写作：
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic How to Make the Best Use of College Life. You should write at least 150 words, and base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:
1)有的大学生在入学后寻找各种途径去赚钱
2)有的大学生为应付各种考试，经常参加各种辅导班
3)你打算如何有效地利用你的大学时光
【思路点拨】
本题属于提纲式文字命题。提纲第1点和提纲第2点分别提出对待某问题的不同处理方式，提纲第3点要求谈谈“我”的处理方式，由此可判断本文应为对比选择型作文。
根据所给提纲，本文应包含以下内容：提出“如何有效利用大学时光”这一问题;阐述大学生主要将时间花在哪些方面和他们的主要考虑;谈谈“我”打算如何利用我的大学时光和“我”的主要理由。
【参考范文】
How to Make the Best Use of College Life
It is beyond doubt that we enjoy more free time in college than in middle school. But as to how to make use of our spare time, different students hold sharply different views.
In order to earn money, a good number of undergraduates are busy doing part-time jobs. In this way, they can relieve their families’ financial burden to some extent. Besides, they can achieve more independence through their work. Others are confronted by countless exams and they often attend guidance lectures in the hope of improving their performance in these tests. They believe that a record of good exam results will be useful when they look for jobs in the future.
As far as I am concerned, I will live my college life in a different way. On the one hand, as a student, I will give priority to the development of my knowledge and skills, so I am determined to spend most of my spare time studying hard. On the other hand, I think it is necessary for me to join one or more of the student associations. These associations can provide chances to improve my communicating skills and make my life colorful. In conclusion, I do believe that my college life will turn out to be colorful as well as fruitful.
阅读理解
More than two million people in Europe now have fibre broadband direct to their home, suggests a survey.
The latest figures on superfast broadband delivered by fibre to the home (FTTH) shows 18% growth over the last survey compiled in late 2008.
The continued growth suggests that the global economic downturn has not hit plans to build a fibre infrastructure (基础设施).
Sweden tops the list of nations rolling out the technology, with 10.9% of its broadband customers using fibre.
Karel Helsen, president of Europe’s Fibre-To-The-Home Council, said the growth matched predictions that were revised when the credit crunch (信用紧缩) started to make itself felt.
“The numbers in 2009 are in line with the latest forecasts,” said Mr. Helsen.
By 2012, the FTTH Council expects that 13 million people across 35 European nations will have their broadband delivered by fibre. Such services would start at speeds of 100 megabits per second (mbps), said Mr. Helsen.
Around Europe more than 233 projects were underway to lay the fibres that would connect homes or buildings to the net, said Mr. Helsen. Many of those, he said, were being operated by local governments or smaller net firms.
Local governments were interested in FTTH because of the economic and social benefits it brought in its wake, said Mr. Helsen.
The low latency or delay inherent in high-speed fibre networks made possible novel uses of broadband, he said. “No delay is very important,” he said, “specifically if you talk about applications that are time-dependent such as personal communications, conference calls or video calls where delays cause a lot of interference.”
While early FTTH services were concentrated in cities, said Mr. Helsen, many more were reaching out to rural areas for e-health and e-learning projects.
Separate studies show that an FTTH infrastructure can have a direct impact on local economic output, said Mr. Helsen.
The UK, France and Germany have yet to break into the list of top ten FTTH nations.
﹡TOP FIBRE NATIONS:
1) Sweden - 10.9% 2) Norway - 10.2% 3) Slovenia - 8.9% 4) Andorra - 6.6% 5) Denmark- 5.7% 6) Iceland - 5.6% 7) Lithuania - 3.3% 8) Netherlands - 2.5% 9) Slovakia - 2.5% 10) Finland - 2.4%
47. Despite the worsening global economy, the number of Europeans using fibre broadband .
48. When the credit crunch emerged, people’s forecasts about the growth of FTTH were .
49. According to Karel Helsen, who were mainly in charge of European’s fibre-laying projects?
50. Superfast broadband delivered by fibre saves users of instant communication from delays which
51. Different from the past, now more and more fibre projects are carried out in .
答案47. continues to grow 48. revised 49. Local governments or smaller net firms.
50. cause a lot of interference 51. rural areas
Musicians — from karaoke singers to professional cello players — are better able to hear targeted sounds in a noisy environment, according to new research that adds to evidence that music makes the brain work better.
“In the past ten years there’s been an explosion of research on music and the brain,” Aniruddh Patel, Senior Fellow at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, said today at a press briefing.
Most recently brain-imaging studies have shown that music activates many diverse parts of the brain, including an overlap in where the brain processes music and language.
Language is a natural aspect to consider in looking at how music affects the brain, Patel said. Like music, language is “universal, there’s a strong learning component, and it carries complex meanings.”
For example, brains of people exposed to even casual musical training have an enhanced ability to generate the brain wave patterns associated with specific sounds, be they musical or spoken, said study leader Nina Kraus, director of the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern University in Illinois.
But for people without a trained ear for music, the ability to make these patterns decreases as background noise increases, experiments show. Musicians, by contrast, have subconsciously trained their brains to better recognize selective sound patterns, even as background noise goes up.
