问答题"The Child is Father of the Man," wrote the English poet William Wordsworth. 111. Adults today are as aware as Wordsworth of the importance of childhood experiences that a cherished and well-behaved child has a better chance of growing into a balanced, loving and law-abiding adult than an unloved one. The Children Act of 1989, created to give children much-needed protection against abuse, in the process legalized the ideology: the child comes first. 112. But while the nurturing of self-esteem in children is now accepted as a requisite of their development, the social and economic demands on over-worked, harassed parents often prevent them from putting this theory into practice where it matters most in the home. Indeed, much of the time it seems that parents themselves are suffering a crisis of self-esteem. Reports show that teenagers are increasingly obese and slothful. They watch on average between four and six hours of television a day. 113. No longer subject to the discipline of the evening family meal-the cradle of manners and civil behavior-one in three people eats his or her dinner in front of the television. The fashion industry is increasingly targeting guilty parents and their demanding children; it is not uncommon to see children wearing designer jeans and the latest trainers that they will soon grow out of. 114. Pre-Christmas toy advertising is designed to strike terror into the hearts of parents and make their children even more demanding and greedy. Every office in the land harbors parents who are exasperated especially by boys who are arrogant, rude, boastful and undisciplined. 115. Many parents are too guilt-ridden or too bewildered by conflicting child rearing advice to do anything other than wring their hands with worry. The language of civil rights has entered childhood. Children as young as six are now so keenly aware of their "rights" that they freely complain of "unfair" treatment by their elders.

问答题直到买了一辆自己的车，软件设计员才意识到开车，特别是在高速公路上开车，是一大乐趣。

问答题Write an essay in no tess than 200 words with the title "What Can I Offer to Sciety?" First, write an outline for your essay, and then according to your outline, write your essay. Both your outline and your essay should be written clearLy on your ANSWER SHEET.

问答题Topic: On Knowledge and Ability

问答题Online newspapers are a look into the future and just pondering it raises the question of whether it isn't nicer getting your daily news curled up in your favorite chair with your ballpoint pen handy to circle items of interest, or scissors ready to snip out articles you want to save. The Gazette Company is betting its subscribers want both electronic and paper options, and so far it seems to be right. The rest of the world is moving into cyberspace more slowly than the United States, and, in the developing world, the Internet has hardly penetrated at all. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is determined to change this through the United Nations Information Technology Service, which will train large numbers of people to lap into the income-enhancing power of the Interact. Annan is also proposing an Internet health network that will provide state-of-the-art medical knowledge to 10,000 clinics and hospitals in poor countries. The onrushing Cyber Age has given newfound power to us all, as seen in Jody Williams's one-woman organization using e-mail to promote a global ban on land mines. Yet, this is but a glimpse of what's ahead in the minds of those immersed in this great and accelerating transformation. At Microsoft, Bill Gates predicts that by 2018 major newspapers will "publish their last paper editions and move solely to electronic distribution," and that by 2020 dictionaries will redefine books as "eBook titles read on screen" .

问答题Such tightening would probably cause refinancing to slump to about $ 300 billion at annual rates late this year, which would eliminate capital gains as a prop for consumer spending. Rising interest rates could also clamp the rally likely to occur in the equity market as corporate profits recover. If investment spending fails to revive, the economy' s annual growth rate could slide back to the 2 ～ 3 percent.

问答题几乎自有人类以来就有了人工降雨的想法了，但直到1946年人类才成功地制造了雨。在古代，人工降雨者声称降雨的方法有多种：跳舞、唱歌、杀死各种动物(包括人)祭天等。 近些时候，有些人工降雨者说可以往天上放炮，引起爆炸或燃烧化学药品等，由此而产生的烟可以使天下雨。这类人工降雨费用很高，需要一千美元才能降一英寸雨。有一个降雨者如此之灵，以致于差一点被处死，因为人们认为是他使加利福尼亚南部下了20英寸大雨，淹了土地，死了好几个人，造成了数百万美元的损失。

