【正文】 ations by the Mitchell Commission. D. Bomb attacks aimed at Israeli civilians. Question 12 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news. 12. Some voters will waste their ballots because A. they like neither candidate. B. they are all illinformed. C. the candidates do not differ much. D. they do not want to vote twice. Questions 13 to 15 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given15 seconds to answer each of the questions. Now listen to the news. 13. According to the UN Human Development Report, which is the best place for women in the world? A. Canada. B. The US. C. Australia. D. Scandinavia. 14. is in the 12th place in overall ranking. A. Britain B. France C. Finland D. Switzerland 15. According to the UN report, the least developed country is A. Ethiopia. B. Mali. C. Sierra Leon. D. Central African Republic. SECTION D NOTETAKING AND GAPFILLING In this section you will hear a minilecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to plete a 15minute gapfilling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the minilecture. Use the blank sheet for notetaking. PART II PROOFREADING amp。 performance. 2. We can infer from the talk that harmonious work relations may have a direct impact on your A. promotion. B. colleagues. C. management. D. union. 3. Supposing you were working in a small firm, which of the following would you do when you had some grievances? A. Request a formal special meeting with the boss. B. Draft a formal agenda for a special meeting. C. Contact a consultative mittee first. D. Ask to see the boss for a talk immediately. 4. According to the talk, the union plays the following roles EXCEPT A. mediation. B. arbitration. C. negotiation. D. representation. 5. Which topic is NOT covered in the talk? A. Role of the union. B. Work relations. C. Company structure. D. Office layout. SECTION B INTERVIEW Questions 6 to 10 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 15seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. 6. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about David39。s largest minority. The exact number is hard to pin down. Gypsies have regularly been undercounted, both by regimes anxious to downplay their profile and by Gypsies themselves, seeking to avoid bureaucracies. Attempting to remedy past inequities, activist groups may overcount. Hundreds of thousands more have emigrated to the Americas and elsewhere. With very few exceptions Gypsies have expressed no great desire for a country to call their own unlike the Jews, to whom the Gypsy experience is often pared. ―Romanestan‖ said Ronald Lee, the Canadian Gypsy writer, is where my two feet stand. 16. Gypsies are united only when they A are engaged in traditional crafts. B. call themselves Roma. C. live under a clan system. D. face external threats. 17. In history hostility to Gypsies in Europe resulted in their persecution by all the following EXCEPT A. the Egyptians. B the state. C. the church. D. the Nazis. 18. According to the passage, the main difference between the Gypsies and the Jews lies in their concepts of A． language. B. culture. C. identity. D. custom. TEXT Ｂ I was just a boy when my father brought me to Harlem for the first time, almost 50 years ago. We stayed at the Hotel Theresa, a grand brick structure at 125th Street and Seventh Avenue. Once, in the hotel restaurant, my father pointed out Joe Louis. He even got Mr. Brown, the hotel manager, to introduce me to him, a bit paunchy but still the champ as far as I was concerned. Much has changed since then. Business and real estate are booming. Some say a new renaissance is under way. Others decry what they see as outside forces running roughshod over the old Harlem. New York meant Harlem to me, and as a young man I visited it whenever I could. But many of my old haunts are gone. The Theresa shut down in 1966. National chains that once ignored Harlem now anticipate yuppie money and want pieces of this prime Manhattan real estate. So here I am on a hot August afternoon, sitting in a Starbucks that two years ago opened a block away from the Theresa, snatching at memories between sips of highpriced coffee. I am about to open up a piece of the old Harlem the New York Amsterdam News—when a tourist asking directions to Sylvia39。s powerful political electricity seems unpluggedalthough the sweets are still energized, especially by West African immigrants. Hardworking southern newers formed the bulk of the munity back in the 1920s and39。30s mainly because of its A. art and culture. B. immigrant population. C. political enthusiasm.39。 Locke, which in fact was a young firm, since most of the partners retired in their late forties or early fifties with money to bum. He would make partner in this firm. With a sixfigure ine guaranteed for the rest of his life, Lamar could enjoy the twelvehundreddollar tailored suits that hung so fortably from his tall, athletic frame. He strolled nonchalantly across the thousanddollaraday suite and poured another cup of decaf. He checked his watch. He glanced at the two partners sitting at the small conference table near the windows. Precisely at twothirty someone knocked on the door. Lamar looked at the parmers, who slid the resume and dossier into an open briefcase. All three reached for their jackets. Immar buttoned his top