BSection I Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D./B

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Digital photography is still new enough that mast of us have yet to form an opinion about it, much less (1)_____ a point of view. But this hasn"t stopped many film and computer fans from agreeing (2)_____ the early (3)_____ wisdom about digital cameras—they"re neat (4)_____ for your PC, but they"re not suitable for everyday picture-taking. The fans are wrong: more than anything else, digital cameras are radically (5)_____ what photography means and what it can be. The venerable medium of photography as we know (6)_____ is beginning to seem out of (7)_____ with the way we live. In our computer and camcorder culture, saving pictures (8)_____ digital files and watching them on TV is no less (9)_____—and in many ways more (10)_____—than fumbling with rolls of film that must be sent off to be (11)_____. Paper is also terribly (12)_____. Pictures that are incorrectly framed, focused, or lighted are nonetheless (13)_____ to film and ultimately processed into prints. The digital medium changes the (14)_____. Still images that are (15)_____ digitally can immediately be shown on a computer monitor, TV screen, or a small liquid-crystal display (LCD) built right into the camera. And since the points of light that (16)_____ an image are saved as a series of digital bits in (17)_____ memory, (18)_____ being permanently etched onto film, they can be erased, retouched, and transmitted on-line. What"s it like to (19)_____ with one of these digital cameras? It"s a little like a first date—exciting, confusing and fraught with (20)_____.

BPart ADirections: Write a composition/letter of no less than 100 words on the following information./B

Americans" pride and faith of their economic system,【C1】______that it provides opportunities for all citizens to have good lives, are【C2】______ by the【C3】______that poverty persists in many parts of country. Government anti-poverty efforts have made some progress but have not eradicated the problem. 【C4】______, periods of strong economic growth, which bring more jobs and higher wages, have 【C5】______ poverty but have no【C6】______ it entirely. The federal government【C7】______poverty line as a minimum【C8】______of income【C9】______for basic maintenance of a family or four. This amount may fluctuated【C10】______the cost of living and the location of the family. In 1998, a family of four with an annual income below $ 16,530 was classified【C11】______living in poverty. The percentage of people living below poverty line dropped from 22.4 percent in 1959 to 11.4 percent in 1978. But【C12】______, it has fluctuated in a fairly narrow range. In 1998, it stood at 12.7 percent. 【C13】______, the overall figures mask much more severe pockets of poverty. In 1998, more than one-quarter of all African-Americans lived in poverty; though【C14】______high, that figure did represent an improvement from 1979 when 31 percentage of blacks were officially classified as poor. There are【C15】______estimations on the accuracy of official poverty figures. Some analysts have suggested that the official poverty figures【C16】______the real【C17】______of poverty because they measure only cash income and exclude certain government assistance programs such as Food Stamps. Others point out, however, that these programs【C18】______cover all of a family"s food or health care needs.【C19】______others point out that people at the poverty line sometimes receive cash income from【C20】______work and in the underground sector of economy which is never recorded in official statistics.

American Museum of Natural History is one of the largest natural and historic museums in the world and one of the main natural history research and education centres in the United States, set up in 1869 and located in the west of the Central Park, Manhattan District, New York. It【1】7 hectares in its total area,【2】classical types of buildings. The【3】of ancient creatures and humanity is【4】the first place of all the museums in the world,【5】the representative samples from South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia were collected, besides those from the【6】country, the United States. In the museum, there are five kinds of exhibits, including astronomy, mineralogy, human history, and animals in the【7】times and those in modern times. There are thirty-eight exhibition halls with different【8】from 500 to 1,500 square metres. Besides these, there is a Roosevelt Memorial Hall in【9】of President Roosevelt who supported the【10】of the museum, which is also used to have a special exhibition, showing the new important【11】on natural sciences and【12】affairs and social problems, and special topics connected closely with the life of the citizens. Besides this, it is also used for avocation【13】to have all kinds of scientific activities in the laboratories, centres of natural science and centres for citizens. There are more than 10【14】research departments mainly 【15】 for collection of samples, research and work of publication. In the museum, there are【16】 and sub-libraries of Aulspond ancient amniote, with about 300 thousand books and magazines【17】natural history, many of 【18】 are very valuable monographs for the first edition. It has published many expert books and magazines, and a large number of propaganda materials,【19】which are the two magazines, Natural History and Members of Museum that have the biggest【20】of their magazines.

