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第1题
M: That is the thing I have been doing.
W: I know you just came back from Johannesburg, South Africa, part of your six-nation tour of Africa.
M: Right. You know, Africa has been more affected by AIDS than any other place in the world.
W: Why？
M: I think that's partly because there were not systems in place both to prevent people from contracting it and spreading it.
W: How is your work getting on？
M: I think we are beginning to make some headway not only in Africa, but in other places where it's a problem.
W: Can you name some？
M: It is spreading worldwide, growing even faster now in terms of the rate of increase in the former Soviet Union and the Caribbean, India, China.
W: I know your foundation is making a great deal of progress. Is it reasonable to expect that it can be brought under control？
M: Well, yes, but you have to take care of education and prevention and care and treatment at the same time, and the two things speed up each other.
W: How should we understand they speed up each other？
M: When you've got to treat people, you've got to overcome any kind of cultural dislike, talk about it and get young people to behave responsibly and you've got to do whatever you can to get as many people tested as quickly as possible but keep in mind that this is a disease that's one hundred percent preventable.
(20)
A．Traveling in South Africa to seek medical help.
B．Promoting awareness and prevention of AIDS.
C．Visiting clients and signing contracts.
D．Collecting fund for the new business.
第2题
Building Confidence
The two arms of Coega, South Africa's newest port, extend into the Indian Ocean gracefully. These are built from thousands of huge, oddly-shaped, 30-ton concrete blocks. They are designed to protect the ships that, when the port is fully operational in 2007, will use this facility to ship iron mineral and other South African products to India and the rest of the world.
The Call to Infrastructure Construction
"If you want to change lives and the history of this continent, you need to develop infrastructure(基础设施)," says Vuyelwa Qinga-Vika, spokeswoman for the CDC(Coega Development Corporation). "We're not going to advance if we don't even have the roads to bring medicine to the rural areas. We've got to start building."
The call to construction is ringing out across Africa. Infrastructure is the new buzzword(口号), pushed by leaders from South Africa's Thabo Mbeki to Senegal's Abdulaye Wade. It's also a key topic at this week's World Economic Forum(WEF) meeting in Cape Town, where political and business leaders from Africa will meet with heads of some of the world's biggest companies to discuss, among other things, how Africa's priority infrastructure projects can boost growth. According to a Gallup International survey commissioned by the WEF, Africans "focus more heavily on economic issues than do citizens in other parts of the world." One in three Africans fear a failure of the economy compared to just one in five globally.
Despite a commodity boom that pushed growth to 5% in Africa last year, the continent's leaders want better infrastructure to win more business. The New Partnership for Afiica's Development(NEPAD, an Mrican initiative that aims to attract $64 billion in annual investment by tackling bad governance, ending conflicts and making the continent more business-friendly, has put improved infrastructure near the top of its to-do list. "There can be no meaningful development without trade," reads NEPAD's infrastructure action plan. "And there can be no trade without adequate and reliable infrastructure."
The need is as obvious as it is urgent. Africa's roads and railway lines, ports and power network are neither adequate nor reliable. Outside of southern Africa and Mauritius, much of the continent's infrastructure is damaging or nonexistent. Consider the Democratic Republic of Congo. You could fit France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain and Britain inside it, and the country is packed with timber and minerals, yet it has only a few thousand kilometers of road and 10,000 fixed telephone lines, and produces about the same amount of power as Albania. In other war-torn countries, such as Somalia and Sierra Leone, public buildings have been destroyed by years of fighting. Corruption and mismanagement have left public utilities in places such as Cameroon and Nigeria ran down and inefficient.
Infrastructure Vs Investment
The lack of infrastructure blocks many companies from investing and drives up costs for those that do. The World Bank estimates that to ship a container from Baltimore in the U.S. to Tanzania costs about $1,000, but to transport that same container from Tanzania to neighboring Burundi cost $10,000. "In many countries, companies have to generate their own power, dig for water, pay heavy distribution and telephone charges," says David Hampshire, chairman of Diageo Africa, one of the continent's biggest marketers of beer and spirits. "All these costs add up, and they end up being paid for by the consumer."
To attract more investment, Africa has drawn up plans to spend billions over the next few decades. Zambia and Burkina Faso, both landlocked, want to build new rail lines through neighboring states to improve their connections to the sea. In East Africa, the Kenyon government and the rebel movement in southern Sudan plan to build a new railway track—at an estimated cost of
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
第3题
M: That is the thing I have been doing.
W: I know you just came back from Johannesburg, South Africa, part of your six-nation tour of Africa.
M: Right. You know, Africa has been more affected by AIDS than any other place in the world.
