问答题 The cost of staging the year 2000 Olympics in Sydney is estimated to be a staggering ＄ 960 million, but {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}the city is preparing to reap the financial benefits that come from holding such an international event by equaling the commercial success of Los Angeles, the only city yet to have made a demonstrable profit from the Games in 1984.{{/U}} At precisely 4:20 a.m. on Friday the 24th of September 1993, it was announced that Sydney had beaten five other competing cities around the world, and Australians everywhere, not only Sydneysiders, were justifiably proud of the result. {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}But, if Sydney had lost the bid, would the taxpayers of New South Wales and of Australia have approved of governments spending millions of dollars in a failed and costly exercise?{{/U}} There may have been some consolation in the fact that the bid came in ＄ 1 million below the revised budget and ＄ 5 million below the original budget of ＄ 29 million formulated in mid-1991. However, the final cost was the considerable sum of ＄ 24 million, the bulk of which was paid for by corporate and community contributions, merchandising, licensing, and the proceeds of lotteries, with the NSW Government, which had originally been willing to spend up to ＄ 10 million, contributing some ＄ 2 million. {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}The Federal Government's grant of ＄ 5 million meant, in effect, that the Sydney bid was financed by every Australian taxpayer.{{/U}} Prior to the announcement of the winning city, there was considerable debate about the wisdom of taking financial risks of this kind at a time of economic recession. {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}Others argued that 70% of the facilities were already in place, and all were on government-owned land, removing some potential areas of conflict which troubled previous Olympic bidders.{{/U}} The former NSW Premier, Mr. Nick Greiner, went on record as saying that the advantage of having the Games... "is not that you are going to have ＄ 7.4 billion in extra gross domestic product over the next 14 years." {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}I think the real point is the psychological change, the gaining of confidence, apart from the other more obvious reasons, such as the building of sporting facilities, tourism, and things of that nature.{{/U}}

问答题Galileo's greatest glory was that in 1609 he was the first person to man the newly invented telescope on the heavens to prove that the planets revolve around the sun rather than around the earth.

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问答题 The relation of language and mind has interested philosophers for many centuries. {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}The Greeks assumed that the structure of language had some connection with the process of thought, which took root in Europe long before people realized how diverse languages could be.{{/U}} Only recently did linguists begin the serious study of languages that were very different from their own. Two anthropologist-linguists, Franz Boas Edward Sapir, were pioneers in describing many native languages of North and South America during the first half of the twentieth century. {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}We are obliged to them because some of them languages have since vanished, as the peoples who spoke them died out or became assimilated and lost their native languages.{{/U}} Other linguists in the earlier part of this century, however, who were less eager to deal with bizarre data from "exotic" language, were not always so grateful. {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}The newly described languages were often so strikingly different from the well studied languages of Europe and Southeast Asia that some scholars even accused Boas and Sapir of fabricating their data.{{/U}} Native American languages are indeed different, so much so in fact that Navajo could be used by the US military as a code during World War II to send secret messages. Sapir's pupil, Benjamin Lee Whorf, continued the study of American Indian languages. {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}Being interested in the relationship of language and thought, Whorl developed the idea that the structure of language determines the structure of habitual thought in a society.{{/U}} He reasoned that because it is easier to formulate certain concepts and not others in a given language, the speakers of that language think along one track and not along another. {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}Whorf came to believe in a sort of linguistic determinism which in its strongest form, states that language imprisons the mind, and that the grammatical patterns in a language can produce far-reaching consequences for the culture of a society.{{/U}} Later, this idea became to be known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, but this term is somewhat inappropriate. Although both Sapir and Whorf emphasized the diversity of languages, Sapir himself never explicitly supported the notion of linguistic determinism.

问答题Exactly where we will stand in the long war against disease by the year 2050 is impossible to say. (61) But if developments in research maintain their current pace, it seems likely that a combination of improved attention to dietary and environmental factors, along with advances in gene therapy and protein targeted drugs, will have virtually eliminated most major classes of diseases. From an economic standpoint, the best news may be that these accomplishments could be accompanied by a drop in health-care costs. (62) Costs may even fall as diseases are brought under control using pinpointed, short term therapies now being developed. By 2050 there will be fewer hospitals, and surgical procedures will be largely restricted to the treatment of accidents and other forms of trauma(外伤). Spending on nonacute(慢性病的) care, both in nursing facilities and in homes, will also fall sharply as more elderly people lead healthy lives until close to death. One result of medicine's success in controlling disease will be a dramatic increase in life expectancy. (63) The extent of that increase is a highly speculative matter, but it is worth noting that medical science has already helped to make the very old (currently defined as those over 85 years of age) the fastest growing segment of the population. Between 1980 and 1995,the U.S. population as a whole increased by about 45%, while the segment over 85 years of age grew by almost 300%. (64) There has been a similar explosion in the population of centenarians, with the result that survival to the age of 100 is no longer the newsworthy feat that it was only a few decades ago. U.S. Census Bureau projections already forecast dramatic increase in the number of centenarians in the next 50 years: 4 million in 2050, compared with 37,000 in 1990. (65) Although Census Bureau calculations project an increase in average life span of only eight years by the year 2050, some experts believe that the human life span should not begin to encounter any theoretical natural limits before 120 years. With continuing advances in molecular medicine and a growing understanding of the aging process, that limit could rise to 130 years or more.

问答题1.Many of us find it hard to say NO to a friend. 2. Do not hesitate to say NO. 3. Skills of saying NO at the same time not hurting feelings.

问答题Directions:Studythefollowingdrawingcarefullyandwriteanessayof160～200wordsinwhichyoushould1)Describethedrawing;2)Interpretitsmeaning;3)Supportyourviewwithexamples.

问答题For this part, you are allowed 35 minutes to write a composition based on the following directions: 1) The topic is Unemployment. 2) Your composition should be based on the outline given in Chinese below. A．下岗被视为目前中国面临的头号问题。 B．政府已采取了一系列措施来解决这一问题。 C．随着政府和社会的共同努力，我们相信一定能解决下岗问题。 You should write 160 -200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.

问答题HousingisoneofthemostimportantissuesconcerningChinesepeoplenow.Thefollowinggraphshowsthepriceofhousein1987andin1999(Yuanpersquaremeter).Youaretowriteacompositionwithin35minutes.Youshouldwrite160～200wordsonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题For this part, you are allowed 35 minutes to write a composition based on the following directions:Traveling is more important than reading books in order to understand the people and the world well. Let's suppose that you agree with the statement. Write an article about it.You should write 160 - 200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.

问答题Interlocutor:Now,I"dlikeyoutotalkaboutsomethingbetweenyourselvesandspeakloudlysothatwecanhearyou.Youshouldtakecaretosharetheopportunityofspeaking.(PutPictureforCandidatesinfrontofbothcandidatesandgiveinstructionswithreferencetothepicture.)Youareaskedtotalkaboutthephenomenonthatmoreandmorepeoplearenowhavingtheirowncars.Everydaytheybringabouttrafficjam.Giveyourcommentonwhatyouseeinthepicture.Thispictureisforyourreference.Youhavethreeminutesforthis.Wouldyouliketobeginnow,please?