Communication challenges result from differences in ______.
To whom can you write if you are not satisfied with the answer you get？ You can write to______.
If a British person wants to borrow a pen, what will he say？
He will say, "______".
Throughout the world 36 million people are suffering from AIDS, which is more than __ (整个澳大利亚的人口).
SECTION A COMPOSITION (35 MIN)
Stars are public people who are permanently in the spotlight. Some complain that there are nowhere for them to hide. Newspapers, magazines and television produce stories dealing with not only their achievements in their fields but also their private lives, sometimes with unfortunate consequences. Do famous people deserve constant public scrutiny, or should they have more protection from intrusive reporting？
Write on ANSWER SHEET TWO a composition of about 200 words on the following topic:
Should Famous People Deserve Constant Public Scrutiny？
You are to write in three parts:
In the first part, state your position.
In the second part, support your views with one or two reasons.
In the last part, 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 istructions may result in a loss of marks.
Wedon’tacceptpaymentinUSdollars.PleaseconcludethebusinessintermsofSwissfrancs.
The reason why a country like Britain does not buy snow-ploughs is that they are only used for a few days in any one year, and the money could be more useful in other things such as hospitals, education, helping the old, and so on.
听力原文：Man: Yesterday I bought this T-shirt in your shop. But it was too small for my son and my son wanted a blue one. So I want to change this white one for that blue one priced at twelve thirty-four. This white one is ten forty-nine. How much more will I have to pay you？
&8226;You will hear five short recordings.
&8226;For each recording, decide how much is the total amount the speaker is talking about.
&8226;Write one letter (A-H) next to the number of the recording.
&8226;Do not use any letter more than once.
&8226;After you have listened once, replay the recordings.
Amounts
A．51 pounds
B．17 pounds
C．2.16 pounds
D．1.85 pounds
E．16 pounds
F．1.36 pounds
G．2.42 pounds
H．1.35 pounds
SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE
Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.
Museums are, like everything else, products of history. They have all changed a great deal over time and can change again. They need to. Museums spring, essentially, from the Enlightenment. The British Museum was founded in 1753, a century-and-a-half after Galileo, but a hundred years before Darwin. The rapidly accumulating collections in the world' s first public museums were a by-product of the birth of modern science, when researchers made discoveries by building collections—a devil's toenail, for example, entered museums as an object of wonder only later to be re-labeled as the fossil of an extinct oyster.
In our post-Enlightenment age, the visible world has lost much of its mystery (which is perhaps why we care so little for it). Collecting is no longer a key method of research. Nor might so many people have visited museums in the past if they had been able to hop on a plane to see a kangaroo for themselves, or buy a book of color reproductions of Japanese prints, or watch, from the comfort of a couch, a computer simulation of a dinosaur sinking its teeth into its latest victim. Hence museum curators cannot go on running their museums as if the world hasn't changed. Yet many operate as if the last eddies of the Enlightenment still lapped through their galleries and stores.
Your first visit to a dentist probably involve information inquiry, dental examination and ______.
Schedulingameetingissimple-butdoesnotensure__itwillserveausefulpurpose.
- A.that
- B.was
- C.those
Thebike____hewenttoschoolwasstolenlastweek,whichmadehimfeelsad.
In comparison with civilian clothes, both the initial expense and maintenance cost of uniforms are ______.
SECTION 2 Optional Translation (30 points)
Ever since the economist David Ricardo offered the basic theory in 1817, economic scripture has taught that open trade—free of tariffs, quotas, subsidies or other government distortions—improves the well-being of both parties. U.S. policy has implemented this doctrine with a vengeance. Why is free trade said to be universally beneficial？ The answer is a doctrine called "comparative advantage".
Here's a simple analogy. If a surgeon is highly skilled both at doing operations and per forming routine blood tests, it's more efficient for the surgeon to concentrate on the surgery and pay a less efficient technician to do the tests, since that allows the surgeon to make the most efficient use of her own time.
By extension, even if the United States is efficient both at inventing advanced biotechnologies and at the routine manufacture of medicines, it makes sense for the United States to let the production work migrate to countries that can make the stuff more cheaply. Americans get the benefit of the cheaper products and get to spend their resources on even more valuable pursuits. That, anyway, has always been the premise. But here Samuelson dissents. What if the lower wage country also captures the advanced industry？
If enough higher-paying jobs are lost by American workers to outsourcing, he calculates, then the gain from the cheaper prices may not compensate for the loss in U.S. purchasing power.
"Free trade is not always a win-win situation," Samuelson concludes. It is particularly a problem, he says, in a world where large countries with far lower wages, like India and China, are increasingly able to make almost any product or offer almost any service performed in the United States.
If America trades freely with them, then the powerful drag of their far lower wages will begin dragging down U.S. average wages. The U.S. economy may still grow, he calculates, but at a lower rate than it otherwise would have.
Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean and which cycle each member of the family has.