放烟花是中国庆祝新年重要的一部分。

Fancy a three-day weekend—not just once in a while but week in week out? You may think your bosses would never agree to it, but the evidence suggests that employers, employees and the environment all benefit. The four-day week comes in two flavors. One option is to switch from five 8-hour days to four 10-hour days, meaning overall hours and salaries stay the same. Two years ago, the state of Utah moved all of its employees, apart from the emergency services, to working 4/10, as it has become known. The hope was that by shutting down buildings for an extra day each week, energy bills would be cut by up to a fifth. The full results of this experiment won't be published until October, but an ongoing survey of 100 buildings suggests energy consumption has fallen by around 13 percent. The survey also found that 70 percent of employees prefer the 4/10 arrangement, and that people took fewer days off sick. The second form of the four-day week is to work the same number of hours per day for four days only, with a 20 percent pay cut. With the recession hitting revenues, accountancy company KPMG announced in February that it was offering its 11,000 UK employees the option of a four-day week to avoid job losses. So far 85 percent of employees have applied to join the scheme, and 800 now do a four-day week. Not everyone will like the idea of working longer days or taking a pay cut in exchange for a 3-day weekend, but it appears most do. According to Rex Facer at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, it was the crash of 1929 that led to the five-day week. During the next big financial crisis in the 1970s, there was much talk of moving to a four-day week, but for a variety of reasons that didn't pan out. "Things are different now," says Facer. "I wouldn't be surprised if we could get 50 percent or more of the workforce working four-day weeks in the next few years."

年画 (New Year Picture)是中国特有的一种绘画体裁。贴年画的习俗源于在房子的大门上贴 门神 (DoorGods)的传统。传统年画以精美的 木刻 (block print)和鲜艳的色彩闻名。主题主要是花鸟、可爱的婴儿、神话传说与历史故事等，表达人们祈望丰收的愿望和对幸福生活的憧憬。随着印刷技术的提高，制作年画的材料也不断增多。这种传统的艺术形式如今仍充满生机，深受人们喜爱。

颐和园 (the Summer Palace)始建时便是一个 御花园 (imperial garden)。在 清朝后期 (the late QingDynasty)，颐和园遭到了严重破坏。而后清朝的统治者挪用建设军队的经费重建了颐和园。目前，颐和园是世界上建筑规模最大、保存最完整的皇家园林之一，吸收了中国各地建筑的特色。近年来，中国政府几次对园内建筑进行修缮。现在，这个古老御花园的面貌焕然一新，成为公众最喜欢的公园之一。

Impressionism is a form of art that began in the 1870's. When you look closely at an impressionist painting, you see little dots of different colored paints. When you move away from the picture, the dots of colors【C1】______together, and the painting looks as it has light playing on the people and【C2】______in the picture. Impressionist art is different from traditional art. Traditional painters were interested in the form of objects. The impressionists were interested in light and color. The impressionist painters wanted to paint natural light that was【C3】______and bright. They tried to【C4】______the feeling of pure sunshine in their paintings. When【C5】______artists mixed paints, they could not create the feeling of bright, natural light. Therefore, instead of【C6】______colors, the impressionists used small dots of pure colors. The viewers' eyes put these unmixed colors together the same way they add color in light together. When you look at an impressionist painting, it feels the same as when you look at an object in lively, natural sunlight. Traditional painters worked inside. Impressionist painters worked outside because they wanted to paint the【C7】______of sunlight on objects. Monet, for example, made a【C8】______of paintings of a haystack. Every morning he went to a field with eight or ten paintings. All day, he sat in front of a haystack painting. Every hour he worked on a different picture. All of these paintings are pictures of the haystack, but they do not look the same. Monet made his paintings【C9】______from the changing of nature, especially from different hours of sunlight. His study of the haystack is an hour-by-hour【C10】______of the artistry (艺术性) of light. A. mixing B. record C. objects D. effect E. series F. miracle G. express H. discovering I. traditional J. precisely K. directly L. lively M. blend N. registering O. fashionable

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Many people wonder why some men want to live on the moon It is【C1】______not the kind of place where most men would choose to live. But man has always moved to new areas. Some scientists hope that continued work will be done on the moon. Many experiments will be done there more【C2】______. Some large【C3】______are very easy to do in a place without air. Matter can be heated to very high temperatures without【C4】______change when it is in such a place. Air, dust, and clouds cannot【C5】______man's view of space from the moon. The very high or very low temperatures and low gravity on the moon will be used for many experiments. One very important use of the moon will be to【C6】______spaceship. Man might be able to learn much about his own body by living on the moon. He would be living in a habitat that he made for himself. Man would be in control of the【C7】______of life in which he lives.【C8】______could be removed from the air in this community. Gravity is the one thing that would not be under man's control. Some scientists believe the low gravity of the moon would be【C9】______for man. The heart would not have to work so hard. The body would need less energy to move than it does on the earth However, the human body might change during long stays on the moon Much exercise would probably be needed to keep the body in good【C10】______. A. community B. condition C. launch D. insight E. chemical F. mysterious G. experiments H. probably I. healthful J. easily K. extend L. render M. promptly N. block O. bacteria