Chronic insomnia is a major public health problem. And too many people are using【C1】______therapies, even while there are a few treatments that do work. Millions of Americans【C2】______awake at night counting sheep or have a stiff drink or【C3】______an pill, hoping it will make them sleepy. 【C4】______experts agree all that self-medicating is a bad idea, and the causes of chronic insomnia remain【C5】______. Almost a third of adults have trouble sleeping, and about 10 percent have【C6】______of daytime impairment that signal true insomnia. But【C7】______ the complaints, scientists know surprisingly little about what causes chronic insomnia, its health consequences and how best to treat it, a panel of specialists【C8】______together by the National Institutes of Health concluded Wednesday. The panel called【C9】______ a broad range of research into insomnia,【C10】______that if scientists understood its【C11】______causes, they could develop better treatments. Most, but not all, insomnia is thought to【C12】______other health problems, from arthritis and depression to cardiovascular disease. The question often is whether the insomnia came first or was a result of the other diseases and how trouble sleeping in【C13】______complicates those other problems. Other diseases【C14】______ , the risk of insomnia seems to increase with age and to be more【C15】______among women, especially after their 50s. Smoking, caffeine and numerous【C16】______drugs also affect sleep. The NIH is spending about $200 million this year on sleep-related research, some【C17】______to specific disorders and others【C18】______ the underlying scientific laws that control the nervous system of sleep. The agency was【C19】______the pane" s review before deciding what additional work should be【C20】______at insomnia.

The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For Questions 41-45, you are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by choosing from the list A-G. Some of the paragraphs have been placed for you. (10 points)A. Concerned citizens and scientists have begun to take action. A wide range of solutions is being proposed to stop the destruction of biodiversity at the regional as well as the global level. Since 1985, the effort has become more precisely charted, economically efficient, and politically sensitive.B. The new biodiversity studies will lead logically to an electronic encyclopedia of life designed to organize and make immediately available everything known about each of the millions of species. The industrialized countries will lead for a time. However, the bulk of the work must eventually be done in the developing countries. The latter contains most of the world species, and they are destined to benefit soonest from the research. The technology needed is relatively inexpensive, and its transfer can be accomplished quickly. The discoveries generated can be applied directly to meet the concerns of greatest importance to the geographic region in which the research is conducted, being equally relevant to agriculture, medicine, and economic growth.C. In the midst of this richness of life forms, however, the rate of species extinction is rising, chiefly through habitat destruction. Most serious of all is the conversion of tropical rainforests, where most species of animals and plants live. The rate has been estimated, by two independent methods, to fall between 100 and 10,000 times the pre-human background rate, with 1,000 times being the most widely accepted figure. The price ultimately to be paid for this cataclysm is beyond measure in foregone scientific knowledge; new pharmaceutical and other products; ecosystems services such as water purification and soil renewal; and, not least, aesthetic and spiritual benefits.D. Since the current hierarchical, binomial classification was introduced by Carolus Linnaeus 250 years ago, 10 percent, at a guess, of the species of organisms have been described. It is believed that most and perhaps nearly all of the remaining 90 percent can be discovered, diagnosed, and named in as little as about 25 years. That potential is the result of two developments needed to accelerate biodiversity studies.E. The increasing attention given to the biodiversity crisis highlights the inadequacy of biodiversity research itself. Earth remains in this respect a relatively unexplored planet. The total number of described and formally named species of organisms has grown, but not by much, and today is generally believed to lie somewhere between 1.5 million and 1.8 million The full number, including species yet to be discovered, has been estimated in various accounts that differ according to assumptions and methods from an improbably low 3.5 million to an improbably high 100 million. By far the greatest fraction of the unknown species will be insects and microorganisms.F. The past decade has witnessed the emergence of a much clearer picture of the magnitude of the biodiversity problem. Put simply, the biosphere has proved to be more diverse than was earlier supposed, especially in the case of small microorganisms. An entire domain of life, the Archaea, has been distinguished from the bacteria, and a huge, still mostly unknown and energetically independent environment has been found to extend three kilometers or more below the surface of Earth.G. The first is information technology, with which high-resolution digitized images of specimens can now be obtained. Moreover, type specimens, scattered in museums around the world can now be photographed and made instantly available everywhere as "types" on the Internet. The second revolution about to catapult biodiversity studies forward is genomics, which will soon enable scientists to describe bacterial and Achaean species by partial DNA sequences and to subsequently identify them by genetic bar-coding.Order: F is the first paragraph and B is the last.

