Italy has hosted the world cup ______.

ter of Los Angeles County, the Music Center has hosted all the Academy Awards ceremonies till now.

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

In Italy, consumer confidence has dropped

A．to a six-month low.

B．to a five-year low.

C．to a twelve-month low.

The major problem Italy is facing is that

A．it has made a lot of labor unrest because of its capital problem.

B．it has fallen behind France and Germany in terms of tax reduction.

C．it is making effort to encourage shareholders democracy.

alog before our meeting next Friday.

A．collection

B．fund

C．payment

D．copy

acilities in the Montrose Park neighborhood of the city. As part of the celebration, CompCo gave a tour of its facilities to local dignitaries and hosted a banquet inside its new training center. CompCo has hired 100 employees who will start work at their new positions this week, and plans to hire fifty more before the end of the year. This is wonderful news for our city, which is still struggling after the closure of PC Computer Systems three years ago. Two hundred employees lost their jobs when PC left our city. The loss of businesses like PC has had a significant impact on the local economy. The city leaders are working to attract more technology businesses to the area and are currently negotiating a deal with the Intrax Company. The opening of CompCo is an optimistic start to reviving industry in our city.

What did Comp Co do today？

A．It hired new employees.

B．It gave a training workshop.

C．It negotiated a deal.

D．It had a celebration.

•Read the article below about an Italian car company.

•Choose the best word to fill each gap from A, B, C or D.

•For each question (19-33), mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet

Gianni Agnelli, Chairman of Fiat, Italy's largest private industrial corporation, is known in Italy as the lawyer, because he trained in law at Turin University. Though A he has never practiced, his training may be useful. On April 17th Mr. Agnelli admitted to a group of Italian industrialists in Venice (19) Fiat had been (20) in some corruptions in Italy. On April 21st, Fiat's lawyers and Cesare Romiti, its managing director, met Milan magistrates to (21) the firm's involvement in bribery to win business from state-owned companies.

Fiat is not the (22) Italian company caught up in Italy's increasing political corruption scandal. According to the latest figure, some 200 businessmen and politicians were sitting in prison (23) a result of judicial inquiries into kickbacks paid to politicians by firms. Hundreds more are still (24) influence of Fiat, (25) sales are equal to 4% of Italy's home product, the scandal at the company has (26) the industrial establishment.

Though neither Mr. Agnelli (27) Mr. Romiti has been (28) of wrong doing, several other senior Fiat managers have allegedly been involved in paying kickbacks to win state-owned contracts. (29) arrested include Francesco Mattiol, Fiat's finance director, and Antonio Moscon, the (30) head of its Toro insurance branch. (31) men have been (32) about their previous roles on the board of Cogefar-Impresit, Fiat's construction subsidiary. Last May, Enzo Papi admitted paying a 1.5 million-dollar bribe for a contract (33) to Milan's underground.

(19)

A．what

B．that

C．when

D．if

nday in Denver, Colorado. Manu Ginobili of the San Antonio Spurs will be the fist player from Argentina to appear in the game. It has been impressive run for Manu Ginobili. Last year at the Athens Olympics, he led Argentina's national team to an upset win over the United States in the men's basketball semifinal. Argentina then beat Italy in the final to win the gold medal, which was the first-ever medal for Argentina in Olympic basketball.

Which of the following statements is true of Manu Ginobili？

A．Manu Ginobili will be a common player from Argentina to take part in the game.

B．Last year at the Athens Olympics, Manu Ginobili was upset for losing the game against the United States in the men's basketball final.

C．Last year at the Athens Olympics, Argentina beat Italy in the semifinal.

D．Manu Ginobili, leading Argentina's national team defeated United States in the men's basketball semifinal at the Athens Olympics.

news you are attracted by the advertisement of the Grand Palazzo Hotel in Italy. No one in your office has ever been to Italy. So you want your secretary to contact the hotel through telephone.

？Write a short message to Ms. Emily Malan, your secretary.

？Suggest the visit to Italy

？Give the hotel telephone number to her

？Ask her to contact that hotel

？Write 30--40 words on your Answer Sheet.

In Japan

It has been a long history of 1750 years ever since Confucianism was introduced into this country. Confucius' teachings are in every field of the social life in Japan. Its influence on the people's moral concepts and views about education are the deepest in Japan.

