问答题我十分同意杨绛先生关于读书的观点：读书好比串门儿，要参见钦佩的老师或拜谒有名的学者，不必事前打招呼求见，也不怕搅扰主人。翻开书面就闯进大门，翻过几页就登堂入室；而且可以经常去，时刻去，如果不得要领，还可以不辞而别或者另请高明。读书是为了寻找黄金屋、千钟粟和颜如玉的，因而就要头悬梁、锥刺股。这里，读书是为了入仕博名的，读书的快乐当然就荡然无存了，反而让人生出几分胆怯和畏惧。今天我们中的许多人，读书更是全然没有风雅境界和心境了，多是借读书之名，取利禄之实，读书不过是一种装潢而已。

问答题For this part，you’re required to write a composition on the topic“Competitions and Personal Development”．You should write at least 120 words，and your composition should be based on the outline given in Chinese below and write your composition on the Answer Sheet． 1．生活中到处充满竞争； 2．竞争对于个人发展的重要性； 3．你的看法。

问答题One of nature's most destructive forces is the tornado, a violent windstorm that takes the shape of a rotating column of air. Tornadoes almost always occur in conjunction with severe thunderstorms that produce high winds, heavy rainfall and damaging hail. Though their cause is unknown, tornadoes are believed to be the result of the convergence of strong upward wind currents inside a storm with upper level winds above the storm; the greater the air contrast, the more violent the storm will be. The United States has more tornadoes, approximately 750 tornadoes reported each year, than any other country in the world because this is where arctic and tropical air masses most frequently converge. This unpredictability makes accurate tornado forecasts difficult. Though it is possible to determine when a tornado is apt to occur, actual tornado warnings are issued only when a tornado has been sighted or reported on radar. Radar can be used to guess the storm's' likely path, its speed and the intensity of the storm. But conventional radar has limitations. An advanced form of radar, known as Doppler, has the ability to detect the first steps in the formation of a tornado. Unlike conventional radar, Doppler tracks a thunderstorm's rotating wind system which usually precedes the development of a tornado. As a result, Doppler has provided forecasters with the ability to issue tornado warnings as much as 20 minutes prior to a storm's touchdown, compared to a warning of less than 2 minutes by visual sighting. Though tornadoes remain one of nature's most violent forces, the use of radar and advanced warning systems has substantially narrowed their paths of destruction.

问答题 71.{{U}}One of the major pleasures in life is appetite, and one of our major duties should be to preserve it. Appetite is the keenness of living; it is one of the senses that tells you that you are still curious to exist, that you still have an edge on your longings and want to bite into the world and taste its multitudinous flavors and juices.{{/U}} By appetite, of course, I don't mean just the lust for food, but any condition of unsatisfied desire, any burning in the blood that proves you want more than you've got, and that you haven't yet used up your life. Wilde said he felt Sony for those who never got their heart's desire, but it nearly killed me, and I've always preferred wanting to having since. For appetite, to me, is this state of wanting, which keeps one's expectation alive. I remember learning this lesson long ago as a child, when treats and orgies were few, and when I discovered that the greatest pitch of happiness was not in actually eating a toffee but in gazing at it beforehand. True, the first bite was delicious, but once toffee was gone one was left with nothing, neither toffee nor lust. Besides, the whole toffeeness of toffees was imperceptibly diminished by the gross act of having eaten it. No, the best wasin wanting it, in sitting and looking at it, when one tasted an inexhaustible treasure-house of flavors. 72. {{U}}For that matter, I don't really want three square meals a day—I want one huge, delicious, orgiastic, table-groaning blow-out say every four days, and then not be too sure where the next one is coming from. A day of fasting is not for me just a puritanical device for denying oneself a pleasure, but rather a way of anticipating a rarer moment of supreme indulgence.{{/U}} So, for me, one of the keenest pleasures of appetite remains in the wanting, not the satisfaction, in wanting a peach, or a whisky, or a particular texture or sound, or to be with a particular friend. For in this condition, of course, I know that the object of desire is always at its most flawlessly perfect. Which is why I would carry the preservation of appetite to the extent of deliberate fasting, simply because I think that appetite is too good to lose, too precious to be bludgeoned into insensibility by satiation and over-doing it. Fasting is an act of homage to the majesty of appetite. So I think we should arrange to give up our pleasures regularly—our food, our friends, our lovers—in order to preserve their intensity, and the moment of coming back to them. For this is the moment that renews and refreshes both oneself and the thing one loves. Sailors and travelers enjoyed this once, and so did hunters, I suppose. Part of the weariness modern life may be that we live too much on tip of each other, and are entertained and fed too regularly. Once we were separated by hunger both from our food and families, and then we learned to value both. The men went off hunting, and the dogs went with them; the women and children waved goodbye. The cave was empty of men for days on end; nobody ate, or knew what to do. The women crouched by the fire, the wet smoke in their eyes; the children wailed; everybody was hungry. Then one night there were shouts and the barking of dogs from the hills, and the men came back loaded with meat. 73. {{U}}This was the great reunion, and everybody gorged himself and appetite came into its own; the long-awaited meal became a feast to remember and an almost sacred celebration of life. Now we go off to the office and come home in the evenings to cheap chicken and frozen peas. Very nice, but too much of it, too easy and regular. We eat, we are lucky, our faces are shining with fat, but we don't know the pleasure of being hungry anymore.{{/U}} Too much of anything—too much music, entertainment, happy time spent with one's friends—creates a kind of impotence of living because of which one can no longer hear, or taste, or see, or love. Life is short and precious, and appetite is one of its guardians, and loss of appetite is a sort of death. So if we are to enjoy this short life we should respect the divinity of appetite, and keep it eager and not too much blunted. It is a long time now since I knew that acute moment of bliss that comes from putting parched lips to a cup of cold water. The springs are still there to be enjoyed—all one needs is the original thirst.

