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Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: Overseas Study at an Early Age. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:
1. 目前很多父母在子女高中畢業前就送他們出國學習
2. 形成這種趨勢的原因
3. 我對此的看法
Overseas Study at an Early Age
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Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)
Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-4, mark
Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;
N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;
NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.
For question 5-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.
The Next Disaster: Are We Ready?
Are We Really Prepared?
After the attacks on September 11 and the hurricanes that slammed the Gulf Coast last year, youd expect our major cities to be ready with disaster plans that will save lives and property. Theres no doubt well be hit again—maybe even harder—because the list of possible calamities(災難)is long: from a bird flu pandemic to a massive California earthquake, to more monster storms, to another terrorist attack.
But are we really prepared to protect people, as well as their homes and businesses? Every major urban area has received federal funding, much of it from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in order to make their cities more secure. But there are no set criteria for measuring preparedness (the feds are working on that), and the quality of disaster plans varies widely throughout the country.
So we decided to do an independent assessment of 10 high-risk urban areas, focusing on key security indicators. We analyzed public data, consulted with federal and local emergency workers, and contacted the mayors offices to gauge the readiness of these cities to meet both natural and man-made disasters.
Our criteria fell under three main categories: Emergency Readiness, Crisis Communications, and Medical Response.
Emergency Readiness
Are there at least 1,000 first responders (such as police, fire and EMTs) per 100,000 residents? Theyre our first line of protection in almost any disaster situation—professionals who are trained to handle everything from rescuing victims to providing first aid, to enforcing quarantines, to directing traffic for evacuations.
Are there federal search-and-rescue teams based within 50 miles? Large cities often have specialized teams to deal with such things as high-rise-building rescues or hazardous chemical spills. But these squads are sometimes small, ill-equipped, or run on a shoestring. This is not true of federal urban search-and-rescue task forces that the DHS supports across the country. Each task force is made of 62 members and 4 canines, as well as a "comprehensive cache" of equipment. DHS task forces are not automatically assigned; a city needs to apply and present its case.
Has the city or state earned "green status" from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? Suppose that in the midst of a flu pandemic or bio terror attack, your city ran low on critical medicines. The CDC stands ready to help by distributing drugs and medical equipment from its Strategic National Stockpile. But the agency wants to know that a city or state is able to quickly mobilize hundreds of health workers and volunteers trained to handle the logistics, and has space set aside for storage and refrigeration. Youre best off if your city has earned the CDCs "green status"—even if the state itself has not—because it means local health teams can handle the supplies on their own.
Does the city website explain clearly what to do in case of evacuation? Who can forget the images of stranded New Orleans residents, or the 5-mph crawl out of Houston? It turned out that New Orleanss evacuation plans were both inadequate and poorly communicated. One way cities can avoid a similar nightmare is to put clear and easy-to-find evacuation information on their websites. Some cities, such as Boston and Washington, post the preferred street routes. Others, like Las Vegas, wont disclose details due to security fears, but their websites may provide ways to quickly get evacuation details when you need them (such as numbers to call or alert services you can sign up for). Among the more important things to address are people without vehicles of their own (a huge failing in New Orleans) and instructions for pet owners.
Does the website include details for residents with special needs? In July 1995, a vicious heat wave killed nearly 500 people in Chicago; a disproportionate number of them were older residents who lived alone. In any crisis, the elderly and disabled can be uniquely vulnerable. Thats why cities such as Houston are creating registries of residents who would need special help. Such lists would indicate, for instance, that a certain person in a certain apartment building is wheel-chair-bound. Other cities are instructing people with disabilities to call 911 for assistance—though this relies on phone systems that could be overloaded or go dead. If a citys disaster planning shows no awareness of special-needs people, it isnt complete.
Crisis Communications
Can first responders—police, fire and medical—talk to one another? On September 11, firefighters died inside the World Trade Center because they could not make contact with police helicopters trying to radio warnings. Incompatible communications is a country-wide problem, and converting or replacing decades-old radio systems can be a long, expensive process. Cities have gotten a big boost if theyve taken part in RapidCom, a DHS program providing technical assistance and training that speeds up the transition.
Has the city adopted E911? Many cities have upgraded their 911 call centers in recent years, but theyre even better prepared if theyve incorporated "E911" (or "enhanced 911"). This technology enables emergency operators to identify the precise location of cell-phone callers through GPS systems. If you wind up stranded in floodwaters, E911 could save your life.
