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Directions: For this part, you are allowed 15 minutes to write a composition of about 100 words based on the following material. (10%)Some people think we should learn to compete, but others think that we should be taught to cooperate. What’s your own opinion?

Translate the following passage into English on the ANSWER SHEET (10%)奇怪的是，收获最大的恰恰是失败者。他们收获了自由！他们可以自由地表达，独辟蹊径，不落窠臼，不用担心失去崇拜者的支持。失败的艺术家寻求安慰时，可以想想许多伟大的艺术家都是过世多年以后才成名，或是他们没有出卖自己。他们也可以为自己的失败辩解：自己的才华实在过于高深，不是当代听众或观众所理解得了的。对那些孤注一掷的追名逐利之徒，我要说：祝你们好运。但是，遗憾的是，你会发现这不是你想得到的。获得成功的人常常发现成功对他来说弊大于利。所以要为真实的你、为自己的所为感到高兴，而不是拼命去获得成功。做那些你为之感到骄傲的事情。可能在有生之年你默默无闻，但你可能创作了更好的艺术。

Translate the following passage into Chinese on the ANSWER SHEET (10%)Sarah’s ability to solve her dilemma by rooming with her identical twin is unusual, but the conflict she faced is not. Despite extensive efforts by many schools to make good roommate matches, unsatisfactory outcomes are common. One roommate is always cold, while the other never wants to turn up the furnace, even though the thermometer says it’s minus five, outside. One person likes quiet, while the other person spends two hours a day practicing the trumpet, or turns up his sound system to the point where the whole room vibrates. One eats only organically produced vegetables and believes all living things are holy, even ants and mosquitoes, while the other likes wearing fur and enjoys cutting up frogs in biology class.

It’s not difficult to understand our desire for athletes to be heroes. On the surface, at least, athlete display a vital and indomitable spirit; they are gloriously alive _1_ their bodies. And sports do allow us to _2_ acts that can legitimately be described as _3_, thrilling, beautiful, even noble. In a(n) _4_ complicated and disorderly world, sports are still an arena in which we can regularly witness a certain kind of _5_.Yet there’s something of a _6_ here, for the very qualities a society _7_ to seek in its heroes—selflessness, _8_ consciousness, and the like—are precisely the _9_ of those which are needed to _10_ a talented but otherwise unremarkable neighborhood kid into a Michael Jordan. To become a star athlete, you have to have an extremely competitive _11_ and you have to be totally focused on the development of your own physical skills. These qualities _12_ well make a great athlete, _ 13_ they don’t necessarily make a great person. On top of this, our society reinforces these _14_ by the system it has created to produce athletes - a system characterized by _15_ responsibility and enormous privilege.The athletes themselves suffer the _16_ of this system. Trained to measure themselves perpetually _17_ the achievements of those around them, many young athletes develop a sense of what sociologist Walter Schafer has _18_ “conditional self-worth”. They learn very quickly that they will be accepted by the important figures in their lives—parents, coaches and peers as long as they are _19_ as “sinner”. Unfortunately they become _ 20_ and behave as if their athletic success will last forever.

