问答题行路难，但人生之路谁都要走。有的人在赶路，心急切切，步急匆匆，眼中只有目标却忽略了风景，可路迢迢不知哪是终点。有的人如游客，不急不慌，走走停停，看花开花落，看云卷云舒。有时也在风中走，雨中行，心却像张开的网，放过焦躁苦恼。人生之路谁不走?只是走路时别忽略了一路的良辰美景。 一个人工作的地方是小的，居住的家是小的，社交的圈子是小的，有的人就越来越不满这缺乏 变化的单调。有的人却总是怡然自得，随遇而安。世界浩渺，一个人只能居于一隅。比海洋大的是天空，比天空大的是心灵，因为这小小的心灵内住着一只时起时落的想象鸟。人生旅途上，有人背负着名利急急奔走，有人回归自然，飘逸而行。

问答题越来越多的中国人发现，每天挤时间看书越来越困难。而在过去10年中，中国的互联网用户数量激增，这表明人们的阅读习惯正在发生巨大变化。 专家将这一趋势归因于当今社会鼓励一夜成名或快速成功的社会价值观，而摒弃了过去的那种靠勤奋努力获得成功的观念。在当今的读图时代，人们更喜欢新奇的、带有视觉冲击的东西。然而，书集聚了知识的精华，这仅靠在互联网上浏览“速食”信息是无法得来的。

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问答题Amid the hubbub over a few less-bad-than-expected statistics, America's economic debate has turned to the nature of the recovery. Optimists expect a vigorous rebound as confidence returns, pent-up demand is unleashed and massive government stimulus takes effect. Most observers are bracing for a long slog, as debt-laden consumers rebuilt their savings, output growth remains weak and unemployment continues to rise. There is, however, something that eventually will have a much bigger impact on Americans' prosperity than the slope of the recovery. That is the effect of the crisis on America's potential rate of growth itself. An economy's long-term speed limit(its "trend" or "potential" rate of growth)is the pace at which GDP can expand without affecting unemployment and, hence, inflation. It is determined by growth in the supply of labor along with the speed with which productivity improves. The pace of potential growth helps determine the sustainability of everything from public debt to the prices of shares. Unfortunately, the outlook for America's potential growth rate was darkening long before the financial crisis hit. The IT-induced productivity revolution, which sent potential output soaring at the end of the 1990s, has waned. More important, America's labor supply is growing more slowly as the population ages, the share of women working has leveled off and that of students who work has fallen.

问答题吾生三愿，纯朴却激越：一日渴望爱情，二日求索知识，三日悲悯吾类之无尽苦难。此三愿，如疾风，迫吾无助飘零于苦水深海之上，直达绝望之彼岸。 吾求爱，盖因其赐吾狂喜——狂喜之剧足令吾舍此生而享其片刻；吾求爱，亦因其可驱寂寞之感，吾人每生寂寞之情辄兢兢俯视天地之缘，而见绝望之无底深渊；吾求爱还因若得爱，即可窥视圣哲诗人所见之神秘天国。此吾生之所求，虽虑其之至美而恐终不为凡人所得，亦可谓吾之所得也。 吾求知亦怀斯激情。吾愿闻人之所思，亦愿知星之何以闪光。吾仅得此而已，无他。

问答题我们应该牢记国际金融危机的深刻教训，正本清源，对症下药，本着简单易行、便于问责的原则推进国际金融监管改革，建立有利于实体经济发展的国际金融体系。要强调国际监管核心原则和标准的一致性，同时要充分考虑不同国家金融市场的差异性，提高金融监管的针对性和有效性。 我们要牢牢把握强劲、可持续、平衡增长三者的有机统一。我们应该积极推动强劲增长，注重保持可持续增长，努力实现平衡增长。实现世界经济强劲、可持续、平衡增长是一个长期复杂的过程，不可能一蹴而就，既要持之以恒、坚定推进，也要照顾到不同国家国情，尊重各国发展道路和发展模式的多样性。

问答题Brains or beauty? Women are still in dilemma. A poll released Tuesday found 25 percent of those questioned would rather win the "America"s Next Top Model" TV show than the Nobel Peace Prize. And although 75 percent of women interviewed said they"d be willing to shave their heads to save the life of a stranger, more than a quarter of those taking part admitted they would make their best friend fat for life, if it meant they could be thin. The poll was made for U. S. television network Oxygen targeted at young women. And more than 2,000 women aged 18-34 were surveyed for the poll. It also found that 88 percent of 18- to 34-year-old women would happily give up their cell phone, jewelry and makeup to keep a friendship. This survey proves an interesting dissection of today"s woman and how she relates her personal image with what she values in her life. As shown in several results, women today are a complex combination of altruistic and materialistic, vain and insecure, loyal and self-serving. This survey highlights the dichotomy in all of us.

