作文For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on how to balance work and leisure。 You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words。第一段:描述工作和业余很难平衡的一个社会现象。第二段:进行观点的阐述。第三段:得出结论。A. long with the development of society, more and more problems are B. rought to our attention; one of the most serious problems is how to reach the balance between work and leisure。 People have different attitudes towards the problem。 C. It is generally agreed that work has been playing an increasingly important role in our life, because we need to work to earn money for life。 But if people put too much time on work, their health conditions will be damaged and suffer from kinds of diseases。 The sub health among workers has attracted extensive attention of the society, which can be found in TV programs, newspapers, university classes and many aspect of our everyday life。 Thus, when people has a completed the work responsibility, they should spend some time on personal leisure。 Then, they could get some rest both physically and mentally, and have better conditions for tomorrow’s work。 However, if people invest too much time on leisure, their career developments may be affected and lost opportunities for a better life。 D. E. reer. Mixed bathing was permitted on British beaches. In 1901, women won the right to swim in public pools, learn to swim properly, created appropriate swimwear, and in time even competed against men. [15]The first woman to cross the English channel was F. ertrude Elderly. In 1926, she beat the record by almost two G. hours and her father rewarded her with a red sports car. Question 12. What has become so popular recently? hy提示游泳成为人们遇到困难时排解的方式,所以关于游泳的书籍最近非常受欢迎。 Question 13. What did Jenny Landreth do recently? Jenny Landreth最近出版了一本书,关于指导人们发现最好的游泳地点。 Question 14. What do we learn about women in the Victorian era? 解析:通过转换词but和时间词1892及维多利亚女性话题可以定位答案位置,在保守的维多利亚时期,女性在游泳时依然穿着厚着的衣服,坚持游泳。 Question 15. What does the passage say about Gertrude? ertrude是第一位穿过英吉利海峡的女性,并且打破了2小时的记录,因此她父亲奖励一辆跑车给她。 Recording One t a very special kind of person. Psychologists call them masters of deception. Those rare individuals with a natural ability to tell with complete confidence, when someone is telling a lie. (16) For decades, researchers and law enforcement agencies have tried to build a machine that will do the same thing. Now, a company in Massachusetts says that by using magnetic brain scans, they can determine with 97% accuracy whether someone is telling the truth. t the technology will be cleared for use in American courts by early next year. (17)But is this really the ultimate tool for you? The lawyers of tomorrow? You will not find many brain scientists celebrating this breakthrough. The company might be very optimistic, but the ability of their machine to detect deception has not provided credible proof. That's because the technology has not been properly tested in real world situations. In life, there are different kinds of lies and diverse contexts in which they're told. These differences may elicit different brain responses. the test apply in very case? We don't know the answer, because studies done on how reliable this machine is have not yet been duplicated. Much more research is badly needed. Whether the technology is eventually deemed reliable enough or the courts will ultimately be decided by the judges. Let's hope they're wise enough not to be fooled by a machine that claims to determine truthfulness at the flip of a switch. They should also be skeptical of the hypothesis behind the test apply in every case? We don't know the answer, because studies done on how reliable this machine is have not yet been duplicated. Much more research is badly needed. Whether the technology is eventually deemed reliable enough for the courts will ultimately be decided by the judges. Let's hope they're wise enough not to be fooled by a machine that claims to determine truthfulness at the flip of a switch. They should also be skeptical of the growing tendency to try to reduce all human traits and actions to the level of brain activity. Often, they do not map that easily. m matching behavior to brain activity, those insights will not necessarily lead to justice in a court of law. Problems surround the use of machines to spot deception, at least until it has been rigorously tested. (18)A high tech test that can tell when a person is not telling the truth. Sounds too good to be true. And when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Question 16. What have researchers and law enforcement agencies tried to do? Questions17. How do many brain scientists respond to the Massachusetts companies so called technological breakthrough? Question 18. What does the speaker think of using a high tech test to determine whether a person is telling the truth? 讲座1解析 natural ability to tell with complete confidence, when someone is telling a lie. ut is this really the ultimate tool for you? The lawyers of tomorrow? You will not find many brain scientists elebrating this breakthrough. 时,我们得知很多科学家持反对意见。 s not provided credible proof. 