A sign that Hispa nics will dominate California’s future is that a university study has found the ethnic accounted for nearly half of all births in the state by the end of the last decade. Hispa nic mothers had 247,796 of the 521,265 children born in California in 1998, or 47.5 percent, according to the University of California at Los Angeles study released in December 2001. Non-Hispa nic Whites had 33.9 percent, followed by Asians and Pacific Islanders with 10.7 percent. Blacks represented 6.8 percent of births and American Indians had 0.5 percent of all births. California’s future economic health depends upon those Hispa nics, who soon will be the majority of young adults and hence the working force, says David Hayes-Bautista, director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLA.The study, based on state health department statistics, confirms the ethnic shift that made 2001 the year California officially lost its White majority. The US. Census showed that Hispa nics made up nearly a third while non-Hispa nic Whites slipped to less than half of the state’s total population of 33.9 million. California’s experience is part of a “sea change” in the United States, where 23 states already have Hispa nics as their largest ethnic minority. Dr. Harry Pachon says, “Hispa nics are becoming more prominent in everything from movies to politics, and that is good for the state. If there was no penetration of social and political institutions, then you would have an isolated minority and that’s a recipe for social unrest. On the other hand, by the third generation, one of every two Hispa nics has married outside of their ethnic group. There’s a Latinization of America but there’s also an Americanization of Latinos. By third generation, a lot of them are losing their Spa nish; they prefer American NFL to soccer.”Overall, nearly 65 percent of all Hispa nic mothers were immigrants, ranking them second to Asian and Pacific islanders at more than 84 percent. The babies tend to grow up healthy as well. Studies have shown that at virtually all stages of life, Hispa nics, at least in California, Arizona and Texas, tend to suffer fewer major health problems, such as heart attacks, cancer and strokes, than other ethnic groups. Hayes-Bautista noted. Only about 15 percent of Hispa nic mothers were 19 years old or younger. By comparison, nearly 17 percent of Blacks and 19 percent of American Indians were teenagers. Non-Hispa nic Whites had a figure of nearly 7 percent.1. How many percent of babies were born by Hispa nic mothers in California in 1998?2. David Hayes-Bautista believes that .3. In California before 2001, .4. Which of the following statements is Dr. Harry Pachon most likely to agree with?5. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

European farm ministers have ended three weeks of negotiations with a deal which they claim represents genuine reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP). Will it be enough to kick start the Doha world trade negotiations?On the face of it, the deal agreed in the early hours of Thursday June 26th looks promising. Most subsidies linked to specific farm products are, at last, to be broken—the idea is to replace these with a direct payment to farmers, unconnected to particular products. Support prices for several key products, including milk and butter, are to be cut—that should mean European prices eventually falling towards the world market level. Cutting the link between subsidy and production was the main objective of proposals put forward by Mr. Fischler, which had formed the starting point for the negotiations.The CAP is hugely unpopular around the world. It subsidizes European farmers to such an extent that they can undercut farmers from poor countries, who also face trade barriers that largely exclude them from the potentially lucrative European market. Farm trade is also a key feature of the Doha round of trade talks, launched under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in November 2001. Developing countries have lined up alongside a number of industrial countries to demand an end to the massive subsidies Europe pays its farmers. Several Doha deadlines have already been missed because of the EU’s intransigence, and the survival of the talks will be at risk if no progress is made by September, when the world’s trade ministers meet in Cancun, Mexico.But now even the French seem to have gone along with the deal hammered out in Luxembourg—up to a point, anyway. The package of measures gives the green light to the most eager reformers to move fast to implement the changes within their own countries. But there is an escape clause of sorts for the French and other reform-averse nations. They can delay implementation for up to two years. There is also a suggestion that the reforms might not apply where there is a chance that they would lead to a reduction in land under cultivation.These let-outs are potentially damaging for Europe’s negotiations in the Doha round. They could significantly reduce the cost savings that the reforms might otherwise generate and, in turn, keep European expenditure on farm support unacceptably high by world standards. More generally, the escape clauses could undermine the reforms by encouraging the suspicion that the new package will not deliver the changes that its supporters claim. Close analysis of what is inevitably a very complicated package might confirm the skeptics’ fears.1. The deal agreed on Thursday looks promising in that .2. It can be inferred from the third paragraph that .3. In what case might the escape clauses apply in reform-averse nations?4. The new package of measures is inevitably a complicated one due to .5. What is the passage mainly about?

