问答题a vacancy of mind and body. It has been commandeered by the sociologists and the psychologists: it is a problem.

问答题Outline (1) Knowledge needs to be used properly. (2) How to prevent scientific mess (3) Your views on this topic

问答题Research reports are considered formal professi6nal communication. As such, there is little emphasis on a lively style, although, of course, there is no objection to writing that is pleasing and interesting. The primary goals of professional communication are accuracy, clarity, and completeness. The rough draft of any research report should be edited to ensure that all data is correctly presented, that all equipment is listed, that all results are properly detailed. As an aid to the reader, headings indicating at least the major sections of the report should be used, and all data should be presented under proper headings. In addition to their function of suggesting to the reader the contents of each section, headings enhance the formal appearance and professional quality of the report, increase to some degree the writer's credibility by reflecting a logical and methodical approach to the reporting process, and eliminate the need for wordy transitional devices between sections. Research data should be presented in a way that places proper emphasis on major aspects of the project. For different readers different aspects will take on different degrees of importance, and some consideration should be given to structuring research reports differently for different audiences. Management, for example, will be most concerned with the results of a research project, and thus the results section should be emphasized, probably by presenting it immediately after the problem section and before the procedures section. Other researchers would be most interested in the procedure section, and this should be highlighted in writing up research projects for publication in professional journals or for presentation at professional conferences. For non-technical readers and federal agencies, the implications of the results might be the most important consideration, and emphasis should be placed on the discussion of the report for this readership.

问答题Directions: Write a passage of about 150 words on the following topic: Should African disputes and conflicts be handled by African countries themselves, rather than by external international organizations?

问答题Directions: Professor Chen often scrutinizes your research papers written in English and corrects some lingustic and technical mistakes in them, as a result of which you have published some research papers in influential international journals. Write a letter to him to express your indebtedness in about t50 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of your letter, use "Li Ming" instead.

问答题Directions: Please read the following article in Chinese carefully, and then write a summary of 200 words in English on the ANSWER SHEET. Make sure that you cover all the major points of the article. 医德之风 随着经济体制市场化改革的逐步深入，我国自20世纪80年代以来对传统的医疗制度进行了一系列的改革。但是，由于医疗制度的复杂性，国内对出台的医疗制度改革方案还存在不少意见分歧。随着医疗卫生改革的不断深入，医德医风建设也面临着新的问题，卫生行业的不正之风已引起了全社会的关注。在新形势下，如何加强医德医风建设，改善行业作风，是摆在医院管理者面前的重大课题。 在医疗卫生战线上，广大职工能够自觉遵守社会主义医德原则和规范，在平凡而又光荣的岗位上兢兢业业地履行白衣天使的职责，以高尚的医德医风、精湛的医疗技术战斗在救死扶伤的第一线，为保障人民群众的身体健康作出了贡献，受到社会各界和人民群众的好评。 但是因受市场经济负面效应的影响，少数医务工作者政治学习有些放松，为人民服务的思想观念有些淡薄，在行业作风建设的认识上产生了误区，表现为重经济效益、轻社会效益，服务意识不强，对患者检查不仔细，诊疗不认真，不按规章制度办事，缺乏责任心。目前热点问题反应较多的是给病员开大处方、检查多、用好药多、费用高，增加了患者的负担。这些问题都属于医德问题，虽是少数人的事，但其影响不可低估，它使医患之间产生了鸿沟，甚至互不信任，直接影响到医疗卫生战线的形象，同时还会给党和政府造成不良影响。 目前我国医疗系统医德医风存在的问题主要有：(1)部分医务人员不讲救死扶伤的人道主义医德观，不讲为人民服务的宗旨，把医疗服务视为商品交换，用等价交换原则看待医患关系，这些少数的害群之马，严重践踏了医疗道德，损坏了医务人员的形象。目前，有些医务人员事业心不强，有的医生满足于一般性的应付，上班无精打采，看病马马虎虎，对患者缺乏感情，缺乏责任心；有的甚至酿成医疗事故，造成医患纠纷；有的给患者留下后遗症，带来终生痛苦；有的使危重患者错过了抢救时间，使患者失去了宝贵的生命。(2)为医不廉，收受好处。有的患者总是怕医生不尽心，觉得送了红包心里才踏实，一些医护人员也就泰然笑纳。有的医生道德素质较差，暗示甚至索要好处。有的医生被医药代表买通，为了按一定比例获取提成而乱施高价药。至于接受请客吃饭，收点土特产则已经不当一回事了。(3)不平衡和消极埋怨的心理。市场经济使一些行业在一定时期内有较大的赢利，社会上一部分人员收入过高，与医务人员的收入差距较大，一些医务人员产生了“拿手术刀的不如拿剃头刀的”不正常心态，这种心态在医务人员中有一定的市场。(4)部分医务人员在经济利益的驱使下，医德医风削弱，义务感淡薄，在医疗活动中不讲医德，把单纯追求经济利益作为最高准则，认为医疗工作也应全面适应市场经济，一切以经济效益为依据，以赚钱获利为目的，拒绝执行国家有关规定和医德规范，一切向钱看。一些医疗机构盲目花高价购进大量诊断和治疗设备，为急于收回投资和产生利润，不顾患者需要不需要，照样开单检查。有的医院要搞基本建设，改善环境，就给各科室下创收任务，要求必须完成规定指标，否则不发奖金。如少数医院和科室或个别医生无病当有病看，小病当大病看，不需检查也检查，尽量使用昂贵药品。有的医生习惯于开大处方，不管什么病，都要用最好的药。这些做法，不仅加重了患者负担，而且造成了医疗资源的浪费。 注意：写作部分要求50分钟内完成。

