Writing1. 1. People say we are now in a very competitive society. Do you agree with it or not? Why?
2. What will we do as talented people to make our country powerful and prosperous in the new century?
3. A country's economic prosperity can be reflected in people's daily life. Do you agree or disagree7 Give your reasons in detail.
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Economic Prosperity and People's Daily Life
As Chinese citizens, we have seen that Chinese people's living conditions have improved significantly with the miraculous economic take-off brought about by the 20 years' reform and opening-up. There is no doubt that a country's economic prosperity earl mainly be reflected in people's daily life.
Economic conditions are the chief factors that have great influence on a country's overall circumstance, especially on people's daily life. Therefore, the upgrading of living standards acts as an active role in representing the economic prosperity in a specific country. A vivid example is the abundance of Chinese people's daily life since reform and opening-up. With more and more multinational corporations investing in China, we Chinese can consume various products from almost all over the world. Fast-food restaurants like McDonald's and KFC provide children and young people not only with delicious food but also with a lot of fun. At the same time, we are no longer falling behind the leading tide in the world nowadays—high-tech manufactures are just a case in point. You can see Apple computers and Nokia cellphones in your life. Besides that, much more entertainment establishments are built for people to relax in their spare time. However, all these improvements were unimaginable in the past before we began reform and opening-up.
Two decades are but a blink of an eye in the long history of mankind, but during this period of time, Chinese people's life has indeed improved significantly. This is surely owing to the rapid economic development. So it is not difficult for us to reach the conclusion that a country's economic prosperity is reflected in people's daily life.
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Directions: Write a composition of no fewer than 200 words on ONE of the three topics below within haft an hour. 1. Some people say that in the highly developed industrial and material society, people are degenerating (退化) and are being dehumanized (使失去人性), and people can not live in harmony with nature. Do you agree with them? Why or why not?
Living in Harmony with Nature in a Post-industrial Society
2. A number of scholars have recently asserted that there exist large-scale human-induced environmental pressures, which lead to acute (尖锐的) social conflict. What are the effects of intervening (干预的、介入的) factors on the relation of human activity, environmental change, and acute social conflict according to your understand?
Causes of Conflicts Resulted from Environmental Change
3. With the coming of globalization, cross-cultural communication will be increasingly important. In your opinion, what will be the future trends of the Chinese culture?
The Future Trends of Chinese Culture
The Future Trends of Chinese Culture
With the coming of globalization, both country and individual is deeply influenced by it. The same is true to culture that is like a mirror that reflects the history and development of a country. With five thousand years' history, Chinese brilliant culture undoubtedly occupies an important position in the world and is involved in the trend of globalization. Along with the cross-cultural communication, some changes are appearing in Chinese culture.
Some people opposed Chinese culture is much influenced because they think that Chinese culture is the essence of world's culture heritage. However, I uphold that Chinese culture is influenced and changed. How can we remain unchanged in such a rapidly developing age? It is inevitable that the future trend of Chinese culture is towards the international direction. Both our own life and other countries' life should be enriched by our culture because Chinese culture is the asset of the whole world. While keeping our own traditional culture style, we can also accept the exotic civilization to serve both Chinese people and people all around.
Modern Chinese culture is embodied in various aspects of modern social life, including the advanced elements of information age which should be absorbed too. As an open culture, the future Chinese culture will welcome human excellent heritages across the world. Just like the communication envoy of China to the outside, Chinese culture is presenting our past excellent civilization heritage and advanced development results to the rest of the world. So we can say that on the basis of keeping our traditional essence, Chinese culture will embrace more and more new elements in the modern society. It is acting as a significant role to pass understanding and friendship among countries.
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Directions: Write an essay based on the following chart. In your writing, you should
(1) interpret the chart, and
(2) give your comments.
You should write about 150 words on the ANSWER SHEET.
我国某市居民春节假期花销比例
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From the pie chart given above, we can have a clear look at the proportions of residents' different consumptions during Spring Festival in a Chinese city. Obviously, making up 40%, the percentage of consumption taken by New Year's present ranks first. At the same time, that of gatherings and traffic account for 20% respectively, ranking second.
The pie chart conveys the fact that what occupies the largest percentage of the consumption is the cost of New Year's present. Why? There are two reasons. First, as we all know, Chinese have been valuing politeness and ceremonies since ancient times. Thus it is a symbol of inheriting Chinese civilization and virtue of sending present mutually , especially during the traditional festivals. Besides, people in mounting numbers can afford the once-deemed-expensive gifts to convey their warmest wishes and sincerest greetings as a result of the improvement of financial status and corresponding purchasing power.
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Directions: Please read the following article in Chinese carefully, and then write a summary of 200 words in English on the ANSWER SHEET. Make sure that you cover all the major points of the article.
