问答题Directions: Write a short composition of about 150 words on the topic given below. Topics: Is English Language Teaching Overemphasized in Chinese Education?

问答题Instead, it is occurring in biology laboratories, for it involves the deliberate manipulation in test tubes of the genes of crop plants. (Passage Four)

问答题Directions : Translate the following sentences into English and write on the ANSWER SHEET.

问答题Directions:Writeanessaybasedonthefollowingchart.Inyouressay,youshould1)interpretthechart,and2)giveyourcomments.Youshouldwriteatleast150words.WriteyouressayontheANSWERSHEET.某市居民出行方式调查

问答题Directions: Write a letter to invite a friend, Michelle, to travel abroad with you. 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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. (46)These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy--so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours of this joy. (47)I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. (48) I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine... A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. (49)Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life, (50)I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

问答题Compare Romantic poetry and Victorian Age poetry represented by Tennyson and Browning.

问答题The Empire State Building, the world"s tallest for four decades and still the tallest in New York City, will buy 100% wind power from Texas-based Green Mountain Energy Company. "It was a natural fit for us to combine 100% clean energy with our nearly completed, groundbreaking energy efficiency retrofit work," Anthony E. Malkin, president of Malkin Holdings, which runs the building, said in the announcement. "Clean energy and our nearly 40% reduced consumption of watts gives us a competitive advantage in attracting the best credit tenants at the best rents." The two-year contract for 55 million kilowatt hours of renewable energy annually will prevent nearly 100 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions each year, according to Green Mountain. The company estimates the CO 2 reduction is the equivalent of nearly every house in New York state turning off their lights for a week or planting nearly 150,000 trees—more than six times the number in Central Park. As part of its green retrofit, the Empire State Building has hired Serious Materials to remove, retrofit and replace each of its 6,514 double-hung, dual-pane windows. It"s also adding insulation and other upgrades.

问答题我不认为一件商品越贵就越好。

问答题Read the argument and the instructions that follow it, and then make any notes that will help you plan your response. Write your response on a separate sheet of paper. If possible, type your essay on a word processor. An economist addressed the following statement to a group of economists and policy makers: Our federal government often employs subsidies and trade measures to protect the well-being of certain traditional industries, such as steel production and agriculture, because these industries have been seen as vital to the nation's interests. In recent decades, however, the nation's economy has grown far more from the development of newer, information-oriented industries such as pharmaceuticals, computer technology, and media. These newer industries promise more growth in personal income and tax revenue than do the older industries, and they are generally less harmful to the environment. It is wrong, therefore, for the federal government to protect and subsidize traditional industries such as steel and agriculture, when such protectionist practices may delay workers in these traditional industries from moving to newer sectors of the economy that can offer greater benefits to workers and to the nation as a whole. Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument. In your discussion, be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. For example, you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking and what alternative examples or counterexamples might weaken the conclusion. You can also discuss what sort of evidence would strengthen or refute the argument, what changes in the argument would make it more logically sound, and what, if anything, would help you better evaluate its conclusion.

问答题这一年来，联合国忙于应付各项问题。这些问题范围之广，前所未有。就工作的时间、举行的会议或跋涉的旅程来说，从来没有一年是这样忙、这样辛苦的。在一些极为困难的问题上，联合国一年来取得了显著的进展。前几年开始出现的务实的作风，已经收到了实际的成效，联合国因此有机会展示能力、发挥潜力。就这些问题本身来说，就联合国的前途来说，这都是振奋人心的。