问答题 John Reid became home secretary because of a prison scandal. His predecessor, Charles Clarke, was forced to resign in May after admitting that some 1,000 foreign prisoners who ought to have been considered for deportation had been freed. This week Mr. Reid faced a prison crisis of his own, made worse by new figures showing that offenders released early from jail on electronic tags have committed more than 1,000 serious crimes. In theory, the jails of England and Wales can accommodate just over 80,000 people. By October 6th they were just 210 short of that limit. The obvious remedies—cramming two people into cells built for one, letting more prisoners out on probation and moving convicts far from their families—have already been taken. So, last-ditch measures were put in place this week. Some 500 police cells will be used for prisoners. Foreign convicts' appeals against deportation will no longer be contested, in order to liberate their beds. Others will be paid to go home. This is one of history's less surprising crises. By the late 1990s Home Office statisticians were not only predicting a rapid rise in prisoner numbers, but also erring on the side of pessimism. Eight years ago, when the prison population was just above 65,000, the department predicted that it would rise to 83,000 by 2005. In 2002 the statisticians' forecasts were also too pessimistic. Yet the politicians still appear to have been caught by surprise. One reason the prisons are full is that there are more police officers—141,000, compared with 122,000 in 2000. They can now go after crimes that are hard to crack but attract long sentences, such as drug trafficking. The number of people in prison for drug offences has trebled since 1994. And, while the overall crime rate in England and Wales is improving, it may be that some criminals are worse. Cindy Barnett, a London magistrate, reckons the defendants she sees are more violent and have graver drug problems these days. That helps to explain why magistrates sent 27% of robbers straight to prison in 2004—up from just 10% in 1993. In the past few years, the Home Office has prodded judges and magistrates to punish serious, violent offenders more heavily, while encouraging them to go easier on petty thieves. The former has certainly happened: the number of life sentences has more than doubled since the early 1990s. The latter has not. Populist politicians forgot that judges tend to have fixed ideas about the relative seriousness of offences. Force them to increase sentences for murder, and they will also hand out longer terms to armed robbers. Finally, there is media pressure. Tabloid newspapers such as the Sun and the Daily Mail hound judges who pass, or even seek to justify, lenient sentences. This week the Sun accused one wig of "living in an ivory tower". Because most people's experience of the criminal-justice system is rare and intermittent, such coverage strongly influences the public mood. Ivory towers notwithstanding, it also stings judges. Penny Derbyshire, an academic who has been following wigs for several years, says they pore over press coverage. "And many of them have wives who read the Daily Mail," she says.

问答题我们应该牢记国际金融危机的深刻教训，正本清源，对症下药，本着简单易行、便于问责的原则推进国际金融监管改革，建立有利于实体经济发展的国际金融体系。要强调国际监管核心原则和标准的一致性，同时要充分考虑不同国家金融市场的差异性，提高金融监管的针对性和有效性。 我们要牢牢把握强劲、可持续、平衡增长三者的有机统一。我们应该积极推动强劲增长，注重保持可持续增长，努力实现平衡增长。实现世界经济强劲、可持续、平衡增长是一个长期复杂的过程，不可能一蹴而就，既要持之以恒、坚定推进，也要照顾到不同国家国情，尊重各国发展道路和发展模式的多样性。

问答题你生而有自己的特殊天赋。你的特长可能是唱歌，写作，教书，绘画，劝导，布道，辩护或交友。你总有些特殊之处可以贡献给这个世界，有些事你可以做得比另外一万个人做得都好。你必须不断学习和尝试新的事物从而发现自己的特殊才能。世界需要你贡献才智。要明白即使是特殊才能如果不经常使用和锻炼也会失效。因此要尽力使自己的天赋与所有的技能跟上时代。 任何优势如果不用的话也就不称其为优势了。找到办法运用你的优势来确定并实现你的目标。同样，你应该意识到自己的不足之处并尽力将其不利影响限制在最低程度。切记并不是所有的优势都能够相互转换：你在某一方面有天赋并不意味着你在自己所尝试的一切事情上都有天赋。一个成功的房地产投资商很可能因为开餐馆而亏本。因此要固守自己的优势，在没有理性的判断之前不要轻易离开自己擅长的领域。

