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问答题You should write about 160-200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points) 医学的技术进步可以使人们能比过去活得长。然而，一些人们，包括一些医生，不支持那些延长生命的做法，认为人有权利选择死亡。这种争论仍将继续。

问答题Ragtime is a musical form that synthesizes folk melodies and musical techniques into a brief quadrille-like structure, designed to be played--exactly as written--on the piano. (46) A strong analogy exists between European composers like Ralph Vaughan Williams and Edward Grieg, who combined folk tunes and their own original materials in larger compositions and the pioneer composers in the United States. Composers like Scott Joplin and James Scott were in a sense collectors or musicologists, collecting dance and folk music in Black communities and consciously shaping it into brief suites or anthologies called piano rags. It has sometimes been charged that ragtime is mechanical. For instance, Wilfred Mellers comments, "rags were transferred to the pianola roll and, even if not played by a machine, should be played like a machine, with meticulous precision. " (47) However, there is no reason to assume that ragtime is inherently mechanical simply because commercial manufacturers applied a mechanical recording method to it, the only way to record pianos at that date. Ragtime's is not a mechanical precision, and it is not precision limited to the style of performance. It arises from ragtime's following a well-defined form and obeying simple rules within that form. The classic formula for the piano rag disposes three to five themes in sixteen-bar strains, often organized with repeats. (48) The rag opens with a bright, memorable strain or theme, followed by a similar theme, leading to a melody of marked lyrical character, with the structure concluded by a lyrical strain that parallels the rhythmic developments of the earlier themes. The aim of the structure is to rise from one theme to another in a stair-step manner, ending on a note of triumph or exhilaration. Typically, each strain is divided into two 8-bar segments that are essentially alike, so the rhythmic-melodic unit of ragtime is only eight bars of 2/4 measure. (49) Therefore, not concerned with development of musical themes, the ragtime composer instead sets a theme down intact, in finished form, and links it to various related themes that are brief with clear melodic figures. Tension in ragtime compositions arises from a polarity between two basic ingredients: a continuous bass--called by jazz musicians a boom-chick bass--in the pianist's left hand, and its melodic, syncopated counterpart in the right hand. Ragtime remains distinct from jazz both as an instrumental style and as a genre. Ragtime style stresses a pattern of repeated rhythms, not the constant inventions and variations of jazz. (50) As a genre, ragtime requires strict attention to structure, not inventiveness or exceptional skills, existing as a tradition, a set of conventions, a body of written scores, separate from the individual players associated with it. In this sense ragtime is more akin to folk music of the nineteenth century than to jazz.

问答题Directions:Studythepicturecarefullyandwriteanessayinwhichyoushould:1)describethecartoon,pointoutthemessageconveyedand;2)giveyourcomment.Youshouldwriteabout160～200wordsneatlyonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题Directions: Study the following table carefully and write an essay. Your essay must meet the following requirements: 1) Describe the table; 2) Explain the possible causes; 3) Your suggestions. You should write about 160 - 200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points)　　　　　　　　　　 Economical and Social Indicators for Country A and Country B in 1995 indicators A B Annual income per capita (in $ US) 15,800 500 Annual social security per capita (in $ US) 2,000 300 Life expectancy (years old) 70 54 Adult literacy rate (%) 99 60

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}StudythepicturescarefullyandwriteacompositionentitledTheIncreasingUseofPrivateCarsinChina.Baseyouressayontheoutlinegivenbelow:1.showyourunderstandingofthepictures,2.presentpossiblereasonsforthephenomenon,and3.drawaconclusion.Youshouldneatlywrite160—200wordsonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}Studythefollowingpicturecarefullyandwriteanessayto1)describethepicture,2)deducethepurposeofthepainterofthepicture,3)giveyourcommentonthephenomenon.Youshouldwriteabout160--200wordsneatlyonANSWERSHEET2.(20points)

问答题Henri Matisse originally trained as a lawyer, turning to art whilst recovering from appendicitis. (46)Initially seduced by the Impressionists and, in particular. by Cezanne, Matisse brought together a circle of like—minded artists who became known as the Fauves(the Beasts)after their sensational exhibition of 1905. These early paintings revealed an intuitive and explosive colour sense which was to become the defining feature of Matisse's long career. (47)Believing art to be "something like a good armchair in which one rests from physical fatigue", he was dedicated to producing work that expressed a harmony close to a musical composition. (48) There are two versions of La Danse, originally produced with another enormous panel entitled Musique for a Russian collector. Dance was a popular topic at the time as Diaghilev and the Russian Ballet had just visited Paris. (49) Despite, or because of, the simplification of colour, form, and line, the figures appear to be full of life. Matisse made sculptures, designed sets and costumes and illustrated books. (50) He was also an important graphic artist who, in his bed—ridden final years, evolved his own method of arranging cut—out paper shapes. He is indisputably the greatest decorative artist of the twentieth century.

