问答题"We changed South Korean politics and the media market, but I"m too shy to say that," says Oh Yeon Ho before he can catch his own irony. But Mr. Oh, the founder and boss of Ohmy News, a sort of online newspaper, has earned the right to boast, because Ohmy is the world"s most successful example to date of "citizen journalism" in action. Ohmy"s website currently gets an average of 700,000 visitors and 2m page views a day, which puts it in the same league as a large newspaper. But Ohmy has no reporters on its staff at all. Instead, it relies on amateurs—"citizens", as Mr. Oh prefers to call them—to contribute the articles, which are then edited by Mr. Oh, a former magazine journalist, and a few colleagues. Mr. Oh likes to think of Ohmy as a "playground" for South Korean hobbyists, where "adults" set certain rules and thus give the site credibility. The articles tend to be good, because "in South Korea we have good people power," says Mr. Oh. "They are highly educated and eager to change society." Ohmy also has built-in feedback and rating systems so that the best articles rise to the top. One of Ohmy"s biggest innovations is economic. The site has a "tipjar" system that invites readers to reward good work with small donations. All they have to do is click a little tip-jar button to have their mobile-phone or credit-card account debited. One particularly good article produced the equivalent of $ 30,000 in just five days. Ohmy"s own economics also appear to be working well. Even though Mr. Oh originally intended the company to be not-for-profit—"my aim was not to earn money but to create a new kind of journalism," he says—he turned it into a for-profit firm in 2003. He will not divulge how much profit he makes, but the advertising and syndication revenues (from other internet sites that run Ohmy"s articles) seem to keep him going nicely. Ohmy"s success has already had wide ramifications in South Korea"s media industry. Although it has not killed off any South Korean newspapers or broadcasters, it has forced all of them to adjust by becoming more like Ohmy. Several newspaper sites, for instance, now have feedback and conversation panes at the bottom of online articles and are trying to interact more with readers. Mr. Oh, who left his career in the mainstream media because he was sick of what he saw as their conservative bias, also reckons that Ohmy has helped to improve the balance. If the media scales used to be tilted 80% in favor of conservatives, he thinks, Ohmy has reduced that to 60%; he wants to make it 50%. Does South Korea, a country of early adopters in many ways, foreshadow the future everywhere? "The reality is that you can"t point to many successes; Ohmy News is the only one," says Dan Gillmor, a journalist who quit his job at the San Jose Mercury News, a newspaper widely read in Silicon Valley, in order to found Grassroots Media, an experiment in American citizen journalism. After a year or so of looking in vain for a good business model, Mr. Gillmor has put the idea on ice. But others are much more optimistic. Last year A1 Gore, a former American vice-president, and Joel Hyatt, his friend and business partner, set up Current TV, a cable-television channel that encourages its viewers to contribute their own video stories. And they do. "Viewer-created content"—or "VC2",as Current TV calls it—now accounts for 30% of the channel"s airtime, and rising. Mr. Hyatt, the chief executive, thinks it will eventually be half or more. To help people get started, Current TV has extensive online tutorials on storytelling techniques, camera equipment and so forth. And to organize the content that comes in, its website allows users to vote on the quality of each video clip. It is, in many ways, a pure meritocracy. When Current TV was launched, the traditional cable channels "didn"t get it" and sneered, Mr. Hyatt recalls with glee. "What people didn"t understand is that there are tens of thousands of people out there who can create something great for a few minutes." For instance, a story by an American traveler who found himself in the Gaza Strip during Israel"s pull-out was probably the best piece of video reporting on the subject that ran on television at the time. During Hurricane Katrina, some residents of New Orleans made excellent contributions by taking cameras onto their home-made boats and making videos of their own neighborhoods. For society as a whole, all this new talent—from bloggers, who are "journalists" in the classic sense, to citizen journalists—should amount to something overwhelmingly positive. "The more journalism the better; I don"t care who does it," says Dan Gillmor. That is not, however, how professional journalists, ostensibly speaking on behalf of the public, usually choose to see it. Their mood is gloomy.

