问答题With mobile phones now doubling as everything from cameras to music players, a wireless technology known as Bluetooth is in a lot of people"s pockets too. This wireless protocol allows us to send photos from our phones to a computer. Most computers are Bluetooth-compatible, but if you have an old model that isn"t, ask about a device for your USB drive to provide wireless connectivity. The technology can also be used to stream music from a phone to a hi-fi unit; gaming consoles, which long ago ditched the cords that connect controllers to the main unit, now use Wi-Fi networks to connect players worldwide; and some radios can connect to wireless LANs, exposing them to worldwide radio stations? Wireless technology is also appearing in stereos. In Sony"s Radio Frequency system, for example, speakers are connected wirelessly to amplifiers, so they can be placed anywhere in a room, the only cord being the plug into the wall. Cord-free electricity is some way off yet, but a wireless world no longer seems like pie in the sky.

问答题It is just one example of the growing concern over the increasing power consumption and environmental impact of computers. A study found that the power consumption of data centers doubled between 2000 and 2005, and now accounts for 1.2% of American electricity consumption, though other estimates put the figure at 4%. Companies now spend as much as 10% of their technology budgets on energy, says Rakesh Kumar of Gartner, a consultancy. Power consumption has increased because of the rise of the internet, of course, but also because of way in which computers have historically been designed: to maximize performance at all costs. Between 1996 and 2006, the number of servers in use went from 6 million to 28 million and the average power consumption of each server grew from 150 watts to 400 watts. But things are now starting to change and the computer industry has been seized with enthusiasm for "green computing".

问答题If you find yourself stressed by the economic forecast, threat of job loss, or have been laid off, the situation is manageable. John Wakeman, program director of the Stress Treatment Center at Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, La. , who has given numerous stress management training sessions for major industries and businesses, says that, when confronted with altered circumstances, "it is our nature to either revert back to the status quo(现状) or to adapt and to do so quickly so that it's no longer a change. My suggestion is to adapt quickly." If laid off, avoid a doom-and-gloom attitude, which adds to the stress. (2) Accept that changes are inevitable in a lifetime and occurrences such as job loss frequently bring opportunities that would not be available if you were not facing the crisis. Some people find an even better occupational situation. (3) Instead of responding to layoff as a personal insult, view it as a sign of the economic times and the fact that the business could not keep its employees. Maintain a routine and keep your social contacts. Don't sit at home. Remain active. Use energy constructively. Don't vent (发泄) irritability and frustration from stress on your family, but channel it into exercise or work on a project. Polish your resume, network with others in your field, and write letters to prospective employers. Keep informed about the job market by reading employment journals, trade publications, and newspapers. Competition is keen, so expect your search to take time. "(4) When a person is turned down repeatedly, it does try [his or her] self-esteem, but you have to remember what you accomplished before you were laid off. No one can erase those achievements from your history. You have somethings to offer." Many people feel threatened by change and become inflexible, Wakeman points out. "You may find that you need to be more open about relocating to a place where employment is available. (5) Keep an open mind and be flexible about the possibility of a change requiring relocation or taking on new assignments."

问答题Directions: In this part, you are asked to write an essay according to the information below. You should write more than 150 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. 现在有不少家长送孩子参加各种艺术班，对这种做法有人表示支持，有人持反对态度，请表明你的观点。

问答题True interactive television still seems a distant dream and the Internet has not replaced newsprint as an accompaniment to morning coffee. In fact, 1997 and 1998 have proven that the average news-hungry reader still goes to his front doorstep or comer store to find out about the world. "Ever since the arrival of television, we've been told that newspapers will be dead next month. And it's never happened," said Roger Bird, associate journalism professor at Carleton University and author of "The End of News". Regular circulation, low newsprint prices and increasing advertising revenues, together with productivity improvements, all combined to deliver a banner year in terms of profits for Canadian newspaper publishers. "Overall I think there is pretty strong evidence, certainly in the past year the industry is healthy and lively," declared Don Babick, president and chief operating officer of Southam Inc.

