All Luciano Faggiano wanted when he purchased the seemingly unremarkable building at 56 Via Ascanio Grandi, was to open a restaurant. The only problem was the toilet. Sewage kept backing up. So Mr. Faggiano enlisted his two older sons to help him dig a trench and investigate. He predicted the job would take about a week. “We found underground corridors and other rooms, so we kept digging,” said Mr. Faggiano, 60. His search for a sewage pipe, which began in 2000, became one family’s tale of discovery.

　　Lecce was once a critical crossroads in the Mediterranean. Severo Martini, a member of the City Council, said archaeological relics turn up on a regular basis — and can present a headache for urban planning. A project to build a shopping mall had to be redesigned after the discovery of an ancient Roman temple beneath the site of a planned parking lot.

　　One week quickly passed, as father and sons discovered a tomb of the Messapians, who lived in the region centuries before the birth of Jesus. Soon, the family discovered a chamber used to store grain by the ancient Romans.

　　If this history only later became clear, what was immediately obvious was that finding the pipe would be a much bigger project than Mr. Faggiano had anticipated. He did not initially tell his wife about the extent of the work. He tied a rope around the chest of his youngest son, Davide, then 12, and lowered him to dig in small, darkened openings. “I made sure to tell him not to tell his mama,” he said. His wife, Anna Maria Sanò, soon became suspicious. “We had all these dirty clothes, every day,” she said. “I didn’t understand what was going on.”

　　After watching the Faggiano men haul away debris in the back seat of the family car, neighbors also became suspicious and notified the authorities. Investigators arrived and shut down the excavations, warning Mr. Faggiano against operating an unapproved archaeological work site. Mr. Faggiano responded that he was just looking for a sewage pipe.

　　A year passed. Finally, Mr. Faggiano was allowed to resume his pursuit of the sewage pipe on condition that heritage officials observed the work. An underground treasure house emerged, as the family uncovered ancient vases, Roman devotional bottles, an ancient ring with Christian symbols, medieval artifacts, hidden frescoes and more. Today, the building is Museum Faggiano, an independent archaeological museum authorized by the Lecce government.

　　Mr. Faggiano is now satisfied with his museum, but he has not forgotten about the restaurant. A few years into his excavation, he finally found his sewage pipe. It was, indeed, broken. He has since bought another building and is again planning for a restaurant, assuming it does not need any renovations. “I still want it,” he said of the restaurant. “I’m very stubborn.”

　　Section 2: Chinese-English Translation (50 points)

　　Translate the following passage into English.

　　本研究院成立于1968年2月20日。隸屬中國航天科技集團(tuán)公司。經(jīng)過40年的發(fā)展，已成為中國主要的空間技術(shù)及產(chǎn)品研制基地，是中國空間事業(yè)最具實(shí)力的骨干力量。主要從事空間技術(shù)開發(fā)，航天器研制，空間領(lǐng)域?qū)ν饧夹g(shù)交流和合作，航天技術(shù)應(yīng)用等服務(wù)。還參與制定國家空間技術(shù)發(fā)展規(guī)劃，研究有關(guān)探索、開發(fā)、利用外層空間的技術(shù)途徑，承接用戶需求的各類航天器和地面應(yīng)用設(shè)備的研制業(yè)務(wù)并提供相應(yīng)的服務(wù)。

　　本研究院下設(shè)研究機(jī)構(gòu)，衛(wèi)星制造廠等，擁有一家上市公司和多家全資子公司，建立了多個(gè)國家重點(diǎn)實(shí)驗(yàn)室和一家以研究生培養(yǎng)，員工培訓(xùn)，客戶培訓(xùn)為中心任務(wù)的學(xué)院，形成了七個(gè)產(chǎn)業(yè)基地，擁有空間飛行器總體設(shè)計(jì)，分系統(tǒng)研制生產(chǎn)，衛(wèi)星總裝測試，環(huán)境試驗(yàn)，地面設(shè)備制造及衛(wèi)星應(yīng)用，服務(wù)保障等配套完整的研制生產(chǎn)體系。本研究院擁有員工一萬余人，其中包括8名兩院院士，12名國家 突出貢獻(xiàn)專家和1700多名高級專業(yè)技術(shù)人才。本研究院已與10多個(gè)國家和地區(qū)的宇航公司及空間研究機(jī)構(gòu)建立了廣泛聯(lián)系 。

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