今年中国有699万高校毕业生进入就业市场，求职变得十分困难。对于仅凭借语言技能来找工作的英语专业毕业生来说，更是难上加难。由于学生整体的英语水平不断提高，英语专业毕业生正在失去他们的优势。虽然具备了良好的英文沟通能力，但他们通常缺乏其他专业知识。因此，专家称就求职而言，考取“双学位”(doublemajor)是英语专业毕业生的一个理想选择。

我们的身体夜晚需要休息，白天需要清醒。大多数人每晚需要8到8．5个小时的睡眠才能正常运转。找到更多的时间、更好的睡眠方法可能是个挑战。科学家已经确认了80多种不同的睡眠紊乱症(sleep disorders)。有些睡眠紊乱症是遗传的。但是，许多睡眠紊乱症是由于熬夜、经常跨时区旅行以及上夜班引起的。

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历史记载表明筷子的使用已有3000年的历史。

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Hollywood has a message for scientists: If you want something that's 100% accurate in every way, go watch a documentary. The thing is, when it comes to movies, narrative wins. The writer's job is to get the characters right, not the science, says Tse, who cowrote Watchmen, one of last year's most-anticipated superhero films. It annoys him, too, when things don't make sense. He spent a lot of time and energy trying to find a fix for a logical problem in Watchmen—that one character, Dan, uses a completely obvious password to hack into the computer of Adrian, who is supremely intelligent. But for practical reasons, that kind of problem often just can't be fixed. Maybe it would take too long, in an already long movie, or distract too much from the narrative, or cost too much to shoot. Writers have faced similar problems with the TV show Heroes. The series follows a group of characters that have acquired superpowers: one is invisible, and one can walk through walls. One little boy can control electronics with his mind, which is "completely scientifically crazy," says Joe Pokaski, a writer who has worked on every one of the show's 76 episodes. But scientific sense isn't necessarily the point. As long as things make sense to the viewer, that's good enough, and it can leave the show open to carry out its real business: exploring the characters' struggle to figure out how to use their powers. And don't even get Heroes writer Aron Coleite started on invisibility. In a scene from the first season of the show, two invisible men walked down a Manhattan street, bumping into people and things as they went. Coleite says, "We spend hours in a smelly room arguing about invisibility." Questions such as: Does invisibility extend to clothes? Should the guys be walking down the street naked? "We're demonstrating it visually. We don't bother people with saying, 'It's an invisible field around them that blocks light, and that's why Claude is wearing clothes'," Coleite says. All of this makes sense when you consider that most of these writers don't have Ph.D.s in astrophysics (天体物理学). "You asked if we had a science background," said Pokaski, "No, we have a science fiction background. The more you try to explain, the sillier it sounds."

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Directions：For this part，you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on Excessive Packaging．You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words．Outlines are given below in Chinese：1．如今市场上的商品过度包装现象非常严重；2．导致过度包装的原因；3．我的观点。

Skip that third helping of roast beef, save the planet and do your heart a favor at the same time. That's the advice of Alan Dangour of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and colleagues who【C1】______ the livestock industry's potential to help the UK reduce its carbon emissions to half of 1990 levels by 2030, and the knock-on effect on the nation's health. They found that the industry could reduce its emissions, but only if the livestock the UK produces, and the meat the nation【C2】______ , drops by 30 per cent Farms must also optimise (最优化) their energy【C3】______ by, for example, capturing carbon in animal waste.The health pay-off would be【C4】______ : 18,000 fewer people would die prematurely in the UK each year from heart attacks—a(n)【C5】______ of 17 per cent—as they would eat less of the fats found in meat. The effect would not be limited to rich nations. The team found that Brazil could【C6】______ the same health benefits. "We're not saying go vegetarian, we're saying reduce how much livestock produce you consume," says Dangour. The savings could be【C7】______ higher if reduced death rates from cancer and obesity had been included, he adds. Agronomist (农艺学家) Kenneth Cassman of the University of Nebraska warns that cutting production in one region can【C8】______ it elsewhere, causing a rise in global emissions. "Reducing production of livestock products in a developed country like the UK does little to influence global【C9】______ in production and consumption where most of the increase in demand between now and 2050 will come from【C10】______ countries," he says.A) developing E) developed I) boast M) reductionB) even F) just J) achieve N) boostC) trends G) considerable K) considerate O) efficiencyD) explored H) consumes L) offers

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God Helps Those Who Help Themselves For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled God Helps Those Who Help Themselves. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

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清明节 (Tomb Sweeping Day)是中国最重要的传统节日之一。它起源于 周朝 (the Zhou Dynasty)，有2500多年的历史。清明节是中国人扫墓祭祖的重要日子。扫墓时，人们携带酒食果品和纸钱到墓地，将食物供祭在亲人墓前，为坟墓添加新土、焚烧纸钱、行礼祭拜、最后吃掉酒食回家。除了扫墓，人们还参与包括荡秋千、放风筝等各种活动。

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在过去的50多年中，我国的体育运动取得了可喜的成绩。

皮影戏(shadow play)是中国的一种民间艺术，拥有悠久的历史。