1、 A pencil is required for the essay. An essay written in ink will receive a score of zero. Do not write your essay in your test book. You will receive credit only for what you write on your answer sheet. An off-topic essay will receive a score of zero.You have twenty-five minutes to write an essay o
2、n the topic assigned below.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. Every important discovery results from patience. perseverance and concentrationsometimes continuing for months or yearson one specific subject. A person who wants to discover a new
3、 truth must remain absorbed by that one subject, must pay no attention to any thought that is unrelated to problem.Adapted from Santiago Ramon y Cajal. Advice for a Young InvestigatorAssignment: Are all important discoveries the result of focusing on one subject?Plan and written an essay in which yo
4、u develop your point of view on this issue .Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading. Studies experience, Or observations.ESSAYThe supervisor will tell You how much time you have to write an essay on the topic assigned below.A colleague of the great scientist James W
5、atson remarked that Watson was always “lounging around ,arguing about problems instead of doing experiments.” He concluded that “There is more than one of doing good science.” It was Watsons form of idleness, the scientist went on to say, that allowed him to solve “the greatest of all biological pro
6、blem; the discovery of the structure of DNA.” It is a point worth remembering in a society overly concerned with efficiency.Adapted from John C. Polanyi. “Understanding Discovery” Do people accomplish more when they are allowed to do things in their own way? Plan and write an essay in which you deve
7、lop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.Time25 minuteI do not feel terrible about my mistakes. Though I grieve the pain they have sometimes caused others. Our lives are “experiments with tru
8、th,” and in an experiment negative results are at least as important as successes. I have no idea how I would have learned the truth about myself and my calling without the mistakes I have made.Adapted from Parker Palmer . Let Your Life Speak Is it necessary to make mistakes. Even when doing so has
9、negative consequences for other people? Plan and written an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue .Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading. Studies experience, Or observations.An actor, when his cue came was unable to move onto the stage. He sa
10、id, “I cant get in the chair is in the way .” And the producer said. “Use the difficulty. If its a drama, pick the chair up and smash it. If its a comedy fall over it.” From this experience the actor concluded that in any situation in life that is negative. There is something positive you can do wit
11、h it. Adapted from Lawrence Eisenberg. “Caine Serutiny” Can any obstacle or disadvantage be turn into something good?SECTION 3Time 25 minutes35 Questions Turn to Section 3 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.Directions: For each question in this section. Select the best answ
12、er from among the choice given and fill in the corresponding circle on the answer sheet.The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part if each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Choice A repeats the original phrasing: the other four choices ar
13、e different. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A ; if not . select one of the other choices.EXAMPLE:Laura Ingalls Wilder published her first book and she was sixty-five old then.(A) and she was sixty-five years old then(B) when
14、she was sixty-five(C) at age sixty-five years old(D) upon the reaching of sixty-five year(E) at the time when she was sixty-five 1. The library is older than it but still just as beautiful as the courthouse.(A) older than it but still just as beautiful as the courthouse(B) older and it is just as be
15、autiful as the courthouse(C) older than the courthouse : it is just as beautiful as it(D) older than the courthouse but just as beautiful(E) just as beautiful as the courthouse and it is older than it 2. Winslow Homer one of Americas foremost artists, spent his last 27 years and painted on the sceni
16、c Maine coast.(A) spent his last 27 yeas and painted(B) spent his last 27 yeas having painted(C) spent his last 27 yeas painting(D) having spent his last 27 yeas doing his painting(E) spending his last 27 yeas painting3. Researchers me experimenting with various techniques for preventing the accumul
17、ation in water of high levels of nitrogen, which can kill plants and animals.(A) Nitrogen. Which can kill plants and animals(B) nitrogen : plants and animals can be killed (C) nitrogen , that is what can kill plants and animals(D) nitrogen , they could kill plants and animals(E) nitrogen, and they c
18、an kill plants and animals4. When the news spread bow new goldfields way discovered in Nome. Alaska, thousands abandoned Dawson, the site of the previous gold rush(A) how new goldfields were discovered (B) how there was discovery of new goldfields (C)about new goldfields which they discovered(D) about new goldfields, and they were discovered(E) about new goldfields that had been discovered5. When the Berlin Wall, long a symbol of the Cold War, began to be torn down in 1989, five million people went t
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