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中国经济正处在转型的关键阶段。中国已经不能继续沿用高消耗、高投入的旧模式，而必须加大力度调整经济结构和转变经济增长方式。我国将继续推进 行政管理 (administrative management)、金融部门和物价的改革。服务业将愈发成为我国经济中的重要支柱。作为最大的就业容纳器，服务业为经济转型缓解就业压力。中国经济的 升级 (upgrading)也将为世界经济提供新的动力。

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As is known to all, the organization and management of wages and salaries are very complicated. Generally speaking, the Account Department is【C1】 1for calculations of pay, while the Personnel Department is interested in discussions with the employees about pay. If a firm wants to【C2】 2a new wage and salary structure, it is essential that the firm should decide on a【C3】 3of job evaluation and ways of measuring the performance of its employees. In order to be【C4】 4, that new pay structure will need agreement between Trade Unions and employers. In job evaluation, all of the requirements of each job are defined in a detailed job description. Each of those requirements is given a value, generally in "points" , which are【C5】 5together to give a total value for the job. For middle and higher management, a special method is used to evaluate managers on their knowledge of the job, their responsibility, and their【C6】 6to solve problems. Because of the difficulty in measuring management work, however, job grades for managers are often decided without【C7】 7to an evaluation system based on points. In attempting to design a pay system, the Personnel Department should【C8】 8the value of each job with those in the job market.【C9】 9, that payment for a job should vary with any distinctions in the way that job is performed. Where it is simple to measure the work done, as in the work done with the hands, monetary encouragement schemes are often chosen, for【C10】 10workers, where measurement is difficult, methods of additional payments are employed.A)useful I)referenceB)ability J)responsibleC)compare K)combinedD)Basically L)NecessarilyE)courage M)findF)adopt N)indirectG)successful O)method H)added 【C1】

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壮族(the Zhuang ethnic minority)是中国人口最多的少数民族，约有1900万人。

Directions: Internet has become a indispensable part of people's life. Each day we can hear some new internet events arousing people's heated discussion. Please write an short essay entitled On Events of Network Public Opinion. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

大多数人都认同骑自行车环保并且能够有效避免交通拥堵的观点。然而，他们依然有充分的理由放弃骑自行车出行。最明显的理由是公共交通很便利。然而最重要的原因是他们出于对安全的忧虑。因为自行车 道 (lane)常常被汽车占用，人们不得不冒着生命危险骑行在机动车道上。此外，即便在市中心某些地方，也没有将自行车道及机动车道分隔开的清晰标识。

Bilingual(双语的)education in schools has long been a political hot potato—it was banned in California by a 1998 ballot measure, which the state Senate is now asking voters to repeal. But politics aside, there's an increasing amount of scientific support for the benefits of knowing at least two languages. Now, a new study published by the Annals of Neurology finds that you don't even need to learn that second(or third, or fourth)tongue at a very young age: Picking up a new language even a little later in life can have serious cognitive(认知的)benefits for the aging brain. Many recent studies have pointed out that bilingualism seems to be good exercise for the brain and later in life might even help delay the onset of dementia. But what if it's a self-selecting crowd? What if the people who learned two languages are just smarter to begin with? To help rule that factor out, researchers at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland studied 853 people who first took an intelligence test in 1947 when they were about 11 years old as part of a group called the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936, and retested them again around 2008 to 2010, when they were in their early 70s. A total of 262 of the seventy-year-old reported having learned at least one language other than English enough to communicate in it. Of those, 195 said they learned it before age 18: 65 said they learned it thereafter. The researchers gave the participants a battery of cognitive tests, including tests of their verbal reasoning, their vocabulary and reading abilities, their verbal fluency and their ability to process information quickly. They found that bilingual speakers performed much better than expected from their baseline cognitive ability, particularly in reading and in general intelligence. And those who knew three or more languages performed even better. Learning a language seemed to make as much difference in people' s later-in-life cognitive decline as a gene that' s been tied to risk of Alzheimer' s disease and smoking habits. These participants mostly learned their second languages after age 11. The results actually make a very compelling point—you don't have to be a fluent speaker of a language to get the benefits, and you can start later in life, too.