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.
Never in our history has the phenomenon that living in a big city become so common. As cities growing larger and larger, there has been a steady rise in the number of people who flood into those big cities. Obviously, it will give rise to a host of challenges to the new citizens.
First and foremost, people will have to face with the high living expenses. For most people in big cities, they have to rent to live and the cost of daily products may also see a rise.
Then, the challenge of working under great pressure couldn’t be denied. While having high salaries, people living in big cities will also encounter with intensive working pressure.
Finally, there may be other challenges like long commute distance, jammed traffic poor air conditions and etc., dealing with such issues can be really challenging.
Taking all these into account, there are still great amount of people choose to work and live in big cities, because great challenges always come along with great opportunities.
