Part IV Translation (30 minutes)
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.
从前，有个农夫正在地里耕作，突然看见一只兔子飞奔而过，撞在一棵大树上死 了。农 夫毫不费力就吃到了兔肉，心里非常高兴。他想，“如果总是这样该多好啊!” 于是，他不 再耕作, 每天守候在那棵树旁，等待着能再捡到撞死在树上的兔子。他等呀等，等了一天又 一天，田地也荒芜了，却再也没有等到第二只兔子。人们因而都嘲笑他把偶然当成了必然。
参考译文：
Once upon a time, a farmer was tilling his field when he suddenly saw a hare darting past and crashing into a large tree, dying instantly. Without any effort, the farmer enjoyed the hare's meat and felt extremely delighted. He thought to himself, "How wonderful it would be if this could always happen!" So, he stopped tilling his land and waited by the tree every day, hoping to pick up another hare that had run into it and died. He waited and waited, day after day, until his fields lay fallow, but no second hare ever came. People, therefore, ridiculed him for taking a chance occurrence as a certainty.
