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Which of the following is the viewpoint of the Times newspaper？A．Expansion in enrollment i

Which of the following is the viewpoint of the Times newspaper？

A．Expansion in enrollment is bound to affect the quality of British higher education.

B．British universities should expand their enrollment to meet the needs of industry.

C．European universities can better meet the needs of the modem world.

D．British universities should help fight competition on world markets.

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第2题

假设你在报纸上看到以下金融数据：英国政府债券的利率是每年6％，美国是7％，即期汇率是1．60美元=1

英镑。那么一年的远期汇率($US／￡)应是多少？美元相对于英镑是升水还是贴水？假如一年远期汇率与你的计算不同(比如说1．7美元=1英镑)，你能得到一个无风险的利润吗？为什么？ Suppose you read in the newspaper the following fmancial data： The interest rate on government bills in the United Kingdom is 6 percent per annum，and in the United States it is 7 percent per annum．The spot exchange rate is$US1．60=￡1．What should be the one-year forward exchange rate$US／￡？Is the dollar at a premium or a discount on the British pound？If the one-year forward exchange rate is different from the rate you calculated(say it is$US 1．70=￡1)，could you make a riskless profit？Why？

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听力原文：The two most famous faces in Britain today belong to two women who appear on tele

听力原文： The two most famous faces in Britain today belong to two women who appear on television almost every night. If you open any popular magazine or newspaper you'll almost certainly see an article about one of them, with lost of photographs. Their names axe Susan Rippen and Anna Ford. Susan reads the 9 o' clock news on BBC Television, and Anna reads the 10 o' clock news on independent Television.

Most news announcers on British television are men, and when Susan began her job at the BBC three years ago, she was the first woman news announcer. Newspapers and magazines stared to take an interest in her and reporters started to write about her. Last year, Independent Television also decide to have a woman news announcer and they chose Anna Ford. Newspapers and magazines showed a great interest in her, too.

When Anna read the news for the first time on the 10 o' clock programme, millions of people who don' t normally watch the programme decided to watch it that night, to see Anna Ford.

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A．They are the most attractive women in Britain.

B．They are the most popular film stars.

C．They are the first women news announcers on British television.

D．They appear almost every night in TV plays.

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On British Newspapers1Besides the daily newspapers, there are a number of Sunday newspaper

On British Newspapers

1 Besides the daily newspapers, there are a number of Sunday newspapers in Britain. Many of them are connected with the "dailies", though not run by the same editor and his members. The Sunday papers are larger than the daily papers and usually contain more articles concerned with comment and general information rather than news. The national daily and Sunday papers have the largest circulation in the world. Of the Sunday papers, the Observer and the Sunday Times are the best known.

2. It is a regrettable fact that the number of magazines of a literary or political nature has dropped down since the war. This has probably been caused by the ever-wider use of radio and television The most successful magazines are those published for women. Their covers are designed to catch the eye, and they certainly succeed in doing so! They offer their readers articles on fashion, needlework, and many other matters of women interest. They also provide advice to those in love, and adventures with handsome heroes. Some women's magazines also include serious articles of more general interest.

3 The visitor who looks at the magazines displayed in a large bookstall which may be found in an important railway station will notice that there is wide variety of technical books and magazines. There are magazines for the motorist, the farmer, the gardener, the nurse, and many others.

4 Thre are many local and regional newspaper. It is common in Britain for a news agent to deliver the morning papers to his customers for a small extra payment; this service is usually performed by boys and girls who want to earn some pocket-money.

A changes of Newspapers

B service by Newspapers

C sale place of Newspapers

D popularity of Newspapers

E Trend of Newspapers

F Types of Newspapers in Britain

Paragraph 2 ______

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第5题

听力原文：The first magazine was a little periodical called Tile Review and it was started

听力原文： The first magazine was a little periodical called Tile Review and it was started in London in 1704. It looked a lot like the newspaper of the time, but in terms of its content, it was much different. Newspapers were concerned mainly with news events, but The Review focused on important domestic issues of the day as well as the policies of the government.

In England at the time, people could still be thrown in jail for publishing articles that were critical of the King and that's exactly what happened to Daniel Defoe. He was the outspoken founder of The Review. Defoe actually wrote the first issue of The Review from prison. You see, he had been arrested because of his writings that criticized the policies of the Church of England which was headed by the King. After his release, Defoe continued to produce The Review and the magazine started to appear on a more frequent schedule, about 3 times a week.

It didn't take long for other magazines to start popping up. In 1709, a magazine called The Tattler began publication. This new magazine contained a mixture of news, poetry, political analysis and philosophical essays.

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A．Its publication was banned by the British government.

B．It was the first weekly newspaper.

C．It caused a prison revolt.

D．It was the first magazine ever published.

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British universities, 【C1】______under the burden of a huge increase in student numbers, ar

British universities, 【C1】______ under the burden of a huge increase in student numbers, are 【C2】______ that the tradition of a free education is at 【C3】______ . The universities have 【C4】______ to impose an admission fee on students to 【C5】______ a gap in revenue if the government does not act to improve their finances and 【C6】______ some public spending cutbacks.

