问答题Directions:A.Studythefollowingcartooncarefullyandwriteanessayinnolessthan150words.B.YouressaymustbewrittenclearlyonANSWERSHEET2.C.Youressayshouldmeettherequirementsbelow:1.Writeoutthemessagesconveyedbythecartoon.2.Giveyourcomments.

问答题Directions: Now there is a heated discussion about examination. Some hold that examination should be abolished. You are a teacher with opposite viewpoints. Write a letter to the editor, Mr. Smith, to express your viewpoints. You should write approximately 160—200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.

问答题Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2.The world's environment is surprisingly healthy. Discuss. If there were an examination topic, most students would tear it apart, offering a long list of complaints from local smog (烟雾) to global climate change, from the felling (砍伐) of forests to the extinction of species. The list would largely be accurate, the concern legitimate. {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}Yet the students who should be given the highest marks would actually be those who agreed with the statement.{{/U}} The surprise is how good things are, not how bad. After all, the world's population has more than tripled during this century, and world output has risen hugely, so you would expect the earth itself to have been affected. Indeed, if people lived, consumed and produced things in the same way as they did in 1900 (or 1950, or indeed 1980), the world by now would be a pretty disgusting place, smelly, dirty, toxic and dangerous. But they don't. {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}The reasons why they don't, and why the environment has not been mined, have to do with prices, technological innovation, social change and government regulation in response to popular pressure.{{/U}} That is why today's environmental problems in the poor countries ought, in principle, to be solvable. Raw materials have not run out, and show no sign of doing so. Logically, one day they must: the planet is a finite place. Yet it is also very big, and man is very ingenious. {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}What has happened is that every time a material seems to be running short, the price has risen and, in response, people have looked for new sources of supply, tried to find ways to use less of the material, or looked for a new substitute.{{/U}} For this reason prices for energy and for minerals have fallen in real terms during the century. The same is true for food. {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}Prices fluctuate, in response to harvests, natural disasters and political instability; and when they rise, it takes some time before new sources of supply become available.{{/U}} But they always do, assisted by new farming and crop technology. The long term trend has been downwards. {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}It is where prices and markets do not operate properly that this benign (良性的) trend begins to stumble, and the genuine problems arise.{{/U}} Markets cannot always keep the environment healthy. If no one owns the resource concerned, no one has an interest in conserving it or fostering it: fish is the best example of this.

问答题The workers are repairing the main building of the Northeast Engineering Institute.

问答题Technology brought great convenience to our lives yet it also created multiple social problems. What do you think about technology? Please write about your opinion. Give two or three examples to illustrate your point. You should write 160 - 200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.

问答题What is it that brings about such an intimate connection between language and thinking? Is there no thinking without the use of language, namely in concepts and concept combinations for which words need not necessarily come to mind? Has not every one of us struggled for words although the connection between "things" was already clear? (61) We might be inclined to attribute to the act of thinking complete independence from language if the individual formed or were able to form his concepts without the verbal guidance of his environment. Yet most likely the mental shape of an individual, growing up under such conditions, would be very poor. Thus we may conclude that the mental development of the individual and his way of forming concepts depend to a high degree upon language. This makes us realize to what extent the same language means the same mentality. In this sense thinking and language are linked together. What distinguishes the language of science from languages as we ordinarily understand the word? How is it that scientific language is international? (62) What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data. As an illustration, let us take the language of Euclidean geometry arid Algebra. They manipulate with a small number of independently introduced concepts, respectively symbols, such as the integral number, the straight line, the point, as well as with signs which designate the fundamental concepts. This is the basis for the construction, respectively definition of all other statements and concepts. The connection between concepts and statements on the one hand and the sensory data on the other hand is established through acts of counting and measuring whose performance is sufficiently well determined. (63) The super-national character of scientific concepts and scientific language is due to the fact that they have been set up by the best brains of all countries and all times. In solitude and yet in cooperative effort as regards the final effect they created the spiritual tools for the technical revolutions which have transformed the life of mankind in the last centuries. Their system of concepts has served as a guide in the bewildering chaos of perceptions so that we learn to grasp general truths from particular observations. What hopes and fears does the scientific method imply for mankind? I do not think that this is the right way to put the question. Whatever this tool in the hand of man will produce depends entirely on the nature of the goals alive in this mankind. Once these goals exist, the scientific method furnishes means to realize them. Yet it cannot furnish the very goals. (64) The scientific method itself would not have led anywhere, it would not even have been born without a passionate striving for clear understanding. Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem--in my opinion--to characterize our age. (65) If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free development of the talents of all men, we shall not be in want of the means to approach such a state. Even if only a small part of mankind strives for such goals, their superiority will prove itself in the long run.