问答题Cycling awakens my inner Trotwood. David Copperfield"s great-aunt Betsey was obsessed with donkeys trespassing on the green outside her cottage. My pet peeve recently has been delivery vans parking in a cycle lane I use every day. Honed by repetition, it now takes less than a minute to photograph the offending vehicle on my phone, find an email address and the names of the company"s directors, and fire off the picture and a complaint. However therapeutic such efforts may be for me—I also have video cameras, so I can record and report road-rage incidents and other diversions they only nibble at the problem. Our roads are mostly designed for cars. And as a new report by the all-party cycling group illustrates, the justice system is still skewed in favour of the four-wheelers. Injuries on the road are only drifting down, but convictions for dangerous driving have dropped by 30%. That reflects lax enforcement, not better driving. No surprise then that nearly two thirds of people still think cycling on the road is too risky. That is a pity. In 40 years on two wheels I"ve suffered nothing worse than a bump. Cycling is not only healthy for the pedal-pushers: it reduces pollution and congestion. I support every proposal for safer streets, more cycle lanes and tougher treatment of bad drivers. Yet my tribal loyalties to my fellow cyclists are mixed. A survey shows that 39% of British drivers admit to getting angry with us. In the southeast, 80% have "verbally abused" a cyclist. I wonder if the other 20% are telling the truth. Some of that anger may stem from misguided beliefs: that cyclists don"t belong on the roads. But it is not all baseless. Why should cyclists be allowed on the road without insurance. blithely pedalling away if they clip a wing mirror or scratch paintwork? Why do they ride without lights? Or flout traffic rules with impunity? And why are they so blasted smug? Behind these gripes is an important point: people who are inconsiderate, or worse, in their treatment of others cannot be surprised when they in turn are treated as nuisances. Particularly indefensible are the grim-faced dispatch riders who treat pavements as racetracks, and pedestrians as contemptible inferiors to be shooed or whistled aside. We cyclists are the weaker folk when we are on the roads. We should remember how frightening a fast approach on two wheels can be for those tottering on two feet. My own remonstrations with speed crazed cyclists are mostly as fruitless and expletive-ridden as attempting to chat to drivers about their overtaking habits. (What sometimes works is to start by admiring the vehicle: "Lovely car!" may prompt a surprised grin, after which I add "but you did give me a bit of a fright back there".) I have more luck with my afterdark project. Every autumn I buy a hundred or so small Chinese-made strap-on bike lights. When I see a grey-clad cyclist, bereft of any illumination or reflector, flitting down a dark street, I politely offer him a pair of lights. The reaction is sometimes splenetic, but more often shamefaced gratitude. The culture war between cyclists and motorists is marked by the same mutual paranoia and selfrighteousness that plague other parts of life, such as politics. Rather than escalating recriminations, the counterintuitive way out is for cyclists to improve their behaviour. I am surprised how few of us give a friendly wave to motorists who make an effort to help us. We could even try smiling. It would also help our image if the cycling pressure groups would acknowledge that motorists* exasperation is not wholly unfounded. But the real problem is enforcement. My daily commute includes a Kensington Gardens cycle route where the authorities have optimistically erected signs urging us to "Slow Down, Enjoy the Park". They might as well write in Tibetan. To save a few seconds, cyclists also skirt the speed bumps, scarring the grass. Lately the authorities have replaced the damaged turf and protected it with large barriers, complete with flashing lamps, to try to deter us from taking these trivial but annoying detours. Rather than these costly and unsightly efforts, I would prefer to see police officers levying on-the-spot fines for dangerous or antisocial behaviour. A friend of mine was recently fined ￡60 for cycling through a central London park and she hasn"t done it since. This does not mean a draconian clampdown on every minor bit of naughtiness: I have some sympathy for cyclists who avoid the traffic by trundling carefully down a deserted pavement, or take a left-hand turn at a red light. But treating truly antisocial behaviour with at least some severity not only reduces the risk of accidents, it also protects the law-abiding. Impunity, in short, cuts both ways. And my Trotwoodian crusade against the delivery vans? It has come to a salutary if unexpected conclusion. The council resurfaced the road—and abolished that bit of cycle lane.

