阅读理解Directions： There are 2 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statement. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and choose the ONE answer that is most appropriate.Passage 1Will China’ s investment in 3G services and its strength as a manufacturing hub be enough to revive Asia’ s economy?The story of the global recession’ s impact on high— technology industry is written in the red ink of earnings statements, bankruptcies and shotgun consolidations around the world, such is the uncertainty we see during this historic downturn.But the response from governments around the world was swift last autumn, when the first effects of the mortgage industry’ s collapse began rippling around the globe. Today, industry is hoping that government stimulus money will lift all stranded boats.Nowhere is this prospect more intriguing than in Asia, where the confluence of government fiscal policy, emerging electronics businesses and expanding wireless and wired networking needs could lift both the region and the world.Stimulus plans in countries such as China, Japan, Korea and India vary in scope and detail, but there is money in each country’ s plans that will directly or indirectly help to boost the communications sector to one degree or another.Here’ s all overview of each country’ s approach to fiscal stimulus：China-Total fiscal stimulus to date US$586bnStimulus actions target: rural infrastructure; water; electricity; transportation; the environment; technological innovation and rebuilding after disasters such as earthquakes. In addition, China altered some tax laws to stimulate growth and innovation.Among them, it has dropped the tax rate from 25 percent to 15 percent for companies that qualify as “high and new technology enterprises. ” Such companies that establish a presence in China’ s special economic zones or in the Pudong New Area in Shanghai are eligible for a two-year tax holiday, followed by a three-year period in which they pay 12. 5 percent tax. In addition, companies will be able to deduct 150 percent of qualified RD expenses for an unspecified time.Japan-Total fiscal stimulus to date US$104bn (2. 2 percent of GDP)Stimulus money includes: support for household consumption; funds on a priority basis to research advanced technologies and related research; and a reduction of taxes on eco-friendly cars.South Korea-Total fiscal stimulus to date US$26. 1bn (2. 7 percent of GDP)Stimulus money targets green technology and value-added services to build new engines of growth, including: sustainable energy; technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; information technologies; healthcare and tourism. Additional measures include expanding tax breaks for increased RD, cutting some withholding rates on corporations and eliminating penalties on additional tax resulting from transfer pricing adjustments.India-Total fiscal stimulus to date US$6. 5bn (0. 5 percent of GDP)Stimulus actions include: value-added tax cut; infrastructure investments (mostly in rural areas) ; other measures to help businesses.One thread through these plans is what the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD. is calling “the networked recovery” , in which much of a given country’ s hoped-for economic turnaround is tied to investment in information and communications technology(ICT) .“The focus of many plans is on closing the broadband gap by providing universal broadband coverage throughout the country, but mostly in rural and remote areas. Some plans also devote resources to building out new, very high-speed networks, ” the 0ECD reported in June.Where countries have existing and robust communications infrastructures, the stimulus targets may be funnelled toward specific uses. Japan for instance, is spending$29bn in ICT improvements, including building new fibre-optic networks for the medical sector. Another significant source of stimulus money that will affect communications players less directly will come from green-infrastructure initiatives in many countries that aim to deliver a smart electricity-delivery system (smart grid. more energy- efficient buildings and the like.As bellwether for Asian economies, however look no farther than China*, which not only has the biggest stimulus plan in the region but is also an important manufacturing centre for customers around the world. As China goes, so goes the world.“The government is doing good things, lots of stimulus in infrastructure building for 3G. That helps ZTE and Huawei, and the government has big stimulus plans for consumers to buy electronics, ” said Michael Clendenin, co-founder and principal analyst at Red TECH Advisors in Shanghai.China began the construction of in 3G mobile system in earnest in January, issuing 3G licenses to the big three carriers, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom. “The government sees 3G as a great way to get stimulus money into the system, ” Clendenin added. This might result in an investment of up to $40bn, market analyst Gartner Dataquest has estimated.The biggest concentration of 3G builds-out is on China’ s densely populated east coast and in the So-called Tier l cities, such as Beijing. But the government also is targeting rollouts for every regional and provincial capital in the country-more than 30 Tier 2 cities, where the populations are three to five million people, Clendenin said.