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TEXT K

First read the questions.

39. Who has written Cultural Amnesia: America's Future and the Crisis of Memory?
A. Michael G.Zey.
B. Stephen Bertman.
C. Don Tapscott, et al.
D. Marvin Cetron et al.

40. Which book is a collection of papers?
A. Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs.
B. Cheating Death: The Promise and the Future Impact of Trying to Live Forever.
C. The Future Factor: The Five Forces Transforming Our Lives and Shaping Human Destiny.
D. The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Future of the University.

Now go through TEXT K quickly to answer questions 39 and 40.

Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs by Don Tapscott, David Ticoll, and Alex Lowy.Harvard Business School Press. 2000. 272 pages.
Electronic business webs have demolished the rules of competition. Innovative partnerships of digitally linked producers, suppliers, service providers, and customers are accelerating productivity and generating wealth in entirely new ways.
This book offers a behind the scenes look at success stories such as Linux, eBay, and Cisco, and provides a step by step process for implementing an effective business-web strategy.
Regular Price:$27.50

The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Future of the University
edited by Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Gidley.
Bergin & Garvey/Greenwood Publishing Group. 2000. 270 pages.
This anthology of essays from scholars around the world describes how the forces
of technology and economic globalization may alter what we think of as higher education. Topics include the virtual university, paying for college, feminist a
lternative universities, the role of corporations in higher education, and the rise of "multiversities".
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The Future Factor: The Five Force Transforming Our Lives and Shaping Human Destiny by Michael G.Zey.
McGraw Hill. 2000. 289 pages.
This optimistic vision of the human future argues that uNPRecedented opportunities for growth are emerging from breathtaking innovations in biotechnology, computing, robotics, medicine, energy development, and space technology. Powerful new forces altering society and the global economy include cybergenesis, the merging of humans and smart machines, and biogenesis, the harnessing of genetic technologies to improve ourselves.
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Cheating Death: The Promise and the Future Impact of Trying to Live Forever by Marvin Cetron and Owen Davies.
St. Martin's Press. 1998. 224 pages.
With advances in medicine and new gene research, the human lifespan could extend hundreds of years. But a future of billions of people "cheating death" could have devastating impacts on societies, the economy, the environment, and family life.
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Cultural Amnesia: America's Future and the Crisis of Memory by Stephen Bertman.
Praeger. 2000. 176 pages.
American society is losing its memory: 60% of American adults cannot name the president who ordered the dropping of the first atomic bomb, and 42% of college seniors cannot place the Civil War in the correct half of the nineteenth century.
This loss of culture memory, as insidious as Alzheimer's disease, eats away at the soul of the nation, says Bertman, author of Hyperculture. He argues that, to build a culture worthy of the future, Americans need to move away from their materialistic, presentoriented lives and get more in touch with other dimensions of time.
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试卷二 (120 min)

Part Ⅳ Translation (60 min)

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Translate the underlined part of the following text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.

在人际关系问题上我们不要太浪漫主义。人是很有趣的，往往在接触一个人时首先看到的都是他或她的优点。这一点颇像是在餐馆里用餐的经验。开始吃头盘或冷碟的时候，印象很好。吃头两个主菜时，也是赞不绝口。愈吃愈趋于冷静，吃完了这顿宴席，缺点就都找出来了。于是转喜为怒，转赞美为责备挑剔，转首肯为摇头。这是因为，第一，开始吃的时候你正处于饥饿状态，而饿了吃糠甜如蜜，饱了吃蜜也不甜。第二，你初到一个餐馆，开始举筷时有新鲜感，新盖的茅房三天香，这也可以叫做"陌生化效应"吧。

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Translate the underlined part of the following text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.

For me the most interesting thing about a solitary life, and mine has been that for the last twenty years, is that it becomes increasingly rewarding. When I can wake up and watch the sun rise over the ocean, as I do most days, and know that I have an entire day ahead, uninterrupted, in which to write a few pages, take a walk with my dog, read and listen to music, I am flooded with happiness. I'm lonely only when I am overtired, when I have worked too long without a break, when fro the time being I feel empty ad need filling up. And I am lonely sometimes when I come back home after a lecture trip, when I have seen a lot of people and talked a lot, and am full to the brim with experience that needs to be sorted out.

Then for a little while the house feels huge and empty, and I wonder where my self is hiding. It has to be recaptured slowly by watering the plants and perhaps, by looking again at each one as though it were a person.

It takes a while, as I watch the surf blowing up in fountains, but the moment comes when the worlds falls away, and the self emerges again from the deep unconscious, bringing back all I have recently experienced to be explored and slowly un
derstood.

Part Ⅴ Writing (60min)

It was reported in the press some time ago that a few second-and third-year students in a provincial university decided to try their hands at business in order to get prepared for the future. They opened six small shops near their university. Their teachers and classmates had different opinions about this phenomenon. Some thought that the students' business experience would help them adapt better to society after graduation, while others held a negative view, saying that running shops might occupy too much of the students' time and energy which should otherwise be devoted to their academic study. What do you think? Write a composition of about 300 words on the following topic:

Should University Students Go in for Business?

