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问答题Practice 5You and your family are on holiday abroad. You are staying in a hotel, but you are not satisfied with some aspects of the accommodation. Write a letter to the hotel manager. In your letter, you should· introduce yourself· explain what is wrong with the hotel room, and· say what action you would like the hotel manager to take.Write at least 150 words.You do NOT need to write any addresses.Begin your letter as follows:Dear Sir or Madam,…
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问答题Passage 1Doesn’t That Sound Terribly Yellow to You? “I can’t say. I’m colour blind”, was my flat-mate’s response. And that was that for another twenty odd years, when by chance I came across an article in a newspaper on research into synaesthesia at a London hospital. At last, I understood my interpretation of the world through colour. Synaesthesia is the subjective sensation of a sense other than the one being stimulated. For example, the sight of a word may evoke sensations of colour or the sound of music may also have a similar effect, as my taste. Or, to put it simply, synaesthetes, i.e. people with synaesthesia, have their senses held together, so that they experience several senses simultaneously. To those not already aware of it, synaesthesia seems a new phenomenon. Yet, it is far from new. In 1690, John Locke, the philosopher, wrote of a blind man with synaesthetic capabilities. The first reference in the medical field was in 1710, by Thomas Woodhouse, an English ophthalmologist. In his Theory of Colour, the German writer, Goethe, talked about colour and the senses. The poet, Arthur Rimbaud, wrote about synaesthesia in his 1871 poem Voyelles, as did another French poet Baudelaire, in Correspondence. So, synaesthesia has a respectable history. Synaesthesia is understandably met with a certain degree of skepticism, since it is something beyond the comprehension of the vast majority of people. Son et lumpier shows in the 19th century were an attempt at combining the senses in a public display, but such displays were not capable of conveying the sensations experienced by involuntary synaesthesia, as the ability which a synaesthete’s experience is called. There has been a number of well-documented synaesthetes. Alexander Scribing, the Russian composer(1871-1915), tried to express his own synaesthetic abilities in his symphony Prometheus, the Poem of Fire(1992). And another Russian, Rimsky-Korsakov, noted the colour associations musical keys possessed. For example, Scriabin saw C major as red, while to Rimsky-Korsakov it was white. Arthur Bliss, an Enclitic composer, based his A Colour Symphony in 1922 on the concept of synaesthesia. He did not claim to be a synaesthete; his colour choices were arbitrary and the project was an intellectual exercise. In the field of the visual arts, probably the best-known artist with synaesthetic capabilities is the Russian artist, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), credited with being the founder of abstract painting. It is said he experienced “sensory fusion” at a performance of Wagner’s Lohengrin, with the music producing colors before his eyes. He did not see colours solely in terms of objects, but associated them with sounds. He even composed an opera, Der Gelbe Klang (The Yellow Sound), which was a mixture of colour, light, dance and sound. For many people with synaesthesia, knowing that what they have been experiencing has both a name and a history and that they are among a number of notable sufferers is a revelation. Initially, they often feel that there is something wrong psychologically or mentally, or that everyone feels that way. Then they realise with a thud that other people do not. Suppression is an option, but unwittingly some people have managed to make use of the ability to their advantage. While the condition of synaesthesia may hamper many people because of its disorienting effects, it can also open up a range of new skills. It is not unusual for people who have synaesthesia to be creative and imaginative. As many studies have shown, memory is based to some extent on association. Synaesthetes find they are able to remember certain things with great ease. The person who associates the shape is able to remember a longer sequence of words; and the same goes for other areas where memory needs to be used. But this condition like all gifts, has its drawbacks. Some people see words as colours; others even individual letters and syllables, so that a word becomes a kaleidoscope of colour. Beautiful though such a reading experience may be, synaesthesia can cause problems with both reading and writing. Reading can take longer, because one has to wade through all the colours, as well as the words! And, because the colour sequences as well as the words have to fit together, writing is then equally difficult. Do the following statements agree with the information given in the Reading Passage 3? In boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet, write TRUE if the statement agrees with the information FALSE if the statement contradicts the information NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this 1. Newspaper articles and TV news reports about synaesthesia are appearing with monotonous regularity nowadays. 2. Synaesthetes experience several senses at the same time. 3. Synaesthesia is a new phenomenon. 4. Early description of synaesthesia can be traced back to the 17th century. 5. It is strange that many people are sceptical about synaesthesia.
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问答题Practice 3You are required to write a letter to the post office in your university or in the nearby neighborhood to tell them that you haven't received a parcel which your friend send you for your birthday. In the letter you should cover the following information:(1) explain your situation,(2) tell them what are there in the parcel, and(3) tell them what you want them to do about it.Write at least 150 words.You do NOT need to write any addresses.
