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问答题LONDON—Down in the mall, between the fast-food joint and the bagel shop, a group of young people huddles in a flurry of baggy combat pants, skateboards, and slang. They size up a woman teetering past wearing DKNY, carrying Time magazine in one hand and a latte in the other. She brushes past a guy in a Yankees' baseball cap who is talking on his Motorola cell phone about the Martin Scorsese film he saw last night. It's a standard American scene—only this isn't America, it's Britain. US culture is so pervasive, the scene could be played out in any one of dozens of cities. Budapest or Berlin, if not Bogota or Bordeaux. Even Manila or Moscow. As the unrivaled global superpower, America exports its culture on an unprecedented scale. From music to media, film to fast food, language to literature and sport, the American idea is spreading inexorably, not unlike the influence of empires that preceded it.

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问答题Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 English passages. You will hear the passages ONLY ONCE. After you have heard each passage, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. You may take notes while you are listening.

问答题北京奥运会火炬创意灵感来自“渊源共生，和谐共融”的“祥云”图案。祥云的文化概念在中国具有数千年的时间跨度，是具有代表性的中国文化符号。火炬造型的设计灵感来自中国传统的纸卷轴。纸是中国四大发明之一，通过丝绸之路传到西方。人类文明随着纸的出现得以更好地传播。源于汉代的漆红色在火炬上的运用使之明显区别于往届奥运会火炬设计，红银对比的色彩产生醒目的视觉效果，有利于各种形式的媒体传播。火炬上下比例均匀分割，祥云图案和立体浮雕式的工艺设计使整个火炬高雅华丽、内涵厚重。

问答题没有一个人将小草叫做大力士，但它的力量之大，的确世界无比。这种力量是一般人看不见的生命力。只要生命存在，这种力就要显现，上面的石块丝毫不足以阻挡它，因为这是一种“长期抗战”的力，有弹性、能屈能伸的力，有韧性、不达目的不罢休的力。 如果不落在肥土中而落在瓦砾中，有生命力的种子决不会悲观、叹气，它相信有了阻力才有磨炼。生命开始的一瞬间就带着斗志而来的草才是坚韧的草，也只有这种草，才可以傲然对那些玻璃棚中养育着的盆花嗤笑。

问答题The desks of the companies" Human Resources directors are flooded with resumes of graduating students. However, it is complained that the resumes tend to be complicated and flamboyant or even cheating. Topic: Is a successful resume a door leading to a good job? Questions for Reference: 1. An increasing number of the graduating students spend money, time and energy on their resumes. What"s your idea of a successful resume? How will you design your own resume? 2. What role does a resume play in the student"s search for a job? 3. In this competitive job market, instead of flamboyant resumes, what should the graduating students do to stand out?

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问答题The new SAT scores are out, and buried in them is a sign of hope for American education. True, the scores are actually a bit lower than last year's; the combined average for the SAT's math and reading sections fell 7 points, to 1021, the biggest decrease since 1975, when the score dropped 16 points, to 1010. But statistically speaking, a 7-point decline (out of a possible 1600 on those two sections) isn't much. It's less than the value of a single question, which is about 10 points. Also, the SAT was radically changed last year. The College Board made it longer and added Algebra [1 , more grammar and an essay. Fewer kids wanted to take the new 3—hr and 45—min. test more than once, so fewer had an opportunity to improve their performance. Scores were bound to slide. But tucked into the reams of data the College Board included with the new scores was some wonderful news. I was wrong. In 2003 I spent six months tracking the development of the new SAT. I sat through hours of test-development sessions and even learned how to grade SAT essays. TIME ran my resulting story on its cover that October. The story did make some predictions that turned out to be right. For instance, the new test favors girls more than the old one did. It is a long-standing tenet of testmaking that girls outperform boys on writing exams. For reasons I am not foolish enough to speculate about in print, girls are better than boys at fixing grammar and constructing essays, so the addition of a third SAT section, on writing, was almost certain to shrink the male-female score gap. It did. Girls trounced boys on the new writing section, 502 to 491. Boys still outscored girls overall, thanks largely to boys' 536 average on the math section, compared with girls' 502. But boys now lead on the reading section by just 3 points, 505 to 502; the gap was 8 points last year. What changed? The new test has no analogies ("bird is to nest" as "dog is to doghouse"), and boys usually clobbered girls on analogies. My story also predicted that the addition of the writing section would damage the SAT’s reliability. Reliability is a measure of how similar a test's results are from one sitting to the next. The pre-2005 SAT had a standard error of measurement of about 30 points per section. In other words, if you got a 500 on the math section, your "true" score was anywhere between 470 and 530. But the new writing section, which includes not only a multiple-choice grammar segment but also the subjective essay, has a standard error of measurement of 40 points. That means a kid who gets a 760 in writing may actually be a perfect 800-or a clever-but-no-genius 720. In short, the College Board sacrificed some reliability in order to include writing. Finally, I was right about one other thing, that the graders would reward formulaic, colorless writing over sharp young voices. The average essay score for kids who wrote in the first person was 6.9, compared with 7. 2 for those who didn't. (A 1-to-12 scale is used to grade essays. That score is then combined with the score on the grammar questions and translated into the familiar 200 to 800 points. ) As my editors know well, first-person writing can flop. But the College Board is now distributing a guide called "20 Outstanding SAT Essays"-all of them perfect scores-and many are unbearably mechanical and cliched. Still, there's good news. The central contention of my 2003 story was that the SAT’s shift from an abstract-reasoning test to a test of classroom material like Algebra II would hurt kids from failing schools. I was worried that the most vulnerable students would struggle on the new version. Instead, the very poorest children-those from families earning less than $20,000 a year—improved their SAT performance this year. It was a modest improvement (just 3 points) but significant, given the overall slump in scores. And noncitizen residents and refugees saw their scores rise an impressive 13 points. It was middleclass and rich kids who account for the much reported decline. What explains those wonderfully unpredictable findings? The College Board has no firm answers, but its top researcher, Wayne Camara, suggests a (somewhat self-serving) theory: the new SAT is less coachable. When designing the new test, the board banned analogies and "quantitative comparisons". "I think those items disadvantaged students who did not have the resources, the motivation, the awareness to figure out how to approach them," says Camara. "By eliminating those, the test becomes much less about strategy. " Because it focuses more on what high schools teach and less on tricky reasoning questions, the SAT is now more, not less, egalitarian. Sometimes it's nice to be wrong.