问答题big-budget movie

问答题Petroleum Petroleum, like coal, is found in sedimentary rocks, and was probably formed from long-dead living organisms. The rocks in which it is found are almost always of ocean origin and the petroleum-forming organisms must have been ocean creatures rather than trees. Instead of originating in accumulating woody matter, petroleum may be the product of the accumulating fatty matter of ocean organisms such as plankton, the myriads of single-celled creatures that float in the surface layers of the ocean. The fat of living organisms consists of atom combinations that are chiefly made up of carbon and hydrogen atoms. It does not take much in the way of chemical change to turn that into petroleum. It is only necessary that the organisms settle down into the ooze underlying shallow arms of the ocean under conditions of oxygen shortage. Instead of decomposing and decaying, the fat accumulates, is trapped under further layers of ooze, undergoes minor rearrangements of atoms, and finally is petroleum. Petroleum is lighter than water and, being liquid, bends to ooze upward through the porous rock that covers it. There are regions on Earth where some reaches the surface and the ancients spoke of pitch, bitumen, or asphalt. In ancient and medieval times, such petroleum seepages were more often looked on as medicines rather than fuels. Of course, the surface seepages are in very minor quantities. Petroleum stores, however, are sometimes overlain with nonporous rock. The petroleum seeping upward reaches that rock and them remains below it in a slowly accumulating pool. If a hole can be drilled through the rock overhead, the petroleum can move up through the hole. Sometimes the pressure on the pool is so great that the petroleum gushes high into the air. The first successful drilling was carried through in 1859 in Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Edwin Drake. If one found the right spot then it was easy to bring up the liquid material. It was much easier to do that than to send men underground to chip out chunks of solid coal. Once the petroleum was obtained, it could be moved overland through pipes, rather than in freight trains that had to be laboriously loaded and unloaded, as was the case with coal. The convenience of obtaining and transporting petroleum encouraged its use. The petroleum could be distilled into separate fractions, each made up of molecules of a particular size. The smaller the molecules, the easier it was to evaporate the fraction. Through the latter half of the nineteenth century, the most important fraction of petroleum was "kerosene", made up of middle-sized molecules that did not easily evaporate. Kerosene was used in lamps to give light. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, however, engines were developed which were powered by the explosions of mixtures of air and inflammable vapors within their cylinders. The most convenient inflammable vapor was that derived from "gasoline", a petroleum fraction made up of small molecules and one that therefore vaporized easily. Such "internal combustion engines" are more compact than earlier steam engines and can be made to start at a moments' notice, whereas steam engines require a waiting period while the water reserve warms to be boiling point. As automobiles, trucks, buses, and aircraft of all sorts came into use, each with internal combustion engines, the demand for petroleum zoomed upward. Houses began to be heated by burning fuel oil rather than coal. Ships began to use oil; electricity began to be formed from the energy of burning oil. In 1900, the energy derived from burning petroleum was only 4 percent that of coal. After World War II , the energy derived from burning the various fractions of petroleum exceeded that of coal, and petroleum is not the chief fuel powering the world's technology. The greater convenience of petroleum as compared with coal is, however, balanced by the fact that petroleum exist on Earth in far smaller quantities than coal does. (This is not surprising, since the fatty substances from which petroleum was formed are far less common on Earth than the woody substances from which coal was formed.) The total quantity of petroleum now thought to exist on Earth is about 14 trillion gallons. In weight that is only one-ninth as much as the total existing quantity of coal and, at the present moment, petroleum is being used up much more quickly. At the present rate of the use, the world's supply of petroleum may last for only thirty years or so. There is another complication in the fact that petroleum is not nearly so evenly distributed as coal is. The major consumers of energy have enough local coal to keep going but are, however, seriously short of petroleum. The United Stated has 10 percent of the total petroleum reserves of the world in its own territory, and has been a major producer for decades. It still is, but its enormous consumption of petroleum products is now making it an oil importer, so that it is increasingly dependent on foreign nations for this vital resource. The Soviet Union has about as much petroleum as the United States, but it uses less, so it can be an exporter. Nearly three-fifths of all known petroleum reserves on Earth is to be found in the territory of the various Arabic-speaking countries. Kuwait, for instance, which is a small nation at the head of the Persian Gulf, with an area only three-fourths that of Massachusetts and a population of about half a million, possesses about one-fifth of all the known petroleum reserves in the world. The political problems this creates are already becoming crucial.

问答题under-translation

问答题中国证券监督管理委员会

问答题Please rephrase the following sentences, to disambiguate them.

问答题Five scores is like a day that has just gone by flight, and one thousand years the passing clouds in your sight.

问答题"Never give up" is a popular saying in many cultures. You are to write a composition of approximately 300 words on the statement "Never give up" , showing your agreement or disagreement. In the first part of your composition, you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Be sure to provide a title for your composition.

问答题The environmental and social costs of closing and rehabilitating(恢复)old and abandoned mines around the world are likely in trillions of dollars, and far beyond the capability of mining companies alone to deal with, Sir Robert Wilson, chairman of London-based metals giant Rio Tinto Plc said on Tuesday. 46)Wilson told Reuters at a mining industry conference on sustainable development in Toronto that a recent estimate puts rehabilitation costs just in the United States, where regulation is stricter than in many other countries, at ＄35 billion. "If you look at where the real problems are, in Russia, Eastern Europe, South Africa, India, ina, the extent of the (mine) legacy issues is normous, and it's totally beyond the capability of this industry, either financially or technically, to make a meaningful contribution to that," Wilson said. 47) "Huge" and "gigantic" were other terms being tossed around to describe the problem of old and abandoned mines at the three-day Global Mining Initiative meeting in Toronto, which is being held in preparation for the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in August. But attempts were few at fixing an exact cost on what the industry calls "heritage issues"—the environmental destruction and tears in the social fabric left over from a 100 years of mining projects that no one has taken responsibility for. Prod they are still happening, some experts at the conference said. James Kuipers, of the U.S. Center for Science in Public Participation, which provides technical services to local and tribal governments, said his group estimates that 95 percent of operating mines in the United States have only vague plans for dealing with the environmental consequences of shutting down, such as the pollution of local water courses. 48)He said that in cases where owners have just walked away or gone bankrupt, it is the taxpayer that has been stuck with the liability. "The public no longer favors new mining in the United States, and mistrusts existing mines," he added. Wilson told Reuters that most large, established companies are able to come to terms with mine closures. Rio Tinto and several other big companies make serious provisions for environmental and social rehabilitation as the planning stages of their projects, he said. 49)"But there are some particular areas of concern for large gold operations in the United States, which have got quite a substantial environmental heritage. I know that is worrying one or two companies quite a lot in terms of the potentially very large liabilities that will be crystallized(明确)on closure. There are going to be some companies that are going to be sweating on this a bit," he said. 50) Many delegates at the conference stressed that governments must become more involved in the issues of mine closings and Kuipers suggested taxing metals consumption to help pay for the clean-up. Some said a global closure fund should be created with contributions from industry, government and institutions. But World Bank official Monika Weber Fahr, who noted that the World Bank is the No. 1 source of mine-closing finances, warned that knowing there is a back-up would encourage irresponsibility. "It should be the polluter that should be paying," she said.