The television station is supported by______from foundations and other sources.

Some of the most popular attractions across America are the many free concerts offered to the public throughout the year. These involve not only amateur performers, but professional artists as well. The public parks of many cities across the country usually have bandstands and large lawns. As a service to citizens, they rent out space to performers free of charge. Amateur groups, with nothing more than a desire to perform, offer their talents freely to the public. Semi-professional artists are pleased to get the chance to perform before the public to perfect their craft and nurture the hope of being discovered before beginning a professional career. Famous professionals also give free concerts to make contact with their admiring fans. Often such concerts are sponsored by a large corporate organization and offered to the public free of charge as a cultural service and support for the arts. The free concerts feature all kinds of music from rock and roll, jazz, country-western to the classics. In addition, free performances may include the plays of Shakespeare or experimental theater of modern dramatists. In New York's Central Park there has long been a summer Shakespeare festival which draws huge crowds to the free performances. Of these concerts the ones held on a summer evening in the park are the most popular. They take on a festive air. Friends and groups gather together after work and spread out a blanket on the lawn facing the performers' stage. The early comers get the best locations and enjoy a picnic supper while it is still daylight. The free seating is on a first come basis. Therefore, by the time the concert begins, as many as five thousand or more people may be in attendance. The concerts usually begin at 8 p. m. and are performed under the stars. The sound is made sufficiently loud so that no matter where one chooses to sit, he can hear very well. The only disturbance may be the sound of an overhead airplane on its final approach to an airport or the far-off siren (警笛声) of all ambulance on its way to the hospital. This matters little! What counts is to soak up the atmosphere created by the music and to be with friends in the flesh open air. The best part of it all is that it's free!

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The rich have traditionally passed their wealth on to their children. But an increasing number of billionaires are choosing not to. The reason? They want their children to live on themselves — and not to turn into spoiled successors. Nicola Horlick or " supermom" , a famous British billionaire, owing to the fact that she has high-flying jobs and five kids — has spent her career making a report ￡ 250m. She now seems determined to throw off large parts of it. She already gives away about 25% of her income each year; she has just revealed, in a report on the state of charity in the city, that she will not be leaving most of the remainder to her children. " I think it is wrong to give too much inherited wealth to children," Horlick told the report's authors. "I will not be leaving all my wealth to my children because that would just ruin their lives. " She is by no means the first to go public with this convition. Bill Gates has put an estimated $ 30bn into the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This was supplemented, in 2009, by another $ 24bn or so from his friend Warren Buffett. Buffett has always been colorful, quotably clear on where he stands. His daughter often tells a story of finding herself without change for a car parking ticket — her father lent her $ 20, then promptly made her write him a check. "To suggest that the children of the wealthy should be just as wealthy," he has said, " is like saying the members of America's 2004 Olympic team should be made up only of the children of the 1980 Olympic team. " Antia Roddick, the late founder of the Body Shop, told her kids that they would not inherit one penny. The money that she made from the company would go into the Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters, like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.

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A. you don't make the same mistake twiceB. it's exciting and challengingC. so I do exercises to calm myself downD. Why did you want to be a weather forecaster Interviewer: When did you become a weather forecaster?Matt Taylor: I joined the BBC Weather Centre in June 1992 and id my first live broadcast about six mouths later. Interviewer:【D7】______?Matt Taylor: I am passionate about the weather, and the challenge of presenting weather information to the public, especially in times of severe weather, in a coherent and pleasant style, was the principal motivation. Interviewer: Do you get nervous before a broadcast?Matt Taylor: I do, but not as much as in the early days! If the forecast is complicated, then I do get nervous about whether I will present it well and effectively, as I want to do a good job. If I think there is a lot to say, I sometimes speak too fast, which makes me nervous, 【D8】______Interviewer: Have you ever made any mistakes?Matt Taylor: Yes. It's important to know what elements of the forecast are subject to error. Often I find making mistakes is a good way to learn, and【D9】______Interviewer: Do you enjoy your job? Matt Taylor: Yes,【D10】______I consider myself lucky to have found this job.

A. to use B. finding C. the wayPhrases:A. good at【T15】______informationB. 【T16】______their brains workC. 【T17】______their imagination The time spent with technology doesn't just give kids new ways of doing things, it changes【T18】______.For example, an article says that while video games may condition the brain to pay attention to multiple stimuli, they can lead to distraction and decreased memory. Children who always use search engines may become very【T19】______—but not very good at remembering it. In addition, the article said, children who use too much technology may not have enough opportunities【T20】______or to read and think deeply about the material.

