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Part I. Writing Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: Stress and Tension. You should write no less than 120 words and your composition should be based on the outline (given in Chinese) below. 1. 现代生活充满压力 2. 压力的种种迹象 3. 如何减轻压力 Part II. Skimming and Scanning Reading Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, mark Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. For 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. The Plant Hunter The teacher and student sit cross-legged, facing each other on the floor of the open-sided hut in Western Samoa. Behind them the rain-forest rises to the summit of an inactive volcano. The teacher is Salome Isofea, a 30 year-old healer, and her student is an American named Paul Alan Cox. But Cox is not an ordinary student ?he is a botany professor at Brigham Young University in Utah and a world authority on medicinal plants. Salome is explaining a traditional cure for pterygium (翼状片), an eye affliction common to the tropics in which vision gradually becomes obscured as a layer of tissue slowly covers the cornea (角膜). The traditional cure used by healers is leaves of Centalla asiatica, a vine that grows along the ground, which Salome chews into a poultice (膏状药), smears on a cloth and then places as a compress on the afflicted eye for three consecutive nights. Moments like this are typical of Coxs experience as he scours the worlds plants in search of those that may benefit western medicine. Cox has spent many years in Samoa interviewing or apprenticing (使当学徒) himself to be a traditional healer. He has also traveled throughout the South Pacific, as well as in Southeast Asia, Sout