“When you look at the footprint at the end of this year, the network will be either fully rolled out or have spotty coverage in 200 to 300 cities, ” he said.That massive push is already showing economic results. Equipment and IC vendors are beginning to see some benefit, including at companies such as ZTE. Huawei, Ericsson, Siemens, Qualcomm and PMC-Sierra, which reported that 46 percent of its total sales came from China in the first quarter of 2009.Cartner Dataquest recently reported that Broadcom saw 35. 4 percent of sales come from Asia. Pacific customers in the first quarter of 2009, compared with 27. 2 percent in the first quarter of 2008. Smaller vendors Vitesse Semiconductor and Mind speed Technologies both reported significant exposure to Huawei and ZTE in the first quarter of 2009.During the first five months of the year, revenue among China telecom equipment vendors was$12bn, up l7 percent compared with the same period in2008. That period in 2008 was up just 2. 7 percent from 2007, so the sector is gaining momentum, Clendenin suggested.But how is this build-out trickling down to the shell- shocked semiconductor industry? It’ s a difficult question to answer at this point. If China’ s huge stimulus programme is expected to revive the IC industry, signs of it doing so remain mixed, according to Sergis Mushell, a principal analyst at Gartner.“The most direct impact we’ ve seen is the build-out on wireless 3G infrastructure in Asian economies” . Mushell said. “That’ s turned into orders and semiconductor vendors have seen the effect. The challenge is these orders come in sporadically. ”“Indeed, vendors are experiencing rush orders from companies such as ZTE and Huawei which may create inventory over-build problems in the coming weeks. ” Mushell said.“The deployment of cellular and wire line infrastructure in developing countries, such as India and China, has tended to be sporadic in the past, and current order rates are inciting concerns over potential short-ram over- ordering, ”he wrote in a recent Gartner report with colleagues Peter Middleton and Oliver Xu.Mushell commented: “Put that into perspective, and one thing becomes clear: (IC vendors) are all getting the same call and volume orders, but there is no long-term visibility. ” Given the history of sporadic ordering from China, Mushell said, semiconductor vendors should be cautious about building their inventory.Will Asia s stimulus packages boost the communications industry and revive a deeply scarred electronics industry? The jury is out, since the money is just beginning to make its way through the electronics supply chain. Some observers are skeptical.There are legitimate questions about the effectiveness of fiscal stimulus, especially in economies where the financial system has broken down and where monetary policy can no longer play much of a supporting role, ” Eswar Prasad and Isaac Sorkin wrote this spring in a Brookings Institution report assessing global stimulus plans.“Moreover, excessive government borrowing to finance large budget deficits could itself generate instability, and there are serious concerns about the medium-term sustainability of fiscal positions in economies that are building up public debt at a rapid pace. Given the dire and fast-deteriorating economic situation and the lack of other tools, however, the world may have little choice but to engage in massive front-loaded fiscal expansion. ”The creative destruction that accompanies economic recessions can serve as an opportunity for companies who not only continue to invest in RD but are also lucky-or clever-enough to be in the right place at the right time. Google, Apple, and Samsung, for example, were among a number of companies that maintained or increased spending during the dotcom bust of 2001 to 2003.From any nation’ s standpoint, a similar strategy can both drive years of future prosperity and lift the fortunes of suppliers associated with their spending programmes.Take South Korea. The Asian nation was staggered by the Asian currency crisis of the late 1990s, but the government took steps to modify tax codes and boost spending on areas such as education and RD、 with an eye towards the future. At the time of the currency crisis, there were 3, 000 corporate RD labs in South Korea. That number tripled by 2001, and the number of venture capital firms exploded from100 to 11, 000, according to the OECD report.“Government action helped shape an environment that enabled new businesses to seize upon these emerging opportunities, ” the report noted.

