【正文】 lift like a conquering soldier. D. the interior of the caf233。 is pared to warm countries.26. The author39。s attitude to the caf233。 is _______.A. fundamentally critical. B. slightly admiring. C. quite undecided. D. pletely neutral.TEXT D Now elsewhere in the world, Iceland may be spoken of, somewhat breathlessly, as Western Europe39。s last pristine wilderness. But the environmental awareness that is sweeping the world had bypassed the majority of Icelanders. Certainly they were connected to their land, the way one is plicatedly connected to, or encumbered by, family one can39。t do anything about. But the truth is, once you39。re off the beaten paths of the lowlying coastal areas where everyone lives, the roads are few, and they39。re all bad, so Iceland39。s natural wonders have been out of reach and unknown even to its own inhabitants. For them the land has always just been there, something that had to be dealt with and, if possible, exploited — the mindset being one of land as modity rather than land as, well, priceless art on the scale of the Mona Lisa. When the opportunity arose in 2003 for the national power pany to enter into a 40year contract with the American aluminum pany Alcoa to supply hydroelectric power for a new smelter (冶煉廠), those who had been dreaming of something like this for decades jumped at it and never looked back. Iceland may at the moment be one of the world39。s richest countries, with a 99 percent literacy rate and long life expectancy. But the project39。s advocates, some of them getting on in years, were more emotionally attuned to the country39。s century upon century of want, hardship, and colonial servitude to Denmark, which officially ended only in 1944 and whose psychological imprint remained relatively fresh. For the longest time, life here had meant little more than a hut, dark all winter, cold, no hope, children dying left and right, earthquakes, plagues, starvation, volcanoes erupting and destroying all vegetation and livestock, all spirit — a world revolving almost entirely around the welfare of one39。s sheep and, later, on how good the cod catch was. In the outlying regions, it still largely does. Ostensibly, the Alcoa project was intended to save one of these dying regions — the remote and sparsely populated east — where the way of life had steadily declined to a point of desperation and gloom. After fishing quotas were imposed in the early 1980s to protect fish stocks, many individual boat owners sold their allotments or gave them away, fishing rights ended up mostly in the hands of a few panies and small fishermen were virtually wiped out. Technological advances drained away even more jobs previously done by human hands, and the people were seeing everything they had worked for all their lives turn up worthless and their children move away. With the old way of life doomed, aluminum projects like this one had e to be perceived, wisely or not, as a last chance. Smelter or death. The contract with Alcoa would infuse the region with foreign capital, an estimated 400 jobs, and spinoff service industries. It also was a way for Iceland to develop expertise that potentially could be sold to the rest of the world。 diversify an economy historically dependent on fish。 and, in an appealing display of Icelandic cando verve, perhaps even protect all of Iceland, once and for all, from the unpredictability of life itself. We have to live, Halldor Asgrimsson said. Halldor, a former prime minister and longtime member of parliament from the region, was a driving force behind the project. We have a right to live.27. According to the passage, most Icelanders view land as something of _______.A. environmental value. B. mercial value. C. potential value for tourism. D. great value for livelihood.28. What is Iceland’s oldaged advocates39。 feeling towards the Alcoa project?A. Iceland is wealthy enough to reject the project. B. The project would lower life expectancy. C. The project would cause environmental problems. D. The project symbolizes an end to the colonial legacies.29. The disappearance of the old way of life was due to all the following EXCEPT _______.A. fewer fishing panies. B. fewer jobs available. C. migration of young people. D. imposition of fishing quotas.30. The 4th paragraph in the passage ________.A. sums up the main points of the passage. B. starts to discuss an entirely new point. C. elaborates on the last part of the 3rd paragraph. D. continues to depict the bleak economic situation.PART Ⅲ GENERAL KNOWLEDGE（10 MIN）There are ten multiplechoice questions in this section. Choose the best answers to each question. Mark your answers on your colored answer sheet.31. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?A. The British constitution includes the Magna Carta of 1215. B. The British constitution includes Parliamentary acts.C. The British constitution includes decisions made by courts of law.D. The British constitution includes one single written constitution.32. The first city ever founded in Canada is _______.A. Quebec B. Vancouver C. Toronto D. Montreal 33. When did the Australian Federation officially e into being?A. 1770. B. 1788. C. 1900. D. 1901.34. The Emancipation Proclamation to end the slavery plantation system in the South of the . was issued by _______.A. Abraham Lincoln B. Thomas Paine C. George Washington D. Thomas Jefferson 35. _______ is best known for the technique of dramatic monologue in his poems.A. William Blake B. . Yeats C. Robert Browning D. William Wordsworth36. The Financier is written by _______.A. Mark Twain B. Henry James C. William Faulkner D. Theodore Dreiser 37. In literature a story in verse or prose with a double meaning is defined as _______.A. allegory B. sonnet C. blank verse D. rhyme 38. _______ refers to the learning and development of a language.A. L