Text 3
After their 20-year-old son hanged himself during his winter break from the University of Arizona five years ago, Donna and Phil Satow wondered what signs they had overlooked, and started asking other students for answers.
What grew from this soul searching was Ulifeline (www.ulifeline.org), a Web site where students can get answers to questions about depression by logging on through their universities. The site has been adopted as a resource by over 120 colleges, which can customize it with local information, and over 1.3 million students have logged on with their college ID''s.
"It''s a very solid Web site that raises awareness of suicide, de-stigmatizes mental illness and encourages people to seek the help they need," said Paul Grayson, the director of counseling services at New York University, which started using the service nearly a year ago.
The main component of the Web site is the Self-E-Valuator, a self-screening program developed by Duke University Medical Center that tests students to determine whether they are at risk for depression, suicide and disorders like anorexia and drug dependence. Besides helping students, the service compiles anonymous student data, offering administrators an important window onto the mental health of its campus.
The site provides university users with links to local mental health services, a catalog of information on prescription drugs and side effects, and access to Go Ask Alice, a vast archive developed by Columbia University with hundreds of responses to anonymously posted inquiries from college students worldwide. For students concerned about their friends, there is a section that describes warning signs for suicidal behavior and depression.
Yet it is hard to determine how effective the service is. The anonymity of the online service can even play out as a negative. "There is no substitute for personal interaction (个人互动才能解决) ," said Dr. Lanny Berman, executive director of the American Association of Suicidology, based in Washington.
Ulifeline would be the first to say that its service is no replacement for an actual therapist. "The purpose is to find out if there are signs of depression and then direct people to the right places," said Ron Gibori, executive director of Ulifeline.
Mrs. Satow, who is still involved with Ulifeline, called it "a knowledge base" that might have prevented the death of her son, Jed. "If Jed''s friends had known the signs of depression, they might have seen something," she said.
31. The first paragraph is written to ____.
A. report the suicide of a young man
B. show the suffering of Mr. And Mrs. Satow
C. describe the Satows’ confusion over their son’s death
D. introduce the topic of a website called Ulifeline
32. One reason that many colleges adopt the website is to ____.
A. provide their students with campus information
B. offer medical treatment to students in mental disorder
C. encourage their students to seek advice about depression
D. give their students various help they may need
33. Go Ask Alice as mentioned in the passage is ____.
A. a side effect caused by some prescription drugs
B. intended to counsel college students on mental problems
C. a collection of medical responses from students the world over
D. meant to describe the various signs of mental disorders
34. The first sentence of the sixth paragraph implies that ____.
A. only actual therapy can ensure adequate treatment
B. the help given by the web service is doubtful
C. doctors have expressed a negative view of the service
D. a therapist’s office is the first place for the depressed to go
35. Mrs. Satow would probably agree that ____.
A. Jed’s friends can prevent her son’s death
B. her son’s suicide is unavoidable
C. Ulifeline is a worthwhile website
D. depression is the final cause of suicides
Text 4
The meanings of "science" and "technology" have changed significantly from one generation to another. More similarities than differences, however, can be found between the terms. Both science and technology imply a thinking process, both are concerned with causal relationships in the material world, and both employ an experimental methodology that results in empirical demonstrations that can be verified by repetition. Science, at least in theory, is less concerned with the practicality of its results and more concerned with the development of general laws, but in practice science and technology are inextricably involved with each other. The varying interplay of the two can be observed in the historical development of such practitioners as chemists, engineers, physicists, astronomers, carpenters, potters, and many other specialists. Differing educational requirements, social status, vocabulary, methodology, and types of rewards, as well as institutional objectives and professional goals, contribute to such distinctions as can be made between the activities of scientists and technologists; but throughout history the practitioners of "pure" science have made many practical as well as theoretical contributions.
Indeed, the concept that science provides the ideas for technological innovations and that pure research is therefore essential for any significant advancement in industrial civilization is essentially a myth. Most of the greatest changes in industrial civilization cannot be traced to the laboratory. Fundamental tools and processes in the fields of mechanics, chemistry, astronomy, metallurgy, and hydraulics were developed before the laws governing their functions were discovered. The steam engine, for example, was commonplace before the science of thermodynamics elucidated the physical principle underlying its operations.
In recent years a sharp value distinction has grown up between science and technology. Advances in science have frequently had their bitter opponents, but today many people have come to fear technology much more than science. For these people, science may be perceived as a serene, objective source for understanding the eternal laws of nature, whereas the practical manifestations of technology in the modern world now seem to them to be out of control.