问答题1999年，中国开始进入老龄化社会。2004年年底，60岁以上的人口达到1.43亿，占全国人口总数的10.97%。至此，中国成为世界上拥有最多老龄人口的国家。有专家说1990年到2033年是中国的“人口红利”(population bonus)期，出生率下降，老龄人口还不算太多，这一时期是有助于经济发展的。 2010年到2013年中国劳动力人口将达到9亿人，在这之后“红利”会变成“赤字”，也就是说，这以后需要照顾的老龄人口会迅速增加。据说2030年后的二十年是中国老龄化最严峻的时期。因此，要做好充分准备，好好利用人口红利期来解决严重的老龄化问题。 有报告称，中国是典型的成为富裕国家前就面临老龄化社会的国家。这是长期的问题，也需要很长时间才能解决。中国一直坚持计划生育政策，人口增长的趋势得到了有效的控制。据估计，中国到2030年的总人口将达到14.65亿，届时会面临老龄化和人口出生率下降两大压力，这也一定会给国家的经济和社会发展带来巨大的压力。 这份报告还指出，中国在解决老龄化问题的意识、条件及法规上都严重滞后，因此，必须把这个问题的解决纳入到未来国家发展策略中。我们要及早关注老龄化人口的医疗资源，完善社会保障体系。在老龄人口达到顶峰前，建立一个健全的国家性社会保障机制。

问答题Graduates Face Many Barriers in Job Hunting

问答题BTOPIC/B After graduation from a university, some students look for jobs in companies, others go to university and work as teachers. Which do you think is preferable? Give specific reasons for your choice.

问答题Though it has been used in China to treat pain for thousands of years, acupuncture still makes many doctors uneasy, especially in the West. 1. The treatment is based on the idea that needles inserted at specific points can correct a pain-producing imbalance in two bodily forces—the yin and the yang. Dr. Bruce Pomeranz, a University of Toronto neurophysiologist, has a different explanation: acupucture may stimulate the release of the body's own natural painkillers—endorphins—which act something like morphine (吗啡). Seven years ago social worker Gwenn Chriss was told she had lupus (狼疮). Once able to swim a mile, she could barely swim across the pool. She tried all sorts of pills, but her pain only got worse. Desperate, she went to an acupuncturist who inserted about a dozen stainless steel needles at points on her legs, arms and ears. Slowly, Chriss began to recover. Within six months she was swimming again. 2. The U. S. Food and Drug Administration recently pronounced acupuncture needles appropriate for general medical use in that country, but declined to say whether acupuncture relieves pain. Dr. Brian M. Berman, a pain specialist at the University of Maryland, believes the FDA eventually will approve acupuncture as a treatment for pain. But before that can happen, he concedes, "More well-designed studies need to be done. " There are many chronic pain clinics in the Asia region; they often are associated with hospitals in the major cities. Ask your physician for a referral. 3. In the end, whatever therapies you try, remember that you're the expert on your own body. If a treatment feels right, look into it. If it sounds wrong, steer clear.

问答题Directions : Write a letter to the clean of a department of a university in the United States, applying for admittance to the department as a visiting scholar. 1. You should write about 150 words on the ANSWER SHEET. 2. The contents include what you are going to do in the department, and the explanation of the source of your living expenses. 3. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. 4. Do not write the address.

问答题Directions: In this section you are required to write an essay in accordance with the following requirements: 1. Tide: On Businessmen's and Businesswomen's Further Pursuit of Knowledge. 2. Time limit: 40 minutes. 3. Word limit: 180--200 words

问答题"There were a set of ideas and a set of initiatives that the university is undertaking that people wanted to invest," said Martin Shell, Stanford's vice president for develop ment.

