未知题型 For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic: The House-Purchase Rush. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given in Chinese.1. 现在，很多城市都出现了“购房热”2. 分析一下这种现象产生的原因3. 你如何看待“购房热”

未知题型 听力原文：Man：The National Finance Section announced today that it is lowering the guaranteed interest rate on savings bonds．ABS's Micheal Lee reports that the 2/3 point decline to 6%came as no surprise to investors．The Section said it is lowering the rate on savings bonds to bring it in 1ine with other market interest rates which have been falling all year．For instance，money market mutual funds are now yielding just over 5%；five-year treasury notes are trading at about 6.5%．So the government has been paying a premium to people buying savings bonds，and it's turned out to be an expensive way to finance the public debt．The relatively generous 7.5%rate on the bonds has made them very popular in the past few months．Since the beginning of August．sales have been about double the usual pace。And this week，the rush to buy savings bonds intensified because of reports that the Section was going to cut the rate any day，and people wanted to lock in the old rate．Savings bonds bought before tomorrow，the day the cut goes into effect，will still yield 7.5%．I'm MicheaI Lee in Washington，D．C．?You will hear a report in brief about the lowering of the interest rates．?As you listen，for questions 1-12，complete the notes，using up to three words or a number．?After you have listened once，replay the recording．The National Finance Section announced today that it is lowering the______ on savings bonds．2．The______ point decline to 6％ came as no surprise to investors．3．The Section said it is lowering the rate on savings bonds to bring it ______ other market interest rates．4．Money ______ are now yielding iust over 5％．5．Five-year treasury notes are trading at about ______．6．The government has been ______ to people buying savings bonds．7．It's turned out to be an expensive way to finance ______．8．The relatively generous ______ rate on the bonds has made them very popular in the past fen months．9．Since the beginning of August，sales have ______ the usual pace．10．This week，______ buy savings bonds intensified．11．It is reported that the Section was going to ______ any day．12．Savings bonds bought before tomorrow will still yield ______.

未知题型 Last month the U.S. Army, bumped favored defense contractor L-3 Communications from a $ 4.6 billion contract to provide translators and interpreters in Iraq. A new venture called Global Linguistic Solutions (GLS), headed by retired Army Major General James (Spider) Marks and primarily formed to bid on the contract, landed the job. The surprise caused L-3 shares to fall nearly 6%; the company lowered its sales forecast this year by $ 500 million.Winning the contract may be the easy part for GLS. Luring interpreters to Iraq is another story. Job listings posted on L-3's website read like something out of a Tom Clancy thriller. Wanted. 'Arabic Linguist… Ability to deal unobtrusively with the local populace… Must be able to live in a harsh environment.' The pay isn't mentioned, but L-3 recently offered interpreters more than $175,000 annually to work in Iraq. Linguists usually don't carry weapons and are often called on to participate in raids and other combat-related tasks. Casualty reports show that L-3's Titan Corp, the major contractor supplying interpreters to the U.S. military, had 216 employees killed in Iraq—nearly 100 more fatalities than the entire British army stationed there.Danger is just one way that the linguistics industry—interpreters who relay live chat and translators who process documents—has changed dramatically. More benignly, the Web and the global economy have led to 7.5% annual growth in the market, now pegged as a $ 9.4 billion business, according to research group Common Sense Advisory. While much of that is due to the military, there has been renewed growth elsewhere. 'Firms from Starbucks to McDonald's now have to communicate and market to customers in dozens of different languages,' says Common Sense Advisory president Don DePalma.The boom in translation jobs comes because of—and despite—technology. DePalma says there has been real acceleration in demand tied to software, since Microsoft's new Vista operating system, updated versions of Mac and various other electronic devices have to conform. to European standards. That requires local language to be used in everything from instruction manuals to safety standards. Add the growing use of bilingual signage aimed at Hispanics, multilingual U.S. court requirements and hospital needs, and over the next eight years, full-time linguistics employment is expected to jump more than 25%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Computers are certainly doing some of the work. Companies like eBay, GM and Motorola have all used software from Massachusetts firm Idiom Technologies to help power their efforts in localization, as language targeting is sometimes called. Still, it often takes a real brain to differentiate terms in context: the word trunk can refer to a suitcase, a car hatch or an elephant's snout, for example.The biggest player in translation services last year was publicly held Lionbridge, employing 4,000 full-time staff members and 10,000 freelancers in 25 countries, with a current market cap of $350 million. Lionbridge, based in Massachusetts, translates technology for mobile-phone companies and clients such as McDonald's, Google and Yahoo! 'Computer code is code,' says Lionbridge chief marketing officer Kevin Bolen. 'But certain things such as metrics, time stamps and characters have to be re-engineered and hard-encoded into the software to display Japanese kanji, for instance.'Lionhridge and its competitors recruit at universities and industry websites such as linguistlist, org with specialists of all stripes in demand, from automotive experts to those with a knack for medical jargon. 'India has about a dozen dialects needed to capture a substantial customer base,' says Bolen, 'so for Nokia we? re translating applications and phones and instructions in nine different ways.'Thanks to the Web, new companies become global from the get-go rather than at a later phase, Bolen