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1、2.Part CDirections: Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese.（分数：10.00）_Much has been made of the 400th anniversary this year of Galileo pointing a telescope at the moon and jotting down what he saw. But 2009 is also the 400th anniversary of the publication by Johannes Kepler, a German mathematician and astronomer, of “Astronomia Nova“.【F1】 This 。

2、tions: Write a composition/letter of no less than 100 words on the following information.（分数：2.00）_3.A Letter of Giving Advice Write a letter of about 100 words to the president of your university, suggesting how to improve students“ physical condition. You should include the details you think necessary. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use “Li Ming“ instead. Do not write the address.（分数：2。

3、 or D.（分数：40.00）_Americans suffer from an overdose of work.【C1】_who they are or what they do, they spend【C2】_time at work than at any time since World War II . In 1950, the US had fewer working hours than any other【C3】_country. Today, it【C4】_every country but Japan, where industrial employees log 2,155 hours a year compared【C5】_1, 951 in the US and 1,603【C6】_West employees. Betw。

4、2.Part ADirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D.（分数：10.00）_The love affair with business started in the 1980s and has grown into a mighty passion backed not just by money but by glamour and class. In 2009 the money ran out, but the mood was one of such chaos and confusion that it was hard to tell what was going on underneath. In 2。

5、 D.（分数：40.00）_Capital City and Smithsville are two fairly large towns in the Midwest near Chicago. Neither is as well known as Chicago. (1)_ the inhabitants of both are equally proud of their (2)_ hometown. People in Capital City love its quiet narrow (3)_ streets and its many small neighborhood parks, the boast (4)_ their hometown has no ugly slums, a low rate (5)_ crime, and very little。

6、Americans have anxiously (1) each war through a new communication (2) , from the early silent film of World War I to the 24-hour cable news (3) of the first Persian Gulf War.Now, (4) bombs exploding in Baghdad, a sudden increase in wartime (5) for online news has become a central test of the (6) of high-speed Internet connections. It is also a good (7) both to attract users to online media (8) and to persuade them to pay for the material they find there, (9) the value of the Cable News Network p。

7、of 3 to the individual, a 4 amount of advanced technical equipment, and 5 effort not to make mistakes because of the financial risk which doctors and hospitals must 6 in the courts if they 7 things badly. But the Americans are in a mess. The problem is the way in 8 health care is organized and 9 . 10 to public belief it is not just a free competition system. To the private system has been joined a large public system, because private care was simply not 11 the less fortunate and the elderly. But。

8、ER SHEET 1.Political controversy about the public-land policy of the United States began with the America Revolution.U (1) /U, even before independence from Britain wasU (2) /U, it became clear thatU (3) /Uthe dilemmas surrounding the public domain might prove necessary toU (4) /Uthe Union itself.At the peace negotiation with Britain, Americans obtained a westernU (5) /Uat the Mississippi River. Thus the new nation secured for its birthright a vast interna。

9、the book. No book can 1 us to know everything that is to be known, or feel everything that is to be felt. A book is part of life, not a substitute 2 it. It is not a fit 3 for worship or enshrinement. It loses its charm and much of its value when accepted 4 No one would have been more 5 than Aristotle if he could have known of the excessive and 6 veneration that would be given to his ideas in centuries to 7 . When his works became the 8 words of advance knowledge, 9 knowledge became neither advan。

10、 annual performance review are constructive and positive interactions between managers and employees working together to attain U U 1 /U /Uperformance and strengthen the organization. In reality, they often create division, U U 2 /U /Umorale (士气), and spark anger and jealousy. U U 3 /U /U, although the object of the annual performance review is to improve performance, it often has the U U 4 /U /Uresult. A programmer at a brokerage 。

11、science: “trust, but verify“. Results should always be【C1】_to challenge from experiment. That simple but powerful idea has【C2】_a vast body of knowledge.【C3】_its birth in the 17th century, modern science has changed the world【C4 】_recognition, and overwhelmingly for the better.But success can【C5 】_self-contentment. Modern scientists are doing too much trusting and not enough verifying, which does harm to both the whole of science and humanity.Too many of the【C6】_that。

12、 has accounted for almost a third of post-Christmas purchases of high end goods such as Burberry, Mulberry, Louis Vuitton and Gucci. Many West End stores have appointed assistants who speak Mandarin to help cash in on the massive new market. Retail analysts said Chinese shoppers have taken over from Russians and Arabs as the biggest spenders on luxury items in Britain. “Like anyone, they enjoy getting a bargain so the post-Christmas sales are inevitably an especially busy period.“ China“s rapidl。

13、rlier years would have been universally viewed as impossible. The overall crime rate has plummeted by 45% since peaking in 1991 and by 13% just since 2007counterintuitively continuing to drop through the recession and sharp spike in unemployment.Since 1991, according to FBI data, the number of violent crimes has fallen 36% nationally and 64% in the nations largest cities. And in New York and Los Angeles, the nations two largest cities , it has fallen even further. Property crime has a。

14、the diagram, and 2) give your comments. You should write about 150 words. 2 Write an essay based on the diagrams. In your writing, you should 1) describe the diagrams, and 2) give your comments. You should write about 150 words. 3 Write an essay based on the chart. In your writing, you should 1) interpret the chart, and 2) give your comments. You should write about 150 words. 4 Write an essay based on the chart In your writing, you should 1) interpret the chart, and 2) give your comments. You sh。

15、numeracy have a damaging impact on almost every aspect of adults, according to a survey published yesterday, which offers (1)_ of a developing underclass. Tests and (2)_ with hundreds of people born in a week in 1958 graphically illustrated file (3)_ of educational underachievement. The effects can be seen in unemployment, family (4)_, low incomes, depression and social inactivity.Those who left school at 16 with poor basic skills had been employed for UP to four years less than 。

16、earch is showing that grown-ups are more immature than ever. Specifically, it seems a growing number of people are retaining the behaviors and attitudes associated with youth. As a consequence, many older people simply never achieve mental adulthood, according to a leading expert on evolutionary psychiatry. Among scientists, the phenomenon is called psychological neoteny. The theory“s creator is Bruce Charlton, a professor in the School of Biology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Englan。

17、 B, C or D.（分数：40.00）_It would be interesting to discover how many young people go to university without any clear idea of what they are going to do afterwards. If one considers the enormous variety of courses【C1】_, it is not hard to see how difficult it is for a student to select the course most suited to his【C2】_and abilities. If a student goes to university to acquire a broader【C3】_of life。

18、2.Part ADirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D.（分数：10.00）_Almost every year since the end of the financial crisis has started with rosy expectations among American forecasters, and this one is no different. Stock markets are buoyant, consumer confidence is improving, and economic seers are raising their growth forecasts for 2014。

19、ctions: Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the following information.（分数：2.00）_3.We see a lot of advertisements almost everyday and everywhere. Some advertisements are good, but some are not so good. In this section, you are asked to write an essay on the positive/negative effects of some advertisements. You can take either stand and provide specific reasons and examples to support your idea. You shoul。

20、ecies. Wolves, for examplethe probable ancestors of dogslive in packs that hunt together and have a complex hierarchy. But dogs have evolved an extraordinarily rich social intelligence as they“ve adapted to life with us. All the things we love about our dogsthe joy they seem to take in our presence, the many ways they integrate themselves into our livesspring from those social skills. Hare Brian, assistant professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, and others are trying to fi。