问答题Directions: In this part, you are to write an essay of 160—200 words on "Do minors have aright to privacy?" . You should state two opposite views on the issue. At the end of your essay you are required to give your own opinion. You should write it neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.

问答题Inthispart,youareallowedtowriteacompositiononthetopicTheChangesinChina'sForeignTrade.Youshouldwriteatleast150words,basedon,thefollowinginformations.

问答题Our attitudes towards daydreaming have been much like our attitudes towards dreaming in our sleep. Night dreaming was once thought to interfere with normal sleep, to rob us of necessary rest. But experiments have indicated that dreams are a normal part of sleep, and that dreaming each night is necessary for mental health. 1 Dr. William Dement, who is experimenting on the significance of dreaming at Sinai Hospital in New York, reports that those subjects whose dreams are interrupted regularly exhibit emotional disturbances: high blood pressure, anxiety, irritability, and difficulty in concentrating. "One of the subjects," Dr. Dement reported, "left the study in apparent alarm, and two insisted on stopping, presumably because the stress was too great." As soon as the subjects were allowed to dream again, all psychological disturbances vanished. Prolonged daydream deprivation also results in mounting anxiety and tension. And many daydream-deprived people find that eventually the need can no longer be suppressed: daydreaming erupts spontaneously. 2 During times of stress, daydreaming erects a temporary shield against reality, in much the same way that building a house protects our bodies from the elements. Both may be seen as forms of escapism, but no one wants to spend life in an unrelieved battle for survival. We are entitled to occasional strategic withdrawals to regroup our forces. Recent research on daydreaming indicates that it is an essential part of daily life. Daydreaming, it has been discovered, is an effective means of relaxation. But the beneficial effects of daydreaming go beyond that. 3 Experiments conducted by Dr. Joan T. Freyberg, a New York City psychotherapist, showed that daydreaming significantly helps intellectual growth, powers of concentration, attention span, and the ability to communicate with others. Dr. Freyberg also discovered that her patients who easily engaged in fantasy-making usually responded more quickly to treatment.

问答题American and Japanese researchers are developing a smart car that will help drivers avoid accidents by predicting when they are about to make a dangerous move. The smart car of the furore will be able to tell if drivers are going to turn, change lanes, speed up, slow down or pass another car. If the driver"s intended action could lead to an accident, the car will activate a warning system or override the move. 1 "By shifting the emphasis of car safety away from design of the vehicle itself and looking more toward the driver"s behavior, the developers believe that they can start to build cars that adapt to suit people"s needs," New Scientist magazine said. Alex Pentland of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology collaborated on the project with Andrew Liu who works for the Japanese carmaker Nissan. 2 Tests of their smart car using a driving simulator have shown that it is 95 percent accurate in predicting a drivels move 12 seconds in advance. 3 The system is based on driving behavior which the researchers say can be divided into chains of subactions which include preparatory moves. It monitors the driver"s behavior patterns to predict the next move. "To make its predictions, Nissan"s smart car uses a computer and sensors on the steering wheel, accelerator and brake to monitor a person"s driving patterns. 4 A brief training session, in which the driver is asked to perform certain maneuvers, allows the system to calculate the probability of particular actions occurring in two-second time segments," the magazine said. Liu has also done work on tracking eye movement to predict driving behavior. 5 He said the smart car could be adapted to monitor eye movement which could give even earlier predictions of when a driver is about to make a wrong move.

问答题选美

问答题nationalization

问答题In the following three sentences, the particle "up" stays in different positions, i. e. immediately after the verb; in between the noun phrase and the relative clause; and at the end of the sentence. Can you formulate a syntactic rule to explain the position changes of the particle?(1)She stood up the man who offered her a diamond.(2)She stood the man up who offered her a diamond.(3)She stood the man who offered her a diamond up.（南开大学2010研)

问答题The steadily growing number of single-person households in Britain has raised plenty of troubling issues—how to build enough dwellings to accommodate them, what to do about the decline in traditional family cohesion—to keep planners and sociologists busy. But one as yet unstudied side- effect of this social trend appears to be an explosion in the cat population. The Pet Food Manufacturers' Association reckons that the number of dogs has declined from a peak of 7.4 million in 1990 to 6.5 million now. (47)Meanwhile the domestic cat population has risen steadily, overtaking dog numbers in 1993 to stand now at about 8 million, twice as many as there were in 1965. Changing life-styles, more than anything else, are responsible for this. (48)More single-person households and more married women at work means that fewer households are able to give a dog the walks and other attention it needs. Cats, on the other hand, apart from daily feeding, can be left pretty much to their own devices. Which also means that they sometimes wander off in search of a better place to stay if the mood takes them. This causes another problem: feral eats. (49)As cats are harder to round up than dogs, and breed prolifically—a pair can produce ten offspring a year—large colonies of 80 or so cats hiding out in disused buildings are increasingly common. While the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals and the Cat Protection League re-house about 125,000 lost or unwanted cats a year, the League guesses that there may be about 1.2m wild cats in Britain. (50)If they are not a nuisance the animal charities neuter the ones they can catch and then leave them alone. Animal-lovers are pleased. Bird-lovers are not. They blame cats for the sharp decline in the number of small birds in Britain. The League, however, has an. idea for making wild cats socially useful. It tries to persuade farmers and garden centres to take them on as environmentally-friendly rat- catchers. A bunch of neutered, wild cats could well be an efficient way of controlling a potentially plague of rats and mice.

