英语试题（三）
Section ⅠUse of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D
on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
In October 2002, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank 1 a new electronic market
(www.gs.com/econderivs/) for economic indices that2substantial economic risks, such as nonfarm
payroll (a measure of job availability) and retail sales. This new market was made possible by
a3rating technology, developed by Longitude, a New York company providing software for
financial markets,4the Parimutuel Digital Call Auction. This is “digital”5of a digital option: i.e., it
pays out only if an underlying index lies in a narrow, discrete range. In effect, Longitude has
created a horse race, where each “horse” wins if and6the specified index falls in a specified range.
By creating horses for every possible7of the index, and allowing people to bet8any number of
runners, the company has produced a liquid integrated electronic market for a wide array of
options on economic indices.
Ten years ago it was9impossible to make use of electronic information about home values. Now,
mortgage lenders have online automated valuation models that allow them to estimate values and
to10the risk in their portfolios. This has led to a proliferation of types of home loan, some of 11
have improved risk-management characteristics.
We are also beginning to see new kinds of12for homes, which will make it possible to protect the
value of13, for most people, is the single most important14of their wealth. The Yale
University-Neighbourhood Reinvestment Corporation programme, 15 last year in the city of
Syracuse, in New York state, may be a model for home-equity insurance policies
that16sophisticated economic indices of house prices to define the17of the policy. Electronic
futures markets that are based on econometric indices of house prices by city, already begun by
City Index and IG Index in Britain and now18developed in the United States, will enable
home-equity insurers to hedge the risks that they acquire by writing these policies.
These examples are not impressive successes yet. But they19as early precursors of a technology
that should one day help us to deal with the massive risks of inequality that20will beset us in
coming years.
1. [A] created [B] generated [C] initiated [D] originated
2. [A] reproduce [B] restore [C] represent [D] resume
3. [A] sophisticated [B] expensive [C] available [D] established
4. [A] made [B] called [C] asked [D] read
5. [A] in the course [B] in the event [C] in the light [D] in the sense
6. [A] when [B] until [C] now that [D] only if
7. [A] extent [B] range [C] line [D] area
8. [A] for [B] in [C] on [D] up
9. [A] virtually [B] admittedly [C] absolutely [D] originally
10. [A] assume [B] assess [C] dismiss [D] erase
11. [A] them [B] which [C] that [D] whom
12. [A] management [B] insurance [C] security [D] technology
13. [A] what [B] those [C] where [D] it
14. [A] guarantee [B] protection[C] component [D] source
15. [A] secured [B] sponsored [C] released [D] launched
16. [A] look to [B] set up [C] lay down [D] rely on
17. [A] terms [B] specifications [C] concepts [D] consequences
18. [A] is [B] being [C] been [D] are
19. [A] emerge [B] appear [C] stand [D] arise
20. [A] somehow [B] anyway [C] otherwise [D] thereby
Section ⅡReading Comprehension
Part A
Directions:
Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D.
Mark your answers on ANWER SHEET 1. (40 points)
Text 1
The study of philosophies should make our own ideas flexible. We are all of us apt to take certain
general ideas for granted, and call them common sense. We should learn that other people have
held quite different ideas, and that our own have started as very original guesses of philosophers.
A scientist is apt to think that all the problems of philosophy will ultimately be solved by science.
I think this is true for a great many of the questions on which philosophers still argue. For example,
Plato thought that when we saw something, one ray of light came to it from the sun, and another
from our eyes and that seeing was something like feeling with a stick. We now know that the light
comes from the sun, and is reflected into our eyes. We don’t know in much detail how the changes
in our eyes give rise to sensation. But there is every reason to think that as we learn more about
the physiology of the brain, we shall do so, and that the great philosophical problems about
knowledge are going to be pretty fully cleared up.
But if our descendants know the answers to these questions and others that perplex us today, there
will still be one field of which they do not know, namely the future. However exact our science,
we cannot know it as we know the past. Philosophy may be described as argument about things of
which we are ignorant. And where science gives us a hope of knowledge it is often reasonable to
suspend judgment. That is one reason why Marx and Engels quite rightly wrote to many
philosophical problems that interested their contemporaries.