问答题In May 2004 the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its 2003-2004 book-length report, The State of Food and Agriculture: Agricultural Biotechnology: Meeting the Needs of the Poor? It immediately attracted significant press and media attention. In fact, while reporting on its survey of existing examinations of risks posed by agricultural biotechnology, the FAO report concludes that "biotechnology is capable of benefiting small resource-poor farmers" and that in numerous situations the benefits clearly outweigh the risks. In addition to attempting to re-orient biotechnology discussions and lessen the polemics attendant to them, 1. the FAO report offers and illuminates much factual information that is encompassed by biotechnology research, applications, and distribution. In fact, report lays out a coherent understanding of what biotechnology is, and offers a clear exposition for general readers--as well as policy and scientific specialists--of essential biotechnology concepts and methods such as market-assisted breeding, cell as well as genetic engineering. 2. Of particular importance, the essay has a thoughtful discussion on the health and environmental concerns associated with biotechnology. While concluding that, as to health concerns, there is a scientific consensus that biotechnology-altered foodstuffs are safe, the report stresses the scientific consensus on the need for case-by-case studies for all biotechnology products and processes. Regarding environmental concerns, of which the reports describes the science community's call for more scientific research and investigation, the FAO report surveys and describes the international instruments that are beginning to direct policy and regulatory standard development for biotechnology, such as the International Plant Protection Convention and the Convention on Biological Diversity. Notwithstanding its multi-faceted examination of biotechnology for the 21st century, 3. the FAO report's other major emphasis--alongside the potential of biotechnology for poor farmers--is that the mode for bringing this biotechnology potential to poor farmers is woefully deficient. Although some obstacles are indeed formidable for bringing biotechnology potential benefits to the poor, the report does not despair, and it offers ideas and even an agenda for reorienting the biotechnology enterprise for greater technology transfer and benefits for the poor. To overcome technology transfer and development obstacles, 4. the FAO report calls on all countries and the international community as a whole to: "establish transparent, predictable science-based regulatory procedures; establish appropriate intellectual property rights to insure that developers can earn an adequate return of investment." Along with these supportive measures, more direct measures for bio-technology need to be taken, and these include a dramatic increase in public research, a fostering of public-private partnerships, greater focus on the crops that poor farmers grow, and the emergence of developing world regional centers of biotechnology research and dissemination. The FAO report is hopeful that this can be done. 5. Underlying its propounding of this hopeful vision is not only an examination of what is currently amiss, but also important case studies in which biotechnology is actually helping poor farmers, in terms of economics and also human health, as is the case with biotechnology-modified cotton in China.

