广东外语外贸大学2004年研究生入学考试-英语翻译与写作试题.doc

北京环球时代学校内部资料严谨翻印 广东外语外贸 2004 年攻读硕士研究生入学考试英语写作与翻译试题 Part One Writing (100) Task 1: Summary Writing (40%) Directions: Read carefully the following passage and summarize its contents in 150 -200 words. Note that you must not plete sentences directly from the original Failure to do so would incur deduction of your scores. Passage Plato - who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to "real", people and everyday event s— knew what intellectual experiences make for true humanity. He suggested that the future citizens of his ideal republic begin their literary education with the telling of myths, rather than with mere facts or so-called rational teachings. Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said, "The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth." Modern thinkers who have studied myths and fairy tales from a philosophical or psychological viewpoint arrive at the same conclusion, regardless of their original persuasion. Mircea Eliade, for one, describes these stories as“ models for human behavior [that], by that very fact, give meaning and value to life. ” Drawing on anthropological parallels, he and others suggest that myths and fairy tales were derived from, or give symbolic expression to, initiation rites or rites of passag e— such as metaphoric death of an old, inadequate self in order to be rebo