But we have got to prepare for the future, and we cannot do so rationally without some philosophy.
Some people say we have only got to do the duties revealed in the past and laid down by religion,
and god will look after the future. Other say that the world is a machine and the course of future
events is certain, whatever efforts we may make. Marxists say that the future depends on ourselves,
even though we are part of the historical process. This philosophical view certainly does inspire
people to very great achievements. Whether it is true or not, it is powerful guide to action.
We need a philosophy, then, to help us to tackle the future. Agnosticism easily becomes an excuse
for laziness and conservatism. Whether we adopt Marxism or any other philosophy, we cannot
understand it without knowing something of how it developed. That is why knowledge of the
history of philosophy is important to Marxists, even during the present critical days.
21. What is the main idea of this passage?
[A] The main idea of this passage is the argument whether philosophy will ultimately be solved by
science or not.
[B] The importance of learning philosophies, especially the history of philosophy.
[C] The difference between philosophy and science.
[D] A discuss about how to set a proper attitude towards future.
22. The example of what Plato thought in the passage shows that　
[A] the development of science really can solve a great many of the problems on which
philosophers still argue
[B] plato knew nothing about Physics
[C] the scientists have achieved a lot in terms of light theory
[D] different people have different ways of perception
23. What field can our descendants know?
[A] The origin of human beings　
[B] Some questions that perplex us today.
[C] Many philosophical problems which Marx and Engels wrote rather little.
[D] The future.
24. How many kinds of ideas are there about the future?
[A] Two　[B] Three　[C] Four　[D] Five　
25. What are the functions of studying philosophies mentioned in the passage?
[A] The study of philosophies would make our own idea flexible.
[B] The study of philosophies would help prepare us for the future and guide our actions.
[C] The study of philosophies would enable us to understand how things develop as to better
tackle the future.
[D] All of the above.
Text 2
This line of inquiry did not begin until earlier this month—more than three months after the
accident—because there were “too many emotions, too many egos,” said retired Adm. Harold
Gehman, chairman of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board.
Testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee, Gehman said this part of his inquiry was in its
earliest stages, starting just 10 days ago. But Gehman said he already has concluded it is
“inconceivable” that NASA would have been unable or unwilling to attempt a rescue for
astronauts in orbit if senior shuttle managers and administrators had known there was fatal damage
to Columbia’s left wing.
Gehman told reporters after the hearing that answers to these important questions could have
enormous impact, since they could place in a different context NASA’s decisions against more
aggressively checking possible wing damage in the days before Columbia’s fatal return.
Investigators believe breakaway insulating foam damaged part of Columbia’s wing shortly after
liftoff, allowing superheated air to penetrate the wing during its fiery reentry on Feb.1, melt it
from inside.
Among those decisions was the choice by NASA’s senior shuttle managers and administrators to
reject offers of satellite images of possible damage to Columbia’s left wing before the accident.
The subject dominated the early part of Wednesday’s hearing.
Gehman complained managers and administrators “missed signals” when they rejected those
offers for images, a pointedly harsh assessment of the space agency’s inaction during the 16　
day shuttle mission.
“We will attempt to pin this issue down in our report, but there were a number of bureaucratic
and administrative missed signals here,” Gehman told senators. “We’re not quite so happy with
the process.”
The investigative board already had recommended that NASA push for better coordination
between the space agency and military offices in charge of satellites and telescopes. The U.S.
National Imagery and Mapping Agency in March agreed to regularly capture detailed satellite
images of space shuttles in orbit.
Still, Gehman said it was unclear whether even images from America’s most sophisticated spy
satellites might have detected on Columbia’s wing any damage, which Gehman said could have
been as small as two inches square. The precise capabilities of such satellites proved to be a
sensitive topic during the Senate hearing.
26.This text is most probably taken from an article entitled “”.
