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试卷一　Questions 6 to 10

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following news.

6. (A) The digging of a major tunnel was slowing down.

(B) A water supply project failed because of unexpected difficulties.

(C) Eight people were killed in a train accident.

(D) A helicopter was reported missing.

7. (A) To go on providing humanitarian aid. (B) To increase the food supply.

(C) To revise the oil-for-food programme. (D) To lift the embargo on his country.

humanitarian aid　人道援助

oil-for-food programme　　石油换食品计划

lift the embargo　解除禁运

8. (A) To cut down on the US military presence in Europe.

(B) To increase the European Union's military influence.

(C) To make combined efforts to sustain its economic growth.

(D) To take concrete actions to stop arms race.

9. (A) Sex discrimination in the U.S troops is far less obvious than in other fields of American life.

(B) Race relations have considerably improved in the US military.

(C) There are more black or Hispanic officers in the armed services than before.

(D) Many minority military personnel complained about negative race relations.

Hispanic　拉丁裔的

10. (A) 4.4%. (B) 11.2% (C) 14.4%. (D) 44%.

Questions 6 to 10

Question No. 6. What happened according to the report from Manila?

6. (A) The digging of a major tunnel was slowing down.

(B) A water supply project failed because of unexpected difficulties.

(C) Eight people were killed in a train accident.

(D) A helicopter was reported missing.

MANILA: A helicopter carrying eight people was reported missing after it unloaded a cargo of food and other provisions for workers digging a major tunnel for a water supply project for Manila, an official said yesterday.

Question No. 7. What did the Iraqi Ambassador ask the United Nations to do?

7. (A) To go on providing humanitarian aid. (B) To increase the food supply.

(C) To revise the oil-for-food programme. (D) To lift the embargo on his country.

UNITED NATIONS: Iraq asked the United Nations to continue providing humanitarian aid despite cutting off exports of crude oil under the UN's oil-for-food programme, UN officials said.

Question No. 8. What was proposed at the joint meeting staged by the European Union?

8. (A) To cut down on the US military presence in Europe.

(B) To increase the European Union's military influence.

(C) To make combined efforts to sustain its economic growth.

(D) To take concrete actions to stop arms race.

LONDON: For the first time in its 42-year history, the European Union (EU) staged a joint meeting of foreign affairs and defence ministers to debate how the union can acquire a security dimension consistent with its economic strength.

During that meeting, Britain and France proposed that Europe, by either 2002 or 2003, should possess the capacity to deploy a rapid reaction force of some 50, 000 troops in a peacekeeping operation in or around the EU.

The proposal received a strong response, which is indicative that the EU is making concrete efforts to bolster its military clout in Europe.

Question No. 9. What was disclosed in a survey released by the US Defence Department on Tuesday?

9. (A) Sex discrimination in the U.S troops is far less obvious than in other fields of American life.

(B) Race relations have considerably improved in the US military.

(C) There are more black or Hispanic officers in the armed services than before.

(D) Many minority military personnel complained about negative race relations.

WASHINGTON: A high percentage of blacks, Hispanics and other minorities in the US military complained in a survey released by the Pentagon on Tuesday that they have experienced racially offensive behaviour in the armed services.

In the virtually unprecedented Defence Department survey of more than 40,000 US troops, one in five blacks responding also said they felt race relations played a negative part in their prospects for promotion or assignment. But the survey, taken in 1997, indicated that military personnel felt Pentagon efforts to promote good race relations and equal opportunity were succeeding and that discrimination in uniform was far less pronounced than in other areas of American life.

Question No. 10. As compared with the same period last year, how much did Japan's trade surplus drop?

TOKYO: Japan's trade surplus plunged 14. 4 per cent in October from its level a year ago, the government said yesterday.

Government official blamed the strong yen for severely damaging exports.

The trade surplus dropped to US $ 11. 2 billion, the Finance Ministry reported, making October the seventh month in a row for a drop in the trade surplus. "Japan's exports have been pressed by the sharp appreciation of the yen against the US dollar, which mainly contributed to the surplus fall," said Naoko Ogata, an analyst at the Sakura Research Institute. "With the yen rising to current levels, exporters are finding it difficult to make a profit."

10. (A) 4.4%. (B) 11.2% (C) 14.4%. (D) 44%.

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