问答题上海是中外闻名的旅游大都市。在这座中西文化交融的城市里，随处可见各种西式建筑和老式石库门，以及国际水准的豪华宾馆。此外，宏伟壮丽的外滩，装饰华丽的商厦，气势恢宏的博物馆等都是引人入胜的景观。上海白天热闹繁华，夜晚灯红酒绿，游客尽可充分享受丰富多彩的都市生活。 　　城外郊区，则另有一番天地。乡村古镇，阡陌交错，一派悠闲的田园风光。都市繁忙的工作和匆忙的生活节奏，使人们向往在节假日远离喧闹的大都市，到郊外度假休闲。在那里，漫步在黄灿灿和绿油油的田野间，可充分享受大自然的乐趣，体验回归大自然的愉悦心情。

问答题 Questions 4～6 Same-sex couples Paul Katami (L), Jeff Zarillo (2nd L), and Kris Perry (2nd R) and Sandy Stier pose for photographs before the start of their trial in San Francisco, California January 11, 2010. California's ban on gay marriage goes to trial on Monday in a federal case that plaintiffs hope to take all the way to the US Supreme Court and overturn bans throughout the nation. Two Californian men challenging a ban on same-sex marriage on Monday said they had been a couple for nine years and felt like third-class citizens, leading them to launch the federal case which could set a national precedent. The men and a lesbian couple unable to marry in California hope to take their case against the state' s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage all the way to the US Supreme Court and to overturn bans throughout the nation. A loss in the top court, two ranks above the action in the case which began on Monday, would seriously undermine efforts to win gay marriage rights in state courts. The United States is divided on same-sex marriage. It is legal in only five states, though most of those, and the District of Columbia, approved it last year. Approval of Prop 8 in November 2008 was a sweet victory for social conservatives in a state with a liberal, trend-setting reputation, and maintained the steady success they have scored on the issue at the ballot box. Where it is legal, gay marriage has been championed by courts and legislatures, not voters. "I don't think of myself as a bad person," said Paul Katami, describing the persecution he felt from a media campaign warning California parents to "protect" their children by voting against same-sex unions in the 2008 poll. He and his would-be husband, Jeffrey Zarrillo, described slights in gay life that ranged from being pelted with rocks and eggs in college to the awkwardness of checking into a hotel and not being able to clarify the relationship. "Being able to call him my husband is so definitive," Katami said. "There is no subtlety to it. It is absolute. " Gays and lesbians have nearly equal rights under domestic partnership laws, but the two men said that left them feeling second-or third-class citizens and they wanted to be married to have kids. "We hear a lot of 'What's the big deal?' The big deal is creating a separate category for us," Katami said. Gay rights lawyers in the case describe their battle as a continuation of the fight against racist laws stopping whites and blacks from marrying. Marriage is a fundamental constitutional right, and in addition gays and lesbians deserve special protection from discrimination, they say.

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问答题Explain the statement "from sacred cow to white elephant is a short jump". (Para. 1)

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问答题中国坚定不移地走和平发展道路，是基于中国国情的必然选择。1840年鸦片战争以后的 100多年里，中国受尽了列强的欺辱。消除战争，实现和平，建设独立富强、民生幸福的国家，是近代以来中国人民孜孜以求的奋斗目标。今天的中国虽然取得了巨大的发展成就，但人口多，底子薄，发展不平衡，仍然是世界上最大的发展中国家。推动经济社会发展，不断改善人民生活始终是中国的中心任务。中国人民最需要、最珍爱和平的国际环境，愿尽自己所能，为推动各国共同发展作出积极贡献。

问答题虽然中国出口增长率明年将会下降，良好的投资环境、低价优质的劳动力仍将会继续吸引外国投资者。这是短期因素不能扭转的趋势。但是，实际的直接外国投资用于企业合并和兼并的不到10%，大部分的投资都用于新企业的建立。这意味着中国还有很多空间引导外资融入国营企业的改组中去。外国企业家可通过资本或技术投资成为国企股东，甚至控制国企。他们的参与将会帮助刺激和改组国有企业。

问答题The quality of patience goes a long way toward your goal of creating a more peaceful and loving self. The more patient you are, the more accepting you will be of what is, rather than insisting that life be exactly as you would like it to be. Without patience, life is extremely frustrating. You are easily annoyed, bothered, and irritated. Patience adds a dimension of ease and acceptance to your life. It"s essential for inner peace. Becoming more patient involves opening your heart to the present moment, even if you don"t like it. If you are stuck in a traffic jam, late for an appointment, opening to the moment would mean catching yourself building a mental snowball before your thinking got out of hand and gently reminding yourself to relax. It might also be a good time to breathe as well as an opportunity to remind yourself that, in the bigger scheme of things, being late is "small stuff". Being patient will help you to keep your perspective. You"ll see even a difficult situation, say your present challenge, isn"t "life or death" but simply a minor obstacle that must be dealt with. Without patience, the same scenario can become a major emergency complete with yelling, frustration, hurt feelings, and high blood pressure. It"s really not worth all that. Whether you"re needing to deal with children, your boss, or a difficult person or situation—if you don"t want to "sweat the small stuff", improving your patience level is a great way to start.

