问答题1. Television now plays an increasingly important role in people's lives.2. No one will deny that we have benefited a lot from the invention of television.3. However, people have different opinions about television and have argued heatedly about its advantages and disadvantages.

问答题Directions: Study the following picture carefully and write an essay of 160-200 words in which you should 1) describe the picture briefly, 2) interpret the social phenomenon reflected by it, and 3) give your point of view. You should write neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}A.Studythefollowingcartooncarefullyandwriteanessayinnolessthan200words.B.YouressaymusthewrittenclearlyonANSWERSHEET2.C.Youressayshouldmeettherequirementsbelow,1)describethecartoon,deducethepurposeofthedrawerofthepicture,2)andgiveyourcomments.

问答题Man first appeared on earth half a million years ago. Then he was little more than an animal; but early man had several big advantages over the animals. He had a large brain, he had an upright body, he had clever hands; and he had in his brain special groups of nerve cells, not present in animals, that enabled him to invent a language and use it to communicate with his fellow men. 46) This ability to speak was of great value because it allowed men to share ideas and to plan together, so that tasks impossible for a single person could be successfully undertaken by intelligent team-work. Speech also enabled ideas to be passed on from generation to generation so that the stock of human knowledge slowly increased. It was these special advantages that put men far ahead of other living creatures in the struggle for existence. They can use their intelligence against their difficulties and master them. Since these far-off times, when he first appeared, man has achieved a great deal. He has used animals, steam, electricity and oil to move himself more and more quickly from place to place. He has overcome rivers and seas with rafts, canoes, boats and ships of endless variety. 47) He mastered dark-ness, too, first with dim lights and later with brighter and brighter lamps, until he can now make for himself so dazzling a light with an are-lamp that, like the sun, it is too strong for his naked eyes. 48) Man found that his own muscles were too weak for the work which he wanted to do; he explored many forms of power -- wind, water, steam, electricity -- until now he has his hands on the ultimate source of physical energy, the nuclear power which ties together the smallest units from which all matter is made. From man's earliest days the flight of birds has raised his wonder and desire. Why should he not fly as they did? Then he began to experiment. At last he learnt how 'to make the fight machines to carry him through the air. Now he can fly faster than sound. Already he has plans for conquering space, and a series of experiments has been completed. 49) It will not be long now before man takes a giant step away from his planet and visits the moon, learning what it is like to have no weight to his body, no upward direction and no downward. Man, always a wanderer, has to overcome the difficulty of adapting himself to different climates, 50) Fortunately, in spite of having no thick skin or warm fur to protect him, he is peculiarly strong compared with other living creatures, most of whom are unable to live far outside the region that suits them best. Man, however, can go almost everywhere. You will find him living on the plains and up in the hills; he lives in damp areas and in dry; in the forests of the hot regions of the earth, and in snow huts in the Far North.

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} {{I}}You are required to write a memorandum on behalf of the Students' Union, encouraging all the students and teachers on your campus to make donations for people in flooded regions of our country. In your writing, you should cover the following points:{{/I}} 1) difficulties confronting people in flooded areas, 2) appeals to the readers, and 3) time and place to collect the donations. {{I}}You should write about 100 words neatly on Answer Sheet 2.{{/I}}

问答题Technology is the application of scientific method and knowledge to industry to satisfy our material needs and wants. This results in new processes and in new products, such as washing machine, record players, motor ears, electronic computers, nuclear weapons and space rockets. A technologist has the scientific know-how, or technique, for making and doing things. The know-how may be original, as it is devised for a specific purpose, or it may be inherited as the accumulated skill and knowledge of generations of specialists. We live in a technological society. Almost every aspect of life in the modem world is influenced (for better or worse) by your technological surroundings. 46) Communications, transportation, manufacturing, mining and exploration, the service industries, medicine, agriculture-all are dominated bi methods and apparatus which are the results of technological advances. The basis of technology is science. 47) Without the fundamental discoveries and understanding provided by science, technology would be a hit-or-miss affair, lacking direction and making little progress. One can argue that our society is beginning to suffer from too much technology, but we will never return to the primitive life of our forefather-technology is with us and it will remain with us. Just as it is important to study history so that we can appreciate how the world came to its present state, it is important to learn some of the basic concepts of science so that we can appreciate the role that technology plays in modem society. 48) For without some knowledge of the scientific principles by which technology operates. one can neither an. pc with technology nor assist in directing, it into the proper channels. In recent times, we have had the general attitude that whatever is technologically possible should be done. 49) It is now becoming increasingly apparent that our scientific and technological progress has outstripped our capacity to perform or absorb everything that is possible. More and more, we will have decisions to make: in what directions should the thrust of our new discoveries be made? The situation requires that we make intelligent decisions-decisions based on a knowledge and an understanding of what can be done, what will be the benefits, and will be the consequences. Scientists do not make these decisions; people make them. 50) It is therefore incumbent on every individual to acquire the basic knowledge that will permit him to participate intelligently in directing the course of our technological advancement.

