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1111111111111111Section I Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark
[A], [B], [C] or [D] on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)
Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th
century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had
happened 1 . As was discussed before, it was not 2 the 19th century that
the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic _3_, following in the wake of
the pamphlet and the book and in the _4_ of the periodical. It was during the same
time that the communications revolution 5 up, beginning with transport, the
railway, and leading 6 through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion
pictures 7 the 20th-century world of the motor car and the airplane. Not
everyone sees that process in _8_. It is important to do so.
It is generally recognized, 9 , that the introduction of the computer in the
early 20th century, 10 by the invention of the integrated circuit during the
1960s, radically changed the process, 11 its impact on the media was not
immediately 12 . As time went by, computers became smaller and more
powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as 13 , with display
becoming sharper and storage 14 increasing. They were thought of, like
people, _lL generations, with the distance between generations much J 6 .
It was within the computer age that the term "information society" began to be
widely used to describe the 17 within which we now live. The communications
revolution has 18 both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about
place and time, but there have been 19 views about its economic, political,
social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been weighed 20 "harmful"
outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.l. [AJ between [BJ before [C] since [DJ later
2. [AJ after [BJ by [C] during [DJ until
3. [AJ means [BJ method [C] medium [DJ measure
4. [AJ process [BJ company [C] light [DJ form
5. [ A J gathered [BJ speeded [C] worked [DJ picked
6. [AJ on [BJ out [C] over [DJ off
7. [AJ of [BJ for [C] beyond [DJ into
8. [AJ concept [BJ dimension [C] effect [DJ perspective
9. [AJ indeed [BJ hence [C] however [DJ therefore
10. [AJ brought [BJ followed [C] stimulated [DJ characterized
11. [AJ unless [BJ since [C] lest [DJ although
12. [A J apparent [BJ desirable [C] negative [DJ plausible
13. [AJ institutional [BJ universal [C] fundamental [DJ instrumental
14. [AJ ability [BJ capability [C] capacity [DJ faculty
15. [AJ by means of [BJ in terms of [C] with regard to [DJ in line with
16. [AJ deeper [BJ fewer [C] nearer [DJ smaller
17. [AJ context [BJ range [C] scope [DJ territory
18. [AJ regarded [BJ impressed [C] influenced [DJ effected
19. [A J competitive [BJ controversial [C] distracting [DJ irrational
20. [AJ above [BJ upon [C] against [DJ with
Section II Reading Comprehension
Part A
Directions:
Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing [AJ,
[BJ, [C] or [D]. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Text 1
If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know
how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the
audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you
understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on
whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group
of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries;
alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their
disorganized bosses.
Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses' convention, of a story which works
well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven
and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful
gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until,
waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white
coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by
himself. "Who is that?" the new arrival asked St. Peter. "Oh, that's God," came the
reply, "but sometimes he thinks he's a doctor."
If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to
know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it'll be
appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the
chairman's notorious bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn't attempt to
cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about
their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats
like the Post Office or the telephone system.
If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it becomes more
natural. Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can
deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it's the delivery which causes the
audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow or an
unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a light-hearted remark.
Look for the humor. It often comes from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar
quote "If at first you don't succeed, give up" or a play on words or on a situation.
Search for exaggeration and understatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few
words or sentences which you can tum about and inject with humor.
( ~ 12 Yi)21. To make your humor work, you should
[A] take advantage of different kinds of audience.
[B] make fun of the disorganized people.
[C] address different problems to different people.
[D] show sympathy for your listeners.
22. The joke about doctors implies that, in the eyes of nurses, they are
[A] impolite to new arrivals.
[B] very conscious of their godlike role.
[C] entitled to some privileges.
[D] very busy even during lunch hours.
23. It can be inferred from the text that public services
[A] have benefited many people.
[B] are the focus of public attention.
[C] are an inappropriate subject for humor.
[D] have often been the laughing stock.
24. To achieve the desired result, humorous stories should be delivered
[A] in well-worded language.
[B] as awkwardly as possible.
[C] in exaggerated statements.
[D] as casually as possible.
25. The best title for the text may be
[A] Use Humor Effectively
[B] Various Kinds of Humor
[C] Add Humor to Speech
[D] Different Humor Strategies
( #- 12 Yi)Text2
Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning
tools to cope with work that is dangerous, boring, burdensome, or just plain nasty. That
compulsion has resulted in robotics-the science of conferring various human
capabilities on machines. And if scientists have yet to create the mechanical version of
science fiction, they have begun to come close.
As a result, the modem world is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos
whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much
human labor. Our factories hum to the rhythm of robot assembly arms. Our banking is
done at automated teller terminals that thank us with mechanical politeness for the
transaction. Our subway trains are controlled by tireless robot-drivers. And thanks to
the continual miniaturization of electronics and micro-mechanics, there are already
robot systems that can perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with
submillimeter accuracy-far greater precision than highly skilled physicians can
achieve with their hands alone.
