National Entrance Test Of English For MA/MS Candidates (2001)
(NETEM 2001)

Part 1 Structure and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions:
Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices marked £ÛA£Ý,£ÛB£Ý,£ÛC£Ý and
£ÛD£Ý.Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1
by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (5 points)
Example:
I have been to the Great Wall three times _________ 1979.
£ÛA£Ýfrom £ÛB£Ýafter £ÛC£Ýfor £ÛD£Ýsince
he sentence should read, 'I have been to the Great Wall three times since 1979.' Therefore, you
should choose £ÛD£Ý.
Sample Answer
£ÛA£Ý£ÛB£Ý£ÛC£Ý£Û¡ö£Ý
1. If I were in movie, then it would be about time that I _________ my head in my hands for a cry.
£ÛA£Ýbury £ÛB£Ýam burying £ÛC£Ýburied £ÛD£Ýwould bury
2. 2.Good news was sometimes released prematurely, with the British recapture of the port
_________ half a day before the defenders actually surrendered.
3. £ÛA£Ýto announce £ÛB£Ýannounced £ÛC£Ýannouncing £ÛD£Ýwas announced
4. 3.According to one belief, if truth is to be known it will make itself apparent, so one _________
wait instead of searching for it.
5. £ÛA£Ýwould rather £ÛB£Ýhad to £ÛC£Ýcannot but £ÛD£Ýhad best
6. 4.She felt suitably humble just as she _________ when he had first taken a good look at her city
self, hair waved and golden, nails red and pointed.
7. £ÛA£Ýhad £ÛB£Ýhad had £ÛC£Ýwould have and £ÛD£Ýhas had
8. .There was no sign that Mr. Jospin, who keeps a firm control on the party despite _________
from leadership of it, would intervene personally.
£ÛA£Ý being resigned £ÛB£Ýhaving resigned
£ÛC£Ýgoing to resign £ÛD£Ýresign
6.So involved with their computers _________ that leaders at summer computer camps often
have to force them to break for sports and games.
£ÛA£Ýbecame the children £ÛB£Ýbecome the children
£ÛC£Ýhad the children become £ÛD£Ýdo the children become
7.The individual TV viewer invariably senses that he or she is _________ an anonymous,
statistically insignificant part of a huge and diverse audience.
£ÛA£Ýeverything except £ÛB£Ýanything but
£ÛC£Ýno less than £ÛD£Ýnothing more than
8.One difficulty in translation lies in obtaining a concept match. _________ this is meant that a
concept in one language is lost or changed in meaning in translation.
£ÛA£ÝBy £ÛB£ÝIn £ÛC£ÝFor £ÛD£ÝWith
9.Conversation becomes weaker in a society that spends so much time listening and being talked
to _________ it has all but lost the will and the skill to speak for itself.
£ÛA£Ýas £ÛB£Ýwhich £ÛC£Ýthat £ÛD£Ýwhat
10.Church as we use the word refers to all religious institutions, _________ they Christian,
Islamic, Buddhist, Jewish, and so on.
£ÛA£Ýbe £ÛB£Ýbeing £ÛC£Ýwere £ÛD£Ýare

Section B
Directions:
Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices marked £ÛA£Ý,£ÛB£Ý,£ÛC£Ý and
£ÛD£Ý.Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET
1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the rackets with a pencil. (10 points)
Example:
The lost car of the Lees was found _________ in the woods off the highway.
£ÛA£Ývanished £ÛB£Ýscattered £ÛC£Ýabandoned £ÛD£Ýrejected
The sentence should read. 'The lost car of the Lees was found abandoned in the woods off the
highway.' There fore, you should choose £ÛC£Ý.
Sample Answer
£ÛA£Ý£ÛB£Ý£Û¡ö£Ý£ÛD£Ý
11.He is too young to be able to _________ between right and wrong.
£ÛA£Ýdiscard £ÛB£Ýdiscern £ÛC£Ýdisperse £ÛD£Ýdisregard
12.It was no _________ that his car was seen near the bank at the time of the robbery.
£ÛA£Ýcoincidence £ÛB£Ýconvention £ÛC£Ýcertainty £ÛD£Ýcomplication
13.One of the responsibilities of the Coast Guard is to make sure that all ships _________
follow traffic rules in busy harbors.
