【正文】 m one place to another when a nation gets too strict about infringements to fair petition? And should one country take upon itself the role of “ defending petition” on issues that affect many other nations, as in the U S. vs. Microsoft case ? 33. What is the typical trend of businesses today? [A] to take in more foreign funds. [B] to invest more abroad. [C] to bine and bee bigger. [D] to trade with more countries. 34. According to the author, one of the driving forces behind Mamp。s wealth increases. Examples of benefits or costs of the current concentration wave are scanty. Yet it is hard to imagine that the merger of a few oil firms today could recreate the same threats to petition that were feared nearly a century ago in the ., when the Standard Oil trust was broken up. The mergers of tele panies, such as WorldCom, hardly seem to bring higher prices for consumers or a reduction in the 上海航宇裝飾： pace of technical progress. On the contrary, the price of munications is ing down fast. In cars, too, concentration is increasingwitness Daimler and Chrysler, Renault and Nissanbut it does not appear that consumers are being hurt. Yet the fact remains that the merger movement must be watched. A few weeks ago, Alan Greenspan warned against the megamergers in the banking industry. Who is going to supervise, regulate and operate as lender of last resort with the gigantic banks that are being created? Won39。結(jié)論為付款給證人的做法成為一個頗有爭議的問題。 fasten表“ 扣緊，扎牢”的含義時多接具體名詞，如： fasten our seat belts（系緊安全帶），不適用于抽象名詞 control。從結(jié)構(gòu)上看，空格處填入的名詞，既是 control的賓語，又是 that 引導(dǎo)的定語從句修飾的先行詞，即符合 give sth. to a case 的搭配。而 side with后一般連接“某人”，如： He sided with the conservatives in Congress.（他在國會中支持保守派）。 illegal 強(qiáng)調(diào)不符合法律規(guī)定，符合題意。韋斯特案）的證人以圖收買他們的舉動。第二至六段介紹了以大法官埃爾溫勛爵為代表的法院在這個問題上的態(tài)度。t the wave of business concentration turn into an uncontrollable antipetitive force? There39。 there are newsletter39。首先排除 as to 和 in particular。 draft bill 是法律中的一個固定搭配，意為“草案，（提交議會討論的）法案” ；其他三個選項雖然不與 bill 搭配，但都可以表示類似于“初步的，不完整的，簡略的”的含義， sketch的搭配有 sketch map（略圖、示意圖），sketch plan（草擬計劃）； rough的搭配有 a rough drawing（草圖）； preliminary 強(qiáng)調(diào)“初步的”，如： a preliminary examination（初試）。 本題需要考生判斷空格處應(yīng)填入什么連詞來連接這兩個動作：“嚴(yán)格限制案件的公開程度”和“審判開始”。因此要嚴(yán)格控制的應(yīng)該是案件在審理開始“之前”（ before）就過分公開。 空格所在部分是 that 引導(dǎo)的定語從句 that will propose making payments to witnesses 4 ，修飾先行詞 bill，說明是怎樣一種法案。如： Here in Chicago, for instance, the movement was growing by leaps and bounds.（比如在芝加哥，運動正在迅猛發(fā)展）。 there are even support groups for those who want to achieve the mid 39。 but, in the twentieth century, local studies have increasingly bee acceptable to professionals only if they incorporate, and reflect on, the wider geological picture. Amateurs, on the other hand, have continued to pursue local studies in the old way. The overall result has been to make entrance to professional 上海航宇裝飾： geological journals harder for amateurs, a result that has been reinforced by the widespread introduction of refereeing, first by national journals in the nieenth century and then by several local geological journals in the twentieth century. As a logical consequence of this development, separate journals have now appeared aimed mainly towards either professional or amateur readership. A rather similar process of differentiation has led to professional geologists ing together nationally within one or two specific societies, whereas the amateurs have tended either to remain in local societies or to e together nationally in a different way. Although the process of professionalisation and specialisation was already well under way in British geology during the nieenth century, its full consequences were thus delayed until the twentieth century. In science generally, however, the nieenth century must be reckoned as the crucial period for this change in the structure of science. 21. The growth of specialisation in the 19th century might be more clearly seen in sciences such as _______. [AJ sociology and chemistry [B] physics and psychology [C] sociology and psychology [D] physics and chemistry 22. We can infer from the passage that _______. [A] there is little distinction between specialisation and professionalisation [B] amateurs can pete with professionals in some areas of science [C] professionals tend to wele amateurs into the scientific munity [D] amateurs have national academic societies but no local ones 23. The author writes of the development of geology to demonstrate ______. [A] the process of specialisation and professionalisation [B] the hardship of amateurs in scientific study [C] the change of policies in scientific publications [D] the discrimination of professionals against amateurs 24. The direct reason for specialisation is _______. [A] the development in munication [B] the growth of professionalisation [C] the expansion of scientific knowledge [D] the splitting up of academic societies Passage 2 A great deal of attention is being paid today to the socalled digital dividethe division of the world into the info (information) rich and the info poor. And that divide does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less visible then, however, were the new, positive forces that work against the digital divide. There are reasons to be optimistic. There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Inter bees more and more mercialized, it is in the interest of business 上海航宇裝飾： to universalize accessafter all, the more people online, the more potential customers there are. More and more governments, afraid their countries will be left behind, want to spread Inter access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the pla will he ted together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will narrow rather tha