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A.
A. Right
B.
B. Wrong
√ C.
C. Not mentioned
解析：在文章第四段提到，苏格兰的渔民在新船第一次航行之前都要在船头打碎一瓶威士忌酒，此举的用意是为了避开魔鬼的滋扰。
(5).Making an annual offering can pleases the gods who control the sea.（分数：1.00） A.
A. Right
√ B.
B. Wrong
C.
C. Not mentioned
解析：见文章第二段第一句。
(6).All these superstitions things can't save the sailors or the fishermen in reality.（分数：1.00） A.
A. Right
B.
B. Wrong
C.
C. Not mentioned
√
解析：文章只对渔夫和海员相信的迷信进行介绍，并未提及这些迷信是否有效。
(7).It was thought meeting a priest, a rabbit or a woman is unlucky in all the countries.（分数：1.00） A.
A. Right
B.
B. Wrong
√ C.
C. Not mentioned
解析：见文章倒数第二段，注意为some countries。
三、{{B}}第3部分：概括大意与完成句子{{/B}}(总题数：1，分数：8.00)
阅读下面这篇短文，短文后有2项测试任务：(1)第23～26题要求从所给的6个选项中为规定段每段选择1个正确的小标题；(2)第27～30题要求从所给的6个选项中选择4个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。
{{B}}Stock exchange{{/B}}
1. Large companies need a way to reach the savings of the public at large. The same problem, on a smaller scale, faces practically every company trying to develop new products and create new jobs.
2. there can be little prospect of raising the sort of sums needed from friends and people we
know, and while banks may agree to provide short-term finance, they are generally unwilling to provide money on a permanent basis for long-term projects. So companies turn to the public, inviting people to lend them money, or take a share in the business in exchange for a share in future profits. This they do by issuing stocks and shares in the business through The Stock Exchange. By doing so they can put into circulation the savings of individuals and institutions, both at home and overseas.
3. When the saver needs his money back, he does not have to go to the company with whom he originally placed it. Instead, he sells his shares through a stockbroker to some other saver who is seeking to invest his money.
4. Many of the services needed both by industry and by each of us are provided by the Government or by local authorities. Without hospitals, roads, electricity, telephones, railways, this country could not function. All these require continuous spending on new equipment and new development if they are to serve us properly, requiring more money than is raised through taxes alone. The Government, local authorities, and nationalised industries therefore frequently need to borrow money to finance major capital spending, and they, too, come to The Stock Exchange. 5. There is hardly a man or woman in this country whose job or whose standard of living does not depend on the ability of his/her employers to raise money to finance new development. In one way or another this new money must come from the savings of the country. The Stock Exchange exists to provide a channel through which these savings can reach those who need finance.
A. The way companies reaching the savings B. Why stock exchange comes into being C. The faction of stock exchange D. How the savers take their money back E. Another factor which stock exchange F. How to use stock
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(1).Paragraph 2 ______.（分数：1.00） 填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：B）
解析：本段从私人借贷说起，证明其它方式均无法满足企业集资需要，所以最后形成股票交易。 (2).Paragraph 3 ______.（分数：1.00） 填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：D）
解析：本段先说投资者并不需要到公司去要钱，而只需抛出股票，所以选D。 (3).Paragraph 4 ______.（分数：1.00） 填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：E）
解析：本段说明了一些政府机构等参加股票交易的必要性，而这也推动了股票交易的发展。 (4).Paragraph 5 ______.（分数：1.00） 填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：C）
解析：本段最后一句中的channel，表明本段是在说明股票交易的作用。
(5).Almost all companies involved in new production and development must depend on ______.（分数：1.00）
填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：D）
解析：在第二段中，作者强调，这些公司不能只依靠亲朋好友来募集资金，而要转向公众。公众即是people as a whole，请后者借钱给这些公司，其中的方式包括发行股票。
(6).The money which enables these companies to go ahead with their projects is raised ______.（分数：1.00）
填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：E） 解析：见文章第三段。
(7).All the essential services on which we depend are ______.（分数：1.00） 填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：B） 解析：根据文章第四段，可知所有机构均需要钱，即B。
(8).The stock exchange makes it possible for the Government, local authorities and nationalised industries to raise ______.（分数：1.00） 填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：F） 解析：见文章第四段最后一句。
四、{{B}}第4部分：阅读理解{{/B}}(总题数：1，分数：15.00)
下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每题后面有4个选项。请仔细阅读短文，并根据短文回答其后面的问题，从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。 {{B}}第一篇{{/B}}
{{B}}The Acquisition of Two Companies{{/B}}
The Provident Companies, the No. 2 seller of individual disability insurance policies, agreed yesterday to buy the No. 1 insurer in the field in a deal that would give it more than 1/3 of the market.