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问答题Passage 2Life Beyond Earth A We all have our suppositions, our scenarios. The late astronomer Carl Sagan estimated that there are a million technological civilizations in our galaxy alone. His more conservative colleague Frank Drake offers the number 10,000. John Oro, a pioneering comet researcher, calculates that the Milky Way is sprinkled with a hundred civilizations. And finally there are skeptics like Ben Zuckerman, an astronomer at UCLA, who thinks we may as well be alone in this galaxy if not in the universe. B All the estimates are highly speculative. The fact is that there is no conclusive evidence of any life beyond Earth. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, as various pundits have wisely noted. But still we don’t have any solid knowledge about a single alien microbe, a solitary spore, much less the hubcap from a passing alien starship. C Our ideas about extraterrestrial life are what Sagan called “plausibility arguments,” usually shot through with unknowns, hunches, ideologies, and random ought-to-bes. Even if we convince ourselves that there must be life out there, we confront a second problem, which is that we don’t know anything about that life. We don’t know how truly alien it is. We don’t know if it’s built on a foundation of carbon atoms. We don’t know if it requires a liquid-water medium, if it swims or flies or burrows. D Despite the enveloping nebula of uncertainties, extraterrestrial life has become an increasingly exciting area of scientific inquiry. The field is called exobiology or astrobiology or bioastronomy—every few years it seems as though the name has been changed to protect the ignorant. E Whatever it’s called, this is a science infused with optimism. We now know that the universe may be aswarm with planets. Since 1995 astronomers have detected at least 22 planets orbiting other stars. NASA hopes to build a telescope called the Terrestrial Planet Finder to search for Earth-like planets, examining them for the atmospheric signatures of a living world. In the past decade organisms have been found thriving on our own planet in bizarre, hostile environments. If microbes can live in the pores of rock deep beneath the earth or at the rim of a scalding Yellowstone spring, then they might find a place like Mars not so shabby. F Mars is in the midst of a full-scale invasion from Earth, from polar landers to global surveyors to rovers looking for fossils. A canister of Mars rocks will be rocketed back to Earth in the year 2008, parachuting into the Utah desert for scrutiny by scientists in a carefully sealed lab. In the coming years probes will also go around and, at some point, into Jupiter’s moon Europa. That icy world shows numerous signs of having a subsurface ocean—and could conceivably harbor a dark, cold biosphere. G The quest for an alien microbe is supplemented by a continuing effort to find something large, intelligent, and communicative. SETI—the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence—has not yielded a confirmed signal from an alien civilization in 40 years of experiments, but the signal-processing technology grows more sophisticated each year. The optimists figure it’s only a matter of time before we tune in the right channel. H No one knows when—or if—one of these investigations might make a breakthrough. There’s a fair bit of boosterism surrounding the entire field, but I’d bet the breakthrough is many years, if not decades, away. The simple truth: Extraterrestrial life, by definition, is not conveniently located. I But there are other truths that sustain the search for alien organisms. One is that, roughly speaking, the universe looks habitable. Another is that life radiates information about itself—that, if nothing else, it usually leaves a residue or an imprint. If the universe contains an abundance of life, that life is not likely to remain forever in the realm of the unknown. J Contact with an alien civilization would be an epochal and culturally challenging event, but exobiologists would settle gladly for the discovery of a tiny fossil, a mere remnant of extraterrestrial biochemistry. One example. One data point to add to the one we have—Earth life. That’s what we need to begin the long process of putting human existence in its true cosmic context. Complete the sentences. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet. 1. Experts are approaching Mars extensively in the search of ______. 2 Jupiter’s moon Europa will be in the analysed for it is conceived to embrace a ______ probably hostile to life. 3. Although no clear signals have been received by human being, advances made in ______ has provided some optimism after 40 years’ experiments. 4. The reason why extraterrestrial life cannot be immediately found is that it is not readily ______. 5. The look for alien organism can still be sustained because it would still give off traces such as a ______.
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问答题Practice 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The diagram below shows a process that organic waste turn into garden fertiliser. Write a report for a university teacher describing the information shown below. You should write at least 150 words.
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问答题Practice 4 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The table below gives information about past and projected population figures in various countries for different years. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words. Population (millions)
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问答题Practice 2 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The graphs below show the types of music albums purchased by people in Britain according to sex and age. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below. Write at least 150 words.
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问答题Practice 2 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The diagram below shows how potato chips are made. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.
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单选题The plan to reclaim Hallside was proposed by ______.A
Scottish Greenbelt and the regional developer.B
local authorities and Scottish Greenbelt.C
a local landscaping company and authorities.D
Scottish Greenbelt and HL Banks.
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问答题What are the most fashionable clothes in China, now?