【正文】 choose the right answer to each question you have heard and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following conversation. 1. (A) A trainee nurse. (B) A resident doctor. (C) A researcher of AIDS. (D) An advisor to nurses. 2. (A) They don’t care what she does at her job. (B) They have bad feelings about her job. (C) They think it is a good job. (D) They have no worries about the job. 3. (A) To isolate them pletely. (B) To watch them carefully. (C) To treat them with respect. (D) To provide them with nutritious food. “ 英語客棧 ” 網址： 友情提供：英語客棧 第 2 頁 共 14 頁 4. (A) Sharing bodily fluids with an AIDS patient. (B) Shaking hands with an AIDS patient. (C) Serving meals to an AIDS patient. (D) Staying very close to an AIDS patient. 5. (A) The man is Susan’s advisor. (B) It is not possible to get AIDS from sharing a glass of water. (C) There is a high risk of getting infected with HIV at work. (D) Susan’s patient was angry when she wore protective clothing to bring him lunch. Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following news. 6. (A) The UN SecretaryGeneral had cancelled his trip to Europe. (B) The UN SecretaryGeneral would visit Asia at a later date. (C) The UN SecretaryGeneral would discuss the UN budget with the US. (D) The UN SecretaryGeneral had withheld the debate over the budget. 7. (A) Bulgaria and Ukraine. (B) Japan and South Korea. (C) Britain and Australia (D) Italy and Poland. 8. (A) 18 to 20. (B) 30. (C) 34. (D) Around 90. 9. (A) National elections. (B) Arrest of a . missionary. (C) Hijacking of a civil airplane. (D) Two separate kidnappings. 10. (A) Relocating people from an earthquakeprone province. (B) Constructing more posts to predict about earthquakes. (C) Economizing on electricity nationally. (D) Building a hydropower Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following interview. 11. (A) A talk show. (B) A case investigation. (C) A soap opera. (D) A report on the East End of London. 12. (A) It shocks the audience. (B) It is a realistic situation drama. (C) It is the first programme that tells about the Cockney way of life. (D)It deals with the problems other similar programmes have not done before. 13. (A) The anchorwoman of the programme. (B) The star actress playing a girl in the soap opera. (C) The landlady of a local pub in the East End of London. (D) The producer of the programme. “ 英語客棧 ” 網址： 友情提供：英語客棧 第 3 頁 共 14 頁 14. (A) Michelle’s brother ran away from home. (B) Michelle’s mother had another baby. (C) Michelle married the landlord of a local pub. (D) Michelle got pregnant and no one knew who the father was. 15. (A) Because Michelle decided to have the baby. (B) Because Michelle married a local lad she had known for a few years. (C) Because Michelle revealed who was the father of her newborn child. (D) Because Michelle got the strength to keep the secret for the rest of her life. Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following talk. 16. (A) Depressed and disappointed. (B) Tired and sick. (C) Sad and lonely. (D) Confused and frustrated. 17. (A) Because they think people are usually very interested in sports. (B) Because they are not interested in how jet lag affects businesspeople. (C) Because baseball teams want to know how to win more games. (D) Because it is difficult to measure how jet lag affects other types of travelers. 18. (A) All over the United States. (B) The Eastern and Pacific time zones. (C) The Pacific time zone only. (D) The southern part of the country. 19. (A) Tiredness. (B) Difficulty in thinking clearly. (C) Stomachaches. (D) Headaches. 20. (A) Teams are more likely to win when they play a game at home. (B) Beaseball teams from the West Coast win more games when they travel east. (C) The symptoms of jet lag are stronger when a person travels west. (D)This study definitely proves that jet lag causes poor performance in baseball games. SECTION 2: READING TEST (30 minutes) Directions: In this section you will read several passages. Each one is followed by several questions about it. You are to choose ONE best answer, (A), (B), (C) or (D), to each question. Answer all the questions following each passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Questions 15 Pupils at GCSE are to be allowed to abandon learning traditional hard science, including the meaning of the periodic table, in favour ofsoft science such as the benefits of geic engineering and healthy eating. The statutory requirement for pupils to learn a science subject will be watered down under a new curriculum introduced next year. There will be no pulsion to master the periodic tablethe basis of chemistrynor basic scientific laws that have informed the work of all the great scientists such as Newton and Einstein. The changes, which the government believes will make science more relevant to the 21s~ century, have been attacked by scientists as a dumbing down of the subject. In “ 英語客棧 ” 網址： 友情提供：英語客棧 第 4 頁 共 14 頁 June the government had to announce financial incentives to tackle a shortage of science teachers. Academics have estimated that a fifth of science lessons are taught by teachers who are not adequately qualified. Most children now study for the doubleaward science GCSE, which embraces elements of biology, chemistry and physics. This GCSE will be scrapped and ministers have agreed that from next year all 14yearolds wilt be