Shannon is writing a proposal to the board of directors to upgrade the company's computer equipment. After completing the prewriting phase, Shannon should immediately start composing the report.

If the EDI net work requires the receiver's computer to be in a ready-to-receive mode, it is more common.()

A．The man used to live in the city.

B．The library uses computer systems.

C．The woman is ready to help.

D．The man is confident of his computer skills.

Part A

Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)

The clock tower looks out over a 38-hectare campus graced by an ornamental lake and a pillared central hall. Add a little ivy and it could be almost any respected seat of learning in the West. Only the hemisphere is wrong. This is Ningbo campus of Nottingham University in China's Zhejiang province, half a world away from its British home. Teaching is in English, the first language of the staff. Last year the college, a joint venture with a Chinese enterprise, opened its doors to 900 local students looking for an international education without leaving home. Within five years their numbers are forecast to reach 4,000. Say Nottingham University provost Ina Gow: "Why go all the way to Britain when you can study in China at half the price?"

Good question. International education is now a global industry worth $30 billion a year, with some 2 million students studying abroad, a figure that's forecast to treble by 2020. In particular, the surging economies of India and China are producing far more would-be graduates than their own colleges can accommodate. But preferences are changing fast as thrifty students give up their traditional favorites in the West and choose to stay closer to home. That means a change in strategy for recruit-hungry colleges and governments. Says Andreas Schleicher, an education expert at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, "The real international dimension is that we no longer move students around the world; we move the providers and contents instead."

It doesn't take a Ph. D to spot the trends. The United States still attracts more than a quarter of all overseas students, but its market share is slipping. Britain, in the second slot, saw the number of applicants from China dip by 20 percent last year. Factors include expense and tighter entry regulation. The United States last year relaxed some of its controls but not before losing some of the rich student business from the Middle East. British universities are complaining loudly at the government's decision to double the price of a student visa.

The big beneficiaries are back in the East, close to home for Indian and Chinese students. With generous state help, Australian colleges now attract 9 percent of overseas students, after a decade of double-digit increases. Australians' goal: 560, 000 foreign students—almost three times today's figure—by 2025, with Asians accounting for some 70 percent of the total. What's good for the colleges is also good for the national accounts. International education now ranks as Australia's fourth largest source of export dollars after coal, tourism and iron ore.

We can infer that the key feature of Ningbo campus of Nottingham University is that

A．it has a western style. campus.

B．it charges half the price of Nottingham University.

C．it provides similar education as in Nottingham.

D．it is a joint venture with a Chinese enterprise.

听力原文： A federal appeals court has voided a lower court order that the giant U-S computer software company Microsoft be broken up into separate companies. But the court upheld the principal finding of the trial court that Microsoft had broken anti-trust laws. The appeals judges also criticized trial judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, in unusually candid language, for his comments concerning the case inside and outside the courtroom.

Which of the following statements is true?

A．The Microsoft will be broken up into separate companies.

B．A lower court order that the giant US computer software company Microsoft not be broken up into separate companies.

C．A federal appeals court order that the giant US computer software company Microsoft be broken up into separate companies.

D．A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court order that the giant US computer software company Microsoft not be broken up into separate companies.

What will the woman do?

A．Go away.

B．Buy a computer.

C．Use the man's computer.