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Part B Listening and Translation

Task 1 Sentence Translation

Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 5 English sentences. You will hear the sentences ONLY ONCE. After you have heard each sentence, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

听力原文：According to the statistics issued by the Finance Ministry yesterday, the unemployment rate of last quarter decreased by almost 0.5%, and economists believe that it is a strong signal of economic recovery.

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Part A Spot Dictation

Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the word or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE.

听力原文： According to the recent forecasts from The Futuristic magazine for 1997 and beyond, the global economy has increased 5 folds since mid-century, while the population has doubled. As a result, the pressure on natural resources has grown phenomenally: Demand for grain has nearly tripled, and burning of fossil fuels has increased nearly fourfold, with carbon emissions rising accordingly.

City skylines may flatten out in the future. Information technologies are allowing workers to telecommute from home rather than trek to downtown skyscrapers. Consequently, many prestigious office towers are standing empty, and U. S. builders have stopped putting up structures taller than 30 stories.

Education in the Information Age will be more technology-intensive and less labor-intensive. Teaching may become more centralized, with a few "star teachers" giving courses via videotape or teleconferencing to a national student body. Infotech is producing interactive educational toys and other devices that stimulate early development of mental faculties. Some youngsters may even teach themselves to read before age 3.

Future education will not end with a terminal degree in high school or college, but become a lifelong endeavor. More students will be learning at home, using computers and advanced educational software. The number of home schoolers has grown from 10,000 to over 500,000 in the last two decades.

Electronic networking will give more power to workers at the bottom of the corporate pecking order. Computer networks allow employees to skip over chains of command and communicate directly with senior managers or even the CEO. The relative anonymity of electronic communications will make low-status individuals less inhibited about expressing their points of view and offering valuable new ideas.

The earth's economy is expected to benefit hugely from space exploration. Earth is a colossal system, and we will need to expand our resource base. The space race will see many new competitors, as the United States and Russia lose ground in space industries due to budget cuts. China, India, and Japan are moving ahead quickly in such fields as remote sensing satellites and commercial rocket launches.

According to the recent forecasts from The Futuristic magazine for 1997 and beyond, the【C1】______since mid-century, while the population has doubled. As a result, the pressure on natural resources has【C2】______: Demand for grain has nearly tripled, and【C3】______has increased nearly fourfold, with carbon emissions rising accordingly.

City skylines may【C4】______in the future. Information technologies are allowing workers to【C5】______rather than trek to downtown skyscrapers. Consequently, many prestigious office towers【C6】______, and U. S. builders have stopped putting up structures taller than 30 stories.

Education in the Information Age will be【C7】______and less labor-intensive. Teaching may become more centralized, with a few "star teachers" giving courses via【C8】______to a national student body. Infotech is producing interactive educational toys and other devices that【C9】______of mental faculties. Some youngsters may even teach themselves to read before age 3.

Future education will not end with【C10】______in high school or college, but become【C11】______. More students will be learning at home, using computers and advanced educational software. The number of home schoolers has grown from【C12】______in the last two decades.

Electronic networking will give more power to workers at the bottom of the【C13】______. Computer networks allow emp

From the text we can conclude that the author ______.

A．is supportive of both sides

B．favors the townsfolk's view

C．takes a detached attitude

D．is sympathetic to the RSC

According to the townsfolk, the RSC deserves no subsidy because ______.

A．ticket prices can be raised to cover the spending

B．the company is financially ill-managed

C．the behavior. of the actors is not socially acceptable

D．the theatre attendance is on the rise

_____.

A．Stratford cannot afford the expansion projects

B．Stratford has long been in financial difficulties

C．the town is not really short of money

D．the townsfolk used to be poorly paid

It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 that ______.

A．the sightseers cannot visit the Castle and the Palace separately

B．the playgoers spend more money than the sightseers

C．the sightseers do more shopping than the playgoers

D．the playgoers go to no other places in town than the theater

two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches. There is the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), which presents superb productions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon. And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Shakespeare's birthplace and the other sights. The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their revenue. They frankly dislike the RSC's actors, them with their long hair and beards and sandals and noisiness. It's all deliciously ironic when you consider that Shakespeare, who earns their living, was himself an actor (with a beard) and did his share of noise-making.

The tourist streams are not entirely separate. The sightseers who come by bus—and often take in Warwick Castle and Blenheim Palace on the side—don't usually see the plays, and some of them are even surprised to find a theatre in Stratford. However, the playgoers do manage a little sight- seeing along with their play going. It is the playgoers, the RSC contends, who bring in much of the town's revenue because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants. The sightseers can take in everything and get out of town by nightfall. The townsfolk don't see it this way and local council does not contribute directly to the subsidy of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Stratford cries poor traditionally. Nevertheless every hotel in town seems to be adding a new wing or cocktail lounge. Hilton is building its own hotel there, which you may be sure will be decorated with Hamlet Hamburger Bars, the Lear Lounge, the Banquo Banqueting Room, and so forth, and will be very expensive.

Anyway, the townsfolk can't understand why the Royal Shakespeare Company needs a subsidy. (The theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row. Last year its 1,431 seats were 94 percent occupied all year long and this year they'll do better.) The reason, of course, is that costs have rocketed and ticket prices have stayed low.

It would be a shame to raise prices too much because it would drive away the young people who are Stratford's most attractive clientele. They come entirely for the plays, not the sights. They all seem to look alike (though they come from all over)—lean, pointed, dedicated faces, wearing jeans and sandals, eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the theatre to buy the 20 seats and 80 standing-room tickets held for the sleepers and sold to them when the box office opens at 10:30 a. m.

From the first two paragraphs, we learn that ______.

A．the townsfolk deny the RSC's contribution to the town's revenue

B．the actors of the RSC imitate Shakespeare on and off stage

C．the two branches of the RSC are not on good term's

D．the townsfolk earn little from tourism

The author will probably agree with which of the following points of view?

A．Race is an invention.

B．Ethnic pride derived from the success of Asian-Americans is not well-grounded.

C．Racial discrimination does not exist.

D．The reason for Asian-Americans' success is that they are more intelligent and hardworking than other minorities.

In the fifth paragraph, the phrase "model minority" refers to ______.

A．African-Americans

B．successful Asian-Americans

C．Asian-Americans as a whole

D．any successful minority

g EXCEPT ______.

A．economic disparity among Asian-Americans

B．cultural differences among Asian-Americans

C．national estrangement and hostility among Asian-Americans

D．different appearance among Asian-Americans