For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an announcement to welcome students to join a club. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese:
1．本社团的主要活动内容；
2．参加本社团的好处；
3．如何加入本社团。
The man is fond of traveling.
The woman is a photographer.
The woman took a lot of pictures at the contest.
The man admires the woman’s talent in writing.
The man regrets being absent-minded.
The woman saved the man some trouble.
The man placed the reading list on a desk.
The woman emptied the waste paper basket.
He quit teaching in June.
He has left the army recently.
He opened a restaurant near the school.
He has taken over his brother’s business.
She seldom reads books from cover to cover.
She is interested in reading novels.
She read only part of the book.
She was eager to know what the book was about.
She was absent all week owing to sickness.
She was seriously injured in a car accident.
She called to say that her husband had been hospitalized.
She had to be away from school to attend to her husband.
The speakers want to rent the Smiths’ old house.
The man lives two blocks away from the Smiths.
The woman is not sure if she is on the right street.
The Smiths’ new house is not far from their old one.
The man had a hard time finding a parking space.
The woman found they had got to the wrong spot.
The woman was offended by the man’s late arrival.
The man couldn’t find his car in the parking lot.
Nearly fifty percent are foreigners.
About fifteen percent are from Africa.
A large majority are from Latin America.
A small number are from the Far East.
She will have more contact with students.
It will bring her capability into fuller play.
She will be more involved in policy-making.
It will be less demanding than her present job.
A grand wedding was being held in the hotel.
There was a conference going on in the city.
The hotel was undergoing major repairs.
It was a busy season for holiday-makers.
It was free of charge on weekends.
It had a 15% discount on weekdays.
It was offered to frequent guests only.
It was 10% cheaper than in other hotels.
Demand compensation from the hotel.
Ask for an additional discount.
Complain to the hotel manager.
Find a cheaper room in another hotel.
He taught English in Chicago.
He was crippled in a car accident.
He worked to become an executive.
He was born with a limp.
She was fond of living an isolated life.
She was fascinated by American culture.
She was very generous in offering help.
She was highly devoted to her family.
By bringing an animal rarely seen on nearby farms.
By bringing a bag of grain in exchange for a ticket.
By offering to do volunteer work at the fair.
By performing a special skill at the entrance.
They contribute to the modernization of American farms.
They help to increase the state governments’ revenue.
They provide a stage for people to give performances.
They remind Americans of the importance of agriculture.
He was able to talk again.
He raced to the nursing home.
He could tell red and blue apart.
He could not recognize his wife.
They welcomed the publicity in the media.
They avoided appearing on television.
They released a video of his progress.
They declined to give details of his condition.
Students’ pressure sometimes comes from their parents. Most parents are well 【B1】___, but some of them aren’t very helpful with the problems their sons and daughters have in 【B2】___to college, and a few of them seem to go out of their way to add to their children’s difficulties.
For one thing, parents are often not 【B3】______ of the kinds of problems their children face. They don’t realize that the 【B4】______ is keener, that the required 【B5】_______ of work are higher, and that their children may not be prepared for the change. 【B6】___to seeing A’s and B’s on high school report cards, they may be upset when their children’s first 【B7】___ college grades are below that level. At their kindest, they may gently 【B8】______ why John or Mary isn’t doing better, whether he or she is trying as hard as he or she should, and so on. 【B9】______________________.
Sometimes parents regard their children as extensions of themselves and 【B10】___________________. In their involvement and identification with their children, they forget that everyone is different and that each person must develop in his or her own way. They forget that their children, 【B11】___________________.
Years ago, doctors often said that pain was a normal part of life. In particular, when older patients 【S1】______ of pain, they were told it was a natural part of aging and they would have to learn to live with it.
Times have changed. Today, we take pain 【S2】___. Indeed, pain is now considered the fifth vital sign, as important as blood pressure, temperature, breathing rate and pulse in 【S3】___ a person’s well-being. We know that chronic(慢性的) pain can disrupt(扰乱) a person’s life, causing problems that 【S4】______ from missed work to depression.
That’s why a growing number of hospitals now depend upon physicians who 【S5】______ in pain medicine. Not only do we evaluate the cause of the pain, which can help us treat the pain better, but we also help provide comprehensive therapy for depression and other psychological and social 【S6】______ related to chronic pain. Such comprehensive therapy often 【S7】______ the work of social workers, psychiatrists(心理医生) and psychologists, as well as specialists in pain medicine.
This modern 【S8】______ for pain management has led to a wealth of innovative treatments which are more effective and with fewer side effects than ever before. Decades ago, there were only a 【S9】______ number of drugs available, and many of them caused 【S10】______ side effects in older people, including dizziness and fatigue. This created a double-edged sword: the medications helped relieve the pain but caused other problems that could be worse than the pain itself.
WORD BANK
A) result B) involves C) significant D) range E) relieved
F) issues G) seriously H) magnificent I) determining J) limited
K) gravely L) complained M) respect N) prompting O) specialize
I’ve been writing for most of my life. The book Writing Without Teachers introduced me to one distinction and one practice that has helped my writing processes tremendously. The distinction is between the creative mind and the critical mind. While you need to employ both to get to a finished result, they cannot work in parallel no matter how much we might like to think so.
Trying to criticize writing on the fly is possibly the single greatest barrier to writing that most of us encounter. If you are listening to that 5th grade English teacher correct your grammar while you are trying to capture a fleeting (稍纵即逝的) thought, the thought will die. If you capture the fleeting thought and simply share it with the world in raw form, no one is likely to understand. You must learn to create first and then criticize if you want to make writing the tool for thinking that it is.
