阅读理解With the start of BBC World Service Television, millions of viewers in Asia and America can now watch the Corporation''s news coverage ,as well as listen to it. 　　And of course in Britain listeners and viewers can tune in to two BBC television channels, five BBC national radio services and dozens of local radio stations. They are brought sport ,comedy ,drama, music, news and current affairs, education, religion, parliamentary coverage, children''s programmes and films for an annual licenee fee of ￡ 83 per household. 　　It is a remarkable record, stretching back over 70 years―yet the BBC''s future is now in doubt. The Corporation will survive as a publicly-funded broadcasting organization, at least for the time being, but its role, its size and its programmes are now the subject of a nation-wide debate in Britain. 　　The debate was launched by the Government, which invited anyone with an opinion of the BBC― including ordinary listeners and viewers―to say what was good or bad about the Corporation, and even whether they thought it was worth keeping. The reason for its inquiry is that the BBC''s royal charter runs out in 1996 and it must decide whether to keep the organization as it is, or to make changes. 　　Defenders of the Corporation―of whom there are many―are fond of quoting the American slogan "If it ain''t broke, don''t fix it. "The BBC " ain''t broke" ,they say, by which they mean it is not broken (as distinct from the word ''broke'' ,meaning having no money), so why bother to change it? 　　Yet the BBC will have to change, because the broadcasting world around it is changing. The commercial TV channels―ITV and Channel 4―were required by the Thatcher Government''s Broadcasting Act to become more commercial, competing with each other for advertisers, and cutting costs and jobs. But it is the arrival of new satellite channels―funded partly by advertising and partly by viewers'' subscriptions―which will bring about the biggest changes in the long term.

阅读理解Questions are based on the following passage information will be the greatest opportunity for business leaders in the coming years and perhaps our biggest headache

阅读理解Text 2 When you become a parent, much of your focus shifts from your own future to your kids fu- ture

阅读理解Questions 26-30are based on the following form: New York Times'' Electronic Classified Ads: JOB INFORMATION Job Title: Banking Employer: Confidential Source: NY Times, Electronic Classified Ads Location: New York, NY Date: 09-16-2005 JOB DESCRIPTION Description: BANKING OPENING NEW BRANCHES We are a growing domestic bank who expand staff for our new branches. Branch Managers 2+yrs exp in Br Mgmt, knwlg in all mklg skills. Tellers (F/T, P/T) Banking experience preferred, Customer Serv Reps (F/T, P/T) Banking background must. Qualified candidates should e-mail resume to hr@doralbankny.com or fax to 212-329-3745. Doral Bank is an EOE. For more details visit www.doralbankny.com

阅读理解Questions 51 to 60 are based on the following passage

阅读理解Questions 91 to 100 are based on the following passage

阅读理解What can we conclude from this passage？

阅读理解Text 1 Sometime in the middle of the 15th century, a well-to-do merchant from London buried more than 6,700 gold and silver coins on a sloping, hillside in Surrey

阅读理解Is there anything more harmless than a turtle? (Unless, I suppose, youre a nice, leafy vegetable