本篇难点在于16,17题离得比较近,符合我们所讲的连续出题原则,考生须在确定一题答案后马上开始对下一题的判断。后面大段不出题,知道最后给出最后一题的答案。 18题作者对于使用高科技仪器测谎的想法是too good to be true,所以需要选择和负面色彩相关的选项。 Recording Two l except me came from the island called Mcclure in the nation of Vanuatu. They live in sixteen different communities and speak sixteen distinct languages. In many cases, you could stand at the edge of one village and see the outskirts of the next community. (19)Yet the residents of each village speak a completely different language. According to recent work by my colleagues at the Max Plank Institute for the science of human history, this island, just one hundred kilometers long and twenty kilometers wide, is home to speakers of perhaps forty different indigenous languages. (20)Why so many? We could ask the same question of the entire globe. People don't speak one universal language or even a handful. Instead, today, our species collectively speaks over seven thousand distinct languages, and these languages are not spread randomly across the planet. For example, far more languages are found in tropical regions that in the milestones. the tropical island of new guinea is home to over nine hundred languages, Russia, twenty times larger, has 105 indigenous languages. tropics, language diversity varies widely. or example, the two hundred and fifty thousand people who live on Vanuatu’s eighty islands speak 110 different languages. But in Bangladesh, a population six hundred times reater speaks only 41 languages. How come humans speak so many languages? And why are they so unevenly spread across the planet? As it turns out, we have few clear answers to these fundamental questions about how humanity communicates. Most people can easily brainstorm possible answers to th hundred and fifty thousand people who live on Vanuatu’s eighty islands speak 110 different languages. But in Bangladesh, a population six hundred times greater speaks only 41 languages. How come humans speak so many languages? And why are they so unevenly spread across the planet? As it turns out, we have few clear answers to these fundamental questions about how humanity communicates. Most people can easily brainstorm possible answers to these intriguing questions. They hypothesized that language diversity must be about history, cultural differences, mountains or oceans dividing populations. ut when our diverse team of researchers from six different disciplines and eight different ountries began to review what was known, we were shocked that only a dozen previous studies had been done, including one we ourselves completed on language diversity in the Pacific. These prior efforts all examine the degree to which different environmental, social, and geographic variables correlated with a number of languages found in a given location. The results varied a lot from one study to another, and no clear patterns emerged. The studies also ran up against many methodological challenges, the biggest of which cent iverse team of researchers from six different disciplines and ight different countries began to review what was known, we were shocked that only a dozen previous studies had been done, including one we ourselves completed on language diversity in the Pacific. These prior efforts all examine the degree to which different environmental, social, and geographic variables correlated with a number of languages found in a given location. The results varied a lot from one study to another, and no clear patterns emerged. The studies also ran up against many methodological challenges, the biggest of which centered on the old statistical saying, “Corre rom six different disciplines and eight different countries began to review what was known, we were shocked that only a dozen previous studies had been done, including one we ourselves completed on language diversity in the Pacific. These prior efforts all examine the degree to which different environmental, social, and eographic variables correlated with a number of languages found in a given location. The results varied a lot from one study to another, and no clear pattern had been done, including one we ourselves completed on language diversity in the Pacific. These prior efforts all examine the degree to which different environmental, social, and geographic variables correlated with a number of languages found in a given location. The results varied a lot from one study to another, and no clear patterns emerged. The studies also ran up against many methodological challenges, the biggest of which centered on the old statistical saying, “Correlation does not equal causation”. Question19. What does the speaker say about the island of Mcclure? Question 20. What do we learn from the talk about languages in the world? (缺21题) 讲座2解析 n island in the South Pacific,即知道容说的和岛屿相关,当听到the island called Mcclure in the nation of Vanuatu,便需认真听后面的容,They live in sixteen different communities and speak sixteen distinct languages. 知道本文确切容为语言。 completely different language。 d之后的容: today, our species collectively speaks over seven thousand distinct languages, and these languages are not spread randomly across the planet.