Many objects in daily use have clearly been influenced by science, but their form and function, their dimensions and appearance were determined by technologists, artisans, designers, inventors, and engineers—using nonscientific modes of thought. Many features and qualities of the objects that a technologist thinks about cannot be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions; they are dealt with in the mind by a visual, nonverbal process. In the development of Western technology, it has been nonverbal thinking, by and large, that has fixed the outlines and filled in the details; and rockets exist not because of geometry or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture in the minds of those who built them.The creative shaping process of a technologist’s mind can be seen in nearly every artifact that exists. For example, in designing a diesel engine, a technologist might impress individual ways of nonverbal thinking on the machine by continually using an intuitive sense of rightness and fitness. What would be the shape of the combustion chamber? Where should the valves be placed? Should it have a long or short piston? Such questions have a range of answers that are supplied by experience, by physical requirements, by limitations of available space, and not least by a sense of form. Some decisions, such as wall thickness and pin diameter, may depend on scientific calculations, but the nonscientific component of design remains primary.Design courses, then, should be an essential element in engineering curricula. Nonverbal thinking, a central mechanism in engineering design, involves perceptions, the stock in trade of the artist, not the scientist. Because perceptive processes are not assumed to entail “hard thinking”, nonverbal thought is sometimes seen as a primitive stage in the development of cognitive processes and inferior to verbal or mathematical thought. But it is paradoxical that when the staff of the Historic American Engineering Record wished to have drawings made of machines and isometric views of industrial processes for its historical record of American engineering, the only college students with the requisite abilities were not engineering students, but rather students attending architectural schools.If courses in design, which in a strongly analytical engineering curriculum provide the background required for practical problem solving, are not provided, we can expect to encounter silly but costly errors occurring in advanced engineering systems. For example, early models of 23 high-speed railroad cars loaded with high-tech controls were unable to operate in a snowstorm because the fan sucked snow into the electrical system. Absurd random failures that plague automatic control systems are not merely trivial aberrations, they are a reflection of the chaos that results when design is assumed to be primarily a problem in mathematics.1. In the passage, the author is primarily concerned with .2. What can we infer from the first two paragraphs?3. It can be inferred that the author thinks engineering curricula are .4. Which of the following does the author seem to be in agreement with?5. The example of the early models of high-speed railroad cars is used to .

In recent years, backpacks have begun sporting outside pockets that are, not coincidentally, the perfect size for an iPod. Handbags routinely feature cell-phone compartments. And now, from practical to modern, the fashion industry is taking a cue from these gadgets, integrating their technologies into the fabrics rather than merely providing storage for them.Known as “haute tech”, these designs sometimes resemble costumes borrowed from the set of a sci-fi thriller. Like an old mood ring, one dress can sense the mood of its wearer by gauging his or her gestures and then respond with an appropriate song from its MP3-integrayed hoof. The innovations know no bounds, and can be quite funny; Erik De Nijs, a student at the Utrecht School of the Arts in the Netherlands, created a pair of tech jeans that incorporates a wireless Bluetooth keyboard into the lap of the pants. Speakers are integrated into the knees of the jeans and a mouse is conveniently stored in the back pocket. While some might find this kind of lap typing mildly vulgar, it highlights the way haute tech is pushing practical, wearable technology. Other garments use a nickel-and-titanium shape-memory alloy to move shining panels of fabric as if they are breathing, like coral shifting with the tide.“Clothing becomes the interface to tell a story,” says British haute tech designer Di Mainstone, an artist in residence at New York’s Eyebeam studio.One of Mainstone’s newest projects, Sharewear, stems from the idea that in today’s fast-paced society, time for “intimate homey encounters” is limited. So Mainstone created a costume made up of modules inspired by icons of the home, like the armrest of a favorite sofa. In addition to looking cool, Sharewear is meant to evoke the idea that clothing serves both to shelter and to define us—just like our homes. “I wanted that esthetic of something that was very familiar,” Mainstone says.Widely credited as the founder of haute tech, British designer Hussein Chalayan—twice named British designer of the year—is the subject of a fun and fascinating new exhibit at the London Design Museum called “From Fashion and Back” (through May 17), which highlights his 15-year career. Among the items on display: a garment made of crystals and 200 moving lasers to create a living light show, and two LED-screen video dresses that illuminate underwater sea life. Chalayan believes that integrating technology with fashion is “the only way in the world to create something new,” he says. “These are the prototypes for things to come. They need this investment.”1. Where do fashion designers get the idea of integrating technology into fabrics from?2. What does Erik De Nijs integrate into the fabrics of his design?3. Which of the following is one of Mainstone’s thoughts according to the passage?4. What does the word “these” (Line 7, Para.4) refer to?5. What conclusion can we draw from the passage?

