问答题Directions: People who read books have developed more imagination and language skills than those who watch TV. To what extent do you agree or disagree?【】 Write on the Answer Sheet a composition of about 400 words. You are to write in three parts. In the first part, state specifically what your idea is. In the second part, provide some reasons to support your idea or describe your idea. In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks. Don’t forget to write a title.
问答题(Refer to Passage 1) Give us an example to illustrate it is cultural contexts rather than language norms that matter in translation.
问答题Some people think that postgraduate students should focus on research instead of practice. What do you think? Write a composition of about 400 words on the following topic: Should Postgraduates Focus on Research instead of Practice? Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Please write your composition on the ANSWER SHEET.
问答题What do you think are the most important ideas of passage 2?
问答题Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.【】Some people say you should be content with what you have and accept who you are. But it is possible that too【】much self-acceptance can turn into self-satisfied lack of ambition. People should always strive to improve themselves and to have more in their lives--friends, things, opportunities. After all, where would we be if great people, both in history and in our own time, did not try to have more and to improve themselves?【】Assignment:【】 Is it best for people to accept who they are and what they have, or should people always strive to better themselves? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. Your writing should be more than 400 words and less than 600 words.
问答题More and more Chinese cities have installed video screens on buses. Actually, in just a matter of years, the LCD screens have made Inroads into not only buses, but into apartment building lobbies, shopping malls, taxis and even public toilets. It is getting harder every passing day to find a public place free of this video pollution.【】 Write a composition of about 400 words on your view of the topic.
问答题Directions: Nowadays, Internet mass hunting (人肉搜索) has become a powerful means to expose corrupt officials, but many people argue that it invades people’s privacy. What’s your opinion?【】Write on the Answer Sheet a composition of about 400 words. You are to write in three parts. In the first part, state specifically what your idea is. In the second part, provide one or two reasons to support your idea or describe your idea. In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks. Don’t forget to write a title.
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问答题Directions: In this section, there are two passages, each with five questions. Read the passages carefully. Then answer the questions by using the information from each passage. Please write your answers on the Answer Sheet.Passage THREEHow is communication actually achieved? It depends, of course, either on a common language or on known conventions, or at least on the beginnings of these. If the common language and the conventions exist, the contributor, for example, the creative artist, the performer, or the reporter, tries to use them as well as he can. But often, especially with original artists and thinkers, the problem is in one way that of Creating a language, or creating a convention or at least of developing the language and conventions to the point where they are capable of bearing his precise meaning. In literature, in music, in the visual arts, in the sciences, in social thinking, in philosophy, this kind of development has occurred again and again. It often takes a long time to get through, and for many people it will remain difficult. But we need never think that it is impossible; creative energy is much more powerful than we sometimes suppose. While a man is engaged in this struggle to say new things in new ways, he is usually more than ever concentrated on the actual work, and not on its possible audience. Many artists and scientists share this fundamental unconcern about the ways in which their work will be received. They may be glad if it is understood and appreciated, hurt if it is not, but while the work is being done there can be no argument. The thing has to come out as the man himself sees it.In this sense it is true that it is the duty of society to create conditions in which such men can live. For whatever the value of any individual contribution, the general body of work is of immense value to everyone. But, of course, things are not so formal, in reality. There is not society on the one hand and these individuals on the other. In ordinary living, and in his work, the contributor shares in the life of his society, which often affects him both in minor ways and in ways sometimes so deep that he is not even aware of them. His ability to make his work public depends on the actual communication system: the language itself, or certain visual or musical or scientific conventions, and the institutions through which the communication will be passed. The effect of these on his actual work can be almost infinitely variable. For it is not only a communication system outside him; it is also, however original he may be, a communication system which is in fact part of himself. Many contributors make active use of this kind of internal communication system. It is to themselves, in a way, that they first show their conceptions, play their music, present their arguments. Not only as a way of getting these clear, in the process of almost endless testing that active composition involves, but also, whether consciously or not, as a way of putting the experience into a communicable form. If one mind has grasped it, then it may be open to other minds.In this deep sense, the society is in some ways already present in the act of composition. This is always very difficult to understand. But often, when we have the advantage of looking back at a period, we can see, even if we cannot explain, how this was so. We can see how much even highly original individuals had in common, in their actual work, and in what is called their “structure of feeling” , with other individual workers of the time, and with the society of that time to which they belonged. The historian is also continually struck by the fact that men of this kind felt isolated at the very time when in reality they were beginning to get through. This can also be noticed in our own time, when some of the most deeply influential men feel isolated and even rejected. The society and the communication are there, but it is difficult to recognize them, difficult to be sure.
