Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.

　　海南是仅次于台湾的中国第二大岛，是位于中国最南端的省份。海南岛风景秀丽，气候宜人，阳光充足，生物多样，温泉密布，海水清澈，大部分海滩几乎全年都是游泳和日光浴的理想场所，因而被誉为中国的四季花园和度假胜地，每年都吸引了大批中外游客。

　　海南1988年建省以来，旅游业、服务业、高新技术产业飞速发展，是中国唯一的省级经济特区。在中央政府和全国人民的大力支持下，海南将建成中国最大的自由贸易试验区。

　　【参考译文】

　　Hainan, the second largest island in China after Taiwan, is the province located at the southernmost tip of mainland China. Hainan Island enjoys beautiful scenery, a pleasing climate, abundant sunshine, creatures of diverse varieties, dotted hot springs, and clear sea water. Most beaches are ideal places for swimming and sunbathing nearly all year round. Therefore, Hainan is acclaimed as “Garden of Four Seasons” and the holiday resort, attrACTing GREat numbers of both domestic and overseas tourists every year.

　　Since Hainan Province was established in 1988, with the rapid development of its tourism, service industry and hi-tech industry, it has become the only provincial Special Economic Zone in China. Under the support of the central government and people across the country, Hainan will be built into the country’s largest free trade zone.

　　【解析】

　　海南是仅次于台湾的中国第二大岛，是位于中国最南端的省份。

　　解析：可以将“仅次于台湾的中国第二大岛”处理为主语“海南”的同位语，另一部分“是位于中国最南端的省份”处理为句子的主干。“仅次于台湾”可以翻译为after Taiwan;“第二大岛”可以翻译为the second largest island;“最南端”可以翻译为the southernmost tip。

　　Hainan, the second largest island in China after Taiwan, is the province located at the southernmost tip of mainland China.

　　海南岛风景秀丽，气候宜人，阳光充足，生物多样，温泉密布，海水清澈，大部分海滩几乎全年都是游泳和日光浴的理想场所，因而被誉为中国的四季花园和度假胜地，每年都吸引了大批中外游客。

　　解析：原句较长，可以在“大部分”之前、“因而”之前进行切分，将原句分为三个部分。第一部分中有较多并列的四字短语，可以逐一翻译为形式相近的名词结构。第二部分中，“理想场所”可以翻译为ideal places，“日光浴”可以翻译为sunbathing，“全年”可以翻译为all year round。第三部分中，“被誉为”可以翻译为be acclaimed as，“度假胜地”可以翻译为holiday resort，“吸引了”可以翻译为现在分词形式作伴随状语(attrACTing……)，也可以翻译为which引导的定语从句(which attrACTs……)。

　　Hainan Island enjoys beautiful scenery, a pleasing climate, abundant sunshine, creatures of diverse varieties, dotted hot springs, and clear sea water. Most beaches are ideal places for swimming and sunbathing almost nearly all year round. Therefore, Hainan is acclaimed as “Garden of Four Seasons” and the holiday resort, attracting GREat numbers of both domestic and overseas tourists every year.