问答题It is to some people's belief that a county becomes more interesting and vibrant, and develops faster when its population is mixed with different nationalities and cultures. To what extent do you agree or disagree with it?

问答题 Directions: A recruitment drive for 100,000 Olympic volunteers, which aims to help the Chinese and foreigners get involved in the 2008 Games, was Officially launched in Beijing last month. You intend to apply for certain positions, and now write a letter the recruitment office, showing your motivation and stating your eligibility for the requirements. Write your letter in no less than 100 words. Write it neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter, use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write the address.

问答题 Directions: You are ill and can not go to school. There fore you have to write a sick leave which should include: 1) the description of your illness; 2) your aim of writing the sick leave. You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the note. Use "Li Ming" instead. (10 points)

问答题Directions:Studythefollowingdrawingcarefullyandwriteanessayinwhichyoushould1)describethedrawing.2)analyzetheaimofthepainterofthedrawing,and3)suggestcounter-measures.Youshouldwriteabout160～200wordsneatlyonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题"BLOGGO PLC ", announces its press office at 7am, London time, "last night agreed to purchase Junko Inc, of Wichita."(46) A quote from Bloggo's proud chairman sets out how well the American purchase fits the British buyer's strategy. And the British shareholder, if he is wise, heads for his broker and the exit. (47) That, repeatedly, has been the lesson of British incursions into the United States: from attempts in the 1950s of firms like Austin and Morris to sell their utterly ill-suited and often ill-built small cars of the time, through European Ferries, which in the 1980s bought up several thousand acres near Denver, presumably without asking—until it went all-but belly up—whether a cross-Channel ferry firm really knew more about land in Colorado than local real-estate buffs did. Even in the later era of serious direct investment, British incursions have had a spotty, record. Two academics at Xfi, Exeter University's new finance and investment centre, have now put figures on it. Alan Gregory and Steve McCorriston studied 197 British takeovers in America, nearly all the significant ones, in manufacturing and services (banking excluded) in 1984-94. (48) Over a five-year period from the purchase, they found, the cumulative return to shareholders was 27% lower than "normal"—ie, for; similar companies that had stayed at home—and notably worse than the trivial difference over one year that stockmarkets (and academics) have tended to look at. (49) The figure was also in notable contrast to comparable ones from 97 takeovers in the European Union, and 39 elsewhere in the world. Returns in the EU looked better than normal, but the figures were not statistically significant; those in the rest of the world were both, 32% better. (50) You might expect the opposite, given that Britain's corporate culture is much like America's. but some way from those of most EU countries. So why the unexpected outcome? The Exeter academics do not know, but would love to find out—if they can get the research funding.

问答题you should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Matin" instead. you do not need to write the address. (10 points)

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}A.Studythefollowingpicturecarefullyandwriteanessayofabout160-200words.B.YouressaymustbewrittenclearlyontheANSWERSHEET2.C.Youressayshouldmeettherequirementsbelow:1)Describethepicture,2)deducethepurposeofthepainterofthepicture,and3)suggestcounter-measures.

问答题1) your gratitude for being given the opportunity, 2) your basic background, 3) your wish for everybody to have a good time. You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2: (10 points)

问答题Directions: Write a letter to the manager of a hotel to complain about the service you received there and suggest the solutions. You should write about 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter; use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write the address.

问答题No company likes to be told it is contributing to the moral decline of a nation. Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers? Senator Robert Dole asked Time Warner executives last week. You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well? At Time Warner, however, such questions are simply the latest manifestation of the soul-searching that has involved the company ever since the company was born in 1990. (1) It's a self-examination that has, at various times, involved issues of responsibility, creative freedom and the corporate bottom line. At the core of this debate is chairman Gerald Levin, 56, who took over for the late Steve Ross in 1992. (2) On the financial front, Levin is under pressure to raise the stock price and reduce the company's mountainous debt, which will increase to $17.3 billion after two new cable deals close. He has promised to sell off some of the property and restructure the company, but investors are waiting impatiently. (3) The flap over rap is not making life any easier for him, Levin has consistently defended the company's rap music on the grounds of expression. In 1992, when Time Warner was under fire for releasing Ice-T's violent rap song Cop Killer, Levin described rap as lawful expression of street culture, which deserves an outlet. (4) The test of any democratic society, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column, lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be. We won't retreat in the face of any threats. Levin would not comment on the debate last week, but there were signs that the chairman was backing off his hard-line stand, at least to some extent. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month's stockholders' meeting. Levin asserted that music is not the cause of society's ills and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students. (5) But he talked as well about the balanced struggle between creative freedom and social responsibility, and he announced that the company would launch a drive to develop standards for distribution and labeling of potentially objectionable music. The 15-member Time Warner board is generally supportive of Levin and his corporate strategy. But insiders say several of them have shown their concerns in this matter. "Some of us have known for many, many years that the freedoms under the First Amendment are not totally unlimited," says Luce. I think it is perhaps the case that some people associated with the company have only recently come to realize this.

