今年中国有699万高校毕业生进入就业市场，求职变得十分困难。对于仅凭借语言技能来找工作的英语专业毕业生来说，更是难上加难。由于学生整体的英语水平不断提高，英语专业毕业生正在失去他们的优势。虽然具备了良好的英文沟通能力，但他们通常缺乏其他专业知识。因此，专家称就求职而言，考取“ 双学位 ”(doublemajor)是英语专业毕业生的一个理想选择。

在中国，赠送礼物应考虑具体情况和场合。礼物常用红色或其他 喜庆的颜色 (festive color)来包装，但白色或黑色不适宜用于此。当你将礼物递出去时， 收礼者 (recipient)可能会礼貌谢绝。在这种情况下，你可以试着将礼物再一次送出去。通常收礼者在客人离开之后才打开礼物。此外，送礼还有一些 禁忌 (taboo)，如给夫妻送伞就不合适，因为中文里“伞”与“散”同音。

随着电脑和智能手机的迅速发展和普及，年轻人拿起笔却写不出字来的现象越来越常见。

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Credit Cards on Campus 1．越来越多的大学生使用信用卡 2．信用卡对大学生的作用 3．使用信用卡应注意的事项

A new partner pushes out two close friends on average, leaving lovers with a smaller inner circle of people they can turn to in times of crisis, a study found. The research, led by Robin Dunbar, head of the Institute of Cognitive (认知的) and Evolutionary Anthropology (人类学) at Oxford University, showed that men find women were equally likely to lose their closest friends when they started a new relationship. Previous research by Dunbar's group has shown that people typically have five very close relationships—that is, people whom they would turn to if they were in emotional or financial trouble. "If you go into a romantic relationship, it costs you two friends. Those who have romantic relationships, instead of having the typical five 'core set' of relationships only have four. And of those, one is the new person who's come into their life," said Dunbar. The study, submitted to the journal Personal Relationships, was designed to investigate how people trade off spending time with one person over another and suggests that links with family and closest friends suffer when people start a romantic relationship. Dunbar's team used an internet-based questionnaire to quiz 428 women and 112 men about their relationships. In total, 363 of the participants had romantic partners. The findings suggest that a new love interest has to compensate for the loss of two close friends. Speaking at the British Science Festival, Professor Dunbar said: "This was a surprise for us. We hadn't expected it." "What I suspect is that your attention is so wholly focused on the romantic partner you don't get to see the other folks you had a lot to do with before, and so some of those relationships start to deteriorate (变糟)." The questionnaire allowed people to mention whether any of their closest friends were "extra romantic partners". In all, 32 of those quizzed mentioned having an extra love interest in their life, but these people did not lose four friends as might be expected. Instead, the extra person in their life bumped their original romantic partner out of their innermost circle of friends.

中国高速铁路(high-Speed rail)网由中国铁路公司运营。该铁路网包括所有商业高速列车运行服务，这些列车的时速平均达200公里或更高。目前中国拥有全球最长的高铁线网，运营中的线路约9300公里。2012年12月25日，中国启动世界上最长的线路，该线路从北京至广州，共2298公里。高铁服务于2007年引进中国。在政府的大力资助下，高铁线网正在迅速扩展。

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay commenting on the remark, "Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse." You can give examples to illustrate your point and then explain how people can develop curiosity. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

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元青花瓷富丽雄浑，其风格与传统的瓷器大相径庭。

近年来，随着中国政治及经济实力的不断提升，学中文的外国人越来越多。据统计，全球约有三千万人正在学习中文，而这一人数还在不断增加。在加拿大，虽然觉得汉语十分难学，但人们学中文的兴趣却与日俱增。他们喜欢中国文化，也意识到学习中文预示着更多的机遇。如今， 孔子学院 (Confucius Institute)遍布世界各地，致力于推广中国文化及语言。

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人们用它来辟邪。

Sleep is very ancient. In the electroencephalographic (脑电图仪的) sense we share it with all the primates (灵长类动物) and almost all the other mammals and birds: it may extend back as far as the reptiles (爬行动物). There is some evidence that the two types of sleep, dreaming and dreamless, depend on the life style of the animal, and that predators (食肉动物) are statistically much more likely to dream than prey, which are in turn much more likely to experience dreamless sleep. In dream sleep, the animal is powerfully immobilized (使固定不动) and remarkably unresponsive to external stimuli. Dreamless sleep is much shallower, and we have all witnessed cats or dogs cocking their ears to a sound when apparently fast asleep. The fact that deep dream sleep is rare among prey today seems clearly to be a product of natural selection, and it makes sense that today, when sleep is highly evolved, the stupid animals are less frequently immobilized by deep sleep than the smart ones. But why should they sleep deeply at all? Why should a state of such deep immobilization ever have evolved? Perhaps one useful hint about the original function of sleep is to be found in the fact that dolphins and whales and aquatic mammals in general seem to sleep very little. There is, by and large, no place to hide in the ocean. Could it be that, rather than increasing an animal's vulnerability, Ray Meddis of London University has suggested this to be the case. It is conceivable that animals that are too stupid to be quite on their own initiative are, during periods of high risk, immobilized by the implacable arm of sleep. The point seems particularly clear for the young of predatory animals. This is an interesting notion and probably at least partly true.

英语的分数由150分减为100分，而语文由150分增至180分。

中国国家深海基地(the China National Deep Sea Center)将于明年对中国和世界开放以进行深海探索。基地将占地26公顷(hectare)，征用海域62．7公顷。该中心将作为一个连接科学家需求与技术研究及发展的桥梁。基地将为深海设备提供技术支持和维护保养，而科学家们则可以申请使用这些深海装备。随着对深海基地建设的集中关注，中国正在努力加速海洋勘探。

自新中国成立以来，中国政府大力发展民族艺术，使杂技获得了新的生命。