【正文】 the problem. D) They will draft a service contract for the maintenance of the new system. Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 23. A) How to apply for a job. B) How to have a good phone manner. C) How to be a good Personal Assistant. D) How to make advertisements. 24. A) Working in an advertising pany. B) Working in a puter pany. C) Working as a typist. D) Working as a secretary anywhere. 25. A) She should be good at receiving visitors. B) She should have a good phone manner. C) She should have good looks. D) She should have a good filing system. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center. Passage One Question 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard. 26. A) To provide Social Security benefits such as sickness benefit. B) To pay for a standard charge for prescriptions for medicine. C) To provide free medical treatment for all patients who wish to participate in it. D) To pay for the stamps on an insurance card. 27. A) The cost of retirement pensions, unemployment benefit and maternity benefit has to be borne ty the employers. B) people have to pay for treatment and food in hospital. C) People have to pay for normal charges for dental treatment and glasses. D) people have to pay for the stamps on the insurance card. 28. A) He must go to see his doctor. B) He must register with a General Practitioner. C) He must have a letter from his . to take to a hospital. D) His doctor can’t treat him and he needs more expert help. Passage Two Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard. 29. A) The advantages of electric cars. B) The strengths and weaknesses of electric cars. C) How electric cars function. D) How electric cars can help the transportation. 30. A) The metal corrosion that contaminates the air. B) The leakage of chemicals into the ground. C) Untreated batteries, which can cause acid burns. D) The rust and the old cars take up space in the landfills. 31. A) They are too expensive. B) They are unavailable to buy. C) People like gas cars and won’t change. D) It isn’t explained yet. Passage Three Question 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. 32. A) The war was rapidly reflected in American literature. B) The war was hardly reflected in American literature. C) Hemingway was the only author to write about the war. D) American literature was slow to reflect the war. 33. A) During the 1930s. B) In 1929. C) Not until the late 1930s. D) In the early 1920s. 34. A) War. B) Courage. C) Depression. D) Sun. 35. A) He was not affected at all. B) He was greatly affected and wrote some firstclass works dealing with it. C) It had little and indirect influence on Hemingway’s writing. D) He didn’t publish stories during the Great Depression. Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or wirte down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. We have been discussing how a puter works. Now let us turn to another (36) : What are the uses of a puter? Many laymen have an (37) picture of what puters are capable of Sometimes puters are called electronic brains and this is (38) because no puter so far built can (39) with the human brain in all respects. Let us take a look at the (40) of puters in merce and industry. Firstly, clerical work. Computers are very good for (41) repetitive clerical work efficiently. We can take two examples of this. The first is the (42) use of puters in handling payrolls, that is, paying employees. With details about each employee in it, the puter can make necessary (43) and print out a pay slip. (44) .Secondly, the use of puters in information systems.(45) . The main puter store for British Airways Boadicea system has a constant record of the details of every flight. Thirdly, the puter as an aid to design planning. The example has to do with predicting the cost of a design if one were planning to build a road. (46) .This information can be fed into a puter and the puter can be programmed to work out the cheapest route between two points.Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) (25 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage. A department store’s inputs include the land upon which the building is located, the labor of the employees, (47) ______ in the form of building, equipment and merchandise, and the management skills of the store managers. On a farm, the operation system is the transformation that occurs when a farmer’s (48) ______ (land, equipment, labor, etc.) are converted into such outputs as corn, wheat or milk. The exact form of the conver