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根据以下资料，回答下列各题： Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A．B．C．and D．on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. It has always been difficult for me to decide whether "popular music" means music written for the people or is simply music that the people like. The same problem of definition 67 with jazz. So many different 68 of "music have been called jazz at one time or another that it is 69 to say what it really is. Jazz has always been 70 to be black music but when I first 71 an interest in it, I used to hear white bands playing music that was like Louis Armstrongs in the 1920s. I found out 72 that they learnt to do this by playing his records 73 until their style. was close enough to his for them to 74 him. Since then white singers 75 Bob Dylan have rediscovered their own folk 76 , instead of borrowing from black roots. But the main changes 77 1960 have been social and technical. One is that young people have more money to spend on 78 at an earlier age than they 79 , so Tin Pan Alley, the "pop" music industry, 80 at teenage audience. 81 is that electronic equipment has developed to such an 82 that technicians are now capable of mixing sound to produce recordings that are quite different from a 83 performance. But the real problem with "pop" music is that Tin Pan Alley has always worked against its being a 84 music of the people. It 85 everything original and natural out of it and 86 it with cheap commercial imitations. As the American folk singer, Woody Guthrie, said: "Theyve always preferred the second rate songs. Theyve never wanted to play the good ones. " A．takes

A.exists

B.starts

C.correlates

Until recently, mobile radio was to wireless communications what the Yugo was to transportation. With a mixed clientele ranging from truckers using CBs to police armed with walkie-talkies to taxi drivers dispatched by radio, it was viewed as an unglamorous business and a technological backwater.

But specialized mobile radio, as it is known, has been rediscovered. It is now considered one of the biggest prizes in the all-out war for the public airwaves. The reason: high-tech companies have figured out how to profitably rebuild the antiquated dispatching system into an advanced cellular-telephone network that can take on the likes of AT&T and the giant Baby Bells. Upstart Nextel Communications sent shock waves through the industry last week when it agreed to buy Motorola's SMR frequencies for $1.8 billion.

That could pose a serious threat to cellular hegemony. Although both systems are based on the same basic technology, SMR systems are digital and cover almost 25 times as much area as the average cellular network. SMR handsets won't work on cellular systems and tend to be bulkier than cellular phones, though they provide more features, like a digital pager service. And while cellular growth has tripled to some 13 million subscribers since 2000, the technology has been losing ground. It is running out of channel capacity so fast, in fact, that 40% of cellular calls in high-density areas like Manhattan and Los Angeles fail to be completed. SMRs have capacity to spare, and service could eventually be priced 10% to 15% less than cellular. Dispatchers predict they will have at least 10 million subscribers by the end of the decade. There are now about 1.5 million users of SMRs.

The addition of another contender to an already crowded field of telephone systems will surely multiply the confusion. By the year 2010, consumers will be able to choose from at least half a dozen vendors of a dizzying array of wireless-communications services, including pagers, voice mail answering machines and cellular phones. Phone and cable television operators, such as Bell South, MCI and Cox Enterprises, are developing so-called personal communications networks, or PCNs, a highly advanced portable-phone system that is expected to cover a wider area, connect to a greater variety of services and be cheaper to operate than conventional cellular.

And many companies that have gambled on the wrong technological standards, and invested billions trying to develop the same markets, will undoubtedly lose a great deal of money before the shakeout is over. "The winners", says Nextel chairman Morgan O'Brien, "will be those who can make the choice for consumers easy". With all the anticipated confusion—mindful of the early years of personal computers—it is likely to be years before anyone calls the purchase of wireless products an "easy" choice.

How did mobile radio systems find its business competitiveness?

A．Its technological features have radically changed.

B．It has been rebuilt to cater to various subscribers.

C．Its dimensions have been reduced by wide margins.

D．It was connected to a greater variety of services.

Until recently, mobile radio was to wireless communications what the Yugo was to transportation. With a mixed clientele ranging from truckers using CBs to police armed with walkie-talkies to taxi drivers dispatched by radio, it was viewed as an unglamorous business and a technological backwater.

But specialized mobile radio, as it is known, has been rediscovered. It is now considered one of the biggest prizes in the all-out war for the public airwaves. The reason: high-tech companies have figured out how to profitably rebuild the antiquated dispatching system into an advanced cellular-telephone network that can take on the likes of AT＆T and the giant Baby Bells. Upstart Nextel Communications sent shock waves through the industry last week when it agreed to buy Motorola's SMR frequencies for $1.8 billion.

That could pose a serious threat to cellular hegemony. Although both systems are based on the same basic technology, SMR systems are digital and cover almost 25 times as much area as the average cellular network. SMR handsets won't work on cellular systems and tend to be bulkier than cellular phones, though they provide more features, like a digital pager service. And while cellular growth has tripled to some 13 million subscribers since 2000, the technology has been losing ground. It is running out of channel capacity so fast, in fact, that 40% of cellular calls in high-density areas like Manhattan and Los Angeles fail to be completed. SMRs have capacity to spare, and service could eventually be priced 10% to 15% less than cellular. Dispatchers predict they will have at least 10 million subscribers by the end of the decade. There are now about 1.5 million users of SMRs.