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问答题之所以把论坛取名为“蓝厅论坛”，是因为蓝色让人联想到大海和天空，既包容万象又蕴含热情与活力，契合了和谐共存、开放共赢的理念。它寓意着我们将以海纳百川的包容精神，汲取各界智慧，深化对话交流；以纵论天下的开阔视野，把握时代脉搏，共谋发展大计。 对于21世纪的亚太，人们曾经有不同的看法。有人认为亚太人文荟萃，潜力巨大，前景光明。也有人认为亚太问题丛生，麻烦不断，不容乐观。如今，当21世纪第一个10年即将结束的时候，回顾亚太发展进程，我们不难发现，尽管亚太地区由于历史和现实的原因，还存在这样那样的问题和挑战，但谋和平、维稳定、求合作、促发展是人心所向、大势所趋，亚太正在成为一个充满活力、生机与希望的地区

问答题Why does the author say that the public pounding of CEOs for their lavish pay package is "amply justified" ?

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问答题August was once a time for dreaming, wandering the empty streets of this city, reading silly-season newspaper stories after a leisurely lunch, gazing at squares where fountains plashed and the pregnant or the old chatted on benches at dusk. Then something happened. The world speeded up. Stress levels soared. Idle moments evaporated. Egos expanded. Money outpaced politics. Rage surged. August aborted this year. It morphed into the serious season. The beach lost out to the barricades. A time of outrage is upon us. Now a feeling has grown in Western societies that uncontrollable forces are at work shrinking possibility. History has never seen a global power shift as radical as the current one that managed to be peaceful. Growth, jobs, expansion, excitement—and, yes, possibility—lie in the great non-Western arc from China through India to South Africa and Brazil. The world has been turned upside-down. What we are witnessing is how shaken Western societies are by such inversion. As new powers emerge, globalization has altered the relationship between capital and labor in the former's favor. Returns on capital have proved higher relative to wages. The gap between rich and poor has become a gulf. The only people who walked away unscathed from the great financial binge were its main architects and greatest beneficiaries: such as bankers and financiers. This, too, is fueling a time of outrage that has left Western politicians chasing shadows.

问答题弘扬中华文化，建设中华民族共有精神家园。中华文化是中华民族生生不息、团结奋进的不竭动力。要全面认识祖国传统文化，取其精华，去其糟粕，使之与当代社会相适应、与现代文明相协调，保持民族性，体现时代性。加强中华优秀文化传统教育，运用现代科技手段开发利用民族文化丰厚资源。加强对各民族文化的挖掘和保护，重视文物和非物质文化遗产保护，做好文化典籍整理工作。加强对外文化交流，吸收各国优秀文明成果，增强中华文化国际影响力。

问答题Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in English. You will hear the passages only once. After you have heard each passage, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space on your Answer Sheet. You may take notes while you are listening.

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问答题之所以把论坛取名为“蓝厅论坛”，是因为蓝色让人联想到大海和天空，既包容万象又蕴含热情与活力，契合了和谐共存、开放共赢的理念。它寓意着我们将以海纳百川的包容精神，汲取各界智慧，深化对话交流；以纵论天下的开阔视野，把握时代脉搏，共谋发展大计。 对于21世纪的亚太，人们曾经有不同的看法。有人认为亚太人文荟萃，潜力巨大，前景光明。也有人认为亚太问题丛生，麻烦不断，不容乐观。如今，当21世纪第一个10年即将结束的时候，回顾亚太发展进程，我们不难发现，尽管亚太地区由于历史和现实的原因，还存在这样那样的问题和挑战，但谋和平、维稳定、求合作、促发展是人心所向、大势所趋，亚太正在成为一个充满活力、生机与希望的地区。

问答题What is the situation of the world financial markets recently? What is the situation expected to be in the near future?

问答题It was definitely true that Shanghai saw itself as a trendsetter back in the 1930s when anything that became popular in Shanghai would reach out and influence the entire Far East. But now, Shanghai is gradually losing that power. Topic: Can Shanghai regain its power as a trendsetter? Questions for Reference: 1. Many young people don"t understand their roots and what is special about Shanghai culture. They just copy westerners. Why? 2. Things made in other places are seen more often than things made in Shanghai. What are the possible reasons for this? 3. What can the city do to regain its status?

