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Section A (1 mark each) UC?i>HsJrX
Directions: There are ten sentences in this section. Each sentence has something omitted. Choose the word or words from the four choices given to the best complete each sentence.Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar on the Answer sheet 1. 6s&%~6J,
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1. The chairman proposed at the meeting that we have someone with D and imagination to design a marketing strategy. l1}HJmom
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2. The fish moved silently through the water , C by short sweeps of its tail. YN5p@b=FX
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3. A few workers have A the majority decision and gone into work despite the strike. #Pq.^ ^
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4. Philosophy differs from science in that its questions cannot be answered C by observation or experiment. ^+Stvj:N
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5. The music the Three Brothers played yesterday is described in the paper as an explosive C of Latin American and modern jazz rhythms. h%(0|
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6. Didn’t you find her enthusiasm for the project A ? Almost everyone on the team is now doing their utmost to resolve the difficulty. ;p2a .P
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7. Recently a large international conference was held with the aim of promoting B development in all countries. ryoD 1OE
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8. A government report indicate that since the early 1970s, the proportion of high school graduates going to college has c at 50%. .eM
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Section B (1 mark each) 4?9cyv4H
Directions: There are twenty sentences in this section. Each sentence has a word or phrase underlined. Below the sentence are four words of phrases marked A, B, C and D, Choose the word or phrases that is closet in meaning to the underlined one. Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar on the Answer sheet 1. }@S''AA\
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12.I n his speech, the president emphasized that the challenge to man’s future cannot be met by making marginal adjustments here and there. Um\_G@
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15.The effects of the drought have been exacerbated by a history of agricultural problems. V57tn6>b
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16.The depression is forcing us to make a series of retrenchments, which has led to large numbers of lay-offs in the industry. xnm!$ $W
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17.Such persons are accountants licensed on the basis of educational background, a rigorous certification examination, and relevant field experience. m6=Jp<
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Directions: Choose the best word(s) from those suggested to fill each blank in the text below, Mark your choices on Answer sheet 1. )+S^{tt
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During the past ten years a great deal of attention has been given to “telling it like it is.” My impression is that this devotion 21 speaking one’s mind has more often 22 hurt feelings and ruined relationships than to great joy. P,@ :?6
I think we generally agree that never 23 real feelings and withholding all less-than-lovely thoughts about each other 24 leads to construct communication. It’s a great 25 to allow ourselves to admit our human weaknesses and pursue more honest relationships with others.26 we need to keep a balance between telling it all and telling nothing. )m7 Y o
Recently I received a letter from a mother who had been 27 by her son to attend a weekend meeting with him.28 pressure from the group her defenses cracked and she heard herself telling her son for the first 29 that he had been an accident-that she hadn’t been planning to have a 30 . He, in turn, told her that he couldn’t 31 a single day in his childhood that he’d been happy. “At that time”, this woman wrote, “it seemed helpful. We cried and we made up, I thought telling 32 truth had been good for us. But the trouble is, it wasn’t the whole truth. By the time Tommy was born I did want him, and 33 he was happy. Ever since that day, we’ve both been troubled by some terrible 34 we exchanged.” I must admit I’ve come to the conclusion that some things are better left 35. Honesty is a fine policy, but we need a new sense of balance. Disclosing is not a 36 to every problem. Nor even an end 37. It’s useful under some circumstances and terribly hurtful under 38. It’s a good idea, I think, to bite your tongue for ten or fifteen minutes before saying what’s on your 39. Try to decide whether it’s going to open up new and better ways of communication or 40 wounds that may never heal. Y$SwQ;wl
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22. A. stirred up B. led to C. gave off D. brought about JM-rz#;1
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Part Ⅲ Reading comprehension (60minutes,30 marks, 1 mark each) *Hnk,?kPq