问答题{{B}}My View of Lunar New Year{{/B}} To Chinese people, the Lunar New Year is undoubtedly the most important festival of the year. Dating back 3000 years, it celebrated the passing of a peaceful year and to welcome a new one. The reunion dinner, eaten on New Year's Eve, was de rigueur, with members of the extended family gathering for the most significant meal of the year. Even the absentee members would endeavor to return home in time for it. It underscored the supreme importance of the family in Chinese culture, and aimed at strengthening the sense of togetherness and cohesion. However, with rapid economic expansion and growing westernization, over time, there has been a noticeable erosion, if not abandonment, of the New Year traditions and customs, which are perceived to be out of step with modem lifestyle. Increasingly, more Chinese would hold their reunion dinner in posh restaurants, despite the exorbitant costs. They find it more enjoyable and physically less demanding. Going away during the New Year is now commonplace, sometimes involving whole families or extended families. In extreme cases, some would even seek temporary refuge in a local hotel so as to avoid being visited by relatives and friends, or having to visit them. What's more, most of the cities celebrate it quietly without fireworks and firecrackers, which used to be part of the celebration. Will the Lunar New Year survive modern living? I do not doubt that it would gradually lose its significance. In a few or more years the Chinese New Year will be taken as a common holiday and fewer people celebrate it. Modern Chinese do not need it any more.

问答题In this new edition, the basic philosophy and outline and the balance between depth of treatment and breadth of subject-matter coverage are unchanged from previous editions. 1. We have tried to preserve these features that users of previous editions have found desirable, while incorporating a number of changes that should enhance the book's usefulness. The textbook is adaptable to a wide variety of course outlines. The entire textbook can be used for an intensive course two or three semesters in length. For a less intensive course, many instructors will want to omit certain chapters or sections to tailor the book to their individual needs. The arrangement of this edition facilitate this kind of flexibility. 2. Conversely, many topics that were regarded a few years ago as of peripheral (次要的) importance and were omitted from introductory courses have now come to the fore again in the life science, earth and space sciences, and environmental problems. An instructor who wishes to stress these kinds of applications will find this textbook a useful source for discussion of the appropriate principles. 3. In any case, it should be emphasized that instructors should not feel constrained to work straight through the book from cover to cover. Many chapters are, of course, inherently sequential in nature, but within this general limitation instructors should be encouraged to select among those chapters that fit their needs, omitting material that is not relevant for the objectives of a particular course.

