C. The governments are streamlining their website content.
D. The departments are conducting some business with customers.
47 What do the citizens benefit from the new California’s website?
A. They can find out how much tax they will receive.
B. They are selling their cars on the website.
C. They often ask questions and talk to fishing and hunting partners on line.
D. They do not have to spend so much time getting things done in the government departments.
48. California’s website before last September was introduced by the writer to ______.
A. make an inference B. make a contrast
C. clarify the word “website” D. enhance a description.
49. What can be inferred about the drive for an e-government discussed in the passage?
A. California’s government is run with less expenses.
B. Californians are now having more conveniences offered by their government.
C. “One government, one person” means less employment.
D. Governments have become highly efficient as a result.
50. What is the philosophy behind the effort of updating California’s website?
A. Governments should treat citizens in the way private businesses treat their customers.
B. The whole government can be reduced to be managed by only one person.
C. E-government is inevitably the trend which we should support.
D. Technology is the key element in restructuring a government.
PartⅣ Cloze Test (15 minutes,10 points)
Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each numbered blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D.Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
In just eight years, by 2010, there will be 58 million jobs in the United States, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The bureau 51 between now and 2010 some 22 million new jobs will be created . And 36 million more 52 will result from retirements and others who drop out of the workforce.
Nearly all that job 53 , incidentally, will come in the service sector. Manufacturing jobs will grow at only 54 of a percent annually. That’s not because those jobs are going overseas, by the way . Blame the slow growth in manufacturing 55 the fast growth in manufacturing productivity.
Ed Potter, president of the Employment Policy Foundations in Washington, said the fountation’s analysis of job growth and what’s 56 happening in education show we could be as 57 as 3.5 million professionals at the end of this decade.
Despite the current recession and layoffs, a 58 of employers by the National Association of Manufacturers found 80 percent of companies say a severe shortage of qualified job 59 already exists. And 60 percent of those companies said the lack of skilled workers is 60 their ability to produce goods and services they could sell.
51. A.persists B.predicts C. interprets D.distinguishes
52.A.openings B.people C.employees D.occupations
53.A.seekers B.interviews C.growth D.application
54.A.three-tenths B.third-ten C.third-tenth D.thirds-ten
55.A.for B.with C.on D.above
56.A.reliably B.currently C .fortunately D.definitely
57.A.many B.strong C.on D.short
58.A.survey B.lot C.show D.group
59.A.increase B.candidates C.decline D.interviewers
60.A.influencing B.effecting C.affecting D.enhancing
PartⅤ Translation (30 minutes, 10 points)
Directions: Translate the following passage into Chinese and put your translation on the ANSWER SHEET.
Locating a book online is one thing, reading it is quite another, for there is no artistically sensible substitute for the physical object . The computer revolution rolls on pitilessly, but the world is reading more paper books than ever. Indeed, so far from destroying libraries, the internet has protected the written word as never before, and rendered knowledge genuinely democratic. Enthusiasts always attack the libraries first, dictators seek to control the literature, elites keep hidden the knowledge that is power, With the online library, the books are finally safe, and the book destroyers have been beaten , for ever.
But the traditional library will also survive, because a library is central to our understanding of what it is to be human. Ever since the first clay tablets were collected in Mesopotamia, Man has wanted not merely to obtain and master knowledge, but to preserve it , to hold it in his hand. Moreover, libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, and exchanging ideas. They were never silent and technology will not change that. Finding a book online should be the beginning, not the end , of the process of discovery.
PartⅥ Writing (30 minutes, 15 points)
Directions: You are to write in no less than 120 words about the title“The Necessary Knowledge of the English Language for the On-the-job Graduate Students.”You should base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below:
1. 在职攻读硕士学位研究生应具备相应的英语水平,其原因是……
2. 在职攻读硕士学位研究生应重点提高某项英语语言技能,其原因是……
3. 如何提高这一语言技能。
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