问答题Yoga, the ancient practice of postures, breathing and meditation, is gaining a lot of attention from the material world that its serious practitioners are trying to escape. Yoga practitioners are trying to keep themselves away from the material world. And no wonder, Americans who practice yoga are often well-educated, have higher-than-average household income and are willing to spend a bit more on so-called "green" purchases seen as benefiting the environment or society. "It's kind of growing out of the crunchy stage of yoga to the Starbucks stage," said Bill Harper, publisher of Yoga Journal. "From the videos and the clothes and the toe socks...people are pursuing this market with a vengeance." A glance through recent issues of his monthly magazine, whose readership has doubled in the past four years to 325,000, illustrates the point. There are four-color ads from the likes of Asics athletic shoes, Eileen fisher apparel and Ford Motor Co. Yoga Journal is now licensing a Russian edition and preparing to expand in other international markets. Americans spend some $2.95 billion a year on yoga classes, equipment, clothing, holidays, videos and more, according to a study commissioned by the magazine, fuelled in part by ageing baby boomers seeking less aggressive ways to stay fit. Roughly 16.5 million people were practising yoga in the United States early last year, in studios, gyms or at home, up 43 percent from 2002, the study found. Established sellers of yoga gear such as Hugger Mugger and Gaiam have been flooded with competition in the market for yoga mats, incense, clothing and fancy accoutrements ranging from designer yoga bags to eye pillows. Vancouver, British Columbia-based Lululemon Athletica, for one, has seen sales of its yoga apparel rise to $100 million since Canadian entrepreneur Chip Wilson founded the company in 1998. Customers are snapping up its trendy pants and tops to wear to class and, increasingly, to the supermarket or out to dinner. Another expanding business, Exhale, markets itself as a "mindbodyspa", with tony locations in Los Angeles, New York and other urban areas that combine yoga classes with facials, massage and alternative treatments such as acupuncture. Some question how all the consumption is changing a discipline with a strong spiritual foundation. "We've taken this ancient tradition, science, and art of yoga out of a culture and a religion and world view and we've tried to transplant to the other side of the planet," said Judith Hanson Lasater, a longtime yoga instructor and author who holds a doctorate in East-West psychology. "I believe there's not a complete match-up." Even so, several entrepreneurs stressed that they are able to adhere to yoga's healing principles while also turning a profit.

问答题73. Practical Writing Directions: Write a letter to your university library, making suggestions for improving its service. You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write the address.

问答题The most significant problems we were confronted at that time were the shortage of skilled laborers, the lack of qualified university teachers in the training of those skilled laborers, and the decline in the capability of doing researches in colleges due to the want of teachers and modern conveniences in education and scientific research.

问答题 The next 15 years is an important period that links our country's past with our future in reform and opening-up and in the socialist modernization drive. We have had a relatively solid material and technical foundation through years of socialist construction since the founding of People's Republic of China and especially through the rapid development since the implementation of the policy of reform and opening to the outside world. The vast domestic market and the relatively large savings deposits are a tremendous promise for development. 51. {{U}}The deepening of reform and opening; up will further invigorate economic development. Social stability and national unity provide the basic guarantee for the modernization drive. Furthermore, the theory, the line and the policy of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, which evolved through practice, clearly indicate the direction for continued progress.{{/U}} 52. {{U}}Viewed from a global perspective, the peaceful international environment and our country's good peripheral relations can be expected to continue and therefore we can persist in our efforts towards sustainable development. The scientific and technical advancement in the world and the industrial restructuring as well as the rapid economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region provide favorable conditions for economic development in China.{{/U}} However, there are quite a few factors that can impede progress in our medium-and-long range development. The prominent ones of these factors are: the deficiency in per-capita resources, the overall low quality of the national economy, pressure in matching the economic, scientific and technical superiority of the developed countries in the increasingly stiff international competition, and pressures exerted by hegemonies and power politics in the international relations. 53. {{U}}A comprehensive assessment of the domestic and international situation at the turn of the century shows that we are faced rare historical opportunities as well as serious challenges. We must be vigilant in peacetime, work with a pioneering spirit and make greater strides on the road to modernization.{{/U}} The major objectives for our endeavor over the next 15 years are as follows: Complete the second phase of the strategic plan for the modernization drive during the period of the 9th Five- year Plan and quadruple the per-capita gross national product of 1980 under the condition that the population in 2000 will have increased by 300 million over the 1980; raise the people's living standards to that of a fairly comfortable life with poverty basically eradicated; and expedite the formation of a modern enterprise system and establish preliminarily a socialist market economy. The gross national product in the year 2010 will be doubled that of the year 2000; the people of China will enjoy an even more comfortable life, .and a fairly ideal socialist market economy will have come into being. 54. {{U}}While carrying out the reform and stepping up development, we must achieve marked results in promoting socialist culture and ideology and in strengthening socialist democracy and the legal system, so as to attain all-round social progress.{{/U}} The objectives of our endeavor present a beautiful prospect for our modernization drive beyond the turn of the century and embody the lofty aspiration of the Chinese nation to self-reliance and continuous improvement. 55. {{U}}With the fulfillment of these objectives, China's productive forces, comprehensive national strength and the people' s living standards will all attain a new high, and the nation' s social and economic perspective will have undergone tremendous historic changes, which will lay a firm foundation for the realization of modernization by the middle of the 21st century.{{/U}} These objectives are truly grand and will definitely be fulfilled through our hard work.

