Seeing from the top of the tower, the south foot of the mountain is a sea of trees.

Every means have been tried but without much success.

The boy called Tom was born in the morning of May 2nd, 1990.

Mr. Black, a good friend of me, likes drawing horses.

The professor's lecture on grammar was three hours long and Sam felt very boring.

I'm look forward to hearing good news from you.

He is an experienced businessman; he has engaging in foreign trade for a few years.

Of the two students, one is named Tom and another named Fred.

Look! Two hundreds students are watching a football match on the playground.

Americans suffer from an overdose of work. Regardless 41 who they are or what they do, Americans spend 42 time at work than at any time since World War Ⅱ. In 1950, the US had fewer working hours 43 any industrialized country. Today, it exceeds every country 44 Japan, where industrial employees load 2,155 hours a year compared 45 1,951 in the US and 1,603 in the 46 West Germany. Between 1969 and 1989, employed Americans 47 an average of 138 hours to their yearly work schedules. The workweek 48 above 40 hours, but people are working more weeks each year. 49 , paid time off holidays, vacations, sick leave shrank 50 15 percent in the 1990s. As corporations have 51 stiffer competition and slower growth in productivity, they have pressed employees to work longer. Cost-cutting lay-offs in the 1990s 52 the professional and managerial runs, 53 fewer people to get the job done. In lower-paid occupations, 54 wages have been reduced, workers have added hours 55 overtime or extra jobs to 56 their living standard. The government estimates that more than seven million people hold a second job. For the first time, large 57 of people say they want to cut 58 on working hours, even if it means earning less money. 59 most employers are unwilling to let them do so. The government, which has stepped back from its traditional 60 as a regulator of work time, should take steps to make shorter hours possible.

There is a people in the room. But nobody knows who it is.

Directions: For this part, you are supposed to write a composition on the topic Is Frustration a Bad Thing? You should write at least 120 words, and base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below. 1. 有些人认为挫折是坏事。 2. 更多的人并不认为挫折是坏事。 3. 我的看法。

The manager entered the office and was happy to learn that four-fifths of the tickets were booked.

Weather permit, the Johnsons will hold open-air garden party.

Neither he nor his two brothers was responsible for the fire which had caused great losses to the family.

Directions: For this part, you're required to write a composition on the topic 'Getting to Know the Society'. You should write at least 120 words, and your composition should be based on the outline given in Chinese below and write your composition on the Answer Sheet. Getting to Know the Society 1．大学生了解社会的必要性； 2．了解社会的途径(大众媒体、社会实践活动等)； 3．我在这方面是怎样做的。

In March when spring is already here, we usually plant many young trees on both side of the street.

Mary wants to buy that kind of cloth because she has been told that the cloth is washed very well.

China's birth rate has been falling since 2016—for example, 12 million new births were recorded in 2020, but the number is expected to drop below 10 million in 2021 despite a series of pronatalist policies taken by the government. And although the two-child policy introduced in 2016 caused an uptick in the number of newborns, it failed to reverse the falling birth rate trend. Can the three-child policy introduced last year succeed where earlier favorable family planning policies failed? The picture doesn't look good, though. China's birth rate in 2020 declined to 1.3 percent, far lower than the replacement rate of 2.1, according to the seventh national census results. Since the population of women of childbearing age in China has reached its peak, it will continue to decline. From the perspective of economics, having children is essentially an economic decision. The costs and benefits of having a child play a key role in such families' decision. As for benefits, children carry on the family name and can help strengthen the bond between a man and a woman. And having children gives an assurance to parents that they will have someone to take care of them when they get old. When it comes to costs, women have to endure physical and mental stress to give birth and bring up children. Childbirth is painful and, in extreme cases, could be fatal. Also, new mothers, in general, find it difficult to adjust family and work life. Plus, having children also means additional expenses and in some cases cutting costs to provide good education for the children, as well as dedicating huge amounts of time to bringing them up. Apparently, people tend to have more children if there are more benefits and fewer children if the costs outweigh the benefits. That most couples today prefer to have just one child means there are more costs than benefits of having more children. Besides, with the improvement of the pension system in China, elderly people today depend less on their offspring, and thanks to the continuous increase in the number of well-educated and financially independent women, quite a few young women consider marriage more of an option than a necessity. These factors have also played a role in the decline in the birth rate. Moreover, because of the shortage of quality education and good schools, parents have to spend large amounts of money and time to ensure their children get admitted to good schools and colleges so they can get quality education, leading to frequent arguments and conflicts in families, and prompting many couples not to have a second, let alone a third, child. The stress and tension of parents infect children. And stress and unhappiness could undermine the mental health of a child. To address these problems, especially to reduce the education burden of students, and by default their parents, the government introduced some policies, including the 'double reduction' policy, recently. High housing prices are also discouraging many young couples from having children. Cities and towns where housing prices are relatively low usually have higher fertility rates around the world. More importantly, in most cases, women still shoulder most of the responsibilities of bringing up a child, and experts and surveys say women usually find themselves at a disadvantage at the workplace after giving birth. In Denmark, an advanced economy, for example, working mothers get lower salaries compared with men even 20 years after giving birth despite having the same education level and years of experience. While a longer paid maternity leave may protect women from being dismissed or demoted, such women are still ignored when it comes to promotion and increments. In fact, studies show that a longer paid maternity leave has little effect on boosting the fertility rate if women are more concerned about their career prospects. But there is no need to be over-pessimistic. Children still play an indispensable role in a family, and despite the improving social services, many grown-up children still take care of their aged parents. Apart from improving education quality and reining in housing prices, however, the government should also take measures to meet the real needs of working mothers, in order to boost the birth rate. For instance, establishing more day childcare centers can free working mothers of the responsibility of taking care of children by neglecting their jobs. In East Asia, the low fertility rate is largely attributed to women's lower position in the family. Many women are tired of rushing back and forth between work and housework, while men are rarely extending a helping hand. So they have decided not to marry, and if they marry, not to have children. Thus men have to shoulder their part of the social and familial responsibilities to promote gender equality. It will not only promote domestic harmony but also help increase the fertility rate.

In the early 1990s, an Australian friend and I travelled to Lijiang for a summer vacation. We hired a local 21 Wang who was a gentleman with 22 manners. It was so hot that we took delight in drinking cool 23 . We politely offered Wang but he 24 . We said nothing and drank our beer, while poor Wang watched. One day Wang must have been desperate because he 25 the first offer. Only 26 I saw that Wang in fact liked beer very much, did it then occur to me to ask him 27 maybe in China it was not polite to accept the 28 offer. Several months ago, a friend of mine invited a young Chinese lady home for dinner. The young lady had just 29 in America for a work-study year. 30 her hosts knew that Chinese have a 31 sense of politeness in social situations, they expected to have to 32 the young lady repeatedly to help herself 33 the dinner dishes. They had been told that, in China, 34 of proffered food is considered polite and further refusal is even more polite. Some intercultural trainers advised western hosts to 35 three times so that Chinese guests can politely refuse twice and that be persuaded to accept the 36 time. 37 , the young lady's first words as she came through the door were, 'Oh, I'm starving. I hope you don't mind 38 I eat a lot!' Contrary to the American hosts' 39 , she didn't hesitate at all 40 herself to the food and didn't need to be urged.