问答题Intellectual property crimes are not victimless. The theft of ideas and the sale of counterfeit goods threaten economic opportunities and financial stability, suppress innovation, and destroy jobs.

问答题Just because someone has been your best friend since elementary school, it doesn't mean he or she will make a great roommate. Often living together can destroy even a close friendship.

问答题Blood banks in Shanghai hospitals are suffering from a lack of reserve. It would seem that university students, a relatively healthy pool of men and women, would jump at the opportunity to help the needed. But many students are not keen on donating blood whereas they volunteer to donate money or other things. Topic: Who wants to be a blood donator? Questions for Reference: 1. People are unwilling to donate blood. What are the reasons? 2. The university students, who volunteer to donate money for the poor, are not eager to donate their blood to the sick. Why? 3. What"s your attitude toward blood donation?

问答题Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 English passages. 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 in your ANSWER BOOKLET. You may take notes while you are listening.

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问答题One of the surest signs of middle age is that you actually listen when outsiders tell you that maybe it"s time that you started to slow down. Consider, if you will, what"s happened lately with Microsoft, Amazon. com and Wal-Mart, all of which were once treated by Wall Street as high-growth companies. The more money they spent upgrading facilities and expanding into new markets, the more Wall Street loved them. All three had revolutionized their industries, were growing like mad and were more about tomorrow"s potential payoff than about today. Well, today has arrives. The Street has issued a collective judgment on our three amigos—it"s declared them to be middle-aged. It hasn"t done this formally, of course. But if you look at how the Street has treated these three stocks lately, it"s the only conclusion that you can draw. Being considered less-than-youthful isn"t a total shock to Microsoft, which showed signs of middle-age onset when it started paying serious cash dividends a few years ago. But it"s surprising to see Amazon and Wal-Mart act middle-aged. They both had seemed to be expanding without end but they"ve now decided it"s time to slow their growth, at least in part to help keep Wall Street happy. Middle age, you see, has nothing to do with how old a company is—it has to do with how it thinks.

问答题A commonplace criticism of American culture is its excessive preoccupation with material goods and corresponding neglect of the human spirit. Americans, it is alleged, worship only "the almighty dollar". We scramble to "keep up with the Joneses". The love affair between Americans and their automobiles has been a continuing subject of derisive commentary by both foreign and domestic critics. Americans are said to live by a quantitative ethic. Bigger is better, whether in bombs or sedans. The classical virtues of grace, harmony, and economy of both means and ends are lost on most Americans. As a result, we are said to be swallowing up the world"s supply of natural resources, which are irreplaceable. Americans constitute 6 percent of the world"s population but consume over a third of the world"s energy. These are now familiar complaints. Indeed, in some respects Americans may believe the "pursuit of happiness" to mean the pursuit of material things.

