A. Translate the following news report into Chinese.
           Quake shakes Japan, but with no casualties
  Tokyo, Dec. 2(Reuter)--- an earthquake measuring about 6.6 on the Richter scale shook central and northern Japan today, but there were no reports of damage or casualties, the meteorological agency said here.
  The epicenter was 25 miles (40kms) under the Pacific about 60 miles (97kms) off Aomori on the northern tip of the main central island of Honshu.
  The agency said the quake, with a maximum intensity of four on the Japanese scale of seven, was felt in Tokyo, 500 miles(800kms) south of Aomori. A weak quake shook Chiba, near the capital, about five minutes earlier.
  The quake was one of strongest to hit Japan this year. On January 23, a quake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck northern Hokkaido island without causing any damage.
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B、Translate the following excerpt of an essay into Chinese.
         How Should One Read a Book
                         By Virginia Woolf

  It is simple enough to say that since books have classes---fiction, biography, poetry------we should separate them and take from each what it right that each should give us. Yet few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconception when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Do not dictate to your author; try to become him, be his fellow-worker and accomplice. If you hang back, and reserve and criticize at first, you are preventing yourself from getting the fullest possible value from what you read. But if you open your mind as widely as possible, then signs and hints of almost imperceptible fineness, from the twist and turn of the first sentences, will bring you into the presence of a human being unlike any other. Steep yourself in this, acquaint yourself with this, and soon you will find that your author is giving you, or attempting to give you, something far more definite.
  The thirty-two chapters of a novel--- if we consider how to read a novel first--- are an attempt to make something as formed and controlled as a building; but words are more impalpable than bricks; reading is a longer and more complicated process than seeing. Perhaps the quickest way to understand the elements of what a novelist is doing is not to read, but to write; to make your own experiment with the dangers and difficulties of words. Recall, then some event that has left a distinct impression on you---how at the corner of the street, perhaps, you passed two people talking. A tree shook; an electric light danced; the tone of the talk was comic, but also tragic; a whole vision, an entire conception, seemed contained in that moment. But when you attempt to reconstruct it in words, you will find that it breaks into a thousand confliction impressions. Some must be subdued; others emphasized; in the process you will lose, probably , all grasp upon the emotion itself. Then turn from your blurred and littered pages to the opening pages of some great novelist---Defoe, Jane Austen, Hardy. Now you will be better able to appreciate their mastery…         参考译文