The addition of another contender to an already crowded field of telephone systems will surely multiply the confusion. By the year 2010, consumers will be able to choose from at least half a dozen vendors of a dizzying array of wireless-communications services, including pagers, voice mail answering machines and cellular phones. Phone and cable television operators, such as Bell South, MCI and Cox Enterprises, are developing so-called personal-communications networks, or PCNs, a highly advanced portable-phone system that is expected to cover a wider area, connect to a greater variety of services and be cheaper to operate than conventional cellular.

And many companies that have gambled on the wrong technological standards, and invested billions trying to develop the same markets, will undoubtedly lose a great deal of money before the shakeout is over. "The winners", says Nextel chairman Morgan O'Brien, "will be those who can make the choice for consumers easy". With all the anticipated confusion—mindful of the early years of personal computers—it is likely to be years before anyone calls the purchase of wireless products an "easy" choice.

How did mobile radio systems find its business competitiveness?

A．Its technological features have radically changed.

B．It has been rebuilt to cater to various subscribers.

C．Its dimensions have been reduced by wide margins.

D．It was connected to a greater variety of services.

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.

听力原文： The winter gift-giving season is responsible for twenty percent of all retail spending at American businesses. But how and when people buy holiday gifts is changing. Record numbers of Americans are turning to the Internet. More than 100 million people are expected to buy something online this holiday season.

Traditionally, the biggest shopping day of the year was in late November on the day after Thanksgiving. People still call it "Black Friday." The idea was that it could push businesses "into the black"-the traditional color for recording profits. Red is for debts. But now the busiest days are right before Christmas. Many people wait for last-minute price reductions.

With the rise of the Internet, the National Retail Federation came up with a new term. "Cyber Monday" is the Monday after Thanksgiving. The idea is that many people look in stores over the weekend. Then, to save time, they order online using the Internet at their jobs when they return back to work. Cyber Monday is a big day online. But market researchers at ComScore Networks reported that the biggest day of the holiday season so far was December thirteenth. The company said people spent almost 670 million dollars at American sites that day. That did not include travel sites.

ComScore estimates that online spending during this holiday season will reach almost 25 billion dollars that is 25 percent over last year.

Online selling makes it easier for businesses to react to changing conditions. It costs less to change the advertising on a Web site than in stores.

(27)

A．It is the most unlucky day in a year.

B．It is the busiest shopping day now.

C．It is the day after Thanksgiving.

D．It is the day before Christmas.

After calculating net profit for the year ended 31 March 20X8, WL has the following trial balance. DR CR $ $ Land and buildings-cost 10,000 Land and buildings -accumulated depreciation at 31 March 20X8 2,000 Plant – cost 12,000 Plant - accumulated depreciation at 31 March 20X8 3,000 Inventories 2,500 Trade receivables 1,500 Bank 8,250 Trade payables 1,700 Rent prepaid 400 Wages accrued 300 Capital account 19,400 Profit for the year ended 31 March 20X8 9,750 34,650 36,150 A suspense account was opened for the difference in the trial balance. Immediately after production of above, the following errors were discovered: A payables account had been debited with a $300 sales invoice(which had been correctly recorded in the sales account). The heat and light expense account had been credited with gas paid $150 and the bank has been credited with $150 The saes ledger account of G Gordon had been credited with a cheque received from G Goldman for $800 prepare a journal entry to correct error(iii) Account name DEBIT CREDIT $ $ PICLIST: G Gordon , G Goldman , Bank , Trade receivables , Suspense account

E-Mail Madness: Breaking Rules and Loving It

For all the cultural upheavals being wrought by new technology, the spread of writing may be one of the biggest. Everybody, it seems, is writing these days.

The catalyst is e-mail messages and Web chat. In electronic messages and conversations, millions of people who thought that after their schooling ended they would never have to worry about a semicolon again are spending time, lots of it, writing.

"E-mail is basically a kind of grass-roots rediscovery of writing," said Rob Writing, the director of Tank20, which puts fiction on the Web. "People didn't have a rule-based way of thinking about e-mail when they first got it. It was purely utilitarian. The verbal play and inventiveness of spoken conversation was able to jump the barrier into the new medium and get combined with visual things."

The e-mail-chat culture may be ushering in the demise of the things that sustain it: grammar, syntax, spelling and, eventually, because of the visual, shorthand, hypertextual nature of the medium, possibly even some words. As with any cultural upheaval, the changes are eventually appropriated by the era's artists.

A typical e-mail message does away with commas and capital letters, and is riddled with misspellings, some of which are deliberate, most probably not. There is a lot of white space Because the return key functions as punctuation. Acronyms and little pictures, called glyphs or emoticons, communicate thoughts and expressions. The freedom implicit in jettisoning grammatical rules could be what has enabled the e-mail-chat revolution to occur, unlocking the inner writer in everyone. Not having to abide by grammatical rule, as chat room visitors might say, makes them smile.

But is writing e-mail and chatting really writing?

Some writers who still believe in the importance of things like etymology and spelling and grammar say more people writing more often can only help the march of literature itself.

