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"Intelligence" at best is an assumptive construct—the word"s meaning has never been clear. 1 There is more agreement on the kinds of behavior referred to by the term than there is on how to interpret or classify them. But it is generally agreed that a person who has high intelligence is one who can grasp ideas readily, make distinctions, reason logically, and use verbal and mathematical symbols in solving problems. An intelligence test is a rough measure of a child"s capacity for learning, particularly for learning the kinds of things required in school. It does not measure character, social adjustment, physical endurance, manual skills, or artistic abilities. It is not supposed to—it was not designed for such purposes. 2 To criticize it for such failure is roughly comparable to criticizing a thermometer for not measuring wind velocity. The other thing we should notice is that the assessment of the intelligence of any subject is essentially a comparative affair. 3 Now since the assessment of intelligence is a comparative matter we must be sure that the scale with which we are comparing our subjects provides a "valid" or "fair" comparison. It is here that some of the difficulties which interest us begin. Any test performed involves at least three factors: the intention to do one"s best, the knowledge required for understanding what you must do, and the intellectual ability to do it. 4 The first two must be equal for all who are being compared, if any comparison in terms of intelligence is to be made. In school populations in our culture these assumptions can be made fair and reasonable, and the value of intelligence testing has been proved thoroughly. Its value lies, of course, in its providing a satisfactory basis for prediction. Nobody is in the least interested in the marks a little child gets on his test; what we are interested in is whether we can conclude from his mark on the test that the child will do better or worse than other children of his age at tasks which we think require "general intelligence". 5 On the whole, such a conclusion can be drawn with a certain degree of confidence, but only if the child can be assumed to have had the same attitude towards the test as the other with whom he is being compared, and only if he was not punished by lack of relevant information which they possessed.

问答题Directions:Studythefollowingtwopicturescarefullyandwriteanessayonthem.Inyouressay,youshould(1)describethepicturesbriefly,(2)analyzethissituation,and(3)giveyourcomments.Youshouldwrite160—200wordsneatlyonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题Thefollowingchartshowsthenumberofscholarsreturningfromoverseasoverthepastyears.Studythefollowingchartcarefullyandwriteanessayinwhichyoushould1)describethechart,and2)accountforthefactrevealedinthechart.Inyouressay,makefulluseoftheinformationprovidedinthepicturesprintedbelow.Youshouldwriteabout160-200wordsneatlyonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题{{I}} The children's education is important to both children themselves and the society. However, Some parents are not clear about how to educate their children. They pay excessive attention to their children's grades at school. Write an essay to 1) point out the failure of such parents' education and 2) what the possible consequences will be. You should write 160-200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.{{/I}}

问答题For this part, you are allowed 35 minutes to write a composition based on the following directions:　　1) Title: The Importance of Forgetting　　2) Base the article on the following outline:A. Put forward the idea that to forget is important.B. Prove your idea with a supposition.C. Conclusion.You should write 160 - 200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.

问答题Studythefollowingcartooncarefullyandwriteanessayaboutit.Youshouldwriteyourcompositionaccordingtothefollowingoutlines.1)describeandinterpretthecartoon,2)pointoutthenecessityofsolvingtheproblem,and3)predictthefuture.Youshouldwrite160-200wordsonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题61) The American economic system is organized around a basically private-enterprise, market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen, striving to make profits, produce these goods and services in competition other businessmen; and the profit motive, operating under competitive pressures; largely determines how these goods and services are produced. 62) Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals 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 mechanism by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers. 63) In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and fall in response to relative demands of consumers and supplies offered by seller-producers. If the product is in short supply relative to demand, the price will be bid up and some consumers will be eliminated from the market. 64) 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 regulating mechanism in the American economic system. 65) The important factor in a private-enterprise economy is that individuals are allowed to own productive resources (private property), and they are permitted to hire labor, gain control over natural resources, and produce goods and services for sale at a profit. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual.

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} 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. "The man who reads well is the man who thinks well, who has a background for opinion and a stand for judgment." You should write 160--200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.