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阅读理解Directions: Read the following passage followed by 5multiple-choice questions. Choose the one best answer toeach of the questions.The Welsh language has always been the ultimate marker ofWelsh identity, but a generation ago it looked as if Welshwould go the way of Manx. Once widely spoken on the isleof Man but now extinct. Government financing and centralplanning, however, has helped reverse the decline ofWelsh. Road signs and official public documents arewritten in both Welsh and English, and schoolchildren arerequired to learn both languages. Welsh is now one of themost successful of Europe’s regional languages, spoken bymore than a half-million of the country’s three millionpeople.The revival of the language, particularly among youngpeople is part of a resurgence of national, identitysweeping through this small, proud nation. Last monthWales marked the second anniversary of the opening of theNational Assembly, the first parliament to be convenedhere since 1404. The idea behind devolution was to restorethe balance within the union of nations making up theUnited Kingdom. With most of the people and wealth,England has always had bragging rights. The partialtransfer of legislative powers from Westminster,implemented by Tony Blair, was designed to give the othermembers of the club-Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales-a bigger say and to counter centrifugal forces that seemedto threaten the very idea of the union.The Welsh showed little enthusiasm for devolution. Whereasthe Scots voted overwhelmingly for a parliament, the votefor a Welsh assembly scraped through by less than onepercent on a turnout of less than 25 percent. Its powerswere proportionately limited. The Assembly can decide howmuch money from Westminster or the European Union isspent. It cannot, unlike its counterpart in Edinburgh,enact laws. But now that it is here, the Welsh are growingto like their Assembly. Many people would like it to havemore powers. Its importance as figurehead will grow withthe opening in 2003, of a new debating chamber, one ofmany new buildings that are transforming Cardiff from adecaying seaport into a Baltimore-style waterfront city.Meanwhile a grant of nearly two million dollars from theEuropean Union will tackle poverty. Wales is one of thepoorest regions in Western Europe-only Spain, Portugal,and Greece have a lower standard of living.Newspapers and magazines are filled with stories aboutgreat Welsh men and women, boosting self-esteem. Tofamiliar faces such as Dylan Thomas and Richard Bartonhave been added new icons such as Catherine Zeta-Jones,the movie star, and Bryn Terfel, the opera singer.Indigenous foods like salt marsh lamb are in vogue, gradWales now boasts a national airline. Awyr Cymru. Cymru,which means “land of compatriots, ” is the Welsh name forWaies. The red dragon, the nation’ s symbol since the timeof King Arthur, is everywhere: on T-shirts, rugby jerseysand even cell phone covers.“Until very recent times most Welsh people had thisfeeling of being second-class citizens, ” said DyfanJones, an 18-year-old student, it was a warm summer night,and I was sitting on the grass with a group of youngpeople in Lianelli, an industrial town in the south,outside the rock music venue of the National Eisteddfod,Wales’ s annual cultural festival. The disused factory infront of us echoed to the sounds of new Welsh bands.“There was almost a genetic tendency for lack ofconfidence, ” Dyfan continued. Equally comfortable in hisWelshness as in his membership in the English-speaking,global vouth culture and the new federal Europe , Dyfan,like the rest of his generation, is growing up with asense of possibility unimaginable ten years ago. “We usedto think. We can’ t do anything, we’ re only Welsh. Now Ithink that’ s changing. ”

阅读理解Passage TwoAccustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as “silent” , the film has never been, in the full sense of the word. From the very beginning, music was regarded as an indispensable accompaniment; when films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were accompanied by piano improvisations on popular tunes. At first, the music played bore no special relationship to the films; an accompaniment of any kind was sufficient.Within a very short time, however, the incongruity of playing lively music to a solemn film became apparent, and film pianists began to take some care in matching their pieces to the mood of the film. As movie theaters grew in number and importance, a violinist, and perhaps a cellist, would be added to the pianist in certain cases, and in the larger movie theaters small orchestras were formed. For a number of years the selection of music for each film program rested entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal qualification for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces. Since the conductor seldom saw the films until the night before they were to be shown (if, indeed, the conductor was lucky enough to see them then) , the musical arrangement as normally improvised in the greatest hurry.To help meet this difficulty, film distributing companies started the practice of publishing suggestions for musical accompaniments. In 1909, for example, the Edison Company began issuing with their films such indications of mood as “pleasant, “sad” , “lively” . The suggestions became more explicit, and so emerged the musical cue sheet containing indications of mood, the titles of suitable pieces of music, and precise directions to show where one piece led into the next.Certain films had music especially composed for them. The most famous of these early special scores was that composed and arranged for D. W. Griffith’ s film Birth of a Nation which was released in 1915.

