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I.Reading Comprehension (30%; one mark each) Ct }"o
Directions: Read the following six passages. Answer thequestions below each passage by choosing [A], [B], [C], or [D]. Write youranswers on the Answer Sheet. j"94hWb
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In general, oursociety is becoming one of giant enterprises directed by a bureaucraticmanagement in which man becomes a small,well-oiled cog in the machinery. Theoiling is done with higher wages, Nell-ventilated factories and piped music,and by psychologists and “human-relations” experts; yet all this oiling doesnot alter the fact that man has become powerless, that he is bored with it. Infact, the blue and the white-collar workers have become economic puppets whodance to the tune of automated machines and bureaucratic management. D1o 8Wo
The worker andemployee are anxious, not only because they might find themselves out of a job;they are anxious also because they are unable to acquire any real satisfactionof interesting life. They live and die without ever having confronted thefundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectuallyindependent and productive human beings. VZAdc*X
Those higher up onthe social ladder are no less anxious. Their lives are no less empty than thoseof their subordinates. They are even more insecure in some respects. They arein a highly competitive race. To be promoted or to fall behind is not a matterof salary but even more a matter of self-respect. When they apply for theirfirst job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the right mixture ofsubmissiveness and independence. From the moment on they are tested again andagain-by the psychologists, for whom testing is a big business, and by theirsuperiors, who judge their behavior, sociability, capacity to get along, etc.This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than one’sfellow-competitor creates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes ofunhappiness and illness. pxI*vgfN7
Am I suggestingthat we should return to the preindustrial mode of production or tonineteenth-century “free enterprise” capitalism? Certainly not. Problems thenever solved by returning to a stage which one has already outgrown. I suggesttransforming our social system form, a bureaucratically managed industrialismin which maxima, production and consumption are ends in themselves, into ahumanist industrialism in which man and full development of hispotentialities-those of all love and of reason-are the aims of socialarrangements. Production and consumption should serve only as means to this endand should be prevented from ruling man.
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[D] ahumble component of the society, especially when working smoothly u52;)"&=)
2. The real causeof the anxiety of the workers and employees is that ____.
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[A] theyare likely to lose their jobs 5VG@Q%
[B] theyhave no genuine satisfaction or interest in life |I OTW=>
[C] theyare faced with the fundamental realities of human existence }Ecm
[D] theyare deprived of their individuality and independence 1"v;w!uh
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[A] who areat the bottom of the society (/@o7&>*50
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[D] whocould dip fir away from this competitive world 3J(STIxg
4. To solve thepresent social problems the author puts forward a suggestion that we should____. E"L'm0i[[
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The government-runcommand post in Tunisis staffed around the clock by military personnel, meteorologists andcivilians. On the wall are maps, crisscrossed with brightly colors arrows thatpainstakingly track the fearsome path of the enemy. ~&yaIuW<
What kind ofinvader gives rise to such high-level monitoring? Not man, not beast, but thelowly desert locust(蝗虫). In recent moths, billions of the3-inch-long winged warriors have descended on Algeria,Libya, Morocco and Tunisia, blackening the sky andeating up crops and vegetation. The insect invasion, the worst in 30 years, isalready creating great destruction in the Middle East and is now treatingsouthern Europe. The current crisis began inlate 1985 near the Red Sea. Unusually rainyweather moistened the sands of the Sudan, making them ideal breedinggrounds for the locust, which lays its eggs in the earth. The insect onslaughtthreatens to create yet another African famine. Each locust can eat its weight(not quite a tenth of an ounce) in vegetation every 24 hours. A good-size swarmof 50 billion insects eats up 100,000 tons of grass, trees and crops in asingle night. el[6E0!@
All $150 millionmay be needed this year. The U.S.has provided two spraying planes and about 50,000 gal. of pesticide. The European Community hasdonated $3.8 million in aid and the Soviet Union, Canada,Japan and China haveprovided chemical-spraying aircraft to help wipe out the pests. But reliefefforts are hampered by the relative mildness of approved pesticides, whichquickly lose their deadly punch and require frequent replications. The mosteffective locust killer Dieldrin has been linked to cancer and is banned bymany Western countries and some of the affected African nations. More than 5million acres have been dusted with locust-killing chemicals; another 5 millionwill be treated by the end of June. #vDe/o+=
On May 30,representatives of Tunisia, Algeria, Libya,Morocco and Mauritania will meet in Algiers to discuss tactics to wipe out theravenous swarms. The move is an important step, but whatever plan is devised,the locust plague promised to get worse before the insects can be brought undercontrol. p1|@F^Q
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[A] Oncethe pesticides are used, locust will die immediately. IRcZyry
[B] Reliefefforts are proved most fruitful due to the effectiveness of certainpesticides. .IG(Y!cB
[C]Dieldrin, the most effective locust killer, has been widely accepted in manycountries. ?5
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[A] todevise antilocust plans. ,rG$JCS'KQ
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The London 2012sustainability watchdog embroiled in a row overthe sports ship of the Olympic Stadium by Dow Chemical is to push theInternational Olympic Committee to appoint an “ethics champion” for future Games. \E0Uj>9+[