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问答题历史是一面镜子。以史为鉴，才能避免重蹈覆辙。对历史，我们要心怀敬畏、心怀良知。历史无法改变，但未来可以塑造。铭记历史，不是为了延续仇恨，而是要共同引以为戒。传承历史，不是为了纠结过去，而是要开创未来，让和平的薪火代代相传。 “大道之行也，天下为公。”和平、发展、公平、正义、民主、自由，是全人类的共同价值，也是联合国的崇高目标。目标远未完成，我们仍需努力。当今世界，各国相互依存、休戚与共。我们要继承和弘扬联合国宪章的宗旨和原则，构建以合作共赢为核心的新型国际关系，打造人类命运共同体。为此，我们需要作出共同努力。

问答题Give some examples on the successes of the "donor trips".

问答题中国有句古话：“相知无远近，万里尚为邻”。中国与亚洲各国山水相连，共同铸就了灿烂的亚洲文明；古老而美丽的“丝绸之路”，谱写了中欧千年往来的美好篇章。中国与亚欧各国的互利合作正在步人一个全新的阶段。中国已成为亚欧和世界经济发展中的积极力量，我们坚定地走和平发展的道路，致力于同亚欧各国发展富有活力和长期稳定的全面合作关系，与亚欧各国相互支持，携手前进，共创美好的未来。

问答题 Room 101, the infamous "torture chamber" in George Orwell's novel 1984, is to be preserved as a work of art by the BBC. Orwell, whose real name was Eric Blair, worked for the BBC's Eastern Service during the second world war. He later described his time there as "futile" and likened the BBC to "a mixture of a whorehouse and a lunatic asylum". Room 101 of Broadcasting House, thought to have held bad memories for Orwell, featured in 1984 as the place where disloyal citizens face their innermost fears. "The thing that is in room 101 is the worst thing in the world," Orwell's hero, Winston Smith, is told by his interrogator as a cage full of hungry rats is placed over his head. "When I press this ... lever the door of the cage will slide up. These starving brutes will shoot out of it like bullets ... They will leap onto your face and bore straight through it." Room 101, at the end of a first-floor corridor in Broadcasting House, is due to be demolished in the summer as part of a massive refurbishment. The BBC has asked Rachel Whiteread, who is best known for producing casts of objects such as the unused fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, to tackle the room, which is now packed with pipes, shafts and boilers. "I've been to see it," said Whiteread last week. "I'd like to do something. " The BBC plans to display Whiteread's replica of room 101 in one of several new public spaces in the new-look Broadcasting House. It has already begun to gut the inside of the building as part of a ￡400m plan to turn it into a huge radio and television newsroom, and a new home for the BBC World Service. About ￡5m has been set aside by John Smith, the BBC's finance director, to spend on art and design. Alan Yentob, coordinator of the public art project, said. "We've been scandalous over the past 40 years in not concerning ourselves with art and design in our own buildings." Other leading artists, designers and photographers including Anish Kapoor, Fiona Rae, Cornelia Parker, Nick Danziger, and Richard Wentworth have agreed to produce work for the art scheme, although the replica of room 101 is likely to cause most interest. "It sounds fun, all the more so because Orwell hated the BBC," said his biographer Sir Bernard Crick. This June is the 100th anniversary of Orwell's birth in India. Once in England, the former public-school boy and policeman took up left-wing causes and wrote books such as Coming Up for Air, Animal Farm and Down and Out in Paris and London. However, some experts ask if the BBC has got the right room. "Room 101 was at another BBC building—55 Portland Place," said Peter Davison, who has published two volumes of Orwell's works, letters and documents. "Portland Place is where they held meetings of the Eastern Service and that, I'm sure, is how he came to name the room in 1984." Whatever the truth of room 101, the BBC plans to continue with Whiteread's cast replica, not least because of the intriguing shapes of its pipes and tubes. The BBC has made other uses of Orwell's room 101. Its name is the title of the television programme in which the comedian Paul Merton asks guests to identify and destroy their pet hates. The Broadcasting House refurbishment is due to be completed in 2006. When it was built 70 years ago, the building, with its many art deco touches, was hailed as a masterpiece of design. Two Eric Gill sculptures—one of Prospero and Ariel outside and another in the foyer—will be kept because they, like the BBC's Council Chamber, are listed. The public art project will begin in May, with temporary works on the scaffolding and tarpaulin outside Broadcasting House. The permanent works will not be ready until 2006. "I'll be working on some big space project to go inside," said Kapoor, whose enormous trumpet-like Marsyas sculpture is at Tate Modern. Parker, whose reworking of Rodin's The Kiss is at Tate Britain, plans a work based on sound or pictures.

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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 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.