作文（一）
周思远
题目：
For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying “Learning is a daily experience and a lifelong mission.” You can cite examples to illustrate the importance of lifelong learning. You should write at least 120 words, no more than 180 words.
参考范文：Currently in this constantly changing world, learning becomes a seemingly convenient but actually more complex matter. As an old saying goes,” Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission”. Apparently, the meaning of this saying is that if we truly desire to learn something, we are supposed to devote our life to it.
There are several reasons accounting for this viewpoint. For one thing, learning itself is an actually complicated and painful matter, and as a result, it is advisable for us to commit much more time even our whole life to it. For another, it is exceedingly obvious that we are easy to forget what we learned, and accordingly, the significance of lifetime learning cannot be ignored. For example, memorizing vocabulary is commonly the first step of preparing for an English test. However, it is pretty difficult for us to put a huge number of new words in our mind. Therefore, we can divide these words into some groups and spend some hours each day on it in order to remember and understand these words.
To sum up, lifelong learning lays a solid foundation to the development of ourselves, and only when we realize the significance of lifetime learning can we understand the essence of learning.
作文（二）
任伟伟
题目：
For this part, you are allowed 30minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying “Never go outthere to see what happens, go out there to make somethinghappen.” You can cite examples to illustrate the importance ofbeing creative rather than the mere onlookers in life. You shouldwrite at least 120 words, no more than 180 words.
参考范文：As a famous saying goes, "Never go out there to see what happens, go out there to make something happen." Simple as the saying is, its meaning is profound and thought-provoking, which is meant to tell us that we are supposed to be creative instead of acting as the onlooker.
Conspicuous are the impacts of being creative and I would like to explore the following aspects. To begin with, it is to leading a team to make constant progress what water is to fish, which can be best illustrated by an example concerning an extraordinary basketball player, Yao Ming. Moreover, this kind of innovation also makes it possible for a nation to promote its international status and improve the comprehensive competitiveness.
From my perspective, keeping creative is so essential that adequate importance must be attached to it. Only when we literally realize the key role it plays can we become better selves in the foreseeable future.

作文（三）
曹林权
题目：
For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying “Listening is more important than talking.” You can cite examples to illustrate the importance of listening. You should write at least 120 words, no more than 180 words.
参考范文：As the most evolved creature in this planet，we human beings are in possession of two
kinds of most powerful capability,which are listening and talking. Compared with
talking, more often than not,the significance of listening is way ahead in ourlife.

The mosttypical example of theimportance of talking lies in the exchange among familymembers. When we are accustomed to talking withoutlistening, in the process of which we
might only focus on ourselves, feeling of othersare ignored and even hurt. Without listening, the essentialpassport towards mutual understanding, the relation among ourfamily
members may bit by bit go alienated. Besides,listening can also promote the efficiency of
teamwork and efficiency is of the utmostconsequence in such a fast-tempo society.

Talking is a window through which we conveyourselves , while listening is a door via which we understand eachother . A life without mutual listening is justlike a house without a door. Careful
listening , so at least it seems to me , is anecessity but not a luxury in our daily life as well as inour
work .

仔细阅读
第一篇（罗文婷）
Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there somethingunique about it?
It wouldn’t be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in othercountries, because you couldn’t reproduce it in most of the USeither. What does it take to make a silicon valley?
It is the right people. If you could get the right ten thousandpeople to move from Silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo would becomeSilicon Valley.
You only need two kinds of people to create a technology hub: richpeople and nerds.
Observation bears this out: within the US, towns have becomestartup hubs if and only if they have both rich people and nerds.Few startups happen in Miami, for example, because although it’sfull of rich people, it has few nerds. It’s not the kind of placenerds like.
WhereasPittsburgh has the opposite problem: plenty of nerds, but no richpeople. The top US Computer Science departments are said to be MIT,Stanford, Berkeley, and Carnegie-Mellon. MIT yielded Route 128.Stanford and Berkeley yielded Silicon Valley. But Carnegie-Mellon?The record skips at that point. Lower down the list, the Universityof Washington yielded a high-tech community in Seattle, and theUniversity of Texas at Austin yielded one in Austin. But whathappened in Pittsburgh? And in Ithaca, home of Cornell, which isalso high on the list?
I grew up in Pittsburgh and went to college at Cornell, so I cananswer for both. The weather is terrible, particularly in winter,and there’s no interesting old city to make up for it, as there isin Boston. Rich people don’t want to live in Pittsburgh or Ithaca.So while there are plenty of hackers who could start startups,there’s no one to invest in them.
Do you really need the rich people? Wouldn’t it work to have thegovernment invest in the nerds? No, it would not. Startup investorsare a distinct type of rich people. They tend to have a lot ofexperience themselves in the technology business. This helps thempick the right startups, and means they can supply advice andconnections as well as money. And the fact that they have apersonal stake in the outcome makes them really pay attention.

参考答案及解析

56.原文第一段第一句反问句“Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere, or isthere something unique about it?”可得知答案选A——Its success is hard tocopy anywhere else. 选项copy同义改写原文的reproduce。
57.由题干大写字母Miami定位到原文第五段“Few startups happen in Miami, for example,because although it’s full of rich people, it has few nerds. It’snot the kind of place nerdslike.”由因果关系词because找到原因——这里既是有很多富裕的人，却几乎没有nerds（痴迷科研的人）。所以答案选B——Lackof the right kind of talents.
58，由题干大写字母Carnegie-Mellon, MIT, Stanford,Berkeley等定位到第六段，问CM和其他的是哪里有不同。“The top US Computer Sciencedepartments are said to be MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, andCarnegie-Mellon. MIT yielded Route 128. Stanford and Berkeleyyielded Silicon Valley. But Carnegie-Mellon? The record skips atthat point.”原文讲到了MIT, Stanford, Berkeley都yielded产生了很有名的sciencedepartment，而Carnegie-Mellon呢？这个记录可以直接跳过忽略。言下之意就是CM没有出名的sciencedepartment，所以答案选D——It does not pay much attention to businessstartups.
59题，由题干大写字母Boston定位到倒数第二段。定位句“The weather is terrible, particularlyin winter, and there’s no interesting old city to make up for it,as there is in Boston”说到了Boston是一个无聊的老城市，而定位句的下一句“So while thereare plenty of hackers who could start startups, there’s no one toinvest in them”说到了这样的城市无法吸引投资。所以答案选C——It is not likely to attractlots of investors and nerds.
60题，由startup investors定位到最后一段。Startupinvestors不仅富有，他们一般都经验丰富，而且能给提供一些建议，所以答案选C——They can do more thanproviding money.