What is the woman' s major?

Directions:Read the text below. Write an essay in about 120 words, in which you should summarize the key points of the text and make comments on them. Try to use you own words. Hengshui No. 2 High School in northeast China' s Hebei province has installed metal bars on all balconies to prevent students from committing suicide. The move came after two students jumped to their deaths within six months. The high school is considered one of the best in the country. To guarantee that their students would be admitted by top universities, Hengshui No. 2 is run with military-style management. All students must get up at 5:30 a. m. and study 10 hours a day. All meals must be finished within 15 minutes and toilet breaks are less than three minutes. Pictures of the school' s new balcony fences first appeared on Weibo last week, along with banners bearing inspiring slogans such as " key to the success of the college entrance examination is to succeed every day in every subject and every question. " Most Chinese netizens were shocked by the metal bars. They agreed that instead of installing metal bars, why doesn' t the school provide psychological counseling and guidance? That may help! Some others think protecting students was not the school' s first intention. The school is attempt to shirk responsibilities. However a few people showed understanding. They think that in a small city like Hengshui, succeeding in the college entrance examination is the only to lead to a bright future. If the students can survive it, they can make it.

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How old is Katie?

Read the text below. Write an essay in about 120 words, in which you should summarize the key points of the text and make comments on them. Try to use you own words. It's the graduation season again. According to a latest survey, most Chinese graduates have high salary expectations, and thus prefer working for foreign companies or state-owned enterprises in first-tier cities. The survey was conducted by renren. com, a Chinese social media site similar to Facebook. The results show that among 1,510 respondents, more than 64. 7 percent want to work in first-tier cities. In addition, 29.4 percent of the graduates who were born in the 1990s want to work for foreign companies, 25. 5 percent for SOEs and 23. 5 percent for private companies. One interesting revelation is that although there are less than 100 days before graduation and more than half of the respondents have yet to get a job offer, they are not lowering their salary expectations. Apparently, 41.2 percent aim for 8000-10000 yuan($1279-$1599)per month and 31.4 percent for 4000-6000 yuan. According to the data released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the average monthly salary in Beijing was 5826 yuan($931)last year, while the numbers for Shanghai, Tian-jin and Chongqing were 5380, 4058 and 3995 yuan respectively. A sample of comments in Weibo: "Are the survey results only jokes for April Fools' Day? Don' t daydream anymore! Please check if you have a good command of English and professional skills that deserve a decent job with a high pay. " On other comments says: "Some of my classmates got offers from foreign banks, international accounting firms and other famous foreign companies. They are told their yearly salary can reach 100,000 yuan($ 15,990). "

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Suppose you are invited to a party at Nancy's home but you can't attend it because you will have an exam on the same day. Write a letter of apology to Nancy. Your letter should include:1)your apology and the reason2)your suggestion for another get-togetherYou should write approximately 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of your letter. Use "Wang Lin" instead. You do not need to write the address.

Rowena and Billy Wrangler are model high school students. They study hard and do extremely well on achievement tests. And next year, Rowena will be attending Harvard University. Billy, her younger brother, hopes to go to Cornell. What makes Rowena and Billy different from most students is that they don't go to school. In fact, they've never been to school. Since kindergarten, they've studied at home. Neither Rowena nor Billy feels as if they've missed out on anything by being taught at home. Like many of more than one million people who receive home schooling in the United States, they feel as if they've gotten a good education. The home-schooling trend began in the U. S. in the 1980s with parents keeping their children out of public schools so they could provide religious education at home. Today, as the home-schooling trend continues to grow, parents are more likely to consider home schooling as an option because they believe schools don't do a very good job of teaching and are occasionally dangerous places. But can parents really do a better job? The answer in many cases is yes. In many studies, students taught at home ranked average or above average when compared to students who went to public schools. More importantly, these students were often more self-directed and have a greater depth of knowledge. "They are very well prepared for academic challenges, " says Patricia Riordan, the dean of admissions at George Mason University. One such student, Robert Conrad, now a sophomore at university, claims he really learned how to study and schedule his time during his eight years of home schooling. Still, not every student is as successful as Robert. "For every home-schooling success story, there are an equal number of failures, " states Henry Lipscomb, an educational researcher. "There are just so many disadvantages that students taught at home have to overcome. " For example, they have fewer chances to interact with others of their own age. Consequently, they sometimes lack the usual social skills. "No matter what, though, " states Lipscomb, "home-schooling is a growing trend. I think we'll be seeing more and more of this. "

