问答题Directions: Suppose you have already had a date with your friend but suddenly have another thing to do and you have to tell your friend that you can"t go. Express your reason clearly. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Zhang Wei" instead. Do not write your address.

问答题Directions: The following table gives statistics showing the aspects of quality of life in five countries. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information in the table below. You should write at least 150 words. Countries GNP per head (1982: U.S. dollars) Daily calorie supply per head Life expectancy at birth (years) Infant mortality rates (per 1000 live births) Bangladesh Bolivia Egypt Indonesia USA 140 570 690 580 13160 1877 2086 2950 2296 3652 40 50 56 49 74 132 124 97 87 12 Selected statistics showing aspects of the quality of life in five countries.

问答题Your friend from America intends to further his study in China. Write a letter to 1) express your warm welcome, and 2) offer some suggestions on his future life in China. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not use your own name. Use "Li Ming" instead.

问答题Write a letter to the public to call for donations for the refugees in Yunnan Province. You should 1) explain the reasons for the donations, and 2) call for donations You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not use your own name. Use "Zhang Wei" instead.

问答题Directions:Writeanessaybasedonthefollowingchart.Inyourwriting,youshould1)interpretthechart,and2)giveyourcomments.Youshouldwriteatleast150words.WriteyouressayontheANSWERSHEET.

问答题Writeanessaybasedonthefollowingchart,inwhichyoushould1)interpretthechart,and2)giveyourcomments.Youshouldwriteabout150wordsontheANSWERSHEET.

问答题Karaoke is a very popular form of entertainment in Asia. Karaoke was first made popular by Daisuke Inoue in Kobe, Japan, in 1971. By the 1980s, there was a vast array of karaoke products on the market in Asia. The video game, Karaoke Revolution, was released in the year of 2003. In this game, players could receive a score based on their singing performance. Karaoke services then became available through mobile phones, and users could also play karaoke songs using software on their personal computers. Websites started popping up all over the Internet, creating a global karaoke community. On these sites, singers can record and even video themselves performing. Even some car manufacturers jumped on the karaoke bandwagon and had karaoke players installed as part of a car"s DVD player. There are even VCDs available now for Chinese opera karaoke, so that the elderly can have fun singing songs of the past.

问答题Directions: Suppose you want to invite Mr. Williams to give a lecture on "American Literature" in your college. Suppose you are the assistant of the English Department, write a letter including: 1) the purpose of the invitation, 2) the time of the lecture. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Zhang Wei" instead. Do not write your address.

问答题Directions: Suppose you won a translation contest and your friend, Jack, wrote an e-mail to congratulate you and ask for advice on translation. Write him a reply to 1) thank him, and 2) give your advice. 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 the address.

问答题The biggest price of the U.S. economy, by far, is the consumer sector. It represents 70% of GDP (国内生产总值) in most years. But consumers suffered historic setbacks in 2008 and 2009. According to a report, 13% of households experienced "substantial financial stress". This compares with only 1% during the previous two recessions. And it is why consumer spending fell so sharply in 2009, as frightened households cut back. It has taken years for total household finances to recover fully, but now they have. Total household net worth is now well above its 2007 peak, driven by the recovery in stock prices and home values. Household debt-to-income ratios are the lowest in more than 30 years. And the first half of 2014 has seen employment begin to take off and the unemployment rate has fallen. The overall outlook for consumer spending, the engine of the economy, is healthy again.

问答题"Sustainability" has become a popular word these days, but to Ted Ning, the concept will always have personal meaning. Having endured a painful period of unsustainability in his own life made it clear to him that sustainability-oriented values must be expressed through everyday action and choice. Ning recalls spending a confusing year in the late 1990s selling insurance. He"d been through the dot-corn boom and burst and, desperate for a job, signed on with a Boulder agency. It didn"t go well. "It was a really bad move because that"s not my passion," says Ning, whose dilemma about the job translated, predictably, into a lack of sales. "I was miserable. I had so much anxiety that I would wake up in the middle of the night and stare at the ceiling. I had no money and needed the job. Everyone said, "Just wait, you"ll turn the corner, give it some time.""

