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It was once thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and/or heavy automobile traffic. Today, we know that although these are the areas with the worst air pollution, the problem is literally worldwide. On several occasions over the past decade, a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the entire eastern half of the United States and led to health warnings even in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic. In fact, the very climate of the entire earth may be affected by air pollution. Some scientists feel that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels (coal and oil) creating a greenhouse effect-holding in heat reflected from the earth and raising the world’s average temperature. If this view is correct and the world’s temperature is raised only a few degrees, much of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New York, Boston, Miami, and New Orleans will be under water.Another view, less widely held, is that increasing particulate matter in the atmosphere is blocking sunlight and lowering the earth’s temperature-a result that would be equally disastrous. A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to a new ice age, and would make agriculture difficult or impossible in many of our top farming areas. At present we do riot know for sure that either of these conditions will happen (though one recent government report prepared by experts in the field concluded that the greenhouse effect is very likely). Perhaps, if we very lucky, the two tendencies will offset each other and the world’s temperature will stay about the same as it is now.1. As pointed out at the beginning of the passage, people used to think that air pollution（）.2. As far as the greenhouse effect is concerned, the author（）.3. The word “offset” (Para. 2) could beat be replaced by（）.4. It can be inferred from the passage that（）. 5. This passage is primarily concerned with（）.

In only two decades Asian Americans have become the fastest-growing U.S. minority. As their children began moving up through the nation’s schools, it became clear that a new class of academic achievers was emerging. Their achievements are reflected in the nation’s best universities, where mathematics, science and engineering departments have taken on a decidedly Asian character. This special liking for mathematics and science is partly explained by the fact that Asian-American students who began their educations abroad arrived in the U.S. with a solid grounding in mathematics but little or no knowledge of English. They are also influenced by the promise of a good job after college. Asians feel there will be less unfair treatment in areas like mathematics and science because they will be judged more objectively. And the return on the investment in education is more immediate in something like engineering than with an arts degree.Most Asian-American owe their success to the influence of parents who are determined that their children take full advantage of what the American educational system has to offer. An effective measure of parental attention is homework. Asian parents spend more time with their children than American parents do, and it helps. Many researcher also believe there is something in Asian culture that needs success, such as ideals that stress family values and emphasize education.Both explanations for academic success worry Asian Americans because of fears that they feed a typical racial image. Many can remember when Chinese, Japanese and Filipino immigrants were the victims of social isolation. Indeed, it was not until 1952 that laws were laid down giving all Asian immigrants the right to citizenship.1. While making tremendous achievements at college, Asian-American students（）.2. What are the major factors that determine the success of Asian Americans?3. Few Asian-American students major in human sciences mainly because（）.4. Why do the two “explanations” (Para.3, Line.1) worry Asian Americans?5. The author’s tone in this passage is（）.

If women are mercilessly exploited year after year, they have only themselves to blame. Because they tremble at the thought of being seen in public in clothes that are out of fashion, they are always taken advantage of by the designers and the big stores. Clothes which have been worn only a few times have to be put aside because of the change of fashion. When you come to think of it, only a woman is capable of standing in front of a wardrobe packed full of clothes and announcing sadly that she has nothing to wear.Changing fashions are nothing more than the intentional creation of waste. Many women spend vast sums of money each year to replace clothes that have hardly been worn. Women who cannot afford to throw away clothing in this way, waste hours of their time altering the dresses they have. Skirts are lengthened or shortened; neck-lines are lowered or raised, and so on.No one can claim that the fashion industry contributes anything really important to society. Fashion designers are rarely concerned with vital things like warmth, comfort and durability. They are only interested in outward appearance and they take advantage of the fact that women will put up with any amount of discomfort, as long as they look right. There can hardly be a man who hasn’t at some time in his life smiled at the sight of a woman shaking in a thin dress on a winter day, or delicately picking her way through deep snow in high-heeled shoes.When comparing men and women in the matter of fashion, the conclusions to be drawn are obvious. Do the constantly changing fashions of women’s clothes, one wonders, reflect basic qualities of inconstancy and instability? Men are too clever to let themselves be cheated by fashion designers. Do their unchanging styles of dress reflect basic qualities of stability and reliability? That is for you to decide.1. Designers and big stores always make money（）.2. To the writer, the fact that women change their old-fashioned dresses is seen as（）.3. The writer would be less critical if fashion designers placed more stress on the（） of clothing.4. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?5. By saying “the conclusions to be drawn are obvious”（Para. 4, Line 1-2）, the writer means that（）.

The argument that Children are no longer an economic asset, but more of a liability, drew more attention of the public.

I don’t understand what you’re getting so worked up about it. It’s really not a problem.

A pervasive negative attitude of the engineers toward projects funded by his company is the cause of the delay of signing the contract.

