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Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the issue nowadays whether people should help strangers or be cautious of them. You can give an example or two to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

中国结 (Chinese knot)是中国特有的传统民间手工编织艺术，体现着中国人的智慧和深厚文化。作为独特的中华文化的代表，中国结极易被外国人辨认出来。中国结最早起源于远古时代，由于当时没有文字，人们便在一根绳上盘上不同的结来记录重要的事件。到了清代，中国结真正成为流行的民间艺术。这种手工编织外观精致 对称 (symmetrical)，符合中国传统 审美 (aesthetics)，故名“中国结”。在中国，“结”字代表着团结、友爱、和平、婚姻、爱情等，因此“中国结”常用来表示美好的祝愿。

优越的战略位置、通讯条件(communications)和商业文化，促进了香港经济和社会迅速发展。

Our culture has caused most Americans to assume not only that our language is universal, but that the gestures we use are understood by everyone. We do not realize that waving good-bye is the way to summon a person from the Philippines to one's side, or that in Italy and some Latin-American countries, curling the finger to oneself is a sign of farewell. Those private citizens who sent packages to our troops occupying Germany after World War II and marked them GIFT to escape duty payments did not bother to find out that "Gift" means poison in German. Moreover, we like to think of ourselves as friendly, yet we prefer to be at least 3 feet or an arm's length away from others. Latins and Middle Easterners like to come closer and touch, which makes Americans uncomfortable. Our linguistic and cultural blindness and the casualness with which we take notice of the developed tastes, gestures, customs and languages of other countries, are losing us friends, business and respect in the world. Even here in the United States, we make few concessions to the needs of foreign visitors. There are no information signs in four languages on our public buildings or monuments; we do not have multilingual(多语言的)guided tours. Very few restaurant menus have translations, and multilingual waiters, bank clerks and policemen are rare. Our transportation systems have maps in English only and often we ourselves have difficulty understanding them. When we go abroad, we tend to cluster in hotels and restaurants where English is spoken. The attitudes and information we pick up are conditioned by those natives—usually the richer—who speak English. Our business dealings, as well as the nation's diplomacy, are conducted through interpreters. For many years, America and Americans could get by with cultural blindness and linguistic ignorance. After all, America was the most powerful country of the free world, the distributor of needed funds and goods. But all that is past. American dollars no longer buy all good things, and we are slowly beginning to realize that our proper role in the world is changing. A 1979 Harris poll reported that 55 percent of Americans want this country to play a more significant role in world affairs; we want to have a hand in the important decisions of the next century, even though it may not always be the upper hand.

More than 15 million Americans undergo surgery each year, but some elective operations may be more about the surgeon' s preference than about the patient' s need for the procedure. So how do you make sure that when your doctor suggests surgery, it' s the best decision for you? Never choose surgery without exploring nonsurgical options first, advises Joshua Jacobs, president of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and chairman of orthopedic surgery(整形外科手术)at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. In general, surgery is recommended only when less invasive treatments have failed or when it' s clear that a surgical repair will deliver a better result than nonsurgical treatments, Jacobs says. Some orthopedic procedures, such as joint replacements, involve devices made by multiple companies. " In cases where more than one product can do the job, you ask your surgeon: Why this device?" Jacobs says. "What' s been your experience with this particular one?" Ask if there are any studies or statistics on this particular product that show how it compares to others. Proceed with extra caution if your doctor is recommending a brand-new procedure or device. Whenever a new surgical technique comes out, " everyone' s excited about the newest thing and they jump on the bandwagon, but you really need to wait and see what the outcomes will be," says Frederick L. Greene, a clinical professor of surgery at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and a member of the American College of Surgeons' Patient Education Committee. Sometimes the novel thing turns out to be no better or even worse than the older, more established one. Many hospitals are now selling robotic surgery for elective procedures, but such shiny new technologies aren't always your best choice, Greene says. Beware of hospitals and doctors with a financial interest in an expensive procedure, says Rosemary Gibson, an editor for the journal JAMA Internal Medicine and the author of The Treatment Trap. A 2012 study found that information about robotic gynecologic(妇产科医学的)hospital websites provided an incomplete picture of the benefits and risks of such procedures, and in August, researchers at Johns Hopkins University published a study suggesting that complications from robotic laparoscopic(腹腔镜检查)may be under reported. Gibson says that when doctors or hospitals purchase expensive equipment such as robotic surgical tools, they have an incentive to overuse it so they can offset their costs. Before you schedule surgery, ask your surgeon how long it will take to recover and what limitations you' 11 face during the post-op period, Jacobs says. Also find out what you can do to maximize your recovery. Some operations require physical therapy or other recoveries to achieve best results. Only agree to surgery once you understand what results you can expect and how these compare to your other options.

