1.Directions:

• For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on the importance of doing small things before undertaking something big. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

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范文：

As is vividly depicted in the cartoon given above, we can observe that there are many students sitting in a classroom. When listening to the teacher, one of the students just interrupts the teacher and says " No offense, but by the time we’re in the job market, won't that stuff be outdated?" Having heard this question, the teacher stops demonstrating the Multiplication Table and seems to be quite shocked and embarrassed.

• The cartoon informs us of the phenomenon that quite a few students undervalue the importance of learning basic skills these days. Confronted with fiercer competition from society and employment market, students are more focused on practical skills which can be applied in daily work immediately. Moreover, they also fears that the basic knowledge and skills they learn today will be outdated by the time they are in the job market.

• However, no one can disclaim the importance of learning basic skills. It enables us to lay a strong foundation for further learning and exploration. In other words, those who have mastered basic skills well are more likely to acquire other skills and knowledge with ease. Basic skills are equivalent to the first step of success, as an ancient Chinese saying goes, " A road of thousand miles towards the success begins with the first step."

2.Directions:

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on the importance of learning basic skills. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

We can see that in this picture, a teacher is teaching her pupils to deal with arithmetic questions, but some of them think that learning these mathematical skills is useless. They argue that by the time they are in the job market, these skills will be outdated. As to whether it is important to learn basic skills, people hold different views.

　　As far as I know, it is very important for one student to acquire basic skills. At first, mastering basic skills well can lay a solid foundation for learning advanced skills. Basic skills are a floor, not a ceiling. Students must learn them first so that they can move on to various advanced skills. What’s more, learning basic skills helps to improve confidence and enhance self-esteem. Individuals with basic skills are likely to be more confident and active.

　　All in all, if we want to keep progressing, it is important to learn basic skills well. By mastering basic skills and learning new things, we will have a bright future!

3. Directions:

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on the importance of reading literature. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. “just read it as if you’re reading a long text message.”

* The importance of reading literature

* 　　As is humorously portrayed in the cartoon, a teacher is handing a classic literature book to a student, asking the student to “just read it as if you are reading a long text message.” Obviously, the symbolical meaning of this picture is to show us the importance of reading literature.

* 　　It should be generally acknowledged that classic literature plays a significant role not only in preserving the essence of great minds but also in enhancing the quality of one’s life. To begin with, literature as the collection of great minds will help us enormously broaden our horizons, experiencing things we won’t have the chance to do as well as lives we won’t be able to enjoy. What is more, those fine stories selected and conveyed by the great author, although happened in the past, still carry some useful information and implication for our daily lives. In addition, the beautiful words and sentences flowing in the pages of excellent literature can greatly ease our tiredness, making us feel easy and quiet.

* 　　Therefore, we ought to fully realize the importance of reading literature. Just as the teacher in the picture puts, reading literature should be as easy and common as reading text messages. Facing the coming challenges in the days ahead, we need to equip us with not only science but also literature by which we can beautify our life and the world.

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范文：As is clearly shown in the chart, the education level and earning are closely related to each other. It is obvious that well-educated people owning Doctoral degree and Master's degree have a higher salary than those who have a relatively lower degree. Isolated as the figure seems to be, as a matter of fact, we can observe that the higher level of education you receive, the higher income you get.

Several reasons can account for this phenomenon. To begin with, compared with those who have comparatively lower education degree, people who have received higher education possess considerably wider knowledge, more remarkable learning and research ability, greater innovation and resourceful social network, all of which are essential to a high-income job. In addition, the higher one’s education degree is the bigger platform he will have to show his ability. For example, his college, university, or research institute will organize various job fairs for them to communicate face to face with employers.

As for me, education is a worthy investment. On one hand, education offers favorable working opportunity and handsome income. On the other hand, it plays a crucial role in personal growth of career. In brief, substantial education investment should be strengthened while we, as college students, should study harder to build our country and strive for a better life for ourselves.

5.Directions:

Study the following set of pictures carefully and write an essay in no less than 120 words. Your essay must be written clearly on the ANSWER SHEET Ⅱ. Your essay should cover all the information provided and meet the requirements below: 1. Interpret the following pictures. 2.Predict the tendency of tobacco consumption and give your reasons.

As is shown in the first picture, the total production of tobacco in the world dropped from 14.364billion lbs. in 1994 to 14.2billion lbs. in 1995. According to the figures given in picture two, cigarette smokers account for 20percent of the total population in the world, reaching 1.1 billion persons. From the third and the fourth pictures we can see that smoking causes a lot of losses. First, it is a tremendous waste of money. The total amount of money spent on cigarette smoking amounts to $200 billion every year. Second, about 3 million people on the globe die of smoking every year.

As far as the tendency of tobacco consumption is concerned, I think in some developed countries the consumption will more or less stabilize. In many developing nations, however, the number of cigarette smokers will be on the rise.

There are two good reasons for what I’ve mentioned above. On the one hand, a growing number of people in developed countries realize that smoking pollutes the air, that it does a lot of harm to one’s health, and that it may be responsible for lung cancer and many other disease. One the other hand, cigarette smoking, unfortunately, is seen as a sign of economic growth in many developing countries. It is clear that the future tobacco consumption will vary from country to country.

6．Directions:

Study the following cartoon carefully and write an essay in no less than 150 words. Your essay must be written clearly on the ANSWER SHEET Ⅱ. Your essay should meet the requirements below: Write out the message conveyed by the cartoon. Give your comments.

