1、 Ability and Good Looks. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:问题:1. 假设你在某日某时某地目击一起车祸，就此写一份见证书。见证书须包括以下几点： 1. 车祸发生的时间及地点 2. 你所见到的车祸情况 3. 你对车祸原因的分析 答案:An Eye-witness Account of a Traffic Accident Yesterday afternoon, I happened to witness a terrible traffic accident on
2、 my way home from school. It was 5:30 p. m., I was riding my favorite Giant back home. When I got to the last crossing on the Golden Lion Street, the red light was on. So I applied the brakes, along with a long queue of vehicles waiting to pass. Just at that moment, a heavy-load truck with earth roa
3、red forward at my side and bumped against a private Accord of Honda traveling eastbound. As a result, the windshield of the lorry was broken into pieces and its driver got fatally wounded on the head on the steering wheel. The driver of the Accord and his girlfriend, the only passenger in the car, o
4、nly got minor injuries, but his car lost its rear axel and two wheels. As for the cause of the accident, I think the driver of the lorry should be responsible: the light was red then; he should have stopped and waited. It was he who had broken the traffic regulations. In addition, the bad weather wa
5、s part of the cause. It was drizzling then, and the road was quite slippery. Finally, drunk driving was probably an important factor. As the police discovered on the spot, there was a heavy alcoholic smell on the dead body of the lorry driver. Part Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning） In th
6、is part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-4, mark Y （for YES） if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N （for NO） if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG （for NO
7、T GIVEN） if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 5-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. The Next Society The new economy may or may not materialize, but there is no doubt that the next society will be with us shortly. In the developed world, and
8、 probably in the emerging countries as well, this new society will be a good deal more important than the new economy （if any）. It will be quite different from the society of the late 20th century, and also different from what most people expect. Much of it will be unprecedented. And most of it is a
9、lready here, or is rapidly emerging. In the developed countries, the dominant factor in the next society will be something to which most people are only just beginning to pay attention: the rapid growth in the older population and the rapid shrinking of the younger generation. Politicians everywhere
10、 still promise to save the existing pension system, but they-and their constituents-know perfectly well that in another 25 years people will have to keep working until their mid-70s, health permitting. What has not yet sunk in is that a growing number of older people-say those over 50-will not keep
11、on working as traditional full time nine-to-five employees, but will participate in the labor force in many new and different ways: as temporaries, as part-timers, as consultants on special assignments, and so on. What used to be personnel and are now known as human resources departments still assum
12、e that those who work for an organization are full-time employees. Employment laws and regulations are based on the same assumption. Within 20 or 25 years, however, perhaps as many as half the people who work for an organization will not be employed by it, certainly not on a full-time basis. This wi
13、ll be especially true for older people. New ways of working with people at arms length will increasingly become the central managerial issue of employing organizations, and not just of businesses. The shrinking of the younger population will cause an even greater upheaval, if only because nothing li
14、ke this has happened since the dying centuries of the Roman Empire. In every single developed country, but also in China and Brazil, the birth rate is now well below the replacement rate of 2.2 live births per woman of reproductive age. Politically, this means that immigration will become an importa
15、nt and highly divisive issue in all rich countries. It will cut across all traditional political alignments. Economically, the decline in the young population will change markets in fundamental ways. Growth in family formation has been the driving force of all domestic markets in the developed world
16、, but the rate of family formation is certain to fall steadily unless bolstered by large-scale immigration of younger people. The homogeneous mass market that emerged in all rich countries after the Second World War has been youth-determined from the start. It will now become middle-age-determined,
17、or perhaps more likely it will split into two: a middle-age-determined mass market and a much smaller youth-determined one. And because the supply of young people will shrink, creating new employment patterns to attract and hold the growing number of older people （especially older educated people） w
18、ill become increasingly important. Knowledge is all The next society will be a knowledge society. Knowledge will be its key resource, and knowledge workers will be the dominant group in its workforce. Its three main characteristics will be: Borderlessness, because knowledge travels even more effortl
19、essly than money. Upward mobility, available to everyone through easily acquired formal education. The potential for failure as well as success. Anyone can acquire the means of production, i. e, the knowledge required for the job, but not everyone can win. Together, those three characteristics will
20、make the knowledge society a highly competitive one, for organizations and individuals alike. Information technology, although only one of many new features of the next society, is already having one hugely important effect: it is allowing knowledge to spread near-instantly, and making it accessible
21、 to everyone. Given the ease and speed at which information travels, every institution in the knowledge society-not only businesses, but also schools, universities, hospitals and increasingly government agencies too- has to be globally competitive, even though most organizations will continue to be
22、local in their activities and in their markets. This is because the Internet will keep customers everywhere informed on what is available anywhere in the world, and at what price. This new knowledge economy will rely heavily on knowledge workers. At present, this term is widely used to describe peop
23、le with considerable theoretical knowledge and learning: doctors, lawyers, teachers, accountants, chemical engineers. But the most striking growth will be in knowledge technologists computer technicians, software designers, analysts in clinical labs, manufacturing technologists, paralegals. These pe
24、ople are as much manual workers as they are knowledge workers; in fact, they usually spend far more time working with their hands than with their brains. But their manual work is based on a substantial amount of theoretical knowledge which can be acquired only through formal education, not through a
25、n apprenticeship. They are not, as a rule, much better paid than traditional skilled workers, but they see themselves as professionals . Just as unskilled manual workers in manufacturing were the dominant social and political force in the 20th century, knowledge technologists are likely to become th
26、e dominant social-and perhaps also political-force over the next decades. The new protectionism Structurally, too, the next society is already diverging from the society almost all of us still live in. The 20th century saw the rapid decline of the sector that had dominated society for 10,000 years:
27、agriculture. In volume terms, farm production now is at least four or five times what it was before the First World War. But in 1913 farm products accounted for 70% of world trade, whereas now their share is at most 17%. In the early years of the 20th century, agriculture in most developed countries
28、 was the largest single contributor to GDP; now in rich countries its contribution has dwindled to the point of becoming marginal. And the farm population is down to a tiny proportion of the total. Manufacturing has traveled a long way down the same road. Since the Second World War, manufacturing ou
29、tput in the developed world has probably tripled in volume, but inflation adjusted manufacturing prices have fallen steadily, whereas the cost of prime knowledge products-health care and education-has tripled, again adjusted for inflation. The relative purchasing power of manufactured goods against
30、knowledge products is now only one-fifth or one-sixth of what it was 50 years ago. Manufacturing employment in America has fallen from 35% of the workforce in the 1950s to less than half that now, without causing much social disruption. But it may be too much to hope for an equally easy transition i
31、n countries such as Japan or Germany, where blue-collar manufacturing workers still make up 25-30% of the labor force. The decline of farming as a producer of wealth and of livelihoods has allowed farm protectionism to spread to a degree that would have been unthinkable before the Second World War.
32、In the same way, the decline of manufacturing will trigger an explosion of manufacturing protectionism-even as lip service continues to be paid to free trade. This protectionism may not necessarily take the form of traditional tariffs, but of subsidies, quotas and regulations of all kinds. Even more likely, regional blocks will emerge that trade freely internally but are hig