问答题 {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent, notions of male superiority are hard to maintain.{{/U}} The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decisions makes for equality, and this in turn leads to further sharing. {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept that equality more easily than their parents did and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by cooperation rather than by the "battle of the sexes".{{/U}} If the process goes too far and man's role is not regarded as important as before—and that has happened in some cases—we are as badly off as before, only in reverse. We should reassess the role of the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of "Momism", but we don't want to change it into a"Neo-papism". What we need is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equality. {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}There are signs that psychologists and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credit, nor all the blame. We have almost given up saying that a woman's place is at home.{{/U}} {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}We are beginning, however, to study a man's place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child.{{/U}} {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}{{U}}The family is a cooperative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules, because each family member needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems.{{/U}} Excessive authoritarianism has unhappy consequences, whether it wears skirts or trousers, and the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is relevant not only to a healthy democracy, but also to a healthy family.

问答题{{I}}Directions:{{/I}} You are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic: Tuition system. You should base your composition on the following outline, and write coherently and neatly, in no less than 120 words. Outline: 1．自从学费制度实施以来，它已成为中国的热门话题。人们对此问题的看法各不同。 2．有人认为，世界上没有一所大学不向学生收费。 3．然而，另一些人则反对学费制度。

问答题 Write a composition on the following topic: Think of the most interesting book you have ever read. Why did you enjoy this book so much? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Some people are trying to fill up lakes to set up commercial buildings, and they say that they are helping the economy. There is strong protest among the common citizens who think that the lakes are more important than anything. Write an essay to the newspaper to express your idea by: 1) criticizing their view; 2) justifying your stand. Make full use of the information provided below: Title: Save Lakes Arguments: Lakes are important in regulating a city' s temperature and keeping edible water and lakes form beautiful scenery of the place.

问答题The standardized educational or psychological tests that are widely used to aid in selecting, classifying, assigning, or promoting students, employees, and military personnel have been the target of recent attacks in books, magazines, the daily press, and even in congress. 61. The target is wrong, for in attacking the tests, critics divert attention from the fault that lies with ill-informed or incompetent users. The tests themselves are merely tools, with characteristics that can be measured with reasonable precision under specified conditions. Whether the results will be valuable, meaningless, or even misleading depends partly upon the tool itself but largely upon the user. All informed predictions of future performance are based upon some knowledge of relevant past performance: school grades, research productivity, sales records, or whatever is appropriate. 62. How well the predictions will be validated by later performance depends upon the amount, reliability, and appropriateness of the in- formation used and on the skill and wisdom with which it is interpreted. Anyone who keeps carful score knows that the information available is always incomplete and that the predictions are always subject to error. Standardized tests should be considered in this context. They provide a quick, objective method of getting some kinds of information about what a person learned, the skills he has developed, or the kind of person he is. The information so obtained has, qualitatively, the same advantages and shortcomings as other kinds of information. 63. Whether to use tests, other kinds of information, or both in a particular situation depends, therefore, upon the evidence from experience concerning comparative validity and upon such factors as cost and availability. 64. In general, the tests work most effectively when the qualities to be measured can be most precisely defined and least effectively when what is to be measured or predicted can not be well defined. Properly used, they provide a rapid means of getting comparable information about many people. Sometimes they identify students whose high potential has not been previously recognized, but there are many things they do not do. 65. For example, they do not compensate for gross social inequality, and thus do not tell how able an underprivileged youngster might have been had he grown up under more favorable circumstances.

问答题Studythefollowingsetofcartoonscarefullyandwriteanessayinwhichyoushould(1)describethecartoons,(2)interpretitsmeaning,and(3)pointoutitsimplicationsinourlife.Youshouldwrite160-200wordsonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} {{I}}Now there is a heated discussion about examination. Some hold that examination should be abolished. You are a teacher with opposite viewpoints. Write a letter to the editor, Mr. Smith, to express your viewpoints. You should write approximately 160—200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.{{/I}}

问答题Some people think that governments should spend as much money as possible in developing or buying computer technology. Other people disagree and think that this money should be spent on more basic needs. Which one of these opinions do you agree with? Write a composition based on the following outline: (1) State your opinion. (2) Explain why. (3) Conclusion. You should write 160 - 200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.

问答题He listens to the radio every day.