单选题Speaker A: I think women are much better drivers than men.Speaker B: ______
单选题It is said that in England death is pressing, in Canada inevitable and in California optional. Small wonder. Americans' life expectancy has nearly doubled over the past century. Failing hips can be replaced, clinical depression controlled, cataracts removed in a 30-minute surgical procedure. Such advances offer the aging population a quality of life that was unimaginable when I entered medicine 50 years ago. But not even a great health-care system can cure death—and our failure to confront that reality now threatens this greatness of ours. Death is normal; we are genetically programmed to disintegrate and perish, even under ideal conditions. We all understand that at some level, yet as medical consumers we treat death as a problem to be solved. Shielded by third-party payers from the cost of our care we demand everything that can possibly be done for us, even if it's useless. The most obvious example is latestage cancer care. Physicians—frustrated by their inability to cure the disease and fearing loss of hope in the patient—too often offer aggressive treatment far beyond what is scientifically justified. In 1950, the U. S. spent $12.7 billion on health care. In 2002, the cost will be $1,540 billion. Anyone can see this trend is unsustainable. Yet few seem willing to try to reverse it. Some scholars conclude that a government with finite resources should simply stop paying for medical care that sustains life beyond a certain age—say 83 or so. Former Colorado governor Richard Lamm has been quoted as saying that the old and infirm "have a duty to die and get out of the way" so that younger, healthier people can realize their potential. I would not go that far. Energetic people now routinely work through their 60s and beyond, and remain dazzlingly productive. At 78 Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone jokingly claims to be 53. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is in her 70s, and former surgeon general C. Everett Koop chairs an Internet start-up in his 80s. These leaders are living proof that prevention works and that we can manage the health problems that come naturally with age. As a mere 68-year-old, I wish to age as productively as they have. Yet there are limits to what a society can spend in this pursuit. As a physician, I know the most costly and dramatic measures may be ineffective and painful. I also know that people in Japan and Sweden, countries that spend far less on medical care, have achieved longer, healthier lives than we have. As a nation we may be overfunding the quest for unlikely cures while underfunding research on humbler therapies that could improve people's lives.
单选题Speaker A. I'm awfully sorry. I hope I haven't spoiled it.Speaker B: ______
单选题A: Look at this pink watch. It looks great, doesn"t it? And it"s only $ 20.
B: ______
单选题Some of them were well behaved, ______ were insulting.
单选题Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the
passages is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them
there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your
answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.{{B}}Passage
One{{/B}}
The rich have traditionally passed their wealth on
to their children. But an increasing number of billionaires are choosing not to.
The reason? They want their children to live on themselves — and not to turn
into spoiled successors. Nicola Horlick or "superwoman", a
famous British billionaire, owing to the fact that she has high-flying jobs and
five kids — has spent her career making a report ￡250m. She now seems determined
to throw off large parts of it. She already gives away about 25% of her income
each year; she has just revealed, in a report on the state of charity in the
city, that she will not be leaving most of the remainder to her children.
"I think it is wrong to give too much inherited wealth to children,"
Horlick told the report's authors. "I will not be leaving all my wealth to
my children because that would just ruin their lives. " She is
by no means the first to go public with this convition. Bill Gates has put an
estimated $ 30bil into the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This was
supplemented, in 2009, by another $ 24bil also from his friend Warren
Buffett. Buffett has always been colorful, quotably clear on
where he stands. His daughter often tells a story of finding herself without
change for a car parking ticket — her father lent her $ 20, then promptly made
her write him a check. "To suggest that the children of the wealthy should be
just as wealthy," he has said, "is like saying the members of America's 2004
Olympic team should be made up only of the children of the 1980 Olympic team.
" Antia Roddick, the late founder fo the Body Shop, told her
kids that they would not inherit one penny. The money that she made from the
company would go into the Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful
tax shelters, like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give
it away.
单选题I should be able to finish the task on time, ______ you provide me with the necessary guidance. A. in case B. provided that C. or else D. as if
单选题Man: Peter was a great guy. He was drowned while rescuing a child from icy water of the river yesterday.
Woman: Well, as far as I know, that was not the first dangerous situation he was in.
Question: What does the woman mean?
单选题Can you ____ an insect having eight eyes and still having poor eyesight?
问答题Anthropology is one of the social sciences. Social science is that branch of intellectual enquiry which seeks to study humans and their endeavors in the same reasoned, orderly, systematic, and dispassionate manner that natural scientists use for the study of natural phenomena. Each of these social sciences has a subfield or specialization which lies particularly close to anthropology.
单选题Watch a baby between six and nine months old, and you will observe the basic concepts of geometry being learned. Once the baby has mastered the idea that space is three-dimensional, it reached out and begins grasping various kinds of objects. It is then, from perhaps nine to fifteen months, that the concepts of sets and numbers are formed. So far, so good. But now an ominous development takes place. The nerve fibers in the brain insulate themselves in such a way that the baby begins to hear sounds very precisely. Soon it picks up language, and it is then brought into direct communication with adults. From this point on, it is usually downhill all the way for mathematics, because the child now becomes exposed to all the nonsense words and beliefs of the community into which it has been so unfortunate as to have been born. Nature having done very well by the child to this point, having permitted it the luxury of thinking for itself for eighteen months, now abandons it to the arbitrary conventions and beliefs of society. But at least the child knows something of geometry and numbers, and it will always retain some memory of the early happy days, no matter what vicissitudes it may suffer later on. The main reservoir of mathematical talent in any society is thus possessed by children who are about two years old, children who have just learned to speak fluently.
单选题In country after country, talk of nonsmoker's right is in the air. While a majority of countries have taken little (51) no action yet, some 30 nations have introduced legislated steps to control smoking. Many laws have been introduced in other countries to (52) clear the air for nonsmokers, or to cut cigarette consumption. Smoking is harmful (53) the health of people. World governments should conduct serious campaigns against it. (54) on cigarette advertisements, plus health warnings on packages and ban on public smoking in certain places, (55) as theaters, cinemas and restaurants, are the most popular tools used by nations in (56) of nonsmokers or in controlling smoking. But world attention is also focusing on another step (57) will make the smoker increasingly self-conscious and uncomfortable about his habit. Great efforts should be made to (58) young people especially of the dreadful consequences of taking up the habit. And cigarette price should be raised. In the long run, (59) is no doubt that everybody would be much better-off if smoking were banned altogether but many people are not (60) for such drastic action.
单选题W: Carol told us on the phone not to worry about her. Her left leg doesn't hurt as much as it did yesterday.M: She'd better have it examined by a doctor anyway. And I will call her about it this evening.Q: What does the man think Carol should do? A. See a doctor. B. Stay in bed for a few days. C. Get treatment in a better hospital. D. Make a phone call to the doctor.
单选题Man: Gosh! There seems to be no end to the work I have to do. Woman: I'm glad I'm not in your shoes. Question: What does the woman mean? A. She is unable to help the man. B. She is busier than the man. C. She is lucky not to work with the man. D. She is not as busy as the man.
单选题Historians tend to tell the same joke when they are describing history education in America. It's the one (51) the teacher standing in the schoolroom door (52) goodbye to students for the summer and calling after them. "By the way, we won World War Ⅱ. " The problem with the joke, of course, is that it's not funny. The recent surveys on (53) illiteracy are beginning to numb: nearly one third of American 17-year-olds cannot even (54) which countries the United States fought against in that war. One third have no idea when the Declaration of Independence was (55) . One third thought Columbus reached the New World after 1750. Two thirds cannot correctly (56) the Civil War between 1850 and 1900. Even when they get the answers right, some are just guessing. Unlike math or science, ignorance of history cannot be (57) connected to loss of international competitiveness. But it does affect our future (58) a democratic nation and as individuals. The good news is that there is growing agreement on what is wrong with the (59) of history and what needs to be done to fix it. The steps are tentative (尝试性的) (60) yet to be felt in most classrooms.
单选题The sale usually takes place outside the house, with the audience ______ on benches, chairs or boxes. A. having seated B. seated C. seating D. having been seated
单选题Man: It's raining cats and dogs outside. Did you remember to bring the umbrella? Women: Oops, ______.
单选题Colin married my sister and I married his brother, ______ makes Colin and me double in-laws. A. what B. which C. that D. it
单选题Man: Marilyn seems happy with her grades. Woman: Happy? She could hardly contain herself. Question: What does the man say about Marilyn?
单选题Fingerprints from an unchangeable ____ despite changes in the individual’s appearance or age.
单选题For good or ill, globalization has become the economic buzz-word of the 1990s. National economies are undoubtedly becoming steadily more integrated as cross-border flows of trade, investment and financial capital increase. Consumers are buying more foreign goods, a growing number of firms now operate across national borders, and savers are investing more than ever before in far-flung places. Whether all of this is for good or ill is a topic of heated debate. One positive view is that globalization is an unmixed blessing, with the potential to boost productivity and living standards everywhere. This is because a globally integrated economy can lead to a better division of labor between countries, allowing low-wage countries to specialize in labor-intensive tasks while highwage countries use workers in more productive ways. It will allow firms to exploit bigger economies of scale. And with globalization, capital can be shifted to whatever country offers the most productive investment opportunities, not trapped at home financing projects with poor returns. Critics of globalization take a gloomier view. They predict that increased competition from low-wage developing countries will destroy jobs and push down wages in today's rich economies. There will be a race to the bottom as countries reduce wages, taxes, welfare benefits and environmental controls to make themselves more competitive. Pressure to compete will erode the ability of governments to set their own economic policies. The critic also worry about the increased power of financial markets to cause economic havoc, as in the European currency crises of 1992 and 1993, Mexico in 1994～1995 and South-East Asia in 1997.
单选题We need a chairman ______. A. for whom everyone has confidence B. in whom everyone has confidence C. who everyone has confidence of D. whom everyone has confidence on
问答题The generation gap is so great in Hong Kong that the teenagers there rarely turn to their parents or teachers for advice on anything. Whether it be sex, AIDS, school worries or family problems, adults are not considered up to the job. Until now, no one has asked Hong Kong youth, "What do you think?" Some understanding of the emotions of Hong Kong's youth, however, has come from the work of Dr. Jeffrey Days-at the University of Hong Kong. His survey of young people does not focus, for example, on how many drugs they take—but tries to answer the question why. Dr. Day hopes the results, which he plans to explain in full next week, will reveal what troubles—as well as pleases—today's high-school students. Conclusions will be passed on not only to government departments but back to the schools which took part.
单选题From the last paragraph, one may learn that an important reason for the high hidden costs for college students is ______.
单选题I ______ rather solve the problems in my farm myself than seek the help of other people. A. should B. shall C. would D. will
问答题(1)根据下图描述我国男女工资比例的差异。(2)分析数据反映的问题。
问答题Direction: You are to write in no less than 120 words on the topic "How to Deal with Sub-health". Your composition should be based on the Chinese clues given below.
