不久前，一条新的 国际道路运输线路 (transnational highway)开通。这条线路连接广西崇左市和越南 下龙市 (Ha Long city)，长达400公里。它将两个城市之间的公路出行时间缩短至7．5小时。这两个城市的旅游业都有着良好的发展前景。崇左市因其美丽的 跨国瀑布 (transnational waterfalls)和独具魅力的民族文化吸引了大量的游客。下龙市则毗邻越南著名的旅游胜地下龙湾。中越两国都希望借此线路促进两国旅游业的发展。

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中国人民历来是勇于探索、勇于创造、勇于革命的。

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九寨沟风景区(Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area)是世界上最佳的旅游景区之一。它位于四川省九寨沟县内，距离成都约450公里，因沟内有9个村寨而得名。九寨沟里森林遍布，沟内有108个色彩斑斓的湖泊。九寨沟海拔(elevation)2000多米，气候宜人，夏季凉爽，冬无寒风。九寨沟以其独特的风景每天吸引着数以万计的海内外游客。1992年，九寨沟风景区被列入世界自然遗产名录(World Natural Heritages)。

The Power of Knowledge For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying "Fear springs from ignorance." You can cite examples to illustrate the importance of knowledge. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

对于大学毕业生来说，找到一份好工作始终不是件那么容易的事情。他们常常弄不懂为什么那么多的雇主不答复他们的求职信。他们说虽然附上了回信的信封，他们却只字未闻，或至多收到一张不冷不热的便条，宣布他们申请的那个职位已有人填补了。求职应聘者常常怀疑空缺是不是给朋友和亲属们占去了，怀疑广告只不过是登一登摆摆样子的。他们中的很多人厌倦了到处投求职信，他们觉得只要能够碰对人，获得一次面试的机会，他们的求职申请就会成功。

Topic To Save or Not to Save? For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled To Save or Not to Save? following the outline given below. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. 1．随着人们生活水平提高，中国传统的存钱观念受到挑战 2．存钱还是不存钱，我的看法是……

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to console your friend whose family has suffered a terrible earthquake following the outline given below．You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words． 你的朋友李明所住的地方发生了地震，请给他写一封慰问信。信中应包含以下内容： 1．询问李明以及家人的情况是否安好 2．表达你的慰问并表示愿意提供帮助等

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For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Pet Raising. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words following the outline given below in Chinese:1．有些人喜欢养动物作为宠物。2．有些人反对圈养动物作为宠物。3．你的观点。

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很难弄清楚这个习俗的起源。

过去十年中国房地产(real estate)行业高速发展。

On average, American kids aged 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week in school, eight hours more than they did in 1981. They also did more household work and participated in more of such organized activities as soccer and ballet (芭蕾舞). Involvement in sports, in particular, rose almost 50% from 1981 to 1997: boys now spend an average of four hours a week playing sports; girls log half that time. All in all, however, children's leisure time dropped from 40% of the day in 1981 to 25%. "Children are affected by the same time crunch (危机) that affects their parents," says Sandra Hofferth, who headed the recent study of children's timetable. A chief reason, she says, is that more mothers are working outside the home. (Nevertheless, children in both double-income and "male breadwinner" households spent comparable amounts of time interacting with their parents, 19 hours and 22 hours respectively. In contrast, children spent only 9 hours with their single mothers.) All work and no play could make for some very messed-up kids. "Play is the most powerful way a child explores the world and learns about himself," says T. Berry Brazelton, professor at Harvard Medical School. Unstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows the young to negotiate their relationships with their peers, but kids aged 3 to 12 spent only 12 hours a week engaged in it. The children sampled spent a quarter of their rapidly decreasing "free time" watching television. But that, believe it or not, was one of the findings parents might regard as good news. If they're spending less time in front of the TV set, however, kids aren't replacing it with reading. Despite efforts to get kids more interested in books, the children spent just over an hour a week reading. Let's face it, who's got the time?

皮影(shadow play)是中国民间广为流传的道具戏之一。它是借助灯光把雕刻精巧的皮影人映照在屏幕上，由艺人们在幕后操动皮影人，伴以音乐和歌唱，演出一幕幕妙趣横生的皮影戏。皮影戏历史悠久，相传萌芽于汉，发展于唐，至宋已十分兴盛。陕西皮影分东、西路，不仅唱腔种类繁多，表演技术高超，而且皮影人的雕镂技艺达到了很高的水平。

中国象棋(Chinese chess)是一种古老的智力游戏，是中国宝贵的文化遗产(heritage)。它的起源与军事策略密切相关。在古代，下象棋也是一个文人必须掌握的技能之一。如今，象棋被当作是开发智力和培养专注力的有效途径，很多孩子从四五岁就开始学习下象棋。与此同时，下棋也是许多老年人最喜欢的消遣方式(pastime)。据估计，在中国有超过五亿人懂得下象棋。