问答题Part A Directions: In this section, you are required to write a "Letter of Complaint" according to the situation below. You should write at least 150 words neatly. Situation and Requirements: Li Ming recently bought a laptop computer. A few days later the laptop stopped working. When he took it back to the shop, they refused to deal with the problem. Now you are required to write a letter to the customer service department at the company's head office in the name of Li Ming. Your letter should include the following information: (1)The problem with the laptop. (2)What exactly happened when you return to the shop? (3)What you would like the customer service department to do and any other relevant information? Letter of Complaint __________

问答题{{B}}话说“真话”{{/B}} 这些年来，“要敢讲真话”叫得很响，在弄文墨者的圈子里，是人人皆知的。我偶尔写点杂感，也觉得这话很好，不说真话，就没有正义的呼声，要敢讲真话，这是没有疑义的。不过，生活告诉人们，还没有哪一位作家、演说家，不标榜他讲的是真话。那么，我们周围真的都是一片真话吗?显然还不是。张三说他讲的是真话，李四却在摇头；王五指责赵六讲的不是真话，赵六一定要驳斥王五。孰是孰非，较真起来，问题就复杂了。辨别真话，倘若在大家认同的标准下，认识不难统一，现在之所以有那些是是非非，讲不清，道不白，说明人们还不认为有辨别真话的标准，或者标准还不一致。 从实际情况看，辨别真话还是有标准的。目前，我看至少有两个。 一个是心里怎么想，口头怎么说，就叫真话。口以心为标准，讲与想相呼应，二者一致为真，不一致为假。从这种意义上说，所谓敢讲真话，只在于敢讲，即把心里想的，都大胆讲出来，敢讲的，都是真话。 一个是，说的符合实际，不夸大，不缩小，没有片面性，就叫讲真话。口以事实为标准，讲与实际相统一，二者一致为真话，不仅在于敢讲，还在于求真。 两种标准，实际上是从两种不同的意义上，或者说两种不同层次上来谈论“真话”的。但由此也便产生了倡言“讲真话”时的歧义。认定前一种标准的人说，我心里这么想，口里就这么说，言为心声，难道不叫讲真话吗?坚持后一种标准的人说，如果不管符合不符合实际，只要把心里想的都说出来，就叫真话，那么夸夸其谈者的捕风捉影，哗众取宠者的镜花水月，造谣者的飞短流长，觅怪撒谎的无稽谬言，岂不都可以叫做真话?那样提倡讲真话，鱼龙混杂，良莠不齐，能有什么意义。由此看来，如何评价“讲真话”，确实有深入讨论的必要。 比如，有篇文章说，中国历史上没有什么爱国主义，屈原不过是对主子效愚忠，所谓爱国，是后人按自己的需要贴上去的。你读了这样的文章，将怎样认定作者是不是讲真话呢?只按“口与心”的标准，完全可以回答，作者是讲真话，因为他不承认爱国主义是中华民族的传统，心里那么想，口里那么说，二者是一致的。但是，许许多多的中国人，会赞同这样的真话吗?屈原爱国，情深意笃，有他的诗篇在。谁想推翻它，总得拿出新的材料来，还得让人信服。这 不是凭着敢想敢说，就能算得了数的。又比如，有篇文章，拿雷锋的话当靶子，讥讽“我把党来比母亲”，诘问：人民是母亲，党怎么可能是母亲?又有人说，雷锋是悲剧人物，他的个性全被扼杀了，说的不是自己的话。那么，是雷锋讲真话，还是否定他的人讲真话?我想，绝大多数人不会认为雷锋在讲假话吧。雷锋在这里讲的，是他与共产党的关系，共产党救了他，他觉得共产党像母亲，既言为心声，又符合实际。至于人民是母亲，那比喻属于另一范畴，另有含义。偷换概念，讥讽雷锋，只能让正直的人反感，怎能纵容他们以标榜“讲真话”来蛊惑舆论呢?如果纵容他们，那就应了《红楼梦》中的一句话，“假作真时真亦假”，世上也就无是非可言了。 看来，我们不能只停留在提倡“口心一致”的“真话”上，还要进一步提倡实事求是的“真话”。言为心声，当然也算是一种真，即口头讲的，真是心里想的，但这种真，却不表示话的本身是否真理。真话虽然不见得都是真理，但总是越接近真理越真。人们还记得，关于什么是真理的标准，曾有过一场激烈的争论，绝大多数人最终统一了认识，承认实践是检验真理的唯一标准。 当然，提倡追求真理的“真话”，并不否认讲心里话。同志之间，朋友之间，包括对待上下级，都应该敞开思想，有话就说，不必顾忌。但是写文章，做演说，搞创作，情况有所不同，都是用自己的话，去宣传人，影响社会，这就要顾及讲话的效果。如果认为，只要是心里想的，口里就要讲，而不管这些话符合不符合实际，那就不妥当了。

问答题Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths. At the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability to solve complex problems; to read, write and compute at certain levels; and to resolve abstract equations quickly. This vision of intelligence asserts formal education and bookish excellence as the true measures of self-fulfillment. It encourages a kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouraging results. We have come to believe that someone who has more educational merit badges, who is very good at some form of school discipline is "intelligent"; yet mental hospitals are filled with patients who have all of the properly lettered certificates. A truer indicator of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of every day. If you are happy, if you live each moment for everything it's worth, then you are an intelligent person. Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness, but if you know that given your inability to resolve a particular concern you can still choose happiness for yourself, or at a minimum refuse to choose unhappiness, then you are intelligent. You are intelligent because you have the ultimate weapon against the big N.B,D. —Nervous Break Down.

