读写任务Many people believe that in the future computers will be used in lots of everyday activities. It is thought that we won’t go shopping because many goods are available on the Internet.There will be no more books because all books will be available from electronic libraries.The Internet will be used to book holidays, rent films and order food. Most telephone calls will be made over the Internet as well. Some people are excited about these new developments.Others, however, do not think that computers will replace our present ways of shopping and communicating.
Is Internet shopping as much fun as traditional shopping ? Many people say it is not. It is fun to go into shops and look at the goods in person. It is also unlikely that many people will want to read large texts on their computers because paper books will possibly be more user- friendly. Maybe, computers won’t change these habits.
【写作内容】
1．以约30个词概括材料中心内容。
2．以约120个词表达如下要点：
（1）描述你周围的同学对网上购物的不同看法。
（2）你喜欢传统的购物方式还是网上购物？
（3）结合自己的生活体验说明你喜欢的理由。
【写作要求】
1．作文中可使用自己的亲身经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容但不得直接引用原文中的句子。
2. 作文中不能出现自己的真实姓名和学校名称。
【评分标准】
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。
“无车日”(Car-free Day)是一项节能环保的活动，下面请你介绍活动有关情况，并号召更多的城市和居民参与到该活动中来。
活动背景：随着经济的发展，更多家庭拥有私家车，造成严重的交通问题和环境污染。
活动时间：每年9月22日 参与者：全国108个城市
活动目的：提高人们节约能源与保护环境的意识
活动内容：倡议人们选用公共汽车、自行车或步行方式
活动效果：得到全国人民的支持, 取得巨大成功
【写作要求】
只能用5个句子表达要表达的内容。
【评分标准】
句子结构准确；信息内容完整；篇章结构连贯。
信息匹配A. Happiness lies in persistent pursuit.
B. Happiness is in your own hand.
C. Self-knowledge is positively related to happiness.
D. Happiness is based on comparison.
E. There does not exist a guide to happiness.
F. Happiness is all about doing what you want to.
以下是5个人对幸福的看法，请把个人的看法与上面对幸福的表述匹配起来。
1. Heather Mccoy
Entering a bookstore, one cannot help but notice entire shelves devoted to books boating knowledge of the true path to happiness.
Whether this wave of commercials and books can actually make people happier is the question. Happiness cannot be found by sticking to a narrow set of steps or rules. Finding happiness is not as simple as following a how-to-do handbook. It’s something that every person must find in his or her own way.
2. Gary Russell
Does happiness grow proportionally with wealth? Hardly.
Experiences teaches us material satisfaction comes only when one finds himself wealthier than those around him; and, in a similar manner, one feels of being lowered when facing a billionaire, while a worker with a monthly salary of several hundred dollars becomes the envy of the villagers in remote mountainous regions.
3. David Niven
True happiness is not a result from human action. Results are temporary while happiness is everywhere and can neither be created nor destroyed. With true happiness there is no place for disappointments! True happiness may mean pain and restraint in the beginning but will lead to everlasting joy and freedom. To achieve true happiness, we should separate and remove the negatives. True happiness is realized by understanding one’s own self.
4. Joshua Party
Happiness is a state of mind. you can be happy in almost any situation. Likewise, you can be unhappy in an equal number of situations.In the end, it’s your decision.
If one can control one’s unhappiness, then one must be able to control one’s happiness. As far as I know, the human genome project has not been able to identify a single part of any human chromosome(染色体) which is responsible for happiness.
5. Laura Johnson
So what makes me a happy person? Studying to be a journalist because I loved to write, not because it pays a lot of money. Skiing in the winter snow and swimming in the summer sun. Spending time with my close friends from home. Being in a stable family. Reading romance novels and watching movies. Having a boyfriend who knows more about rock and roll history than I do.
Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish gather by the thousands off an Alabama pirer. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes（沼泽）, never to be seen again.
Marine scientists studying the effects of the BP disaster（英国石油公司漏油事件）are seeing some strange phenomena. Fish and other wildlife seem to be fleeing the oil out in the Gulf and clustering in cleaner waters along the coast in a trend that some researchers see as a potentially troubling sign. The animals' presence close to shore means their usual habitat is badly polluted, and the crowding could result in mass die-offs as fish run out of oxygen. Also, the animals could easily be captured by their enemies.
The nearly two-month-old spill（漏油）has created an environmental disaster in US history as tens of millions of gallons have flown into the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. Scientists are seeing some unusual things as they try to understand the effects on thousands of species of marine life.
For nearly four hours Monday, a three-person crew with Greenpeace cruised past delicate islands and mangrove-dotted inlets in Barataria Bay off southern Louisiana. They saw dolphins by the dozen frolicking（嬉戏）in the oily sheen（光泽）and oil-tinged pelicans feeding their young. But they spotted no dead animals.
"I think part of the reason why we're not seeing more yet is that the impacts of this crisis are really just beginning," Greenpeace marine biologist John Hocevar said.
The counting of dead wildlife in the Gulf is more than an academic exercise; the deaths will help determine how much BP pays in damages.
1.What do the marine life react to the BP disaster?
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A．Birds crawl deep into caves. |
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B．Dolphins and sharks show up in deep water. |
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C．Tens of thousands of marine animals are found dead. |
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D．Sea creatures flee from oil spill, gathering near seashore. |
2.The environmental disaster was caused by .