阅读理解Directions: There are 3 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A. , B. , C. and D. You should decide on the best choice. Write your answers on the answer sheet.Passage OneWilfred Emmanuel-Jones was a teenager before he saw his first cow in his first field. Born in Jamaica, the 47- year-old grew up in inner-city Birmingham before making a career as a television producer and launching his own marketing agency. But deep down he always nurtured every true Englishman’ s dream of a rustic life, a dream that his entrepreneurial wealth has allowed him to satisfy. These days he ’ s the owner of a thriving 12-hectare farm in deepest Devon with cattle, sheep and pigs. His latest business venture: pushing his brand of Black Fanner gourmet sausages and barbecue sauces. “My background may be very urban, ” says Emmanuel-Jones. “But it has given me a good idea of what other urbanites want. ”Emmanuel-Jones joins a herd of wealthy fugitives from city life who are bringing a new commercial know-how to British farming. Britains burgeoning farmers markets-numbers have doubled to at least 500 in the last five years—swarm with specialty cheesecakes, beekeepers or organic smallholders who are redeploying the business skills they learned in the city. “Everyone in the rural community has to come to terms with the fact that things have changed” , says Emmanuel-Jones. “ You can produce the best food in the world, but if you don’ t know how to market it, you are wasting your time. We are helping the traditionalists to move on. ”The emergence of the new class of super peasants reflects some old yearnings. If the British were the first nation to industrialize, they were also the first to head back to the land. “There is this romantic image of the countryside that is particularly English, ” says Alun Howkins of the University of Sussex, who reckons the population of rural England has been rising since 1911. Migration into rural areas is now running at about 100, 000 a year, and the hunger for a taste of the rural life has kept land prices buoyant even as agricultural incomes tumble. About 40 percent of all farmland is now sold to “ lifestyle buyers” rather than the dwindling number of traditional farmers, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.What ’s new about the latest returnees is their affluence and zeal for the business of producing quality foods, if only at a micro-level. A healthy economy and surging London house prices have helped to ease the escape of the would-be rustics. The media recognize and feed the fantasy. One of the big TV hits of recent years, the “ River Cottage” series, chronicled the attempts of a London chef to run his own Dorset farm. Naturally, the newcomers can’t hope to match their city salaries, but many are happy to trade any loss of income for the extra job satisfaction. Who cares if there ’s no six-figure annual bonus when the land offers other incalculable compensations?Besides, the specialist producers can at least depend on a burgeoning market for their products. Today 5 s eco-aware generation loves to seek out authentic ingredients. “People like me may be making a difference in a small way, ” Jan McCourt, a onetime investment banker now running his own 40-hectare spread in the English Midlands stocked with rare breeds. Optimists see signs of far- reaching change: Britain isn ’ t catching up with mainland Europe; it ’ s leading the way. “Unlike most other countries, where artisanal food production is being eroded, here it is being recovered, ” says food writer Matthew Fort. “It may be the mark of the next stage of civilization that we rediscover the desirability of being a peasant. ”

