问答题7. 题目要求：Studying abroad is increasingly popular for students, with tens of thousands of Chinese high school students going abroad for their education each year. Yet, there exists a debate among experts, families and schools on whether high school graduates should study overseas. Is it beneficial for high school students to study overseas? The following are opinions from different sides. Read the excerpts carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the opinions from different sides; 2. give your comment. 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. Students Joe Roma of Ayusa: Everything from your exams to your host family's rules might be drastically different from what you are used to at home. Add a new language and customs to the mix, and suddenly everyday tasks can seem daunting. The reality of what it truly means to fully immerse oneself in a culture that has very different values, communication styles, world views and language differences can be very challenging for a young person. Yvonne: The cost of living may be higher. If you're studying in a major city, in Western Europe, or in a country where the currency exchange rate is unfavorable to the dollar, the cost of living will be relatively high. Things such as food, rent, and the Internet will cost more than they do at borne, which means you'll be paying even more out of pocket just by living overseas. You can find coupons through sites like SumoCoupon and other deals at your home-away-from-home, but be sure to overestimate your study abroad budget to make sure you'll have enough money to get by. A Chinese student: Your education will be more meaningful. It's one thing to read about distant places in a textbook, it's something else entirely to actually go there and learn about them in person. For instance, learning about the construction of the Great Wall of China from a history textbook simply can't compare to walking along the wall with a knowledgeable tour guide. To fully understand why other cultures are different, studying abroad programs allow you to go beyond the classroom and discover the context for yourself. Experts and teachers A Chinese expert: Studying overseas is deemed risky for youngsters' normal development, and may not contribute significantly to their future career success. Also, it will most certainly put an inordinate financial burden on them and their families. A teacher from China: It is very important for high school students to study abroad. It gives them a more open approach to how other countries operate and they can learn something new they've never learned before. There are so many benefits from studying abroad that I don't even know where to begin. First and foremost, the students will be able to learn more about a certain group of people or culture. Ms. Zhang, a teacher from Shanghai: You will grow as a person. When you are studying in another country, you have a very unique situation. You're in an unfamiliar place that does things completely different than you used to. You will be able to experience a culture very different from your own, and you will be exposed to more different people and different ways of doing things. You will test habits and preconceived notions that you have held all your life that you did not even know existed before you saw a whole group of people doing something totally different from what you used to.

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问答题3. 题目要求：The rapidly developing technology disturbs the relationship between parents and their children, which is now rated a social problem that we need to pay attention to and guard against. Read the following article carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the research findings; 2. give your comment. 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. The increased presence of technology in the daily life of modern children has caused the relationship between parents and their children to be affected. Khan, an educator, did a study on the relationship between the duration of adolescents' (14 to 18 years old) technology usage on computer, mobile phone and video games and their relationship with their parents. This research was done in a New York high school on 63 students. These students represent a generation that has been exposed to technology the most throughout their lifetime. It was found that when they spent long time on computers, the closeness towards parents diminished. On the other hand, there was no correlation to be found between the usage of mobile and the closeness with parents as mobile phone is still a way for both parents and their children to communicate. Similarly, another research also has shown that relationship between children and their family members is affected by the amount of time they spend on the Internet. Young (a psychologist) investigated whether any decline and loss of desire for face-to-face communication with their use was related to Internet surfing. The age range (14 to 18 years old) of this study was controlled because there may be restrictions implied in their use of Internet by parents and also because that generation is being exposed much to technology since birth. Young's research found that students use the Internet more often, which in turn causes them to spend less time with their family. Plus, the desire for face-to-face communication with family members declined when more time was spent on the Internet. Children who spend hours on the Internet will find that there is not much time left for any other types of interaction or bonding time with their family. Consequently, children and their parents as family members will have a poorer relationship instead of being able to maintain a stronger family relationship. On top of that, Lee (a scholar) reported that the use of computer for recreational and communication purposes among 1,312 adolescents from the United States (age 12 to 18) replaced their time with their parents and Lee's result had showed "an increase of 1 hour in computer-mediated communication results in a decrease of 2d minutes in time with parents". Lee's finding shows a negative correlation between the time spent on computer and on parent-child relationship. However, one drawback that was found in Lee's study was that she did not consider including the specific type of online activity and also the type of social networking sites. Punamaki, Wallenius, Holtto, Nygard, and Rimpela's research had shown similarities in their findings. Their research was conducted on 478 Finnish children and adolescents from seven schools. The result found that using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for entertainment is related to poor peer and parental relations. In addition, engaging in intensive Internet surfing however was found to associate with poor maternal relation which is seen most in daughter-mother communication. As there is only 24 hours in a day, the time used on the computer will reduce the time spent on other activities. Thus, the relationship between parents and children are affected by the usage of ICT causing both parents and children to have poor communication with one another, when communication is essential in building a strong parent-child relationship.

