问答题On Banning English Words in Chinese News In the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Write your essay on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.

问答题Directions: As television brings some unfavorable influence on people, some suggest that we should do away with television. Since you consider television as an indispensable part of your life, you should write in response to the suggestion. Please include the following points in your essay: 1) Television provides us with the information of the world. 2) Television helps us to improve ourselves. 3) Television offers entertainment. You should write 160-200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.

问答题Read the following text(s) and write an essay to 1) summarize the main points of the text(s), 2) make clear your own viewpoints, and 3) justify your stand. In your essay, make full use of the information provided in the text(s). If you use more than three consecutive words from the text(s), use quotation marks(" "). You should write 160-200 words. Like many people, Bree Britt once dreamed of starting her own business. But unlike many people, the 16-year-old American did not wait until she grew up to become an entrepreneur. With a sense of purpose, a plan of action and the help of her mother, she opened Bree"s Sweet Treats in Accokeek, Maryland. For Bree Britt, nothing is more enjoyable, satisfying and calming than preparing food in the kitchen. Being a baker is like being an artist—the food has to be cooked just right. She says baking enables her to be innovative and creative. Bree Britt started cooking with her great-grandmother when she was five-years old. A short time later, Bree perfected her great-grandmother"s step-by-step directions. She then started to create her own recipes. When she was 12, Bree told her mother she wanted to open a bakery. Charmaine Britt is Bree"s mother. She told Bree to sell her baked goods online first to see if her daughter was serious. The baked goods made enough money through Internet sales that Charmaine Britt became her daughter"s business partner. They signed a rental agreement for office space and opened Bree"s Sweet Treats. Charmaine is responsible for the store during the day until Bree gets out of school. Leo Harrington owns a nearby barbershop. He comes to the store almost every day. He likes the choice of baked goods. Leo Harrington also says he respects what Bree has done. "I watch her diligence; school, then here, baking all the evening and getting ready for the next day." Going to school is not easy when operating a business. However, Bree says doing both taught her how to make good decisions about how she spends her time. "Her cupcakes are made, are flavored with fresh fruits or more of the extracts, more so than the sugar." Sugar or no sugar, Bree"s treats are sweet enough to keep them coming back for more.

问答题This custom survives in the ceremony of blessing the sea, which can still be seen once a year in some fishing ports.

问答题Mountain Glen was about an hour and a half into New Jersey. It lay on the southern fringe of the Catskills, north of the rolling suburban prettiness of Warrenstown and Greenmeadow and the ugly roads that connected them. As I got near, the hills grew steeper, less tame. Scarlet, rust, and orange splashed their sides. Here and there yellow birch leaves still glowed against white bark, set off by moss green stands of pine that seemed permanently in shadow. Yesterday's heavy clouds had delivered rain up here, and the hollows on the shoulder of the road held puddles that reflected the colors in the hills. Whole stretches of road went by without buildings, without people. The village of Mountain Glen itself was almost not there, only a post office to gather together a collection of houses, cabins, shacks, and trailers strung loosely along wandering roads. The address of Beth Adams turned out to be a wooden structure somewhere between a cabin and a shack, set in a spongy field half a mile past anything that could be called town. I turned in, parked behind a rust-pocked Olds Cutlass that was probably as surprised as anyone every time it found itself running. Mud clutched at my shoes as I walked to the porch, and the steps creaked as I climbed them, to remind me they could collapse whenever they wanted to. There was a doorbell and I pressed it, but I heard no sound and nothing happened. I pressed it one more time, then knocked hard on the door. Immediately from inside I heard a dog scrabbling and barking, but nothing else. I lifted my hand to knock again harder. Before I could, the door opened and a woman's bleary face appeared. She blinked against the daylight and flinched from my upraised arm.