1)现代社会很多人都处于“亚健康”状态。
2)造成“亚健康”的原因。
3)应该如何解决“亚健康”问题。
问答题Directions
: You are to write in no less than 120 words about the title "Environment: Everybody"s Business or Nobody"s Business?" You should base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below:
1．环境对于我们每个人都是重要的。
2．人们有着不同的环保意识。
3．行动起来，保护环境是每个人的义务。
问答题Title: The Balance of Ecology
问答题The old lady had always been proud of the great rose-tree in her garden, and was fond of telling how it had grown from a cutting she had brought years before from Italy, when she was first married. She and her husband had been travelling back in their carriage from Rome (it was before the time of railways) and on a bad piece of road south of Siena they had broken down, and had been forced to pass the night in a little house by the road-side. The accommodation was wretched of course; she had spent a sleepless night, and rising early had stood, wrapped up, at her window, with the cool air blowing on her face, to watch the dawn. She could still, after all these years, remember the blue mountains with the bright moon above them, and how a far-off town on one of the peaks had gradually grown whiter and whiter, till the moon faded, the mountains were touched with the pink of the rising sun, and suddenly the town was lit as by an illumination, one window after another catching and reflecting the sun's beam, till at last the whole little city twinkled and sparkled up in the sky like a nest of stars.
问答题Going on holiday can be one of the most memorable events of your fife. But it can be memorably bad. The fact is that it can become a nightmare if you rely totally on travel agencies.
With access to the Internet, you are now able to research, to investigate the environment you plan to be in, and to adjust your plans to take local features into account. You can make bookings for flights, accommodation, tours and many kinds of services. Even if you do decide to book through a reliable travel agency, you can still do plenty of research and make informed decisions before doing so. In the end you will usually get lower prices and the result you want, rather than possibly being persuaded into something you may not like.
If they recommend certain airlines, accommodations, etc., check prices and alternatives elsewhere. The agency may be working on commission for business partners and so prices can vary considerably.
单选题For semi-professional artists, performing before the public is a good chance ____. A．to improve themselves in their career B．to help train amateur performers C．to make friends with superstars D．to get involved in profitable business
问答题The types of daydreams, whether they are pleasant and hopeful or filled with despair take shape in childhood when everyone develops one of three basic daydreaming styles: positive, negative and scattered, American Health reports. Although everyone lapses occasionally into each of these types, positive daydreams are more likely to imagine happy, playful or entertaining scenarios. Negative daydreamers tend to dwell on life"s darker side imagining dangerous and/or life threatening situations, such as the appearance of a fatal or weakening disease or becoming a victim of violence.
问答题Going on holiday can be one of the most memorable events of your life. But it can be memorably bad. The fact is that it can become a nightmare if you rely totally on travel agencies. With access to the Internet, you are now able to research, to investigate the environment you plan to be in, and to adjust your plans to take local features into account. You can make bookings for flights, accommodation, tours and many kinds of services. Even if you do decide to book through a reliable travel agency, you can still do plenty of research and make informed decisions before doing so. In the end you will usually get lower prices and the result you want, rather than possibly being persuaded into something you may not like. If they recommend certain airlines, accommodations, etc., check prices and alternatives elsewhere. The agency may be working on commission for business partners and so prices can vary considerably.
问答题Directions: In this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition of l20-150 words on Which Is More Important, Wealth or Health? You should clearly state your opinion and give reasons to support your arguments.
问答题A good book is often the best urn (瓮) of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man"s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters. "They are never alone," said Sir Philip Sidney, "that are accompanied by noble thoughts."
Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.
The great and good do not die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.
问答题Directions
: You are to write in no less than 150 words on the topic "The Moonlight Clan". Your composition should be based on the Chinese clues given below.
1．现在很多年轻人每个月都把自己赚的钱花光，他们被称作“月光族”
2．有人认为这是一种时尚的消费观念，但很多人反对这样消费
3．你的看法
问答题Directions: In this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition of no less than 120
words on Make Our City Greener. Your composition should be based on the following outline given in Chinese.
(1)城市绿化的现状。
(2)绿化的好处(如：清洁空气、美化城市、改善气候)。
(3)怎样才能实现绿化。
问答题Traditionally, the woman has held a low position in a marriage partnerships. While her husband went his way she had to wash, stitch and sew. Today the move is to liberate the woman, which may in the end strengthen the marriage union. Perhaps the greatest obstacle to friendship in marriage is the amount a couple usually see of each other. Friendship in its usual sense is not tested by the strain of daily, yearlong cohabitation. Couples need to take up separate interests (and friendship) as well as mutually shared ones, if they are not to get used to the more attractive elements of each other's personalities. Married couples are likely to exert themselves for guests—being amusing, discussing with passion and point—and then to fall into dull exhausted silence when the guests have gone. Once a man confessed, "The great question I have not been able to answer is 'What does a woman want?'" Many husbands wonder the same thing today.
写作题工作环境包括很多方面空间、设施、温度、光线、噪音、人员……
我想要的理想的工作环境是……
理想的工作环境的效用是……
问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Now more and more Chinese, especially the young, have begun to buy cars or houses on bank loan. Write a passage of at least 120 words to express your views on {{B}}"Shopping on Installment"{{/B}} (论贷款消费). You may either agree or disagree. But whichever position you take, use specific reasons or examples to support
问答题(1)近年来我国青少年犯罪率不断上升。
(2)青少年犯罪增多的原因。
(3)你的看法。
问答题(1)Writeoutthemessagesconveyedbythecartoon.(2)Giveyourcomments.
单选题A recent survey revealed that ______ dogs barking incessantly in the night that we dislike most.
单选题Your college students are men of privilege. It costs ten times ______,
in labour and care and money, to bring you out where you are today, as it costs
to raise a boy without education.
A. so as
B. as much
C. so much
D. too much
问答题Title: Career or Family: Which Is More Important?
问答题Directions: You are to write in no less than 120 words on the topic of "What would you consider an ideal work environment?" You may base your composition on the Chinese clues given below and put your composition on the ANSWER SHEET.
工作环境包括很多方面：空间、设施、温度、光线、噪音、人员……
我想要的理想的工作环境是……
理想的工作环境的效用是……
问答题Time, Newsweek, and U. S. News & World Report are popular newsmagazines. The present national and international news, stories of human interest, and reports on new books, movies, plays, sports events, fashions, foods and so on are included. The articles are written in an informal style, and they are illustrated with photographs. More than nine million people read newsmagazines regularly. Two picture magazines Life and Look enjoyed popularity for many years. They presented the news with simple texts and many photographs, and they remained among the most widely read magazines until the late 1960s. Some people think these picture magazines were forced out of business because they could not compete successfully with the live pictures on televised news programs. Today there are approximately 1 750 daily newspapers, with a total circulation of over 62 million and more than 580 Sunday papers, with a circulation of almost 60 million.
问答题A good book is often the best urn (翁) of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man's life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters. "They are never alone," said Sir Philip Sidney, "that are accompanied by noble thoughts. "
Books introduce us into the best society ; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive ; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.
The great and good do not die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.
单选题______, the great Mississippi rolls its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun.
问答题Each year in the United States more people are killed or injured in accidents—at home, at work or school, at play, or while traveling—than were killed or injured in the Vietnam War. In the early 1990s, about half of these accidental deaths were the result of motor-vehicle accidents. Other major causes of accidental deaths were falls, fires, and poisoning. On a worldwide basis, accidents involving motor-vehicles are the primary causes of accidental deaths, followed by accidents in industry and in the home. Efforts to lessen or to eliminate the hazardous conditions that cause accidents are known as safety measures. Safety is a growing concern around the world, and safety skills are being taken more seriously today than ever before. People have come to realize that safety skills can be learned, and most safety experts agree that it is possible to predict, and take steps to prevent the majority of accidents. Few accidents simply "happen". Most are caused by ignorance, carelessness, neglect, or lack of skill.
问答题(1)对于我们，假日有了更多的经济意义。 (2)假日经济带来的好处。 (3)结论。
问答题Directions
: You are to write in no less than 120 words on the topic "Credit Cards". Your composition should be based on the Chinese clues given below.
1．越来越多的人使用信用卡，信用卡有哪些好处
2．信用卡的弊端
3．你自己的观点
问答题Once you've written down all your goals, both large and small, the next step on your journey to success is to activate the creative powers of your subconscious mind by reviewing your list two or three times every day. Take time to read your list of goals. Read the list one goal at a time. Close your eyes and picture each goal as if it were already accomplished. Take a few more seconds to feel what you would feel if you had already accomplished each goal.
问答题A recent research suggests that nearly a third of adults, 31%, are not getting enough exercise. That rates of exercise have declined is hardly a new discovery. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, technology and economic growth have created a world in which exercise is more and more an option rather than a necessity.
In all, the researchers were able to pool data from 122 countries, covering 89% of the world"s population. They considered sufficient physical activity to be 30 minutes of moderate exercise five days a week, or 20 minutes of intense exercise three days a week, or some combination of the two.
Unsurprisingly, people in rich countries are less active than those in poor ones, and old people are less active than young ones. Less obviously, women tend to exercise less than men—34% are inactive, compared with 28% of men. But there are exceptions. The women of Finland and Iraq, for example, move more than their male countrymen.
问答题The standardized educational or psychological tests are widely used to aid in selecting, classifying, assigning, or promoting students, employees and military personnel. But they have been the target of recent attacks in books, magazines, and even in Congress. The target is wrong, for in attacking the tests, critics divert attention from the fault that lies with ill-informed or incompetent users. The tests themselves are merely tools, with characteristics that can be measured with reasonable precision under specified conditions. Whether the results will be valuable, meaningless, or even misleading depends partly upon the tools themselves but largely upon the user.
问答题It goes without saying, then, that language is also a political instrument, means, and proof of power. It is the most vivid and crucial key to identity: it reveals the private identity, and connects one with, or divorces one from, the larger public, or communal identity. There have been, and are, times, and places, when to speak a certain language could be dangerous, even fatal. Or, one may speak the same language, but in such a way that one's antecedents are revealed, or (one hopes) hidden.
问答题Directions: You are to write in no less than 120 words on the topic of “A Threat (Threats) to Endangered Animals”. You may base your composition on the clues given below:
Many animals are now in danger of becoming extinct…
Among the threats to endangered animals is (are) …
The way to cope with the threat (threats)…
Conclusion.
(Note: endangered –濒危)
问答题Directions:Youaretowriteinnolessthan120wordsaboutthetitle"FindingaFriendovertheInternet".Studythepicturebelowcarefullyandyourcompositionshouldbebasedontheinformationgiven.1.Describewhatyouseeinthepicture.2.Guesswhatthepicturereallywantstoimply.3.Drawyourownconclusion.
问答题Direction: You are to write in no less than 120 words on the topic "Young People Should Have Combatant Spirit (拼搏精神)". Your composition should be based on the Chinese clues given below.