Helen could not help feeling antipathy to ward her father’s new wife whom he married just two months after the death of Helen’s mother.

In that country, a person who marries before legal age must have a parent’s sanction to obtain a license.

The each revolves both round the sun and on its own axis.

It is now believed that the dramatic changes in family structure, though regrettable, are impossible to reverse.

The recruiter’s speech was so compelling that nearly everyone in the auditorium enlisted in the army when it was over.

These natural resources will be depleted sooner or later if the present rate of exploitation goes on.

When doing business with an Arab, you have to endure hours of small talk, waiting for the topic of commerce to be broached.

Directions: Recent media have launched a heated discussion on whether the one-child policy should be suspended (stopped temporarily). What is your opinion? Write on the ANSWER SHEET a composition of about 200 words on the following topic:My View on the Suspension of the One Child PolicyYou are to write in three parts:In the first part of your article, you should clearly present your view.In the second part, you should support your opinion with appropriate details.In the last part, you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or summary.

Directions: Suppose that you wish to go abroad as a visiting scholar, and Professor Smith is the scholar you wish to be your future advisor or coordinator. Please write a letter of application to Professor Smith, trying to ask for his approval.Write your letter with no less than 100 words. Write it neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. Start your letter with "Dear Professor Smith Do NOT sign your own name at the end of the letter; use "Chen Ling" instead. You do not need to write the address.

Translate the following part into English. 纵观国际国内大势，我国发展仍处于可以大有作为的重要战略机遇期。我们要准确判断重要战略机遇期内涵和条件的变化，全面把握机遇，沉着应对挑战，赢得主动，赢得优势，赢得未来，确保到2020年实现全面建设成小康社会的宏伟目标。

Translate the following part into Chinese. In social life, time plays a very important part. In the U.S.A. Guests tend to feel they are not highly regarded if the invitation to a dinner party is extended only three or four days before the party date. But it is not true in all countries. In other areas of the world it may be considered foolish to make an appointment too far in advance because plans which are made for a date more than a week away tend to be forgotten. The meaning of time differs in different parts of the world. Thus, misunderstandings arise between people from cultures that treat time differently.

Rumor is the most（1）way of spreading stories ——by passing them on from mouth（2）mouth. But civilized countries in normal times have better（3）of news than rumor. They have radio, television, and newspapers. In times of stress and（4），（5），rumor; （6）and becomes widespread. At such （7）the different kinds of news are in（8）， the press, television, and radio versus the grapevine. Especially（9）rumors spread when war requires censorship（审查，检查）on many important matters. The customary news sources no longer（10）enough information. Since the people cannot learn .（11）— legitimate （合法的，正规的）channels all （12）they are anxious to learn, they pick up "news" （13）they can and when this（14）, rumor thrives. Rumors are often repeated（15）by those who do not believe the tales. There is a fascination about them. The reason is（16）the cleverly designed rumor gives expression to something deep in the hearts of the victims --the fears, suspicions, forbidden hopes, or daydreams which they hesitate to（17）directly. Pessimistic (悲观的) rumors about defeat and disasters show that the people who repeat them are（18）and anxious（19）rumors about record production or peace soon coming point to complacency (满足，自得) or confidence -- and often to（20）.

