PART II READING COMPREHENSION (50%)

　　(本試卷滿分100分，考試時間為180分鐘)

　　(考生注意：答案須寫在答題紙與機讀答題卡上，寫在本試題上一律不給分)

　　PASSAGE 5 SYDENHAM HIGH SCHOOL

　　Girls from 5-18 years

　　A well established, selective girls school

　　Offering a broad academic curriculum

　　And a wide variety of extra curricular activities and clubs

　　Telephone: 081 7788737

　　41. What's this passage for?

　　42. Who will be interested in reading it?

　　43. Can a 14-year-old boy be sent there?

　　44. If you want to send your daughter to that school, what should you do?

　　45. What does the school offer?

　　PASSAGE 6

　　He saw the station in a new light. Here was a mass of human beings, some black, some white, and some brown like himself. Here they mixed with one another, yet each mistrusted the other with an unnatural fear. Each treated the other with suspicion, each move in a narrow, haunted pattern of its own manufacture. One must challenge these things the speaker had said in one's own way. Yet how in one's way? How was one to challenge? Slowly it dawned upon him. Here was his chance, the bench. The railway bench with the legend "Europeans Only" neatly painted on it in white. For one moment it symbolized all the challenge to his rights as a man. There it stood, a perfectly ordinary wooden railway bench, like hundreds of thousands of others in South Africa. That bench, now had concentrated in it all the evils of system, he could not understand. It was the obstacle to himself and humanity. If he sat on it he was a human in a human society. He almost had visions of fighting the pernicious system if only he sat on that bench. Here was his chance. He, Karlie, would challenge。

　　46. What is this passage about? 47. Who is the main character in the passage? 48. Is he a black person? 49. Where is he? 50. What is he going to do?

　　PART III TRANSLATION (15%)

　　Engineering software technology is constantly evolving, driving the marketplace, allowing companies to bring better products to market faster and at lower cost. Each new software release provides breakthroughs that allow companies to rely more on virtual product development and less on hours of laboratory, build-and-break studies. What used to take companies months or even years, costing a lot to design and build, now can be done in just weeks without great expense. This evolution is a direct result of the changing role of design analysis and optimisation software. Once thought of as "an extra step", today, this software is being applied throughout the product development process, testing ideas early in the development stage. ACME, Inc. develops the software tools that allow companies to build better, safer and more reliable products faster than ever before。