问答题 One evening, when Bagehot was at university, a student who lived next door to him fell badly ill. An ambulance was called, but its route was blocked by a pile of clothes and a gaggle of drunk, naked young men. They were members of a drinking society (roughly analogous to American fraternities). The boozy nudity at precisely this spot, they explained, refusing to budge, was an awfully important initiation rite. This incident came to mind last month when something not dissimilar happened near Wigan, in northern England. A group of youths obstructed an ambulance and harassed the paramedics in it, whose patient died. That little act of thuggery was scarcely noticed amid the ongoing run of murders by British youngsters, by knife and sometimes gun. Most of the victims have been young too: 18 people aged 18 or under have been killed in London this year, stabbed on the street or shot in nightclubs—not many by Los Angeles standards, perhaps, but troubling by Britain's. Not all the victims have been teenagers, a father in Warrington was beaten to death outside his home last week after remonstrating with vandals. "No street is safe any more from marauding hooligans," lamented the Sun, which recently fulminated about the yobs who urinated in drinking-water supplies delivered to flood-stricken western England. Are British delinquents really more depraved, and more numerous, than they used to be, or than other countries' are? That university prank—as well as confirming that the posh and plebeian classes can be oddly alike—suggests that there is little new under the sun, even if the Sun says there is. Hysteria over degenerate children was even more intense in 1993, when two ten-year-olds murdered a toddler in Liverpool. From punks and skinheads, through the gangs that prowled the post-war London rubble and beyond, "yoof" has always been a concern, and always getting worse. "I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty," says a Shakespearean character, "for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting." It is true that more teenage British wenches are got with child than other European ones, and that British teenagers are unusually prone to taking drugs, fighting, venereal disease and boozing: a senior policeman called this week for tighter rules on alcohol. But few who drink or smoke pot graduate to knife crime. Many do none of these things; most are better-off and better-educated than ever. Not much has changed—and don't generalise: those are the relaxed arguments of some sociologists, criminologists and other yoof-ologists. But an old problem still counts as a problem: that Britons have always worried about yoof doesn't mean they are wrong to do so now. And conversations with teachers, youth workers and yoof itself suggest that in some ways the plight and behaviour of teenagers have indeed deteriorated. Hard evidence is difficult to come by, but more British teenagers seem to be carrying knives, intended to protect but liable to endanger. More assaults than previously seem to be provoked by imagined "disrespect"; afterwards, a teenage omerta often confounds the police. Murder is still overwhelmingly a male offence, but girls seem to be committing more violent crime too. Urban gangs are pursuing rivalries and vendettas against groups from other neighbourhoods, separated by boundaries that are invisible to oblivious adults. "Happy-slapping", whereby assailants film their attacks for their later amusement, has been an unanticipated consequence of putting cameras on mobile phones. As in America, the worst problems are often concentrated in specific communities. But they have wider costs, because adults can't tell the sociopaths from the bored loiterers. British adults, research suggests, are less likely to intervene than other Europeans if they see youngsters up to no good, with the result that parks and squares are turned over to adolescent rule.

问答题春节是我国民间最隆重、最热闹的一个传统节日。春节时，家家户户都要做充足的准备。节前十天左右，人们就开始忙碌着采购年货，为小孩子们添置新衣新帽，准备过年时穿。另外，节前人们会在家门口贴上红纸写成的春联，屋里张贴色彩鲜艳。寓意吉祥的年画，窗户上贴着窗花，门前挂上大红灯笼或贴“福”字。“福”字还可以倒贴，路人一念福倒了，也就意味着福气到了。

问答题If I wanted to, I could come up with a dozen excuses. I was fired after a long day of work. Or maybe I was hungry. The simple truth is, when I walked into the living room and my 12-year-old son looked up at me and said. "I love you," I didn"t know what to say. For several long seconds all I could do was standing there and staring down at him, waiting for the other shoe to drop. He must need help with his homework was my first thought. Or he"s going to hit me up for an advance on his allowance. Or he"s assassinated his brother—I always knew it would happen someday—and he"s trying to prepare me gently for the news. Finally I asked, "What do you want?" He laughed, and started to run from the room. But I called him back. "Hey, what was that all about?" I demanded. " Nothing," he said, grinning, "My health teacher said we should, tell our parents that we love them and see what they say. It"s sort of an experiment. " The next day I called his teacher to find out more about this "experiment. " And, to be truthful, to find out how the other parents had reacted. "Basically, most of the fathers had the same reaction you did," my son"s teacher said. "When I first suggested we try this, I asked the kids what they thought their parents would say. They all laughed. A couple of them figured their folks would have heart attacks. " Some parents, I suspect, resented what the teacher had done. After all, a junior-high-school health teacher"s job is to teach children how to eat balanced diets and brush their teeth properly. What does saying "I love you" have to do with that? It is, after all, a personal thing between parents and their children, nobody else"s business. "The point is," the teacher explained, "feeling loved is an important part of health. It"s something all human beings require. What I"m trying to tell the kids is that it"s too bad we don"t all express those feelings. Not just parents to children and not just boys to girls. A boy should be able to tell his buddy that he loves him. " The teacher, a middle-aged man, understands how difficult it is for some of us to say the things that would be good for us to say. His father never said those things to him, he admits. And he never said them to his father — not even when his father was about to die. There are a lot of us like that. Men and women, who were raised by parents who loved us but never really said so. It is a common reason for the way many of us behave. But as an excuse it is starting to wear thin. Our generation has devoted a great deal of attention to getting in touch with our feelings and verbalizing our emotions. We know, or should know, that our children — sons as well as daughters — need more from us than food on the table and clothes in the closet. We know, or should know, that a father"s kiss will fit as comfortably on the cheek of a son as on that of a daughter. So when my son came to me that evening for his bedtime kiss—a kiss that seems to be getting briefer every night—I held on to him for an extra second. And just before he pulled away, I said in my deepest, most manly voice, "Hey, I love you too. " I don"t know if saying that made either of us healthier, but it did feel pretty good. Maybe next time when one of my kids says, "I love you," it won"t take me a whole day to think of the right answer.

