问答题
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in English. You will hear the passages ONLY ONCE. After you have heard each passage, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. You may take notes while you are listening.

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Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new ear or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy：we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.

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【答案解析】[参考译文] 了解并承认真正的幸福与乐趣无关——这是最具解放性的意识之一。它解放了人们的时间观，因为现在我们可以把更多的时间花在能真正增加快乐的事情上。它也解放了人们的金钱观，因为我们知道购买新车或奇装异服并不能增加快乐，也毫无意义。它还把人们从嫉妒中解放出来，因为现在我们意识到那些总是拥有许多乐趣的人并不一定真正幸福。

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Diversity exists not only between cultures, but also within a single culture. In most British primary and secondary schools, for example, the teacher is the primary provider of required information and rote learning plays an important role in the acquisition of this information. British school leavers who then proceed to university face a new set of academic norms and expectations. Although memorization is still required, far greater emphasis is placed on the critical evaluation of received information.

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【答案解析】[参考译文] 多样性不仅存在于不同文化间，也存在于同一文化中。例如，在英国大多数中小学校里，教师是所学信息的主要提供者，而机械学习在学生获取信息过程中起着重要作用。学生毕业进入大学后则面临一套全新的学术标准和要求。尽管记忆仍是必需的，但教育重点更多地放在对所学信息的审视和评估上。