问答题Read the following text(s) and write an essay to 1) summarize the main points of the text(s), 2) make clear your own viewpoints, and 3) justify your stand. In your essay, make full use of the information provided in the text(s). If you use more than three consecutive words from the text(s), use quotation marks(" "). You should write 160-200 words. Qixi Festival, the Chinese equivalent of Valentine"s Day that fell yesterday, was not only a disappointment for forgotten lovers, but also for businessmen left with empty pockets. The cold reception has prompted cultural experts to seriously worry that the lovers" festival, marked for generations since the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), is dying out. Some have even called for legislation to make the festival a legal "Chinese Lovers" Day", which falls on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar year. But the effectiveness of such a measure is in doubt, although efforts to preserve traditional festivals are highly commendable. A growing number of traditional Chinese festivals, such as the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, share the same fate as the Qixi Festival. Young people are showing less interest in traditional culture as symbolized by these festivals. Even if all traditional festivals are finally made legal, the risk of them becoming purely formalized celebrations with little meaning is not removed. If the younger generation fails to identify with the cultural significance of these holidays, there is little that can be done. While complaining about traditional festivals" fading appeal, decision-makers should reflect on cultural protection. Undeniably our country has done a bad job of preserving culture and traditional festivals, compared to neighboring Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK). The 2,500-year-old Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. The traditional customs and rituals of the occasion, which originated in China, have been better preserved in the ROK. Only a few years ago did China begin to realize the significance of preserving intangible cultural heritage when the ROK planned to apply to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to list its version of the Dragon Boat Festival as an important example of intangible culture.

问答题 {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}Sweden has got a population of only 8 million, but it is a large country with an area of 450,000 square kilometers. {{/U}}{{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}There are frontiers with Norway to the west and Finland to the east and the distance from the southern to northern coasts is very long.{{/U}} In 1977, the Swedish king was Charles XVI and the Prime Minister was Mr. Fielding. {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}Sweden is neutral and is not a member of the European Economic Community (EEC).{{/U}} Its last war was from 1813 to 1814 when its army under the first Bemadotte king of Sweden was at the battle of Leipzig against Napoleon. {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}Sweden's principal trading partners are Germany and Great Britain. Her main exports are machinery, paper, cars and iron and steel.{{/U}} In 1971, machinery was 26% and cars 10% of her exports, and exports were greater than imports by 2,000 million crowns. Between 1963 and 1971 there was an increase of 61% in industrial production. Sweden is a wealthy country. Taxes are high but her people are very well-off. With Denmark and Norway, Sweden has got her own airline, SAS. Her air force is very strong and she has got her own SAAB fighters. {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}Sweden is famous for the Nobel Prize, for the films of Ingmar Bergman, for the plays of Strindberg, and for Volvo cars.{{/U}} Stockholm is one of the loveliest cities in the world.

问答题In modem society, communication with others is quite necessary, but some people pay no attention to the techniques in coping with personal relations. And the following suggestions will help them do better: (1) Honesty is the best policy. (2) Take an optimistic attitude to life. (3) Being broad-minded is essential. In your essay, you should use the three pieces of information mentioned above. You should write 160—200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.

问答题Your TV broke down only one week after it was bought. Write a letter of complaint to the store where your TV set was bought, 1. to express what is wrong with your TV set; 2. to make your request (change for a new one, or return the broken one ... ); 3. to urge the store to give an early reply. You should write approximately 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of your letter. Use "Wang Lin" instead. You do not need to write your address and the date.

问答题Write an essay on environment. In your essay, make full use of the information provided below Outline: (1) harm of environmental pollution (2) ways to protect (3) conclusion You should write 160—200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.

问答题Writeanessayof160-200wordsbasedonthefollowingdrawing.Inyouressay,youshouldfirstdescribethedrawing,theninterpretitsmeaning,andgiveyourcommentonit.YoushouldwriteneatlyonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题 It is astonishing how little is known about the working of the mind. But however little or much is known, it is fairly clear that the model of the logic-machine is not only wrong but mischievous. There are people who profess to believe that man can live by logic alone. If only they say, men developed their reason. looked at all situations and dilemmas logically, and proceeded to devise rational solutions, all human problems would be solved. Be reasonable. Think logically. Act rationally. This line of thought is very persuasive, not to say seductive. 61){{U}}It is astonishing, however, how frequently the. people most fanatically devoted to logic and reason, to a cold review of the "facts" and a calculated construction of the truth, turn out not only to be terribly emotional in argumentation, but obstinate before any "truth" is ".proved"{{/U}}—deeply committed to emotional positions that prove rock-resistible to the most massive accumulation of unsympathetic facts and proofs. If man's mind cannot be turned into a logic-machine, neither can it function properly as a great emotional sponge, to be squeezed at will. All of us have known people who gush as a general response to life—who gush in seeing a sunset, who gush in reading a book, who gush in meeting a friend. They may seem live by emotion alone, but their constant gushing is a disguise for absence of genuine feeling, a torrent rushing to fill a vacuum. 62){{U}}It is not uncommon to find beneath the gush a cold, analytic mind that is astonishing in its meticulousness and ruthless in its calculation.{{/U}} Somewhere between machine and sponge lies the reality of the mind — a blend of reason and emotion, of actuality and imagination, of fact and feeling. 63){{U}}The entanglement is so complete, the mixture so thoroughly mixed, that it is probably impossible to achieve pure reason or pure emotion, at least for any sustained period of time.{{/U}} It is probably best to assume that all our reasoning is fused with our emotional commitments and beliefs, all our thoughts colored by feelings that lie deep within our psyches. 64){{U}}Moreover, it is probably best to assume that this stream of emotion is not a poison, not even a taint, but is a positive life-source, a stream of psychic energy that animates and vitalizes our entire thought process.{{/U}} 65){{U}}The roots of reason are embedded in feelings—feelings that have formed and accumulated and developed over lifetime of personality-shaping.{{/U}} These feelings are not for occasional using but are inescapable. To know what we think, we must know how we feel. It is feeling that shapes belief and forms opinion. It is feeling that directs the strategy of argument. It is our feelings, then, with which we must come to honorable terms.

