问答题ABC Co. Ltd. required from your company about the information of XYZ Computers Co. Ltd., a firm providing consulting and maintenance service in computers. They asked the following questions: 1) How long has XYZ company worked for you? 2) What kind of service did they offer you? 3) Your comments about the capability and reliability of this company. Write to the manager of ABC Company, answering their questions. You should write about 1000 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming (Director)" instead. Do not write the address. (10 points)

问答题Directions: You are going to give a send-off speech at a farewell party given in honor of Prof. Kerry Stubbs. In your speech, you would 1) indicate the purpose of the party 2) acknowledge what Mr. Stubbs has done 3) invite Mr. Stubbs to speak You should write about 100 words on Answer Sheet 2.

问答题There is no question that science-fiction writers have become more ambitious, stylistically and thematically, in recent years. (46) But this may have less to do with the luring call of academic surroundings than with changing market conditions--a factor that academic critics rarely take into account. Robert Silverberg, a former president of The Science Fiction Writers of America, is one of the most prolific professionals in a field dominated by people who actually write for a living. (Unlike mystery or Western writers, most science fiction writers cannot expect to cash in on fat movie sales or TV tie-ins. ) (47) Still in his late thirties, Silverberg has published more than a hundred books, and he is disarmingly frank about the relationship between the quality of genuine prose and the quality of available outlet. By his own account, he was "an annoyingly verbal young man" from Brooklyn who picked up his first science-fiction book at the age of ten, started writing seriously at the age of thirteen, and at seventeen nearly gave up in despair over his inability to break into the pulp magazines. (48) At his parents' urging, he enrolled in Columbia University, so that, if worse came to worst, he could always go to the School of Journalism and "get a nice steady job somewhere" . During his sophomore year, he sold his first science-fictions story to a Scottish magazine named Nebula. By the end of his junior year, he had sold a novel and twenty more stories. (49) By the end of his senior year, he was earning two hundred dollars a week writing science fiction, and his parents were reconciled to his pursuit of the literary life ."I became very cynical very quickly," he says. "First I couldn't sell anything, then I could sell everything. The market played to my worst characteristics. An editor of a schlock magazine would call up to tell me he had a ten-thousand-word hole to fill in his next issue I'd fill it overnight for a hundred and fifty dollars. I found that rewriting made no difference. (50) I knew I could not possibly write the kinds of things I admired as a reader--Joyce, Kafka, Mann--so I detached myself from my work. I was a phenomenon among my friends in college, a published, selling author. But they always asked, 'When are you going to do something serious?'--meaning something that wasn't science fiction-- and I kept telling them," When I'm financially secure. ./

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}Lookatthefollowingpictureandwriteanarticleonamarketingstrategy:discountpromotion.Yourarticleshouldmeetthefollowingtworequirements:1)interpretthemessageconveyedbythepicture2)makeyourcommentsonthephenomenonYoushouldwrite160～200wordsneatlyonAnswerSheet2.

问答题Directions:Writeanessayof160-200wordsbasedonthefollowingcartoon.Inyourwriting,youshould1)describethecartoonandthemessageconveyed,and2)drawaconclusionandgiveyourcommentonthecartoon.

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Write a letter of complaints according to the following situation: You bought an air conditioner and had it installed the other day, but you found that the air-conditioning didn't work when it operated. Write a letter to 1) point out the malfunction and 2) suggest some solutions. You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. You don't have to write the address.

问答题1)Describethepicture.2)Deducethepurposeofthedrawerofthepicture.3)Andgiveyourcomments.

问答题Directions: You want to recommend Mr. Collins to Professor Smith to find a position for the former. Write a letter based on the following outline: 1) Personal information about Mr. Collins curriculum vitae, personality, job capabilities etc., 2) Your sincere hope. You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. You do not need to write the address.

问答题Directions : Write a letter of complaints according to the following situation: You bought an air conditioner and had it installed the other day, but you found that the air-conditioning didn't work when it operated. Write a letter to 1) point out the malfunction and 2) suggest some solutions. You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. You don't have to write the address.

