Part B Read the following text carefully and then
translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be
written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2.
After millennia of growth which was so slow that each
generation hardly noticed it, the cities are suddenly racing off in every
direction. The world population goes up by two percent a year, city population
goes up by four percent a year, but in big cities the rate may be as much as
five and six percent a year. (61) To give only one example of almost visible
acceleration. Athens today grows by three dwellings and 100 square meters of
road every hour. There is no reason to believe that this pace will slacken.
(62) As technology gradually swallows up all forms of work, industrial and
agricultural, the rural areas are going to shrink, just as they have shrunk
in Britain, and the vast majority of their people will move into the city. In
fact, in Britain now only about four or five percent of people live in rural
areas and depend upon them; all through the developing world the vanguard of the
rural exodus has reached the urban fringes already, and there they huddle in
shanty towns. We are heading towards an urban world. (63)
This enormous increase will go ahead whatever we do, and we have to remember
that the new cities devour space. People now acquire far more goods and
things. (64) There is a greater density of household goods, they demand more
services such as sewage and drainage. Above all, the car changes everything:
rising incomes and rising populations can make urban car density increase by
something like four and five percent in a decade; traffic flows rise to fill
whatever scale of highways are provided for them. The car also has a curious
ambivalence: it creates and then it destroys mobility. The car tempts people
further out and then gives them the appalling problem of getting back. It makes
them believe they can spend Sunday in Brighton, but makes it impossible for them
to return before, say, two in the morning. (65) People go further and further
away to reach open air and countryside which continuously recedes from them,
and just as their working weeks decline and they begin to have more time for
leisure, they find they cannot get to the open spaces or the recreation or the
beaches which they now have the time to enjoy.