Does the city provide 24-hour emergency alerts? What if an evacuation order goes out, but its 3 a.m. and youre sound asleep? Not a problem if your city has a way of alerting you at any time of day. Some rely on street sirens to do the trick. Others have used their websites to invite residents to sign up for e-mail notifications or automated phone calls in an emergency.
Medical Response
Are there at least 500 hospital beds for every 100,000 residents? Getting to victims quickly is a critical first step. But youd better have a place to take them for treatment. A reasonable standard, according to preparedness experts, is 500 hospital beds for every 100,000 people—a ratio that would likely mean a city could find enough spare beds in an emergency. Of course, beds alone wont s help a massive number of burn victims or people suffering from chemical exposure unless the hospital is prepared to treat them. But all the cities in our survey have specialty units in their hospitals that can handle such cases.
Are local teams trained to respond quickly and work together? If and urban area was targeted by weapons of mass destruction, city health officials couldnt just wait for federal help to arrive. First responders and hospital would need to react right away. They could also need medical volunteers—say, to help vaccinate people or distribute medicines and supplies. How to ensure that all these professionals and volunteers work together as seamlessly as possible? If a city is part of DHSs Metropolitan Medical Response System, it has obtained federal assistance in developing plans, and has received critical training and equipment.
Are there labs nearby that specialize in biological and chemical threats? The CDC is on the cutting edge with its Laboratory Response Network—integrated labs nationwide that have the equipment and expertise to quickly identify pathogens and toxic chemicals. An LRN lab in Florida was the first to detect anthrax in terrorist mailings in 2001. Laboratories can be members only if they have highly trained staff and exceptional facilities, as well as track record of testing accuracy. A handful of LRN labs qualify as "Level 1", meaning they can test for chemical poisons such as mustard and nerve agents.
1. A bird flu, a massive earthquake, a monster storm and a terrorist attack are all threats to major cities in the U.S.
2. The author does an assessment of all high-risk urban areas in the U.S.
3. Policemen, firemen and emergency doctors all can be called first responders.
4. Each federal urban search-and-rescue task force is made up of at least 60 members.
5. If a city has earned the CDCs green status "green status", it means that its local health teams can ________ on their own.
6. You can get evacuation details through the ways provided by the website of Las Vegas though it doesnt disclose the details due to ________.
7. Incompatible communications is a country-wide problem in the U.S. because of the ________ which should be converted or replaced.
8. Emergency operators can identify the precise location of cell-phone callers through GPS systems with the use of ________.
9. According to preparedness experts, if a city has at least 500 hospital beds for every 100,000 residents, it could find ________ in an emergency.
10. As a part of DHSs Metropolitan Medical Response System, a city can obtain ________ in developing plans
Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete statements in the fewest possible words. Please write your answers on Answer Sheet 2.
By the mind-nineteenth century, the term "icebox" had entered the American language, but ice was still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States. The ice trade grew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels, taverns, and hospitals, and by some forward-looking city dealers in fresh meat, fresh fish, and butter. After the Civil War (1861-1865), as ice was used to refrigerate freight cars, it also came into household use. Even before 1880, half of the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and one-third of that sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own use. This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern fridge, had been invented.
Making an efficient icebox as not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat, which was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. The commonsense notion that the best icebox was one that prevented the ice from melting was of course mistaken, for it was the melting of the ice that performed the cooling. Nevertheless, early efforts to economize ice included wrapping up the ice in blankets, which kept the ice from doing its job. Not until near the end of the nineteenth century did inventors achieve the delicate balance of insulation and circulation needed for an efficient icebox.
But as early as 1803, and ingenious Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington, for which the village of Georgetown was the market center. When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass up the rapidly melting stuff in the tubs of his competitors to pay a premium price for his butter, still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One advantage of his icebox, Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their produce cool.
47. What is the topic of the passage?
48. Where was ice used after the Civil War?
49. What was essential to a science of refrigeration according to the passage?
50. It can be inferred from the passage that the theoretical foundation of ice box should be that ________.
51. Without an ice box, farmers had to go to the market at night because ________.
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 52 to 66 are based on the following passage.
Racket, din clamor, noise. Whatever you want to call it, unwanted sound is Americas most widespread nuisance. But noise is more than just a nuisance. It constitutes a real and present danger to peoples health. Day and night, at home, at work, and at play, noise can produce serious physical and psychological stress. No one is immune to this stress. Though we seem to adjust to noise by ignoring it, the ear, in fact, never closes and the body still responds—sometimes with extreme tension, as to a strange sound in the night.