According to the cartoon, various kinds of promises are often seen not only in advertisements, but also in department stores and even in public services. It is certain that promises are a good thing. But, as is shown in the picture, some of them are found to be false and deceptive. The reason for it is that what many advertisements undertake to fulfill, in fact, amounts to nothing else except what they are duty—bound to do.

As far as I am concerned, all promises in ads should be honest, without any sophistry. But now many of them turn out to be false. They attempt to induce consumers to purchase their goods and services. It is clear that there are shop owners and company managers who, making use of promises, stop at nothing to set traps for consumers to fall into. The promises given by them are shown to be the obligations they ought to fulfill. That is to say, they don’t provide consumers with any extra services which would help consumers to relieve their possible problems after they buy the goods. As is known to all, the consumer is God. And the God can’t be fooled. He should be respected. In my opinion, all those who intend to deceive consumers will reap what they have sown. And I suggest that all consumers be on their guard against any false promise.

7．Directions:

Study the following graphs carefully and write an essay in no less than 150 words. Your essay must be written neatly on the ANSWER SHEET Ⅱ. Your essay should cover these three points:

1. effect of the country’s growing human population on its wildlife

2. possible reason for the effect

3. your suggestion for the wildlife protectin

THE UPS AND DOWNS OF POPULATION GROWTH

As is shown by the two graphs, during the period of time from 1800 to 1900, with the rapid growth of the U.S. population the number of species no longer existing shot up, adding up to 70 in 1990. It is obvious that the population explosion resulted in the sharp decline in the wildlife of the country. What caused this phenomenon?

There are, I think, two possible reasons for the effect. In the first place, the ever—increasing population needs more land to grow crops and more space to live in. Therefore, there is less and less room in the U.S. for wildlife. Secondly, a host of newly－built factories constantly discharge harmful gases and liquids, which seriously pollute the environment. This disturbs, the ecological balance, contributing to the extinction of some rare wildlife.

In my opinion, two effective measures should be taken to relieve the problem. On the one hand, the birth rate in he U.S. must be put under control as the more population, the more serious the environmental pollution. On the other, the U.S. government is supposed to create as many nature reserves as possible where all the native species of wild animals can wander free and be protected from man.

8．Directions:

Study the following two pictures carefully and write an essay of at least 150 words.

Your essay must be written neatly on the ANSWER SHEET 2. Your essay should meet the requirements below:

1) Describe the pictures.

2) Deduce the purpose of the drawer of the pictures.

3) Suggest counter-measures

The two pictures given inform us of the brief history of world commercial fishing. From the upper picture we learn that the year 1900 saw a quite encouraging scene of world fishing: there were a great variety of fishes, but a limited number of fishing--boats in the ocean. However, a worrying change took place in the period of time from l900 to1955. As is shown in the lower picture, with the sharp development of world commercial fishing, the ocean became crowded with different kinds of fishing--boats and hence there were few fishes in it. It is clear that a disastrous change occurred in the previous 95 years.

As far as the purposes of the drawer of the pictures are concerned, they are as follows. To begin with, he intends to warn us of the over-exploitation of marine resources, including fish, which will inevitably result in the extinction of many species of marine organisms. Secondly, he aims to draw our attention to the protection of marine resources in every possible way. Finally, the drawer wants, I think, to render the idea that the sea fish resources, which help to keep a large population from being hungry, will be completely ruined if the present situation of overfishing continues at an accelerated rate.

In my opinion, a series of counter--measures should be taken to reverse the current dangerous tendency. On the one hand, the governments throughout the world are supposed to set up as many marine nature reserves as possible to protect marine organisms. On the other hand, it is urgent that the world commercial fishing be put under control because overfishing is one of the factors which are responsible for the present situation. Only in this way can we protect marine resources from being destroyed some day.

9． Directions：

Among all the worthy feelings of mankind, love is probably the noblest, but everyone has his/her own understanding of it. There has been a discussion recently on the issue in a newspaper. Write an essay to the newspaper to

1) show your understanding of the symbolic meaning of the picture below，

2) give a specific example, and

3) give your suggestion as to the best way to show love．

You should write about 200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.（20 points）

As is generally believed, love is probably the noblest of all the worthy feelings of mankind. Without love there exists no association between human beings, no mutual sympathy and help, and ultimately, no responsibility to the society. Every one of us should show love to those who are in need and at the same time tends to hope to be loved. As the picture below depicts, the noble love is just a smiling lamp whose rays become brighter where it is darker. So the symbolic meaning of the cartoon is that help is most desired where one is in difficulties.

Let’s take the Project Hope for example. When a poor little girl in a remote rural area has to drop out of school on account of poverty, a small sincere contribution from the society will help her to get out of the difficulty and to continue with her schooling. Let’s have another example. The year 1998 saw a serious flood in Hubei Province. Many houses were swept away and many local inhabitants were killed or injured in it．At that time the people all over the country were united as one. A large number of contributions were raised and sent to the severely affected areas, which helped the victims to relieve their difficult situation. The two examples given above manifest that love is a lamp which is the brighter the darker a place is.

As far as my suggestion as to the best way to show love is concerned, whenever one gets in trouble, it is our duty to lend a helping hand to him. Love means help. We should never hesitate to show our love to anyone in distress. I believe that only if our society is full of love, tomorrow will be better and brighter.（288 words）

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