£ÛA£Ýcautiously £ÛB£Ýdutifully £ÛC£Ýfaithfully £ÛD£Ýskillfully
14.The Eskimo is perhaps one of the most trusting and considerate of all Indians but seems to be
_________ the welfare of his animals.
£ÛA£Ýcritical about£ÛB£Ýindignant at £ÛC£Ýindifferent to£ÛD£Ýsubject to
15.The chairman of the board _________ on me the unpleasant job of dismissing good workers
the firm can no longer afford to employ.
£ÛA£Ýcompelled £ÛB£Ýposed £ÛC£Ýpressed £ÛD£Ýtempted
16.It is naive to expect that any society can resolve all the social problems it is faced with
_________,
£ÛA£Ýfor long £ÛB£Ýin and out £ÛC£Ýonce for all £ÛD£Ýby nature
17.Using extremely different decorating schemes in adjoining rooms may result in _________
and lack of unity in style.
£ÛA£Ýconflict £ÛB£Ýconfrontation£ÛC£Ýdisturbance £ÛD£Ýdisharmony
18.The Timber rattlesnake is now on the endangered species list, and is extinct in two eastern
states in which it once _________.
£ÛA£Ýthrived £ÛB£Ýswelled £ÛC£Ýprospered £ÛD£Ýflourished
19.However, growth in the fabricated metals industry was able to _________ some of the
decline in the iron and steel industry.
£ÛA£Ýoverturn £ÛB£Ýovertake £ÛC£Ýoffset £ÛD£Ýoppress
20.Because of its intimacy, radio is usually more than just a medium; it is _________.
£ÛA£Ýfirm £ÛB£Ýcompany £ÛC£Ýcorporation £ÛD£Ýenterprise
21.When any non-human organ is transplanted into a person, the body immediately recognizes it
as _________.
£ÛA£Ýnovel £ÛB£Ýremote £ÛC£Ýdistant £ÛD£Ýforeign
22.My favorite radio song is the one I first heard on a thick 1923 Edison disc I _________ at a
garage sale.ª¤
£ÛA£Ýtrifled with £ÛB£Ýscraped through£ÛC£Ýstumbled upon£ÛD£Ýthirsted for
23.Some day software will translate both written and spoken language so well that the need for
any common second language could _________.
£ÛA£Ýdescend £ÛB£Ýdecline £ÛC£Ýdeteriorate £ÛD£Ýdepress
24.Equipment not _________ official safety standards has all been removed from the
workshop.ª¤
£ÛA£Ýconforming to £ÛB£Ýconsistent with
£ÛC£Ýpredominant over £ÛD£Ýproviding for
25.As an industry, biotechnology stands to _________ electronics in dollar volume and perhaps
surpass it in social impact by 2020.ª¤
£ÛA£Ýcontend £ÛB£Ýcontest £ÛC£Ýrival £ÛD£Ýstrive
26.The authors of the United States Constitution attempted to establish an effective national
government while preserving _________ for the states and liberty for individuals.ª¤
£ÛA£Ýautonomy £ÛB£Ýdignity £ÛC£Ýmonopoly £ÛD£Ýstabilit
27.For three quarters of its span on Earth, life evolved almost _________ as microorganisms.
£ÛA£Ýprecisely £ÛB£Ýinstantly £ÛC£Ýinitially £ÛD£Ýexclusively
28.The introduction of gunpowder gradually made the bow and arrow _________, particularly
in Western Europe.ª¤
£ÛA£Ýobscure £ÛB£Ýobsolete £ÛC£Ýoptional £ÛD£Ýoverlapping
29.Whoever formulated the theory of the origin of the universe, it is just _________ and needs
proving.ª¤
£ÛA£Ýspontaneous £ÛB£Ýhypothetical £ÛC£Ýintuitive £ÛD£Ýempirical
30.The future of this company is _________: many of its talented employees are flowing into
more profitable net-based businesses.ª¤
£ÛA£Ýat odds £ÛB£Ýin trouble £ÛC£Ýin vain £ÛD£Ýat stake

Part 2 Cloze Test
Directions:
For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked £ÛA£Ý,£ÛB£Ý,
£ÛC£Ý and £ÛD£Ý. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by
blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (10 points)
The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people
involved in prominent cases 31 the trial of Rosemary West.
In a significant ª©32ªª of legal controls over the press. Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will
introduce a ª©33ªª bill that will propose making payments to witnesses ª©34ªª and will strictly
control the amount of ª©35ªª that can be given to a case ª©36ªª a trial begins.
