问答题How often have read that America's education system, is a failure? It has a long way to go, but it has started to improve. This is crucial because differentials in lifetime earnings by level of education are widening. Driven by globalization and technology, labor markets are demanding higher and higher levels of skills. Therefore, to improve incomes for younger Americans, there must be better educational outcomes. For 25 years, those outcomes were stagnant. High school graduation rates had fallen to 60% or lower in many large cities and rural areas. And just over half of first-year college students would graduate within six years. These are poor results by the standards of advanced countries. But at the beginning of 2006, the decline began to reverse. High school completion rates are now up almost 10 points, crossing 80% for the first time.

问答题Ms. Mayer's move is not just a bad idea in itself but also a naive notion. Flexible employers help women run families and jobs simultaneously. Strict working rules make combining the two impossible or unpleasant. To be fair, as somebody who took two weeks off to have a baby, Ms. Mayer is hardly asking others to do what she would not; but then she has eased the pain of separation from her child by installing a nursery next to her office. Yahoo's less privileged women may place it to a friendlier organization. But this is not just about women. A well-managed company's workers want to be productive, and managers trust them to decide how and where they will perform best. If that's not happening, the boss needs to find out why. You can confine a Yahoo to his desk, but you can't make him feel the busy atmosphere.

问答题Directions: Write a letter to invite your friend Tina and Joseph to attend your first anniversary of wedding. The followings are specific information: 1) Time: 12 a. m., August 22; 2) Address: Shangri-La Hotel; 3) One of your friends teaching you Italian, you want to introduce him to them.

问答题Directions: You are the president of a company. Write a memo to Percy Shelley, the vicepresident on the employee"s training on computer: 1) the need to train the employees, 2) detailed information, and 3) ask him to write a plan. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not sign your name in the memo. Use "Li Ming" instead.

问答题Directions:Writeanessaybasedonthefollowingchart.Inyourwriting,youshould1)interpretthechart,and2)giveyourcomments.Youshouldwriteabout150wordsontheANSWERSHEET.

问答题Suppose you are the president of the Students' Union. Write a notice about recruiting new members for the Union. The notice should 1) specify the qualifications, and 2) tell the arrangement of interview. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. {{B}}Do not{{/B}} use your own name.

问答题Directions:Writeanessaybasedonthefollowinggraph.Inyourwriting,youshould1)interpretthegraph,and2)giveyourcomments.Youshouldwriteabout150wordsontheANSWERSHEET.

问答题The Chinese new year is a time of family reunions. But Mr. Xiao is preparing to spend his sixth new year without his son, who was abducted (诱拐) in 2007 by suspected child traffickers. China's one-child policy has fuelled demand for children, thousands of whom are snatched and sold every year to desperate, usually boyless, couples. Spurred (刺激) by the campaigning of parents like Mr. Xiao, the government is starting to pay more attention to the crime. But curbing it is proving tough. Mr. Xiao has been trying the hard way to raise awareness of the crime; driving around the country in a minivan covered with posters of missing children. Mr. Xiao, who lives in a village near Tongzhou, one of Beijing's satellite towns, says he has spent as much as 400,000 yuan ($64,300) of his own money on the project. He says there are other parents elsewhere in China who tour the country in similarly bedecked (装饰的) vehicles.

问答题1)describethetable,and2)giveyourcommentsYoushouldwriteabout150words.WriteyouressayontheANSWERSHEET.

问答题They teach you to be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success, not to substitute words for action, not to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge; to learn to stand up in the storm, but to have compassion on those who fall; to master yourself before you seek to master others ; to have a heart that is clean, a goal that is high; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; to reach into the future, yet never neglect the past; to be serious, yet never take yourself too seriously; to be modest so that you will remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength. They give you a temperate will, a quality of imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of life, a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity.

问答题Directions:Inthissection,youareaskedtowriteanessaybasedonthefollowingchart.Inyourwriting,youshould1)interpretthechartand2)giveyourcomments.Youshouldwriteatleast150words.WriteyouressayonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题Directions: Restrictions on the use of plastic bags have not been so successful in some regions. "White Pollution" is still going on. Write a letter to the editor(s) of your local newspaper to 1) give your opinions briefly, and 2) make two or three suggestions. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write your address.

问答题Suppose you are going to be a postgraduate student in Wuhan University. Write a letter to a professor there to 1) tell him about your plan for future academic studies, and 2) ask for advice about how to get prepared for the study there. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not use your own name. Use "Zhang Wei" instead.

问答题The A-list was created by James Ulmer, an entertainment journalist. Ulmer created the "Ulmer Scale" to determine bankable stars, actors who guarantee the success of a movie simply by appearing in it. In 2002, for example, the Ulmer Scale assessed actor Tom Cruise at 100 points and the budget for his movie Minority Report was $102 million. According to the scale, the movie should have made 100% (Cruise=100 points) or $102 million simply because Tom Cruise was in the movie. In actual fact, the movie made over $300m worldwide. Other bankable stars that year were Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. In 2005, Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks still topped the list while Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman were the only women in the Top Ten. Celebrity and fame are directly related to the mass media that report on particular individuals. Thus, some celebrities are famous worldwide (for example, Brad Pitt and Madonna) while others are only famous within their country or region. Some examples of such famous people in their own countries include Japanese musician Ayumi Hamasaki, Korean actress Hyun Kyung Oh, Thai entertainer Bird Thongchai Mcintyre, and Chinese astronauts Yang Liwei, Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng. Celebrities can include not only movie stars and television actors, but also politicians, television reporters and game show hosts, models, astronauts, athletes, and musicians.

问答题Directions: Write a letter to your university library, making suggestions for improving its service. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write your address.

问答题Directions: Suppose you want to study at a certain foreign university. Write a letter to: 1) Ask about the situations there, 2) Ask about qualifications requirements and fees. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not use your own name. Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write your address.

问答题Directions: Write an essay based on the following table. In your writing, you should 1) describe the table, and 2) give your comments. You should write at least 150 words. Write your essay on the ANSWER SHEET. Percentage of households with consumer durables 1990 1993 1996 1999 2002 2005 2008 Television 90 92 93 93 96 97 98 Vacuum cleaner 83 86 90 91 92 93 94 Refrigerator 72 81 87 90 92 93 96 Washing machine 66 70 73 80 85 87 90 Telephone 31 42 70 82 88 95 95

问答题Writeanessaybasedonthefollowingchart.Inyourwriting,youshould1)interpretthechart,and2)giveyourcomments.Youshouldwriteabout150wordsontheANSWERSHEET.

问答题Directions: In some countries the average worker is obliged to retire at the age of 60 to 65. Some people agree with this practice, while others do not. What do you think? You should write about 150 words in your essay.

问答题Public health experts are debating whether e-cigarettes (电子香烟) can help stop tobacco smoking. Research around this topic is sparse, but one new, relatively small study raises questions about whether e-cigarettes can rid tobacco smoker of their deadly habit. The study looked at 949 tobacco smokers—88 of whom also used e-cigarettes—and found that smoking e-cigarettes did not help them quit or reduce their use of cigarettes over the course of a year. E-cigarettes, which do not contain tobacco and give off no tar (焦油) or carbon monoxide (一氧化碳), are believed to be safer than regular tobacco cigarettes, and some argue that pushing people toward less dangerous nicotine-intake systems is better for them. But cutting down or quitting smoking altogether is the ultimate goal, and the new study suggests that's not happening.