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SECTION B SKIMMING AND SCANNING （10 min）
In this section there are seven passages with ten multiple-choice questions. Ski m or scan them as required and then mark your answers on your Coloured Answer Sheet.
TEXT E
First read the question.
31. The primary purpose of the letter is to ___.
A. illustrate the World Bank's efforts in poverty-relief programmes
B. call for further efforts by nations in sustainable development
C. provide evidence for the World Bank's aid to the private sectors
D. clear up some misunderstanding about the World Bank
Now go through TEXT E quickly to answer question 31.
August 18th 199
Dear Sir,
In your July 28th article you noted that the Bank's own internal analysis r ated one third of the projects pleted in 1991 as unsatisfactory. But that sta tement fails to take account of the Bank's criteria for 'success', which are exc eptionally strict. For instance, before a project can be considered successful, it must he at least a 10% rate of return. This rate is far higher than the min imum demanded by many bilateral aid donors, many of which require a return of on ly 5% or 6%. Thus, projects rated unsatisfactory under the Bank's standards sti ll yield many benefits.
You imply that, because it deals mainly with governments, the Bank does not sufficiently support private sector development. Here are the facts. The World
Bank has:
supported reforms in mere than 80 countries aimed at opening up trade, making p rices realistic and dismantling state monopolies which stifle individual enterpr ise nvested in infrastructure to facilitate business activity; assisted and advised over 200 privatization-related operations involving nearly US 25 billion in loans; provided mere than US 12 billion through an affiliate, the International Fina nce Corp. over the last 30 years to mere than 1,000 private panies in the dev eloping world; and through another affiliate, the Multi lateral Investment Guara ntee Agency, offered insurance against non-mercial risk to encourage foreign investment in poor countries.
The record shows that, over the past generation, more progress has been mad e in reducing poverty and raising living standards than during any other para ble period in history. In the developing countries: life expectancy has been increased from 40 to 63 years; infant mortality has been reduced by 50% ;and per capita ine has doubled.
The World Bank consistently stresses that most of the credit for these adva nces should go to the countries themselves. Nevertheless, the Bank and anizat ions with which it collaborates-bilateral and international agencies and non-gov ernmental anizations-he played a valuable role in this progress. In the fut ure the Bank will continue to do its utmost to support its member countries in t heir efforts to achieve sustainable development.
（LEANDRO V. CORONEL
Public Affairs
The Worm Bank
Washington）
TEXT F
First read the question.
32. The author's main argument is that ___.
A. most farmers in developing countries face unemployment
B. developing countries need agricultural aid to boost economy
C. agricultural aid hints the economy in developing countries
D. a well-developed agricultural sector provides a domestic market
Now go through TEXT F quickly to answer question 32.
Ours is an agrarian economy. We must bee serf-sufficient in food to feed a rapidly growing population at an annual growth rate of more than 3 million pe ople. A well-developed agricultural sector would offset the need for food import and play an important role in the development process by providing a home marke t for the products of the industrial sector. This implies that the rate of indus trialization itself depends upon how fast agricultural ines are rising. Devel opment in the agricultural sector in our country means a rise in the ine leve l of 70 percent of the population who are related to this sector. Their increase d ine in turn will give us mere voluntary sings and investment and thus a s ource of revenue through taxation and potential capital formation by the governm ent plus reduction in ine inequalities between the urban population and rural masses. In this sense, aid received in the form of agricultural modities hur ts the developing countries and benefits developed countries mere than proportio nately. Because most of the farmers in developing countries are already at a mer e subsistence level with a high rate of unemployment, disguised-unemployment and underemployment.
The Chinese experience with rural development has demonstrated that agricu ltural modernization via labour-intensive techniques is a highly promising way t o create extra jobs without extensive geographic displacement of the farmers. Re garding the impact of transfer of agricultural modities on the long-term grow th rate in the recipient country, it can be said that transfer of agricultural c ommodities under confessional terms may resuit in an ultimate lowering of the re cipient countries long-term growth rate.
TEXT G
First read the question.
33. The passage is most probably from ___.
A. a review of a book on cowboys
B. a study of cowboy work culture
C. a novel about cowboy life and culture
D. a school textbook on the cowboy history
Now go through TEXT G quickly to answer question 33.