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问答题. SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS PASSAGE ONE (1)Joseph was an elderly, nay, an old man: very old, perhaps, though hale and sinewy. "The Lord helps us!" he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent. (2)Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling. "Wuthering" being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun. Happily, the architect had foresight to build it strong: the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall, and the corners defended with large jutting stones. (3)Before passing the threshold, I paused to admire a quantity of grotesque carving lavished over the front, and especially about the principal door; above which, among a wilderness of crumbling griffins and shameless little boys, I detected the date "1500", and the name "Hareton Earnshaw". I would have made a few comments, and requested a short history of the place from the surly owner; but his attitude at the door appeared to demand my speedy entrance, or complete departure, and I had no desire to aggravate his impatience previous to inspecting the penetralium. (4)One step brought us into the family sitting-room, without any introductory lobby or passage: they call it here "the house" preeminently. It includes kitchen and parlour, generally; but I believe at Wuthering Heights the kitchen is forced to retreat altogether into another quarter: at least I distinguished a chatter of tongues, and a clatter of culinary utensils (厨房用具), deep within; and I observed no signs of roasting, boiling, or baking, about the huge fireplace; nor any glitter of copper saucepans and tin cullenders (滤锅) on the walls. One end, indeed, reflected splendidly both light and heat from ranks of immense pewter dishes, interspersed with silver jugs and tankards, towering row after row, on a vast oak dresser, to the very roof. The latter had never been under-drawn: its entire anatomy lay bare to an inquiring eye, except where a frame of wood laden with oatcakes and clusters of legs of beef, mutton, and ham, concealed it. Above the chimney were sundry villainous old guns, and a couple of horse-pistols: and, by way of ornament, three gaudily-painted canisters disposed along its ledge. The floor was of smooth, white stone; the chairs, high-backed, primitive structures, painted green: one or two heavy black ones lurking in the shade. In an arch under the dresser reposed a huge, liver-coloured bitch pointer, surrounded by a swarm of squealing puppies; and other dogs haunted other recesses. (5)The apartment and furniture would have been nothing extraordinary as belonging to a homely, northern farmer, with a stubborn countenance, and stalwart limbs set out to advantage in knee-breeches and gaiters (绑腿). Such an individual seated in his arm-chair, his mug of ale (麦芽啤酒) frothing on the round table before him, is to be seen in any circuit of five or six miles among these hills, if you go at the right time after dinner. But Mr. Heathcliff forms a singular contrast to his abode and style of living. He is a dark-skinned gipsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman: that is, as much a gentleman as many a country squire: rather slovenly, perhaps, yet not looking amiss with his negligence, because he has an erect and handsome figure; and rather morose. Possibly, some people might suspect him of a degree of under-bred pride; I have a sympathetic chord within that tells me it is nothing of the sort: I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling—to manifestations of mutual kindliness. He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again. No, I'm running on too fast: I bestow my own attributes over liberally on him. Mr. Heathcliff may have entirely dissimilar reasons for keeping his hand out of the way when he meets a would-be acquaintance, to those which actuate me. Let me hope my constitution is almost peculiar: my dear mother used to say I should never have a comfortable home; and only last summer I proved myself perfectly unworthy of one. (6)While enjoying a month of fine weather at the sea-coast, I was thrown into the company of a most fascinating creature: a real goddess in my eyes, as long as she took no notice of me. I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears: she understood me at last, and looked a return—the sweetest of all imaginable looks. And what did I do? I confess it with shame—shrank icily into myself, like a snail; at every glance retired colder and farther; till finally the poor innocent was led to doubt her own senses, and, overwhelmed with confusion at her supposed mistake, persuaded her mamma to decamp. By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate. (7)I took a seat at the end of the hearthstone opposite that towards which my landlord advanced, and filled up an interval of silence by attempting to caress the canine mother, who had left her nursery, and was sneaking wolfishly to the back of my legs, her lip curled up, and her white teeth watering for a snatch. My caress provoked a long, guttural gnarl. PASSAGE TWO (1)After a long day at the office, many of us find ourselves taking out our stress on friends, children, or significant others. And if we're not careful, we