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以下资料供同学作为同步练习与检测，适度的当地习题演练对阅读整体水平的提高起到至关重要的作用。
Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined
segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER
SHEET 2. (10 points)
Our daily existence is divided into two phases, as distinct as day and
night. We call them work and play. We work many hours a day and we allow the
necessary minimum for such activities as eating and shopping. 46) The rest we
spend in various activities which are known as recreations, an elegant word
which disguises the fact that we usually do not even play in our hours of
leisure, but spend them in various forms of passive enjoyment or
entertainment.
We need to make, therefore, a hard-and-fast distinction not only between
work and play but, equally, between active play and passive entertainment. 47)
It is, I suppose, the decline of active play — of amateur sport — and the
enormous growth of purely receptive entertainment which have given rise to a
sociological interest in the problem. If the greater part of the population,
instead of indulging in sport, spend their hours of leisure “viewing” television
programs, there will inevitably be a decline in health and physique. In
addition, we have yet to trace the mental and moral consequences of prolonged
diet of sentimental or sensational spectacles on the screen. 48) There is, if we
are optimistic, the possibility that the diet is too thin and unnourishing to
have much permanent effect on anybody. Nine films out of ten seem to leave
absolutely no impression on the mind or imagination of those who have seen
them.
49) It is only when entertainment is active, participated in, practiced,
that it can properly be called play, and as such it is a natural use of leisure.
In that sense play stands in contrast to work, and is usually regarded as an
activity that alternates with work.
Work itself is not a single concept. We say quite generally that we work in
order to make a living. Some of us work physically, tilling the land, minding
the machines, digging the coal; others work mentally, keeping accounts,
inventing machines, teaching and preaching, managing and governing. 50) There
does not seem to be any factor common to all these diverse occupations, except
that they consume our time, and leave us little leisure.(356 words)
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