问答题亚太地区经济合作组织是为了促进亚太地区各国之间的经济合作于1989年组建的。亚太经合组织旨在通过促进各国之间的自由贸易帮助各成员国发展经济，提高人民生活水平。共同的利益和共同的未来要求各成员国共同肩负起责任，抓住经济全球化带来的机遇，携手并进。

问答题The new business model will require a corresponding on-demand operating environment—built on open standards to allow quick, easy and cost-effective innovation and reconfiguration. In the on-demand era, processes will have to be integrated from one end to the other—so a customer order,for example, creates a ripple effect in which every part of the organization responds appropriately to the impact of the order: logistics, manufacturing and distribution. The level of integration needed to make this happen is a big challenge but a huge opportunity. In this era, you'll need an e-business partner you can trust, e-business tools that work in new ways and e-business people who understand your business as well as the technology it runs on. A partner, in other words, like IBM.

问答题Directions: Study the following essay carefully and write a summary in about 80 words. Americans today don't place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars. Even our schools are where we send our children to get a practical education—not to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Symptoms of pervasive anti-intellectualism in our schools are not difficult to find. "Schools have always been in a society where practical is more important than intellectual," says education writer Diane Ravitch, "Schools could be a counterbalance." Ravitch's latest book, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms, traces the roots of anti-intellectualism in our schools, concluding they are anything but a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectual pursuits. But they could and should be. Encouraging kids to reject the life of the mind leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and control. Without the ability to think critically, to defend their ideas and understand the ideas of others, they can't fully participate in our democracy. Continuing along this path, says writer Earl Shorris, "We'll become a second-rate country. We'll have a less civil society." "Intellect is resented as a form of power and privilege." Writes historian and professor Richard Hofstadter in Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, a Pulitzer winning book on the roots of anti-intellec-tualism in US politics, religion, and education. From the beginning of our history, says Hofstadter, our democratic and populist urges have driven us to reject anything that smells elitism. Practicality, common sense, and native intelligence have been considered nobler than qualities you could learn from a book. Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children: "We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do know a thing." Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn exemplified American anti-intellectualism. Its hero avoids being civilized—going to school and learning to read—so he can preserve his innate goodness.

问答题他很长时间以来一直梦想当一名首席执行官(CEO)。为了达到心中渴望的这一目的，他从早忙到晚。后来，他被提升为执行总裁。从那以后，他更是全身心地扑在工作上。为鼓励员工努力工作，他还制定了一些奖励制度。自从他加盟以来，公司有了很大改观。但他并不满足于自己的成绩。决定利用业余时间攻读EMBA学位。

问答题世界许多地区的天气变化无常，它在人们日常生活中起着重要的作用。例如：如果他们是农民、渔民或水手，他们需要事先了解气候的变化。太空科学家和飞行员特别需要了解天气情况。自古以来，人类观察天空、风向和大气层以及各种其他气候现象，以便进行天气预报。但他们的天气预报常常是不准的。现在许多国家政府部门非常仔细地研究天气情况。它们使用多种科学仪器来帮助准确地预测天气，例如，他们利用雷达、卫星和计算机来收集所需要的气象资料。

问答题A new era is upon us. Call it what you will: the service economy, the information age, the knowledge society. It all translates to a fundamental change in the way we work. Already we're partly there. (1){{U}}The percentage of people who earn their living by making things has fallen dramatically in the Western World.{{/U}} Today the majority of jobs in America, Europe and Japan(two thirds or more in many of these countries)are in the service industry, and the number is on the rise. (2){{U}}There are more part-time jobs. More people are self-employed. But the breadth of the economic transformation can't be measured by numbers alone, because it also is giving rise to a radical new way of thinking about the nature of work itself.{{/U}} (3){{U}}Long-held notions about jobs and careers, the skills needed to succeed, even the relation between individuals and employers—all these are being challenged.{{/U}} (4){{U}}We have only to look behind us to get some sense of what may lie ahead.{{/U}} (5){{U}}No one looking ahead 20 years possibly could have foreseen the ways in which a single invention, the chip, would transform our world thanks to its applications in personal computers, digital communications and factory robots.{{/U}}

问答题把大部分时间用在学习上的学生最有可能通过所有考试。 2．由于科学进步，几十年前看起来不可能的事已变成现实。 3．事实使我们得出的结论是诚实和无私一样重要。 4．大学毕业两年后，她决定考研以更新自己的知识。 5．人口的增加使地球必须生产更多的粮食。

问答题Outline:A. Owning a car has become a common desire for most young and middle-aged people:B. The advantages and disadvantages of having a private car;C. My suggestions on how to improve the sales and use of private cars and the public transportation in big cities.

问答题Outline: 1. Choose either of the two positions: College students should (not) be allowed to get married. 2. State your reasons for or against the issue. 3. Draw a conclusion.

问答题1.Common sources of stress. 2.Healthy ways to reduce stress. 3.How you have overcome stressful situations.

