Section III Translation. Section I Use of English. Section IV Writing

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1 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET (10 points) Some call it the Smart Shooter, a new rifle for American infantry troops that is two weapons in one, is accurate up to 1,000 yards and in 1 fires 2 corners. Its message to enemies is that they can run but they can't hide. Still in the development phase, the rifle for 2006 has just been 3 off with great 4 by the Pentagon to members of Congress who will be asked to 5 the money. The makers, Alliant Techsystems, say that the weapon will revolutionize 6 combat much as the machine gun. Pentagon jargon has given the new gun a (an) 7 title: the objective Individual Combat Weapon. 8 one trigger, the rifle can fire a standard mm Nato bullet and a 20 mm high explosive shell that will burst in the air. It can 9 shrapnel behind, 10 or even from the side of enemy troops who have taken 11 behind a building. The shell can be 12 to explode after a short delay. The weapon's 1,000 yard accuracy is twice 13 of other rifles, made possible by a laser system built into the sight. This rangefinder fixes the target, measures the distance and passes it along to a computer chip in the shell. The gunsight has an infrared lens for night 14. It can also have video camera with a zoom lens that is linked to a video display attached to the soldier's helmet, allowing him to aim 15 without exposing himself to enemy return fire. But there are snags still be 16 out. Two men were 17 when a shell burst in a barrel during firing tests. The rifle weighs more than 181b. There are questions whether its electronic innards will be rugged enough for rain, snow and difficult 18. Michael Klare, a professor of peace and world security issues and a board member of the Arms Control Association, says that the Pentagon is seeking this combination of firepower and automation to compensate for the uncertain aim of GIS. He said :"Soldiers won't have to worry about careful steady aim. They'll just look 19 the viewfinder and 20 the trigger." Section III Translation 46. Directions: Translate the following text from English into Chinese. Write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET. (15 points) Television, video and the wide range of social and recreational opportunities which are now available have taken the place of books in many homes. School children and students still have to read but they usually read because they have to, rather than because they enjoy it. Once they have left school or college, many feel that they never want to open a book again. In England 44% of the population say that they never buy a book and a further 1 % buy only one book a year. In contrast to this there have been 55,000 new books published in England this year as compared to just under 12,000 in 1950 when people were supposed to be spending more time reading for pleasure and relaxation in an age which was pre-tv. Section IV Writing Part A 47. Directions: You read a job recruitment on a newspaper about a position of an editor. Write a letter to apply for this vacancy. Introduce your qualification and ask for an interview. Do not use your own name. Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write the address. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET.(10 points) Part B 48. Directions: In this section, you are asked to write an essay based on the following table. In your writing, you should: 1) interpret the table and

2 The UN high commissioner for refugees has described the exodus of people fleeing the fighting as the largest refugee crisis in a generation. About 4 million people have crossed into neighbouring countries with almost half of those going to Turkey. Tens of thousands have made the difficult and often dangerous journey to Europe. The UNHCR said nearly 350,000 Syrians had applied for political asylum in Europe since the war began. In August, the Syrian president, Bashar al-assad, said he was confident Russia would continue to back his regime. We have strong confidence in the Russians, as they have proven throughout this crisis, for four years, that they are sincere and transparent in their relationship with us, he said in an interview with Hezbollah s al-manar television network. Assad described Russia as principled, while the United States abandons its allies, abandons its friends. Last month, Barack Obama called on Russia and Syria s principal regional ally, Iran, to recognise that the trend lines are not good for Assad. 1. [A] reality [B] affect [C] effect [D] operation 2. [A] at [B] in [C] beyond [D] around 3. [A] put [B] shown [C] checked [D] given 4. [A] pride [B] anxiety [C] honor [D] expectation 5. [A] put up [B] count in [C] pay for [D] look for 6. [A] land [B] ground [C] earth [D] base 7. [A] novel [B] brilliant [C] powerful [D] awkward 8. [A] Used [B] Fixed [C] Using [D] Fixing 9. [A] spray [B] spatter [C] splash [D] sprinkle 10. [A] over [B] on [C] above [D] upon 11. [A] aim [B] cover [C] risks [D] heed 12. [A] estimated [B] calculated [C] seeded [D] timed 41. Ban Ki-moon 42. Russia 43. The UN high commissioner 44. Bashar al-assad 45. Barack Obama A. urged China and Russia to take actions to stop the conflict in Syria as the flow of refugee was considered as the biggest in a generation. B. blocked a move supported by the 13 other permanent and none-permanent members of the security council. C. described the fact that the people escaped the fighting as the largest refugee crisis in a generation. D. said that Russia is more like a friend than the United States. and support his regime. E. said Russia and China s credibility has suffered a lot because their impotence to stop the war. F. reminded Russia and Iran that the tendency is not good for Assad. G. admitted that there is no unanimous agreement of security council on action to end a conflict in Syria. 13. [A] as [B] that [C] than [D] much 14. [A] vision [B] sight [C] observation [D] speculation 15. [A] exactly [B] precisely [C] accurately [D] correctly 16. [A] removed [B] ironed [C] made [D] drawn 17. [A] injured [B] hurt [C] harmed [D] wounded 18. [A] terrain [B] domain [C] field [D] territory 19. [A] at [B] over [C] into [D] through 20. [A] push [B] pull [C] press [D] jerk Section II Reading Comprehension Part A Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing

3 A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET (40 points) Text 1 Advertising has been among England s biggest growth industries since the war, in terms of the ratio of money earnings to demonstrable achievement. Why all this fantastic expenditure? Perhaps the answer is that advertising saves the manufactures from having to think about the customer. At the stage of designing and developing a product, there is quite enough to think about without worrying over whether anybody will want to buy it. The designer is busy enough without adding customer-appeal to all his other problems of man-hours and machine tolerances and stress factors. So they just go ahead and make the thing and leave it to the advertiser to find eleven ways of making it appeal to purchasers after they have finished it, by pretending that it confers ( ) status, or attracts love, or signifies manliness. If the advertising agency can do this authoritatively enough, the manufacturer is in clover ( ). Other manufacturers find advertising saves them from changing their product. And manufacturers hate change. The ideal product is one which goes on unchanged for ever. If, therefore, for one reason or another, some alteration seems called for, how much better to change the image, the packet or the pitch made by the product, rather than go to all the inconvenience of changing the product itself. The advertising man has to combine the qualities of the three most authoritative professions: Church, Bar, and Medicine. The great skill required of our priests, most highly developed in missionaries but present, indeed mandatory, in all, is the skill of getting people to believe in and contribute money to something which can never be logically proved. At the Bar, an essential ability is that of presenting the most persuasive case you can to a jury of ordinary people, with emotional appeals masquerading as logical exposition: a case you do not necessarily have to believe in yourself, just one you have studiously avoided discovering to be false. As for Medicine, any doctor will confirm that a large part of his job is not clinical treatment but faith healing. His apparently scientific Part B Directions: You are going to read an article, then decide to match the sentences from A, B, C, D, E, F, G. with the first five parts of a sentence. There are two extra choices left. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET. (10 points) The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, has admitted that the UN security council is failing Syria because of big power divisions which have prevented action to end a conflict that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and driven the biggest refugee exodus in a generation. The UN secretary general told The Guardian that Russia and China should look beyond national interest and stop blocking security council action on the conflict in Syria as the flow of refugees to Europe reaches unprecedented levels. We need some solidarity, unity of purpose, particularly among the permanent members of the security council, he said in an interview, When they are divided, it is extremely difficult for the United Nations to deliver. That s why I ve been urging the members of the security council to look beyond national interest. We have to look for the global interest. When the security council members are united we have seen very speedy and tremendous impact in addressing the issues, as we have seen in the case of chemical weapon investigation in Syria. Although Ban did not name Russia and China, the two countries have on several occasions blocked resolutions critical of the Syrian government, threatening sanctions or pressing it towards a negotiated settlement. Last year, Moscow and Beijing also vetoed a move backed by the 13 other permanent and non-permanent members of the security council to refer the Syrian conflict for investigation by the international criminal court. Ban had backed the referral to the ICC, saying the Syrian people have a fundamental right to justice. He has previously spoken of his shame and anger at the international community s impotence to stop the war in Syria, and said the UN s credibility had suffered as a result. There are various estimates for the death toll in Syria, extending up to more than 300,000, while about half the pre-war population of 22 million has been uprooted.

