单选题 Directions: Nowadays from supermarkets to chain stores, green food is found everywhere. Why is green food so popular even though its price is usually higher than other food? Write a composition entitled Popularity of Green Food. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

单选题 Each year Universum, a Swedish consulting firm, asks American MBA students where they would most like to work. The 2007 survey showed a few surprises in its top 50 companies named: Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems had fell, while old reliable ones such as General Electronic, Coca-Cola and General Mills had jumped up the list. But the most desired industry remains consulting, despite the beating it has taken since the end of the dotcom boom (网络泡沫), and the top firm remains McKinsey. Perhaps the reason is: in recent years McKinsey has done as much as any company to provide MBA graduates with increasingly better and more profitable positions. The reason for this was the firm's popularization of a concept known as 'war for talent'. It advocated finding the best and brightest and rewarding their innovations in proportion to 'talent' instead of their performance or seniority. But what is talent? And how does a company measure its employees' talent, especially when assigning them to new projects? The 'war for talent' recommends a careful assessment of the inner skills and characteristics ready for success but gives few clues as to what those inner skills might be, which might make the war standardless. For a company focused on quick growth, one shortcut (捷径) could be young hires who had already been rewarded for their talent by receiving MBAs from well-respected schools. Thus as the idea of finding talented employees who could quickly learn the skills took off, so did the asking price of the star MBA graduates. Unfortunately, now the 'war for talent' seems less of a brilliant idea. The economic downturn, bringing with it less competition for the available talent, also did its part to control in indulgent (纵容的) employers. Similarly, Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer emphasized that cultivating a talent means not just hiring the most effective performers, but being able to deal quickly and firmly with the least effective C performers. But he adds that the C refers not to the person but to the individual's performance in a given job. Some low-performing managers were A or B performers earlier in their careers—and may attain that level of performance again. MBA programs will remain attractive recruiting areas, but the MBA model itself has come under increasing criticism. Prof Pfeffer, in a 2007 article found little evidence that an MBA had much effect on future salary or career. Future MBA students might need to provide more evidence of their talent to impress potential employers.

单选题 Well-to-do parents are increasingly choosing to send their children to single-sex preparatory schools, reversing the trend of recent years. Last week, Michael Gove told us that we needed to promote a Dangerous Book for Boys culture so that boys could be boys again. At the beginning of this month, it (re-)emerged that there were far fewer male teachers in primary schools to act as role models. Underlying this is anxiety about achievement; recent Department for Education figures show that nearly double the number of boys failed to reach expected standards at seven. The gender gap is more than 10 points in English at 11. Behaviour is a worry too. Boys are three and a half times more likely to be excluded, and the figure is worse still if you are a working-class or black boy. Today's answer to the problem seems to be single-sex schools. Yet debates about their value are both age-old and decidedly unresolved. Proponents (倡导者) argue that keeping boys together allows them to expel their 'boyish' energy more freely—ensuring they are in line and on task. Girls are said to benefit too, with more support to build self-confidence. But there is also evidence in the other direction. A report commissioned by the Headmasters and Headmistresses conference, which represents top private schools, shows that single-sex schools make little difference to outcomes. What's more, arguing that Eton is a good school because it only admits boys is like saying Wayne Rooney is a good footballer because he wears a nice kit—one does not necessarily lead to the other. In practice, the single-sex question is a distraction from what really matters. It sounds obvious, but boys (and girls) will do better if they are taught better by teachers who understand their individual needs. That means skilled practitioners (从业者) using the curriculum creatively to engage and excite every single child in front of them—regardless of their gender. And, incidentally, male and female teachers have equal capacity to get this right. Of course this is hard, and I can say I fell short many times. But just by introducing a gender control on the group isn't going to make it any easier. What about the girl who likes active learning or the boy who is shy? I am not sure they would get a fair deal if our teaching is framed by gender behaviours. In any case, we want kids to be able to perform better in response to all learning environments—not just the ones they are comfortable in. So let girls be boisterous (活跃的), and boys self-reflect. And let them learn together, taught by the best teachers we can find.

