同等学力在职英语水平测试试卷基础班综合测试三（2） 

  
Part I Translation 
Section A 
  
成功常常有误导作用，因为它会使我们看不到成功背后的艰难困苦和坚忍不拔的精神。于是我们常会把别人的成功归咎于人家脑子灵活、身体强壮或运气好，而以我们不具备这三个条件为自己开脱。不是说我们只要严格要求自己就都能成为独奏钢琴家；而是说我们每个人都具备某一方面取得成功的基本条件，不过只有下决心，坚持不懈才能达到目标。 
  
  
Section B 
The two major challenges facing China today center on maintaining sustained economic growth and feeding its growing population of over 1.2 billion people with only seven percent of the world’s cultivable land . Despite the monumental difficulties involved , Chinese people will undoubtedly exhibit their indefatigable resilience and achieve great success in both regards . 
  
Part II  Writing (30 minutes, 15 points) 

Work Pressure 

    Work pressure refers to the strain, either physical or mental or both, coming from one’s work. With the competition becoming increasingly fierce in society, the tension caused by work presents a problem of two sides. 
    On the one hand, too much pressure affects people’s health. Therefore, they find less and less time for rest and relaxation. As a result, they suffer from sleeplessness, headache, disorder or contract diseases. Furthermore. it may also lead to psychological problems. In some cases, if the pressure is too great and lasts too long, people unable to put up with it may collapse. Such people are usually obsessed with the idea of crisis. On the other hand, adequate pressure may prove helpful. Under the pressure, people work harder. This in turn makes the work more efficient. Very often the pressure from work may serve as an incentive to make greater efforts. Today, many successful people experienced pressure of various kinds. 
    On the whole, work pressure is of a twofold issue . It has its positive side and negative one. The key point here is to be aware of its nature and make a good use of it.