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问答题1The thirtieth anniversary party of my uncle and aunt was the worst family gathering I've ever attended. 2On a hot Saturday morning in July, Mom and I drive out into the country to Uncle Ted's house. 3It had already rained heavily, and the only place left to park was in a muddy field. 4Then, you would not believe the crowd. 5There must have been two hundred people in Uncle Ted's small yard, including his five daughters with their husbands and children, all the other relatives, all the neighbors, and the entire congregation of their church. 6Since the ground was soaked and light rain was falling. 7Mom and me went under the big rented canopy with everybody else. 8We couldn't move between the tables, and the humidity fogged my glasses. 9After wiping my glasses, I seen that there was a lot of food. 10It was mainly cold chicken and potato and macaroni salads, I ate a lot just because there was nothing else to do. 11We were surprised that Uncle Ted and his wife were doing all the work themselves. 12They ran back and forth with trays of food and gathered trash into plastic bags staggering with exhaustion. 13It didn't seem like much of a way to celebrate. 14Mom was upset that she didn't get to speak with them. 15When we left, I was hot, sticky, and sick to my stomach from overeating. 16But quickly pushed our car out of the mud and got us on the road. 17I have never been happier to leave a party.

问答题March 27, 1997, dawned as a normal day at the Collins' home. By the middle of the morning, Jack Collins was at his desk, writing checks, paying bills the way he always had on time. Then the phone rang, and the nightmare began. (1){{U}}An investigator for a bank was on the line, asking in a severe voice why Collins, a university physicist, was late on payments for a $27,000 car, bought in Virginia the previous year.{{/U}} "I don't have a car like this," Collins protested. The last time he had set foot in Virginia was as an officer at a submarine base, three decades ago. But his name was on the contract, and so was his Social Security Number. During the months that ensued, he and his wife learned that someone had bought four more cars and 28 other items—worth $113,000 in all in their name. Their hitherto good credit record had been destroyed. (2){{U}}"After a lifetime of being honesty" says Collins, "all of a sudden I was basically being accused of stealing and treated like a criminal."{{/U}} This is what it means to 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. (3){{U}}And it happens very easily because every identification number you have such as Social Security, credit cards, driver's license, telephone "is a key that unlocks some storage of money or goods," says a fraud (欺诈) program manager of the U.S. Postal Service.{{/U}} "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." (4){{U}}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.{{/U}} 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. (5) {{U}}That means getting a police report and copy of the erroneous contract, and then using them to clear the fraud from your credit reports which is held by a credit bureau.{{/U}} Each step can require a huge amount of effort.

问答题你新买的一个熨斗在第一次使用时就坏了，塑料外壳从中间裂开，水从裂缝里流了出来。你因此而感到震惊，并希望店家能尽快为你换一个新的。

问答题It is a well-known fact that there are constant conflicts among different groups of people, and that people tend to blame their misfortunes on some outside other groups for their misfortunes. What are the causes of group prejudice? There seems to be little doubt that one of the principal causes of prejudice is fear: in particular the fear that the interests of our own group are going to be endangered by the actions of another. This is less likely to be the case in a stable, relatively unchanging society in which the .members of different social and occupational groups know what to expect of each other, and know what to expect for themselves. In times of rapid social and economic change, however, new occupations and new social roles appear, and people start looking jealously at eachother to see whether their own group is being left behind. Once prejudice develops, it is hard to stop, because there are often social forces at work which actively encourage unfounded attitudes of hostility and fear towards other groups. One such force is education: we all know that children can be taught history in such a way as to perpetuate old hatreds and old prejudices between racial and political groups. Another social influence that has to be reckoned with is the pressure of public opinion. People often think and act differently in groups from the way that they would do as individuals; it takes a considerable effort of will, and often calls for great courage, to stand out against one's fellows and insist they are wrong.

