单选题 A Family Left a Waitress 'Lifestyle' Tip instead of Cash A family who didn't tip a waitress on a $100 bill because they didn't approve of her 'lifestyle' may not be welcome back at Gallop Asian Bistro here. A couple dining with their two middle-school-age children Wednesday made their judgment of Dayna Morales, a Marine veteran, simply by looking at her. They let her know what they thought with a scribbled (潦草书写) message on their $93.55 check. 'I'm sorry but I cannot tip because I do not agree with your lifestyle and how you live your life,' the note reads. 'The short hair and clothes just gave it away in her eyes,' Morales, 22, said Thursday evening after she had posted a picture of the check and her own rant(痛骂) on a gay-friendly Facebook page called 'Have a Gay Day.' Her post went viral on the Internet and was picked up by national websites, including the Huffington Post. She said the response has 'put a smile on my face.' Morales said when she introduced herself to the family at the table the woman responded, 'Oh, I thought you were going to say your name is Dan. You surprised us!' Morales didn't respond, but never thought they wouldn't leave a tip. 'You've got to bite your tongue and kiss up (溜须拍马). We live off tips,' she said about life as a restaurant server. She shared what happened online because 'others need to be informed this is still going on'. She said her boss isn't upset with her posting the check—in fact, the family may not be allowed back at the restaurant, which opened about four months ago. 'We are kind of a big family so they all took it to heart. My manager assured me that if they had seen the check before the family left they would have confronted them,' she said. Morales, who lives in Bedminster, N.J., served in the Marine Corps from 2009 to 2011. She once taught preschool with Children of America in New York. Servers have taken their rage at stingy (吝啬的) customers to Facebook and the blogs in recent years, and their online rants track a nice-nasty trend of notes without tips.

单选题 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on one of the most popular sentences online, 'REMEMBER... always act like you're wearing an invisible crown.' You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

单选题 能源安全 能源安全同世界经济的稳定发展和各国人民的福祉息息相关。在当前国际金融危机背景下，维护全球能源安全对于有效应对国际金融危机冲击、推动世界经济全面复苏和长远发展具有重要意义。国际社会应互利合作，维护能源市场的正常秩序。同时，各国应改善能源结构，大力发展清洁和可再生能源(renewable energy)，在相关领域积极开展国际合作。

单选题 《红楼梦》由曹雪芹所著。小说以贾氏家族为故事核心，描述了四大家族从富裕、有权有势沦为破落的过程。小说成功塑造了100多个经典人物，他们分属于清朝的不同阶层。《红楼梦》对中国的封建社会有深刻的描绘，如果想要了解中国人复杂的价值观，最好先能读懂《红楼梦》。毛主席认为《红楼梦》不仅是爱情故事，也是历史故事，因为它揭示了封建社会的衰败。

单选题 A soccer referee suspended (吊销执照) for scoring a goal while taking charge of a game has resigned after being found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute by the Essex County Football Association. The Essex County Football Association said that they were disappointed by the decision of Savill, who hit the headlines last year when his sympathy for a team getting beaten 18-1 went too far. 'It is a pretty unique case and hopefully it won't happen again,' said Essex County FA chief executive Phil Sammons. Brian Savill was taking charge of a Great Bromley Cup game in the south of England between Earls Colne Reserves and Wimpole 2000. With 10 minutes remaining and Wimple getting beaten 18-1, Savill found the ball at his feet in front of the Earls Colne goal and immediately banged it into the net, before signaling a goal. The laws of the game state that the referee is part of the playing area and that the game continues if the ball strikes him. There is no item in the laws to differentiate between an accidental or deliberate (故意的) touch of the ball. Savill's bizarre (匪夷所思的) goal made little difference to the outcome as Earls Colne went on to win 20-2, but the officials were impressed. The Essex County Football Association finally found 47-year-old Savill guilty of bringing the game into disrepute and suspended him for seven weeks. Savill, a referee with 18 years' experience, resigned after finding out about the decision. 'They haven't got a sense of humor,' he told The Times newspaper. 'It brought enjoyment to everyone's lives. It shows refereeing can be enjoyable and that we are not Hitters running blowing whistles all the time.' However, he advised other referees against following his example.

单选题 Mathematical ability and musical ability may not seem on the surface to be connected, but people who have researched the subject and studied the brain say that they are. Three quarters of the bright but speech-delayed children in the group I studied had a close relative who was an engineer, mathematician or scientist and four fifths had a close relative who played a musical instrument. The children themselves usually took readily to math and other analytical subjects and to music. Black, white and Asian children in this group show the same patterns. However, it is clear that blacks have been greatly overrepresented in the development of American popular music and greatly underrepresented in such fields as mathematics, science and engineering. If the abilities required in analytical fields and in music are so closely related, how can there be this great discrepancy? One reason is that the development of mathematical and other such abilities requires years of formal schooling, while certain musical talents can be developed with little or no formal training, as has happened with a number of well-known black musicians. It is precisely in those kinds of music where one can acquire great skill without formal training that blacks have excelled in popular music rather than classical music, piano rather than violin, blues rather than opera. This is readily understandable, given that most blacks, for most of American history, have not had either the money or the leisure for long years of formal study in music. Blacks have not merely held their own in American popular music. They have played a disproportionately large role in the development of jazz, both traditional and modem. A long string of names comes to mind—Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker... and so on. None of this indicates any special innate (先天的) ability of blacks in music. On the contrary, it is perfectly consistent with blacks having no more such inborn ability than anyone else, but being limited to being able to express such ability in narrower channels than others who have had the money, the time and the formal education to spread out over a wider range of music, as well as into mathematics, science and engineering.