问答题Directions: An expert has proposed banning drivers from using a cell phone, following an accident that an elderly cyclist was hit and killed by a driver looking at his phone in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. Studies show that using a cell phone in a car is as dangerous as drunk driving, if not more so. What do you think of this proposal? Should using a cell phone when driving be illegal? Why or why not?【】Write on the Answer Sheet a composition of about 500 words. You are to write in three parts. In the first part, state specifically what your idea is. In the second part, provide some reasons to support your idea or describe your idea. In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks. Don’t forget to write a title.
问答题Directions: In this section, there is’ a short passage with 3 questions. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions on the Answer Sheet.These are the words written around the Olympic flame, burning in the latest ultramodern stadium, the latest venue of one of the most outstanding spectacles in the world. Each day thousands in their seats in the stadium and millions in their chairs at home watch excitedly as men and women from almost every nation in the world attempt to run faster, jump higher and longer, lift heavier and heavier and throw further and further. They are all competing for that ultimate prize: an Olympic gold medal. Some only just fail by hundredths of a second or fractions of a millimeter but are content with silver or bronze. Most are extremely happy just to be there and in so doing agree with the other proverb of the Games which says that it is not winning that is important but taking part.However, things change as the Olympics reach the end of the 20th century and look forward to the 21st. It seems as if this second ideal is no longer a realistic one for our competitive world. Much as we are happy to see the medals won, especially if they are won by our compatriots, it is not enough. What the crowd badly wants to see is records being broken. We all want to witness that moment in history when something is achieved for the very first time.Even though we pretend that the Olympics are still the last preserve of the amateur ideal, we know that to be a world-class athlete now is a full-time activity, it is not only the intensive training given to potential champions by the superpowers, but many athletes are paid now. Since 1982, the International Olympic Committee has allowed money from advertising to be kept by the competitor until he or she retires and even used for training purposes and expenses.Are we pushing the athletes too hard? Can we expect the athletes to live up to the ideal of the Games without the help of modern science and technology? Indeed, how much further can the human body go? Records continue to be broken but increasingly by smaller and smaller margins. Will we reach the stage of seeing someone run the fastest, jump the highest and throw the furthest that is humanly possible to do? Is it too late to go back to the pure ideals of the ancient Games or is it just another part of our life that is increasingly dominated by technology?
问答题Directions: Read the following passages and then answer IN COMPLETE SENTENCES the questions which follow each passage, Use only information from the passage you have just read and write your answer in the corresponding space in your answer sheetOnce upon a time, in a land to the north, there lived a blacksmith who had, worked hard all his life to provide for the needs of his family. So diligently had he labored and so carefully had he saved that his wife and his children never knew want, and he even managed to put by a small store of wealth. But unlike his father, the son of this industrious man was such a lazybones that in the whole wide world there was none to equal him. Although he was healthy and strong he did not know how to do anything but eat, drink, and sleep in the shade, In all the twenty years of his life he had not earned a single anna, and he never gave a thought to the fact that he was living on his father’ s bread.Now the time came when the blacksmith grew old and no longer had the strength to raise a spark from his anvil. Finally he took to his bed, and when he realized that death was near, he called his son to his side.“l do not know why you are so lazy, ” the aged blacksmith lamented. “You cannot take after me, for I have been on friendly terms with work my whole life long. Little by little I acquired my household goods by toil and honest sweat. How can it be that a son of mine cannot earn even one rupee?”“Well, to earn just a rupee is not such a magnificent thing, ” the youth replied.“My son, ” said the father, “show me that you can earn one rupee and all that I own will be yours when I die. Yes, you must prove to me now that you can earn something by the labor of your hands; otherwise, when I am gone you will not receive a rusty horseshoe nail. That is my will. ”Now the Macksmith’ s son wanted very much to come into his inheritance, but he was so lazy he hated to bestir himself to perform the small task his father required. Besides, he did not know how. What a cruel thing, to have to earn a whole rupee when he had never earned a single anna since the day he was born! But a paternal word is a stone mountain, and as a stone mountain is not removed, a paternal world word is not changed. His father had spoken.The doting mother of this good-for-nothing youth could not bear to see him suffer. When she found a convenient movement, she said to him: “Listen, little son, here is a rupee for you, Go and amuse yourself today, but when you come home in the evening, pretend you are returning from work and tell your father that you have earned the money. ”The youth was so lazy he did not want to bother himself even this much, but he knew that something had to be done. So he took his mother’ s rupee, and with a bit of bread and cheese he went off into into the mountains. All day long he ate and drank and counted the birds in the sky. Then at nightfall he returned home and gave his father the rupee, saying: “Here, Father, take it. It wasn’ t easy for me to earn this rupee. I cannot straighten my back, I worked so hard. ” The father took the coin, looked at it from both sides, and tossed it from palm to palm. Then he threw it into the fire. “No, ” he said, “you did not earn that rupee. ” With a shrug of his shoulders the son replied: “well, you don’t