The annoyance we feel when faced with noise is the most common outward symptom of the stress building up inside us. Indeed, because irritability is so apparent, legislators have made public annoyance the basis of many noise abatement programs. The more subtle and more serious health hazards associated with stress caused by noise traditionally have been given much less attention. Nevertheless, when we are annoyed or made irritable by noise, we should consider these symptoms fair warning that other things may be happening to us, some of which may be damaging to our health.
Of the many health hazards related to noise, hearing loss is the most clearly observable and measurable by health professionals. The other hazards are harder to pin down. For many of us, there may be a risk that exposure to the stress of noise increases susceptibility to disease and infection. The more susceptible among us may experience noise as a complicating factor in heart problems and other diseases. Noise that causes annoyance and irritability in healthy persons may have serious consequences for those already ill in mind or body.
Noise affects us throughout our lives. For example, there are indications of effects on the unborn child when mothers are exposed to industrial and environmental noise. During infancy and childhood, youngsters exposed to high noise levels may have trouble falling asleep and obtaining necessary amounts of rest.
why, then, is there not greater alarm about these dangers? Perhaps it is because the link between noise and many disabilities or diseases has not vet been conclusively demonstrated. Perhaps it is because we tend to dismiss annoyance as a price to pay for living in the modern world. It may also be because we still think of hearing loss as only an occupational hazard.
52. The phrase "immune to" (Line 3, Para. 1) are used to mean ________.
[A] unaffected by [B] hurt by
[C] unlikely to be seen by
[D] unknown by
53. The authors attitude toward noise would best be described as ________.
[A] unrealistic [B] traditional [C] concerned [D] hysterical
54. Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage?
[A] Noise is a major problem; most people recognize its importance.
[B] Although noise can be annoying, it is not a major problem.
[C] Noise is a major problem and has not yet been recognized as such.
[D] Noise is a major problem about which nothing can be done.
55. The author condemns noise essentially because it ________.
[A] is against the law
[B] can make some people irritable
[C] is a nuisance
[D] is a danger to peoples health
56. The author would probably consider research about the effects noise has on people to be ________.
[A] unimportant
[B] impossible
[C] a waste of money
[D] essential
Passage Two
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Freshwater life itself has never come easy in the Middle East. Ever since The Old Testament(舊約全書), God punished man with 40 days and 40 nights of rain. Water supplies here have been dwindling. The rainfall only comes in winter and drains quickly through the semiarid land, leaving the soil to bake and to thirst for next November.
The regions accelerating population, expanding agriculture, industrialization, and higher living standards demand more freshwater. Drought and pollution limit its a availability. War and mismanagement waste it. Said Joyce Starr of the Global Water Summit Initiative, based in Washington, D.C. "Nations like Israel and Jordan are swiftly sliding into that zone where they are suing all the water resources available to them. They have only 15 to 20 years left before their agriculture, and ultimately their food security, is threatened."
I came here to examine this crisis in the making, to investigate fears that "water wars" are imminent, that water has replaced oil as the regions most contentious commodity. For more than two months I traveled through three river valleys and seven nations—from southern Turkey down the Euphrates River to Syria, Iraq, and on to Kuwait; to Israel and Jordan, neighbors across the valley of the Jordan; to the timeless Egyptian Nile.
Even amid the scarcity there are haves and have-nots. compared with the United States, which in 1990 had freshwater potential of 10,000 cubic meters (2.6 million gallons) a year for each citizen, Iraq had 5,500, Turkey had 4,000, and Syria had more than 2,800. Egypts potential was only 1,100. Israel had 460. Jordan had a meager 260. But these are not firm figures, because upstream use of river water can dramatically alter the potential downstream.
Scarcity is only one element of the crisis. Inefficiency is another, as is the reluctance of some water-poor nations to change priorities from agriculture to less water-intensive enterprises. Some experts suggest that if nations would share both water technology and resources, they could satisfy the regions population, currently 159 million. But in this patchwork of ethnic and religious rivalries, water seldom stands alone as an issue. It is entangled in the politics that keep people from trusting and seeking help from one another. Here, where water, like truth, is precious, each nation tends to find its own water and supply its own truth.
As Israeli hydrology professor Uri Shamir told me:" If there is political will for peace, water will not be a hindrance. If you want reasons to fight, water will not be a hindrance. If you want reasons to fight, water will give you ample opportunities."
57. Why does the author use the phrase "for next November" (Line 3, Para. 1)?
[A] According to the Old Testament freshwater is available only in November.
