问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. Carbon dioxide is a "greenhouse" gas, which means that it helps to trap heat in the atmosphere, (46){{U}}More carbon dioxide on the face of it means a hotter earth and that might lead to heaving seas, scorching summers, dying forests, and a watery end to the world' s coastal cities.{{/U}} But carbon dioxide is also an inevitable by-product of burning the fuels—coal, off and natural gas--that make an industrial way of life possible. The results of cutting its production could therefore be profound. People in rich countries might have to change their comfortable existence in order to consume less energy. (47){{U}}Those in countries trying to become rich might see their own aspirations to such comforts confounded. {{/U}}or at least delayed. It is therefore important to ask exactly how real the threat of global warming is, just what sort of climate change it implies, how imminently that change can be expected, and what the cheapest way to deal with any adverse consequences it brings would actually be. (48) {{U}}That the greenhouse effect exists is not a matter of dispute.{{/U}} Joseph Fourier. a French physicist, theorized as far back as 1827 that the earth' s atmosphere acts rather like the glass of a plant-breeder' s hothouse: in other words, the air lets in the sun' s heat while slowing its release back into space. (49){{U}}Without this effect, the earth would be some 30'C colder than it is, and life would scarcely exist.{{/U}} The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been rising for more than a century, as the use of fossil fuels has become widespread. And human activity also puts other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Though released in smaller quantities, some of these are more potent in their warmth-inducing effects than carbon dioxide. All told, manmade emissions account for slightly less than 4% of all greenhouse gases. That may not sound a lot, but this 4% is reckoned to have enhanced the earth' s average temperature by between 0.3℃ and 0.6℃ over the past years. And in matters climatic, small changes can sometimes have large consequences. (50){{U}}The glaciers that rumbled over Europe and North America during the last ice age, for example, were triggered by a fall of 2℃ in the average summer temperature around 115,000 years ago.{{/U}}

问答题Your assumption isn"t based on adequate facts.

问答题感谢信

问答题There was more of everything, including problems.

问答题What is the difference between literal language and figurative language? Please give concrete examples to elaborate your points.

问答题Laughlin acknowledges that "a lot of responsible people" are worried about atmospheric concentra- tions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels. This has, he says, "the potential" to modify the weather by raising average temperatures several degrees centigrade and that governments have taken "significant, although ineffective" steps to slow the warming. "On the scales of time relevant to itseff, the earth doesn"t care about any of these governments or their legislation. " Someday, all the fossil fuels that used to be in the ground will be burned. After that, in about a millennium, the earth will dissolve most of the resulting carbon dioxide into the oceans. The dissolving will leave the concentration in the atmosphere only slightly higher than today"s. Then "over tens of millennia, or perhaps hundreds" the earth will transfer the excess carbon dioxide into its rocks, "eventually returning levels in the sea and air to what they were before humans arrived on the scene". This will take an eternity as humans reckon, but a blink in geologic time.

问答题It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer．Just as inevitably，the retreat from predominance proved painful．By the mid-1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial competitiveness．Some huge American industries，such as consumer electronics，had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign competition．By 1987 there was only one American television maker left，Zenith． (Now there is none：Zenith was bought by South Korea’S LG Electronics in July．)Foreign-made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic market．America's machinetool industry was on the ropes．

问答题Suprasegmental features（中山大学2005研；南开大学2004研)

问答题How to understand Ralph W. Emerson"s statement "What I must to is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous I actual and in intellectual life, may serve of for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness," in terms of American characteristics?

问答题Outline (1)The loss of traditional culture in a nation is frequently found under the influence of marketing economy (2)How to prevent cultural loss (3)Your views on this topic

问答题She became aware of something about her. With an effort she roused herself to see what it was that penetrated her consciousness. The tall white lilies were reeling in the moonlight, and the air was charged with their perfume, as with a presence. Mrs. Morel gasped slightly in fear. She touched the big, pallid flowers on their petals, then shivered. They seemed to be stretching in the moonlight. She put her hand into one white bin: the gold scarcely showed on her fingers by moonlight. She bent down to look at the binful of yellow pollen; but it only appeared dusky. Then she drank a deep draught of the scent. It almost made her dizzy.Mrs. Morel leaned on the garden gate,looking out,and she lost herself awhile. She did not know what she thought. Except for a slight feeling of sickness, and her consciousness in the child, herself melted out like scent into the shiny, pale air. After a time the child, too, melted with her in the mixing-pot of moonlight, and she rested with the hills and lilies and houses, all swum together in a kind of swoon.

问答题Directions: For this part, you are supposed to write a notice in English in 100-120 words based on the following situation. Remember to write it clearly. 你(Li Yuan)丢失了钱包，需要写一个寻物启事。内容包括： (1)丢失的时间和地点。 (2)描述钱包内外(钱包的颜色、钱包里的东西)。 (3)提供与失主联系的方式。

问答题Directions: Write a letter to invite students to participate in a book donation activity organized by Students" Union. You should include the details you think necessary. You should write about 100 words. 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 : You are to write in no less than 120 words on the topic of "My Position". You may base your composition on the Chinese clues given below. 尼采的处世之道是：“不要爬上山顶去，也不要站在山脚下，最好从半山处去看这个世界。”其实站在哪里看世界好，每个人都有自己的认识和体验。 1．你是否同意尼采的人生观和价值观? 2．你的认识和体验是什么?

问答题We should not depend on the government for solving all the problems.

问答题大规模裁员

问答题管理人员应该让职员感到平易近人。

问答题(1) For most people, shopping is still a matter of wandering down the high street or loading a cart in a shopping mall. Soon, that will change. Electronic commerce is growing fast and will soon bring people more choice. There will however, be a cost: protecting the consumer from fraud will be harder. Many governments therefore want to extend high-street regulations to the electronic world. But politicians would be wiser to see cyberspace as a basis for a new era of corporate self-regulation. (2) Consumers in rich countries have grown used to the idea that the government takes responsibility for everything from the stability of the banks to the safety of the drugs, or their rights to refund when goods are faulty. But governments cannot enforce national laws on businesses whose only presence in their country is on a screen. Other countries have regulators, but the rules of consumer protection differ. As does enforcement. Even where a clear right to compensation exists, the on-line catalogue customer in Tokyo, say, can hardly to New York to extract a refund for a dud purchase. (3) One answer is for governments to cooperate more: to recognize each other's rules. But that requires years of work and volumes of detailed rules. And plen~ of countries have rules too fanciful for sober states to accept. Then let the electronic businesses do the "regulation" themselves. They do, after all, have a self-interest in doing so. (4) In electronic commerce a reputation for honest dealing will be a valuable competitive asset. Governments, too may compete to be trusted. For instance, customers ordering medicines on-line may prefer to buy from the United States because they trust the rigorous screening of the Food and Drug Administration: or they may decide that the FDA'S rules are too strict, and buy from Switzerland instead. Consumers will still need to use their judgment. But precisely because the technology is new, electronic shoppers are likely for a while to be a lot more cautious than consumers of the normal sort--and the new technology will also make it easier for them to complain noisily when a company lets them down. In this way, at least, the advent of cyberspace may argue for fewer consumer protection laws, not more.