have to believe me. ” And he went off to bed.The next day the worried mother gave her son a second rupee, but this time she instructed him: “Sleep all day if you wish, little son, but before you come home in the evening, run one mile. You will perspire, you will be tired, and then your father will believe that you have been at work and that you did his bidding and earned the money by your labor. ”The lazybones cared for his legs, but he cared still more to inherit his father’ s fortune. So he took his mother’ s rupee, and with food and drink he set out for the mountains as before. From dawn to dusk he ate and drank and warmed himself in the sun, but when it came time to go home he ran a mile, and then for good measure he ran another. And when he arrived at the threshold he was so tired he could hardly draw a breath. Perspiration poured from him in streams. He toppled onto a bench and held out the rupee. “It surely was hard for me to earn this rupee! ” he gasped. “I worked like an ox the livelong day. I am falling over my feet with fatigue. ” The father took the coin from his son, turned it over again and again in his hand, then threw it into the fire. “No, ” he said, “you are deceiving me, my son. This rupee was given to you. It was useless for you to run from the mountains. ”What could the lazy youth say? “You don’ t wish to believe me, ” he shrugged, smiling. “To be sure, it’ s not true. ” And forthwith he lay down by the fire and went to sleep.The good-for-nothing youth dreamed sweet dreams, but sleep did not come to his dear mother. She realized now that in deceiving her husband they only lost their hard-earned money, and she also knew that all this brought no profit to her son.So the next day she instructed differently: “Come now, little son. If you want to inherit your father’ s property, you must take yourself off and really go to work. If you only earn one or two annas a day, in a week you can make a whole rupee. ”It seemed there was nothing else to do; the time had come to obey. The lazybones worked for a whole week. He carried something for one man; he helped with something for another. One man gave him one anna; another gave him two. Bit by bit he accumulated a whole rupee.Then he went to his father and poured a handful of coins before him. Again the old man turned over the money, weighed it in his hand, and held some places up to the light. Then he said: “No, my son. You have deceived me again. You did not earn this money. ” And he seized all the coins and threw them into the fire like so much rubbish.But this time the son was in a frenzy. He huffed himself into the fireplace, separated the burning coals with his bare hands, and snatched the money out of the very fire itself. “Why did you do that?” he cried. “I haven t straightened up my back for a whole week and you want to burn my money in the fire! ”The father looked at his son and said: “Now I believe that you earned this rupee yourself. Someone else’ s money you do not care about--that is cheap. But the money you earn by your own labor--ah, that you make a big fuss over! So it is, my son. Remember my words: As long as you work, you will have money and contentment, and all things will be yours. But if you will not work, another person’ s money cannot help you, for someone else’ s rupee is not worth one anna. ” Then the father willed all his property to his son and went to the land from which no man ever returns.
问答题We can ask a person how many children he has without going into the specific of whether they are boys and girls; but we cannot ask him how many brothers and sisters he has without getting precisely these irrelevant sub-answers and then tolling them. Now it is true that in this instance we may use the word siblings. But the very fact that this word is mainly confined to technical health-authority usage(despite our recognition of its usefulness and of our need for such a word) is an interesting indication of the way we are very largely the helpless prisoners of the language in general use around us. We like to think that we make our language as we need it, but in fact the scope for an individual to change things is very limited. Even where there would be widespread agreement that there is a linguistic deficiency, very few communities in the world seem to have settled the means whereby remedies can be agreed upon and adopted.—Thinking of Words, by Randolph QuirkQuestion: What is the theme of this short passage?
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问答题Directions: You have read an article in a newspaper which states, “Adversity breeds character. A difficult childhood may help build one’s character. Children can be spoiled by getting things too easy or receiving too much love.” Do you agree or disagree with this point of view?【】Write on the Answer Sheet a composition of about 500 words. You are to write in three parts. In the first part, state specifically what your idea is. In the second part, provide some reasons to support your idea or describe your idea. In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks. Don’t forget to write a title.
问答题Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.【】 Independent people--those who rely on themselves rather than on others--get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their goals. To be most effective, people need to be interdependent. People who do not think and act interdependently may achieve individual success, but they will not be good leaders or team players. (Adapted from Stephen R. Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People)【】Assignment:【】 Is it necessary for people to combine their efforts with those of others in order to be most effective? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. Your writing should be more than 400 words and less than 600 words.
问答题(Refer to Passage 2) According to the author, what should an adequate pension system be like?
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问答题rimary→primarily（形容词不可在句中单独使用。 这里primary修饰动词use， 应用副词形式primarily。 ）
问答题For many years the nuclear family, consisting of father, mother, and children, was considered to be the normal family pattern in China’ s society. Yet in many other cultures and in our own in the past, three generations — grandparents, parents, and children — often have lived together. What are the advantages and disadvantages of three generations living together? Write a composition of about 400 words on your view of the topic.