1)现在很多年轻人缺乏拼搏精神。
2)导致这一问题的原因是什么。
3)大学生应该加强拼搏精神。
问答题One might ask why speculation is permitted when there is so real a danger of loss. The basic reason is that speculation can perform useful functions in the market equilibrium and encourages faster entry of more suppliers. If the price change lagged until after an actual commodity shortage had occurred, the fluctuation would probably be sharper and more sudden. Remedial supply action could not be further delayed. Similarly, if speculators foresee a surplus in some commodity, their selling of futures will help drive the price down to some extent before the surplus actually occurs. When speculators foresee a shortage and bid up the price, they are also helping to conserve the present supply.
问答题For most of human history, the dominant concerns about energy have centered on the benefit side. Inadequacy of energy resources of the technologies for harvesting, converting, and distributing those resources has meant insufficient energy benefits to human beings and hence inconvenience, and constraints on its growth. The 1970's, then, represented an turning point. Energy was seen to be getting costlier in all respects. It began to be believable that excessive energy costs could pose threats on a par with those of insufficient supply. It also became possible to think that expanding some forms of energy supply could create costs exceeding the benefits.
单选题We can"t afford to let the situation get worse. We have to take ______ to put it right.
问答题(1)有人认为人们上下班或出门时应更多利用公共交通工具。 (2)有人认为自己开车更方便。 (3)我的看法。
问答题The surrogate students are only the latest symptom of an epidemic of corruption that has gripped the Russian higher education system. A report published this week by the Ministry of Education and Moscow's Higher School of Economics (HSE) showed that more than ＄ 300m was paid in bribes to enter the country's educational establishments last year. A direct bribe to lecturers to enter an institution can be up to ＄ 30 000 for a top law faculty, the HSE estimates.
"In our school alone this spring we caught four impostors who were attempting to sit the entrance tests in place of others," said Grigory Kantorovich, deputy head of the HSE. "Those were not isolated cases; it's a whole, specialised business."
Such corruption is multiplied by a burgeoning market in coursework and diplomas written by teachers and lecturers, which can be bought over the Internet.
A police spokesman said there was no dedicated unit for tackling corruption in education, but individual cases were investigated if evidence was handed over.
问答题We are now in an inter-disciplinary integration era, the pervasion and cooperation among disciplines has become a general trend for the development of science. We wouldn't have today's advanced computer graphics systems if mathematician hadn't been able to solve problems related to surface geometric. We wouldn't have networks capable of handling massive amounts of data if physicists and astronomers hadn't continuously forged tools to look more deeply into subatomic structures and the cosmos. Chemists' efforts to simulate complex phenomtna and predict the properties of many-electron systems have inspired massively parallel architectures for computing. And the information made available by the sequencing of the human genome has caused us to rethink how to store, manipulate, and retrieve data most effectively. It will take new insights from studies of human cognition, linguistics, neurobiology, computing, and more to develop systems that truly augment our capacity to learn and create.
问答题One of the chief concerns of wildlife management is the protection and improvement of the natural habitat so that animals have enough food and water to survive. Wildlife management involves care of the soil to produce good vegetation, it also involves care of plants, not only as a source of food, but also as protection. Animals need cover to hide from their natural enemies and to raise their young safely. Just as crops are harvested, wildlife too must sometimes be "harvested" . By allowing limited hunting, good management can control certain species that threaten to overpopulate their habitat.
问答题Direction: You are to write in no less than 120 words on the topic "On the Food Security". Your composition should, be based on the Chinese clues given below.
(1)现如今越来越多的食品安全问题涌现。
(2)为什么会出现这些问题呢?
(3)应该如何应对?
问答题In less than 30 years" time, there will be television chat shows hosted by robots and cars with pollution monitors that will disable them when they offend. Children will play with dolls equipped with personality chips. computers with in-built personalities will be regarded as workmates rather than tools, relaxation will be in front of smell-television, and digital age will have arrived.
问答题Many animals are now in danger of becoming extinct Among the threats to endangered animals is (are) The way to cope with the threat (threats) (Note: endangered -- 濒危)
问答题Directions: In this part, you are to write an essay of about 200 words within 30 minutes on online education.
(1)目前网络教育形成热潮。
(2)认为这股热潮的原因是……
(3)我对网络教育的评价。
问答题新一届中央领导提出了“中国梦”的概念。
你心目中的“中国梦”是什么?
如何实现这个梦?
问答题Title: Competition and Cooperation
问答题The news of the first successful cloning of a sheep has sent shock waves around the world. As a result, in many countries, officials and even some scientists are calling for new or strengthened legislation to outlaw human cloning, although at this early date, no concrete measures have been proposed. In the United States, which currently has no law prohibiting the procedure, President Clinton announced an urgent inquiry into the potential ethical and legal implications by the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, which will report its conclusions by the end of May. Meanwhile, Clinton has banned federal funding for human cloning research and asked for a moratorium on nonfederally funded efforts. In addition, both houses of the U. S. Congress had held holding hearings on the issue. Scientists have cloned embryos for the first time from patients with serious diseases and injuries. It is believed that the day will come when some of mankind's most destructive diseases and injuries can be effectively treated through the use of therapeutic stem cells.
问答题Power, like vanity, is not satisfiable. Nothing could satisfy it completely. And it is, indeed, by far the strongest motive in the lives of important men. Love of power is greatly increased by the experience of power, and this applies to petty power as well as to that of those in power. In any autocratic regime, the holders of power become increasingly tyrannical with experience of the delights that power can afford. Since power over human beings is shown in making them do what they would rather not do, the man who is actuated by love of power is more apt to inflict pain than to permit pleasure. If you ask your boss for leave of absence from the office on some legitimate occasion, his love of power will derive more satisfaction from refusal than from consent. If you require a building permit, the petty official concerned will obviously get more pleasure from saying "No" than from saying "Yes". It is this sort of thing which makes the love of power such a dangerous motive.
问答题1．表示欢迎。 2．提出对度假安排的建议。 3．提醒应注意事项。
问答题For years, the prescription for maintaining health hearts had been vigorous exercise—running, swimming, dancing—whatever it took to get the heat rate up and keep it there for 20 to 30 minutes at least three times a week. But that message changed.
A panel of exercise researchers convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine reported that people needn't exercise vigorously to improve their health.
The American Heart Association has weighed in with similar recommendations. But despite this apparent consensus, there is considerable disagreement in the exercise research community about whether the recommendations are amply supported by scientific data.
Policy-makers caught in the middle of this disagreement are in a difficult position. It's a classic dilemma confronting health experts in areas ranging from mammography (哺乳动物学) to diet, where the scientific data are not clear-cut.
问答题(1)繁重的学习和工作压力下，很多人的健康状况令人忧虑。 (2)怎样保持身体健康。
问答题如果有机会带外国度假两周，你会选择哪个国家?
2．请至少给出三个理由。
问答题1. 大学生了解社会的必要性。 2. 了解社会的途径(大众媒介、社会服务等)。 3. 我打算怎么做。
问答题1．面试在求职过程中的作用。 2．取得面试成功的因素：仪表、举止谈吐、能力、专业知识、自信、实事求是……
问答题1．别人请求帮助时，在什么情况下我们会说“不”? 2．为什么有些人在该说“不”的时候不说“不”? 3．该说“不”时不说“不”的坏处。
问答题学习过去有什么好处？2. 过去对人有什么束缚？3. 你的意见。
问答题(1)The new media (e. g. the Internet) is the best source of information. (2)The traditional media (e. g. newspapers, radio and TV) are the best source of information. (3)Your opinion.
问答题Technology trends may push Silicon Valley back to the future. Carver Mead, a pioneer in integrated circuits and a professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology, notes there are now work stations that enable engineers to design, test and produce chips right on their desks, much the way as editor creates a newsletter on a Macintosh. As the time and cost of making a chip drop to a few days and a few hundred dollars, engineers may soon be free to let their imagination soar without being penalized by expensive failures. Mead predicts that inventors will be able to perfect powerful customized chips over a weekend at the office — spawning a new generation of garage starts-ups and giving the US a jump on its foreign rivals in getting new products to market fast. "We've got more garages with smart people. " Mead observes, "We really thrive on anarchy. "
问答题Physicists all over the world, back in 1895, were pretty much agreed that the great work of physics had all been done. Some of them mourned publicly that no discoveries of truly major importance were likely to be made in the future. But then they did not know that a Professor Roentgen, working alone in a modest laboratory in Germany, had begun a series of experiments with a crude induction coil, a pear-shaped bulb from which the air had been removed, and a sheet of paper painted with certain metallic salts. And professor Roentgen did not know that his work was destined to reveal a force of nature—never before suspected—that would almost overnight revolutionize medicine and technology, and become a instrument for deeper probing of the structure of matter.
问答题I am lonely only when I am overtired, when I have worked too long without a break, when for the time being I feel empty and need filling up. And I am lonely sometimes when I come back home after a lecture trip, when I have seen a lot of people and talked a lot, and am full to the brim with experience that needs to be sorted out.
Then for a little while the house feels huge and empty, and I wonder where my self is hiding. It has to be recaptured slowly by watering the plants, perhaps, and looking again at each one as though it were a person, by feeding the two cats, by cooking a meal.
问答题终身学习对每个人的重要性。
2．终身学习的方式有多种……
3．你认为你应该采取哪种方式，为什么?
问答题1．上大学的费用(tuition and fees)可以通过多种途径解决。 2．哪种途径适合我(说明理由)。
问答题Direction:Studythefollowingpicturescarefullyandwriteanessayabout120wordsbasedonthefollowing:1.Describethesetofdrawingsandinterpretitsmeaning.2.Pointoutitsimplicationsinourlife.
问答题One of the keys to speaking English like a native is the ability to use and understand casual expression, or idioms. American English is full of idioms. You won't learn these expressions in a standard textbook. But you will hear them all the time in everyday conversations. You'll also meet them in books, newspapers, magazines, and TV shows. Idioms add color to the language. Master idioms and your speech will be less awkward, less foreign. You'll also understand more of what you read and hear. Often a student of English tries to translation idioms word-for-word, or literally. If you do this, you can end up asking, "What could this possibly mean?" This is why idioms are difficult: they work as groups of words, not as individual words. If you translate each word on its own, you'll miss the meaning and in many cases end up with nonsense.
问答题Our life is nothing more than our time. To kill time is therefore a form of suicide. We are shocked when we think of death, and we spare no pains, no trouble, and no expense to preserve life. But we are too often indifferent to the loss of an hour or of a day, forgetting that our life is the sum total of the days and of the hours we live. A day or an hour wasted is therefore so much life forfeited. Our life is a brief span measuring some seventy or eighty years in all. But nearly one third of this has to be spent in sleep; some years have to be spent over our meals; some in making journeys on land and voyages by sea; some in merrymaking; some in watching over the sickbeds of our nearest and dearest relatives. Now if all these years were to be reduced from the term over which our life extends, we shall find about twenty or thirty years at our disposal for active work. Whoever remembers this can never willingly waste a single moment of his life.