Many historians of science argue not only that technology is an essential condition of advanced, industrial civilization but also that the rate of technological change has developed its own momentum in recent centuries. Innovations now seem to appear at a rate that increase geometrically, without respect to geographical limits or political systems. These innovations tend to transform traditional cultural systems, frequently with unexpected social consequences. Thus technology can be conceived as both a creative and a destructive process.
36. Science is, as the author argues, similar to technology in that ____.
A. it involves a long process of change
B. it focuses on the casual aspects of the material world
C. it resorts to experiments as an exclusive method of research
D. it is concerned about the theoretical development
37. Which of the following does the author NOT agree with?
A. Scientific activities are deeply involved with those of technology.
B. Industrial civilization is largely based on the scientific progress.
C. Science and technology move forward at a comparable speed.
D. Either of science and technology is necessary for the advance of each other.
38. The example of the steam engine is presented to ____.
A. refute the belief that industrial progress feeds off scientific ideas
B. illustrate the remarkable achievements of industrial civilization
C. indicate that many great inventions originate from the laboratory
D. laws come out much earlier than related functions
39. What does “the practical manifestations…out of control” (Para.3) mean?
A. Technology is losing its traditional practicality.
B. Technology is moving further away from science.
C. Technological progress is benefiting the whole world.
D. Technology is threatening the existence of human civilization.
40. The “historians” as mentioned in the last paragraph regard the technology with ____.
A. absolute enthusiasm
B. total indifference
C. obvious resentment
D. reserved approval
Text 3译文
五年前的寒假，Donna and Phil Satow的就读于亚利桑纳大学的20岁的儿子自缢身亡，从那以后，夫妻俩就一直想知道自己忽略了什么迹象，也向儿子的同学打听。
深刻的思索让人注意到了Ulifeline (www.ulifeline.org)，大学生们可在学校登录该网址咨询问题。120多所高校使用该网址，并增添了些学校信息，130多万大学生用学生证在该网站注册。
“这是一个很不错的网站，它能提高对自杀的警惕，减少对精神疾病的歧视，鼓励人们寻求帮助，” Paul Grayson这么认为，他是纽约大学的咨询服务部主任，一年前开始使用该网站的服务。
该网站的主要部件是Self-E-Valuator，这是杜克大学医疗中心开发的一种自测软件，帮助学生判断自己是否有抑郁、自杀、厌食或药物依赖这类危险。除了帮助学生，网站还汇编了大量学生的匿名数据，以便学校了解校园内的健康状况。
网站还给学生用户提供当地医疗服务链接，一份处方药及其负效应的目录，以及“询问艾丽丝”的接入，后者是哥伦比亚大学开发的一个巨大的档案库，含有数百个对世界各地大学生匿名咨询的答复。对那些为朋友担心的学生而言，网站还有一个部分专门介绍自杀和抑郁的种种征兆。
然而很难评估这种服务的有效性，匿名在线服务甚至会起到消极作用。位于华盛顿的美国自杀学研究协会执行主任Dr. Lanny Berman就说，“这种网站咨询不能代替互动的当面咨询。”
Ulifeline首先会承认，网站咨询不能取代真正的理疗师。Ron Gibori， Ulifeline的执行主任就说，“我们的目的是帮助学生发现抑郁迹象，然后指导他们去合适的地方治疗。”
Mrs. Satow仍然关注着该网站，她称之为“知识库”，它本可以阻止她儿子Jed自杀的。她说，“如果Jed的同学知道抑郁的征兆，他们本可以发现Jed的问题的。”
31．【答案】D
