1. Several times on his trips to China, which he made as a guest of the Chinese Government, Bill’s birthday occurred while he was in Beijing.
2. Driving southward from Cairo into the valley of the Nile, I entered a landscape that owed little to the present era.
3. Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death.
4. Some girls started to dance with each other immediately; others just stood around, talking and looking.
5. The tall, well-dressed gentleman standing before me was certainly a far cry from the old sea wolf of my imagination.
6. 五四运动在思想上和干部上为中国共产党的成立作了准备，是中国新民主主义革命的开端。
7. 中国现有宜农荒地3,500万公顷，其中可开垦为耕地的约有1470万公顷。
8. 中国近年来年平均淡水资源总量为28,000亿立方米，居世界第六位。
9. 第十五条本法自公布之日起生效。
10. 天行健，君子以自强不息。
四、段落翻译(本大题共2小题，每小题15分，共30分)
1. One morning I was in Richmond, a suburb of London near where I lived. I was looking for a temporary job so that I could save up some money to go traveling. As it was a fine day and I was in no hurry, I was taking my time, looking in shop windows, strolling in the park, and sometimes just stopping and looking around me. It must have been this obvious aimlessness that led to my downfall(倒霉).
2. 孟子(Mencius)是我国古代一个大学问家。他姓孟名轲。幼时家境贫寒，生活困难。不幸在他三岁的时候，父亲去世了，母子无依无靠，处境更加艰难。怎么办呢？孟母向人借了一架机杼(loom)，靠织布维持生计。