At the same time, people with certain developmental disorders, such as dyslexia (诵读困难), have a harder time hearing sounds amid the continuing loud confused noise — a serious problem, for example, for students straining to hear the teacher in a noisy classroom.
Musical experience could therefore be a key therapy for children with dyslexia and similar language-related disorders, Kraus said.
In a similar vein, Harvard Medical School neuroscientist Gottfried Schlaug has found that stroke patients who have lost the ability to speak can be trained to say hundreds of phrases by singing them first.
In research also presented today at the AAAS meeting Schlaug demonstrated the results of intensive musical therapy on patients with lesions (损伤) on the left sides of their brains, those areas most associated with language.
Before the therapy, these stroke patients responded to questions with largely incoherent sounds and phrases. But after just a few minutes with therapists (治疗师), who asked them to sing phrases and tap their hands to the rhythm, the patients could sing “Happy Birthday,” recite their addresses, and communicate if they were thirsty.
“The underdeveloped systems on the right side of the brain that respond to music became enhanced and changed structures,” Schlaug said.
Overall, Schlaug said, the experiments show that “music might be an alternative medium for engaging parts of the brain that are otherwise not engaged.”
52. What do we learn from the first paragraph?
A) Music training can improve the function of the brain. B) Singers or instrument players tend to have better hearing.
C) There has been little evidence to prove the power of music.
D) Musicians are born with ability to hear targeted sound amid noise.
53. According to Aniruddh Patel, language is usually under consideration when ________.
A) musicians explain the complex meaning behind the music B) therapists try to treat patients who suffer from stroke
C) people research the connection between music and the brain D) researchers study the functions of different parts of the brain
54. Whether people can hear selective sounds amid noise depends on their ability to ________.
A) neglect the influence of the noise B) remember the meaning of the sounds
C) make the associated brain wave patterns D) tell musical sounds from spoken ones
55. According to Kraus, the significance of identifying the link between music and brain is that ________.
A) music training can be a way to enhance poor hearing
B) singing can be used to treat people with language disorders
C) intensive musical therapy may make a mute person speak
D) all brain disorders can be cured by learning musical sounds
56. The musical training therapists gave to the stroke patients actually _______.
A) enhanced the parts of the left brain which are under constant use
B) restored the language function of the damaged system in the left brain
C) hindered the damaged systems in the brain from deteriorating sharply
D) changed the structures of the underdeveloped systems in the right brain
答案 A C C B D
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As Sesame Street kicks off its 40th anniversary season Tuesday, with first lady Michelle Obama and Broadway star Lin-Manuel Miranda as guests, it is indisputably the most beloved children’s show in history, and one of television’s biggest and most enduring success stories.
The series holds a record 122 Emmy Awards, not including a lifetime-achievement trophy (奖± ) award, and has been adapted in more than 120 countries and territories around the globe. An estimated 100,000 Sesame products have been made available internationally, from T-shirts and costumes to high-tech toys such as Elmo Live.
Sesame’s cross-cultural, multi-generational appeal has a lot to do with the specific age group it targets. “The bulk of our audience is in the 2s and 3s, though we shoot for 2 to 4,” says executive producer Carol-Lynn Parente. At that early stage, says Spinney — who is 75, and has been with the show since Day 1 (he plays Oscar as well) — “children are basically the same, and have been through the years.”
But if preschoolers’ fundamental needs and sensibilities haven’t changed much, the world around them has — not least of all on the media landscape, where Sesame Street now competes with many other kids’ shows and an ever-expanding array of new media.
In 2000, the Children’s Television Workshop, the organization through which creator Joan Ganz Cooney launched Sesame Street on PBS predecessor NET, changed its title to Sesame Workshop, to reflect its expansion into the digital, interactive age.
Content and presentation continue to evolve on TV as well. The show’s famously catchy theme song, Sunny Day, now has a hip-hop beat and a jazzier arrangement. Parente stresses that it’s just as important “to keep our curriculum current. The ABC’s and 123’s are always there, but we stay relevant by incorporating other things that are interesting and meaningful.”
“We focus on all aspects of development — cognitive needs, social and emotional needs, health needs — and bring in advisers who are experts in each area, to make sure we’re age-appropriate,” says Rosemarie Truglio, vice president of education and research, Sesame Workshop. “But we never talk down to children, and we’re not afraid to explore sensitive topics.”
Sesame has had its critics in the academic community as well.
For Mary Lynn Crow, a clinical psychologist and professor of education at the University of Texas-Arlington, “shows like Sesame Street lack the potentially deep, personal emotional imprint (影响) that can and should occur between a student and teacher in an early educational experience.”
On the other hand, Crow considers Sesame Street “a beautiful model of what I call high-tech learning. They can teach children about letters, numbers, color and size through repetition in ways traditional education can’t, and provide early information about attitudes, values and relationships.”
57. What do we learn about Sesame Street from the first two paragraphs?
A) It rose to fame because of the first lady’s role. B) It’s successful and gains international popularity.
C) It still has to win a lifetime-achievement award. D) It is the most successful show in American history.
