Nowadays, advertisement plays an important role in the television industry and market-oriented economy. In order to better attract consumers' attention, commercials have become increasingly innovative and fancy. Some people, especially young consumers embrace the trend, while many parents and experts worry about the negative influence of commercials on young people's values. Do you think TV commercials should be restricted? Read carefully the opinions from both sides and write your response in about 200 words, in which you should first summarize briefly the opinions from both sides and give your view on the issue. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. YES TV advertisement often contains many illusive descriptions. In order to convince the public to buy the products, exaggerated expressions are used in advertisements to attract people's attention. What's worse, sometimes advertisers even provide false information for consumers, leading them to believe that the products have the claimed effects which they actually do not possess. Many TV commercials may convey wrong messages or values to the young people or kids. For example, the commercials of some luxury goods are often extremely beautiful and fascinating to watch, but too much exposure to this type of commercials may make people become indulged in the worship of material wealth. NO As an important part of the innovative industry, TV commercials aim to bring a sense of novelty to the audience and attract their interests. With the help of advanced technology, modern commercials strive to be pioneering, distinctive, and appealing. All the ingenious ideas, beautiful scenes and vivid effects shown in various commercials can provide audience with a fresh experience. Watching commercials is both amusing and relaxing for people. Although some TV commercials do contain improper messages, such as money-worship, it is undeniable that most of them deliver positive messages to the audience, such as patriotism, familial affection, and the pursuit of a better life through one's own efforts.

Requiring children to save part of their______ can also open the door to future saving and investing.

PASSAGE FOUR

He ______ in London for more than ten years, but he has never regretted his final decision to move back to China.

Once ______, this power station will supply all the neighboring towns and villages with electricity.

There has not been a great response to the sale, ______?

In the sentence "He did everything possible to help us", the underlined word is used to modify

PASSAGE FOUR

The thief tried to break away from the police who ______ him, but failed.

The newspaper reporters ______ that the man was murdered but they have given no proof.

The international community should reach a broad ______ on the matter and jointly tackle any major security concern by dialogues and cooperation.

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American【T1】______will not return to the moon as planned if US Congress passes President Obama's proposed budget. Obama's budget—which aims to cut funding in certain areas while increasing money used to create jobs—would cancel NASA's【T2】______ Program. The Program had sought to send astronauts back to the moon by 2020. NASA's Program also【T3】______ to study the idea of establishing a moon【T4】______. The program was set to follow the U.S. space agency's shuttle【T5】______, which are due to end in September. On its Web site, the White House Budget Office says the program to send astronauts to the moon is behind schedule, over budget and overall less important than other space【T6】______. "Using a broad range of criteria, an independent review 【T7】______ determined that even if fully funded, NASA's program to【T8】______many of the achievements of the Apollo era, 50 years later, was the least attractive approach to space【T9】______ as compared to potential 【T10】______." the site says.

Although I spoke to her about the matter several times, she took little ______ of what I said.[1998]

(1) "IT is an evil influence on the youth of our country." A politician condemning video gaming? Actually, a clergyman denouncing rock and roll 50 years ago. But the sentiment could just as easily have been voiced by Hillary Clinton in the past few weeks as in saying video games is "a silent epidemic of media desensitization and stealing the innocence of our children". (2)The opposition to gaming springs largely from the neophobia that has pitted the old against the entertainments of the young for centuries. Novels were once considered too low-brow; Waltz music and dancing were condemned in the 19th century; rock and roll was thought to encourage violence. But what of the specific complaints—that games foster addiction and encourage violence? (3)There's no good evidence for either. On addiction, if the worry is about a generally excessive use of screen-based entertainment, critics should surely concern themselves about television rather than games. As to the minority who seriously overdo it research suggests that they display addictive behavior in other ways too. The problem, in other words, is with them, not with the games. (4)Most of the research on whether video games encourage violence is unsatisfactory, focusing primarily on short-term effects. In the best study so far, frequent playing of a violent game sustained over a month had no effect on participants' level of aggression. And, during the period in which gaming has become widespread in America, violent crime has fallen by half. Perhaps, as some observers have suggested, gaming actually makes people less violent, by acting as a safety valve. (5)So are games good, rather than bad, for people? Good ones probably are. Games are widely used as educational tools, not just for pilots, soldiers and surgeons, but also in schools and businesses. Games require players to construct hypotheses, solve problems, develop strategies, and learn the rules of the in-game world through trial and error. Gamers must also be able to juggle several different tasks, evaluate risks and make quick decisions. Playing games is, thus, an ideal form of preparation for the workplace of the 21st century, as some forward-thinking firms are already starting to realize. (6)Pointing all this out makes little difference, though, because the controversy over gaming, as with rock and roll, is more than anything else the consequence of a generational divide. Can the disagreements between old and young over new forms of media ever be resolved? Sometimes attitudes can change relatively quickly, as happened with the Internet. Once condemned as a cesspool of depravity, it is now recognized as a valuable new medium. Attitudes changed because critics of the Internet had to start using it for work, and then realized that, like any medium, it could be used for good purposes as well as bad. They have no such incentive to take up gaming, however. (7)Eventually, objections to new media resolve themselves, as the young grow up and the old die out. As today's gamers grow older—the average age of gamers is already 30—video games will ultimately become just another medium, alongside books, music and films. And soon the greying gamers will start tut-tutting about some new evil threatening to destroy the younger generation's moral fiber.

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You can go to a travel agency and ask for a holiday______.(2011-74)

Firms that use computers have found that the number of staff______ is needed for quality control can be substantially reduced.

In "She felt sick from tiredness", the underlined word is used to indicate

A. height B. compensate C. whereas D. imbibe E. reflectF. degree G. strategy H. replenish I. further J. underK. stronger L. session M. devour N. fatal O. repel Large animals that inhabit the desert have evolved a number of adaptations for reducing the effects of extreme heat. One adaptation is to be light in color, and to【C1】______ rather than absorb the sun's rays. Desert mammals also depart from the normal mammalian practice of maintaining a constant body temperature. Instead of trying to keep down the body temperature deep inside the body, which would involve the expenditure of water and energy, desert mammals allow their temperatures to rise to what would normally be fever【C2】______, and temperatures as high as 46 degrees Celsius have been measured in gazelles (瞪羚羊). Another【C3】______of large desert animals is to tolerate the loss of body water to a point that would be【C4】______for non-adapted animals. The camel can lose up to 30 percent of its body weight as water without harm to itself, 【C5】______human beings die after losing only 12 to 13 percent of their body weight. An equally important adaptation is the ability to【C6】______this water loss at one drink. Desert animals can drink prodigious volumes in a short time, and camels have been known to 【C7】______over 100 liters in a few minutes. A very dehydrated person, on the other hand, cannot drink enough water to rehydrate at one【C8】______, because the human stomach is not sufficiently big and because a too rapid dilution of the body fluids causes death from water intoxication. The tolerance of water loss is of obvious advantage in the desert, as animals do not have to remain near a water hole but can obtain food from grazing sparse and far-flung pastures. Desert-adapted mammals have the【C9】______ability to feed normally when extremely dehydrated; it is a common experience in people that appetite is lost even【C10】______conditions of moderate thirst.