问答题 Green space facilities are contributing to an important extent to the quality of the urban environment. Fortunately it is no longer necessary that every lecture or every book about this subject has to start with the proof of this idea. {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}At present it is generally accepted, although more as a self-evident statement than on the basis of a closely-reasoned scientific proof.{{/U}} The recognition of the importance of green space in the urban environment is a first step on the right way. {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}This does not mean, however, that sufficient details are known about the functions of green space in towns and about the way in which the inhabitants are using these spaces.{{/U}} As to this rather complex subject I shall, within the scope of this lecture, enter into one aspect only, namely the recreative function of green space facilities. {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}The theoretical separation of living, working, traffic and recreation which for many years has been used in town-and-country planning, has in my opirli0n resulted in disproportionate attention for forms of recreation far from home, whereas there was relatively little attention for improvement of recreative possibilities in the direct neighborhood of the home.{{/U}} {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}We have come to the conclusion that this is not right, because an important part of the time which we do not pass in sleeping or working, is used for activities at and around home.{{/U}} So it is obvious that recreation in the open air has to begin at the street door of the house. {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}The urban environment has to offer as many recreation activities as possible, and the design of these has to be such that more obligatory activities can also have a recreative aspect.{{/U}} The very best standard of living is nothing if it is not possible to take a pleasant walk in the district, if the children cannot be allowed to play in the streets, because the risks of traffic are too great, if during shopping you can nowhere find a spot for enjoying for a moment the nice weather, in short, if you only feel yourself at home after the street-door of your house is closed after you.

问答题Directions: Now the traffic problem is becoming more and more serious, especially in big cities. You are supposed to write a composition about this phenomenon based on the following outline. (1) What causes this problem? (2) What effects does it bring about? (3) How to solve this problem? You should write approximately 160—200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.

问答题With the development of the market economy, advertisements have become a dominant feature on television. Despite the rich information brought by TV, there still exists strong criticism against TV advertisement. What is your opinion? Write an article analyzing the effects of TV advertisement. You should write 160～200 words and you should base your composition on the following outlines. 1. What is your opinion about TV advertisement? 2. Support your point of view by analyzing the effects of TV. 3. Make a conclusion.

问答题When your family wants to buy or replace a car, a television, or a washing machine, you find the money either from savings or by borrowing from the bank, a hire-purchase company or perhaps a friend. 21) Similarly, a family buying a house for the first time commonly borrows from a bank. If you own a private business, a garage, a shop, or a farm, you will need, from time to time, to buy new equipment, new furnishings, or, if you are doing well, new premises so that you can expand. 22) Some of the cost you can meet from the profits you have kept in the business, but often you will need help. You will go to your bank, to a finance house, or perhaps to a relative or friend for finance provided from his savings. When you borrow money or raise money in this way, you pay it back out of future profits. Many large businesses, however, need cash for new developments or expansion far in excess of what can be provided from their profits or from private sources of capital. A new factory, an oil-well in the North Sea, can cost millions of pounds to construct and bring into production; 23) a new design of car or brand of medicine likewise can cost millions of pounds to design, develop, test and market before it reaches the stage where it earns a profit. Often these costs can be met from profits earned in other parts of the business or from reserves built up from profits earned in past years. 24) Sometimes, however, it is necessary, and often it may be more advantageous, to raise new money from other sources. There can be little prospect of raising the sort of sums needed by major businesses from friends or acquaintances, and generally the banks are reluctant to provide sufficient cash on a permanent basis for long-term projects, though they will provide short-term finance. 25) Such companies can sometimes only raise the money they need to stay in the forefront of industry and develop new products and sources of production by turning to the public at large and inviting it to lend them cash or take a share in the business in exchange for a share in future profits. This they can do by offering shares in the business or loan capital through The Stock Exchange.