In the wake of an increasing number of cheating cases and emergence of cheating by advanced technology, the academic honesty contract has been introduced at numerous campuses before examinations. It is assumed that such contracts may help discourage cheating. Do you believe that such a policy can work wonders?

Once upon a time, in the sixth century B.C.E., when the mists of antiquity still shrouded much of human history, three great sages were born in the cradles of three ancient civilizations. From the Hellenic world emerged Pythagoras; from India, Siddhartha Gautama; from China, Lao Tzu. Each of them gave priceless gifts to all of humanity: invaluable treasures that would transform individuals yet unborn and sustain great civilizations yet to come. From the mind of Pythagoras sprang rational mysticism. From the mind of Siddhartha Gautama, an Indian prince who became the first Buddha, sprang Buddhism. From the mind of Lao Tzu sprang the Dao De Jing. These three sages were contemporaries, but they never met, except perhaps in dreams. Together, they achieved the greatest leap forward that humanity has ever taken, an evolution neither of DNA, nor of technology, nor of politics. This triumvirate of sages engendered an evolution of consciousness, which is our most precious human possession, albeit (ironically) one that we frequently take for granted and fail to develop fully. Karl Jaspers, the multifaceted German philosopher, psychiatrist, and theologian, called this ancient era the Axial Age. Why? Because it was indeed a giant axis, around which the future promise of humanity revolved. Everything we need to know about happiness and fulfillment, peace and prosperity, love and family, creativity and art, good governance and sustainable civilization, can be learned from the Axial Age.

In ways large and small, artificial intelligence (AI) has been everywhere. Search engines are analyzing our histories to make predictions. Text and email applications, which know the words and phrases we use most often, are trying to complete our sentences. AI programs like AlphaGo and AlphaZero are winning chess games. Struck by these breakthroughs, an all-star team of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt have come together to analyze AI—how it evolved; where it is now; and where, eventually, it will take us. They consider the transformations AI will impose on the planning, preparation and conduct of war and conclude that humans remain essential to the equation.Throughout history, a nation’s political influence has correlated with its military power—in other words, its ability to inflict damage on other societies. But balance based on military power is not static. It relies on consensus—importantly, among all the members of the international system—about what constitutes power; which members have both the capability and the intention to use their power to try to impose their will. When members diverge on the nature of the power that defines their balance, they risk conflict, especially conflict born of miscalculation.In recent years, wars have been complicated by the advent of cyber weapons. Because cyber weapons have civilian applications, even their status as weapons is ambiguous. In some cases, the nations who possess them refuse to acknowledge their existence. Traditional strategic realities do not translate directly to the digital world. Indeed, a central paradox of the age is that the more digital a society is, the more vulnerable it is. Communications networks, power plants, electricity grids, financial markets, hospitals, airlines and public transit systems—even the mechanics of democratic politics—have come to rely on systems that are vulnerable to attack. As a result, advanced economies—the greatest users of servers and cloud systems—have become richer sets of targets.War has always been uncertain. But it has also been guided by one logic and one set of limitations: that of humans. But AI is powered by algorithms that can identify patterns and make predictions beyond those humans have. If AI consumes data, learns from it and responds to it by adapting and evolving, even those countries creating AI-operated weapons may not know exactly how—or how powerfully—the weapons will behave.1. Which of the following is beyond current AI capabilities?2. What does the all-star team study?3. What does Paragraph 2 imply?4. Why are wars in the AI age complicated?5. What attitude does the author take towards AI-operated weapons?

