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Nowadays, it is common practice for the authority in China to close the highway when in bad weather. Do you think it is a wise thing to do? Now you are asked to make a comment on it with about 200 words.What Is Your Idea of Highway Shut-down in Bad Weather

Translate the following into Chinese. Before you got the idea that economics is relevant only for politics or businesses, we should mention that economics focuses on all the choices people make and the personal and social consequences of these choices.We believe that when you finish this book, you will join us in the view that the economic way of thinking offers valuable insight into our everyday interactions with one another — producing, consuming, voting and striving for the good life.One seemed to know little about the book, but a great many people knew apparently that "Peggy" was at work on something and that was enough to bring cordial, even insistent, recommendation to their lips. Making a movie costs much more than cutting an album. So as the world become richer, the relative market share of Hollywood movies will probable fall more than the relative market share of American popular music.It is very difficult to agree on the price for shares to be bought because the purchasing party will lack the necessary information as to the financial status and other characteristics of the share- issuing corporation, and because the net value of the shares will change constantly from the date of the agreement to the date of closing.

Jim Fix had been a heavy smoker and weighed 214 pounds when he took up running in the 1960s. He soon _51 _ the benefits from running. His weight decreased by 60 pounds by the time his book The Complete Book of Running was published. His book _52_ millions of people. In his book and on television talk shows. He praised the benefits of physical exercise and how it _53_and increased the average people’s life expectancy. His readers and audience became more health-conscious. However, to their shock, Fix died at the age of 52 after his daily run. Many who opposed his beliefs said this was _54_ that running was harmful. However, his supporters _55_that the real cause of Fix’s death was a heart attack. He came from a family where men had poor health stories. His father _56 a heart attack at the age of 35 and died of one at 42. Given Fix’s unhealthy lifestyle until he took up running, many argued that running added many years to his life.“Running does have its shortcomings,” _57_heart specialist Paul Thomas, in a recent medical journal. “The _58_can be hard on your knees. Runners are more at risk during their training, _59_ if they run marathons. _60_, the news for runners isn’t all bad. Evidence suggests in spite of its shortcomings, moderate amount of running exercise can actually result in a longer, improved life.”

According to new research of Prof. Randolph Mensal from the Free University in Berlin, the popular image of bees as the ultimate hard workers was inaccurate. “Although we see bees buzzing around tirelessly in spring and summer, the common belief in a bee’s busy nature is based on a misconception,” he said. People only really see bees when they’re out flying, or they look at a colony of bees and see thousands of them buzzing around. They don’t get to pick them out as individuals. The professor, who this month won a German Zoological Society award for his work on bees, added that bees compensated for their apparent laziness with high intelligence: advanced memory skills and an ability to learn quickly.The suggestion that bees were not pulling their weight met with skepticism from British beekeepers. Glyn Davies, the President of the British Beekeepers Association, said that bees were not lazy but efficient. “At any particular stage in its life, a bee has a specific job to do. If they areunable to do that job, they conserve their energy by doing nothing. Each bee has a unit of life energy and the faster it works, the faster it dies. They are being very wise and perhaps humans should try to follow their example instead of running about like headless chickens.”The idea of the busy bee is several thousand years old. One current author who has nothing but admiration for the bee is Paul Theroux, the novelist and part-time beekeeper. “I have never seen a bee sleeping. My bees never stop working,” he said. Mr. Theroux, who keeps 85 hives each containing 300,000 bees in Hawaii, added that Prof. Mendel’s research could have been affected by his national origins. “Perhaps in comparison to the German rate of work, the bee does look lazy,” he said.Few people think that the busy bee idea will go away, despite the efforts of Prof. Mensah It performs too many useful functions in our culture. In fact, the worship of bees seems to be undergoing a renaissance. IBM recently ran a series of ads drawing on the “waggle dance” of bees, telling businessmen to “make your business waggle.”1.Prof. Randolph Mendel’s latest research （）.2.According to Prof. Randolph Mensal, which of the following is NOT true?3.According to Glyn Davies, what should we learn from bees?4.The IBM ads in the passage are used to（）.

