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. Lying in the northern part of North China Plain, Beijing is surrounded by mountains on the west, the north and the northeast. The northeastern part of the city is high while the south western part is low topographically, with a southeastern plain tilted gradually downward to the Bohai Sea. As the capital of China, Beijing is one of the world"s truly imposing cities, with a 3,000-year history and 15.3 million people (2005). Covering 16,808 square kilometers in area, it is the political, cultural and economic center of the People"s Republic. Rich in history, Beijing has been China"s primary capital for more than seven centuries. A city plan was first laid out in the Yuan Dynasty. Yet only after extensive reconstruction during the Ming and Qing, did the city emerge as an architectural masterpiece fit to serve as the capital of the Chinese empire. A north-south axis bisects the city with the Imperial Palace was known as Danei (The Great within). In the Ming Dynasty, it was renamed the Forbidden City(Zijincheng), and more recently it has come to be called the Palace Museum (Gugong Bowuyuan). Designed with thousands of hails and gates arranged symmetrically around a north-south axis, its dimensions and luxuriance are a fitting symbol of the power and greatness of traditional China. At Tiananmen Square, besides the old Forbidden City Palace of the emperors in the past, there stand the Great Hall of the People"s Congress building and the Mausoleum of Chairman Mao Zedong. The old city walls have been replaced by ring roads, and many of the old residential districts of alleys and courtyard houses have been turned into high-rise hotels, office buildings, and department stores. Beijing, a dynamic city where the old and new intermingle, remains a magnet for visitors from inside and outside China.

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问答题In this part you are allowed 35 minutes to write a composition based on the following directions: Changing Criteria for Good College Students 1) Title: Changing Criteria for Good College Students 2) Time limit: 40 minutes 3) Word limit: no less than 150 words (not including the given opening sentence) 4) Your composition should be based on the OUTLINE below and should start with the given opening sentence: Probably five or more years ago, good college students simply meant students good at academic work. 5) Your composition must be written neatly on the ANSWER SHEET.A. Previous criteria.B. Present criteria.C. My comments. You should write 160-200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.

问答题Directions: Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. In less than 30 years' time the Star Trek holodeck will be a reality. Direct links between the brain's nervous system and a computer will also create full sensory virtual environments, allowing virtual vacations like those in the film Total Recall. 61) {{U}}There will be television chat shows hosted by robots, and cars with pollution monitors that will disable them when they offend.{{/U}} 62) {{U}}Children will play with dolls equipped with personality chips, computers with in-built personalities will be regarded as workmates rather than tools, relaxation will be in front of smell-television, and digital age will have arrived.{{/U}} According to BT's futurologist, Ian Pearson, these are among the developments scheduled for the first few decades of the new millennium(a period of 1,000 years), when supercomputers will dramatically accelerate progress in all areas of life. 63) {{U}}Pearson has pieced together to work of hundreds of researchers around the world to produce a unique millennium technology calendar that gives the latest dates when we can expect hundreds of key breakthroughs and discoveries to take place.{{/U}} Some of the biggest developments will be in medicine, including an extended life expectancy and dozens of artificial organs coming into use between now and 2040. Pearson also predicts a breakthrough in computer human links. "By linking directly to our nervous system, computers could pick up what we feel and, hopefully, simulate feeling too so that we can start to develop full sensory environments, rather like the holidays in Total Recall or the Star Trek holodeck," he says. 64) {{U}}But that, Pearson points out, is only the start of man-machine integration : "It will be the beginning of the long process of integration that will ultimately lead to a fully electronic human before the end of the next century. "{{/U}} Through his research, Pearson is able to put dates to most of the breakthroughs that can be predicted. However, there are still no forecasts for when faster-than-light travel will be available, or when human cloning will be perfected, or when time travel will be possible. But he does expect social problems as a result of technological advances. A boom in neighborhood surveillance cameras will, for example, cause problems in 2010, while the arrival of synthetic lifelike robots will mean people may not be able to distinguish between their human friends and the droids. 65) {{U}}And home appliances will also become so smart that controlling and operating them will result in the breakout of a new psychological disorder--kitchen rage.{{/U}}

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问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} You have been taught by many teachers. They are very different from each other. Some treat their teaching seriously; some get along well with their students; and some have their peculiar characteristics, such as easy-going, warm-hearted or cheerful. Write an essay making use of the information provided below:

问答题Things aren't always as they appear, a fact of life confirmed for me firsthand in 1990, just after I received my Ph.D. in physics. I had just started a temporary postdoctoral position at a major laboratory and had the opportunity to talk with scientists whose postdoctoral fellowships were ending. 21) Although my advisers had warned me that finding a permanent position in science would be difficult, what I discovered was shocking — even the best young scientists I knew were having difficulty securing permanent employment. So it was both puzzling and disturbing to see press reports claiming that America didn't have enough scientists. These alarming reports were epidemic in 1990. Frequently the news stories had hyperbolic headlines like SHORTAGE OF SCIENTISTS APPROACHES A CRISIS AS MORE STUDENTS DROP OUT OF THE FIELD, and they often quoted National Science Foundation (NSF) officials. 22) For a government obsessed with international competitiveness, stories of a shortage of scientists and engineers were terrifying, especially because they appeared to come from a trusted source — the NSF. The U.S. Congress, having caught the "scientist- shortage fever", started passing laws to solve the "crisis". During this time the NSF apparently made no effort to set the record straight. Amazingly, the NSF's director, Erich Bloch, used the shortage idea to argue for increases in the foundation's budget. The National Science Foundation's behavior was puzzling. The officials presumably knew that the job market was tight — yet they claimed just the opposite. Clearly, something had to be done to alert policymakers to the plight of my friends, so I created the Young Scientists' Network (YSN). At first the YSN operated as a weekly newsletter — distributed by electronic mail to about 30 physicists — with information about jobs, press reports and calls for political action. As time passed, the membership increased and the newsletter evolved into an "electronic forum" that was distributed daily. During this early period, representatives of the network presented our concerns to science-policy leaders in face-to-face meetings. 23) In the spring of 1992 this political activity ultimately led me to testify at a congressional hearing about the NSF's apparent advocacy of the scientist-shortage notion — an idea that YSN members had by then dubbed The Myth. Congress, heavily influenced by The Myth, passed the Immigration Act of 1990, which included special provisions that increase immigration quotas for people with technical degrees. 24) Thanks in large part to the efforts of the YSN, the policymakers now realize that the immigration program is a bad idea. The Senate has already inserted language into a new immigration bill that would modify the previous law, and the House of Representatives is expected to concur. Killing the Immigration Act will not improve the job market. 25) Over the next few years the demand for scientists and engineers will probably remain weak, because of corporate and government budget constraints.

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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 disease. 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 treat ment 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 1960 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.