Anxiety is part of your body’s stress-response system. “I describe anxiety as a future-oriented emotional response to a perceived threat,” says Dr. Joel Minden, a clinical psychologist. “We anticipate that something bad will happen. Maybe we have evidence for thinking that. Maybe we don’t.” Almost immediately after that, Minden says, your nervous system, which controls involuntary processes like breathing and heart rate, kicks into high gear. Your blood pressure rises, and you break out into sweats.Anxiety can show itself in many ways. You might perceive something as threatening, even when it isn’t, or go to great lengths to avoid uncomfortable situations. You might constantly overthink plans or spend all your time creating solutions to worst-case scenarios that are unlikely to happen. Maybe you’re indecisive and fear making the wrong decision. Or you might find yourself unable to relax and feel restless.Often, those symptoms last only as long as a certain situation or problem is present. But sometimes anxiety can tip into a chronic anxiety disorder. People with an anxiety disorder can also suffer from depression. The distinction between chronic or temporary anxiety and a more severe case isn’t always easy to make. “There isn’t a blood test for anxiety. At some point, everybody experiences it,” he says. “It becomes a disorder when it interferes with your behavioural choices and your ability to do as you wish in life.”Just like happiness and sadness, anxiety is part of everyone’s lived experience—but it’s not always tolerated as such. “People spend too much time and effort on trying to control anxiety,” says Minden. If you try to banish it, he adds, all you’re doing is putting it more at the forefront of your mind. But if you accept anxiety as part of life, you can learn to relate to it with self-compassion. This is a cornerstone of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), which has been gaining clinical validation, including by the American Psychological Association.ACT guides people to see their unpleasant emotions as just feelings and to accept that parts of life are hard. Practitioners encourage patients to begin a dialogue with anxious thoughts, examining their causes while also keeping in mind their personal goals and values. Although anxious thoughts shouldn’t be completely suppressed, sufferers can deliberately not allow anxiety to decide what gets their attention or turn them away from what they want to do and who they want to be.1. What does the underlined phrase “kicks into high gear” mean in Paragraph 1?2. What might a person do in anxiety?3. Why is the distinction between temporary anxiety and a more severe case difficult to make?4. What does Minden suggest doing with anxiety in Paragraph 4?5. What can we infer about ACT?

The person in front of me at the drive-thru ATM obviously was having some operator difficulty as she had now partially opened her door and was hanging out, trying to complete her banking transaction. The person behind me also was _1_ some sort of distress, and was beeping his horn _2_. I was in the _3_ position of having time _4_my hands, having had a meeting cancelled while I was en route to it. _5_ thinking, “What is she doing up there?” and, “Could he be beeping at me? What does he want me to do, ram the car in front of me to get her to hurry up?,” I just sat back and let my mind wander, grateful that the heater in my car was fully _6_ . Man, it was COLD!A movement to my right caught my eye and I noticed a little bird hopping under some bushes. How sweet, I thought. It took a moment more before the whole scene _7_: there was bright green grass, birds, sunlight....SPRING! Honestly, my heart _8_. This little oasis had been carved out by the sunlight on the south side of the building, shielding it _9_ the snow and other wintery effects. It was nothing short of magical to me and _10_ me with a large helping of hope that, in spite of the cold and dreariness _11_ us of late, signs of better times ahead could be found.When I got home, still buoyed by warm and happy thoughts, I looked _12_ a tree in my yard. There, on the branches, were red leaf buds. No way. Didn’t this tree know that it was 17 degrees outside? I kept looking around to see if this was a joke, or, maybe I really _13_ a couple of months along the way. I didn’t find any other examples like it, but the fact of its existence stayed with me. It stood there, almost defiantly optimistic that yes, Spring IS on its way.I’d love to be more like that tree—able to stand _14_ through adverse conditions and still offer a promise of better days ahead. Or like that bird who found that _15_ of sunshine in an otherwise gray world. Perhaps if I could do that, I might make the path a little brighter for someone else as well. Maybe even a harried ATM user.