问答题pedagogical

问答题21. We might be inclined to attribute to the act of thinking complete from language if the individual formed or were able to form his concepts without the verbal guidance of his environment. Yet most likely the mental shape of an individual, growing up under such conditions, would be very poor. Thus we may conclude that the mental development of the individual and his way of forming concepts depend to a high degree upon language. This makes us realize to what extent the same language means the same mentality. In this sense thinking and language are linked together. What distinguishes the language of science from languages, as we ordinarily understand the word? How is it that scientific language is international? What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data. As an illustration, let us take the language of Euclidean geometry and algebra. They manipulate with a small number of independently introduced concepts, respectively symbols, such as the integral number, the straight line, the point, as well as with signs which designate the fundamental concepts. This is the basis for the construction, respectively definition of all other statements and concepts. The connection between concepts and statements on the one hand and the sensory data on the other hand is established through acts of counting and measuring whose performance is sufficiently well determined. 22. The super-national character of scientific concepts and scientific language is due to the fact that they have been set up by the best brains of all countries and all times. In solitude and yet in cooperative effort as regards the final effect they created the spiritual tools for the technical revolutions which have transformed the life of mankind in the last centuries. Their system of concepts has served as a guide in the bewildering chaos of perceptions so that we learned to grasp general truths from particular observations. 23. What hopes and fears does the scientific method imply for mankind? I do not think that this is the right way to put the question. Whatever this tool in the hand of man will produce depends entirely on the nature of the goals alive in this mankind. Once these goals exist, the scientific method furnishes means to realize them. Yet it cannot furnish the very goals. The scientific method itself would not have led anywhere. It would not even have been born without a passionate striving for clear understanding. 24. Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem--in my opinion--to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free development of the talents of all men, we shall not be in want of the means to approach such a state. Even if only a small part of mankind strives for such gods, their superiority will prove itself in the long run.

问答题"Ulysses"(a poem)

问答题One stereotype of wisdom is a wizened Zen-master smiling benevolently at the antics of his pupils, while referring to them as little grasshoppers or some such affectation, safe in the knowledge that one day they, too, will have been set on the path that leads to wizened masterhood. But is it true that age brings wisdom? A study two years ago in North America, by Igor Grossmann of the University of Waterloo, in Canada, suggested that it is. 11 In as much as it is possible to quantify wisdom, Dr. Grossmann found that elderly Americans had more of it than youngsters. He has, however, now extended his investigation to Asia—the land of the wizened Zen-master-and, in particular, to Japan. There, he found, in contrast to the West, that the grasshoppers are their masters" equals almost from the beginning. Dr. Grossmann"s study, just published in Psychological Science, recruited 186 Japanese from various walks of life and compared them with 225 Americans. Participants were asked to read a series of pretend newspaper articles. 12 Half described conflict between groups, such as a debate between residents of an impoverished Pacific island over whether to allow foreign oil companies to operate there following the discovery of petroleum. (Those in favor viewed it as an opportunity to get rich; those against feared the disruption of ancient ways and potential ecological damage.) 13 The other half took the form of advice columns that dealt with conflicts between individuals: siblings, friends and spouses. After reading each article, participants were asked "What do you think will happen after that?" and "Why do you think it will happen this way?" Their responses were recorded and transcribed. 14 Dr. Grossmann and his colleagues removed age-related information from the transcripts, and also any clues to participants" nationalities, and then passed the edited versions to a group of assessors. These assessors were trained to rate transcribed responses consistently, and had been tested to show that their ratings were statistically comparable with one another. 15 The upshot was that, as Dr. Grossmann had found before, Americans do get wiser with age. Their intergroup wisdom score averaged 45 at the age of 25 and 55 at 75. Their interpersonal score similarly climbed from 46 to 50. Japanese scores, by contrast, hardly varied with age. Both 25-year-olds and 75-year-olds had an average intergroup wisdom of 51. For interpersonal wisdom, it was 53 and 32.

问答题Why is Mark Twain considered as a social critic?

问答题The Afro-American literature has achieved significant growth since 1940s. Discuss with a look at the works of at least two of the following writers: Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker.

