问答题The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means, and the exercise of ordinary qualities. 1. The common life of every day, with its cares, necessities, and duties, affords ample opportunity for acquiring experience of the best kind: and its most beaten-paths provide the true worker with abundant scope for effort and room for sell-improvement. The road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing: and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will usually be the most successful. Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators. In the pursuit of even the highest branches of human inquiry, the commoner qualities are found the most useful--such as common sense, attention, application, and perseverance. 2. Genius may not be necessary, though even genius of the highest sort does not disdain the use of these ordinary qualities. The very greatest men have been among the least believers in the power of genius, and as worldly wise and persevering as successful men of the commoner sort. Some have even defined genius to be only common sense intensified. A distinguished teacher and president of a college spoke of it as the power of making efforts. John Foster held it to be the power of lighting one's own fire. Buffon said of genius "it is patience". Newton's was unquestionably a mind of the very highest order, and yet, when asked by what means he had worked out his extraordinary discoveries, he modestly answered, "By always thinking unto them. " At another time he thus expressed his method of study : "I keep the subject continually before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light. " 3. It was in Newton's case, as in every other, only by diligent application and perseverance that his great reputation was achieved. Even his recreation consisted in change of study, laying down one subject to take up another. To Dr. Bentley he said, "If I have done the public any service, it is due to nothing but industry and patient thought. " 4. The extraordinary results effected by dint of sheer industry and perseverance, have led many distinguished men to doubt whether the gift of genius be so exceptional an endowment as it is usually supposed to be. Thus Voltaire held that it is only a very slight line of separation that divides the man of genius from the man of ordinary mould. Beccaria was even of opinion that all men might be poets and orators, and Reynolds that they might be painters and sculptors. If this were really so, that stolid Englishman might not have been so very far wrong after all, who, on Canova's death, inquired of his brother whether it was "his intention to carry on the business". Locke, Helvetius, and Diderot believed that all men have an equal aptitude for genius, and that what some are able to effect, under the laws which regulate the operations of the intellect, must also be within the reach of others who, under like circumstances, apply themselves to like pursuits. 5. But while admitting to the fullest extent the wonderful achievements of labor, and recognizing the fact that men of the most distinguished genius have invariably been found the most indefatigable workers, it must nevertheless be sufficiently obvious that, without the original endowment of heart and brain, no amount of labor, however well applied, could have produced a Shake-speare, a Newton, a Beethoven, or a Michelangelo. Dalton, the chemist, repudiated the notion of his being "a genius", attributing everything which he had accomplished to simple industry and accumulation. John Hunter said of himself, "My mind is like a beehive; but full as it is of buzz and apparent confusion, it is yet full of order and regularity, and food collected with incessant industry from the choicest stores of nature. " We have, indeed, but to glance at the biographies of great men to find that the most distinguished inventors, artists, thinkers, and workers of all kinds, owe their success, in a great measure, to their indefatigable industry and application. They were men who turned all things to Gold-even time itself.

问答题Early data warehousing efforts focused on separating the decision-support environment from operational transaction-processing systems. The ultimate goal was to create a centralized source of data for accurate, consistent reporting. The greatest cost of implementing data warehouses comes from the process of extracting, transforming and integrating data from source systems.

问答题首先，额外的学习对孩子的身体发育是不利的。教育专家指出，孩子在枯燥的教室里待了一整天之后，参加一些体育活动，而不是额外的学习，是非常重要的。孩子们正处于身体快速发育时期，缺乏体育锻炼可能会对他们的生活造成严重的影响。第二，从心理上讲，大部分孩子似乎对额外学习没有什么好感。当别的孩子玩耍的时候，很难想象一个学生能把精力集中在课本上。而且，由于要额外地学习，孩子们没有多少时间和同龄的孩子玩耍和交流，很难培养他们的交际能力。他们可能变得孤僻，甚至产生某些心理疾病。通过以上讨论我们可以得出结论：尽管额外的学习的确有很多优点，但它的缺点不可忽视，远大于它的优点。因此，放学后强迫孩子学习是不明智的。任何家长都应非常重视孩子在学习和玩耍这两方面的平衡，正如那句老话：只学习，不玩耍，聪明的孩子会变傻。

