问答题The hardest hit of all that week were Wall Street's specialist firms, the traders who were charged with maintaining orderly markets. That task required them to purchase stocks when there were no other buyers and to make sales when other sellers disappeared. Until the end of that week, a total 52 specialist firms had worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange: each had handled the shares of 20 to 30 specified Big Board companies. On Black Monday, the specialists grimly fulfilled their responsibilities, buying millions of shares as prices plunged all around them. Their losses could amount to as much as $750 million. Securities firms outside Wall Street also felt mortal pain. The 4 500 accounts of the New York Stock Exchange member were taken over by Rodman & Renshaw, a Chicago firm.

问答题Stress is a natural part of everyday life and there is no way to avoid it. A certain amount of stress is vital to provide motivation. It is only when the stress gets out of control that it can lead to poor performance and ill health. What can you do to prevent your emotions from making you sick? Learn to take care of your mind as well as your body. The foundations of good health lie in love, laughter and self-confidence. The stress and strain of contemporary life is such that the search for ways of meeting such tensions, which is regarded as a major concern. It is suggested that it is better to release tensions through relaxing oneself than leaving them pent up. Since we are social beings, the quality of our lives depends in large measure on our interpersonal relationships. One strength of the human condition is our tendency to give and receive support from one another under stressful circumstances. Social support consists of the exchange of resources among people based on their interpersonal ties. Those of us with strong support systems appear better able to cope with major life changes and daily hassles.

问答题In the 1990s, people are very aware of how bad things are. As a result, they completely ignore information about new developments and crises to prevent themselves from going "crazy". Today's leaders should therefore provide people with a sense that current problems are soluble (可以解决的). We need to break large-scale crises down to small manageable pieces rather than cause people to believe that the situation is even more complex and difficult that they thought. People need to believe that they can really do something within their own situation, and to do this, they must recognize that it is in their self-interest to change their behavior.

问答题The world's richest countries, which have contributed by far the most to the atmospheric changes linked to global warming, are already spending billions of dollars to limit their own risks from its worst consequences, like drought and rising seas. But despite longstanding treaty commitments to help poor countries deal with warming, these industrial powers are spending just tens of millions of dollars on ways to limit climate and coastal hazards in the world's most vulnerable regions—most of them close to the equator and overwhelmingly poor. Over the last few decades, as scientists have intensified their study of the human effects on climate and of the effects of climate change on humans, a common theme has emerged: in both respects, the world is a very unequal place. In almost every instance, the people most at risk from climate change live in countries that have contributed the least to the atmospheric buildup of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases linked to the recent warming of the planet. Those most vulnerable countries also tend to be the poorest. And the countries that face the least harm—and that are best equipped to deal with the harm they do face—tend to be the richest.

问答题Studythefollowingdiagramcarefullyandwriteanessaybasedonthetips:(1)Describethechart.(2)Showyourunderstandingoftherelationshipbetweenthefigures.(3)Commentonit.Youshouldwriteatleast150wordsneatlyonANSWERSHEET.

问答题In this part, you are asked to write an essay based on the following table. In your writing, you should 1) interpret the table and 2) give your comments. You should write at least 150 words, Write your essay on ANSWER SHEET 2. (15 points) DINK 族在X市的变化情况 Year 1995 2000 2005 2010 Percentage 0.5% 1% 2% 5%

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问答题Cohen and his colleagues had found in a previous study that happier people seemed less susceptible to catching a cold, but some questions remained as to whether the emotional trait itself had the effect. For the new study, the researchers had 193 healthy adults complete standard measures of personality traits, self-perceived health and emotional "style." Those who tended to be happy, energetic and easy-going were judged as having a positive emotional style, while those who were often unhappy, tense and hostile had a negative style. The researchers gave them nasal drops containing either a cold virus or a particular flu virus. Over the next six days, the volunteers reported on any aches, pains, sneezing or congestion they had, while the researchers collected objective data, like daily mucus production. Cohen and his colleagues found that based on objective measures of nasal woes, happy people were less likely to develop a cold.

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问答题The free market economy is no doubt the primary stimulus that has led to the United States' dominance in the world economic community. By naturally rewarding those producers that excel, excellence is actively encouraged and those that inefficiently produce goods or services are eliminated; thus, the economy becomes a self-sustaining and self-maintaining machine, consistently and constantly achieving the best possible result. The free market economy is entirely based on the principle of supply and demand. Under this concept, consumers decide for themselves which companies will stay in business, voting with their dollars by spending on those businesses they consider most worthy. By doing so, those companies that are best liked, or most in demand, are granted the privilege of supplying the goods and services that consumers pay for. In that sense, efficiency is achieved. For those companies that best perform to the expectations of consumers are left prosperous in the market, while their less efficient counterparts simply die out of the market, starved of the dollars of consumers who simply prefer not to buy their products.

问答题Now to the last in our week of special reports from Haiti. The earthquake there two months ago created one of the worst disasters in recent history. We"ve heard from kids who lost their family, were badly injured and had their homes and schools destroyed. Even though these children have suffered so much, they still have big hopes for the future. "I want to be a nurse, to help the people who are sick." "Maybe an engineer." "I"d like to be a doctor and a dentist. I"d like to study in the United States." But there are no quick solutions to the problems Haiti has. The country was already poor before the earthquake, now the little that many people did has been destroyed. It will take years to clear the rubble and longer still to rebuild the country. Tanya is working with the charity Save the Children in Haiti. She hopes that all the attention the country has been getting since the quake, will help it become stronger. "This is really a terrible moment for Haiti but it"s also an opportunity in a way, because there"s so much attention and desire to help. It"s a chance for the world to help Haiti build a better education system."

问答题相信你们会认真考虑这件事情，并努力防止再次发生类似恼人的延误。

问答题Directions: Suppose you have found something wrong with the electronic dictionary that you bough! from an online store the other day. Write an email to the customer service center to 1)make a complaint, and 2) demand a prompt solution. You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Zhang Wei" instead. Do not write the address.

问答题1. When people in developing countries worry about migration, they are usually concerned at the prospect of their best and brightest departure to Silicon Valley or to hospitals and universities in the developed world. 2. These are the kind of workers that countries like Britain, Canada and Australia try to attract by using immigration rules that privilege college graduates. Lots of studies have found that well-educated people from developing countries are particularly likely to emigrate. A big survey of Indian households in 2004 found that nearly 40% of emigrants had more than a high-school education, compared with around 3.3% of all Indians over the age of 25. This "brain drain" has long bothered policymakers in poor countries. 3. They fear that it hurts their economies, depriving them of much-needed skilled workers who could have taught at their universities, worked in their hospitals and come up with clever new products for their factories to make.

问答题describethetableand(2)stateyouropinionsdrawnfromit.Youshouldwriteatleast150Englishwords.WriteyouressayonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题Outline : 1．有人认为财富比健康重要。 2．有人认为健康比财富重要。 3．你的看法。

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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.