问答题1．他是个极其自负的怪人。除非事情与自己有关，否则他从来不屑对世界或世人瞧上一眼。对他来说，他不仅是世界上最重要的人物，而且在他眼里，他是唯一活在世界上的人。他认为自己是世界上最伟大戏剧家之一、最伟大的思想家之一、最伟大的作曲家之一。听听他的谈话，仿佛他就是莎士比亚、贝多芬、柏拉图，集三人于一身。想要听到他的高论十分容易，他是世上最能使人精疲力竭的健谈者之一。同他度过一个夜晚，就是听他一个人滔滔不绝地讲一个晚上。有时，他才华横溢；有时，他又令人极其厌烦。但无论是妙趣横生还是枯燥无味，他的谈话只有一个主题：他自己，他的所思所为。 2．他狂妄地认为自己总是正确的。任何人在最无足轻重的问题上露出丝毫的异议，都会激起他的谴责。他可能会一连好几个小时滔滔不绝，千方百计地证明自己如何如何正确。有了这种使人耗尽心力的雄辩本事，听者最后都被他弄得头昏脑胀，耳朵发聋，为了图个清净，只好同意他的说法。

问答题The current federal funds interest rate of only 1.75 percent has clearly become unsustainable in view of the economy's resilience. The Federal Reserve will raise interest rates by at least 0.25 percentage points during the second quarter and could increase short-term interest rates to at least 3 percent before the autumn-the level they were at before September 11.

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} {{I}} Some people prefer to plan activities for their free time very carefully. Others choose not to make any plans at all for their free time. Compare the benefits of planning free time activities with the benefits of not making plans. Which do you prefer planning or not planning for your leisure time? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice. You should write about 180 words and put your composition on ANSWER SHEET 2.{{/I}}

问答题Directions: As is known to all, Mo Yan won Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. Please give possible reasons why he won it. Please write a composition entitled My Reflections on Mo Yan's Winning Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012 in no less than 200 words.

问答题我不会像作者在书中那样，甚至说它是唯一能涵盖一切事实的解释。

问答题{{B}} On College Admission{{/B}}

问答题Stanford's $ 911 million was the most ever collected by a single univer sity, and rose the possibility of a billion-dollar fund-raising year in the not-too-distant fu ture.

问答题For this part, you are allowed 45 minutes to write a short essay of about 300 words on the topic below. Give a title to your essay, and write the essay on the Answer Sheet(2)only. Some people believe that success in life results from taking risks or chances. Others believe that success results from careful planning. In your opinion, what qualities make a successful person？ Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

问答题在某种程度上，德国经济的成功呈现了教育上一个令人困惑的问题。一方面，德国学校培养的劳动力有能力生产出让德企成为世界出口冠军的产品。而另一方面，经国际测试考试，德国学生的学术成绩只能说达到了中等水平。经济合作及发展组织发布的国际学生评估项目表明，德国15岁学生阅读能力低于富裕国家的平均水平。在智力资源越来越重要的当今社会，德国的商业又是如何蓬勃发展起来的呢?答案就在于它将学校教育和学徒训练结合在一起．这种结合已证明能稳定地提供和培训劳动力，专供德企生产高质量的产品所需，即使类似的工作在其他富裕国家已经消失。

问答题China has the greatest population in the world and a large pool of research workers, yet it has not produced a single Nobel prize winner so far. What has caused this situation in your opinion?

问答题 Topic: As a young scientist, which life would you prefer to live: common or uncommon? Why?

问答题In China, minimum wage becomes higher in many places. But people disagree over its benefits and drawbacks. Supporters say it increases the worker's standard of living, while opponents say it increase unemployment. What do you think?

问答题目前，中国仍是跨国公司投资的首选目的地，特别是在服务业和外包行业。2013年，全球外国直接投资下降近40％，但对华投资仅下降3％。作为对西方担忧的回应，中国不断加大保护知识产权力度，制定了一系列比较完整、在世界上也比较先进的保护知识产权法律体系和行政执法、刑事执法双轨的执法机制。在危机中遭遇巨大冲击的跨国公司，在中国找到了新的发展空间和利润增长点。2009年，通用汽车在美国申请破产，但该公司在华销售却增长了67％。(参考词汇: multinational companies; outsourcing; intellectual property; double-track)

问答题《中国研究生英语教学导论》是十五规划重点研究课题的一项成果。希望借此向南京大学研究生院表示感谢。我还要特别感谢我的152名研究生，他们来自南京大学各个学科。15年来，我是在他们慷慨给予的赞扬和热情中成长起来的，他们是我青春人生的导师。因为他们，我一直是充满着激情走进了每一间课堂。这本书献给与我相遇的每一位研究生，为了我和他们青春的纪念!