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Part I Writing 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Attitude to Crisis. You should write at least 150 words following the out line given below: 在生活中，我们会遇到各种各样的危机，面对危机，不同的人有不同的态度，你的观点是… 　　1. 生活中会遇到各种各样的危机，不同的人有不同的态度 　　2. 有的人勇敢面对，有点人害怕逃避 3. 你的观点Reflections On Christmas Traditions of Old Thanks to the Internet, I got all my Christmas shopping done already this year. A few weeks ago I received an e-mail advertising this exciting new web site called that promised me a painless Christmas shopping season or my money back. After logging in, I was asked to provide some details about my wife - you know, the usual stuff - her height, her age, her sex, the color of her eyes, her astrology sign, social security number, etc. This information was then used to categorize her likes and dislikes (based upon some high tech research done in blind study focus groups) and before I knew it, my presents were chosen! I have to admit that I was impressed. I can’t wait till Christmas to see what I got her! Needless to say, I’m kidding. But as I ready myself for the annual ritual of battling crowds in shopping malls, I can’t help but reflect upon the days of my father’s youth, when budgets were tight. Back then gift giving and the holidays had a different flavor to them. Many in our community can still remember a time when the Christmas season was part of a larger holiday season, a season that began with the fall Apple harvest. With homes a little more spaced out then today, just about every family owned an apple tree, and those that didn’t, had friends that did. Everyone, from young children to old grandparents, participated in the apple harvest. Children retrieved the good apples that had fallen to the ground. Adults focused on the apples still on the tree, or at least the ones they could reach from a ladder. While young boys, eager to prove their manhood, risked life and limb to claim the solitary apple at the end of t