问答题在过去5年里，欧洲的商业及企业环境也发生了可观的变化；私募股权投资公司已经成为新的投资来源，它的出现提高了就业率，同时也创造了新的价值。

问答题 71. {{U}}The main impression growing out of twelve years on the faculty of a medical school is that the No. 1 health problem in the U. S. today, even more than AIDS or cancer, is that Americans don't know how to think about health and illness.{{/U}} Our reactions are formed on the terror level 72. {{U}}We fear the worst, expect the worst, thus invite the worst and the result is that we are becoming a nation of weaklings and hypochondriacs, a self-medicating society incapable of distinguishing between casual, everyday symptoms and those that require professional attention.{{/U}} Somewhere in our early education we become addicted to the notion that pain means sickness. We fail to learn that pain is the body's way of informing the mind that we are doing something wrong, not necessarily that something is wrong. We don't understand that pain may be telling us that we are eating too much or the wrong things; or that we are smoking too much or drinking too much or that there is too much emotional congestion in our lives that we are being worn down by having to cope daily with overcrowded streets and highways, the pounding noise of garbage grinders, or the cosmic distance between the entrance to the airport and the departure gate. We get the message of pain all wrong. Instead of addressing ourselves to the cause, we become pushovers for pills, driving the pain underground and inviting it to return with increased authority. 73. {{U}}Early in life, too, we become seized with the bizarre idea that we are constantly assaulted by invisible monsters called germs, and that we have to be on constant alert to protect ourselves against their fury, but equal emphasis is not given to the presiding fact that our bodies are superbly equipped to deal with the little demons and the best way of forestalling an attack is to maintain a sensible lifestyle.{{/U}}

问答题2．语言不是一种孤立的现象，语言是一种社会现象，它的使用、变化和发展受到种种社会因素的制约。语言和社会之间的关系是社会语言学研究的主要内容。语言又是一种人类的心智活动，人是怎样习得母语的，语言信息是如何在人的头脑中被加工、被记忆的，对诸如此类问题的研究构成了心理语言学这一分支。语言学的研究与发展又和语言教学，尤其是外语教学有着密切的关系，语言学理论及研究成果在语言教学中的运用是应用语言学的重要内容。

问答题This organization is also a manufacturing firm. Here, however, management encourages and rewards risk taking and change. Decisions based on intuition are valued as much as those that are well rationalized. Management prides itself on its history of experimenting with new technologies and its success in regularly introducing innovative products. Managers or employees who have a good idea are encouraged to "run with it," and failures are treated as "learning experiences." The company prides itself on being market driven and rapidly responsive to the changing needs of its customers. There are few rules and regulations for employees to follow, and supervision is loose because management believes that its employees are hardworking and trustworthy. Management is concerned with high productivity but believes that this comes through treating its people right. The company is proud of its reputation as being a good place to work.

问答题Directions: Please write a composition of no less than 200 words on the following topic. Use specific reasons and examples to support your points of view. How to help the university students practice the Chinese traditional virtues in their daily lives?

问答题 In recent years, railroads have been combining with each other, merging into super systems, causing heightened concerns about monopoly. As recently as 1995, the top four railroads accounted for under 70 percent of the total ton-miles moved by rails. Next year, after a series of mergers is completed, just four railroads will control well over 90 percent of all the freight moved by major rail carriers. 71. {{U}}Supporters of the new super systems argue that these mergers will allow for substantial cost reductions and better coordinated service. Any threat of monopoly, they argue, is removed by fierce competition from trucks. But many shippers complain that for heavy bulk commodities traveling long distances, such as coal, chemicals, and grain, trucking is too costly and the railroads therefore have them by the throat{{/U}}. The vast consolidation within the rail industry means that most shippers are served by only one rail company. Railroads typically charge such "captive" shippers 20 to 30 percent more than they do when another railroad is competing for the business. Shippers who feel they are being overcharged have the right to appeal to the federal government's Surface Transportation Board for rate relief, but the process is expensive, time-consuming, and will work only in truly extreme cases. 72. {{U}}Railroads justify rate discrimination against captive shippers on the grounds that in the long run it reduces everyone's cost. If railroads charged all customers the same average rate, they argue, shippers who have the option of switching to trucks or other forms of transportation would do so, leaving remaining customers to shoulder the cost of keeping up the line{{/U}}. It's theory to which many economists subscribe, but in practice it often leaves railroads in the position of determining which companies will flourish and which will fail. "Do we really want railroads to be the arbiters of who wins and who loses in the marketplace?" asks Martin Bercovici, a Washington lawyer who frequently represents shipper. 73. {{U}}Many captive shippers also worry they will soon be his problem with a round of huge rate increases. The railroad industry as a whole, despite its brightening fortunes, still does not earn enough to cover the cost of the capital it must invest to keep up with its surging traffic{{/U}}. Yet railroads continue to borrow billions to acquire one another, with Wall Street cheering them on. Consider the $ 10. 2 billion bid by Norfolk 'Southern and CSX to acquire Conrail this year. Conrail's net railway operating income in 1996 was just $ 427 million, less than half of the carrying costs of the transaction. Who's going to pay for the rest of the bill? Many captive shippers fear that they will, as Norfolk Southern and CSX increase their grip on the market.

