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在我们所能体会到的不愉快的情感之中，排在第一位的可能就是恐惧。但是恐惧并不只是一种生理上的不愉快，它会阻止我们追求生命中非常重要的事情。不过我们是有办法摆脱恐惧的。克服恐惧的一个方法就是让自己去做使我们感到恐惧的事情，这样我们才会有更多的机会认识到，事实上让我们感到恐惧的事情并没有想象中的那么可怕。

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For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a thank-you letter to a friend following the outline given below．You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words． 在云南旅游时，你得到了朋友的热情招待，请写一封感谢信给他/她。信中应包括以下内容： 1．告知他，她你已经安全抵家 2．回忆他，她在云南为你提供的帮助 3．感谢他／她的热心招待

Schools outside cities[A] With its sandy beaches, charming ruins and occasionally blue waters, the Isle of Wight is a perfect spot off England's southern coast. Wealthy Londoners sail their boats there. It seems odd that such a place should contain some of the worst-performing schools in England. But it does: and in this, the Isle of Wight is not quite as strange as it seems.[B] Provisional figures show that last year just 49% of 16-year-olds on the island got at least five C grades, including in English and maths, in GCSE exams. That is fewer than in any of London's 32 boroughs (行政区), or indeed anywhere in the southern half of England apart from nearby Portsmouth. In the previous year the Isle of Wight was second to bottom in the whole country. Just 23% of pupils entitled to free school meals (a representative of poverty) got five decent grades, compared with a national average of 36%. In September the island's schools were deemed so bad that Hampshire County Council took them over.[C] Part of the explanation is distinctively local. Luring good teachers to an out-of-the-way spot is hard. In 2011 the island endured a confused transition from the sort of three-tier school system common in America, with primary, middle and secondary schools, to the two-tier one that is standard in England. But its results were bad even before that change. The Isle of Wight's real problems are structural. It suffers from three things that might appear to be advantages but are actually the opposite. The island lacks a large city: it has some, but not many, poor children: and it is almost entirely white.[D] England's worst schools used to be urban, poor and black—or sometimes Asian. But these days pupils, including poor ones, often fare better in inner cities than elsewhere. In Tower Hamlets, an east London borough that is the third most deprived place in England, children entitled to free school meals do better in GCSE exams than do all children in the country as a whole. Bangladeshis, who are concentrated in that borough, used to perform considerably worse than whites nationally: now they do better.[E] Poor whites are now the country's signal educational underachievers. Just 31% of white British children entitled to free school meals got five good GCSEs two years ago, fewer than poor children from any other ethnic group. They fare especially badly in suburbs, small towns and on the coast—places like the Isle of Wight.[F] Although the island contains pockets of poverty, it is hardly poverty-stricken: overall it comes 106th out of 326 local authorities in England on the government's deprivation index. A bigger problem is a pervasive lack of faith in education as a means of self-improvement. Steph Boyd, who runs a new free school on the island, says some parents doubt whether the education system can help their children— not altogether surprising given the island's failings. A few are more anxious for their offspring to go out and get jobs. And nearby career options are limited, points out Pat Goodhead, the headmistress of Christ the King College, the island's best secondary school. The jobs pages of the County Press, the local newspaper, are filled with advertisements for care workers, barmen and cleaners.The advantage of deep poverty[G] Oddly, the Isle of Wight might do better if it were poorer. Truly poor parts of England receive large amounts of government cash. Schools in Tower Hamlets get ￡7,014 a year for each child, compared with ￡4,489 in the Isle of Wight. In addition, secondary schools get ￡900 for each poor child thanks to the "pupil premium" introduced by the coalition government. Poverty-stricken spots also benefit from energetic, idealistic young teachers. Teach First, a programme that sends top graduates into poor schools for at least two years, started in London in 2002. Then it expanded to other big cities such as Manchester. Last year it started sending teachers to south coast towns, but in tiny numbers. Of the 1,261 graduates who joined the programme last year, just 25 were placed on the entire south coast, compared with 553 in London.[H] Poor children do best in schools where they are either scarce or very numerous. Where they are few, teachers can give them plenty of attention. Where they are numerous, as in the East End of London, schools have no choice but to focus on them. Most ill-served are those who fall in between, in schools where they are insufficiently numerous to merit attention but too many to succeed alone. The Isle of Wight's six state secondary schools are all stuck in the unhappy middle: between 9% and 17% of the children in them are entitled to free school meals.[I] One woman, who moved to the island from east London with her young daughter, suspects that the Isle of Wight's lack of diversity is itself a problem. She may be right about that. Illiteracy among white British children can be easier to overlook than illiteracy among immigrants. Where schools are forced to help the latter, natives often benefit too, says Matthew Coffey of Ofsted, the schools inspectorate. That seems to have happened in Lincolnshire, which has seen a surge in Portuguese and east European immigration.[J] The government and Ofsted are increasingly worried about the gap in attainment between poor white Britons and the rest. The Department for Education reckons changing the way schools' success is measured could help. The current emphasis on grades of C and above encourages teachers to focus on children on the edge of attaining that grade, at the expense of those who do really badly. Beginning in 2016 schools will have to track more closely the progress of each child, no matter what grades they are predicted to get. That should raise attentions of schools that have been able to coast along, ignoring the neediest, to give them more attention. But such reforms may not make much difference on the Isle of Wight. Schools there have struggled even against the current benchmark.[K] They might look to east London for inspiration. The dramatic improvement in Tower Hamlets resulted partly from efforts to change local culture. Schools ran programmes through mosques to tackle absenteeism (旷课). Parents were encouraged to become governors. But change will be harder outside the capital. Tower Hamlets benefits from nearby Canary Wharf, the capital's second financial district, which supplies good jobs and middle-class advisers. The levers of change are less obvious where poor children are scattered thin. And there are fewer obvious institutions through which to try and improve the lot of the godless white majority.

