问答题We all know that the most powerful force in our lives is love. In addition to providing us with soul-warming companionship, the emotion of love is truly inspiring.
Of course, the facts of our lives tell a somewhat sad story. We have a very hard time making love last. The divorce rate in the U.S. is still around 50 percent. That figure doesn"t even cover the many couples that live together without marriage and whose unions are even more likely to dissolve.
Relationships fail because people have the misconception about what to expect in marriage. The fantasy is that everything will be wonderful as long as you find the perfect person-your missing half. But marriage is a team sport. It"s one team with two people, with two different minds. The difficulty is that these two people disagree all the time. They need to know nondestructive ways of expressing differences and must also be prepared for the inevitable disappointments that come from living with another person.
问答题In America we are raised to appreciate the accomplishments of inventors and thinkers—creative people whose ideas have transformed our world. We celebrate the famously imaginative, the greatest artists and innovators from van Gogh to Steve Jobs. Viewing the world creatively is supposed to be an asset, even a virtue. Online job boards burst with ads recruiting "idea people" and "out of the box" thinkers. We are taught that our own creativity will be celebrated as well, and that if we have good ideas, we will succeed.
It"s all a lie. This is the thing about creativity that is rarely acknowledged: Most people don"t actually like it. Studies confirm what many creative people have suspected all along: People are biased against creative thinking, despite all of their insistence otherwise. We celebrate creative people, but the thing we celebrate is the after-effect.
问答题Expectations surrounding education have spun out of control. On top of a seven-hour school day, our kids march through hours of nightly homework, daily sports practices and band rehearsals, and weekend-consuming assignments and tournaments. Each activity is seen as a step on the ladder to a top college, an enviable job and a successful life. Children living in poverty who aspire to college face the same daunting admissions arms race, as well as the burden of competing for scholarships, with less support than their privileged peers. Even those not bound for college are ground down by the constant measurement in schools under pressure to push through mountains of rote, impersonal material as early as preschool. Yet instead of empowering them to thrive, this drive for success is eroding children"s health and undermining their potential. Modern education is actually making them sick. Working together, parents, educators and students can make small but important changes.
问答题Directions
Suppose you won a translation contest and your friend, Jack, wrote an email to congratulate you and ask for advice on translation. Write him a reply to
1) thank him, and
2) give your advice.
You should Write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET.
Do not use your own name. Use "Li Ming" instead.
Do not write your address.
问答题Directions:
Suppose you have damaged your friend"s computer when you lived in his house a few days ago. Write him a letter to
1) make an apology, and
2) suggest a solution.
You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET.
Do not
use your own name. Use "Li Ming" instead.
Do not
write the address.
问答题You are the president of a company. Write a memo to Percy Shelley, the vice-president on the employee's training on computer, telling him the need to train the employees, detailed information, and ask him to write a plan about 100 words.
Date: January 9, 2010
To: Percy Shelley, Vice President
From: Li Ming, President
Subject: Computer Training of the Staff
问答题Expectations surrounding education have spun out of control. On top of a seven-hour school day, our kids march through hours of nightly homework, daily sports practices and band rehearsals, and weekend-consuming assignments and tournaments. Each activity is seen as a step on the ladder to a top college, an enviable job and a successful life. Children living in poverty who aspire to college face the same daunting admissions arms race, as well as the burden of competing for scholarships, with less support than their privileged peers. Even those not bound for college are ground down by the constant measurement in schools under pressure to push through mountains of rote, impersonal material as early as preschool. Yet instead of empowering them to thrive, this drive for success is eroding children"s health and undermining their potential. Modem education is actually making them sick. Working together, parents, educators and students can make small but important changes.
问答题Directions:
Suppose your university is going to host a summer camp for high school students. Write a notice to
1) briefly introduce the camp activities, and
2) call for volunteers.
Yon should Write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET.
Do not use your name or the name of your university.
Do not write your address.
问答题Directions:
Suppose your friend Jack is addicted to online chatting. Write him an email to
1) tell him about the consequences, and
2) make your suggestions.
You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET.
Do not
use your own name. Use "Li Ming" instead.