问答题Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 5 English sentences. You will hear the sentences ONLY ONCE. After you have heard each sentence, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

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问答题I know a thing or two about what it"s like when the well paid go on strike, because as a member of the Writers Guild of America—the Hollywood scriptwriters" union—I went on strike a few years back. I recall an awful lot of shouting and dramatics and walking around in a circle back then too. But there were doughnuts, which made the whole experience easier. If you have to picket, it"s best to picket with a chocolate glazed. What there wasn"t—and isn"t, in the case of the Chicago teachers" strike—was a lot of sympathy from the general public. The average salary of a Chicago public-school teacher is about $75,000— well above the national average. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the pugilistic former chief of staff to President Obama, offered the Chicago teachers a 16% raise on top of that, but he made the impolitic demands to lengthen the workday and—here"s the trouble—tighten job performance standards. That was enough to send Chicago"s teachers out into the streets and onto front pages all cross the U.S.—a country, let"s remember, where the unemployment rate stays rock steady at about 8% and employee evaluations are a quarterly event. It"s not great optics, as the political fixers might put it, to be marching around, refusing to work, when millions of Americans are begging for a job. Not great optics, either, to dismiss a 16% raise and (slightly) stricter performance standards at the start of the school year. It"s especially tough on Obama—this is his hometown, after all—and the rest of the Democratic Party, which has stood with teachers" unions for decades. The National Education Association is the largest teachers" union in the U.S.—it"s actually the largest labor union of any kind—and major source of money and manpower for the Democrats. It would be so much easier for everyone if there were a Republican around, somewhere, to blame for this mess. Grab a cruller, pick up a sign—REPUBLICANS VS. EDUCATION! or BOOKS NOT BOMBS! —and wait for the compliant media to report that, as usual, the right wing is trying to hurt your children. Instead, awkwardness. A powerful ally of the Democratic Party battling a powerful Democratic mayor in the hometown of the incumbent Democratic President over work rules that any American worker with a job-which isn"t an impressive number to begin with—would find utterly lenient isn"t a great way to enter campaign season. Chicago, for Obama, is off-limits for the duration of the strike. On the day the strike erupted, the word from the White House was silence. This is ugly family business, it seemed to be saying, so let"s keep it to ourselves. But in a surprising display of fleet-footed political sophistication, support for Emanuel came from Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan. Real school reform is crucial, he said, and he cheered the mayor"s resolve. Emanuel was compelled to issue a twisty pretzel of a statement that can be described only as not ungrateful for the Republicans" support. Hard to do, but Emanuel was trained as a ballet dancer, and he knows how to get himself into complicated shapes. Getting out of those shapes is another matter. The marching hordes of teachers don"t seem to understand all that the Democratic Party has done for them—blocking school-choice movements, saddling charter schools with regulatory hurdles, standing in the way of meaningful and enforceable teaching standards. But the Democratic pols seem equally ungrateful for all the money the unions have poured into their campaigns. It was the same way a few years ago, when my union was on strike. Paralyzed by the battle between whining, entitled screenwriters and ruthless studio moguls, Hollywood shut down and stopped production. Both sides ended up losing. And when a winner emerged, it was... YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. This time, with luck, the movie will turn out the same way.

问答题Small companies can't get the credit they need. Statistics show that a big drop in landing to small businesses in the last quarter of 2012 and conditions that remain tight through 2013.

问答题Paraphrase Sherry Villanueva's statement "we're not sitting around on a fancy deck somewhere with waiters in white gloves." (Para. 3)

问答题越来越多受英文教育的海外华人父母，已经意识到孩子在掌握不可或缺的英文的同时，也通晓中文的重要性。中国的崛起，让他们充分认识到孩子掌握双语的好处——既能增加他们的就业机会，也能让他们接触和熟悉东西方两种不同的文化。 这些人对中文的态度几乎完全转变。曾几何时，他们还非常骄傲地宣称自己只懂英文。现在，他们已开始积极支持孩子学习中文和中国文化，而且还不时走访中国，欣赏壮观的自然风光，认识丰富的文化遗产。

问答题The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or to die. Our own, our country"s honor, calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us then rely on the goodness of our cause, and the aid of the Supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions. The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them. Let us animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a free man contending for liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.