To show you are a qualified candidate for an academic program, you can ___________ in your application letter.

A、self-introduction

B、purpose of writing

C、your academic areas/interests/experience

D、other related qualifications/skills

Write an academic paper about English language studies. The topic for the paper can be (but not limited to) English teaching, English and Chinese translation, English literature and English culture. Requirements: 1. Basically, the structure of your paper should include the following parts: (a) title, (b) abstract (no more than 200 words), (c) key words (3-5 words), (d) introduction, (e) literature review (optional for articles relating to literature or translation), (f) analysis parts (such as methodology, results, discussion, etc.), (g) conclusion, (h) references. 2. Plagiarism is not allowed; 3. Machine-translation is rejected; 4. The paper should be a maximum of 6000 words including the references and appendixes; 5. Print the paper in Times New Roman, 12-point font size and 2 times spacing for the title, and 10.5-point font size, 1.15 times spacing for the texts.

The easiest way to start an academic brawl is to ask what an educated person should know. The last time Harvard University tackled that question was in 1978, when it established its Core Curriculum, which focused less on content than on mastering ways of thinking. Like Harvard's so-called Red Book standards of 1945, which helped inspire a generation of distribution requirements, the core had broad resonance at other major universities. Now, after a four-year process initiated under controversial former president Lawrence Summers, the nation's most famous university has come up with a whole new set of guidelines that proponents say will help clarify how liberal-arts subjects like philosophy and art history shed light on the hurly-burly of more quotidian topics. "Students will be more motivated to learn if they see a connection with the kinds of problems, issues and questions they will encounter in later life," says interim president Derek Bok. Harvard isn't the only institution rethinking what and how to teach its students. Yale, Rutgers and the universities of Pennsylvania and Texas have recently made similar changes, and now that Harvard has joined the club, others are likely to follow.

Harvard's new curriculum establishes eight primary subject areas that all students will have to take. The categories include Societies of the World, encompassing subjects like anthropology and international relations; Ethical Reasoning, a practical approach to philosophy; and the United States in the World, which will likely span multiple departments, including sociology and economics. The plan, which is expected to be formally approved by the faculty in May, won't go into effect before September 2009 at the earliest.

But the school is already preemptively dismissing charges that it is embracing purely practical knowledge. "We do not propose that we teach the headlines," said a report published on Feb. 7 by the curriculum committee, comprising professors, students and a dean. "Only that the headlines, along with much else in our students' lives, are among the things that a liberal education can help students make better sense of."

One point likely to raise eyebrows among academic traditionalists is the rationale for the newly mandated study of Empirical Reasoning, which will cover math, logic and statistics. It is being added, the committee report says, because graduates of Harvard "will have to decide, for example, what medical treatments to undergo, when a defendant in court has been proven guilty, whether to support a policy proposal and how to manage their personal finances". Does this mean balancing a checkbook is on a par with balancing equations? What about learning for learning's sake? What about the study of history, which Harvard will no longer require, even though its recently announced new president, Drew Gilpin Faust—the first woman to head the institution—is a renowned historian?

The plan's advocates say the curriculum is flexible enough that students will still be able to take courses in whatever interests them, be it ancient art or cutting-edge science. What's crucial, they say, is that the new approach emphasizes the kind of active learning that gets students thinking and applying knowledge. "Just as one doesn't become a marathon runner by reading about the Boston Marathon," says the committee report, "so, too, one doesn't become a good problem solver by listening to lectures or reading about statistics." Acknowledging how important extracurricular activities have become on campus, the report calls for a stronger link between the endeavors students pursue inside and outside the classroom. Those studying poverty, for example, absorb more if they also volunteer at a homeless shelter, suggests Bok, whose 2005 book, Our Underachieving Colleges, cites a finding that students remember just 20% of the content of class lectures a week later.

There were, however, some contemporary

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(89) What questions do visa officers have in mind when they face a student applying for a visa? Here is the gist of what Consul General David T. Hopper, the head of visa operations at the American embassy, explained:

Are you a genuine student, headed to the US for the purpose of studying? (90) Some applicants use fake documents, or have no real intention of attending college in America--the whole project is just a ruse (计策) to get to the US. The officers look closely at 1-20 forms, diplomas and school records for evidence of fraud.

Can you pay for your studies? (91) Some applicants have full scholarships, but many are self-supporting, so the visa officer must make sure the money is available.

Are you really going to America to study and only to study, not to work? [The problem here is work after graduation, not part-time campus jobs while the student is in an academic program.] Do you intend to leave the US when you have your degree? (92) Of course this is quite difficult to prove to the visa officer, and correspondingly difficult for the visa officer to judge. But the visa officer cannot simply ignore US visa law, which states that (93) if you give a person a student visa ,you must be convinced that he intends to leave the US when his studies are finished.

(94)

Electrical engineers typically possess an academic degree with a major in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, or electrical and electronic engineering. The length of study for such a degree is usually four or five years and the completed degree may be designated as a Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Technology, or Bachelor of Applied Science depending on the university. The bachelor's degree generally includes units covering physics, mathematics, computer science, project management, and specific topics of electrical engineering.

A、Business casual

B、Shirt and tie

C、Resort casual

D、Full business clothes

For this part you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition. Suppose you are required to write a "Want Ad for the Dean". You are supposed to base this ad on the outline given below

Duties: Meeting with students; presenting oral and written reports; attending sessions

Requirements: Full-time study with at least one year of student experience; good interpersonal and communication skills; a strong sense of duty

Salary: ＄ 9,000 an academic year

Time commitment: 15 hrs. weekly

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Help Wanted

A．A good singing voice.

B．A commitment to the project for two semesters.

C．An academic concentration in theater arts.

D．A certain grade point average.