问答题You should spend no more than 20 minutes on this task. You are very much dissatisfied with the light, seats and the service of the local train. Write a letter of complaint to the authorities explaining the situation. You should write at least 150 words. You do NOT need to write your own address. Begin your letter as follows: Dear ______.

问答题Medical consumerism—dike all sorts of consumerism, only more menacingly—is designed to be unsatisfying. 31．The prolongation of life and the search for perfect health(beauty, youth, happiness) are inherently self-defeating. The law of diminishing returns necessarily applies. You can make higher percentages of people survive into their eighties and nineties. But, as any geriatric ward shows, that is not the same as to confer enduring mobility, awareness and autonomy. 32．Extending life grows medically feasible, but it is often a life deprived of everything, and one exposed to degrading neglect as resources grow over-stretched and politics turn mean. What an ignominious destiny for medicine if its future turned into one of bestowing meager increments of unenjoyed life! It would mirror the fate of athletics, in which disproportionate energies and resources—not least medical ones, like illegal steroids—are now invested to shave records by milliseconds. And, it goes without saying; the logical extension of longevism—the "abolition" of death—would not be a solution but only an exacerbation. 33．To air these predicaments is not anti-medical spleen—a churlish reprisal against medicine for its victories but simply to face the growing reality of medical power not exactly without responsibility but with dissolving goals. 34．Hence medicine's finest hour becomes the dawn of its dilemmas. For centuries,medicine was impotent and hence unproblematic. From the Greeks to the Great War, its job was simple: to struggle with lethal diseases and gross disabilities, to ensure live births,and to manage pain. It performed these uncontroversial tasks by and large with meager success. Today, with mission accomplished, medicine's triumphs are dissolving in disorientation. 35．Medicine has led to vastly inflated expectations, which the public has eagerly swallowed. Yet as these expectations grow unlimited, they become unfulfillable. The task facing medicine in the twenty-first century will be to redefine its limits even as it extends its capacities.

问答题Directions: Write an essay on the Answer Sheet Ⅱ in no less than 250 words with the title "{{B}}An Outlook on the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games{{/B}}".

问答题Developments in 19th-eentury Europe are bounded by two great events. The French Revolution broke out in 1789, and its effects reverberated throughout much of Europe for many decades: World War I began in 1914. Its inception resulted from many trends in European society, culture, and diplomacy during the late 19thcentury. In between these boundaries--the one opening a new set of trends, the other bringing long-standing tensions to a head--much of modern Europe was defined. Europe during this 125-year span was both united and deeply divided. A number of basic cultural trends, including new literary styles and the spread of science, ran through the entire continent. European states were increasingly locked in diplomatic interaction, culminating in continent wide alliance system after 1871. At the same time, this was the century of growing nationalism, in which individual states jealously protected their identities and indeed established more rigorous border controls than ever before. Finally, The European continent was to an extent divided between two zones of differential development. Changes such as the Industrial Revolution _and political liberalization spread first and fastest in western Europe-Britain, France, the Low Countries, Scandinavia, and, to an extent, Germany and Italy. Eastern and southern Europe, more rural at the outset of the period, changed more slowly and in somewhat different ways. Europe witnessed important common patterns and increasing interconnections, but these developments must be assessed in terms of nation-state divisions and, even more, of larger regional differences. Some trends, including the ongoing impact of the French Revolution, ran through virtually the entire 19thcentury. Other characteristics, however, had a shorter life span. Some historians prefer to divide 19th-century history into relatively small chunks. Thus 1789 - 1815 is defined by the French Revolution and Napoleon; 1815 - 1848 forms a period of reaction and adjustment; 1848 -1871 is dominated by a new round of revolution and the unifications of the Ger- man and Italian nations; and 1871 -1914, an age of imperialism, is shaped by new kinds of political debate and the pressures that culminated in war. Overriding these important markers, however, a simpler division can also be useful. Between 1789 and 1849 Europe dealt with the forces of political revolution and the first impact of the Industrial Revolution. Between 1849 and 1914 a fuller industrial society emerged, including new forms of states and of diplomatic and military alignments. The mid-19th century, in either formulation, looms as a particularly important point of transition within the extended 19th century.

问答题People have a short attention span. So in order to capture the viewers" attention, television must provide constant stimulation through variety, novelty, action and movement. The result of doing so is that news is too brief and results in inefficient communication. Many news programs are like "machine-gunning with scraps and fight coherence of mind. The appeal to the short attention will decivilize as well. To avoid complexity means to give up thinking. The "functionally illiterates" among adult Americans are continually increasing. They even do not know how to answer the want ad. Or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle. At least television should be responsible for part of it.