【解析】这是一道写作意图题。第一段说道Satow一家的事情是为了引入文章的讨论主题Ulifeline，所以答案为D。
32．【答案】C
【解析】这是一道细节题。依据文章2、3两段，大学使用该网站的目的是鼓励学生上网咨询自己的精神抑郁等问题，所以答案为C。
33．【答案】B
【解析】这是一道细节题。依据第五段可知，Go Ask Alice是一个给学生提供健康咨询的问答库，所以答案为B。
34．【答案】A
【解析】这是一道句意题。依据文章最后两段的意思可知，网站固然可以提供咨询，但真正充分的治疗还得需要理疗师。A项为此意，是正确选项。
35．【答案】C
【解析】这是一道推论题。根据末段的意思可以推测，Mrs. Satow一定非常认可该网站，所以答案为C。
Text 4译文
“科学”和“技术”的意义，从一代到下一代都会发生深刻的变化，然而这两个术语之间的相似之处远远多于其不同之处。两者都含有思维特征，两者都涉及物质世界的因果关系，两者皆用实验性的研究方法，由此而得出的经验性结果都可重复验证。科学，至少在理论上，不太在乎结果的实用性，它更在乎普遍法则的创立，但实际上，科学和技术是密不可分的。两者之间不同程度的相互影响可见于各种行业的历史发展过程，诸如：化学、工程、物理、天文、土木、制陶以及其它行业。科学家和技术人员的研究活动的差异与下列因素有关：不同的教育要求、社会地位、方法、术语、奖励方式、机构目标及职业目标，但纵观历史，许多“纯”科学家既有理论建树也有实用创新。
的确，科学是技术创新的理论基础，以及纯理论研究对工业文明的发展是不可或缺的这两种说法都是错误的。大多数工业进步都与实验室研究无关，机械、化工、天文、冶金、水利领域的基本工具及流程早在相关理论法则发现之前就已存在。例如，早在热动力学解释了蒸汽的原理之前，蒸汽发动机业已广泛存在。
最近几年，科学和技术之间的价值分歧越来越尖锐。科学进步的反对者是一直存在的，然而，现在有很多人对技术的恐惧甚于对科学的担心。他们觉得，科学可视为是对永恒的自然法则的和平、客观的探究，但现代社会中，技术的实际应用似乎有点失控。
许多科学史家们认为，技术是发达的工业文明的必然条件，他们也认为，过去几百年的技术发展也已积累了可观的动量。技术创新的速度以几何级别在增长，远远超出了地理和政治的限定。这些技术创新改变了传统的文化体制，往往带来难以预料的社会后果。所以，技术既具有进步性也具有毁灭性。
36．【答案】C
【解析】 这是一道细节题。依据原文第3句可知，科学和技术之间的相似之一便是研究方法的实验性。因此答案为C。B项中casual不等于原文中的causal，排除。
37．【答案】B
【解析】 这是一道是非判断题。依据第2段首句，作者认为“科学是技术创新的理论基础，以及纯理论研究对工业文明的发展是不可或缺的这两种说法都是错误的”，可见作者不赞同的是B项的说法，故B为答案。
38．【答案】A
【解析】这是一道例证题。第2段末句中，作者提到蒸汽发动机是为了反驳“理论研究对工业文明的发展是不可或缺的”这一观点，故答案为A，A中“feed off”意为“靠…生存”。
39．【答案】D
【解析】这是一道句意题。引号句的意思在末段得到了充分的说明，“技术创新改变了传统的文化体制，往往带来难以预料的社会后果。所以，技术既具有进步性也具有毁灭性”，这就是所谓的“失去控制”，可见答案为D。
40．【答案】D
【解析】这是一道询问历史学家态度的态度题。末段中，历史学家们对技术的发展态度具有肯定和否定的两面，所以答案为D.“有保留地认可”。
Part B
【总体分析】
本篇介绍的是美国人对选举的兴趣日渐减少，并分析了相关的几个原因。第一段揭示事情本身，后几段分析原因。就本篇而言，对文章前后结构层次的把握非常重要。
41．E
本题考察段落内部的逻辑联系，空格的下文说“But it’s time to stop blaming the citizens”，可见上文必然说到有人指责普通公民们不热衷于美国的政治选举。故答案为E。
42．B
本题考察考生对文章的总体结构的把握能力。既然第二段末句说“Candidates, public officials, and journalists are not giving Americans the type of campaign they deserve”，而且第三段又说到了officials，下文又将说到journalists，可以断定，本段应说“candidates”，即“leadership”，故B项为答案。
43．D
本题考察段落内部的逻辑理解，注意相应的词汇表达。既然空格前讲的是journalists对政治家的正面言论不感兴趣，弃置编辑室地板，而攻击性的言论却被直播(Attack sound bites get airtime; positive statements land on the cutting-room floor)，那么可以推论，D项是最符合逻辑的展开内容，用词也密切相关(get more time on the network newscasts)。
44．G
本题涉及段落内部逻辑的把握。既然上文说“we interviewed 100,000 Americans to discover why they’re disengaging from elections”，那么答案为G，也就很符合逻辑了。
45．F
本题同样涉及段内逻辑，既然上文说“Officials unfailingly urge citizens to do your duty and vote. Yet, these officials embrace policies that make it harder to do that”(官员们催使公民行使职责，参加选举，但另一方面又制定政策，使公民们很难参加投票选举)，那么符合逻辑的答案必定是F项了。
Part C
46. 【结构分析】这是一个简单句，结构不复杂。
【疑难词汇】词汇“disproportionately”的翻译不必拘泥原文，可灵活翻译为“激…”；另，“without shrinking…”部分的理解要结合上文准确翻译。
【参考译文】技术的发展和金融的自由化使得极端富裕的家庭数量激增，却没能相应地减少贫困家庭的数量。
47. 【结构分析】冒号前后为并列结构。后半部分有两个“faster than…”的并列的比较状语从句。
【疑难词汇】冒号前的两个“cause”翻译要灵活处理。
