Section IV Writing

(35 minutes)66.The opening up policy has brought about great advances in various fields in China, yet a few still claim that things were much better before.

There is a discussion in a newspaper on these two viewpoints.

Write an essay to the newspaper

1) criticizing their view and

2) justifying your stand.

In your essay, make full use of the information provided in the graphs printed below.

You should write 160_200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.

Section Voral Test

Part A

Interlocutor:

●Good morning/afternoon. Could I have your mark sheets, please? Thank you.

●My name is and this is my colleague .He/She is just going to the listening to us. So, you are and ?Thank you.

●First of all we'd like to know something about you, so I'm going to ask some questions about you.

●Can you say something about yourselves?(Where are you from? What can you tell me about your family? Can you tell me something about your work or studies? Do you have any hobbies? How did you become interested in your hobby?)

Part B

Interlocutor:

●Now I'd like you to talk about something between yourselves, but speak loudly so that we can hear you. You should take care to share the opportunity of speaking.(Put the picture in front of both candidates and give instructions with reference to the picture)

●Suppose you are classmates. You are talking about the end of the school term. Both of you are going to leave school and start work. Discuss between yourselves that you'd like to do after leaving school and why you want to choose the job.

●This picture is for your reference. You have three minutes for this. Would you like to begin now, please?

Part C

Interlocutor:

●I'm going to give each of you a picture and I'd like you to first briefly describe and then give your comment on what you see in the picture.

(Put picture 1 in front of both candidates)

●Candidate A, this is your picture. You have three minutes to talk about it.

●Candidate B, listen carefully while Candidate A is speaking. When he/she has inished, I'd like you to ask him/her a question about what he/she has said.

●Candidate A, would you like to begin now, please?

Candidate AThree minutes)

picture 1

Interlocutor:

●Thank you. Now, Candidate B, could you please ask your partner a question?

(Half a minute for asking and answering the question)

(Take back picture 1 and put picture 2 in front of both candidates)

●OK, Candidate B, here is your picture. You also have three minutes to talk about your picture.

●Candidate A, listen carefully while Candidate B is speaking. When he/she has finished, I'd like you to ask him/her a question about he/she has said.

●Candidate B, would you like to begin now, please?

Candidate BThree minutes)

Distance

picture 2

Interlocutor:

●Thank you. Now, Candidate A, could you please

ask your partner a question?

(Half a minute for asking and answering the question)

●Thank you. That is the end of the test.