问答题 Exercise, everyone advises! But immediately, when you try, you run into trouble. (46){{U}}There is so much contradictory, sometimes incorrect advice about exercising that you become confused{{/U}}. Test yourself on the following true false quiz. It will tell you what you need to know. 1. The best way to reduce the mid-section is to do abdominal exercise. False. Many people believe that when specific muscles are exercised, the fatty tissues in the immediate area are "burned up." (47){{U}}The truth-is that exercise burns fat from all over the body and not from one specific area, regardless of the type of exercise{{/U}}. Of course, if you reduce the fat throughout your body, you will certainly see results around your waistline too! 2. To maintain an adequate level of physical fitness, you need to exercise only twice a week. False. Studies conducted by NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, show that unexercised muscles lose their strength very quickly. After 48 to 72 hours, you must use the muscles again to reestablish the good physical effect. And what does that mean to you? (48) {{U}}NASA scientists concluded that while daily exercise is most beneficial, three alternating days each week will maintain an adequate level of physical fitness{{/U}}. 3. To lose weight you should always "work up a good sweat" when exercising. False. Sweating only lowers body temperature to prevent overheating; it does not help you reduce weight. You may weigh less immediately after a workout, but this is due to water loss. Once you replace the liquid, you replace the weight. 4. If your breathing doesn't return to normal within minutes after you finish exercising, you've exercised too much. True. Five minutes or so after exercising, your breathing should be normal, your heart shouldn't be pounding, and you shouldn't be exhausted. (49) {{U}}Beneficial exercise is not overly difficult, unpleasant, and exhausting; it is moderate, enjoyable, and refreshing{{/U}}. 5. Walking is one of the best exercises. True. Walking helps circulation of blood throughout the body, and thus has a direct effect or your overall feeling of health. 6. The minimum amount of time you should spend exercising in a day is 20 minutes. True. There are more than 400 muscles that attach to your skeleton. (50) {{U}}A good exercise routine should contract and stretch all these muscles, and this simply cannot be done with four or five exercises in five to ten minutes{{/U}}. From experience, I've found that about 20 minutes is the minimum amount of time needed for an adequate workout.

问答题 Immediately after the Civil War, however, the diet began to change. 46){{U}} Rail transportation increased the supply and improved the quality of the milk that reached urban centers; cold storage and refrigerator cars made possible the greater consumption of fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, and fresh fish; and commercial canning extended the range of appetizing and healthful foods{{/U}}. Subsequently food statistics indicated an increased consumption of dairy products, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, sugar and syrups, coffee, tea, cocoa, and spices. Decreased consumption was shown for meats, potatoes, and grain products. 47){{U}} By and large, the American diet continued to reflect a considerable reliance upon animal products: rather than on grains. which meant that a relatively large acreage was required to feed the American public{{/U}}. Whereas a grain and fish diet, such as in Japan, requires only a quarter of an acre high yield cropland and no pasture per capita, the American diet requires about two and a half acres of cropland and ten acres of pasture per capita-Also it indicated a shift toward the so-called protective foods, toward those high in vitamins and proteins. 48){{U}} This change was greatly furthered by governmental food inspection ( the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906), by the increasing, use of mechanical refrigerators in the 1920's and 1910's and of freezers for frozen food during recent decades.{{/U}} In the years after World War I a food revolution took place that was reminiscent of the one that occurred after the Civil War. The output of the food manufacturing industry quadrupled from 1900 to 1920.49){{U}} In that interval, as we have mentioned earlier, home canning gave way to commercial canning and the labor of housekeeping was lightened.{{/U}} Fortunately most of the major dietary changes that have taken place since the middle of the nineteenth century have resulted in better nutrition for the population. In port, these shifts have taken place because of a preference for new foods rather than old, but in part, they have been made because the new foods were advocated by nutritionists. Apparently American dietary customs were not so deeply ingrained as to prevent change in the interests of better health. 50){{U}} Possibly one factor that has contributed to the readiness of Americans to accept new foods or food preparations as the general familiarity most have with a variety of regional dishes coming from many different lands.{{/U}} Within a small area in New York City or San Francisco, one can find restaurants specializing in French, Italian, German, Turkish, Arabian, or Chinese cuisine. And at a Chinese restaurant in the United States the chef and waiter are as likely as not to he Oriental.

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Suppose you are a college student on a school campus or an employee in a company. Recently you noticed that some people never paid attention to the signs on a garbage can that say it is desirable to deal with wastes separately. Now you are going to make a conservation campaign speech at a party. And your speech should include: 1) the present situation, 2) and your suggestions. Write your letter in no less than 100 words. Write it neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter, use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write the address.

问答题Directions: Many students have complained about the price and the limited varieties of the dishes of the canteen this semester. As the president of Student Union, please write a letter of complaint to the manager of the canteen. You should write neatly on the ANSWER SHEET with no less than 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead.