问答题Directions: In this part, you are asked to write an essay according to the information below. You should write more than 150 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. 现在有不少家长送孩子参加各种艺术班，对这种做法有人表示支持，有人持反对态度，请表明你的观点。

问答题It was not often realized that women held a high place in southern European societies in the 10th and 11th centuries. As a wife the woman was protected by the setting up of a dowry(陪嫁). Admittedly, the purpose of this was to protect her against the risk of being discarded, but in reality, its function is that social and family life of the time was much more important. The dowry was the wife's right to receive a tenth of all her husband's property. The wife had the fight to withhold consent in all transactions the husband would make. (2) And more than just a fight: the documents show that she enjoyed a real power of decision, equal to that of her husband. In no case do the documents indicate any degree of difference in the legal status of husband and wife. (3) The wife shared in the management of her husband's personal property, but the opposition was not always true. (4) Women seemed perfectly prepared to defend their own interests against husbands who tried to exceed their rights, and on occasion they showed a fine fighting spirit. A case in point is that of Marls Vivas, a Catalan woman of Barcelona. Having agreed with her husband Miro to sell a field she had inherited, for the needs of household, she insisted on compensation. None being offered, she succeeded in dragging her husband to the scribe to have a contract duly drawn up assigning her a piece of land from Miro's personal inheritance. The unfortunate husband was obliged to agree, as the contract says, "for the sake of peace". (5) Either through the dowry or through being hot-tempered, the wife knew how to win herself, within the extent of the family, a powerful economic position.

问答题After working 36-hour shifts as a resident in orthopaedic surgery, Taryn Rose knew a lot about sore feet. But unlike most of her colleagues, she turned her pain into profit. Today she is CEO of Taryn Rose International, a $28 million company that makes chic, and comfortable, shoes. A Vietnamese refugee who moved to the United States when she was just eight, Rose assumed she"d follow in the footsteps of her physician father. For a while, she did, getting her medical degree from the University of Southern California and opting for gruelling training in orthopaedic surgery. But when the time came to apply for post-residential fellowships, Rose found her heart was no longer in medicine. "I felt like a part of me, the part that loves to learn new things, that likes adventure, would be dying." Rose had always loved shoes, especially high heels. When her fellow residents headed home after long hours on their feet, "I would make my way to Neiman Marcus for some retail therapy," she says. What if, she wondered, she gave up her career to learn how to make stylish shoes that could stand up to a day"s work?

问答题随着互联网日益普及，越来越多的国家面临净化网络环境、扼制网络违法犯罪的挑战。各国政府一方面采取各种措强化网民自律意识和网络运营商的社会责任意识； 另一方面，通过立法来保证网络世界安全、健康地运转。请你对此现象进行评论。

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}{{I}}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 on the ANSWER SHEET.{{/I}} 以往许多人报考成人高校，是为圆文凭梦。如今，手持本科、硕士文凭，回头重新考大学的大有人在。据报道，今年报名全国成人高考的上海考生中，有390名本科毕业生，15名硕士生。

问答题{{U}}It was not often realized that women held a high place in southern European societies in the 10{{/U}}th {{U}}and 11{{/U}}th{{U}} centuries.{{/U}} As a wife the woman was protected by the setting up of a dowry(陪嫁). Admittedly, the purpose of this was to protect her against the risk of being discarded, but in reality, its function is that social and family life of the time was much more important. The dowry was the wife's right to receive a tenth of all her husband's property. The wife had the fight to withhold consent in all transactions the husband would make. (2) {{U}}And more than just a fight: the documents show that she enjoyed a real power of decision, equal to that of her husband.{{/U}} In no case do the documents indicate any degree of difference in the legal status of husband and wife. (3) {{U}}The wife shared in the management of her husband's personal property, but the opposition was not always true.{{/U}} (4) {{U}}Women seemed perfectly prepared to defend their own interests against husbands who tried to exceed their rights, and on occasion they showed a fine fighting spirit.{{/U}} A case in point is that of Marls Vivas, a Catalan woman of Barcelona. Having agreed with her husband Miro to sell a field she had inherited, for the needs of household, she insisted on compensation. None being offered, she succeeded in dragging her husband to the scribe to have a contract duly drawn up assigning her a piece of land from Miro's personal inheritance. The unfortunate husband was obliged to agree, as the contract says, "for the sake of peace". (5) {{U}}Either through the dowry or through being hot-tempered, the wife knew how to win herself, within the extent of the family, a powerful economic position.{{/U}}

