问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} A. Title: On Confidence B. Time Limit: 40 minutes C. Word limit: about 200 words D. Your composition should be based on the OUTLINE below: (1) some people lack confidence; (2) the value of confidence; (3) your opinion.

问答题The Alchemist is a story of a man, Santiago, following his dream. This belief of dream is a marvelous one, a support for anyone embarking on a major project. Nevertheless, is it a hope based on nothing? If you think about the energy you put into something once you are committed to it, probably not. (46)The "universe contriving" to give you what you want is, more precisely, a reflection of your determination to make something happen. Dream followers have a greater responsibility, that of handling their own freedom. The old man that Santiago meets in the town square tells him not to believe "the biggest lie," that you can't control your destiny. You can, he says, but you must "read the omens," which becomes possible when you start to see the world as one. (47)The world can be read like a book, but we will never be able to understand it if we have a closed type of existence, contented with our lot and unwilling to risk anything. The Alchemist is also remarkable for being a love story that renounces the idea that romantic love must be the central thing in your life. The treasure that Santiago seeks is of course the symbol of the personal dream or destiny, but he is happy to give up on it when he finds the woman of his dreams in a desert oasis. Yet the alchemist he meets in the desert tells him that the love of his oasis girlfriend will only be proved real if she is willing to support his search for treasure. Santiago's dilemma is about the conflict between love and personal dreams. (48)Too often we see a love relationship as the meaning of our life, but the obsession with romantic coupling can cut us off from a life more connected with the rest of the world. But surely the heart has needs? Romantic love is important, but it is not your duty—that is to pursue your dream. (49)Only through devotion to the dream is the "soul of the world" revealed to us, the knowledge that destroys loneliness and gives power. (50)So much of the self-help literature is about pursuing our destiny, but dreams do not always pull us along by their own force; they speak persistently but quietly, and it does not take too much effort to mask the inner voices. Who is willing to risk comfort, routine, security, and existing relationships to follow something that to others looks like a mirage? It takes courage, and dog-eared, stained copy of The Alchemist have become the constant companion of people who need to make fearless decisions daily in order to keep true to a larger vision.

问答题Directions: Suppose you are a freshman and you intend to inquire about school associations or clubs that you are entitled to participate in. In your letter, you are supposed to tell them about your hobbies. 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Study the following graph carefully and write an essay in which you should 1) analyze the graph; 2) give your comments on the trend.

问答题1)a brief introduction of yourself, 2) your educational qualification, 3) a request for an interview. You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET2. 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}} Fenghua is one of your good friends and schoolmates. He has been addicted to smoking for a long time. During a lecture this week, you learned a lot about great dangers involved in heavy smoking, and now you decide to write a letter to him. Your letter should be based on the following outline: 1) your concern about his health, 2) and your advice and 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:Studythefollowingcartooncarefullyandwriteanessayinwhichyoushould1)describethecartoon,2)interpretitsmeaning,and3)pointoutitsimplicationsinourlife.Youshouldwriteabout160～200wordsneatlyonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题{{B}}Directions.{{/B}}Studythefollowingpicturecarefullyandwriteanessayinwhichyoushould注：1．重点作文，务必背记。2．第1段第1句译文：现在北京有那么多音乐会和话剧供人们选择。3．etiquette礼节。interval中间休息时间。doone'spart尽责。1)describethecartoonbriefly,2)interpretthesocialphenomenonreflectedbythecartoon,and3)giveyourpointofview.Youshouldwrite160--200wordsneatlyonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}{{I}}Studythefollowingpicturecarefullyandwriteanarticleondeficiencyofresearchabilityamongthepostgraduatestudents.Inyourarticle,youshouldcoverthefollowingpoints,{{/I}}1)interpretthemeaningofthepicture,2)pointoutthecauses,and3)giveyoursuggestions.{{I}}Youshouldwrite160～200wordsneatlyonAnswerSheet2.{{/I}}

问答题Directions:Writeanessayof160-200wordsbasedonthefollowingdrawing.Inyouressay,youshould1)describethedrawingbriefly,2)interpretitsintendedmeaning,3)giveyourcomment.YoushouldwriteneatlyonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题An awkward-looking character such as Cyrano de Bergerac might sniff at the suggestion, but recent scientific research shows beauty, brains and brawn may in fact all be allied, writes Dr Raj Persaud. (46) Psychologists have concluded that we may be drawn to the stereotypically attractive because of what their faces reveal about their intelligence and success in later life. In American, research led by Professor Leslie Zebrowitz, of Brandeis University, has shown an association between facial attractive and IQ. Strangers briefly exposed to a target's face were able to correctly judge intelligence at levels significantly better than chance. The same team also researched how a person's attractiveness might bear relation to their intelligence. They found that good-looking people did better in IQ tests as they aged. (47) Their research sought to prove that how a person perceived himself and was perceived by others predicted how intelligent he apparently became more accurately than his past intelligence. (48) Perhaps because the more attractive people were treated as more intelligent, they ended up having more stimulating and, therefore, intelligence-enhancing lives. Does this mean that your face really could be your destiny? Sociologists Dr Ulrich Mueller and Dr Allan Mazur, of the University of Marburg in Germany, recently analyzed the final-year photographs of the 1950 graduates of West Point in the United States. Dominant facial appearances turned out to be a consistent predictor of later-rank attainment. Again, they believed there could be a self-fulfilling effect. (49) Because some men looked more authoritative, they naturally drew respect and obedience from others which, in turn, assisted their rise through the ranks. A team at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin has been investigating the sensitive subject of links between physical and mental abnormalities. Led by Doctors Robin Hennessy and John Waddington, the team used a new laser surface-scanning technique to make a 3-D analysis of how facial shape might vary with brain structure. Their findings showed that in early fetal life, brain and face development are intimately connected. From this they concluded that abnormalities in brain elaboration probably also affect face development. This, according to them, explains the striking facial features of some one with Down's syndrome. (50) Using similar techniques, the team also demonstrated how other disorders linked to brain aberrations could be associated with facial alterations. So the very latest scientific research suggests that nobody should try to look too obviously different from average.