[A] Gehman’s Comments on Columbia Accident
[B] An Inquiry into Columbia Accident
[C] Shedding Light on Shuttle’s Safety
[D] NASA’s Problems Being Exposed
27.The word “they” in the sentence “since they could place” (Para.3) denotes　
[A] “damages”[B] “answers”[C] “decisions”[D] “questions”
28.According to the writer, what may chiefly be responsible for the Columbia accident?
[A] A supposed damage to the left wing of the spacecraft.
[B] The deliberate rejection of satellite images.
[C] A sense of sentiment and arrogance involved.
[D] The space agency’s inaction during its mission.
29.As mentioned in the text, the Wednesday’s hearing revolved around　
[A] the precise capabilities of spy satellites in orbit
[B] NASA’s indecisions against checking upon the Columbia
[C] NASA’s rejection of satellite images offered
[D] the coordination between NASA and military offices
30.Which of the following can best describe Gehman’s attitude towards satellite images?
[A] Apprehensive. [B] Credulous. [C] Indifferent. [D] Cautious.
Text 3
Gene therapy and gene based drugs are two ways we could benefit from our growing mastery of
genetic science. But there will be others as well. Here is one of the remarkable therapies on the
cutting edge of genetic research that could make their way into mainstream medicine in the
coming years.
While it’s true that just about every cell in the body has the instructions to make a complete human,
most of those instructions are inactivated, and with good reason: the last thing you want for your
brain cells is to start churning out stomach acid or your nose to turn into a kidney. The only time
cells truly have the potential to turn into any and all body parts is very early in a pregnancy, when
so　called stem cells haven’t begun to specialize.
Yet this untapped potential could be a terrific boon to medicine. Most diseases involve the death of
healthy cells—brain cells in Alzheimer’s, cardiac cells in heart disease, pancreatic cells in diabetes,
to name a few; if doctors could isolate stem cells, then direct their growth, they might be able to
furnish patients with healthy replacement tissue.
It was incredibly difficult, but last fall scientists at the University of Wisconsin managed to isolate
stem cells and get them to grow into neural, gut, muscle and bone cells. The process still can’t be
controlled, and may have unforeseen limitations; but if efforts to understand and master stem　
cell development prove successful, doctors will have a therapeutic tool of incredible power.
The same applies to cloning, which is really just the other side of the coin; true cloning, as first
shown with the sheep Dolly two years ago, involves taking a developed cell and reactivating the
genome within, resetting its developmental instructions to a pristine state. Once that happens, the
rejuvenated cell can develop into a full　fledged animal, genetically identical to its parent.
For agriculture, in which purely physical characteristics like milk production in a cow or low fat in
a hog have real market value, biological carbon copies could become routine within a few years.
This past year scientists have done for mice and cows what Ian Wilmut did for Dolly, and other
creatures are bound to join the cloned menagerie in the coming year.
Human cloning, on the other hand, may be technically feasible but legally and emotionally more
difficult. Still, one day it will happen. The ability to reset body cells to a pristine, undeveloped
state could give doctors exactly the same advantages they would get from stem cells: the potential
to make healthy body tissues of all sorts, and thus to cure disease. That could prove to be a true
“miracle cure.”
31.The writer holds that the potential to make healthy body tissues will　
[A] aggravate moral issues of human cloning
[B] bring great benefits to human beings
[C] help scientists decode body instructions
[D] involve employing surgical instruments
32.The word “rejuvenated” (Para. 5) most probably means　
[A] modified[B] re　collected[C] classified[D] reactivated
33.The research at the University of Wisconsin is mentioned to show　
[A] the isolation of stem cells
[B] the effects of gene therapies
[C] the advantages of human cloning
[D] the limitations of tissue replacements
34.Which of the following is true according to the text?
[A] The principle of gene therapy is applicable to that of cloning.
[B] The isolation of stem cells is too difficult to be feasible.
[C] It is reasonable for all body instructions to be activated.
[D] Cloned animals will eventually take control of the world.