allow our work stress to become home stress, often at the expense of our families and relationships or our health. (2)In the U.K. the Health and Safety Executive found that 43% of days lost to illness were stress-related. Another study, by the American Psychological Association (APA), found that the two most common stressors among those surveyed were work and money, and the incidence of stress often results in irritability, anger, nervousness, and anxiousness—all behavior that can cause tension when brought home after work. (3)We've previously written about how couples can help each other cope with professional stress. But even couples who cope well together can become overwhelmed if work stress becomes too prominent an element of their relationship. (4)How can you minimize the impact that work stress has on your relationship with your significant other, family, and friends? Below are five tips for keeping work stress from becoming home stress. (5)Confine your work to particular times and locations. A study by Scott Schieman of the University of Toronto found that 50% of people bring their work home and that incidence of work-life interference are higher among those who "hold professional jobs with more authority, decision-making latitude, pressure, and longer hours." In today's ever-connected world, many of us are expected to be on 24/7 and work full-time or part-time from home. When Jackie was a counselor, she often was called to meet clients in moments of crisis at all hours of the day. When John was a management consultant, he often was on his laptop working late into the evenings. But if work is constantly seeping into your home life, the stresses of work will too. (6)So leave your work at the office. Make a rule to work from home only in exceptional circumstances, and keep work folders, computers, and notebooks at your desk. If that's not feasible for your position, designate a few hours each day for home life only—an hour during dinner or bedtime with the kids—when you can eliminate distractions and focus on family. If you work at home, don't bring your laptop to bed or use it on your couch. Work in an office or a specified workspace. Doing this will mentally help you shut off work when you leave the room, giving you an incentive to work as efficiently as possible rather than lingering over tasks. (7)Develop good mobile device habits. Perhaps the most common way in which work distraction seeps into a person's relationships today is through smartphones. Have you ever finally decompressed in an evening only to look at your email, see something alarming, and become stressed? The average person now checks their phone 46 times per day, spending nearly five hours per day on mobile devices, leading 30% of users to consider their smartphones a "leash". (8)Develop good habits and rules that keep your tablets and phones from tethering you to work. Keep two separate mobile phones—one for work and one for personal use—and leave the work phone in an out-of-the-way place (or turned off) on nights and weekends. And never check your work email in the hour or two prior to bed. Multiple studies have found that staring at a phone before bed can negatively impact your brain's ability to prepare for sleep, and sleep deprivation is linked closely to stress. When on vacation, lock work-related mobile devices in the hotel safe and check them only at predetermined times. (9)Establish a good support network. Significant others can be amazing partners in dealing with stress. But to place all your work stress on a spouse or partner is unfair to them and dangerous to your relationship. Develop a support network of friends and mentors who can help you manage your professional stress so that it isn't the burden solely of your significant other. The APA survey referenced above noted lower stress levels in people with a strong social support network. Having people to lean on in times of stress can increase your ability to cope with problems independent of your network, as being supported increases autonomy and self-esteem. (10)Have an end-of-work habit. Sometimes your brain needs a signal to prepare you for time at home. It's even better if this signal can help you decompress. For example, John uses his afternoon commute to unwind—taking a more scenic route home, listening to music or the news, and giving himself time to switch gears for family life. Others we've spoken to have mentioned hitting the gym, running, meditating, and other rituals. Think about what helps you unwind, and find space in your schedule for this habit—particularly at the end of a long day at work—so that when you return home you're free of the baggage that's built up throughout the day. (11)Create a third space. When professionals have families, their entire lives can revolve around their responsibilities at work and at home. Busy executives run home to help with kids—changing diapers or shuttling preteens to soccer games—or to do the little things that keep a home humming, like laundry, yard work, or cooking. But having a third space outside of work and home can help enormously with stress management. (12)Each partner in a relationship should maintain habits and times that allow them to explore their interests, relax and seek fulfillment, and find space outside of home and work. These spaces are different for everyone—quiet cafes, book clubs, trout streams, karate classes, poker nights—but they are important for maintaining our identities and our sense of peace. Make the sacrifice of offering your partner a third space to find themselves, maintain their friendships, and explore their interests, and ask that they do the same for you. Third spaces mean no person runs from responsibility to responsibility without having time to breathe. (13)Work stress can be a challenge for home life. Learning to manage stress—by working with your partner to cope and by keeping some of your professional stress outside the house—can contribute to better relationships and better physical and mental health. PASSAGE THREE (1)Which would you prefer to be: a medieval monarch or a modern office-worker? The king has armies of servants. He wears the finest silks and eats the richest foods. But he is also a martyr to toothache. He is prone to fatal infections. It takes him a week by carriage to travel between palaces. And he is tired of listening to the same jesters (小丑). Life as a 21st-century office drone looks more appealing once you think about modern dentistry, antibiotics, air travel, smartphones and YouTube. (2)The question is more than just a parlour game. It shows how tricky it is to compare living standards over time. Yet such comparisons are not just routinely made, but rely heavily on a single metric (衡量标准): gross domestic product (GDP). This one number has become shorthand for material well-being, even though it is a deeply flawed gauge of prosperity, and getting worse all the time. That may in turn be distorting levels of anxiety in the rich world about everything from stagnant incomes to disappointing productivity growth. Faulty speedometer (3)Defenders of GDP say that the statistic is not designed to do what is now asked of it. A creature of the 1930s slump and the exigencies of war in the 1940s, its original purpose was to measure the economy's capacity to produce. Since then, GDP has become a lodestar for policies to set taxes, fix unemployment and manage inflation. (4)Yet it is often wildly inaccurate: Nigeria's GDP was bumped up by 89% in 2014, after number-crunchers (做财务统计的人) adjusted their methods. Guesswork prevails: the size of the paid-sex market in Britain is assumed to expand in line with the male population; charges at lap-dancing clubs are a proxy for prices. Revisions are common, and in big, rich countries, bar America, tend to be upwards. Since less attention is paid to revised figures, this adds to an often exaggerated impression that America is doing far better than Europe. It also means that policymakers take decisions based on faulty data. (5)If GDP is failing on its own terms, as a measurement of the value-added in an economy, its use as a welfare benchmark is even more dubious. That has always been so: the benefits of sanitation, better health care and the comforts of heating or air-conditioning meant that GDP growth almost certainly understated the true advance in living standards in the decades after the Second World War. But at least the direction of travel was the same. GDP grew rapidly; so did quality of life. Now GDP is still growing (albeit more slowly), but living standards are thought to be stuck. Part of the problem is widening inequality: median household income in America, adjusted for inflation, has barely budged for 25 years. But increasingly, too, the things that people hold dear are not being captured by the main yardstick of value. (6)With a few exceptions, such as computers, what is produced and consumed is assumed to be of constant quality. That assumption worked well enough in an era of mass-produced, standardized goods. It is less reliable when a growing share of the economy consists of services. Firms compete for custom on the quality of output and how tailored it is to individual tastes. If restaurants serve fewer but more expensive meals, it pushes up inflation and lowers GDP, even if this reflects changes, such as fresher ingredients or fewer tables, which customers want. The services to consumers provided by Google and Facebook are free, so are excluded from GDP. When paid-for goods, such as maps and music recordings, become free digital services they too drop out of GDP. The convenience of online shopping and banking is a boon to consumers. But if it means less investment in buildings, it detracts from GDP. Stop counting, start grading (7)Measuring prosperity better requires three changes. The easiest is to improve GDP as a gauge of production. Junking it altogether is no answer: GDP's enduring appeal is that it offers, or seems to, a summary statistic that tells people how well an economy is doing. Instead, statisticians should improve how GDP data are collected and presented. To minimize revisions, they should rely more on tax records, Internet searches and other troves of contemporaneous statistics, such as credit-card transactions, than on the standard surveys of businesses or consumers. Private firms are already showing the way—scraping vast quantities of prices from e-commerce sites to produce improved inflation data, for example. (8)Second, services-dominated rich countries should start to pioneer a