阅读理解Directions: There are 4 passages followed by somequestions or unfinished statements, you should answer thequestions or decide on the best choice on the AnswerSheet.Passage 3There is a great deal of controversy within the medicalprofession regarding the use and value of the coronarybypass procedure, and for more than eight years theAmerican Heart Association has discussed the question atits regular scientific sessions.The bypass operation consists of open heart surgery inwhich the physician takes a vein from the patient’ s legand implants it near the heart to construct a passagearound the blockage in a clogged artery so that blood canflow freely by. The operation performed on about 100, 000persons a year in the US and costs approximately $10, 000.The procedure is designed to relieve the pain of anginapectoris which occurs when the blood supply’ s obstructedand also to allow the patient more freedom of sustainedactivity.In persons with advanced heart disease and blockage inseveral arteries, the bypass operation is considered bymost doctors to be the preferable means of prolonginglife. In the case of those with a less advanced disease,or where only one artery is involved, the advisability ofthe procedure is much more controversial. The operationdoesn’ t cure the disease that caused the blocked arteryin the first place. According to some studies, somewherearound half of the patients have another blocked arterywithin five years, and in some cases even within one year.There is of course a mortality rate in any major operationwhich varies from physician to physician and hospital tohospital. The danger to the patient is greatly increasedif he is in generally poor condition, very advanced inage, or suffering from some serious or debilitatingillness. It is essential that the operation be performedby a skilled surgeon knowledgeable about this particulartechnique and in a hospital with the best possiblefacilities for his use.

阅读理解Directions: There are 7 passages in this section. Eachpassage is followed by some questions or unfinishedstatements. For each of them there are four choices markedA, B, C, and D. You should decide on the best choice.Passage 1Reebok executives do not like to hear their stylishathletic shoes called footwear for yuppies. They contendthat Reebok shoes appeal to diverse market segments,especially now that the company offers basketball andchildren’ s shoes for the under-18 set and walking shoesfor older customers not interested in aerobics or running.The executives also point out that through recentacquisitions they have added hiking boots, dress andcasual shoes, and high-performance athletic footwear totheir product lines, all of which should attract new andvaried groups of customers.Still, despite its emphasis on new markets, Reebok plansfew changes in the upmarket retailing network that helpedpush sales to $ 1 billion annually, ahead of all othersports shoe marketers. Reebok shoes, which are priced from$ 27 to $ 85, will continue to be sold only in betterspecialty, sporting goods, and department stores, inaccordance with the company’ s view that consumers judgethe quality of the brand by the quality of itsdistribution.In the past few years, the Massachusetts-based company hasimposed limits on the number of its distributors (and thenumber of shoes supplied to stores) , partly out ofnecessity. At times the unexpected demand for Reebok’ sexceeded supply, and the company could barely keep up withorders from the dealers it already had. These fulfillmentproblems seem to be under control now, but the company isstill selective about its distributors. At present, Reebokshoes arc available in about five thousand retail storesin the United States.Reebok has already anticipated that walking shoes will bethe next fitness-related craze, replacing aerobics shoesthe same way its brightly colored, soft leather exercisefootwear replaced conventional running shoes. Throughproduct diversification and careful market research,Reebok hopes to avoid the distribution problems Nike cameacross several years ago, when Nike misjudged the strengthof the aerobics shoe craze and was forced to unload hugeinventories of running shoes through discount stores.