"Anything that takes away the fear of writing has got to be very healthy," said William Zinsser, who teaches writing at the New School University in New York. "What has been given back to people by e-mail is really their natural right to talk to someone else on paper without all these inhibitions that the school systems have foisted on them."

The ease of writing on the Internet may also be fostering a legion of would-be writers. Depending on one's point of view, this may or may not be a good thing.

Proponents of electronic literature say that in addition to unlocking the writer within, e-mail and chat are fostering a new wave of literacy. As a result, a hew language is developing, and like all Internet phenomena, it is evolving quickly.

But Cynthia Ozick, the essayist, novelist and short-story writer, said that the speed and ease of composing on the computer doesn't help the language change but rather, it stunts it. Writing on the computer, she added, foster prolixity; ease of use deprives the author of much-needed time to ponder. That disappoints her.

"At the start," Ozick said, "there was this excitement: we're going to enter an age like the new 18th-century epistolary, glorious age. We do have an epistles age--it consists of grunts."

Writing, who puts some of his writings on the Tank20 Web site, said that people should expect that writing will evolve. "Many people who are really smart make the mistake of identifying the beauty of language, love of language, history of language with their own beloved style," he said. "If there's anything that we learn from the long view of literary history it's that styles change."

The ease and speed and casualness of writing found on the Internet has infected some authors who write work to be published online, including Ozick, who mostly uses pen and paper to write. In 1997, Ozick wrote a diary for the online magazine Slat

A．Professional writers no longer have to abide by grammatical rules.

B．For those people who neither wrote letters nor read books, writing online has become their regular everyday experience.

C．Most writers prefer to publish their writings on the Web so as to reach a larger readership.

D．Computer literacy is drawing increasing attention from the educators.

E-Mail Madness: Breaking Rules and Loving It

For all the cultural upheavals being wrought by new technology, the spread of writing may be one of the biggest. Everybody, it seems, is writing these days.

The catalyst is e-mail messages and Web chat. In electronic messages and conversations, millions of people who thought that after their schooling ended they would never have to worry about a semicolon again are spending time, lots of it, writing.

“E-mail is basically a kind of grass-roots rediscovery of writing,” said Rob Wittig, the director of Tank20, which puts fiction on the Web. "People didn't have a rule-based way of thinking about e-mail when they first got it. It was purely utilitarian. The verbal play and inventiveness of spoken conversation was able to jump the barrier into the new medium and get combined with visual things."

The e-mail-chat culture may be ushering in the demise of the things that sustain it: grammar, syntax, spelling and, eventually, because of the visual, shorthand, hypertextual nature of the medium, possibly even some words. As with any cultural upheaval, the changes are eventually appropriated by the era's artists.

A typical e-mail message does away with commas and capital letters, and is riddled with misspellings, some of which are deliberate, most probably not. There is a lot of white space because the return key functions as punctuation. Acronyms and little pictures, called glyphs or emoticons, communicate thoughts and expressions. The freedom implicit in jettisoning grammatical rules could be what has enabled the e-mail-chat revolution to occur, unlocking the inner writer in everyone. Not having to abide by grammatical rule, as chat room visitors might say, makes them smile.

But is writing e-mail and chatting really writing?

Some writers who still believe in the importance of things like etymology and spelling and grammar say more people writing more often can only help the march of literature itself.

“Anything that takes away the fear of writing has got to be very healthy,” said William Zinsser, who teaches writing at the New School University in New York. "What has been given back to people by e-mail is really their natural right to talk to someone else on paper without all these inhibitions that the school systems have foisted on them."

The ease of writing on the Internet may also be fostering a legion of would-be writers. Depending on one's point of view, this may or may not be a good thing.

Proponents of electronic literature say that in addition to unlocking the writer within, e-mail and chat are fostering a new wave of literacy. As a result, a new language is developing, and like all Internet phenomena, it is evolving quickly.

But Cynthia Ozick, the essayist, novelist and short-story writer, said that the speed and ease of composing on the computer doesn't help the language change but rather, it stunts it. Writing on the computer, she added, foster prolixity; ease of use deprives the author of much-needed time to ponder. That disappoints her.

“At the start,” Ozick said, “there was this excitement: we're going to enter an age like the new 18th-century epistolary, glorious age. We do have an epistles age--it consists of grunts.”

Wittig, who puts some of his writings on the Tank20 Web site, said that people should expect that writing will evolve. "Many people who are really smart make the mistake of identifying the beauty of language, love of language, history of language with their own beloved style," he said. "If there's anything that we learn from the long view of literary history it's that styles change."

The ease and speed and casualness of writing found on the Internet has infected some authors who write work to be published online, including Ozick, who mostly uses pen and paper to write. In 1997, Ozick wrote a diary for the online magazine Slate.

A．Professional writers no longer have to abide by grammatical rules.

B．For those people who neither wrote letters nor read books, writing online has become their regular everyday experience.

C．Most writers prefer to publish their writings on the Web so as to reach a larger readership.

D．Computer literacy is drawing increasing attention from the educators.