过去十年中国房地产(real estate)行业高速发展。但是，对很多人来说，买房却不是一件容易的事情。高昂的房价甚至使一些年轻情侣推迟了结婚的计划。鉴于此种情况，近年来政府采取了一系列的措施来抑制房价过快增长，包括整顿和规范房地产市场、提高房贷利率(mortgage rate)、增设房产税(property tax).目前，这些措施在部分城市取得了初步成效。

10月23日， 三星电子公司 (Samsung Electronics)发表声明向中国消费者道歉，并作出对七款机型提供免费维修服务并延长保修期的承诺。三星希望通过道歉维持其在中国 智能手机 (smart phone)市场的主导地位。去年三星在中国销售了3000万台设备，市场占有率达到17．7％。三星并不是第一个作出道歉并承诺改善服务的公司。之前 苹果公司 (Apple)也做过同样事情并藉此开发了一大批新的消费者。

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在这次表演中，所有的孩子都盛装打扮，轮流唱歌跳舞。

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For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the following question. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Suppose a foreign friend of yours wants to buy a book, which book would you like to recommend to him/her and why?

到目前为止，已有来自120多个国家的36万人次参加了HSK考试。

商务部(Ministry of Commerce)最近发布的数据表明，在中国的外国直接投资(Foreign Direct Invest-ment，FDI)保持稳定增长。中国已经成为外国直接投资首选地。中央政府采取了一系列促进外国投资的扶持措施，这样既促进了经济增长，又赢得了国内外投资者的信心。商务部正在研究措施，进一步改善外商投资管理机制，创建一个透明和公平的竞争环境。世界银行(World Bank)也高度评价中国吸引外国直接投资所取得的成就。

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled On Urban Waterlogging (内涝) following the outline given below. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.1．如今不少大城市一下暴雨就出现城市内涝的现象2．出现这一现象的原因3．我对这一现象的看法和建议 On Urban Waterlogging

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在中国，9月10日的 教师节 (Teacher's Day)是一个很重要的节日。这一天，人们用各种方式表达对教师的敬意。近年来，许多专家一直希望变更教师节的日期。一些研究中国传统文化的学者提出，教师节应该有其历史文化内涵。不久前，相关部门拟将教师节改至9月28日。那天被认为是 孔子 (Confucius)诞辰日。作为“ 先师 ”(First Teacher)，孔子是中国历史上最重要的教育家及哲学家。

为了完成任务，他们正在加班加点地工作。

Young people in the United States are falling behind their overseas peers in reading, math and science, President Barack Obama said on Saturday, calling education reform an essential part of economic recovery. In his weekly radio and video address, Obama said as many as a quarter of American students are not【C1】 1high school and far too few young people are getting college degrees. " It is an【C2】 2fact that countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow. Businesses will hire wherever the highly skilled, highly trained workers are located," the Democrat said. " So we have to【C3】 3our standards. " With the 2012 campaign for the U. S. presidency heating up, Obama is speaking【C4】 4often about education, a key issue for his political base. His $447 billion job creation plan includes money for hiring teachers and school repairs, and on Friday he announced a【C5】 5of " No Child Left Behind," a decade-old education measure introduced by former President George W. Bush that seeks to hold schools【C6】 6for students' performance. "No Child" has been widely【C7】 7for being inflexible, requiring teachers to adhere to a narrow curriculum【C8】 8mostly at ensuring that students pass standardized tests. " Experience has taught us that the law has some serious【C9】 9that are hurting our children instead of helping them," Obama said, making plain that education will be one of his key【C10】 10issues into next November' s vote. "These problems have been obvious to parents and educators all over this country for years. But for years, Congress has failed to fix them. So now, I will," he said.A)flaws I)criticizedB)conversely J)looseningC)necessity K)campaignD)undeniable L)targetedE)increasingly M)accountableF)break N)raiseG)acceptable O)finishing H)graduating 【C1】

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颐和园(the Summer Palace)始建时便是一个御花园(imperial garden)。在清朝后期(the late QingDynasty)，颐和园遭到了严重破坏。而后清朝的统治者挪用建设军队的经费重建了颐和园。目前，颐和园是世界上建筑规模最大、保存最完整的皇家园林之一，吸收了中国各地建筑的特色。近年来，中国政府几次对园内建筑进行修缮。现在，这个古老御花园的面貌焕然一新，成为公众最喜欢的公园之一。

Tom was a wanderer. When his wife, Elsie, came to visit him at a care unit for patients with dementia, he would give her a perfunctory(敷衍的)kiss, then wander off through the rooms and stare out the window. Elsie tried to walk with him and hold hands, but he would shake her off, leaving her heartsick. A music therapist at the facility, Alicia Clair, was searching for ways to help couples like Elsie and Tom connect. Ms. Clair asked Elsie if she'd like to try dancing with Tom, then put on some music from the 1940s—Frank Sinatra singing Time After Time. Ms. Clair said, "I knew Tom was a World War II vet, and vets did a lot of ballroom dancing." As Sinatra began singing, Elsie opened her arms, beckoning. Tom stared a moment, then walked over and began leading her in the foxtrot(狐步舞). "They danced for thirty minutes!" Ms. Clair said. When they finished, Elsie broke down and sobbed. "I haven't been held by my husband in three years," she told Ms. Clair. "Thank you for bringing him back." Ms. Clair, a professor of music therapy at the University of Kansas, tells this story to show how music can reach people with Alzheimer's disease. Music has the power to bypass the mind and wash through us, triggering strong feelings and cueing the body to synchronize with its rhythm. Researchers and clinicians are finding that when all other means of communication have shut down, people remember and respond to music. Familiar songs can help people with dementia relate to others, move more easily and experience joy. Tom had forgotten his name and couldn't utter one word, but hearing Sinatra prompted him to dance. Music memory is preserved better than verbal memory, according to Ms. Clair, because music, unlike language, is not seated in a specific area of the brain but processed across many parts. "You can't rub out music unless the brain is completely gone."