In this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the following topic: Less Pressure, Better Life. You should write at least 150 words, and base your composition on the outline given below.Outline:1、现代生活中，人们普遍存在着压力。2、不同的人有不同的压力。3、我们应该如何缓解压力，生活得更好。

A sign that Hispanics will dominate California’s future is that a university study has found the ethnic accounted for nearly half of all births in the state by the end of the last decade. Hispanic mothers had 247,796 of the 521,265 children born in California in 1998, or 47.5 percent, according to the University of California at Los Angeles study released in December 2001. Non-Hispanic Whites had 33.9 percent, followed by Asians and Pacific Islanders with 10.7 percent. Blacks represented 6.8 percent of births and American Indians had 0.5 percent of all births. California’s future economic health depends upon those Hispanics, who soon will be the majority of young adults and hence the working force, says David Hayes-Bautista, director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLA.The study, based on state health department statistics, confirms the ethnic shift that made 2001 the year California officially lost its White majority. The U.S. Census showed that Hispanics made up nearly a third while non-Hispanic Whites slipped to less than half of the state’s total population of 33.9 million. California’s experience is part of a “sea change” in the United States, where 23 states already have Hispanics as their largest ethnic minority. Dr. Harry Pachon says, “Hispanics are becoming more prominent in everything from movies to politics, and that is good for the state. If there was no penetration of social and political institutions, then you would have an isolated minority and that’s a recipe for social unrest. On the other hand, by the third generation, one of every two Hispanics has married outside of their ethnic group. There’s a Latinization of America but there’s also an Americanization of Latinos. By third generation, a lot of them are losing their Spanish; they prefer American NFL to soccer.”Overall, nearly 65 percent of all Hispanic mothers were immigrants, ranking them second to Asian and Pacific islanders at more than 84 percent. The babies tend to grow up healthy as well. Studies have shown that at virtually all stages of life, Hispanics, at least in California, Arizona and Texas, tend to suffer fewer major health problems, such as heart attacks, cancer and strokes, than other ethnic groups. Hayes-Bautista noted. Only about 15 percent of Hispanic mothers were 19 years old or younger. By comparison, nearly 17 percent of Blacks and 19 percent of American Indians were teenagers. Non-Hispanic Whites had a figure of nearly 7 percent.1. How many percent of babies were born by Hispanic mothers in California in 1998?2. David Hayes-Bautista believes that .3. In California before 2001, .4. Which of the following statements is Dr. Harry Pachon most likely to agree with?5. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

European farm ministers have ended three weeks of negotiations with a deal which they claim represents genuine reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP). Will it be enough to kick start the Doha world trade negotiations?On the face of it, the deal agreed in the early hours of Thursday June 26th looks promising. Most subsidies linked to specific farm products are, at last, to be broken—the idea is to replace these with a direct payment to farmers, unconnected to particular products. Support prices for several key products, including milk and butter, are to be cut—that should mean European prices eventually falling towards the world market level. Cutting the link between subsidy and production was the main objective of proposals put forward by Mr. Fischler, which had formed the starting point for the negotiations.The CAP is hugely unpopular around the world. It subsidizes European farmers to such an extent that they can undercut farmers from poor countries, who also face trade barriers that largely exclude them from the potentially lucrative European market. Farm trade is also a key feature of the Doha round of trade talks, launched under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in November 2001. Developing countries have lined up alongside a number of industrial countries to demand an end to the massive subsidies Europe pays its farmers. Several Doha deadlines have already been missed because of the EU’s intransigence, and the survival of the talks will be at risk if no progress is made by September, when the world’s trade ministers meet in Cancun, Mexico.But now even the French seems to have gone along with the deal hammered out in Luxembourg—up to a point, anyway. The package of measures gives the green light to the most eager reformers to move fast to implement the changes within their own countries. But there is an escape clause of sorts for the French and other reform-averse nations. They can delay implementation for up to two years. There is also a suggestion that the reforms might not apply where there is a chance that they would lead to a reduction in land under cultivation.These let-outs are potentially damaging for Europe’s negotiations in the Doha round. They could significantly reduce the cost savings that the reforms might otherwise generate and, in turn, keep European expenditure on farm support unacceptably high by world standards. More generally, the escape clauses could undermine the reforms by encouraging the suspicion that the new package will not deliver the changes that its supporters claim. Close analysis of what is inevitably a very complicated package might confirm the skeptics’ fears.1. The deal agreed on Thursday looks promising in that .2. It can be inferred from the third paragraph that .3. In what case might the escape clauses apply in reform-averse nations?4. The new package of measures is inevitably a complicated one due to .5. What is the passage mainly about?