阅读理解Directions: There are 3 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A. , B. , C. and D. You should decide on the best choice. Write your answers on the answer sheet.Passage OneUp to the beginning of the twentieth century, the nervous system was thought to control all communication within the body and the resulting integration of behavior. Scientists had determined that nerves ran, essentially, on electrical impulses. These impulses were thought to be the engine for thought, emotion, movement, and internal processes such as digestion. However, experiments by William Bayliss and Ernest Starling on the chemical secretin, which is produced in the small intestine when food enters the stomach, eventually, challenged that view. From the small intestine，secretin travels through the bloodstream to the pancreas. There, it stimulates the release of digestive chemicals. In this fashion, the intestinal cells that produce secretin ultimately regulate the production of different chemicals in a different organ the pancreas.Such a coordination of processes had been thought to require control by the nervous system; Bayliss and Starling showed that it could occur through chemicals alone. This discovery purred Starling to coin the term hormone to refer to secretin, taking it from the Greek word hormone, meaning “ to excite” or “ to set in motion. ” A hormone is a chemical produced by one tissue to make things happen elsewhere.As more hormones were discovered, they were categorized, primarily according to the process by (which they operated on the body. Some glands make up the endocrine system) secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream. Such glands include the thyroid and the pituitary. The exocrine system consists of organs and glands that produce substances that are used outside the bloodstream, primarily for digestion. The pancreas is one such organ, although it secretes some chemicals into the blood and thus is also part of the endocrine system.Much has been learned about hormones since their discovery. Some play such key roles in regulating bodily processes or behavior that their absence would cause immediate death. The most abundant hormones have effects that are less obviously urgent but can be more far- reaching and difficult to track. They modify moods and affect human behavior, even some behavior we normally think of as voluntary. Hormonal systems are very intricate. Even minute amounts of the right chemicals can suppress appetite, calm aggression, and change the attitude of a parent toward a child. Certain hormones accelerate the development of the body, regulating growth and form; others may even define an individual^ personality characteristics. The quantities and proportions of hormones produced change with age, so scientists have given a great deal of study to shifts in the endocrine system over time in the hopes of alleviating ailments associated with aging.In fact, some hormone therapies are already very common. A combination of estrogen and progesterone has been prescribed for decades to women who want to reduce mood swings, sudden changes in body temperature, and other discomforts caused by lower natural levels of those hormones as they enter middle age. Known as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) , the treatment was also believed to prevent weakening of the bones. At least one study has linked HRT with a heightened risk of heart disease and certain types of cancer. HRT may also increase the likelihood that blood clots-dangerous because they could travel through the bloodstream and block major blood vessels-will form. Some proponents of HRT have tempered their enthusiasm in the face of this new evidence, recommending it only to patients whose symptoms interfere with their abilities to live normal lives.Human growth hormone may also be given to patients who are secreting abnormally low amounts on their own. Because of the complicated effects growth hormone has on the body, such treatments are generally restricted to children who would be pathologically small in stature without it. Growth hormone affects not just physical si2S but also the digestion of food and the aging process. Researchers and family physicians tend to agree that it is foolhardy to dispense it in cases in which the risks are not clearly outweighed by the benefits.

阅读理解Complete the summary using the list of words, A—K, below. Write the correct letter, A—K, from the box below, on your answer sheet.Suggestopedia uses a less direct method of suggestion than other techniques such as hypnosis. However, Lozanov admits that a certain amount of 【A9】 _____ is necessary in order to convince students, even if this is just a 【A10】 _____. Furthermore, if the method is to succeed, teachers must follow a set procedure. Although Lozanov’ s method has become quite 【A11】 _____, the results of most other teachers using this method have been 【A12】 _____.

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阅读理解Sabine Island, near Greenland, was first discovered by the British geographer Sir Edward Sabine in 1823, but an 1869 map showed it was actually a quarter of a mile farther west than its discoverer had mapped. This interested Alfred Wegener, a young geographer working in Greenland in 1910. He thought the error too great to be explained.Wegener himself took measurements and found that since 1869 the island had moved another five eighths of a mile. After checking the position of other Arctic landmasses, he concluded that all of them were drifting westward at different speeds.From this finding, Wegener developed his floating continent theory. He imagined an original super continent making up the infant earth, finally the mass broke up into several pieces—the present continents. The continents do seem to fit together like pieces of a puzzle, and what’s more, some of the mountain ranges of different continents line up rather well, as if the landmasses were at one time connected. However, believable as Wegener’s argument appeared, many geographers refused to accept it. Exactly how the continents were formed is still a leading mystery in geography, though today many geographers are returning to the continental drift theory.

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作文题Directions: In this part, you are required to write a composition on the topic: Should “ Golden Week ” be Canceled? You should write at least 400 words. Write you composition on the answer sheet. 

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