The government responded to the universities' threat by setting up the most fundamental 【C7】______ of higher education for a generation, under a non-party troubleshooter, Sir Ron Dearing.

One in three school-leavers enters higher education, five times the number when the last review took place thirty years ago.

Everyone agrees a system that is feeling the 【C8】______ after rapid expansion needs a lot more money--but there is little hope of getting it from the taxpayer and not much 【C9】______ for attracting more finance from business.

Most colleges believe students should 【C10】______ to tuition costs, something that is common elsewhere in the world 【C11】______ would mark a revolutionary change in Britain. Universities want the government to introduce a loan 【C12】______ for tuition fees and have suspended their own threatened action for now. They 【C13】______ Dearing's advice, hoping it will not be too late--some are already reported to be in financial difficulty.

As the century 【C14】______ its end, the whole 【C15】______ of what a university should be is under the microscope. Experts 【C16】______ how much they can use computers instead of classrooms, talk of the need for 【C17】______ learning and refer to students as "consumers".

The Confederation of British Industry, the key employers' organization, wants even more expansion in higher education to help fight competition on world markets from 【C18】______ Asian economies. But the government has doubts 【C19】______ more expansion. The Times newspaper agrees, complaining that quality has suffered as student numbers 【C20】______ , with close tutorial supervision giving way to "mass production methods more typical of European universities."

【C1】______

A．groaning

B．grumbling

C．lamenting

D．moaning

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第7题

How efficient is our system of criminal trial？ Does it really do the basic job we ask of i

t — convicting the guilty and acquitting the innocent？ It is often said that the British trial system is more like a game than a serious attempt to do justice. The lawyers on each side are so engrossed in playing bard to win, Challenging each other and the judge on technical points, that the object of finding out the truth is almost forgotten. All the effort is concentrated on the big day, on the dramatic cross examination of the key Witnesses in front of the jury. Critics like to compare our "adversarial" system (resembling two adversaries engaged in a contest) with the continental "inquisitorial" system, under which the judge play a more important inquiring role.

In early times, in the Middle Ages, the systems of trial across Europe were similar. At that time trial by "ordeal" — especially a religious event — was the main way of testing guilt or innocence. When this way eventually abandoned the two systems parted company. On the continent church-trained legal officials took over the function of both prosecuting and judging, while in England these were largely left to lay people, the Justice of the Peace and the jurymen who were illiterate and this meant that all the evidence had to be put to them orally. This historical accident dominates procedure even today, with all evidence being given in open court by word of mouth on the crucial day.

On the other hand, in France for instance, all the evidence is written before the trial under supervision by an investigating judge. This exhaustive pretrial looks very undramatic; much of its is just a public checking of the written records already gathered.

The Americans adopted the British system lock, stock and barrel and enshrined it in their constitution. But, while the basic features of our systems are common, there are now significant differences in the way serious cases are handled. First, because the USA has virtually no contempt of court laws to prevent pretrial publicity in the newspaper and on television, Americans lawyers are allowed to question jurors about knowledge and beliefs.

In Britain this is virtually never allowed, and a random selection of jurors who are presumed not to be prejudiced are empanelled. Secondly, there is no separate profession of barrister in the United States, and both prosecution and defense lawyers who are to present cases in court prepare themselves. They go out and visit the scene, track down and interview witnesses, and familiarize themselves personally with the background. In Britain it is the solicitor who prepares the case, and the barrister who appears in court is not even allowed to meet witnesses beforehand. British barristers also alternate doing both prosecution and defense work. Being kept distant from the preparation and regularly appearing for both sides, barristers are said to avoid becoming too personally involved, and can approach cases more dispassionately. American lawyers, however, often know their cases better.

Reformers rightly want to learn from other countries' mistakes and successes. But what is clear is that justice systems, largely because they are the result of long historical growth, are peculiarly difficult to adapt piecemeal.

"The British trial system is more like a game than a serious attempt to do justice" (Lines 2～3, Para- graph 1) implies that ______.

A．the British legal system can do the basic job well — convicting the guilty and acquitting the innocent

B．the British legal system is worse than the continental legal system

C．the British legal system is often considered to be not very fair

D．tbe British legal system is very efficient

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第8题

System of Criminal Trial How efficient is our system of criminal trial？ Does it really do

System of Criminal Trial

How efficient is our system of criminal trial？ Does it really do the basic job we ask of it— convicting the guilty and acquitting the innocent？ It is often said that the British trail system is more like a game than a serious attempt to do justice. The lawyers on each side are so en- grossed in playing hard to win, challenging each other and the judge on technical points, that the object of finding out the truth is almost forgotten. All the effort is concentrated on the big day, on the dramatic cross examination of the key witnesses in front of the jury. Critics like to compare our "adversarial" system (resembling two adversaries engaged in a contest) with the continental "inquisitorial" system, under which the judge plays a more important inquiring role.

