单选题 在中国，玉(jade)的历史可以追溯到商朝(the Shang Dynasty)。数千年来，人们都视玉为最珍贵的石头。在古代，玉是仅限于宗教仪式的物品。在封建社会(imperial society)，玉是财富和社会地位的象征。人们普遍相信玉能辟邪，能保护佩戴者免于灾祸。玉饰不仅能使佩戴者更美丽，还能促进其身体健康。中国的玉石种类有很多，其中最出名的是新疆的和田玉。

单选题 Shirley Temple: A Walk on the Bright Side A. There had to be a dark side to Shirley Temple's life. Biographers (传记作者) and interviewers tried to dig it up. The lovely dancing, singing, curly-haired girl, the world's top-earning star from 1935 to 1938, surely shed tears once the cameras were off. Her little feet surely ached. Perhaps, like the main character of Curly Top, she was marched upstairs to bed afterwards by some thin-lipped unpleasant woman, and the lights turned unhesitatingly off. B. Not a bit of it. She loved it all, both then and years later, when the cuteness had gone but the dimples (酒窝) remained. Hadn't her mother pushed her into it? No, just encouraged her, and wrapped her round with affection, including fixing her 56 ringlets (长卷发) every night and gently making her repeat her next day's lines until sleep crept up on her. Hadn't she been punished cruelly while making her Baby Burlesks, when she was three? Well, she had been sent several times to the punishment box, which was dark and had only a block of ice to sit on. But that taught her discipline so that, by the age of four, she would 'always hit the mark'—and, by the age of six, be able to match the great Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson tap-for-tap down the grand stairway in The Little Colonel. C. To some it seemed a stolen childhood, with eight feature films to her name in 1934, her breakthrough year, alone. Not to her, when Twentieth-Century Fox (born out of struggling Fox Studios that year on her shining name alone) built her a little bungalow on the lot, with a rabbit pen and a swing in a tree. She had a bodyguard and a secretary, who by 1934 had to answer 4,000 fan-letters a week. But whenever she wanted to be a tomboy, she was. In the presidential garden at Hyde Park she hit Eleanor Roosevelt on the bottom with her catapult (弹弓), for which her father spanked her. D. The studios were full of friends: Orson Welles, with whom she played croquet (槌球游戏), Gary Cooper, who did colour with her, and the kind camera crews. She loved the strong hands that passed her round like a mascot (吉祥物), and the soft laps on which she sit (J. Edgar Hoover's being the softest). The miniature costumes thrilled her, especially her sailor outfit in Captain January, in which she could sashay (神气活现地走) and jump even better; as did her miniature Oscar in 1935, the only one ever awarded to somebody so young. Grouchy Graham Greene mocked her as 'a complete totsy', but no one watching her five different expressions while eating a forkful of spinach (菠菜) in Poor Little Rich Girl doubted that she could act. She did sadness and fierce determination (sticking out that little chin!), just as well as she did smiles. E. Her face was on the Wheaties box. It was also on the special Wheaties blue bowl and pot, greeting people at breakfast like a ray of morning sunshine. Advertisers loved her, from General Electric to Lux soap to Packard cars. After Stand up and Cheer! in 1934 dolls appeared wearing her polka-dot dress, and after Bright Eyes the music for 'The Good Ship Lollipop' was on every piano, as well as everyone's brains: 'Where bon-bons play/On the sunny beach of Peppermint Bay.' F. Her parents did not tell her there was a Depression on. They mentioned only good things to her. Franklin Roosevelt declared more than once that 'America's Little Darling' made the country feel better, and that pleased her, because she loved to make people happy. She had no idea why they should be otherwise. Her films were all about the sweet child bringing grown-ups back together, emptying misers' (守财奴) pockets and melting frozen hearts. Like the dog star Rin Tin Tin, to whom she cheerfully compared herself, she was the bounding, unwitting antidote (缓解之物) to the gloom of the times. G. She was as vague about money as any child would, and should be. Her earnings by 1935 were more than $1,000 (now $17,000) a week—from which she was allowed about $13 a month in pocket money—and by the end of her career had sailed past $3m (now $29m). But when she found out later that her father had taken bad financial advice, and that only $44,000 was left in the trusts, she did not blame him. She remembered the motto about spilt milk, and got on with her life. H. Things appeared to dive sharply after 1939, when her teenage face—the darker, straighter hair, the troubled look—failed to be a box-office draw. She missed the lead in The Wizard of Oz, too. She shrugged it off; it meant she could go to a proper school for the first time, at Westlake, which was just as exciting as making movies. By 1950 she had stopped making films altogether; well, it was time. She couldn't do innocence any more, and that was what the world still wanted. Her first husband was a drunk and a disaster, but the marriage brought her 'something beautiful', her daughter Susan. The second marriage, anyway, lasted 55 years. She lost a race for Congress in 1967; but when that door closed another opened, as an ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. Breast cancer was a low point, but she learned to cope with it, and helped others to cope. 'I don't like to do negatives,' she told Michael Parkinson. 'There are always pluses to things.' I. In the films, her sparkling eyes and chubby (胖乎乎的) open arms included everyone; one toss of her shiny curls was an invitation to fun. Her trademark was, it turned out, that rare thing in the world, and rarer still in Hollywood: a genuine smile of delight.

