They were the Boy Scouts( )to help elderly people cross the street.
The pilot made a last frantic distress call before he bailed out.
A(n)( )shape has four straight sides at 90° to each other, two of which are much longer than the other two.
1. Translate the following paragraph into Chinese (5 marks) It’s another bad-air day in Beijing. You can barely see. You can barely breathe. But you can feel — and even taste — the grit floating in the air. The World Health Organization has set healthy level of Air Quality Index at 25 micrograms, while Beijing considers a 300 reading as “Bad” and 500 as “Hazardous.” Last weekend, however, it breached 700! “I’m getting itchy,” complained my daughter Michelle, visiting us from New York. “I could feel it at the back of my throat.” Longtime expatriate residents in the Chinese capital jokingly call it the “Beijing tickle (痒痒)”, a nagging cough that takes a long time to shrug off.
Silver is the best conductor of electricity, copper( )closely.
1. Translate the following paragraph into Chinese (5 marks) A huge fire that engulfed an ancient Tibetan town in Shangri-la, Yunnan province, on Saturday has caused experts to call for heightened fire safety in historic locations across the country. The fire started early on Saturday morning and lasted about 12 hours, destroying 242 houses in the old Tibetan town of Dukezong in Shangri-la, capital of the Diqing Tibet autonomous prefecture. Dukezong town is the largest and best-preserved Tibetan community in all of China’s Tibetan areas. It was also a key stop on the Ancient Tea-Horse Caravan Route and a focal point for Han-Tibetan exchanges.