问答题Directions: Study the following picture carefully and write an essay in which you shonld 1) describe the picture, 2) deduce the purpose of the drawer of the picture, and 3) give your comments. You should write at least 200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.

问答题Minimal pairs

问答题{{B}}My View of Lunar New Year{{/B}} To Chinese people, the Lunar New Year is undoubtedly the most important festival of the year. Dating back 3000 years, it celebrated the passing of a peaceful year and to welcome a new one. The reunion dinner, eaten on New Year's Eve, was de rigueur, with members of the extended family gathering for the most significant meal of the year. Even the absentee members would endeavor to return home in time for it. It underscored the supreme importance of the family in Chinese culture, and aimed at strengthening the sense of togetherness and cohesion. However, with rapid economic expansion and growing westernization, over time, there has been a noticeable erosion, if not abandonment, of the New Year traditions and customs, which are perceived to be out of step with modem lifestyle. Increasingly, more Chinese would hold their reunion dinner in posh restaurants, despite the exorbitant costs. They find it more enjoyable and physically less demanding. Going away during the New Year is now commonplace, sometimes involving whole families or extended families. In extreme cases, some would even seek temporary refuge in a local hotel so as to avoid being visited by relatives and friends, or having to visit them. What's more, most of the cities celebrate it quietly without fireworks and firecrackers, which used to be part of the celebration. Will the Lunar New Year survive modern living? I do not doubt that it would gradually lose its significance. In a few or more years the Chinese New Year will be taken as a common holiday and fewer people celebrate it. Modern Chinese do not need it any more.

问答题Whatever your individual need, you can be sure that by the age of thirty you will have slept for a total of more than twelve years. (Passage 2)

问答题Directions:Write an essay based on the following table on the production of TV sets in a factory. Year Output Total Color TV set Black and White TV set 1992 45,000 5000 40000 1993 45,000 10,000 35,000 1994 50,000 20,000 30,000 1995 65,000 40,000 25,000 1996 100,000 80,000 20,000 1997 105,000 85,000 20,000 1998 110,000 90,000 20,000 1999 120,000 100,000 20,000You should write about 160 -200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET II.

问答题Compound (四川大学2007研)

问答题The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock S"io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiama staria senza piu scosse. Ma perciocche giarnmai di questo fondo Non torno vivo alcun, s"I"odo il vero Senza tema d"infamia ti rispondo. Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotel And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells; Streets tat follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question... Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" Let us go and make our visit. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains, Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys, Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap, And seeing that it was a soft October night, Curled once about the house, and fell asleep. And indeed there will be time For the yellow smoke that slides along the street, Rubbing its back upon the window-panes; There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair— (They will say: "How his hair is growing thin!") My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin, My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin— (They will say:" By how his arms and legs are thin!") Do I dare? Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room. So how should I presume? And I have known the eyes already, known them all— The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase, And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin, When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, Then how should I begin To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways? And how should I presume? And I have known the arms already, known them all— Arms that are braceleted and white and bare (But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!) Is it perfume from a dress That makes me so digress? Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl. And should I then presume? And how should I begin? …… Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas... …… And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! Smoothed by long fingers, Asleep... tired... or it malingers, Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me. Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet—and here"s no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid. And would it have been worth it, after all, After the cups, the marmalade, the tea, Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me, Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question, To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead, Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"— If one, settling a pillow by her head, Should say: "That is not what I meant at all. That is not it, at all." And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along The floor— And this, and so much more? — It is impossible to say just what I mean! But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen: Would it have been worth while If one, settling a pillow or throwing off a shawl, And turning toward the window, should say: "That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all." No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two. Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous- Almost, at times, the Fool. I grow old... I grow old... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not thing that they will sing to me. I have seen them riding seaward on the waves Combing the white hair of the waves blown back When the wind blows the water white and black. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

问答题Directions: Your friend"s hometown had been suffered a violent earthquake, which caused many casualties and property losses. You have known that your fiend"s house was destroyed, but fortunately no serious damage happened to his family. Write a letter to your friend Wu Jun to express your concerns and send out your grief and sympathy to the people in the stricken area. You should write about 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter; use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write the address.

问答题Please analyze Charlotte Bronte(1816—1855)"s Jane Eyre from the perspective of " the madwoman in the attic.