Opponents of affirmative action say the battle over the use of race in college admissions is hardly over, despite the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday upholding the goal of a diverse student body. Higher education leaders overwhelmingly hailed the decision, saying it reaffirmed policies used by most selective colleges and universities. But some critics raised the possibility of more lawsuits, and promised to continue pressuring the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to investigate questionable policies. “We’re talking about admissions programs, scholarships, any program...only for minorities or in which the standards used to judge admissions are substantially different.” says Linda Chavez, founder and president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a conservative non-profit group.Others say they’ll take their case to voters. “We have to seriously contest all this at the ballot box” says University of California regent Ward Connerly, who helped win voter approval of California’s Proposition 209, which prohibits considering race or gender in public education, hiring and contracting. Because of that law, Monday’s ruling had no practical impact in the state. “It may be time for us to...let the (Michigan) voters decide if they want to use race as a factor in admissions,” Connerly said Monday.Meanwhile, US Education Secretary Rod Paige, consistent with President Bush’s stance opposing affirmative action, said the Department of Education will “continue examining and highlighting effective race-neutral approaches to ensure broad access to and diversity within our public institutions”. Even Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O-Connor, in one of the opinions, recommended that states look for lessons in race-neutral programs being tried in California and elsewhere. While the ruling said admissions officials may consider race in the selection process, colleges and universities are not obligated to do so. “Ultimately in the debate, diversity is a choice, not a legal mandate,” says Arthur Coleman, a former Department of Education official who now helps colleges and universities Ensure constitutional policies.The public, too, remains conflicted, largely along racial lines. According to a January poll by the non-profit research organization Public Agenda, 79% of Americans said it is important for colleges to have a racially diverse student body, while just 54% said affirmative action programs should continue. In a Gallup poll conducted days before the ruling, 49% of adults said they favor affirmative action and 43% did not, with blacks and Hispanics far more likely to favor the practice than whites. And some educators doubt that with Monday’s ruling, those opposing affirmative action will change their minds.For now, admissions officials and university lawyers are poring over the ruling to determine how or — whether to adjust policies. While most tend to be closed mouthed about admissions policies, many they don’t expect significant changes.1.Which of the following in the opinion of the opponents of affirmative action?2.Connery insisted that the Court's ruling should （）.3.What is the attitude of the Department of Education towards affirmative action?4.Which of the following is true about affirmative action according to the text?

Nearly everybody cheats, but usually only a little. That is one of the themes in Dnanel Ariely’s new book “the (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty”. Most of us think we are very wonderful. We can cheat at a little and still keep that “good parson” identity.Ariely, who is one of the most creative social scientists on the planet, had one blind colleague and one sighted colleague take rides. The drivers cheated the sighted colleague by taking long routes much more often than they cheated the blind one, even though she would have been easier to mislead. They would have felt guilty cheating a blind woman. Ariely points out that we are driven by morality much more than standard economic models allow. But I was struck by what you might call the good person construct and the moral calculus it implies. For the past several centuries, most westerners would have identified themselves fundamentally as depraved sinners. In this construct, sin is something you fight like a recurring cancer ― part of a daily battle against evil.But these days, people are more likely to believe in their essential goodness. People who live by the good person construct try to balance their virtuous self-image with their selfish desires. They try to manage the moral pluses and minuses and keep their overall record in positive territory. In this construct, moral life is more like dieting: the good person isn’t shooting for perfection and more than most dieters are following their diet 100 percent. It’s enough to be workably suboptimal and a generally good guy.Obviously, though, there’s a measurement problem. You can buy a weight scale to get an objective measure of your diet. But you can’t buy a scale of virus to put on the bathroom floor. And given our awesome capacities for rationalization and self-deception, most of us are going to measure ourselves leniently. I was honest with that blind passenger because I am a wonderful person. I cheated the sighted one because she probably has too much money anyway.The key job in the good person construct is to manage your rationalizations and self-deceptions to keep them from getting conspicuous. Ariely suggests you reset your moral gauge from time to time. Your moral standards will gradually slip as you become more and more comfortable you’re your own rationalizations.I’d add that you really shouldn’t shoot for goodness, which is so vague. We’re mostly unqualified to judge our own moral performance, so attach yourself to some exterior or social standards. And as we go about doing our good person moral educations, it might be worth asking: Is this good enough?1.To which of the following statement would Ariely agree?2.Western traditional culture maintained that human nature is （）.3.According to the author, good person construct （）. 4.The word “leniently” in paragraph 4 most probably means（）.

