北京新航道学校考研阅读主讲 印建坤

Section Ⅰ Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1(10 points)
ALAN "ACE" GREENBERG chose his nickname to improve his chances with girls at the University of Missouri. But it is an apt 1    of his trading skills on Wall Street. This week, as the 73-year-old   2   down  3   chairman of Bear Stearns, the investment bank where he has worked since 1949 is in  a high. It 4     an increase in post-tax profits in the second quarter of 43% on a year earlier,  5   a time when many of its Wall Street rivals have   6  . On June 26th Merrill Lynch  7   a warning that its profits in the second quarter would fall by half, far   8   of expectations. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have also reported lower profits.
Strange that this surprised.  9  Alan Greenspan\'s frenetic cuts  10  interest rates, times are good for underwriters and traders of bonds, core activities for Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers,  11   also recorded a sharp increase in profits. It has been a lousy   12   for equity underwriters and for advisers on the meagre amounts of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) this year.
Merrill, Goldman and Morgan Stanley are three of the investment banks that gained   13  during the boom in equity and M&A business, and they are now  14  the most. Of the three, Merrill is weakest in bonds. It cut  15  its fixed- income activities after the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) in 1998. As it happens, both Bear Stearns and Lehman have long been criticised for their weakness in equities.
Mr Greenberg is famous for worrying about even the price of a paper-clip at Bear Stearns. This used to seem terribly   16  , but these days other Wall Street firms are  17   about costs. Lay- offs are  18   though not yet alarmingly-not least, because banks saw how Merrill Lynch lost  19  when the markets rebounded quickly after the LTCM crisis. Still, if few  20  of improvement show soon, expect real blood-letting on Wall Street.
1. A. cover  B. encapsulation  C.jacket D.shell
2. A. goes  B comes  C strides  D. steps
3.A.be  B. being  C. as  D. to be
4. A. recorded B. logged  C.chronicled  D. noted
5,A.during  B.at  C. on  D. in
6.A.  stumbled   B. slip  C.blundered  D. crept
7.A. delivered  Bdistributed  C. conveyed  D. issued
8.A. out  B. lacking  C. lack  D. short
9.A. because of  B. on account of  C.thanks to  D.due to
10.A. at   B. in  C.on  D. upon
11.A who  Bwhat  C.whom  D.which
12A. time  B.period  C.epoch  D.era
13.A. most  B.much C. a lot   D. a great deal
14.A. lost   B. losing  C. suffering  D. suffered
15.A. down  B. back  C. off  D. out
16.A. unnecessary B. unreasonable  C. unpopular  D. unfashionable
17.A obsessed  B worried C.concerned  D. bothered
18.A. decreased B.increased  C. increasing  D.decreasing
19.A. field B. ground  C. future  D. hope
20.A. signals  B.symbol  C. signs  D.symptom

Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
Part A
TEXT 1
"The news hit the British High Commission in Nairobi at nine-thirty on a Monday morning. Sandy Woodrow took it like a bullet, jaw rigid, chest out, smack through his divided English heart." Crikey. So that\'s how you take a bullet. Poor old Sandy. His English heart must be really divided now. This deliriously hardboiled opening sets the tone for what\'s to come. White mischief? Pshaw! White plague, more like it.
Sandy Woodrow is head of chancery at the British High Commission in Nairobi. The news that neatly subdivides his heart as the novel opens is the death of a young, beautiful and idealistic lawyer turned aid worker named Tessa Quayle. Tessa has been murdered for learning too much about the unscrupulous practices of a large pharmaceutical company operating in Africa. Her body is found at Lake Turkana, in northern Kenya near the border with Sudan. Tessa\'s husband, Justin, is also a British diplomat stationed in Nairobi. Until now Justin has been an obedient civil servant, content to toe the official line-in short, a plodder. But all that changes in the after math of his wife\'s murder. Full of righteous indignation, he resolves to get to the bottom of it, come what may.
"The Constant Gardener" has got plenty of tense moments and sudden twists and comes complete with shadowy figures lurking in the shrubbery. There is a familiar tone of gentlemanly world-weariness to it all, which should keep Mr. le Carre\'s fans happy. But the novel is also an impassioned attack on the corruption which allows Africa to be used as a sort of laboratory for the testing of new medicines. Elsewhere, Mr. le Carre has denounced the "corporate cant, hypocrisy, corruption and greed" of the pharmaceutical industry. This position is excitingly dramatized in his book, even if the abuses he rails against are not exactly breaking news.
In other respects "The Constant Gardener" is less satisfactory. Mr. le Carre can\'t seem to make up his mind whether he\'s writing a thriller or an expose. In a recent article for the New Yorker he described his creative process as "a kind of deliberately warped journalism, where nothing is quite what it is" and where any encounter may be "freely recast for its dramatic possibilities". Such is the method employed in "The Constant Gardener", whose heroine, Mr. le Carre says, was inspired by an old friend of his. One or two prominent real-life Kenyan politicians are mentioned often enough to become, in effect, "characters" in the story. And in a note at the end of the book Mr. le Carre thanks the various diplomats, doctors, pharmaceutical experts and old Africa hands who gave him advice and assistance, though in the same breath he insists that the staff of the British mission in Nairobi are no doubt all jolly good eggs who bear no resemblance whatsoever to the heartless scoundrels in his story.
There\'s nothing wrong with a bit of artistic license, of course. But Mr. le Carre\'s equivocation about the novel\'s relation to fact undermines its effectiveness as a work of social criticism, which is pretty clearly what it aspires to be. "The Constant Gardener" is a cracking thriller but a flawed exploration of a complicated set of political issues.

21．“The Constant Gardener” is a
A film
B comedy
C novel
D document

22. A thriller is not always full of
A  tense instants
B  truth-exposure
C  frightening background
D  sudden twists

23. The characters in “The Constant Gardener” are not
A  connected with the author’s friends
B  based on real-life people
C  similar to the staff of the British Mission
D  outside to the real life

24. “equivocation” means
A  clear attitude
B  effectiveness
C  ambiguous
D  determination

25. Which is the author’s attitude to Mr. Le Carre?
A disappointment
B indifference
C animadversion
D appreciation

TEXT 2 (another old article!)

AFTER over two years of relative oblivion in self-imposed exile, Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister of Pakistan, has jumped on to the front pages of the country\'s newspapers. She has done so, as it happens, on the basis of a report in a British newspaper. The report claims that the former government of Nawaz Sharif leaned on some judges to convict Miss Bhutto and her husband, Asif Zardari, for corruption in 1999. The evidence for this is said to be in the form of taped conversations between senior government officials and a judge at Miss Bhutto\'s trial. The tapes were made by a member of Pakistani intelligence who decamped to London and has now, so the story goes, been pricked by conscience.
Miss Bhutto\'s footprints seem to be all over the story. After her conviction in 1999, she claimed that she had not had a fair trial.  The Supreme Court routinely postponed hearing her petition for one reason or another. Last December, when Mr. Sharif was exiled to Saudi Arabia by the present military government of General Pervez Musharraf, Miss Bhutto sensed a political vacuum in the country and considered returning to Pakistan and taking on the generals.
The Musharraf regime said it would arrest her if she set foot in Pakistan and dug up more evidence of her corrupt activities. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear her 1999 petition on February 26th. This led pundits to speculate that the military regime, having got rid of one prime minister, was gearing up to finish off another. But the tapes have compromised the judiciary, whose credibility is already low after decades of battering by generals and politicians. The Supreme Court will be under pressure to acquit Miss Bhutto or order a lengthy retrial which would give her lawyers a chance to air her grievances.
This may be just the beginning of General Musharraf\'s troubles. Disgruntled opponents of the regime have asked the Supreme Court to strike down an "accountability" law under which hundreds of politicians and bureaucrats have been imprisoned or sidelined from politics. Lawyers\' organizations across the country have banded together to announce a national strike on February 27th, demanding an early restoration of civilian rule. And the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy--comprising supporters of Miss Bhutto and Mr. Sharif, along with several other parties--is planning a demonstration on March 23rd, Pakistan Day.
Worse, the religious parties are beginning to suspect that General Musharraf may not be too kindly disposed towards them, despite his reliance on religious militants to fuel the insurgency in Kashmir against India. The government is worried by a sectarian conflict that has claimed dozens of lives. It is embarrassed by outpourings on alleged blasphemy and immorality. Last month, bearded mobs burnt down the offices of the Frontier Post, a Peshawar newspaper that had inadvertently printed a blasphemous letter. Last week, the home minister, Moinuddin Haider, a retired general, was in Afghanistan, asking the Taliban regime not to provide sanctuary to "religious terrorists" from Pakistan. Extremists are now accusing the generals of acting at the behest of "super-Satan America". An exaggeration, surely.

