问答题71. Battles are like marriages. They have a certain fundamental experience they share in common. They differ infinitely, but still they are all alike. A battle seems to me a conflict of will with death in the same way that a marriage of love is the identification of two human beings to the end of creation of life--as death is the reverse of life, and love of hate. Battles are commitments to cause death as marriages are commitments to create life. Whether, for any individual, either union results in death or in the creation of life, each risks it--and in the risk commits himself. 72. As the servants of death, battles will always remain horrible. Those who are fascinated by them are being fascinated by death. There is no battle aim worthy of the name except that of ending all battles. Any other conception is, literally, suicidal. The fascist worship of battle is a suicidal drive. It is love of death instead of life. 73. In the same idiom, to triumph in battle over the forces which are fighting for death is--again literally--to triumph over death. It is a surgeon's triumph as he cuts a body and bloodies his hands in removing a cancer in order to triumph over death that is in the body. In these thoughts I have found my own peace, and I return to an army that fights death and cynicism in the name of life and hope. It is a good army. Believe in it.

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} You had a party at your home recently , but you unintentionally neglect to invite a close friend of yours, Victoria. Write a letter to 1) make an apology, and 2) explain how the mistake came about. Write your letter with no less than 100 words. Do not sign your name at the end of the letter. Use “Li Ming” instead. Do not write the address.

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问答题In some societies people want children for what might be called familial reasons: to extend the family line or the family name, to propitiate the ancestors; to enable the proper functioning of religious rituals involving the family. Such reasons may seem thin in the modern, secularized society but they have been and are powerful indeed in other places. In addition, one class of family reasons shares a border with the following category, namely, having children in order to maintain or improve a marriage: to hold the husband or occupy the wife, to repair or rejuvenate the marriage; to increase the number of children on the assumption that family happiness lies that way. The point is underlined by its converse: in some societies the failure to bear children (or males) is a threat to the marriage and a ready cause for divorce. Beyond all that is the profound significance of children to the very institution of the family itself. To many people, husband and wife alone do not seem a proper family—they need children to enrich the circle, to validate its family character, to gather the redemptive influence of offspring.

问答题(1) {{U}}If an occupation census had been taken in the eleventh century it would probably have revealed that quite 90 percent of the people were country inhabitants who drew their livelihood from farming, herding, fishing or the forest.{{/U}} (2){{U}}An air photograph taken at that time would have revealed spotted villages, linked together by unpaved roads and separated by expanses of forest or swamp.{{/U}} There were some towns, but few of them housed more than 10000 persons. (3){{U}}A second picture, taken in the mid-fourteenth century would show that the villages had grown more numerous and also more widespread, for Europeans had pushed their frontier outward by settling new areas.{{/U}} (4){{U}}There would be more people on the roads, rivers and seas, carrying food or raw materials to towns which had increased in number, size and importance.{{/U}} But a photograph taken about 1450 would reveal that little further expansion had taken place during the preceding hundred years. Any attempt to describe the countryside during those centuries is prevented by two difficulties. In the first place, we have to examine the greater part of Europe's 3 750 000 square miles, and not merely the Mediterranean lands. (5){{U}}In the second place, the inhabitants of that wide expanse refuse to fit into our standard pattern or to stand still.{{/U}}

问答题 While much of the attention on fighting AIDS and other diseases in poor countries has focused on access to affordable drugs, concern is now shifting to the question of who exactly, will deliver them. Unfortunately, there is a severe shortage of doctors, nurses and other health-care workers in these countries. According to a report published in this week's Lancet by the Joint Learning Initiative (JLI), an international consortium of academic centres and development agencies, sub-Saharan Africa has only one-tenth the number Of nurses and doctors per head of population that Europe does, though its health-care problems are far mom pressing. (47) The reasons for this are tw07fold, and well known—not enough health-care workers are trained in the fast place, and too many of those who are trained then leave for better-paid jobs in the rich world. What the report does is to put some numbers on these problems. A mere 5,000 doctors, it finds, graduate in Africa each year (a third of the number that graduate in America). Only 50 of 600 doctors mined in Zambia in recent years are still in the country. There are more Malawian doctors in Manchester than Malawi. (48) And many rich countries exacerbate the problem by recruiting from poor ones to help deal with their own shortages. To overcome all this. the JLI reckons that the world needs 4m more health-care workers, of whom lm are required in sub-Saharan Africa alone. The question is. who will pay for them? The report floats some ideas. (49) It recommends that roughly $400m, or 4% of the overseas aid currently spent on health, -be earmarked to help build up the health-care workforce in poor countries. (50) But it also suggests that better use be made of existing resources, for example by employing local volunteers rather than highly trained doctors for many. routine matters. As Lincoln Chen of Harvard University, one of the report's authors, points out, a few countries, such as Brazil. Thailand and Iran. have taken steps in the right direction. Others need to follow their lead.

问答题If you want to attract more customers, try advertising in the local newspaper.

问答题O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cool"d a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and the country green,Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth!O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth;That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,And with thee fade away into the forest dim:

问答题If a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. Its art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the one hand, nor creates heroes or inspires genius on the other Works, indeed, of genjus fall under no art; heroic minds come under no rule; a University is not a birthplace of poets or of immortal authors, of founders of schools, leaders of colonies, or conquerors of nations, It does not promise a generation of Aristotles or Newtons, of Napoleons or Washingtons, of Raphaels or Shakespeares, though such miracles of nature it has before now contained within its precinets.

