Part C

　　Directions:

　　Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)

　　Shakespeare’s life time was coincident with a period of extraordinary activity and achievement in the drama.(46) By the date of his birth Europe was witnessing the passing of the religious drama, and the creation of new forms under the incentive of classical tragedy and comedy. These new forms were at first mainly written by scholars and performed by amateurs, but in England, as everywhere else in western Europe, the growth of a class of professional actors was threatening to make the drama popular, whether it should be new or old, classical or medieval, literary or farcical. Court, school organizations of amateurs, and the traveling actors were all rivals in supplying a widespread desire for dramatic entertainment; and (47) no boy who went a grammar school could be ignorant that the drama was a form of literature which gave glory to Greece and Rome and might yet bring honor to England.

　　When Shakespeare was twelve years old, the first public playhouse was built in London. For a time literature showed no interest in this public stage. Plays aiming at literary distinction were written for school or court, or for the choir boys of St. Paul’s and the royal chapel, who, however, gave plays in public as well as at court.(48) but the professional companies prospered in their permanent theaters, and university men with literature ambitions were quick to turn to these theaters as offering a means of livelihood. By the time Shakespeare was twenty-five, Lyly, Peele, and Greene had made comedies that were at once popular and literary; Kyd had written a tragedy that crowded the pit; and Marlowe had brought poetry and genius to triumph on the common stage - where they had played no part since the death of Euripides. (49) A native literary drama had been created, its alliance with the public playhouses established, and at least some of its great traditions had been begun.

　　The development of the Elizabethan drama for the next twenty-five years is of exceptional interest to students of literary history, for in this brief period we may trace the beginning, growth, blossoming, and decay of many kinds of plays, and of many great careers. We are amazed today at the mere number of plays produced, as well as by the number of dramatists writing at the same time for this London of two hundred thousand inhabitants. (50)To realize how great was the dramatic activity, we must remember further that hosts of plays have been lost, and that probably there is no author of note whose entire work has survived.

　　【参考译文】

　　46.到莎士比亚出生的年代，欧洲经历了宗教戏剧的消亡，以及在古典悲剧和喜剧的影响下新的戏剧形式的产生。

　　47. 每个进入文法学校学习的少年都知道戏剧是一种文学形式，这种文学形式赋予希腊和罗马以荣耀，并且可能给英国带来荣耀。

　　48. 但是这些专业公司在其永久剧院中兴起来了，进而，一些有文学抱负的大学生很快投身到这些当作谋生手段的剧院中。

　　49. 这些文学巨匠创造出了具有本土特色的文学戏剧，并使其与公共剧场结盟起来，至少一些伟大的传统已经开始了。

　　50. 为了认识到戏剧行为的伟大性，我们必须进一步牢记许多戏剧形式已经消失了，而且可能没有一位著名作家的全部作品得以存留至今。

　　Section III Writing

　　Part A

　　51. Directions：

　　Write an email to all international experts on campus inviting them to attend the graduation ceremony. In your email you should include time, place and other relevant information about the ceremony.

　　You should write about 100 words neatly on the ANSEWER SHEET

　　Do not use your own name at the end of the email. Use “Li Ming” instead. (10 points)

　　【参考范文】

　　Dear Sir or Madam,

　　I am writing this letter in order to invite you to attend the forthcoming graduation ceremony.

　　The ceremony will be hosted in the auditorium on our campus, at 10 o'clock in the morning on next Monday, January 15. It is advisable for you to dress formal. Please let us know your decision as soon as possible so that we could send you further details concerned. Since you are so popular among us that we sincerely hope you could accept this invitation and give the graduates a wonderful memory of our campus.

　　If you are available, we request the honor of your company. It will be highly appreciated if you could give us an earliest favorable reply.

　　Yours sincerely,

　　Li Ming