问答题Innovation can come from without as well as within. Apple is widely assumed to be an innovator, locking its engineers away to cook up new ideas and basing products on their moments of inspiration. In fact, its real skill lies in stitching together its own ideas with technologies from outside and then wrapping the results in elegant software and stylish design. Apple is, in short, an orchestrator and integrator of technologies, unafraid to bring in ideas from outside but always adding its own twists. This approach, known as "network innovation", is not limited to electronics. It has also been embraced by companies such as Procter ＆ Gamble, BT and several drugs giants, all of which have realized the power of admitting that not all good ideas start at home. Making network innovation work involves cultivating contacts with start-ups and academic researchers, constantly scouting for new ideas and ensuring that engineers do not fall prey to "not invented here" syndrome, which always values in-house ideas over those from outside.

问答题News report: The central government decided to cut down on pollution by calling for a Car Free Day last September. Since then, in the city of Kunming, Yunnan Province, the last Saturday of every month is officially "car free", apart from public transportation, police and emergency vehicles, making Kunming the first city in China to adopt this initiative on a regular basis. Frequent vehicle restrictions have triggered debate among the public. Some questioned the legitimacy of this move. Some asked whether confining their cars at home has deprived them of their rights on free use of private possessions. Others complained of China' s far less developed public transportation infrastructure in some areas. Topic: The Car Free Day Initiative Questions for Reference: 1. Do you agree with the practice of Car Free Day in major cities in China on a regular basis? Why or why not? 2. Shall we simply restrict the use of private cars or reduce the production of cars? Give your reasons. 3. Do you have any suggestions for or even better solutions to those traffic and environmental problems?

问答题Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in English. After you have heard each sentence or paragraph, interpret it into Chinese. Start interpreting at the signal...and stop it at the signal... You may take notes while you are listening. Remember you will hear the passages only once. Now, let us begin Part A with the first passage.

问答题I see from the current columns of the daily press that "Professor Plumb, of the University of Chicago, has just invented a highly concentrated form of food. All the essential nutritive elements are put together in the form of pellets, each of which contains from one to two hundred times as much nourishment as an ounce of an ordinary article of diet. These pellets, diluted with water, will form all that is necessary to support life. The Professor looks forward confidently to revolutionizing the present food system." Now this kind of thing may be all very well in its way, but it is going to have its drawbacks as well. In the bright future anticipated by Professor Plumb, We can easily imagine such incidents as the following: The smiling family were gathered round the hospitable board. The table bucket of hot water stood before the radiant mother, and at the head of the board was the Christmas dinner of the happy home, warmly covered by a thimble and resting on a poker chip. The expectant whispers of the little ones were hushed as the father, rising from his chair, lifted the thimble and disclosed a small pill of concentrated nourishment on the chip before him. Christmas turkey, cranberry sauce, plum pudding, mince pie—it was all there, all jammed into that little pill and only waiting to expand. Then the father with deep reverence, and a devout eye alternating between the pill and heaven, 1ifted his voice in a benediction. At this moment there was an agonized cry from the mother. "Oh, Henry, quick! Baby has snatched the pill!" It was too true. Dear little Gustavus Adolphus, the golden-haired baby boy, had grabbed the whole Christmas dinner off the poker chip and bolted it. Three hundred and fifty pounds of concentrated nourishment passed down the oesophagus of the unthinking child. "Clap him on the back!" cried the distracted mother. "Give him water!" The idea was fatal. The water striking the pill caused it to expand. There was a dull rumbling sound and then, with an awful bang, Gustavus Adolphus exploded into fragments! And when they gathered the little corpse together, the baby's lips were parted in a lingering smile that could only be worn by a child who had eaten thirteen Christmas dinners.

问答题Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 5 sentences in English. You will hear the sentences ONLY ONCE. After you have heard each sentence, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

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问答题Most of us tend to believe that competition is good and that competition fairly handled can generally stimulate more efficiency in production, grater efforts to improve products and lower prices for consumers.