单选题 风筝 风筝起源于中国，在这个国家，制作风筝的理想材料一应俱全：丝织品用来做帆，极具韧性的(high-tensile-strength)线可以制作风筝线，轻盈的骨架则由韧性十足的竹子制成。据说，风筝是墨子和鲁班在公元前5世纪时发明的。在13世纪末期，马可·波罗首次将与风筝有关的故事介绍到欧洲。尽管风筝最初只被看作是珍奇物品(curiosity)，但自18世纪开始，风筝已经被用作科研工具。现在，风筝节已经成为一种流行的娱乐形式，最为著名的就是中国的潍坊风筝节。

单选题Ideas about 'spoiling' children have always involved consideration of just what is a spoiled child, how does spoiling occur, and what are the consequences of spoiling; they have always included 32 of a child's nature, the ideal child and the ideal adult. The many mothers of 1820 who belonged to the early 'maternal (母亲的) associations' struggled to 33 the ideas about child raising that had been 34 in the 18th century. They had always been told that the spoiled child stood in danger of having trouble later in life (when exposed to all the 35 of the word) and, more importantly, stood in danger of 36 rain. The approach these mothers knew was to 'break the will' of the child. This approach, coming 37 from the theology (神学) of Calvin, the French protestant reformer, was 38 from the stem outlook of the Puritans. As one mother wrote, 'No child has even been known, since the earliest period of the world, destitute (缺乏的) of an evil disposition however sweet it appears. 'Infant depravity (坠落), by which meant the child's 39 , could be curbed only by breaking the will so that the child 40 implicitly to parental guidance. By freeing the child from its evil nature, parents believed they could then guide the child into acquiring the right character traits, such as honesty, industriousness, and society. These moral 41 , fixed in the child's character, were to govern it throughout life, in a society where free enterprise, individual effort, and competition were believed to be the ruling forces. A. spiritual B. impulses C. eventually D. principles E. denounce F. prevalent G. temptations H. initially I. concepts J. segregated K. uphold M. submitted N. descriptions O. inherited

单选题 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Stock Speculation on Campus. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words following the outline given below. 1．近年来许多在校大学生开始炒股 2．大学生炒股的利弊 3．我的观点

单选题 京剧走进课堂 当前，中小学生普遍存在民族文化艺术鉴赏力下降的问题。为传承民族优秀文化，教育部对九年制义务教育阶段的音乐课程标准进行了修订，增加了有关京剧的教学内容，并在10个省、市、自治区各选20所中小学进行试点。开设京剧课后，教师不能仅满足于演唱技巧的教授，而且应该将曲目(repertoire)背后的故事和如何理解京剧这种传统艺术形式作为教学的主要目标。京剧走进课堂，就是要让学生了解一些基本的京剧知识，帮助他们学习欣赏京剧的韵律之美和独特魅力。

单选题Cell phones provide instant access to people. They are creating a major 26 in the social experiences of both children and adolescents. In one recent US survey, about half the teens polled said that their cell phone had 27 their communication with friends. Almost all said that their cell phone was the way they stayed in touch with peers, one-third had used the cell phone to help a peer in need, and about 80% said the phone made them feel safer. Teenagers in Australia, 28 , said that their mobile phones provided numerous benefits and were an 29 part of their lives; some were so 30 to their phones that the researchers considered it an addiction. In Japan, too, researchers are concerned about cell phone addiction. Researchers in one study in Tokyo found that more than half of junior high school students used their phones to exchange e-mails with schoolmates more than 10 times a day. Cell phones 31 social connections with peers across time and space. They allow young people to exchange moment-by-moment experiences in their daily lives with special partners and thus to have a more 32 sense of connection with friends. Cell phones also can 33 social tolerance because they reduce children's interactions with others who are different from them. In addition to connecting peers, cell phones connect children and parents. Researchers studying teenagers in Israel concluded that, in that 34 environment, mobile phones were regarded as 'security objects' in parent-teen relationships—important because they provided the possibility of 35 and communication at all times. A. affiliated B. attached C. contact D. contend E. continuous F. diminish G. endurance H. foster I. hazardous J. improved K. instantaneous L. intrinsic M. relatively N. shift O. similarly

单选题 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition entitled Keeping Pets. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words and you should base your composition on the outline below. 1.有些人赞成养宠物。 2.有些人反对养宠物。 3.你的观点。