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An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by ________ buyers.

The notion has been ________ on several occasions, but has never come to anything.

He stubbornly ________ her relationship with other people.

The wagon trains had to ________ in the Indian territory to reach California.

Directions: Write an article on “Science: Good or Evil”. You should use your own ideas, knowledge or experience to generate support for your argument with examples. You should write no less than 200 words. Write your article on the Answer Sheet.

(1) Today many people are having online relationships with acquaintances or friends they’ve never really met—and who may be nothing at all like the selves they describe. The poor child who once could count on the bullying to stop once the school bell had rung now discovers it can go on endlessly through the miracle of the chat room, and worse than before, since it’s much easier to wound without the sight of wounded eyes, Looking someone straight in the eye is an age-old incentive to do the right thing, but there’s precious little of it in the computer age.(2)The power of the human face is why the notion of a face transplant, recently performed in France, makes the public queasy. Personality may be the wine, but the face is the label others learn to recognize. Even animals assess one another’s intentions by the cast of the eye, the cued of the lip. A face-to-face meeting often means the difference between understanding and estrangement. In her memoir, “Autobiography of a Face,” the writer Lucy Grealy described life after childhood cancer left her with much other lower jaw gone or distorted and the night on which she felt happiest and most free: Halloween, when she could wear a mask. (3) This is the age of the mask: the homogenized unreadable expression courtesy of the plastic surgeon, the anonymous fantasy love affair via the Internet.So many of the old conventions have gone the way of the TV antenna-privacy, downtime, the line between work life and home life that was once delineated by the ride on the train or the closing of the apartment door. The message that begins “I can’t come to the phone right now” is a lie. Everyone can come to the phone all the time. Soon, business people forced into studying spreadsheets, reading paperback best sellers and perhaps even making desultory conversation with the person in the next seat will be able to use their cell phones in the air. The BlackBerry device alone makes it seem as though we’re living in a 50s futuristic film. (4) The paradox is that all this nominal communication has led to enormous isolation, with people hunched over their handholds or staring into the screen of the computer. There is the illusion of keeping in touch, but always at arm’s length.Sometimes it seems that what people want most is the one thing they no longer have: human contact. The person on the other end of the phone who believes the bill is actually mistaken, and who is apologetic. The friend who comes over for a cup of tea instead of sending a text message. (5) But often they’re looking for something different something more, someone who will see them across a field of restaurant tables, really see them. In a society that has too often become isolating and inhuman, they’re looking for that one face in the crowd, maybe everyone is.

The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases _1_ the trial of Rosemary West.In a significant _2_ of legal controls over the press. Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a _3_ bill that will propose making payments to witnesses _4_ and will strictly control the amount of _5_ that can be given to a case _6_ a trial begins.In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee. Lord Irvine said he _7_ with a committee report this year which said that self-regulation did not _8_ sufficient control._9_ of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a _10_ of media protest when he said the _11_ of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges _12_ to Parliament.The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which _13_ the European Convention on Human Rights legally _14_ in Britain, laid down that everybody was _15_ to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.“Press freedoms will be in safe hands _16_ our British judges,” he said.Witness payments became an _17_ after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were _18_ to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised _19_ witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to _20_ guilty verdicts.

Should the Treasury sell its economic forecasting computers for scrap? For the past two years no one outside the Conservative Party and Whitehall has believed a Treasury forecast. Anyone with half an eye on the unemployment figures or with a mortgage knew that Chancellor Norman Lament’s repeated claims about recovery being “just around the comer” were untrue.Yet only a fortnight ago Gary Becker, an American economist, won a Nobel Prize for his work on using economics to explain aspects of human behavior, such as drug addiction and crime. So why do economists using Britain’s longest running predictive model still have trouble forecasting whether people will spend more or less money in the shops in the next three months? The answer is that they are caught in a race they cannot win, where however fast they try to keep their predictive equations abreast (not behind) of changing patterns in production and spending, peoples’ behavior changes faster.Some people claim economics and econometrics should be expelled from the broad scientific church. But that would be foolish. Their present weakness is that they are only perfect when dealing with theory. Use them to make real-world forecasts and things go wrong-principally the answers. But that is typical of a young science. Until the 1930s, only economists were interested in accurately predicting the economic behavior of large numbers of people. The Depression made it a matter of wider interest and urgency. The emergence then of national income statistics helped economics and econometrics to develop. But the art in using both still lies in knowing when you are crossing the line between prediction and guesswork.The government seems not to recognize this. Of late it has pushed and pulled the levers of money supply, tax and interest rates like children let loose on the bridge of a ship. And politicians such as Lament also have a hand in Treasury forecasts.“That is the worst way to use a science”, says Becker. “If economics has any claim to be a science and to belong to the Nobel award structure—and I firmly believe that it does—then economists should avoid political propaganda and convey to the public some flavor of the scientific quality of economics. The government should stop interfering and let its specialists apply their programs, which embody years of experience, as tools to solve the problem of how to make the economy healthy”.1. From the passage we can learn that the Britain’s economic situation is .2. It is believed somehow that economics and econometrics .3. According to the passage government interference in economic prediction will .4. American economist Gary Becker .

