A writer said yesterday that Richard M. Scrushy, the former chief executive of HealthSouth, paid her through a public relations firm to produce several favorable articles for an Alabama newspaper that he reviewed before publication during his fraud trial last year. The articles appeared in The Birmingham Times, a black-owned weekly in Birmingham, Ale. Mr. Scrushy was acquitted in June in a six-month trial there on all 36 counts against him, despite testimony from former HealthSouth executives who said he presided over a huge accounting fraud. "I sat in that courtroom for six months, and I did everything possible to advocate for his cause", Audrey Lewis, the author of the articles, said in a telephone interview. She said she received $10,000 from Mr. Scrushy through the Lewis Group, a public relations firm, and another $1,000 to help buy a computer. "Scrushy promised me a lot more than what I got". She said. Charles A. Russell, a spokesman for Mr. Scrushy, said he was not aware of an explicit agreement for the Lewis Group to pay Ms. Lewis. The payments to Ms. Lewis were first reported by The Associated Press yesterday. "There"s nothing there I think Richard would have any part of", Mr. Russell said. Mr. Russell said that Mr. Scrushy reviewed the articles before they were published. "Richard thought she was doing a little, "F.Y.L, here"s what I"m writing,"" Mr. Russell said. Ms. Lewis said that Mr. Russell, a prominent Denver-based crisis communications consultant, was also involved in providing her with financial compensation. She said Mr. Russell wrote her a $2,500 personal check at the end of May 2005; Mr. Russell said that was true. "She was looking for freelance community- relations work after the trial", Mr. Russell said. Ms. Lewis came into Mr. Scrushy"s sphere through Believers Temple Church; she attends services and works as an administrator there. She and Rev. Herman Henderson, the pastor, were part of a group that appeared in court with Mr. Scrushy and often prayed with him during breaks. Before and during the trial, in which 11 of the 18 jurors were black. Mr. Scrushy, who is white, forged ties with Birmingham"s African-American population. He joined a predominantly black church, and his foundation donated to it and other black congregations. Mr. Henderson also said he received payments from Mr. Scrushy in exchange for building support for him among blacks. Mr. Scrushy said in a statement yesterday that his foundation donated money to Mr. Henderson"s church, but said the payments were unrelated to his case. "My foundation donated to his church building fund and to a Katrina relief effort that his church sponsored", Mr. Scrushy said. "That"s it. Period". Ms. Lewis, 31, said she was disclosing details about the financial arrangement because Mr. Scrushy still owes her and Mr. Henderson a significant amount of money. Ms. Lewis provided copies of a retainer agreement that Mr. Scrushy signed last April with the Lewis Group, a public relations firm controlled by Jesse J. Lewis Sr., 82, the founder of The Birmingham Times, and a check issued to her in May from the Lewis Group. (Ms. Lewis and Mr. Lewis are not related).

Capital City and Smithsville are two fairly large towns in the Midwest near Chicago. Neither is as well known as Chicago. (1)_____ the inhabitants of both are equally proud of their (2)_____ hometown. People in Capital City love its quiet narrow (3)_____ streets and its many small neighborhood parks, the boast (4)_____ their hometown has no ugly slums, a low rate (5)_____ crime, and very little heavy traffic. Because it is the seat of the state legislature, Capital City has many stately old buildings—(6)_____ the lawyer"s club in the park by the lake, and the country museum (7)_____ its pioneer farm exhibits. Smithsville, (8)_____,is a bustling, thriving, industrial center. It too has a lake, but (9)_____ that of Capital City, its lake is the center of the city"s industrial development. (10)_____ trees and park benches, Smithsville"s lake is surrounded by factories and smoking chimneys. Smithsville is also (11)_____ its quieter neighbour in its style of (12)_____. The tall modern office buildings downtown, the new shopping center in the suburbs, and the wide crowded streets seem (13)_____ to Smithsville"s residents than the old-fashioned neighbourhoods (14)_____. When people from the more rural city (15)_____ from a visit to Smithsville, they always say, "I"m glad to be home again. That lake makes me (16)_____. It"s a fine place to visit, (17)_____ I wouldn"t want to live (18)_____". (19)_____ a visit to Capital City, citizens of Smithsville say (20)_____ the same.

Thought on Environmental Protection

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

Your friend Mary is ill. Write a letter to her to show your sympathy. The following guidelines are for your writing: 1. your sympathy for her illness; 2. sending flowers and wishes; 3. providing any help for her. You should write about 100 words, do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Iris" instead. You do not need to write the address.