new, broader annual measure, which would aim to capture production and living standards more accurately. This new metric—call it GDP-plus—would begin with a long-overdue conceptual change: the inclusion in GDP of unpaid work in the home, such as caring for relatives. GDP-plus would also measure changes in the quality of services by, for instance, recognizing increased longevity in estimates of health care's output. It would also take greater account of the benefits of brand-new products and of increased choice. And, ideally, it would be sliced up to reflect the actual spending patterns of people at the top, middle and bottom of the earnings scale: poorer people tend to spend more on goods than on Harvard tuition fees. (9)Although a big improvement on today's measure, GDP-plus would still be an assessment of the flow of income. To provide a cross-check on a country's prosperity, a third gauge would take stock, each decade, of its wealth. This balance-sheet would include government assets such as roads and parks as well as private wealth. Intangible capital—skills, brands, designs, scientific ideas and online networks—would all be valued. The ledger should also account for the depletion of capital: the wear-and-tear of machinery, the deterioration of roads and public spaces, and damage to the environment. (10)Building these benchmarks will demand a revolution in national statistical agencies as bold as the one that created GDP in the first place. Even then, since so much of what people value is a matter of judgment, no reckoning can be perfect. But the current measurement of prosperity is riddled with errors and omissions. Better to embrace a new approach than to ignore the progress that pervades modern life.1. The phrase "as if craving alms of the sun" in Para. 2 is used as a(n) ______. (PASSAGE ONE)

问答题《复合题被拆开情况》 A trade group for liquor retailers put out a press release with an alarming headline: "Millions of Kids Buy Internet Alcohol, Landmark Survey Reveals. " The announcement, from the Wine and

问答题1. The sales of printed books declined a massive 34% this year, supplanted in part by digital versions on Kindles, iPads and other e-readers. Hence, some predict that printed books will become a thing of the past in the Internet era. However, others claim that printed books will never die. The following are opinions from both sides. Read the excerpts carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the opinions from both sides; 2. give your comment. 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. Printed Book Lovers Wang Xi, a student of journalism of Tsinghua University: Of course you need an electronic device to read an e-book. But with printed books, you don't need it at all. If you find yourself stuck in a place and want to read but you can't download a new title through your device, you can just drop by the nearest bookstore and buy the book that interests you. Yang Yang of Peking University: I spent my childhood in the library and immersed myself not only in the stories but also in the smell of books. I still think there's something thrilling about the scent of an old library book. It smells like the promise of secrets suddenly brought to light, something forgotten about to be rediscovered. Maia, a neuroscience scientist: The Internet has made information incredibly accessible, but what takes less time to obtain also takes less time to forget. I received a Kindle for my birthday and I immediately loaded it with detective stories by my favorite authors. But I soon found that I had difficulty recalling the names of the characters from chapter to chapter. At first, I attributed the lapses to a scary reality of getting older, but then I discovered that I didn't have this problem when I read paperbacks. Proponents of E-books Li Lai, a student of Jilin University: If you own a lot of books, you tend to have limits on the number of books you want to store in your shelf. With e-books, you can read as many books as you can because there's a lot of storage space on your device. You can even have a backup online in case something happens to your e-books unexpectedly. Furthermore, e-books are often cheaper compared with printed books because there are no printing and shopping fees. In fact, you can even find and read free e-books on the Internet. Bloomington College: We are ahead of other universities when it comes to saving money on textbooks this year. Hundreds of classes at Bloomington College will use new high-tech and lower-cost e-books. Actually, we figure a typical student's book bill totals about $1,000. Thanks to e-books, their net textbook bill should go down a third to a half over time. Feng Xia, a frequent business traveler: E-books are convenient, particularly when I intend to finish one book while I am out and need to bring another book with me. E-books allow me to bring a whole library with me wherever I go. I can switch between titles with great ease and the weight is lighter than a standard paperback. What's more, with an e-book, I can instantly change the darkness of the lettering or the size of the font. When my eyes feel strained after reading a paper book too long, I have little choice but to stop reading. With an e-book, I can just change the font size and keep going.