问答题{{B}}Outline:{{/B}} 1．社会上不断发生犯罪案件的严重性； 2．人们对犯罪现象的不同态度和我的态度； 3．我对加强治安、促进社会安定团结的建议。

问答题It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer．Just as inevitably，the retreat from predominance proved painful．By the mid-1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial competitiveness．Some huge American industries，such as consumer electronics，had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign competition．By 1987 there was only one American television maker left，Zenith． (Now there is none：Zenith was bought by South Korea’S LG Electronics in July．)Foreign-made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic market．America's machinetool industry was on the ropes．

问答题The Supreme Court's decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering. Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of "double effect", a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foresee is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect. Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients' pain, even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient.

问答题In recent years corporate downsizing has been on the rise throughout the world. Downsizing, which is usually called restructuring, rightsizing, reallocating resources, or job separation, is reducing costs by dismissing employees and reassigning their duties to the employees who remain. In their quest to lower costs to stay competitive, companies often wield the ax with little or no regard for the well-being of people involved. Industry analysts assert that if organizations wish to consider themselves responsible, moral corporate citizens, they must demonstrate concern for their employees, even when they have to tell them they are no longer employed. Employees who know what is going on can prepare themselves for the inevitable and are much better able to cope when the ax finally does fall.

问答题Directions: For this part, you are required to write a short essay entitled Will E-books Replace Traditional Books? You should write at least 150 words following the outlines given below: 1．随着信息技术的发展，电子图书越来越多； 2．有人认为电子图书会取代传统图书，理由是： 3．我的看法。

问答题Directions: A. Title: Should People Be Rewarded According to Ability or Age? B. Word limit: about 150 words C. Your composition should be based on the OUTLINE below: (1) present situation when young people enter the society. (2) the possible reasons for such a phenomenon. (3) your view on judging a person.

问答题1.StatethechangesinthenumberofChinesetravelingabroadinthepastthreeyears.2.Givepossiblereasonsforthechanges.

问答题展望新世纪初的国内外形势，未来五到十年是我国经济和社会发展极为重要的时期。世界新科技革命迅猛发展，经济全球化趋势增强，许多周边国家正在加快发展。所有这些既为我们带来了严峻挑战，也为我们提供了历史性机遇。

问答题{{B}} Education in Britain and the U.S.A{{/B}} In Britain all children have to go to school between the ages of 5 and 16. In the US children must go to school from the age of 6 to between the ages of 14 and 16, depending on the state they live in.{{B}}Subjects{{/B}} In England and Wales the subjects taught in schools are laid down by the National Curriculum, which was introduced in 1988 and sets out in detail the subjects that children should study and the levels of achievement they should reach by the ages of 7,11,14 and 16,when they are tested. The National Curriculum does not apply in Scotland, where each school decides what subjects it will teach. In the US the subjects taught are decided by the national and local governments. Whereas British schools usually have prayers and religious instruction ,American schools are not allowed to include prayers or to teach particular religious beliefs.{{B}}Examinations{{/B}} At 16 students in England and Wales take GCSE examinations. These examinations are taken by students of all levels of ability in any of a range of subjects and may involve a final examination ,an assessment of work done during the two-year course, or both of these things. At 18 some students taking A-level examinations, usually in not more than 3 subjects. It is necessary to have A-levels in order to go to a university or polytechnic. In Scotland students take the SCE examinations. A year later, they can take examinations called HIGHERS, after which they can either go straight to a university or spend a further year at school and take the Certificate of Sixth Year Studies. In Scotland the university system is different to that in England and Wales. Courses usually last four years rather than three and students study a larger number of subjects as part of their degree. In the US school examinations are not as important as they are in Britain. Students in High Schools do have exams at the end of their last two years, but these final exams are considered along with the work that the students have done during the school years.{{B}}Social events and ceremonies{{/B}} In American high schools there is a formal ceremony for Graduation. Students wear a special cap and gown and receive a diploma from the head of the school. Students often buy a class ring to wear, and a yearbook, containing pictures of their friends and teachers. There are also special social events at American schools. Sports events are popular, and cheer leaders lead the school in supporting the school team and singing the school song. At the end of their junior year, at age 17 or 18,students hold parties in the evening. The girls wear long evening dresses and the boys wear tuxedos(晚礼服). In Britain, there are no formal dances or social occasions associated with school life. Some schools have SPEECH DAY at the end of the school year when prizes are given to the best students and speeches are made by the head teacher and sometimes an invited guest. However, in many British schools students and teachers organize informal dances for the older students.

问答题The consolidation of the crumbling walls and towers has been carried out in accordance with a program agreed with the Department of the Environment. 2．A doctor's obligation when he can no longer hold back the approach of death is to make the patient comfortable, including easing his pain. 3．I cannot honestly see that a system which would require US to compromise the morning after the election is really SO morally inferior to a system which has already obliged US to compromise our policies two years before polling day. 4．That country will continue to make new nerve gas weapons after the conclusion of a global treaty banning them takes effect, according to a secret administration policy review. 5．One lesson he learned was that the key to survival in emergency was making the best use of whatever you have at hand.