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Part I Reading Comprehension (40% )

Passage 1

A wise man once said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. So，as a police officer, I have some urgent things to say to good people.

Day after day my men and I struggle to hold back a tidal wave of crime. Something has gone terribly wrong with our once-proud American way of life. It has happened in the area of values. A key ingredient is disappearing, and I think I know what it is: accountability. Accountability isn’t hard to define. It means that every person is responsible for his or her actions and liable for their consequences.

Of the many values that hold civilization together-honesty, kindness, and so on ——accountability may be the most important of all. Without it, there can be no respect, no trust, no law — and ultimately ,no society. My job as a police officer is to impose accountability on people who refuse, or have never learned, to impose it on themselves. But as every policeman knows, external controls on people’s behavior are far less effective than internal restraints such as guilt, shame and embarrassment. Fortunately there still communities — smaller towns, usually — where schools maintaining discipline and where parents hold up standards that proclaimIn this family certain things are not tolera-

ted —they simply are not done! ”

Yet more and more, especially in our larger cities and suburbs, these inner restrains are loosening. Your typical robber has none. He considers your property his property ； he takes what he wants, including your life if you enrage him. The main cause of this breakdown is a radical shift in attitudes. Thirty years ago, if a crime was committed, society was considered the victim. Now, in a shocking reversal, it’s the criminal who is considered victimized: by his underprivileged upbringing, by the school that didn’t teach him to read,

by the church that failed to reach him with moral guidance, by the parents who didn’t provide a stable home.

I don’t believe it. Many others in equally disadvantaged circumstances choose not to engage in criminal activities. If we free the criminal, even partly, from accountability, we become a society of endless excuses, where no one accepts responsibility for anything. We in America desperately need more people who believe that the person who commits a crime is the one responsible for it.

1. What the wise man said suggests that .

A. It’s unnecessary for good people to do anything in face of evil

B. It’s certain that evil will prevail if good men do nothing about it

C. It’s only natural for virtue to defeat evil

D. It’s desirable for good men to keep away from evil

2. According to the author, if a person is found guilty of a crime, .

A. society is held to be responsible

B. modem civilization is responsible for it

G. the criminal himself should bear the blame

D. the standards of living should be improved

3. Compared with those in small towns, people in large cities have .

A. less self-discipline B. better sense of discipline

C. more mutual respect D. less effective government

4. The writer is sorry to have noticed that .

A. people in large cities tend to excuse criminals

B. people in small towns still stick to old discipline and standards

C. today’s society lacks sympathy for people in difficulty

D. people in disadvantaged circumstances are engaged in criminal activities

Passage 2

Encouraged by the policy that fosters auto market for the country’s over 200 million families, automotive trading companies have mushroomed in all provinces and autonomous regions. Service companies are also formed to profit by gathering information on automotive operation and organizing advertising and public relations campaigns for auto makers. Many daily newspapers have set aside one or more pages to regularly carry news and information in the area. Dozens of car magazines seem to have leapt into being overnight.

However, opinions about automotive development are varied. Many Chinese believe millions of additional motor vehicles will worsen the traffic problem and tail-gas-related environmental pollution. With some 10 million motor vehicles of which some 1.5 million are towns. And parking has increasingly become a headache. Petrol is another problem. China produces 142 million tons of crude oil a year； which translates into a very low per capita average. By 1993, China had already become a net importer of oil. But it cannot import much more oil by spending enormous foreign exchange to feed tens of millions for motor vehicles.

Despite all the disagreements, China needs a rapid development of the automotive industry which will boost many other industries including metallurgy, rubber, petro-chemical, plastic，textiles, electronics and machinery. More important, it will boost construction of roads and parking facilities and promote progress of environment-related technologies.

Chinese automotive industrial experts predict that new fields in the trade will emerge to absorb domestic and overseas, investment. These include production of new auto materials, refinery of fuel (non-lead gasoline, etc. ) and development of new energy.

5. According to the first paragraph, what is the result of the policy on auto market?

A. Automotive trading companies sprang up.

B. Service companies are making money by providing information for the auto makers.

C. Many newspapers and magazine regularly carry news and information on automotive industries.

D. All of the above.

6. Which is not mentioned at the problems caused by the automotive industry?

A. The traffic problem is getting worse.

B. There is tail-gas-related environmental pollution.

C. There is petrol shortage.

D. People’s per-capita income becomes lower.

7. The rapid development of automotive industry is important because .

A. other industries need co-operation of the automotive industry

B. it can stimulate oil import

C. it will boost construction of roads and parking facilities

D. it will gain more profit

8. Which of the following is implied but not stated in the passage?

A. A nation’s policy on economy can affect its economic behavior greatly.

B. It’s easy to make money by establishing some new industries.

C. Many people don’t agree on a fast development of automotive industry.

D. Some Chinese automotive industrial experts predict that new fields in the automotive trade will emerge to absorb domestic and overseas investment.

