【正文】 lose your job, the steps you take to get a new one。 its future in Europe will be as a broker, banker, and distributor of goods. You send your goods by container ship to Copenhagen, and these bright, young, Englishspeaking, utterly honest, highly disciplined people will get your goods around to Scandinavia, the Baltic States, and Russia. Airports, seaport, highways, and rail lines are ultramodern and wellmaintained. The orderliness of the society doesn39。s not a car in sight. However, Danes don39。s heart lifts at any sighting of Danish sleaze: skinhead graffiti on buildings (Foreigners Out of Denmark!), broken beer bottles in the gutters, drunken teenagers slumped in the park. Noheless, it is an orderly land. You drive through a Danish town, it es to an end at a stone wall, and on the other side is a field of barley, a nice clean line: town here, country there. It is not a nation of jaywalkers. People stand on the curb and wait for the red light to change, even if it39。s a nation of tireless planners. Trains run on time. Things operate well in general. Such a nation of overachievers a brochure from the Ministry of Business and Industry says, Denmark is one of the world39。s inequalities, and there is plenty of money for schools, day care, retraining programs, job seminars Danes love seminar: three days at a study center hearing about waste management is almost as good as a ski trip. It is a culture bombarded by English, in advertising, pop music, the Inter, and despite all the English that Danish absorbs there is no Danish Academy to defend against it old dialects persist in Jutland that can barely be understood by Copenhageners. It is the land where, as the saying goes, Few have too much and fewer have too little, and a foreigner is struck by the sweet egalitarianism that prevails, where the lowliest clerk gives you a level gaze, where Sir and Madame have disappeared from mon usage, even Mr. and Mrs. It39。 hips (35) are in and buttons are out. PART III READING COMPREHENSION (40 MIN.) SECTION A: READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN.) Directions: In this section there are four reading passages followed by fifteen multiplechoice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your Answer Sheet. TEXT A Despite Denmark39。 their shirts look either too long nor too short。 ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN.) Directions: The following passage contains ten errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error. In each case only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way: For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line. For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a ^ sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line. For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash / and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line. EXAMPLE When ^ art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) an it (never/) buys things in finished form and hangs (2) never them on the wall. When a natural history museum wants an exhibition, it must often build it. (3)exhibit Whenever you see the old film, even on made as early (26) as ten years before, you can39。t do well in the second half of the season last year. 正確答案是 9. Why are the Gunners likely to finish top of the league? A. Because they have got good players. B. Because the bination of the forwards is good. C. Because they have got an excellent coach. D. Because they have beaten Leeds at home. 正確答案是 10. What do we learn from the interview? A. The performance of the Gunners so far is satisfactory. B. The mentator likes joking. C. The Gunners are at the top of the league. D. The Gunners will play Leeds at home after Christmas. 正確答案是 SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Questions 11 and 12 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. 11. What does President Reagan hope to sign when he visits Moscow next year? A. An agreement on the elimination of strategic nuclear weapons. B. An agreement on the reduction of strategic nuclear weapons. C. An agreement on the verification of arms reduction. D. An agreement banning the Star Wars program. 正確答案是 12. For the United States a major concern is ____. A. whether the Soviet union will accept the SDI B. whether a second arms control treaty can be signed next year C. whether the two sides can settle the difficulties lying ahead D. the verification of arms reduction 正確答案是 Questions 13 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item you will be given 30 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news. 13. Which of the following is Not true concerning the earthquake? A. At least 2,400 people were killed. B. Fifty villages were destroyed. C. The scale of the quake was magnitude. D. Exact casualties have not been reported. 正確答案是 Questions 14 and 15 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item you will be given 30 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. 14. What was the ruling decided by the Supreme Court? A. Doctorassisted suicides are allowed. B. The state governments have the right to outlaw suicides. C. Doctorassisted suicides are unconstitutional. D. The existing bans on doctorassisted suicides is unconstitutional. 正確答案是 15. The two precedentsetting ruling by . appeals courts in California and New York held that ____. A. it is unconstitutional for the state to ban doctorassisted suicides B. it is unconstitutional for the state to allow the doctorassisted suicides C. the doctorassisted suicide is a crime D. st