问答题Since 1981, farmers in Holland have been encouraged to adopt "green" farming techniques that were thought to benefit plant and bird life. Farmers who have voluntarily adopted these measures are compensated by the European Union. The goal of the program is to work against the negative effects of modern farming, such as declines in species diversity and the disturbance of local nesting grounds.
The "green" methods of farming cost the European Union about 1.7 billion Euros annually. This is about 4 percent of the budget for "Common Agricultural Policy," and the compensation is expected to rise to 10 percent within the next few years.
Various forms of "green farming" employed around the world have proved successful, and all new methods thought to be environmentally sensitive should be subject to sound scientific evaluation to determine whether they are actually meeting the intended goals.
问答题Directions: You are to write in no less than 120 words about the title "Making Our Lives Environmental-Friendly" You should base your composition on the outline given below:
1)Necessity to change our lives to make it environmental-friendly.
2)How to do.
3)You conclusion.
问答题George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four was far more prescient than any person realized who grew up in the middle decades of the 20th century. It was centered on the very special technology (information technology, as we call it now) that would in fact emerge and shape the world over the next two generations: central to the success of the vast, totalitarian empire was called the telescreen, a wall-sized panel display that could simultaneously send and receive images from each individual household to a hovering Big Brother. The telescreen was what permitted the vast centralization of social lift, for it allowed the government to banish privacy by motoring every word and deed over a massive network of wires.
问答题(1)如今越来越多的人利用业余时间提供志愿服务。
(2)志愿服务在现代社会中的重要意义。
(3)你的看法。
问答题在市场经济中“适者生存”是非常重要的。
2．“适者生存”同样适用于现代社会中的每一个人。
3．我应该如何去适应社会的需要。
问答题Is it the sole aim of most Americans to make money and possess luxuries which could be called excessive? The majority of Americans would certainly deny this, though most feel proud to amass wealth and possessions through hard work. In the USA, about 90% of the population is well enough off to expect a brighter future. The USA still has one of the highest standards of living in the world, although, at the present times, 10% are below what the Government considered to be below the "poverty level. " While these under-privileged people receive help from the Government, they have no high hopes for their future. It is from this "underclass," and those who take advantage of it, that most of the violence springs—the violence, which is one of the least pleasant aspects of American society. Some believe that the only guarantee of security is wealth, and the only way out for the poor is to get money.
问答题I stopped to let the car cool off and to study the map. I had expected to be near my objective by now, but everything still seemed alien to me. I was only five when my father had taken me abroad, and that was eighteen years ago. When my mother had died after a tragic accident, he did not quickly recover from the shock and loneliness. Everything around him was full of her presence, continually reopening the wound. So he decided to emigrate. In the new country he became absorbed in making a new life for the two of us, so that he gradually ceased to grieve. He did not marry again and I was brought up without a mother's care, but I lacked for nothing, for he was both father and mother to me. He always meant to go back one day, but not to stay. His roots and mine had become too firmly embedded in the new land.
问答题(1)如今越来越多的人利用业余时间提志愿服务。 (2)志愿服务在现代社会中的重要意义。 (3)你的看法。
问答题Stock market Can bring a fortune to people. However, it can also take away everything from you overnight. Many individuals think of investing in the stock market as being similar to gambling. When they think of the stock market this way, they miss one big point: A gambler has a negative expected return, while an investor has a positive expected return. Over time, the more money that an individual gambles at a casino, the more money she will lose. In investing, the more money that an individual commits to long-term investing, the more money that the individual will make because the odds are on the side of the investor. Historically, stocks have returned about 10 percent before taxes. People who view the stock market like a casino tend to act like spectators, trading in and out of stocks every few months, or in extreme cases, every few days.
问答题(1)互联网给我们带来的好处。
(2)随着互联网的普及面产生的问题。
(3)我的看法。
问答题(1)当前我们面临着严重的环境问题。 (2)造成问题的主要原因是…… (3)如何有效解决环境问题。
问答题Few would question the positive impact technology has had on education. E-mail, the Internet, and software programs have sped up the pace of work, connected students to experts worldwide, and brought libraries right to the doorstep. A 1999 survey showed that more than 25 million children ages 2 to 17 are online, a number that has tripled since 1997. Of those, more than 70 percent of teens use the Web regularly. But with the surge of information comes a greater burden on teens to manage time. Unlike their parents, who typically had to take more initiative to create interruptions from homework, many teens are finding technology floods them with ways to lose concentration.
问答题Describewhatyouseeinthepicture.2.Guesswhatthepicturereallywantstoimply.3.Drawyourownconclusion.
问答题These collective changes in the content, character, and execution of China's foreign policy over the past ten years represent an important evolution from Beijing's narrow and reactive approach to global affairs in the 1980s and early 1990s. Yet potentially even more significant changes are now taking place.
Within the last three years, and especially since September 11, 2001, the writings of Chinese strategists have begun to reflect a critical shift in their view of the international system and China's role in it. For example, provocative articles have recently run in major Chinese newspapers and journals advocating that China abandon its long-held victim mentality. The writers reject the persistent emphasis on China's "150 years of shame and humiliation" as the main lens through which Chinese view their place in modern international affairs. Influential Chinese analysts have begun to promote instead China's adoption of a "great-power mentality. " This emerging notion would replace Chinese victimhood with a confidence born of two decades of impressive economic growth.
问答题Title: Environmental Pollution
问答题We all know that the most powerful force in our fives is love. In addition to providing us with soul-warming companionship, the emotion of love is truly inspiring.
Of course, the facts of our lives tell a somewhat sad story. We have a very hard time making love last. The divorce rate in the U.S. is still around 50 percent. That figure doesn"t even cover the many couples that live together without marriage and whose unions are even more likely to dissolve.
Relationships fail because people have the misconception about what to expect in marriage. The fantasy is that everything will be wonderful as long as you find the perfect person-your missing half. But marriage is a team sport. It"s one team with two people, with two different minds. The difficulty is that these two people disagree all the time. They need to know nondestructive ways of expressing differences and must also be prepared for the inevitable disappointments that come from living with another person.
问答题Each year in the United States more people are killed or injured in accidents—at home, at work or school, at play, or while traveling—than were killed or injured in the Vietnam war. In the early 1990s, about half of these accidental deaths were the result of motor-vehicle accidents. Other major causes of accidental deaths were falls, fires, and poisoning. On a worldwide basis, accidents involving motor vehicles are the primary cause of accidental deaths, followed by accidents in industry and in the home. Efforts to lessen or to eliminate the hazardous conditions that cause accidents are known as safety measures. Safety is a growing concern around the world, and safety skills fire being taken more seriously today than ever before People have Come to realize that safety skills can be learned, and most safety experts agree that it is possible to predict, and take steps to prevent, the majority of accidents. Few accidents simply "happen". Most are caused by ignorance, carelessness, neglect, or lack of skill.
问答题(1)高等教育的一个人新现象是人文科学遇到冷落，而专业性强的学科受到青睐。 (2)我的看法。 (3)我的看法。
问答题China's active participation in international institutions creates more chances to bring cooperation on key issues. Moreover, China now brings more resources and influence to the table. Beijing's lead role in addressing the Korean nuclear crisis is one such example. American leaders should encourage the expansion of such cooperation to other security problems, in order to manage mutual threat perceptions and build trust on both sides. Such efforts will be critical to stabilizing a bilateral relationship most noted for its ups and downs.
For the next two decades, China's primary focus will remain internal, on its numerous domestic problems. After all, the continued economic and political modernization of the world's most populous country is no small task. China's top political leaders have deemed the next 20 years a strategic opportunity to develop their country. But an opening exists for the international community as well, and U. S. policymakers should use it wisely, to address the challenges and opportunities created by China's rise.
问答题The generation gap is so great in Hong Kong that the teenagers there rarely turn to their parents or teachers for advice on anything. Whether it be sex, AIDS, school worries or family problems, adults are not considered up to the job.
Until now, no one has asked Hong Kong youth, "What do you think?" Some understanding of the emotions of Hong Kong"s youth, however, has come from the work of Dr. Jeffrey Day—at the University of Hong Kong. His survey of young people does not focus, for example, on how many drugs they take—but tries to answer the question why.
Dr. Day hopes the results, which he plans to explain in full next week, will reveal what troubles—as well as pleases—today"s high-school students. Conclusions will be passed on not only to government departments but back to the schools which took part.
问答题Title: The World is Thirsty for Water
问答题刚参加工作时遇到了哪困难。
2．产生这困难的原因。
3．如何克服这困难。
问答题It is not easy to talk about the role of the mass media in this overwhelmingly significant phase in European history. History and news become confused, and one"s impressions tend to be a mixture of skepticism and optimism. Television is one of the means by which these feelings are created and conveyed—and perhaps never before has it served so much to connect different peoples and nations as in the recent events in Europe. The Europe that is now forming cannot be anything other than its peoples, their cultures and national identities. With this in mind we can begin to analyze the European television scene. In Europe, as elsewhere, multi-media groups have been increasingly successful: groups which bring together television, radio, newspapers, magazines and publishing houses that work in relation to one another.
问答题1．有人认为读书要有选择。 2．有人认为应当博览群书。 3．我的看法。
问答题Outline:1.GeneralsituationofcrimevictimsinU.S.2.Themostfrequentvictimsofcrimesandtheirimplications.3.Yourcomments.CRIMESVICTIMSBYAGECOMPAREDWITHTYPEOFCRIME
问答题Title: Computers
问答题(1)以下图为依据描述世界水资源的需求和供应变化情况。(2)分析未来人类将面临的问题。
问答题We are now in an inter-disciplinary integration era, the pervasion and cooperation among disciplines has become a general trend for the development of science. We wouldn't have today's advanced computer graphics systems if mathematician hadn't been able to solve problems related to surface geometric. We Wouldn't have networks capable of handling massive amounts of data if physicists and astronomers hadn't continuously forged tools to look more deeply into subatomic structures and the cosmos. Chemists' efforts to simulate complex phenomena and predict the properties of many-electron systems have inspired massively parallel architectures for computing. And the information made available by the sequencing of the human genome has caused us to rethink how to store, manipulate, and retrieve data most effectively. It will take new insights from studies of human cognition, linguistics, neurobiology, computing, and more to develop systems that truly augment our capacity to learn and create.
完成对话Woman: Did you watch our Professor Stiller on TV last night?
Man: I almost missed it! But my mother just happened to be watching at home and gave me a call.
Question: What does the man mean?
问答题(1)自然资源现状和未来。
(2)我国自然资源短缺的主要原因。
(3)解决办法。
语法与词汇After long negotiations, the firm ______to build a double-purpose bridge across the river.
语法与词汇______so many difficulties, he didn''t give up his objection.
问答题Directions: You are go write in no less than 120 words on the topic of "My Position" You may base your composition on the Chinese clues given below and put your composition on the ANSWER SHEET.