Passage 3

The way people hold to the belief that a fun filled，painfree life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve same pain. «

As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, self-improvement. Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moment are but they are not its most distinguishing features. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three-day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild. Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new ear or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy： We now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.

9. According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because .

A. he is reluctant to take on family responsibilities

B. he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single

C. he finds more fun in dating than in marriage

D. he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement

10. Raising children, in the author’s opinion is .

A. a moral duty B. a thankless job

C. a rewarding task D. a source of inevitable pain

11. From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from .

A. hatred B. misunderstanding

C. prejudice D. ignorance

12. To understand what true happiness is one must .

A. have as much fun as possible during one’s lifetime

B. make every effort to liberate oneself from pain

C. put up with pain under all circumstances

D. be able to distinguish happiness from fun

Passage 4

Fried foods have long been frowned upon. Nevertheless, the skillet is about our handiest and most useful piece of kitchen equipment. Stalwart lumberjacks and others engaged in active labor requiring 4,000 calories per day or more will take approximately one-third of their rations prepared in this fashion. Meat, eggs, and French toast cooked in this way are served in millions of homes daily. Apparently the consumers are not beset with more signs of indigestion than afflict those who insist upon broiling, roasting, or boiling. Some years ago one of our most eminent physiologists investigated the digestibility of fried potatoes. He found that the pan variety was more easily broken down for assimilation than when deep fat was employed. The letter, however, dissolved within the alimentary tract more readily than the boiled type. Furthermore, he learned, by watching the progress of the contents of stomach by means of the fluoroscope，that fat actually accelerated the rate of digestion. Now all this is quite in contrast with “authority”. Volumes have been written on nutrition, and everywhere the dictum has been accepted — no fried edibles of any sort for children. A few will go so far as to forbid this style of cooking wholly. Now and then an expert will be bold enough to admit that he uses them himself, the absence of discomfort being explained on the ground that he possesses a powerful gastric apparatus. We can of course sizzle perfectly good articles to death so that they will be leathery and tough. But thorough heating, in the presence of shortening, is not the awful crime that it has been labeled. Such dishes stimulate rather than retard contractions of the gall bladder. Thus it is that bile mixes with the nutriment shortly after it leaves the stomach.

We don’t need to allow our foodstuffs to become oil soaked, but other than that, there seems to be no basis for the widely heralded prohibition against this method. But notions become fixed. The first condemnation probably arose because an “oracle” suffered from dyspepsia which he ascribed to some fried item on the menu. The theory spread. Others agreed with him, and after a time the doctrine became incorporated in our textbooks. The belief is now tradition rather than proved fact. It should have been refuted long since, as experience has demonstrated its falsity.

13. This passage is primarily concerned with .

A. why the skillet is a handy piece of kitchen equipment

B. the digestibility of fried foods

C. why fried goods have long been frowned upon

D. methods of preparing foods

14. The main idea of this passage is that .

A. contrary to popular opinion, fried goods are more easily assimilated than boiled goods

B. fried goods are more easily digested than boiled foods though authorities believe the opposite to be true

C. the public should eat more fried foods since they are as easily digested as boiled goods

D. despite the traditional condemnation of fried goods, they are easily digested as foods cooked in other ways

15. Apparently much fried food is eaten because .

A. it is easily prepared

B. people engaged in active labor need the calories that fat supplies

C. it is easily digested

D. people do not read about nutrition

16. The author strongly implies that the public should

A. avoid fried goods if possible

B. prepare some foods by frying

C. fry foods intended for adults but not for children

D. avoid deep fat frying but otherwise fry selected foods

Passage 5

Justice in society must include both a fair trial to the accused and the selection of an appropriate punishment for those proven utility. Because justice is regarded as one form of equality，we find in its earlier expression the idea of a punishment equal to the crime. Recorded in the Old Testament is the expression “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. ’’ That is, the individual who has done wrong has committed an offense, society must get even. This can be done only by inflicting an equal injury upon him. This conception of retributive justice is reflected in many parts of the legal codes and procedures of modem times. It is illustrated when demand the death penalty for a person who has com-

mitted murder. This philosophy of punishment was supported by the German idealist Hegel. He believed that society owed it to the criminal to administer a punishment equal to the crime he had committed. The criminal had by his own actions denied his true self and it is necessary to do something that will counteract the denial and restore the self has been denied. To the murderer nothing less than giving up his own life will pay his debt. The exaction of the death penalty is a right the state owes the criminal and it should not deny him his true.

