In this section, you are asked to write an essay based on the following information. Make comments and express your own opinion. You should write at least 150 words. 如今许多人热衷于参加各种考试以获得证书。有的人这样做是为了获得求职的优势。还有人这样做只是跟风。你的看法如何?

BSection I Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D./B

With its sandy beaches, picturesque ruins and blue waters, the Isle of Wight is an idyllic spot off England"s southern coast. Wealthy Londoners sail their boats there. It seems odd that such a place should contain some of the worst-performing schools in England. But it does; and in this, the Isle of Wight is not quite as strange as it seems. Provisional figures show that in 2013 just 49% of 16-year-olds on the island got at least five C grades, including in English and maths, in GCSE exams. That is fewer than in any of London"s 32 boroughs, or indeed anywhere in the southern half of England apart from nearby Portsmouth. In the previous year the Isle of Wight was second to bottom in the whole country. Just 23% of pupils entitled to free school meals got five decent grades, compared with a national average of 36%. In September the island"s schools were deemed so bad that Hampshire County Council took them over. Part of the explanation is distinctively local. Luring good teachers to an out-of-the-way spot is hard. In 2011 the island endured a muddled transition from the sort of three-tier school system common in America, with primary, middle and secondary schools, to the two-tier one that is standard in England. But its results were bad even before that change. The Isle of Wight"s real problems are structural. It suffers from three things that might appear to be advantages but are actually the opposite. The island lacks a large city; it has some, but not many, poor children; and it is almost entirely white. But these days pupils, including poor ones, often fare better in inner cities than elsewhere. In Tower Hamlets, an east London borough that is the third most deprived place in England, children entitled to free school meals do better in GCSE exams than do all children in the country as a whole. Bangladeshis, who are concentrated in that borough, used to perform considerably worse than whites nationally; now they do better.

Suppose you have received an award which means much to you. Write a thank-you speech to 1) deliver at the ceremony, and 2) thank those people who have given you encouragement and help. You should write about 100 words.

BPart BDirections: Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the following information./B

BSection I Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D./B

Suppose you ordered a hair dryer online at the cost of $22, but only received an empty package box. Something must be wrong. Write a letter to 1) complain about it, and 2) ask for a refund or another delivery. You should write about 100 words. Do not use your own name. Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write your address.

It"s 2:45 p. m. on a Wednesday, and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is in the backseat of a black Chevy Tahoe that"s inching its way to city hall along the 101 freeway. This stretch of the often clogged road is eight lanes, but there are so many cars on it that everyone is moving at about 30 km/h, a single mass of steel and glass lurching toward downtown. Just a few hours earlier, Garcetti was traveling a lot faster. To get to an event in University Cit-y, about 16 km from his office, Garcetti took the city"s Red Line subway, which can reach speed of up to 110 km/h—a pace L. A. "s rush-hour drivers can only dream about. Persuading more Angele-nos to take the train could go a long way toward solving one of L. A. "s most intractable problems. " We don"t need people to completely give up their cars," he says while holding onto a pole on the Red Line. "But right now, we average 1. 1 people per car. If we could get that to 1.6, the traffic problem would go away. " In L. A. , cars are a source of smog, billions of dollars in lost productivity every year and endless frustration for residents. "Every working person plans their life around traffic in this town," say Zev Yaro-slavsky, a Los Angeles County supervisor and longtime friend of Garcetti"s. " Building a transportation infrastructure is something that needs to be focused on, and Eric gets that. " Should Garcetti, 43—who was elected in May as the youngest mayor of L. A. in more than a century—ever manage to get the freeways flowing, it would be a triumph. And it would only begin to cure what ails L. A. Los Angeles" structural problems are daunting. The city has fewer jobs now than it did in 1990, with a regional unemployment rate that is more than 2 points higher than the national average. L. A. is also buckling under health care and pension costs and is scaling back public services to compensate. The 2014—2015 budget is projected to be $ 242 million in the red. As the Los Angeles 2020 Commission, a group of business, labor and public-sector leaders charged by the city council with diagnosing the region"s ills, put it in a December report, " Los Angeles is barely treading water while the rest of the world is moving forward. "

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Directions: More and more people choose to travel abroad in their vacations. Many people believe that traveling abroad benefit them a lot. In this section, you are asked to write an essay on the benefits of traveling abroad. You can provide specific reasons and examples to support your idea. You should write at least 150 words.

