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Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。
The advantages and disadvantages of a large population have long been a subject of discussion among economists. It has been argued that the supply of good land is limited. To feed a large population, inferior land must be (36) ________ and the good land worked (37) _______. Thus, each person produces less and this means a (38) ______ average income than could be obtained with a smaller population. Other economists have argued that a large population gives more (39) ______ for specialization and the development of (40) _______ such as ports, roads and railways, which are not likely to be built unless there is a big demand to (41) ________ them.
One of the difficulties in carrying out a (42) ______ birth control program lies in the fact that official attitudes to population growth (43) ________ from country to country depending on the level of industrial development and the availability of food and raw materials. In the developing country where a vastly expanded population is pressing hard upon the limits of food, space and natural resources, (44)___________________________________________________, whatever the consequences may be. In a highly industrialized society the problem may be more complex. (45) __________________________________________________________. When the pressure of population on housing declines, prices also decline and the building industry is weakened. Faced with considerations such as these, (46)__________________________________________, rather than one which is stable or in decline.
Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
In America, as every school student knows, the important raw materials of industry are coal, oil and iron. But, as every businessman knows, the most important raw material of all is the school student who, as a trained college graduate, will 47 the U.S. industry of the future. Today U.S. industry is faced with a tight shrinkage of such manpower, it needs not only more but better trained college graduates.
To help get them, many a businessman believes, that 48 must provide much of the cash needed by the colleges to 49 their facilities and improve their teaching, and work more closely with 50 on business’s needs. As Robert R. Young pointed out at a conference of businessmen and educators, industry and education have a clear mutuality of interest.
Businessmen and educators have not always 51 this. While there are a few businessmen who 52 regard college professors as vague-minded and likely to be radicals, and a few educator who still look on businessmen as merely money grabbers, the mutual 53 has generally disappeared into the mutual need. The 54 expanding U.S. economy has made college graduates more important than 55 to industry. In turn, universities must depend increasingly on corporations for contributions, since high taxes have all but cut 56 the flow of the big individual contributions that build the private school.
注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。
A. run I. rapid
B. recognized J. ever
C. spend K. off
D. cooperations L. colleges
E. expand M. still
F. corporations N. trust
G. colleague O. before
H. distrust
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 centre.
