听力原文： Naturally, a large number of senior citizens in America are looking forward to enjoying their retirement, but the recent trend in retirement has made it harder and harder. Some people have to delay their retirement by a few years and keep working to earn extra income, and those who have already quit their job have a very tough time finding another one. According to the nation's largest credit-counseling agency, the baby boomer generation is the first generation that is going into retirement carrying substantial credit-card debt. The average credit-card balance among Americans over the age of 65 climbed 149 percent between 1989 and 2001. Those between the ages of 55 and 64 carried a similar amount of debt.
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Part A
Suppose that you have received a letter from your friend Li Jing, who will attend the final examination next week. In his letter, he said that he is extremely anxious about the forthcoming exam and was at a loss how to deal with it. Now write a letter to him, giving him some encouragement and your valuable viewpoint or suggestion on the matter. Tell him some skills about how to deal with the exam. The letter should be on the basis of the following information:
to Li JingHe's busy preparing and anxious about the examadvising him not to study hard right up to the examination timeDon't hurry to begin writing at once in the exam roomadvising him to allot proper amount of time to each answerfrom Liu FangSECTION A COMPOSITION (35 MIN)
China is called the kingdom of bicycles because it has the largest number of bicycles in the world. What do you think of the advantages and disadvantages of bikes in China？
Write a composition of about 200 words on the following topic:
My View on Bicycles in China
You are to write in three paragraphs.
In the first paragraph, state the fact of popularity of bikes in China.
In the second paragraph, tell the advantages of bikes.
In the final paragraph, state the disadvantages and your view on it.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropirateness.
Make a list each day of all that you are grateful for, ______. (这样你就能每天都注意到从别人那里得到了什么).
I have a dream that one day our nation will (崛起并实现其信仰的真谛).
SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE
Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.
Scientific methodology is based on generating hypotheses and testing them to see if they make sense; in laboratories throughout the world, researchers spend at least as much time trying to disprove a theory as they do trying to prove it. Eventually, those ideas that don't prove false are accepted. But fingerprinting was developed by the police, not by scientists, and it has never been subjected to rigorous analysis—you cannot go to Harvard, Berkeley, or Oxford and talk to the scholar working on fingerprint research. Yet by the early twentieth century, fingerprinting had become so widely accepted in American courts that further research no longer seemed necessary, and none of any significance has been completed.
The discussion of fingerprinting is only the most visible element in a much larger debate about how forensic science fits into the legal system. For years, any sophisticated attorney was certain to call upon expert witnesses to assert whatever might help his case. And studies have shown that juries are in fact susceptible to the influence of such experts. Until recently, though, there were no guidelines for qualification; nearly anybody could be called an expert, which meant that, unlike other witnesses, the expert could present his "opinion" almost as if it were fact.
If one vehicle stops on a motorway, the result is that ______.
Personal computers may cause people to become isolated from one another since work can be done at home alone.
Traditional power and energy companies are not investing in green technologies.
Who is carrying the heaviest of all？
Some British supermarket companies are asking their warehouse
workers to wear small computers, calling "electronic tags". The 【M1】__
companies say that these tags will to help them to reduce costs 【M2】__
and increase the efficient delivery of goods and food to stores.
The system uses American satellite and radio technology
send messages to the workers. In a report Professor Blakemore 【M3】__
from the University of Durham said that the use of
these tags is making some workplaces more like prisons. 【M4】__
The technology arrived from the US at the start of the year
and more and more companies are using it. Almost 10,000
employees are using it to supply good to well-known British 【M5】__
supermarkets. Trade unionists representing workers are
worried that companies could use the technology to check
what workers are doing work. They are asking for special 【M6】__
measures to make sure that this does not happen.
Under the system, workers have to wore computers on 【M7】__
their wrists, arms and fingers, and sometimes they have to wear a
special vest contained a computer that instructs them 【M8】__
where go to collect goods from warehouse shelves. 【M9】__
The system also allowed the store to send orders to workers' computers. 【M10】__
【M1】
It is believed that on Christmas Day, Saint Nicholas gave presents to good kids, and __ to bad ones.
We do hope that more experts ________(可以拿出更多的 )answers to the economic problems.
I can not help (wonder) ______whether the doctor will come in time.
SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE
Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.
For this reason, no style. of conversation is more extensively acceptable than the narrative. He who has stored his memory with Slight anecdotes, private incidents, and personal peculiarities, seldom fails to find his audience favourable. Almost every man listens with eagerness to contemporary history; for almost every man' has some real or imaginary connection with a celebrated character, some desire to advance or oppose a rising name. Vanity. often cooperates with curiosity. He that is a hearer in one place, qualifies himself to become a speaker in another; for though he cannot comprehend a series of argument, or transport the volatile spirit of wit without evaporation, he yet thinks himself able to treasure up the various incidents of a story, and please his hopes with the information which he shall give to some inferior society.
Narratives are for the most part heard without envy, because they are not supposed to imply any intellectual qualities above the common rate. To be acquainted with facts not yet echoed by plebeian mouths, may happen to one man as well as to another and to relate them when they are known, has in appearance so little difficulty, that every one concludes himself equal to the task.