In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee. Lord
Irvine said he ª©37ªª with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not
ª©38ªª sufficient control.
39ªª of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a ª©40ªª of media protest when he said
the ª©41ªª of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges ª©42ªª to
Parliament.
The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which 43ªª the European
Convention on Human Rights legally ª©44ªª in Britain, laid down that everybody was ª©45ªª to
privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.
'Press freedoms will be in safe hands ª©46ªª our British judges,' he said.
Witness payments became an ª©47ªª after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to
19 witnesses were ª©48ªª to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers.
Concerns were raised ª©49ªª witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to
ª©50ªª guilty verdicts.
31£®£ÛA£Ýas to £ÛB£Ýfor instance £ÛC£Ýin particular£ÛD£Ýsuch as
32£®£ÛA£Ýtightening £ÛB£Ýintensifying £ÛC£Ýfocusing £ÛD£Ýfastening
33£®£ÛA£Ýsketch £ÛB£Ýrough £ÛC£Ýpreliminary £ÛD£Ýdraft
34£®£ÛA£Ýillogical £ÛB£Ýillegal £ÛC£Ýimprobable £ÛD£Ýimproper
35£®£ÛA£Ýpublicity £ÛB£Ýpenalty £ÛC£Ýpopularity £ÛD£Ýpeculiarity
36£®£ÛA£Ýsince £ÛB£Ýif £ÛC£Ýbefore £ÛD£Ýas
37£®£ÛA£Ýsided £ÛB£Ýshared £ÛC£Ýcomplied £ÛD£Ýagreed
38£®£ÛA£Ýpresent £ÛB£Ýoffer £ÛC£Ýmanifest £ÛD£Ýindicate
39£®£ÛA£ÝRelease £ÛB£ÝPublication £ÛC£ÝPrinting £ÛD£ÝExposure
40£®£ÛA£Ýstorm £ÛB£Ýrage £ÛC£Ýflare £ÛD£Ýflash
41£®£ÛA£Ýtranslation £ÛB£Ýinterpretation£ÛC£Ýexhibition £ÛD£Ýdemonstration
42£®£ÛA£Ýbetter than £ÛB£Ýother than £ÛC£Ýrather than £ÛD£Ýsooner than
43£®£ÛA£Ýchanges £ÛB£Ýmakes £ÛC£Ýsets £ÛD£Ýturns
44£®£ÛA£Ýbinding £ÛB£Ýconvincing £ÛC£Ýrestraining £ÛD£Ýsustaining
45£®£ÛA£Ýauthorized £ÛB£Ýcredited £ÛC£Ýentitled £ÛD£Ýqualified
46£®£ÛA£Ýwith £ÛB£Ýto £ÛC£Ýfrom £ÛD£Ýby
47£®£ÛA£Ýimpact £ÛB£Ýincident £ÛC£Ýinference £ÛD£Ýissue
48£®£ÛA£Ýstated £ÛB£Ýremarked £ÛC£Ýsaid £ÛD£Ýtold
49£®£ÛA£Ýwhat £ÛB£Ýwhen £ÛC£Ýwhich £ÛD£Ýthat
50£®£ÛA£Ýassure £ÛB£Ýconfide £ÛC£Ýensure £ÛD£Ýguarantee

Part 3 Reading Comprehension
Directions:
Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each question there are four
answers marked £ÛA£Ý,£ÛB£Ý,£ÛC£Ý and £ÛD£Ý.Read the passages carefully and choose the best
answer to each of the questions. Then mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening
the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil.(40 points)ª¤

Passage 1
Specialization can be seen as a response to the problem of an increasing accumulation of
scientific knowledge. By splitting up the subject matter into smaller units, one man could continue
to handle the information and use it as the basis for further research. But specialization was only
one of a series of related developments in science affecting the process of communication.
