Directions: Choose ONE of the following three topics and write an essay of no fewer than 200 words.Topic 1: What are the uses of liberal arts education (人文教育)？Topic 2: What does theory mean to you?Topic 3: “In order to make a man or boy desire a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.” (Mark Twain)
Although sports（ ）the household, Joe drew the line when they interfered with family traditions and routine.
There are many kinds of metals,（ ）its special properties
Fewer and fewer of today’s workers expect to spend their working lives in the same field,（ ）the same company.
Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable occupations. Personal consultants give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants. But in the executive circle, beauty can become a liability.While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman.Handsome male executives were perceived as having more integrity than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to account for their success.Attractive female executives were considered to have less integrity than unattractive ones; their success was attributed not to ability but to factors such as luck.All unattractive women executives were thought to have more integrity and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise of the unattractive overnight successes was attributed more to personal relationships and less to ability than that of the attraction overnight successes.Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman is perceived to be more feminine and an attractive man more masculine than the less attractive ones. Thus an attractive woman has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally masculine position appears to lack the “masculine” qualities required.This is true even in politics. “When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently” says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates. She asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote for them.The results showed that attractive males utterly defeated unattractive men, but the women who had been ranked most attractive invariable received the fewest votes.1.The underlined word “liability” (Para. 1) most probably means“（ ）”.2.In traditionally female jobs, attractiveness（ ）.3.Bowman's experiment reveals that when it comes to polities, attractiveness（ ）.4.It can be inferred from the passage that people's views on beauty are often（ ）.5.The author writes this passage to（ ）.
The students take a（ ）test in March, and the main exam is in July.