The $1.2 billion deal would eliminate about 600 jobs, give a big Swiss money-losing policies sold by the insurer that is being acquired, the Paul Revere company.
Last year Provident's insurance units had $2.6 billion in premium revenues and Paul Revere had $1.5 billion. About 57 percent of the combined $4.1 billion in premiums came from disability policies that were sold to individuals. Provident's next largest competitor, the UNUM Corporation, has about 10 percent of the market.
Paul Revere has been controlled since 1985 by Textron Inc. Textron acquired the insurer when it bought Avco Financial Services, which makes high interest rate loans to people whose employment and credit histories make them too risky for bank loans.
James F. Hardymon, Textron's chairman and chief executive, said the sale \strategy to focus on its core manufacturing and finance businesses.\the income might be used to pay down the company's more than $10 billion of debt or to buy back stock. Paul Revere's remaining public shareholders will get $26 in cash for each share, Provident stock worth $26, or $20 in cash and Provident stock worth $6.
To finance the deal, Provident is getting a $300 million infusion of cash from the Zurich insurance Group of Switzerland, which is buying a 15.2% stake in Provident under an agreement allowing it to increase the stake to 40%.
Provident, which is based in Chattanooga, Tenn., announced a $423 million write-off on individual disability policies in December 1993. Paul Revere, which is based in Worchester, Mass., has not taken a similar write-off, said John M. Hanon, an analyst at Derby Securities.
Provident, Paul Revere and other companies have previously said that they had to pay claims on diseases not even known when the policies were written and that many disability claims resulted in larger than expected benefits payment.
The deal drew mixed responses from insurance ratings agencies, which had ranked both companies in the upper grades, indicating a strong likelihood that they would be able over the long haul to pay claims.
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(1).Which of the following is TRUE according to Para. 1?（分数：3.00） A.No. 1 insurer acquired the No. 2 insurer. B.No.2 insurer acquired the No. 1 insurer. √ C.This deal provided 600 more job opportunities.
D.This deal would produce 1/3 more market share. 解析：可在第一段直接找到答案。
(2).Who would write off the money-losing policies?（分数：3.00） A.Paul Revere Company. B.The acquired insurer, C.provident Companies. √ D.Textron Company.
解析：根据第一段，可知C为正确答案。
(3).How much was earned from both companies' sale of the disabilities policies?（分数：3.00） A.$ 2.6 billion. B.$ 1.5 billion. C.$ 4.1 billion. D.$ 2.3 billion. √
解析：根据第三段的信息：这两家保险公司全部收益4.1亿美元的 57%是来自于其伤残险的销售，故答案是D。
(4).All of the following companies may be the owner of Paul Revere EXCEPT ______.（分数：3.00） A.Textron
B.UNUM Corporation √ C.Avco Financial Services D.Provident Companies
解析：可在第四段中找到答案。即Avco是Paul公司的母公司，而 Textron又收购了Paul公司，现在Provident又从Textron公司收购了Paul公司，所以Avco、Textron、Provident三家公司先后都曾是Paul公司的股东。
(5).According to the passage, why had the rating agencies ranked both companies in the upper grades?（分数：3.00）
A.Because both companies were claimed very often. B.Because both companies were never claimed.
C.Because both companies were able to pay claims. √ D.Because both companies were not able to pay claims.
解析：文中指出；信用评级机构认为这两家保险公司具有较高的信用，原因是这两家公司在长时间内具有保险理赔的支付能力。所以答案是C。
五、{{B}}第二篇{{/B}}(总题数：1，分数：15.00)
{{B}}International community{{/B}}
Some people say the international community is only a fiction. Others say it is too elastic a concept to have any real meaning. Some say there are no internationally recognized norms, goals or fears on which to base such a community. Oped pages refer routinely to the \international community. I believe these skepties are wrong. The international community does exist. It has an address. It has achievements to its credit.
When governments, urged along by civil society, come together to adopt a statute for the creation of an International Criminal Court, that is the international community at work for the rule of law. When we see an outpouring of international aid to the victims of earthquakes in Turkey and Greece, witch is the international community following its humanitarian impulse. When people come together to ress governments to relieve the world's poorest countries from crushing debt burdens, that is the international community throwing its weight behind the cause of development. When the popular conscience, outraged at the carnage caused by land mines, obliges governments to adopt a convention banning those deadly weapons, that, too, is the international community in action. There are many more examples of the international community at work, from east Timor to Kosovo,