问答题体育运动展示了运动员的技能，也展现了其精神面貌。对于观众而言，哪一方面更有吸引力呢?谈谈你的看法。

问答题True interactive television still seems a distant dream and the Internet has not replaced newsprint as an accompaniment to morning coffee. In fact, 1997 and 1998 have proven that the average news-hungry reader still goes to his front doorstep or comer store to find out about the world. "Ever since the arrival of television, we've been told that newspapers will be dead next month. And it's never happened," said Roger Bird, associate journalism professor at Carleton University and author of "The End of News". Regular circulation, low newsprint prices and increasing advertising revenues, together with productivity improvements, all combined to deliver a banner year in terms of profits for Canadian newspaper publishers. "Overall I think there is pretty strong evidence, certainly in the past year the industry is healthy and lively," declared Don Babick, president and chief operating officer of Southam Inc.

问答题 In this part, you are asked to write an essay or a letter according to the outline given. Your composition should be about 150 words. Remember to write clearly and logically. After writing, please check your composition in terms of the following writing basics: unity, support, coherence, and error free sentences.

问答题{{U}}If you find yourself stressed by the economic forecast, threat of job loss, or have been laid off, the situation is manageable.{{/U}} John Wakeman, program director of the Stress Treatment Center at Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, La. , who has given numerous stress management training sessions for major industries and businesses, says that, when confronted with altered circumstances, "it is our nature to either revert back to the status quo(现状) or to adapt and to do so quickly so that it's no longer a change. My suggestion is to adapt quickly." If laid off, avoid a doom-and-gloom attitude, which adds to the stress. (2) {{/U}}Accept that changes are inevitable in a lifetime and occurrences such as job loss frequently bring opportunities that would not be available if you were not facing the crisis.{{/U}} Some people find an even better occupational situation. (3) {{U}}Instead of responding to layoff as a personal insult, view it as a sign of the economic times and the fact that the business could not keep its employees.{{/U}} Maintain a routine and keep your social contacts. Don't sit at home. Remain active. Use energy constructively. Don't vent (发泄) irritability and frustration from stress on your family, but channel it into exercise or work on a project. Polish your resume, network with others in your field, and write letters to prospective employers. Keep informed about the job market by reading employment journals, trade publications, and newspapers. Competition is keen, so expect your search to take time. "(4) {{U}}When a person is turned down repeatedly, it does try [his or her] self-esteem, but you have to remember what you accomplished before you were laid off.{{/U}} No one can erase those achievements from your history. You have somethings to offer." Many people feel threatened by change and become inflexible, Wakeman points out. "You may find that you need to be more open about relocating to a place where employment is available. (5) {{U}}Keep an open mind and be flexible about the possibility of a change requiring relocation or taking on new assignments."{{/U}}

问答题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Part A Directions: In this section, you are required to write a "Letter of Complaint" according to the situation below. You should write at least 150 words neatly. Situation and Requirements: Li Ming recently bought a laptop computer. A few days later the laptop stopped working. When he took it back to the shop, they refused to deal with the problem. Now you are required to write a letter to the customer service department at the company's head office in the name of Li Ming. Your letter should include the following information: (1)The problem with the laptop. (2)What exactly happened when you return to the shop? (3)What you would like the customer service department to do and any other relevant information? Letter of Complaint __________

