They lay face down on the beach, ________(背部暴露在阳光下).

There is no denying that waste is a common phenomenon on campus nowadays. As a developing country and a nation with so long a history, our young people should realize the serious realities of our natural materials and economical resources. You are to write a 400-word composition to discuss this issue.

In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion with a summary.

Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Where is the heating element fixed in the scissors？ It is fixed in the __ of the edges.

Part A

In this part, you are to write a letter of application to university, telling about:

1) your schooling and work;

2) your desire to be admitted to take advanced study;

3) your enclosures with the letter.

You should write approximately 100 words. Do not sign your name at the end of the letter. Use" Wang Lin" instead.

Little Lady Starts Big War

Harriet Beecher Stowe had poured her heart into her anti-slavery(反对奴隶制度) book Uncle Tom's Cabin.【46】The publisher was so doubtful that he wanted her to split the publishing costs with him, and all she hoped was that it would make enough money for her to buy a new silk dress.

But when the first 5,000 copies were printed in 1852, they sold out in two days. In a year the book had sold 300,000 copies in the United States and 150,000 in England.【47】Within six months of its release, a play was made from the book which ran 350 performances in New York and remained America's most popular play for 80 years. It might appear that Uncle Tom's Cabins was universally popular, but this was certainly not true, Many people during those pre-Civil War days — particularly defenders of the slavery system — condemned it as false propaganda(宣传) and poorly written melodrama (传奇剧 作品).

Harriet did have strong religious views against slavery (When asked how she came to write the book, she replied: "God wrote it."), and she tried to convince people slavery was wrong, so perhaps the book could be considered as propaganda.【48】

Though she was born in Connecticut in 1832, as a young woman she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, when her father accepted the presidency (任期) of newly founded Lane Theological Seminary (神学院). Ohio was a free state, but just across the Ohio River in Kentucky, Harriet saw slavery in action. She lived 18 years in Cincinnati, marrying Calvin Stowe, professor of a college.【49】

【50】Today some historians (历史学家) think that it helped bring on the American Civil War.

In fact, when Abraham Lincoln met Harriet at the White House during the Civil War, he said. "So, this is the little lady who started this big war. "

A. She had read a lot about the slavery system.

B. Its vast influence strengthened the anti-slavery movement and angered defenders of the slavery system.

C. But if so, it was true propaganda, because it accurately described the evils of slavery.

D. For a while it outsold every book in the world, except the Bible.

E. But neither she nor her first publisher thought it would be a big success.

F. In 1851, Harriet Beecher Stowe began her book.

(46)

Anthony West has got his arm injured when he is playing football.