A. I'd like to know your health benefit and pay scaleB. you want an experienced software engineerC. I have designed some programs for the network with Visual C++D. I am quite familiar with database programming, Visual C++ and Java languageZheng Hai: Excuse me. I have an appointment with Ms. Wang. May I come in?Ms. Wang: Yes, come in please. I am Ms. Wang. You must be Zheng Hai, right? I'd like to start this interview with some questions. Why do you think you are qualified for this position?Zheng Hai: According to your advertisement,【D7】______ . I think my background meets the requirement of this position.Ms. Wang: Then tell me something about your background.Zheng Hai: My major was computer science when I was in Wuhan University, and【D8】______.Ms. Wang: Have you ever designed any programs concerning network?Zheng Hai: Yes,【D9】______ and I have passed the test for programmers MCSE.Ms. Wang: Well, your background and qualifications are impressive. Do you have any questions?Zheng Hai:【D10】______ .Ms. Wang: Certainly. We can provide health and medical benefit. Our pay scale to computer engineer is from five thousand to eight thousand. Employees in our company also enjoy a two-week vocation with pay every year.

A. medical B. so C. consideredA. Several hot days are【T7】______ a heat waveB.【T8】______ does extreme heatC. cause serious【T9】______ problems Extremely hot weather is common in many parts of the world. Although hot weather just makes most people feel hot, it can【T10】______ — even death. Floods, storms, volcano eruptions and other natural disasters kill thousands of people every year.【T11】______ Experts say heat may be nature's deadliest killer. Recently, extreme heat was blamed for killing more than one hundred people in India. It is reported that the total heat of a hot day or several days can affect health.【T12】______ Experts say heat waves often become dangerous when the nighttime temperature does not drop much from the highest daytime temperature. This causes great stress on the human body.

{{B}}Section BDirections: In this section there is one incomplete interview which has four blanks and four choices A,B,C and D,taken from the interview.Fill in each of the blanks with one of the choices to complete the interview and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.{{/B}}

Giving the child problems he cannot solve will only frustrate him.

A. the issuing bank will send the L/C to one of its correspondents at the place of export by mail or cable.B. I'd like to know what the main content of an L/C isC. Would you help me open an L/C now?D. As soon as the L/C and document are presented to the issuing bank, the bank must pay to the exporterA: Can I help you, sir?B: Yes, I want to open an L/C. Could you tell me more details?A: OK. A letter of credit is a written payment instrument issued by a bank at the request of a customer. It will be sent to the exporter to make shipment and prepare the document specified in the L/C.【D7】______ . The bank acts as the first payer and this is the most important feature of L/C.B: I see.【D8】______ .A: Name, quantity, unit price and amount of goods, ports of loading and destination, price and payment terms, shipping document, latest shipment date and validity of the L/C.B: Then how can I send an L/C to my customer?A: In practice,【D9】______ . After verifying the authenticity of the L/C, the correspondent (advising bank) will send the L/C to the exporter.B: I've got it.【D10】______ .A: I'd be glad to.B: Thanks for your help.A: You are welcome!

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His expenditure on holidays and luxuries is rather high in______to his income.

The process by means of which human beings arbitrarily make certain things stand for other things many be called the symbolic process. Everywhere we turn, we see the symbolic process at work. There are【C1】______ things men do or want to do, possess or want to possess, that have not a symbolic value. Almost all fashionable clothes are【C2】______ symbolic, so is food. We【C3】______our furniture to serve as visible symbols of our taste, wealth, and social position. We often choose our houses【C4】______ the basis of a feeling that it "looks well" to have a "good address." We trade perfectly good cars in for later models not always to get better transportation, but to give【C5】______ to the community that we can【C6】______ it. Such complicated and apparently unnecessary behavior leads philosophers to ask over and over again, "why can't human beings【C7】______ simply and naturally." Often the complexity of human life makes us look enviously at the relative simplicity of such lives as dogs and cats. Simply, the fact that symbolic process makes complexity possible is no【C8】______ for wanting to【C9】______ to a cat-and-dog existence. A better solution is to understand the symbolic process so that instead of being its slaves we become, to some degree at least, its【C10】______.

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The fact that the earth's surface heats______provides a convenient way to divide it into temperature regions.

A. inB. passionateC. return toPhrases:A. my experiment【T7】______what the Americans term "downshifting"B. I have been transformed from a【T8】______advocateC. Nothing could persuade me to【T9】______the kind of life Curiously, some two-and-a-half years and two novels later,【T10】______has turned my tired excuse into an absolute reality.【T11】______of the philosophy of "having it all" preached by Linda Kelsey for the past seven years in the page of She magazine, into a woman who is happy to settle for a bit of everything. I have discovered, as perhaps Kelsey will after her much-publicized resignation from the editorship of She after a build-up of stress, that abandoning the doctrine of "juggling your life" , and making the alternative move into "downshifting" brings with it far greater rewards than financial success and social status.【T12】______Kelsey used to advocate and I once enjoyed; 12 hour working days, pressured deadlines, the fearful strain of office politics and the limitations of being a parent on "quality time".

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{{B}}Part Ⅰ Oral Communication{{/B}}