单选题 丝绸之路(the Silk Road)起源于公元前1世纪，是一条具有重要历史意义的国际贸易路线。由于丝绸在这条线路的贸易中占有很大比重，1877年德国著名的地理学家费迪南·冯·李希霍芬(Ferdinand von Richthofen)将其命名为“丝绸之路”。它不仅是一条古代国际贸易线路，也是连接中国、印度、波斯(Persia)、希腊和罗马等国的一座光辉灿烂的文化桥梁。中国四大发明和西方宗教正是通过这一桥梁传入各国的。

单选题 The Magic of Diasporas(大移居) Immigrant networks are a rare bright spark in the world economy. Rich countries should welcome them. A．This is not a good time to be foreign. Anti-immigrant parties are gaining ground in Europe. Britain has been fretting(烦 恼，发愁) this week over lapses in its border controls. In America Barack Obama has failed to deliver the immi-gration reform he promised, and Republican presidential candidates would rather electrify the border fence with Mexico than educate the children of illegal aliens. America educates foreign scientists in its universities and then expels them, a policy the mayor of New York calls 'national suicide'. B．This illiberal turn in attitudes to migration is no surprise. It is the result of cyclical economic gloom combined with a rise in pressure on rich countries' borders. But governments now weighing up whether or not to try to slam the door should consider another factor: the growing economic importance of diasporas, and the contribution they can make to a country's economic growth. C．Diaspora networks-of Huguenots, Scots, Jews and many others—have always been a potent economic force, but the cheapness and ease of modern travel has made them larger and more numerous than ever before. There are now 215m first-generation migrants around the world: that's 3% of the world's population. If they were a nation, it would be a little larger than Brazil. There are more Chinese people living outside China than there are French people in France. Some 22m Indians are scattered all over the globe. Small concentrations of ethnic and linguistic groups have always been found in surprising places-Lebanese in west Africa, Japanese in Brazil and Welsh in Patagonia, for instance—but they have been joined by newer ones, such as west Africans in southern China. D．These networks of kinship(亲缘关系) and language make it easier to do business across borders. They speed the flow of information: a Chinese trader in Indonesia who spots a gap in the market for cheap umbrellas will alert his cousin in Shenzhen who knows someone who runs an umbrella factory. Kinship ties foster trust, so they can seal the deal and get the umbrellas to Jakarta before the rainy season ends. Trust matters, especially in emerging markets where the rule of law is weak. So does the knowledge of the local culture. That is why so much foreign direct investment in China still passes through the Chinese diasporas. And modern communications make these networks an even more powerful tool of business. E．Diasporas also help spread ideas. Many of the emerging world's brightest minds are educated at Western universities. An increasing number go home, taking with them both knowledge and contacts. Indian computer scientists in Bangalore bounce ideas constantly off their Indian friends in Silicon Valley. China's technology industry is dominated by 'sea turtles' (Chinese who have lived abroad and returned). F．Diasporas spread money, too. Migrants into rich countries not only send cash to their families; they also help companies in their host country operate in their home country. A Harvard Business School study shows that American companies that employ lots of ethnic Chinese people find it much easier to set up in China without a joint venture with a local firm. G．Such arguments are unlikely to make much headway against hostility towards immigrants in rich countries. Fury against foreigners is usually based on two (mutually incompatible) notions: that because so many migrants claim welfare they are a drain on the public purse; and that because they are prepared to work harder for less pay they will depress the wages of those at the bottom of the pile. The first is usually not true (in Britain, for instance, immigrants claim benefits less than local people do), and the second is hard to establish either way. Some studies do indeed suggest that competition from unskilled immigrants depresses the wages ofunskilled locals. But others find this effect to be small or non-existent. H．Nor is it possible to establish the impact of migration on overall growth. The sums are simply too difficult. Yet there are good reasons for believing that it is likely to be positive. Migrants tend to be hard-working and innovative. That spurs productivity and company formation. A recent study carried out by Duke University showed that, while immigrants make up an eighth of America's population, they founded a quarter of the country's technology and engineering firms. And, by linking the West with emerging markets, diasporas help rich countries to plug into fast-growing economies. I．Rich countries are thus likely to benefit from looser immigration policy; and fears that poor countries will suffer as a result of a 'brain drain' are overblown. The prospect of working abroad spurs more people to acquire valuable skills, and not all subsequently emigrate. Skilled migrants send money home, and they often return to set up new businesses. One study found that unless they lose more than 20% of their university graduates, the brain drain makes poor countries richer. J．Government as well as business gains from the spread of ideas through diasporas. Foreign-educated Indians, including the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh (Oxford and Cambridge) and his sidekick Montek Ahluwalia (Oxford), played a big role in bringing economic reform to India in the early 1990s. Some 500,000 Chinese people have studied abroad and returned, mostly in the past decade; they dominate the think-tanks that advise the government. K．As for the old world, its desire to close its borders is understandable but dangerous. Migration brings youth to ageing countries, and allows ideas to circulate in millions of mobile minds. That is good both for those who arrive with suitcases and dreams and for those who should welcome them.