问答题The process of entering the confines of political and economic power can be pictured as a system in which persons are chosen from a political elite pool. (1) In this reservoir of possible leaders are the individuals with the skills, education, and other qualifications needed to fill elite positions. It is here that competition does exist, that the highest achievers do display their abilities, and that the best qualified do generally succeed. Here, what is more important is entering this reservoir of qualified people. (2) Many in the masses may have leadership abilities, but unless they can gain entrance into the elite pool, their abilities will go unnoticed. Those of the higher class and status rank enter more easily into this competition since they have been afforded greater opportunities to acquire the needed qualifications. (3) In addition to formal qualifications, there are less obvious social-psychological factors which tend to narrow the potential elite pool further. (4) "Self-assertion" and "self-elimination" are processes by which those of higher social status assert themselves and those of lower social status eliminate themselves from competition for elite positions. A young man whose family has been active in politics, who has attended Harvard, and who has established a network of connections to the high position in the business or political world. (5) On the other hand, a young man with less prestigious (有名望的) family background, no connections, and only a high school education or even a college degree from a state university would not likely expect a further place for himself at the top. As Prewitt and Stone explain, such an individual "has few models to follow, no contacts to put him into the right channels, and little reason to think of himself as potentially wealthy or powerful." Thus, self-selection aids in filtering out those of lower income and status groups from the pool of potential elites. Most eliminate themselves from the competition early in the fame.

问答题The author of FAMILY VALUE paints a rather bleak vision of signs where the traditional family is headed in our postindustrial age. Divorce is raging. More people are living alone. Couples are often living together without the commitment of marriage. These statistics are Britain today, but the phenomena are occurring throughout the postindustrial world as well. Sociologists do not agree as to the causes of this bleakness. Some lay blame on single mothers who set up a cycle of economic deprivation, emotional instability and lack of parental authority. Others feel that women working full time having fewer children, living much longer than their grandmothers, yielding to advertising and financial stress, and striving to "succeed" in terms of a man dominated world are the real causes. Also, families may be becoming more private as time and outside stress demand too much of its members. It seems, there is no sense of place in a time of continuous movement, old people need a purpose, and aging must be acknowledged.

问答题There"s no such thing as an all-lecture class at Yale, nor at most other undergraduate colleges or business schools. Professors expect and demand engagement and discussion and students will often pipe up with questions in the middle of a salient point. In most cases, this is not considered rude; I think American students occasionally think of themselves as consumers of the course material, with the right to get their questions answered or theories explored by the professor. In one early class of ours, the professor even wrote to students who had not been participating to request that they speak up more in class. Of course, not all participation is valid or particularly helpful. Students will often ask questions they should know the answer to, or attempt to build on a point with an off-base comment. Interestingly, if a group of students is in a class together consistently, the group begins to subtly govern itself and members whose contributions might not be adding to the total experience will get the hint and aim to consider the good of the whole when raising their hand. But shifting between absorbing the lecture and participating in a conversation about it is a key feature of the classroom experience.

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} You are the dean of the Foreign Languages Department of Nankai University, China. You want to write to Professor Black, your former British colleague, to invite him to attend the ceremony of your department. Your composition should be more than 150 words. You should write your composition neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.

问答题你的名字叫张兵，原先在一家电脑公司任公关部主任，现调到机械进出口公司任经理。你在职务调动之际，给你原来的同事和有关单位发一份电子邮件(E-mail)，其内容应包括以下几点： 1．你的职务变动情况。 2．对曾经支持和帮助过你工作的人们表示感谢。 3．推荐继任者，并希望大家支持其工作。 4．希望今后继续保持联系。

问答题Where is the boundary between human mind and machine? If the test were reasoning ability, the computer would be our superior. But logic alone does not make a first-class mind. In our complicated world straightforward reasoning doesn't always work. As is known to all, productive thought requires not just the rules of logic but a wealth of experience and background information, plus the ability to generalize and interpret new experiences using that information. A genius like Einstein is produced only after many years of study, which is the period of time needed to lay foundations for a creative mind.

问答题You should write about 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Zhang Wei" instead. Do not write your address.