The practice that can help you past your learned bad habits of trying to edit as you write is what Elbow calls “free writing.” In free writing, the objective is to get words down on paper non-stop, usually for 15-20 minutes. No stopping, no going back, no criticizing. The goal is to get the words flowing. As the words begin to flow, the ideas will come out from the shadows and let themselves be captured on your notepad or your screen.
Now you have raw materials that you can begin to work with using the critical mind that you’ve persuaded to sit on the side and watch quietly. Most likely, you will believe that this will take more time than you actually have and you will end up staring blankly at the page as the deadline draws near.
Instead of staring at a blank screen start filling it with words no matter how bad. Halfway through your available time, stop and rework your raw writing into something closer to finished product. Move back and forth until you run out of time and the final result will most likely be far better than your current practices.
When the author says the creative mind and the critical mind “cannot work in parallel” (Line 4, Para. 1) in the writing process, he means ________.
no one can be both creative and critical
they cannot be regarded as equally important
they are in constant conflict with each other
one cannot use them at the same time
What prevents people from writing on is ________.
putting their ideas in raw form
attempting to edit as they write
ignoring grammatical soundness
trying to capture fleeting thoughts
What is the chief objective of the first stage of writing?
To organize one’s thoughts logically.
To choose an appropriate topic.
To get one’s ideas down.
To collect raw materials.
One common concern of writers about “free writing” is that ________.
it overstresses the role of the creative mind
it takes too much time to edit afterwards
it may bring about too much criticism
it does not help them to think clearly
In what way does the critical mind help the writer in the writing process?
It refines his writing into better shape.
It helps him to come up with new ideas.
It saves the writing time available to him.
It allows him to sit on the side and observe.
I don’t ever want to talk about being a woman scientist again. There was a time in my life when people asked constantly for stories about what it’s like to work in a field dominated by men. I was never very good at telling those stories because truthfully I never found them interesting. What I do find interesting is the origin of the universe, the shape of space-time and the nature of black holes.
At 19, when I began studying astrophysics, it did not bother me in the least to be the only woman in the classroom. But while earning my Ph. D. at MIT and then as a post-doctor doing space research, the issue started to bother me. My every achievement—jobs, research papers, awards—was viewed through the lens of gender(性别) politics. So were my failures. Sometimes, when I was pushed into an argument on left brain versus(相对于) right brain, or nature versus nurture(培育) , I would instantly fight fiercely on my behalf and all womankind.
Then one day a few years ago, out of my mouth came a sentence that would eventually become my reply to any and all provocations: I don’t talk about that anymore. It took me 10 years to get back the confidence I had at 19 and to realize that I didn’t want to deal with gender issues. Why should curing sexism be yet another terrible burden on every female scientist? After all, I don’t study sociology or political theory.
Today I research and teach at Barnard, a women’s college in New York City. Recently, someone asked me how many of the 45 students in my class were women. You cannot imagine my satisfaction at being able to answer, 45. I know some of my students worry how they will manage their scientific research and a desire for children. And I don’t dismiss those concerns. Still, I don’t tell them “war” stories. Instead, I have given them this: the visual of their physics professor heavily pregnant doing physics experiments. And in turn they have given me the image of 45 women driven by a love of science. And that’s a sight worth talking about.
From Paragraph 2, we can infer that people would attribute the author’s failures to ________.
the very fact that she is a woman
her involvement in gender politics
her over-confidence as a female astrophysicist
the burden she bears in a male-dominated society
What did the author constantly fight against while doing her Ph.D. and post-doctoral research?
Lack of confidence in succeeding in space science.
Unfair accusations from both inside and outside her circle.
People’s stereotyped attitude towards female scientists.
Widespread misconceptions about nature and nurture.
Why does the author feel great satisfaction when talking about her class?
Female students no longer have to bother about gender issues.
Her students’ performance has brought back her confidence.
Her female students can do just as well as male students.
More female students are pursuing science than before.
What does the image the author presents to her students suggest?
Women students needn’t have the concerns of her generation.
Women have more barriers on their way to academic success.
Women can balance a career in science and having a family.
Women now have fewer problems pursuing a science career.
An earthquake hit Kashmir on Oct. 8, 2005. It took some 75,000 lives, 【B1】 130,000 and left nearly 3.5 million without food, jobs or homes. 【B2】 overnight, scores of tent villages bloomed 【B3】 the region, tended by international aid organizations, military 【B4】 and aid groups working day and night to shelter the survivors before winter set 【B5】.
Mercifully, the season was mild. But with the 【B6】 of spring, the refugees will be moved again. Camps that 【B7】 health care, food and shelter for 150,000 survivors have begun to close as they were 【B8】 intended to be permanent.
For most of the refugees, the thought of going back brings 【B9】 emotions. The past six months have been difficult. Families of 【B10】 many as 10 people have had to shelter 【B11】 a single tent and share cookstoves and bathing 【B12】 with neighbors. “They are looking forward to the clean water of their rivers,” officials say. “They are 【B13】 of free fresh fruit. They want to get back to their herds and start 【B14】 again.” But most will be returning to 【B15】 but heaps of ruins. In many villages, electrical 【B16】 have not been repaired, nor have roads. Aid workers 【B17】 that it will take years to rebuild what the earthquake took 【B18】. And for the thousands of survivors, the 【B19】 will never be complete.
Yet the survivors have to start somewhere. New homes can be built 【B20】 the stones, bricks and beams of old ones. Spring is coming and it is a good time to start again.
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