阅读理解Following the explosion of creativity in Florence during the 14th century known as the Renaissance, the modern world saw a departure from what it had once known. It turned from God and the authority of the Roman Catholic Church and instead favoured a more humanistic approach to being. Renaissance ideas had spread throughout Europe well into the 17th century, with the arts and sciences flourishing extraordinarily among those with a more logical disposition. 46 With the Church's teachings and ways of thinking being eclipsed by the Renaissance, the gap between the Medieval and modern periods had been bridged, leading to new and unexplored intellectual territories. During the Renaissance, the great minds of Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei demonstrated the power of scientific study and discovery. 47 Before each of their revelations, many thinkers at the time had sustained more ancient ways of thinking, including the geocentric view that the Earth was at the centre of our universe. Copernicus theorized in 1543 that all of the planets that we knew of revolved not around the Earth, but the Sun, a system that was later upheld by Galileo at his own expense. Offering up such a theory during a time of high tension between scientific and religious minds was branded as heresy, and any such heretics that continued to spread these lies were to be punished by imprisonment or even death. 48 Despite attempts by the Church to suppress this new generation of logicians and rationalists, more explanations for how the universe functioned were being made at a rate that the people could no longer ignore. It was with these great revelations that a new kind of philosophy founded in reason was born. The Church's long-standing dogma was losing the great battle for truth to rationalists and scientists. This very fact embodied the new ways of thinking that swept through Europe during most of the 17th century. 49 As many took on the duty of trying to integrate reasoning and scientific philosophies into the world, the Renaissance was over and it was time for a new era——the Age of Reason. The 17th and 18th centuries were times of radical change and curiosity. Scientific method, reductionism and the questioning of Church ideals was to be encouraged, as were ideas of liberty, tolerance and progress. 50 Such actions to seek knowledge and to understand what information we already knew were captured by the Latin phrase 'sapere aude' or 'dare to know', after Immanuel Kant used it in his essay 'An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?' It was the purpose and responsibility of great minds to go forth and seek out the truth, which they believed to be founded in knowledge.

阅读理解Passage C Imagine a world in which there was suddenly no emotiona world in which human beings could feel no love or happiness, no terror or hate

阅读理解Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths

阅读理解Few creations of big technology capture the imagination like giant dams. Perhaps it is humankind''s long suffering at the mercy of flood and drought that makes the idea of forcing the waters to do our bidding so fascinating, But to be fascinated is also, sometimes, to be blind. Several giant dam projects threaten to do more harm than good. 　　The lesson from dams is that big is not always beautiful. It doesn''t help that building a big, powerful dam has become a symbol of achievement for nations and people striving to assert themselves. Egypt''s leadership in the Arab world was cemented by the Aswan High Dam. Turkey''s bid for First World status includes the giant Ataturk Dam. 　　But big dams tend not to work as intended. The Aswan Dam, for example, stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt that floods left―all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity. 　　And yet, the myth of controlling the waters persists. This week, in the heart of civilized Europe, Slovaks and Hungarians stopped just short of sending in the troops in their contention over a dam on the Danube. The huge complex will probably have all the usual problems of big dams. But Slovakia is bidding for independence from the Czechs, and now needs a dam to prove itself. 　　Meanwhile, in India, the World Bank has given the go-ahead to the even more wrong-headed Narmada Dam. And the bank has done this even though its advisors say the dam will cause hardship for the powerless and environmental destruction. The benefits are for the powerful, but they are far from guaranteed. 　　Proper, scientific study of the impacts of dams and of the costs and benefits of controlling water can help to resolve these conflicts. Hydroelectric power and flood control and irrigation are possible without building monster dams. But when you are dealing with myths, it is hard to be either proper, or scientific. It is time that the world learned the lessons of Aswan. You don''t need a dam to be saved.

阅读理解Traveling to another country where you know no one can be very challenging and frustrating

阅读理解PassageThreeThe large part which war played in English affairs in the Middle-Ages， the fact that the control of the army and navy was in the hands of those that spoke French， and the circumstances that much of English fighting was done in France all resulted in the introduction into English of a number of French military terms