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The heads of some of Russia's most prestigious educational establishments yesterday admitted that students use surrogates (代理人) to gain entry to top institutes, whose qualifications are a passport to lucrative jobs. The surrogate students are only the latest symptom of an epidemic of corruption that has gripped the Russian higher education system. A report published this week by the Ministry of Education and Moscow's Higher School of Economics (HSE) showed that more than $300m was paid in bribes to enter the country's educational establishments last year. A direct bribe to lecturers to enter an institution can be up to $30000 for a top law faculty, the HSE estimates. "In our school alone this spring we caught four impostors who were attempting to sit the entrance tests in place of others, " said Grigory Kantorovich, deputy head of the HSE. "Those were not isolated cases; it's a whole, specialised business. " Such corruption is multiplied by a burgeoning market in coursework and diplomas written by teachers and lecturers, which can be bought over the Internet. A police spokesman said there was no dedicated unit for tackling corruption in education, but individual cases were investigated if evidence was handed over.
语法与词汇This part of the country is ______for its many historic houses.
语法与词汇When there'' s a doubt, the chairman''s decision is______.
语法与词汇It is requested that all the students ______present at the meeting tomorrow.
完成对话Man: Have you heard it? John has just been promoted again!
Woman: He''s the boss''s blue-eyed boy at the present.
Question: What does the woman mean?
问答题青藏铁路于今年7月1日通车。请简单地谈谈青藏铁路建成和通车的重大意义，如经济、文化、旅游等方面。
注：西藏：Tibet；西藏的、西藏人、藏语；Tibetan
语法与词汇The coming of the railway in the 1830s______our society and economic life.
语法与词汇Many Southerners ______runaway slaves during the Civil War.
语法与词汇Mark often attempts to escape ______whenever he breaks traffic regulation.
语法与词汇Such a proposal must have been put forward by people with limited____.
完成对话Woman: Are you going to Hawaii on your vocation?
Man: Not this year. I am broke.
Woman: Oh! Come on.
Question: How does the woman take the man’s words?
语法与词汇He insisted that the meeting ______till next Monday.
语法与词汇History has demonstrated that countries with different social systems can join hands in meeting the common challenges to human ______and development.
语法与词汇Weather______, there will be an open air party with live music here this weekend.
完成对话Man: Ben borrowed his father’s car without permission, and then crashed it into the garage door.
Woman: No wonder his father went up the wall.
Question: What can we learn about Ben’s father?
完成对话Man: Are you finished with school already?
Woman: No. I have one more semester, but it would be great to have a job lined up.
Question: What does the woman mean?
语法与词汇Experiments in the photography of moving objects ______in both the United States and Europe well before 1990.
语法与词汇Her sun-tanned face suggested that she ______in excellent health.
语法与词汇He was ______the ￡40 he had been ordered to pay in excess fares plus interest plus costs.
语法与词汇______before we departed last weekend, we would have had a wonderful dinner party.
完成对话Woman: Do you like the course we’re taking?
Man: It’s beyond me.
Question: What does the man mean?
翻译题Since 1981, farmers in Holland have been encouraged to adopt "green" farming techniques that were thought to benefit plant and bird life. Farmers who have voluntarily adopted these measures are compensated by the European Union. The goal of the program is to work against the negative effects of modern fanning, such as declines in species diversity and the disturbance of local nesting grounds.
The "green" methods of farming cost the European Union about 1.7 billion Euros annually. This is about 4 percent of the budget for "Common Agricultural Policy," and the compensation is expected to rise to 10 percent within the next few years.
Various forms of "green farming" employed around the world have proved successful, and all new methods thought to be environmentally sensitive should be subject to sound scientific evaluation to determine whether they are actually meeting the intended goals.
语法与词汇After the death of their parents, the sisters got ______well and never quarreled.
语法与词汇Honesty and modesty are both our traditional______.
语法与词汇The student spent all his spare time in doing part-time jobs in order to pay his school______.
完成对话A:How long can I keep the book? B:______
Proper arrangement of classroom space is important to encouraging interaction. Most of us have noticed how important physical setting is to efficiency and comfort in our work. College classroom space should be designed to encourage the activity of critical thinking. We may be approaching the twenty-first century, but step into almost any college classroom and you step back in time at least a hundred years. Desks are normally in straight rows, so students can clearly see the teacher but not all their classmates. The assumption behind such an arrangement is obvious. Everything of importance comes from the teacher.
With a little imagination and effort, unless desks are fixed to the floor, the teacher can correct this situation and create space that encourages interchange among students. In small or standard-size classes, chairs, desks, and tables can be arranged in a variety of ways. The primary goal should be for everyone to be able to see everyone else. Larger classes, particularly those held in lecture halls, unfortunately, allow much less flexibility.
Arrangement of the classroom should also make it easy to divide students into small groups for discussion or problem-solving exercises. Small classes with movable desks and tables present no problem. Even in large lecture halls, it is possible for students to turn around and form groups of four to six. Breaking a class into small groups provides more opportunities for students to interact with each other, think out loud, and see how other students" thinking processes operate all essential elements in developing new modes of critical thinking. In courses that regularly use a small group format, students might be asked to stay in the Same small groups throughout the course. A colleague of mine, John, allows students to move around during the first two weeks, until they find a group they are comfortable with. John then asks them to stay in the same seat, with the same group, from that time on. This not only creates a comfortable setting for interaction but helps him learn students" names and faces.
语法与词汇Having gone ______far, Brown did not want to turn back.
翻译题The office desk, as we know it, may have had its day. A large study on the future of work in the UK predicts the rise of the “mobile worker” moving with notebook computer and mobile phone between office, home, hotel, airport or highway service station as the needs of a job demand. Today, more than five million people already spend some time working at home or on the move, according to a recent report. That number will rise dramatically over the coming decades, with mobile work becoming one of the fastest-growing types of employment.
According to the study “Working in the Twenty-First Century”, individuals will not necessarily see themselves as working from home. They could equally be working from the office, but they will be one the move from place to place, working at various times of the say, for much of the week. For a large proportion of workers, work in twenty years’ time will be more about movement than staying in one place.
翻译题A good book is often the best urn (瓮) of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man''s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters. "They are never alone," said Sir Philip Sidney, "that are accompanied by noble thoughts."
Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.
The great and good do not die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.
语法与词汇Retail sales volume in local urban and rural areas rose 57.8% and 46.8%______last year.
完成对话Speaker A: I’m going home now. Do you need a ride?
Speaker B: _____. I’m not done yet.
完成对话Man: Need a hand with those boxes?
Woman: That''s OK, I can manage. They''re empty.
Question: What does the woman mean?
完成对话A:How did your interview go? B:______
语法与词汇The world will be a dull place when all the different nationalities behave exactly______.
完成对话Man: Gosh! There seems to be no end to the work I have to do.
Woman: I’m glad I’m not in your shoes.
Question: What does the woman mean?
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翻译题The generation gap is so great in Hong Kong that the teenagers there rarely turn to their parents or teachers for advice on anything. Whether it be sex, AIDS, school worries or family problems, adults are not considered up to the job.
Until now, no one has asked Hong Kong youth, "What do you think?" Some understanding of the emotions of Hong Kong''s youth, however, has come from the work of Dr. Jeffrey Day—at the University of Hong Kong. His survey of young people does not focus, for example, on how many drugs they take—but tries to answer the question why.
Dr. Day hopes the results, which he plans to explain in full next week, will reveal what troubles—as well as pleases—today''s high-school students. Conclusions will be passed on not only to government departments but back to the schools which took part.
完成对话A:I''m exhausted. I had to work until 2 o''clock this morning. B:__________
语法与词汇The general was very______; he wanted to rule the whole world.
问答题These collective changes in the content, character, and execution of China's foreign policy over the past ten years represent an important evolution from Beijing's narrow and reactive approach to global affairs in the 1980s and early 1990s. Yet potentially even more significant changes are now taking place. Within the last three years, and especially since September 11, 2001, the writings of Chinese strategists have begun to reflect a critical shift in their view of the international system and China's role in it. For example, provocative articles have recently run in major Chinese newspapers and journals advocating that China abandon its long-held victim mentality. The writers reject the persistent emphasis on China's 66150 years of shame and humiliation" as the main lens through which Chinese view their place in modern international affairs. Influential Chinese analysts have begun to promote instead China's adoption of a "great-power mentality. " This emerging notion would replace Chinese victimhood with a confidence born of two decades of impressive economic growth.
翻译题We all know that the most powerful force in our lives is love. In addition to providing us with soul-warming companionship, the emotion of love is truly inspiring.
Of course, the facts of our lives tell a somewhat sad story. We have a very hard time making love last. The divorce rate in the U.S. is still around 50 percent. That figure doesn’t even cover the many couples that live together without marriage and whose unions are even more likely to dissolve.
Relationships fail because people have the misconception about what to expect in marriage. The fantasy is that everything will be wonderful as long as you find the perfect person –your missing half . But marriage is a team sport . It’s one team with two people , with two different minds . The difficulty is that these two people disagree all the time . They need to know nondestructive ways of expressing differences and must also be prepared for the inevitable disappointments that come from living with another person.
完成对话A:I don''t know why we listen to George? B:______
语法与词汇Try to avoid exposing your skin ______strong sunshine.
翻译题Many individuals think of investing in the stock market as being similar to gambling. When they think of the stock market this way, they miss one big point: A gambler has a negative expected return, while an investor has a positive expected return. Over time, the more money that an individual gambles at a casino, the more money she will lose. In investing, the more money that an individual commits to long-term investing, the more money that the individual will make because the odds are on the side of the investor. Historically, stocks have returned about 10 per year before taxes. People who view the stock market like a casino tend to act like spectators, trading in and out of stocks every few months, or in extreme cases, every few days.
问答题(1)高等教育一个新现象是人文科学遇到冷落，而专业性强的学科受到青睐。
(2)引起这一现象的原因。
(3)我的看法。
问答题Human friends may come and go, but a horse could be one of your most loyal, long-term friends if you treat it fight.
Horses understand words better than expected, since horses can hear the human voice better than even dogs can, due to their particular range of hearing. And scientists predict that trainers could have greater success if they use more verbal commands in their horse training programs.
Horses possess excellent memories, which allow horses to not only recall their human friends after a long period of separation but also to remember some complex human instructions for ten years or more. The bonds with humans are likely an extension of horse behavior in the wild, since horses value their own horse relatives and friends, and are also open to new, nonthreatening acquaintances. Horses maintain long-term bonds with several members of their family group, but they also interact temporarily with members of other groups when forming herds.
问答题The Renaissance embraced, first of all, an impressive record of new achievements in art, literature, science, philosophy, education and religion. Although the foundation of many of these was classical, they soon expanded beyond the measure of Greek and Roman influence. Indeed, many of the achievements in painting, science, politics and religion bore little relation to the classical heritage. Secondly, the Renaissance incorporated a number of dominant ideas and attitudes that gave it the impress of a unique society. Notable among these in general were optimism, and individualism; but the most significant of them all was humanism.
完成对话Man: I bought this fish to cook for my dinner tonight, but it doesn''t look all that fresh to me now. Would you say it''s still all right to eat?
Woman: Let''s take a look Oh, if I were you, I wouldn''t even think of it.