问答题In such a changing, complex society formerly simple solutions to informational needs become complicated. 56) Many of life's problems which were solved by asking family members, friends or colleagues are beyond the capability of the extended family to resolve. Where to turn for expert information and how to determine which expert advice to accept are questions facing many people today? In addition to this, there is the growing mobility of people since World War Ⅱ. 57) As families move away from their stable community, their friends of many years, their extended family relationships, the informal flow of information is cut off, and with it the confidence that information will be available when needed and will be trustworthy and reliable. The almost unconscious flow of information about the simplest aspects of living can be cut off. Thus things once learned subconsciously through the casual communications of the extended family must be consciously learned. Adding to social changes today is an enormous stockpile of information. 58) The individual now has more information available than any generation, and the task of finding that one piece of information relevant to his or her specific problem is complicated, time-consuming and sometimes even overwhelming. 59) Coupled with the growing quantity of information is the development of technologies which enable the storage and delivery of more information with greater speed to more locations than has ever been possible before. Computer technology makes it possible to store vast amounts of data in machine-readable files, and to program computer to locate specific information. Telecommunications developments enable the sending of messages via television, radio, and very shortly, electronic mail to bombard people with multitudes of messages. Satellites have extended the power of communications to report events at the instant of occurrence. Expertise can be shared worldwide through teleconferencing, and problems in dispute can be settled without the participants leaving their homes and/or jobs to travel to a distant conference site. Technology has facilitated the sharing of information and the storage and delivery of information, thus making more information available to more people. In this world of change and complexity, the need for information is of greatest importance. Those people who have accurate, reliable up-to-date information to solve the day-to-day problems, the critical problems of their business, social and family life, will survive and succeed. 60) "Knowledge is power" may well be the truest saying and access to information may be the most critical requirement of all people.

问答题Amongalltheworthyfeelingsofmankind,loveisprobablythenoblest,buteveryonehashis/herownunderstandingofit.Therehasbeenadiscussionrecentlyontheissueinanewspaper.Writeanessaytothenewspaperto1)showyourunderstandingofthesymbolicmeaningofthepicturebelow,2)giveaspecificexample,and3)giveyoursuggestionastothebestwaytoshowlove.Youshouldwriteabout200wordsonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题Interlocutor:Now,I"dlikeyoutotalkaboutsomethingbetweenyourselvesandspeakloudlysothatwecanhearyou.Youshouldtakecaretosharetheopportunityofspeaking.(PutPictureforCandidatesinfrontofbothcandidatesandgiveinstructionswithreferencetothepicture.)I"dlikeyoutotalkaboutthemeansthatpeopleusuallyuseforcommunication.Chooseatleastthreeofthemeansinthepictures,andgivethereasonforthechoice.Thepicturesareforyourreference.Youhavethreeminutesforthis.Wouldyouliketobeginnow,please?Pictures

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. Scientists know where earthquakes are likely to take place. But it is difficult for them to predict how strong an earthquake will be. Now, American researchers have found that it may be possible to predict the strength of future quakes. The Earth"s crust—the outermost surface—is made up of large tectonic plates. As many as 20 tectonic plates cover the Earth. They move slowly, sometimes sliding under one another. Where that happens, earthquakes can take place. Timothy H. Dixon is with the University of South Florida. He is a geologist—a scientist who studies rocks and soil to understand the Earth. He and other scientists are using global positioning system, or GPS, equipment to measure what he calls "slow-slip" events. By that, he means slow-moving earthquakes that cannot be measured by other instruments. Timothy Dixon says—that while such movements may not be felt, they can lead to large, sometimes deadly earthquakes. The more of the fault that ruptures, or breaks, he says, the more powerful the earthquake is. The scientists set up a number of GPS receivers 15 years ago in Costa Rica to measure the "slow-slip" events, which take place only every year or two. The last one was three months before an earthquake in 2012. People always want to know when an earthquake is going to happen. This technology cannot predict that. But Timothy Dixon says knowing how strong the quake might be gives officials time to improve building codes and make other preparations. "You know the earthquake is more-or-less inevitable. Even if you don"t know exactly when it"s going to happen, since you know it"s going to happen, and you know how big it"s going to be, you can prepare accordingly." A scientific paper presenting his findings was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.