Another was the growing professionalisation of scientific activity.ª¥
No clear-cut distinction can be drawn between professionals and amateurs in science:
exceptions can be found to any rule. Nevertheless, the word 'amateur' does carry a connotation that
the person concerned is not fully integrated into the scientific community and, in particular, may
not fully share its values. The growth of specialization in the nineteenth century, with its
consequent requirement of a longer, more complex training, implied greater problems for amateur
participation in science. The trend was naturally most obvious in those areas of science based
especially on a mathematical or laboratory training, and can be illustrated in terms of the
development of geology in the United Kingdom.ª¥
A comparison of British geological publications over the last century and a half reveals not
simply an increasing emphasis on the primacy of research, but also a changing definition of what
constitutes an acceptable research paper. Thus, in the nineteenth century, local geological studies
represented worthwhile research in their own right; but, in the twentieth century, local studies have
increasingly become acceptable to professionals only if they incorporatel, and reflect on, the wider
geological picture. Amateurs, on the other hand, have continued to pursue local studies in the old
way. The overall result has been to make entrance to professional geological journals harder for
amateurs, a result that has been reinforced by the widespread introduction of refereeing, first by
national journals in the nineteenth century and then by several local geological journals in the
twentieth century. As a logical consequence of this development, separate journals have now
appeared aimed mainly towards either professional or amateur readership. A rather similar process
of differentiation has led to professional geologists coming together nationally within one or two
specific societies, whereas the amateurs have tended either to remain in local societies or to come
together nationally in a different way.ª¥
Although the process of professionalisation and specialization was already well under way
in British geology during the nineteenth century, its full consequences were thus delayed until the
twentieth century. In science generally, however, the nineteenth century must be reckoned as the
crucial period for this change in the structure of science.
51£®The growth of specialization in the 19th century might be more clearly seen in sciences such
as _________.
£ÛA£Ýsociology and chemistry
£ÛB£Ýphysics and psychology
£ÛC£Ýsociology and psychology
£ÛD£Ýphysics and chemistry
52£®We can infer from the passage that _________.
£ÛA£Ý there is little distinction between specialization and professionalisation
£ÛB£Ýamateurs can compete with professionals in some areas of science
£ÛC£Ýprofessionals tend to welcome amateurs into the scientific community
£ÛD£Ýamateurs have national academic societies but no local ones
53£®The author writes of the development of geology to demonstrate _________.
£ÛA£Ýthe process of specialization and professionalisation
£ÛB£Ýthe hardship of amateurs in scientific study
£ÛC£Ýthe change of policies in scientific publications
£ÛD£Ýthe discrimination of professionals against amateurs
54£®The direct reason for specialization is _________.
£ÛA£Ýthe development in communication
£ÛB£Ýthe growth of professionalisation
£ÛC£Ýthe expansion of scientific knowledge
£ÛD£Ýthe splitting up of academic societies

Passage 2
A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so called digital divide-the division of
the world into the info(information) rich and the info poor. And that divide does exist today. My
wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less visible then,
however, were the new, positive forces that work against the digital divide. There are reasons to be
optimistic.
There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet
becomes more and more commercialized, it is in the interest of business to universalize
access-after all, the more people online, the more potential customers there are. More and more
governments, afraid their countries will be left behind, want to spread Internet access. Within the
next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet will be netted together. As a result, I
now believe the digital divide will narrow rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very
good news because the Internet may well be the most powerful tool for combating world poverty
that we've ever had.
Of course, the use of the Internet isn't the only way to defeat poverty. And the Internet is
not the only tool we have. But it has enormous potential.
To take advantage of this tool, some impoverished countries will have to get over their
outdated anti-colonial prejudices with respect to foreign investment. Countries that still think
foreign investment is an invasion of their sovereignty might well study the history of infrastructure
(the basic structural foundations of a society) in the United States. When the United States built its
industrial infrastructure, it didn't have the capital to do so. And that is why America's Second
Wave infrastructure-including roads, harbors, highways, ports and so on-were built with foreign
investment. The English, the Germans, the Dutch and the French were investing in Britain's
former colony. They financed them. Immigrant Americans built them. Guess who owns them now?
The Americans. I believe the same thing would be true in places like Brazil or anywhere else for
that matter. The more foreign capital you have helping you build your Third Wave infrastructure,
which today is an electronic infrastructure, the better off you're going to be. That doesn't mean
lying down and becoming fooled, or letting foreign corporations run uncontrolled. But it does
mean recognizing how important they can be in building the energy and telecom infrastructures
needed to take full advantage of the Internet.ª¤
55£®Digital divide is something _________.
£ÛA£Ýgetting worse because of the Internet
£ÛB£Ýthe rich countries are responsible for
£ÛC£Ýthe world must guard against
£ÛD£Ýconsidered positive today
56£®Governments attach importance to the Internet because it _________.
