After each respondent is asked to ____ as "hot" or "not hot", they are then asked if the topic "should be hot" or "should not be hot."

USDA in this passage stands for ______.

第二节 书面表达

假定你叫李华，是中州市第27中学的学生。你前不久在《中国日报》上读到一篇有关农村(countryside)儿童辍学(leaves school at an early age)的报道。你于2009年1月14日给编辑写去一封信，谈了农村儿童辍学的主要原因以及你的看法。内容要点：

原因：

1．家庭贫困

2．帮父母挣钱

3．学习有困难

4．不愿上学

5．这些原因中家庭贫困是主要原因

看法：每个孩子都应有受教育的机会，愿将自己的零花钱(pocket money)送给失学儿童。

注意：1．要点不能遗漏，但不能逐点翻译。

1．词数80～120个词。

2．信的开头已为你写好。

3．书信格式正确。

No．27 Middle School

Zhongzhou，Sichuan Province

January 14，2009

Dear Editor，

Most of our respondents also believed that instruction in word meaning/vocabulary was more deserving of attention, and, _____ , that topic is rated "very hot".

According to the passage, the rising prices of housing and other assets were caused by ______.

SECTION 2 Optional Translation (30 points)

Ever since the economist David Ricardo offered the basic theory in 1817, economic scripture has taught that open trade—free of tariffs, quotas, subsidies or other government distortions—improves the well-being of both parties. U.S. policy has implemented this doctrine with a vengeance. Why is free trade said to be universally beneficial？ The answer is a doctrine called "comparative advantage".

Here's a simple analogy. If a surgeon is highly skilled both at doing operations and per forming routine blood tests, it's more efficient for the surgeon to concentrate on the surgery and pay a less efficient technician to do the tests, since that allows the surgeon to make the most efficient use of her own time.

By extension, even if the United States is efficient both at inventing advanced biotechnologies and at the routine manufacture of medicines, it makes sense for the United States to let the production work migrate to countries that can make the stuff more cheaply. Americans get the benefit of the cheaper products and get to spend their resources on even more valuable pursuits. That, anyway, has always been the premise. But here Samuelson dissents. What if the lower wage country also captures the advanced industry？

If enough higher-paying jobs are lost by American workers to outsourcing, he calculates, then the gain from the cheaper prices may not compensate for the loss in U.S. purchasing power.

"Free trade is not always a win-win situation," Samuelson concludes. It is particularly a problem, he says, in a world where large countries with far lower wages, like India and China, are increasingly able to make almost any product or offer almost any service performed in the United States.

If America trades freely with them, then the powerful drag of their far lower wages will begin dragging down U.S. average wages. The U.S. economy may still grow, he calculates, but at a lower rate than it otherwise would have.