Our dormitory has four members. Besides me, there are Old Zhao, Young Zhao and Lily. As college students, our experiences are similar, and right now, we are all students of Law School. But in terms of character, we are totally different from each other.

　　· Old Zhao is our common sister. She is very kind and considerate. She takes full responsibility of our dormitory. If sorne of us catch a cold, she will take good care of her. Whenever we are in trouble, we turn to her.

　　· Young Zhao is a quiet girl. If there is a chat among us, she is always the one who says little but listens attentively. She has the admirable ability to do well in all kinds of examinations. We all agree that she is the example that we should learn from in studies.

　　· Lily is just the opposite of Young Zhao. She is very talkative. We enjoy her cornpany because she has the sense of humor, which rnakes her talk extremely interesting. Where there is Lily, there is laughter.

　　· Such are my three roommates. In spite of our different characters, we get on well with each other. Our dormitory has become our common home.

　　High Salaries or Career Development? 高工资还是职业发展？

　　Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic High Salaries or Career Development? You should write at least 150 words, and base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:

　　1)有的大学毕业生选择工作时主要看重高工资，而有的则认为良好的职业发展空间才是更重要的

　　2)阐述他们各自的考虑

　　3)表明你的看法

　　High Salaries or Career Development?

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　　行文思路

　　本题属于提纲式文字命题。提纲第1点指出两种不同的选择，提纲第2点要求分别阐述这两种选择各自的理由，提纲第3点要求表明“我”的看法，由此可判断本文应为对比选择型作文。

　　根据所给提纲，本文应包含如下内容：指出大学毕业生选择工作时不同的侧重点：注重高工资和注重职业发展空间;对比阐述他们各自的理由;表明“我”的倾向并说明理由。

　　高分范文

　　High Salaries or Career Development?

　　There are more and more people looking for jobs every year, but they have different views about what kind of job they should choose. [1]Some of them focus their attention on the jobs that promise high salaries. [1]Others show a preference for those jobs that offer chances to learn skills and advancement possibilities.

　　[2]People holding the first view usually think that more money will result in more happiness. [3]With a lot of money in hand, they will be able to enjoy a rich life. Otherwise, they will suffer from depression [4]due to lack of enough money. [2]However, the holders of the second view argue that one should develop his skills as roundly as possible. [5]It is career development that counts most. Without development, you will be outrun by others and fall behind the times sooner or later.

　　In my view, career development is the right choice because career may give us long term satisfaction [6]while high salary would give us short term happiness. Besides, [7]generally speaking, a good career development will bring high salaries sooner or later. So I will [8]give my vote to the career development first and then high salaries.

　　【亮点点评】

　　[1]用于引出两种不同的观点或倾向。

　　[2]用于对比分析两种观点各自的理由。

　　[3]“with+宾语+宾补”的独立结构充当状语。

　　[4]“因为缺钱”。

　　[5]强调句型，此处是强调句子的主语。

　　[6]while引导比较状语从句，意为“然而”。

　　[7]“一般来说”。

　　[8]“选择”。

　　佳句临摹

　　1.佳句：Others show a preference for those jobs that offer chances to learn skills and advancement possibilities.

　　临摹：近些年来，越来越多的人开始喜欢洋快餐。

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　　2.佳句：However, the holders of the second view argue that one should develop his skills as roundly as possible.

　　临摹：然而，持第二种观点的人认为体育明星们为社会做出了杰出的贡献，因此应该得到特殊待遇。

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　　3.佳句：Career may give us long

　　ng term satisfaction while high salary would give us short term happiness.

　　临摹：我们之间的共同之处使我们的关系牢固，而不同之处则都会我们如何相互理解。

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　　【KEY】

　　1. In recent years, there are more and more people who have showed a preference for western fast food.

　　2. However, the holders of the second view argue that since sports stars have made great contributions to the society, they deserve some special treatment.

