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III.段落翻译 Translate the following paragraphs into Chinese. A. When we think of Egypt we think of pyramids. We picture them as they would have appeared when first built between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago, alone and enormous, out in the desert, a heroic attempt to establish a man’s presence in seemingly limitless flat space. 当我们想到埃及时，就想到金字塔。在我们的想象中，它们正如四、五千年前刚建时那样，无依无傍，气势磅礴地屹立于沙漠之中，体现了人类立志要在那片广阔无垠的空间表现自身存在的英雄壮举。 B. Many people become depressed because they feel a tremendous gap between the way their life is and the way they think it ought to be. Shorter and overcast days make many people, especially women, feel depressed. If you think someone’s depressed, don’t underestimate the value of friendship. 许多人心情沮丧是因为他们感到他们现在的生活和他们认为应该拥有的生活差距很大.昼短夜长和阴天会使许多人,特别是妇女,心情不好。如果你认为某人心情不好,不要低估友情的力量。 C. If your friend or relative is sad or weepy, don’t gloss over her troubles. Instead, encourage her to talk. Ask open-ended questions like “ You haven’t seemed yourself lately. Is something going on?” Then listen. Be empathetic. Assure her of your friendship, your ongoing support and caring, but don’t offer false reassurance: She may think you don’t understand her despondency, and she’ll feel even more alone. 如果你的朋友或亲友感到悲伤或者是泪眼汪汪,不要忽视她的苦恼,应该鼓励她说出来.可以泛泛地问些问题,如: “最近好像有点不对劲。出了什么事了吗？”然后倾听她诉说, 设身处地地为她想想。要让她意识到你的友情，你在给她支持和关切，但不要空洞地劝她安下心来：因为她会认为你不理解她的沮丧心情，她会更感孤独。 IV.语篇翻译 Translate the underlined sentences into Chinese. A. Young people should have the right to control and direct their own learning, that is, to decide what they want to learn, and when, where, how, how much, how fast, and with what help they want to learn. (1) To be still more specific, I want to have the right to decide if, when, how much, and by who they want to be taught and the right to decide whether they want to learn in a school and if so which one and for how much of the time. （1．更具体地说，我想要有权来决定是否上学、什么时候上学、学多少、谁来教，以及有权来决定是否要在学校学，如果学的话，在哪一所学校学及学多长时间。） No human right, except the right to life itself, is more fundamental than t