问答题Today's clubs, he said, were the dismal modern equivalent of the open air public meeting place.

问答题{{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}How physically attractive someone is plays a role in determining your ideas about the desirability of developing an acquaintance or a friendship with that person. Attractiveness seems to influence our perception of. others' traits.{{/U}} Attractive people are judged to be more poised, sociable, independent, interesting, exciting, and to have greater sexual warmth. In one study concerned with the importance of physical attractiveness, Karen Dion and her colleagues asked university students to rate a series of photographs of both males and females as high, average, or low in physical attractiveness. The photos were then passed onto another group of students, who were asked to rate those pictures on a number of personality traits and to predict future events in their lives. {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}The results showed that, regardless of whether the rater was the same or the opposite sex as the subject, attractive people of both sexes rated as having more socially desirable personality traits than less attractive people.{{/U}} In addition, attractive people were predicted to have greater personal happiness and more prestigious future occupations than less attractive people. These impressions of beautiful people do not suddenly appear during adolescence. {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}As early as age 4 or 5, attractive children are more popular with their peers than their unattractive counterparts. Adults also form more favorable impressions of attractive children.{{/U}} In one study, women read a description of an attractive child or an unattractive one. When the women were asked to describe the child whose picture they had seen, they characterized the unattractive child as bratty (讨厌的), selfish, and antisocial. {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}The attractive child was likely to be excused for aggressive acts because these were assumed to be deviations from the youngster' usual behavior.{{/U}} Attractive people are apparently not unaware of their effect on other people. Attractive males are more assertive than less attractive males. {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}They also have less fear of rejection and have more of their social interactions with females than with males. Attractive females are not as assertive as females who are less attractive, but both groups of women have an equal number of social interactions.{{/U}}

问答题Interlocutor:Now,I'dlikeyoutotalkaboutsomethingbetweenyourselvesandspeakloudlysothatwecanhearyou.Youshouldtakecaretosharetheopportunityofspeaking.(PutthePictureforCandidatesinfrontofbothcandidatesandgiveinstructionswithreferencetothepicture.)Youaregoingtotalkaboutthepicture.What'syouropinion?某高校一栋教学楼以XXX商标命名，此举引发热议。

问答题 The evidence as to the vastness of the universe and the complexity of its arrangements continues to grow at an amazing rate. {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}The gap between what we know and all that can be known seems not to diminish, but rather to increase with every new discovery.{{/U}} Fresh unexplored regions are for ever opening out. {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}The rapidity of the increase of scientific knowledge in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is apt to give students and teachers the impression that no sooner is a problem stated than the answer is forthcoming.{{/U}} A more detailed study of the history of science corrects the impression that fundamental discoveries are made with dramatic suddenness. Even in our present age no less than fifty years separate the discovery to radioactivity from the explosion of the first atomic bomb. Much of the fundamental information which now enables us to control the disease was known a century ago. {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}The teacher, giving his brief accounts of scientific discovery, is apt to forget the long periods of misunderstanding, of false hypotheses and general uncertainty which almost invariably precede the clear statement of scientific truth.{{/U}} There are countries in which unnecessary poverty prevails because the people as a whole are unaware of methods whereby it can he relieved. There are wide stretches of land, abandoned or never cultivated, which could support a thriving community if full use were made of the knowledge and skill of scientists. There are innumerable people suffering from disease which can be cured, and from which, by following simple scientific rules of hygiene, they need never again suffer. {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}These are vast storehouses of natural power, such as the wind, water falls and the heat of the sun, which science can show how to harness for the relief of human hard labor and for raising the standard of living.{{/U}} {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}But the difficulties in the way of effecting a change for the better are not less enormous and are often over-looked. {{/U}}The full benefits of science can only be gained with the cooperation of the people in need of assistance. That cooperation is regrettably ineffective unless the people also have some understanding of the means used. It is all too easy for the ignorant to believe that fifty doses of medicine, taken at once, will produce a cure fifty times as fast as a single does taken on fifty successive occasions. Farm machinery, broken down and neglected for lack of skilled mechanics, can be a source of loss rather than of profit. The finest seed, sown at the wrong time or under the wrong conditions, may have a disappointing yield. If the methods recommended by the scientists are applied by those who have some knowledge of science, then great benefit can follow. But if that under standing cooperation is lacking, frustration is added to poverty.

问答题Write an article on advertisement. Your article should cover the points below: 1)The omnipresence (无所不再, 普遍) of advertisements 2) Their advantages 3) Their disadvantages You should write 160—200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2

问答题Directions: Tourism is one of the most promising industries of the last few years. In most countries there are official organizations to encourage tourists. In fact, very often the ordinary people are worse off because the presence of large numbers of tourists means that the price of food becomes too expensive for poor people in the tourist cities. In your essay, give your views on the pros and cons of tourism. You should write 160～200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.

问答题Directions: You must have the experiences of traveling. So reflect on what you have learned from your experiences, and write a composition on why you think it is important or interesting to travel. You may base your composition on the following outline: 1. One experience of my traveling. 2. I think traveling is very beneficial because... 3. My advice is...( You should write 160 - 200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2 )

问答题During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was--but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that haft-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me--upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain--upon the bleak walls--upon the vacant eye-like windows--upon a few rank sedges--and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees--with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium--the bitter lapse into every-day life--the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart--an unredeemed drearineas of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime.

问答题Writeanessayof160—200wordsbasedonthefollowingdrawing.Inyouressay,youshould1)describethedrawingbriefly,2)explainitsintendedmeaning,andthen3)supportyourviewwithanexample/examples.YoushouldwriteneatlyonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题Exercise, everyone advises ! But immediately, when you try, you run into trouble. 61) There is so much contradictory, sometimes incorrect advice about exercising that you become confused. Test yourself on the following true-false quiz. It will tell you need to know. 1. The best way to reduce the mid-section is to do abdominal exercise. False. Many people believe that when specific muscles are exercised, the fatty tissues in the immediate area are" burned up. "62 )The truth is that exercise burns fat from all over the body and not from one specific area, regardless of the type of exercise. Of course, if you reduce the fat throughout your body, you will certainly see results around your waistline too! 2. To maintain an adequate level of physical fitness, you need to exercise only twice a week. False. Studies conducted by NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, show that unexercised muscles lose their strength very quickly. After 48 to 72 hours, you must use the muscles again to re-establish the good physical effect. And what does that mean to you? 63) NASA scientists concluded that while daily exercise is most beneficial, three alternation days each week will maintain an adequate level of physical fitness. 3. To lose weight you should always" work up a good sweat" when exercising. False. Sweating only lowers body temperature to prevent overheating; it does not help you reduce. You may weigh less immediately after a workout, but this is due to water loss. Once you replace the liquid, you replace the weight. 4. If your breathing doesn't return to normal within minutes after you finish exercising, you'vr exercised too much. True. Five minutes or so after exercising, your breathing should be normal, your heart shouldn't be pounding, and you shouldn't be exhausted. 64) Beneficial exercise is not overly difficult, unpleasant, and exhausting; it is moderate, enjoyable, and refreshing. 5. Walking is one of the best exercises. True. Walking helps circulation of blood throughout the body, and thus has a direct effect or your overall feeling of health. 6. The minimum amount of time you should spend exercising in a day is 20 minutes. True. There are more than 400 muscles that attach to your skeleton. 65) A good exercise routine should contract and stretch all these muscles, and this simply cannot be done with four or five exercises in five or ten minutes. From experience, I'vr found that about 20 minutes is the minimum amount of time needed for an adequate workout.