问答题After working 36-hour shifts as a resident in orthopaedic surgery, Taryn Rose knew a lot about sore feet. But unlike most of her colleagues, she turned her pain into profit. Today she is CEO of Taryn Rose International, a $28 million company that makes chic, and comfortable, shoes. A Vietnamese refugee who moved to the United States when she was just eight, Rose assumed she"d follow in the footsteps of her physician father. For a while, she did, getting her medical degree from the University of Southern California and opting for gruelling training in orthopaedic surgery. But when the time came to apply for post-residential fellowships, Rose found her heart was no longer in medicine. "I felt like a part of me, the part that loves to learn new things, that likes adventure, would be dying." Rose had always loved shoes, especially high heels. When her fellow residents headed home after long hours on their feet, "I would make my way to Neiman Marcus for some retail therapy," she says. What if, she wondered, she gave up her career to learn how to make stylish shoes that could stand up to a day"s work?

问答题随着互联网日益普及，越来越多的国家面临净化网络环境、扼制网络违法犯罪的挑战。各国政府一方面采取各种措强化网民自律意识和网络运营商的社会责任意识； 另一方面，通过立法来保证网络世界安全、健康地运转。请你对此现象进行评论。

问答题体育运动展示了运动员的技能，也展现了其精神面貌。对于观众而言，哪一方面更有吸引力呢?谈谈你的看法。

问答题{{U}}If you find yourself stressed by the economic forecast, threat of job loss, or have been laid off, the situation is manageable.{{/U}} John Wakeman, program director of the Stress Treatment Center at Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, La. , who has given numerous stress management training sessions for major industries and businesses, says that, when confronted with altered circumstances, "it is our nature to either revert back to the status quo(现状) or to adapt and to do so quickly so that it's no longer a change. My suggestion is to adapt quickly." If laid off, avoid a doom-and-gloom attitude, which adds to the stress. (2) {{/U}}Accept that changes are inevitable in a lifetime and occurrences such as job loss frequently bring opportunities that would not be available if you were not facing the crisis.{{/U}} Some people find an even better occupational situation. (3) {{U}}Instead of responding to layoff as a personal insult, view it as a sign of the economic times and the fact that the business could not keep its employees.{{/U}} Maintain a routine and keep your social contacts. Don't sit at home. Remain active. Use energy constructively. Don't vent (发泄) irritability and frustration from stress on your family, but channel it into exercise or work on a project. Polish your resume, network with others in your field, and write letters to prospective employers. Keep informed about the job market by reading employment journals, trade publications, and newspapers. Competition is keen, so expect your search to take time. "(4) {{U}}When a person is turned down repeatedly, it does try [his or her] self-esteem, but you have to remember what you accomplished before you were laid off.{{/U}} No one can erase those achievements from your history. You have somethings to offer." Many people feel threatened by change and become inflexible, Wakeman points out. "You may find that you need to be more open about relocating to a place where employment is available. (5) {{U}}Keep an open mind and be flexible about the possibility of a change requiring relocation or taking on new assignments."{{/U}}

问答题Write a letter to your university library, making suggestions for improving its service. 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The process of entering the confines of political and economic power can be pictured as a system in which persons are chosen from a political elite pool. (1) In this reservoir of possible leaders are the individuals with the skills, education, and other qualifications needed to fill elite positions. It is here that competition does exist, that the highest achievers do display their abilities, and that the best qualified do generally succeed. Here, what is more important is entering this reservoir of qualified people. (2) Many in the masses may have leadership abilities, but unless they can gain entrance into the elite pool, their abilities will go unnoticed. Those of the higher class and status rank enter more easily into this competition since they have been afforded greater opportunities to acquire the needed qualifications. (3) In addition to formal qualifications, there are less obvious social-psychological factors which tend to narrow the potential elite pool further. (4) "Self-assertion" and "self-elimination" are processes by which those of higher social status assert themselves and those of lower social status eliminate themselves from competition for elite positions. A young man whose family has been active in politics, who has attended Harvard, and who has established a network of connections to the high position in the business or political world. (5) On the other hand, a young man with less prestigious (有名望的) family background, no connections, and only a high school education or even a college degree from a state university would not likely expect a further place for himself at the top. As Prewitt and Stone explain, such an individual "has few models to follow, no contacts to put him into the right channels, and little reason to think of himself as potentially wealthy or powerful." Thus, self-selection aids in filtering out those of lower income and status groups from the pool of potential elites. Most eliminate themselves from the competition early in the fame.