问答题因工作关系，我30年来，年年要外出公干，足迹几乎遍布全国，没有到过的地方只有西藏、内蒙和澳门。可惜远行奔波间，车马劳顿，总是行色匆匆，山水的怡情悦目，都如过眼的云烟，只不过领略了一个大概，不能去探寻幽僻的妙境。我凡事喜欢有自己的见解，不屑于人云亦云，即使是论诗品画，都是持一种别人珍贵的东西我抛弃、别人遗弃的东西我收取的态度。佛家有云，境由心生，因此，所谓的名胜，全在于你怎么看，有的名胜，你并不觉得它有多好；有的不是名胜，你自己却以为是个妙境。这里且将我平生的游历逐一道来，与诸君共享。

问答题Questions 1～3 Contrary to popular belief, people who sleep six to seven hours a night live longer, and those who sleep eight hours or more die younger, according to the latest study ever conducted on the subject. The study, which tracked the sleeping habits of 1.1 million Americans for six years, undermines the advice of many sleep doctors who have long recommended that people get eight or nine hours of sleep every night. "There"s an old idea that people should sleep eight hours a night, which has no more scientific basis than the gold at the end of the rainbow," said Daniel Kripke, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego who led the study, published in a recent issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry. "That"s an old wives" tale. " The study was not designed to answer why sleeping longer may be deleterious or whether people could extend their life span by sleeping less. But Kripke said it was possible that people who slept longer tended to suffer from sleep apnea, a condition where impaired breathing puts stress on the heart and brain. He also speculated that the need for sleep was akin to food, where getting less than people want may be better for them. The study quickly provoked cautions and criticism, with some sleep experts saying that the main problem in America"s sleep habits was deprivation, not sleeping too much. "None of this says sleep kills people," said Daniel Buysse, a University of Pittsburgh psychiatrist and the immediate past president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. "You should sleep as much as you need to feel awake, alert and attentive the next day," Buysse added. "I"m much more concerned about people short-changing themselves on sleep than people sleeping too long. " Sleeplessness produces a variety of health consequences that were not measured in the study, critics said. "The amount of sleep you get impacts how alert you are, your risk for accidents, how you perform at work and school," said James Walsh, president of the National Sleep Foundation, a non-profit that advocates for better sleep habits. "There"s much more to life than how long you live." The study used data from an extensive survey conducted by the American Cancer Society from 1992 to 1998. Women sleeping 8, 9 and 10 hours a night had 13 percent, 23 percent and 41 percent higher risk of dying, respectively, than those who slept 7 hours, the study found. Men sleeping 8, 9 and 10 hours a night had 12 percent, 17 percent and 34 percent greater risk of dying within the study period. By contrast, sleeping five hours a night increased the risk for women by only 5 percent, and for men, by 11 percent. Among people who slept just three hours a night, women had a 33 percent increase in death, and men had a 19 percent increase, compared with those who slept seven hours. Kripke, the new study"s leader, pointed out that relatively few people slept so little—1 in 1,000—where as almost half of all people slept eight hours or more. The study also found that taking a sleeping pill every day increased the risk of death by 25 percent. He recommended that people should not routinely take pills to get eight hours of sleep. While acknowledging that the sleeping pills used from 1992 to 1998 were not the same pills being used today, Kripke said, "without data showing that contemporary pills are safe, these data provide the best information about whether sleeping pills are safe for long-term use. " Kripke, whose study was funded by federal tax dollars, said doctors" recommendations that everyone get eight hours of sleep a night may have been partly influenced by the drug companies that make sleeping pills. He cited a report from a public relations firm representing the medicine Ambien, which gave money to the National Sleep Foundation to alert people about an insomnia "public health crisis" as part of a marketing campaign. Both Buysse and Walsh have served as paid consultants to makers of sleeping, pills, but both denied being influenced by that role. Walsh said most researchers in the field had accepted consulting fees from the companies, because "99 percent of the funding to support this type of research is from pharmaceutical companies. " Buysse, who wrote an editorial accompanying Kripke"s article, said more research was needed to pin down exactly what the connection was between sleep and the risk of death. The study relied on people"s own reports of their sleeping habits, which can be faulty. When people are asked how long they sleep, they usually report how long they spend in bed, Buysse said. That could mean that people who reported sleeping eight hours were really sleeping around seven and a half hours, which would bring them into the study"s lower risk category. Buysse also disagreed that sleep was like food, arguing that while people can restrict sleep, they cannot "choose" to sleep longer. Donald Bliwise, a psychologist at Emory University, in Atlanta, said studies had shown that when people were allowed to sleep however long they wanted, without cues from alarm clocks and watches, they often slept 14 to 15 hours a day for the first few days. "Everyone," Bliwise said, "walks around somewhat sleep deprived. "

