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Nowadays, it is common practice for the authority in China to close the highway when in bad weather. Do you think it is a wise thing to do? Now you are asked to make a comment on it with about 200 words.What Is Your Idea of Highway Shut-down in Bad Weather

Translate the following into Chinese. Before you got the idea that economics is relevant only for politics or businesses, we should mention that economics focuses on all the choices people make and the personal and social consequences of these choices.We believe that when you finish this book, you will join us in the view that the economic way of thinking offers valuable insight into our everyday interactions with one another — producing, consuming, voting and striving for the good life.One seemed to know little about the book, but a great many people knew apparently that "Peggy" was at work on something and that was enough to bring cordial, even insistent, recommendation to their lips. Making a movie costs much more than cutting an album. So as the world become richer, the relative market share of Hollywood movies will probable fall more than the relative market share of American popular music.It is very difficult to agree on the price for shares to be bought because the purchasing party will lack the necessary information as to the financial status and other characteristics of the share- issuing corporation, and because the net value of the shares will change constantly from the date of the agreement to the date of closing.

Jim Fix had been a heavy smoker and weighed 214 pounds when he took up running in the 1960s. He soon _51 _ the benefits from running. His weight decreased by 60 pounds by the time his book The Complete Book of Running was published. His book _52_ millions of people. In his book and on television talk shows. He praised the benefits of physical exercise and how it _53_and increased the average people’s life expectancy. His readers and audience became more health-conscious. However, to their shock, Fix died at the age of 52 after his daily run. Many who opposed his beliefs said this was _54_ that running was harmful. However, his supporters _55_that the real cause of Fix’s death was a heart attack. He came from a family where men had poor health stories. His father _56 a heart attack at the age of 35 and died of one at 42. Given Fix’s unhealthy lifestyle until he took up running, many argued that running added many years to his life.“Running does have its shortcomings,” _57_heart specialist Paul Thomas, in a recent medical journal. “The _58_can be hard on your knees. Runners are more at risk during their training, _59_ if they run marathons. _60_, the news for runners isn’t all bad. Evidence suggests in spite of its shortcomings, moderate amount of running exercise can actually result in a longer, improved life.”

According to new research of Prof. Randolph Mensal from the Free University in Berlin, the popular image of bees as the ultimate hard workers was inaccurate. “Although we see bees buzzing around tirelessly in spring and summer, the common belief in a bee’s busy nature is based on a misconception,” he said. People only really see bees when they’re out flying, or they look at a colony of bees and see thousands of them buzzing around. They don’t get to pick them out as individuals. The professor, who this month won a German Zoological Society award for his work on bees, added that bees compensated for their apparent laziness with high intelligence: advanced memory skills and an ability to learn quickly.The suggestion that bees were not pulling their weight met with skepticism from British beekeepers. Glyn Davies, the President of the British Beekeepers Association, said that bees were not lazy but efficient. “At any particular stage in its life, a bee has a specific job to do. If they areunable to do that job, they conserve their energy by doing nothing. Each bee has a unit of life energy and the faster it works, the faster it dies. They are being very wise and perhaps humans should try to follow their example instead of running about like headless chickens.”The idea of the busy bee is several thousand years old. One current author who has nothing but admiration for the bee is Paul Theroux, the novelist and part-time beekeeper. “I have never seen a bee sleeping. My bees never stop working,” he said. Mr. Theroux, who keeps 85 hives each containing 300,000 bees in Hawaii, added that Prof. Mendel’s research could have been affected by his national origins. “Perhaps in comparison to the German rate of work, the bee does look lazy,” he said.Few people think that the busy bee idea will go away, despite the efforts of Prof. Mensah It performs too many useful functions in our culture. In fact, the worship of bees seems to be undergoing a renaissance. IBM recently ran a series of ads drawing on the “waggle dance” of bees, telling businessmen to “make your business waggle.”1.Prof. Randolph Mendel’s latest research （）.2.According to Prof. Randolph Mensal, which of the following is NOT true?3.According to Glyn Davies, what should we learn from bees?4.The IBM ads in the passage are used to（）.

Opponents of affirmative action say the battle over the use of race in college admissions is hardly over, despite the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday upholding the goal of a diverse student body. Higher education leaders overwhelmingly hailed the decision, saying it reaffirmed policies used by most selective colleges and universities. But some critics raised the possibility of more lawsuits, and promised to continue pressuring the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to investigate questionable policies. “We’re talking about admissions programs, scholarships, any program...only for minorities or in which the standards used to judge admissions are substantially different.” says Linda Chavez, founder and president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a conservative non-profit group.Others say they’ll take their case to voters. “We have to seriously contest all this at the ballot box” says University of California regent Ward Connerly, who helped win voter approval of California’s Proposition 209, which prohibits considering race or gender in public education, hiring and contracting. Because of that law, Monday’s ruling had no practical impact in the state. “It may be time for us to...let the (Michigan) voters decide if they want to use race as a factor in admissions,” Connerly said Monday.Meanwhile, US Education Secretary Rod Paige, consistent with President Bush’s stance opposing affirmative action, said the Department of Education will “continue examining and highlighting effective race-neutral approaches to ensure broad access to and diversity within our public institutions”. Even Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O-Connor, in one of the opinions, recommended that states look for lessons in race-neutral programs being tried in California and elsewhere. While the ruling said admissions officials may consider race in the selection process, colleges and universities are not obligated to do so. “Ultimately in the debate, diversity is a choice, not a legal mandate,” says Arthur Coleman, a former Department of Education official who now helps colleges and universities Ensure constitutional policies.The public, too, remains conflicted, largely along racial lines. According to a January poll by the non-profit research organization Public Agenda, 79% of Americans said it is important for colleges to have a racially diverse student body, while just 54% said affirmative action programs should continue. In a Gallup poll conducted days before the ruling, 49% of adults said they favor affirmative action and 43% did not, with blacks and Hispanics far more likely to favor the practice than whites. And some educators doubt that with Monday’s ruling, those opposing affirmative action will change their minds.For now, admissions officials and university lawyers are poring over the ruling to determine how or — whether to adjust policies. While most tend to be closed mouthed about admissions policies, many they don’t expect significant changes.1.Which of the following in the opinion of the opponents of affirmative action?2.Connery insisted that the Court's ruling should （）.3.What is the attitude of the Department of Education towards affirmative action?4.Which of the following is true about affirmative action according to the text?

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