4 A] a review of two kinds of auctions [B] an introduction of trading robots [C] a survey of the trading market [D] about trading alternatives 37. Which of the following is true according to the text? [A] David s robot traders have now been used in real-world markets [B] Robot traders can evolve like creatures [C] There is room for improvement in efficiency in trading markets [D] The English auction is the most popular trading form 38. If you were trading American Treasury bonds, you would most likely take the trading form of. [A] the English auction [B] the continuous double auction [C] the Dutch auction [D] the evolved auction 39. We can infer from the text that. [A] existing auctions can not withstand market shocks [B] the Dutch auction is better than the continuous double auction [C] it s hard for traders to reach an equilibrium price [D] the best type of auction takes place when the number of the buyers is equal to that of sellers 40. Toward robot traders, the writer s attitude can be said to be. [A] biased [B] objective [C] pessimistic [D] optimistic approach enables his patients to believe that he knows exactly what is wrong with them and exactly what they need to put them right, just as advertising does Run down? You need... No one will dance with you? A dab of... will make you popular. Advertising men use statistics rather like a drunk uses a lamppost for support rather than illumination. They will dress anyone up in a white coat to appear like an unimpeachable authority or, failing that, they will even be happy with the announcement, As used by 90% of the actors who play doctors on television. Their engaging quality is that they enjoy having their latest ruses uncovered almost as much as anyone else. 21. Advertising are appreciated by manufacturers because they. A] advise them on ways of giving a product customer appeal [B] accept responsibility for giving a product customer appeal [C] advise them on the best time to go ahead with production [D] consult them during the design and development stages 22. The passage tells us that some manufacturers, instead of changing their product, would prefer to change its. [A] production cost [B] quality [C] market value [D] appeal 23. According to the passage, doctors are most successful when they are. [A] authoritative [B] logical [C] emotional [D] scientific 24. Advertising men dress people up in white coats because. [A] it makes their advertisements more conspicuous [B] it makes their advertisements more convincing

5 [C] the majority of TV doctors are dressed up in white coats [D] it makes the actors take the job seriously 25. The advertisers attitude is based on the hope that consumers. [A] know deep down what they really want [B] are interested in what is being designed [C] are indifferent to what is being advertised [D] are uncritical and easily influenced Text 2 Some of the concerns surrounding Turkey s application to join the European Union, to be voted on by the EU s Council of Ministers on December 17th, are economic in particular, the country s relative poverty. Its GDP per head is less than a third of the average for the 15 pre-2004 members of the EU. But it is not far off that of one of the ten new members which joined on May 1st 2004 (Latvia), and it is much the same as those of two countries, Bulgaria and Romania, which this week concluded accession talks with the EU that could make them full members on January 1st Furthermore, the country s recent economic progress has been, according to Donald Johnston, the secretary-general of the OECD, "stunning". GDP in the second quarter of the year was 13.4% higher than a year earlier, a rate of growth that no EU country comes close to matching. Turkey s inflation rate has just fallen into single figures for the first time since 1972, and this week the country reached agreement with the IMF on a new three-year, $10 billion economic programme that will, according to the IMF s managing director, Rodrigo Rato, "help Turkey... reduce inflation toward European levels, and enhance the economy s resilience". Resilience has not historically been the country s economic strong point. As recently as 2001, GDP fell by over 7%. It fell by more than 5% in 1994, and by just under 5% in Indeed, throughout the 1990s growth oscillated like an electrocardiogram recording a violent heart attack. This irregularity has been one of the main reasons (along His experiments have suggested that a redesign of some markets could lead to greater efficiency. Last year, a research group at IBM showed that Mr Cliff's artificial traders could consistently beat the human variety, in various kinds of market. Nearly all take the shape of an auction. One well-known type is the English auction, familiar to patrons of the salesrooms of Christie's and Sotheby's, where sellers keep mum on their offer price, and buyers increase their bids by stages until only one remains. At the other extreme is the Dutch auction, familiar to 17th-century tulip-traders in the Netherlands as well as to bidders for American Treasury bonds. Here, buyers remain silent, and a seller reduces his price until it is accepted. Most markets for shares, commodities, foreign exchange and derivatives are a hybrid of these two types: buyers and sellers can announce their bid or offer prices at any time, and deals are constantly being closed, a so-called "continuous double auction". Mr Cliff's novel idea was to apply his evolutionary computer programs to marketplaces themselves. Why not, he thought, try and see what types of auction would let traders converge most quickly towards an equilibrium price? The results were surprising. In his models, auctions that let buyers and sellers bid at any time like most of today's financial exchanges were less efficient than ones that required relatively more bids from either buyers or sellers. These "evolved auctions" also withstood big market shocks, such as crashes and panics, better than today's real-world versions. Mr Cliff's most recent results, which will be presented in Sydney, Australia, on December 10th, show that the best type of auction for any market depends crucially on even slight differences in the number of buyers and sellers. Bank of America has been investigating these new auctions, along with robotic traders, for possible use in electronic exchanges. The hope is that today's financial auctions and online marketplaces might work better by becoming more like their English and Dutch forebears. But what to call such multi-ethnic hybrids? Here's introducing the "Cliffhanger". 36. The passage is mainly.