Read the text below. Write an essay in about 120 words, in which you should summarize the key points of the text and make comments on them. Try to use you own words. The Princess of Cambridge has finally been revealed to the world as Charlotte Elizabeth Dian-a—in a touching nod to her grandfather, her grandmother and her great-grandmother. The name has long tradition which can be traced back to the royal background. Charlotte, derived from French name, pays tribute to her grandfather, prince of Wales. And Charlotte is also Kate' s sister, Pippa Middleton' s middle name. Kensington Palace revealed the royal baby' s full name yesterday after days of speculation and close friends of Princess Diana immediately said the choice means the spirit of Prince William' s beloved mother ' lives on'. William was, however, clear that his baby girl should not have Diana as a first name. "It would have been a millstone around her neck," said one of the princess' s long-time friends. Within minutes of the name being announced this afternoon, Diana' s closest friend Rosa Monckton said:" Diana' s spirit lives on in her sons, and now her name lives on in her granddaughter ' Charlotte Elizabeth Diana'. "Diana was the godmother of Mrs. Monckton' s daughter Dominica. The British citizens show their satisfaction with this name via Internet. They said it is the perfect name for their lovely princess.

Late last year, I needed to transport some furniture from our house in Sussex to my son' s flat in central London. I should have paid a man to do it for me, but foolishly confident in my driving ability, I decided to hire a van and drive it myself. It was a Ford Transit 280, long and wide: you couldn' t see out of the back. You never really knew how close you were to anything else on the road. Reversing in my home yard, I crashed into a small shed, causing permanent damage. At least I owned the shed. I loaded up the furniture and set out. By now it was rush hour. My nerves broke down, as I steered the huge van through ever-shifting lanes, across oncoming vehicles, between distances of buses, at last to Charlotte Street. Here, I found an available parking space. As I reversed into it, I noticed three people at a pavement cafe waving to me. I got out, trembling violently, like one who has just endured a storm-y Atlantic crossing. "You've shifted the car parked behind you three feet," they said, and it belonged to a disabled person. I examined the car. There were white scratches along its front bumper. It bore a disabled sign. So, now I was a bad driver and a bad man. Under the stern gaze of the three, I left an apologetic note on the damaged car' s windscreen, giving my phone number. I unloaded the furniture, dripping with sweat. Wanting only to escape the monster , I drove the van back to its base on the Edgware Road. On arrival, the hire man told me I must fill it up with petrol before returning it. "Just charge me," I cried, still shaking with fear. He gazed at me with understanding. No doubt he'd witnessed others in this state before. "How about I drive you to a petrol station, you fill up, and I drive her back?" he asked. He danced the great van through the traffic so casually that it would have shamed me if I had not been so grateful.

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As is known to all, the organization and management of wages and salaries are very complex. Generally speaking, the Accounts Department is【C6】______for calculations of pay, while the Personnel Department is interested in discussions with the employees about pay. If a firm wants to【C7】______a new wage and salary structure, it is essential that the firm should decide on a【C8】______of job evaluation and ways of measuring the performance of its employees. In order to be【C9】______, that new pay structure will need agreement between Trade Unions and employers. In job evaluation, all of the requirements of each job are defined in a detailed job description. Each of those requirements is given a value, usually in "points" , which are【C10】______together to give a total value for the job. For middle and higher management, a special method is used to evaluate managers on their knowledge of the job, their responsibility, and their【C11】______to solve problems. Because of the difficulty in measuring management work, however, job grades for managers are often decided without【C12】______to an evaluation system based on points. In attempting to design a pay system, the Personnel Department should【C13】______the value of each job with these in the job market.【C14】______, payment for a job should vary with any differences in the way that the job is performed. Where it is simple to measure the work done, as in the works done with hands, monetary encouragement schemes are often chosen, for【C15】______workers, where measurement is difficult, methods of additional payments are employed. [A]adopt[B]find[C]useful [D]indirect[E]responsible[F]reference [G]added[H]method[I]capacity [J]Basically[K]Necessarily[L]successful [M]ability[N]combined[O]compare

A local environmental group is recruiting volunteers at the moment. You are willing to become one of them. Write an email to the recruiters, telling them: 1)why you want to be a volunteer: 2)what you can do for the group: 3)when you will be available. You should write about 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of your email. Use "Wang Lin" instead.

