It is preferred that you are familiar with economic regulations.

&8226;Read the article below about Hikikomori.

&8226;Choose the best sentence to fill in each of the gaps.

&8226;For each gap 8-12,mark one letter(A-G)on your Answer Sheet.

&8226;Do not use any letter more than once.

&8226;There is an example at the beginning(0).

Hikikomori has become a major issue in Japan. Loosely translated as "social withdrawal," Hikikomori refers to the state of anomie into which an increasing number of young Japanese seem to fall these days. Socially withdrawn kids typically lock themselves in their bedrooms and refuse to have any contact with the outside world.

They live in reverse: they sleep all day, wake up in the evening and stay up all night watching television or playing video games.

(8) Their funk can last for months, even years in extreme cases. No official statistics are available, but it is estimated that more than one million young Japanese suffer from the affliction. One such young man was the protagonist of my latest novel, Symbiosis Worm.

Hikikomori is a consequence of the phenomenal growth of the Japanese economy during the latter half of the 20th century and the tremendous technological progress the country made during that time. Japanese youth could not afford to be socially withdrawn if their parents were not affluent enough to provide them a home, meals and extras that have come to be thought of as basics--audio and video equipment, software, mobile phones, computers. (9)

Affluent Japanese do not know what kind of lifestyle. to take up now. (10) "Socially withdrawn" people find it extremely painful to communicate with the outside world, and thus they turn to the tools that bring virtual reality into their closed rooms. (11) The country has to accept that World War II ended long ago--and so did the glory days of national restoration and economic growth. We don't need the state to come up with an alternative national goal. Instead Japan should develop into a society in which each member is able to set his or her own aims. That's not easy, but not impossible. If the culture cannot adjust and drowns in a tsunami of technology. (12)

A Some own computers or mobile phones, but most have few or no friends.

B Socially withdrawn kids typically lock themselves in their bedrooms and refuse to have any contact with the outside world.

C Japan, on the other hand, must face reality itself.

D Great changes in a country's social structure have always caused stresses.

E That uncertainty has pulled people further apart and caused a whole raft of social problems. Hikikomori is naturally one of them.

F Japan will end up sinking even deeper into a labyrinth of confusion.

G And there are plenty of newer technological devices for these youths to pursue.

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How to approach Writing Test Part Two

?Part Two counts for two thirds of the total marks in the Writing Test.

?You should spend about 30 minutes on Part Two.

?You will be asked to write a report, proposal or piece of business correspondence.

?You will be given information, such as a letter, advertisement, or charts and graphs, as the starting point for your answer, and will be told who to write to.

?About five 'handwritten' notes will also be given. You must use all these notes when writing your answer, and will need to invent information in connection with some of them. If you leave out any of the five notes, you will lose marks.

Planning

?Read the instructions carefully so that you know what do, and underline the key words.

?Make an outline plan, putting the five notes into a suitable order.

Writing

?Start your answer by briefly saying why you are writing.

?Express your ideas clearly.

?Try to use a wide range of appropriate vocabulary and grammatical structures.

?For a piece of business correspondence, include suitable openings and closings (e.g. Dear Ms Smith and Yours sincerely with your signature), but no addresses.

?Do not present a report or proposal in the form. of a letter.

?Make the formality of the language suitable for the reader(s).

Checking

?After writing, read what you have written, correct mistakes and make improvements. If you want to add anything, use a sign, e.g. *. Put a line through anything you want to omit. Don't rewrite the whole of your answer.

?Hake sure the examiner will be able to read your answer. Use a pen and your normal handwriting (do not write in capital letters).

?Check that you have written your answer in 120 140 words.

?You work for a small chain of clothing stores. The Managing Director has asked you to write a short report on last month's performance.

?Look at the charts and table below, on which you have already made some handwritten notes.

?Then, using all your handwritten notes, write the report for your Managing Director

?Write 120- 140 words.

ions.

?Look at the statements below and the information on transport on the opposite page.

?Which section (A, B, C, or D) does each statement 1--7 refer to?

?For each statement 1--7, mark one letter (A, B, C, or D) on your Answer Sheet.

?You will need to use some of these letters more than once.

A

What is to happen about transport? Evidently there are huge and important changes in prospect. A decade or so from now, there will have been yet another transformation in the way in which people and their goods are moved from place to place. Old techniques are being faced with attenuation or even extinction, sometimes because better methods of traveling have come along but sometimes simply because the old methods have become intolerable.

B

The development of recent decades most obviously likely to be continued is the tendency for alternative methods of traveling to coexist, and so to offer potential travelers a choice. Within large cities, underground transport is usually an alternative to several ways of traveling on the surface. Roads, railways and airlines are in competition, and there are still people who cross the North Atlantic by sea. (Most freight goes that way, of course.)

C

Oil tankers could decisively affect the pattern of petroleum distribution from the major oilfields and at the same time encourage the pipeline, which offers the simplest and often the cheapest means of bulk transport. Then, there is the Boeing 747 aircraft, which is likely to do for people what the huge tankers will do for petroleum trunk be increasingly troublesome. All these changes, promised or merely possible in the pattern of transport, have in common what is, in the broadest sense, and economic stimulus.

D

Fast transport between cities separated by a few hundred miles is becoming urgently necessary in densely populated areas. The United States Government is financing a number of exploratory investigations bearing on specific problems linking the major cities on the Atlantic seaboard. However, it remains to be seen whether the result will really beyond schemes for patching up the existing railway network to some of the more ambitious schemes which are sometimes heard of--monorails, pneumatic tubes with trains inside, and deep bored tunnels intended to enable trains to oscillate from one city to another with no expenditure of energy except for overcoming friction and air resistance.

Several means of travel will be present together, in which each can replace the others.

t of the calls you deal with are from customers requiring details of their invoices. This means that you have to get up from your desk and check information in the filing cabinet.

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desk. You collect it from there to filing cabinet. You also have to make several trips a day to the Office Manager's office as he asks for certain documents.

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听力原文：M: Could you please book me into a hotel in Shanghai next week?

F: Certainly, My. Brown. When will you be going to Shanghai?

M: I'll arrive there on Thursday next week. Let me see, that's June 28th, isn't it?

F: That's right, June 28th. You'll arrive early morning, won't you?

M: That's right.

F: How long will you stay there?

M: Just a week. I'll leave Shanghai for Beijing on the morning of July 4th.

F: Whereabouts in Shanghai would you like to stay?

M: There are one or two excellent hotels near the Harbor Ferry in the Huangpu District. They are also very convenient.

F: Would you like a room overlooking the Bund or doesn't it matter too much?

M: It's not too important but I'd prefer a bund-view room if you can get one for me.

?kook at the notes below.

?You will hear a man booking an accommodation.

BOOKING REQUEST

Fro M: Mr. Brown

City: (5) ______

Dates: (6) ______ June 28th (morning) -- ______( morning )

Location of the hotel: Central District near the (7) ______ Ferry

Preference: (8) ______ Room Facing the ______.