People can now avoid having to sort through albums from several different friends when trying to relive parties, weddings and other shared events. It's the latest innovation in the increasingly【C1】 1photo-sharing market that has Facebook, Google, Yahoo and others all【C2】 2for photo uploads. The Facebook user who makes a Shared Album Feature can add up to 50 contributors, who in【C3】 3can add up to 200 photos each. Previously created albums can be turned into shared albums as well. The creator sets the【C4】 4settings for the entire album, which can be contributors only, friends of contributors only or public. When people are tagged in photos, the audience【C5】 5expands to friends of the person tagged. Each contributor is【C6】 6when new photos are added. The album creator may delete any contributor's photos, so it may be a good idea to preserve a backup【C7】 7 Contributors can upload photos or【C8】 8an existing album into the shared one. They may also add other contributors and edit their own photos. A contributor who's kicked out or【C9】 9an album has to go to their Activity Log to delete the photos in the album. Mobile users can upload photos to a shared album. However, a shared album can't be created from a mobile device yet. Facebook programmers started designing the feature and put a working version together in a matter of hours. But the【C10】 10of the feature more than eight months later shows the effort Facebook must now go through to deliver a version of something that works for all of the 1.1 billion people on the social network. A)privacy B)merge C)cultivated D)harness E)leaves F)notified G)somewhere H)turn I)forthcoming J)automatically K)striving L)explicit M)release N)competitive O)henceforth 【C1】

Write a composition entitled Should the Golden Week Holidays Be Abolished? You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words according to the outline given below. 1．“五一”“十一”黄金周确实推动了中国经济的发展，丰富了人们的生活。 2．黄金周制度造成了很多问题。 3．你的观点。

In the battle for the young soda drinkers of China, U.S.-based Pepsi-Cola may have found a powerful new weapon: young street sellers toting(背负)backpack soda dispensers. It may sound trivial, but in China's teeming(拥挤的)cities, getting cold carbonated drinks into the hands of the young can be a struggle. Vending machines are often out of order, hawkers with pushcarts can't keep drinks cold enough, and the friendly mom-and-pop comer stores just don't cut it with teenagers trying to act hip. The backpack dispensers are the latest twist in a continuing battle between Pepsi-Cola and rival Coca-Cola for China's soda drinkers. Since 1996, Pepsi has virtually conceded dominance to Coca-Cola in all but a few international markets. Among the exceptions is China, where Pepsi-Cola believes it can make a last stand by appealing to youth. So far, however, it hasn't gained much ground. Research firm AC Nielsen says a January survey indicated Coca-Cola had captured 47% of China's market for carbonated beverages—Sprite and Fanta. Pepsi-Cola's share lagged well behind at 19%, most of which was due to Pepsi, followed by 7-Up and Mountain Dew. Globally, Coca-Cola had a 51% share of beverage sales last year, compared with 21% for Pepsi-Cola. Coca-Cola's China marketing director in Hong Kong, John Cheung, says his firm tried backpack dispensers in China a few years ago but decided they weren't paying off because the drinks warmed up too quickly. But Pepsi-Cola's Tan says the dispensers his company uses—made by U.S.-based Thirst Enders International—keep the rate of warming to a minimum: two degrees an hour on a hot day. With shoppers in Chengdu gulping down the 32 cups in each tank within an hour, the drinks are always cool. Cheung admits that another reason for Coca-Cola's disappointing results was that it picked older, unemployed adults to wear the dispensers, rather than upbeat young people. Pepsi-Cola avoided that mistake by recruiting from universities. "We want people who can be identified by the young customers with selling the drinks," says Tan. "They need to be young, energetic and outgoing." Pepsi-Cola also has used the dispensers in the Philippines and Singapore for promotions and sporting events. In China, it may start using them at soccer games—it sponsors the country's premier league. Tan says he wants to take the packs nationwide "as soon as possible". That will mean convincing bottlers and distributors to stump up $1,000 for each pack.(Under Pepsi-Cola's arrangements with its local partners, the partners bear the full cost.) Coca-Cola's Cheung admits he's watching Pepsi-Cola's gambit(策略)carefully. "If the day comes that the backpack is such a big advantage," he says, "We'll use them too."

