填空题 In this part,you are asked to translate the following paragraph into Chinese.Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.(中国矿业大学2007研,考试科目:基础英语)Autumn is blatantly vital season, contrary to the allegations of sorrowful poets who misconstrue the message of dying leaves. A more realistic poet, Archibald Macleish, says that " Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country: of creating beauty never seen. "Autumn is also the authentic season of renewal. Yale Lecturer William Zinsser hit the nail squarely, " The whole notion of New Year"s Day as the time is autumn. Popular pleasure shows itself in those hastening steps and brightened smiles encountered as the air grows nippier. Some psychiatrists have patients who grow almost alarmed at how congenial they suddenly feel. " The season of autumn does induce a quickening of the blood and a heightening of humankind"s sensual pleasures. Yet the very jubilant excesses that ensue often lead, at last, to the well-known post-Thanksgiving "holiday blues". In darker ways still, fate and tragedy have made some American Novembers seem crueler than April.Autumn is honest: it does not pretend to be heaven. Yet almost everybody recognizes that the season"s character transcends those familiar bracing days, crystal nights, bigger stars, vaulted skies, fluted twilights, harvest moons, frosted pumpkins and that riotous foliage that impels whole traffic jams of leaf freaks up into New England. What is not recognized is that autumn is richly enhanced simply by what it is not. Specifically, it is not summer, winter or spring.
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【正确答案】 1、正确答案: 秋天显然是一个生机勃勃的季节。这跟伤感的诗人对凋零的树叶所传达信息的误解刚好相反。一位比较现实的诗人——阿契博德?麦克勒什,他这样说:“秋天是美国的季节。在欧洲,树叶变黄、变褐之后就纷纷凋落了;而这里的树叶却像是挂在树梢上的火焰,发出耀眼的光芒。在我们看来,这个国度里的生活也能燃出熊熊烈火,创造出一种前所未有的美。” 秋天才是真正的除旧布新的季节。耶鲁大学讲师威廉?辛塞说得非常中肯:“把元旦视为重新开始、树立雄心的日子,这种观念完全是错误的。实际上,那应该是秋天。随着空气日益清凉,可以从人们轻快的步履和开心的笑容中看出他们愉快的心情。有些精神分析家发现,他们的某些病人在突然感到惬意的时候几乎会兴奋起来。”秋天确实会导致血液流动加快,也会增加人类的感观愉悦感,而接下来的快乐最终会导致感恩节后著名的“节日忧郁症”。更悲观地讲,使命感和悲剧感使美国人认为11月比4月更残酷。 秋天是诚实的,它并不把自己装扮成天堂。然而几乎每个人都明白秋天的特点并不只是凉爽的白昼、水晶样的夜晚、更大的星星、无垠的苍穹、长笛悠扬的黄昏、丰收时的月亮、打了白霜的南瓜以及那漫山遍野的红叶——它催促着癖嗜它的人们到新英格兰去赏玩,以致形成了交通阻塞。有一个道理却还没有被普遍认识到:秋天之所以大受赞扬就因为它不是别的。确切地说,就因为它不是夏天、冬天或春天。    
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