6 [D] the cause of Fiat s trouble is the sluggish Italian economy 33. According to the text, Fiat s job cuts. [A] trigger a wave of job cuts in other companies [B] become a headache of Italian government [C] double the number of jobless people in northern Italy [D] force Italian government to aid it 34. Which of the following is NOT a measure Fiat Auto took to combat growing losses? [A] Preventing share price from falling [B] Laying off workers [C] Reducing production [D] Replacement of the boss 35. We can draw a conclusion from the last paragraph that. [A] Fiat Auto can hardly solve its own problems [B] GM will be happy to buy the remaining shares of Fiat Auto [C] the Agnelli family has a final say to whether Fiat Auto should be sold out [D] Americans are better at running car companies Text 4 Thanks to slumping markets, investment banks are shedding many of their highlypaid traders. When markets recover, the banks might be tempted to replace them with rather cheaper talent. One alternative has been around for a while but has yet to catch on: autonomous trading agents computers programmed to act like the human version without such pesky costs as holidays, lunch breaks or bonuses. Program trading has, of course, been done before; some blamed the 1987 stockmarket crash on computers instructed with simple decision-making rules. But robots can be smarter than that. Dave Cliff, a researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol, England, has been creating trading robots for seven years. In computer simulations he lets them evolve "genetically", and so allows them to adapt and fit models of real-world financial markets. with red tape and corruption) why the country has failed dismally to attract much-needed foreign direct investment. Its stock of such investment (as a percentage of GDP) is lower now than it was in the 1980s, and annual inflows have scarcely ever reached $1 billion (whereas Ireland attracted over $25 billion in 2003, as did Brazil in every year from 1998 to 2000). One deterrent to foreign investors is due to disappear on January 1st On that day, Turkey will take away the right of virtually every one of its citizens to call themselves a millionaire. Six naughts will be removed from the face value of the lira; one unit of the local currency will henceforth be worth what 1 m are now ie, about 0.53 ($0.70). Goods will have to be priced in both the new and old lira for the whole of the year, but foreign bankers and investors can begin to look forward to a time in Turkey when they will no longer have to juggle mentally with indeterminate strings of zeros. 26. What is Turkey s economic situation now? A] Its GDP per head is far lagging behind that of the EU members. [B] Its inflation rate is still rising. [C] Its economy grows faster than any EU member. [D] Its economic resilience is very strong. 27. We can infer from the second paragraph that. [A] Turkey will soon catch the average GDP level of the 15 pre-2004 EU members [B] inflation rate in Turkey used to be very high [C] Turkey s economy will keep growing at present rate [D] IMF s economic program will help Turkey join the EU 28. The word oscillated (Line 3, Paragraph 3) most probably means. [A] fell [B] climbed [C] developed [D] swang