[B] Rainfall comes only in winter starting from November.
[C] Running water systems will not be ready until next November.
[D] It is a custom in that region that irrigation to crops is done only in November.
58. What is NOT the cause for the imminent water war?
[A] Lack of water resources. [B] Lack of rainfall.
[C] Inefficient use of water. [D] Water has replaced oil.
59. One way for the region to use water efficiently is to ________.
[A] develop other enterprises that cost less water
[B] draw a plan of irrigation for the various nations
[C] import water from water-rich nations
[D] stop wars of any sort for good and all
60. Uri Shamirs viewpoint is that ________.
[A] nations in that region are just fighting for water
[B] people there are thirsty for peace instead of water
[C] water is no problem as long as there is peace
[D] those nations have every reason to fight for water
61. The authors tone in the article can be described as ________.
[A] depressing [B] urgent [C] joking [D] mocking
Part V Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an ion mark in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you a word, cross it out and put a slash in the blank.
Example:
Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods. 1. time/times/period
Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature 2. /study of television. 3. theQ as a school subject are valid for
The European Union had approved a number ofgenetically modified crops until late 1998. But growing public concern over its supposed environmental and health 62. ________ risks led several EU countries to demand a moratorium on imports of any new GM produce. By late 1999there were enough such country to block any new approvals 63. ________of GM produce. Last year, America filed a complaint at the WTO about the moratorium, arguing that it was an illegal trade barrier because there is no scientific base for it. 64. ________As more studies have been completed on the effects of GM crops, the greens case for them has weakened. 65. ________
Much evidence has emerged of health risks from eating them. 66. ________And, overall, the studies have shown that the environmental effects on modified crops are not always as serious as the 67. ________greens claim. Nevertheless, environmentalists continue to find fault of such studies and argue that they are inconclusive. 68. ________
While Americans seem be happy enough to consume 69. ________food made from GM crops, opinion polls continue to show tht European consumers dislike the idea. Europeans seem be taking the attitude which, since there remains the slightest 70. ________possibility of adverse consequences and since it is clear how 71. ________they, as consumers, benefit from GM crops, they would rather not run the risk.
Part VI Translation (5 minutes)
Directions: Complete the following sentences on Answer Sheet 2 by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets.
72. The Grand Canyon is ________________(最寬處達兩萬四千米)。
73. If you had followed my advice, ________________(你現在就能完成工作了)。
74. In view of the practical need of society, ________________(有越來越多的人對學習英語感興趣）。
75. A good book is a best friend ________________(從不拒絕我們)。
76. It was not until last Friday ________________(他讀完了他媽媽送給他的那本書)。
Part I Writing
Overseas Study at an Early Age
Nowadays, more and more parents are eager to send their children to study abroad before they finish high school by whatever means and at whatever cost.
It is quite understandable for parents to send their children to study overseas because they place high expectations on their children. They are encouraged by the success stories of those who have completed their overseas study. With the development of economy, companies and institutions at home are giving more and more emphasis on overseas experiences, too.
Consequently, pursuing overseas study has become a kind of short cut in gaining a better future. Moreover, there is still one underlying reason for this rush-economic reason. The rapid economic progress in the past few years in China has enabled more and more parents to afford the huge cost for their children’s overseas study.
As for me, overseas study is surely a helpful way to get both advanced knowledge and necessary experiences, but overseas study at an early age is neither necessary nor beneficial. The students may be too young to either tend for themselves or think for themselves. I do think that overseas study can contribute to one’s self-improvement, but it’s better to be pursued after one has finished his college study at home, when he is more capable of learning and living on his own .
Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning).