35.Towards the genetic research, the author’s attitude can best be said to be that of　
[A] frustration [B] indifference[C] amazement[D] opposition
Text 4
Nancy Casey was born in Chicago, Illinois, and left when she was three years old. Her family
moved to Iowa and lived on 900 acres of farmland, where Nancy trained horses and ponies and
helped raise all kinds of farm animals. Nancy loved animals then, and still has a big place in her
heart for them. She currently has two Siamese cats, Misha and Iman. At sixteen years old, Nancy’s
family moved to California and Nancy became a big city girl. The public was very aware at the
uncanny resemblance between the two divas, and Nancy was discovered as Liz at age eighteen.
In high school, Nancy was quite popular. She was a cheerleader, a school princess, she took tap,
jazz, ballet and played basketball. Her junior year, she met her high school sweetheart and was
married a year after graduation. At the time, she was offered a screen test from Warner Brothers
films, but Nancy decided marriage was the more important choice.
Nancy studied interior design at UCLA, and worked as a contract designer doing commercial
work for restaurants, hotels and homes. Her interest in design took her to places like Paris and
France to study art and architecture. Along the way, she had also worked as a legal secretary in
law firms, but her most interesting work has been as the Elizabeth Taylor LOOK　ALIKE.
In 1988, a friend of Nancy’s suggested that she send in her photo to a celebrity LOOK　ALIKE
agent. She was immediately called as Liz for corporate functions. The timing couldn’t have been
more perfect. At the time, Liz was in the public eye with a new fragrance, book and husband.
Work poured in for Nancy.
Nancy does not mistake her own identity and that of her character Liz. Since Nancy has looked
like Elizabeth Taylor her whole life, she has become accustomed to being stared at, or mistaken
for the star. However, Nancy says that working as a LOOK　ALIKE has given her the
opportunity to feel what it must be like to be a celebrity for a day. LOOK　ALIKE work has also
helped her to play the role. Working in this field has brought many new and wonderful things to
Nancy’s life. She is grateful to the friends she has met, places she has traveled to and the
opportunity to get a glimpse into the entertainment world of film, television and performing.
Nancy recalls the time she met her inspiration. She’s a true survivor, her compassion for others in
need, her loyalty, her unique and full life while always in the public eye and her ability to cope
with judgment and scrutiny, is amazing, to say the least. I have met her briefly and found her to be
very earthy, with a great sense of humor. She’s a very tiny woman for the great amount of clout
and power that she possesses.
Nancy feels her similarities to Elizabeth are a gift. Nancy has worked almost fulltime as a
celebrity LOOK　ALIKE for film, television, print, commercials and on the corporate circuit. As
a professional actress she has appeared on numerous television shows such as The Joan Rivers
Show, Entertainment Tonight, Dream On, Hard Copy and Inside Edition. Her film credits include
Dave, Postcards from the Edge, Sister Act H and Repossessed.
36.It can be known from this passage that Nancy　
［A］ changed her name
［B］ misses the horses on the Iowa farmland
［C］ has two cats with similar looks
［D］ has a strong affection for animals
37.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
［A］ Nancy once turned down a film producer’s invitation.
［B］ Nancy regards marriage the most important thing.
［C］ Nancy never engages herself in advertising.
［D］ Nancy wrote an autobiography.
38.It can be inferred from the passage that Taylor　
［A］ never got married all her life［B］ married at least twice
［C］ got divorced in 1988［D］ got divorced at least twice
39.What does the phrase “play the role” in the 5th paragraph probably mean?
［A］ Being a celebrity.［B］ Being a look alike.
［C］ Being an actress.［D］ Playing a role in a film.
40.Nancy’s comment on Taylor is one of　
［A］ flattery［B］ contempt［C］ appreciation［D］ depreciation
Part B
Sample One
Directions:
In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41　45, choose the most
suitable one from the list A　G to fit into each of the numbered blanks. There are two extra
choices, which do not fit in any of the blanks.Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10
points)
Americans wear black for mourning. Chinese wear white. Westerners think of dragons as monsters.
