【正文】 new treatments for mental illness. 57. The author’s attitude toward people who are patients in state institutions can best be described as ［ A］ inflexible and insensitive.［ B］ detached and neutral. ［ C］ understanding and sympathetic.［ D］ enthusiastic and supportive. 58. It can be inferred from the passage that, had the Civil Rights movement not prompted an investigation of prison conditions ［ A］ states would never have established asylums for the mentally ill. ［ B］ new treatments for major mental illness would have likely remained untested. ［ C］ the Civil Rights movement in America would have been politically ineffective. ［ D］ conditions in mental hospitals might have escaped judicial scrutiny. 59. The tone of the final paragraph can best be described as ［ A］ overly emotional.［ B］ cleverly deceptive. ［ C］ cautiously optimistic.［ D］ fiercely independent. 60. According to the passage, mental hospital conditions were radically changed because of ［ A］ asgroupsof young angry men in the 1900s. ［ B］ active young lawyers in the 1960s. ［ C］ innocent insane patients’protest. ［ D］ powerful court interventions. Vocabulary eacon 鎮(zhèn)定劑 可怕的 監(jiān)督 詳細(xì)審查 Part B Directions: Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segmentssintosChinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points) 61) The last hours of were laced with irony worthy of a movie by Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard—website. Last Friday, Pop’s 85 employees, just two weeks before the planned launch, were chugging beers to drown their sorrows and being eyed by security guards to make sure that they didn’t steal the puters as they left the premises for the last time. What’s going wrong? Part of the problem is that the audience just isn’t there yet. Even brief online movies require hefty broadband connections such as a cable modem. wait half an hour for a jerky postage stam So until broadband goes mainstream, online entertainment works havethe near impossible task of building a brand in a near vacuum while burning as little cash as possible.“It’s like survivor,”says ief executive of independent filmmaker site .“It’s tough being able to hang in there for the long haul.” But Pop failed as if it didn’t have the will to live: the site issued only three press releases in its brief life and delayed the launch so often that it became an industry of the million purse promised them by Microsoft illion—barely a long liquid lunch by Silicon Valley standards. Pressure from within also helped bring down Pop—a catalog of cluelessness that head for Disney, was put in charge of the site by Katzenberg. Other executives were plucked from the world of multimillion dollar budgets and told to produce shorts for ,000. Personal favors were rife: 64) one staff member says Steven Martin got a budget ,000 for projects, including Gwyh andMe, a edy short about his attempts to have a baby with Gwyh, because the giants didn’t want to endanger their relations with him. Kennly aware of the critical roasting they would get, the fathers of Pop decidedto bail out before drowning in red ink. Says Katzengerb,“Everyone in this space is blindfolded iFilm and Atom Films negotiated to buy Pop, but no deal materialized. 65) And so Pop was laid to rest, its tombstone a warning to all those in Hollywood who would jump on the Inter without first understanding it. If Spielberg and Howard own the story rights to Pop’s internal wranglings, however, they might yet have a winner. Section IV Writing 66. Directions: Now our government has made it a policy to develop the West. To this policy there appear different responses. Write an essay on the topic and consider the advantages and disadvantages of going to the West. Your essay should be written in about 200 words. You should write neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points) 參考答案與解析 Section I Listening Comprehension Part A 1. 1636 2. religion 3. growing 4. gifts 5. 18th Part B 6. small living creatures 7. destroy the microbes 8. healthy microbes 9. dog disease (dog’s disease) 10. weak rabies microbes Part C 11. D 12. D 13. B 14. C 15. A 16. B17. D 18. B 19. C 20. A 【錄音文稿】 Part A W: The first American university was Harvard, founded in 1636. It was followed by William and Mary (1693), Yale (1701), Princeton (1746), Washington and Lee (1749) and five others before independence. The New England colleges。 and when an employer promotes a less senior worker from a minority group, the person disadvantaged by the move is easily identified: the worker with Now we are confronted with two peting moral sentiments. On the one hand, there is the idea that those who have been unfairly disadvantaged by past discriminatory practices are entitled to some kind of assistance. On the other, there is the feeling that no person ought to be deprived of what is rightfully his or hers, even for the worthwhile service of fellow humans. In this respect, disability due to past racial discrimination, at least insofar as there is no connection tothe passedWhen a villainous man willfully and without provocation strikes and injures another, there is not only the feeling that the injured person ought to be pensated but there is consensus thatthe appropriate party to bear the cost is the one who inflicted the injury. Yet, if the same innocent man stumbled and injured himself, it would be surprising to hear someone argue that the villainous man ought to be taxed for the injury simply because he might have tripped the victim had he been given the opportunity. There may very well be agreement that he should be aided in his recovery with money and personal assistance, and many wil