问答题许多美国企业，尤其是飞机和其他高价值工业的机械和设备制造商坚持认为，这些法规对抵制欧盟实施的经WTO批准的出口增值税退税来说是必要的。

问答题Directions: For this part, you are allowed 45 minutes to write a composition entitled On Fabricating Academic Credentials. You should write at least 200 words according to the following guidelines (given in Chinese): On Fabricating Academic Credentials 1．现在学历造假现象非常猖獗 2．分析这一现象的原因 3．如何根除这一现象

问答题活动组织者于本周二称，全球24个城市将于下个月“陷入黑暗”。因为这些城市的家庭和企业届时将集体熄灯，以引起人们对全球变暖问题的关注。 【T1】 “地球一小时”活动于去年在澳大利亚最大的城市悉尼(Sydney)首次举行。当时全市约有220万居民集体熄灯，没有灯光的悉尼歌剧院沐浴在月光罩，海湾大桥(Harbour Bridge)也熄灯响应。 活动组织者安迪-里德利说，悉尼的“熄灯一小时”活动引起了世界各国的极大兴趣。目前，亚太、北美、欧洲以及中东地区的23个城市已报名参加今年的活动。最新响应的八个城市包括：美国的亚特兰大、旧金山和菲尼克斯，泰国首都曼谷，加拿大的渥太华、温哥华和蒙特利尔，以及爱尔兰的都柏林。 此外，参与该活动的城市还包括：澳大利亚的悉尼、柏斯、墨尔本、堪培拉、布里斯班、阿德莱德，丹麦的哥本哈根、阿胡斯、奥尔堡和欧登塞，菲律宾首都马尼拉，斐济最大的城市苏瓦，新西兰的基督城，芝加哥，特拉维夫以及多伦多。 由“世界自然基金会”发起的“地球一小时”活动计划于当地时间3月29日晚八点准时开始。他表示，希望这一理念能越过国界，影响更多的国家。【T2】 他说：“现在这个活动的影响已经大了很多。”“其实每个人都能做到这件事，无论你在法国的一个小乡村还是在像悉尼这样的大城市。” 瑞德里说，悉尼的“熄灯一一小时”活动在节能减排的同时，提高了人们对全球变暖问题的关注意识。活动当天，悉尼市民被要求关闭电灯和电器一小时。 他说：“我知道，大家以为当晚的活动可能会节约5％的能源，但实际上我们节约了10．1％的能源。” 【T3】 他表示，他希望“地球一小时”活动能向政界人士传递一个“具有很强冲击力的视觉信息”，让他们意识到治理气候变化刻不容缓。

问答题正如香港一位银行家所说：“银行，无论是国有或私营，在政客们眼中它都是国家这个大公司的子公司。”

问答题TOPIC Should there be two focuses available in Chinese high schools (humanity focus and science focus)? Please give specific reasons to support your argument.

问答题Being a good parent is harder now than it has ever been before. In pressurized modern lives, demands to be a fulfilled individual, and a good partner and a good worker, take no account of being a good parent. We haven't left space for the nurturing parents who expect to provide and children need. As a result, many families in the western world just don't work.

