问答题Directions : You have a few questions to ask your professor, but he is not in his office. Leave a note to: 1) introduce yourself 2) explain the purpose of your visit 3) arrange another time to see him You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the note. Use "Li Ming" instead. You do not need to write the address.

问答题Directions:Youaretowriteinnolessthan120wordsaboutthetitle"FindingaFriendovertheInternet".Studythepicturebelowcarefullyandyourcompositionshouldbebasedontheinformationgiven.1.Describewhatyouseeinthepicture.2.Guesswhatthepicturereallywantstoimply.3.Drawyourownconclusion.

问答题Source Text 3: 新疆维吾尔自治区地处中国西北边陲，亚欧大陆腹地，面积166.49万平方公里，占中国国土面积六分之一，陆地边境线5600公里，周边与8个国家接壤，是古丝绸之路的重要通道。据2000年统计，新疆人口为1925万人，其中汉族以外的其他民族为1096.96万人。新疆自古以来就是一个多民族聚居和多种宗教并存的地区，从西汉（公元前206年—公元24年）起成为中国统一的多民族国家不可分割的组成部分。

问答题I tried very hard to persuade him to join our group but I met with a fiat refusal.

问答题Everyone is selfish; everyone is doing what he believes will make himself happier. The recognition of that can take most of the sting out of accusations that you"re being "selfish". Why should you feel guilty for seeking your own happiness when that"s what everyone else is doing, too?

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. The long and progressive reign of Queen Victoria came to a climax at a time of peace and plenty when the British Empire seemed to be at the summit of its power and security. Of the discord that soon followed we shall here note only two factors which had large influence on contemporary English literature. The first disturbing factor was imperialism, the reawakening of a dominating spirit which had seemingly been put to sleep by the proclamation of an Imperial Federation. (46){{U}}Its coming was heralded by the Boer War in South Africa, through which Britain blundered to what was hoped to be an era of peace and good will.{{/U}} Other nations promptly made such hope a vain whistling in the wind. Japanese War Lords began a career of conquest which aimed to make Japan master of Asia and East Indies. Pacific islands that had for ages slept peacefully were turned into frowning naval stations. (47){{U}}Even the United States, aroused by an easy triumph in the Spanish War, started on an imperialistic adventure by taking control of the Philippines, thus making an implacable enemy of Japan.{{/U}} Only a nation that enters on a dangerous course with eyes wide open has any chance of a safe way out, and the imperialistic nations were all alike blind. (48){{U}}An inevitable result was the First War and the great horror of a Second World War, the two disasters being different acts of the same tragedy of imperialism, separated only by a breathing spell.{{/U}} Another factor that influenced literature for the worse was a widespread demand for social reform of every kind; not slow and orderly reform, which is progress, but immediate and uncontrolled reform, which breeds a spirit of rebellion and despair. Before the Victorian age had come to an end, English literature appeared to have lost touch with healthy English life. Many writers echoed the sorrowful cry of James Thomson in his City of Dreadful Night, or babbled of "art for art's sake" with Oscar Wilde. (49){{U}}Groom, in his survey of the period, notes that writers had mostly a critical attitude toward morals and religion, Church and State, as relies from "the dead hand of traditional beliefs."{{/U}} (50){{U}}Small wonder that German and Japanese war-advocates regarded Englishmen as a decadent race when the same or a worse opinion was daily read in the novels of Samuel Butler and nightly heard in the plays of Bernard Shaw.{{/U}}

问答题自助游

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Study the picture above carefully and write an essay entitled "On Cultural Exchanges." In the essay, you should (1) describe the pictures; (2) interpret their meaning; (3) give your opinion about the phenomenon.

问答题What are sociolinguistics of society and sociolinguistics of language?（武汉大学2007研)

问答题Directions: In this section there is a text in English. Translate the five underlined sentences into Chinese. People in business can use foresight to identify new products and services, as well as markets for those products and services. An increase in minority populations in a neighborhood would prompt a grocer with foresight to stock more foods linked to ethnic tastes. (41) {{U}}An art museum director with foresight might follow trends in computer graphics to make exhibits more appealing to younger visitors.{{/U}} Foresight may reveal potential threats that we can prepare to deal with before they become crises. (42) {{U}}For instance, a capable corporate manager might see an alarming rise in local housing prices that could affect the availability of skilled workers in the region. {{/U}}The public's changing values and priorities, as well as emerging technologies, demographic shifts, economic constraints (or opportunities ), and environmental and resource concerns are all parts of the increasingly complex world system in which leaders must lead. (43) {{U}}People in government also need foresight to keep systems running smoothly, to plan budgets, and to prevent wars.{{/U}} Government leaders today must deal with a host of new problems emerging from rapid advances in technology. Even at the community level, foresight is critical：school officials, for example, need foresight to assess numbers of students to accommodate, numbers of teachers to hire, new educational technologies to deploy, and new skills for students (and their teachers) to develop. (44) {{U}}Many of the best-known techniques for foresight were developed by government planners, especially in the military, "thinking about the unthinkable".{{/U}} Pioneering futurists at the RAND Corporation (the first " think tank ") began seriously considering what new technologies might emerge in the future and how these might affect U. S. security. These pioneering futurists at RAND, along with others elsewhere, refined a variety of new ways for thinking about the future. (45) {{U}}The futurists recognized that the future world is continuous with the present world, so we can learn a great deal about what may happen in the future by looking systematically at what is happening now.{{/U}}

