【正文】 take place? 17. W. It’ s good to see the sun out again. M: A big improvement on what we’ ve been having lately. W: It’ s supposed to be cloudy this evening. Q: What would the weather be like this evening? 18. W: Where’ s the novel that I left on the desk this morning? I have to return it to Mary. M: I gave it to your sister. I’ ll get it back for you. Q: Whose novel does the sister have? 19. M: Do you rent rooms by the week? You see, I’ m not sure whether we will stay for a whole month. W: Well, it’ s 30 dollars a week, plus 10 dollars for electricity, but only 130 dollars a month inclusive. Q: How much will the room cost for one month including electricity? 20. M: Now Miss, do you feel all right now? What happened? W: Yes, I’ m fine now. I just left the motorway. I was driving along the main road when suddenly, right before the crossroad, another car came out the side street. I didn’ t see him and he hit me. Q: Where was the other car? SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST News Item One (2123) Two European leading automakers, the French Company Renault and Swedish Volvo, have agreed to merge a deal expected to be announced later today, which will create the world’ s sixth largest auto producer. Observers said the move will create a European auto giant capable of peting with Japanese imports at a time when new car sales in Europe are declining. 21. What has been agreed upon between the two auto panies? 22. When is the deal going to be announced? 23. Why are the two panies taking such an action? News Item Two (2426) National lawmakers in Ukraine have demanded the President Neonid Chaschoke leave office because of the agreement he reached Friday with Russia. Under the agreement, Ukraine’ s nuclear warheads would be transferred to Russia for dismantling and its share of the Black Sea Fleet would e under Russian control. National lawmakers said that the deal is a betrayal of Ukraine’ s interest. The issue would be put to Parliament which was rectified in accord. 24. What have the Ukraine’ s National lawmakers demanded? 25. What would happen to Ukraine’ s nuclear warheads under the agreement? 26. Who has the final word on the agreement? News Item Three (2728) The United States was expected to press leaders of the new alliance today to establish defenses against the new postcoldwar threat. The US fears that some states could acquire nuclear or chemical weapons and missiles to carry them. Mill has pledged to consider the issue at the summit of alliance leaders on January 10 and 11. . defense secretary Las Aspin was expected to tell the defense minister yesterday that the alliance had good reasons to bat this new postcoldwar threat. The U. S. wants their help and cash to build defense system against ballistic missiles that could hit alliance countries, particularly in Southern Europe. The collapse of the Soviet Union, which has the world’ s biggest arsenal weapons of mass destruction, has raised fear that technology for nuclear and chemical arms could now be available on the black market. In an age of shrinking budgets, however, allied leaders are reluctant to spend hundreds and millions of dollars on a new antinuclear system when they cannot be assured that there is an immediate threat. 27. What does the U. S. think is the new postcoldwar threat? 28. Which statement can best express the main idea of this news item? News Item Four (2930) The World Bank has approved a loan of $ 215 million to help restructure China’ s telemunications system. The project which needs a total finance of $ 623 million will support Beijing’ s reform effort in telemunications and help increase its longdistance and local telephone capacity. Peter Wright, the Bank ’ s Telemunications Project engineer, said China has shown dramatic unprecedented growth in telemunications which, if it continues, will make the sector a case of steady growth by the year 2020. The number of longdistance calls in China grew by 42. 2% from 1989 to 1992, but there are still some million people in China who have applied for a phone but have yet to receive it. The Chinese government has embarked on a program to expand and improve telemunications with planned investment of about $ 25 billion between now and 1997. 29. In addition to the World Bank’ s loan, how much more money does the project require? 30. What particular problem is the telemunications industry currently facing? PART I WRITING SECTION A TV: a good thing or a bad thing? Nowadays, TV has bee part of our life. However, more and more people begin to wonder about its advantages and disadvantages. Some believe it is a blessing, others hold that it is a curse to the society. TV, as a mass media, can bring to people new information on economics, culture, arts, and many other fields. People can enjoy their favorite programmes at home. In some countries, some TV stations provide such programmes as looking for dangerous criminals and lost children, helping to find an ideal lover, and others which are quite beneficial to society. Some TV stations provide various useful seminars for people of various ages and social status. But on the other hand, TV may exert bad influence on people. Some programmes are full of violence. As a result, people, especially juveniles, are led to mit crimes. An increasing number of people are so indulged in TV programmes that some even neglect their duties. In my opinion, the attitude toward TV all depends on oneself. People should choose those programmes which are useful, and can bring to them the sense of beauty. SECTION B Dear professor Lin, I write to apologize for my not having given you my work on time. As you know, I usually hand in my report on schedule. But I have been ill since you assigne