26．In the 1st paragraph, Benazir Bhutto was reported in the newspaper to
A  have two years exile.
B  announce her prosecution.
C  have been treated unfairly.
D  have been convicted of corruption.

27.  The 3rd sentence of the 3rd paragraph, word “another” refers to
A  Pervez Musharraf
B  Nawaz Sharif
C  Benazir Bhutto
D  Asif Zardari

28.  It can be inferred from the text that General Musharraf
A  wanted the Supreme Court to hear Miss Bhutto’s petition earlier.
B  advised Miss Bhutto to compromise with the judiciary.
C  took over the right from Nawaz Sharif because of Nawaz’s having done wrong to Bhutto.
D  felt threatened by Bhutto.

29.  The troubles which now make Musharra uneasy do not include
A  some opponents requiring him to abolish some unreasonable laws.
B  hundreds of political prisoners fighting for their freedom.
C  Musharraf losing support from religious members.
D  some riots and his opponents’ coming strike.

30.  Extremists are rather hostile to
A  Moinuddin Haider
B  the Taliban regime
C  the United States
D  Pakistan religious terrorists

TEXT 3
THE New Year in Japan is always a time for house cleaning. This year, however, the government is giving itself a special dusting down. Japan\'s civil service is enduring its most thorough reform since the Americans occupied the country. Beneath a cloud of paper in Kasumigaseki, Tokyo\'s bureaucratic district, whole ministries are vanishing, merging with each other, or at the very least getting new names. By January 6th, when the removal vans leave, nearly $400m will have been spent shifting 33,000 bureaucrats and their files about the place. The result, say officials, will be smaller government, stronger political leadership and a bureaucracy ready to serve, not rule. Yet opinion polls suggest just one in five Japanese believes them.
The government is undeniably about to get smaller. Mergers will cut the number of ministries and agencies from 22 to 12, and one in four civil service jobs will go over the next ten years. The politicians, meanwhile, get new jobs inside each ministry that are meant to give them more say in policymaking. Most important of all are new powers for the Prime Minister, who gets a strengthened Cabinet Office, lots more staff and, in theory at least, a much bigger say in government spending.
In practice, however, not all of these changes are likely to work exactly according to plan. The Cabinet Office was supposed to se cure a measure of independence by recruiting many of its staff from outside the civil service. But Japan\'s rigid hiring practices have made this difficult. So almost all the important posts have been filled by the usual career bureaucrats.
Reforms to the bureaucracy, meanwhile, look a mixed bag at best. Having already lost its authority to regulate banks, the once-mighty Finance Ministry has ceded more ground. A new body, under the Cabinet Office, will now draft the outline of the national budget. The Finance Ministry looks a softer target than the big spending ministries, with their well-organized networks of friendly politicians. No one has explained how merging the Ministry of Posts and Telecoms, the Management and Co-ordination Agency and the Ministry of Home Affairs will make any of them more efficient.
Other changes seem to run counter to the desired direction. Under the politicians\' original plan, drawn up in 1997, the power of the public-works bureaucracy was to be weakened by splitting the Construction Ministry in two. Perversely, it has instead got bigger, merging with the Transport Ministry, the National Land Agency and the Hokkaido Development Agency to create a monster that will control nearly 800 (what?) of public works spending. Try reforming that.