问答题61) Although Henry Ford's name is closely associated with the, concept of mass production, he should receive equal credit for introducing labor practices as early as 1913 that would be considered advanced even by today's standards. Safety measures were improved, and the work day was reduced to eight hours, Compared with the ten-or-twelve-hour day common at the time. 62) In order to accommodate the shorter work day, the entire factory was converted from two to three shifts. In addition, sick leaves as well as improved medical care for those injured on the job were instituted. 63) The Ford Motor Company was one of the first factories to develop a technical school to train specialized skilled laborers and an English language school for immigrants. Some efforts were even made to hire the handicapped and provide jobs for former convicts. 64) The most widely acclaimed innovation was the five-dollar-a-day minimum wage that was offered in order to recruit and retain the best mechanics and to discourage the growth of labor unions. Ford explained the new wage policy in terms of efficiency and profit sharing. He also mentioned the fact that his employees would be able to purchase the automobiles that they produced—in effect creating a market for the product. In order to qualify for the minimum wage, an employee had to establish a decent home and demonstrate good personal habits, including sobriety, thriftiness, industriousness, and dependability. 65) Although some criticism was directed at Ford for involving himself too much in the personal lives of his employees, there can be no doubt that, at a time when immigrants were being taken advantage of in frightful ways, Henry Ford was helping many people to establish themselves in America.

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问答题Directions: Many people dislike advertisements, especially television advertisements. There is a discussion on your local newspaper about the advantages and disadvantages of television commercials. You are to write a paper listing the disadvantages of television advertising. Please include the items listed below: 1) It interferes in your watching the program you like. 2) It only brags about the products. 3) It attaches values that have nothing to do with the products. You should write 160-200 words on ANSWER SHEET2.

问答题Directions:StudythefollowingtablecarefullyandwriteacompositiononChangesinPeople"sDiet.Writeanessayof160-200wordsbasedonthefollowingtable.Inyouressay,youshouldfirstdescribethetable,theninterpretitsmeaning,andgiveyoucommentonit.YoushouldwriteneatlyonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题American and Japanese researchers are developing a smart car that will help drivers avoid accidents by predicting when they are about to make a dangerous move. The smart car of the future will be able to tell if drivers are going to turn, change lanes, speed up, slow down or pass another car. If the driver's intended action could lead to an accident, the car will activate a warning system or override the move. (61)"By shifting the emphasis of car safety away from design of the vehicle itself and looking more toward the driver's behavior, the developers believe that they can start to build cars that adapt to suit people's needs," New Scientist magazine said. Alex Pentland of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology collaborated on the project with Andrew Liu who works for the Japanese carmaker Nissan. (62) Tests of their smart car using a driving simulator have shown that it is 95 percent accurate in predicting a driver's move 12 seconds in advance. (63) The system is based on driving behavior which the researchers say can be divided into chains of sub-actions which include preparatory moves. It monitors the driver's behavior patterns to predict the next move. "To make its predictions, Nissan's smart car uses a computer and sensors on the steering wheel, accelerator and brake to monitor a person's driving patterns. (64) A brief training session, in which the driver is asked to perform certain maneuvers, allows the system to calculate the probability of particular actions occurring in two-second time segments," the magazine said. Liu has also done work on tracking eye movement to predict driving behavior. (65) He said the smart car could be adapted to monitor eye movement which could give even earlier predictions of when a driver is about to make a wrong move.

问答题1) Importance of confidence 2) Reasons for lack of confidence 3) How to build up confidence

问答题It applies equally to traditional historians who view history as only the external and internal criticism of sources, and to social science historians who equate their activity with specific techniques.

问答题Directions: Read the following statement and write an essay on it. In your essay, you should (1) state your opinion, and (2) support it with examples "Never give up, never lose hope. " You should write 160～200 words neatly on ASWER SHEET 2.