问答题由于实行经济改革，从1998 年起，中国开始出现大批下岗工人。下岗工人的出现给改革的顺利进行带来了困难。请你就下岗工人的问题发表见解，并提出你的解决方案。

问答题How physically attractive someone is plays a major role in determining your ideas about the desirability of developing an acquaintance or a friendship with that person. Attractiveness seems to influence our perception of others' traits. Attractive people are judged to be more poised, sociable, independent, interesting, exciting, and to have greater sexual warmth. In one study concerned with the importance of physical attractiveness, Karen Dion and her colleagues asked university students to rate a series of photographs of both males and females as high, average, or low in physical attractiveness. The photos were then passed onto another group of students, who were asked to rate those pictures on a number of personality traits and to predict future events in their lives. The results showed that, regardless of whether the rater(评判人) was the same or the opposite sex as the subject, attractive people of both sexes were rated as having more socially desirable personality traits than less attractive people. In addition, attractive people were predicted to have greater personal happiness and more prestigious future occupations than less attractive people. These impressions of beautiful people do not suddenly appear during adolescence. As early as age 4 or 5, attractive children are more popular with their peers than their unattractive counter parts. Adults also form more favorable impressions of attractive children. In one study, women read a description of an aggressive act performed by a 7-year-old child. The description was ac companied by a photograph of either an attractive child or an unattractive one.. When the women were asked to describe the child whose picture they had seen, they characterized the unattractive child as bratty(讨厌的), selfish, and antisocial. The attractive child was likely to be excused for aggressive acts because these were assumed to be deviations(偏离) from the youngster's usual behavior. Attractive people are apparently not unaware of their effect on other people. Being attractive may help determine the way that people actually behave as well a show they are perceived. Attractive males are more assertive(武断的) than less attractive males. They also have less fear of rejection and have more of their social interactions with females than with males. Attractive females are not as assertive as females who are less attractive, but both groups of women have an equal number of social interactions.

问答题Of course you would like to double your money. I understand exactly how you feel. The hope that such a thing will happen for them is what pulls hundreds of thousands of people to the race tracks and to the gambling tables every day. But there's one great difference between those people and you. When they place a bet on a horse, a card, or a number, they do so with the full realization that the money they put up will bring them no dividends or interest, and if they happen to be wrong, the money is gone forever. Mrs. Brown, you and I have had some long sessions together. You have been frank and open with me, trusting me as your counselor, and I know how important it is to you to preserve every bit of your capital. You've shown me the vital need to keep that money working for you so that it can produce the income you need for your living expenses. I would be doing you a serious disservice if I did not warn you, as emphatically as I know how, against the step you are considering.

问答题On the other hand, when one is seated at a conference table before a meeting or at a dinner with a person whose good regard must not be forsaken, less may in fact be less. So what should your face be doing? I'm against fake smiling, although I indulge in it all the time. Beyond binge drinking, it's the business activity that ultimately inflicts the most physical damage. We've got to find something other than smiling to get the job done. But what else is there? There's frowning persively, if you can pull that off without looking indisposed. There's a bemused mini-grin, which doesn't break all the bones in your face and conveys good will at least. There's blank affability, which, with good eyebrow work, can serve over the course of an entire dinner. But I admit it. This is a tough one that we'll have to work out later. Until something better is found, smiling convincingly and in a variety of manners still rules.

问答题For this part, you are asked to write a composition of no less than 150 words on "Why Pursue a Graduate Degree?" You can describe your reasons and motivations for pursuing a graduate degree in your chosen program of study. Remember to write clearly.

问答题Engineers last week finished a work on one of the world's most ambitious conservation projects: a doomsday vault carved into a frozen mountainside in the archipelago of Svalbard, a few hundred miles from the North Pole. Over the next few weeks, the huge cavern—backed by the Norwegian government and the Gates Foundation—will be filled with more than a million types of seed and will be officially opened in February next year. "This will be the last refuge for the world's crops," said Cary Fowler, of the Rome-based Global Crop Diversity Trust, which is building the vault. "There are seed banks in various countries round the globe, but several have been destroyed or badly damaged in recent years. We need a place that is politically and environmentally safe if we are going to feed the planet as it gets hotter." About 500 seeds from about 1.5 million types of crop—donated by individual countries—will be placed in envelopes and about 400-500 of these envelopes are stored in a single box. Boxes will then be stacked like library books along shelves inside the vaults.