But if robots are to reach the next stage of laborsaving utility, they will have to
operate with less human supervision and be able to make at least a few decisions for
themselves-goals that pose a real challenge. "While we know how to tell a robot to
handle a specific error," says Dave Lavery, manager of a robotics program at NASA, "we
can't yet give a robot enough 'common sense' to reliably interact with a dynamic world."
Indeed the quest for true artificial intelligence has produced very mixed results.
Despite a spell of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s when it appeared that
transistor circuits and microprocessors might be able to copy the action of the human
brain by the year 2010, researchers lately have begun to extend that forecast by
decades if not centuries.
What they found, in attempting to model thought, is that the human brain's
roughly one hundred billion nerve cells are much more talented-and human
perception far more complicated-than previously imagined. They have built robots
that can recognize the error of a machine panel by a fraction of a millimeter in a
controlled factory environment. But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly changing
scene and immediately disregard the 98 percent that is irrelevant, instantaneously
focusing on the monkey at the side of a winding forest road or the single suspicious
face in a big crowd. The most advanced computer systems on Earth can't approach
that kind of ability, and neuroscientists still don't know quite how we do it.26. Human ingenuity was initially demonstrated in
[A] the use of machines to produce science fiction.
[B] the wide use of machines in manufacturing industry.
[C] the invention of tools for difficult and dangerous work.
[D] the elite's cunning tackling of dangerous and boring work.
27. The word "gizmos" (line l, Paragraph 2) most probably means
[A] programs.
[B] experts.
[C] devices.
[D] creatures.
28. According to the text, what is beyond man's ability now is to design a robot that can
[A] fulfill delicate tasks like performing brain surgery.
[B] interact with human beings verbally.
[C] have a little common sense.
[D] respond independently to a changing world.
29. Besides reducing human labor, robots can also
[A] make a few decisions for themselves.
[B] deal with some errors with human intervention.
[C] improve factory environments.
[D] cultivate human creativity.
30. The author uses the example of a monkey to argue that robots are
[A] expected to copy human brain in internal structure.
[B] able to perceive abnormalities immediately.
[C] far less able than human brain in focusing on relevant information.
[D] best used in a controlled environment.Text3
Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return? Since OPEC
agreed to supply-cuts in March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $26 a barrel,
up from less than $10 last December. This near-tripling of oil prices calls up scary
memories of the 1973 oil shock, when prices quadrupled, and 1979-1980, when they
also almost tripled. Both previous shocks resulted in double-digit inflation and global
economic decline. So where are the headlines warning of gloom and doom this time?
The oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil
exports. Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the
northern hemisphere, could push the price higher still in the short term.
Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be less
severe than in the 1970s. In most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a
smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s. In Europe, taxes account
for up to four-fifths of the retail price, so even quite big changes in the price of crude
have a more muted effect on pump prices than in the past.
Rich economies are also less dependent on oil than they were, and so less
sensitive to swings in the oil price. Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a
decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil
consumption. Software, consultancy and mobile telephones use far less oil than steel
or car production. For each dollar of GDP (in constant prices) rich economies now
use nearly 50% less oil than in 1973. The OECD estimates in its latest Economic
Outlook that, if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year, compared with $13 in
1998, this would increase the oil import bill in rich economies by only 0.25%,.....,0.5%
of GDP. That is less than one-quarter of the income loss in 1974 or 1980. On the other
hand, oil-importing emerging economies-to which heavy industry has shifted- have
become more energy-intensive, and so could be more seriously squeezed.
One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that, unlike the
rises in the 1970s, it has not occurred against the background of general
commodity-price inflation and global excess demand. A sizable portion of the world
is only just emerging from economic decline. The Economist's commodity price
index is broadly unchanging from a year ago. In 1973 commodity prices jumped by
70%, and in 1979 by almost 30%.31. The main reason for the latest rise of oil price is
[A] global inflation.
[B] reduction in supply.
[C] fast growth in economy.
[D] Iraq's suspension of exports.
32. It can be inferred from the text that the retail price of petrol will go up dramatically if
[A] price of crude rises.
[B] commodity prices rise.
[C] consumption rises.
[D] oil taxes rise.
33. The estimates in Economic Outlook show that in rich countries
[A] heavy industry becomes more energy-intensive.
[B] income loss mainly results from fluctuating crude oil prices.
[C] manufacturing industry has been seriously squeezed.
[D] oil price changes have no significant impact on GDP.
34. We can draw a conclusion from the text that
[A] oil-price shocks are less shocking now.
[B] inflation seems irrelevant to oil-price shocks.
[C] energy conservation can keep down the oil prices.
[D] the price rise of crude leads to the shrinking of heavy industry.