问答题 Enzo Ferrari is not well known outside Italy. (46){{U}}Evan as his cars were racing to victory all over the world, the man at the helm of the racing team preferred to stay in Modena and watch the races on television at home{{/U}}. This intimate account of Ferrari's early days and his emergence as the spirit behind the team fills the gap neatly. Ferrari. now owned by Fiat, has long been synonymous with Formula One racing. (47){{U}}Over the years, McLaren, Benetton and Williams may between them have won more races, but it is the glamour as well as the singular success of Ferrari that draws the crowds{{/U}}. As a young man Ferrari had neither the money nor the killer instinct to become one of the great racing drivers. "If you want spectacular results, you have to know how to treat your car badly. The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it. I couldn't inflict suffering on it." What Ferrari liked was to be "an agitator of men". The first Ferrari team raced Alfa Romeos, though the partnership did not last. (48){{U}}In 1947 Ferrari relaunched on his own, making the first of the cars that would wear the badge of the black prancing horse on a yellow background{{/U}}. By the early 1950s, in the hands of such drivers as Alberto Ascari and Juan Fangio, Ferraris were leading the world championships. Meanwhile, Luigi Chinetti, a great salesman, persuaded Ferrari that road versions of the cars would sell well to rich Americans. In Italy road Ferraris became the film star's must-have car in Cinecitta. (49){{U}}Roberto Rossellini even got to drive one in the famous Mille Miglia before his wife, Ingrid Bergman, persuaded him to abandon the race halfway through in Rome{{/U}}. (50){{U}}The accounts of early races, such as the Mille Miglia from Brescia to Rome and back and Tazio Nuvolari's win in a Ferrari-run Alfa Romeo at Nurburgring in Germany in 1935, are among the highlights of Richard Williams's book{{/U}}. As the Italian crossed the winning line, Hitler's sports minister ground his teeth and crumpled his prepared speech lauding a Mercedes victory. Mr Williams is a talented writer; he loves Italy and motor racing, and his passion for both shines through.

问答题Directions: Write a letter to invite a friend, Michelle, to travel abroad with you. You should include the details you think necessary. 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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. (46)These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy--so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours of this joy. (47)I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. (48) I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine... A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. (49)Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life, (50)I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

问答题The environmental and social costs of closing and rehabilitating(恢复)old and abandoned mines around the world are likely in trillions of dollars, and far beyond the capability of mining companies alone to deal with, Sir Robert Wilson, chairman of London-based metals giant Rio Tinto Plc said on Tuesday. 46)Wilson told Reuters at a mining industry conference on sustainable development in Toronto that a recent estimate puts rehabilitation costs just in the United States, where regulation is stricter than in many other countries, at ＄35 billion. "If you look at where the real problems are, in Russia, Eastern Europe, South Africa, India, ina, the extent of the (mine) legacy issues is normous, and it's totally beyond the capability of this industry, either financially or technically, to make a meaningful contribution to that," Wilson said. 47) "Huge" and "gigantic" were other terms being tossed around to describe the problem of old and abandoned mines at the three-day Global Mining Initiative meeting in Toronto, which is being held in preparation for the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in August. But attempts were few at fixing an exact cost on what the industry calls "heritage issues"—the environmental destruction and tears in the social fabric left over from a 100 years of mining projects that no one has taken responsibility for. Prod they are still happening, some experts at the conference said. James Kuipers, of the U.S. Center for Science in Public Participation, which provides technical services to local and tribal governments, said his group estimates that 95 percent of operating mines in the United States have only vague plans for dealing with the environmental consequences of shutting down, such as the pollution of local water courses. 48)He said that in cases where owners have just walked away or gone bankrupt, it is the taxpayer that has been stuck with the liability. "The public no longer favors new mining in the United States, and mistrusts existing mines," he added. Wilson told Reuters that most large, established companies are able to come to terms with mine closures. Rio Tinto and several other big companies make serious provisions for environmental and social rehabilitation as the planning stages of their projects, he said. 49)"But there are some particular areas of concern for large gold operations in the United States, which have got quite a substantial environmental heritage. I know that is worrying one or two companies quite a lot in terms of the potentially very large liabilities that will be crystallized(明确)on closure. There are going to be some companies that are going to be sweating on this a bit," he said. 50) Many delegates at the conference stressed that governments must become more involved in the issues of mine closings and Kuipers suggested taxing metals consumption to help pay for the clean-up. Some said a global closure fund should be created with contributions from industry, government and institutions. But World Bank official Monika Weber Fahr, who noted that the World Bank is the No. 1 source of mine-closing finances, warned that knowing there is a back-up would encourage irresponsibility. "It should be the polluter that should be paying," she said.

问答题 Directions: You have a neighbor who regularly cooks food on a very smoky outdoor barbecue. The smoke blows directly into your home. You have complained to your neighbor, but he refuses to clean the barbecue. Write to the local police and explain your problem. Your writing should include the following items: 1) explain what is wrong; 2) give details; 3) ask for help to fix the problem. You should Write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Wang Hong" instead. You do not need to write the address.

问答题Directions: Two months ago, you got a job as an editor. But now you find that the work doesn"t suit to your personal interest. Write a letter to personnel manager telling him your decision, stating your reason(s), making an apology and expressing thanks. 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 your address.