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问答题Questions 7～10 In a provocative look at the impact of sedentary behavior on health, a new study links time watching television to an increased risk of death. One of the most surprising findings is that it isn"t just couch potatoes who were affected—even for people who exercised regularly, the risk of death went up the longer they were in front of the TV. The problem was the prolonged periods of time spent sitting still. Australian researchers who tracked 8,800 people for an average of six years found that those who said they watched TV for more than four hours a day were 46% more likely to die of any cause and 80% more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than people who reported spending less than two hours a day in front of the tube. Time spent in front of TVs and computers and videogames has come under fire in studies in recent years for contributing to an epidemic of obesity in the U. S. and around the world. But typically the resulting public-health message urges children and adults to put down the Xbox controller and remote and get on a treadmill or a soccer field. The Australian study offers a different take. "It"s not the sweaty type of exercise we"re losing," says David Dunstan, a researcher at Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, who led the study. "It"s the incidental moving around, walking around, standing up and utilizing muscles that doesn"t happen when we"re plunked on a couch in front of a television." Indeed, participants in the study reported getting between 30 and 45 minutes of exercise a day, on average. The results are supported by an emerging field of research that shows how prolonged periods of inactivity can affect the body"s processing of fats and other substances that contribute to heart risk. And they suggest that people can help mitigate such risk simply by avoiding extended periods of sitting. The report, being published Tuesday in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, focuses on TV watching in part because it is the predominant leisure-time activity in many countries, researchers said, especially in the U. S. A study by ratings firm Nielsen Co. found that Americans averaged 151 hours of TV viewing a month in the fourth quarter of 2008—more than five hours a day. Dr. Hamilton says studies suggest that after just one day of inactivity, levels of HDL, or good cholesterol, which helps transport LDL or bad cholesterol out of the blood stream, can fall by as much as 20%. Keeping such processes working more effectively doesn"t require constant intense exercise, but consciously adding more routine movement to your life might help, doctors say. "Just standing is better than sitting," says Gerard Fletcher, a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Fla., who works standing up at his computer. "When you stand up, you shuffle around a little bit and use muscles not required when you"re sitting or lying down". Simple strategies for increasing activity include incorporating household chores such as folding laundry into TV-watching time or getting up to change a TV channel rather than using a remote control.

问答题News Report China has constantly worked to curb public smoking in particular, for example by making local laws and regulations that ban smoking in indoor public places and raising the tobacco tax. However, China is the world"s largest tobacco producer and consumer—about 44 percent of the world"s cigarettes are smoked here—according to the National Health and Family Planning Commission. More than 1 million people die in China each year from tobacco-related diseases. The highest smoking rates are among blue-collar workers, and rates are higher in rural than in urban areas. Topic: The Anti-Smoking Campaign in China Questions for reference: 1. Apart from tobacco-related diseases, what other problems will smoking cause to our people and society at large? 2. Some people argue that smoking has more harmful effects on the poor as it causes impoverishment and entrenches social inequality. What is your comment? 3. Despite the efforts from the government and the society, the population of smokers in China has been rising. What do you think are the effective ways to prevent people from smoking or to persuade people not to smoke?

问答题Peter often has a lot of good ideas and starts to implement them, but he rarely follows them through to completion.