BPart ADirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D./B

When it came to moral "reasoning," we like to think our views on right and wrong are rational, but ultimately they are grounded in emotion. Philosophers have argued over this claim for a quarter of a millennium without resolution. Time"s up! Now scientists armed with brain scanners are stepping in to settle the matter. Though reason can shape moral judgment, emotion is often decisive. Harvard psychologist Joshua Greene does brain scans of people as they ponder the so-called trolley problem. Suppose a trolley is rolling down the track toward five people who will die unless you pull a lever that diverts it onto another track—where, unfortunately, lies one person who will die instead. An easy call, most people say: minimizing the loss of life—a "utilitarian" goal, as philosophers put it—is the right thing to do. But suppose the only way to save the five people is to push someone else onto the track—a bystander whose body will bring the trolley to a halt before it hits the others. It"s still a one-for-five swap , and you still initiate the action that dooms the one—but now you are more directly involved; most people say it would be wrong to do this deal. Why? According to Greene"s brain scans, the second scenario more thoroughly excites parts of the brain linked to emotion than does the lever-pulling scenario. Apparently the intuitive aversion to giving someone a deadly push is stronger than the aversion to a deadly lever pull. Further studies suggest that in both cases the emotional aversion competes for control with more rational parts of the brain. In the second scenario the emotions are usually strong enough to win. And when they lose, it is only after a tough wrestling match. The few people who approve of pushing an innocent man onto the tracks take longer to reach their decision. So too with people who approve of smothering a crying baby rather than catching the attention of enemy troops who would then kill the baby along with other innocents. Princeton philosopher Peter Singer argues that we should re-examine our moral intuitions and ask whether that logic merits respect in the first place. Why obey moral impulses that evolved to serve the "selfish gene"—such as sympathy that moves toward kin and friends? Why not worry more about people an ocean away whose suffering we could cheaply alleviate? Isn"t it better to save 10 starving African babies than to keep your 90-year-old father on life support? Singer"s radically utilitarian brand of moral philosophy has its work cut out for it. In the absence of arduous cranial wrestling matches, reason may indeed be "slave of the passions."

