1、. You can cite examples to illustrate your point and then explain what you can do to avoid being distracted by irrelevant information? You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.作文三:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on happiness by referring to the sayin
2、g”Happiness is not the absence of problems”,but the ability to deal with them.” You can cite examples to illustrate your point and then explain how you can develop your ability to deal with problem and be happy.you should write at least 150words but no more than 200words. Section C Directions: In th
3、is section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is
4、read for the third time, you should check what you have written.注意:此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 It is important that we be mindful of the earth, the planet out of which we are born and by which we are nourished, guided, healed-the planet, however, which we have(26)_to a considerable degree in these past two cent
5、uries of (27)_exploitation, this exploitation has reached such(28)_that presently it appears that some hundreds of thousands of species will be(29)_before the end of the century. In our times, human shrewdness has mastered the deep(30)_of the earth at a level far beyond the capabilities of earlier p
6、eoples, we can break the mountains apart, we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys, we can turn the most luxuriant forests into throwaway paper products, we can(31)_the great grass cover of the western plains and pour(32)_chemicals into the soil until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind
7、,We can pollute the air with acids, the river with sewage(污水), the seas with oil. We can invent computers(33)_processing ten million calculations per second. And why? To increase the volume and the waste heap, our managerial skills are measured by the competence(34)_in accelerating this process. If
8、in these activities the physical features of the planet are damaged, if the environment is made inhospitable for(35)_living species, then so be it. We are supposedly creating a technological wondreworld.Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to sel
9、ect one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line thr
10、ough the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Quite often, educators tell families of children who are learning English as a second language to speak only English, and not their native language, at home. Although th
11、ese educators may have good (36) _ , their advice to families is misguided, and it (37) _ from misunderstandings about the process of language acquisition. Educators may fear that children hearing two languages will become (38) _ confused and thus their language development will be (39) _ this conce
12、rn is not documented in the literature. Children are capable of learning more than one language, whether (40) _ or sequentially(依次地). In fact, most children outside of the United States are expected to become bilingual or even, in many cases, multilingual. Globally, knowing more than one language is
13、 viewed as an (41) _ and even a necessity in many areas.It is also of concern that the misguided advice that students should speak only English is given primarily to poor families with limited educational opportunities, not to wealthier families who have many educational advantages. Since children f
14、rom poor families often are (42) _ as at-risk for academic failure, teachers believe that advising families to speak English only is appropriate. Teachers consider learning two languages to be too (43) _ for children from poor families, believing that the children are already burdened by their home
15、situations。If families do not know English or have limited English skills themselves, how can they communicate in English? Advising non-English-speaking families to speak only English is (44) _ to telling them not to communicate with or interact with their children. Moreover, the (45) _ message is t
16、hat the familys native language is not important or valued。A) Asset I)permanentlyB) Delayed j)prevalentC) Deviates k)simultaneouslyD) Equivalent L)stemsE) Identified M)successivelyF) Intentions N)underlyingG) Object O) visualizingH) Overwhelmingsection BDirections:In this section, you are going to r
17、ead a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.you may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Answer the questions by marking the corr
18、esponding letter on Answer Sheet 2. The Uses of Difficulty The brain likes a challenge and putting a few obstacles in its way may well boost its creativity.A)Jack White, the former frontman of the white stripe and an influential figure among fellow musicians, likes to make things difficult for himse
19、lf. He uses cheap guitars that wont stay in shape or in tune. When performing, he positions his instruments in a way that is deliberately inconvenient, so that switching from guitar to organ mid-song involves a mad dash across the stage. Why? Because hes on the run from what he describes as a diseas
20、e that preys on every artist:ease of use. When making music gets too easy, says white, it becomes harder to make it sing.B)Its an odd thought. Why would anyone make their work more difficult than it already is? Yet we know that difficulty can pay unexpected dividends. In 1966, soon after the Beatles
21、 had finished work on Rubber Soul, Paul McCartney looked into the possibility of going to America to record their next album. The equipment in American studios was more advanced than anything in Britain, which had led the Beatles great rivals, the Rolling Stones, to make their latest album, Aftermat
22、h, in Los Angles. McCartney found that EMIs (百代唱片)contractual clauses made it prohibitively expensive to follow suit, and the Beatles had to make do with the primitive technology of Abbey Road.C) Lucky for us .Over the next two years they made their most groundbreaking work. Turning the recording st
23、udio into a magical instrument of its own. Precisely because they were working with old-fashioned machines, George Martin and his team of engineers were forced to apply every once of their creativity to solve the problems posed to them by Lennon and McCartney. Songs like Tomorrow Never Knows, Strawb
24、erry Fields Forever , and A Day in the Life featured revolutionary sound effects that dazzled and mystified Martins American counterparts.D)Sometimes its only when a difficulty is removed that we realize what it was doing for us. For More than two decades, starting in the 1960s, the poet Ted Hughes
25、sat on the judging panel of an annual poetry competition for British schoolchildren. During the 1980s he noticed an increasing number of long poems among the submissions, with some running to 70 or 80 pages. These poems were verbally inventive and fluent, but alsostrangely boring. After making inqui
26、ries Hughes discovered that they were being composed on computer, then just finding their way into British homes.E)You might have thought any tool which enables a writer to get words on to the page would be an advantage. But there may be a cost to such facility. In an interview with the Paris Review
27、 Hughes speculated that when a person puts pen to paper, you meet the terrible resistance of what happened your first year at it, when you couldnt write at all. As the brain attempts to force the unsteady hand to do its bidding(努力争取;尝试), the tension between the two results in a more compressed, psyc
28、hologically denser expression. Remove that resistance and you are more likely to produce a 70-page ramble(不着边际的长篇大论).F)Our brains respond better to difficulty than we imagine, In schools, teachers and pupils alike often assume that if a concept has been easy to learn, then the lesson has been succes
29、sful. But numerous studies have now found that when classroom material is made harder to absorb, pupils retain more of it over the long term, and understand it on a deeper level.G)As a poet, Ted Hughes had an acute sensitivity to the way in which constraints on self-expression like the disciplines o
30、f metre rhyme(韵律),spur creative thought. What applies to poets and musicians also applies to our daily lives. We tend to equate(等同)happiness with freedom, but as the psychotherapist and writer Adam Phillips has observed, without obstacles to our desires its harder to know we want, or where were head
31、ing. He tells the story of a patient, a first-time mother who complained that her young son was always clinging to her, wrapping himself around her legs wherever she went. She never had a moment to herself, she said, because her son was always in the way. When Phillips asked her where she would go if he wasnt in the way, she replied cheerfully. Oh, I wouldnt know where I was!H)Take another common obstacle: lack of money. People often assume that more money will mak
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