Passage Three

　　Questions 43 to 47 are based on the following passage.

　　The World Bank is one of the largest suppliers of development assistance. Its main goal is to improve living conditions for poor people throughout the world. Last year, it provided more than seventeen-thousand-million dollars in loans to developing countries to help end poverty.

　　The money went to efforts like debt reduction for some of the poorest countries in the world. That program was designed to increase debt assistance and provide it faster than in the past. As a result, twenty-three countries received debt assistance last year as compared to seven countries the year before.

　　The World Bank does more than just provide loans, however. It believes that continued poverty reduction comes from investing in the people of a country – especially through education and health programs.

　　The World Bank employs engineers, economists, public policy experts and social scientists to create these kinds of programs. These professionals also provide developing countries with the necessary technical help to carry out the programs.

　　The Bank has helped to make great progress in developing nations, where life expectancy (壽命) has increased and baby and child deaths have decreased, and more adults now can read than in the past.

　　However, protesters have held large demonstrations at recent World Band meetings. Opponents say Bank programs make industrial nations richer and developing nations poorer. Others say the organization’s activities result in environmental damage.

　　43. The World Bank aims mainly at ________.

　　A) helping poor countries better their living conditions

　　B) becoming the largest supplier of development assistance

　　C) paying debts for some of the poorest countries in the world

　　D) providing loans for developing countries in order to make profits

　　44. Last year the World Bank offered debt assistance to ________.

　　A) fewer poor countries C) more rich countries

　　B) fewer rich countries D) more poor countries

　　45. Which of the following is probably NOT the way that the World Bank helps a country?

　　A) Creating health programs. C) Educating the people

　　B) Providing technical help D) Making profits in the country.

　　46. According to the passage, opponents criticize the World Band because ________. A) it has helped the rich countries a great deal

　　B) it has cared too much about the poor countries

　　C) it has widened the economic gaps between rich and poor countries

　　D) it has caused most of the world environmental pollution

　　47. This passage is manly about ________.

　　A) the management of the World Band

　　B) the assistance programs of the World Band

　　C) the achievements of the World Bank

　　D) the organization activities of the World Bank

　　Passage Four

　　Question 48 to 52 are based on the following passage.

　　He is a good observe, accurate, patient and objective and applies persistent and logical thought to the observations he makes. He utilizes the facts he observes to the fullest extent. For example, trained observes obtain a very large amount of information about a star (e.g. distance, mass, size, rate of movement etc.) mainly from the accurate analysis of the simple lines that appear in a spectrum (光譜).

　　He is skeptical (懷疑的) 0 he does not accept statements which are not based on the most complete evidence available – and therefore rejects authority as the sole basis for truth. Scientists always check statements and make experiments carefully and objectively to prove them. Furthermore, he is not only critical of the work of others, but also of his own, since he knows that man is the least reliable of scientific instruments and that a number of factors tend to disturb objective investigation. Lastly, he is highly imaginative since he often has to look for relationships in data which are not only complex but also frequently incomplete. Furthermore, he needs imagination if he wants to make hypotheses(假設(shè))of how processes work and how events take place. These seem to be some of the ways in which a successful scientist thinks and acts.

　　48. What quality of a good observer is NOT mentioned in Paragraph 1?

　　A) Intelligence B) Patience. C) Persistence. D) Objectivity.

　　49. We can learn from Paragraph 2 that a scientist believes that________.

　　A) no statements can be proved true

　　B) all statements may be misleading

　　C) authority is the sole basis for truth

　　D) authority does not necessarily mean truth

　　50. The word “them” (Line 4, Paragraph 2 ) refers to________ .

　　A) statements B) experiments C) scientists D) authorities

　　51. A scientist is critical of his own work because he knows that he is________ .

　　A) aware of his own findings C) liable to be wrong

　　B) likely to be criticized D) capable of being entirely objective

　　52. The word “imaginative” (Line 1, Paragraph 4 ) most probably means________ .

　　A) accurate and objective C) curious and serious

　　B) creative and inventive D) skeptical and critical

　　Part IV: Translation from English into Chinese (10%)

　　T1. (Lines 3-4, paragraph2, Passage 1)

　　They can also borrow films that other children have made. This helps them to see what is possible in a short film.

　　T2. (Lines 3-4, Paragraph2, Passage 2)

　　This means that different regions of the world get long spells of the same type of weather, whether hot, cold, wet or windy.

　　T3. (Lines 2-4, paragraph4, passage 3)

　　These professionals also provide developing countries with the necessary technical help to carry out the programs.

　　T4. (Lines 1-2, Pargagraph4, Passage 4)

　　He often has to look for relationships in data which are not only complex but also frequently incomplete.

　　Part V: Writing (15%)

　　Outline:

　　1.不勞則無獲。(No pains, no gains.)

　　2.勤奮使人成功。(Where there is diligence, there is success.)

　　Words for reference:

　　diligence (勤奮), goals, efforts, difficulties, overcome