【正确答案】Though my mother was not literate, she placed all her hope on me, giving me the chance to receive the best education. I was a precocious child. Before I was three years old, I have already learned more than eight hundred characters, which were taught one day after another by my father with small pieces of red paper. As early as I reached three I attended school. I was such a sickly child that without help I was not able to cross a six-inch high threshold. But I was more capable of reading and reciting than any other student in the school. I never played with other boys in the village. As a result, when I was five years old, I was dubbed "Mr. Antique".

【答案解析】 1．本文选自胡适自传《我的信仰》，选段共七句话，本文语言简朴易懂，翻译时应注意保持原文的语言风格。
   2．第一句“母亲虽则并不识字”与“把希望放在我的教育上”是让步转折关系，在这里可用连词though连接两个分句。在英文里place the hope on的对象应该是人，所以可用现在分词短语giving me the chance to...引出母亲对我的期待。
   3．第二句中“我是一个早慧的小孩”可单独成句，因为后面的三个短句都是对这句话的具体说明，“早慧(的)”可译为precocious。“都是我父亲每天用红笺方块教我的”可用定语从句译出，解释说明前文的“八百多字”。“认字”建议使用learn或know来表达。红笺指的是红色笺纸，过去多用以题写诗词或作名片等，可译作red paper。
   4．“三岁零点”可译作just over three years old，译文为体现上学早，用as early as I reached three来译。在学堂里念书，其含义就是“上学”，可以用attend school表达。
   5．“所有别的学生”可用any other student，“能读能记”的“能”可以考虑使用be capable of doing sth. 来表达。
   6．最后两句可省略重复的部分，并补入一个表达因果关系的连词as a result，使逻辑更为通顺，也符合英文简洁的表达习惯。绰号“先生”的翻译，应当联系上下文语境，表现出作者不爱游戏爱读书的特质，建议使用antique来表达。