In early times, in the Middle Ages, the systems of trial across Europe were similar. At that time trial by "ordeal"—especially a religious event—was the main way of testing guilt or innocence. When this way eventually abandoned the two systems parted company. On the continent church-trained legal officials took over the function of both prosecuting and judging, while in England these were largely left to lay people, the Justice of the Peace and this meant that all the evidence had to be put to them orally, this historical accident dominates procedure even today, with all evidence being given in open court by word of mouth on the crucial day.

On the other hand, in France for instance, all the evidence is written before the trial under supervision by an investigating judge. This exhaustive pretrial looks very undramatic; much of it is just a public checking of the written records already gathered.

The Americans adopted the British system lock, stock and barrel and enshrined it in their constitution. But, while the basic features of our systems are common, there are now significant differences in the way serious cases are handled. First, because the U. S.A. has virtually no contempt of court laws to prevent pretrial publicity in the newspaper and on television, Americans lawyers are allowed to question jurors about knowledge and beliefs.

In Britain this is virtually never allowed, and a random selection of jurors who are presumed not to be prejudiced are empanelled. Secondly, there is no separate profession of barrister in the United States, and both prosecution and defense lawyers who are to present cases in court prepare them themselves. They go out and visit the scene, track down and interview witnesses, and familiarize themselves personally with the background. In Britain it is the solicitor who prepares the case, and the barrister who appears in court is not even slowed to meet witness beforehand. British barristers also alternate doing both prosecution and defense work. Being kept distant from the preparation and regularly appearing for both sides, barristers are said to avoid becoming too personally involved, and can approach cases more dispassionately. American lawyers, however, often know their cases better.

Reformers rightly want to learn from other countries' mistakes and successes. But what is clear is that justice systems, largely because they are the result of long historical growth, are peculiarly difficult to adapt piecemeal.

"British trial system is more like a game than a serious attempt to do justice. " It implies that______.

A．the British legal system can do the basic job well—convicting the guilty and acquitting the innocent

B．the British legal system is worse than the continental legal system

C．the British legal system is often considered to be not very fair

D．the British legal system is very efficient

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British universities, groaning under the burden of a huge increase in student numbers, are

warning that the tradition of a free education is at risk. The universities have threatened to impost an admission fee on students to plug a gap in revenue if the government does not act to improve their finances and scrap some public spending cutbacks.

The government responded to the universities' threat by setting up the most fundamental review of higher education for a generation, under a non-party troubleshooter (调停人), Sir Ron Dearing.

One in three school-leavers enters higher education, five times the number when the last review took place thirty years ago.

Everyone agrees a system that is feeling the strain after rapid expansion needs a lot more money--but there is little hope of getting it from the taxpayer and not much scope for attracting more finance from business.

Most colleges believe students should contribute to tuition costs, something that is common elsewhere in the world but would mark a revolutionary change in Britain. Universities want the government to introduce a loan scheme for tuition fees and have suspended their own threatened action for now. They await Dearing' s advice, hoping it will not be too late--some are already re ported to be in financial difficulty.

As the century nears its end, the whole concept of what a university should be is under the microscope. Experts ponder how much they can use computers instead of classrooms, talk of the need for lifelong learning and refer to students as "consumers".

The Confederation (联盟) of British Industry, the key employers' organization, wants even more expansion in higher education to help fight competition on world markets from booming Asian economies. But the government has doubts about more expansion. The Times newspaper agrees, complaining that quality has suffered as student numbers soared, with close tutorial supervision giving way to "mass production methods more typical of European universities."

The chief concern of British universities is ______.

A．how to tackle their present financial difficulty

B．how to expand the enrollment to meet the needs of enterprises

C．how to improve their educational technology

D．how to put an end to the current tendency of quality deterioration

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听力原文：Visitors to Britain sometimes are surprised to learn that newspapers there have s

听力原文： Visitors to Britain sometimes are surprised to learn that newspapers there have such a large circulation. The Daily Mirror and the Daily Express both sell about four million copies every day. Apart from the national papers, there is another branch of the British press which sells almost as many copies. Local newspapers have a circulation of 13 million. Almost every town and country area has one.

Local newspapers are written almost entirely for readers interested in local events— births, weddings, deaths, council meetings and sports—but the content is naturally influenced by the kind of community they serve. A great deal of local news is regularly supplied by clubs and churches in the neighborhood and it does not get out of date as quickly as national news.

Local newspapers do not often comment on problems of national importance and editors rarely take sides on political questions. They can often be of service to the community in expressing public feeling on local issues. A newspaper can sometimes persuade the council to take action to provide better shopping facilities, improve transport in the area and preserve local monuments and places of interest.

These papers often sound rather dull and it seems surprising that they all make a profit. However, for many people in small towns and villages the death of someone known to them or the installation of traffic lights at a busy corner nearby can sometimes be more important than a disaster in a foreign country.

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A．Large circulation of newspapers in Britain.

B．National newspapers in Britain.

C．Local Newspapers in Britain.

D．Difference between national newspapers and local newspapers in Britain.

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