考试时间：2011年4月19日 上午8:30

　　考试地点：北京鼎钧大厦5层520室

　　Issue120-"So much is new and complex today that looking back for an understanding of the past provides little guidance for living in the present."

　　Argument165-The following appeared in a business magazine.

　　"As a result of numerous consumer complaints of dizziness and nausea, Promofoods requested that eight million cans of tuna be returned for testing last year. Promofoods concluded that the cans did not, after all, contain chemicals that posed a health risk. This conclusion is based on the fact that the chemists from Promofoods tested samples of the recalled cans and found that, of the eight chemicals most commonly blamed for causing symptoms of dizziness and nausea, five were not found in any of the tested cans. The chemists did find that the three remaining suspected chemicals are naturally found in all other kinds of canned foods."

　　去年由于有大量消费者投诉说产生了眩晕和恶心，Promofoods要求800万罐金枪鱼回收检测。Promofoods下结论说这些罐头根本不含任何有健康危害的化学物质。这一结论基于这样的事实，即Promofoods的化学家测试了回收的罐头样本，并发现8种最常见的导致眩晕和恶心症状的化学物质中，有五种都没有在任何被测试的罐头中被发现。化学家确实发现剩下三种受怀疑的化学物质在所有其他罐头食品中都存在。

　　考试时间：2011年4月19日 上午8:30

　　考试地点：北京鼎钧大厦

　　issue183-"As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and more mysterious."

　　argument159-The nation of Claria covers a vast physical area. But despite wide geographic differences, many citizens are experiencing rising costs of electricity. A recent study of household electric costs in Claria found that families who cooled their houses with fans alone spent more on electricity than did families using air conditioners alone for cooling. However, those households that reported using both fans and air conditioners spent less on electricity than those households that used either fans or air conditioners alone. Thus, the citizens of Claria should follow the study&aposs recommendation and use both air conditioners and fans in order to save money on electricity.

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　　考试时间：2011年4月19日 早上8：30

　　考试地点：北京鼎钧大厦

　　Issue5-"A nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college rather than allow schools in different parts of the nation to determine which academic courses to offer."

　　Argument137-The following appeared in an editorial in the Mason City newspaper.

　　"At present, Mason City residents seldom use the nearby Mason River for any kind of recreational activity, even though surveys of the region&aposs residents consistently rank water sports (swimming, fishing, and boating) as a favorite form of recreation. Since there have been complaints about the quality of the water in the river, residents must be avoiding the river because they think that it is not clean enough. But that situation is about to change: the agency responsible for rivers in our region has announced plans to clean up Mason River. Therore, recreational use of the river is likely to increase, so the Mason City council will need to increase its budget for improvements to the publicly owned lands along the Mason River."

　　考试时间：2011.4.19

　　考试地点：北京鼎钧大厦

　　Issue176-"The function of science is to reassure; the purpose of art is to upset. Therein lies the value of each."

　　Argument99-The following appeared in a memo from the economic minister of the small country Paucia.

　　"Using a newly developed variety of seed, farmers in our neighboring country Abundia produced 80 percent more rice last year than in any previous year. To increase the income of farmers in our own country, we should encourage them to cultivate this new variety of rice rather than some of their traditional crops. Such high yields of rice will also improve our country&aposs balance of trade by enabling us to begin exporting it."

　　考试时间：2011年4月19日 08:30-10:30

　　考试地点：鼎钧大厦

　　Issue218-"In order for any work of art—whether film, literature, sculpture, or a song—to have merit, it must be understandable to most people.

　　Issue7-"The video camera provides such an accurate and convincing record of contemporary life that it has become a more important form of documentation than written records."

　　argument152-The following is a letter to the head of the tourism bureau on the island of Tria.

　　"Erosion of beach sand along the shores of Tria Island is a serious threat to our island and our tourist industry. In order to stop the erosion, we should charge people for using the beaches. Although this solution may annoy a few tourists in the short term, it will reduce the number of people using the beaches and will raise money for replenishing the sand. Replenishing the sand, as was done to protect buildings on the nearby island of Batia, will help protect buildings along our shores, thereby reducing these buildings&apos risk of additional damage from severe storms. And since the areas along the shore will be more attractive as a result, the beaches will be preserved and the area&aposs tourist industry will improve over the long term."

　　考试时间：2010-4-19

　　考试地点：北京鼎钧

　　Issue190-As long as people in a society are hungry or out of work or lack the basic skills needed to survive, the use of public resources to support the arts is inappropriate-and, perhaps, even cruel-when one considers all the potential uses of such money.

　　Issue141-Most people recognize the benits of individuality, but the fact is that personal economic success requires conformity.

　　Argument156-The following is taken from an advertisement placed in a weekly business magazine by the Dickens Academy.

　　"We distributed a survey to senior management at International Mega-Publishing, Inc. The result of the survey clearly indicates that many employees were well prepared in business knowledge and computer skills, but lacked interpersonal skills to interact gracully with customers. International Mega-Publishing decided to improve customer satisfaction by sending their newly hired employees to our one-day seminars. Since taking advantage of our program, International Mega-Publishing has seen a sharp increase in sales, an indication that the number of their disgruntled customers has declined significantly. Your company should hire Dickens and let us turn every employee into an ambassador for your company.

　　考试时间：2010-4-19 10:30

　　考试地点：北京海淀区苏州街鼎钧大厦

　　issue136-The absence of choices is a circumstance that is very, very rare.

　　203-"The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its heroines."

　　argument179-The following is a memorandum written by the director of personnel to the president of the Cedar Corporation.

　　"It would be a mistake to rehire the Good-Taste Company to supply the food in our employee cafeteria next year. It is the second most expensive caterer in the city. In addition, its prices have risen in each of the last three years, and it ruses to provide meals for people on special diets. Just last month three employees complained to me that they no longer eat in the cafeteria because they find the experience &aposunbearable.&apos Our company should instead hire Discount Foods. Discount is a family-owned local company and it offers a varied menu of fish and poultry. I recently tasted a sample lunch at one of the many companies that Discount serves and it was delicious—an indication that hiring Discount will lead to improved employee satisfaction."

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