We have Heard a lot about the health benefits of tea, especially green tea. It is high in polyphenols , compounds with strong antioxidant activity that in test-tube and animal models show anticancer and heart-protective effects. Good clinical studies are few, however, and although physicians tell their patients to drink green tea, there hasn' t been any definite proof of the value of that advice. A team of Japanese researchers was able to link green tea consumption with decreased mortality from many causes—including heart disease. The researchers tracked 40,530 healthy adults ages 40 to 79 in a region of northeastern Japan where most people drink green tea, following them for up to 11 years. Those who drank five or more cups of green tea a day had significantly lower mortality rates than those who drank less than one cup a day. There were also fewer deaths from cardiovascular disease. But no such association was seen with deaths from cancer. Nor was consumption of oolong or black tea connected with any decrease in mortality. Those teas are easier to be combined with oxygen in processing, which not only darkens the color of the leaves and changes their flavor but also reduces their polyphenol content. Coffee is more complicated. It has received both gold stars and black marks in medical literature. It, too, contains antioxidants, although they are less well studied than tea polyphenols. Evidence for the health benefits of coffee is growing, however. A group of investigators from Finland, Italy and the Netherlands reports that coffee seems to protect against age-related decline in mental capacity. The scientists studied 676 healthy men born from 1900 to 1920 and followed them for 10 years, using standardized measures of brain function. Their conclusion: the men who consumed coffee had significantly less decline in mental capacity than those who didn' t. Three cups a day seemed to provide the most protection. Population studies like those help us form assumptions about relationships between dietary habits and long-term health. We still have to test our suppositions in controlled conditions, and measure the effects of coffee and tea on various systems of the body.

Your friend Paul wants to know in detail about the part-time job you took at a restaurant during the summer vacation. Write an email to Paul, telling him about: 1)what you did on the job: 2)how you felt about the working environment and co-workers: 3)what you learned from the job. You should write about 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of your email. Use "Wang Lin" instead.

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It can be a special experience to go on a family trip during the holiday season, but one reason that many parents【C6】______to stay home is the cost of travel. Here are some ways of reducing your travel【C7】______. Flying is a fast way to arrive at your destination, but the cost of airline tickets can really add up if you are buying flights for the whole family. Often, it is cheaper to pay for gas【C8】______the whole family can fit in the car,【C9】______with the current decreases in gas prices. If your destination is too far to drive to, you should look at a variety of【C10】______for your flight times. For example, it is often cheaper to fly on Christmas day instead of flying a few days before Christmas. Also,【C11】______early morning flights is cheaper than traveling during peak times during the day. Eating out【C12】______you are on the road can quickly increase the trip cost, and it' s much cheaper to stop at the grocery store, planning your own food【C13】______. If you plan to eat out, then it' s usually cheaper to eat at a restaurant during breakfast or lunch,【C14】______you to skip the higher dinner prices. Also, it might be cheaper to visit an all-inclusive resort. These resorts include all the meals and a variety of activities, and many of them have children' s activities so that the kids can【C15】______entertained during the trip.[A]allowing[B]if[C]begin[D]choose[E]driving[F]especially[G]expenses[H]instead[I]before[J]options[K]stay[L]taking[M]too[N]troubles[O]while

Why is the woman angry with her son?

Play is the principal business of childhood, and more and more in recent years research has shown the great importance of play in the development of a human being. From earliest infancy, every child needs opportunity and the right material for play, and the main tools of play are toys. Their main function is to suggest, encourage and assist play. To succeed in this they must be good toys, which children will play often, and will come back to again and again. Therefore it is important to choose suitable toys for different stages of a child' s development. In recent years' research on infant development has shown the standard a child is likely to reach, within the range of his inherited abilities, is largely determined in the first three years of his life. So a baby' s ability to profit from the right play materials should not be underestimated. A baby who is encouraged and stimulated, talked to and shown things and played with, has the best chance of growing up successfully. The next stage, from three to five years old, curiosity knows no bounds. Every type of suitable toys should be made available to the child, for trying out, experimenting and learning, for discovering his own particular ability. Bricks and jigsaws and construction toys; painting, scribbling and making things; sand and water play; toys for imaginative and pretending play;the first social games for learning to play and get on with others. By the third stage of play development—from five to seven or eight years—the child is at school. But for a few more years play is still the best way of learning, at home or at school. It is easier to see which type of toys the child most enjoys. Until the age of seven or eight, play and work mean much the same thing to a child. But once reading has been mastered, then books and school become the main source of learning. Toys are still interesting and valuable, they lead on to new hobbies, but their significance has changed—to a child of nine or ten years, toys and games mean, as to adults, relaxation and fun.