【正文】 tail point away from the sun,. When a et (25) the sun, the tail brings up the rear. PART II PROOFREADING amp。 ERROR CORRECTION [15 min.] The following passages contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. IN each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way: For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line. For a missing word, mark the position if the missing word with a ^ sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line. For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash / and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line. Henry Fielding, the famous novelist who was also 26) a London magistrate, once made a night raid to two known hideouts in this citywithinacity。 he found seven men, women, and children packed away in a few tiny 27) stinking rooms. All of these people, included little children of five and six who were trained as pickpockets, were wanted for crime. Conditions like these bred more criminals. One of the 28) typical cases was that Jack Shepard, whose execution in 1724 was watched by two hundred thousand people. Shepard, the son of honest working people, was an 29) apprentice in a respectful trade. He ran away from it because he fancied that he had been illtreated, and soon 30) found it was easy to make more money by thieving 31) as his father had done by a lifetime of honest work. 32) In Shepard39。s day highwaymen mitted robberies at broad daylight, in sight of a crowd, and rode solemnly and 33) triumphantly through the town with danger of molestation. If they were chased, twenty or thirty armed men were ready 34) to e to their assistance. Murder was a everyday affair, 35) and there were many people who made heroes from the murderers. PART III READING COMPREHENSION [40 min.] SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION [30 min.] Directions: In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of fifteen multiple choice questions. Reading the passages and the mark your answers on your answer sheet. TEXT A Harrington Wilson39。s selling technique was simplicity itself. It was nothing more than a subtle manipulation of human vanity. He was aware that there were a number of people who professed to know a great deal about antiques, and even more who would rather not confess that they did not and who accordingly practiced little tricks and subterfuges to conceal their ignorance their neighbors. The women they were mainly women jostling round his stall, picking over his shoddy wares, would sometimes run a finger round the rim of a cup or hold it knowingly up to the light as if to the test its luster, and plates were invariably turned upside down in search of china marks. To such a customer, Harrington would lean forward, benevolent and confidential, and in a conspiratorial whisper would murmur: No, madam. I39。m afraid it39。s not genuine (Wedgwood, Sevres whatever it might be) but it is a superb copy no one would ever suspect that it was not real, unless, of course, you told them. I can let you have it for I could sell it for much more, but it would be uhical of me to try to pass it off as genuine … The customer, overwhelmed by such honesty and privately determined not to be quite so honest about the article to heir friends, would then willingly pay 39。2 for something that had cost Harrington a few pence. The profit margin on these transactions was obviously so great that he was soon able to set up another stall and then a shop and yet another and so on. He enlarged his specialties, dealing in spurious Victoriana, Geian silver, trinkets and bricabrac, eventually branching out into reproduction furniture and paintings. Without any deliberate intention of doing so, he acquired an extensive knowledge of the antique business and as time went on, was accounted one of the greatest experts of his time. 36. It seems that Harrington Wilson39。s initial success owed a great deal to _______. A. his apparent ingenuousness B. the good bargains he offered C. his air of gullibility D. the honesty of his methods 37. Among the people who patronized Harrington Wilson39。s stall, there were some who ______. A. had more knowledge than they appeared to have B. were less knowledgeable than they appeared C. did not trouble to conceal their ignorance D. dislike being thought intellectual snobs 38. When a woman customer held an article knowingly up to the light (line 7),she was trying to _______. A. demonstrate her expertise B. make sure she was not being cheated C. pare it with another article she had bought D. show her appreciation of its charm TEXT B Arid region in the southwestern United States have bee increasingly inviting playgrounds for the growing number of recreation seeks who vehicles such as motorcycles or powered trail bikes and indulge in hillclimbing contests or in carving new trails in the desert. But recent scientific studies show that these offroad vehicles can cause damage to desert landscapes that has longrange effects on the area39。s waterconserving characteristics and on the entire ecology, both plant and animal. Research by scientists in the western Mojave Desert in California revealed that paction of the sandy arid soil resulting from the passage of just one motorcycle markedly reduced the infiltration ability of the soil and created a stream of rain runoff water that eroded the hillside surface. In addition, the researchers discovered that the soil paction cause by the offroad vehicles often killed native plants species and resulted in the invasion of different plant species within a few years. The native perennial species