攀登高山是重阳节一项重要的习俗，据说这样可以避免灾难，并且带来好运。

Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths. At the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability to solve complex problems; to read, write and compute at certain levels; and to resolve abstract equations quickly. This vision of intelligence asserts formal education and bookish excellence as the true measures of self-fulfillment. It encourages a kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouraging results. We have come to believe that someone who has more educational merit badges, who is very good at some form of school discipline is "intelligent". Yet mental hospitals are filled with patients who have all of the properly lettered certificates. A truer indicator of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of every day. If you are happy, if you live each moment for everything it's worth, then you are an intelligent person. Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness, but if you know that given your inability to resolve a particular concern you can still choose happiness for yourself, or at a minimum refuse to choose unhappiness, then you are intelligent. You are intelligent because you have the ultimate weapon against the big N.B.D.—Nervous Break Down. "Intelligent" people do not have N.B.D.'s because they are in charge of themselves. They know how to choose happiness over depression, because they know how to deal with the problems of their lives. You can begin to think of yourself as truly intelligent on the basis of how you choose to feel in the face of trying circumstances. The life struggles are pretty much the same for each of us. Everyone who is involved with other human beings in any social context has similar difficulties. Disagreements, conflicts and compromises are a part of what it means to be human. Similarly, money, growing old, sickness, deaths, natural disasters and accidents are all events which present problems to virtually all human beings. But some people are able to make it, to avoid immobilizing depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences, while others collapse or have an N. B.D. Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don't measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare.

Write a composition entitled My View on Blind-Date Show. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words according to the outline given below. 1．目前电视相亲节目很流行。 2．出现这种现象的原因。 3．我对此的看法。

“裸婚” (naked marriage)一词由中国网民杜撰．指男女双方在没有房、没有车、没有婚戒甚至婚礼的情况下选择结婚。配偶双方只需要花9元领取两张证明其婚姻合法的结婚证。在中国，越来越多的 80后一代 (post-80s generation)选择“裸婚”。这一新的结婚形式的流行与中国居高的生活成本密切相关，特别是不断上涨的房价给80后一代带来巨大的压力。为了减轻经济压力，很多受过良好教育的年轻人毅然选择从简结婚。对他们来说，裸婚似乎是最好的一个选择。

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小微企业 (small and micro-sized firm)是小型企业、微型企业、 家庭作坊式企业 (family artisanal enterprise)和个体户的统称。目前中国小微企业规模有近5000万家。在国民经济中的支撑作用越来越大。小微企业是提供就业岗位的重要渠道，是创业的主要平台，是科技创新的重要力量。然而，由于受到资金、技术、人才等方面的限制，它们面临管理混乱、资金不足、效率低下、竞争能力弱的问题。近年来，中国政府出台了一系列政策，在贷款、税收等方面支持小微企业的发展。

可持续发展是20世纪80年代提出的一种新的发展观。这种模式要求在保护环境的条件下发展经济，既要满足当代的需求，又不能损害后代人的利益。它的核心思想是确保经济、资源和环境的协调发展，目的是让子孙后代享受充分的资源和良好的环境。可持续发展是中国的一项基本国策。目前中国正集中精力节能减排，加快资源节约型和环境友好型工业体系的建设。加大环境保护力度，提高 生态文明 (ecological civilization)的水平。

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Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the topic of students' studying oversells. You can give examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

The world is going through the biggest wave of mergers and acquisitions(收购)ever witnessed. The process sweeps from hyperactive America to Europe and reaches the emerging countries with unsurpassed might. Many in these countries are looking at this process and worrying: "Won't the wave of business concentration turn into an uncontrollable anti-competitive force?" There's no question that the big are getting bigger and more powerful. Multinational corporations accounted for less than 20% of international trade in 1982. Today the figure is more than 25% and growing rapidly. International affiliates account for a fast-growing segment of production in economies that open up and welcome foreign investment. In Argentina, for instance, after the reforms of the early 1990s, multinationals went from 43% to almost 70% of the industrial production of the 200 largest firms. This phenomenon has created serious concerns over the role of smaller economic firms, of national businessmen and over the ultimate stability of the world economy. I believe that the most important forces behind the massive MA wave .are the same that underlie the globalization process: falling transportation and communication costs, lower trade and investment barriers and enlarged markets that require enlarged operations capable of meeting customers' demands. All these, are beneficial, not detrimental, to consumers. As productivity grows, the world's wealth increases. Examples of benefits or costs of the current concentration wave are scanty. Yet it is hard to imagine that the merger of a few oil firms today could recreate the same threats to competition that were feared nearly a century ago in the U.S., when the Standard Oil trust was broken up. The mergers of telecom companies, such as World Com, hardly seem to bring higher prices for consumers or a reduction in the pace of technical progress. On the contrary, the price of communications is coming down fast. In cars, too, concentration is increasing—witness Daimler and Chrysler, Renault and Nissan—but it does not appear that consumers are being hurt. Yet the fact remains that the merger movement must be watched. A few weeks ago, Alan Greenspan warned against the mega mergers in the banking industry. Who is going to supervise, regulate and operate as lender of last resort with the gigantic banks that are being created? Won't multinationals shift production from one place to another when a nation gets too strict about violation to fair competition? And should one country take upon itself the role of "defending competition" on issues that affect many other nations, as in the U.S. vs. Microsoft case?

