"There are no longer any good chances for young men,"complained a youthful law student toDaniel Webster.(63)"There is always room at the top,"replied the great statesman and jurist.
No chance,no opportunities,in a land where thousands of poor boys become rich men, where newsboys go to Congress,and where those bom in the lowest stations attain the highest positions?(64) The world is all gates.all opportunities to him who will use them. But,like Bunyan's pilgrim in dungeon of the castle,who had the key of deliverance all the time with him but had forgotten it,(65) we fail to rely wholly upon the ability to advance all that is good for us which has been given to the weakest as well as the strongest. We depend too much upon outside assistance.
"We look too high
For things close by."
(66) A Baltimore lady lost a valuable diamond bracelet at a ball.and supposed that it was stolen from the pocket of her cloak. Years afterward she washed the steps of the Peabody Institute, pondering how to get money to buy food, she cut up an old, worn-out, ragged cloak to make a hood, when looking in the lining of the cloak she discovered the diamond bracelet. (67) During all her poverty she was worth $3,500,but did not know it.
(From Opportunities Where You Are)
【正确答案】：63．“最高处总会有空间，”这个伟大的政治家和法学家回答道。
64．整个世界到处都是门，对肯利用机会的人来说，到处都有机会。
65．我们没能完全依靠自己的能力，去提升有益于我们的一切，而这一切不仅给了最强者，也给了最弱者。
66．巴尔的摩的一位女士在舞会上丢失了一个价值连城的钻石手镯，她怀疑这个手镯是从她的风衣口袋里被人偷走的。
67．在她穷困潦倒时，她拥有3500美元的财产，当时却一无所知。
【评分参考】考生译文忠实原文，语言流畅，给满分，理解基本正确，但表达欠流畅，给1至1.5分，理解有严重错误，酌情给分或不给分。