Question: What does the woman mean?
完成对话Man: Yes, hello, this is Robert White calling. Could Dr. Jones see me on Tuesday morning instead of Tuesday afternoon?
Woman: Tuesday morning? Let''s see..., is that the only other time you could come?
Question: What does the woman imply?
翻译题Given this research base, we believe that teachers are responsible not only for teaching but also, to some extent, for learning outcomes.
问答题Recent developments in astronomy have made is possible to detect planets in our own Milky Way and in other galaxies. This is a major achievement because, in relative terms, planets are very small and do not emit light. Finding planets is proving hard enough, but finding life on Earth will prove infinitely more difficult. The first question to answer is whether a planet can actually support life. In our own solar system, for example, Venus is far too hot and Mars is far too cold to support life. Only the Earth provides ideal conditions, and even here it has taken more than four billion years for plant and animal life to evolve. Whether a planet can support life depends on the size and brightness of its star, that is its "sun". Imagine a star up to twenty times larger, brighter and hotter than our own sun. A planet would have to be a very long way from it to be capable of supporting life.
完成对话Woman: What do you like to do on your summer vacation?
Man: I like nothing better than fishing on a hot summer day.
Question: What does the man mean?
完成对话Woman: John says that he is confident that he can win the game.
Man: He''ll succeed when pigs fly.
Question: How does the man mean?
问答题合作的意义。
2．合作在工作中的重要性(举例)。
3．怎样培养合作的能力？
问答题Outline:1.Interpretthegraph.2.Suggestcounter-measures.3.Giveadviceforjobseekers.A市本科毕业生就业情况(ReportedbyCityAPersonnelandTalentBureau)
问答题I stopped to let the car cool off and to study the map. I had expected to be near my objective by now, but everything still seemed alien to me. I was only five when my father had taken me abroad, and that was eighteen years ago. When my mother had died after a tragic accident, he did not quickly recover from the shock and loneliness. Everything around him was full of her presence, continually reopening the wound. So he decided to emigrate. In the new country he became absorbed in making a new life for the two of us, so that he gradually ceased to grieve. He did not marry again and I was brought up without a mother"s care, but I lacked for nothing, for he was both father and mother to me. He always meant to go back one day, but not to stay. His roots and mine had become too firmly embedded in the new land.
翻译题The M.P.A. program is designed for present and future leaders of the public and nonprofit sectors. The program emphasizes broad-based public policy analysis and management knowledge, while students pursue one or more specialized policy fields. The core devotes considerable time to mastering the basic analytic and quantitative skills needed by good analysts and managers. The curriculum draws upon the wide range of academic disciplines throughout the University of Washington. The school offers a series of special management-skills workshops each year in addition to its regular course offerings. Distinguished public-sector practitioners typically teach these seminars. Recent workshops have covered such topics as writing; effective oral presentations; building teams; managing a diverse work force; financial resources in the public sector; managing consultants; and planning public participation.
问答题1. 有些人认为某些数字会带来好运。 2. 我认为数字和运气无关。 3. 试说明你的看法。
业务题In some schools students are streamed (分流) into different groups based on their existing levels. But some people criticize this as discrimination. Students put into the lower level groups may feel inferior and thus lose courage to learn. What’s your opinion on this issue? Please discuss this issue from theoretical as well practical points of view in about 300 words.
问答题Describethechart,2.Accountforthestatusrevealed,and3.Makearelevantprediction.
问答题人生有不同的目标：富有、名气、地位、幸福的家庭……2. 其中我认为重要的是……；理由是……3. 结论……
问答题Time, Newsweek, and U. S. News ＆ World Report are popular newsmagazines. The present national and international news, stories of human interest, and reports on new books, movies, plays, sports events, fashions, foods and so on are included. The articles are written in an informal style, and they are illustrated with photographs. More than nine million people read newsmagazines regularly. Two picture magazines Life and Look enjoyed popularity for many years. They presented the news with simple texts and many photographs, and they remained among the most widely read magazines until the late 1960s. Some people think these picture magazines were forced out of business because they could not compete successfully with the live pictures on televised news programs. Today there are approximately I 750 daily newspapers, with a total circulation of over 62 million and more than 580 Sunday papers, with a circulation of almost 60 million.
问答题环境对于我们每个人都是重要的。
2．人们有着不同的环保意识。
3．行动起来，保护环境是每个人的义务。
完成对话Man: Have you seen my glasses anywhere?
Woman: No.______.
Man: Yes. And I can’t see a thing without them.
问答题This organization is also a manufacturing firm. Here, however, management encourages and rewards risk taking and change. Decisions based on intuition are valued as much as those that are well rationalized. Management prides itself on its history of experimenting with new technologies and its success in regularly introducing innovative products. Managers or employees who have a good idea are encouraged to "run with it", and failures are treated as "learning experiences" . The company prides itself on being market driven and rapidly responsive to the changing needs of its customers. There are few rules and regulations for employees to follow, and supervision is loose because management believes that its employees are hardworking and trustworthy.
问答题The relation of language and mind has interested philosophers for many centuries. The Greeks assumed that the structure of language had some connection with the process of thought, which took root in Europe long before people realized how diverse languages could be.
问答题Concern for family values is reducing among younger Japanese as they pursue an inner world of private satisfaction. Data collected by the Japanese government in 1993 show that only 23% of Japanese youth are thinking about supporting their aged parents, in contrast to 63% of young Americans. It appears that many younger-generation Japanese are losing both respect for their parents and a sense of responsibility to the family. Experts attribute the change to Japanese parents' over-spoiling of their children, material plentifulness, and growing concern for private matters. The shift toward individualism among Japanese is most striking among the very young. According to data provided in 1991, 50% of Japanese youth aged 16 to 19 can be labeled "self-centered", compared with 33% among those aged 25 to 29. To earn the label, the young people responded positively to such ideas as "I would like to make decisions without considering traditional values" and "I don't want to do anything I can't enjoy doing".
问答题(1)有人认为人们上下班或出门里应更多利用公共交通工具。
(2)有人认为自己开车更方便。
(3)我的看法。
问答题If the Harry Potter books stand as the essential popular reading for young people, then The Da Vinci Code has captured the crown for grown-ups. With its controversial mix of storytelling and reasoning, the novel remains high on best-seller lists even as it begins its third year since publication.
Twenty-five million books, in 44 languages, are in print worldwide and no end is in sight. Booksellers expect The Da Vinci Code to remain a best-seller well into 2005.
The unusual success of The Da Vinci Code has been helped by wide access, with the book on sale everywhere from Wal-Mart to airports to supermarkets.
The Da Vinci Code has also thrived during a time when both literary and commercial novels struggled, when a tight economy, competition from other media and election-year tensions drove the public to nonfiction works or away from books altogether. Publishers and booksellers say Brown's novel has worked by combining narrative (叙述) excitement and disputed historical detail.
问答题(1)有的人喜欢春节晚会。
(2)有人认为应该取消春节晚会。
(3)我的看法。
问答题Directions: You are to write in no less than 120 words on the topic of "What I think of the Chinese Dream" You may base your composition on the Chinese clues given below and put your composition on the ANSWER SHEET.
新一届中央领导提出了“中国梦”的概念。
你心目中的“中国梦”是什么?
如何实现这个梦?
问答题Directions:StudythecaricatureabouttheCollegeStudentsataLooseEnd,andwriteanessayinnolessthan120words.Youressayshouldbebasedonthefollowingoutline.1.Describethepicture;2.Explainthereasonsoftheissue;3.Suggestsomesolutions.
问答题健康的标志是…… 为了健康，最重要的是…… 我个人保持健康的做法是……
翻译题Despite overwhelming scientific evidence that tobacco causes more than 400,000 deaths each year, our nation''s children continue to have easy access to cigarettes and tobacco. The United States has among the weakest package warnings and the lowest tobacco product prices in the industrialized nations of the world.
Yet, after a long and thorough analysis, President Clinton has come forward whit a statement of principles and direction for a national tobacco control plan that represents a major step. The Clinton plan calls for stiff price increases on tobacco produces to reduce teen smoking and tough penalties on the tobacco industry if this does not occur. Eleven major public health organizations, including the American Medical Association, the American Heart Association, and the American Cancer Society, have committed themselves to achieving legislation.
But there are challenges ahead. President Clinton did not address one of their primary concerns—the protections they would receive in return for all he is asking.
问答题Today concern for the environment extends into such areas as chemical pollution of the air we breathe and the water we drink, strip mining, dam and road building, noise pollution, offshore oil drilling, nuclear energy, waste disposal, the use of aerosol cans and nonreturnable beverage containers and a host of other issues. In fact, there is hardly a realm of national life that is not touched by the controversy that often pits those" who style themselves environmentalists against proponents of economic growth in our energy-consuming society. The problem is to balance the needs of the environment against those of the economy or consumers trying to cope with the high cost of living without destroying the earth on which we all depend. In this sense, it is important how nations should go about making environmental policies choice. Public awareness education on environment should be enhanced among citizens.
问答题(1)随着我国经济的发展，文化水平的提高，教育商业化的趋势越来越突出。
(2)教育商业化现象产生的原因。
(3)我的看法。
问答题Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Electronic Dictionaries. You should write at least 150 words, and base your composition on the outline below.
(1)电子词典有很多好处。
(2)电子词典也有许多弊端。
(3)你的看法。
完成对话Speaker A: Hey, it’s beautiful out today, isn’t it?
Speaker B: _____.
问答题Stock market can bring a fortune to people. However, it can also take away everything from you overnight. Many individuals think of investing in the stock market as being similar to gambling. When they think of the stock market this way, they miss one big point: A gambler has a negative expected return, while an investor has a positive expected return. Over time, the more money that an individual gambles at a casino, the more money she will lose. In investing, the more money that an individual commits to long-term investing, the more money that the individual will make because the odds are on the side of the investor. Historically, stocks have returned about 10 percent before taxes. People who view the stock market like a casino tend to act like spectators, trading in and out of stocks every few months, or in extreme cases, every few days.
问答题1.Effectofthecountry'sgrowinghumanpopulationonitswildlife.2.Possiblereasonsfortheeffect.3.Yoursuggestionforwildlifeprotection.THEUPSANDDOWNSOFPOPULATIONGROWTH
问答题不同的人对健康、财富与幸福的看法不同。
2．健康、财富与幸福的关系。
3．保持乐观的心态十分重要。
问答题(1)有人喜欢春节晚会。 (2)有人认为应该取消春节晚会。 (3)我的看法。
完成对话A:Could you get me Extension 6459, please? B:______
完成对话Speaker A: Could I speak to John, please?
Speaker B: John? There’s no one by that name here. I’m afraid you’ve got the wrong number.
Speaker A: ________.