58. What’s Spinney’s opinion on the target audience of Sesame Street?
A) They are completely different than they were 40 years ago. B) Many of them are devoted fans of the performance.
C) Their basic needs haven’t changed much through years. D) They continue to watch the show when they have grown up.
59. The author says that in the current world, Sesame Street _______.
A) has slight edge over other shows targeting children B) has made some changes so as to keep up with the times
C) tries to cater to adults who accompany their children to the show
D) is doomed to fail due to its out-dated content and presentation
60. What can be inferred about Sesame Street from Rosemarie Truglio’s words?
A) It tries to prepare children both for school and life’s lessons. B) Its writer has changed the theme of the story for kids.
C) Children seem to be looked down upon in the show. D) Sensitive topics have always been banned in the show.
61. Mary Lynn Crow is negative about Sesame Street because she thinks it _______.
A) only touches up superficial relationships B) is too complicated for children to understand
C) goes against ways of traditional education D) repeats basic knowledge over and over again
答案 B C B A A
America is a country that now sits atop the cherished myth that work provides rewards, that working people can support their families. It's a myth that has become so divorced from reality that it might as well begin with the words "Once upon a time". Today 1.6 million New Yorkers suffer from "food insecurity", which is a fancy way of saying they don't have enough to eat. Some are the people who come in at night and clean the skyscrapers that glitter along the river. Some pour coffee and take care of the aged parents of the people who live in those buildings. The American Dream for the well-to-do grows from the bowed backs of the working poor, who too often have to choose between groceries and rent.
In a new book called "The Betrayal of Work", Beth Shulman says that even in the booming 1990s one out of every four American workers made less than $8. 70 an hour, an income equal to the government's poverty level for a family of four. Many, if not most, of these workers had no health care, sick pay or retirement provisions.
We ease our consciences, Shulman writes, by describing these people as "low skilled", as though they're not important or intelligent enough to deserve more. But Iow-skilled workers today are better educated than ever before, and they constitute the linchpin (SYNC) of American industry. When politicians crow (得意洋洋地说) that happy days are here again because jobs are on the rise, it's these jobs they're really talking about. Five of the 10 occupations expected to grow big in the next decade are in the lowest-paying job groups. And before we sit back and decide that's just the way it; is, it's instructive to consider the rest of the world. While the bottom 10 percent of American workers earn just 37 percent of our average wage, their counterparts in other industrialized countries earn upwards of 60 percent. And those are countries that provide health care and child care, which eases the economic pinch considerably.
Almost 40 years ago, when Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty, a family with a car and a house in the suburbs felt prosperous. Today that same family may well feel poor, overwhelmed by credit card debt, a second mortgage and the cost of the stuff that has become the backbone of American life. When the middle Class feels poor, the poor have little chance for change, or even recognition.
47. By saying "it might as well begin with the words 'Once upon a time'"(Line 3,Para. 1), the author suggests that the American myth is ______.
48. What is the American Dream of the well-to-do built upon?
49. Some Americans try to make themselves feel less guilty by attributing the poverty of the working people to ______.
50. We learn from the passage that the difference in pay between the lowest paid and the average worker in America is ______ than. that in other industrialized countries.
51. According to the author, how would an American family with a car and a house in the suburbs probably feel about themselves today?
答案47. divorced from reality/unrealistic 49. (their) lack of skill/(their)low skill 50. much greater 51. Poor.
48. The backbreaking labor of the working poor. /The bowed backs of the working poor.
翻译
文房四宝
请将下面这段话翻译成英文：文房四宝(Four Treasures of the Study)是中国书法传统书写工具的统称，包括笔、墨、纸、砚(inkstone)。“文房”指的是学者的书房。除了这四宝，书房里的工具还有笔筒、笔架、墨盒、腕托、笔洗、墨块(inkpad)，这些都是书房必备品。唐宋是书法的繁荣时期，当时著名的生厂商制造的经典文房四宝被后世学者高度赞扬。中国传统文化及艺术的发明和发展与文房四宝密切相关。在某种程度上，文房四宝代表了中国传统文化的重要元素。
参考译文：The Four Treasures of the Study,is a general name of the traditional writing tools of Chinese calligraphy, including writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone. The name of Wenfang refers to a scholar's study. Besides these four treasures, tools used in the study also include brush pots, brush rack,ink box, wrist-rest, brush washer and inkpad, all of which are necessities of the study. Classical products of the Four Treasures of the Study made by famous producers during the Tang and Song Dynasties, when styles of writing were very prosperous, were highly praised by later scholars.The invention and development of China's traditional culture and art are closely related to the Four Treasures of the Study.And to some extent,the Four Treasures of the Study represents an important element of traditional Chinese culture.
词句点拨1.“文房”指的是:其中“指的是”译为refer to。“文房”用汉语拼音Wenfang表示即可。2.除了…还有:此处可用besides或in addition to表达，而不用except，因为except表示“除去不计,不包括…在内”。3.经典:可译为classical。classical products意为“经典产品”。4.和…密切相关:可译为be closely related to…5.在某种程度上:可译为短语to some extent或in some degree。
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