问答题Directions: One of your friends Wang Tao is going to pursue his M.A. studies at Princeton University. He will arrive there one month before registration. Write a letter to your friend Mark Green at that university to 1) introduce Wang Tao, 2) ask him to help Wang Tao get familiar with the university and rent an apartment there. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write the address.

问答题Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things—from subnuclear particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

问答题Directions:Studythefollowingdrawingscarefullyandwriteanessayof160～200wordsinwhichyoushould1)describethedrawingsbriefly,2)explaintheirintendedmeaning,andthen3)supportyourviewwithanexample/examples.YoushouldwriteneatlyonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题This part is to test your ability in practical writing. Now you are required to write a letter according to the information given in Chinese. Your writing should contain over 100 words and you should write it on the Composition Sheet. 向学校食堂有关人员写一封有关食物标准下降的投诉信。信中指出：食堂曾经提供过制作精良(well-prepared)的食品，但自本月初以来，不仅菜的品种减少，而且质量亦有明显的下降，不是做过头(overcook)就是不够熟，……以致不少学生不再来食堂就餐。希望就此得到食堂的解释并了解食堂今后的打算。 写信人：张宁 写信日期：2006年3月15日

问答题Directions:Writeanessayof160-200wordsbasedonthefollowingdrawing.Inyouressay,youshould1)describethedrawingbriefly,2)interpretitsintendedmeaning,and3)giveyourcomments.YoushouldwriteneatlyontheANSWERSHEET.

问答题United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

问答题Directions: For this part, you are supposed to write a composition of about 100 - 120 words based on the following situation. Remember to write it clearly. 一位学者将在你所在的社区做一个讲座。请以社区委员会(Neighborhoods Committee)的名义写一份通知。内容包括： (1)谁做讲座； (2)讲座主题； (3)讲座的时间、地点； (4)讲座对象。

问答题They have built as many houses this year as they did last year.

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}{{I}}Studythefollowingphotocarefullyandwriteanessayinwhichyoushould1)describethephotobriefly,2)interpretthemeaningreflectedbyit,and3)offerarelevantexample.Youshouldwrite160-200words.YoushouldwriteneatlyonANSWERSHEET2.{{/I}}

问答题In recent years, railroads have been combining with each other, merging into super systems, causing heightened concerns about monopoly. As recently as 1995, the top four railroads accounted for under 70 percent of the total ton-miles moved by rails. Next year, after a series of mergers is completed, just four railroads will control well over 90 percent of all the freight moved by major rail carriers. 71. Supporters of the new super systems argue that these mergers will allow for substantial cost reductions and better coordinated service. Any threat of monopoly, they argue, is removed by fierce competition from trucks. But many shippers complain that for heavy bulk commodities traveling long distances, such as coal, chemicals, and grain, trucking is too costly and the railroads therefore have them by the throat. The vast consolidation within the rail industry means that most shippers are served by only one rail company. Railroads typically charge such "captive" shippers 20 to 30 percent more than they do when another railroad is competing for the business. Shippers who feel they are being overcharged have the right to appeal to the federal government's Surface Transportation Board for rate relief, but the process is expensive, time-consuming, and will work only in truly extreme cases. 72. Railroads justify rate discrimination against captive shippers on the grounds that in the long run it reduces everyone's cost. If railroads charged all customers the same average rate, they argue, shippers who have the option of switching to trucks or other forms of transportation would do so, leaving remaining customers to shoulder the cost of keeping up the line. It's theory to which many economists subscribe, but in practice it often leaves railroads in the position of determining which companies will flourish and which will fail. "Do we really want railroads to be the arbiters of who wins and who loses in the marketplace?" asks Martin Bercovici, a Washington lawyer who frequently represents shipper. 73. Many captive shippers also worry they will soon be his problem with a round of huge rate increases. The railroad industry as a whole, despite its brightening fortunes, still does not earn enough to cover the cost of the capital it must invest to keep up with its surging traffic. Yet railroads continue to borrow billions to acquire one another, with Wall Street cheering them on. Consider the $ 10. 2 billion bid by Norfolk 'Southern and CSX to acquire Conrail this year. Conrail's net railway operating income in 1996 was just $ 427 million, less than half of the carrying costs of the transaction. Who's going to pay for the rest of the bill? Many captive shippers fear that they will, as Norfolk Southern and CSX increase their grip on the market.

问答题双开(一种纪律处分)

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on Answer Sheet 2. Rome, June 13--A law that imposes strict rules on assisted fertility will remain on the books, after the failure on Monday of a hard-fought referendum that rubbed into one of Italy's sorest spots: the relationship between church and state. (46){{U}}The fight leading up to two days of voting on Sunday and Monday mobilized the nation's political and religious establishments like few others, as the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church including the new pope, Benedict XVI--urged Italians to boycott the referendum.{{/U}} In the end, the outcome was not even close. Only 26 percent of as many as 50 million eligible Italians voted, meaning that the referendum automatically failed, with the votes uncounted: in its attempt to repeal four crucial sections of a restrictive fertility law passed last year. For the referendum to be valid, 50 percent of eligible voters had to take part. (47){{U}}The results would seem an immediate victory for the church and for the young papacy(教皇权利) of Benedict, in a Europe where church influence has declined significantly in recent decades.{{/U}} Similar referendums in Italy on divorce and abortion in the 1970's and 80's passed overwhelmingly despite church opposition, and Italians now seem likely to debate whether apathy or a reverse in secularism in the home of the Roman Catholic Church defeated this referendum. "The results of today mean that Italy is maybe more similar to Texas than to Massachusetts," said Rocco Buttiglione, Italy's culture minister and a friend of Pope Benedict. "Italians want a democracy with values--that values human life--and that is why they rejected this referendum." For the church, the results seemed especially important since the referendum concerned issues central to church teachings on values. (48){{U}}The fertility law, passed here under church lobbying last year, defines life as beginning at conception and bans most experimentation on human embryos (胚胎).{{/U}} "I'm struck by the maturity of the Italian people," Cardinal Camillo Ruini, president of the Italian bishops' conference, told reporters, according to Reuters. Cardinal Ruini, a top Vatican official and close aide to Benedict, regularly urged Italians to abstain from the referendum. (49) {{U}}Conceding a heavy defeat, the political forces that supported the referendum characterized the results as a blow to the wails between church and state.{{/U}} They warned that the church would next set its sights on Italy's abortion law. "There is a problem of the climate, of the atmosphere in this country," Emma Bonino, a leader of the Radical Party who spearheaded the fight for legalized abortion in the early 1}980's, told reporters. "It is not secular, and it's very worrying." (50){{U}}But some experts cautioned against reading too much into the results, noting that Italy is a particular nation, where church and state are entwined like nowhere else; that a battle over abortion would be much more difficult; that a similar fight seemed unlikely to gain ground elsewhere in Europe.{{/U}}

问答题The Commonwealth

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问答题This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing.

问答题The British linguist F.R. Palmer argues that "there is no absolute distinction between [gradable antonyms and complementary antonyms]." Do you believe so? Support your view with examples.

问答题Directions:Writeanessayof160—200wordsbasedonthefollowingpicture.Inyouressay,youshould1)describethepicturebriefly,2)explainitsintendedmeaning,andthen3)supportyourviewwithanexample/examplesYonshouldwriteneatlyonANSWERSHEET2.(20points)

问答题1．7天长假给我们带来了许多好处2．长假也带来了一些问题3．你的建议

问答题Directions: Your friend Peter had a traffic accident and one of his legs was injured. Write a note asking after his health. You should write 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the note. Using "Li Ming" instead.

问答题It was not until yesterday evening that he changed his mind.