A cowboy is defined by the work that he does. Any man can lay claim to that name if he lives on a ranch and works—— drives, brands, castrates, or murmurs ——a cattleman's herd. In addition, working accounts for ways in which cowboy s portray themselves in their art: in 19th-century poems that they orally pose d and sang on the ranch, in 20th-century poems that they write, in books that th ey publish, and in art objects that they fashion, cowboys always represent thems elves as engaging in some form of labour. This book's three fold purpose is, fi r st, to look at art that cowboys produce——art, that has never been studied befo re——and, second, to demonstrate that cowboy art values historically document l abour routines that cowboys he traditionally acted out in their work culture.
I use the term work culture not only to suggest that cowboys are defined b y the work that they do, but also to argue that they are serf-represented in cul ture by poems, prose, and art that ail reveal cowboys to be men who are cultural ly unified by engaging in labour routines that they think of as cowboy work. Art deals with cowboy work, as well as with concerns about economics, gender, relig ion, and literature, even though these thoughts sometimes express themselves as concerns about cattle branding, livestock castration, and other tasks. The book ' s third and most important function is, therefore, to show that artistic self-re presentations of labour also formulate systems of thought which cowboys use as a metaphor for discussing economies, gender, religion, and literature, sometimes equating branding with religious salvation, at other t imes defining spur making as freedom, and so on.
TEXT H
First read the question.
34. The writer of this letter attempts to ___ the views in the editorial.
A. refute
B. illustrate
C. support
D. substantiate
Now go through TEXT H quickly to answer question 34.
October 3rd 199
Dear Sir,
In your editorial on August 31st, there seems to be some confused thinking in attempting to establish a direct relationship between the desire of the OAA airlines to negotiate more equitable agreements with the United States for air-t raffic rights and the cost of air trel for the public.
It is simply untrue that the Asian carriers are not looking for increased access to t
he U.S. market, including its domestic market; they are, as part of b alanced agreements that provide equality of opportunity. So long as the U. S. ta kes the inequitable arrangements enshrined in current agreements as a starting p oint for negotiation, however, there is no chance that U.S. carriers will be gra nted more regional rights which further unbalance the economic opportunities a ilable to each side. Most importantly from the consumer viewpoint, it has yet to be demonstrated that in those regional sectors where U.S. carriers currently op erate-such as Hong Kong/Tokyo-they he added anything in terms of price, qualit y of service, innovation or seat ailability in peak seasons.
Turning to cost, I am not sure to which Merrill Larrych study you are referri ng, but it would be simplistic to pare seat-mile costs of narrow-body operati on over U. S. domestic sectors with wide-body operation over international secto rs; parative studies of seat-mile costs are valid only if they pare simila r aircraft operating over identical sectors. On this basis, International Civil Aviation anization figures show that Asian carriers are highly petitive. O f course, given its operating environment Japan Air Lines will he high seat-mi le costs, while a carrier based in Southeast Asia, such as Singapore Airlines, w ill he relatively low costs. But it is a fallacy to assume this means 'higher ticket prices or higher taxes' for the 'hapless Asian air treller' if he trels on JAL.
The Japanese carriers he to pete in the Asian marketplace with others, and costs cannot simply be passed on to the consumer or taxpayer. The people wh o really pay the price or reap the reward of differing cost levels are the share holders.
（RICHARD. T. STIRLAND
Director General
Orient Airlines Association
TEXT I
First read the questions.
35. Today's puters can process data ___ times faster than the 1952 model, ILLIAC.
A. 4 B. 100 C. 200 D. 4, 000
36. NCSA aims to develop ___.
A. a new Inter browser
B. a more powerful national system
C. human-puter intelligence interaction
D. a new global work
Now go through TEXT I quickly to answer questions 35 and 36.
URBANA, Illinois. Wele to Cyber City, USA, where scientists are developi ng the next-generation Inter and leading ground-breaking research in artifici al intelligence. The University of Illinois at Urbana, which has a student body of 36,100, has a proud puting tradition. In 1952, it became the first educational institution to build and own its own puter.