31．The expression “giving itself a special dusting down” in this passage means
A a special innovation
B a complete government character-shifting
C thorough cleaning
D thorough reorganization
32. From the 2nd paragraph, we can see that
A  in fact, most people don’t believe the reforms can benefit them.
B 
C  politicians have no jobs in the ministry.
D  the Prime Minister will benefit more than others.

33. The last three paragraphs have the same air of
A  disappointment
B  denial
C  objectivity
D  skepticism

34. It can be inferred from the text that the Cabinet Office will
A  grab some power from the financial bureaucracy
B  definitely spend more government money.
C  recruit many of its staff from outside the civil service.
D  reduce the powers given to the prime minister.

35. The Japanese take a(n) ____attitude to the government reform.
A  unconfident
B  indifferent
C  negative
D  chilly

TEXT 4
IN AN essay of this historical sweep, it is always good to have something to shoot at. "The Cash Nexus" provides Niall Ferguson, a prolific Oxford historian, with not one target but several. With practiced eye, he takes aim at the claim that economics decides the course of history; that democracy brings wealth and peace; that Britain and America were undone by imperial overstretch; and that today\'s world is governed by financial markets. Each of these large claims is shot down with elegance and skill, backed up by wide erudition.
The roots of Mr. Ferguson\'s latest work can be detected in his history of the house of Rothschild (1998), though its immediate genesis, as he tells us, was in a planned history of the world\'s bond markets. Having embarked on that, however, he was diverted into a general attack on economic determinism, which constitutes this new book\'s main thread.
He sets out, promisingly enough, to explain how the demands of war and the struggle for power led 18th-century Britain to foster such institutions as a tax-gathering bureaucracy, parliamentary government, a public debt market and a central bank. The obvious contrast is with Britain\'s bigger and richer rival, France, which lacked the right institutional and financial framework to win their innumerable wars.
As Mr. Ferguson points out, for most of the century France had a smaller national debt than Britain--but, crucially, it paid three times as much in debt service, thanks partly to its long history of defaults. Britain\'s eventual triumph was not, therefore, a matter of sheer economic muscle. Bishop Berkeley\'s famous observation, that credit was "the principal advantage that England hath over France", pointed rather to a sounder institutional framework. This episode is wisely offered as a lesson for other countries, even today.
After this strong beginning, however, the book wanders off into the rising demands of the welfare state; the myth that in modern democracies economic success assures electoral success; and the corrupting influence of money on contemporary politics. There is even a foray into the role of gold, Keynes\'s "barbarous relic", to which are added some rather hurried (and mostly negative) comments about the prospects for Europe\'s economic and monetary union. The book closes with a plea for more immigration to western countries (and more defenses spending by them). There is a valiant attempt at a conclusion which gives economics and finances their due, while allowing that sex, violence and the pursuit of power often overwhelm them. By this point, the thread is as good as broken.
None of this is to deny the pleasures and rewards that will be got from "The Cash Nexus" by professional historians and general readers alike. Mr. Ferguson\'s scholarship is lightly worn, and his range of reference wide: from Carlyle (who supplied the title), through Wagner and sundry philosophers to such 19th-century novelists as Tolstoy, Trollope and Zola. Almost every chapter has its own delights. But it is hard to escape the overall conclusion that, after producing so many fine books so quickly, Mr. Ferguson might have done better to have worked out a more coherent and convincing thesis.

36．From the passage, we can learn that Niall Ferguson believes
A financial markets are the owner of the world.
B Britain and America to some extent were influenced by the imperial overstretch
C the process of history is accompanied with the economics.(?)
D democracy brings wealth and peace.

