【正文】 ften based around one major current issue. Thus, for instance, at the last election there was the No Aircraft Noise Parry, 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 9 頁 共 21 頁 popular in city areas, and the Green Party, which is almost solely concerned with environmental issues. TRUE／ FALSE／ NOT GIVEN is support of the concept of a welfare society are costly. usually vote for the party they supported early in life. Labor Party was formed by the trade unions. groups are only found within the Labor Party. Liberal Party was formed after the Labor Party. societies invariably bee bankrupt. to the author, theories do not always work in practice. Australian voters are confused about who to vote for. NoAircraftNoise Party is only popular in the city. smaller parties are only concerned about the environment. Practice 5 than ever before. Nowadays, without a qualification from a reputable school or university, the odds of landing that plum job advertised in the paper are considerably shortened. Moreover, 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 10 頁 共 21 頁 one39。 a positive response to the exhortation by a former Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, for australia to bee the `clever country39。excellence might cause more problems than it is supposed to solve. Gatsby raises a number of issues that affect the resulting in abnormally high stress levels in both students at secondary school and adults studying after working hours. Secondly, skills which might be more relevant to the undertaking of a sought_after job are being overlooked by employers interviewing candidates without qualifications on paper. These two areas of 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 12 頁 共 21 頁 concern for the individual are causing physical and emotional stress respectively. udinal changes within society to the exalted role education now plays in determining how the spoils of working life are distributed. Individuals of all ages are being driven by social pressures to achieve academic success solely for moary considerations instead of for the joy of enlightenment. There is the danger that some universities are being degree factories with an attendant drop in standards. Furthermore, our education system may be rewarding doggedness above creativity。higher education confers on the poor, who invariably lly, although there is agreement that learning can cause stress, Gatsby39。s education system overall, at both secondary and tertiary levels, is equal to that of any in the world. 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 13 頁 共 21 頁 TRUE／ FALSE／ NOT GIVEN is impossible these days to get a good job without a qualification from a respected institution. people who upgrade their qualifications do so for the joy of learning. some jobs, the position you hold must be reapplied for. parents spend extra on their children39。s education system is equal to any in the world in the opinion of most educationists. Reading Passage 1 below. Right and lefthandedness in humans Why do humans, virtually alone among all animal species, display a distinct left or right handedness? Not even our closest relatives among the apes possess such decided lateral asymmetry, 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 14 頁 共 21 頁 as psychologists call it. Yet about 90 per cent of every human population that has ever lived appears to have been righthanded. Professor Bryan Turner at Deakin University has studied the research literature on lefthandedness and found that handedness goes with sidedness. So nine out of ten people are righthanded and eight are rightfooted. He noted that this distinctive asymmetry in the human population is itself systematic. `Humans think in categories: black and white, up and down, left and right. It39。 Research has shown that there is geic or inherited element to handedness. But while lefthandedness tends to run in families, neither left nor right handers will automatically produce offspring with the same handedness。s left hemisphere, Psychologists now believe that among right handed people, probably 95 per cent have their language centre in the left hemisphere, while 5 per cent have rightsided language, Lefthanders, however,do not show the reverse pattern but instead a majority also Some 30 per cent have right hemisphere language. Dr Brinkman, a