In the first part of your writing you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should brig what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.

Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

参考答案

PAPER ONE

PART Ⅰ LISTENING COMPREHENSION

SECTION A TALK
1．A  2．B  3．C  4．B  5．D

SECTION B INTERVIEW
6．C  7．B  8．C  9．C  10． D

SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
11．B  12．D  13．B  14．B  15．A

SECTION D NOTE-TAKING & GAP-FILLING
1．shyness
2．first
3．morning
4．listen
5．interest
6．tones
7．discomfort
8．conversations
9．handshake
10．men

PART Ⅱ PROOFREADING AND ERROR CORRECTION
1.^ special committees → or special committees
2.consisted → consisting
3.in → on
4.rely ^ → rely on
5.make out → make
6.its → their
7.^ public → the public
8.nevertheless → therefore (thus)
9.citizenry → citizens
10.these → those
【详细解答】those 指代witnesses , 即指代名词复数做定语从句的先行词，而these不行。

PART Ⅲ READING COMPREHENSION

SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION

TEXT A
16．C  17．A  18．A  19．C 

TEXT B
20．C  21．B  22．A 

TEXT C
23．B  24．D  25．A  26．C  27．A

TEXT D
28．C  29．B  30．A

SECTION B SKIMMING AND SCANING

TEXT E
31．B 

TEXT F
32．A

TEXT G
33．D

TEXT H
34．B

TEXT I
35．C  36．D 

TEXT J
37．B  38．C 

TEXT K
39．B  40．D

PAPER TWO

PART Ⅳ TRANSLATION

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH
【参考译文】
We shouldn't be too romantic about human relationships. Human beings are funny. Usually, when they meet a person they will first notice his or her merits. It's just like the experience of dinning in a restaurant. The starter or cold dish will leave you a very good impression. You will be full of praise while eating the first two main courses. The more you eat, the calmer you will become. At the end of the dinner all the shortcomings come out. Then happiness turns to anger, praise to scolding and nitpicking, and headingnodding to headshaking. This is because: first, you are hungry when you begin eating. When you are hungry, the bran tastes as sweet as honey; when you are full, even the honey tastes insipid. 

SECTION B English to Chinese
只有在我过于劳累，在我长时间无间断地工作，在我感到内心空虚，需要填补的时候，我才寂寞。而有时在我巡回演讲后回家时，在我见了许多人，讲了许多话，且经历多得需要清理时，我才寂寞。
于是有那么一小会儿感觉房子又大又空，我都不知道我的自我藏在哪儿了。于是我会给植物浇浇水，或者将它们再挨个儿瞅瞅，好像它们是人一样。这样我才慢慢地重新找回自我。
好大一会儿，我看着水浪从喷泉中喷涌而出，但只有当世界在我身边逐渐消逝时，那一时刻才会到来，自我又从内心深处的无意识中冒出来，带来我最近的种种经历，让我探究，慢慢领会。

PART Ⅴ WRITING
【参考范文】
Should University Students Go in for Business

Nowadays, you may encounter students who are selling stationery or newspapers when you are walking on campus. Some of them have even opened different types of small shops. They assume that in this way they may accumulate some social experiences and get well prepared for their future jobs. However, they can hardly achieve that purpose. What's even worse is that they will waste a lot of time they could have used for study. Therefore, in my opinion, university students should not go in for business because of the following two reasons.

Firstly, university students usually have a heavy task of theoretical study. They have a lot of courses to take, a pile of books to read, and all types of homework to finish. These tasks are essential for them to build up a profound and theoretical foundation. After all, university era is the best time when a student can learn theoretical knowledge. They have many years to practice it later, but if they miss the chance to master it systematically, they will certainly regret wasting their best years. Doing business will take them too much time when they can spend on physical exercises, on books and on activities which will make them better people in the future. No matter whether the business turns out successful or ends up a failure, it will eventually distract students from their academic study. So in the end the students will lose much more than what they earn.

Secondly, a complete social service network has been established on campus, and
the students usually have no chance to compete with the supermarkets which offered much better service and commodities of high quality. These supermarkets sell
goods ranging from pens, paper to quilts, from biscuits to cooked meals. You can almost buy whatever you will use in daily life there. Besides, these things are usually cheap. What type of shops the students can run? Most of them do the same business as the supermarkets. What type of goods they offer? Nothing better than those in the supermarkets. As a result, the business run by the students usually end in bankruptcy. Except bitter experiences, they earn nothing.

In a word, if university students go in for business, they will inevitably lose not only energy but also time. Therefore, the school authority should forbid the students to run business, and teachers should try their best to persuade the students not to take the risk so early.