第一部分 英文文法 (5 分 ) （建议时间：10分钟）
Please correct the grammatical errors in these sentences.
1．The pressure over the coach was intense after his team lost five soccer games.
2．No natural disaster in history cause as much shock and grief worldwide as the 2004 tsunami
3．The causes of the dust storm that hit Beijing has until recently remain a mystery
4．Overtime the young man will perfect the art of piano playing. After all, such an instrument tuned finely needs delicate handling
5．The tenants were asked to throw all recyclable garbage into the green plastic bag, those who didn’ t follow the rule will be criticized publicly.
6．A gifted scientist, Newton keeps discovering some of the most fundamental laws in the history of science.
7．That air is composed of about 78% nitrogen and only about 21% oxygen, are little know facts.
8．That is a story of hardship that it puts our own situation into perspective.
9．Saying that the island was heading for war, the Tamil Tiger rebels pulled out it’s representatives from the talks.
10．Rageen Dadfar Spanta replaces Abdullah, whom has been the top envoy of the president since 2001.
第二部分 时事 (20 分 ) （建议时间：40分钟）
请表述以下的人和事，新闻背景或历史意义（每题50字以内）
1．“十一五”规划
2．BLOG （博客）
3．Al-Jazeera
（半岛电视台）
4．胡锦涛访美
5．油价上升
6．超级女声
7．Ben Bernanke（布南克）
8．Ariel Sharon
10．六方会谈
11．国资银行海外上市
12．人民币汇率
13．股权分置改革
14．"馒头血案"
15．Jacques Chirac
16．Nasdaq
17．Silvio Berlusconi （贝鲁斯科尼）
18．他信
19．OPEC
20．Web2.0
第三部分、第四部分选做其一
第三部分
评论写作 （可用中文或英语）35 分。建议时间：50 分钟
The Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China issued the following document on the legal status of women in China. In 500 words comment on your views of the current status – legal or otherwise – of women in China.
China attaches great importance to providing legal protection for females. Women enjoy equal legal status with men. Now, a comprehensive legal system has come into being to protect the rights and interests of women and promote sexual equality. It takes the Constitution as the basis and the Law on the Protection of Rights and Interests of Women as the core, and encompasses various specific state laws and regulations, administrative decrees and regulations enacted by various government departments, and local legislation.
The basic principles in China's legislative work concerning women are equal rights for men and women, protection of the special rights and interests of women, and the banning of any discrimination, maltreatment and persecution directed at women. The Constitution of the People's Republic of China clearly stipulates, "Women enjoy equal rights with men in all spheres of life, political, economic, cultural and social, including family life....The state protects the rights and interests of women, applies the principle of equal pay for equal work for men and women alike and trains and selects cadres from among women....Marriage, the family and mother and child are protected by the state....Violation of the freedom of marriage is prohibited. Maltreatment of old people, women and children is prohibited." In line with the principles established by the Constitution, New China has promulgated over 10 fundamental laws, including the Marriage Law, Electoral Law, Law of Inheritance, Civil Law and Criminal Law. The State Council and various ministries and commissions under it have enacted over 40 administrative decrees and regulations. Local governments have devised more than 80 local regulations and rules. All these legislations include clear provisions on the protection of the rights and interests of women. No law in China contains clauses that discriminate against women.
The Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Women promulgated in 1992 provided an effective legal weapon for further enhancing the social status of women and guaranteeing their basic rights and interests.
Under Chinese law, the legitimate rights of women can be summed up into the following six aspects:
-- Women enjoy equal political rights with men. Women have the right, through various channels and in various ways, to administer state and social affairs, and enjoy equal rights to vote and stand for election. To ensure female participation in government and political affairs, the law stipulates that deputies to the National People's Congress and local people's congresses at various levels should include appropriate numbers of women and the proportion should be increased step by step. It states that the principle of sexual equality should be upheld when appointing people to leading posts, and attention should be paid to training and selecting top officials from among women.
-- Women enjoy equal rights with men with respect to culture and education. These cover school admittance, advancement to higher levels of schooling, job assignment after graduation, conferment of academic degrees and being dispatched for study abroad, plus women's rights to engage in scientific and technological research and literary and artistic creation. The government, society, school and family have the responsibility to ensure that the right of female children and adolescents to receive compulsory education is observed.
-- Women enjoy equal working rights with men. These mainly include: the right to work and be employed, equal pay for equal work, time-off, on-the-job safety and medical care as well as special labor protection, and social insurance. The law stipulates that any unit, while recruiting employees, is not allowed to refuse to employ women or raise the recruitment standards for women under any pretext. It cannot fire women or unilaterally annul their labor contracts on the pretext of marriage, pregnancy, maternity leave or baby nursing. It is not allowed to discriminate against women in terms of promotion, award of academic and technical titles, allotment of housing and enjoyment of welfare benefits, nor to assign women to tasks that are not suitable for them. Women enjoy special protection during menstruation, pregnancy, child birth and baby nursing period.
-- Women enjoy equal property rights with men. The law stipulates that rural women enjoy the same rights as rural men in the allotment of "responsibility farmland" and "grain-ration farmland" and in the approval of housing sites. With regard to marriage and family property, women enjoy equal ownership and inheritance rights with men. Widows have the right to dispose of property they inherit, without interference from anyone.
