According to a recent newspaper report, many famous sites of historical interest in China

第1题

Science is above all a human activity. One obvious meaning ofthis is that science is done

Science is above all a human activity. One obvious meaning of

this is that science is done by people. A second and equally accurate

meaning is all people do science in some form. After all, the 【1】______

methods of science are basically simple extension of the ways all 【2】______

people learning about their world. Science in many ways is very 【3】______

similar to how we have been learning about the world since we were

infants. Consequently, because each of you has been used it in one 【4】______

form. or other since you first began toddling about and discovering 【5】______

the world, you already know much more about the scientific method

than you think you do.

Watch a young child. When something catches his or her eye,

the child must examine it, study it, observe it, have a fun with it.【6】______

Next, the child wants to interact on it, touch it, feel it. From 【7】______

passive observations and active interactions, a child slowly learns【8】______

about the world. Some interactions are fun: "If I tip the glass, I get

to see the milk from pretty pictures on the floor." Other interactions

are not much fun:" If I touch on the red circles on the stove, my 【9】______

fingers hurt!" From each interaction, the child learns a little more【10】______

about the world.

【M1】

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第2题

SECTION ACHINESE TO ENGLISHDirections: Translate the following text into English.然而，或是

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Directions: Translate the following text into English.

然而，或是因为中国人与其他人太不一样，或是因为他们工作起来很有耐心，他们能成功地把表面看来毫无价值的开采地(mining claim)变为有利可图的东西，这使他们成为爱嫉妒的竞争者们的眼中钉。他们受到了多种形式的骚扰。经常阻止他们在开采地上开矿；一些地区甚至通过了禁止他们拥有开采地的桌例。因此，中国人开始艰难地寻找其他的谋生途径。他们中的一些人开始为开矿的白种人洗衣服；其他一些人则开小饭馆。

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第3题

One question is often risen in response to international 【M1】______test comparisons: Do th

One question is often risen in response to international 【M1】______

test comparisons: Do these results really mean anything? In

the past, international testing programs have been criticized

on variety of grounds. Two allegations, in particular, have 【M2】______

been common: first, that other nations have not tested as large

a percentage of their student population, and nevertheless their【M3】______

scores have been inflated; and second, that our best students are

among the world's best, with our average brought down by a 【M4】______

large cohort of low-achievers.

Whatever the historic validity of such concerns, they are 【M5】______

now, if anything, reversed. Particularly in the fourth and eighth

grade, education has become universal in all of the leading

nations. Therefore, in science, the percentage of randomly selected【M6】______

U.S. schools and students that actually did participate at the

eighth grade level was just 73 percent—the third-lowest of all

45 participating countries, and 11 percentage points under the【M7】______

average participation rate of industrialized nations. In fact, the

United States had third-lowest overall participation rate for both【M8】______

grades in both subjects. Japan, Taiwan and Singapore all had

participation percentages in the 90s.

How about our best and brightest? At the fourth-grade level,

there is some real truth to the idea that the best American students【M9】______

are among the best in the world. Looking only at the top 5 percent

of test-takers, American fourth-graders beat the average of wealthy

nations by 13 percentage points. By the eighth grade, however, the

tables have turned, with America's brightest students fallen 10【M10】______

percentage points behind their foreign peers.

【M1】

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第4题

The world is in a self-destruction mode. By this statement Imean that the people of the wo

The world is in a self-destruction mode. By this statement I

mean that the people of the world are bent on making this planet

inhabitable in three distinct ways. Furthermore, these three ways are 【M1】______

all interrelated and related directly to industrialization.

The first of three is through pollution 【M2】______

of the air, the water, and the soil. Industrialization has meant toxic【M3】______

fumes in the atmosphere and poisonous substances in the water and

in the soil. Industry has also been responsible to noise and visual

pollution: the roar of machinery and the ugliness of factories and

cheap housing developments... these factors take the joy outside of【M4】______

natural surroundings for human beings.

However, the balance of nature has been upset. To feed the 【M5】______

hungry factories, huge forests have been leveled, mountains have

stripped of their protection... The results are farther-reaching【M6】______

as we can know. 【M7】______

The third and the most acute of the problem is the psychological【M8】______

effect on people of increased competition and hard economic times.

The reasons that people give for political unrest might be reasons of

belief or religion, but I believe that it is the desire of people to

improve their standard of life that ultimately causes wars. Because of【M9】______

the industrialization, much of the beauty and the simplicity of life is

away. 【M10】______

【M1】

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第5题

It is said that one could aim at a prosperous life (having a good income and being able to

afford the good things in life), an important life (a life of achievement that brings one respect and recognition), or a family life (a life completely centered on one's family). Write an essay Of about 300 words on

1. What I Consider Important in Life

In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.

Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.

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第6题

Traveling is more important than reading books in order to understand the people and the w

orld. Do you agree or disagree with the statement? Use specific reasons to support your answer. You are to write an essay of about 400 words to express your statement on the following topic:

Traveling VS. Reading

In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.

Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Write your essay on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.

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第7题

SECTION BENGLISH TO CHINESEDirections: Translate the following text into Chinese. A look t

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

A look through the Bettmann collection is like a journey through 15,000 years of history; from ancient cave drawings to the latest news photographs, there is scarcely a visual image that can' t be found in its files.

Subjects range from politicians to entertainment and sports figures, from the Parthenon in ancient Greece to the Sears Tower in Chicago.

Famous news events and historical images alike which have been captured either by the blink of a shutter or the hand of an artist are part of Bettmann' s extensive archive. From the Boston Tea Party in 1773 that helped ignite America's war for independence to the civil rights marches in the U. S. South during the 1960s, Bettmann is a veritable history book of visual images.

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第8题

Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends?Because they protect so many insects, a

Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends?

Because they protect so many insects, and insects include【M1】______

some of the greatest enemies of the human race. Insects

would make impossible for us to live in the world; they 【M2】______

would ruin all our crops and kill our flocks and herds,

as it were not for the protection we get from insect 【M3】______

-eating animals. We owe a lot for the birds and beasts 【M4】______

who cat insects but all of them put together kill only

a fraction of the amount destroyed by spiders. Moreover, 【M5】______

unlike some of the insect-eaters, spiders never make 【M6】______

the least harm to us or our belongings.

Spiders are not insects, as many people think, and 【M7】______

or even nearly related to them. One can tell the difference

almost at a glance, for a spider always has eight

legs but an insect never more than six.

How many spiders are joined in this work on our 【M8】______

behalf? One authority on spiders made a census

of file spiders in a grass field in the south of

England, and he estimated that there were more

than 2,250,000 in one acre; that is anything 【M9】______

like 6,000,000 spiders of different kinds on

a football pitch. Spiders are busy least

half the year in killing insects. It has been

estimated that the weight of all the insects

destroyed by spiders in Britain in one year would

be greater than those of all the human beings 【M10】______

in the country.

【M1】

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第9题

What are the important things in your life? People have different ideas about this questio

n. You are asked to write an article on this point to express your opinion. Write an article of 400 words on this. You should supply a title for your article.

In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion with a summary.

Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Write your essay on the ANSWER SHEET.

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第10题

The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, unalloyed, unalloyed, objectively sel

ected facts. But in these days of complex news it must provide more; it must supply interpretation, the meaning of the facts, This is the most important assignment confronting American journalism — to make clear to the reader the problems of the day, to make international news as understandable as community news, to recognize that there is no longer any such thing ( with the possible exception of such scribbling as society and club news) as "local" news, because any event in the international area has a local reaction in manpower draft, in economic strain, in terms, indeed, of our very way of life.

There is in journalism a widespread view that when you embark on interpretation, you are entering choppy and dangerous waters, the swirling tides of opinion. This is nonsense.

The opponents of interpretation insist that the writer and the editor shall confine themselves to the "facts". This insistence raises two questions: what are the facts? And: are the bare facts enough?

As to the first query, consider how a so-called "factual" story comes about. The reporter collects, say, fifty facts; out of these fifty, his space allotment being necessarily restricted, he selects the ten, which he considers most important. This is Judgment Number One. Then he or his editor decides which of these ten facts shall constitute the lead of the piece. This is important decision because many readers do not proceed beyond the first paragraph. This is Judgment Number Two. Then the night editor determines whether the article shall be presented on page one, where it has a large impact, or on page twenty-four, where it has little. Judgment Number Three.

Thus, in the presentation of a so-called "factual" or "objective" story, at least three judgments are involved. And they are judgments not at all unlike those involved in interpretation, in which reporter and editor, calling upon their general background, and their "news neutralism", arrive at a conclusion as to the significance of the news.

The two areas of judgment, presentation of the news and its interpretation, are both objective rather than subjective processes — as objective, that is, as any human being can be. (Note in passing: even though complete objectivity can never be achieved, nevertheless the ideal must always be the beacon on the murky news channels.) If an editor is intent on slanting the news, he can do it in other ways and more effectively than by interpretation. He can do it by the selection of those facts that prop up his particular plea. Or he can do it by the pay he gives a story — promoting it to page one or demoting it to page thirty.

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