In recent years, backpacks have begun sporting outside pockets that are, not coincidentally, the perfect size for an iPod. Handbags routinely feature cell-phone compartments. And now, from practical to modern, the fashion industry is taking a cue from these gadgets, integrating their technologies into the fabrics rather than merely providing storage for them.Known as “haute tech”, these designs sometimes resemble costumes borrowed from the set of a sci-fi thriller. Like an old mood ring, one dress can sense the mood of its wearer by gauging his or her gestures and then respond with an appropriate song from its MP3-integrated hood. The innovations know no bounds, and can be quite funny; Erik De Nijs, a student at the Utrecht School of the Arts in the Netherlands, created a pair of tech jeans that incorporates a wireless Bluetooth keyboard into the lap of the pants. Speakers are integrated into the knees of the jeans and a mouse is conveniently stored in the back pocket. While some might find this kind of lap typing mildly vulgar, it highlights the way haute tech is pushing practical, wearable technology. Other garments use a nickel-and-titanium shape-memory alloy to move shining panels of fabric as if they are breathing, like coral shifting with the tide. “Clothing becomes the interface to tell a story,” says British haute tech designer Di Mainstone, an artist in residence at New York’s Eyebeam studio.One of Mainstone’s newest projects, Sharewear, stems from the idea that in today’s fast-paced society, time for “intimate homey encounters” is limited. So Mainstone created a costume made up of modules inspired by icons of the home, like the armrest of a favorite sofa. In addition to looking cool, Sharewear is meant to evoke the idea that clothing serves both to shelter and to define us—just like our homes. “I wanted that esthetic of something that was very familiar,” Mainstone says.Widely credited as the founder of haute tech, British designer Hussein Chalayan—twice named British designer of the year—is the subject of a fun and fascinating new exhibit at the London Design Museum called “From Fashion and Back” (through May 17), which highlights his 15-year career. Among the items on display: a garment made of crystals and 200 moving lasers to create a living light show, and two LED-screen video dresses that illuminate underwater sea life. Chalayan believes that integrating technology with fashion is “the only way in the world to create something new,” he says. “These are the prototypes for things to come. They need this investment.”1. Where do fashion designers get the idea of integrating technology into fabrics from?2. What does Erik De Nijs integrate into the fabrics of his design?3. Which of the following is one of Mainstone’s thoughts according to the passage?4. What does the word “these” (Line 7, Para.4) refer to?5. What conclusion can we draw from the passage?

Directions: You are required to write an essay of no less than 200 words based on the following topic. Remember to do the task on the Answer Sheet.The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.——Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

You should, for example, dress neatly and modestly. If you dress too informally, the interviewer may think that you are not serious about the interview or that you may be casual about your future work. Clothes that are too expensive or too colorful may suggest that you do not understand what behavior is appropriate for the job. It may not be true that “clothes make the man”, but the first and often lasting impression of you is determined by the clothes you wear.

After-sales service and guarantee become an integral and essential part of a “good brand” on both local and regional levels, and the provision of such also produced solid ground for customer loyalty.Customers today are a lot more demanding than before. Being able to find after-sales service creates a feeling of convenience and a sense of responsibility from the manufacturer. This is very important to build customer loyalty and explains why more 24-hours hotline centers are available nowadays. Product guarantee is also one of the major factors when a potential customer decides to make a purchase. Whether this be in the form of a written guarantee or a guarantee based on reputation, the importance to the consumer is self-evident.A brand’s research and development, an unavoidable investment, usually back up safety guarantees for marketers nowadays. Product testing and refinement are conducted for both new and existing products. With the help of computerized machinery, quality control has achieved the highest level than ever before to enable consistency in production. For the consumer this means a quality of guarantee for that brand whether it be available at home or abroad.11. After-sales service and guarantee can produce .12. More 24-hour hotline centers appear because .13. Product guarantee .14. Product testing and refinement are conducted for .15. Which is NOT mentioned concerning product guarantee?

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