BSection I Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D./B

BSection I Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D./B

It is known that text messages (手机短信) has both advantages and disadvantages. Some people think it is a blessing, while others regard it as a hell. In this section, you are asked to write an essay on text messaging. You can take either stand and provide specific reasons and examples to support your idea. You should write at least 150 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.

You lost your book when you were studying in the lecture room. Write a lost notice to 1) inform others about the details, and 2) express your hope of finding it back. You should write about 100 words. Do not use your own name. Use "Li Ming" instead.

Global warming may or may not be the great environmental crisis of the 21st century, but — regardless of whether it is or isn't — we won't do much about it. We will argue over it and may even, as a nation, make some fairly solemn-sounding commitments to avoid it. But the more dramatic and meaningful these commitments seem, the less likely they are to be observed. Al Gore calls global warming an "inconvenient truth," as if merely recognizing it could put us on a path to a solution. But the real truth is that we don't know enough to relieve global warming, and — without major technological breakthroughs — we can't do much about it. From 2003 to 2050, the world's population is projected to grow from 6.4 billion to 9.1 billion, a 42% increase. If energy use per person and technology remain the same, total energy use and greenhouse gas emissions (mainly, CO 2 ) will be 42% higher in 2050. But that's too low, because societies that grow richer use more energy. We need economic growth unless we condemn the world's poor to their present poverty and freeze everyone else's living standards. With modest growth, energy use and greenhouse emissions more than double by 2050. No government will adopt rigid restrictions on economic growth and personal freedom (limits on electricity usage, driving and travel) that might cut back global warming. Still, politicians want to show they're "doing something." Consider the Kyoto Protoco(京都协定书). It allowed countries that joined to punish those that didn't. But it hasn't reduced CO 2 emissions(up about 25% since 1990) ,and many signatories(签字国) didn't adopt tough enough policies to hit their 2008—2012 targets. The practical conclusion is that if global warming is a potential disaster, the only solution is new technology. Only an aggressive research and development program might find ways of breaking our dependence on fossil fuels or dealing with it. The trouble with the global warming debate is that it has become a moral problem when it's really an engineering one. The inconvenient truth is that if we don't solve the engineering problem, we're helpless.

What impact can mobile phones have on their users' health? Many individuals are concerned about the supposed ill effects caused by radiation from handsets and base stations,【C1】______ the lack of credible evidence of any harm. But evidence for the beneficial effects of mobile phones on health is rather more【C2】______ . Indeed, a systematic review【C3】______ by Rifat Atun and his colleagues at Imperial College, London, gathers【C4】______ of the use of text-messaging in the【C5】______ of health care. These uses【C6】______ three categories; efficiency gains; public-health gains; and direct benefits to patients by【C7】______ text-messaging into treatment regimes. Using texting to【C8】______ efficiency is not profound science, but big savings can be achieved. Several【C9】______ carried out in England have found that the use of text-messaging reminders【C10】______ the number of missed appointments with family doctors by 26-39% , and the number of missed hospital appointments by 33-50% . If such schemes were【C11】______ nationally, this would translate【C12】______ annual savings of ￡ 256-364 million. Text messages can also be a good way to deliver public-health information, particularly to groups【C13】______ are hard to reach by other means. Text messages have been used in India to【C14】______ people about the World Health Organization's strategy to control tuberculosis(肺结核) . In Iraq, text messages were used to support a【C15】______ to immunize nearly 5 million children【C16】______ polio(小儿麻痹症). 【C17】______ , there are the uses of text-messaging as part of a treatment regime. These involve sending reminders to patients to【C18】______ their medicine, or to encourage compliance with exercise regimes or efforts to stop smoking. However, Dr. Rifat notes that the evidence for the effectiveness of such schemes is generally【C19】______ . More quantitative research is【C20】______ —which is why his team also published three papers this week looking at the use of mobile phones in health care in more detail.

BPart CDirections: Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese./B

Suppose you are striving to find a job in ABC Company. Write a letter of request to your teacher Professor Brown to 1) ask him to write a recommendation letter for you, and 2) tell him how to reply you. You should write about 100 words. Do not use your own name. Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write your address.

BPart BDirections: Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the following information./B

Suppose your class is to hold a charity sale for kids in need of help. Write your classmates an E-mail to1) inform them about the details, and2) encourage them to participate. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not use your own name. Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write your address.