问答题Despite overwhelming scientific evidence that tobacco causes more than 400,000 deaths each year, our nation"s children continue to have easy access to cigarettes and spit tobacco. After a long and thorough analysis, the US Government has come forward with a statement of principles and direction for a national tobacco control plan that represents a major step. The Government"s plan calls for stiff price increases on tobacco products to reduce teen smoking and tough penalties on the tobacco industry if this does not occur. But there are challenges ahead. While the tobacco lobby no longer has a choke hold on Congress, it still has considerable influence.

问答题A huge proportion of the Iranian budget is spent on subsidizing a wide range of goods for Iranian consumers from food to refined petroleum. President Ahmadinejad has been pro posing a big cut in that subsidy. His argument is that it should be replaced with cash handouts to the most needy. But the Iranian parliament is worried that Mr Ahmadinejad"s proposal could increase inflation to an annual figure of up to 50%. So members of parliament have halved the proposed cuts. There"s concern that a dramatic rise in prices could provoke a new round of unrest and perhaps lead the poorer classes to give more active support to the opposition. There"re also suspicions that the real motive for the subsidy cut is to make up for a budget shortfall. Clear figures are hard to get hold of, but it seems that Mr Ahmadinejad"s government failed to build up any substantial cash reserves when oil prices were at record levels. For years Iranians have been suffering multiple economic problems including inflation at or above 2%. Blame is placed either on Mr Ahmadinejad"s eccentric management of Iran"s finances or on international sanctions or a combination of both. With new sanctions actively under discussion, the situation is not about to get any easier.

问答题Directions: Study the following picture carefully and write an essay of 160-200 words in which you should 1) describe the picture briefly, 2) interpret the social phenomenon reflected by it, and 3) give your point of view. You should write neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.

问答题Registering Online with Real Names1．目前网络游戏等领域开始实行网络实名制；2．对于网络实名制，有人赞成，也有人反对；3．你的看法。

问答题Explain briefly bilingualism and diaglossia.

问答题生态旅游

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}A.Studythefollowingcartooncarefullyandwriteanessayinnolessthan200words.B.YouressaymusthewrittenclearlyonANSWERSHEET2.C.Youressayshouldmeettherequirementsbelow,1)describethecartoon,deducethepurposeofthedrawerofthepicture,2)andgiveyourcomments.

问答题Beijing Municipal Commission of Education issued a reform proposal on October 21 targeting the marking of the national college entrance examinations. Concerns have arisen over its possible impact. According to the Beijing education commission, one highlight of the new initiative is to downgrade the contribution of the English test from 150 to 100 while upgrading the role of the Chinese test to 180 from the original 150. Noticeably, corresponding changes also appear in senior high school entrance exams. Although it is still collecting public feedback, the commission"s proposals have sparked disputes over its possible impact on students. Write an argumentative essay of about 400 words on the following topic: My Personal Views on Beijing"s "Examination Reform

问答题美国在1940年代崛起为军事和经济强国，他们在各个领域的卓越成就让东方人为之神往。话虽如此，美国人却又一次转向中国文化，以丰富他们的生活。这个趋势方兴未艾。

问答题Cambridge psychologists and computer scientists have developed a mobile phone technology which can tell if a caller is happy, angry, bored or sad. The EmotionSence technology will enable psychologists to show links between moods, location and people. It uses speech-recognition software and phone sensors attached to standard smart phones to assess how people's emotions are influenced by day-to-day factors. The sensors analyze voice samples and then place them into 5 emotional categories: happiness, sadness, fear, anger and a neutral category (such as boredom or passivity). Scientists then cross-reference these emotions against surroundings, the time of day and the caller's relationship with the person they are speaking to. Results from a pilot scheme revealed that callers are happier at home, sadder at work and display more intense emotions in the evenings.

问答题tautology

问答题How do the speech of women and the speech of men differ from each other?

问答题There are two basic ways to see growth; one as a product, the other as a process. People have generally viewed personal growth as an external result or product that can easily be identified and measured. The worker who gets a promotion, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language—all these are examples of people who have measurable results to show for their efforts. By contrast, the process of personal growth is much more difficult to determine, since by definition it is a journey and not the specific signposts or landmarks along the way. The process is not the road itself, but rather the attitudes and feelings people have, their caution or courage, as they encounter new experiences and unexpected obstacles. In this process, the journey never really ends; there are always new ways to experience the world, new ideas to try, new challenges to accept.

问答题cushions

问答题Man first appeared on earth half a million years ago. Then he was little more than an animal; but early man had several big advantages over the animals. He had a large brain, he had an upright body, he had clever hands; and he had in his brain special groups of nerve cells, not present in animals, that enabled him to invent a language and use it to communicate with his fellow men. 46) This ability to speak was of great value because it allowed men to share ideas and to plan together, so that tasks impossible for a single person could be successfully undertaken by intelligent team-work. Speech also enabled ideas to be passed on from generation to generation so that the stock of human knowledge slowly increased. It was these special advantages that put men far ahead of other living creatures in the struggle for existence. They can use their intelligence against their difficulties and master them. Since these far-off times, when he first appeared, man has achieved a great deal. He has used animals, steam, electricity and oil to move himself more and more quickly from place to place. He has overcome rivers and seas with rafts, canoes, boats and ships of endless variety. 47) He mastered dark-ness, too, first with dim lights and later with brighter and brighter lamps, until he can now make for himself so dazzling a light with an are-lamp that, like the sun, it is too strong for his naked eyes. 48) Man found that his own muscles were too weak for the work which he wanted to do; he explored many forms of power -- wind, water, steam, electricity -- until now he has his hands on the ultimate source of physical energy, the nuclear power which ties together the smallest units from which all matter is made. From man's earliest days the flight of birds has raised his wonder and desire. Why should he not fly as they did? Then he began to experiment. At last he learnt how 'to make the fight machines to carry him through the air. Now he can fly faster than sound. Already he has plans for conquering space, and a series of experiments has been completed. 49) It will not be long now before man takes a giant step away from his planet and visits the moon, learning what it is like to have no weight to his body, no upward direction and no downward. Man, always a wanderer, has to overcome the difficulty of adapting himself to different climates, 50) Fortunately, in spite of having no thick skin or warm fur to protect him, he is peculiarly strong compared with other living creatures, most of whom are unable to live far outside the region that suits them best. Man, however, can go almost everywhere. You will find him living on the plains and up in the hills; he lives in damp areas and in dry; in the forests of the hot regions of the earth, and in snow huts in the Far North.

问答题Directions: For this part, you are supposed to write a composition in 100-120 words according to the following topic. 描写一件你认为(或者你经历的、听说的)最有意思或最有意义的事。内容包括： (1)何时、何事、何地。 (2)具体的事件经过。 (3)意义或意思所在。

问答题Directions: For this part, you are required to write a composition of 120 to 180 words. You should base your composition on the title and outline given below. Face-to-face or Other Types of Communication? (1)有的人喜欢面对面的交流，有的人喜欢打电话或发e-mail等其他交流方式。 (2)这两种类型的交流方式各有什么好处? (3)你更喜欢哪种交流方式?