In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、D、E、F、G……) to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are several extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. (10 points) Screaming headlines about stars arrested for everything from spousal abuse to firearms violations make it painfully clear that athletic talent isn"t enough to deal with the rigors of being a pro. (41)______. A team that finds itself in serious behavioral straits will often hire a famous person to help defuse the situation and help polish a tarnished franchise images—witness the Dallas Cowboys naming extremely-clean former All-Pro running back Calvin Hill, a Yale Divinity School graduate, as a special consultant. There is an accompanying commandment, handed down from on high by the czars of prosports: If you"re an elite athlete, the role of role model is mandatory, not optional. (42)______. "We"re running a business where players are our products. It"s a business with very visible and prominent young men in the forefront", says Pat Williams, senior executive vice president of the NBA"s Orlando Magic, a franchise that has hired "Doctor J", Julius Erving, as a broad-ranging ambassador to the community, and the locker room. "Sure, we"re protecting the business, but we"re also protecting the sport, too. And having a bunch of lawbreakers playing your sport doesn"t make it attractive—to fans or to sponsors. It"s also the right thing to do for these young men". (43)______. Hill, who has held executive positions with the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Orioles since ending his playing days, says the pressure and scrutiny faced by his son, Detriot Pistons star Grant Hill, are far more intense than what he endured during his days in the 1960s and 1970s with the Cow-boys, Redskins and Browns. (44)______. "What scares me about free agency is the same thing that scares me about society—there is no longer stability or a sense of community", says Hill. "and that"s helped break down a sense of team culture and tradition". (45)______. Not only are today"s new pros younger than ever, they have a healthy disrespect for their athletic elders and the traditions of the leagues they are entering, according to Gary Sailes, a sports sociologist at Indiana University.A. But ask yourself: Does Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, hire Hill because he is genuinely concerned about the psychological effects of fame on Michael Irvin, a married man, who was found in a hotel room full of cocaine and exotic dancers? Or does Jones. want to expropriate Hill"s upright image as whitewash for the damage done to his cash flow and corporate relations by Irvin and other members of "America"s Team"?B. "The value system are different", says Sailes, "The boundaries of their mainstream don"t intersect with the boundaries of mainstream America. And if you"re not finding some way to bridge the gap between mainstream America and where these kids come from, you"re wasting your time".C. At the heart of all this counseling and concern is the day-to-day pressure on a pro athlete. "There is a lot of money and fame involved when you sign a NBA contract", says Lamont Winston, who handles player programmes for the Kansas City Chiefs. "Yet there is nowhere in that contract that says you will feel tremendous stress, you will feel tremendous anxiety and pressure".D. In basketball, Williams sees a more devastating version of the maturity problem affecting pro sports, cause by the influx of younger and younger players who have decided to abandon the final two years of college, or ditch college altogether.E. And this touches on a key problem that a generic mentoring programme may not address: there are crucial cultural differences between the athletes and the world they are about to enter.F. He also points to a destructive consequence of free agency—the end of a natural clubhouse system of veteran players who served as mentors to young rookies, passing on the traditions and expectations of a particular club, be it the Detriot Tigers or the Washington Redskins.G. Coaches, owners and managers acknowledge the increasing need to teach their talents how to act, what and whom to avoid and what burdens accompany the money and the fame. The players need to be taught about everything from finances and career choices outside the game to emotional counseling and substance abuse.

I came to live here where I am now between Wounded Knee Creek and Grass Creek. Others came too, and we made there little gray houses of logs that you see, and they are square. It is a bad way to live, for there can be no power in a square. You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken, the people flourished. The flowering tree was the living center of the hoop, and the circle of the four quarters nourished it. The east gave peace and light, the south gave warmth, the west gave rain, and the north with its cold and mighty wind gave strength and endurance. This knowledge came to us from the outer world with our religion. Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same, and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Our tepees were round like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation"s hoop, a nest of many nests, where the Great Spirit meant for us to hatch our children. But the Wasichus have put us in these square boxes. Our power is gone and we are dying, for the power is not in us any more. You can look at our boys and see how it is with us. When we were living by the power of the circle in the way we should, boys were men at twelve or thirteen years of age. But now it takes them very much longer to mature.

Whether we want it or not we are all greedy by nature. From the moment we are【C1】______and to the last day of our life we【C2】______have an unsatisfied hunger to【C3】______more than we have. Greed is a way for us to take care of our needs and to make sure that we have enough in life. If you do not【C4】______me then look at any child. Children and especially babies do not have any social norms that they have to【C5】______. All of their desires are engraved in them from birth. No matter【C6】______it is a toy or extra 5 minutes of hugging with Mommy or Daddy, children do not want to【C7】______it with anybody. As parents we teach them that it is good to share and not to be 【C8】______, however generosity does not come【C9】______. It is a fact that generous people are【C10】______in life, they feel that their life is more meaningful and they【C11】______it more We often【C12】______generosity with money and wealth; however this is just the【C13】______of the iceberg. Being generous does not only【C14】______leaving a big tip at a restaurant or buying the most expensive gifts for Christmas. Generosity is all about giving and you can give your time, attention, love, help, and a smile【C15】______you can give money and【C16】______. Cultivating the spirit of generosity can be an eye-opening【C17】______for you because you will see in how many areas of your life you weren"t generous enough.【C18】______you open your heart to the world around you and start giving more to it then you will【C19】______how much more you will receive【C20】______.

