问答题Directions: For this part, you"re required to write a composition on the topic God Helps Those Who Help Themselves. You should write at least 120 words, and your composition should be based on the outline given in Chinese below. Outline: (1)为什么说“自助者天助也” (2)试举例说明。

问答题to read tea leaves

问答题Directions: You are doing your UCLA application for graduate admission, and you need two reference letters. Please email your former foreign teacher and ask him to write one for you. 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. Do not write the address.

问答题Directions:Studythefollowingcartooncarefullyandwriteanessayabout120wordsonthetopicofLovingOurParents.Youressayshouldmeettherequirementsbelow:1.Describethecartoonandthemessageconveyed;2.Drawaconclusionandgiveyourcommentonthecartoon.Youressaymustbewrittenclearly.

问答题Physicists were thinking far ahead their time in a very intelligent way. They saw what was going to happen before it actually did. They thought about modern computing in the 1950s, they imagined a lot of the technological progress that we would see only decades later in the real world. They were asking very theoretical questions because these ideas were still so far removed from practice. And they asked very moral questions as well, because the things they conceptualized could be used for great good or for great evil. It could go either way, so moral judgments had to be made.

问答题Medical consumerism—dike all sorts of consumerism, only more menacingly—is designed to be unsatisfying. 31．The prolongation of life and the search for perfect health(beauty, youth, happiness) are inherently self-defeating. The law of diminishing returns necessarily applies. You can make higher percentages of people survive into their eighties and nineties. But, as any geriatric ward shows, that is not the same as to confer enduring mobility, awareness and autonomy. 32．Extending life grows medically feasible, but it is often a life deprived of everything, and one exposed to degrading neglect as resources grow over-stretched and politics turn mean. What an ignominious destiny for medicine if its future turned into one of bestowing meager increments of unenjoyed life! It would mirror the fate of athletics, in which disproportionate energies and resources—not least medical ones, like illegal steroids—are now invested to shave records by milliseconds. And, it goes without saying; the logical extension of longevism—the "abolition" of death—would not be a solution but only an exacerbation. 33．To air these predicaments is not anti-medical spleen—a churlish reprisal against medicine for its victories but simply to face the growing reality of medical power not exactly without responsibility but with dissolving goals. 34．Hence medicine's finest hour becomes the dawn of its dilemmas. For centuries,medicine was impotent and hence unproblematic. From the Greeks to the Great War, its job was simple: to struggle with lethal diseases and gross disabilities, to ensure live births,and to manage pain. It performed these uncontroversial tasks by and large with meager success. Today, with mission accomplished, medicine's triumphs are dissolving in disorientation. 35．Medicine has led to vastly inflated expectations, which the public has eagerly swallowed. Yet as these expectations grow unlimited, they become unfulfillable. The task facing medicine in the twenty-first century will be to redefine its limits even as it extends its capacities.

问答题Correct the mistakes in the following sentences: underline the wrong parts and put the correct ones in the brackets. If there is no error, use a √ or write "No error" on the ANSWER SHEET.(10 points)My parents, my younger sister, and me were delighted to see how much my cousin had grown since we last visited his family in the summer.

问答题Title：The Digital Age Outline：(1)如今数字化产品得到越来越广泛的使用，例如…… (2)数字化产品的使用对人们工作、学习和生活产生的影响。

问答题Make a comment on Ralph Waldo Emerson"s work Nature.

问答题Directions: Write an essay on the Answer Sheet Ⅱ in no less than 250 words with the title "{{B}}An Outlook on the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games{{/B}}".

问答题Jack(in Lord of the Flies)

问答题你能找到你出生的那个房子吗？

问答题cheerleader

问答题Directions: 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.

问答题Present the major view of language in functional linguistics OR interactionalism and then discuss its important implications for foreign language teaching and learning.(15 points)

问答题Robinson Crusoe

问答题The power of words, then, lies in their associations—the things they bring up before our minds.

问答题Directions:A.Studythefollowingpicturecarefullyandwriteanessayinnolessthan160--200words.B.YouressaymustbewrittenclearlyonANSWERSHEET2.C.Youressayshouldmeettherequirementsbelow:1)describethepictureandinterpretitsmeaning,2)andgiveyourcomments.

问答题The value which society places on work has traditionally been closely associated with the value of individualism and as a result it has had negative effects on the development of social security. (46) It has meant that in the first place the amount of benefits must be small lest people's willingness to work and support themselves suffers. Even today with flat rate and earnings-related benefits, the total amount of the benefit must always be smaller than the person's wages for fear of malingering, "The purpose of social security," said Huntford referring to Sweden's comparatively generous benefits, "is to dispel need without crossing the threshold of prosperity." (47) Second, social security benefits are granted under conditions designed to reduce the likelihood of even the boldest of spirits attempting to live on the State rather than work. Many of the rules surrounding the payment of unemployment or supplementary benefit are for this purpose. Third, the value placed on work is manifested in a more positive way as in the case of disability. People suffering from accidents incurred at work or from occupational diseases receive preferential treatment by the social security service compared with those suffering from civil accidents and ordinary illnesses. Yet, the stranglehold which work has bad on the social security service has been increasingly loosened over the years. The provision of family allowances, family income supplements, the slight liberalization of the wages stop are some of the manifestations of this trend. (48) Similarly, the preferential treatment given to occupational disability by the social security service has been increasingly questioned with the demands for the upgrading of benefits for the other types of disability. It is felt that in contemporary industrial societies the distinction between occupational and non-occupational disability is artificial for many non-occupational forms of disability have an industrial origin even if they do not occur directly in the workplace. (49) There is also the additional reason which we mentioned in the argument for one benefit for all one-parent families, that a modern social security service must concentrate on meeting needs irrespective of the causes behind such needs. The relationship between social security and work is not all a one-way affair. (50)It is true that until very recently the general view was that social security "represented a type of luxury and was essentially anti economic". It was seen as merely government expenditure for the needy. As we saw, however, redundancy payments and earnings-related unemployment benefits have been used with some success by employers and the government to reduce workers' opposition towards loss of their jobs.

问答题Translate the following Chinese into English. 人有时非常矛盾。本来活得好好的，各方面的环境都不错，然而当事者却常常心存厌倦.对人类这种因生命的平淡和缺少激情而苦恼的心态，有时是不能用不知足来解释的。我曾对件在森林的一对夫妻羡慕不已，因为森林里有清新的空气，有大片的杉树、竹林，有幽静的林间小道，有鸟语和花香。然而，当这对夫妇知道有人羡慕他们的住所时，却神情诧异。他们认为这儿没有多少值得观光和留恋的景致，远不如城市丰富有趣。