问答题Genius The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means, and the exercise of ordinary qualities. The common life of every day, with its cares, necessities, and duties, affords ample opportunity for acquiring experience of the best kind; and (56) its most beaten paths provide the true worker with abundant scope for effort and room for self-improvement. (57) The road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will usually be the most successful. Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. (58) Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators. In the pursuit of even the highest branches of human inquiry, the commoner qualities are found the most useful— such as common sense, attention, application, and perseverance. Genius may not be necessary, though even genius of the highest sort does not disdain the use of these ordinary qualities. (59) The very greatest men have been among the least believers in the power of genius, and as worldly wise and persevering as successful men of the commoner sort. (60) Some have even defined genius to be only common sense intensifiers. A distinguished teacher and president of a college spoke of it as the power of making efforts. John Foster held it to be the power of lighting one's own fire. Buffon said of genius "it is patience".

问答题调查表明，很少有人能够完全献身于自己的事业。

问答题You are required to write about 200 words on the following topic: "Greediness is the root of all evil".

问答题When there is a heavy rain in the north of China, cities and towns are often flooded. But heavy rains in southern cities seldom pose severe problems. When there is a heavy snow in the south of China, cities and towns often run into chaos. But heavy snows in the north seldom pose severe problems. What should city planners do to deal with this and what do you think of the different ways of dealing with it?

问答题Write an essay in no less than 200 words entitled "Opportunities and Challenges with the Coming of Globalization ".

问答题Passage One How to Get Preserved as a Fossil

问答题大学教育的最终目标是什么?这是一个经常萦绕在心头的极为重要的问题。大学教育阶段是一个人一生中价值观得以形成、个人的兴趣和爱好凸现的时期。学生们是处于人生期望值最高的时候步人大学校园的。因此，大学教育应该使学生们拥有坚实的基础教育，并在某——专业领域有所特长；应该使学生们充满想像力，学以致用；学校应该鼓励每位学生提高在生活以及行为中明辨常理的能力。大学的目的不是向学生进行思想灌输，而是让他们在思想的国度里畅游，为他们提供良好的氛围，以培养正确的伦理道德观，并形成坚定的信念。

问答题{{U}}(1)For me, scientific knowledge is divided into mathematical sciences, natural sciences or sciences dealing with the natural world (physical and biological sciences), and sciences dealing with mankind (psychology, sociology, all the sciences of culture achievements, every kind of historical knowledge).{{/U}} Apart from these sciences is philosophy about which we will talk shortly. In the first place, all this is pure or theoretical knowledge, sought only for the purpose of understanding, in order to fulfill the need to understand what is intrinsic and consubstantial (一体的) to man. (2) {{U}}What distinguishes man from animal is that he knows and needs to know. If man did not know that the world existed, and that the world was of a certain kind, that he was in the world and that he himself was of a certain kind, he wouldn't be man.{{/U}} (3) {{U}}The technical aspects of applications of knowledge are equally necessary for man and are of the greatest importance, because they also contribute to defining him to pursue a life increasingly more truly human.{{/U}} But even while enjoying the results of technical progress, he must defend the primacy and autonomy of pure knowledge. (4) {{U}}Knowledge sought directly for its practical applications will have immediate and foreseeable success, but not the kind of important result whose revolutionary scope is in large part unforeseen, except by the imagination of the Utopians.{{/U}} Let me recall a well known example. It the Greek mathematicians had not applied themselves to the investigation of conic (圆锥的) sections, zealously and without the least suspicion that it might someday be useful, it would not have been possible centuries later to navigate far from shore. The first men to study the nature of electricity could not imagine that their experiments, carried on because of mere intellectual curiosity, would eventually lead to modern electrical technology, without which we can scarcely conceive of contemporary life. (5) {{U}}Pure knowledge is valuable for its own sake, because the human spirit cannot resign itself to ignorance. But, in addition, it is the foundation for practical results that would nor have been reached if this knowledge had not been sought disinterestedly{{/U}}.

问答题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Read the following passage carefully and then translate the underlined sentences into Chinese. In the spring of 1720, when all of London was clamoring for shares in the South Sea company, Sir Isaac Newton was asked what he thought about the market. "I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of the market", the scientist and master of the mint is reputed to have replied. 71. {{U}}Newton should have considered seriously his own wise words. Having sold his ￡7, 000 of stock in the company, he later bought back in at the top of the boom and went down for ￡20, 000.{{/U}} Like all the other mug punters in every bout of speculative fever, Newton was cleaned out when the crash came. Little has changed in the intervening 280 years. 72. {{U}}Common to every bubble is the deeply-rooted belief that this time it will be different, that the rise in the price of an asset is rooted in the sound common sense rather than in recklessness, stupidity and greed.{{/U}} Take the crash of 1929 for example. In his excellent book charting the sad history of bubbles, John Moody, the founder of the credit agency intoned in 1927 that "no one can examine the panorama (全貌) of business and finance in America during the past half-dozen years without realizing that we are living in a new era." The Yale economist Irving Fisher declared a few weeks before the October crash that stock prices had reached a "permanently high plateau". Why was this? Simple. The creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913 had abolished the business cycle, while technological breakthroughs had created a "new economy" that was much more profitable than the old. 73. {{U}}As share prices continued their heady rise, traditional methods of stock market valuations were abandoned. It did not matter that many of the start-up companies of the late 1920s were not making any money, what counted was that some day they surely would.{{/U}} So share prices were justified by discounted future earnings.