问答题近些年来，上网的人越来越多，人们可以便捷地从电脑或手机上读到新闻、摄取信息甚至下载阅读电子图书，这令报摊、书店等传统读物经销商的生意日趋惨淡，如著名图书连锁店“光合作用”部分门店已关闭。该现象与趋势已引起公众的关注与热议。

问答题Suppose you got a wrong product from a online shopping center. Write a letter to file a complaint. You should 1) tell the manager about the fact, and 2) ask for compensation. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not use your own name. Use "Li Ming" instead.

问答题1) give your opinions briefly; 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 "Zhang Wei" instead. Do not write your address.

问答题When Americans express indifference about the problem of unequal incomes, it"s usually because they see the United States as a land of boundless opportunity. Sure, you"ll hear it said, our country has pretty big income disparities compared with Western Europe. And sure, those disparities have been widening in recent decades. But stark economic inequality is the price we pay for living in a dynamic economy with avenues to advancement that the class-bound Old World can only dream about. We may have less equality of economic outcomes, but we have a lot more equality of economic opportunity. The problem is, this isn"t true. Most of Western Europe today is both more equal in incomes and more economically mobile than the United States. A nation that prides itself on its lack of class rigidity has, in short, become significantly more economically rigid than many other developed countries. How did our perception of ourselves end up so inconsistent with reality?

问答题Directions: You have just come back from Canada and found a music CD in your luggage that you forgot to return to Bob, your landlord there. Write him a letter to 1) make an apology, and 2) suggest a solution. 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. Do not write the address.

问答题Directions:Writeanessaybasedonthefollowingchart.Inyourwriting,youshould1)interpretthechart,and2)giveyourcomments.Youshouldwriteabout150words.WriteyouressayontheANSWERSHEET.

翻译题Think about driving a route that’s very familiar. It could be your commute to work, a trip into town or the way home. Whichever it is, you know every twist and turn like the back of your hand. On these sorts of trips it’s easy to zone out from the actual driving and pay little attention to the passing scenery. The consequence is that you perceive that the trip has taken less time than it actually has. This is the well-travelled road effect: people tend to underestimate the time it takes to travel a familiar route. The effect is caused by the way we allocate our attention. When we travel down a well-known route, because we don’t have to concentrate much, time seems to flow more quickly. And afterwards, when we come to think back on it, we can’t remember the journey well because we didn’t pay much attention to it. So we assume it was shorter.

翻译题Directions: 　　Translate the following text from English into Chinese.Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET2.(15 points) 　　When people in developing countries worry about migration,they are usually concerned at the prospect of ther best and brightest departure to Silicon Valley or to hospitals and universities in the developed world ,These are the kind of workers that countries like Britian ,Canada and Australia try to attract by using immigration rules that privilege college graduates . 　　Lots of studies have found that well-educated people from developing countries are particularly likely to emigrate .A big survey of Indian households in 2004 found that nearly 40%of emigrants had more than a high-school education,compared with around 3.3%of all Indians over the age of 25.This "brain drain "has long bothered policymakers in poor countries ,They fear that it hurts their economies ,depriving them of much-needed skilled workers who could have taught at their universities ,worked in their hospitals and come up with clever new products for their factories to make .

翻译题Most people would define optimism as endlessly happy, with a glass that’s perpetually half fall. But that’s exactly the kind of false cheerfulness that positive psychologists wouldn’t recommend. “Healthy optimists means being in touch with reality.” says Tal Ben-Shahar, a Harvard professor, According to Ben- Shahar,realistic optimists are these who make the best of things that happen, but not those who believe everything happens for the best. 　　Ben-Shahar uses three optimistic exercisers. When he feels down-say, after giving a bad lecture-he grants himself permission to be human. He reminds himself that mot every lecture can be a Nobel winner; some will be less effective than others. Next is reconstruction, He analyzes the weak lecture, leaning lessons, for the future about what works and what doesn’t. Finally, there is perspective, which involves acknowledging that in the ground scheme of life, one lecture really doesn’t matter.