It is nothing new that English use is on the rise around the world, especially in business circles. This also happens in France, the headquarters of the global battle against American cultural hegemony. If French guys are giving in to English, something really big must be going on. And something big is going on.Partly, it’s that American hegemony. Didier Benchimol, CEO of a French e-commerce software company, feels compelled to speak English perfectly because the Internet software business is dominated by Americans. He and other French businessmen also have to speak English because they want to get their message out to American investors, possessors of the world’s deepest pockets.The triumph of English in France and elsewhere in Europe however, may rest on something more enduring. As they become entwined with each other politically and economically, Europeans need a way to talk to one another and to the rest of the world. And for a number of reasons, they’ve decided upon English as their common tongue.So when German chemical and pharmaceutical company Hoechst merged with French competitor Rhone-Poulenc last year, the companies chose the vaguely Latinate Aventis as the new company name —and settled on English as the company's common language. When monetary policymakers from around Europe began meeting at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt last year to set interest rates for the new Euroland, they held their deliberations in English. Even the European Commission, with 11 official languages and a traditionally French-speaking bureaucracy, effectively switched over to English as its working language last year. How did this happen? One school attributes English’s great success to the sheer weight of its merit. It’s a Germanic language, brought to Britain around the fifth century A.D. During the four centuries of French-speaking rule that followed Norman Conquest of 1066, the language morphed into something else entirely. French words were added wholesale, and most of the complications of Germanic grammar were shed while few of the complications of French were added. The result is a language with a huge vocabulary and a simple grammar that can express most things more efficiently than either of its parents. What's more, English has remained ungoverned and open to change ----foreign words, coinages, and grammatical shifts —in a way that French, ruled by the purist Academic Francaise, had not.So it’s a swell language, especially for business. But the rise of English over the past few centuries clearly owes at least as much to history and economies as to the language’s ability to economically express the concept win-win. What happened is that the competition ——first Latin, then French, then briefly, German ----faded with the waning of the political, economic and military fortunes of, respectively, the Catholic Church, France, and Germany. All along, English was increasing in importance: Britain was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, and London the world's most important financial center, which made English a key language for business. England’s colonies around the world also made it the language with the most global reach. And as that former colony the U.S. rose to the status of the world’s preeminent political, economic, military, and cultural power, English became the obvious second language to learn.In the 1990s more and more Europeans found themselves forced to use English. The last generation of business and government leaders who hadn't studied English in school was leaving the stage. The European Community was adding new members and evolving from a paper-shuffling club into a serious regional government that would need a single common language if it were ever to get anything done. Meanwhile, economic barriers between European nations have been disappearing, meaning that more and more companies are beginning to look at the whole continent as their domestic market. And then the Internet came along.The Net had two big impacts. One was that it was an exciting, potentially lucrative new industry that had its roots in the U.S., so if you wanted to get in on it, you had to speak some English. The other was that by surfing the Web, Europeans who had previously encountered English only in school and in pop songs were now coming into contact with it daily.None of this means English has taken over European life. According to the European Union, 47% of Western Europeans (including the British and Irish) speak English well enough to carry on a conversation. That’s a lot more than those who can speak German (32%) or French (28%), but it still means more Europeans don’t speak the language. If you want to sell shampoo or cell phones, you have to do it in French or German or Spanish or Greek. Even the U.S. and British media companies that stand to benefit most from the spread of English have been hedging their bets-CNN broadcasts in Spanish; the Financial Times has recently launched a daily German-language edition.But just look at who speaks English: 77% of Western European college students, 69% of managers, and 65% of those aged 15 to 24. In the secondary schools of the European Union’s non-English-speaking countries, 91% of students study English, all of which means that the transition to English as the language of European business hasn’t been all that traumatic, and it’s only going to get easier in the future.1. In the author's opinion, what really underlies the rising status of English in France and Europe is（）.2. Europeans began to favour English for all the following reasons EXCEPT its（）.3. Which of the following statements forecasts the continuous rise of English in the future?4. The passage mainly examines the factors related to（）.

Scientists around the world agree that the earth’s climate is changing due to human activities that release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. If left unaddressed, this situation will cause increase severe weather, flooding, disease, and habitat destruction, all of which will have devastating impacts on society.In an effort to reduce its own contribution to climate change, the UN Foundation has initiated a number of efforts in the office and with staff.Steps being taken to reduce the foundation’s emissions include the following:A light bulb exchange program allows staff to trade regular bulbs from home for Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFLs). CFLs use 70 percent less energy, are much less expensive to run. and last longer than regular bulbs.The UN Foundation encourages its staff to use public transit where possible and provides them with free public transports vouchers. UNF does not provide or subsidize parking for its employees.The UN Foundation has moved into a new Gold standard LEED-certified office in early 2007, which will further reduce the Foundation's impact on the environment while maximizing efficiency, savings and staff comfort. The new office demonstrates high standards in key areas of human and environmental health; energy efficiency, water savings, sustainable materials, indoor environmental quality and sustainable site development.The UN Foundation offsets its greenhouse gas emissions from day-to-day office energy use by contributing to a reforestation project that absorbs the same amount of carbon dioxide as was emitted.To do this, the Foundation used the methodology of the GHG Protocol and tools provided by the World Resources Institute to calculate the total amount of its historical carbon dioxide emission from electricity consumption, heating and cooling and air travel at its Washington D.C. and New York City offices.With pro bono legal services generously provided by Baker & McKenzie, the UN Foundation was then able to purchase an equivalent amount of carbon offsets from a reforestation project in the Sierra Gorda Mountains of Mexico.This LTNDP project sequesters (隔离)carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by reforesting lands previously converted to agricultural and livestock uses. Over and above the sequestration of greenhouse gases, this project also has significant sustainable development benefits by enhancing biodiversity in the most ecosystem-diverse natural protected area in Mexico and by providing local landowners with an income to replace farming or herding. The Biosphere Reserve also recently distinguished itself in the area of sustainable tourism by winning the 2007 Tourism for Tomorrow Destination Award.1. CFLs gain the advantage over regular bulbs for（）.2. What's the primary cause for UNF providing free public transport vouchers to its staff?3. We can infer from this passage that the LEED certification emphasizes（）.4. What's the meaning of "pro bono" in Paragraph 9?

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