£ÛA£Ýoffers economic potentials
£ÛB£Ýcan bring foreign funds
£ÛC£Ýcan soon wipe out world poverty
£ÛD£Ýconnects people all over the world
57£®The writer mentioned the case of the United States to justify the policy of _________.
£ÛA£Ýproviding financial support overseas
£ÛB£Ýpreventing foreign capital's control
£ÛC£Ýbuilding industrial infrastructure
£ÛD£Ýaccepting foreign investment
58£®It seems that now a country's economy depends much on _________.
£ÛA£Ýhow well developed it is electronically
£ÛB£Ýwhether it is prejudiced against immigrants
£ÛC£Ýwhether it adopts America's industrial pattern
£ÛD£Ýhow much control it has over foreign corporations

Passage 3
Why do so many Americans distrust what they read in their newspapers? The American
Society of Newspaper Editors is trying to answer this painful question. The organization is deep
into a long self-analysis known as the journalism credibility project.ª¥
Sad to say, this project has turned out to be mostly low-level findings about factual errors
and spelling and grammar mistakes, combined with lots of head-scratching puzzlement about what
in the world those readers really want.ª¥
But the sources of distrust go way deeper. Most journalists learn to see the world through a
set of standard templates (patterns) into which they plug each day's events. In other words, there is
a conventional story line in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a ready-made
narrative structure for otherwise confusing news.ª¥
There exists a social and cultural disconnect between journalists and their readers, which
helps explain why the 'standard templates' of the newsroom seem alien to many readers. In a
recent survey, questionnaires were sent to reporters in five middle-size cities around the country,
plus one large metropolitan area. Then residents in these communities were phoned at random and
asked the same questions.
Replies show that compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in
upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedeses, and trade stocks, and they're less likely to
go to church, do volunteer work, or put down roots in a community.
Reporters tend to be part of a broadly defined social and cultural elite, so their work tends
to reflect the conventional values of this elite. The astonishing distrust of the news media isn't
rooted in inaccuracy or poor reportorial skills but in the daily clash of world views between
reporters and their readers.
This is an explosive situation for any industry, particularly a declining one. Here is a
troubled business that keeps hiring employees whose attitudes vastly annoy the customers. Then it
sponsors lots of symposiums and a credibility project dedicated to wondering why customers are
annoyed and fleeing in large numbers. But it never seems to get around to noticing the cultural and
class biases that so many former buyers are complaining about. If it did, it would open up its
diversity program, now focused narrowly on race and gender, and look for reporters who differ
broadly by outlook, values, education, and class.
59£®What is the passage mainly about?
£ÛA£Ýneeds of the readers all over the world
£ÛB£Ýcauses of the public disappointment about newspapers
£ÛC£Ýorigins of the declining newspaper industry
£ÛD£Ýaims of a journalism credibility project
60£®The results of the journalism credibility project turned out to be .
£ÛA£Ýquite trustworthy
£ÛB£Ýsomewhat contradictory
£ÛC£Ývery illuminating
£ÛD£Ýrather superficial
61£®The basic problem of journalists as pointed out by the writer lies in
their _________.
£ÛA£Ýworking attitude
£ÛB£Ýconventional lifestyle
£ÛC£Ýworld outlook
£ÛD£Ýeducational background
62£®Despite its efforts, he newspaper industry still cannot satisfy the
readers owing to its _________.
£ÛA£Ýfailure to realize its real problem
£ÛB£Ýtendency to hire annoying reporters
£ÛC£Ýlikeliness to do inaccurate reporting
£ÛD£Ýprejudice in matters of race and gender

Passage 4
The world is going through the biggest wave of mergers and acquisitions ever witnessed.
The process sweeps from hyperactive America to Europe and reaches the emerging countries with
unsurpassed might. Many in these countries are looking at this process and worrying:'Won't the
wave of business concentration turn into an uncontrollable anti-competitive force?'
There's no question that the big are getting bigger and more powerful. Multinational
corporations accounted for less than 20% of international trade in 1982.Today the figure is more
than 25% and growing rapidly. International affiliates account for a fast-growing segment of
production in economies that open up and welcome foreign investment. In Argentina, for instance,
after the reforms of the early 1990s,multinationals went from 43% to almost 70% of the industrial
production of the 200 largest firms. This phenomenon has created serious concerns over the role
of smaller economic firms, of national businessmen and over the ultimate stability of the world
economy.ª¥
I believe that the most important forces behind the massive M&A wave are the same that
underlie the globalization process: falling transportation and communication costs, lower trade and
investment barriers and enlarged markets that require enlarged operations capable of meeting
customer's demands. All these are beneficial, not detrimental, to consumers. As productivity
grows, the world's wealth increases.