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It was music to my ears to hear that the Government' s chief adviser on【C1】 1, Susan Jebb, wants parents to【C2】 2fruit juices at the table and return to the old days when children drank water or milk. There is no doubt that fruit juices, as well as fizzy colas and other soft drinks, are a major contributor to the emerging crisis of【C3】 3weight in our children and teenagers. Most fruit juice drinks are【C4】 4with sugar syrup, often derived not from fruit, but corn. The true【C5】 5here, though, is not sugar but human greed. Sugar is not a poison, as some sug gest, and is not even【C6】 6: we just enjoy it. Eating too much sugar is a cause of tooth decay. It also【C7】 7to the development of a fatty liver—which can lead to irreparable liver diseases. The main【C8】 8here is the weight gain, but sugar is not the only culprit; excess fat in your diet can make you fat. My point is that taking too much in, whether it's sugar or fat, is going to leave you with more body fat. However, a【C9】 9of the energy intake for most growing youngsters is refined sugar in one shape or form. If we are to educate the public how best to【C10】 10obesity, then a cut in fruit juices and sugar-containing drinks is a good way to start. It may cut calorie intake near enough in half. Think twice before you pour that glass of juice.A) embrace B) proportion C) sensible D) attachmentE) amount F) contributes G) obesity H) issueI) vast J) tackle K) addictive L) excessM) loaded N) ban O) villain 【C1】

在中国的神话传说(folklore)中，龙是多种动物的综合体，拥有多种动物的特长。

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中国画是世界上最古老的艺术传统之一。传统的绘画在今天被称为国画，意思是与20世纪在中国流行的西洋油画相对的“民族的”“本土的”画。传统的绘画本质上和书法的技法相同。用毛笔蘸黑色或彩色的墨水画，而不是用油彩。与书法一样，最常用的绘画材料是纸和丝绸。早期的绘画主要是装饰而不是再现世界，主要是图案而非图画。在唐朝，人物画在宫廷里盛行。艺术家周昉在他的帝王画、宫女画和御马画中展现了宫廷生活的盛况。

Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as "silent", the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent From the very beginning, music was regarded as an【C1】______accompaniment; when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were【C2】______by piano improvisations on popular tunes. At first, the music played【C3】______no special relationship to the films; an accompaniment of any kind was【C4】______. Within a very short time, however, the incongruity (不协调) of playing lively music to a【C5】______ film became apparent, and film pianists began to take some care in【C6】______ their pieces to the mood of the film. As movie theaters grew in number and importance, a violinist, and perhaps a cellist, would be added to the pianist in certain【C7】______, and in the larger movie theaters small orchestras were formed. For a number of years the selection of music for each film program【C8】______entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal【C9】______for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces. Since the conductor seldom saw the films until the night before they were to be shown (if indeed, the conductor was lucky enough to see them then), the musical arrangement was 【C10】______improvised in the greatest hurry.A) sufficient I) boreB) incredible J) qualificationC) accompanied K) solemnD) comparatively L) indispensableE) matching M) severeF) rested N) accordingG) normally O) cases H) occasions

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Women are considered "heavy drinkers" if they have eight or more drinks a week, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Men can have 14. At 15, you, my friend, are a "heavy drinker" in the eyes of the CDC. One in 10 deaths among adults between the ages of 20 and 64 are due to excessive alcohol con sumption, the CDC says in a report released Wednesday. That means some 80,000 people die a year as a result of drinking too much. The majority of those are men—about 70%. Do you consider yourself a light, moderate or heavy drinker? Health agencies have these definitions to help you understand when your drinking may become a health problem. "The definition of 'heavy drinker' has evolved over the last 20 years and it is based on scien tific evidence about the harmful consequences of drinking too much," says George F. Koob, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, who has sat on the committees that create those definitions. The definition on NIAAA' s website of "heavy" or "at-risk" drinking is the same as the CDC' s. But the National Survey on Drug Use and Health has another. They say "heavy use" is "five or more drinks on the same occasion, on each of five or more days in the past 30 days." "It's imprecise and not quantitative. I try to avoid using terms like 'heavy', 'light' and 'moderate' for that reason in my publications," says Dr. Arthur Klatsky who has been studying alcohol and its impact on humans for decades. "The problem is everyone always wants to know if they fit into one of those categories." Heavy drinking can lead to chronic diseases, including problems with your liver, and throat. It can lead to high blood pressure, psychological problems. It even puts you at an increased risk for becoming a victim of violence. And of course you ultimately risk becoming an alcoholic. Klatsky says the pattern of when you drink is just as important to your health as the total number. Abstaining much of the week and then having all seven drinks on Saturday is also bad for your health. Studies show the mortality rate for people who drink moderately on a daily basis is actually lower than those who don't indulge. There are health benefits to a lower level of drinking.