问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}{{I}} You had a wonderful weekend with Frank's family at Fragrant Hill Villa. Write a letter to Frank in which you should:{{/I}} 1) express your gratitude; 2) recall the experience at the villa; 3) show your appreciation again. You should write 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. You do not need to write your address.

问答题Our world is developing at an unprecedented rate today, which is certainly a good thing in most people' s eyes. However, the side effects of development have become noticed by more and more people. Actually, there is substantial controversy over this accelerating trend of social development among the public. Write a composition of about 300 words on the topic: Is the End of the World at Hand?

问答题As a candidate for the Master's Degree program in translation, what do you think a professional translator should be equipped with in order to bridge languages and cultures in your future career? Write down your thoughts in an essay of about 400 words. Supply a title for your essay. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness.

问答题Perlocutionary act

问答题Source Text 1: For the Greeks, beauty was a virtue: a kind of excellence. Persons then were assumed to be what we now have to call--lamely, enviously-- wholepersons. If it did occur to the Greeks to distinguish between a person's "inside" and "outside," they still expected that inner beauty would be matched by beauty of the other kind. The well-born young Athenians who gathered around Socrates found it quite paradoxical that their hero was so intelligent, so brave, so honorable, so seductive-- and so ugly. One of Socrates' main pedagogical acts was to be ugly-- and to teach those innocent, no doubt splendid-looking disciples of his how full of paradoxes life really was. They may have resisted Socrates' lesson. We do not. Several thousand years later, we are more waryof the enchantments of beauty. We not only split off--with the greatest facility--the 'inside" (character, intellect) from the "outside" (looks); but we are actually surprised when someone who is beautiful is also intelligent, talented, good.

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问答题Didactic

问答题 Incorrect Correct Some students do not care other. Some students do not care for others. They are busy searching jobs. They are busy searching for jobs.

问答题Directions:A.Studythefollowinggraphcarefullyandwriteanessayin160-200words.B.Youressayshouldmeettherequirementsbelow.Outline:1.Interpretthegraph.2.Suggestcounter-measures.3.Giveadviceforjobseekers.

问答题3．我对中国大学英语教学改革的看法与建议。

问答题Aesthetic distance

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Read the following passage carefully and then translate the underlined sentences into Chinese. Computers are permeating almost every aspect of our lives, including many areas previously untouched by technology. 1. {{U}}But unlike such other pervasive technologies as electricity, television and the motor car, computers are on the whole less reliable and less predictable in their behavior. This is because they are discrete state digital electronic devices that are prone to total and catastrophic failure. Computer systems, when they are "down," are completely down, unlike electromechanical devices, which may be only partially down and are thus partially usable.{{/U}} Computers enable enormous quantities of information to be stored, retrieved, and transmitted at great speed on a scale not possible before. 2. {{U}}This is all very well, but it has serious implications for data security and personal privacy because computers are inherently insecure. The recent activities of hackers and data thieves in the United States, Germany, and Britain have shown how all-too-easy it still is to break into even the most sophisticated financial and military systems. The list of scams perpetrated by the new breed of high-tech criminals, ranging from fraud in airline-ticket reservations to the reprogramming of the chips inside mobile phones, is growing daily.{{/U}} Computers systems are often incredibly complex--so complex, in fact, that they are not always understood even by their creators (although few are willing to admit it). This often makes them completely unmanageable. Unmanageable complexity, can result in massive foul-ups or spectacular budget "runaways." For example, Jeffrey Rothfeder in Business Week reports that Bank of America in 1988 had to abandon a $20-million computer system after spending five years and a further $60 million trying to make it work. Allstate Insurance saw the cost of its new system rise from $8 million to a staggering $100 million and estimated completion was delayed from 1987 to 1993. Moreover, the problem seems to be getting worse: in 1988 the American Arbitration Association took on 190 computer disputes, most of which involved defective systems. The claims totaled $200 million--up from only $31 million in 1984. 3. {{U}}Complexity can also result in disaster: no computer is 100 percent guaranteed because it is virtually impossible to anticipate all sorts of critical applications, such as saving lives, flying aircraft, running nuclear power stations, transferring vast sums of money, and controlling missile systems--sometimes with tragic consequences. For example, between 1982 and 1987, some twenty-two servicemen died in five separate crashes of the United States Air Force's sophisticated Blackhawk helicopter before the problem was traced to its computer-based "fly-by-wire" system.{{/U}} At least two people died after receiving overdoses of radiation emitted by the computerized Therac 25 X-ray machines, and there are many other examples of fatal computer-based foul-ups. Popular areas for less life-threatening computer malfunctions include telephone billing and telephone switching software, and bank-teller machines, electronic funds-transfer systems, and motor-vehicle license data bases. Although computers have often taken the "blame" on these occasions, the ultimate cause of failure in most cases is, in fact, human error. Every new technology creates new problems as well as new benefits for society, and computers are no exception. 4. {{U}}But digital computers have rendered society especially vulnerable to hardware and software malfunctions. Sometimes industrial robots go crazy, while heart pacemakers and automatic garage door openers are rendered useless by electromagnetic radiation or "electronic smog" emitted from point-of-sale terminals, personal computers, and video games.{{/U}} Automated teller machines (ATMs) and pumps at gas stations are closed down because of unforeseen software snafus. The cost of all this downtime is huge. 5. {{U}}For example, it has been reported that British businesses suffer around thirty major mishaps a year, involving losses running into millions of pounds. These are caused by machine or human error and do not include human misuse in the form of fraud and sabotage. The cost of failures in domestically produced software in the United Kingdom alone is conservatively estimated at $ 900 million per year.{{/U}} In 1989, a British Computer Society committee reported that much software was now so complex that current skills in safety assessment were inadequate and that therefore the safety of people could not be guaranteed.

问答题Directions: You want to apply for the following job: research assistant. Write a letter of application with no less than 100 words to show your interest and explain why you would be suitable for the job. Write it neatly on ANSWER SHEET2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter; use "Li Ming" in stead. You do not need to write the address.

问答题1．你认为大学里课余辅导班是否应该收费2．你为什么这样认为3．如何解决困难生学费的问题

问答题Directions: You recently bought an item of clothing in another town, but found some problems with it after you returned home. Write a letter to the manager and say ·what happened ·what the problems are ·what you would like them to do. Write your letter in no less than 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter; use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write the address.

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