问答题In this new edition, the basic philosophy and outline and the balance between depth of treatment and breadth of subject-matter coverage are unchanged from previous editions. 1. We have tried to preserve these features that users of previous editions have found desirable, while incorporating a number of changes that should enhance the book's usefulness. The textbook is adaptable to a wide variety of course outlines. The entire textbook can be used for an intensive course two or three semesters in length. For a less intensive course, many instructors will want to omit certain chapters or sections to tailor the book to their individual needs. The arrangement of this edition facilitate this kind of flexibility. 2. Conversely, many topics that were regarded a few years ago as of peripheral (次要的) importance and were omitted from introductory courses have now come to the fore again in the life science, earth and space sciences, and environmental problems. An instructor who wishes to stress these kinds of applications will find this textbook a useful source for discussion of the appropriate principles. 3. In any case, it should be emphasized that instructors should not feel constrained to work straight through the book from cover to cover. Many chapters are, of course, inherently sequential in nature, but within this general limitation instructors should be encouraged to select among those chapters that fit their needs, omitting material that is not relevant for the objectives of a particular course.

问答题Relevance Theory

问答题On the whole, books are less limited than ourselves. Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer has turned into a handful of dust—and it is precisely the appetite for this posthumous dimension that sets one"s pen in motion. So as we toss and turn these rectangular objects in our hands we won"t be terribly amiss if we surmise that we fondle, as it were, the urns with our returning ashes. After all, what goes into writing a book is, ultimately, a man"s only life. Whoever said that to philosophize is an exercise in dying was right in more ways than one, for by writing a book nobody gets younger. Nor does one become any younger by reading one. Since this is so, our natural preference should be for good books. The paradox, however, lies in the fact that in literature "good" is defined by its distinction from "bad." What"s more, to write a good book, a writer must read a great deal of pulp—otherwise he won"t be able to develop the necessary criteria. That"s what may constitute bad literature"s best defense at the Last Judgment. Since we are all moribund, and since reading books is time-consuming, we must devise a system that allows us a semblance of economy. Of course, there is no denying the pleasure of holding up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; but in the end, we read not for reading"s sake hut to learn. Hence the need for the works that brings the human predicament into its sharpest possible focus. Hence, too, the need for some compass in the ocean of available printed matter.

问答题Please read the following article in Chinese carefully, and then write a summary of 200 words in English on the ANSWER SHEET. Make sure that you cover all the major points of the article. 数月前，比尔-克林顿和托尼-布莱尔联合宣布了科学史上最伟大的成就之一：揭秘人类基因组或曰“生命之书”。2月份，科学家们首次一展实验证据，在《自然》和《科学》两杂志上发表了官方的人类基因组序列论文。 两家旗鼓相当的测序对手机构——公共人类基因组计划和美国生物技术赛莱拉公司——完成了大量的科学论文。他们给出的最令人惊讶的结论是：人类拥有的基因数那么少，只不过3万个左右。这与小鼠的基因数目相当，是果蝇或线虫基因数目的两倍。绝大多数科学家预测人类有10万个基因，有的科学家则估计达14万个。 美国怀特海德基因组研究中心主任埃里克-兰德说：“这么少的基因数目对人类的尊严似乎是某种冒犯啊。” 正如赛莱拉总裁克雷格-温特所说的那样，“基因无所谓‘好’、‘坏’，只存在着不同层次、不同联系的网络活动，以及对干扰作出反应的敏感程度的不同。一个基因等于一种疾病，或说一个基因制造一种关键性的蛋白质的学说，已被彻底否定。” 没有人能说出究竟有多少蛋白质。这个问题的答案需要等上几年，由新兴的蛋白质学告诉我们。蛋白质学是继基因组学之后即将出现的新学科。但是，温特博士估计人类有25万种不同的蛋白质，也就是说每一个基因负责大约10个蛋白质，从而执行人体内的基本任务。 一些专家说，未料到人类基因数目如此少，但这对医学可能是个好消息，因为这样需要弄明白的基因就较少。不好的是，从相反的角度来看，它们也会发挥同样的功能，即基因间的复杂相互作用有可能对像利用基因疗法中改变一、两个基因就能治病的过程带来更大的困难。但这也有可能部分地解释了为什么基因疗法在过去十多年的临床实践中一直给出令人失望的结果。而新兴的干细胞技术用有潜能的新细胞替代失去功能的细胞，有可能产生更理想的结果，因为病人一下子接受到的是全部完整的遗传系统。 发现DNA差异是人类基因组工程未完成工作的最重要的一个部分。例如，这可能是药物基因组学的基础，这也就解释了为什么患某种特殊疾病的某些人比另一些人对某种药物治疗反应好的原因。 研究工作的另一个途径是把人类基因组与其他动物的作详细对比。它们间的差异将会帮助我们揭开基因多种功能。同时，技术专家们正在忙着降低DNA测序成本，即个人基因组可以在基因芯片上按程序读出。哈佛大学利佩尔计算遗传学中心主任乔治-丘奇指出，将来一个人基因组的信息可以存放在计算机的DVD盘里。