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Title: {{B}}The Prospects of the 21st Century{{/B}} {{B}}Outline:{{/B}} 1. What will the world be like in the twenty-first century? 2. Yet the effect of the advanced technology may conflict with the benefits we will gain from the new age of science technology. 3. To us student, the twenty-first century more likely means a challenge than a change. You should write about 160 -200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.

问答题Vilhelm Hammershoi has been a well-kept secret since his death in 1916． All his best- known paintings are of household interiors that are drained of color and tell no stories. 46． His windows cannot be seen through, his doors cannot be opened and the figures produce no element of vitality into the rooms. Hammershoi is defiantly inscrutable; the mood is melancholic and enigmatic, but the paintings are oddly compelling. Quite why, no one seems sure. Of the 71 paintings in a new exhibition in London, 21 come from his native Copenhagen, 15 from other Scandinavian collections and 20 from private collections, principally Danish. Hammershoi's focus was not as narrow as this show might suggest, but to see his nudes it is necessary to visit the Statens Museum for Kunst in Denmark. He did some fine, if bleak, landscapes too, but it was the interiors that sold in his lifetime, and he is best remembered for paintings of the sun shining through curtainless window-panes, casting shadows on carpetless floors. 47．Anxious to transform the prosaic into the romantic, his admirers speak of a poet of light and the poetry of silence. Hammershoi himself was guileless. 48．"What makes me choose a motif are the lines, what I like to call the architectural context of an image," he said in 1907. Light was also very important, but it was lines, he insisted, that had the greatest significance for him. His wife, Ida, makes appearances in the empty rooms, but she is usually painted from the back, with the emphasis on the bare nape of her neck. The heroic figures are white doors and windows, and tables, chairs, a piano and a sofa. No painter can have got so much pleasure from painting brown furniture. One work, titled "Interior with a Woman at a Sewing Table", is a symphony of three shades of shiny brown. Hammershoi was influenced by Vermeer and the 17th-century Dutch genre painters and by Caspar David Friedrich, a German, but there is no one like him. His work shows traces of an unexpected subversive sense of humor. 49．Felix Kramer, the show's curator, identifies irregularities, for example, that create an almost surreal quality: a piano with two legs, table legs casting shadows in different directions, chests of drawers with no knobs or handles. Even some of Hammershoi's admirers wonder what it all means. 50．Trying to pin Hammershoi down is as profitless as Waiting for Godot. However, the new exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts might encourage some excitement in the marketplace. The highest price made by a Hammershoi interior is ￡ 520,000 ($1 million) in 2006 and the price boom in the auction houses is passing him by. Perhaps the secret of Hammershoi has been kept a bit too well.

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. The long and progressive reign of Queen Victoria came to a climax at a time of peace and plenty when the British Empire seemed to be at the summit of its power and security. Of the discord that soon followed we shall here note only two factors which had large influence on contemporary English literature. The first disturbing factor was imperialism, the reawakening of a dominating spirit which had seemingly been put to sleep by the proclamation of an Imperial Federation. (46) {{U}}Its coming was heralded by the Boer War in South Africa, through which Britain blundered to what was hoped to be an era of peace and good will.{{/U}} Other nations promptly made such hope a vain whistling in the wind. Japanese War Lords began a career of conquest which aimed to make Japan master of Asia and East Indies. Pacific islands that had for ages slept peacefully were turned into frowning naval stations. (47) {{U}}Even the United States, aroused by an easy triumph in the Spanish War, started on an imperialistic adventure by taking 'control of the Philippines, thus making an implacable enemy of Japan.{{/U}} Only a nation that enters on a dangerous course with eyes wide open has any chance of a safe way out, and the imperialistic nations were all alike blind. (48) {{U}}An inevitable result was the First War and the great horror of a Second World War, the two disasters being different acts of the same tragedy of imperialism, separated only by a breathing spell{{/U}}. Another factor that influenced literature for the worse was a widespread demand for social reform of every kind; not slow and orderly reform, which is progress, but immediate and uncontrolled reform, which breeds a spirit of rebellion and despair. Before the Victorian age had come to an end, English literature appeared to have lost touch with healthy English life. Many writers echoed the sorrowful cry of James Thomson in his City of Dreadful Night, or babbled of "art for art's sake" with Oscar Wilde. (49) {{U}}Groom, in his survey of the period, notes that writers had mostly a critical attitude toward morals and religion, Church and State, as relics from "the dead hand of traditional beliefs." (50) Small wonder that German and Japanese war-advocates regarded Englishmen as a decadent race when the same or a worse opinion was daily read in the novels of Samuel Butler and nightly heard in the plays of Bernard Shaw.{{/U}}

问答题Study the following paragraph carefully and write a letter in at least 100 words. On September 9, 2004, Li Jin who is a student of Tsinghua University posed an offer to the Office of Graduate Admissions of Boston University. As an officer in it, you should write back to him.

问答题Directions:Studythefollowingpicturecarefullyandwriteanessayofabout200words.Youressayshouldmeettherequirementsbelow:1)describethepictureandinterpretitsmeaning,2)pointouttheproblemandgiveyourcomments.YouressaymustbewrittenclearlyontheANSWERSHEET.