问答题Air France and British Airways have announced that later this year they will retire all of their Con-cordes from commercial service. For many Americans the Concorde has always been a bit of a joke, a prime example of what happens when bureaucrats pursue prestige through engineering. By the early 1960s US private firms were clearly ahead of European jet makers. The governments of France and the UK launched a joint project to outdo the Americans at their own game, by designing a supersonic jet that would restore European technological preeminence. After years of experimentation at vast public expense, the Anglo-French designers had made an engineering wonder with little hope of ever turning a profit.

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问答题TOPIC The more I learn, the more ignorant I find myself to be.

问答题Read the following topic. Write on your Answer Sheet a composition of about 200 words. Be sure to provide a title for your composition and write in paragraphs. Topic: Nowadays some students start their own business companies before they graduate. How do you look at this phenomenon?

问答题Give the phonetic term according to the following description: the sound made with the tongue tip or blade and the upper from teeth.

问答题As far as culture and custom are concerned, there is a great difference between the East and the West.

问答题A physician starCs playing a harsh mental tape in her head every time a new patient calls: What if I make the wrong diagnosis? I"m a terrible doctor. Haw did I get into medical school? An executive loses his jab despite 25 productive years, he tells himself: I"m a loser. I can"t provide far my family, and I"ll never be able to do it again. If these real-life examples sound familiar, you may have a caustic commentary running in your head, too. Psychologists say many of their patients are plagued by a harsh Inner Critic--including some extremely successful people who think it"s the secret to their success. An Inner Critic can indeed raust you out of bed in the morning, get you an the treadmill (literally and figuratively) and spur you to finish that book or symphony or invention. But the desire to achieve can get hijacked by harsh judgment and unrelenting fear. Unrelenting self-criticism often goes hand in hand with anxiety, and it may even predict depression. Self-criticism is also a factor in eating disorders, and body disorder—that is, preoccupation with one"s perceived physical flaws. Many people"s Inner Critic makes an appearance early in life and is such a constant companion that it"s part of their personality. Psychologists say that children, parCicularly those with a genetic predisposition to depression, may internalize and exaggerate the expectations of parents or peers or socIety one theory is that selt-criticism is anger turned lnward, when sufferers are filled wlth hostllIty but too atraid and lnsecure to let it out. Other theories hoId that people who scoId themseIves are acting out guilt or shame or subconsciousIy shieIding themseIves against criticism from others: Y0u can"t tell me anything l don"t aIready tell myself, even in harsher terms. Techniques from cognitive behavioraI therapy can be heIpfuIin changing patterns of thought that have become painful. There are many patients, such as doctors, lawyers—who beIieved that if they didn"t flog themseIves, they wouldn"t be successful. And part of psychologists"work is to break through that belief by telling the patients that they usuaIIy succeed in spite of their inner Critics, not because of them(360 words) [Key words] depression 抑郁症 cognitive behavioral therapy 认知行为疗法