问答题 Directions: Read the following passages and then answer IN COMPLETE SENTENCES the questions which follow each passage. Use only information from the passage you have just read and write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Questions 1～3 Lincoln expected that America would become a nation doubtful about its heroes and its history. In his astonishing address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Ⅲ., on Jan. 27, 1838, on "the perpetuation of our political institutions", the 28-year-old Lincoln foresaw the inevitable rise in a modern democracy like ours of skepticism and worldliness. Indeed, he worried about the fate of free institutions in a maturing nation no longer shaped by a youthful, instinctive and (mostly) healthy patriotism. Such patriotism is natural in the early years after a revolutionary struggle for independence. To the generation that experienced the Revolution and the children of that generation, Lincoln explained, the events of the Revolution remained "living history", and those Americans retained an emotional attachment to the political institutions that had been created. But the living memories of the Revolution and the founding could no longer be counted on. Those memories "were a fortress of strength; but what invading foemen could never do, the silent artillery of time has done; the leveling of its walls". So, Lincoln concluded, the once mighty "pillars of the temple of liberty" that supported our political institutions were gone. Lincoln implored his fellow citizens in 1838 to replace those old pillars with new ones constructed by "reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason". He knew that such a recommendation—such a hope—was problematic. In politics, cold, calculating reason has its limits. In the event, it was Lincoln's foreboding of trouble, not his hope for renewal, that turned out to be correct. The nation held together for only one more generation. Twenty-three years after Lincoln's speech, the South seceded, and civil war came. Lincoln managed, of course, in a supreme act of leadership, to win that war, preserve the union and end slavery. He was also able to interpret that war as producing a "new birth of freedom," explaining its extraordinary sacrifices in a way that provided a renewed basis for attachment to a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Perhaps the compromises made by the founding generation with the institution of slavery would have proved fatal in any case. Still, the fact is that the US was unable to perpetuate its political institutions peacefully after those who had lived through the Revolution died and even secondhand memories of America's founding faded. Now we find ourselves in a situation oddly similar to the one Lincoln faced in 1838. Lincoln delivered his Lyceum Address 62 years after the Declaration of Independence. We are now the same time span from the end of World War II. Our victory in that war—followed by our willingness to quickly assume another set of burdens in the defense of freedom against another great tyranny— marked the beginning of the US's role as leader of the free world. Through all the ups and downs of the cold war and through the 1990s and this decade, the memories of World War II have sustained the US, as it did its duty in helping resist tyranny and expand the frontiers of freedom in the world. The generation of World War II is mostly gone. The generation that directly heard tell of World War II from its parents is moving on. We have exhausted, so to speak, the moral capital of that war. Now we face challenges almost as daunting as those confronting the nation when Lincoln spoke. The perpetuation of freedom in the world is no more certain today than was the perpetuation of our free institutions then. Of course, we have the example of Lincoln to guide us. And Ferguson's wry and sardonic account of the ways we remember him is heartening and even inspiring, almost despite itself or despite ourselves. But the failures of leadership of the 1840s and 1850s should also chasten us. Nations don't always rise to the occasion. And the next generation can pay a great price when the preceding one shirks its responsibilities.

问答题 世界兴起“汉语热” 随着国际社会对中国的关注度日益提升，越来越多的外国人开始对中国和中国文化感兴趣，学习汉语的人数也与日俱增。现在，很多国家和地区的高等教育机构开设了汉语专业和汉语课，也有不少中小学开设汉语课。截至20l0年底，世界上90多个国家和地区建立了300多所孔子学院，教授汉语和中华文化。各种迹象表明，一股学习汉语的热潮正在世界各地兴起。 与此同时，来华留学生的人数也在逐年攀升。据统计，1991年在华外国留学生总人数为1.1万人，2000年增加到2万人，2011年在华留学生人数超过了29万。在过去10年里，中国的对外汉语教学也迅速发展起来。为了满足全球汉语学习者的需求，国家有关部门还向世界各地的孔子学院派遣了汉语教师。 汉语是中国各民族共同使用的语言，是联合国正式语言和工作语言之一，又是世界上历史最悠久、发展水平最高的语言之一，有文字可考的历史不少于6,000年。无论过去或现在，汉语在国内外都有很大的影响，具有很重要的地位。 当今世界出现汉语热，一是因为中华民族历史悠久，有着光辉灿烂的文化，对人类进步作出过巨大贡献；更是因为30多年来，中国实行改革开放，综合国力大大提升，与中国打交道、对中华文化感兴趣的国家、国际组织和人员日益增多。学习汉语也就成为深入了解中国的必由之路。 任何语言都与经济和文化分不开，经济和文化发达的国家，其语言所起的作用十分重要。在过去30年间，中国的国内生产总值年均增长9.7%，未来的中国经济还将持续增长。“汉语热”的兴起，表明世界对中国未来发展的预期越来越好。可以预言，随着中国经济的进一步发展和国际地位的日益提高，世界上学习汉语和中国文化的人数还会不断增加。