问答题As Apple prepares to report what (analysts project) may be the company"s first year-over-year quarterly earnings decline in a decade on Tuesday, it is also grappling with jittery investors and a recent share-price plunge that has wiped about $280 billion off its market capitalization since its stock reached a high of $702.10 last September. 1 Much of the investor nervousness is rooted in how Wall Street is treating and valuing the Cupertino, Calif., company as a traditional hardware maker. One camp of analysts and some investors said there is strong evidence that Apple should be viewed in a different light: as a software-hardware hybrid. The distinction matters. If it continues to be seen as a hardware business, Apple"s streak—driven by products like the iPhone and iPad—could run out quickly as smartphones and tablets get commoditized and consumer tastes change. 2 It is a lesson learned by companies like BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd., whose tech hardware was quickly eclipsed by products from Apple itself. If Apple is classified as a software-hardware hybrid, the company could be valued more like Internet and software makers that have recurring revenue streams and that often trade at higher price-to-earnings ratios than hardware firms. "The market views Apple as a consumer hardware company tied to product cycles that drive volatile revenue and earnings streams," says Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty. 3 But that view isn"t complete, she sags, since "Apple customers bug into a brand that offers ease of use similar to companies like Amazon.com or enterprise companies like NetApp." An Apple spokesman declined to comment ahead of Tuesday"s earning report. With Wall Street categorizing Apple as a hardware maker, investors value the company—which made an astounding $13 billion in profits in the quarter ended in December—at 8.6 times expected earnings per share for the next 12 months. Investors are currently valuing Hewlett-Packard Co., which made $1.2 billion in profits during its most recent quarter, at a price-to-earnings ratio of 5.6. Troubled PC maker Dell Inc., whose stock price inflated after signing a buyout deal earlier this year, trades at a P/E ratio of 8.5. Apple"s gross margins are around 40%, an important-measure of the company"s efficiency at making money. That is roughly twice as high as H-P"s and Dell"s. Apple has characteristics that differ from many other hardware businesses. 4 Its customers often upgrade their Apple products annually, far more frequently than the four-gear PC upgrade cycles typically found at tech hardware businesses including Hewlett-Packard or Dell. While H-P and Dell have tried beefing up the enterprise software side of their business, Apple"s operating system and iTunes software is already ubiquitous. 5 Apple also has more than 500 million accounts for its App Store tied to credit cards—and a customer base to sell new services to—giving it a recurring software and services revenue stream. Apple took in revenue of $3.7 billion from iTunes and other software and services in its last quarter, or 7% of its total revenue.

问答题在中国人的心目中，似乎没有一部书可以与《红楼梦》比肩，它既可以拥有亿万的读者，也带有众多的谜团。它是中国古典小说的巅峰之作，有一半文化的人都可以读懂它，但是即便很有学问的人也不敢说尽解其奥妙……也正因为如此，近一百多年来，它被翻译成多种文字，在国外赢得越来越多的读者，为传播中国文化起到了积极的作用。

问答题A. Title: Scientific Discovey—Curse or Blessing B. Time limit: 40 minutes C. Word limit: 180～200 words (not including the given opening sentences) D. Your composition should be based on the given opening sentences of each paragraph. E. Your composition must be written neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. BOutlines:/B 1. New scientific discoveries nearly always bring to mankind a blessing; 2. Yet sometimes scientific discoveries may prove a curse upon human race; 3. The misuse of scientific discoveries must be prevented.

问答题我想重新回到生活简简单单的时代。那时你所知道的只有色彩、乘法表和童谣(nursery rhymes),但是你不觉得缺什么——你不知道你所不了解的，所以也不会去在乎。你所知道的只是开心快乐，因为你对一切令人忧虑、沮丧的事物都浑然(blissfully)不觉。我想认为世界是公正的，每一个人都诚实善良；我想相信，任何事情都有可能发生。

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Read the following passage carefully and then translate the underlined sentences into Chinese. Many a myth has grown up around the brain's asymmetry(不对称现象). 71. {{U}}The left cerebral hemisphere is supposed to be the coldly logical, verbal and dominant half of the brain, while the right developed a reputation as the imaginative side, emotional, spatially aware but suppressed. Two personalities in one head. Yin and Yang, hero and villain.{{/U}} To most neuroscientists, of course, these notions are seen as simplistic at best and nonsense at worst. So there was general satisfaction when a couple of years ago, a simple brain scanner test appeared to reveal the true story about one of neurology's greatest puzzles: Exactly what is the difference between the two sides of the human brain? Some clinical neurologists had been pursuing the idea that the difference between the two hemispheres lay in their style of working. The left-brain, they reckoned, focused on detail. This would make it the natural home for all those mental skills that need us to act in a series of discrete steps or fix on a particular fragment of what we perceive--skills such as recognizing a friend's face in a crowd or "lining up" words to make a sentence. By contrast, the right brain concentrated on the broad, background picture. The researchers believed it had a panoramic focus that made it good at seeing general connections; this hemisphere was best able to represent metaphorical aspects of speech. For example, in a test in which split-brain patients had to match a series of household objects, the left brain would match by function while the right would match by appearance. So, when seeing a cake on a plate, the left brain would connect to a picture of a fork and spoon while the right brain would select a picture of a broad-brimmed hat. 72. {{U}}This evidence appeared to support the idea of a highly modular brain in which, for example, thinking in logical categories was a strictly left hemisphere function while mental imagery and spatial awareness were handled on the right.{{/U}} But this picture changed dramatically as soon as brain-scanning experiments began to show that both sides of the brain played an active role in such processes. 73. {{U}}Rather it seemed to be the processing styles that distinguished the two halves--under the scanner, language turned out to be represented on both sides of the brain in matching areas of the cortex (皮质). Areas on the left dealt with the core aspects of speech such as grammar and word production while aspects such as intonation and emphasis lit up the right side.{{/U}} In the same way, the right brain proved to be good at working with a general sense of space, while equivalent areas in the left-brain fired when someone thought about objects as particular locations.