Research has uncovered that culture is a determining factor when interpreting facial emotions. The study reveals that in cultures where emotional control is the standard, such as Japan, focus is placed on the eyes to interpret emotions. Whereas in cultures where emotion is openly expressed, such as the United States, the focus is on the mouth to interpret emotion. Across two studies, using computerized icons and human images, the researchers compared how Japanese and American cultures interpreted images, which conveyed a range of emotions. "These findings go against the popular theory that the facial expressions of basic emotions can be universally recognized," said University of Alberta researcher Dr. Takahiko Masuda. "A person"s culture plays a very strong role in determining how they will perceive emotions and needs to be considered when interpreting facial expression. " These cultural differences are even noticeable in computer emoticons, which are used to convey a writer"s emotions over email and text messaging. Consistent with the research findings, the Japanese emoticons for happiness and sadness vary in terms of how the eyes are depicted, while American emoticons vary with the direction of the mouth. In the United States the emoticons :)and ：-)denote a happy face, whereas the emoticons ：(or :-(denote a sad face. However, Japanese tend to use the symbol(∧_∧)to indicate a happy face, and(;_;)to indicate a sad face. When participants were asked to rate the perceived levels of happiness or sadness expressed through the different computer emoticons, the researchers found that the Japanese still looked to the eyes of the emoticons to determine its emotion. "We think it is quite interesting and appropriate that a culture that tends to mask its emotions, such as Japan, would focus on a person"s eyes when determining emotion, as eyes tend to be quite subtle," said Masuda. "In the United States, where overt emotion is quite common, it makes sense to focus on the mouth, which is the most expressive feature on a person"s face. " These findings are published in the current issue of The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. The results also suggest the interesting possibility that the Japanese may be better than Americans at detecting "false smiles". If the position of the eyes is the key to whether someone"s smile is false or true, Japanese may be particularly good at detecting whether someone is lying or being "fake". However, these questions can only be answered with future research.

You are supposed to write for the Postgraduates' Association a notice to recruit volunteers for an international conference on globalization. The notice should include the basic qualification of applicant and the other information you think relative. You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Postgraduates' Association" instead. Do not write the address. (10 points)

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

Studythepicturecarefullyandwriteanessayinwhichyoushould:1)describethecartoon,pointoutthemessageconveyedand;2)giveyourcomment.Youshouldwriteabout160～200wordsneatly.

We can say that the primary function of a bank today is to act as an intermediary between depositors who wish to make interest on their savings, and borrowers who wish to obtain capital.

People are, on the whole, poor at considering background information when making individual decisions. At first glance this might seem like a strength that【B1】______the ability to make judgments which are unbiased by【B2】______factors. But Dr. Simonsohn speculated that an inability to consider the big【B3】______was leading decision-makers to be biased by the daily samples of information they were working with. 【B4】______, he theorised that a judge【B5】______of appearing too soft【B6】______crime might be more likely to send someone to prison【B7】______he had already sentenced five or six other defendants only to forced community service on that day. To【B8】______this idea, he turned to the university-admissions process. In theory, the【B9】______of an applicant should not depend on the few others【B10】______randomly for interview during the same day, but Dr. Simonsohn suspected the truth was【B11】______. He studied the results of 9,323 MBA interviews【B12】______by 31 admissions officers. The interviewers had【B13】______applicants on a scale of one to five. This scale【B14】______numerous factors into consideration. The scores were【B15】______used in conjunction with an applicant' s score on the Graduate Management Admission Test, or GMAT, a standardised exam which is【B16】______out of 800 points, to make a decision on whether to accept him or her. Dr. Simonsohn found if the score of the previous candidate in a daily series of interviewees was 0.75 points or more higher than that of the one【B17】______that, then the score for the next applicant would【B18】______by an average of 0.075 points. This might sound small, but to【B19】______the effects of such a decrease a candidate would need 30 more GMAT points than it would otherwise have been【B20】______.

The quick adoption of the scheme may have indicated less about the state lawmakers' respect for working people than about a fear of risking their anger.

CanMedicinesMakeYouHealthy?Writeanessayof160-200wordsbasedonthedrawing.Inyouressay,youshould1)describethedrawingbriefly,2)interpretitsintendedmeaning,and3)giveyourcomments.

You are required to write an essay off the topic "Stress in Modem Life". You should write no less than 200 words neatly, and base your essay on the OUTLINE given in Chinese below: 1) 压力在现实生活中无处不在。 2) 不同的人对压力有不同的看法。 3) 我的看法。

I seldom, if ever, saw such a fine sight.

Suppose your friend, Anne, has been promoted to the monitor. And she asked for your advice on how to serve as an excellent class leader. Write her a letter to congratulate her and give your advice. You should write about 100 words neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write the address.