《孙子兵法》 (The Art of War)是 春秋末期 (the late Spring and Autumn Period)军事家孙武所写的一部军事巨著。迄今已有2500多年的历史，是我国古代最早、最完整、最著名的兵书。全书包含13章，主要总结了战争的常识，提供了一些不经战争就使敌人屈服的策略。它体现了高超的智慧和思想，是中华文明的智慧 结晶 (quintessence)。《孙子兵法》在世界上也具有重要的地位，是世界三大兵书之一。在现代社会，它也被广泛用于军事斗争以外的其他领域，如政治斗争和商业竞争。

Business has slowed, layoffs mount, but executive pay continues to roar—at least so far. Business Week's annual survey finds that chief executive officers(CEOs)at 365 of the largest US companies got compensation last year averaging $3.1 million—up 1.3 percent from 1994. Why are the top bosses getting an estimated 485 times the pay of a typical factory worker? That is up from 475 times in 1999 and a mere 42 times in 1980. One reason may be what experts call the "Lake Wobegon effect". Corporate boards tend to reckon that "all CEOs are above average"—a play on Garrison Keillor's famous line in his public radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, that all the town's children are "above average". Consultants provide boards with surveys of corporate CEO compensation. Since directors are reluctant to regard their CEOs as below average, the compensation committees of boards tend to set pay at an above-average level. The result: Pay levels get ratcheted up. Defenders of lavish CEO pay argue there is such a strong demand for experienced CEOs that the free market forces their pay up. They further maintain most boards structure pay packages to reflect an executive's performance. They get paid more if their companies and their stock do well. So companies with high-paid GEOs generate great wealth for their shareholders. But the supposed cream-of-the-crop executives did surprisingly poorly for their shareholders in 1999, says Scott Klinger, author of this report by a Boston-based Organization United for a Fair Economy. If an investor had put $10,000 apiece at the end of 1999 into the stock of those companies with the 10 highest-paid CEOs, by year-end 2000 the investment would have shrunk to $8,132. If $10,000 had been put into the Standard & Poor's 500 stocks, it would have been worth $9,090. To Mr. Klinger, these findings suggest that the theory that one person, the CEO, is responsible for creating most of a corporation's value is dead wrong. "It takes many employees to make a corporation profitable." With profits down, corporate boards may make more effort to tame executive compensation. And executives are making greater efforts to avoid pay cut. Since CEOs, seeing their options "under water" or worthless because of falling stock prices, are seeking more pay in cash or in restricted stock.

The American【C1】 1system, is organized around a basically private-enterprise, market-oriented economy in which【C2】 2largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen,【C3】 3to make profits, produce these goods and services in【C4】 4with other businessmen; and the profit motive, operating under competitive pressures, largely determines how these goods and services are produced. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers,【C5】 5with the desire of businessmen to【C6】 6profits and the desire of individual to maximize their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it. An important factor in a market-oriented economy is the【C7】 7by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers. In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and fall in【C8】 8to relative demands of consumers and supplies offered by seller-producers. If the product is in【C9】 9supply relative to the demand, the price will be bid up and some consumers will be eliminated from the market. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. Thus, price is the【C10】 10mechanism in the American economic system.A) competition B) maximize C) short D) coupledE) individual F) response G) eliminated H) privateI) economic J) striving K) regulating L) mechanismM) consumers N) political O) results 【C1】

国画作为一种中国的传统艺术，它的悠久历史可以追溯到 战国时期 (the Warring States Period)，那时就出现了画在丝织品上的绘画。国画的工具和材料有 毛笔 (brush pen)、墨、纸和丝绸等。画的内容以山水、花鸟和人物为主。画面旁常有诗词，诗词往往代表画家的思想。也能突出整幅画的意象和主题。每位国画画家都有自己独特的特点，齐白石善于画虾，徐悲鸿善于画正在奔跑的马。国画体现了国人对自然、社会、哲学、宗教和道德等方面的认识，是中华文化的重要组成部分。

中国姓氏是血缘关系的符号，其历史可追溯到原始社会时期。在 战国 (the warring States)以前，只有皇室和贵族才有姓，战国以后，平民才有了姓氏。从此 “百姓” (hundreds of surnames)成为普通民众的通称。中国姓氏的来源多种多样，有的来源于地名，有的来源于官职，有的来源于职业。中国姓氏无论是在古代还是现代，都具有积极的意义。在北宋初期， 《百家姓》 (Book of Family Names)就作为儿童的 启蒙 (enlightenment)读物；而在当代社会，中国姓氏代表着文化的传承。