B. It put the South at a political advantage. C. It became a successful model for later time.
D. It raised the public awareness of the POW problem.
Section C (10 points)
Directions: There are two passages in this section. In each of the passages, five
sentences have been removed from the original text. They are listed from A to F and put below the passage. Choose the most suitable sentence from the list to fill in each of the blanks numbered 56 to 60 and 61 to 65. There is one sentence that does not fit in any of the blanks. Mark your answers on your Answer Sheet I.
Passage 1
China’s growth is not uniformly high. Like every other economy in the world, China’s is shaped by its geography, in this case an east-west divide and a north-south divide. ___56___ China’s east coast is the Pacific Ocean, and some of the most important port cities in the world can be found there, including (from north to south) the ports of Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Hainan Island. The coastal provinces have the advantage of proximity, both in time and transport costs, to major world markets by sea-based trade. ___57___ Both are forbidding borders, with enormous transport costs and great distances to major world trading centers. It is not surprising that the western provinces have been growing much less rapidly than the eastern provinces, and that foreign investors focus their investments almost entirely on the eastern coastal provinces
____58____ This is economic geography, and the east-west growth divide is natural. It won’t go away. It will be addressed partly through an internal migration of job seekers leaving the west and heading east. This trend has already produced the largest migration occurring in the world today, with perhaps 150 million people having moved either permanently or seasonally between the interior and the coastal provinces. ___59___ These investments will help improve infrastructure, industrial development, and social development, through better schools and better health services.
The Chinese north-south divide is a little bit less conspicuous, but it is also very significant. The north is dry compared to the south. ___60___ Already China is talking about spending tens of billions of dollars to divert rivers from the south to the north in three great canals whose costs, effectiveness, and ecological effects are hard to assess with precision, but the risks are very large. A. The east-west divide is striking. B. Water scarcity in the north of China will take on increasing economic and social significance in the years ahead. C. It will also be addressed in part through investments from the coastal provinces into the interior. D. China’s western border is the Tibetan plateau, at 4,500 meters above sea level, and the deserts of Central Asia. E. There is no easy answer to this divide. F. China already experiences profound costs of environmental stress, including
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enormous natural disasters such as flooding, and massive costs to health from massive urban air pollution.
Passage 2
Doctors have long known that lung cancer, which kills 160,000 Americans each year, takes a heavier toll among black Americans, particularly black men, than among whites. ___61___ It also has to do with differences in income and access to medical care. But there has always been a lingering suspicion that some of the gap might be due to either overt or subconscious discrimination. A study in last week’s New England Journal of Medicine appears to support that disturbing conclusion.
___62___ Even so, about 20% of lung-cancer patients are found to have a tumor whose biological characteristics and small size give them a good chance of being cured if the malignant growth is surgically removed.
Researchers at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., looked at data from more than 10,000 white and black Medicare patients whose tumors were found early enough to make them candidates for surgery. About 77% of the white patients underwent the procedure, compared with 64% of blacks. The difference was sufficiently large to reduce the overall survival rate for black patients to 26% after five years, compared with 34% for whites. ___63___ “People are dying needlessly,” says Dr. Peter Bach of Memorial Sloan-Kettering, who led the study. He suspects “some combination of the procedure not being offered or pushed by doctors, and patients not accepting it.”
___64___ So getting the word out that there is a proven treatment could help close the gap. It’s also vital for doctors and patients to make sure they understand each other.
Better communication will be even more important as treatments become more complex. Currently there’s no screening test for finding lung cancer early. (Chest X rays almost always catch it too late.) But Dr. Claudia Henschke of the Weill Medical College at Cornell University in New York City and her colleagues believe they have found a way to identify very small tumors with low-dose CAT scans. ___65___ A. It’s a gap that concerns the doctors. B. In part that’s because 34% of black men in the U.S. smoke cigarettes, compared with 28% of white men. C. If there is a silver lining to this, it’s that those who were operated on had a similar survival rate regardless of race. D. Often it takes only a little extra time and attention to bridge the differences. E. It’s a new approach that all smokers and ex-smokers, regardless of race, should keep an eye on. F. Unlike other cancers, lung cancer is extremely hard to detect in its earliest, most treatable stages. PAPER TWO (50 minutes)
Section A (10 points)
Directions: Read the following article and write a summary of between 120 and 150
words on your Answer Sheet II. You should NOT copy the original sentences
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Although we live in a world of unprecedented prosperity and technological development, 800—850 million people are malnourished. More than 200 million of these are children, many of whom will never reach their full intellectual and physical potential. Another 1—1.5 billion humans have only marginally better access to food and often do not consume balanced diets containing sufficient quantities of all required nutrients.
The majority of this nutritionally at-risk population lives in developing countries. Most, perhaps 75 percent, live in rural agricultural regions. Most are very poor. There is a well-recognized link between poverty and hunger. In fact, family income is probably the single most important determinant of adequacy of access to food. The World Food Summit in 2002 reaffirmed a commitment made by the international community five years earlier to halve the number of hungry people by the year 2015. That goal will not be met unless agricultural productivity and personal income can be improved in the world’s poorest regions.
