问答题Toxic workplace relationships, failing company fortunes and limited advancement opportunities are just a few compelling reasons to quit a job. But career experts say many workplace problems that employees may think are irreconcilable can be improved or even resolved with some action and a change of attitude. First, find out if your problems are unique. Reach out to co-workers in other departments, peers through industry associations or even call colleagues at other companies to compare notes. Second, separate the demands of work from your own expectations of yourself. If you're unhappy about falling short of your own personal career goals, try breaking your big goals into smaller, more realistically achievable ones. This can improve your morale by reinforcing small successes. Third, pitch your boss on a less formal and more goal-oriented workplace. And offer improved results in exchange for more autonomy. If the operational processes of your job are leading to failure, alter your approach, if you can.

问答题Directions:Inthispart,youareallowedtowriteacompositiononthetopicTheChangesinChina"sForeignTrade.Youshouldwriteatleast150words,basedonthefollowinginformations.WriteyouressayontheANSWERSHEET.

问答题You are asked to write a recommendation letter of your student, Li Ming, for a position of administrator in a company. Address it to the manager and express your reason (s) clearly. Write the letter with no less than 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the letter. Use "Wang Hua" instead. Do not write the address.

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问答题Directions:Writeanessaybasedonthefollowingchart.Inyouressay,youshould1)interpretthechart,and2)giveyourcomments.Youshouldwriteatleast150words.WriteyouressayontheANSWERSHEET.2015年第三季度～2016年第二季度微信活跃用户数量变化

问答题So, why is it so hard to throw in the towel, even when on some level you know you should.'? For one thing, it's embarrassing to admit to others that you've bitten off more than you can chew, or that you've made an error of judgment. No one likes to be thought of as a 'quitter'. For another, quitting means accepting the unrecoverable costs—all the time and energy that you've already put into reaching your goal that you can never get back. Of course, once you realize that you probably won't succeed, or that success isn't worth the unhappiness your project is causing you, it shouldn't matter what the unrecoverable costs are. If your job, your advanced degree, or your unfinished novel has taken up some of the best years of your life, it doesn't make sense to give them even more years. That will only make you miserable.

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The supermarket is designed to lure customers into spending as much time as possible within its doors. The reason for this is simple: The longer you stay in the store, the more stuff you"ll see, and the more stuff you see, the more you"ll buy. And supermarkets contain a lot of stuff. The average supermarket, according to the Food Marketing Institute, carries some 44,000 different items, and many carry tens of thousands more. The sheer volume of available choice is enough to send shoppers into a state of information overload. According to brain-scan experiments, the demands of so much decision-making quickly become too much for us. After about 40 minutes of shopping, most people stop struggling to be rationally selective, and instead begin shopping emotionally—which is the point at which we accumulate the 50 percent of stuff in our cart that we never intended buying.

问答题Directions.Inthispart,youareallowedtowriteacompositiononthetopicCarAccidentsDeclininginManhattan.Inyourwriting,youshould1)describeriseandfallofthenumberofcaraccidentsasindicatedbythegraph;2)givepossiblereason(s)forthedeclineofcaraccidentsinthecity;3)giveyourpredictionsofwhatwillhappenthisyear.Youshouldwriteatleast150words.WriteyouressayontheANSWERSHEET.

问答题Your friend Tom has invited you to his wedding ceremony, but you cannot go for some reason. Please write a letter to Tom to: 1. make an apology. 2. show your regret. 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.

问答题For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition of no less than 100 words on Income Sources between Chinese and American Students. Study the following table carefully and your composition must be based on the in formation given in the table. Write three paragraphs to: 1. Describe the differences of the income sources between Chinese and American students. 2. Analyze possible reasons for these differences. 3. Predicate future tendency. Source of income Percentage of Total Income Parents Part-time job Fellowship or Scholarship American studentsChinese students 50%90% 35%5% 15%5%