Three years ago, French entrepreneur Gary Cige was helping a friend hang a mirror in his country house when they realized they needed a drill. But where to get one? Buying one would cost 150 Euros, a huge waste considering they needed it for only half an hour. And since it was Sunday, every rental shop would be closed. Yet as Cige realized, they were likely surrounded by drills. Odds are, at least one of his friend’s neighbors had a drill that was sitting idle. Why wasn’t there some easy way to find a drill to rent — for just a few bucks?Propelled by that idea, Cige cofounded Zilok, a startup that offers precisely this service: People post possessions they’re willing to rent out, along with a price. Cige’s Web site processes the fee, tracks the reputation of your renting partner, and— in France — even issues insurance for your item. After two years in business, Zilok has 150,000 items listed, with 6, 000 transactions a month, and it’s the fastest-growing renter of cars in France.Peer to peer renting — and similar services— has boomed in the past few years. Some work like Zilok, while others let people exchange things they own (such as book and CDs at Swaptree). A few even let you take advantage of space that’s lying fallow, like Shared Earth, where land owners hook up with gardeners.In essence, we’re seeing a new relationship to property — where access trumps ownership. We’re using bits to help us share atoms. The genius of these sites is that they make a virtue of modern society’s ecological sin: oversupply. In developed countries, we’re prosperous but horribly wasteful. We buy tons of things we use rarely —and which sit unused in basements and storage lockers.Peer renting and sharing is, of course, an old idea. But it never took off before, for logistical reasons; it was too hard to connect millions of renters to owners. The Internet’s Bayesian ability to make markets solved that problem. The net also provides crucial glue, as the new startup Zimride proves. Ride-sharing systems have historically petered out because it can be kind of creepy to pick up strangers. So instead, Zimride lets people share rides with friends of friends from Facebook through either Facebook Connect or networks it sets up for individual organizations. “The limiting factor before was trust,” Zimride cofounder Logan Green says, “and Facebook solved that.”Besides the environmental benefits, there are economic ones. Some users of Zilok make more than $1,000 a month circulating their possessions. Granted, it’s not enough to quit your day job, but a little extra dough for almost no effort never hurts.As peer-to-peer renting and swapping evolves, tools like geolocation and micropayments could make it even smoother and more ubiquitous. Rachel Botsman, coauthor of What’s Mine Is Yours — a new book that documents “collaborative consumption”— envisions a world in which everyone’s stuff reports its status in real time: Where is the right now? Is it available for use by someone else?Your property could circulate for days or months, making your money instead of molding in your garage “We’re facing a revolution in the way we think of ownership,” Botsman says. Or, to put it other way, your drill may be my drill, too.1.In the opening paragraph, the author introduces his topic by （）.2.Which of the following is true of Zilok?3.Peer-to-peer renting essentially features （）. 4.It can be concluded that the success of Zimride mainly lies in the ability of（）.

Last week 29 earnest American high school students were invited to an evening of receiving good words, small talk, warm toasts and fancy silverware.“Find out something about the person sitting next to you,” advised formal US secretary of State Madeleine Albright. “Eventually, you'll discover they always have something interesting to say. And you should always use the proper silverware in the proper order.”Albright was the guest of honor at the imitated Official dinner, which was a lot like a real official dinner in Washington minus the soft money. The evening was sponsored by the St. Albans School of Public Services to introduce its first class to the fine art of social survival. More than 84 guests, including students, teachers, school donors and speakers gathered to imitate the lifestyle of the rich and the political.The idea was to teach the social graces that will help students survive any social situation. Anyway, the whole proper fork thing is overrated. Formal white house official C. Boyden Gray shared its top tips for surviving dinner parties: “Drink as little as possible until you get to dinner. “Don’t be the first person there or the last person to leave.” “Try to get more out of your dinner partners than they get out of you.”Every Official Dinner has a greater reason for being. State dinners, for example, are either an opportunity to reward emerging democracies or strengthen old friendships.The official dinner was intended to show the students an elegant evening in Washington — part of the four-week intensive summer program to encourage public service. The students are from 13 states and two foreign countries.The program includes classes on the presidency, the courts, the media and interactional affairs. The students also debated public policy issues. “They’re still at it at 10 o’clock at night” said director Mary Waikato. “That’s good practice for Washington, isn't it?”Since there was no band, Albright offered herself up as the night’s entertainer. No singing, but stories about her life in diplomacy. “Being secretary of state is the best job in the world,” she said, “better than being president, because you don’t have to deal with the elections.”1.Last week a group of high school students were invited to the dinner party （）. 2.According to Madeleine Albright, at an official dinner （）. 3.The imitated Official Dinner is different from the real ones in that the dinner（）.4.We can conclude from the passage that（）.

Although cats cannot see in complete darkness, their eyes are much more（）to light than human eyes.

To explore mechanical secret detection, a search institute has developed a synthetic nose which can detect scents in vapors at a（）of one particle to a million.

When a psychologist does a general experiment about the human mind, he selects people（）and asks them questions.

Since the two parties couldn't（）their differences, they decided to stop their negotiations.

Peter's body temperature has been（）for a week, the highest point reaching 39.5 degree centigrade.

The mayor was asked to （）his speech in order to allow the audience to raise questions.

A good scientist （）into all aspects of a problem in order to find solutions.

Do you agree with the saying that the monkey was the of the （）human race?

I phoned him this morning, but when I said who I was, he（）.

Hard work and malnutrition （）his health and he looked thin and pale.

With all its advantages, the computer is by no means without its（）.

Those who are under 18 are not（）to join this club.

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