【正文】 6 what happened on Monday?A. A train crash occurred causing minor injuries.B. Investigator found out the cause of the accident.C Crews rescued more passengers from the site.D A muter train crashed into a building.Question 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 questions.7. Which of the following was not on the agenda of the G20 meeting?A. Iraq debtsB. WTO talksC. Financial disastersD. Possible sanctions8. The G20 is a (n) ________ organization.A. InternationalB EuropeanC Regional D AsianQuestion 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 questions UN Charter went into effect afterA It was signed by the 50 original member countries.B It was approved by the founders and other member countries.C It was approved by the founding membersD It was signed by the founding members.10. Which of the following best describe the role of the charter?A. the Charter only describes powers of the UN bodies.B the Charter mainly aims to promote world economy.C The charter is a treaty above all other treaties.D The charter authorizes reforms in UN bodies. 轉(zhuǎn)貼Part2 Reading Comprehension (30min) 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.Text AThe Welsh language has always been the ultimate marker of Welsh identity, but a generation ago it looked as if Welsh would go the way of Manx. Once widely spoken on the Isle of Man but now extinct. Governments financing and central planning, however, have helped reverse the decline of Welsh. Road signs and official public documents are written in both Welsh and English, and schoolchildren are required to learn both languages. Welsh is now one of the most successful of Europe’s regional languages, spoken by more than a halfmillion of the country’s three million people. The revival of the language, particularly among young people, is part of a resurgence of national identity sweeping through this small, proud nation. Last month Wales marked the second anniversary of the opening of the National Assembly, the first parliament to be convened here since 1404. The idea behind devolution was to restore the balance within the union of nations making up the United Kingdom. With most of the people and wealth, England has always had bragging rights. The partial transfer of legislative powers from Westminster, implemented by Tony Blair, was designed to give the other members of the club Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Walesa bigger say and to counter centrifugal forces that seemed to threaten the very idea of the union.The Welsh showed little enthusiasm for devolution. Whereas the Scots voted overwhelmingly for a parliament, the vote for a Welsh assembly scraped through by less than one percent on a turnout of less than 25 percent. Its powers were proportionately limited. The Assembly can decide how money from Westminster or the European Union is spent. It cannot, unlike its counterpart in Edinburgh, enact laws. But now that it is here, the Welsh are growing to like their Assembly. Many people would like it to have more powers. Its importance as figurehead will grow with the opening in 2003, of a new debating chamber, one of many new buildings that are transforming Cardiff from a decaying seaport into a Baltimorestyle waterfront city. Meanwhile a grant of nearly two million dollars from the European Union will tackle poverty. Wales is one of the poorest regions in Western Europe only Spain, Portugal, and Greece have a lower standard of living. Newspapers and magazines are filled with stories about great Welsh men and women, boosting selfesteem. To familiar faces such as Dylan Thomas and Richard Burton have been added new icons such as Catherine ZetaJones, the movie star, and Bryn Terfel, the opera singer. Indigenous foods like salt marsh lamb are in vogue. And Wales now boasts a national airline. Awyr Cymru. Cymru, which means “l(fā)and of patriots,” is the Welsh name for Wales. The red dragon, the nation’s symbol since the time of King Arthur, is everywhere on Tshirts, rugby jerseys and even cell phone covers.“Until very recent times most Welsh people had this feeling of being secondclass citizens,” said Dyfan Jones, an 18yearold student. It was a warm summer night, and I was sitting on the grass with a group of young people in Llanelli, an industrial town in the south, outside the rock music venue of the National Eisteddfod, Wales’s annual cultural festival. The disused factory in front of us echoed to the sounds of new Welsh bands.“There was almost a genetic tendency for lack of confidence,” Dyfan continued. Equally fortable in his Welshness as in his membership in the Englishspeaking, global youth cultur