It was in the 16th year of Mikado (285 A. D. ) that Confucius' teachings began to be introduced to Japan. In the year the suggestion of a Korean envoy was adopted and Wang Ren, a Chinese court academician was sent to Japan to present to the Mikado ten copies of Lun Yu (The Analects of Confucius) and a copy of an Article of a Thousand Words (Qian Zi Wen). Wang Ren's arriving at Japan is generally regarded as the beginning of Confucianism being spread in the country. Confucius' teachings were accepted by both the government and the public. Confucianism quickly took its roots among the people and developed constantly. Combined with the conditions in Japan Confucianism has gradually be come part of the national culture of the country.

During the time of Sui dynasty and Tang dynasty Japan sent many students to China to study Confucianism. Under the influence of Confucius' theory about a unified domain, Japanese successfully carried the DAIKA Reform. after which Japanese society started to transit from a slavish society to a feudal society. The person pulling strings behind the scenes of the reform. was a great Confucianist who had studied in China for 20 to 30 years. During the 200 years after the reform. Japan had sent to China 19 groups of envoys. The country did its utmost to import the culture of Tang dynasty, develop national education based on Confucianism, spread the thought of the sage, set up universities and hold ceremonies in memory of Confucius. In the years of EDO Confucius' teachings were unprecedentedly popular. The ruling class people took the lead in reading the classical books of Confucianism, setting up education based on Confucianism, building Confucius' Temples. Education was developed, people of talents came forth in large numbers and the academic circle reached to its flourishing time. The major schools include School of Yonego, School of Yang Ming, School of Mito, School of Kogaku, School of Eclecticism, School of Textual Research.

Since the beginning of 20th century, especially in the late thirty years, among countries except China the study of Confucianism is best developed in Japan. Not only that Confucianism influenced Japanese society in the past 1 000 years, it also has great effect on the people at present time.

In Italy

China is one of the birth places of human civilization. As the kernel of the traditional culture of ancient China, Confucius' teachings greatly influenced not only the historical development of Oriental society, but also the social life of some European countries. Confucius' influence on Italy has something to do with the missionaries who came to China to do missionary work. In 1582, the Society of Jesus sent Matteo Ricci to China. In order to do their missionary work well he studied Confucianism very hard. Matteo Ricci was the first person who used Confucianism to express Christianity. He arrived in Beijing in 1601 and lived there for years. He published the Latin version which were the earliest classical books of Confucius translated into European Language. Matteo Ricci had made some contributions to the cultural exchange between the East and the West, so in Italy he was called "the first man who facilitated the flow of culture between China and Western countries", "Learned Western Confucianist' and "Christian Confucius". The study of Confucius in today's Italy has made some progress and several groups of books about Confucius have been published.

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

y Eurozone- suggest the continent's economic woes may have been exaggerated. In France, evidence emerged that consumer spending remained solid in July and August, rising 1.4% and 0.6% respectively. Forecasters had generally expected the July figure to show a 0.1% slippage, with August unchanged. But the figures were flattered slightly by a down grade to the June figure, to 0.7% from 1.5%.

With manufacturing in the doldrums across Europe and the U. S. , consumer spending has been increasingly seen as the best hope of stopping the global economic slowdown from turning into a recession. The French government said the news proved that the economy was holding up to the strain of the slowdown.

Meanwhile in Germany, new regional price figures went someway towards calming fears about inflation in Europe's largest economy -- a key reason for the European Central Bank's reluctance to cut interest rates 15 states said consumer prices were broadly stable, with inflation falling year on year. The information backed economists' expectations that inflation for the country as a whole is set to fall back to a yearly rate of 2.1%, compared to a yearly rate of 2.6% in August, closing in on the Euro-wide target of 2%. The drop is partly due to last year's spike in oil prices dropping out of the year-on-year calculation.

The icing on the cake was news that Italy's job market has remained buoyant. The country's July unemployment rate dropped to 9.4% from 9.6% the month before, its lowest level in more than eight years. And a business confidence survey from quasi-governmental research group ISAE told of a general pick-up in demand in the six weeks to early September. But the news was tempered by an announcement by Alitalia, the country's biggest airline, that it will have to get rid of 2,500 staff to cope with the expected contraction as well as selling 12 aeroplanes. And industrial group Confindustria warned that the attacks on U. S. targets meant growth will be about 1.9% this year, well short of the government's 2.4% target. And it said the budget deficit will probably be about 1.5%, nearly twice the 0.8% Italy's government has promised its European Union partners.

We know from the first paragraph that ______.

A．new figures from the three European countries show the prediction of forecasters is exactly right

B．European economy gets on better than forecasters have predicted

C．all of the forecasters expect the fully figure to show a reduction

D．in three European countries the consumer spending continues to rise