35. From the text we can see that the writer seems
[A] optimistic.
[B] sensitive.
[C] gloomy.
[D] scared.Text4
The Supreme Court's decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important
implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering.
Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted
suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of "double effect," a
centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects-a good one
that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen- is permissible if the actor intends
only the good effect.
Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of
morphine to control terminally ill patients' pain, even though increasing dosages will
eventually kill the patient.
Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle
will shield doctors who ''until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not
give patients sufficient medication to control their pain if that might hasten death".
George Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University, maintains
that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose, the doctor
has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death. "It's like
surgery," he says. "We don't call those deaths homicides because the doctors didn't
intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If you 're a physician, you
can risk your patient's suicide as long as you don't intend their suicide."
On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the
assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom
modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying.
Just three weeks before the Court's ruling on physician-assisted suicide, the
National Academy of Science (NAS) released a two-volume report, Approaching
Death: Improving Care at the End of Life. It identifies the undertreatment of pain and
the aggressive use of "ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong
and even dishonor the period of dying" as the twin problems of end-of-life care.
The profession is taking steps to require young doctors to train in hospices, to test
knowledge of aggressive pain management therapies, to develop a Medicare billing
code for hospital-based care, and to develop new standards for assessing and treating
pain at the end of life.
Annas says lawyers can play a key role in insisting that these well-meaning
medical initiatives translate into better care. "Large numbers of physicians seem
unconcerned with the pain their patients are needlessly and predictably suffering", to
the extent that it constitutes "systematic patient abuse". He says medical licensing
boards "must make it clear. .. that painful deaths are presumptively ones that are
incompetently managed and should result in license suspension."36. From the first three paragraphs, we learn that
[AJ doctors used to increase drug dosages to control their patients' pain.
[BJ it is still illegal for doctors to help the dying end their lives.
[C] the Supreme Court strongly opposes physician-assisted suicide.
[DJ patients have no constitutional right to commit suicide.
37. Which of the following statements is true according to the text?
[A J Doctors will be held guilty if they risk their patients' death.
[BJ Modem medicine has assisted terminally ill patients in painless recovery.
[C] The Court ruled that high-dosage pain-relieving medication can be prescribed.
[D] A doctor's medication is no longer justified by his intentions.
38. According to the NAS's report, one of the problems in end-of-life care is
[A] prolonged medical procedures.
[B] inadequate treatment of pain.
[C] systematic drug abuse.
[D] insufficient hospital care.
39. Which of the following best defines the word "aggressive" (Line 3, Paragraph 7)?
[AJ Bold.
[BJ Harmful.
[C] Careless.
[DJ Desperate.
40. George Annas would probably agree that doctors should be punished if they
[AJ manage their patients incompetently.
[BJ give patients more medicine than needed.
[C] reduce drug dosages for their patients.
[DJ prolong the needless suffering of the patients.PartB
Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into
Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2.(10 points)
Almost all our major problems involve human behavior, and they cannot be
solved by physical and biological technology alone. What is needed is a technology
of behavior, but we have been slow to develop the science from which such a
technology might be drawn. (4 1) One difficulty is that almost all of what is called
behavioral science continues to trace behavior to states of mind, feelings, traits of
character, human nature, and so on. Physics and biology once followed similar
practices and advanced only when they discarded them. (4 2) The behavioral sciences
have been slow to change partly because the explanatory items often seem to be
directly observed and partly because other kinds of explanations have been hard to
find. The environment is obviously important, but its role has remained obscure. It
does not push or pull, it selects, and this function is difficult to discover and analyze.
(43) The role of natural selection in evolution was formulated only a little more than a
hundred years ago, and the selective role of the environment in shaping and
maintaining the behavior of the individual is only beginning to be recognized and
studied. As the interaction between organism and environment has come to be
understood, however, effects once assigned to states of mind, feelings, and traits are
beginning to be traced to accessible conditions, and a technology of behavior may
therefore become available. It will not solve our problems, however, until it replaces
traditional prescientific views, and these are strongly entrenched. Freedom and
dignity illustrate the difficulty. (44) They are the possessions of the autonomous
(self-governing) man of traditional theory, and they are essential to practices in which
a person is held responsible for his conduct and given credit for his achievements. A
scientific analysis shifts both the responsibility and the achievement to the
environment. It also raises questions concerning "values." Who will use a technology
and to what ends? ( 45) Until these issues are resolved, a technology of behavior will
continue to be rejected, and with it possibly the only way to solve our problems.Section III Writing
46. Directions:
Study the following picture carefully and write an essay entitled "Cultures-National
and International".
In the essay you should
1) describe the picture and interpret its meaning, and
2) give your comment on the phenomenon.
You should write about 200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points)
An American girl in traditional Chinese costume ( ~!l~)