Directions: In this part of the test, there are six short passages. Read each passage carefully, and then do the questions that follow. Choose the best answer A, B, C and D, and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar on Answer sheet 1. \v'\
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The film The Tides of Kirawira, which won two awards at a recent television festival, was made by Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone. The couple are in England to visit friends and family before heading back to Tanzanoa for their next project. lUR7zrwJ]o
“We met in London when Mark was studying zoology and I was at the Royal College of Art studying photography,” says Victoria. “We both learned to dive at the same pool in London and went on diving weekends in the country. It was a horrible place, freezing cold, where we dived in wetsuits full of holes. But at least we got our qualifications.” ?>_[hZ
After their studies they became involved in the management of a conversation area in the mouth of the River Fal in Cornwall. “We needed some underwater photographs,” says Victoria. “I turned the pictures into a traveling exhibition. Then we heard about plans to expand the port at Falmouth,” she continues. IfH*saN7
“We were horrified. Nobody seemed to be aware of the river’s ecological importance. So we thought, why don’t we make a film to show people what a special place it is? ”A television company agreed to found them and the film they produced about the underwater life of the River Fal was shown on television and won a number of awards. @} 61D
By then, they both knew they wanted to work with wildlife in distant places around the world. “We found that working underwater had created an opportunity in the highly competitive world of wildlife film-making,” says Victoria. “The next thing that happened was that Alkan Root, the famous East African wildlife film-maker asked us to work for him.” j5,vSh~q;'
That was seven years ago and the job took them to the Serengeti to film crocodiles. Their film, Here Be Dragons, was a huge success. “Everyone loved the contrast between the extraordinary love of the mother crocodiles for their babies and the horror-movie aspect of the six-metre males, attacking wildebeest,” Says Victoria. Mark and Victoria were soon on their travels again, this time to the coast of America, to make a film called Devil Fish for BBC television. “We love Africa but we have to come back to England every year,” says Victoria. “We need to return to see our friends and family. For us, Africa is temporary and England means permanence. It’s the difference between living in a tent in Tanzania and a house in Cornwall. We are lucky…we have the best of both worlds.” uH}cvshv
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In the sixteenth century, tens of millions of people across Europe came to believe that their lives and well-being were being threatened by witches. Today tens of millioms of people across the United States have come to believe that the social security system is plunging into insolvency. Historians still debatethe origins of the hysteria surrounding witches whereas the source of the social security panic is much clear. \/3Xb
If social security can be dismantled even partially, and replaced by a government-mandated savings scheme, it will place tens of trillion of dollars under the control of the financial industry in coming decades. This will lead to hundreds of billion of dollars of additional fees and commissions.The industry’s pursuit of this windfall supports the research, conferences, and editorials that keep the “social security crisis” in the public eye. EkV
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The basic facts show that social, security is in fine shape. It currently is running a surplus of more than 60 billion a year. The program does exactly what it was supposed to do. It provides a base retirement income sufficient to keep tens of million of retirees out of poverty. It also provides disability and life insurance for virtually the entire working population. Social security is extremely efficient. Its administrative expenses are just 0.7 percent of benefits, compared to more than 30 percent for private insurers. If the tax and benefit structure are left exactly as specified in current law, the fund’s reserves will be depleted in 2029. At that point, annual tax revenue will be sufficient to pay only 76 percent of benefits. If the fund is to be kept solvent beyond 2029, revenue will have to increase, or benefits will have to be cut. This is crisis in the same way that a car headed westward in the middle of Kansas faces a crisis. If it doesn’t stop or ture, the car will eventually fall into the Pacific Ocean, but it’s hard to get too worried about the possibility. g1JBssw&m
Most senior citizens live fairly close to the poverty line already. Their median household income is only about £ 18,000. Therefore benefit cuts are not a good idea, unless the intention is to throw our parents into poverty. In any case the tax increases needed to maintain the fund’s solvency for its seventy-five-year planning horizon are not terribly oncrous. For example, one way would be to increase the social security tax at a rate of 0.1 percent a year,0.05 percent each for the employer and the employee for thirty-six years beginning in 2010 and continuing until 2046-a total of 36 percentage points. This rate of tax increase would allow the average real wage net of taxes to rise 0.9 percent a year, so that in the year 2046 it would be approximately 5 percent higher it is today. This “burden”should not give our children and grandchildren too much to complain about. ?U~9d"2=