That puter, ILLIAC, was four metres tall, four metres long and sixty cen timetres deep. Its processing speed was about 50 kilohertz pared with 200 meg ahertz-that's 200,000 kilohertz for today's puters.
At the state-of-the-art Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technolo gy, researchers from disciplines as far-ranging as psychology, puter science and biochemistry are focusing on biological intelligence and human-puter inte lligence interaction.
Beckman also houses the National Centre for Superputing Application （NCS A）, which played a key role in the development of the Inter global work. I t was NCSA that developed Mosaic, the graphically driven programme that first ma de surfing on the Inter possible.
Mosaic, introduced in 1992, has been replaced by much more powerful Interne t browsers such as its successor scape or Microsoft's Inter Explorer.
NCSA officials say they are now trying to bring more advanced puting and munication to research scientists, engineers and ultimately the public.
“What we're looking for is a national system in which the works are 10 0 times greater than the Inter today, and the superputers are 100 times more powerful,” said NCSA Director Larry Smart.
A proposed joint project would develop a prototype or demonstration model f or the “21st century national information infrastructure” in line with an init iative announced by President Bill Clinton last October.
If funded by the National Science Foundation, the new structure would take effect on October 1st.
NCSA, one of the four operational federal superputer centres in the coun try, is awaiting a decision from the Foundation's board late this month on a co mpetition for US 16 million in continued annual federal funding.
NCSA, which employs 200 people and has a yearly budget of US 31 million, is expected to be one of two winners along with its counterpart in San Diego.
“The University has put a great deal of effort into this petition. We r emain hopeful about the oute, but we will he no ment until the National Science Foundation Board's decision,” Smart said.
TEXT J
First read the questions.
37. In Japanese the work depato refers to ___.
A. traditional Japanese stores
B. modern stores in cities
C. special clothing stores
D. railway stores
38. During the Meiji era depato was regarded by Japanese customers as a（n ） ___ shopping place.
A. cheap B. traditional C. fashionable D. attractive
Now go through TEXT J quickly to answer questions 37 and 38.
The Japanese he two words for the modern department stores that abound in large urban areas. The older word, hyakkaten, which is seldom used in daily spee ch, can usually be found engred in ideographs in a building cornerstone, and i t is part of a store's official rifle. Literally “a store with one hundred ite ms ,” this word was coined during the late Meiji era（ 1868 - 1912）, when clothing s tores began to expand their product lines and railroads began to build shops at major train crossings. The more recent and more monly used word is depato （fr om the English 'department store' ）.
These words reflect the dual nature of Japanese department stores. Words wr itten in ideographs can impart an aura of antiquity and tradition. Frequently, a s in the case of the word hyakkaten, they suggest indigenous origin. In contrast , foreign borrowed words often give a feeling of modernity and foreignness. Many Japanese department stores actually originated in Japan several hundred years a go as dry goods stores that later patterned themselves after foreign department stores. Even the trendiest and most ant-garde of these stores practise pattern s of merchandising and retain forms of prepaid credit, customer service, and spe cial relationships with suppliers characteristic of merchandising during the Tok ygawa era （1600 — 1868）. To many Japanese these large urban stores may seem lik e a direct import from the West, but like the word depato, they he undergone a transformation in the process of being Japanese.
Throughout the Tokygawa era, Japan was closed by decree to foreign influen ces. During the Meiji era, however, Japan reopened to the western world; concurr ently, depato emerged as large-scale merchandisers in Japan. The Meiji depato we re soon perceived by Japanese customers as glamorous places to shop because of t heir Western imports, which the Japanese were eager to see and buy. Depato also sold Japanese goods but often followed practices that people of the time conside red foreign, such as letting customers wear their shoes while shopping in the st ore.
A representative of the Japan Department Store Association told me that th roughout their history depato he played on the Japanese interest in foreign pl aces, cultures and objects, and that to a great extent these were introduced to Japan through department stores. I suggest that in addition to this role of cult ural importer depato he also been involved in the creation of domestic cultura l meanings. They he made foreign customs, ideas and merchandise familiar by gi ving them meanings consistent with Japanese cultural practice.
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