问答题Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in English. You will hear the passages ONLYONCE. After you have heard each passage, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. You may take notes while you are listening. Now let' s begin Passage Translation with the first passage.

问答题In barely one generation we"ve moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them—often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight. The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day. Since luxury, as any economist will tell you, is a function of scarcity, the children of tomorrow will crave nothing more than freedom, if only for a short while, from all the blinking machines, streaming videos and scrolling headlines that leave them feeling empty and too full all at once. The urgency of slowing down—to find the time and space to think—is nothing new, of course, and wiser souls have always reminded us that the more attention we pay to the moment, the less time and energy we have to place it in some larger context. "Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries," the French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote in the 17th century, "and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries." He also famously remarked that all of man"s problems come from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

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问答题"I don"t even like the word "network"," says Keith Ferrazzi, the supernetworker who just co-wrote (with Fortune Small Business contributing editor Tahl Raz) a hot book on the subject, called Never Eat Alone. "I don"t think of a network of people as a net, into which you wrangle contacts like a school of struggling cod." Well, that"s a relief. Ferrazzi, the CEO of a marketing and sales consulting firm called Ferrazzi Greenlight, has picked up so much buzz as a networking expert that he"s now teaching seminars on the subject to about 7,000 MBA students at Stanford, Wharton, and elsewhere, and he knows full well that the whole idea of networking makes many of us cringe. Still, there"s no doubt it"s a skill worth mastering: The Bureau of Labor Statistics not long ago analyzed how people got their jobs and learned that fewer than 20% of all working Americans found employment through a friend, relative, old school chum, or other personal connection. At the executive level, however—defined as managers earning $100,000 or more annually—72%, or well over three times the average, landed their positions by knowing somebody. Alas, networking has come to be seen as a "cynical tactic for manipulating your way to success," Ferrazzi says. Instead, he sees it as "a way to add richness to your life. Take those business acquaintances that everyone has and turn them into real friendships." But how? Dinner parties work, especially if you create a theme reflecting a personal interest. Ferrazzi loves singing, so "I do piano-bar parties, where I have Lionel Richie and the Yale Baker"s Dozen come and hang out," he says. "Years ago I was doing essentially the same thing"— presumably sans Richie—"in a one-bedroom apartment. You can throw holiday-themed parties or a gospel brunch or whatever your passion is." To expand your circle of friends, he suggests, invite one guest whom lots of others will want to meet, sort of on the same principle as having a big-name "anchor tenant" in a shopping mall. Then, when you chat with people, forget old chestnuts about what makes acceptable small talk. "The "experts" will tell you to avoid potentially controversial or emotional topics like politics or religion. I disagree," Ferrazzi says. "Do bring up a topic that is actually important to you, whether it"s your kids, a personal interest, or U. S. policy in the Middle East." A willingness to reveal a bit about who you really are—without being tedious—is "the key to intimacy, which is the heart of effective networking." What if you"re just shy? Ferrazzi describes himself as "pathologically extroverted," but "I ask more introverted people, "Do you play the violin? No? Well, if you practiced, do you think you could play a couple of notes by next week?" This is the same idea. Start small. Invite one or two new people into your circle. You"ll enjoy it, and you"ll want to do more of it." Above all, do whatever you can to help others succeed. Too often, in Ferrazzi"s view, networking devolves into a system of quid pro quo horse-trading. "Don"t keep score," he says. "If you give, give and give some more, it will come back to you. Generosity is the key to success." What a wonderful world it would be.