问答题《复合题被拆开情况》PASSAGE THREE《问题》：What does the word "it" in "Don’t dismantle it: rechannel it" refer toPara. 7?

问答题《复合题被拆开情况》 In the house where I grew up, it was our custom to leave the front door on the latch at night. No one carried keys. Today doors do not stay unlocked, thus for part of an evening. The【S1】___

问答题5. 题目要求：A campaign calling for the death penalty for child traffickers has recently gone viral on China's online social networks. Do you agree or disagree that child trafficking should be a death penalty offense? Do you think death penalty deters child traffickers? The following are opinions from different sides. Read the excerpts carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the different opinions; 2. give your comment. 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. Pnp Child traffickers must be sentenced to death because their greed brings pain and lasting misery to parents whose kids they traffic in! If you know a bit of the suffering of those parents who lost their kids to traffickers, their sleepless nights, their nightmares thinking of their beloved kids, their lives being turned upside down, and being unable to lead a normal life, you probably won't suggest such a soft approach! The death penalty is a very powerful deterrent; traffickers would think twice before they embark on this heinous crime against humanity! To postulate that it will endanger the lives of the kids, and therefore the death penalty should not be applied, is to cave in to the traffickers! I feel sorry for the kids and their parents. Smuffy Death penalty will not deter the child traffickers, since child trafficking is such a lucrative trade. Instead, it will pose a serious threat to the child victims. China should reform its adoption system, thus forcing some families to resort to legal measures to adopt a child. Seneca I am opposed to any killing of people, legal or otherwise. Death penalty solves no problem and only helps barbarity gain acceptance in the population. It is utterly devastating to lose one's child to a kidnapper who resells him to someone else. But have you ever taken the causes of this crime into consideration? China has enacted and enforced the one child family policy. This policy is quite reasonable against a background of demographics and economics, but it is unnatural and it also creates untold sufferings. What if a woman miscarries and loses her ability to conceive again? What if a couple have waited too long for their child to come? They have little option but to visit the grey and black market in search of a child. The question as to how to judicially treat child abductors and traffickers is a different one. Many crimes are committed out of sheer avarice; killing in retaliation does not make people more moral. Just think how lightly some corrupt officials get off the hook and you can understand that the death penalty is no solution. The countries in West Europe that have no death penalty have the lowest crime rates while the countries with death penalty see their crime rates go from bad to worse. Becky5512 Every child is the treasure of his parents. If you are in a situation where you are trapped in losing your child and unfortunately getting the news about the slack crackdown on those traffickers, how painful and desperate will you be? Definitely, effective measures should be taken to block the channel of trafficking children. Seanboyce88 You may think that offenders would think twice but an American research has shown that, the death penalty is an awful deterrent. It is simply an act of vengeance. I believe that the use of punishment is to teach someone right from wrong, and that most actions stem from societal issues. If poor people had better wages, maybe they wouldn't have to be child traffickers to pay the bills. Killing for vengeance just creates a spiral of hate. Nothing is gained from it.

