【正文】 the French, German and Italian speaking areas, but it is generally safe to assume that any car bea A. traffic lights are part of street scenery B. they simply ignore traffic lig C. they want to put them at roadsides A. the Atlantic Ocean and other oceans C. European drivers and American drivers phrase “anticipate the green light”(Line 1, Para. 3) is closest in meaning to ____. A. wait for the green light to be on C. move off before the green light is on D. follow others when the green light is on SECTION B SKIMMING AND SCANNING ［ 5 MIN.］ In this section there are seven passages with a total of ten multiplechoice questions. Skim or scan them as required and t TEXT E D. China Over the past decade, there have been a lot of changes in China’s economic policies. Like other developing countries which are attempting to bee more exportorientated, China has started to set up free trade zones. These zones are called “Special Economic Zones”(SEZ’s) and feature various incentives designed to encourage foreign investment. What is the significance of these zones? Have they really played an important role in the development of significance of these zones? Have they really played an important role in the development of the economy of China? In this paper I first describe the background to the establishment of these zones. Then I describe some of the aims and characteristics of the SEZ’s. Lastly, I attempt to assess the significance of the SEZ’s in the development of the wider Chinese economy. TEXT F A. introduction B. apology C. plaint June 15,200 Your shipment of twelve thousand “Smart” watches was received by our pany this morning. However, we wish to make a number of plaints concerning the serious delay in delivery and your failure to carry out our instructions with regard to The second plaint concerns the mismatch in colour between t As a result of the above problems, therefore, we feel that the most suitable course of action is to return to you unpaid Yours Johnson amp。 and sincerely enthusiastic and optimistic. Candidates who interview badly tend to be at either end of the spectrum of human behaviour. They are either very shy or overconfident. They show either a lack of enthusiasm or an excess of it. They either talk too little or never stop talking. They are either over can infer from the passage that an employer might tolerate his secretary’s occasional mistakes, if the latter is __ A. direct. B. cheerful. C. shy. is the author’s atti tude towards the interview as a selection procedure? A. Unclear. B. Negative. C. Objective. D. Indifferent. A. different selection B. connecti D. differences in personal behaviour TEXT B Every year thousands of people are arrested and taken to court for shoplifting. In Britain alone, about HK$3,000,000’s worth of goods are stolen from shops every week. This amounts to something like HK$150 million a year, and represents about 4 per cent of the shops’ total stock. As a result of this “shrinkage” as the shops call it, the honest public has to Shoplifters can be divided into three main categories: the professionals, the deliberate amateur, and the people who just can’t help themselves. The professionals do not pose much of a problem for the store detectives, who, assisted by closed circuit television, twoway mirrors and various other technological devices, can usually cope with them. The professionals tend to go for high value goods in parts of the shops where security measures are tightest. And, in any case, they account for only a small percentage of the total losses due to shop The same applies to the deliberate amateur who is, so to speak, a professional in training. Most of them get caught soone The real problem is the person who gives way to a sudden temptation and is in all other respects an honest and lawabiding citizen. Contrary to what one would expect, this kind of shoplifter is rarely poor. He does not steal because he needs the goods and cannot afford to pay for them. He steals because he simply cannot stop himself. And there are countless others who, because of age, sickness or plain absentmindedness, simply fet to pay for what they take from the shops. When caught, all are liable to prosecution, and the decision whether to send for the police or not is in the hands of the s In order to prevent the quite incredible growth in shiplifting offences, some stores, in fact, are doing their best to separate the thieves from the con