By far the most common difficulty in study is simple failure to get down to regular concentrated work. This difficulty is much greater for those who do not work to a plan and have no regular routine of study. Many students muddle along a bit of this subject or that, as the more takes them, or letting their set work pile up until the last possible moment.Few students work to a set time-table. They say that if they did construct a time-table for themselves they would not keep to it, or would have to alter it constantly, since they can never predict from one day to the next what their activities will be.No doubt some temperaments take much more kindly to a regular routine than others. There are many who shy away from the self-regimentation of a weekly time-table, and dislike being tied down to a definite program of work. Many able students claim that they work in cycle. When they become interested in a topic, they work on it intensively for three or four days at a time. On other days they avoid work completely. It has to be confessed that we do not fully understand the complexities of the motivation to work. Most people over 25 years of age have become conditioned to a work routine, and the majority of really productive workers set aside regular hours for the more important aspects of their work. The “tough-minded” school of workers is usually very contemptuous of the idea that good work can only be done spontaneously under the influence of inspiration. The most energetic of authors, Anthony Trollope wrote: “There are those who think that the man who works with imagination should allow himself to wait till inspiration moves him. When I have heard such doctrine preached, I have hardly been able to repress my scorn.”1. The most widespread problem in applying oneself to study is that of .2. According to the author, there are many who .3. The author states that we must admit that we do not fully understand .4. A suitable title for the passage might be .

It was a brighter, sharper, and more capable Hubble Telescope that probed further into space last week—and only modern technology and some great photography could make it look this easy.But this was not a routine service call: these astral repairmen spent more than 30 exhausting hours over five days floating in space to upgrade and maintain the $12 billion observatory. The space shuttle Discovery’s trip was the second of four scheduled maintenance stops for the telescope, which was launched in 1990 on a 15-year mission to explore space. Most of the work was anticipated, though there were a “surprising number” of cracks and tears in the Hubble’s thin outer insulation needing repairs. After all, the telescope has to be built to last—the next scheduled service call is not until late 1999.Chief astronaut Mark Lee teamed up with colleague Steven Smith and five other crew members. They finished the repairs last Tuesday, then slowly released the telescope from the bay of the Discovery before landing safely on Friday.The success of last week’s mission has NASA space program officials dancing with excitement. “It’s been sitting in the mother’s nest in the shuttle quite comfortable, and now our little baby’s out on its own,” the Hubble’s chief scientist, Ed Weiler, laughed from ear to ear, like a proud papa.As for the astronauts themselves, their first plans back on earth were not that much different from those of their earth-bound colleagues after a hard job well done.“I’ll buy for the whole crew, and they’re going to take me up on that,” promised Lee. “I’m ready for a margarita.”1. What is the best possible title of this passage?2. According to the schedule, Hubble Telescope’s mission will end in .3. The word “baby” in Paragraph 4 refers to .4. Which of the following is NOT TRUE?

They are ________ the shop because the people who work there aren’t allowed to join a union.

From the shop center, she bought a(an) ________ China figurine.

The large crowds lingering in the streets were quickly ________ by the heavy rain.

The book’s unusual title ________ me into reading it.

A cold wind ________ from the opposite direction.

It is not necessary to boil the water, because it has already been ________ chemically.

They departed ________ to our arrival.

Unless stricter hunting laws are introduced, seals will soon be ________.

Peter felt very ________ when everyone laughed at his question.

If you want to call off the party, you may; I have no ________ to your decision.

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