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Directions：For this part，you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled How to Be Creative by commenting on this remark by a creativity expert，“If you're not prepared to be wrong，you'll never come up with anything original．”You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words．Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1．

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唐三彩 (the Tang tri-colored glazed pottery)是一种以黄、褐、绿为基本色的 陶器 (ceramics)，它盛行于唐代，距今已有1300多年的历史。它吸取了中国国画、雕塑等工艺美术的特点，以其鲜明的色彩、独特的制作工艺深得人们的喜爱。唐三彩富有生活 气息 (flavor)。涉及生活的方方面面，从逼真的动物造型、生动的人物形象到日常生活用品，展现了当时唐朝丰富多彩的社会生活和辉煌的文化。作为一种传统工艺品，唐三彩不仅在中国的陶器史占据特殊地位。而且对中外文化的交流也起到了相当重要的作用。

兵马俑(Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses)是世界上最大的地下军事博物馆，于1987年被列入世界文化遗产，并被誉为“世界第八大奇迹”。

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2005年中国修正 妇女权益保护法案 (Protection of Rights and Interests of Women)， 规定 (stipulate)性别平等是一项基本国策。如今，中国妇女在经济和政治领域越来越有独立性，也愈加受到尊重。2012年，中国女职工人数为1．37亿，占全国就业人口总数的42．7％。而1949年中华人民共和国成立时，女职工仅有61万。是就业人口总数的7．5％。此外，中国现在 白手起家的 (self-made)女性亿万富翁的数量比其他任何国家都多。同时，越来越多的女性活跃在中国的政治舞台。在 全国人民代表大会 (the National People’s Congress)上，妇女代表占了22％，比过去增长了1．76％。

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The new year always brings with it a cultural tradition of new possibilities. We see it as a chance for【B1】______. We begin to dream of new possible selves. We【B2】______our ideal self or an image that is quite【B3】______what we are now. For some of us, we roll that dreamy film in our heads just because it's the beginning of a new year. But we aren't serious about making changes. We just make some half-hearted resolution and it【B4】______after a week or two. The experience makes us feel less successful and leads us to discount our ability to change in the future. It's not that change is impossible but that it won't last unless our resolutions are supported with plans for【B5】______. We have to make our intentions manageable by detailing the【B6】______steps that will carry us to our goal. Say your goal is to lose weight by dieting and cutting off sweets. But one night you just have to have a cookie. And you know there's a bag of your【B7】______in the cupboard. You want one, you eat two, you check the bag, and find out you've just shot 132 calories. You say to yourself, "What the hell! " and【B8】______the whole bag. Then you begin to draw all kinds of unpleasant 【B9】______about yourself. To protect your sense of self, you begin to discount the goal. You may think—"Well, dieting wasn't that important to me and I won't make it anyhow." So you【B10】______the goal and return to your bad habits.

中国的快递业 (express delivery industry)经过30多年的发展，已经形成了一个规模庞大的产业。据统计，中国的快递企业已达到了5000余家，员工人数达30万人。现在，中国东部地区已经形成了以沿海大城市为中心的快运速递圈。快递服务呈现 多元化 (diversification)趋势，国有、民营和外资快递公司共存，相互竞争。中国快递业的迅速发展与电子商务的发展息息相关。据预测，到2020年，中国快递业的收入将超过4000亿元。届时，快递业将为国家创造35万个新的工作岗位，雇用100万名员工。

在中国大陆， 户口 (the certificate of registered residence)是中国公民在一个地方合法上学、就业、获得社会保障和 分配住房 (housing allocation)的重要证明。中国的 户口制度 (household registration system)便了政府对当地居民和 流动人口 (floating population)的管理，但是不便于公民的自由流动。此外，中国的户口制度把公民分为“农业户口”与“非农业户口”两大类，造成了公民身份的城乡差别，阻碍了中国的城市化进程。人们一直呼吁户口制度改革，政府也正在逐步取消户口对人口流动的限制和缩小户口的城乡差别。

在每年的电影节上，数百部来自世界不同国家和地区的优秀影片同时放映，使上海国际电影节成为世界上最受欢迎的电影嘉年华(carnival)之一。

Bernard Bailyn has recently reinterpreted the early history of the United States by applying new social research findings on the experiences of European migrants. In his reinterpretation, migration becomes the organizing principle for rewriting the history of preindustrial North America. His approach rests on four separate propositions. The first of these asserts that residents of early modern England moved regularly about their countryside; migrating to the New World was simply a natural spillover. Although at first the colonies held little positive attraction for the English-they would rather have stayed home-by the 18th century people increasingly migrated to America because they regarded it as the land of opportunity. Secondly, Bailyn holds that, contrary to the notion that used to flourish in America history textbooks, there was never a typical New World community. For example, the economic and demographic character of early New England towns varied considerably. Bailyn' s third proposition suggest two general patterns prevailing among the many thousands of migrants: one group came as indentured servants, another came to acquire land. Surprisingly, Bailyn suggests that those who recruited indentured servants were the driving forces of transatlantic migration. These colonial entrepreneurs helped determine the social character of people who came to preindustrial North America. At first, thousands of unskilled laborers were recruited; by the 1730' s, however, American employers demanded skilled artisans. Finally, Bailyn argues that the colonies were a half-civilized hinterland of the European culture system. He is undoubtedly correct to insist that the colonies were part of an Anglo-American empire. But to divide the empire into English core and colonial periphery, as Bailyn does, devalues the achievements of colonial culture. It is true, as Bailyn claims, that high culture in the colonies never matched that in England. But what of seventeenth-century New England, where the settlers created effective laws, built a distinguished university, and published books? Bailyn might respond that New England was exceptional. However, the ideas and institutions developed by New England Puritans had powerful effects on North American culture. Although Bailyn goes on to apply his approach to some thousands of indentured servants who migrated just prior to the revolution, he fails to link their experience with the political development of the United States. Evidence presented in his work suggests how we might make such a connection. These indentured servants were treated as slaves for the period during which they had sold their time to American employers. It is not surprising that as soon as they served their time they passed up good wages in the cities and headed west to ensure their personal independence by acquiring land. Thus, it is in the west that a peculiarly American political culture began, among colonists who were suspicious of authority and intensely anti-aristocratic.