问答题 Directions: You have been rejected by a company and you think it was due to your being a girl/boy. Write a letter of complaint to the President of the board of directors of the company to express your indignation. You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET Ⅱ. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use 'Li Ming' instead. Do not write the address.

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} One of your close friends, Catherine, gave a piano solo at a concert last night and won the first prize. Now write her a letter of congratulation including the following details: 1) your heart-felt congratulations, 2) your strong impression, 3) and your encouragement. 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 "12 Ming" instead. Do not write the address.

问答题 What’s your earliest memory? Do you remember learning to walk? The birth of a sibling? Nursery school? Adults rarely remember events from much before kindergarten, just as children younger than 3 or 4 seldom recall any specific experiences (as distinct from general knowledge). Psychologists have floated all sorts of explanations for this “childhood amnesia”. The reductionists appealed to the neurological, arguing that the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for forming memories, doesn’t mature until about the age of 2. But the reigning theory holds that since adults do not think like children, they cannot access childhood memories. Adults are struck with grown-up “schema”, the bare bones of narratives. (46){{U}}When they riffle through the mental filing cabinet in search of fragments of childhood memories to hang on this narrative skeleton, according to this theory, they don’t find any that fit. {{/U}}It’s like trying to find the French word in an English index. Now psychologist Katherine Nelson of the City University of New York offers a new explanation for childhood amnesia. (47){{U}}She argues that children don’t even form lasting, long-term memories of personal experiences until they learn to use someone else’s description of those experiences to turn their own short-term, fleeting recollections into permanent memories. {{/U}}In other words, children have to talk about their experiences and hear others talk about them — hear Mom recount that days’ trip to the dinosaur museum, hear Dad re- member aloud their trip to the amusement park. Why should memory depend so heavily on narrative? Nelson marshals evidence that the mind structures remembrances that way. (48){{U}}Children whose mothers talk about the day’s activities as they wind down toward bedtime, for instance, remember more of the day’s special events than do children whose mothers don’t offer this novelistic framework. {{/U}}Talking about an event in a narrative way helps a child remember it. (49){{U}}And learning to structure memories as a long-running narrative, Nelson suggests, is the key to a permanent “autobiographical memory”, the specific remembrances that form one’s life story.{{/U}} (What you had for lunch yesterday isn’t part of it; what you ate on your first date with your future spouse may be.) Language, of course, is the key to such a narrative. Children learn to engage in talk about the past. The establishment of these memories is related to the experience of talking to other people about them. (50){{U}}In particular, a child must recognize that a retelling — of that museum trip, say — is just the trip itself in another medium, that of speech rather than experience.{{/U}} That doesn’t happen until the child is perhaps four or five. By the time she’s ready for kindergarten she’ll remember all sorts of things. And she may even, by then, have learned’ not to blurt them out in public.

问答题 46){{U}}It must be stressed that a characteristic aspect of the present time is that science is exercising a decisive influence on technology, creating new problems for it, guiding its development and conditioning its progress.{{/U}} As a result, science is tending to become a direct force of industry. Scientific theories penetrate technological processes. In its turn, the development of science is strongly influenced by the astounding progress of modern technology, which places at its disposal previously undreamed of means: apparatus of high precision and of tremendous power, such as particle accelerators nuclear reactors, electronic computers, etc. 47){{U}}The improvement of industrial technology makes possible the realization of high intensity phenomena such as pressure, temperature, very high tension or nearly ideal conditions of vacuum, often indispensable to accurate experimental results.{{/U}} Science does not, generally, affect industry directly but does so through the intermediary of technology which places at industry's disposal new improved and powerful machines that increase the productivity of labour. 48){{U}}It improves technological processes, introduces new forms of energy, creates new materials not provided by nature, introduces new and varied means of transport, communication and telecommunication control and telecontrol.{{/U}} 49){{U}}All these means amazingly increase the productivity of labour by substituting human forces for those of nature.{{/U}} 50){{U}}The raising of the technical level of industry, therefore, constitutes a major imperative of our time presented to science, which finds itself in the vanguard of social progress.{{/U}}

问答题1. There are two modes of travel. 2. Compare two modes of travel in terms of 1) the attraction of package travel; 2) the attraction of traveling on one's own; 3) the disadvantage of both. 3. Your preference. 以下是某旅行社的宣传资料： 千岛湖、黄山三日游 个人旅游单价 团体价加导游 折扣 来回车费 500元 300元 40% 公园票价 (15个景点) 400元 300元 25% 伙食(平均价) 300元 150元 50% 宾馆住馆 300元 150元 50% 总价 1500元 900元 40%