It is argued by some that eliminating poverty is more important than producing more food since there is more than enough food produced in the world to feed everyone. Economists tell us that there is a surplus of food in the world, which could theoretically adequately feed the current global population. But the sad lesson of both recent and ancient history is that adequate food supplies do not reach everyone. The large number of hungry people proves that. It is pointless to argue whether poor agricultural productivity or extreme poverty is more to blame when people are starving. What is clear is that if the rural poor can produce a surplus of food in a more efficient and sustainable manner, there will be adequate food supplies, increasing income and the opportunity for supporting rural development.
While most experts would agree that the only long-term solution to hunger is economic development and the elimination of poverty, people who are food self-sufficient through local or regional agriculture will not go hungry. Unfortunately, neither the required increases in agricultural productivity nor the necessary rural development will happen overnight. The question then becomes “What do we do in the meanwhile?” The short-term solution for the hungry is food aid. But even food aid has become politicized as skeptics have charged that it is simply a way for rich over-producing nations to eliminate the surpluses produced by their heavily subsidized farmers. The skeptics also assert that food aid robs local farmers of markets and makes them hungrier. These arguments ignore the daily reality faced by hundreds of millions of hungry people for whom the immediate alternatives are simple: continued hunger and ultimate starvation or the acceptance of food aid.
Section B (15 points)
Direction: Write an essay of at least 200 words on the topic given below. Use the proper
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space on your Answer Sheet II.
Topic: List three important problems facing the world today. Discuss these problems
and offer your suggestions as to how to solve them.
Reference key to Sample Test
PAPER ONE
Part I
Section A
1—10 C D D A A B C C B D
Section B Mini-talk One
11: Ten million tons of grain each year.
12: Any place they can get into—homes, shops, farm buildings and farm and home
storage areas.
13: By carrying fleas, mites and other organisms that cause sickness. Mini-talk Two
14: Four years of high school or less.
15: Any special requirements will be stated on the announcement of examination. 16: Retirement support, life insurance and health insurance. Mini-talk Three
17: Many of them are hits for a few weeks then they disappear.
18: A professional tries to make a living by working in art, while an amateur does all
the artistic work just for pleasure.
19: Popular art usually makes a lot of money, while high art often lacks funds. 20: To give money to make future performances possible. Part II Section A
21. while 22. exceeded 23. ever 24. like 25. precede 26.once 27. separated 28. than 29. feasible 30. Fortunately 31.overcome 32.continuous 33.instantaneously 34.transforming 35. As
Section B
36. B. 37. D. 38. C. 39. A. 40. B. 41. B. 42. C. 43. D. 44. A. 45. B. 46. D. 47. A. 48. C. 49. B. 50. D 51. D 52. A 53. B 54. A 55. A
Section C
56—60. ADECB 61—65. BFACE
Summary Sample
In this prosperous and technologically advanced world there are still millions of people, mainly living in developing countries, suffering from malnutrition and hunger. This is believed to be the result of both extreme poverty and poor agriculture productivity. To
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solve the problem, actions should be taken for both improving personal income and increasing agricultural productivity, of which two aspects, it’s hard to say one outweighs the other. However, neither eliminating poverty nor increasing agricultural productivity in those poor rural areas can be accomplished overnight. With hundreds of millions of people are now starving, the immediate solution is obviously food aid. To condemn food aid as the leftovers by those rich-producing countries or the damage done to the local food market is really overlooking the stark reality of hunger.
Script For Listening Comprehension
PAPER ONE
Part I Listening Comprehension
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each
conversation, a question will be asked about what is said. Each conversation and the question will be spoken only once. When you hear the question, read the four choices of the answer given and choose the best one by marking the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on your Answer Sheet I.
1. W: Hey, don’t forget to mail the letter by air mail for me on your way home.
M: Sure, I’ll do that, but I’ll pick up some groceries first. Q: What will the man probably do first? (pause 00’15”)
2 W: Dennis called to say he’d come to the picnic.
M: Changed his mind after all, did he? Q: What does the man mean? (pause 00’15”)
3. M: Mom, I got to know a pretty girl last week. I’ve been taking her out. Will you
send me a thousand dollars right away?
W: You don’t have to pay all the time. Men and women are equal. Why don’t you go Dutch?
Q: What is the advice given by the woman? (pause 00’15”)
4. M: I just called the travel agency. It’s all set. On June the first, I’m heading for the
mountains and spend a week there.
W: You mean tomorrow? Have you checked the academic calendar? Our classes
aren’t over till the sixth.
Q: What does the woman imply? (pause 00’15”)
5. W: Did you send the letter for me this morning on your way to the office?
M: Sorry, it just slipped my mind. Q: What does the man mean? (pause 00’15”)
6. W: How was the party last night?
M: It was fantastic. But I seemed to have had one too many. That’s why I still have a
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