In
the contemporary period, Shanghai as a metropolis
infested by foreign adventurers has indeed recorded,
since the opening of its commercial port, a bitter,
blood-and-tear history of many miseries and inequalities.
Referred to as the Paradise of Adventurers, Shanghai
was indeed home to "human sludge and filth"
where one could find opium, dissolute women and
gamblers. It was a place that made people indulge
in luxury and dissipation and given to sensuous
pleasures, even inducing people to become degenerate.
However, there is a different and more important
picture of Shanghai as a modern metropolis. It has
been full of vitality and vigor, displaying its
unique intelligence and wisdom, characterized by
an innovative and enterprising spirit. It has the
courage to assume risks and is in possession of
both the awareness and the mechanism of competition.
Such a metropolitan mentality or style inspires
its residents, encouraging them to keep abreast
with the changing epochs and to make efforts toward
greater progress.
Section
B: Translate the following underlined part of the
English text into Chinese.
（原
文）
Michael Jordan, a basketball player in whom commentators
have discerned aristocratic qualities and supernatural
powers, has retired from the game that made him
one of the worlds' best known and best paid sportsmen.
Last
week's announcement was premature by most people's
measurement - Jordan is 30 and at the height of
his playing and earning power - but it was not,
by his own account, taken hastily, or rashly. "This
is, " he said, with a rare stumble, "
the perfect timing for me to walk away."
After
three championships with the Chicago Bulls, a second
gold medal with the US team at the 1992 Olympics,
Jordan felt his motivation slipping away. "I'm
at the pinnacle, " he told a thronged press
conference. "I just feel I don't have anything
else to prove."
But
this explanation may appear too simple to satisfy
the skeptics, who have recently discovered that
Jordan does not lead an untroubled private life.
First came the allegations that he gambled - in
a country where gambling is mostly illegal - and
that his gambling was out of control. Then his father
was shot dead on July 23.
