1. Several times on his trips to China, which he made as a guest of the Chinese Government, Bill’s birthday occurred while he was in Beijing.
2. Driving southward from Cairo into the valley of the Nile, I entered a landscape that owed little to the present era.
3. Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death.
4. Some girls started to dance with each other immediately; others just stood around, talking and looking.
5. The tall, well-dressed gentleman standing before me was certainly a far cry from the old sea wolf of my imagination.
6. 五四運動在思想上和干部上為中國共產(chǎn)黨的成立作了準(zhǔn)備，是中國新民主主義革命的開端。
7. 中國現(xiàn)有宜農(nóng)荒地3,500萬公頃，其中可開墾為耕地的約有1470萬公頃。
8. 中國近年來年平均淡水資源總量為28,000億立方米，居世界第六位。
9. 第十五條本法自公布之日起生效。
10. 天行健，君子以自強不息。
四、段落翻譯(本大題共2小題，每小題15分，共30分)
1. One morning I was in Richmond, a suburb of London near where I lived. I was looking for a temporary job so that I could save up some money to go traveling. As it was a fine day and I was in no hurry, I was taking my time, looking in shop windows, strolling in the park, and sometimes just stopping and looking around me. It must have been this obvious aimlessness that led to my downfall(倒霉).
2. 孟子(Mencius)是我國古代一個大學(xué)問家。他姓孟名軻。幼時家境貧寒，生活困難。不幸在他三歲的時候，父親去世了，母子無依無靠，處境更加艱難。怎么辦呢？孟母向人借了一架機杼(loom)，靠織布維持生計。
