【正文】 s staying inBeverly Hills while he tried to persuade locals to emigrate to Toowoomba, Queensland, to workfor his engineering pany there. Toowoomba today。 Young foundthat although corporate America foresees a significant workforce shortage as boomers retire, itis not dealing with the issue. Almost threequarters of the 1,400 global panies questionedby Deloitte last year said they expected a shortage of salaried staff over the next three to fiveyears. Yet few of them are looking to older workers to fill that shortage。.(3) It is over the care of young children that this reallocation of duties bees reallysignificant. For this, unlike the cooking of fish fingers or the making of beds, is an inescapably timeconsuming occupation, and time is what the fully employed wife has no more to spare of than her husband.(4) The male initiative in courtship is a pretty indiscriminate affair, something that is tried on with any remotely plausible woman who es within range and, of course, with all degrees oftentativeness. What decides the issue of whether a genuine courtship is going to get under way is the woman39。s 29,029foothigh crest like a bright, weling banner.His breathing calmed, he slowly, stiffly struggled forward and up the rough stone steps tothe monastery entrance. There he was greeted with a respectful nameste I recognize the divinein you from a tall, slim monk of about 35 years, who hastily set aside a twig broom he hadbeen using to sweep the flagstones of the inner courtyard. While he did so, the visitor noticedthat the monk was missing the small finger on his left hand. The stranger spoke a few formalwords in Tibetan, and then the two disappeared inside.Early the next morning the emissary lightened of his load appeared at the monasteryentrance, acpanied by the same monk and the elderly abbot. After a bow of his head, whichwas returned much more deeply by the two ocherrobed residents, he took his leave. The twosolemn monks watched, motionless, until he dipped over the ridge on which the monastery sat,and out of sight.Then, without a word, they turned and went back inside the monastery.26. Which of the following words in Paragraph One implies difficulty in walking?A. threaded.B. dropping.C. trudged.D. daunting.27. In the passage the contrast between the Tibetans and the man is indicated in all the followingaspects EXCEPTA. clothing.B. height.C. social status.D. personal belongings.28. It can be inferred from the passage that one can get ______ of the region from themonastery.A. a narrow viewB. a hazy viewC. a distant viewD. a panoramic view29. Which of the following details shows that the man became relaxed after he reached themonastery?A. ...he reached the crest of the spur and shuffled to a stop...B. ...he removed his hand from the bundle...C. His narrowed eyes took in the open sweep of the quiet grounds...D. ...he slowly, stiffly struggled forward and up the rough stone steps...30. From how it is described in the passage the monastery seems to evokeA. a sense of awe.B. a sense of piety.C. a sense of fear.D. a sense of mystery.PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)There are ten multiplechoice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each question.Mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet.31. The Head of State of New Zealand isA. the governorgeneral.B. the Prime Minister.C. the high missioner.D. the monarch of the United Kingdom.32. The capital of Scotland isA. Glasgow.B. Edinburgh.C. Manchester.D. London.33. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and later became the . President?A. Thomas Jefferson.B. George Washington.C. Thomas Paine.D. John Adams.34. Which of the following cities is located on the eastern coast of Australia?A. Perth.B. Adelaide.C. Sydney.D. Melbourne.35. Ode to the West Windwas written byA. William Blake.B. William Wordsworth.C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.D. Percy B. Shelley.36. Who among the following is a poet of free verse?A. Ralph Waldo Emerson.B. Walt Whitman.C. Herman MelvilleD. Theodore Dreiser.37. The novel Sons and Lovers was written byA. Thomas Hardy.B. John Galsworthy.C. . Lawrence.D. James Joyce.38. The study of the mental processes of language prehension and production isA. corpus linguistics.B. sociolinguistics.C. theoretical linguistics.D. psycholinguistics.39. A special language variety that mixes languages and is used by speakers of different languages for purposes of trading is calledA. dialect.B. idiolect.C. pidgin.D. register.40. When a speaker expresses his intention of speaking, such as asking someone to open thewindow, he is performingA. an illocutionary act.B. a perlocutionary act.C. a locutionary act.D. none of the above.PART IV PROOFREADING amp。 and Everest to the rest of us. And over the great barrier of Nuptse She demurely peaks.It was late in the afternoon when the great shadows cast by the colossal mountains weredescending into the deep valley floors before he reached the crest of the spur and shuffled to a stop just past Tengboche39。s.(2) A problem that affects a much larger number of working wives is the need to reallocatedomestic tasks if there are children. In The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell wrote of theunemployed of the Lancashire coalfields: Practically never ... in a workingclass home, will yousee the man doing a stroke of the housework. Unemployment has not changed this convention,which on the face of it seems a little unfair. The man is idle from morning to night but the woman is as busy as ever more so, indeed, because she has to manage with less money. Yet so far as myexperience goes the women do not protest. They feel that a man would lose his manhood if, merely because he was out of work, he developed in a 39。s most advancedmanuf