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

You may fall prey to a nonviolent but frightening and fast-growing crime: identity theft. It happens to at least 500,000 new victims each year, according to government figures. And it happens very easily because every identification number you have Social Security, credit card, driver"s license, telephone "is a key that unlocks some storage of money or goods," says a fraud program manager of the US Postal Service. "So if you throw away your credit card receipt and I get it and use the number on it, I"m not becoming you, but to the credit card company I"ve become your account." One major problem, experts say, is that the Social Security Number (SSN)—originally meant only for retirement benefit and tax purposes—has become the universal way to identify people. It is used as identification by the military, colleges and in billions of commercial transactions. Yet a shrewd thief can easily snatch your SSN, not only by stealing your wallet, but also by taking mail from your box, going through your trash for discarded receipts and bills or asking for it over the phone on some pretext. Using your SSN, the thief applies for a credit card in your name, asking that it be sent to a different address than yours, and uses it for multiple purchases. A couple of months later the credit card company, or its debt collection agency, presses you for payment. You don"t have to pay the debt, but you must clean up your damaged credit record. That means getting a police report and copy of the erroneous contract, and then using them to clear the fraud from your credit report, which is held by a credit bureau. Each step can require a huge amount of effort. In the Collins" case, the clearance of the erroneous charges from their record required three years of poring over records and $6,000 in solicitor"s fees. In the meantime, they were denied a loan to build a vacation home, forced to pay cash for a new heating and cooling system, hounded by debt collectors, and embarrassed by the spectacle of having their home watched by investigators looking for the missing car. Of course, thousands of people are caught and prosecuted for identity theft. But it was only last year that Congress made identity theft itself a federal crime. That law set up a special government office to help victims regain their lost credit and to streamline police efforts by tracking cases on a national scale. Consumer advocates say this may help but will not address the basic problems, which, they believe, are causing the outbreak in identity theft: industry"s rush to attract more customers by issuing instant credit, inadequate checking of identity, and too few legal protections for consumers personal information.

We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth, with soldiers returning home by the millions, going off to college on the G. I. Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus. But when it came to their houses, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more. During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish. Economic condition was only a stimulus for the trend toward efficient living. The phrase "less is more" was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools. These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture, but none more so than Mies. Mies' s signature phrase means that less decoration, properly organized, has more impact than a lot. Elegance, he believed, did not derive from abundance. Like other modern architects, he employed metal, glass and laminated wood—materials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future. Mies' s sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient , rather than big and often empty. The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago' s Lake Shore Drive, for example, were smaller—two-bedroom units under 1,000 square feet—than those in their older neighbors along the city's Gold Coast. But they were popular because of their airy glass walls, the views they afforded and the elegance of the buildings' details and proportions, the architectural equivalent of the abstract art so popular at the time. The trend toward "less" was not entirely foreign. In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses—usually around 1,200 square feet—than the spreading two-story ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century. The "Case Study Houses" commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts & Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the "less is more" trend. Aesthetic effect came from the landscape, new materials and forthright detailing. In his Case Study House, Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life—few American families acquired helicopters, though most eventually got clothes dryers—but his belief that self-sufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.

One big plus of the House bill is the incentives it contains for a little-known technology called cogeneration. This is a method of using waste heat to generate power, and it has enormous potential. Power plants, factories and refineries vent steam and hot gases through smokestacks. All that wasted heat is wasted energy. By putting a recovery device in the stack and using the steam to drive a turbine, one can generate electricity to send back into the factory or to the power grid. A 2005 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory study of 16 major industries found enough waste heat to generate 96,000 megawatts of power, which is nearly a fifth of nationwide electricity demand. Another method of cogeneration is to build a mini-plant, usually fueled by natural gas, to power large industrial or commercial properties; a single flame generates electricity and heats the buildings while cutting out transmission costs. Both methods dramatically reduce power consumption and thus emissions. Cogeneration is attracting increasing notice, but it still faces high hurdles. Utilities see the entrepreneurs who build cogeneration plants as competitors and often structure their rates to nullify savings for companies that recycle power. Further, in some states it"s illegal for anyone other than a utility to sell electricity. The House energy bill rightly improves access to the power grid for cogeneration facilities and sets up a loan fund to encourage recycled energy in public buildings, but more should be done, such as creation of an investment tax credit for cogeneration plants. Undoubtedly there is a limit to conservation--at some point, it will become prohibitively expensive to keep making refrigerators 5% more efficient every year—but the amount of power that could still be saved using existing technologies is staggering. Lawrence Berkeley researcher Hashem Akbari estimates the savings from a simple fix like requiring white roofs, which would reflect sunlight and therefore lower cooling costs, at more than $ 1 billion a year nationwide. Fighting global warming doesn"t have to derail the economy, or even slow it much. Some of the costs of the expensive fixes, such as developing renewable power, capturing carbon from coal-burning plants and refining better bio-fuels, can be offset by the savings from efficiency measures such as better insulation, tougher fuel economy standards and appliances that suck less power. The right combination of saving energy and investing in new forms will pay dividends for the world.