In studying both the recurrence of special habits or ideas in several districts, and their prevalence within each district, there come before us ever-reiterated proofs of regular causation producing the phenomena of human life, and of laws of maintenance and diffusion conditions of society, at definite stages of culture.【F1】 But, while giving full importance to the evidence bearing on these standard conditions of society, let us be careful to avoid a pitfall which may entrap the unwary student. 【F2】 Of course, the opinions and habits belonging in common to masses of mankind are to a great extent the results of sound judgment and practical wisdom. But to a great extent it is not so. That many numerous societies of men should have believed in the influence of the evil eye and the existence of a firmament, should have sacrificed slaves and goods to the ghosts of the departed, should have handed down traditions of giants slaying monsters and men turning into beasts—all this is ground for holding that such ideas were indeed produced in men"s minds by efficient causes, but it is not ground for holding that the rites in question are profitable, the beliefs sound, and the history authentic.【F3】 This may seem at the first glance a truism, but, in fact, it is the denial of a fallacy which deeply affects the minds of all but a small critical minority of mankind. Popularly, what everybody says must be true, what everybody does must be right. 【F4】 There are various topics where even the educated people can hardly be brought to see that the cause why men do hold an opinion, or practise a custom, is by no means necessarily a reason why they ought to do so. Now collections of ethnographic evidence, bringing so prominently into view the agreement of immense multitudes of men as to certain traditions, beliefs, and usages, are peculiarly liable to be thus improperly used in direct defense of these institutions themselves, even old barbaric nations being polled to maintain their opinions against what are called modern ideas. As it has more than once happened to myself to find my collections of traditions and beliefs thus set up to prove their own objective truth, without proper examination of the grounds on which they were actually received.【F5】 I take this occasion of remarking that the same line of argument will serve equally well to demonstrate, by the strong and wide consent of nations, that the earth is flat, and night-mare the visit of a demon.

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Environmentalists claim the moral high ground: their interests are in preserving our precious planet, protecting defenseless animals, ensuring our children have clean water to drink and air to breathe. Yet environmentalists" policies have been a much more mixed bag in terms of their actual consequences.【F1】 Indisputably, many regulations and initiatives have reduced pollution and improved air and water quality, to the benefit of everyone, but other environmental efforts have backfired, some with truly disastrous consequences. Consider what"s happened with DDT(a chemical used to kill insects that harm crops). The pesticide came into use during World War II and helped eliminate malaria. However in 1962, an environmentalist wrote that the chemical was causing cancer and destroying wildlife. In 1972, DDT was banned in the U. S. and ultimately worldwide. As a result of the ban, malaria remained a plague in many poor countries.【F2】 So during the decades in which DDT was not used, when the world bowed to undoubtedly well-intentioned environmental activists, about 50 million people—overwhelmingly African children—died, mostly unnecessarily. Ethanol provides another example. For years, biofuels were heralded as the promising alternative to fossil fuels, yet it turns out biofuel"s environmental impact is much more complicated. In 2008, Time magazine wrote about ethanol"s dubious environmental benefits.【F3】 The article warned that forests, wetlands, and grasslands were being sacrificed in a rush to farm crops that could be turned into gasoline, so the once environmentally favored solution to our energy problems is now recognized as a potential environmental catastrophe. It"s worth noting that, beyond biofuel"s environmental effects, using food for fuel has a significant impact on the worldwide food supply. Prominent environmentalists promise that they are confident that man is causing the Earth to warm, and they don"t want to contemplate alternative theories about how the sun might be responsible for warming, that the warming isn"t unprecedented and therefore could be naturally occurring.【F4】 They don"t want to consider the costs of policies that they want to oppose in the name of combating global warming, or just how ineffectual those policies might be. Yet the public should consider what a significant decline in worldwide wealth will mean, particularly for those who are already poor. 【F5】 Those who question global warming alarmists" claims and policy prescriptions have been compared to massacre deniers, yet what are we to call environmentalists whose policies have resulted in the deaths of millions and could aggravate poverty and hunger? The movie title Not Evil, Just Wrong may be too charitable.