家庭环境因素对儿童健康的影响
没有哪一个地方像家那么重要?真的吗?世卫组织的一项新研究确定了危及儿童健康的家庭环境因素。
世卫科学家们在报告中指出,欧洲婴幼儿和儿童多达90%的时间是在家中度过的,家庭环境从很多方面影响着儿童健康。该研究对世卫组织欧洲区的八个城市就住房、健康状况等进行了全面的分析和回顾。这八个城市分别是:法国的安格斯、德国的波恩、斯洛伐克的布拉迪斯拉发、匈牙利的布达佩斯、葡萄牙的佛雷拉、意大利的福尔姆、瑞士的日内瓦、立陶宛的维尔纽斯,以及后来加入的吉尔吉斯斯坦的奥沙。
根据这份报告,虽然家常常被认为是对儿童而言最安全的地方,但家却包藏了各种有害的环境因素:霉菌、噪音、环境烟草烟气、家用固体燃料燃烧、不洁用水、铅中毒及意外事故。下面是研究中的部分结果。
潮湿环境促使霉菌生长,从而导致儿童呼吸系统疾病。床垫上10μg/g的尘螨含量对11岁以前双亲有过敏性哮喘的儿童而言发病危险要增加五倍。50%以上哮喘患儿都有由猫、狗引发的病症。
环境烟草烟气(ETS)、室内固体燃料的燃烧、潮湿环境、尘螨颗粒以及宠物脱落的毛屑都构成了对儿童呼吸的主要威胁。在世卫组织欧洲区,据估计每年约有5万以上0~4岁儿童死于由室内污染导致的急性下呼吸道感染。在该地区,总体上说,使用固体燃料是室内空气污染的最大来源,在同年龄组中因此而死亡的病例达1万例之多。
睡眠质量也与健康状况有关。睡眠受到噪音干扰的儿童患偏头痛的几率是免受噪音干扰儿童的120%,并且这些儿童中90%以上极有可能伴有呼吸系统功能紊乱。
在所调查的8个城市中,1%的儿童家中没有水源,12%的儿童家中没有热水。虽然该数字因城市不同而变化,但还没有一个城市的所有儿童都可以在其住所用上热水。
对儿童健康最严重的威胁之一是铅中毒。在老房子,油漆和管道焊接处都有铅。禁止使用含铅汽油是减少血铅浓度含量高的儿童数量的有效措施,这些措施已使一些国家大于10μg/dl血铅浓度的儿童从1976—1980年的88.2%降至1999—2000年的2.2%。然而要彻底解决这个问题,就一定要在欧洲区实施该措施。
意外事故是5~15岁儿童致死的首要原因,家是他们容易受伤的一个地方,但很多危险是可以预防的。
在调查的儿童中,20%的孩子抱怨家周围没有足够的空间可以进行娱乐活动。这可能对进行体育活动的量产生直接影响。
注意:写作部分要求50分钟内完成。
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Environmental risks to children's health in the home.
There is no place like home? Is there? A new WHO study identified environmental risks to children's health in the home.
According to the report of WHO, the home setting affected children health in many ways. The study was a large analysis and review of European housing and health status in eight different WHO European cities.
According to the report, the home which was usually considered the safest place for children can host a variety of harmful environmental factors. Selected findings from the study include the following:
Damp conditions nurture the growth of mould, which affects children's respiratory diseases.
ETS, indoor solid-fuel combustion, humidity, dust mites and dander from pet animals represent major threats to the air children breathe.
Children whose sleep is disturbed by noise have 120% more chance of suffering form migraine and 90% of whom have more chance of suffering form respiratory disorders.
In no city surveyed did all children have access to hot water in their dwellings.
Lead poisoning is the most severe threats to children's health which is found in paint or solder for pipes.
20% surveyed children declared that they did not have enough space for recreation around their homes.
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Directions: Nowadays we can see American films and TV programs pouring in, fast food restaurants popping up in our cities, and many other imported products dominating our markets. Many people are happy to see them whereas others worry about such trends. Give your opinion in an essay of no less than 250 words.
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Nowadays people are increasingly aware that more and more exotic products appear in Chinese market. We can see a lot of Korean and Japanese games pour in, American films occupy our theaters, Mcdonald's pop up in our cities and other imported products dominate our markets.
Some people believe this phenomenon is good whereas others worry about such trends. As far as I am concerned, just like a two-edged sword, both advantages and disadvantages are going with this phenomenon. Above all, some imported products are of high quality and at reasonable prices, which is surely beneficial to Chinese consumers. Besides relishing a lot more consumer goods than ever before, Chinese people could have a great many choices of selecting products. Secondly, domestic entrepreneurs .who confront the competition of foreign products have to research and develop new products, to improve their services and to reform illogical management systems. So we can say that such trends will bring benefits to both Chinese consumers and manufacturers in a certain degree.
Yet not everything will always go smoothly. The negative effect of foreign products exists in many aspects. As we all know, China that is still a developing country needs to advance her own national industries, Only in this way, can the whole process of reform and opening-up be pushed forward. However, China's native entrepreneurs are confronting great threat from foreign companies, especially US corporations. Chinese market room is limited. If domestic entrepreneurs want to conquer it, they must possess advanced and core technology and sufficient fund of R&D, improving design, advertisement and promotion. If not, it is extremely hard for Chinese companies to survive in the competitive market.
Altogether, it is improper to judge that such trends are completely good or bad. However, there is one point that we have to admit, these two types of effects are in- evitable. As 10ng as Chinese entrepreneurs act initiatively to learn from and compete with foreign companies, they will overcome all the difficulties.