Chinese honor them as symbols of God. Chinese civilization has often shown such polarities with
the West, as though each stands at extreme ends of a global string. 41）　
His findings go far toward explaining why American cultures seem so contentious and Chinese
cultures so passive, when compared to each other. More importantly, the research opens the way
for the peoples of the East and the West to learn from each other infundamental ways. 42）　said
Kaiping Peng, a former Beijing scholar, who is now a UC Berkeley assistant professor of
psychology.
“Americans have a terrible need to find out who is right in an argument,” said Peng. “The
problem is that at the interpersonal level, you really don’t need to find the truth, or may be there
isn’t any.” Chinese people, said Peng, are far more content to think that both sides have flaws and
virtues, because they have a holistic awareness that life is full of contradictions. They do far less
blaming of the individual than do Americans, he added.
In studies of interpersonal argument, for example, when subjects were asked to deal with
contradictory information stemming from conflict between a mother and a daughter or a student
and a school, Peng found that Americans were“non　compromising, blaming one side—usually
the mother— for the causes of the problems, demanding changes from one side to attain a solution
and offering no compromise” in dealing with the conflict.
43）　
In tests of scientific thinking, however, the Chinese came up short. Asked to determine which
statement was true—whether, for instance, smoking makes people gain or lose weight—Chinese
respondents took the middle road, even when they believed one statement to be less true than
another.
44）　
He believes that this tendency to find the middle way has hampered Chinese efforts to seek out
scientific truth through aggressive argumentation, the classic Western method for forging a linear
path through contradictory information, which results inidentifying right and wrong answers.
Dialectical thinking also has a Western version, which Americans often consider the highest, most
sophisticated form of reasoning, said Peng. This type of reasoning allows people to proceed from
thesis to antithesis, tosynthesis.
45）　
［A］In Chinese folk wisdom, by comparison, people do not attempt to work through the
contradictions, following a cultural tradition which holds that reality is “multilayer, unpredictable
and contradictory,” and is in a constant state of change, Peng said.
［B］ “It can hardly be right to move to the middle when you have just read evidence for a less
plausible view. Yet that is what the Chinese subjects did,” said Peng.
［C］The Chinese could learn much from Western methods for determining scientific truth, and
Americans could profit enormously from the Chinese tolerance for accepting contradictions in
social and personal life.
［D］Compared to this angry, blaming American stance, the Chinese were paragons of
compromise, finding fault on both sides and looking for solutions that moved both sides to the
middle.
［E］The best way is to use both one style for science and another for relationships. Maybe that
will be the real benefit of multiculturalism.
［F］ “They should stop blaming each other, poor people and immigrants, and talk about what we
can do as a society to become more tolerant,” said Peng.
［G］ Now a University of California, Berkeley, Psychologist has discovered deeper polarities
between Chinese and American cultures—polarities that go to the heart of how we reason and
discover truth.
Sample Two
Directions:
The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For Questions 41　45,you are required to
reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent text by choosing from the list A　G to fill in each
numbered box. The first and the last paragraphs have been placed for you in Boxes. Mark your
answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)
[A] Foremost on every potential buyer’s list of concerns is debt. The average South Korean
Company is leveraged four times over its equity, which is why so many are desperate to liquidate
assets. But because Korea’s currency lost half its value last year, many Korean executives
believe—mistakenly—that foreign buyers will find their wares attractive in spite of their debts,
analysts says.
[B] Despite such aversion to foreign ownership, some deals are going through. Directors of Bank
of Asia are believed to have approved the sale of a stake in their midsize bank to Dutch bank ABN
　Amro. For the Bank of Thailand, the central bank, the ABN　Amro deal will send a much
needed signal that the country is welcoming foreign capital.
[C] “The attitude of Koreans is that only foreigners will pay the price they are as king,” says
Daniel Harwood of ABN　Amro Asia in Seoul. But foreigners are looking at these business and
saying“How can I make a profit,”not“Oh, it’ s cheap, and I’ ll buyit.” No one will take over
these companies unless they can restructure.
