Born Sept. 11, 1907, in Boston, Alice Lillian Ellis was________of nine children.

BWritingDirections: In this part, you are to write within 30 minutes a composition of no less than 150 words on the following topic. You could follow the clues suggested by the picture given below. Remember to write the composition clearly on the ANSWER SHEET./B

Does brain power______as we get older? Scientists now have some surprising answers.

They questioned the validity of the contract which she signed five years ago.

The office desk, as we know it, may have had its day. A large study on the future of work in the UK predicts the rise of the "mobile worker" moving with notebook computer and mobile phone between office, home, hotel, airport or highway service station as the needs of a job demand. Today, more than five million people already spend some time working at home or on the move, according to a recent report. That number will rise dramatically over the coming decades, with mobile work becoming one of the fastest-growing types of employment. According to the study "Working in the Twenty-First Century", individuals will not necessarily see themselves as working from home. They could equally be working from the office, but they will be on the move from place to place, working at various times of the day, for much of the week. For a large proportion of workers, work in twenty years' time will be more about movement than staying in one place.

Computers will flourish because they enable us to accomplish tasks that could never before have been undertaken.

Nuclear power's danger to health, safety, and even life itself can be summed up in one word: radiation. Nuclear radiation has a certain mystery about it, partly because it cannot be detected by human senses. It can't be seen or heard, or touched or tasted, even though it may be all around us. There are other things like that. For example, radio waves are all around us but we can't detect them, sense them, without a radio receiver. Similarly, we can't sense radioactivity without a radiation detector. But unlike common radio waves, nuclear radiation is not harmless to human beings and other living things. At very high levels, radiation can kill an animal or human being outright by killing masses of cells in vital organs. But even the lowest levels can do serious damage. There is no level of radiation that is completely safe. If the radiation does not hit anything important, the damage may not be significant. This is the case when only a few cells are hit, and if they are killed outright, your body will replace the dead cells with healthy ones. But if the few cells are only damaged, and if they reproduce themselves, you may be in trouble. They reproduce themselves in a deformed way. They can grow into cancer. Sometimes this does not show up for many years. This is another reason for some of the mystery about nuclear radiation. Serious damage can be done without the victim being aware at the time that damage has occurred. A person can be irradiated and feel fine, then die of cancer five, ten, or twenty years later as a result. Or a child can be born weak or liable to serious illness as a result of radiation absorbed by its grandparents. Radiation can hurt us. We must know the truth.

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{{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}}

{{B}}Section ADirections: Translate the following passage into Chinese. Write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET.{{/B}}

The source informed the reporter that though the fire in the TV show house spread rapidly, a team of four specifically trained staff______it immediately and put it out in ten minutes.

Sculptors from Pergamum developed a distinct style, which they employed in creating a magnificent altar dedicated to Zeus, king of the Greek gods.

Psychologist George Spilich and colleagues at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, decided to find out whether, as many smokers say, smoking helps them to "think and concentrate". Spilich put young non-smokers, active smokers and smokers deprived (被剥夺) of cigarettes through a series of tests. In the first test, each subject (实验对象) sat before a computer screen and pressed a key as soon as he or she recognized a target letter among a grouping of 96. In this simple test, smokers, deprived smokers and nonsmokers performed equally well. The next test was more complex, requiring all to scan sequences of 20 identical letters and respond the instant one of the letters transformed into a different one. Non-smokers were faster, but under the stimulation of nicotine (尼古丁), active smokers were faster than deprived smokers.In the third test of short-term memory, non-smokers made the fewest errors, but deprived smokers committed fewer errors than active smokers. The fourth test required people to read a passage, then answer questions about it. Non-smokers remembered 19 percent more of the most important information than active smokers, and deprived smokers bested those who had smoked a cigarette just before testing. Active smokers tended not only to have poorer memories but also had trouble separating important information from insignificant details. "As our tests became more complex," sums up Spilich, "non-smokers performed better than smokers by wider and wider margins." He predicts, "smokers might perform adequately at many jobs until they got complicated. A smoking airline pilot could fly adequately if no problems arose, but if something went wrong, smoking might damage his mental capacity."

An international treaty signed several years ago bans trade in plants and animals of endangered species.

A: I've got it. I think I will wear a white shirt with a tie. Thank you for your suggestions.A. Please tell me about the courses you completed at university.B. What was your graduation's thesis on?C. What was your major at university?A: What university did you graduate from? And when? B: I graduated from Nanjing University in June, 2003. A:【D4】______B: My major was Economics and Trade. A:【D5】______B: I completed English, Economics, Accounting, Finance, International Business and other business courses.A: What degree have you received?B: I received a Bachelor Degree.A:【D6】______B: I did my thesis on "The Development of the World's Business".

Write a composition of at least 150 words about the topic：My Idea of Pop Music．You should write according to the outline given below： 1．有人认为流行音乐不登大雅之堂 2．有人认为音乐无高贵低贱之分，只有兴趣的差别 3．我的观点

When it comes to personal finance, we are all looking for ways to save more money. Our household budgets are filled with both big and small expenses that we imagine can be cut out to save loads of cash or, at the very least, spent better elsewhere. One of the things you have surely considered is using public transportation rather than your own vehicle. It would be easy to assume that public transportation is cheaper, because bus fare is far less expensive than gas, but those are not the only costs to consider. Take a step back to your high school economics class and try to remember the lesson about opportunity costs. These, as you might recall if you were awake for that class, are the things you give up when you choose one option over other options. Although they are not measured in dollars and cents, they still have to be considered whenever you make a financial decision.

{{B}}Section ADirections: In this section there are two incomplete dialogues and each dialogue has three blanks and three choices A,B and C,taken from the dialogue.Fill in each of the blanks with one of the choices to complete the dialogue and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.{{/B}}

In order to work here the foreigner needs a work permit, which must be applied for by his prospective employer. The problem here is that the Department of Employment has the right to 【C1】 ______or refuse these permits, and there is little that can be 【C2】______about it, it would be extremely unwise for a foreign visitor to work without a permit, since anyone doing so is 【C3】______ to immediate deportation. There are some exceptions to this rule, most notably people from the Common Market countries, who are 【C4】______to work without permits and who are often given temporary residence permits of up to five years. Some 【C5】______people, such as doctors, foreign journalists, authors and others, can work without permits. The problem with the Act is not just that some of its rules are【C6】______but【C7】______it is administered, and the people who administer it.An immigration official has the power to stop a visitor【C8】______these shores coming into the country. If this happens the visitor has the 【C9】______to appeal to the Immigration Appeal Tribunal. 【C10】______the appeals are being considered, the visitor has no choice but to wait sometimes for quite a long time.

When required to eat vegetables, many children only do so reluctantly .