Modem jurists have tried to replace retributive justice with the notion of corrective justice. The aim of the latter is not to abandon the concept of equality but to find a more adequate way to express it. It tries to preserve the idea of equal opportunity for each individual to realize the best that is in him. The criminal is regarded as being socially ill and in need of treatment that will enable him to become a normal member society. Before a treatment can be administered, the cause of his antisocial behavior must be found. If the cause can be removed, provisions must be made to have this done.

Only those criminal who are incurable should be permanently separated from the rest of society. This does not mean that criminals will escape punishment or be quickly returned to take up careers of crime. It means that justice is to heal the individual, not simply to get even with him, If severe punishment is the only adequate means for accomplishing this, it should be administered. However, the individual should be given every opportunity to assume a normal place in society. His conviction of crime must not deprive him of the opportunity to make his way in the society of which he is a part.

17. The best title for this passage is .

A. Fitting Punishment to the Crime

B. Approaches to Just Punishment

C. Improvement in Legal Justice

D. Attaining Justice in the Courts

18. Hegel would view the death sentence for murder as .

A. inadequate justice

B. an admission of not being able to cure a disease

C. the best way for society to get revenge

D. an inalienable birthright of the murderer

19. The passage implies that the basic difference between retributive justice and corrective justice is

the .

A. type of crime that was proven

B. severity of the punishment

C. reason for the sentence

D. outcome of the trial

20. The punishment that would be most inconsistent with the views of corrective justice would

be •

A. forced brain surgery

C. solitary confinement

Part II Cloze Test (10% )

Probation offers another way to 21 a jail sentence. The person is given a suspended sentence and is set free. The 22 of probation are to allow those who can 23 in normal society and to help them not to repeat their crimes. The decision as 24 who should be placed on probation and who should go behind bars is 25 to the judge. Parole, which 26 people in prison to finish their terms in the outside world is another way of 27 the number of inmates in our prisons. But 28 , unless something is done to help the person on parole, there is a good chance that he will wind up 29 in prison. In the past, a parole officer used to keep in 30 with the person on parole and tried to help him 31 up a normal life. Re- cent studies have found, 32 , that parole officers themselves need help. There are just not enough 33 them to go around. One system that might be an 34 remedy for this problem seems to be the halfway house.

Halfway houses offer job and personal 35 services for paroles. Society has no control over 36 who are released when their jail terms are 37 While a person is on parole, however, authorities 38 halfway houses can keep very close 39 with paroles and help with problems of 40 to normal life.

21. A. carry B. serve C. pass D. avoid

22. A. plans B. purposes c. aspirations D. schemes

23. A. to remain B. remain c. not remain D. be remained

24. A. about B. from c. to D. for

25. A. due B. up c. owing D. on

26. A. allows B. admits c. promises D. promotes

27. A. deducing B. producing c. inducing D. reducing

28. A. also B. then c. again D. ever

29. A. ahead B. away c. back D. off

30. A. step B. touch c. sight D. pace

31. A. fed B. laid c. made D. set

32. A. however B. but c. yet D. moreover

33. A. with B. for c. of D. about

34. A. efficient B. effective c. effectual D. affective

35. A. consoling B. counting c. consulting D. counseling

36. A. ex-convicts B. ex-convictions c. ex-convinces D. ex-convicting

37. A. up B. out c. off D. past

38. A. to B. of c. at D. by

Part DI Translation (30% )

Section A Translate the following into Chinese (20%)

1. Man created language. It was man’s way of communicating with his fellow man. The difference between oral and written language was that oral language could take the human voice to infuse it with the shades of deeper meaning. Mrs. Flowers was nearly singing when she read A Tale of Two Cities. It sounded beautiful. Her reading made me realize the wonder of language. Mrs. Flowers gave me novels and poems. I learned value of life from these books and realized how beautiful the language of literature works was.

2. People have a short attention span. So in order to capture the viewers’ attention, television must provide constant stimulation through variety, novelty, action and movement. The result of doing so is that news is too brief and results in inefficient communication. Many news programs are like u machine-gunning” with scraps and fight coherence of mind. The appeal to the short attention will decivilize as well. To avoid complexity means to give up thinking. The “functionally illiterates” among adult Americans are continually increasing. They even do not know how to answer the want ad. Or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle. At least television should be responsible for part of it.

Section B Translate the following into English (10%)

美国联邦政府的立法部门由两院组成。参议院有100名(每州两名)议员，众议院有435名议员。每一议员代表各州之选举区，根据较高法院规定，各选区人口约相等。众议员须年满25岁以上，且是该州的居民，并且已为美国公民7年，经由两年一期的普选产生。参议员须年满30岁，为所选举州的居民，且已为美国公民9年，也由普选产生。

Part IV Writing (20% )

You are expected to write a composition of at least 200 words on the topic of “My Opinion on the Reformation of China’s Medical Treatment System”.

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