问答题Wealthy Chinese tourists are expected to spend a billion pounds on luxury goods during the sales. The booming "Peking Pound" has accounted for almost a third of post-Christmas purchases of high end goods such as Burberry, Mulberry, Louis Vuitton and Gucci. Many West End stores have appointed assistants who speak Mandarin to help cash in on the massive new market. Retail analysts said Chinese shoppers have taken over from Russians and Arabs as the biggest spenders on luxury items in Britain. "Like anyone, they enjoy getting a bargain so the post-Christmas sales are inevitably an especially busy period." China"s rapidly-growing economy has generated a vast new market for luxury goods. But the high taxes levied on imported Western goods in China makes purchasing these products in Britain 20 to 30 per cent cheaper for them. They are also attracted by the cachet of buying a luxury item from its country of origin. He said Chinese buyers now account for about 30 per cent of the luxury goods market in Britain, followed by Russians, Arabs and Japanese, with British shoppers making up only around 15 per cent of the purchases. Luxury fashion house Burberry says Chinese shoppers make up nearly a third of the customers in its London stores, helping to boost sales by more than a fifth in 2010.

问答题Topic: {{B}}The Value of Failure{{/B}}

问答题昨夜肯定下雨了，因为我早晨醒来时发现草地是湿的。

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}Writeanessayof160--200wordsbasedonthefollowing.Inyouressay,youshould1)describethepicturebriefly,2)explainitsintendedmeaning,andthen3)supportyourviewwithanexample/examples.YoushouldwriteneatlyonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题Tell the sense relation between a and b in each pair:（北二外2007研)

问答题 Our daily existence is divided into two phases, as distinct as day and night. We call them work and play. We work many hours a day and we allow the necessary minimum for such activities as eating and shopping. 46) {{U}}The rest we spend in various activities which are known as recreations, an elegant word which disguises the fact that we usually do not even play in our hours of leisure, but spend them in various forms of passive enjoyment or entertainment.{{/U}} We need to make, therefore, a hard-and-fast distinction not only between work and play but, equally, between active play and passive entertainment. 47) {{U}}It is, I suppose, the decline of active play — of amateur sport — and the enormous growth of purely receptive entertainment which have given rise to a sociological interest in the problem{{/U}}. If the greater part of the population, instead of indulging in sport, spend their hours of leisure "viewing" television programs, there will inevitably be a decline in health and physique. In addition, we have yet to trace the mental and moral consequences of prolonged diet of sentimental or sensational spectacles on the screen. 48) {{U}}There is, if we are optimistic, the possibility that the diet is too thin and unnourishing to have much permanent effect on anybody.{{/U}} Nine films out of ten seem to leave absolutely no impression on the mind or imagination of those who have seen them. 49) {{U}}It is only when entertainment is active, participated in, practiced, that it can properly be called play, and as such it is a natural use of leisure.{{/U}} In that sense play stands in contrast to work, and is usually regarded as an activity that alternates with work. Work itself is not a single concept. We say quite generally that we work in order to make a living. Some of us work physically, tilling the land, minding the machines, digging the coal; others work mentally, keeping accounts, inventing machines, teaching and preaching, managing and governing. 50) {{U}}There does not seem to be any factor common to all these diverse occupations, except that they consume our time, and leave us little leisure.{{/U}}

问答题Linguistic determinism（上海交大2007研)

问答题Directions: You are asked to write an essay on the following topic: Universities should require every student to take some courses outside his or her field of study because acquiring knowledge of different academic fields is the best way to become truly educated. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? You should write at least 250 words. You should use your own ideas, knowledge and experience and support your arguments with examples and relevant evidence.

问答题You are asked to write a recommendation letter of your student, Li Ming, for a position of administrator in a company. Address it to the manager and express your reason (s) clearly. Write the letter with no less than 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the letter. Use "Wang Hua" instead. Do not write the address.

问答题成功的首要条件和最大秘诀就是：把你的精力、思想和资本全部集中在你正从事的事业上。一开始从事某种职业，就要下定决心在那一领域闯出一片天地来；做这一行的领导人物，采纳每一点改进之心，采用最优良的设备，对专业知识熟捻于心。

问答题Translate the following passage into English. 今天中国幼儿园的大多数孩子都是独生子女。他们机灵、好学、想象力丰富、精力充沛，但往往以自我为中心，不守纪律，而且比较脆弱。因此，我们的教育强调集体主义、互助友爱，鼓励孩子们自己照顾自己，并且教育他们与人分享的好处。根据对1000个幼儿园和小学儿童的表现所作的研究，可以看出，刚进幼儿园的4至6岁的独生子女都是以自我为中心的，而有兄弟姐妹的孩子表现较好，能与人合作。但9至10岁的独生子女表现出有自制力、不怕挫折的优点。这说明，幼儿园教育孩子要守纪律，要有合作精神，这样的教育是十分重要的。

问答题intralingual translation

问答题Directions: Write an announcement to your schoolmates, informing them an off-campus activity on September 18th 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{{B}}TOPIC{{/B}} With her entry into the WTO, China is being plunged into an international competition for talents, and in particular, for higher-level talents. To face this new challenge, China must do something, among other things, to reform her graduate (postgraduate) education system. State your opinion about this reform, and give the solid supporting details to your viewpoint.

