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1、Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled On the Importance of a Name. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1. 有人说名字（或名称）很重要2. 也有人觉得名字（或名称）无关紧要3. 我认为On the Importance of a Name_Part I Writing (30
2、minutes)注意：此部分试题在答题卡注意：此部分试题在答题卡 1 上。上。Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Helicopter Moms vs. Free-Range KidsWould you let your fourth-grader ride public transportation without an adult? Probably not. Still, when Lenore Skenazy, a columnist for the New York Sun, wrote
3、about letting her son take the subway alone to get back to her Manhattan home from a department store on the Upper East Side, she didnt expect to get hit with a wave of criticism from readers.“Long story short: My son got home, overjoyed with independence,“ Skenazy wrote on April 4 in the New York S
4、un. “Long story longer: Half the people Ive told this episode to now want to turn me in for child abuse. As if keeping kids under lock and key and cell phone and careful watch is the right way to rear kids. Its not. Its debilitating (使虚弱)-for us and for them.“Online message boards were soon full of
5、people both applauding and condemning Skenazys decision to let her son go it alone. She wound up defending herself on CNN (accompanied by her son) and on popular blogs like the Huffington Post, where her follow-up piece was ironically headlined “More From Americas Worst Mom.“The episode has ignited
6、another one of those debates that divides parents into vocal opposing camps. Are modern parents needlessly overprotective, or is the world a more complicated and dangerous place than it was when previous generations were allowed to wander about unsupervised?From the “shes an irresponsible mother“ ca
7、mp came: “Shame on you for being so careless about his safety,“ in comments on the Huffington Post. And there was this from a mother of four: “How would you have felt if he didnt come home?“ But Skenazy got alot of support, too, with women and men writing in with stories about how they were allowed
8、to take trips all by themselves at seven or eight. She also got heaps of praise for bucking the “helicopter parent“ trend: “Good for this Mom,“ one commenter wrote on the Huffington Post. “This is a much-needed reality check.“Last week, encouraged by all the attention, Skenazy started her own blog-F
9、ree Range Kids-promoting the idea that modem children need some of the same independence that her generation had. In the good old days nine-year-old baby boomers rode their bikes to school, walked to the store, took buses-and even subways-all by themselves. Her blog, she says, is dedicated to sensib
10、le parenting. “At Free Range Kids, we believe in safe kids. We believe in car seats and safety belts. We do NOT believe that every time school-age children go outside, they need a security guard.“So why are some parents so nervous about letting their children out of their sight? Are cities and towns
11、 less safe and kids more vulnerable to crimes like child kidnap and sexual abuse than they were in previous generations?Not exactly. New York City, for instance, is safer than its ever been; its ranked 136th in crime among all American cities. Nationwide, stranger kidnaps are extremely rare; theres
12、a one-in-a-million chance a child will be taken by a stranger, according to the Justice Department. And 90 percent of sexual abuse cases are committed by someone the child knows. Mortality rates from all causes, including disease and accidents, for American children are lower now than they were 25 y
13、ears ago. According to Child Trends, a nonprofit research group, between 1980 and 2003 death rates dropped by 44 percent for children aged 5 to 14 and 32 percent for teens aged 15 to 19.Then theres the whole question of whether modem parents are more watchful and nervous about safety than previous g
14、enerations. Yes, some are. Part of the problem is that with wall-to-wall Intemet and cable news, every missing child case gets so much airtime that its not surprising even normal parental anxiety can be amplified. And many middle-class parents have gotten used to managing their childrens time and sh
15、uttling them to various enriching activities, so the idea of letting them out on their own can seem like a risk. Back in 1972, when many of todays parents were kids, 87 percent of children who lived within a mile of school walked or biked every day. But today, the Centers for Disease Control report that only 13 percent of children bike, walk or otherwise getthemselves to school.The extra supervision is both a city and a suburban phenomenon. Par
