【正文】 [B] incident [C] inference [D] issue 18. [A] stated [B] remarked [C] said [D] told 19. [A] what [B] when [C] which [D] that 20. [A] assure [B] confide [C] ensure [D] guarantee Section II Reading 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 ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points) Text 1 It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia39。s world history. The full import may take a while to sink in. The NT Rights of the Terminally Ill law has left physicians and citizens alike trying to deal with its moral and practical implications. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, righttolife groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back. In Australia — where an aging population, lifeextending technology and changing munity attitudes have all played their part — other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia. In the US and Canada, where the righttodie movement is gathering strength, observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling. Under the new Northern Territory law, an adult patient can request death — probably by a deadly injection or pill — to put an end to suffering. The patient must be diagnosed as terminally ill by two doctors. After a cooling off period of seven days, the patient can sign a certificate of request. After 48 hours the wish for death can be met. For Lloyd Nickson, a 54yearold Darwin 2020 年英語大綱樣題 resident suffering from lung cancer, the NT Rights of Terminally Ill law means he can get on with living without the haunting fear of his suffering: a terrifying death from his breathing condition. I39。s inflation rate would average % in 1995. In fact, it fell to % in August, and is expected to average only about 3% for the year as a whole. In Britain and Japan inflation is running half a percentage point below the rate predicted at the end of last year. This is no flash in the pan。re looking for. Noheless, many panies still hesitate to use the Web because of doubts about its reliability. Businesses need to feel they can trust the pathway between them and the supplier, says senior analyst Blane Erwin of Forrester Research. Some panies are limiting the risk by conducting online transactions only with established business partners who are given access to the pany39。s a prospect that horrifies Net purists. But it is hardly inevitable that panies on the Web will need to resort to push strategies to make money. The examples of Virtual Vineyards, , and other pioneers show that a Web site selling the right kind of products with the right mix of interactivity, hospitality, and security will attract online customers. And the cost of puting power continues to free fall, which is a good sign for any enterprise setting up shop in silicon. People looking back 5 or 10 years from now may well wonder why so few panies took the online plunge. 31. We learn from the beginning of the passage that Web business [A] has been striving to expand its market. [B] intended to follow a fanciful fashion. [C] tried but in vain to control the market. [D] has been booming for one year or so. 32. Speaking of the online technology available for marketing, the author implies that [A] the technology is popular with many Web users. [B] businesses have faith in the reliability of online transactions. [C] there is a radical change in strategy. [D] it is accessible limitedly to established partners. 33. In the view of Net purists, [A] there should be no marketing messages in online culture. [B] money making should be given priority to on the Web. [C] the Web should be able to function as the television set. [D] there should be no online mercial information without requests. 34. We learn from the last paragraph that [A] pushing information on the Web is essential to Inter merce. [B] interactivity, hospitality and security are important to online customers. [C] leading panies began to take the online plunge decades ago. [D] setting up shops in silicon is independent of the cost of puting power. 35. The purpose of the author in writing the text is to [A] urge active participation in online business. [B] elaborate on various marketing strategies. [C] pare web business with traditional merce. [D] illustrate the transition from the pull to push strategy. TEXT 4 In the last half of the nieenth century capital and labour were enlarging and perfecting their rival anizations on modern lines. Many an old firm was replaced by a limited liability pany with a bureaucracy of salaried managers. The change met the technical requirements of the new age by engaging a large professional element and prevented the decline in efficiency that so monly spoiled the fortunes of family firms in the second and third generation after the energetic founders. It was moreover a step away from individual initiative, towards collectivism and municipal and stateowned business. The railway panies, though still private business managed for the benefit of shareholders, were very unlike old family business. At the same time the great municipalities went into business to supply lighting, trams and other services to the taxpayers. 2020 年英語大綱樣題 The growth of the limited liability pany and municipal business had important consequences. Such large, impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders as a class, an element i