中国结(Chinese knot)是中国文化的典型代表之一。中国结源于古代，当时人们用系结的方式来记事，在唐宋时期(the Tang and Song Dynasties)逐渐发展成为一种饰品，并在明清时期(the Ming and QingDynasties)开始盛行至今。中国结象征着团结、友谊、和平、热情和爱情等。制作中国结的材料多种多样，如棉线、丝绸、尼龙(nylon)、皮革，甚至是一些贵重金属。如今，中国结在世界各地广受欢迎。

这天，家人团聚在一起，也会纪念家族的祖先。

One in six. Believe it or not, that's the number of Americans who struggle with hunger. To make tomorrow a little better, Feeding America, the nation's largest【C1】______ hunger-relief organization has chosen September as Hunger Action Month. As part of its 30 Ways in 30 Days program, it's asking【C2】______ across the country to help the more than 200 food banks and 61,000 agencies in its network provide low-income individuals and families with the fuel they need to【C3】______ It's the kind of work that's done every day at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in San Antonio. People who【C4】______ at its front door on the first and third Thursdays of each month aren't looking for God—they're there for something to eat, St. Andrew's runs a food pantry (食品堂) that【C5】______ the city and several of the【C6】______ towns. Janet Drane is its manager. In the wake of the【C7】______, the number of families in need of food assistance began to grow. It is【C8】______ that 49 million Americans are unsure of where they will find their next meal. What's most surprising is that 36% of them live in【C9】______ where at least one adult is working. "It used to be that one job was all you needed," says St. Andrew's Drane. "The people we see now have three or four part-time jobs and they're still right on the edge【C10】______."A) survive I) formallyB) surrounding J) financiallyC) serves K) domesticD) reviewed L) competitionE) reported M) communitiesF) recession N) circlingG) households O) accumulateH) gather

中国银行 (Bank of China)是中国四大国有商业银行之一。它在全球范围内为个人和企业客户提供全面、优质的金融服务。自1912年成立以来，中国银行一直在中国的金融史上扮演着十分重要的角色。中国银行的业务范围涵盖商业银行、投资银行、保险和 航空租赁 (aircraft leasing)。中国银行在世界各大金融中心都开设了分支机构，并在全球30多个国家和地区建立起机构网络。

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In recent years, a growing body of research has shown that our appetite and food intake are influenced by a large number of factors besides our biological need for energy, including our eating environment and our perception of the food in front of us. Studies have shown, for instance, that eating in front of the TV ( or a similar distraction) can increase both hunger and the amount of food consumed. Even simple visual cues, like plate size and lighting, have been shown to affect portion size and consumption. A new study suggested that our short-term memory also may play a role in appetite. Several hours after a meal, people's hunger levels were predicted not by how much they'd eaten but rather by how much food they'd seen in front of them—in other words, how much they remembered eating. This disparity(差异) suggests the memory of our previous meal may have a bigger influence on our appetite than the actual size of the meal, says Jeffrey M. Brunstrom, a professor of experimental psychology at the University of Bristol. "Hunger isn't controlled solely by the physical characteristics of a recent meal. We have identified an independent role for memory for that meal," Brunstrom says. "This shows that the relationship between hunger and food intake is more complex than we thought." These findings echo earlier research that suggests our perception of food can sometimes trick our body's response to the food itself. In a 2011 study, for instance, people who drank the same 380-calorie(卡路里) milkshake on two separate occasions produced different levels of hunger-related hormones (荷尔蒙) , depending on whether the shake's label said it contained 620 or 140 calories. Moreover, the participants reported feeling more full when they thought they'd consumed a higher-calorie shake. What does this mean for our eating habits? Although it hardly seems practical to trick ourselves into eating less, the-new findings do highlight the benefits of focusing on our food and avoiding TV and multitasking while eating. The so-called mindful-eating strategies can fight distractions and help us control our appetite, Brunstrom says.

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled How to Limit the Damage Caused by Natural Disasters? following the outline given below. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. 1．目前自然灾害不断增多，造成巨大损失 2．减小这类损失的方法包括…… 3．作为一名大学生，我能做什么

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景德镇，原名昌南，位于江西省境内。景德镇历史悠久，是中国历史上的四大名镇之一。景德镇因其 瓷器 (chinaware)的生产而闻名，据记载，其瓷器生产可以追溯到 汉代 (the Han Dynasty)。在 明代 (the MingDynasty)，大量景德镇瓷器销往国外，极大地推动了景德镇陶瓷的对外贸易，扩大了中国陶瓷的影响。由于制瓷历史久远、瓷器产品质地精良、对外销量大，景德镇获得了“ 瓷都 ”(capital of chinaware)的称号。

BSection B/B

人们一边赏月，一边吃月饼。

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孔子(Confucius)是一位思想家、政治家、教育家，也是中国儒学思想的创始人。儒学(Confucianism)，这个道德和宗教哲学的大系统建立在孔圣人(Master Kung)的教学上。冯友兰，中国思想史上20世纪伟大的权威之一，把孔子在中国历史上的影响比作西方的苏格拉底。

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Will Online Translation Tools Eliminate Foreign Language Learning? following the outline given below．You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words． 1．现在很多在线工具都能进行语言翻译 2．这是否意味着不用再学外语?对此人们看法各异 3．我的看法是……