问答题Creativity

问答题Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Practice Makes Perfect. You should write at least 150 words and you should base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below. 1．怎样理解“熟能生巧”? 2．例如：在英语学习中…… 3．又如……

问答题 (111) {{U}}The climatic phenomenon that is being blamed for floods hurricanes and early snowstorms also deserves credit for encouraging plant growth and helping to control the pollutant linked to global warming, a new study shows.{{/U}} El Nino—the periodic warming of eastern Pacific Ocean waters—causes a burst of plant growth throughout the world, and this removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, researchers have found. (112) {{U}}The new study shows that natural weather events such as the brief warming caused by El Nino, have a much more dramatic effect than previously believed on how much carbon dioxide is absorbed by plants and how much of the gas is expelled by the soil.{{/U}} Atmospheric carbon dioxide, or CO2, has been increasing steadily for decades. This is thought to be caused by an expanded use of fossil fuels and by toppling of tropical forests. Scientists have linked the CO2 rise to global warming, a phenomenon known as the greenhouse effect. (113) {{U}}Alarmed nations of the world now are drawing up new conservation policies to reduce fossil fuel burning, in hopes of reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.{{/U}} But David Schimel of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a co-author of the new study, says that before determining how much to reduce fossil fuel burning we should consider the effects of natural climate variations on the ability of plants to absorb CO2. Schimel said satellite measurements of CO2, plant growth and temperature show that natural warming events such as El Nifio at first cause more CO2 to be released into the atmosphere, probably as the result of accelerated decay of dead plant matter in the soil. But later, within two years, there is an explosion of growth-in forests and grasslands, which means plants suck more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. "We think that there is a delayed response in vegetation and soil to the warming effects of such phenomena as El Nifio, and this leads to increased plant growth," said Schimel. (114) {{U}}However, be said, it is not clear whether the warming by El Nino causes a net decrease in the buildup of CO2 over the long haul.{{/U}} "We don't really know that yet," said Schimel. What the study does show, however, is that the rise and fall of CO2 in the atmosphere is strongly influenced by natural changes in global temperature, said B. H. Braswell of the University of New Hampshire, another co-author of the study. Braswell said that in years when the global weather is cooler than normal, there is a decrease in both the decay of dead plants and in new plant growth. This causes an effect that is the opposite of El Nino warming: CO2 atmosphere levels first decline and later increase. (115) {{U}}"I think we have demonstrated that the ecosystem has a lot more to do with climate change than was previously believed,"{{/U}} said Braswell, "Focusing on the role of human activity in climate change is important, but man made factors are not the only factors."

问答题伦敦市长恳请金融城员工把奖金捐赠给艺术领域，否则这座都市最重要的一种魅力可能遭到破坏。新发布的数据显示，商界对文化领域的投资正不断减少。 私人部门对艺术的支持——包括个人捐赠——于2008年达到了6.86亿英镑的峰值水平，但昨日发布的数据显示，商界投资额在去年下降了7%。一家推动艺术赞助的咨询机构——艺术与商业(ArtsBusiness)的一项调查显示，伦敦70%的艺术机构称，来自商界的资助额有所减少。 然而，伦敦市长在维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆(Victoria and Albert Museum)向艺术界领袖发表演讲时表示，在经济衰退期间，投资于艺术“比任何时候都更为重要”。他表示：“艺术和文化不是奢侈品，而是这座城市DNA的一部分，是人们愿意来此生活和工作的原因。每10名游客中就有7名表示，这是他们来此游览的一个原因。离开伦敦的艺术，伦敦就不能称其为伦敦。” 伦敦市长的呼吁得到了老维克剧院(Old Vic)艺术总监凯文斯佩西(Kevin Spacey)的支持，他表示：“我在这里住了7年，我真诚地相信，英国在艺术和文化领域的卓越成就，是这个国家最强大的天然资源之一。但许多艺术机构正举步维艰。如果没有政治意愿，以及企业和公众的支持，它们将很难生存下去。” 伦敦市长敦促艺术界领袖认识到，英国文化机构的成功运作对经济有一定的影响力。在英国，公共部门对戏剧产业的投资额为1.213亿英镑，但该产业却为英国创造了26亿英镑的收入。大伦敦地区政府(Greater London Authority)估计，商业创意产业为伦敦提供了50万个就业岗位，创造了200亿英镑的增加值。

问答题On some occasions it is important to adhere to the conventions that characterize serious public discourse and to avoid expressions that we might use in more casual situations. Among the features of formal English are the careful explanation of background information, complexity in sentence structure, explicit transitions between thoughts, and the use of certain words that are reserved chiefly for creating a formal tone. Situations that normally require formal usage would include an article discussing a serious matter submitted to a respected journal, an official report by a group of researchers to a government body, a talk presented to a professional organization, and a letter of job application.

问答题Directions: You have trouble with reading and are in need of some advice from Professor Wang. Write a letter to him to 1) give him your personal information, 2) state your problems, and 3) ask for the time and place of a possible interview with him. You should write about 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 the address.

问答题比较Emerson的文章Nature与Thoreau的书Walden中关于自然（nature）的观念的异同。

问答题Conventionality