问答题It was not often realized that women held a high place in southern European societies in the 10th and 11th centuries. As a wife the woman was protected by the setting up of a dowry(陪嫁). Admittedly, the purpose of this was to protect her against the risk of being discarded, but in reality, its function is that social and family life of the time was much more important. The dowry was the wife's right to receive a tenth of all her husband's property. The wife had the fight to withhold consent in all transactions the husband would make. (2) And more than just a fight: the documents show that she enjoyed a real power of decision, equal to that of her husband. In no case do the documents indicate any degree of difference in the legal status of husband and wife. (3) The wife shared in the management of her husband's personal property, but the opposition was not always true. (4) Women seemed perfectly prepared to defend their own interests against husbands who tried to exceed their rights, and on occasion they showed a fine fighting spirit. A case in point is that of Marls Vivas, a Catalan woman of Barcelona. Having agreed with her husband Miro to sell a field she had inherited, for the needs of household, she insisted on compensation. None being offered, she succeeded in dragging her husband to the scribe to have a contract duly drawn up assigning her a piece of land from Miro's personal inheritance. The unfortunate husband was obliged to agree, as the contract says, "for the sake of peace". (5) Either through the dowry or through being hot-tempered, the wife knew how to win herself, within the extent of the family, a powerful economic position.

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}{{I}}In this section, you are asked to write an essay based on the following information. Make comments and express your own opinion. You should write at least 150 words on the ANSWER SHEET.{{/I}} 以往许多人报考成人高校，是为圆文凭梦。如今，手持本科、硕士文凭，回头重新考大学的大有人在。据报道，今年报名全国成人高考的上海考生中，有390名本科毕业生，15名硕士生。

问答题{{U}}It was not often realized that women held a high place in southern European societies in the 10{{/U}}th {{U}}and 11{{/U}}th{{U}} centuries.{{/U}} As a wife the woman was protected by the setting up of a dowry(陪嫁). Admittedly, the purpose of this was to protect her against the risk of being discarded, but in reality, its function is that social and family life of the time was much more important. The dowry was the wife's right to receive a tenth of all her husband's property. The wife had the fight to withhold consent in all transactions the husband would make. (2) {{U}}And more than just a fight: the documents show that she enjoyed a real power of decision, equal to that of her husband.{{/U}} In no case do the documents indicate any degree of difference in the legal status of husband and wife. (3) {{U}}The wife shared in the management of her husband's personal property, but the opposition was not always true.{{/U}} (4) {{U}}Women seemed perfectly prepared to defend their own interests against husbands who tried to exceed their rights, and on occasion they showed a fine fighting spirit.{{/U}} A case in point is that of Marls Vivas, a Catalan woman of Barcelona. Having agreed with her husband Miro to sell a field she had inherited, for the needs of household, she insisted on compensation. None being offered, she succeeded in dragging her husband to the scribe to have a contract duly drawn up assigning her a piece of land from Miro's personal inheritance. The unfortunate husband was obliged to agree, as the contract says, "for the sake of peace". (5) {{U}}Either through the dowry or through being hot-tempered, the wife knew how to win herself, within the extent of the family, a powerful economic position.{{/U}}

问答题 In this part, you are asked to write an essay or a letter according to the outline given. Your composition should be about 150 words. Remember to write clearly and logically. After writing, please check your composition in terms of the following writing basics: unity, support, coherence, and error free sentences.

问答题The author of FAMILY VALUE paints a rather bleak vision of signs where the traditional family is headed in our postindustrial age. Divorce is raging. More people are living alone. Couples are often living together without the commitment of marriage. These statistics are Britain today, but the phenomena are occurring throughout the postindustrial world as well. Sociologists do not agree as to the causes of this bleakness. Some lay blame on single mothers who set up a cycle of economic deprivation, emotional instability and lack of parental authority. Others feel that women working full time having fewer children, living much longer than their grandmothers, yielding to advertising and financial stress, and striving to "succeed" in terms of a man dominated world are the real causes. Also, families may be becoming more private as time and outside stress demand too much of its members. It seems, there is no sense of place in a time of continuous movement, old people need a purpose, and aging must be acknowledged.