Each artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. He hopes the public will listen and understand—he wants to teach them, and he wants them to learn from him. What visual artist like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to【C1】______, because painters translate their experience into shapes and colors, not【C2】______. They seem to feel that a certain selection of shapes and colors, out of the【C3】______billions possibles, is exceptionally interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without their works we should never have noticed these【C4】______shapes and colors, or have felt the【C5】______which they brought to the artist. Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in【C6】______and at rest; their choices indicate that these aspects of the world are worth looking at, that they contain beautiful sights. Contemporary artists might say that they【C7】______choose subjects that provide an interesting pattern, that there is nothing more in it Yet even they do not choose entirely without【C8】______to the character of their subjects. If one painter chooses to paint a decaying leg and another a lake in moonlight, each of them is【C9】______our attention to a certain aspect of the world. Each painter is telling us something, showing us something,【C10】______something—all of which means that, consciously or unconsciously, he is trying to teach us. A. words B. directing C. countless D. crawl E. reference F. merely G. erect H. motion I. explain J. emphasizing K. sympathetic L. gloriously M. delight N. crisis O. particular

风水 (Fengshui)是一门使人与环境达到和谐的艺术，是中国哲学在环境上的反映。人们相信自然环境影响人的命运。他们期望通过调整建筑的设计与布局，达到人与环境和谐，并使人得益于环境。风水也有 迷信 (superstition)的一面。如今风水在中国城市的年轻人中已不太时兴，但在中国的农村、香港、台湾地区以及新加坡和马来西亚，风水仍然流行。

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a farewell letter to a retiring teacher following the outline given below．You should write at least 120 words but no mote than 180 words． 1．表达对老师的不舍 2．回顾老师的关爱和帮助 3．表达感谢和祝愿

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Computers in Our Life following the outline given below. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. 1．当今，计算机已进入千家万户。 2．计算机给我们的生活带来了许多方便。 3．但同时计算机也给我们带来了一些麻烦。

就餐时，围桌共食是中国人的一种传统。与西方人把鲜花放餐桌中央不同的是，中国人把菜肴放餐桌中央供大家一起享用。这种风俗体现了食物在中华文明史上的重要地位。更重要的是，这种方式促进了就餐者之间的交流。通常在一餐饭之后，朋友之间的关系更加紧密，生意合作伙伴也加深了相互了解。有时人们还会为客人或长辈夹菜，以示尊重。

According to two recent research papers, sugar is toxic enough to kill mice and is the drug of choice for laboratory rats, which prefer it to cocaine. Now it has been called " the most dangerous drug of this time" by Paul van der Velpent, head of Amsterdam's health service. Velpent called for government restrictions on sugar in food and a ban on soft drinks in schools. An anti-sugar movement is emerging. Endocrinologist Dr Robert Lustig's lecture, Sugar: The Bitter Truth, has picked up four million views on YouTube. The latest National Diet and Nutrition Survey shows all age groups exceeded the recommended 11% of energy coming from sugars added to foods. For children aged between 11 and 18 the mean intake was 15. 3%. Since the survey is self-reported it is likely that most people underestimate their intake. Why are we eating more? We like sugar and manufacturers have made some foods sweeter. An analysis found that Hovis wholemeal bread had doubled in sugar content between 1978 and 2013. A meta-analysis paper (that combines the results of studies) published this year found that increased intake of sugar led to weight gain. It also showed that children who had one sugary drink a day were 55% more likely to be overweight than those who did not. An accompanying editorial argued that sugar interferes with metabolic processes that protect against diabetes and heart attacks. Another study found that replacing 5% of calories from saturated fat with calories from sugars or other high-glycogenic-index carbohydrates increased the rate of heart attacks by 33%. A Princeton Review study found that rats experienced changes to the dopamine and opioid receptors in their brains after being flooded with sugar. This made them sugar-dependent. The authors queried whether adults could also develop a dependency. Whatever the conclusion, it is worth cutting down on sugar. Be aware of how much your food contains. Fat-free products often have high sugar levels to make them tasty, so try to avoid them. More sleep will also make you less likely to crave sugar. Recommended limits are 50g a day in a 2 000-calorie diet. A teaspoon is 4g. So now you know.

