【正文】 will be consumed. D. more airplanes will be purchased. 2. Which of the following is NOT mentioned by Mary as a potential disadvantage? A. More people in the area. B. Noise and motorways. C. Waste of land. D. Unnecessary travel. 3. Freddy has cited the following advantages for a new airport EXCEPT A. more job opportunities. B. vitality to the local economy. C. road construction, D. presence of aircrew in the area. 4. Mary thinks that people dont need to do much travel nowadays as a result of A. less emphasis on personal contact. B. advances in modern telemunications. C. recent changes in peoples concepts. D. more potential damage to the area 5. We learn from the conversation that Freddy is Marys ideas, A. strongly in favour of B. mildly in favour of C. strongly against D. mildly against SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST 壹壹英語收集與整理 In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet. Question 6 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news. 6. What is the main idea of the news item? A. A new government was formed after Sundays elections. B. The new government intends to change the welfare system. C. The Social Democratic Party founded the welfare system. D. The Social Democratic Party was responsible for high unemployment. Questions 7 and 8 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the listen to the news. 7. The tapes of the Apollo11 mission were first stored in A. a . government archives warehouse. B. a NASA ground tracking station. C. the Goddard Space Flight Centre. D. none of the above places. 8. What does the news item say about Richard Nafzger? A. He is assigned the task to look for the tapes. B. He believes that the tapes are probably lost. C. He works in a NASA ground receiving site. D. He had asked for the tapes in the 1970s. Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the listen to the news. 9. The example in the news item is cited mainly to show A. that doctors are sometimes professionally inpetent B. that in cases like that hospitals have to pay huge pensations. C. that language barriers might lower the quality of treatment. D. that language barriers can result in fatal consequences. 10. According to Dr. Flores, hospitals and clinics A. have seen the need for hiring trained interpreters. B. have realized the problems of language barriers. C. have begun training their staff to be bilinguals. D. have taken steps to provide accurate diagnosis. PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN) In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiplechoice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet。 the big challenge was beating he standardized tests as highschool seniors. Now students are peting against one another over a threeyear period, and every midterm and final test is crucial. Fretful parents are relying even more heavily on tutors and cram schools to help their children succeed. Parents and kids have sent thousands of angry online letters to the Education Ministry plaining that the new admissions standard is setting students against each other. One can succeed only when others fail,” as one parent said. Education experts say that South Koreas public secondaryschool system is foundering, while private education is thriving. According to critics, the countrys high schools are almost uniformly mediocre—the result of an egalitarian government education policy. With the number of elite schools strictly controlled by the government, even the brightest students typically have to settle for ordinary schools in their neighbourhoods, where the curriculum is centred on average students. To make up for the mediocrity, zealous parents send their kids to the expensive cram schools. Students in affluent southern Seoul neighbourhoods plain that the new system will hurt them the most. Nearly all Korean high schools will be weighted equally in the collegeentrance process, and relatively weak students in provincial schools, who may not score well on standardized tests, often pile good gradepoint averages. Some universities, particularly prestigious ones, openly plain that they cannot select the best students under the new system because it eliminates differences among