【参考译文】正是这些根本原因衍生出严重后果，从而造成更糟的结果：富裕国家出口的工业产品及服务的价格增长速度远远快于贫穷国家出口的商品及服务的价格，比没有多少国际贸易的贫穷国家所生产的商品和服务的价格增长速度就更快了。
48. 【结构分析】“to whom”引导的整个是定语从句，修饰前面的“young men”；定语从句中两个“to threaten…”并列，做“means”的补足语。
【疑难词汇】“means”意为“手段”。
【参考译文】结果导致许多年轻人失业愤懑，而新的信息技术则给了他们威胁社会稳定的手段，甚至可以威胁富裕国家的社会稳定。
49. 【结构分析】“Why”引导的是主句，“if”引导的是从句。
【疑难词汇】主句中“subscribed to”意为“同意，赞同”；从句中“if a case can be made that…”可意译为“如果说…”，其中“case”意为“情况”；“gains”意译为“成果”。
【参考译文】如果说商品和资本市场自由化的成果往往集聚到发展中国家的高端收入阶层的手中，那发展中国家的精英阶层为何又赞同西方国家、企业及多边组织所宣扬的全球化议程呢？
50. 【结构分析】分号前后为并列结构。
【疑难词汇】“fixed”根据上下文可译为“解决，改变”；“asset”为大纲词汇“资产”。
【参考译文】但是，他们没有注意到世界收入分配的差距与贫困之间的联系；他们以为，给穷人福利和机会而不必改变收入及资产分配结构，就可以解决贫困问题。
Section III Writing
写作分析
写作A是一篇邀请函，考生注意审读规定的情景和相应提纲，挖掘写作内容，做好字数方面的布局，然后按相应提纲逐项展开。写作时，要注意不同的写作对象和内容，注意语体措辞的得体性。
写作B是一篇图画作文，考生要审读标题提纲，看懂图画，确定文章的主题。然后再设定三段的写作内容。考生们写完自己的作文后，可参看并分析下面的范文，如，它是怎样展开三段的内容的，又用了那些句式和词汇去表达内容，从中汲取写作的营养。
参考范文
Part A
Dear Dr. King,
The Department of Computer Science of Beijing University would like to extend to you an invitation to be our guest speaker at the annual conference to be held at the speech hall of our department at nine o’clock, Saturday morning, November 11th, 2004.
As you know, the department is interested in the future development of the computer science. Since you are very familiar with the field, we know your views will be extremely interesting to us all.
You will receive further details later, but we would appreciate having your acceptance soon so we may complete our agenda.
Cordially,
Li Ming
Part B
China is now witnessing a new surge of interest in going to all sorts of night schools or training classes. As is shown in the pictures, lots of people are flocking to English classes while others are rushing to attend lectures on WTO. They all look happy and eager to go to the classes even after a whole day’s work.
This enthusiasm for new knowledge can be attributed to the obvious reason that the government’s policy of Open-up to the World and particularly China’s access to WTO . These have given a fresh impetus to China’s trade and exchange with foreign countries. China’s trade volume with the world has, reportedly, reached an unprecedented $500 billion and cultural exchanges with other countries are being carried on an increasingly larger scale. The new situation requires that people have to learn more about WTO rules and of course they must also acquire a solid knowledge of English. Otherwise, they may find it difficult to trade or exchange with foreign countries efficiently. They may lose the competition in the process of globalization.
Undoubtedly, China’s open policy and the globalization of the world are both irreversible and more and more Chinese will find it necessary to acquire new knowledge and skills. Therefore, more and more people will be going to various training classes or lectures in the years to come.