问答题Computers are permeating almost every aspect of our lives, including many areas previously untouched by technology. 16 But unlike such other pervasive technologies as electricity, television and the motor car, computers are on the whole less reliable and less predictable in their behavior. This is because they are discrete state digital electronic devices that are prone to total and catastrophic failure. Computer systems, when they are "down," are completely down, unlike electromechanical devices, which may be only partially down and are thus partially usable. Computers enable enormous quantities of information to be stored, retrieved, and transmitted at great speed on a scale not possible before. 17 This is all very well, but it has serious implications for data security and personal privacy because computers are inherently insecure. The recent activities of hackers and data thieves in the United States, Germany, and Britain have shown how all-too-easy it still is to break into even the most-sophisticated financial and military systems. The list of scares perpetrated by the new breed of hi-tech criminals, ranging from fraud in airline-ticket reservations to the reprogramming of the chips inside mobile phones, is growing daily. Computer systems are often incredibly complex-so complex, in fact, that they are not always understood even by their creators (although few are willing to admit it). This often makes them completely unmanageable. Unmanageable complexity, can result in massive foul-ups or spectacular budget "runaways." For example, Jeffrey Rothfeder in Business Week reports that Bank of America in 1988 had to abandon a $20 million computer system after spending five years and a further $60 million trying to make it work. Allstate Insurance saw the cost of its new system rise from $8 million to a staggering $100 million and estimated completion was delayed from 1987 to 1993. Moreover, the problem seems to be getting worse: in 1988 the American Arbitration. Association took on 190 computer disputes, most of which involved defective systems. The claims totaled $200 million—up from only $31 million in 1984. 18 Complexity can also result in disaster: no computer is 100 percent guaranteed because it is virtually impossible to anticipate all sorts of critical applications, such as saving lives, flying air craft, running nuclear power stations, transferring vast sums of money, and controlling missile systems—sometimes with tragic consequences. For example, between 1982 and 1987, some twenty-two servicemen died in five separate crashes of the United States Air Force"s sophisticated Blackhawk helicopter before the problem was traced to its computer-based "fig-by-wire" system. At least two people died after receiving overdoses of radiation emitted by the computerized. There are 25 X-ray machines, and there are many other examples of fatal computer-based foul-ups. Popular areas for less life-threatening computer malfunctions include telephone billing and telephone switching software, bank statements and bank-teller machines, electronic funds-transfer systems, and motor-vehicle license data bases. Although computers have often taken the "blame" on these occasions, the ultimate cause of failure in most cases is, in fact, human error. Every new technology creates new problems—as well as new benefits for society, and computers are no exception. 19 But digital computers have rendered society especially vulnerable to hardware and software malfunctions. Sometimes industrial robots go crazy., while heart pacemakers and automatic garage door openers are rendered useless by electromagnetic radiation or "electronic smog" emitted from point-of-sale terminals, personal computers, and video games. Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) and pumps at gas stations are closed down because of unforeseen software snafus. The cost of all this downtime is huge. 20 For example, it has been reported that British businesses suffer around thirty major mishaps a year. revolving losses running into millions of pounds. These are caused by machine or human error and do not include human misuse in the form of fraud and sabotage. The cost of failures in domestically produced software in the United Kingdom alone is conservatively estimated at $900 million per year. In 1989, a British Computer Society committee, reported that much software was now so complex that current skills in safety assessment were inadequate and that therefore the safety of people could not be guaranteed.