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The euro is a flawed scheme that could do Europe more harm than good. The ignorance results from a political climate that years ago, deemed the single currency’s basic wisdom beyond challenge. To raise sensible doubts was to seem an apologist for noxious nationalism. Permissible debate narrowed to numbing details. This condemned skeptics and opponents to hypocrisy and subterfuge. They had to support the euro publicly while raising technical objections to its completion. |a7W@LVYD
A euro that visibly improved Europe’s economy would create its own constituency. But the odds of success are low. The euro doesn’t address Europe’s central economic problem job creation. This requires a coming together of the buyers and sellers of labor employers and workers. In Europe, the process has broken down for well-known reasons. High and rigid wages deter companies from hiring, restrictive firing regulations amplify the effect and generous social benefits reward the jobless for staying idle. t{\,vI
A single currency can’t substitute for the hard measures needed to remedy these failings. Pretending otherwise creates a huge source of potential discord by converting national problems into European problems. With a common currency and a European central bank, it would become easier to blame European monetary policy for high joblessness or, at any rate, to argue that an easier policy would cure it. Though the new central bank is supposed to be independent, it couldn’t insulate itself from such pressures. National differences would arise and be fanned. 9C?;'
The omens of this sort of bitterness and resentment are already apparent. The new French government wants more emphasis on jobs. The euro’s convergence criteria-and the austerity they supposedly impose –are blamed for Europe’s sluggishness. And the Germans are, of course, fingered for insisting on tough qualifying criteria and favoring a stable euro above all else. Creating the euro has not brought Europe closer together. II!Nr{A
In ideal circumstances, the euro might succeed brilliantly. But creating a common money is such a huge undertaking that its prospects should be good even under unfavorable conditions. There’s the rub. The euro now survives on inertia. European leaders have invested so much in it that they cannot imagine abandoning it. What they ought to contemplate is how much worse things would be if the euro comes into being and fails. YzT
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At best, it wouldn’t sweep away nationalism. What separates Italians fro Germans is too great to be bridged by a new kind of money. But nationalism need not be destructive. It can foster constructive ride community and competition. The danger arises in grievance: a sense that someone else is to blame for your problems. A euro that doesn’t fulfill its immense ambitions might create a seedbed of nationalistic resentment and suspicion. It is a fantasy that could become a monster. 739J] M
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More than a decade ago, eye surgeons realized that they could use the laser’s beam to seal, individually, the microscopic blood vessels in the retina. The beam is so fine that only the target is heated. Now its pin-point blasting power has been turned to destroying cancer cells and reducing birthmarks. For cancer treatment, the diseased cells must be killed while their healthy neighbors are left unharmed. Where the cancer can be directly and accurately attacked, laser treatment does well early cancer of the cervix and skin cancer have been widely and successfully treated. This type of cancer is very easy to reach. For cancers that are less accessible, there is a new and potentially valuable technique in which the patient is injected with a chemical that then attaches itself preferentially to cancer cells. When the laser strikes the chemical it releases a form of oxygen that kills these cells. S`yY<1[O
The marvelous accuracy of the surgical laser can be increased by sending the beam along fibers of glass far finer than a human hair. The “optical fibers” carry it around corners and direct it precisely at a tiny area, so litter of the beam spills from the glass that there is no risk of damaging healthy cells. This technique is particularly useful in ear surgery. MV"aO@
Furthermore , the laser beam can also remove bone, and so it is invaluable in ear surgery. The sounds we hear are carried from the eardrum to the nerves of the ear by a delicate set of pivoting bones which sometimes solidify, causing deafness. A laser beam vaporizes the bone without touching any of the surrounding tissue. The beam is diffused to avoid scarring and the mark becomes inconspicuous. This accuracy in targeting makes the laser a useful tool for the dentist also-a nerve can be reached through a hole drilled in the enamed. ]AlRu(
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