问答题great recession

问答题卫星导航

问答题环境对于我们每个人都是重要的。 2．人们有着不同的环保意识。 3．行动起来，保护环境是每个人的义务。

问答题Translate the underlined parts of the following two passages into Chinese and write your Chinese versions on the ANSWER SHEET. 【F1】 I was slow to understand the deep grievances of women. This was because, as a boy, I had envied them. Before college, the only people I had ever known who were interested in art or music or literature, the only ones who read books, the only ones who ever seemed to enjoy a sense of ease and grace were the mothers and daughters. Like the menfolk, they fretted about money, they scrimped and made-do. But, when the pay stopped coming in, they were not the ones who had failed. Nor did they have to go to war, and that seemed to me a blessed fact. They went to see neighbors, to shop in town, to run errands at school, at the library, at church. No doubt, had I looked harder at their lives, I would have envied them less. It was not my fate to become a woman, so it was easier for me to see the graces. Few of them held jobs outside the home, and those who did filled thankless roles as clerks and waitresses. I didn"t see, then, what a prison a house could be, since houses seemed to me brighter, handsomer places than any factory. I did not realize—because such things were never spoken of—how often women suffered from men"s bullying. I did learn about the wretchedness of abandoned lone men. Even then I could see how exhausting it was for a mother to cater all day to the needs of young children. But if I had been asked, as a boy, to choose between tending a baby and tending a machine, I think I would have chosen the baby. I would like to reflect on one of the oldest of human exercises, the process by which over the years, and indeed over the centuries, we have undertaken to get the poor off our conscience. 【F2】 Rich and poor have lived together, always uncomfortably and sometimes perilously, since the beginning of time. Plutarch was led to say, "An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of republics. " And the problems that arise from the continuing co-existence of affluence and poverty—and particularly the process by which good fortune is justified in the presence of the ill fortune of others—have been an intellectual preoccupation for centuries. They continue to be so in our own time. One begins with the solution proposed in the Bible; the poor suffer in this world but are wonderfully rewarded in the next. Their poverty is a temporary misfortune; if they are poor and also meek, they eventually will inherit the earth. This is, in some ways, an admirable solution. It allows the rich to enjoy their wealth while envying the poor their future fortune.

问答题 At this time of year especially, weather is on everyone's mind-and on everyone's tongue. {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}It is the material for the conversation of board chairman and bored cleaning woman, of young and old, of the bright, the dull, the rich and the poor.{{/U}} As ff this basic coin of conversation needed to be gilded, the average American constantly reads about the weather in his newspapers and magazines, listens to regular forecasts of it on the radio and watches while some TV prophet milks it for cuteness on the evening news. {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}Since the weather is to man what the waters are to fish, his preoccupation with it serves a unique purpose, constituting a social phenomenon all its own{{/U}}. Far from arising merely to pass the time or bridge a silence, "weathertalk," as it might be called, is a sort of code by which people confirm and salute the sense of community they discover in the face of the weather's implacable influence. Inspired by exceptional weather, otherwise immutable strangers suddenly find themselves in communion. {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}As victims, people hate to cancel a picnic on account of rain, and yet they often cheer when the weather brings human activity to an abrupt stop{{/U}}. Most feel that the weather indeed affects their moods. If man sees the weather differently according to his circumstance, healthy fear works at the hub of his obsession with it. Through human history, weather has altered the march of events and caused some mighty cataclysms. Every year brings fresh reminders of the weather's power over human life and events in the form of horrifying tornadoes, hurricanes and floods. No wonder, then, that man's great dream has been some day to control the weather. {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}With computers on tap and electronic eyes in the sky, modern man has thus come far in dealing with the weather, alternately his enemy and benefactor, yet man's difficulty today is not too far removed from that of his remote ancestors.{{/U}} For all the advances of scientific forecasting, in spite of the thousands of daily bulletins and advisories that get flashed about, the weather is still ultimately unstable and unpredictable. Man's dream of controlling it is still just that-a dream. The very idea of control, in fact, raises enormous and troublesome questions. {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}The vision of scheduled weather also raises ambiguous feelings among the world's billions of weather fans and poses at least one irresistible question: If weather were as predictable as holidays and eclipses, what in the world would everyone talk about?{{/U}}