问答题Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese.During the traditional wedding ceremony, the bride and the bridegroom promise each other lifelong devotion. Yet, about one out of four American marriages ends in divorce. {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}Since 1940, the divorce rate has more than doubled, and experts predict that, of all marriages that occurred in the 1970s, about 50% will end in divorce.{{/U}} The U.S.A. has one of the highest divorce rates in the world, perhaps even the highest. What goes wrong? {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}The fact that divorce is so common in the United States does not mean that Americans consider marriage a casual, unimportant relationship.{{/U}} Just the opposite is true. Americans expect a great deal from marriage. They seek physical, emotional, and intellectual compatibility. They want to be deeply loved and understood. It is because Americans expect so much from marriage that so many get divorced. They prefer no marriage at all to a marriage without love and understanding. With typical American optimism, they end one marriage in hope that the next will be happier. With no-fault divorce laws in many states, it is easier than ever to get a divorce. {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}Some American women stay in unhappy marriages because they don't have the education or job experience to support themselves and their children, but most American women believe that, if necessary, they can make it alone without a husband.{{/U}} All things considered, Americans have little reason to continue an unhappy marriage. Which marriages are most likely to end in divorce? Marriages between people with low incomes or limited education and marriages between teenagers are at greatest risk. The number of divorces between couples with children under the age of 18 is declining, and almost 45% of divorcing couples are childless. {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}When a couple gets divorced, the court may require the man to pay his former wife a monthly sum of money, which depends on the husband's income, the wife's needs, and the length of the marriage. {{/U}}If the woman is working and earns a good salary, she may receive no money at all. Occasionally, the court decides that a woman should pay her husband money. About 10% of American women outearn their husbands. {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}If the woman has totally supported her husband during the marriage, the court may decide that she must continue to support him after the divorce, which is a rather new concept in the United States.{{/U}}

问答题Time was when the solar system had two watery worlds. 61) Directly next door to the warm, wet, loamy Earth was the warm, wet, loamy Mars, both planets covered with oceans and running with rivers—and both possibly teeming with life. Billions of years ago, however, the low-gravity Mars had both its air and water leak away, causing the planet to become the dead, freeze-dried place it is today. That is what the prevailing thinking has been. Now, it appears that thinking may be wrong. 62) Recently, NASA released new images from the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft that suggest water may be flowing up and streaming onto the Martian surface—dramatically increasing the likelihood that at least part of the planet is biologically alive. "If these results prove true," says Ed Weiler, associate administrator of NASA's Office of Space Science," [they have] profound implications for the possibility of life. " Finding liquid water on Mars' surface has never been easy—because it simply can't exist there. The modern-day Martian atmosphere has barely 1 percent the density of Earth's, and its average temperature hovers around 67 degrees Fahrenheit (19 degrees Centigrade). In an environment as harsh as this, water would either vaporize into space or simply flash-freeze in place. 63) Scientists studying Martian history have always looked for clues the planet's ancient water left behind—tracks where vanished rivers once flowed, basins where vanished seas once stood. 64) The approximately 65,000 images the Surveyor orbiter has beamed home in the nearly three years it has been circling Mars are full of this kind of expected hydro-scarring. But some of the pictures took scientists by surprise. The older a formation is, the more likely it is to have been distorted over the eons—smoothed by periodic windstorms or gouged by the occasional incoming meteor. However, a few of the newly discovered water channels look fresh. That discovery has lead astonished researchers to conclude that these channels may have been recently formed. 65) Planetologists have long assumed that if underground water was going to bubble up on Mars, it would have to be somewhere in the balmy equatorial zones, where temperatures at noon in midsummer may reach 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Centigrade). Almost all the new channels, however, were discovered at the planet's relative extremes-north of 30 degrees north latitude and south of 30 degrees south latitude—and all were carved on the cold, shaded sides of slopes.