问答题《复合题被拆开情况》　　As people age, the brain changes in both good ways and bad.　　If you are over 20, your cognitive performance is probably alreadyon the wane. The speed over which people can process informat

问答题《复合题被拆开情况》Current Challenges Confronting U.S. Higher EducationThe first challenge: force of the marketplace• Current situation : —presence of the marketplace as【T1】________external force —government

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问答题1. The following are two excerpts about the use of mobile phones in classrooms. Read the two excerpts carefully and write an article of NO LESS THAN 300 WORDS, in which you should: 1. summarize the main ideas in the two excerpts, and then 2. give your comment. You can support yourself with information from the excerpts. 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. Excerpt 1 Cellphones banned in classrooms Primary and middle school students will not be allowed to use cellphones or tablets in classrooms starting from Nov.1, according to a new regulation. The regulation, adopted by the legislature last month, calls on schools to keep such devices for the students during school time if they bring them to school, with the aim of curbing the incidence of myopia. Parents should also control the time their children spend on electronic devices, teach them to keep a proper distance from books and screens, and ensure a correct reading position and sufficient lighting, it says. In late August, the Ministry of Education, the National Health Commission and six other government departments launched a multilayered action plan to help battle nearsightedness in children. As well as forbidding students from bringing cellphones and tablets to class, the action plan requires teachers not to rely on electronic devices when teaching and giving assignments, and asks them to assign only written homework. The regulation is significant, according to a local health expert. Mr. Sun, deputy director of the Prevention and Treatment Center for Child Visual Impairment, said using legal tools to protect children's eyesight is of great importance. The regulation sets out the responsibilities of government organizations, schools and parents to battle nearsightedness in children, he said. "More than 40 percent of primary and middle school students have myopia and I believe with concerted efforts from government, school, parents and students, the rate can be reduced in the future," Sun said. Excerpt 2 New York City schools ask students to "Bring Your Own Devices" Amy Thiam, a fourth-grader at Harlem's Primary School 129, is staring at her cellphone in class—just as her teacher instructed. She's typing questions about their recent lesson on Native Americans into school software. Later, her classmates will share their questions and they'll answer them together. These students in Stacey Nealy's and Ryann Geldner's classroom only began using their cellphones in class the day before, in early June, but they had no trouble adjusting. "We are learning and having fun at the same time," Amy said, pointing to her Android smartphone. Its bright pink case matches the scrunchy in her hair. "My parents just told me I couldn't lose it." New York City public schools looking for new ways to bring technology into the classroom received a potential boost with the lifting of the cellphone ban in March. The Department of Education (DOE) is now encouraging schools to leverage students' devices—such as smartphones, laptops and tablets—as instructional tools by asking students to "Bring Your Own Devices", a program referred to as "BYOD". It's part of a national trend of bringing student devices into classrooms. According to a study published by Amplify, a company that creates digital tools for schools, 29 percent of school districts encouraged BYOD, and another 20 percent had a BYOD program in development.

问答题 Read carefully the following two excerpts on swimming requirements for university students, and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 300 WORDS, in which you should: summarize the main message of

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问答题2. 题目要求：It is estimated that China now has around 130 kinds of local languages, but 99 are used by fewer than 100,000 people, and 20 are used by less than 1,000 people. Most of them are disappearing from our map of language. So whether dialects should be allowed on air to preserve them? The following are opinions from different sides. Read the excerpts carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the different opinions; 2. give your comment. 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. querist I think the main CCTV channels should remain in putonghua, but programmes can be shown in local dialects on local channels, ideally with subtitles or captioning available, especially in the case of news programming. Tyne While many people say that as a form of mass media, TV and radio broadcasters are obligated to take the lead in popularizing standard putonghua. It is not a move to oppress dialects; it is only to restrict irresponsible use of language in mass media such as slang, which is very unprofessional. maplerripple Apart from CCTV, all broadcasters should be commercially based. If people want programs in their own dialects and are willing to pay for them or companies are willing to buy commercials, why should the government intervene and lay down some crazy laws? PNP Putonghua is the national language of China, and it should be promoted everywhere, particularly on TV and the radio! It is the lingua france, the language that everyone in China is