　　3. The similarity between us makes our relationship solid while the difference teaches us how to understand each other.

　　The Definition of “Price”价格的定义

　　The Definition of “Price” Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers. The price system of the United States is a complex network composed of the prices of all the products bought and sold in the economy as well as those of a myriad of services, including labor, professional, transportation, and public-utility services. The interrelationships of all these prices make up the “system” of prices. The price of any particular product or service is linked to a broad, complicated system of prices in which everything seems to depend more or less upon everything else. If one were to ask a group of randomly selected inpiduals to define “price”, many would reply that price is an amount of money paid by the buyer to the seller of a product or service or, in other words that price is the money values of a product or service as agreed upon in a market transaction. This definition is, of course, valid as far as it goes. For a complete understanding of a price in any particular transaction, much more than the amount of money involved must be known. Both the buyer and the seller should be familiar with not only the money amount, but with the amount and quality of the product or service to be exchanged, the time and place at which the exchange will take place and payment will be made, the form of money to be used, the credit terms and discounts that apply to the transaction, guarantees on the product or service, delivery terms, return privileges, and other factors. In other words, both buyer and seller should be fully aware of all the factors that comprise the total “package” being exchanged for the asked-for amount of money in order that they may evaluate a given price.

　　Woman in Modern Society 现代社会中的女性

　　Women play an important part in modern society. Now many women are going into professions, such as medicine, law and engineering. They comprise a large part of the workers in businesses and factories. In addition, they are working up to important positions which used to be held mainly by men. There are even some businesses which are run completely be women. Clearly, women are making outstanding contributions to the progress of modern society.

　　There are, However, still some people who assert that men are superior to women in many ways. First, many jobs men do can hardly be done by women, who are physically not strong enough. Second, most of the world-famous scientists and statesmen are found to be males. Finally, the whole society seems to have always been dominated by men only. In their opinion, men should enjoy more rights than women do.

　　Personally, I'm firmly standing on the side of those woman right defenders. Since both men and women are equally important in human activities, they should be on an equal footing.

　　提高英语学习的动机

　　许多中国人花了很多时间在这个看到就头疼的英语上，只为了考试，成绩却常常一塌糊涂。如果只有外来的压力，学习效果就不会好到哪儿去。源自内心的动力是必需的。

　　Improving Your Motivation for Learning English

　　Remember there is a lot that you don’t know

　　You are good, but your English probably isn’t perfect. You probably can’t understand English language TV, read books in English, talk to native speakers easily, write letters without mistakes, etc.

　　Even if you are the best student in your class, always try to find your weak areas and work on them. When you’ve learned to speak English well, your problems will be quite small: punctuation, rarely used grammar structures, rare words, understanding “street language”. Right now, your problems are probably more basic: mistakes in pronunciation, small vocabulary, grammar problems with the present perfect tense and conditional structures.

　　Use your English whenever you can

　　The more you use English, the more you will want to learn it. Because English is so popular, you can use it everywhere.① You can use Google to find English?language websites with interesting information, you can watch American cartoons, you can play adventure games on your computer, you can read interesting books in English, or you can do other things that we write about.②

　　If you do these things, you will not only have fun and learn English. If you see that a new English word lets you understand your favorite TV show (or communicate with people, or beat a computer game), you will want to learn more words. So you will learn English more, use it more, learn it more, use it more... If you also use effective learning methods, your English will grow faster than you can imagine.

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　　行文点评

　　文中的小标题自然地将文章分为两部分，分别是作者针对提高英语学习的动机所提出的两点建议。在每一部分中又各自分成两段，第一段说明建议的合理性，第二段说明这样做的好处，结构非常清晰。

　　文章避繁就简，用词简单明了，句式多用短句构成结构并不复杂的长句，既通俗易懂又增强可读性，排比句的使用也为文章增色不少。

　　好文妙译

　　提高英语学习的动机

　　记住你还有很多不懂的东西

　　你现在很不错，但是你的英语很有可能达不到非常出色的程度。你很可能还听不懂英语电视节目，读不懂英语书，不能很容易地与以英语为母语的人谈话，不能没有丝毫错误地写英文信，等等。

　　即使你是班里最好的学生，也要经常努力去发现你的弱势并且多下功夫。当你的英语已经说的相当好时，你的问题就小多了：标点符号，很少被使用的语法结构，不常见的单词，理解“街道语言”。现在，你的问题很可能就更基础性了：发音上的错误，词汇量小，现在完成时和条件结构从句的语法问题。