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Section A (1 mark each) CiF(
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. UI2TW)^2
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1. The chairman proposed at the meeting that we have someone with D and imagination to design a marketing strategy. 2S,N9(7
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3. A few workers have A the majority decision and gone into work despite the strike. W>#[a %R
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4. Philosophy differs from science in that its questions cannot be answered C by observation or experiment. Y8v13"P6
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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.
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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. $fCKK&Wy
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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. .C\2f+(U
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Part Ⅱ Close test (20minutes,20 marks, 1 mark each ) LF`]=.Q
Directions: Choose the best word(s) from those suggested to fill each blank in the text below, Mark your choices on Answer sheet 1. EKO~\d
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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. ;HBKOe_3
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. cNT !}8
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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. e_-7,5Co
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25. A. belief B. replacement C. abandonment D. relief MLlvsa0
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29. A. time B. round C. place D.hour :Jf</uP_
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Part Ⅲ Reading comprehension (60minutes,30 marks, 1 mark each) livKiX`
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. wsQ],ZE
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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. yH]Q;X'
“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.” lyFlJm i,r
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. %o4v
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“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. 2}XRqa.|
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.” %FM26^
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.” S[q:b
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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. =`|Bof
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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. G8__6v~
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. d7r!<u&/
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. )h 6 w@TF
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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. J|
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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. XMZ$AeF@
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. p&<n_b
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. 9a]o?>`E
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. 4t%Lo2v!X%
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. E24}?t^
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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. L">jSZW[[
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. L_:~{jV
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. 99'c\[fd'
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Although American civilization took over and replaced the frontier almost a century ago, the inheritance of the frontier is still very much alive in the United States today. The idea of the frontier still stirs the emotionsand imaginations of the American people despite the fact that the frontier experience began in the 1600s, when the first colonists settled regions of the United States, usually found in the western part of the country. Here, both land and life were more rugged and primitive than in the more settled eastern part. As one frontier area was settled, people began moving farther west into the next unsettled area. By settling one frontier area after another. Americans moved across an entire continent, 2,700 miles wide. How did this movement, which lasted more than two centuries, help to shape American values? pOl6x iMx
Americans have tended to see the frontier, its life, and its people as the purest examples of their basic values. For example, the frontier provided many inspiring examples of hard work as forests were turned into towns, and towns into large cities. The race for competitive success was rarely more colorful or adventurous than on the western frontier. :8+x&zn
Although daily life on the frontier was usually less dramatic than the frontier adventure stories would lead one to believe, even the ordinary daily life of the frontiersman exemplified national values in a form which seemed purer to many Americans than the life of those living in the more settled, more cultivated eastern United States. !{g>g%2!
Individualism, self-reliance, and equality of opportunity have perhaps been the values most closely associated with the frontier heritage of America. In the United States, where freedom from outside social controls is so highly valued, the frontier has been idealized, and it still serves as a basis for missing the purity of the early United States, which was lost when the country became urbanized and more complex. @qA11C.hq
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Truth, morality, beauty. It has been humanity’s persistent hope that these three ideals should be insistent with each other. Yet successful activities in science, politics, and art diverge greatly, and I believe the three activities can be pursued initially without regard to each other, or without reconciling the possible conflicts that may arise. Today, there is perceived to be a strong contradiction between the result of science and the requirements of morality, for instance, the application of science has led to the development of nuclear weapons, while international morality seems to demand that such results never be applied-and that research leading to them should be stopped. I hold a position radically different from the general point of view, believe that contradiction and uncertainty should be enhanced. z&.F YGq}
Niel Bohr loved contradiction. He would not tolerate the idea that quantum mechanism might some day supersede classical physics. For Bohr, classical physics had to remain in permanent contradiction to quantum mechanics and the tension between them retained as a part of science. In the same way, the impacts of science, politics, and art must remain independent. We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding. The same applies to uncertainty. Yjx4H
According to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, only probabilistic predictions can be made about the future. Furthermore, small events can have important consequences. An everyday example is weather forecasting. It is fairly successful for predictions up to 5 days ahead, but if you double that period the predictions are no longer accurate. It is not clear whether long-range predictions are forever excluded, but the example does illustrate that small cause can have significant effects. 9*[!ux7h
This situation has an obvious analogy in free will. In a completely deterministic world, what we know a free will in humans is reduced to a mere illusion. I may not know that my actions are predetermined in some complicated configuration of my molecules, and that my decisions are nothing more than the realization of what has been inherent in the configuration of electrons. According to quantum mechanics, we cannot exclude the possibility that free will is a part of the process by which the future is created. We can think about the creation of the world as incomplete and human beings, indeed all living beings, as making choice left open to probability. {>X2\.Rl
One may argue that this notion is fantastic. Indeed, Einstein firmly believed in causality, and rejected the relevant part of quantum machanics. His famous statement is that, while God can rule the world by any set of laws, “God does not play dice with the universe.” Attempts have been made to add laws to quantum mechanics to eliminate uncertainty. Such attempts have not only been unsuccessful, they have not even appeared to lead to any interesting results. (^)(#CxO
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Directions: Translate the following into English, Write your English version on Answer sheet 2. bHioM{S
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从成年羊细胞克隆(clone)的羊不仅开辟了广阔的科学上的可能性,也带来了道德上的窘境,一个外表普通名叫多利(Dolly)的羊羔照片上周成为全球报纸杂志的头版,这是因为她惊人的出生:她是一位成年羊的一模一样的复制品,没有父亲。 )$QZ",
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尽管研究工作者们已经清楚表明他们认为改变他们的技术来克隆人是不道德的,但他们的示范还是提供了令人不安的前景:别人不一定会如此有所顾忌,克隆人意味着妇女原则上不用男人的帮助也能繁殖。 )*9,H|2nS
已经有好几个国家宣布禁止克隆人的研究。但是如果克隆人证明确实是可行的话,那将不可能阻止医生克隆人——如果不在这个国家就可能在那个国家。 O+ J0X*&x
克隆需要技术和耐心,但是所需要的设备则是生物实验室的普通之物,确实,有些研究人员已经宣布他们克隆了猴子,另外一些则在好几年前就知道如何利用相同的技术克隆母牛和兔子,因此可能不需要太多的投资就能建立一个研究中心来克隆病人。