[D] Survival is usually uppermost in the minds of companies with their backs to the wall, even if
that entails being reduced to a minority stake. In Thailand, however, most ailing companies seem
loathe to admit that their conditions may be fatal. “They aren’t realistic,” says Henry Conell,
Goldman Sachs’ Hong Kong based partner in charge of direct investment in Asia. “Nobody is
about to say to them, you will be gone.”
\[E\] In south Korea, interest from foreigners has focused more on the country’s manufacturers.
But, the number of actual purchases, like those in Thailand, is small. In any event, big ticket cross
border mergers and acquisitions are bound to take time. Indeed, analysts say the main reason for
the dearth of deals so far is due to diligence: foreign investors must thoroughly familiarize
themselves with companies they might buy. “You can’t do this stuff overnight,” says a senior
official at a large Western bank in Seoul.
\[F\] Still, the number of deals is growing by the day. On February 19, Samsung Heavy Industries
simultaneously sold its excavator division to Sweden’s Volvo Construction Equipment and its
forklift operation to the United States’ Clark Martirial Handling. Earlier, the chemical giant
Hanwha group sold two affiliates to its Japanese and German partners. Despite the slow start, no
one doubts that the bargains at Korea Inc. are for real.
\[G\] Thai businesses’ unwillingness to sell hasn’t been helped by the government’s own
ambivalence. While Finance Minister Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda is committed to attracting foreign
money to Thailand, Deputy Prime Minister Supachai Panitchpakdi seems less so.“We don’ t want
foreign firms to come and buy out our businesses. We want them to come, buy shares, and operate
firms　and sell them after making profits,” he told the local media recently. “This will give
Thais a chance to buy them back.”
Order:
D→
41　→
42　→
43　→
44　→
45　→
F
Sample Three
Direction:
You are going to read a text about New Rules for Landing a Job, followed by a list of examples.
Choose the best example from the list A　F for each numbered subheading (41　45). There is
one extra example which you do not need to use. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10
points)
When Nick A. Corcodilos started out in the headhunting business 20 years ago, he had a keen eye
for tracking talent. From his base in Silicon Valley he would send all　star performers to blue　
chip companies like Xerox, IBM and General Electric. But while he would succeed in his part of
the hunt, the job　seekers he located would often fail in theirs. They were striking out before,
during or after the interview.
So instead of simply accounting for talent, Corcodilos began advising job candidates as well. He
helped improve their success ratio by teaching them to pursue fewer companies, make the right
contacts and deliver what companies are looking for in an interview. In his myth　busting book,
Ask the Headhunter (Plume, 1997), Corcodilos has reinvented the rules of the job search, from
preparation to interview techniques. Here are his six new principles for successful job hunting:
(41) Your resume is meaningless.
Headhunters know a resume rarely gets you inside a company. All it does is outline your past　
largely irrelevant since it doesn’t demonstrate that you can do the work the hiring manager needs
done.
(42) Don’t get lost in HR.
Headhunters try to get around the human resources department whenever possible.
(43) The real matchmaking takes place before the interview.
A headhunter sends a candidate into an interview only if he or she is clearly qualified for the
position. In your own job hunt, make the same effort to ensure a good fit. Know the parameters of
the job when you walk into the interview. Research the company, finding out about its culture,
goals, competitors.
Remember, the employer wants to hire you.
“A company holds interviews so it can find the best person for the job,” Corcodilos says. The
manager will be ecstatic if that person turns out to be you because then he or she can stop
interviewing and get back to work.
(44) Pretend the interview is your first day at work.
Most people treat an interview as if it were an interrogation. The employer asks questions, and the
candidate gives answers. Headhunters go out of their way to avoid that scenario.
(45) Got an offer? Interview the company.
When an employer makes an offer, he does more than deliver a title and a compensation package
he also cedes part of his control over the hiring process.
Once you get that offer, “You have the power,” says Corcodilos, to decide whether, and on what
terms, you want to hire that company.