问答题Consider carefully the issue discussed in the following paragraph, and then write an essay that answers the question posed in the task. Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life if only they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society. —Albert Einstein Assignment: You are required to write an essay of about at least 400 words in which you answer the question " Is the desire for " wish fulfillment of material kinds" a good or a bad thing? " and discuss your point of view on this issue. Support your position logically with examples from literature, the arts, history, politics, science and technology, current events, or your experience or observation. Marks will be awarded for Content, Organization, Grammar, and Appropriateness. Failure to follow the instruction will result in a loss of marks.

问答题If you find yourself stressed by the economic forecast, threat of job loss, or have been laid off, the situation is manageable. John Wakeman, program director of the Stress Treatment Center at Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, La. , who has given numerous stress management training sessions for major industries and businesses, says that, when confronted with altered circumstances, "it is our nature to either revert back to the status quo(现状) or to adapt and to do so quickly so that it's no longer a change. My suggestion is to adapt quickly." If laid off, avoid a doom-and-gloom attitude, which adds to the stress. (2) Accept that changes are inevitable in a lifetime and occurrences such as job loss frequently bring opportunities that would not be available if you were not facing the crisis. Some people find an even better occupational situation. (3) Instead of responding to layoff as a personal insult, view it as a sign of the economic times and the fact that the business could not keep its employees. Maintain a routine and keep your social contacts. Don't sit at home. Remain active. Use energy constructively. Don't vent (发泄) irritability and frustration from stress on your family, but channel it into exercise or work on a project. Polish your resume, network with others in your field, and write letters to prospective employers. Keep informed about the job market by reading employment journals, trade publications, and newspapers. Competition is keen, so expect your search to take time. "(4) When a person is turned down repeatedly, it does try [his or her] self-esteem, but you have to remember what you accomplished before you were laid off. No one can erase those achievements from your history. You have somethings to offer." Many people feel threatened by change and become inflexible, Wakeman points out. "You may find that you need to be more open about relocating to a place where employment is available. (5) Keep an open mind and be flexible about the possibility of a change requiring relocation or taking on new assignments."

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问答题Why did F. Scott Fitzgerald use "great" to modify the protagonist" s name Gatsby in the title of his novel The Great Gatsby?

问答题The world is going through the biggest wave of mergers and acquisitions ever witnessed. The process sweeps from hyperactive America to Europe and reaches the emerging countries with unsurpassed might. Many in these countries are looking at this process and worrying: "Won"t the wave of business concentration turn into an uncontrollable anti-competitive force?" There"s no question that the big are getting bigger and more powerful. Multinational corporations accounted for less than 20% of international trade in 1982. Today the figure is more than 25% and growing rapidly. International affiliates account for a fast-growing segment of production in economies that open up and welcome foreign investment. This phenomenon has created serious concerns over the role of smaller economic firms, of national businessmen and over the ultimate stability of the world economy. I believe that the most important forces behind the massive M&A wave are the same that underlie the globalization process: failing transportation and communication costs, lower trade and investment barriers and enlarged markets that require enlarged operations capable of meeting customers" demands. All these are beneficial, not detrimental, to consumers. As productivity grows, the world"s wealth increases. Examples of benefits or costs of the current concentration wave are scanty. Yet it is hard to imagine that the merger of a few oil firms today could re-create the same threats to competition that were feared nearly a century ago in the US, when the Standard 0il trust was broken up. The mergers of telecom companies, such as World Com, hardly seem to bring higher prices for consumers or a reduction in the pace of technical progress. On the contrary, the price of communications is coming down fast. In cars, too, concentration is increasing—witness Daimler and Chrysler, Renault and Nissan—but it does not appear that consumers are being hurt.

问答题It is difficult to say exactly how the music we call "rock" or "rock and roll" began. Its roots go back to many different countries and many different kinds of music and musicians.