supposed to understand, a powerful unifying force among a nation of diverse dialectic groups! Dialects are localized languages, not widely used throughout China, just confined to the various dialectic groups, hence they should not be promoted via the mass media, certainly not on TV or the radio, not even on local stations! All local stations must help promote the national language, putonghua! It is very annoying for most people to hear dialects on TV or the radio because they can't understand what is said, unless they belong to that dialectic group. The role of the mass media is to communicate important messages to people all over China; this would be defeated if dialects are popping up so often. Keep the dialects to the coffee shops, street markets, etc. , but not on TV or the radio. Another very important reason why only putonghua, and no dialects, should be allowed on air, is that it is the only language that most foreigners have learned before or after arriving in China, and this is the only language that can bridge the communication gap between them and the locals. Imagine how problematic it would be for a foreigner travelling through China; he has to learn each of those local dialects as he travels to different provinces, if putonghua is not used widely there! And by the way, this problem is not limited to foreigners only, even the Chinese face the same problem. A Chinese from Shandong traveling to Guangdong is not going to be able to understand the guy in Guangdong who speaks Cantonese instead of putonghua, and vice versa! I strongly urge that putonghua be promoted and used widely, for the benefit of all, both the locals and foreigners! ngajia Cantonese has 9 tones, not 6. By the linguists' rule: the more tones a language has, the more ancient it is; the most authentic Chinese dialect should be Cantonese. This could well he true as classical poems recited in Cantonese bring out both the spirit and soul, such as the poem Manjianghong composed by the great patriot general Yuefei, who has a temple built in his honor by Lake Xihu in Hangzhou.

问答题1. The following are two excerpts about live streaming. Read the two excerpts carefully and write an article of NO LESS THAN 300 WORDS, in which you should: 1. summarize the main ideas in the two excerpts, and then 2. express your opinion on live streaming. You can support yourself with information from the excerpts. 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. Excerpt 1 Greek twins make a mark in live streaming Like most others who break into the industry, Matianna and Sofia stumbled upon live streaming by chance. When they first decided to upload videos of themselves, little did they realize that they would find such a receptive audience in China. In the beginning, the sisters uploaded short videos in Mandarin about popular spots in Beijing they visited—such as Nanluogu Xiang and Sanlitun—introducing the food they tasted. To their surprise, they received hundreds of positive comments online and more live streaming requests from their fans. Since then, their regular broadcasts on NetEase platforms are eagerly lapped up by the audience keen to understand the finer nuances that link the two countries. Be it food, fashion, theater, or even aspects that cover their dally lives, the sisters have managed to be a cultural connection point in their own unique way. They have become known for live streaming themselves strolling among white houses with blue domes on the island of Santorini, surrounded by the Aegean Sea; tasting traditional stuffed Greek pies at Monastiaraki Square in the capital Athens; and tiding a tandem bicycle on the ancient city walls of Xi'an in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province. Although the attention they receive from Chinese netizens is positive, the sisters maintain that none of it would have been possible but for their excellent command of Mandarin and their in-depth knowledge about Chinese culture. Excerpt 2 Live streaming is no excuse for life-threatening acts In December, a male died after drinking a lot of liquor while live streaming. According to a friend of his family, he drank heavily every day for three consecutive months in order to attract lots of fans. A video clip even shows he developed a nervous twitch because he drank too much. He is not the only one of his kind. On the live streaming platform he served, there are still many who try to attract fans by going to extremes. The more liquor they drink, the more fans they hope to get and the more money they will make. In other words, the business model of live streaming platforms encourages people to put their health and lives at risk. That's illegal. According to a national regulation on online performances that came into effect in 2017, performances on online platforms should not contain any horrific, cruel, violent or vulgar content, or any content that harms the performers' health. Obviously; drinking excessive amounts of strong liquor is against the regulation. A similar tragedy happened when a 26-year-old man died while live streaming himself climbing a high building. Some said the online streamers who died have chosen to do so and it is their tight to make profit in this risky way. The problem is their deeds might be emulated by others who do not know how much risk is involved. In order to curb this behavior, it is necessary to strike at the root of the problem by regulating live streaming platforms. Only when the live streaming platforms give up the business mode of encouraging online streamers to attract fans via extreme challenges will such tragedies be prevented in the future.