阅读理解Can the Internet help patients jump the line at the doctor’s office? The Silicon Valley EmployersForum, a sophisticated group of technology companies, is launching a pilot program to test online“virtual visits” between doctors at three big local medical groups and about 6,000 employees andtheir families. The six employers taking part in the Silicon Valley initiative, including heavy hitterssuch as Oracle and Cisco Systems, hope that online visits will mean employees won’t have to skipwork to tend to minor ailments or to follow up on chronic conditions. “With our long commutes andtraffic, driving 40 miles to your doctor in your hometown can be a big chunk of time,” says CindyConway, benefits director at Cadence Design Systems, one of the participating companies.Doctors aren’t clamoring to chat with patients online for free; they spend enough unpaid time on thephone. Only 1 in 5 has ever emailed a patient, and just 9 percent are interested in doing so, accordingto the research firm Cyber Dialog. “We are not stupid,” says Stirling Somers, executive of theSilicon Valley employers group. “Doctors getting paid in a critical piece is getting this to work.” Inthe pilot program, physicians will get $20 per online consultation, about what they get for a simpleoffice visit.Doctors also fear they’ll be swamped by rambling e-mails that tell everything but what’s needed tomake a diagnosis. So the new program will use technology supplied by Healinx, an Alameda,Calif-based start-up. Healinx’s “Smart Symptom Wizard” questions patents and turns answers into asuccinct message. The company has online dialogues for 60 common conditions. The doctor can thendiagnose the problem and outline a treatment plan which could include E-mailing a prescription or aface-to-face visit.Can E-mail replace the doctor’s office? Many conditions, such as persistent cough, require astethoscope to discover what’s wrong — and to avoid a malpractice suit. Even Larry Bonham, headof one of the doctor’s groups in the pilot, believes the virtual doctor’s visits offer a “very narrow”sliver of service between phone calls to an advice nurse and a visit to the clinic.The pilot program, set to end in nine months, also hopes to determine whether online visits will boostworker productivity enough to offset the cost of the service. So far, the internet’s record in the healthfield has been underwhelming. The experiment is “a huge roll of the dice for Healinx”, notesMichael Barrett, an analyst at Internet consulting firm Forester Research. If the “Web visits” succeed,expect some HMOS (Health Maintenance Organizations) to pay for online visits. If doctors,employers, and patients aren’t satisfied, figure on one more E-health start-up is to stand down.

阅读理解What is( are)the advantage(s)of baby-pooling? .

阅读理解 Imagine, says Adair Turner, chairman of the Energy Transitions Commission, that the beneficent God had sent envoys in the night to steal two-thirds of the world's store of fossil fuels, so that mankind knew it would run out of them within 40 years. 'I'm certain that by 2060 we'd have built a zero-carbon economy and the cost of doing so would be small,' he says. Miracles do happen, but it is unwise to rely on them. In the meantime, the challenges of building a global energy system should not be underestimated. It is feasible; the technologies are available and could become a lot cheaper if they were adopted widely. But to have a meaningful global impact, the effort requires a level of political ambition that does not yet exist. To encourage such ambition, it helps to bear three mantras in mind. The first is 'think big'. Don't be distracted by the myth that 'every little helps'. If everyone does a little, we'll achieve only a little. Second, think inside the box, not just outside it. The more that zero-carbon technologies can make use of existing systems built for the fossil age, the less risk there will be of trillions of dollars-worth of wasted assets, or of consumers having to change their habits much. Third, embrace collaboration as well as competition. Competition is still vital. Potential rewards beckon for those who can license the first zero-carbon-steel or aluminium technologies, if the carbon price is high enough. But tackling climate change is a shared mission to overcome a massive market failure: the negligible cost of potentially catastrophic emissions. This is not about 'winner takes all', more about 'we all lose unless we work together'. In the long run, decarbonisation could be a way of reviving capitalism. Carbon-intensive energy, together with capital, ingenuity and cheap labour, has been a driving force of economic growth since the Industrial Revolution. Yet they have also brought huge rewards to tyrannical regimes, encouraged cartels and over-centralised economies, and never borne the cost of their environmental impact. Mass electrification, from zero-carbon sources, could stimulate new industries and further decentralise the global economy. It could absorb some of the surplus savings that exist in parts of the rich world, provide plentiful demand for jobs to meet the engineering challenges and ease energy poverty in poor countries. It might sound unrealistic in an era of fierce competition to think that anything can be done for the common good. But using human ingenuity to build a post-carbon future could be a big economic, as well as environmental, opportunity.

阅读理解Passage 2 In her novel of Reunion, American Style, Rona Jaffe suggests that a class reunion is more than a sentimental journey