[此试题无题干]

Topic Is Being Quiet An Unfavoured Personality? For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Is Being Quiet An Unfavoured Personality? following the outline given below. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. 1．内向是一种常见性格特质 2．有人认为内向是一种劣势性格，原因是…… 3．在我看来……

BSection C/B

[此试题无题干]

中国出境旅游人数逐年大幅增加。例如，在旅游热门目的地英国，过去十年里中国游客人数增长了8倍。中国游客在英国的购物花销比世界上其他任何国家的游客都要多。中国游客尤其喜欢 奢侈品 (luxurygoods)。这主要是因为，中国国内税收高，在国内买奢侈品要比在国外买贵30％。由于这一原因，很多发达国家都想尽办法吸引中国旅游者去观光购物。

As a volunteer, John Apollos is losing weight—the old-fashioned way—by eating less. Apollos has lowered his daily caloric intake 25% over the past eight months. The fat, not surprisingly, has melted away. But that's not the real reason Apollos and the other participants in the program are eating only three-quarters of what they used to. The researchers are trying to determine whether restricting food intake can slow the ageing process and extend our life span. "I feel better and lighter and healthier," says Apollos. "But if it could help you live longer, that would be pretty amazing." The idea is counterintuitive: If we eat to live, how can starving ourselves add years to our lives? Yet decades of calorie-restriction studies involving organisms ranging from microscopic yeast to rats have shown just that. Last July a long-term study led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin, found that calorie restriction seemed to extend the lives of humanlike rhesus monkeys(恒河猴)as well. The hungry primates fell victim to diabetes, heart and brain disease and cancer much less frequently than their well-fed counterparts did. Scientists have suspected that calorie restriction could extend the life span of animals since at least 1935, when researchers at Cornell University noticed that severely food-restricted lab rats lived twice as long as normal ones and were healthier. Other investigators began exploring the idea and learned that the secret is not merely a matter of body weight. One theory is that a state of slight hunger acts as a mild but constant stressor that makes an organism stronger and more resistant to the ills of ageing. Taking in fewer calories also slows metabolism(新陈代谢), and some data indicate that humans with a slower metabolism live longer. But even if these theories are correct, simply defining the mechanism is not the same as identifying the molecular pathways behind it. If researchers could determine those pathways, they might be able to pharmacologically mimic(模仿)the effect of calorie restriction. That could be the ultimate benefit of the CALORIE study. "Calorie restriction is pretty much the only thing out there that we know will not just prevent disease but also extend maximal life span," says Dr. Marc Hellerstein, a nutritionist at the University of California.

[此试题无题干]

中国经济的高速发展，带来了消费文化的日益流行，同时也催生了一批具有高学历、充分享受资本主义消费模式的年轻人，他们习惯于当月工资当月花。因而被称为“ 月光族 ”(the moonlight group)。“月光族”一词出现于20世纪90年代后期，是用来讽刺那些出身富裕、接受高等教育、充分享受 快餐文化 (fast food culture)的年轻人。

BPart I Writing/B

茅台酒(Maotai liquor)独产于贵州省茅台镇，拥有2000多年的历史。茅台镇的气候、土壤和水质成就了茅台独特的口感。清代(the Qing Dynasty)时期，茅台成为第一个大规模生产、年产量达170吨的中国白酒。1951年茅台获得了一枚金牌，第一次赢得了国际声誉。同年，在中华人民共和国成立后两年，茅台被指定为国酒。自此茅台一直用于外国元首和贵宾来访中国时官方场合的宴会。

中国的体育运动经历了几千年的发展，但直到1949年中华人民共和国成立才成为一项国家事业。在过去的50多年中，我国的体育运动取得了可喜的成绩。2008年，北京成功举办了第29届奥运会，使这次奥运会成为弘扬 奥林匹克精神 (Olympic spirit)、促进世界和平、增进各国人民友谊的一次盛会。目前，为更好地发展中国体育。一个全国范围的体育运动网已经建立起来了。

{{B}}Section A{{/B}}

因此尽管门票和食宿价格飞涨，景区里还是人山人海。