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The euro zone, which has adopted the euro as its sole legal currency, is now 15 members large and has a combined population of around 320 million. However, many more people are directly affected by the euro, from would-be members whose currencies are already nailed to it, to countries like Montenegro and Kosovo whose effective national currency is the euro. France's former African colonies also nail their common currency to Europe's. That means around 500 million people rely on the euro or euro-nailed currencies. The euro's tenth anniversary will see the euro zone take on a 16th member, Slovakia. A further eight other central and eastern European countries have set themselves the goal of joining within the next six years, including Poland, whose political establishment dropped its longtime opposition after a recent run (挤兑) on the Polish zloty (the basic unit of money in Poland). The euro has found some other unexpected converts, too, thanks to the financial crisis. The Danes voted against joining the euro zone in 2000, but they are set to hold another referendum in March. Iceland—not even an E.U. member—is pondering "unilateral euroization" (单边欧元化) after seeing its krona plunge nearly 80% against the euro between September and October. And the biggest prize of all, Britain, is said to be warming to the euro. Barroso recently claimed that London is "closer than ever before" to euro zone entry and that "the people who matter in Britain" think it should join. That may be overstating things a bit, but a report by research group Chatham House warns that as the euro zone grows, the U.K. risks being excluded from "deeper intra-E.U. (欧盟内部的) economic consultation and coordination, including in areas of significant national interest, such as financial market regulation." It doesn't help that the pound is losing its energy. Two years ago, one euro was worth just 0.65. Now, humbled by bank crashes, government aids and a collapsing housing market that has forced massive interest rate cuts, Europe's currency is within a pence or two of difference from the pound. "The debate has changed from a total fantasy in the U.K.," says Jean Pisani-Ferry, director of Brussels-based think tank Bruegel. "The political obstacles still remain strong, but it has changed the perception of the U.K as the perfect system."

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Since reform and opening up, the development of posts and telecommunications has entered a new historical stage. China's postal network has realized complete services and multiple transportation means. The scale of the telephone network and the level of technology and services have all realized qualitative leaps. China has built up its public communications network to cover the whole nation and link it up with the rest of the world. Many advanced methods are used, including optical cables, digital microwave networks, satellites, mobile telecommunications and digital communications.

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俗话说：“到北京，不到长城非好汉，不吃 烤鸭 (roast duck)真遗憾!”烤鸭是北京的地方风味，已有1600多年的历史。对于那些想更多地了解中国菜和中国文化习俗的人来说，北京烤鸭就是一个不错的选择。 脆皮 (crisp skin)和嫩肉是北京烤鸭的特点。北京最出名的 老字号 (centuries-old／time-honored brand)烤鸭店是“全聚德”。创建于1864年的全聚德备受各国元首、政府官员及国内外游客喜爱。

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For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Celebrity Spokesperson. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words, and base your composition on the outline given below:1．现在，名人为产品或活动代言的现象十分普遍。2．分析名人代言中存在的问题。3．谈谈你的看法。

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Topic On Overseas Tourism For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled On Overseas Tourism based on the statistics provided in the chart below. Please give a brief description of the chart first and then make comments on it. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

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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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支付宝(Alipay)是中国最大的第三方在线支付平台，由阿里巴巴集团(Alibaba Group)于2004年创建。截至2012年底，支付宝拥有用户超过7亿。用户可利用这一平台支付各种费用，诸如网购、电话费、学费等等。以网购为例，买家先将钱存到支付宝账户，收到商品后，再通过支付宝将钱转给卖家。支付宝为其用户提供了“简单、安全、快速”的在线支付方式，保护了买卖双方的利益。

同仁堂创建于1669年，其药品以优良的传统工艺和显著的疗效享誉海内外。