Do not
write your address.
问答题Directions:Inthispart,youareallowedtowriteacompositiononthetopicStudentUseofComputers.Yourcompositionshouldincludethefollowingthreeparts.1)Pleasedescribethechange;2)Pleaseexplainwhyitchanges;3)Youthinkwhatdifficultiesorproblemsarethepresentcollegestudentsfacingincomputerusing.Youshouldwriteatleast150words.WriteyouressayontheANSWERSHEET.
问答题Directions:
Suppose you want to study at a foreign university. Write a letter to
1) ask about its accommodation and fees, and
2) what qualifications one needs for acceptance.
You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET.
Do not
use your own name. Use "Li Ming" instead.
Do not
write your address.
问答题Last Sunday, China's central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said if necessary, the nation will consider widening the yuan's trading band.
But any change in the yuan's floating band will depend on the global economic situation and it's not the only tool the country would use to make its currency more flexible, Zhou said at the Group of 20 meeting in Cape Town, South Africa.
China widened the yuan's daily trading band against the U. S. dollar from plus or minus 0.3 percent to 0.5 percent in May. However, market observers said some commercial banks are ordered by the central bank to hand in reserve requirements in foreign currencies next week, which will translate into demand for the U. S. dollar. This will somehow help slow down RMB'S appreciation against the greenback in the coming few days.
问答题Directions:
Write an essay based on the following pie chart. In your writing, you should
1) interpret the chart, and
2) give your comments.
You should write about 150 words on the ANSWER SHEET.
问答题Directions:
Write an email of about 100 words to a newspaper editor to advocate people to be responsible for their words on the Internet.
You should include the details you think necessary.
You should write neatly on the ANSWER SHEET.
Do not
use your own name. Use "Li Ming" instead.
Do not
write the address.
问答题Directions:
Suppose you are going to invite one of your American friends to see a film, now
1) recommend one of your favorite movies and
2) invite him to see the film.
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Directions:Writeanessaybasedonthefollowingbargraphandpiechart.Inyouressay,youshould1)interpretthegraphandchart,and2)giveyourcomments.Youshouldwriteatleast150words.WriteyouressayontheANSWESHEET.
问答题Directions:
In this part, you are allowed to write a letter to express your apologize for the reason why you can"t attend the foreign language class. You should write a letter to your teacher to show the reason and apologize.
You should write about 100 words on the
ANSWER SHEET.
Do not
sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Zhang Wei" instead.
Do not
write the address.
问答题Halltowell argues in his new book,
Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive
, that when you feel real or imagined concerns piling on, share them with a friend, and there"s a better chance that aimless anxiety will change into problem-solving. He believes that worrying alone is one of the major reasons that people can"t focus, both at work and elsewhere in their lives.
Worrying alone does not have to be toxic, but it tends to become toxic because in isolation we lose perspective. We tend to globalize, catastrophize, when no one is there to act as a reality check. Our imaginations run wild.
Indeed, Samuel Johnson, a severe worrier himself, called worry a "disease of the imagination". When we worry alone we risk losing touch with reality, becoming paralyzed in worry, making bad decisions, and even getting sick, as toxic worry depresses immune function.
问答题By now it is common knowledge that professionals are more likely to marry and less likely to divorce than are less educated workers. Among 20-to-49-year-old men in 2013, 56 percent of professional, managerial and technical workers were married, compared with 31 percent of service workers, according to the American Community Survey of the Census Bureau. Some people argue that the gap is largely a result of a decline in traditional values among working-class men, particularly whites who constitute the majority of them. Supposedly they are not as industrious in seeking employment as were their fathers and grandfathers and so fail to secure the steady jobs needed for marriage.
But some digging into historical census records shows that social class differences in marriage have been tied to the extent of income inequality among white Americans for at least 130 years. They also suggest that commentators who insist that the marriage gap is wholly a matter of values are almost surely wrong.
问答题Direction:Writeanessaybasedonthefollowingchart.Inyouressay,youshould1)interpretthechart,and2)giveyourcommentsYoushouldwriteabout150wordsontheANSWERSHEET2.