[A] Consider how Corcodilos coached Gerry Zagorski of Edison, N.J., who was pursuing an
opening at AT & T. Zagorski walked over to the vice president’s marker board and outlined the
company’s challenges and the steps he would take to increase its profits. Fifteen minutes later, as
Zagorski wrote down his estimate of what he would add to the bottom line, he looked up at his
interviewer.
[B] One of the best ways to learn about a company is to talk to people who work there. Kenton
Green of Ann Arbor, Mich., used this technique while completing a doctoral program in electrical
engineering and optics at the University of Rochester: “I would find an article published by
someone in my field who worked at a company I was interested in. Then I’d call that person and
ask to talk, mention my employability and discuss the company’s needs. One of two things
happened: I’d either get an interview or learn we weren’t a good match after all.”
[C] “Most HR departments create an infrastructure that primarily involves processing paper,”
Corcodilos says. “They package, organize, fileand sort you. Then, if you haven’t gotten lost in the
shuffle, they might pass you on to a manager who actually knows what the work is all about.
While the typical candidate is waiting to be interviewed by HR, the headhunter is on the phone,
using a back channel to get to the hiring manager.”
[D] “At the outset of the interview, the employer controls the offer and the power that comes with
it,” Corcodilos says. “But upon making an offer, he transfers that power to the candidate. This is a
power few people in that situation realize they have. It’s the time for you to explore changing the
offer to suit your goals and fully interview the company.”
\[E\] “The guy’s jaw was on the floor,” Corcodilos says. “He told Zagorski that finishing the
interview wouldn’t be necessary. Instead, the VP brought in the rest of his team, and the meeting
lasted for two hours.”
\[F\] “A resume leaves it up to employers to figure out how you can help their organization,”
Corcodilos says. “That’s no way to sell yourself.”
SampleFour
Directions:
You are going to read a list of headings and a text about explorations into maple lores. Choose the
most suitable heading from the list A　F for each numbered paragraph (41　45). The first and
last paragraphs of the text are not numbered. There is one extra heading which you do not need to
use. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
[A] The influence of maples on the Canadian culture.
[B] The token of maples in Canada.
[C] Contemplation of global distribution of maples.
[D] The triumph of Nokomis over the devils with the help of maples.
\[E\] The popularity of the maple in a favorite myth.
\[F\] The maple signals the approach of fall.
The maple smoke of autumn bonfires is incense to Canadians. Bestowing perfume for the nose,
color for the eye, sweetness for the spring tongue, the sugar maple prompts this sharing of a
favorite myth and original etymology of the word maple.
41　
The maple looms large in Ojibwa folk tales. The time of year for sugaring off is “in the Maple
Moon.”Among Ojibwa, the primordial female figure is Nokomis, a wise grandmother. In one tale
about seasonal change, cannibal wendigos　creatures of evil　chased old Nokomis through
the autumn countryside. Wendigos throve in icy cold. When they entered the bodies of humans,
the human heart froze solid. Here wendigos represent oncoming winter. They were hunting to kill
and eat poor Nokomis, the warm embodiment of female fecundity who, like the summer, has
grown old.
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Knowing this was a pursuit to the death, Nokomis outsmarted the cold devils. She hid in a stand of
maple trees, all red and orange and deep yellow. This maple grove grew beside a waterfall whose
mist blurred the trees’ outline. As they peered through the mist, slavering wendigos thought they
saw a raging fire in which their prey was burning. But it was only old Nokomis being hidden by
the bright red leaves of her friends, the maples. And so, drooling ice and huffing frost, the
wendigos left her and sought easier prey. For their service in saving the earth mother’s life, these
maples were given a special gift: their water of life would be forever sweet, and Canadians would
tap it for nourishment.
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Maple and its syrup flow sweetly into Canadian humor. Quebeckers have the standard siropd’
erable for maple syrup, but add a feisty insult to label imitation syrups that are thick with glucose
glop. They call this sugary imposter sirop de Poteau “telephone pole syrup” or dead tree syrup.