问答题The emergence of the European Union has been one of the defining events of the twentieth century. It has changed the political, economic, and social landscapes of Western European, changed the balance of power in the world by helping Europe reassert themselves on the world stage, and helped to bring the longest uninterrupted spell of peace in Europe recorded history. Until the beginning of the twentieth century, Europe was a continent of competing powers that repeatedly fought with each other on their own soil and took their mutual hostilities to other continents in their competition to build colonial empires. The tragic costs of nationalism were finally confirmed by two world wars, fought largely on Europe and leaving the Europe powers devastated and drained. If Europe had not learned of the barbarism and futility of war in the trenches of northern France and Belgium in 1914~1918, the horrors of the period 1939～1945 finally brought home the need to cooperate and to build the kind of society that would eliminate the seeds of conflict.
问答题In order to keep good friends together, we must, first of all, show respect to each other; there must not be any, however little, reluctance, interference or dominance involved. Should interest or temperament match, people tend to agree or become friends, or they part company and cease to be friends. You shall never go too far, disregarding manners, no matter what kind of close or intimate friends you are. Otherwise, that state of harmony and balance is sure to be upset and you are no longer friends. Generally, every one of us, as friends, still hopes to have a private room reserved for ourselves. By always having your own ways, you may risk intruding into that forbidden zone, causing conflict or estrangement. Though failing to show respect to friends only seems to be a trifle, it may turn out destructive in the future as if pre-destined. So the best solution for keeping good friends together is stick to showing manners as you see fit in everyday dealings and never meddle: always show respect to each other, and you'll enjoy lasting friendship.
问答题(1)科技的进步使我们的生活更加美好。 (2)科技的进步也给我们的生活带来了问题。 (3)你的看法。
问答题Directions
: You are to write in no less than 120 words about the title "Health, Wealth and Happiness". You should base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below:
1．不同的人对健康、财富与幸福的看法不同。
2．健康、财富与幸福的关系。
3．保持乐观的心态十分重要。
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Directions
: You are to write in no less than 120 words about the title "The Cooperation". You should base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below.
1. 合作的意义。
2. 合作在工作中的重要性(举例)。
3. 怎样培养合作的能力?
问答题(1)在我国许多随父母四处流动的孩子的教育问题已经成为令人担忧的问题。
(2)造成这一问题的原因。
(3)如何解决这个问题。
翻译题Each of us requires about 50 quarts per day fro drinking, bathing, cooking and other basic needs. At present, 1.1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water and more than 2.4 billion lack adequate sanitation. "Unless we take swift and decisive action," says U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, "by 2025, two-thirds of the world''s population may be living in countries that face serious water shortage."
The answer is to get smart about how we use water. Agriculture accounts for about two-thirds of the fresh water consumed in the world. A report prepared for the summit calls for more efficient irrigation techniques and more planting of crop varieties that require less water and better monitoring of growing conditions. Improving water-delivery systems would also help, reducing the amount that is lost on the way to the people who use it.
问答题中央电视台“圆梦行动”的公益节目旨在动员社会力量捐助贫困学子圆大学之梦。你的作文可以： 1．对贫困学子是否应受到捐助发表你的看法；或者 2．举一个贫困学子需要帮助的例子。
问答题Directions: In this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition of no less than 100 words under the title of Why We Work. Your composition should be based on the following outline given in English.
Outline: (1)Some people live to work.
(2)Other people work to live.
(3)Your opinion.
问答题(1)互联网给我们带来的好处。 (2)随着互联网的普及而产生的问题。 (3)我的看法。
问答题Directions: You should write no less than 120 words and you should base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below."
1．有人说“金钱不是万能的，没有金钱是万万不能的”。
2．你怎么看待这句话。
问答题One of the most important components of Corporate Resource Management is to recruit and retain the best workforce possible. Unfortunately, hiring qualified employees is tougher today than it has ever been before. Competition for well-educated and highly experienced candidates is incredible and companies no longer control the hiring as they did in the past. New job creation has reached an all-time high of more than three million new positions per year. As a result, compensation packages required to attract the right candidates, especially for technical positions, have increased in a dramatic way. The recruiting landscape has changed virtually overnight. Not only is it a job seeker's market, but the demand for technical talent has vastly increased while fewer technology "raw recruits" are entering the job market. It is incredible that the number of students studying computer science in the US is half of what it was about 1o years ago.
问答题1. 目前社会上有不少假冒伪劣商品 (fake commodities), 为什么会有这种现象? 2. 举例说明假冒伪劣商品对消费者个人、社会等的危害。
问答题市里要在你家住的这个街区新建一个购物中心，你的意见如何(同意或反对)?
2．同意或反对的理由。
3．结论。
问答题(1)我国的足球运动吸引了越来越多的观众。 (2)原因。 (3)结论。
问答题Title: How Should College Students Relieve Pressure
完成对话A:How does your daughter like her new school? B:______
问答题The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking steps to protect the country's blood supply. People give blood to the centers, where it is kept until it is needed for medical purposes. The FDA has provided new rules for the blood centers. The government agency says new rules are designed to improve the blood supply system. The new rules call for blood centers to develop more ways to make sure their work is done correctly. These rules are another way to help keep the blood supply pure. A leading concern is that someone with AIDS virus might give blood to a blood center. For this reason, there are tests to find out if blood contains viruses that cause AIDS and other disease. Each year blood transfusion has saved millions of lives, however, if there is no secure blood, it's increasingly risky for the recipient of blood to be infected with HIV.
问答题The MPA program is designed for present and future leaders of the public and nonprofit sectors. The program emphasizes broad-based public policy analysis and management knowledge, while students pursue one or more specialized policy fields. The core devotes considerable time to mastering the basic analytic and quantitative skills needed by good analysts and managers. The curriculum draws upon the wide range of academic disciplines throughout the University of Washington. The school offers a series of special management-skills workshops each year in addition to its regular course offerings. Distinguished public-sector practitioners typically teach these seminars. Recent workshops have covered such topics as writing; effective oral presentations; building teams; managing a diverse work force; financial resources in the public sector; managing consultants; and planning public participation. The program aims at enhance the trainee's policy analysis ability, familiarize them with skill of public administration, improve their ability of learning, adapting and leading, so as to enhance their executive competence and their overall qualities.
问答题Since 1951 the proportion of married women who work has grown from just over a fifth to a half. Compared with their counterparts elsewhere on the Continent, British women comprise a relatively high proportion of the work force, about two-fifths, but on average they work fewer hours, about 31 a week. There is still a significant difference between women's average earnings and men's, but the equal pay legislation which came into force at the end of 1975 appears to have helped to narrow the gap between women's and men's basic rates. As more and more women join the work force in the 1960s and early 1970s there was an increase in the collective incomes of women as a whole and a major change in the economic role of large numbers of housewife. Women's liberation looks disturbingly like the "right" to work more. Are liberated career women happier than satisfied mothers? Some think that if men are happy working, and women are happy helping them to deal with pressure, what is there to criticize?
问答题Directions: Now more and more Chinese, especially
the young, have begun to buy cars or houses on bank loan. Write a passage of at
least 120 words to express your views on "Shopping on Installment" (论贷款消费). You
may either agree or disagree. But whichever position you take, use specific
reasons or examples to support your position.
问答题Getting a proper amount of rest is absolutely essential for building your energy resources. If you frequently work far into the night or have a poor sleep, it stands to reason that you may start to feel a little run down. Though everybody is different, most people need at least seven to eight hours of sleep per night in order to function at their best.
If you have been lacking energy, try going to bed earlier at night. If you can wake up feeling well-rested, it will be an indication that you are starting to get an appropriate amount of sleep at night. If you sleep more than eight hours every night but still don't feel energetic, you may actually be getting too much sleep.
Once in a while, you are bound to have nights where you don't get an adequate amount of sleep. When your schedule permits you can also consid-er taking a short sleep during the day, for sometimes taking a nap is the perfect way to recharge your batteries,
问答题Title:ChangesinPeople"sDietOutline:1.Statechangesinpeople"sdailyexpensesinthepastseveralyears.2.Givepossiblereasonsforthechanges.3.Drawyourownconclusion.Note:Youshouldquoteasfewfiguresaspossible.
问答题Title: Information and My Life
问答题Title: The Fight Against Crime
完成对话Woman: Come on, we''re almost there. I''ll race you to the top of the hill.
Man: I''m so out of shape. I might have to crawl the rest of the way.
Question: What can be inferred about the man?
问答题(1)竞争已成为现代社会的突出特征。 (2)竞争对于社会发展的积极作用。 (3)结论。
完成对话Man: I heard that Parker Electronics is going to be holding interviews on campus next week.
Woman: Yeah? What day? I''d like to talk to them and drop off my resume.
Question: What does the woman want to do?
翻译题One of the most important components of Corporate Resource Management is recruiting and retaining the best workforce possible. Unfortunately, hiring qualified employees is tougher today than it has ever been before. Competition for well-educated and highly experienced candidates is incredible and companies no longer control the hiring as they did in the past. New job creation has reached an all-time high of more than three million new positions per year. As a result, compensation packages required to attract the right candidates, especially for technical positions, have increased dramatically. The recruiting landscape has changed virtually overnight. Not only is it a job seeker''s market, but the demand for technical talent has vastly increased while fewer technology "raw recruits" are entering the job market. Incredibly, the number of students studying computer science in the U.S. is half of what it was 10 years ago.
问答题(1)根据下图描述我国男女工资比例的差异。(2)分析数据反映问题。
问答题The modern Olympic Games were founded with the intention of improving health and education, promoting world peace, and encouraging fair and equal competition. But over the years, the Olympic saying, "faster, higher, stronger", has pushed scientists as well as athletes to do everything possible to reach new levels. Doctors, engineers and coaches all use everything science has to offer to achieve that little bit extra in competition. The reason modern technology has become part of sport is very simple: winning is just as important as it was 2,500 years ago at the Olympics of ancient Greece. Developments in technology have often been reflected in the methods of training and performance used at the Olympics through history. This technology falls into two main groups: improving an athlete's performance in competition, and allowing results to be measured more accurately. The introduction of high-tech equipment means that athletes in all sports, from the 100-metres sprint to the pole vault, can now train more effectively and nourish their bodies better.
问答题I am lonely only when I am overtired, when I have worked too long without a break, when for the time being I feel empty and need tilling up. And I am lonely sometimes when I come back home after a lecture trip, when I have seen a lot of people and talked a lot, and am full to the brim with experience that needs to be sorted out.
Then for a little while the house feels huge and empty, and I wonder where my self is hiding. It has to be recaptured slowly by watering the plants, perhaps, and looking again at each one as though it were a person, by feeding the two cats, by cooking a meal.
完成对话Woman: Concert or movie, what would you prefer?
Man: __________. I just want to get out of the house.
问答题In order to keep good friends together, we must, first of all, show respect to each other; there must not be any, however little, reluctance, interference or dominance involved. Should interest or temperament match, people tend to agree or become friends, or they part company and cease to be friends. You shall never go too far, disregarding manners, no matter what kind of close or intimate friends you are. Otherwise, that state of harmony and balance is sure to be upset and you are no longer friends. Generally, every one of us, as friends, still hopes to have a private room reserved for ourselves. By always having your own ways, you may risk intruding into that forbidden zone, causing conflict or estrangement. Though failing to show respect to friends only seems to be a trifle, it may turn out destructive in the future as if predestined. So the best solution for keeping good friends together is stick to showing manners as you see fit in everyday dealings and never meddle: always show respect to each other, and you"ll enjoy lasting friendship.