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. It is hard to predict how science is going to turn out, and if it is really good science it is impossible to predict. If the things to be found are actually new, they are by definition unknown in advance. You cannot make choices in this matter. (46) {{U}}You either have science or you don't, and if you have it you are obliged to accept the surprising and disturbing pieces of information, along with the neat and promptly useful bits.{{/U}} The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we axe profoundly ignorant about nature. Indeed, I regard this as the major discovery of the past hundred years of biology. It is, in its way, an illuminating piece of news. (47) {{U}}It would have amazed the brightest minds of the 18th century Enlightenment to be told by any of us how little we know and how bewildering seems the way ahead.{{/U}} (48) {{U}}It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of the 20th century science to the human intellect.{{/U}} In earlier times, we either pretended to understand how things worked or ignored the problem, or simply made up stories to fill the gaps. Now that we have begun exploring in earnest, we are getting glimpses of how huge the questions are, and how far from being answered. Because of this, we are depressed. (49){{U}}It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance, the worst spots and here and there the not-so-bad spots, but no true light at the end of the tunnel nor even any tunnels that can yet be trusted.{{/U}} But we are making a beginning and there ought to be some satisfaction. There are probably no questions we can think up that can't be answered, sooner or later, including even the matter of consciousness.(50){{U}}To be sure, there may well be questions we can't think up, ever, and therefore limits to the reach of human intellect, but that is another matter.{{/U}} Within our limits, we should be able to work our way through to all our answers if we keep at it long enough, and pay attention.

问答题设想你买了一本英文词典，发现有这样那样的质量问题，书店的服务态度又不好，因此给报社编辑写信。信中必须包括以下内容： 1．事情的起因 2．与书店交涉的经过 3．呼吁服务行业必须提高服务质量 You should write more than 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write your address.

问答题 71. {{U}}The main impression growing out of twelve years on the faculty of a medical school is that the No. 1 health problem in the U. S. today, even more than AIDS or cancer, is that Americans don't know how to think about health and illness.{{/U}} Our reactions are formed on the terror level 72. {{U}}We fear the worst, expect the worst, thus invite the worst and the result is that we are becoming a nation of weaklings and hypochondriacs, a self-medicating society incapable of distinguishing between casual, everyday symptoms and those that require professional attention.{{/U}} Somewhere in our early education we become addicted to the notion that pain means sickness. We fail to learn that pain is the body's way of informing the mind that we are doing something wrong, not necessarily that something is wrong. We don't understand that pain may be telling us that we are eating too much or the wrong things; or that we are smoking too much or drinking too much or that there is too much emotional congestion in our lives that we are being worn down by having to cope daily with overcrowded streets and highways, the pounding noise of garbage grinders, or the cosmic distance between the entrance to the airport and the departure gate. We get the message of pain all wrong. Instead of addressing ourselves to the cause, we become pushovers for pills, driving the pain underground and inviting it to return with increased authority. 73. {{U}}Early in life, too, we become seized with the bizarre idea that we are constantly assaulted by invisible monsters called germs, and that we have to be on constant alert to protect ourselves against their fury, but equal emphasis is not given to the presiding fact that our bodies are superbly equipped to deal with the little demons and the best way of forestalling an attack is to maintain a sensible lifestyle.{{/U}}

问答题Write a critical essay in response to the following questions about Shakespeare"s Hamlet.(30 points)1. Is Hamlet a "a sweet prince" or an "arrant knave"?(4 points)2. Why does Hamlet delay in killing Claudius?(4 points)3. Is Hamlet mad?(2 points)4. To what extent is it right to call Hamlet a revenge play?(10 points)5. How important are politics and comedy in Hamlet?(10 points)

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