问答题(66) High unemployment rates, especial among young workers, have led to protests in countries as varied as Latvia, Chile, Greece, Bulgaria and Iceland and contributed to strikes in Britain and France. (67) Last month, the government of Iceland, that economy is expected to contract 10 percent this year, collapsed and (68) the prime minister moved up national elections after weeks of protests by Icelanders angering by soaring unemployment and rising process. Just last week, the new United States director of national intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, told Congress that (69) instability caused by the global economical crisis had become the biggest security threat facing the United States, outpacing terrorism. (70) In emerging economies like those in Eastern Europe, there are fears that growing joblessness might encourage a move from free-market, pro-Western policies, (71) while in developed countries unemployment could bolster efforts to protect local industries in the expense of global trade. (72) Indeed, some European stimulus packages, as well one passed Friday in the United States, include protections for domestic companies, increasing the likelihood of protectionist trade battles. (73) Protectionist measures were an intense matter of discussion as finance minister from the Group of 7 economies met this weekend in Rome. (74) While the number of jobs in the United States have been falling since the end of 2007, the pace of layoffs in Europe, Asia and the developing world has caught up only recently (75) as in companies that resisted deed cuts in the past follow the lead of their American counterparts.

问答题Karaoke is a very popular form of entertainment in Asia. Karaoke was first made popular by Daisuke Inoue in Kobe, Japan, in 1971. By the 1980s, there was a vast array of karaoke products on the market in Asia. The video game, Karaoke Revolution, was released in the year of 2003. In this game, players could receive a score based on their singing performance. Karaoke services then became available through mobile phones, and users could also play karaoke songs using software on their personal computers. Websites started popping up all over the Internet, creating a global karaoke community. On these sites, singers can record and even video themselves performing. Even some car manufacturers jumped on the karaoke bandwagon and had karaoke players installed as part of a car"s DVD player. There are even VCDs available now for Chinese opera karaoke, so that the elderly can have fun singing songs of the past.

问答题Directions: Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Now, don't get me wrong-I know it's not my place to tell women when they can and can't have children and how many they can have. I can testify that it's hard to be childless at 36． 46． {{U}}People ask you all the time if you're going to start a family-as if you didn't already know that your biological clock was winding down. {{/U}}What's worse, they begin lecturing you on fertility options as if to say, "Since it's clear that you can't catch a partner, you'd better do this on your own. " I can't imagine what that feels like when you're 66． It must be very painful. And trust me, I'm equally aghast when men have children in their 70s and 80s ( Saul Bellow was 84 when his fifth child was born). 47．{{U}}I'm just saying that sometimes for the sake of the children-to-be, we may have to put away our longings and grieve for the children we might have had rather than go to the ends of the earth to get them.{{/U}} The death of a parent can cause young children to suffer disproportionately from depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and drug abuse in their later years, according to studies published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine and The American Journal of Psychiatry. I think parents should take that into account when they're planning a family. And yes, I know I could drop dead tomorrow; life gives no one guarantees. After Bousada de Lara died, Sarah Vine wrote a commentary for The Times of London, which concluded, "No one thinks more carefully about having a child than the person who, through misfortune, or trauma or simply because they happen to appreciate the work of Judy Garland, cannot do so by natural means. " That may be true, it certainly feels true, but we have to think about the children, not just having them. As it is, I worry that I'm too old to raise a kid. I squandered too much of my energy partying in my 20s. I should have had children when I didn't need sleep and had a much more cavalier attitude about my career. Of course, when I was in my 20s, I had very little patience and even less serf-control, so maybe that time wouldn't have been any better. There's never a perfect time for a kid, and I respect that. But just as we worry about teenagers having children, I also worry about kids born to elderly parents. Are they being shortchanged? Won't they miss having grandparents to spoil them? Maybe not-there are millions of ways for children to be happy. They don't have to be part of a traditional nuclear family. Nor does there need to be a mommy and a daddy ; they can have a couple of mommies or just a daddy. 48．{{U}}Just somebody or somebodies to give them a sense of permanent attachment and security- someone to count on when you skin your knee or experience your first heartbreak or do badly on an exam, someone to throw your graduation cap to. {{/U}}Even on the cusp of 40, I speak to my parents almost every day, and I'm as dependent on their help as I ever was. 49．{{U}}There are probably some of you reading this now who think I'm too old to raise a baby into adulthood. But, I do have actuarial tables on my side.{{/U}} I have a hunch that cases like that of Bousada de Lara and, of course, Octomom, are going to force fertility clinics to establish more rules about who can use their services and under what circumstances. Just as public outrage brought a uniform set of requirements for people to adopt or contract a surrogate mother, there is already a push to further regulate fertility clinics. 50．{{U}}Like it or not, once we turn to others to facilitate the conception of our families, we become subject to their morals and ethics as well.., and maybe that's not always a bad thing.{{/U}}

问答题preference structure