问答题Direction: In this section there is a passage in English. Translate the five sentences underlined into Chinese and write your translation on ANSWER SHEET 2. The smooth landing of the shuttle (航天飞机) Discovery ended a flight that was successful in almost every respect but one: the dislodging of a big chunk of foam, like the one that doomed the Columbia. This flight was supposed to vault the shuttle fleet back into space after a prolonged grounding for repairs. But given the repeat of the very problem that two years of retooling was supposed to resolve, the verdict is necessarily mixed. (1) {{U}}Once again, the space agency has been forced to put off the flight until it can find a solution to the problem, and no one seems willing to guess how long that may take.{{/U}} The discovery astronauts performed superbly during their two-week mission, and the shuttle looked better than ever in some respects. (2) {{U}}Space officials were justifiably happy that so much had gone well, despite daily worries over possible risks. The flight clearly achieved its prime objectives.{{/U}} The astronauts transferred tons of cargo to the international space station, which has been limping along overhead with a reduced crew and limited supplies carried up on smaller Russian spacecraft. (3) {{U}}They replaced a broken device, repaired another and carted away a load of rubbish that had been left on the station, showing the shuttle can bring full loads back down from space.{{/U}} This was the most scrutinized shuttle flight ever, with the vehicle undergoing close inspection while still in orbit. (4) {{U}}New sensing and photographic equipment to took for potentially dangerous damage to the sensitive external skin proved valuable.{{/U}} A new back flip maneuver allowed station astronauts to photograph the shuttle's underbelly, and an extra-long robotic arm enabled astronauts to see parts of the shuttle that were previously out of sight. {{U}}The flood of image and the openness in discussing its uncertainties about potential hazards{{/U}} {{U}}sometimes, made it appear that the shuttle was about to fall apart. In the end the damage was clearly tolerable.{{/U}} A much-touted spacewalk to repair the shuttle's skin—the first of its kind—moved an astronaut close enough to pluck out some protruding material with his hand. Preliminary evidence indicates that Discovery has far fewer nicks and gouges than shuttles on previous flights, perhaps showing that improvements to reduce the shedding of debris from the external fuel tank have had some success.

问答题The great joy of immersion in one particular story is that it stops you thinking about time and how to spend it. I recently counted the books in the Tower of Doom, estimated how long it would take to read them all, calculated this against my available reading hours on an average day, and concluded that the only realistic solution was to get sent to jail, where I might be able to fit in some regular exercise too. Perhaps I could read faster. President Theodore Roosevelt allegedly finished up to three books a day, advising his son: "The wise thing to do is simply to skip the vulgar words and untruth, and get the benefit out of the rest. "This is good advice for anyone who considers watching all six seasons of Lost, but it also makes the process more similar to data processing than actual enjoyment.

问答题Directions:A.Studythefollowinggraphscarefullyandwriteanessayinatleast150words.B.YouressaymustbewrittenclearlyontheANSWERSHEET2.C.Youressayshouldcoverthesethreepoints:1.effectofthecountry'sgrowinghumanpopulationonitswildlife2.possiblereasonfortheeffect3.yoursuggestionforwildlifeprotection

问答题Suddenly, as you may have noticed, millennials are everywhere. Not that this group of people born after 1980 and before 2000—a giant group now estimated to number at least 80 million Americans, more than the baby boom generation—was ever invisible. What"s changed is their status. Spoiled and helicoptered, catered to by 24-hour TV cable networks, fussed over by marketers and college recruiters, analyzed by psychologists, demographers and trend-spotters, the millennial generation has come fully into its own. The word "millennial," whether as noun or adjective, has monopolized the nonstop cultural conversation, invariably freighted with time spirit import. The New York Times is no exception. A recent search of The New York Times database turned up no fewer than 122 mentions of "millennial" so far in 2014, on topics ranging from TV and pop music to travel and literature.

问答题Directions:Writeanessaybasedonthefollowingchart.Inyourwriting,youshould1)interpretthechart,and2)giveyourcomments.Youshouldwriteabout150wordsontheANSWERSHEET.某市10年间上网和看电视人数变化

问答题1. Describe the differences of the income sources between Chinese and American students. 2. Analyze possible reasons for these differences. 3. Predicate future tendency. Source of income Percentage of Total Income Parents Pan-time job Fellowship or Scholarship American studentsChinese students 50%90% 35%5% 15%5%

问答题Most people know how to count, but the way we master this ability remains something of a puzzle. Numerals were invented only around four to five thousand years ago, meaning it is unlikely that enough time has elapsed for specialized parts of the brain for processing numbers to evolve, which suggests that math is largely a cultural invention. It appears to be based on an interface between vision and reasoning that we share with other animals, allowing us to "see" small numbers—up to around five—without counting. This ability—often called 'the number sense'—lays the foundations of later mathematical knowledge, but its basis is poorly understood. It has been argued that the number sense itself may be innate, but this fails to account for why learning to master the use of small numbers is such a difficult and drawn-out process in children.

问答题Hallowell 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 cheek. 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Directions: Write a letter of about 100 words to your American friend Jam, recommending your Chinese friend Han Ling to teach him Chinese. 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.