For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the following topic. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Some people claim that there are more disadvantages of the car than its advantages. Do you agree or disagree?
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。
平遥(Pingyao)古城建于2 000年前的周朝(Zhou Dynasty)，坐落于距离山西省会太原城南120公里，其城墙在1370年重修过，是中国最早且保存最完整的城墙之一。每年，数百万计来自世界各地的游客到此游玩，一年一度的平遥国际摄影节更是让这座城市被全世界知晓。不过，令人伤心的是，现在的平遥古城已经被多次翻新，很多原有的古街道已经被现代的混凝土取代。从长远来看，谁也无法预料，100年后的平遥古城又会是哪番景象。
这是中国网友运用聪明才智和创造力为老词注入新生命的又一个例子。
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Last year's economy in the United States should have won the Oscar for best picture. Growth in gross domestic product was 4.1 percent profits【C1】______up exports flourished and inflation (通货膨胀) stayed around 3 percent for the third year. So why did so many Americans give the picture only a B rating? The answer is jobs. The macroeconomic (宏观经济的) situation was good, but the microeconomic (微观经济的) numbers were not Yes, 3 million new jobs were there, but not enough of them were【C2】______, good jobs paying enough to support a family. Job insecurity was serious. Even as they【C3】______higher sales and profits, corporations acted as if they were operating at a【C4】______, cutting 516,069 jobs in 1994 alone, almost as many as in the bad year of 1991. Yes, unemployment went down. But over 1 million workers were so【C5】______they left the labor force. More than 6 million who wanted full time work were only partially【C6】______and another large group was sheltered behind self-employment. We lost a million good manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 1995, continuing the【C7】______that has reduced the blue-collar work force from about 30 percent in the 1950s to about half that today. White-collar workers found out they were no longer【C8】______. In 1995, for the first time, they were let go in numbers【C9】______equal to those for blue-collar workers. Many turn to【C10】______work—with lower pay, fewer benefits and less status. All this is a country where people meeting for the first time say, "What do you do?" A. announced B. trend C. performed D. temporary E. permanent F. virtually G. technical H. employed I. exposure J. originally K. soared L. significance M. secure N. discouraged O. loss
For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic The Increase of Farmers' Income in China according to the chart below. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words following the outline given below:1．中国农民收入水平有了巨大的提高。2．分析农民收入增加的原因。 中国农民的平均收入变化情况
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Henry III didn't know much about biology. He went through six wives back in the 1500s, looking for one who could bear him a son. Scientists now know that it's the father's sperm, not the mother's egg, which determines whether a baby is a boy or a girl. And last week researchers at the Genetics and IVF Institute, a private fertility (生育能力) center in Virginia, announced a new technique that will allow parents to choose the sex of their baby-to-be, before it has even been conceived. The scientist used a tiny laser detector to measure the DNA in millions of sperm cells as they pass single file through a narrow tube, like cattle being herded through a corral (牲口栏). In a study published last week, "girl sperm," which has more DNA—the genetic material—in each cell, was collected, while "boy sperm" was discarded. And when purified girl sperm was used to impregnate (使受孕) a group of mothers, 15 of 17 resulting babies turned out to be girls. The researchers say that "sex selection" can also double a mother's chance of having a son and can be used to avoid genetic diseases that affect only one gender, such as hemophilia (血友病). But some experts, like New York University fertility specialist Dr. Jamie Grifo, worry that sex selection could lead to a kind of in uteri (子宫) discrimination, especially in cultures where sons are considered superior to daughters. "It's valuing one gender over another," Grifo says. "I don't think that's something we should be doing." So far, patients at the institute have been asking for both boys and girls, in order to "balance" their families. And some ethics experts say that's fine, as long as parents are just looking for a little gender variety. "If you have three boys, and you want a girl," says University of Texas reproductive-law professor John Robertson, "that's not gender bias at all."
曾几何时，人们还对“80后”评头论足，或感叹他们是“垮掉的一代”，或认为他们很嫩很青涩。如今，“80后”已经长大了，他们中将首次出现30岁群体。《论语》说，“三十而立”，而我们却无法把“80后”与而立画上等号。调查显示，五成以上80后的职场人在工作上力不从心；近五成调查对象无房无车，且处于未婚状态。
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During the 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton observed, "Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is... For me, that balance is family, work, and service." As an【C1】______at Wellesley College, Hillary mixed academic excellence with school government. Speaking at graduation, she said, "The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible,【C2】______." After graduation, Hillary advised the Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge and joined the impeachment inquiry staff advising the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives. After completing those responsibilities, she "followed her heart to Arkansas," where Bill had begun his political career. They married in 1975. She joined the【C3】______of the University of Arkansas Law School in 1975 and the Rose Law Firm in 1976. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter【C4】______her to the board of the Legal Services Corporation, and Bill Clinton became governor of Arkansas. Their daughter, Chelsea, was born in 1980. Hillary served as Arkansas's First Lady for 12 years, balancing family, law, and public service. She【C5】______the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee, co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, and served on the boards of the Arkansas Children's Hospital, Legal Services, and the Children's Defense Fund. As the nation's First Lady, Hillary continued to balance public service with【C6】______life. Her active role began in 1993 when the President asked her to chair the Task Force on National Health Care Reform. She continued to be a leading【C7】______for expanding health insurance coverage, ensuring children are properly【C8】______, and raising public awareness of health issues. She wrote a weekly newspaper column entitled "Talking It Over," which focused on her experiences as First Lady and her observations of women, children, and families she has met around the world. Her 1996 book It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us was a best seller, and she received a Grammy Award for her recording of it. As First Lady, her public involvement with many activities sometimes led to controversy. Undeterred by critics, Hillary won many admirers for her devoted support for women around the world and her【C9】______to children's issues. She was elected United States Senator from New York on November 7, 2000. She is the first First Lady elected to the United States Senate and the first woman elected【C10】______in New York. A. private B. chaired C. fluctuated D. verbally E. undergraduate F. advocate G. initiative H. immunized I. faculty J. possible K. statewide L. appointed M. commitment N. logical O. mobilized
烤鸭是北京的地方风味，已有1600多年的历史。
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The mass media is a big part of our culture, yet it can also be a helper, adviser and teacher to our young generation. The mass media affects the lives of our young by acting as a【C1】______for a number of institutions and social contacts. In this way, it【C2】______a variety of functions in human life. The time spent in front of the television screen is usually at the【C3】______of leisure: there is less time for games, amusement and rest.【C4】______by what is happening on the screen, children not only imitate what they see but directly identify themselves with different characters. Americans have been concerned about the prevalence of violence in the media and its【C5】______harm to children and adolescents for at least forty years. During this period, new media【C6】______, such as video games and the Internet. Another large societal concern on our young generation imposed by the media is body image.【C7】______forces can influence body image positively or negatively. In the mass media, the images of standardized beauty fill magazines and newspapers, 【C8】______from our televisions and entertain us at the movies. Even in advertising, the mass media【C9】______on accepted cultural values of thinness and fitness for commercial gain. Young adults are presented with a【C10】______defined standard of attractiveness, an ideal that carries unrealistic physical expectations. A)preference B)expense C)fulfills D)Attracted E)External F)emerged G)Explicit H)beam I)play J)take K)potential L)barely M)narrowly N)imposed O)substitute
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