1957 年高考试题
一、阅读测验和英译汉 60%
1.阅读测验 24%
细读下面两段文字，然后回答文后所附的问题（答案必须用英文，必须简明扼要，不必用完整的句子）：
A)Once a poor man had a parrot.The parrot could speak.It could say :"There is no doubt about it." The parrot could only say these words and all day long it repeated:"There is no doubt about it." To every question it gave one and the same answer:"There is no doubt about it."
One day, when the poor man had no money for bread, he decided to sell the parrot. He took the cage and went to the market.
"Who wants to buy my parrot?Twenty pounds for my clever parrot," cried he.
A man came up and said:
"This is a fine bird but the price is too high."
Then he asked the parrot:"Are you worth twenty pounds?"
"There is no doubt about it ," answered the parrot as usual.
The man was very pleased with the clever answer; he bought the bird and took it home.
Some time after he began to see his mistake.And he was sorry.He stood near the cage and said:
"What a fool I am to have thrown so much money away!"
"There is no doubt about it," answered the parrot.
And this time the parrot was right.
1.What could the parrot do?
2.How much did the man pay for the parrot?
3.Why was the man sorry afterwards?
4.Why does the writer say at the end,"And this time the parrot was right"?
B)There are two ways to increase agricultural production.One is by bringing more land under cultivation . The other is by getting more out of the land already cultivated.China still has not enough land under cultivation . Most of China's unused land is in the North-east and North-west—very large areas inhabited by a comparatively small number of people.But she is still industrially backward, and for the time being cannot afford the machines and money to reclaim(开垦)it on a large scale. Our main job at present, therefore, is to increase production by raising the output(产量)per acre of existing farm land. If we can work on these lines, we shall be able,in a period of several five-year plans,to raise our agricultural output to such a level that it will comfortably meet the people's needs and satisfy the demands of national construction.
1.What are the two methods to increase production in agriculture?
2.In what part of China is found most of her unused land?
3.What is needed for reclaiming unused land on a large scale?
4.What is our main job at present?
2.英译汉 36%
One of the main problems is the correct proportion between the development of heavy and light industry. First of all, we must build up our heavy industry; that is a fundamental principle. China's economic backwardness, which has continued so long, can be wiped out only when she herself can supply the equipment, materials, and technical skills needed to develop the national economy of 600 million people.But at the same time, we must not neglect the development of light industry, because light industry will help to satisfy the rising needs of the people.Without a sufficient amount of consumers'goods, it would be difficult to keep prices stable. Peasants would not be willing to raise production or sell their surplus if they could not buy what they need with their increased income. Therefore the development of light industry must also occupy an important position in our Five-Year Plans.
二、汉译英 40%
将下列句子译成合乎正确语法的英文，原文意义必须忠实保持，不可更动。句式和单字次序则不必拘于汉文原句，主要须使英文合乎语法规则，流畅自然。（数字可用阿拉伯字码写出，不必翻译）
1.你班上有多少学生？
2.工厂每天早晨八点钟开门。
3.他没听过那个报告。
4.我们下星期一开始工作。
5.我哥哥是两年前中学毕业的。
6.许多外国朋友们被邀请去看那新影片。
7.他比我身体强壮。
8.要改正我们所有的错误，并不容易。
9.苏联是世界上最大的国家。
10.等他回来了，我们一定要把这故事讲给他听。
1957年答案
一、阅读测验和英译汉
1.阅读测验
A)1.It could say,"There is no doubt about it."
2.Twenty pounds.
3.Because the parrot was not worth twenty pounds. (Because he saw he had made a mistake.Because the parrot could only say,"There is no doubt about it."etc.)
4.Because the man really was a fool.
B)1.By bringing more land under cultivation and by getting more out of the land already cultivated.
2.In the North-east and North-west.
3.Machines and money.
4.To increase production by raising the output per acre of existing farm land.
2.英译汉
一个主要问题是重工业和轻工业发展中间的正确比例。首先，我们必须把重工业建立起来，这是一条基本原则。中国长久以来是经济落后的，只有当她自己能够提供必要的设备，物资和技术力量来发展六亿人口的国民经济时，这种落后情况才可消除。但是同时（或：另一方面，）我们也不应该忽视轻工业的发展，因为轻工业有助于满足人民日益增长的需要。没有足够的消费品，想要使物价保持平稳是很困难的。如果农民们收入增加了，但是买不到所需要的东西，那么他们就会不愿意增加生产或者出卖剩余的农产品。因此，轻工业的发展也必须在我们的五年计划当中占据重要地位。
二、汉译英
1.How many students are there in your class?
2.The factory opens at 8 o'clock in the morning.
3.He has not heard that report.
4.We shall begin to work next Monday.(或begin working;或用start)
5.My brother graduated from middle school two years ago.
6.Many foreign friends are(were,have been)invited to see the new film.
7.He is stronger than I(I am).
8.It is not easy to correct all our mistakes.(To correct all our mistakes is not easy.)
9.The Soviet Union is the biggest country in the world.
10.We must tell him this story when he comes back.