问答题Directions: In this part there is an essay in Chinese. Read it carefully, and then write summary of 200 words in English on the ANSWER SHEET. Make sure that your summary covers the major points of the passage. 社区家庭卫生保健合同服务的持续发展探讨 家庭保健合同是促进居民健康的有效形式。上海市自1997年建立社区卫生服务站，在社区推广与实行家庭保健合同形式，把单一的医疗职能转向医疗、预防、保健、康复等全方位的家庭卫生保健服务。从社区卫生服务模式来看，家庭卫生保健合同是一种重要服务形式，它把社区卫生服务内容有机地结合在一起，深入到居民家庭，加强与促进了社区居民的生命质量提高，如儿童、妇女保健，常见病的治疗，生活失能的康复指导，慢性病的控制指导，老年人保健指导，更重要的是医生深入家庭与居民建立了良好的医患关系。 我们调查了13个区125家社区卫生服务站，只有8个区30家服务站提供了家庭保健合同服务，建卡户数2323个家庭，建卡率为1.2%。 参加家庭保健合同的家庭只占1.2%，主要是人们对家庭保健合同对居民健康作用认识不够，这需要政策上扶持，加大宣传普及力度，使人们对家庭保健合同有新认识。目前家庭保健合同是个人支付费用，从道理上讲，家庭请医生入户是个体保健行为，但从疾病预防、控制及干预措施看又是政府行为，属于临床预防服务，这种服务从长远利益看，由于有效地控制了疾病的发生或严重程度，也节约了相当可观的医疗费用，减轻了国家与个人的经济负担，目前医疗保健只承担临床医疗费用，从利益分配合理性出发，医疗保险需承担参保人的临床预防服务费用，建议：①政府向社区卫生服务站的家庭保健合同形式服务提供一定数额的经费(比例为20%)。②医保局对参加医疗保健家庭提供家庭保健合同服务的临床预防性费用(比例为20%)。③参加家庭保健合同服务的家庭成员提高了自身保健认识，减少了疾病风险，减轻了日后家庭疾病经济负担，需支付主要家庭保健合同费用(比例60%)。④卫生行政部门对社区服务站建立的家庭合同服务内容，家庭成员健康状况，家庭成员掌握的有关卫生知识定期进行了解、调查与统计，并考核医院及医生所具有的个体预防服务能力及重视程度。对综合考核通过医疗单位可得到政府经济补贴、参保家庭可得到医疗保险经济补贴或通过加收临床预防服务费来实现。 总而言之，家庭保健合同服务形式在社区实施是新生事物，需要人们逐渐认可，但政府要从宏观上积极扶持，政策配套，使家庭保健合同服务在社区居民家庭中生根。

问答题从二十世纪中叶起，各国政府对科学技术的重视引起了各级教育机构的响应，理论科学和应用科学的巨大进步也激起了人们学习自然科学的兴趣，科学技术因此而有了飞速的发展。但与此同时，人们忽视厂对人文科学和社会科学的学习，公民对道德观念和社会准则在生活中的意义缺乏认识。这在一定程度上导致了以下后果：地方、民族和国际间的暴力冲突层出不穷，环境污染日益严重，这些都给人类生活带来了危险。因此，在教育中应纠正重理轻文的倾向，在生活中恢复人文主义的价值，以求物质文明和精神文明的平衡发展。

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} In this part, you are required to write a composition entitled On Building a Harmonious Society in no less than 200 words. Your composition should be based on the following outline: 1. The connotations of the term "harmonious society". 2. The significance of building a harmonious society. 3. Make your suggestions as to how to build a harmonious society.

问答题Directions: Write a short composition of 250～300 words on the topic given below. Topic: My Academic Ambition