The Commission fora Sustainable London 2012 has been bruised by criticism over Dow’s sponsorshipof the wrap that will surround the Olympic stadium, particularly sincecommissioner Meredith Alexander last month resigned in protest. v+Ooihxl
Campaigners believethat Dow has ongoing liabilities relating to the 1984 Bhopal disaster that resulted in the deathsof an estimated 20,000 people and the serious injury of tens of thousands more.Dow, which bought the owner of the plant in 2001, insists that all liabilitieshave been settled in full. G#K=n
Commissionchairman Shaun McCarthy said that its tight sustainability remit did not extendto acting as moral guardian of the Olympic movement but that it would press forsuch a role to be created when evaluating sponsors for future Games. nKV1F0-
In addition tosponsoring the 7m poundswrap that will surround the Olympic Stadium, Dow has a separate 100m dollars sponsorship deal with the IOCthat was signed in 2010. (u RAK
But McCarthy alsodefended the commission’s role in evaluating the Dow deal, after AmnestyInternational wrote to London 2012 chairman Lord Coe to raise the issue. #:236^xYS
“What has beenlost in all of this story is that a really excellent, sustainable product hasbeen procured, we looked at Locog’s examination of Dow Chemical’s currentcorporate responsibility policies and, again, Dow achieved that highest scorein that evaluation. We verified that.” said McCarthy. S^~GI$
“As far as thehistory is concerned and issues around Bhopal,there is no doubt Bhopalwas a terrible disaster and snore injustice was done to the victims. Who isresponsible for that injustice is a matter for the courts and a matter forothers. We have a specific remit and terms of reference that we operate underand we have operated diligently under those terms.” qf+I2kyS
The commissionwill on Thursday release its annual review. It finds that “good press” has beenmade to wands many of Locog’s sustainability target, but that “majorchallenges” remain. 3;#v$F8R
In particular, thecommission found that there was no coherent strategy to achieve a 20% reductionin carbon emissions after an earlier scheme to use renewable energy feelthrough when a wind turbine on the site proved impractical. DmPp&
“We hadconversations with Locog over a year ago about this and said they had todemonstrate how they were going to achieve at least 20% carbon reductionsthrough energy conservation if they’re not going to do it through renewableenergy,” said McCarthy. “There are some good initiatives, but quite franklythey just haven’t done it.” ~u-mEdu3C
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[A] Theproducts are not sustainable. a B%DIH,
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As Facebookdominates the news with its initial public offering, activists are seizing themoment to pressure the company to add some estrogen and ethnicity to itswhite-male board. cLEBcTx
A women’s rightsgroup called Ultraviolet, which has been running an online petition that claimsto have attracted more than 50,000 signatures, is escalating its push, postinga new YouTube video called “Do Women Have a Future at Facebook?”. The videoshows photos of successful women such as Hillary Clinton getting their headscropped off the replaced with the smiling face of Facebook founder MarkZuckerberg. yF0\$%H>$
“Facebook hasgrown off the backs of women, who make up the majority of its users and areresponsible for the majority of sharing and fan activity on the site,” thegroup says in a blurb accompanying the video. An all-male board, the groupsays, is “not just wrong, it’s bad for business”. A related campaign, calledFace It, criticizes the lack of ethnic diversity on the seven-member board.“seven white men: That’s ridiculous,” the group says on its homepage, alongside headshots of the men. The campaign, which lists dozens of human-rightsgroups and corporate executives as supporters, also has its own YouTube video.Called “Face it, Facebook”, the video cites a recent Zuckerberg letter toinvestors that says:“Facebook was not originally created to be a company. Itwas built to accomplish a social mission-to make the world more open andconnected.” ?<STt 9
That messageis at odds with the pale-faced board, activists say. SusanStautberg, co-chairwoman of Women Corporate Directors, an organization forfemale corporate board members, says Zuckerberg’s thinking is flawed. “Ifyou’re trying to expand a company globally, then you want someone on the boardwho has built a global brand,” she says. “Most of these guys on Facebook’sboard all have the same skills-they’re mostly from Silicon Valley and Washington. You wantsomeone who has worked in Chinaand Indiaand rising markets. You want someone who has marketed to women. When you’reputting together a board, you don’t want your best friends, you want the bestpeople.” yO;r]`j0
Having zero femaledirectors does not appear to be a good business plan, research shows. Companieswith women on the board perform substantially better than companies withall-mall boards, according to a 2011 study of Fortune 500 companies conductedby the research group Catalyst. The study showed that over the course of fourto five years, companies with three or more female board members, on average,outperformed companies with no female board members by 84 percent when it cameto return on sales and by 60 percent when it came to return on investedcapital. c,:xm=&
Facebook maysecretly be on the lookout for a female board member, according to a recentBloomberg report. Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg said Facebook had enlistedthe corporate-recruitment firm Spencer Stuart to help seek some diversity.Spencer Stuary says it does not comment on clients due to confidentialityagreements. s{4|eYR
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[D] It isgetting more and more support from the society. r({!ejT{U
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[A] Itpointed out the irrational composition of Facebook’s board of directors. mtSOygd
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[A] Thecorporation will turn to Spencer Stuart for recruiting more female boardmembers. v6(Yz[
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