Examples of benefits or costs of the current concentration wave are scanty. Yet it is hard to
imagine that the merger of a few oil firms today could re-create the same threats to competition
that were feared nearly a century ago in the U.S., when the Standard Oil trust was broken up. The
mergers of telecom companies, such as WorldCom, hardly seem to bring higher prices for
consumers or a reduction in the pace of technical progress. On the contrary, the price of
communications is coming down fast. In cars, too, concentration is increasing-witness Daimler
and Chrysler, Renault and Nissan-but it does not appear that consumers are being hurt.
Yet the fact remains that the merger movement must be watched. A few weeks ago, Alan
Greenspan warned against the megamergers in the banking industry. Who is going to supervise,
regulate and operate as lender of last resort with the gigantic banks that are being created? Won't
multinationals shift production from one place to another when a nation gets too strict about
infringements to fair competition? And should one country take upon itself the role of 'defending
competition' on issues that affect many other nations, as in the U.S. vs. Microsoft case?ª¤
63£®What is the typical trend of businesses today?
£ÛA£Ýto take in more foreign funds
£ÛB£Ýto invest more abroad
£ÛC£Ýto combine and become bigger
£ÛD£Ýto trade with more countries
64£®According to the author, one of the driving forces behind M&A wave is _________.
£ÛA£Ýthe greater customer demands
£ÛB£Ýa surplus supply for the market
£ÛC£Ýa growing productivity
£ÛD£Ýthe increase of the world's wealth
65£®From paragraph 4 we can infer that _________.
£ÛA£Ýthe increasing concentration is certain to hurt consumers
£ÛB£ÝWorldCom serves as a good example of both benefits and costs
£ÛC£Ýthe costs of the globalization process are enormous
£ÛD£Ýthe Stanard Oil trust might have threatened competition
66£®Toward the new business wave, the writer's attitude can be said to be _________.
£ÛA£Ýoptimistic
£ÛB£Ýobjective
£ÛC£Ýpessimistic
£ÛD£Ýbiased

Passage 5
When I decided to quit my full time employment it never occurred to me that I might
become a part of a new international trend. A lateral move that hurt my pride and blocked my
professional progress prompted me to abandon my relatively high profile career although, in the
manner of a disgraced government minister, I covered my exit by claiming 'I wanted to spend
more time with my family'.
Curiously, some two-and-a-half years and two novels later, my experiment in what the
Americans term 'downshifting' has turned my tired excuse into an absolute reality. I have been
transformed from a passionate advocate of the philosophy of 'having it all',preached by Linda
Kelsey for the past seven years in the page of She magazine, into a woman who is happy to settle
for a bit of everything.
I have discovered, as perhaps Kelsey will after her much-publicized resignation from the
editorship of She after a build up of stress, that abandoning the doctrine of 'juggling your life',and
making the alternative move into 'downshifting' brings with it far greater rewards than financial
success and social status. Nothing could persuade me to return to the kind of life Kelsey used to
advocate and I once enjoyed:12 hour working days, pressured deadlines, the fearful strain of office
politics and the limitations of being a parent on 'quality time'.
In America, the move away from juggling to a simpler, less materialistic lifestyle is a
well-established trend. Downshifting-also known in America as 'voluntary simplicity'-has,
ironically, even bred a new area of what might be termed anticonsumerism. There are a number of
best-selling downshifting self-help books for people who want to simplify their lives; there are
newsletters, such as The Tightwad Gazette, that give hundreds of thousands of Americans useful
tips on anything from recycling their cling-film to making their own soap; there are even support
groups for those who want to achieve the mid-'90s equivalent of dropping out.
While in America the trend started as a reaction to the economic decline-after the mass
redundancies caused by downsizing in the late'80s-and is still linked to the politics of thrift, in
Britain, at least among the middle-class down-shifters of my acquaintance, we have different
reasons for seeking to simplify our lives.ª¥
For the women of my generation who were urged to keep juggling through
the'80s,downshifting in the mid-'90s is not so much a search for the mythical good life-growing
your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one-as a personal recognition of your
limitations.
67£®Which of the following is true according to paragraph 1?ª¤
£ÛA£ÝFull-time employment is a new international trend.
