One way of doing so is to perfect a market economy of public, collective and private ownership, with public ownership still as the main pillar. But the communiqué also stipulates that the share-holding system should be the main form in realizing public ownership so as to revitalize the state sector. Private capital will be allowed in infrastructure construction.
Another step is to build an integrated nationwide market to encourage the free flow of capital and commodities.
During the four-day meeting, more than 300 Central Committee members and alternative members examined and approved a work report by the Political Bureau on its work during the past year.
They also approved a draft proposal with regard to amendments to the state constitution. 161
1. What does “communiqué” in the 1st passage probably mean?
A. commune
B. communication
C. official report to the public
D. declaration or statement
2. According to the 2nd paragraph, “doing so” may refer to
A. outlining a series of new guidelines.
B. improving the country's market economic mechanism.
C. containing measures in a communiqué
D. issuing it on Tuesday.
3. According to the passage, which of the following is the major force in a market economy?
A. public ownership
B. collective and private ownership
C. share-holding system
D. private capital
4. On what day of the week did the meeting convene?
A. on Tuesday
B. four days ago
C. on Saturday
D. on Friday
5. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. a series of new guidelines
B. the plenary session of CCPCC
C. a gist of the communiqué
D. the four-day meeting of CCPCC
參考答案：CABBC Israeli researchers said they had identified a naturally produced compound that may explain why only some smokers get lung cancer.
Researchers found that smokers with low levels of the enzyme were five to 10 times more likely to develop lung cancer than smokers with the highest levels.
The enzyme fixes damage done to DNA by smoking and other environmental stresses and is one of a large group of repair compounds in the body.
Writing in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Zvi Livneh and his colleagues said 40 per cent of the 68 lung cancer patients they tested had low levels of enzyme activity, in contrast to 4 per cent of a healthy group of 68 people.
Non-smokers with the lowest levels of enzyme also had a higher risk of lung cancer, although their overall risk of cancer was much lower than that of the smokers.
Lung cancer is by far the biggest cancer killer in the world, killing a million people every year worldwide.
Smoking is also a major cause of heart disease and stroke. The researchers said the findings needed to be confirmed in larger studies but they may lead to the development of a blood test that smokers could take to determine their personal risk. 209
1. What is Israeli researchers’ discovery?
A. A naturally produced compound
B. The possible reason for smokers to get lung cancer
C. A kind of new enzyme
D. How lung cancer developed
2. According to the author, what is the function of the enzyme?
A. Repairing any damage.
B. Damage done to DNA.
C. Causing environmental stresses.
D. Repairing compounds in the body
3. How many people have been tested on levels of enzyme activity?
A. five to 10 times more
B. 40 per cent
C. 68
D. 136
4. The test also show that non-smokers
A. had the lowest levels of enzyme
B. had a higher risk of lung cancer
C. had the risk of cancer as well
D. did not have the risk of cancer
5. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Lung cancer is the biggest killer in the world.
B. Smoking may cause heart disease and stroke
C. The findings of Israeli researchers have to be confirmed yet.
D. Smokers could take blood test to determine their personal risk
參考答案：BDDCA China is already the world's third largest producer of electronics, and becoming a player in the global appliance market. Twenty years ago, U.S., European and Japanese companies started moving into China to supply the local market with household goods. Now those same companies are getting whipped by Chinese competitors. Over the past six years, the market share of foreign TV makers in China has dropped from 70 percent to less than 20 percent. Matsushita opened the first microwave-oven plant in China in 1995. Two years later the Chinese company Galanz started making microwaves and selling them for half Matsushita's price.
Chinese companies now make more than 43 million TVs yearly. Konka, one of China's largest TV makers, sells its branded TVs in the United States, and has set up factories in Mexico to service the American market; While TCL, another major TV maker, exported 11 million units from its Chinese factories last year. It has more Southeast Asian factories than any other Chinese company. (164 words)
1. This passage is primarily concerned with
A. the world's third largest producer of electronics
B. Chinese electronic companies
C. China's largest TV makers
D. the increase of China's electronics
2. What do “whipped” mean?
A. beat with a whip
B. won
C. defeated
D. suffered
3. What is the decreased rate of the market share of foreign TV makers in China?
A. 70%
B. 20%
C. 50%
D. 20%--70%
4. When did Galanz start making and selling microwaves?
A. 1993
B. 1994
C. 1995
D. 1997
5. Which of the following produces more TV sets?
A. Galanz
B. Konka
C. TCL
D. Unknown
參考答案：DCCDD The English language is spoken or read by the largest number of people in the world, for historical, political, and economic reasons; but it may also be true that it owes something of its wide appeal to qualities and characteristics inherent in itself. What are these characteristic features which outstand in making the English language what it is, which give it its individuality and make it of this worldwide significance?
First and most important is extraordinary receptive and adaptable — it has taken to itself material from almost everywhere in the world and has made the new elements of language its own. English, which when the Anglo-Saxons first conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries was almost a "pure" or unmixed language—which could make new words for new ideas from its own compounded elements.
A second outstanding characteristic of English is its simplicity and the relationship of words in a sentence with only the minimum of change in their shapes or variation of endings.
A third quality of English is its relatively fixed word order. （177 words）
1. This passage is primarily concerned with
A. reasons for the popularity of English
B. English language has largest number of people in the world
C. extraordinary receptive and adaptable of English language
D. characteristic of English
參考答案：A
2. What are the most important characteristic features of English?
A. the largest number of people
B. historical, political, and economic reasons
C. extraordinary receptive and adaptable
D. worldwide significance
參考答案：C
3. Where has English taken itself material?
A. everywhere in the world.
B. the Anglo-Saxons.
C. a "pure" or unmixed language.
D. many places in the world.
參考答案：D
4. According to the text, England was once
A. conquered by some foreigners.
B. defeated by the Anglo-Saxons.
C. a colony of the Anglo-Saxons.
D. mixed with the Anglo-Saxons.
參考答案：A
5. Which of the following is NOT the characteristic of English language?
A. simple
B. wide spread
C. pure
D. relatively fixed word order
參考答案：C For all the fevered work being done, however, science is still far away from the Brave New World vision of engineering a perfect human—or even a perfect tomato. Much more research is needed before gene therapy becomes commonplace, and many diseases will take decades to conquer, if they can be conquered at all.
In the short run, the most practical way to use the new technology will be in genetic screening. Doctors will be able to detect all sorts of flaws in DNA long before they can be fixed. In some cases the knowledge may lead to treatments that delay the attack of the disease or soften its effects. Someone with a genetic heart disease, for example, could follow a low-fat diet. And if scientists determine that a vital protein is missing because the gene that was supposed to make it is defective, they might be able to give the patient an artificial version of the protein. But in other instances, almost nothing can be done to stop the damages brought on by genetic mutations. （176 words）
1. The 1st passage implies that
A. science is still far away from perfection
B. it’s difficult to engineer a perfect human
C. it’s difficult to create a perfect tomato
D. many diseases will take decades to conquer
參考答案：A
2. According to the author, many human diseases
A. may be conquered.
B. will be surely conquered.
C. may not be conquered.
D. may never be conquered.
參考答案：A
3. What does “in the short run” mean?
A. to run in a short time
B. for the near future
C. for the time being
D. after enough time
參考答案：B
4. The use of the new technology in genetic screening includes all the following EXCEPT
A. detecting all sorts of flaws in DNA
B. fixing all sorts of flaws in DNA
C. treatments that delay the attack of the disease
D. artificial version of the protein
參考答案：B
5. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. genetic engineering
B. genetic screening
C. a new technology
D. Application of genetic engineering
參考答案：D