问答题In this part, you are asked to write an essay according to the outline given. Your composition should be about 200 words. Remember to write clearly and logically. After writing, please check your composition in terms of the following writing basics: unity, support, coherence, and error-free sentences. Significance of Education on TV(1)电视教育为许多人提供了受教育的机会。(2)电视教育起的作用。(3)政府应采取的措施。

问答题Can Money Buy Happiness?

问答题那时，任何胆量小一点的人都不敢想到我们应该扩大研究生的招生规模。

问答题Directions: You are required to write about 200 words on the following topic "Studying, Abroad".

问答题受海啸影响最轻的马来西亚，在海啸发生后，当地的第二大支柱产业——旅游业——大受影响。1月19日马来西亚旅游部门的相关官员就表示，政府也在积极地采取对策，希望能尽快地恢复各国游客的信心。马来西亚旅游局官员表示，海啸中马来西亚没有外国游客死亡，旅游设施也完好，受影响的西岸一些酒店已经正常营业。

问答题The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means, and the exercise of ordinary qualities. 1. The common life of every day, with its cares, necessities, and duties, affords ample opportunity for acquiring experience of the best kind: and its most beaten-paths provide the true worker with abundant scope for effort and room for sell-improvement. The road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing: and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will usually be the most successful. Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators. In the pursuit of even the highest branches of human inquiry, the commoner qualities are found the most useful--such as common sense, attention, application, and perseverance. 2. Genius may not be necessary, though even genius of the highest sort does not disdain the use of these ordinary qualities. The very greatest men have been among the least believers in the power of genius, and as worldly wise and persevering as successful men of the commoner sort. Some have even defined genius to be only common sense intensified. A distinguished teacher and president of a college spoke of it as the power of making efforts. John Foster held it to be the power of lighting one's own fire. Buffon said of genius "it is patience". Newton's was unquestionably a mind of the very highest order, and yet, when asked by what means he had worked out his extraordinary discoveries, he modestly answered, "By always thinking unto them. " At another time he thus expressed his method of study : "I keep the subject continually before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light. " 3. It was in Newton's case, as in every other, only by diligent application and perseverance that his great reputation was achieved. Even his recreation consisted in change of study, laying down one subject to take up another. To Dr. Bentley he said, "If I have done the public any service, it is due to nothing but industry and patient thought. " 4. The extraordinary results effected by dint of sheer industry and perseverance, have led many distinguished men to doubt whether the gift of genius be so exceptional an endowment as it is usually supposed to be. Thus Voltaire held that it is only a very slight line of separation that divides the man of genius from the man of ordinary mould. Beccaria was even of opinion that all men might be poets and orators, and Reynolds that they might be painters and sculptors. If this were really so, that stolid Englishman might not have been so very far wrong after all, who, on Canova's death, inquired of his brother whether it was "his intention to carry on the business". Locke, Helvetius, and Diderot believed that all men have an equal aptitude for genius, and that what some are able to effect, under the laws which regulate the operations of the intellect, must also be within the reach of others who, under like circumstances, apply themselves to like pursuits. 5. But while admitting to the fullest extent the wonderful achievements of labor, and recognizing the fact that men of the most distinguished genius have invariably been found the most indefatigable workers, it must nevertheless be sufficiently obvious that, without the original endowment of heart and brain, no amount of labor, however well applied, could have produced a Shake-speare, a Newton, a Beethoven, or a Michelangelo. Dalton, the chemist, repudiated the notion of his being "a genius", attributing everything which he had accomplished to simple industry and accumulation. John Hunter said of himself, "My mind is like a beehive; but full as it is of buzz and apparent confusion, it is yet full of order and regularity, and food collected with incessant industry from the choicest stores of nature. " We have, indeed, but to glance at the biographies of great men to find that the most distinguished inventors, artists, thinkers, and workers of all kinds, owe their success, in a great measure, to their indefatigable industry and application. They were men who turned all things to Gold-even time itself.

问答题Early data warehousing efforts focused on separating the decision-support environment from operational transaction-processing systems. The ultimate goal was to create a centralized source of data for accurate, consistent reporting. The greatest cost of implementing data warehouses comes from the process of extracting, transforming and integrating data from source systems.

问答题首先，额外的学习对孩子的身体发育是不利的。教育专家指出，孩子在枯燥的教室里待了一整天之后，参加一些体育活动，而不是额外的学习，是非常重要的。孩子们正处于身体快速发育时期，缺乏体育锻炼可能会对他们的生活造成严重的影响。第二，从心理上讲，大部分孩子似乎对额外学习没有什么好感。当别的孩子玩耍的时候，很难想象一个学生能把精力集中在课本上。而且，由于要额外地学习，孩子们没有多少时间和同龄的孩子玩耍和交流，很难培养他们的交际能力。他们可能变得孤僻，甚至产生某些心理疾病。通过以上讨论我们可以得出结论：尽管额外的学习的确有很多优点，但它的缺点不可忽视，远大于它的优点。因此，放学后强迫孩子学习是不明智的。任何家长都应非常重视孩子在学习和玩耍这两方面的平衡，正如那句老话：只学习，不玩耍，聪明的孩子会变傻。