7 29. Speaking of Turkey's foreign direct investment, the author implies that. [A] it's stock is far less than that of other countries [B] it does not have much influence on Turkey's economic progress [C] steady GDP growth will help Turkey attract more foreign direct investment [D] Turkey's economic resilience relies on foreign direct investment 30. We can draw a conclusion from the text that. [A] foreign investment environment in Turkey will become better [B] Turkey's citizens will suffer heavy loss due to the change of the face value of the lira [C] the local currency will depreciate with the removal of six naughts from the face value [D] prices of goods will go up Text 3 The giant Mirafiori plant in Turin is the heart of Fiat Auto, the troubled car division of the Fiat group. As the early shift trooped home at 2pm on October 9th, the mood was pessimistic. The workers knew that the bosses were meeting union leaders later that afternoon in Rome to announce 8,100 job cuts across the group's car factories. This is on top of 3,000 job losses announced earlier this year. Workers expect one-third of Mirafiori's 12,000 employees to be gone by next July. Fiat says that all but 500 of the total are temporary lay-offs, to last about a year. But the morose workers passing through Mirafiori's gates doubt that the jobs will ever come back, whatever the firm says about new models and future investment. Fiat Auto will lose around 1 billion ($987m) this year, wiping out profits in other parts of the group, which makes everything from lorries and tractors to robots. Fiat's bosses have been in denial for years about the company's massive over-capacity, the cause of growing losses as sales slumped. Five years ago Fiat Auto made 2.6m cars a year and profits of 758m. Since then it has recorded a loss in every year bar one. This year it will produce barely 1.9m cars. Its banks forced a restructuring in May, and the chief executive of its Fiat group parent had to resign a few weeks later. The pain is bad enough in northern Italy, where unemployment is barely 4%, but it will be felt more elsewhere. The Termini Imerese plant in Sicily is to lay off 1,800 workers. Unions say that cuts among suppliers could double the number of people hit. The local official jobless rate is already 18% (though this ignores a lively "informal" economy). This is posing a nasty problem for the government of Silvio Berlusconi, which polled strongly in Sicily but is not inclined to aid troubled firms. Fiat's belated willingness to take tough steps to align capacity with demand is down to the group's new boss, Gabriele Galateri, chosen in June to rescue the firm, which is 30% owned by Agnelli family interests. His aim is to restore credibility, arrest the alarming plunge in the company's share price and persuade the banks that he is sorting out the Fiat Auto mess, so as to win their support for a further recapitalisation. Closely watching this Italian drama are bosses of General Motors, owners of 20% of Fiat Auto. The Italians have an option to sell the remaining shares to GM from January GM, which has its own problems in Europe, is desperate for Fiat Auto to sort itself out before it can be forced to take over. Although the Agnelli family patriarch, the ailing 81-year-old Gianni Agnelli, is opposed to such a sale, most analysts expect that Italy's proudest manufacturing company will end up in American hands. 31. The workers in Fiat's plant were pessimistic because. A] the car division of the Fiat group was in trouble [B] new models and future investment promised no hope of getting their jobs back [C] there will be heavy job losses in the giant Mirafiori plant [D] they were facing the threat of losing their jobs 32. We learn from the second paragraph that. [A] the market demand for Fiat cars now is far lower than it was five years ago [B] Fiat Auto is the only part of the group that is running at a loss [C] Fiat Auto is selling cars more than they can produce

8 2) give your comments. You should write at least 150 words. Write your essay on the ANSWER SHEET. (15 points) People s Daily Expenses Food 65% 60% 48% 35% Clothing 8% 9% 12% 17% Recreation 3% 5% 7% 10% Others 24% 26% 33% 38% 2016 ( 204)

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