£ÛB£ÝThe writer was compelled by circumstances to leave her job.
£ÛC£Ý'A lateral move' means stepping out of full-time employment.
£ÛD£ÝThe writer was only too eager to spend more time with her family.
68£®The writer's experiment shows that downshifting _________.
£ÛA£Ýenables her to realize her dream
£ÛB£Ýhelps her mold a new philosophy of life
£ÛC£Ýprompts her to abandon her high social status
£ÛD£Ýleads her to accept the doctrine of [WTBX]she magazine
69£®'Juggling one's life' probably means living a life characterized by _________.
£ÛA£Ýnon-materialistic lifestyle
£ÛB£Ýa bit of everything
£ÛC£Ýextreme stress
£ÛD£Ýanti-consumerism
70£®According to the passage, downshifting emerged in the U.S. as a result
of _________.ª¤
£ÛA£Ýthe quick pace of modern life
£ÛB£Ýman's adventurous spirit
£ÛC£Ýman's search for mythical experiences
£ÛD£Ýthe economic situation

Part 4 English-Chinese Translation
Directions:
Read the following passage carefully and then translate the underlined sentences into Chinese.
Your translation must be written neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.(15 points)ª¥ª¥
In less than 30 year's time the Star Trek holodeck will be a reality. Direct links between the brain's
nervous system and a computer will also create full sensory virtual environments, allowing virtual
vacations like those in the film Total Recall.ª¥
71)There will be television chat shows hosted by robots, and cars with pollution monitors that will
disable them when they offend.
72) Children will play with dolls equipped with personality chips, computers with in-built
personalities will be regarded as workmates rather than tools, relaxation will be in front of
smell-television, and digital age will have arrived.ª¥
According to BT's futurologist, Ian Pearson, these are among the developments scheduled for the
first few decades of the new millennium(a period of 1£¬000 years), when supercomputers will
dramatically accelerate progress in all areas of life.
73)Pearson has pieced together to work of hundreds of researchers around the world to produce a
unique millennium technology calendar that gives the latest dates when we can expect hundreds of
key breakthroughs and discoveries to take place. Some of the biggest developments will be in
medicine, including an extended life expectancy and dozens of artificial organs coming into use
between now and 2040.ª¥
Pearson also predicts a breakthrough in computer human links. 'By linking directly to our
nervous system, computers could pick up what we feel and, hopefully, simulate feeling too so that
we can start to develop full sensory environments, rather like the holidays in Total Recall or the
Star Trek holodeck,' he says. 74)But that, Pearson points out, is only the start of man-machine
integration: 'It will be the beginning of the long process of integration that will ultimately lead to a
fully electronic human before the end of the next century.'
Through his research, Pearson is able to put dates to most of the breakthroughs that can be
predicted. However, there are still no forecasts for when faster-than-light travel will be available,
or when human cloning will be perfected, or when time travel will be possible. But he does expect
social problems as a result of technological advances. A boom in neighborhood surveillance
cameras will, for example, cause problems in 2010, while the arrival of synthetic lifelike robots
will mean people may not be able to distinguish between their human friends and the droids.
75)And home appliances will also become so smart that controlling and operating them will result
in the breakout of a new psychological disorder-kitchen rage.

Part 5 Writing
76.Directions:
Among all the worthy feelings of mankind, love is probably the noblest, but everyone has his/her
own understanding of it.ª¥
There has been a discussion recently on the issue in a newspaper. Write an essay to the newspaper
to
1) show your understanding of the symbolic meaning of the picture below,
2) give a specific example, and
3) give your suggestion as to the best way to show love.ª¥
You should write about 200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points)

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Part 1 Structure and Vocabulary (15 points)
Section A
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6.D 7.D 8.A 9.C 10.A
Section B
11.B 12.A 13.B 14.C 15.C
16.C 17.D 18.A 19.C 20.B
21.D 22.C 23.B 24.A 25.C
26.A 27.D 28.B 29.B 30.D
Part 2 Cloze Text(10 points)
31.D 32.A 33.D 34.B 35.A
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41.B 42.C 43.B 44.A 45.C
46.A 47.D 48.C 49.D 50.C
Part 3 Reading Comprehension (40 points)
51.D 52.B 53.A 54.C 55.C
56.A 57.D 58.A 59.B 60.D
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Part 4 English-Chinese Translation(15 points)
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Part 5 Writing (20 points)
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