问答题 National, donations from alumni rose 18.3 percent from 2005, according to figures released yesterday by the Council for Aid to Education.

问答题发展科技创新和教育，是共创可持续未来的重要动力。经济增长和民生改善，说到底要依靠知识进步，特别是要依靠科技创新。应该把科技创新摆在国际合作优先发展的战略地位，不断扩大科技合作领域，深化科技合作内涵，提升科技创新水平。科技创新，人才是关键，教育是基础。

问答题Section A: Translate the following passage into Chinese. Opera is expensive: that much is inevitable. But expensive things are not inevitably the province of the rich unless we abdicate society's power of choice. We can choose to make opera, and other expensive forms of culture, accessible to those who cannot individually pay for it. The question is: why should we? Nobody denies the imperatives of food, shelter, defense, health and education. But even in a prehistoric cave, mankind stretched out a hand not just to eat, drink or fight, but also to draw. The impulse towards culture, the desire to express and explore the world through imagination and representation is fundamental. In Europe, this desire has found fulfillment in the masterpieces of our music, art, literature and theatre. These masterpieces are the touchstones for all our efforts; they are the touchstones for the possibilities to which human thought and imagination may aspire; they carry the most profound messages that can be sent from one human to another.

问答题Outline: 1. Some people say that the recent increased enrollment of university students is a good thing. 2. Others hold the opposite view. 3. Your opinion. Please illustrate your point with adequate evidence.

问答题最近，一些信用卡公司受到某些消费群体的抨击，因为他们认为这些公司所收的利率过高。实际上，其利率一般只比银行所征收的普通个人贷款的利率高几个百分点。但是消费群体忽略了这样的事实：信用卡为用户提供了很大的便利。廉价出售一件商品的时候，信用卡的用户可以购买它。因此，商品较低的价格补偿了信用贷款的成本。

问答题Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with work that is dangerous, boring, burdensome, or just plain nasty. That compulsion has resulted in robotics--the science of conferring various human capabilities on machines. And if scientists have yet to create the mechanical version of science fiction, they have begun to come close. As a result, the modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much human labor. Indeed the quest for true artificial intelligence has produced very mixed results. Despite a spell of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s when it appeared that transistor circuits and microprocessors might be able to copy the action of the human brain by the year 2010, researchers lately have begun to extend that forecast by decades if not centuries.

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问答题The International Committee of the Red Cross says it will need nearly $ 650 million to help victims of armed conflict and violence next year. The Geneva-based ICRC runs humanitarian operations in some 80 countries.【T1】 The International Committee of the Red Cross has operations in just about every trouble spot in the world, including Afghanistan and the Palestinian territories. 【T2】 However, it says it will have to expand its operations even more next year because of the deteriorating situations in those countries. The director of ICRC Operations, Pierre Krahenbuhl, says his agency has been running regional operations for West Africa out of Ivory Coast for years and, there fore, is in a good position to expand its programs there. Mr. Krahenbuhl says the Red Cross has been carrying out assistance and medical projects, as well as visiting prisoners held by the government and the rebels.【T3】 The Red Cross says Afghanistan remains its largest and costliest operation. However, is adds that it has cut more than $40 million off year's budget due to the improved situation in that country. Cuts also have been made in programs for Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone and Yugoslavia.

问答题在人口稠密的城市，说一个人必须认识他的近邻这个观念早已烟灭，但在小城镇和乡村里却依旧存在。

问答题Directions: Write an essay of no less than 250 words on the Answer Sheet Ⅱ, discussing the influence that advertising has had on your life or the lives of your friends.

问答题 1 Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of the re- sources of nature to the uses of humankind. Engineering has been defined as the creative application of "scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination." The term engineering is sometimes more loosely defined, especially in Great Britain, as the manufacture or assembly of engines, ma- chine tools, and machine parts. Associated with engineering is a great body of special knowledge; preparation for professional practice involves extensive training in the application of that knowledge. The function of the scientist is to know, while that of the engineer is to do. The scientist adds to the store of verified, systematized knowledge of the physical world; the engineer brings this knowledge to bear on practical problems. Engineering is based principally on physics, chemistry, and mathematics and their extensions into materials science, solid and fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and systems analysis.

问答题Directions: In this part, you are required to write an essay of no less than 200 words on Private Schools in China. The essay should be based on the outline below: 1. Their advantages; 2. Their disadvantages; 3. Your comments.