37. France paid much more in debt service than Britain because of
A  being not what it meant. (?)
B  lacking the sheer economic muscle.
C  its less perfect institutional and financial structure.
D  France’s having a higher debt service ratio.

38. Which topic is not mentioned in the passage?
A  Welfare state
B  World economic and monetary union
C  Corrupting influence on politics
D  Economic success being relative to the electoral success

39. Which of the following best defines the world “barbarous”(line 5,para 5)?
A. savage
B. polite
C. gengerous
D. cautious

40. Ferguson’s thesis is
A  exciting
B  convincing
C  satisfying
D  just passable

Part B
Directions:
You are going to read a list of heading and a text about plagiarism in the academic community. Choose the most suitable heading from the list A-F for each numbered paragraph (41-45). The first and last paragraph of the text are not numbered. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET1. (10 points)
［A］Separation of Hollinger
［B］Profits of newspaper
［C］The ideal business model
［D］Hollinger denies the rumor
［E］Difficult to share in the international market
［F］Lord Black sells his remaining local newspapers in Canada
HE HAS been selling newspaper titles in Canada, backing a new one in New York and trying to quash rumours that he is selling them in Britain. What exactly is Conrad Black, chairman of Hollinger, ex- Canadian, newly ennobled Briton, up to?

41

Last month, Lord Black of Crossharbour, as he is now known, sold his remaining local newspapers in Canada.This came shortly after he had offloaded his residual 50% stake in the National Post, the Canadian daily paper he founded only in 1998, to CanWest Global Communications. This Canadian media group had already picked up the other half last year, along with most of Lord Black\'s other local newspapers in the country, for $1.8 billion.

42

Shorn of its Canadian operations, and apart from the tiny Jerusalem Post, Hollinger has now been pared down to two chief assets: the Chicago Sun-Times, plus a bagful of local papers in that area, and the Daily Telegraph, Britain\'s most popular broadsheet paper. After the group recently reported a net loss of $9m for the nine months to September, excluding exceptional items, rumours swirled that even the Telegraph might be for sale.

43

Not so, says Hollinger. Although earnings at the Telegraph and its Sunday sister are well down on last year, and the papers plan to sack up to 40 editorial staff, they still provide most of the group\'s profits. "There is no substance at all to the story that the Telegraph is for sale," says Daniel Colson, Hollinger\'s vice- chairman. Indeed, having stemmed the National Post\'s losses and booked a good price for the sale of most of its Canadian assets last year, the group has cut its heavy debt burden and is well-placed to look for new projects.

44

But what? Economies of scale in the newspaper market are best achieved with the local and regional press. The ideal business model, says Peter Kreisky of Mercer Management Consulting, is a geographical cluster of regional titles. With local monopoly power, this can bring down the cost of paper and ink, of printing and distribution, and of marketing. Hollinger enjoys many of these benefits in the Chicago area, where it has 97 papers.

45

But it is far harder to achieve cost-sharing across international borders. Most national papers are still run from and owned in their home country. Those that belong to an international owner, such as Hollinger, Tony O\'Reilly\'s Independent News and Media and Rupert Murdoch\'s NewsCorp, concentrate on English-speaking markets.
Yet owning newspapers is as much to do with kudos and influence as it is about profits. Although he would not rule out opportunities even in non-English-speaking parts of Europe, Lord Black\'s sights now seem to be set on the United States. He has just made a small bet on a new quality paper, the New York Sun, by putting in $2m, or about 13% of the total investment.Although Hollinger stresses that it is only loosely involved, the project is nevertheless intriguing. There has long been a view that New York, a city of 8m people, ought to be able to support more than one all-round quality newspaper; yet the New York Times, with a circulation of 1.1m, has no direct cross-town rival.Lord Black\'s experience of launching a new title, the National Post, in Canada may be salutary. He managed to create a franchise from nothing in a competitive market, and in doing so stirred up political controversy in consensus-minded Canada. But it never made him any money, which may be why his bet on the New York Sun is so modest. Buying established but faltering papers would make more sense. "There will be investment opportunities arising from this economic downturn that Hollinger\'s increased financial strength will enable us to take advantage of," says Mr Colson, "not only in New York, but elsewhere in the US."

