道教(Taoism)是中国土生土长的宗教，已经影响了中国人两千多年。
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海龟(sea turtle)，或“海归”(hai gui)，用于称赞那些从国外把先进技术带回中国的留学生。历史上共有五次海龟回国潮。现在我们正经历第五次浪潮。在这第五次浪潮中，海龟们将中国经济与世界相连。他们成立了诸如百度等科技公司，他们中的大多数成为了跨国公司驻中国分公司的高级经理。他们正在从商业、政治以及流行文化几个方面帮助中国走向世界。
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Directions: Nowadays undergraduates have to face a dilemma; whether they should stay in cities or go back to their hometown? Please write a short essay entitled Staying in Cities or Going Back to Hometown After Graduation. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
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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Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as "silent", the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning, music was regarded as an【C1】______accompaniment: when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were【C2】______by piano improvisations(即兴创作)on popular tunes. At first, the music played【C3】______no special relationship to the films: an accompaniment of any kind was【C4】______. Within a very short time, however, the incongruity(不协调)of playing lively music to a【C5】______film became apparent, and film pianists began to take some care in【C6】______their pieces to the mood of the film. As movie theaters grew in number and importance, a violinist, and perhaps a cellist, would be added to the pianist in certain【C7】______, and in the larger movie theaters small orchestras were formed. For a number of years the selection of music for each film program【C8】______entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal【C9】______for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces. Since the conductor seldom saw the films until the night before they were to be shown, the musical arrangement was【C10】______improvised in the greatest hurry. A)sufficient B)incredible C)accompanied D)comparatively E)matching F)rested G)normally H)occasions I)bore J)qualification K)solemn L)indispensable M)severe N)according O)cases
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A detailed and thorough research project undertaken by the Open University recently reported that their evidence appears to show that competition between nearby schools does not significantly improve academic standards. Indeed, their report inclines to the opposite outcome: the exam results may actually decline where competition is fiercest. When the further education sector was "privatized" a few years ago, competition between colleges became truly fierce, at least in urban areas where potential students could choose between several of them. Colleges appointed highly paid marketing directors and gave them large budgets; some even "bribed" interested students with promises of hundreds of pounds if they completed certain courses satisfactorily. Fully competitive markets being a philosophical foundation of Britain's recent governments, it was no surprise to hear claims that many educational developments of the 1990s would move us towards a free market in secondary education—giving youngsters and their parents a free choice of where to study. However, the secondary sector did not become particularly competitive while, admittedly, the consumers have been given more information, which is one aspect of a truly free market. It is very rare that two nearby schools with at least some empty places are similar enough to be comparable yet different enough to be rankable; only where that occurs can there be true competition. The Open University research was probably not flawed—but its conclusions are. This is because the team did not really compare areas having true competition (as just defined) with areas that do not. But, let us all breathe a sigh of relief. Secondary schools had started of late to move in the marketing direction—considering allocating scarce resources of staff and money to persuading the pupils that their schools are the best in the area. No schools could afford to do that properly, so it is a relief to realize this research tells us we don't have to. Competition? We haven't got time for it! Let's spend our small budget in teaching and learning, not in competing and marketing.
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节如其名．这个节日是专门为那些还过着单身生活的人设立的。
Learn to Walk Before You Run For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying "Learn to walk before you run." You can cite examples to illustrate the importance of a solid foundation to achieve something. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
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