问答题Directions:Writeanessayof160-200wordsbasedonthefollowingdrawing.Inyouressay,youshould1)describethedrawingbriefly,2)explaintheintendedmeaning,giveaspecificexample,and3)giveyoursuggestionastothebestwaytocommunicate.交流就像桥，可以变沟壑为通途

问答题In the span of 18 months, Isaac Newton invented calculus, constructed a theory of optics, explained how gravity works and discovered his laws of motion. As a result, 1665 and the early months of 1666 are termed his annus mirabilis. (46)It was a sustained sprint of intellectual achievement that no one thought could ever be equaled. But in a span of a few years just before 1900, it all began to unravel. One phenomenon after another was discovered which could not be explained by the laws of classical physics. (47) The theories of Newton, and of James Clerk Maxwell who followed him in the mid-19th century by crafting a more comprehensive account of electromagnetism, were in trouble. Then, in 1905, a young patent clerk named Albert Einstein found the way forward. In five remarkable papers, he showed that atoms are real (it was still controversial at the time), presented his special theory of relativity, and put quantum theory on its feet. It was a different achievement from Newton's year, but Einstein's annus mirabilis was no less remarkable. He did not, like Newton, have to invent entirely new forms of mathematics. However, he had to revise notions of space and time fundamentally. (48) And unlike Newton, who did not publish his results for nearly 20 years, so obsessed was he with secrecy and working out the details, Einstein released his papers one after another, as a fusillade of ideas. For Einstein, it was just a beginning-he would go on to create the general theory of relativity and to pioneer quantum mechanics. While Newton came up with one system for explaining the world, Einstein thus came up with two. Unfortunately, his discoveries- relativity and quantum theory-contradict one another. Both cannot be true everywhere, although both are remarkably accurate in their respective domains of the very large and the very small. Einstein would spend the last years of his life attempting to reconcile the two theories, and failing. (49) But then, no one else has succeeded in fixing the problems either, and Einstein was perhaps the one who saw them most clearly. When Einstein was awarded a Nobel prize, in 1921, it was for the first of his papers of 1905, which proved the existence of photons-particles of light. (50) Up until that paper, completed on March 17th and published in Annalen der Physik (as were the other 1905 papers), light had been supposed to be a wave, since this explains the interference patterns created when it passes through a grating. Einstein, however, began from a different premise, by considering the so-called "black-body experiment".

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. (46) {{U}}A long-held view of the history of the English colonies that became the United States has been that England' s policy toward these colonies before 1763 was dictated by commercial interests and that a change to a more imperial policy, dominated by expansionist militarist objectives, generated the tensions that ultimately led to the American Revolution.{{/U}} In a recent study, Stephen Saunders Webb has resented a formidable challenge to this view. According to Webb, England already had a military imperial policy for more than a century before the American Revolution. He sees Charles Ⅱ, the English monarch between 1660 and 1685, as the proper successor of the Tudor monarchs of the sixteenth century and of Oliver Cromwell, all of whom were bent on extending centralized executive power over England' s possessions through the use of what Webb calls "garrison government." Garrison government allowed the colonists a legislative assembly, but real authority, in Webb' s view, belonged to the colonial governor, who was appointed by the king and supported by the "garrison," that is. by the local contingent of English troops under the colonial governor' s command. According to Webb, the purpose of garrison government was to provide military support for a royal policy designed to limit the power of the upper classes in the American colonies. (47) {{U}}Webb argues that the colonial legislative assemblies represented the interests not of the common people but of the colonial upper classes, a coalition of merchants and nobility who favored self-rule and sought to elevate legislative authority at the expense of the executive.{{/U}} It was, according to Webb, the colonial governors who favored the small farmer, opposed the plantation system, and tried through taxation to break up large holdings of land. Backed by the military presence of the garrison, these governors tried to prevent the gentry and merchants, allied in the colonial assemblies, from transforming colonial America into a capitalistic oligarchy. (48) {{U}}Webb' s study illuminates the political alignments that existed in the colonies in the century prior to the American Revolution, but his view of the crown' s use of the military as an instrument of colonial policy is not entirely convincing.{{/U}} England during the seventeenth century was not noted for its military achievements. Cromwell did mount England's most ambitious overseas military expedition in more than a century, but it proved to be an utter failure. Under Charles Ⅱ, the English army was too small to be a major instrument of government. (49) {{U}}Not until the war in France in 1697 did William Ⅲ persuade Parliament to create a professional standing army, and Parliament' s price for doing so was to keep the army under tight legislative control.{{/U}} (50) {{U}}While it may be true that the crown attempted to diminish the power of the colonial upper classes, it is hard to imagine how the English army during the seventeenth century could have provided significant military support for such a policy.{{/U}}

问答题1)describethefollowingpictureandinterpretitsmeaning2)andpointoutitsimplicationsinourlife