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Read the following passage carefully and then translate each underlined part into Chinese. 71. {{U}}Battles are like marriages. They have a certain fundamental experience they share in common. They differ infinitely, but still they are all alike. A battle seems to me a conflict of will with death in the same way that a marriage of love is the identification of two human beings to the end of creation of life--as death is the reverse of life, and love of hate. Battles are commitments to cause death as marriages are commitments to create life.{{/U}} Whether, for any individual, either union results in death or in the creation of life, each risks it--and in the risk commits himself. 72. {{U}}As the servants of death, battles will always remain horrible. Those who are fascinated by them are being fascinated by death. There is no battle aim worthy of the name except that of ending all battles. Any other conception is, literally, suicidal. The fascist worship of battle is a suicidal drive. It is love of death instead of life.{{/U}} 73. {{U}}In the same idiom, to triumph in battle over the forces which are fighting for death is--again literally--to triumph over death. It is a surgeon's triumph as he cuts a body and bloodies his hands in removing a cancer in order to triumph over death that is in the body.{{/U}} In these thoughts I have found my own peace, and I return to an army that fights death and cynicism in the name of life and hope. It is a good army. Believe in it.

问答题An important variable affecting communication across cultures is fate and personal responsibility. 1. This refers to the degree to which we feel ourselves the masters of our lives, versus the degree to which we see ourselves as subject to things outside our control. Another way to look at this is to ask how much see ourselves able to change and maneuver, to choose the course of our lives and relationships. Some have drawn a parallel between the emphasis on personal responsibility in North American settings and the landscape itself. The North American Landscape is vast, with large spaces of unpopulated territory. 2. The frontier mentality of "conquering" the wilderness, and the expansiveness of the land stretching huge distances, may relate to generally high levels of confidence in the ability to shape and choose our destinies. In this expansive landscape, many children grow up with an epic sense of life, where ideas are big, and hope springs eternal. When they experience setbacks, they are encouraged to redouble their efforts, to "try, try again." 3. Action, efficacy, and achievement are emphasized and expected. Free will is enshrined in laws and enforced by courts. Now consider places in the world with much smaller territory, whose history reflects repeated conquest and harsh straggles: Northern Ireland, Mexico, Israel, Palestine. In these places, there is more emphasis on destiny"s role in human life. In Mexico, there is a legacy of poverty, invasion, and territorial mutilation. Mexicans are more likely to see struggles as invasion, and territorial mutilation. Mexicans are more likely to see struggles as inevitable or unavoidable. 4. Their fatalistic attitude is expressed in their way of responding to failure or accident by saying "ni modo" ("no way" or "tough luck", meaning that the setback was destined. This variable is important to understanding cultural conflict. If someone invested in free will crosses paths with someone more fatalistic in orientation, miscommunication is likely. The first person may expect action and accountability. Failing to see it, they may conclude that the second is lazy, obstructionist, or dishonest. 5. The second person will expect respect for the natural order of things. Failing to see it, they may conclude that the first is coercive or irreverent inflated in his ideas of what can be accomplished or changed.

问答题Historically, Jeep's reputation as a go-anywhere vehicle dates back to the Second World War when the original Jeeps, supplied by the Willys company, carried Allied forces through the Pacific and Europe. The Macquarie Dictionary of Motoring says the name Jeep stemmed from the United States Army's decision to call the vehicle GP, for General Purpose vehicle. The name was eventually corrupted to "jeep," from the pronunciation of the letters GP, and became a trademark owned by the Willy company. Jeep became part of Chrysler in 1988 and the company has since spent a lot of money to revitalize the Jeep production facilities, and to increase the number and style of models available. Chrysler says the Jeep's wartime reputation and rugged image undoubtedly helped it to carve out a new role in peacetime as a recreational vehicle. It says the Jeep created the original market for recreational, off-road vehicles using the powerful four-wheel drive traction (known commercially as 4 WD) for which the army jeep was famous.

问答题No great scientist ever wants his pupils to be mere gramophone records faithfully reproducing his remarks, never questioning anything, never wanting to add to or subtract from what he has given them. The initial observation and experiments will be failures, but they will help the development of appropriate experimental technique, and they will give a greater understanding of the literature the young scientist is studying.

问答题观察和评价一个国家的人权状况，应考虑到该国的历史、社会、经济、文化等条件，不能割断该国的历史、脱离该国的国情，更不能按一个模式或某个国家或区域的情况来简单套用。各国的人权问题主要由各国政府和人民自己来解决，世界的人权问题要由世界各国政府和人民共同参与来解决。