问答题The bold way in which Margaret Mead defined the terms "family" —based as much on choice as on biological relationship—is possibly the most enduring of her legacies.

问答题Directions: In this part, you are required to write an essay of no less than 150 words. The essay should be based on the title: The Career I Pursue.

问答题Harry S. Truman liked to say that as president of this country he was its most powerful citizen-but sometimes he added, smiling, the photographers were even more powerful. They could tell the commander in chief where to go, make him move his chair, cross his legs, hold up a letter, order him to smile or to look stern. He acknowledged their power and, as a political matter, deferred to their judgment. What the people thought of their chief executive would to some extent be decided by the photographers and the picture editors. Photographers may claim to be a priesthood interpreting the laws of light, and light is a universal mystery that the picture takers measure with their light meters.

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问答题When Chris Lee"s wife got a job transfer from the US to Hong Kong last year, the senior project manager for a web marketing firm decided he would not work full-time anymore and would stay at home with the kids: two girls aged three and one. With his wife bringing home the bacon, Lee took the challenge of being with the kids at all times. "It is definitely rewarding having a successful career in the business world where you are appreciated by employers, customers, and co-workers," he says. "But it is more rewarding watching the kids grow and seeing all the changes they go through on a daily basis." Many fathers around the world are starting to agree with Lee. The time fathers spend with their children has increased considerably since the 1970s, experts say. Today"s dads seem a tot closer to their kids than the dads of previous generations. With these changes, fathers are suddenly a hot topic with researchers. Everything—from their sweat glands to their play habits—is under the microscope.

问答题Here hundreds of pedestrians jostle each other on the streets, camels carry merchandise in from the Silk Road, and teahouses and restaurants do a thriving business.

问答题Read the following poem and write a short essay based on the following questions in about 100 words(8 points): At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border By William Stafford(1914 - 1993)This is the field where the battle did not happen, where the unknown soldier did not die. This is the field where grass joined hands, where no moment stands, and the only heroic thing is the sky.Birds fly here without any sound, unfolding their wings across the open. No people killed—or were killed—on the ground hallowed by neglect and an air so tamethat people celebrate it by forgetting its name. Questions:A. What nonevent does this poem celebrate?B. What is the speaker" s attitude toward it?C. The speaker describes an empty field. What is odd about the Way in which he describes it?

问答题 The proportion of works cut for the cinema in Britain dropped from 40 percent when I joined the BBFC in 1975 to less than 4 percent when I left. But I don't' think that 20 years from now it will be possible to regulate any medium as closely as I regulated film. The Internet is, of course, the greatest problem for this century. (46) {{U}}The world will have to find a means, through some sort of international treaty or United Nations initiative, to control the material that's now going totally unregulated into people's homes{{/U}}. That said, it will only take one little country like Paraguay to refuse to sign a treaty for transmission to be unstoppable. Parental control is never going to be sufficient. (47) {{U}}I'm still very worried about the impact of violent video games, even though researchers say their impact is moderated by the fact that players don't so much experience the game as enjoy the technical maneuvers that enable you to win{{/U}}. But in respect of violence in mainstream films, I'm more optimistic. Quite suddenly, tastes have changed, and it's no longer Stallone or Schwarzenegger who are the top stars, but Leonardo Di Caprio--that has taken everybody by surprise. (48) {{U}}Go through the most successful films in Europe and America now and you will find virtually none that are violent{{/U}}. Quentin Tarantino didn't usher in a new, violent generation, and films are becoming much more pre-social than one would have expected. Cinemagoing will undoubtedly survive. The new multiplexes are a glorious experience, offering perfect sound and picture and very comfortable seats, things which had died out in the 1980s. (49) {{U}}I can't believe we've achieved that only to throw it away in favour of huddling around a 14-inch computer monitor to watch digitally-delivered movies at home{{/U}}. It will become increasingly cheap to make films, with cameras becoming smaller and lighter but remaining very precise. (50) {{U}}That means greater chances for new talent to emerge, as it will be much easier to learn how to be a better film-maker.{{/U}} Careers will be shorter in the future, and once retired, people will spend a lot of time learning to do things that amuse them--like making videos. Fifty years on we could well be media-saturated as both producers and audiences: instead of writing letters, one will send little home movies entitled My Week.

问答题随着中国改革开放的深化和市场经济的发展，中国引进外资的数量不断上升，已成为发展中国家中最大的资本输入国。1．与此同时，中国的外资政策和立法也日益健全和完善，它们对于鼓励、保护和管理外国投资发挥着重要作用。 2．中国入世后，根据WTO规则和中国的入世承诺，中国得逐步降低关税和取消非关税壁垒，逐步开放服务贸易市场，因此，外国投资的环境将会进一步得以改善。3. 然而，中国目前仍处于经济转型时期，市场经济尚不成熟，在此情况下，其关于外资的政策和法律在入世后对外国投资的作用和影响如何呢?是否还存在有对外国投资有不利影响的措施?外商投资企业是否或在什么程度上能享受国民待遇?中国现行的措施应如何修改?这是外国投资者和国际社会十分关注的问题。

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