问答题Order was caused by the need and desire to survive the challenge of the environment. This orderly condition called the "state", and the rules that maintained it, the "law" . With time the partner to this tranquility, man marched across the centuries of his evolution to the brink of exploring the boundaries of his own galaxy. Of all living organisms, only man has the capacity to interpret his own evolution as progress. As social life changed, the worth and rights of each member in the larger group, of which he was a part, increased. As the groups grew from clans to civilizations, the value of the individual did not diminish, but became instead a guide to the rules that govern all men.
问答题The old lady had always been proud of the great rose-tree in her garden, and was fond of telling how it had grown from a cutting she had brought years before from Italy, when she was first married. She and her husband had been travelling back in their carriage from Rome (it was before the time of railways) and on a bad piece of road south of Siena they had broken down, and had been forced to pass the night in a little house by the road-side. The accommodation was wretched of course; she had spent a sleepless night, and rising early had stood, wrapped up, at her window, with the cool air blowing on her face, to watch the dawn. She could still, after all these years, remember the blue mountains with the bright moon above them, and how a far-off town on one of the peaks had gradually grown whiter and whiter, till the moon faded, the mountains were touched with the pink of the rising sun, and suddenly the town was lit as by an illumination, one window after another catching and reflecting the sun"s beam, till at last the whole little city twinkled and sparkled up in the sky like a nest of stars.
问答题近年来大学生在校外租房居住的现象越来越多，这个问题已引起社会各界的关注。人们对这一现象的看法不一，各持己见。 1．你对这个问题的观点是…… 2．理由是…… 3．结论……
问答题One of the most important components of Corporate Resource Management is to recruit and retain the best workforce possible. Unfortunately, hiring qualified employees is tougher today than it has ever been before. Competition for well-educated and highly experienced candidates is incredible and companies no longer control the hiring as they did in the past. New job creation has reached an all-time high of more than three million new positions per year. As a result, compensation packages required to attract the right candidates, especially for technical positions, have increased in a dramatic way. The recruiting landscape has changed virtually overnight. Not only is it a job seeker's market, but the demand for technical talent has vastly increased while fewer technology "raw recruits" are entering the job market. It is incredible that the number of students studying computer science in the US is half of what it was about 10 years ago.
问答题Directions: You are to write in no less than 120 words about the title "Cyber Crime". You should base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below.
1．现如今，网络犯罪的形式都有哪些?
2．为什么会出现网络犯罪的形式?
3．如何打击这种犯罪形式?
问答题Directions: For thispart, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Where There Is a Will, There Is a Way. You should write at least l50 words, and base your composition on the outline below.
(1) Why do we say "Where there is a will there is a way"?
(2) Give an example or examples for this proverb.
问答题Directions
: You are to write in no less than 150 words on the topic "Security or Privacy". Your composition should be based on the Chinese clues given below.
1．近些年来，许多公共场合都安装了摄像监控装置
2．人们对此众说纷纭
3．你的看法
语法与词汇If you try to sell them something that they ______for free, they aren''t going to buy it.
语法与词汇Not only ______a promise, but he also kept it.
语法与词汇Television will provide information on prices at the nearby shops ______news and entertainment.
语法与词汇The winter just ending was ______severe, causing great hardship to the poorer people in this area.
语法与词汇He ______that a combination of recent oil discoveries and the advance of new technology will lead to a decline in the price of crude oil.
语法与词汇Are there any ______for believing that there is life on other planets?
语法与词汇When the millionaire died, his son was left an immense______.
语法与词汇Both companies are very famous in the local region; of which the former is a joint venture and the ______is state-owned.
语法与词汇In a ____ of inspiration, I decided to paint the whole house white.
语法与词汇The population of many Alaskan cities has ______doubled in the past three years.
语法与词汇We should avail ______of every opportunity to practice our English.
语法与词汇You have to ______most of the responsibilities in the fire.
语法与词汇Fighting corruption involves tackling those who offer _____ as well as those who take them.
语法与词汇The ______meter can detect even a very small amount of gas in the room.
语法与词汇______ singing and dancing all night kept the neighbors from going to sleep.
语法与词汇The man,______ is parked in front of our school, is a prominent politician in this city.
语法与词汇He will not be free this Sunday. He ______his homework all the day.
语法与词汇Weather ____, we’ll go for a walk in the woods tomorrow.
语法与词汇Five people were killed in that terrible traffic______.
语法与词汇Until the 16th century the earth ______to be flat.
语法与词汇I ______you that I will finish this work before next Monday.
语法与词汇He suggested ______to tomorrow''s exhibition together.
语法与词汇This report is _____ with an article written by the same author.
语法与词汇Weather______, we shall go for a picnic.
语法与词汇Can you help me to find the ______to the problem?
语法与词汇This clothes has ______greatly after several washings.
语法与词汇The capital is ______to the salary by his rank.
语法与词汇______before we depart the day after tomorrow, we should have a wonderful dinner party.
语法与词汇This criminal was ______with murdering an policeman.
语法与词汇If I ______the books on the reading list before, I would have attended the lecture.
语法与词汇She went to Europe on vacation but her happy time ended in ______when their hotel caught fire.
语法与词汇______a scientist is being deliberately informal, he will tend to speak like a book when he is explaining science.
语法与词汇Unlike other leaders who put all blames on others, he took responsibility and resigned _____.
语法与词汇There is a real concern that food supplies will not be ______to feed the increasing population in world.
语法与词汇Most electric devices of this kind, ______manufactured for such purposes, are tightly packed.
语法与词汇Downsizing—the laying off of thousands of workers to keep ______low and profits high creates feelings of insecurity for many.
语法与词汇—"You finally made it, didn''t you?" —"Yes, ______your help, I would not have succeeded."
语法与词汇For these reasons, the newspaper is having ______problems in the north of the country.
语法与词汇A new electronic announcement system has been introduced in the taxis to _____ passengers not to forget their luggage.
语法与词汇There is a supermarket near here, so they have quite a lot of things______.
语法与词汇The customers should ______their orders by phone or email.
语法与词汇The only ______to the small village is along the muddy road.
语法与词汇In information age, we must ______the progress of the times.
语法与词汇The only thing ______really matters to the parents is how soon their children can return home.
语法与词汇______, the company made a great deal of advertisements on TV.
语法与词汇The students made heated discussions ______the education system.
语法与词汇It took years for Einstein''s theory to gain______.
语法与词汇The new automobile factory is expected to ______around 30, 000 to 50, 000 vehicles annually in the first three years.
语法与词汇Sunny Monday skies will _____ a shield of clouds by sunset.
语法与词汇Last year SARS was ______in many countries of the world.
语法与词汇Because of heavy rain, the sports meet will be ______until next week.
语法与词汇Consumer ____ in food products has been shaken by several recent scandals.
问答题Title: Traveling
语法与词汇Chinese athletes in Athens have attracted wide attention from the ______of many countries.
语法与词汇The professor was critical ______the attitude towards study of some students.
语法与词汇He promised he would come, but now he doesn''t still______.
语法与词汇These new regulations will be ______to all the staff.
语法与词汇The Chinese community there, consisting of 67,000______, is the largest concentration of Chinese outside Asia.
语法与词汇______is often the case with a new idea, much initial activity and optimistic discussion produce no concrete proposal.
语法与词汇Guilin, a city in Southern China, ______its beautiful scenery, surpassing that of any other place in the world.
语法与词汇Many dreams _____ seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
语法与词汇There is an old chair in the barn, ______.
语法与词汇The environment in which a person is brought up will ______his personality greatly.
语法与词汇If you are going to interview someone you ____ know something about them.
语法与词汇Poetry is a special form of language that ______thoughts and feeling.
语法与词汇When Bob was eighteen, he ______going around with a strange set of people and staying out very late.
语法与词汇If she ____ here next week, we would know her decision.
语法与词汇The director often says it is difficult to design a program that will meet the ______needs of all our users.
语法与词汇The more he knows about his new colleague,______.
语法与词汇If present______ continue, the earth will be considerably warmer in fifty years.
语法与词汇Last month a new ______line was put into use in that factory.
语法与词汇Her house is within ______from the police station.
语法与词汇The sudden electrical ______caused a series of serious problems.
语法与词汇The symbols of mathematics ______we are most familiar are the signs of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and equality.
语法与词汇We ______go abroad to spend my holiday, but this morning the manager informed me that I had to take part in an important meeting.
语法与词汇______the financial means to remain independent, Thomas Edison was compelled to seek employment as a night telegraph operator.
语法与词汇Eating regular meals is _____ important for health.
语法与词汇You can get the ______information on fashion from the internet.
语法与词汇______ we arrived in a more urban area, where Jim took me to a place called Boston Market.
语法与词汇______will Mr. Forbes be able to regain control of the company.
语法与词汇The angry mother didn''t know who ______for the broken glass.
语法与词汇I would rather ______for a holiday than give up this good opportunity to attend the concert.
语法与词汇The museum''s new building will have ______the exhibition space as before.
语法与词汇______, he went out to play football with his friends.
语法与词汇This pair of glasses is similar to ______you bought last week.
语法与词汇In this university the chairs in many classrooms are not______.
语法与词汇Traditional publishing will be _____ dramatically in the next 5 to 10 years.
语法与词汇This firm is our best choice ______the price of the product.
语法与词汇Applicants must show that they have $10,000 or more ______for living expenses and approximately $10,000 for tuition.
语法与词汇Many new difficulties ______when they began to carry out the plan.
语法与词汇Truth is something proven by experiment, so nothing should be______.
语法与词汇The Smiths ______dinner when the phone rang suddenly.
语法与词汇We hope that you can keep us ______how the project goes on.
语法与词汇Recent advances are described _____the computer system for high production application.
语法与词汇Please keep me ______what has happened recently.
语法与词汇Within the foreseeable future there may be a major ______of species, involving from one-third to two-thirds of all the species now in existence.
语法与词汇The foreign visitors will ______the Great Wall after a short rest.
语法与词汇This problem needs ______further.
语法与词汇Of the two houses the family prefers______.
语法与词汇The new law will ______from January next year.
语法与词汇All these days he ______on his paper.
语法与词汇______evidence that language-acquiring ability must be stimulated.
语法与词汇Hemingway''s style is______.
语法与词汇______he realized it was already too late for us to return home.
语法与词汇The audience in the theatre waited until the curtain had risen and then ______into applause.
语法与词汇______in a simple style, the book clearly describes the author''s childhood experiences in a small town.
语法与词汇The government is trying to do something to ______better understanding between two countries.
语法与词汇The teaching methods ______from school to school and from teacher to teacher.
语法与词汇The book is borrowed from the library. You ______your children put dots and lines here and there.