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问答题Outline:1. Sources of water pollution2. Harm of water pollution3. Solutions

问答题B组任选一题，论述字数在600字左右

问答题体育运动展示了运动员的技能，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In general, cognitive(认知的) psychologists who study memory, language, and thought see these human behaviors as information processing involving input, processing (coding and storage ), and retrievel (检索). Perhaps the best and most obvious way to describe the information processing view of thought is to compare the human being with a computer. Information is coded and fed into a computer in an organized way. When the computer is asked to produce a part of that information, the machine searches its memory and outputs the information on a screen or prints it out. For example, we might ask for the names of all people hired by a large multinational bank on July 12, 1984. This relatively simple task is equivalent to asking you to search your memory for the names of the first seven presidents of the United States. Then we might ask the computer to tell us who among the workers hired on July 12, 1984, was the most productive. This task is more complex because these data do not exist in the computer precisely in that form. The computer could not simply reproduce information from its memory; to produce the data requested, it would have to process the information it did have -- analyze and manipulate it in some way. If the computer had data on the number of items processed per day, the absences, and the number of quality complaints for each worker, it could collect that information, analyze it, and answer the question. The operation of human cognitive processes is basically similar to the way a computer functions but except for speed of calculation, our abilities far surpass those of the most sophisticated computer. One area of research, known as artificial intelligence, concentrates on developing computer programs that reproduce certain human cognitive functions. Although some of the programs work well in certain simplified situations, no program can yet cope with the complex input and output functions required of most human beings. In order to understand how we process information, we will look at three stages -- input, processing (coding and storage), and retrieval -- in more detail.

问答题Directions: Translate the following text from English into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET 2. Imagine a world in which there was suddenly no emotion—a world in which human beings could feel no love or happiness, no terror or hate. Try to imagine the consequences of such a transformation. People might not be able to stay alive: knowing neither joy nor pleasure, anxiety nor fear, they would he as likely to repeat acts that hurt them as acts that were beneficial. They could not learn: they could not benefit from experience because this emotionlessness would lack rewards and punishments. Society would soon disappear: people would he as likely to harm one another as to provide help and support. Human relationships would not exist: in a world without friends or enemies, there could be no marriage, affection among companions, bonds among members of groups; society's economic underpinnings would be destroyed: since earning $10 million would be no more pleasant than earning $10, there would he no incentive to work.

问答题For this part, you are asked to write a composition of at least 150 words with the title "On Success" according to the following instruction. "When people succeed, it is because of hard work and luck has nothing to do with success." Do you agree or disagree with the quotation above. Use specific reasons and examples to explain your position.

问答题We will adhere to the strategy of expanding domestic consumption and focus on increasing consumption demand and strengthening the role of consumption in fueling economic development. First, we will strive to raise urban and rural incomes. We need to adjust the distribution of incomes, standardize the way income is distributed, and increase the income of people in the lower and middle income brackets. To increase rural incomes, we will continue to pursue the policy of giving more, taking less and loosening control. In particular, we need to adopt more measures to give more benefits to farmers. All local governments should make necessary adjustments to the minimum salary system and implement it strictly, and introduce a minimum hourly wage system. We need to gradually solve the problem of low wages for rural migrant workers in cities. We must establish laws and mechanisms for ensuring that wages are paid on time. We will conscientiously implement the revised Individual Income Tax Law and lower the tax burden on low—and middle—income people. This year, the government will appropriately raise basic pension benefits for retired enterprise employees, subsidies for entitled groups and subsistence allowances for urban residents.