1. Y 根據題幹中的資訊詞bird flu和major cities定位到第一個小標題下的第一段，可知作者認為主要城市還會遭受襲擊，因為有很多災難可能發生，包括禽流感、大地震、暴風雨、恐怖襲擊等，再結合全文可知，本文是針對美國城市展開的，故該句表述正確。
2. NG 根據題幹中的資訊詞assessment和high-risk urban areas定位到第一個小標題下的第三段，可知作者等人對l0個高危城市地區進行了獨立評估，主要針對的是安全指數，但文章並沒有說明受評估的l0個城市地區是否涵蓋了美國所有的高危城市。
3. Y 根據題幹中的資訊詞policemen和first responders定位到第二個小標題下的第一段，可知括號中的內容是對first responders的解釋說明，即警察、消防員和急診醫士( EMTs) 等都是first responders，故該句表述正確。
4. N 根據題幹中的資訊詞search-and-rescue task force和made up of定位到第二個小標題下的第二段，可知聯邦城市搜救特遣部隊都是由DHS扶持的，每支特遣部隊都由62名隊員、4只狗和各種儀器組成，故該句表述錯誤。
5. handle the supplies。根據題幹中的資訊詞CDCs“green status”和local health teams定位到第二個小標題下第三段的最後，可知如果你所在的城市獲得了green status那是最好不過了，因為那意味著地方醫療隊可以自己應對補給問題，由此可得答案。
6. security fears。根據題幹中的資訊詞evacuation details和Las Vegas定位到第二個小標題下的倒數第二段，可知拉斯維加斯等城市出於安全考慮，不在網站上公佈疏散細節，但當你有需要時，網站可以提供電話號碼等可以迅速獲得疏散的方式。
7. decades-old radio systems。根據題幹中的資訊詞incompatible communications和converted定位到第三個小標題下的第一段，可知通訊不暢是全國(美國)性的問題，而修整或更換已使用數十年的無線電系統既費時又費錢，由此推斷，通訊不暢的原因是無線電系統年久失修，因此可得答案。
8. “E911”/“enhanced 911”。根據題幹中的資訊詞precise location和GPS systems定位到第三個小標題下的第二段，可知E911使得處理緊急事故者可以通過全球定位系統確定打手機者的準確位置，由此可得答案。
9. enough spare beds。根據題幹中的資訊詞preparedness experts、500和100，000定位到最後一個小標題下的第一段，可知預備專家指出，一個城市只有每10萬人擁有500張病床，才能在緊急事故中找到足夠多的空床位，由此可得答案。
10. federal assistance。根據題幹中的資訊詞Metropolitan Medical Response System和developing plans定位到最後一個小標題下第二段的最後，可知一個城市如果屬於DHS的城市醫療應對系統，就可以得到聯邦政府在發展計劃上的援助，還可以得到重要的培訓和裝置，由此可得答案。
Part IV Reading Comprehension ( Reading in Depth)
Section A
47. Icebox.
文章從頭到尾都在講icebox是如何產生的、其工作原理和優點，可見icebox是這篇文章的中心。
48. In refrigerating freight cars and households.
題目詢問在內戰後冰被用在哪些地方。根據題幹關鍵詞Civil War可以定位至文章第一段第四句話，由…ice was used to refrigerate freight cars…into household use可知問題的答案。
49. Knowledge of the physics of heat.
由題幹關鍵詞a science of refrigeration定位到原文第二段第二句話，… knowledge of the physics of heat，which was essential to a science of refrigeration直接給出了問題的答案。
50. the melting of ice performed cooling
題目詢問冰盒的理論原理是什麼。可以定位到文章第二段的第三句話，… it was the melting of the ice that performed the cooling，此句大意說當時人們以為阻礙冰融化才能有效製冷，但實際上這是錯誤的觀點，因為只有在冰的融化過程中才能有效製冷。可見冰盒的理論原理就是the melting of ice performed cooling。
51. they wanted to keep their produce cool
由題幹關鍵詞farmers had to go to the market at night定位至原文最後一句話…was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their produce cool，大意是有了冰盒，他們不用再為了保證產品新鮮而半夜趕路去市場了。可見目的是to keep their produce cool。
Section B
Passage One
52. A 語義題。文章第一段論述了噪音對人類身體健康的影響。短語immune to所在句主語為表示否定的no one，而整個句子表示肯定的含義：任何人都會受到噪音的影響。所以謂語動詞也應表示否定意義。immune to意為“不受影響”，符合句意，所以A(未受影響)正確。
53. C 觀點態度題。四個選項的意思分別為：A(不切實際的)、B(傳統的)、C(關心的)、D(歇斯底里的)。通讀全文可知，作者以較客觀的口吻闡述了噪音對健康的影響，並對此表示關注，所以C正確。
