【正文】 D) Literacy. 15. A) It is undergoing a drastic reform. B) It lays emphasis on creative thinking. C) It has much room for improvement. D) It prioritizes training of practical skills. Section C Passage Directions： In this section， you will hear three passages。 Both the passage and the questions will be spoken onlyonce。 Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with asingle line through the centre. Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16. A) They have small roots. B) They grow white flowers. C) They taste like apples. D) They e from Central Africa. 17. A) They turned from white to purple in color. B) They became popular on the world market. C) They became an important food for humans. D) They began to look like modernday carrots. 18. A) They were found quite nutritious. B) There were serious food shortages. C) People discovered their medicinal value. D) Farm machines helped lower their prices. Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. 19. A) She could her family any time she liked. B) She could call up her family whenever she liked C) She could locate her friends wherever they were. D) She could download as many pictures as she liked. 20. A) She liked to inform her friends about her success. B) She enjoyed reading her friends39。t seem to be doing as well as her Facebook friends. Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 22. A) They have strong muscles. B) They live a longer life than horses. C) They eat much less in winter. D) They can work longer than donkeys. 23. A) It was a pet of a Spanish king. B) It was bought by Gee Washington. C) It was brought over from Spain. D) It was donated by a . Ambassador. 24. A) They met and exchanged ideas on animal breeding. B) They participated in a muledriving petition. C) They showed and traded animals in the market. D) They fed mules with the best food they could find. 25. A) The wider use of horses. B) The arrival of tractors. C) A shrinking animal trade. D) A growing donkey population. Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage withten blanks. You are required to select one word foreach blank from a list of choices given in a wordbank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in thebank more than once. As if you needed another reason to hate the gym, it now turns out that exercise can exhaustnot only your muscles, but also your eyes. Fear not, however, for coffee can stimulate themagain. During __26__ exercise, our muscles tire as they run out of fuel and build up wasteproducts. Muscle performance can also be affected by a __27__ called central fatigue, inwhich an imbalance in the body39。 and for the most part, restructuring meantputting more emphasis on teams. B） Companies are abandoning conventional functional departments and anisingemployees into cross disciplinary teams that focus on particular products, problems orcustomers. These teams are gaining more power to run their own affairs. They are alsospending more time working with each other rather than reporting upwards. Deloitte arguesthat a new anisational form is on the rise: a work of teams is replacing theconventional hierarchy （等級體制） . C） The fashion for teams is driven by a sense that the old way of anising people is too rigidfor both the modern marketplace and the expectations of employees. Technological innovationplaces greater value on agility（靈活性） . John Chambers, chairman of Cisco Systems Inc., aworldwide leader in electronics products, says that we pete against market transitions（過渡） , not petitors. Product transitions used to take five or seven years。 consultants, nurses andothers collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality （專業(yè)）and rank. The USArmy has gone the same way. In his book, Team of Teams, General Stanley McChrystaldescribes how the army39。 but teamwork may also lead to confusion, delay and poor decisionmaking. Thelate Richard Hackman of Harvard University once argued, I have no question that when youhave a team, the possibility exists that it will generate magic, producing somethingextraordinary ... But don39。s membership, agreeing on its purpose is harder still. G） Profound changes in the workforce are making teams trickier to manage. Teams work best iftheir members have a strong mon culture. This is hard to achieve when, as is now thecase in many big firms, a large proportion of staff are temporary contractors. Teamworkimproves with time: America39。s first day of flying together. However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, anisations increasingly use team as a verbrather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them. H） The least that can be concluded from this research is that panies need to think harderabout managing teams. They need to rid their minds of sentimentalism（感情用事） :the mostsuccessful teams have leaders who