单选题Directions:Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteanessaybasedonthepicturebelow.YoushouldstartyouessaywithabriefdescriptionofthepictureandthencommentonCulturalexchanges.Youshouldwriteatleast120wordsbutnomorethan180wordy.'We'renotadaptingquicklytothenewglobaleconomy.ButyesterdayIhadMexicanfoodforlunchandtodayI'mhavingChinese.It'sastart!'

单选题 11月11日由四个1构成，因此每年此日就是光棍节(singles'Day)。20世纪90年代，南京众多大学首先开始庆祝光棍节。正如其名，这个新节日是专门为单身人士设立的。近年来，中国成为世界上互联网用户最多的国家，而单身人士是网购的主力军(main force)，许多电子商务平台(platform)就在光棍节当天开展促销活动以吸引中国不计其数的单身人士前来购物。现在，光棍节已成为中国人疯狂网购的日子。

单选题 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay. Suppose you have two options upon the place to start a career: One is in a big city and the other in a small town. You are to make a decision. Write an essay to explain the reasons for your decision. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

单选题 French fries, washed down with a pint of soda, are a favorite part of fast-food lunches and dinners for millions of American youngsters. But 25 a cue from health experts, a group of 19 restaurant companies are pledging to offer more-healthful menu options for children at a time when 26 is growing over the role of fast food in childhood obesity (肥胖症). Burger King, the nation's second-largest fast food chain, for instance, will 27 automatically including French fries and soda in its kids' meals starting this month, although they will still be 28 . Instead, the company said Tuesday, its employees will ask parents whether they 29 such options as milk or sliced apples before assembling the meals. 'We're asking the customers to 30 what they want, ' said Craig Prusher, the chain's vice president of government relations. Other participating chains, with a 31 of menu options, including Denny's, Chili's, Friendly's and Chevy's. As part of the Kids Live Well campaign—expected to be announced 32 Wednesday—participating restaurants must promise to offer at least one children's meal that has fewer than 600 calories (卡路里), no soft drinks and at least two 33 from the following food groups: fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins or low-fat dairy. Among other requirements, they must offer a side dish that meets similar 34 , with fewer than 200 calories and less than 35% of its calories from sugar. A. adapt B. available C. begins D. concern E. criteria F. items G. nationwide H. possible I. prefer J. recommending K. specie L. specify M. stop N. taking O. variety

单选题Writeashortessaybasedonthepicturebelow.Youshouldstartyouressaywithabriefdescriptionofthepicture,explainitsintendedmeaningandthenshowwhypersistencecountsinordertosucceed.Youshouldwriteatleast120wordsbutnomorethan180words.

单选题When travelling overseas, do you buy water in plastic bottles or take your chances with tap water? Imagine you are wandering about on a Thai island or 27 the ruins of Angkor. It's hot so you grab a bottle of water from a local vendor. It's the safe thing to do, right? The bottle is 28 , and the label says 'pure water'. But maybe what's inside is not so 29 . Would you still be drinking it if you knew that more than 90 percent of all bottled water sold around the world 30 microplastics? That's the conclusion of a recently 31 study, which analysed 259 bottles from 11 brands sold in nine countries, 32 an average of 325 plastic particles per litre of water. These microplastics included a 33 commonly known as PET and widely used in the manufacture of clothing and food and 34 containers. The study was conducted at the State University of New York on behalf of Orb Media, a journalism organisation. About a million bottles are bought every minute, not only by thirsty tourists but also by many of the 2.1 billion worldwide who live with unsafe drinking water. Confronted with this 35 , several bottled-water manufacturers including Nestle and Coca-Cola undertook their own studies using the same methodology. These studies showed that their water did contain microplastics, but far less than the Orb study suggested. Regardless, the World Health Organisation has launched a review into the 36 health risks of drinking water from plastic bottles. A. adequate B. admiring C. contains D. defending E. evidence F. instant G. liquid H. modified I. natural J. potential K. released L. revealing M. sealed N. solves O. substance