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).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
注意：此部分試題在答題卡2上作答。
Passage One
Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. A) Eliminating the original vegetation from the building site.
B) Making the houses in an area similar to one another.
C) Deciding where a house will be built.
D) Surrounding a building with wildflowers and plants.
27. A) They are changed to make the site more interesting.
B) They are expanded to limit the amount of construction.
C) They are integrated into the design of the building.
D) They are removed for construction.
28. A) Because many architects studied with Wright.
B) Because Wright started the practice of “landscaping”.
C) Because Wright used elements of Envelope Building.
D) Because most of the houses Wright built were made of stone.
Passage Two
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
29. A) They cure patients by using traditional medicine.
B) Their treatments are often successful.
C) They cure patients both physically and mentally.
D) They are usually more patient than modern physicians.
30. A) The anger of a relative, friend or enemy.
B) The stone hidden inside the patient’s throat, arm, leg, stomach, etc.
C) The attack from neighboring enemies.
D) The diseases that enter the body of a person.
31. A) They are scientific. B) They are too complicated.
C) They should be banned. D) They are not truthful, but effective.
Passage Three
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32. A) Hot during the day and cold at night.
B) Cold during the day and hot at night.
C) Hot day and night.
D) Cold day and night.
33. A) There are neither rivers nor streams.
B) There is no grass all the year round.
C) It is mainly bare rock with little grass.
D) There are a few streams and big rivers.
34. A) With the help of his friends.
B) By following the tracks of animals.
C) By using a compass.
D) With the help of the guide.
35. A) 19 years old. B) 16 years old. C) 35 years old. D) 25 years old.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
注意：此部分試題在答題卡2上；請在答題卡2上作答。
Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
Section A
Directions：In this section，there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words on Answer Sheet 2.
Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
For most people, shopping is still a matter of wandering down the high street or loading a cart in a shopping mall. Soon, that will change. Electronic commerce is growing fast and will soon bring people more choice. There will, however, be a cost: protecting the consumer from fraud will be harder. Many governments therefore want to extend highstreet regulations to the electronic world. But politicians would be wiser to see cyberspace as a basis for a new era of corporate self-regulation.
Consumers in rich countries have grown used to the idea that the government takes responsibility for everything from the stability of the banks to the safety of the drugs, or their rights to refund(退款) when goods are faulty. But governments cannot enforce national laws on businesses whose only presence in their country is on the screen. Other countries have regulators, but the rules of consumer protection differ, as does enforcement. Even where a clear right to compensation exists, the online catalogue customer in Tokyo, say, can hardly go to New York to extract a refund for a dud purchase.
One answer is for governments to cooperate more: to recognize each other’s rules. But that requires years of work and volumes of detailed rules. And plenty of countries have rules too fanciful for sober states to accept. There is, however, an alternative. Let the electronic businesses do the “regulation” themselves. They do, after all, have a self-interest in doing so.
In electronic commerce, a reputation for honest dealing will be a valuable competitive asset. Governments, too, may compete to be trusted. For instance, customers ordering medicines online may prefer to buy from the United States because they trust the rigorous screening of the Food and Drug Administration; or they may decide that the FDA’s rules are too strict, and buy from Switzerland instead.
Consumers will need to use their judgment. But precisely because the technology is new, electronic shoppers are likely for a while to be a lot more cautious than consumers of the normal sort---and the new technology will also make it easier for them to complain noisily when a company lets them down. In this way, at least, the advent of cyberspace may argue for fewer consumer protection laws, not more.