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【F1】 Internet users used to comfort themselves by thinking that to become victims of the pirates of the Web, they had to frequent the online porn circuit or respond to an e-mail from the widowed wife of the former central bank governor of Nigeria. The idea was that one had to do something naughty to get caught in the wrongdoers" net, or at least go for a late-night stroll in the rough end of town. But the conceit has become untenable. Two years ago, engineers at Google reported that about 10 percent of millions of Web pages they analyzed engaged in "drive-by downloads" of malware. Google today has about 330,000 Web sites listed as malicious, up from about 150,000 a year ago. 【F2】 Earlier this month, the Justice Department charged a 28-year-old from Miami and a couple of Russians with stealing 130 million credit card numbers from one of the largest payment processing companies in the world, which should know how to protect its computers from hackers. And last week, McAfee, the maker of antivirus software, reported that fans searching for Hollywood gossip and memorabilia faced a high risk of getting caught up by online bad guys. 【F3】 Searching for the actress Jessica Biel, who won an achievement award at the Newport Beach Film Festival in 2006 and ranked in third place on Maxim magazine"s Hot 100 list last year, is most dangerous, with a 1 in 5 chance of landing at a Web site that tested positive for spyware, adware, spam, phishing, viruses or other noxious stuff. 【F4】 Perhaps cybercops will respond more aggressively to Internet threats as they spread to the more wholesome parts of the Web, like police forces that leave crime alone in the poor parts of town but snap into action when it seeps into middle-class neighborhoods. McAfee, to no one"s surprise, suggests that we buy McAfee software. But with more and more information about people"s credit cards, browsing histories and identities sloshing around online, I wonder whether this will do. A few months ago, I nervously created my first Facebook page with the minimum necessary information to view pictures posted by old friends. I returned to the page a few days later to discover that somehow it had found out both the name of my college and my graduation class, displaying them under my name. I have not returned since.【F5】 In the back of my mind, I fear a 28-year-old hacker and a couple of Russians have gathered two more facts about me that 1 would rather they didn"t have. And it"s way too late to take my life offline.

No company likes to be told it is contributing to the moral decline of a nation. Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers? Senator Robert Dole asked Time Warner executives last week. You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well? At Time Warner, however, such questions are simply the latest manifestation of the soul-searching that has involved the company ever since the company was born in 1990.【F1】 It"s a self-examination that has, at various times, involved issues of responsibility, creative freedom and the corporate bottom line. At the core of this debate is chairman Gerald Levin, 56, who took over for the late Steve Ross in 1992.【F2】 On the financial front, Levin is under pressure to raise the stock price and reduce the company"s mountainous debt, which will increase to $ 17.3 billion after two new cable deals close. He has promised to sell off some of the property and restructure the company, but investors are waiting impatiently. 【F3】 The flap over rap is not making life any easier for him, Levin has consistently defended the company"s rap music on the grounds of expression. In 1992, when Time Warner was under fire for releasing Ice-T"s violent rap song Cop Killer, Levin described rap as lawful expression of street culture, which deserves an outlet.【F4】 The test of any democratic society, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column, lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be. We won"t retreat in the face of any threats. Levin would not comment on the debate last week, but there were signs that the chairman was backing off his hard-line stand, at least to some extent. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month"s stockholders"meeting. Levin asserted that music is not the cause of society"s ills and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students.【F5】 But he talked as well about the balanced struggle between creative freedom and social responsibility, and he announced that the company would launch a drive to develop standards for distribution and labeling of potentially objectionable music. The 15-member Time Warner board is generally supportive of Levin and his corporate strategy. But insiders say several of them have shown their concerns in this matter. "Some of us have known for many, many years that the freedoms under the First Amendment are not totally unlimited," says Luce. I think it is perhaps the case that some people associated with the company have only recently come to realize this.

Your class is going to hold a visit to Beijing. Write a notice to inform your classmates of the information related to the trip. You should write about 100 words neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "class committee" instead. Do not write the address.