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96. Democratic Congressmen suggested that the government should _____.
A. be enthusiastic in providing a drug benefit to the people
B. oppose the new legislation with thundering protests
C. give more money, so to speak, to medicine markers and retailers
D. provide financial assistance to people wanting to buy life insurance
97. Paragraph 3 reflects basically the views and comments of _____.
A. Congressional Democrats
B. many other Liberals in the Congress
C. Sen. Edward Kennedy
D. the author of the passage
98. According to the text, some health care experts believed that _____.
A. the new law had a 10-year budget of about $400 billion but little was expected for the prescription-drug coverage
B.the new law will have to wait another 10 years and cost about $400 billion before it is able to take effect
C. the framework of the new legislation would be fit for a project that was to cost $400 billion over the next 10 years
D. the projected $400-billion-over-10-years cost framework was planned to be budget for the current Iraq war
99. Referring to the elderly as summarized in the passage, we can assume that they are _____.
A. great in number and most will vote
B. great in number but few tend to vote
C. few in number and few tend to vote
D. few in number but most will vote
100. From the end of the passage we would expect the author to start his next paragraph most probably on _____.
A. how the senior citizens of the United States responded to the new legislation
B.the opinions of the few who anticipated what the reaction of the elderly was to be
C. what the legislators would consider doing to avoid further legislative digressions
D. major competing ideologies that differ on the coming congressional budget
Section 3: Cloze Test (25 points) The time for this section is 25 minutes.
In the popular mind, the Internet is the realization of the global village, where the flow of information and ideas is unimpeded by distance or national barriers. Much has been written ____ (1) the technology and the benefits that this system of unregulated information exchange will bring. But ____ (2) has been very little discussion about the languages — human, not computer languages ____ (3) are being used on the Internet.
Central ____ (4) the ideology of the emerging Internet community is the freedom of the individual users to express ____ (5) as they like. Nevertheless, ____ (6) recently, it has been very difficult to communicate through the Internet in any language ____ (7) could not be expressed in the standard English alphabet as defined ____ (8) the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASSCⅡ).
English is already the premier ____ (9) of science and technology worldwide. The peculiar restriction of ____ (10) able to communicate with only the limited ASCⅡ character set has worked to further encourage the ____ (11) English, especially by those ____ (12) native language is not normally expressed in some version of ____ (13) Roman alphabet.
In fact, it seems to be typical that ____ (14) accessing a network in a non-English speaking country _____ (15) is often presented with a choice of the local languages(s) or English. Many of the national networks that have now linked ____ (16) to the Internet are used ____ (17) scientific and technical communication, ____ (18) a rapidly growing portion of the Internet’s community are non-professional people.
Familiarity with English may be assumed ____ (19) a linguist or a physicist, but growing ____ (20) of users with no English language skills are joining the net in ____ (21) of the dominance of English in message forums and mail lists. Messages ____ (22) the Usenet newsgroups are overwhelmingly ____ (23) in English, and the bulk of the moderated mailing lists (including ____ (24) Linguist Discussion List, and international E-mail discussion list for linguists) are conducted in ____ (25).