Part C
 
Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET2. (10points)
IT SOUNDED like an ordinary sort of attempted coup. On the radio, a minister denounced "a conspiracy to destroy our democracy and kill the head of state". Reports were heard of nocturnal troop movements, as the coup\'s ringleaders were outflanked and arrested. (46)The government promised swift action to neutralise hostile elements, and appealed to MPs to stand by their president, Kumba Yalla, in his hour of peril.
But none of it rang true. (47)When the interior minister briefed the people of Guinea-Bissau on the disaster they had narrowly escaped early this month, opposition leaders demanded proof. Human-rights groups asked for the names of those detained. The government supplied few details. Cynics muttered that it had all been staged to distract attention from Mr Yalla\'s increasingly wayward presidency.
A former schoolteacher and opposition firebrand, Mr Yalla was elected to heal the wounds of this small West African country, scorched by civil war in 1998 and 1999. He won an impressive 72% of the vote early last year, after promising a new beginning and an end to corruption. (48)The public had grown sick of graft under the PAIGC, the party that had led the struggle against the Portuguese colonists and then stayed in power for 25 years, first trying to build a socialist state, then trying half-heartedly to reform it. Mr Yalla seemed different. He portrayed himself as a tribal elder in a red bobble hat who was going to clean up politics and improve people\'s lives.
(490But a recent series of public rows and gaffes has sapped Mr Yalla\'s prestige and raised serious questions about the country\'s future. When MPs thwarted him, Mr Yalla threatened to suspend parliament for ten years. As part of a vigorous but diffuse anti- corruption drive, he promised to sack 60% of the civil service. After an impromptu visit to the foreign ministry, Mr Yalla dismissed his foreign minister, Antonieta Rosa Gomes. Two newspapers have been suspended, and two radio stations have received cautions. Senior judges are in detention, accused of misappropriating funds. Charitable diplomats call the president\'s behaviour "erratic". Mr Yalla\'s enemies put it more strongly than that.
Guinea-Bissau can ill afford all this. (50)Even before the civil war, it was one of the poorest countries in Africa, whose fortunes fluctuated with groundnut prices. The government is desperate to woo back investors, and has drawn up a list of state-owned firms to privatise.
But the short-term prognosis is bleak. Guinea-Bissau\'s main industrial belt is a wasteland of derelict factories and broken machinery. Diplomatic representation is limited to a handful of embassies. America and others say they will return only when there is political and military stability, something that Mr Yalla now looks unlikely to deliver.

Section Ⅲ Writing
Part A
51. Directions:
Suppose you are a member of staff at the library in your university. Your library plans to purchase some new books. Write a letter to the publishing house which include (1) the purpose of writing the letter; (2) an enquiry about detailed information on the new books; (3) an enquiry about a possible discount. You should write about 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use “Li Ming” instead. You do not need to write the address.

Part B
52. Directions:

Study the two pictures above carefully and write an essay entitled “On the Relationship between Environment and Economy” In the essay, you should (1) describe the pictures and interpret their meaning (2) give your opinion with some proof (3) give your conclusion.
You should write about 200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points) 

