问答题The process of entering the confines of political and economic power can be pictured as a system in which persons are chosen from a political elite pool. (1) In this reservoir of possible leaders are the individuals with the skills, education, and other qualifications needed to fill elite positions. It is here that competition does exist, that the highest achievers do display their abilities, and that the best qualified do generally succeed. Here, what is more important is entering this reservoir of qualified people. (2) Many in the masses may have leadership abilities, but unless they can gain entrance into the elite pool, their abilities will go unnoticed. Those of the higher class and status rank enter more easily into this competition since they have been afforded greater opportunities to acquire the needed qualifications. (3) In addition to formal qualifications, there are less obvious social-psychological factors which tend to narrow the potential elite pool further. (4) "Self-assertion" and "self-elimination" are processes by which those of higher social status assert themselves and those of lower social status eliminate themselves from competition for elite positions. A young man whose family has been active in politics, who has attended Harvard, and who has established a network of connections to the high position in the business or political world. (5) On the other hand, a young man with less prestigious (有名望的) family background, no connections, and only a high school education or even a college degree from a state university would not likely expect a further place for himself at the top. As Prewitt and Stone explain, such an individual "has few models to follow, no contacts to put him into the right channels, and little reason to think of himself as potentially wealthy or powerful." Thus, self-selection aids in filtering out those of lower income and status groups from the pool of potential elites. Most eliminate themselves from the competition early in the fame.

问答题为了能轻松地解决那问题，我们采取了一些明智的措施。

问答题Paragraph Writing The student writer of the following essay was presented with an imaginary dilemma—whether or not to buy a stolen final exam under specific circumstances. The student was asked to justify one decision or another. She chose to argue for a decision she knew would be unpopular. Read this essay, and then write a paragraph in no more than 150 words to refute one of the arguments in this essay, follow the three steps outlined below: 1. Identify in the essay the one argument that you strongly disagree with and summarize it in one sentence. Argument to be refuted: ______ 2. Write down your counterargument that is an argument against what you have identified in step 1. 3. Use your counterargument as the topic sentence and write up the paragraph. Cheating Who? I had a difficult decision to make. Normally, choosing between honesty and dishonesty barely requires thought. I try to be an honest person, but in my situation choosing to buy a black-marketed copy of an important math test forced me to be dishonest. As long as I understood how to work out the required problems, I felt buying the test was not so unreasonable. Before buying the test I weighed both sides carefully I didn"t want to make a hasty decision, and I found a compromise I could accept. I devoted most of my studying time to the problems on the black-marketed test. After conquering them, I then reviewed the rest of the material until I had mastered it as well. Knowing I had put forth a good effort to study all that was required, I felt better about my decision. I hadn"t cheated myself out of learning important math concepts that I would need in the future. A comprehensive math exam ranks high in difficulty among exams in general. In a whole semester of an advanced math course, there are probably over one hundred types of problems. Out of those, the instructor selects around twenty for the exam. What a relief it would be to know exactly what types of problems would appear. Much of the tension and worrying that final exams cause would be remedied. When I bought the test, the aggravation of wondering how well or how poorly I would do on the exam was gone. I felt very confident about my math course, which gave me reassurance for my other final exams. Another reason for buying the test was the curve of our grades since almost all of my classmates had bought a copy of the test, they would naturally do well. The accumulation of high scores would push the curve way up, making it impossible for me to get a decent grade without a copy of my own. Math is one of the most important classes and one in which I must do well. Without a high score on the final exam and a good overall grade for the course I would lose my scholarship and my means of finishing college. I was not ready to take that big chance; I could have lost too much. I realize my decision to buy a copy of the test was a dishonest one, and many people would not justify it. However, I could not afford to fail the exam or the course. The consequences of failing would affect my future in many ways. I could not afford the expense of college without a scholarship. Without finishing college, my chances of finding a good, satisfying job would be substantially lowered. Completing my college education sits at the top of my value list. My decision to buy the test assured me of a good math grade. I was also certain of being granted a scholarship.

问答题Directions: Write an essay based on the topic: Is a Test of Spoken English Necessary in Many English Texts? In your writing, you should 1) answer the question; 2) give your comments. You should write at least 150 words. Write your essay on the ANSWER SHEET.

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问答题Some doctors believe that taking vitamins on a daily basis help decrease a patient"s susceptibility to infection.

问答题人类最大的谬误，就是以为社会和政治问题简单得很，所以根本不需要科学方法的严格训练，而只要根据实际经验就可以判断，就可以解决。但是事实却恰好相反。

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问答题Please reflect on the following opinion and write an essay of about 400 words elaborating your view with a well-defined title. Some people believe the key of the reform in the education system is a well-shared awareness that education is there, instead of simply offering the knowledge important to the students, to improve the students in an all-round way, and especially to guide them to a careful pondering over such fundamental issues as life itself and social responsibility. An undue emphasis on knowledge-education and the resultant ignorance over the guidance to the students to a proper understanding of life will bring us nothing but a large number of "memorizing machines" We can never expect a group of young people well prepared for the real social life.

问答题Directions : Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined sentences into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. (46) There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve any good at all. In a day when vehicles hurtle through outer space and guided ballistic missiles carve highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can claim victory in war. A so-called limited war will leave little more than a calamitous legacy of human suffering, political and spiritual disillusionment. F A world war will leave only smoldering ashes as mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to ultimate death. (47) If modern man continues to toy unhesitatingly with war, he will transform his earthly habitat into an hell such as even the mind of Dante (但丁) could not imagine. (48) Therefore I suggest that the philosophy and strategy of nonviolence become immediately a subject for study and for serious experimentation in every field of human conflict, by no means excluding the relations between nations. It is, after all, nation-states which make war, which have produced the weapons that threaten the survival of mankind and which are both genocidal and suicidal in character. We have ancient habits to deal with, vast structures of power, indescribably complicated problems to solve. (49) But unless we resign our humanity altogether and yield to fear and impotence in the presence of the weapons we have ourselves created, it is as possible and as urgent to put an end to war and violence between nations as it is to put an end to poverty and racial injustice. I do not minimize the complexity of the problems that need to be faced. (50) But I am convinced that we shall not have the will, the courage and the insight to deal with such matters unless in this field we are prepared to undergo a mental and spiritual re-evaluation, a change of focus which will enable us to see that the things that seem most real and powerful are indeed now unreal and have come under sentence of death. We need to make a supreme effort to generate the readiness, indeed the eagerness, to enter into the new world which is now possible, "the city which hath foundation, whose Building and Maker is God. /

问答题That" s my Duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive. I callThat piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will" t please you sit and look at her?[......]—E" en then would be some stooping; and I chooseNever to stoop. Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt,When" er I passed her; but who passed withoutMuch the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;Then all smiles stopped together. There she standsAs if alive. Will"t please you rise? We"ll meetThe Company below, then. I repeat.The count your master" s known munificenceIs ample warrant that no just pretenseOf mine for dowry will be disallowed;Though his fair daughter" s self, as I avowedAt starting, is my object. Nay, we"ll goTogether down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,Taming a sea horse, though a rarity,Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!

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问答题What does T. S. Eliot"s idea of "an objective of correlative" mean to you?