【正文】 losophers who possess only highly specialized skills SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 45 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. of the following regions in the world will witness the sharpest drop in life expectancy? America. . Caribbean. to the news, which country will experience small life expectancy drop? . . . . countries that are predicted to experience negative population growth are mainly in ____ . . Caribbean. Questions 14 and 15 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 30 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. trade dispute between the European Union and the US was caused by ____. refusal to accept arbitration by WTO imposing tariffs on European steel refusal to pay pensation to EU refusal to lower import duties on EU products will be consulted first before the EU list is submitted to WTO? member states. United States. . steel corporations. SECTION D NOTETAKING AND GAPFILLING In this section you will hear a minilistening to the lecture, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, n ANSWER SHEET ONE after the mini Conversation Skills People who usually make us feel fortable in conversations are good talkers. And they have something in mon, . skills to put people at ease. 1. Skill to ask question 1) be aware of the human nature: readiness to answer other’s questions regardless of (1)____ (1)____ 2) start a conversation with some personal but unharmfull questions about one’s (2)____ job (2)____ questions about one’s activities in the (3)____ (3)____ 3) be able to spot signals for further talk 2. Skill to (4)____for answers (4)____ 1) don’t shift from subject to subject — sticking to the same subject: signs of (5)____in (5)____ conversation 2) listen to (6)____of voice (6)____ — If people sound unenthusiastic, then change subject. 3) use eyes and ears — steady your gaze while listening 3. Skill to laugh Effects of laughter: — ease people’s (7)____ (7)____ — help start (8)____ (8)____ 4. Skill to part 1) importance: open up possibilities for future friendship or contact 2) ways: — men: a smile, a (9)____ (9)____ — women: same as (10)____now (10)____ — how to express pleasure in meeting someone. Part Ⅱ Proofreading and Error Correction (15 min) The passage 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 blank provided at the end of the line. For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “∧ ” sign and write the 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. Example When ∧ art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) an it never buys things in finished form and hangs (2) never them on the wall. When a natural history museum wants an [ZZ(Z]exhibition[ZZ)], it must often build it. (3)exhibit Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as instructed. One of the most important nonlegislative functions of the Congress is the power to investigate. This power is usually delegated to mittees either standing mittees, special mittees set for a specific (1)____ purpose, or joint mittees consisted of members of both houses. (2)____ Investigations are held to gather information on the need for future legislation, to test the effectiveness of laws already passed, to inquire into the qualifications and performance of members and officials of the other branches, and in rare occasions, to lay the (3)____ groundwork for impeachment proceedings. Frequently, mittees rely outside experts to assist in conducting investigative hearings (4)____ and to make out detailed studies of issues. (5)____ There are important corollaries to the investigative power. One is the power to publicize investigations and its results. Most (6)____ mittee hearings are open to public and are reported (7)____ widely in the mass media. Congressional investigations nevertheless represent one important tool available to lawmakers (8)____ to inform the citizenry and to arouse public interests in national issues. (9)____ Congressional mittees also have the power to pel testimony from unwilling witnesses, and to cite for contempt of Congress witnesses who refuse to testify and for perjury these who give false testimony. (10)____ Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (30 min) In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of fifteen multiplequestions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet. TEXT A Farmers in the developing world hate price fluctuations. It makes it hard to plan ahead. But most of them have little choice: they sell at the price the market sets. Farmers in Europe, the . and Japan are luckier: they receive massive government subsidies in the form of guaranteed prices or direct handouts. Last month . President Bush signed a new farm bill that gives American farmers $190 billion over the next 10 years, or $83 billion more than they had been scheduled to get, and pushes . agricultural support close to crazy European levels. Bush said the step was necessary to “promote farmer independence and preserve the farm way of life for generations”. It is also designed to help the Republican Party win control of the Senate in November’s mid Agricultural production in most poor countries accounts for up to 50% of GDP, pared to only 3% in rich countries. But most farmer