中国书法 (Chinese calligraphy)是汉字的书写艺术，旨在在汉字的书写过程中体现线条和布局的美感。书法在中国古代具有重要的实用功能，是所有知识分子都必须掌握的技能，因此出现了大量优秀的 书法家 (calligrapher)与 书法作品 (calligraphic work)。此外，书法作为一门成熟的艺术，有一套完整的创作、鉴赏、收藏理论体系，并与中国绘画、雕刻、舞蹈、音乐等艺术相互影响。汉字的书法艺术不仅盛行于中国，也传播到了日本、朝鲜等国，被视为东亚的重要艺术和最优雅的写字形式之一。

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A recent case in Australia shows how easily fear can frustrate an informant's good intentions. In December, a woman wrote anonymously to the country's antitrust watchdog, the ACCC, alleging that her employer was colluding with others in breach of the Trade Practices Act. Her evidence was sufficient to suggest to the ACCC that fines of A$10m could be imposed on "a large company". But the agency needed more details. So just before Christmas it advertised extensively to try and persuade the woman to come forward again. Some days later her husband rang the ACCC, but he hung up before disclosing vital information. Now the agency is trying to contact the couple again. In America, there is some evidence that the events of September 11th have made people more public-spirited and more inclined to blow the whistle. The Government Accountability Project, a Washington-based group, received 27 reproaches from potential informants in the three months before September 11th, and 66 in the three months after. Many of these complaints were about security issues. They included a Federal Aviation Adnunistration employee who claimed that the agency had repeatedly failed to respond to known cases of security violations at airports. Legislation to give greater protection to people who expose corporate or government misbehavior externally(after having received no satisfaction internally)is being introduced in a number of countries. In America, it focuses on informants among federal employees. According to Billy Garde, a lawyer who was a member of BP's Alaska inquiry team, they "have less rights than prisoners". A bill introduced last year by Senator Daniel Akaka to improve protection for them is currently stuck in congressional committees. In Britain, the Public Interest Disclosure Act came fully into force last year. Described by one American as "the most far-reaching informant protection in the world", it treats informants as witnesses acting in the public interest. This separates them from people who are merely pursuing a personal grievance. But even in Britain, the protection is limited. Rupert Walker, a fund manager, was fired by Govett Investments in September 2001 for expressing concerns in the Financial Times about a group of people of investment trusts that invest in each other.

I live in the land of Disney, Hollywood and year-round sun. You may think people in such a glamorous, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness. Many intelligent people still equate happiness with fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in common. Fun is what experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more abiding emotion. Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends. I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access to glamorous parties, fancy cars, and expensive homes, everything that spells "happiness". But in memoir after memoir, celebrities reveal the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children and profound loneliness. Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he' s honest, he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its distinguishing features. Similarly, couples that choose not to have children are deciding in favor of painless fun over painful happiness. They can dine out ever they want and sleep as late as they want. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night's sleep or a three-day vacation. I don't know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations we can ever come to. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those rich and glamorous people we were so sure are happy because they are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.

李时珍是明朝卓越的 医药学家 (pharmacologist)，也是世界文化史上伟大的自然科学家。他精通医术，并且具有严谨的科学态度。李时珍钻研了很多医学上的经典书籍，并结合自身经验和调查研究，历时27年撰写了著名的 《本草纲目》 (Compendium of Materia Medica)。《本草纲目》继承和总结了历代医学著作的精华，有很多重要的发现和突破。出版之后，它的价值逐渐为人所认识。几个世纪以来，它被反复印刷并被翻译成多种文字，对国内外的医学研究有深远影响。

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可持续发展是中国的一项基本国策。

人们从工作、读书的地方回到家里，在除夕夜与家人一起吃团圆饭。

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Water scooters are water vehicles that look very much like motorcycles. Nowadays speedy colorful water scooters are【B1】______popularity. They can travel anywhere a small boat can and are typically popular with young people. The rising popularity of the craft has raised a question of water scooter regulation. In this case, the argument for strict regulation is【B2】______. Water scooters are a particularly deadly form of water recreation. For example, two women were vacationing in Longboat Key. While they were floating on a rubber boat along the shore, a water scooter【B3】______them and killed them. Also, water scooter operators have been killed and seriously injured in【B4】______with other watercraft. Others have been stranded at sea when their scooters either failed or sank far from shore. Many water scooter operators are inexperienced and【B5】______navigational rules, which increases the potential for accidents. The increasing popularity of the scooter has aggravated the problem, 【B6】______more water vehicles to compete for the same space. Crowded water ways are simply an open invitation to disaster. In addition to the【B7】______operational hazards of water scooters, they are proven to be an environmental【B8】______. Beach residents complain of the noise of the scooters. The Pacific Whale Foundation on the west coast expressed the concern that the scooters are frightening away an endangered species of whale that migrates to Hawaii for【B9】______. Regulations, such as rninimum operating age, restricted operating areas, and compulsory classes in water safety are essential. Without such regulations,【B10】______involving water scooters are sure to multiply, which makes many beaches unsafe for recreation.

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BPart II Listening Comprehension/B

BSection B/B

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the topic free speech on the Internet. You must give sound arguments to support your point of view. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

In the world of entertainment, TV talk shows have undoubtedly flooded every inch of space on daytime television. And anyone who watches them regularly knows that each one varies in style and format. But no two shows are more profoundly opposite in content, while at the same time standing out above the rest, than the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey shows. Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of "trash talk(废话)". The topics on his show are as shocking as shocking can be. For example, the show takes the ever-common talk show themes of love, sex, cheating, guilt, hate, conflict and morality to a different level. Clearly, the Jerry Springer show is a display and exploitation of society's moral catastrophes(灾难), yet people are willing to eat up the intriguing predicaments(困境)of other people's lives. Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes TV talk show to its extreme, but Oprah goes in the opposite direction. The show focuses on the improvement of society and an individual's quality of life. Topics range from teaching your children responsibility, managing your work week, to getting to know your neighbors. Compared to Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being dumped on society. Jerry ends every show with a "final word". He makes a small speech that sums up the entire moral of the show. Hopefully, this is the part where most people will learn something very valuable. Clean as it is, the Oprah show is not for everyone. The show's main target audience are middle-class Americans. Most of these people have the time, money, and stability to deal with life's tougher problems. Jerry Springer, on the other hand, has more of an association with the young adults of society. These are 18 to 21-year-olds whose main troubles in life involve love, relationship, sex, money and peers. They are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned underneath the show's exploitation. While the two shows are as different as night and day, both have ruled the talk show circuit for many years now. Each one caters to a different audience while both have a strong following from large groups of fans. Ironically, both could also be considered pioneers in the talk show world.

BPart III Reading Comprehension/B

BSection A/B

BSection B/B