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the view of Net purists, [A] there should be no marketing messages in online culture. [B] money making should be given priority to on the Web. [C] the Web should be able to function as the television set. [D] there should be no online mercial information without requests. 34. We learn from the last paragraph that [A] pushing information on the Web is essential to Inter merce. 2020 年英語大綱樣題 滬江考研 [B] interactivity, hospitality and security are important to online customers. [C] leading panies began to take the online plunge decades ago. [D] setting up shops in silicon is independent of the cost of puting power. 35. The purpose of the author in writing the text is to [A] urge active participation in online business. [B] elaborate on various marketing strategies. [C] pare web business with traditional merce. [D] illustrate the transition from the pull to push strategy. TEXT 4 In the last half of the nieenth century capital and labour were enlarging and perfecting their rival anizations on modern lines. Many an old firm was replaced by a limited liability pany with a bureaucracy of salaried managers. The change met the technical requirements of the new age by engaging a large professional element and prevented the decline in efficiency that so monly spoiled the fortunes of family firms in the second and third generation after the energetic founders. It was moreover a step away from individual initiative, towards collectivism and municipal and stateowned business. The railway panies, though still private business managed for the benefit of shareholders, were very unlike old family business. At the same time the great municipalities went into business to supply lighting, trams and other services to the taxpayers. The growth of the limited liability pany and municipal business had important consequences. Such large, impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders as a class, an element in national life representing irresponsible wealth detached from the land and the duties of the landowners。 puter monitors. Subscribers can customize the information they want to receive and proceed directly to a pany39。re looking for. Noheless, many panies still hesitate to use the Web because of doubts about its reliability. Businesses need to feel they can trust the pathway between them and the supplier, says senior analyst Blane Erwin of Forrester Research. Some panies are limiting the risk by conducting online transactions only with established business partners who are given access to the pany39。s, have little productive slack. America39。s inflation rate would average % in 1995. In fact, it fell to % in August, and is expected to average only about 3% for the year as a whole. In Britain and Japan inflation is running half a percentage point below the rate predicted at the end of last year. This is no flash in the pan。d go, because I39。s world history. The full import may take a while to sink in. The NT Rights of the Terminally Ill law has left physicians and citizens alike trying to deal with its moral and practical implications. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, righttolife groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back. In Australia — where an aging population, lifeextending technology and changing munity attitudes have all played their part — other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia. In the US and Canada, where the righttodie movement is gathering strength, observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling. Under the new Northern Territory law, an adult patient can request death — probably by a 2020 年英語大綱樣題 滬江考研 deadly injection or pill — to put an end to suffering. The patient must be diagnosed as terminally ill by two doctors. After a cooling off period of seven days, the patient can sign a certificate of request. After 48 hours the wish for death can be met. For Lloyd Nickson, a 54yearold Darwin resident suffering from lung cancer, the NT Rights of Terminally Ill law means he can get on with living without the haunting fear of his suffering: a terrifying death from his breathing condition. I39。s online service, Death NET. Says Hofsess: We posted bulletins all day long, because of course this isn39。2020 年英語大綱樣題 滬江考研 附錄 I 樣題 Section Ⅰ Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word ( s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. ( 10 points) The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases 1 the trial of Rosemary West. In a significant 2 of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a 3 bill that will propose making payments to witnesses 4 and will strictly control the amount of 5 that can be given to a case 6 a trial begins. In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons Media Select Committee, Lord Irvine said he 7 with a mittee report this year which said that self regulation did not 8 sufficient control. 9 of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a 10 of media protest when he said the 11 of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges 12 to Parliament. The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which 13 the European Convention on Human Rights legally 14 in Britain, laid down that everybody was 15 to priva