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The contention that maple syrup is unique to North America is suspect, I believe. China has close
to 10 species of maple, more than any country in the world. Canada has 10 native species. North
America does happen to be home to the sugar maple, the species that produces the sweetest sap
and the most abundant flow. But are we to believe that in thousands of years of Chinese history,
these inventive people never tapped a maple to taste its sap? I speculate that they did. Could Proto
　Americas who crossed the Bering land bridge to populate the Americas have brought with them
a knowledge of maple syrup? Is there a very old Chinese phrase for maple syrup? Is maple syrup
mentioned in Chinese literature? For a non　reader of Chinese, such questions are daunting but
not impossible to answer.
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What is certain is the maple’s holdfast on our national imagination. Its leaf was adopted as an
emblem in New France as early as 1700, and in English Canada by the mid　19th century. In the
fall of 1867, a Toronto schoolteacher named Alexander Muir was traipsing a street at the city, all
squelchy underfoot from the soft felt of falling leaves, when a maple leaf alighted to his coat
sleeve and stuck there. At home that evening, he wrote a poem and set it to music, in celebration
of Canada’s Confederation. Muir’s song, “The Maple Leaf Forever,” was wildly popular and
helped fasten the symbol firmly to Canada.
The word “maple” is from “mapeltreow”, the Old English term for maple tree, with “mapl”
—as its Proto　Germanic root, a compound in which the first “m”—is, I believe, the nearly
worldwide“ma” , one of the first human sounds, the pursing of a baby’ s lips as it prepares to suck
milk from mother’s breast. The “ma” root gives rise in many world languages to thousands of
words like “mama”, “mammary”, “maia”, and “Amazon.” Here it would make “mapl
　”mean“nourishing mother tree,”that is, tree whose maple sap in nourishing. The second part
of the compound, “apl　”, is a variant of Indo　European able “fruit of any tree” and the
origin of another English fruit word, apple. So the primitive analogy compares the liquid sap with
another nourishing liquid, mother’s milk.
Part C
Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your
translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2.(10 points)
Clearly if we are to participate in the society in which we live we must communicate with other
people. A great deal of communicating is performed on a person　to　person basis by the simple
means of speech. (46) If we travel in buses, buy things in shops, or eat in restaurants, we are likely
to have conversations where we give information or opinions, receive news or comment, and very
likely have our views challenged by other members of society.
(47) Face　to　face contact is by no means the only form of communication and during the last
two hundred years the art of mass communication has become one of the dominating factors of
contemporary society. Two things, above others, have caused the enormous growth of the
communication industry. Firstly, inventiveness has led to advances imprinting,
telecommunications photography, radio and television. Secondly, speed has revolutionized the
transmission and reception of communications so that local news often takes a back seat to
national news, which itself is often almost eclipsed by international news.
No longer is the possession of information confined to a privileged minority. In the last century
the wealthy man with his own library was indeed fortunate, but today there are public libraries.
(48) For years ago people used to flock to the cinema, but now far more people sit at home and
turn on the TV to watch a programme that is being channeled into millions of homes.
Communication is no longer merely concerned with the transmission of information. (49) The
modem communication industry influences the way people live in society and broadens their
horizons by allowing access to information, education and entertainment. The printing,
broadcasting and advertising industries are all involved with informing, educating and
entertaining.
(50) Although a great deal of the material communicated by the mass media is very valuable to the
individual and to the society of which he is part, the vast modem network of communications is
open to abuse. However, the mass media are with us for better, for worse, and there is no turning
back.
Section Ⅲ Writing
Part A
51. Directions:
You have watched the 2004 Athens Olympic Games and are interested in becoming a volunteer for
the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Writea letter to Liu Qi, mayor of the capital city, to
1)make suggestions for the 2008 preparation work, and
2)express your wish to be a volunteer.
You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end
of the letter. Use “Li Ming” instead. You do not need to write the address. (10 points)
Part B
52．Directions：
Study the following drawing carefully and write an essay in which you should
1)describe the drawing,
2)interpret its meaning and
3)suggest counter　measures.
You should write about 160　200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points)