2006考研英语模拟题四参考答案

Section Ⅰ Use of English
1.答案：B 
句意：但这正是他在华尔街表现出的商业天赋的恰当的形容
解析：本题测试点为名词词义辨析。A意思为“封面”；B意思为“包装”；C意思为“外套”；D意思为“外壳”。在这里，意思是最恰当的修饰、包装，B最为切合。
2.答案：D
句意：这位73岁的老人退下来了，他是贝尔史登公司的董事长 
解析：本题测试点为动词短语搭配。 Step down 意为“辞职、下台”，而其他的动词短语搭配只有“下来”的意思，所以选D。
3.答案：C
句意：见2
解析：本题测试点为介词用法，根据句意，希望表达的是ACE下台时的身份，是身居董事长之位，用as当“作为”之意。
4.答案：A
句意：记载了一次税后利率增长
解析：本题测试点为名词词义辨析。A意思为“记载”，B意思为“将……载入航海史”；C意思为“将……记入编年史”；D意为“记下”。根据句意，应选C。
5.答案：B
句意：在这个时候华尔街的许多对手翻了跟头
解析：本题测试点为介词用法。Aduring a time意为“在一段时间之内”；D, in a time与A意义相似；Ｃ的搭配情况较少；B意为“在那个时候”；根据句意强调的是点时间，所以选B。
6.答案A
句意:见5 
解析:本题测试点为动词词义辨析。B意为”滑落、跌落”；A意为“绊倒、跌跌撞撞”；C意为“犯大错”；D为“爬，蹑足前进”；A意思最为恰当，所以是正确答案。
7.答案：D
句意：美林证券发出一项警告，其利润会降低一半
解析：本题测试点为动词词义辨析。A一般指“发表（演讲）”；B意为“散布”；D意为“发表”；C意为“传播”；D符合句意，是正确答案—
8.答案：D
句意：大大低于预期设想 
解析：本题测试点为上下文理解和固定搭配。根据上文，利润低于预期设想，而be short of是固定搭配，意为“达不到”；因此D是正确答案。
9.答案：C
句意：因为Alan Greenspan大幅降低利率 
解析：这四个选项都有“因为”的含义，但由于是导致了好的结果，所以C是最佳答案。
10.答案：B
句意：见9
解析：本题测试点为介词用法。因为利率方面的降低固定地用in，所以B是正确答案。
11.答案：D
句意：它们利润也大幅上升
解析：本题测试点为关系代词的用法，因为该关系代词先行词Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers是两家公司，所以应选D。
12.答案：A 
句意：这一段时间都很痛苦
解析：本题测试点为名词词义辨析。ABCD都有时间概念，但代表时间的长短不同，A表示的时间可长可短，一般表示含糊的一段时间；B表示限定一段时间；C表示一个时期；D表示一个时代；而且经常有a +adj.+time的搭配，所以A是正确答案。
13.答案：A
句意：这三家投资银行是在股权、投资和收购交易兴盛期获利最多的 
解析：本题测试点为上下文理解，因为后面提到了他们也损失最惨重，所以前后呼应，应选最高级形式A。
14.答案：C　
句意：现在他们损失最惨重。　
解析：本题测试点为上下文理解和动词的用法，因为主语是公司，动词应采用主动语态。lose作为“损失”的意思是及物动词，后面应当有宾语，而这里没有，所以正确答案为C。
15.答案：B
句意：它削减了定息项目
解析：本题测试点为动词短语辨析。B, cut back 意为“削减，减小（工业生产）”；A, cut down意为“减少、减低”； C.cut off意为“切断“； D. cut out意为”停止“；B是正确答案。
16.答案：D
句意：这以前看前来是特别过时的做法 
解析：本题测试点为形容词词义辨析。D意为“过时的”；B意为：“不合理的”；C意为“不受欢迎的”“不流行”；A意为“不必要的”；根据句意，应选D。
17.答案：A
句意：但现在华尔街其他公司却饱受价格的折磨。
解析：本题测试点为动词词义辨析。B意味“担忧”；A意为“受……困扰”；C意为“关心……”；D意为“受……烦扰”，但被动语态应用by 将施动者引出。因此，根据句意，A是正确答案。
18.答案：C
句意：下岗人数不断增加 
解析：本题测试点为动词用法和上下文理解，由上下文可知形势不乐观，所以下岗人数增加，又因强调逐渐增加的趋势，所以选C。
19.答案：B
句意：因为银行都目睹了美林公司是如何失利的
解析：本题测试点为动词短语固定搭配 Lose ground 意为“失利、衰退”；B是正确选项。
20.答案：C
句意：如果没有改善的迹象 
解析；本题测试点为名词词义辨析 A意为“信号”；C意为”迹象、征兆”；B意为“记号、符号”；D意为“征兆（医学中的）”；因此，C是正确选项。

Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
Part A
Text 1
21．C
22．B
23．D。
24．D
25．A

Text 2
26．C
27．C
28．D
29．B
30．C

Text 3
31．B
32．D
33．D
34．A
35．A

Text 4
36．B
37．C
38．B
39．A
40．D

Part B
[总体分析]
本篇介绍的是加拿大传媒大亨康拉德·布莱克的政策调整。文章从布莱克在加拿大、英国、美国的举措来介绍其大的局势调整情况。就本篇文章而言，重要的是掌握每段大意，根据每段的主要话题来选择正确答案。
［答案］  41. F  42. A   43. D  44. C  45. E
[详细解答]
41. 选F 本段中心话题就是Conrad Black转卖了在加拿大仅存的当地报纸，选项中F是这个的最贴切概括。
42. 选A 本段中心话题是Holliger经过转卖后，目前主要缩小经营，主要精力放在几份报纸上面。选项中A标题是Holliger 的分组，比较符合。
43. 选D 本段中心话题是Hollinger澄清事实，消除谣言，选项种D最符合。
44. 选C 本段中心话题是描述最理想的报纸经营方式是与当地印刷部门联合，选项C最符合。
45. 选E 本段中心话题是本地报纸很难从国际市场争得份额，选项E比较符合。
Part C
46.政府承诺立即采取行动平息敌对力量，并号召国会议员在危难时刻要站在昆巴·雅拉总统这边。
47.上个月几内亚－比绍的人民刚刚从一场灾难中死里逃生，正当内务大臣向他们简要汇报灾难情况时，敌对派头目却要求其摆出证据。
48.民众对几内亚暨维德角非洲独立党的贪污日益厌恶，该党曾领导了抗击葡萄牙殖民者的斗争，此后在位达２５年，一开始还努力建立了一个社会主义国家，而后却不积极地进行改革。
49.但亚拉近来在公众场合接连失态、言语激烈，这破坏了他的威望，也向这个国家的未来提出了严峻的问题。
50.即使在内战之前，它就是非洲最穷的国家之一，国家的命运常是因落花生的价格起伏而波折不断。

Section Ⅲ Writing
Part A
51.Dear Sir or Madam,
  I am writing to you onbehalf of the library of Beijing University. We have heard that your publishing house has recently issued a series of new books. Therefore, we are writing to you in order to get some detailed information about them.
  We would particularly like to know if there are some new English language books which have been published. We would like to know detailed information about the books, such as the titles, prices and brief introductions to them. Please send us a catalogue and we would also appreciate it if you could inform us of any discounts you can offer for bulk purchases.
   We look forward to hearing from you.
                                           Yours faithfully,
                                            Li Ming
Part B
 52.
On the Relationship between Environment and Economy
The two pictures above are both about the relationship between the environment and the economic development. In the first picture, GDP is on the rise while the environment is drastically polluted. In the second picture, economic efficiency progresses with environmental protection. It’s easy to get the conclusion that development according to the second picture is more reasonable than that in the first one.
In the early development of socialism, our country didn’t pay much attention to the issue of environmental protection and savored the bitterness. Now, the government has taken many measures and is implementing the strategy of “sustainable development”. One aspect of the strategy is to develop the economy and take measures to protect the environment at the same time. In this way, we can develop our country in a sustainable manner and our offspring can have enough resources to develop society. If we don’t put much emphasis on the environment issue and excavate the natural resources blindly, our country will become a barren land sooner or later.
In a word, sustainable development is a reasonable strategy which should be implemented for a long time. The nature is providing us with plentiful resources generously, but it may punish us severely if we don’t care her.