Section B
Directions:In this section there is one incomplete interview which has four blanks and four choices A, B, C and D, taken from the interview. Fill in each of the blanks with one of the choices to complete the interview and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.
A. I want to go into e-commerce
B. That depends
C. you can make a living out of that
D. we could talk to each client individually
William:I have this great ambition to start my own small business, as soon as I can.
Steven:That's great. What sort of business are you planning?
William:It's the Internet. 7 and specialize in teaching Chinese to foreigners.
Steven:That's a newbie. I haven't heard of anyone making a business out of that.
William:My mate and I are developing the software for a program that will teach people an easier way to learn.
Steven:And you reckon 8 ?
William:Yes. We have a good marketing plan to target the right people who need to learn Chinese.
Steven:How do you plan to set up this business?
William:The idea, once we have the software finished, is to offer progressive lessons over the Internet.
Steven:What? A sort of one on one system?
William:That's right. With modern technology, using web camera and voice communication, 9 .
Steven:How many people will you need for teaching the lessons?
William: 10 . To begin with, we estimate, between the two of us, we could handle about 40 clients a week.
Part ⅡVocabulary (10 minutes, 10 points)
Directions:In this part there are ten sentences, each with one word or phrase underlined. Choose the one from the four choices marked A, B, C and D that best keeps the meaning of the sentence. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.
11. Ralph would not concede that the work of the detectives was likely to be in vain given the price offered.
A. compromise B. reconcileC. announceD. acknowledge
12. The government's attempt to inhibit the present speed of inflation is highly appreciated.
A. checkB. inhabitC. prohibitD. accelerate
13. To conserve energy, estate developers are encouraged to build houses that can retain heat in winter.
A. attain B. keep C. release D. generate
14. To suppress this uprising completely seemed to be too difficult a mission to these officials.
A. advocateB. concealC. uphold D. crush
15. For them, defeating this football team is a mere dream that is neither substantial nor practical.
A. wealthy B. sturdy C. realD. contented
16. The flowers on the table were a manifestation of the child's love for his mother.
A. demonstration B. (an) infestation C. combination D. satisfaction
17. The restaurant's patrons enjoyed the food and atmosphere so much that they recommended it to their friends.
A. ownersB. actorsC. customersD. critics
18. Forests are delicate systems that, if disturbed, can be permanently destroyed.
A. fragileB. expansiveC. complexD. unusual
19. Most religions are concerned with the worship of one or several deities as well as with ethical rules of conduct.
A. faithB. speechC. thoughtD. behavior
20. The use of penicillin is limited by its tendency to induce allergic reactions.
A. bring aboutB. stopC. reduceD. demand
Part ⅢReading Comprehension (45 minutes, 25 points)
Section A
Directions:In this section, there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers A, B, C and, D. Choose the best answer and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.
Passage One
Ten years ago, when environmental lawyer Kassie Siegel went in search of an animal to save the world, the polar bear wasn't at all an obvious choice. Siegel and Brendan Cummings of the Center for Biological Diversity in Joshua Tree, Calif., were looking for a species whose habitat was disappearing due to climate change, which could serve as a symbol of the dangers of global warming. Her first candidate met the scientific criteria—it lived in ice caves in Alaska's Glacier Bay, which were melting away—but unfortunately it was a spider. You can't sell a lot of T-shirts with pictures of an animal most people would happily step on.
Next, Siegel turned to the Kittlitz's murrelet, a small Arctic seabird whose nesting sites in glaciers were disappearing. In 2001, she petitioned the Department of the Interior to add it to the Endangered Species list, but Interior Secretary Gale Norton turned her down. Elkhorn and staghorn coral, which are threatened by rising water temperatures in the Caribbean, did make it onto the list, but as iconic species they fell short insofar as many people don't realize they're alive in the first place. The polar bear, by contrast, is vehemently alive and comes the undeniable charisma of a top predator. And its dependence on ice was intuitively obvious; it lives on it most of the year. But it took until 2004 for researchers to demonstrate that shrinking sea ice was a serious threat to the bearspopulation. On Feb. 16, 2005—the day the Kyoto Protocol to curb greenhouse gas emissions took effect, without the participation of the United States—Siegel petitioned to list polar bears as endangered. Three years later her efforts met with equivocal(不明确的) success, as Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne designated the bears as “threatened”(not endangered), a significant concession from an administration that has stood almost alone in the world in its reluctance to acknowledge the dangers of climate change. The Endangered Species Act (ESA), whose odd lists of snails and bladderworts sometimes seemed stuck in the age of Darwin, had been thrust into the mainstream of 21stcentury environmental politics. Break out the T-shirts!
21. Siegel and Cummings hoped to choose an animal to .
A. call on people to take actions against global warming
B. make people aware of the danger of environmental damage
C. introduce to people a new concept of environmental protection
D. remind people of the importance of protecting endangered species
22. The problem with elkhorn and staghorn corals lies in that .
A. they were not muchliked by many people
B. they were not wellknown enough to be an icon
C. they were not considered animals by many people
D. they were not ad