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A．the damage of the Mexico Gulf ecosystem |
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B．the lack of environmental sense of BP |
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C．the nearly two-month-old oil spill |
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D．the crowding marine life |
3.What is John Hocevar’s attitude towards the disaster?
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A．Worried. |
B．Disappointed. |
C．Depressed. |
D．Neutral. |
4.From the passage, we can infer that .
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A．BP will pay much money according to the number of dead wildlife there |
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B．marine scientists have seen some strange phenomena |
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C．the disaster has little influence on dolphins |
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D．a three-person crew reached no conclusion |
5. The test is most probably a ______ .
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A．newspaper ad |
B．book review |
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C．science news report |
D．science fiction story |
There are many older people in the world and there will be many more. A little-known fact is that over 60 percent of the older people live in developing countries. According to the World Health Organization, by 2020 there will be 1 billion, with over 700 million living in developing countries.
It is a surprising fact that the population ageing is particularly rapid in developing countries. For example, it took France 115 years for the rate of older people to double from 7 percent to 14 percent. It is estimated to take China a mere 27 years to achieve this same increase.
What are the implications of these increased numbers of older folk? One of the biggest worries for governments is that the longer people live, the more likelihood there is for diseases and for disability. Attention is being paid to the need to keep people as healthy as possible, including during old age, to lessen the financial burden on the state.
Another significant problem is the need for the younger generations to understand and value the older people in their society. In some African countries, certainly in Asia, older people are respected and regarded as the ones with special knowledge. Yet traditions are fading away daily, which does not make sure the continued high regard of older people. As society changes, attitudes will change.
Much needs to be done to get rid of age discrimination in employment. Life-long learning programs need to be provided to enable older people to be active members in a country's development.
Social security policies need to be established to provide adequate income protection for older people. Both public and private schemes are vital in order to build a suitable safety net.
1.The rate of older people________.
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A．is bigger in developed countries than in developing countries |
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B．is one-seventh of the population in developing countries |
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C．will increase much faster in China than in France |
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D．will be sixty percent in developing countries by 2020 |
2.According to passage, which of the following are governments most worried about
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A．Thediseasesanddisabilityofolderpeople. |
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B．Thelongerlifeandgoodhealthofpeople. |
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C．Thelossoftaxesonolderpeople. |
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D．Theincreasingrespectforolderpeople. |
3. It is stated directly in the passage that older people should ________.
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A．be treated differently in different cultures |
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B．enjoy a similar lifestyle |
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C．be ignored as society changes |
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D．be valued by the yonger generations |
4.Which of the following measure is NOT mentioned to solve the population ageing problem?
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A．Getting rid of age discrimination in employment. |
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B．Supplying life-long learning programs to older people. |
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C．Making sure adequate income protection for older people. |
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D．Providing free health care for sick older people. |
5.The author concludes in the last paragraph that ________.
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A．governments have spent lots of time in solving the ageing problem |
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B．population ageing is a hard problem, but it needs to be solved urgently |
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C．people are too busy to solve the population ageing problem |
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D．much time and effort will be lost in solving the ageing problem |
Engineering students are supposed to be examples of practicality and rationality (理性), but when it comes to my college education I am an idealist and a fool. In high school I wanted to be an electrical engineer and, of course, any reasonable student with my aims would have chosen a college with a large engineering department, many famous professors and lots of good labs and research equipment. But that's not what I did.
I chose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts (文科) university that doesn't even offer a major in electrical engineering. Obviously, this was not a practical choice; I came here for more noble reasons. I wanted a broad education that would provide me with flexibility and a value system to guide me in my job. I wanted to open my eyes and expand my vision by communicating with people who weren't studying science or engineering. My parents, teachers and other adults praised me for such a wise choice. They told me I was wise and grown-up beyond my 18 years, and I believed them.
I headed off to the college and sure I was going to have an advantage over those students who went to big engineering "factories" where they didn't care if you had values or were flexible. I was going to be a complete engineer: technical expert and excellent humanist all in one.
Now I'm not so sure. Somewhere along the way my noble ideas crashed into reality, as all noble ideas finally do. After three years of struggling to balance math, physics and engineering courses with liberal-arts courses, I have learned there are reasons why few engineering students try to reconcile engineering with liberal-arts courses in college.
The reality that has blocked my path to become the typical successful student is that engineering and the liberal arts simply don't mix as easily as I supposed in high school. Individually they shape a person in very different ways. The struggle to reconcile the two fields of study is difficult.
1.Why did the author choose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts university?
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A．He intended to become an engineer and humanist. |
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B．He intended to be a reasonable student with noble ideals. |
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C．He wanted to be an example of practicality and rationality. |
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D．He wanted to communicate with liberal-arts students. |
2.According to the author, by communicating with people who study liberal arts, engineering students can ___________.
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A．become noble idealists |
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B．broaden their knowledge |
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C．find a better job in the future |
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D．balance engineering and liberal arts |
3. Which word below can replace the underlined word “reconcile”?
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A．confuse |
B．compare |
C．combine |
D．compete |
4.The underlined sentence in 1st paragraph means ___________.
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A．he has failed to achieve his ideal aims |
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B．he is not a practical and rational student |
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C．his choice of attending to a small liberal-arts university is reasonable |
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D．his idea of combining engineering with liberal - arts is noble and wise |
5. The author suggests in this passage that ___________.
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A．liberal-arts students are supported to take engineering courses |
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B．technical experts with a wide vision are expected in the society |
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C．successful engineering students are more welcomed in the society |
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D．engineering universities with liberal-arts courses are needed |