54. C 主旨題。通讀全文可知，文章主要論述了噪音是影響健康的主要原因，但人們並沒有意識到噪音的危害之大，所以C正確。
55. D 細節題。由文章第一段第三、四句可知，噪音對人們的健康是一種危險，而且全文都在論述噪音的危害，所以D正確。
56. D 推斷題。全文都在談論噪音對人健康的危害，但人們並沒有意識到這一點，所以可以推斷，作者認為對噪音的影響的研究是非常必要的，所以D正確。
Passage Two
57. B 推斷題。文章第一段最後一句提到，只有冬天下雨，而且雨後土地很快乾涸，只能企盼來年的11月。可見冬天的11月開始下雨，所以B正確。
58. D 推斷題。本題可採用排除法。由文章第二段前三句可知，即將到來的“水戰”是由於對水的需求增大(即缺水)、乾旱(即降水量小)和對水的浪費(即對水的利用率低)造成的，只有D(水取代了石油)不是“水戰”的原因，故入選。
59. A 推斷題。文章第五段第二句提到，低效率用水錶現在有些缺水國不願將發展重點從農業轉移到耗水較少的產業上，由此推斷，有效用水的方法之一就是發展用水少的產業，所以A正確。
60. C 細節題。由文章最後一段可知，Uri Shamir認為，只要政局穩定，水就不會成為障礙，所以C正確。
61. B 觀點態度題。通讀全文可知，作者分析了水的重要性和中東國家缺水的原因及後果，字裡行間都表現出作者的緊迫感，所以B(緊迫的)正確。A(壓抑的)，C(開玩笑的)，D(嘲笑的)均不正確。
Part V Error Correction
62. its→their
its指代的genetically modified crops(轉基因農作物)為複數，所以應將its改成their。
63. country→countries
such country是指前面要求暫停進口轉基因農產品的一些歐盟國家，為複數，所以應將country改成 countries。
64. base→basis
base意為“基礎，基地”，basis(for)意為“基礎，根據”，原句表達“科學根據”只能為scientific basis，而scientific base意為“科學基地”。此處還應注意的是不能受base on(基於)這個短語的影響而將for 改為on。
65. for→against
句中的the greens意為“環保主義者”，本句的意思是“環保主義者對……的反對削弱了。”所以應將for改為 against。
66. Much→Little
根據本句的後一句可知，本句要表達的意思是沒有什麼跡象表明吃轉基因農作物有損健康，所以應該把Much改為Little。
67. on→of
本句的意思是：“研究表明，改良後的農作物對環境造成的後果並沒有像環保主義者所稱的那樣嚴重。”effect on意為“對……有影響”，effect of意為“……的後果”，所以應將on改為of。
68. of→with
find fault with是固定搭配，意為“批評，找茬”，所以應將of改為with。
69. seem後面加to
seem to be是固定用法，意為“好像，似乎”，所以應在seem後面加to。
70. which→that
taking the attitude that…後面是同位語從句，所以不能用which，應將其改為that。
71. clear→unclear
since前面的and表示前後語意一致，本句要表達的意思是：“因為歐洲人覺得仍然存在使用轉基因食物的不良後果，且作為消費者，他們如何從轉基因食物中獲利也不清楚，所以他們不願意冒風險(they would rather not run the risk)。”故應將clear改為unclear。
Part VI Translation
72. about twenty-four kilometers across at its widest point
表示具體寬度時，可用…is…(數字)wide;在表示具體跨度時，還可用…is…(數字) across。此處的主語為canyon，即峽谷，因此用across表示跨度最為合適。“最寬處”可譯為at its widest point;英文中沒有單詞與“萬”對應，因此要將“兩萬四千米”譯為twenty-four kilometers。
73. you would be able to finish the work now
由給出的中英文可知，該句是對現在事實的虛擬，因此所譯部分的謂語要採用would do的形式。此處“能”更多的是強調主觀的“能力”，因此譯為be able to。
74. there are more and more people(who are) interested in learning English
結合給出的中英文可知，所譯部分可採用there be結構。“越來越多”譯為more and more;“對學習英語感興趣”可處理為“人”的後置定語或定語從句，其中“對……感興趣”譯為be interested in。
75. who never turns his back upon us
所給出的英文是一個簡單句，因此所譯部分應為從句或非謂語動詞;再結合給出的中文可知，所譯部分應是以friend為先行詞，由who引導的定語從句。“拒絕”可譯為refuse，但其物件通常是事物而不是人，而turn one’s back on/upon sb./sth.既可指對人的“拒絕”，也可指對事物的“拒絕”，符合句意。
76. that he finished reading that book his mother gave him
該句包含強調句型It was…that…，其中not until last Friday為被強調的部分，因此所譯部分應為正常陳述語序。“讀完”譯為finish reading即可，但要注意其時態應與強調句型的時態保持一致，採用一般過去時。“他媽媽送他的”可處理為“書”的定語從句，而指代“書”的關係代詞在從句中充當賓語，因此可省略。