问答题Studythefollowingcartooncarefullyandwriteanessayonit.Inyouressay,youshould(1)describethecartoonbriefly,(2)analyzethissituation,and(3)giveyourcomments.Youshouldwrite160～200wordsneatlyonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题 Directions: Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Write your translation clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. All great writers express their ideas in an individual way.. it is often possible to determine the authorship of a literary passage from the style in which it is written. 61) {{U}}Many authors feel that the conventions of the written language hamper them and they use words freely, with little observance of accepted grammar and sentence structure, in order to convey vividly their feelings, beliefs and fantasies.{{/U}} Others with a deep respect for traditional usage achieve a style of classical clearness and perfection or achieve effects of visual or musical beauty by their mastery of existing forms enriched by a sensitive and adventurous vocabulary, vivid imagery and a blending of evocative vowels and consonants. Young people often feel the need to experiment and. as a result, to break away from the traditions they have been taught. In dealing with a foreign language, however, they have to bear in mind two conditions for experiment. 62) {{U}}Any great experimental artist is fully familiar with the conventions from which he wishes to break free., he is capable of achievement in established forms but feels these are inadequate for the expression of his ideas.{{/U}} In the second place, he is indisputably an outstanding artist who has something original to express; otherwise the experiments will appear pretentious, even childish. Few students can achieve so intimate an understanding of a foreign language that they can explore its resources freely and experimentally. Not all feel the need to do so. 63) {{U}}And in any case examination candidates need to become thoroughly acquainted with conventional usage as it is a sure knowledge of accepted forms that examiners look for.{{/U}} The student undertaking a proficiency course should have the ability to use simple English correctly to express everyday facts and ideas. 64) {{U}}This ability to express oneself in a foreign language on a basis of thinking in that language without reference to one's own is essential at all stages of learning.{{/U}} Students with extensive experience in translation who have had little practice in using the foreign language directly must, above all, write very simply at first, using only easy constructions which they are convinced are correct, forgetting for the time being their own language and rigorously avoiding translating from it. More complex forms, more varied vocabulary and sentence structure should evolve naturally in step with the student's increasing knowledge of the language. The student introduces a certain form of construction only when he is thoroughly familiar with it and is certain that it is normally used in this way. As he achieves additional confidence, he can begin to take an interest in use of the language to create diverse effects. He may want to convey impressions of suspense, calm, dignity, humor, of music or poetry. 65) {{U}}He will master the art of logical explanation, of exact letter writing, of formal speeches and natural conversation and of vivid impressionistic description.{{/U}} But he will still write within the limits of his ability and knowledge. And, as a learner, he will still be studying and observing conventional English usage in all that he writes.

问答题Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Frog Extinction: Another "Global Warming" Myth For years, global warming advocates have pointed to the sudden decline in frog species in various parts of the world in the 1990s as evidence of global warming. In January 2006, for example, National Geographic News carried a report headed "Frog extinctions linked to global warming". {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}Its report, based on an article in the prestigious Nature magazine, said: "Global warming may cause widespread amphibian extinctions by triggering lethal epidemics."{{/U}} {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}"Alan Pounds and colleagues suggest that many harlequin frog (小丑蛙) species across Central and South America have disappeared due to deadly infectious diseases spurred by changing water and air temperatures."{{/U}} National Geographic News added: "Climate scientists have long warned that global warming could spur deadly disease epidemics. The study suggests that such a scenario may already be unfolding in the amphibian world." If so, humans and other species should consider themselves duly warned. {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}Because amphibians are particularly sensitive to environmental change, they may serve as proverbial "canaries(金丝雀) in a coalmine" that warn of such climate change dangers.{{/U}} {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}A two-year-old Study by Britain scientists suggests that some 15 to 35 percent of land-dwelling plants and animals, or about a million species, would be extinct or committed to extinction by 2050.{{/U}} Other climate scientists have calculated that half of the planet's species are already affected by global climate change. The news for amphibians is particularly bad. In 2004 a global amphibian assessment by the World Conservation Union, Conservation International, and NatureServe reported that about one-third of all amphibian species were in decline. Other media were equally alarmed. In October 2008, the American online website, Science Daily, said, "Frogs are being killed in Yellowstone National Park. The predator, Stanford researchers say, is global warming." It quoted the researchers as saying, {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}"Drastic declines of the amphibians in the world's oldest nature reserve indicate that the ecological effects of global warming are very profound and are happening more rapidly than previously anticipated."{{/U}} All of this has been acknowledged by the IPCC meeting at Cancun, Mexico, which claims that global warming is threatening the future of natural habitats and animal species around the world.

问答题Directions:Itisoftenclaimedthatwomenhaveachievedgreaterfreedomandhaveaccesstothesameopportunitiesasmen.ThepiechartsbelowshowsomeemploymentpatternsinGreatBritain.Writeareportforauniversitylecturerdescribingtheinformationinthechartsbelow.Youshouldwriteatleast150words.

问答题Interlocutor:Now,I'dlikeyoutotalkaboutsomethingbetweenyourselvesandspeakloudlysothatwecanhearyou.Youshouldtakecaretosharetheopportunityofspeaking.(PutPicturesforCandidatesinfrontofbothcandidatesandgiveinstructionswithreferencetothepicture.)Youaregoingtotalkaboutgoodmannersinpublic.Whyaregoodmannerssoimportanttoeveryone?Thepicturesareforyourreference.Youhavethreeminutesforthis.Wouldyouliketobeginnow,please?