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Paper Two

Part I Error Correction (15 minutes)

Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to add a word, cross out a word, or change a word. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (¡Ä) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you cross out a word, put a slash ( / ) in the blank. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank.

The ocean bottom¡ªa region near 2.5 times greater 71. _____

than the total land area of the earth¡ªis a vast

frontier that even today is largely unexplored and uncharted.

Until about a century ago, the deep-ocean floor

was completely inaccessible, hiding beneath waters 72. _____

averaging over 3,600 meters deep. Totally without light

and subjected intense pressures hundreds of times 73. _____

greater than at the Earth's surface, the deep-ocean

bottom is a hostile environment to humans, in some ways

as forbidding and remote as the void of outer space.

Although researchers have been taken samples of deep-ocean 74. _____

rocks and sediments for over a century, the first detailed

global investigation of the ocean bottom did not

actually start before 1968, with the beginning 75. _____

of the National Science Foundation's Deep Sea Drilling

Project (DSDP). Used techniques first developed for 76. _____

the offshore oil and gas industry, the DSDP's drill ship, the Glomar

Challenger, was able to maintain a steady positionon the ocean's surface

and drill in very deep waters, extracted samples 77. _____

of sediments and rock from the ocean floor.

The Glomar Challenger's core samples have allowed

geologists reconstruct what the planet looked like 78. _____

hundreds of millions of years ago and to calculate what it will

probably look like millions of years in the future. Today,

largely with the strength of evidence gathered during the 79. _____

Glomar Challenger's voyages, nearly all earth scientists agree

with the theories of plate construction and continental 80. _____

drift that explain many of the geological processes that

shape the Earth.

Part II Translation from English to Chinese (15 minutes)

Directions: In this part, there are five items, which you should translate into Chinese, each item consists of one or two sentence. These sentences are all taken from the reading passages you have just read in the Second Part of the Test Paper.

You are allowed 15 minutes to do the translation. You can refer back to the passages so as to identify their meanings in the context.



81. (Lines 1ª²4, Para.4, Passage 1)

Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves.





82. (Lines 4ª²6, Para.4, Passage 2)

Industries found a way to meet the new pollution laws without reducing the amount of pollution they released.





83. (Lines 3ª²5, Para.1, Passage 3)

His manifesto Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television is an American bestseller, and after eight editions is still generating concern and savage debate in the United States.





84. (Lines 6ª²8, Para.2, Passage 3)

And, even without commercials, he sees TV as disturbing because it crams people's heads with images which alter the way they feel and behave.





85. (Lines 2ª²4, Para.3, Passage 4)

The essence of political process is the struggle between individuals and groups with different interests to gain the decision-making power.





Part III Short Answer Questions (15 minutes)

Directions: In this part, there is a short passage with five questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words (not exceeding 10 words).

Earthquakes may rightly be ranked as one of the most devastating forces known to man: since records began to be written down, it has been estimated that earthquakeª²related fatalities have numbered in the millions, and that earthquake-related destruction had been beyond calculation. The greater part of such damage and loss of life has been due to collapse of buildings and the effects of rockslides, floods, fire, disease, tsunamis (gigantic sea waves(º£Ð¥)), and other phenomena resulting from earthquakes, rather than from the quakes themselves.

The great majority of all earthquakes occur in two specific geographic areas. One such area encompasses the Pacific Ocean and its contiguous land masses. The other extends from the East Indies to the Atlas Mountains, including the Himalayas, Iran, Turkey, and the Alpine regions. It is in these two great belts or zones that ninety percent of all earthquakes take place; they may, however, happen anywhere at any time.

This element of the unknown has for centuries added greatly to the dread and horror surrounding earthquakes, but in recent times there have been indications that earthquake prediction may be possible. By analyzing changes in animal behavior, patterns of movements in the earth's crust, variations in the force of gravity and the earth's magnetic field, and the frequency with which minor earth tremors are observed, scientists have shown increasing success in anticipating when and where earthquakes will strike. As a result, a worldwide earthquake warning network is already in operation and has helped to prepare for (and thus lessen) the vast destruction that might otherwise have been totally unexpected.

It is doubtful that man will ever be able to control earthquakes and eliminate their destructiveness altogether, but as how and why earthquakes happen become better understood, man will become more and more able to deal with their potential devastation before it occurs.

Questions:

86. The two geographical areas in which ninety per cent of all earthquakes take place include the area that encompasses the Pacific Ocean and its contiguous land masses, and the area that__________________________________________________.

87. According to the author, ___________________________________________

has added to the dread and horror to people.

88.The author believes that the prediction of earthquakes_______________________________________________________ .

89. The earthquake prediction rest mainly upon the observation and analysis of _____________________________________________, variations in the force of gravity and the earth's magnetic field, and the frequency with which minor earth tremors.

90. The author believes that human beings can lessen the devastation of earthquakes by _____________________________________________.