from mum, I would always started to stroke the stamp on upper right corner of envelope because it had been sticked by mom by her bare hands. It was regularly sticked, but never beautifully done with upside-down picture because my mother was so blind that she sticked it all by feeling. On these stamps, mom’s fingerprints remained, mom’s caring carried and mom’s scent omitting. Once I stared at them, my eyes brimmed over with excited tears.
These stamps were substitution for my Mom; and my understanding to stamps stemmed from them.
Topic 2
A new CRH (China Railway High-speed) bullet train made its debut at Shanghai South Railway Stationin the early morning of January 28,2007. It announced the beginning of a new epoch of China's railway industry.
The new CRH bullet train, which can travel at a top speed of 250 kilometers an hour,is currently running at a speed of 160 km/h. A total of 200 passengers,who witnessed its first run from Shanghai to Hangzhou,were deeply impressed by its high speed, stable operation and wonderful travel experience. The exterior and interior decoration is in line with international standard,providing passengers with a superior feeling of traveling. The key element of its speed improving is the high-tech locomotive,which the weight of it has been cut in half compared with the traditional ones for reducing power consumption.
Apart from the passenger-oriented design of the new CRH,customers can also expect better service for their enjoying ride. With the approach of the Spring Festival,the full implementation of the CRH bullet train can be expected to relieve the high congestion of railway travel so as to make the travel faster and more convenient.
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