问答题Directions: Write an essay based on the following table. In which, you should 1) describe the table and 2) give your comments. You should write at least 150 words. Write your essay on the ANSWER SHEET. Average distance in miles travelled per person per year, by mode of travel Mode of travel 2,000 2,010 Car 790 1,455 Bus 354 624 Bicycle 51 45 Train 1,143 1,255 Air 192 366 Ship 13 20 Other 420 525 All modes 2,963 4,600

问答题Telling stories is as basic to human beings as eating. More so, in fact, for while food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living. They are what make our condition human. This was recognized from the very beginnings of western civilization. Hesiod tells us how the founding myths were invented to explain how the world came to be and how we came to be in it. Myths were stories people told themselves in order to explain themselves to themselves and to others. But it was Aristotle who first developed this insight into a philosophical position when he argued, in his Poetics, that the art of storytelling—defined as the dramatic imitating and plotting of human action—is what gives us a shareable world. It is, in short, only when haphazard happenings are transformed into story, and thus made memorable over time, that we become full agents of our history.

问答题Directions:Writeanessaybasedonthefollowingchart.Inyourwriting,youshould1)interpretthechart,and2)giveyourcomments.Youshouldwriteabout150wordsontheANSWERSHEET.

问答题Directions: You want to contribute to Project Hope by offering financial aid to a child in a remote area. Write a letter to the department concerned, asking them to help find a candidate. You should specify what kind of child you want to help and how you will carry out your plan. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write your address.

问答题Directions: Write an essay to talk about beautiful soul according to the directions below: 1) State your own idea about beautiful soul; 2) Use two opposite examples to stress your idea; 3) Give a summary in the end; 4) You should write about 150 words.

问答题Business is guarding against harder times. The biggest problem is the euro crisis, which is causing damage to Germany's trading partners. Industrial orders from the euro zone sharply declined by 12.1% in September. Demand will also be reduced from Asia and eastern Europe, which have been Germany's fastest-growing markets. On November 9th the government's advisory council of economic "wise men" predicted that growth would shrink from 3 % this year to 0.9% in 2012. Rising unemployment would jeopardise Mrs Merkel's chances for re-election in September 2013. Perhaps for that reason, most economists are betting that Germany will eventually do whatever is necessary to end the crisis. The surest way is for the European Central Bank to buy the debt of fragile countries like Italy, a notion that terrifies Germans, still impressed by their grandparents' memories of hyperinflation. If that is what the bank's new president decides to do, Mrs Merkel may not stand in the way.

问答题Directions: Write an essay based on the following table. In your writing, you should 1) describe the table, and 2) give your comments. You should write at least 150 words. Write your essay on the ANSWER SHEET. Underground Railway System City Date opened Kilometers of route Passengers per year (in million) Los Angeles 2001 28 50 Kyoto 1981 11 45 Washington DC 1976 126 144 Tokyo 1927 155 1927 Paris 1900 199 1191 London 1863 394 775

问答题Directions: Write a letter to invite your friend Tina and Joseph to attend your first anniversary of wedding. The followings are specific information: 1) Time: 12 a. m., August 22; 2) Address: Shangri-La Hotel; 3) One of your friends teaching you Italian, you want to introduce him to them.

问答题How often have read that America's education system, is a failure? It has a long way to go, but it has started to improve. This is crucial because differentials in lifetime earnings by level of education are widening. Driven by globalization and technology, labor markets are demanding higher and higher levels of skills. Therefore, to improve incomes for younger Americans, there must be better educational outcomes. For 25 years, those outcomes were stagnant. High school graduation rates had fallen to 60% or lower in many large cities and rural areas. And just over half of first-year college students would graduate within six years. These are poor results by the standards of advanced countries. But at the beginning of 2006, the decline began to reverse. High school completion rates are now up almost 10 points, crossing 80% for the first time.

问答题Directions:Writeanessaybasedonthefollowingchart.Inyourwriting,youshould1)interpretthechart,and2)giveyourcomments.Youshouldwriteabout150wordsontheANSWERSHEET.

问答题Ms. Mayer's move is not just a bad idea in itself but also a naive notion. Flexible employers help women run families and jobs simultaneously. Strict working rules make combining the two impossible or unpleasant. To be fair, as somebody who took two weeks off to have a baby, Ms. Mayer is hardly asking others to do what she would not; but then she has eased the pain of separation from her child by installing a nursery next to her office. Yahoo's less privileged women may place it to a friendlier organization. But this is not just about women. A well-managed company's workers want to be productive, and managers trust them to decide how and where they will perform best. If that's not happening, the boss needs to find out why. You can confine a Yahoo to his desk, but you can't make him feel the busy atmosphere.

问答题Directions: You are the president of a company. Write a memo to Percy Shelley, the vicepresident on the employee"s training on computer: 1) the need to train the employees, 2) detailed information, and 3) ask him to write a plan. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not sign your name in the memo. Use "Li Ming" instead.

问答题Directions:Writeanessaybasedonthefollowinggraph.Inyourwriting,youshould1)interpretthegraph,and2)giveyourcomments.Youshouldwriteabout150wordsontheANSWERSHEET.

问答题They teach you to be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success, not to substitute words for action, not to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge; to learn to stand up in the storm, but to have compassion on those who fall; to master yourself before you seek to master others ; to have a heart that is clean, a goal that is high; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; to reach into the future, yet never neglect the past; to be serious, yet never take yourself too seriously; to be modest so that you will remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength. They give you a temperate will, a quality of imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of life, a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity.

问答题Suppose you are the president of the Students' Union. Write a notice about recruiting new members for the Union. The notice should 1) specify the qualifications, and 2) tell the arrangement of interview. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. {{B}}Do not{{/B}} use your own name.

问答题The Chinese new year is a time of family reunions. But Mr. Xiao is preparing to spend his sixth new year without his son, who was abducted (诱拐) in 2007 by suspected child traffickers. China's one-child policy has fuelled demand for children, thousands of whom are snatched and sold every year to desperate, usually boyless, couples. Spurred (刺激) by the campaigning of parents like Mr. Xiao, the government is starting to pay more attention to the crime. But curbing it is proving tough. Mr. Xiao has been trying the hard way to raise awareness of the crime; driving around the country in a minivan covered with posters of missing children. Mr. Xiao, who lives in a village near Tongzhou, one of Beijing's satellite towns, says he has spent as much as 400,000 yuan ($64,300) of his own money on the project. He says there are other parents elsewhere in China who tour the country in similarly bedecked (装饰的) vehicles.

问答题1)describethetable,and2)giveyourcommentsYoushouldwriteabout150words.WriteyouressayontheANSWERSHEET.

问答题Directions: Suppose you want to study at a certain foreign university. Write a letter to: 1) Ask about the situations there, 2) Ask about qualifications requirements and fees. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not use your own name. Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write your address.

问答题Suppose you are going to be a postgraduate student in Wuhan University. Write a letter to a professor there to 1) tell him about your plan for future academic studies, and 2) ask for advice about how to get prepared for the study there. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not use your own name. Use "Zhang Wei" instead.

问答题Directions: Restrictions on the use of plastic bags have not been so successful in some regions. "White Pollution" is still going on. Write a letter to the editor(s) of your local newspaper to 1) give your opinions briefly, and 2) make two or three suggestions. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write your address.