W: Why？
M: [20] I think that's partly because there were not systems in place both to prevent people from contracting it and spreading it.
W: How is your work getting on？
M: I think we are beginning to make some headway not only in Africa, but in other places where it's a problem.
W: Can you name some？
M: It is spreading worldwide, growing even faster now in terms of the rate of increase in the former Soviet Union and the Caribbean, India, China.
W: I know your foundation is making a great deal of progress. Is it reasonable to expect that it can be brought under control？
M: Well, yes, [21] but you have to take care of education and prevention and care and treatment at the same time, and the two things speed up each other.
W: How should we understand they speed up each other？
M: When you've got to treat people, you've got to overcome any kind of cultural dislike, talk about it and get young people to behave responsibly and you've got to do whatever you can to get as many people tested as quickly as possible but keep in mind that this is a disease that's one hundred percent preventable.
(20)
A．Traveling in South Africa to seek medical help.
B．Promoting awareness and prevention of AIDS.
C．Visiting clients and signing contracts.
D．Collecting fund for the new business.
第4题
______ among black people in South Africa is essential if progress is to be made.
A．Validity
B．Sincerity
C．Solidarity
D．Superiority
第5题
听力原文：M: Which area. of all the ones that you've visited, is your favorite？
W: Um...you know, different places for different things. (19)The South Seas are a pretty divine sort of place to be, I mean Fiji, the islands east of there. (19)I'm very fond of South East Asia because it's got such wonderful past. It's got so many temples buried in jungles and so on. (19)And the Galapagos Islands with fantastic birds and reptiles.
M: I wonder what makes you come hack to England？
W: Well. I think, change is like happiness. No change produces no happiness in many ways. It seems to me that happiness has something to do with changing. (20)The happiest time's when you're always just about to do something; and when you've just moved from this to that. Because actually life is always changing, people around you are changing you're getting older, emotional things change, and so on.
M: Before all this you were on the management side of the BBC, in fact, for eight years. Didn't you feel very frustrated because you really wanted to he a creative artist？
W: (21)I think. new things, new challenges, that's corny phrase for you，nonetheless. They are very important and if someone. if you care about making television programs. Because of the technical characteristics of the network you're running. you will be the first color network in Europe, so we want you to think how perhaps color should be used. Well, you again have to he a very funny television producer to say "I'm not interested."
(20)
A．Fiji, the South Seas and the Pacific Ocean.
B．South East Asia, the South Seas and West Africa.
C．The South Seas, South East Asia and the Galapagos Islands.
D．South East Asia, West Africa and the South Seas.
第6题
听力原文：M: Which area, of all the ones that you've visited, is your favorite？
W: Um... you know, different places for different things. (19)The South Seas are a pretty divine sort of place to be, I mean Fiji, the islands east of there. (19)I'm very fond of South East Asia because it's got such wonderful past. It's got so many temples buried in jungles and so on. (19)And the Galapagos Islands with fantastic birds and reptiles.
M: I wonder what makes you come back to England？
W: Well, I think, change is like happiness. No change produces no happiness in many ways. It seems to me that happiness has something to do with changing. (20)The happiest time's when you're always just about to do something, and when you've just moved from this to that. Because actually life is always changing, people around you are changing, you're getting older, emotional things change, and so on.
M: Before all this you were on the management side of the BBC, in fact, for eight years. Didn't you feel very frustrated because you really wanted to be a creative artist？
W: (21)I think, new things, new challenges, that's corny phrase for you, nonetheless, they are very important and if someone, if you care about making television programs, because of the technical characteristics of the network you're running, you will be the first color network in Europe, so we want you to think how perhaps color should be used. Well, you again have to be a very funny television producer to say "I'm not interested."
(20)
A．Fiji, the South Seas and the Pacific Ocean.
B．South East Asia, the South Seas and West Africa.
C．The South Seas, South East Asia and the Galapagos Islands.
D．South East Asia, West Africa and the South Seas.
第7题
Since colonial times, black people in South Africa have been______ by the white minority.
A．depressed
B．suppressed
C．oppressed
D．repressed
第8题
Mandela, who will be 91 this year,【C7】______ . appears in public and increasingly relies on the managers of his foundation to manage his affairs. Now they're facing with a tricky issue:【C8】______ what point does a very famous man become a private brand？ And is it possible to copyright history？ So far, the foundation has tackled these difficult questions by trying to stop those who would【C9】______ Mandela's name for【C10】______ or political gain either in ways they don't like【C11】______ in ways they are able to prevent.
In August, the foundation【C12】______ out a code of conduct【C13】______ the commercialization of Mandela's name or【C14】______ by his four official charities and asked the other44 charities【C15】______ which Mandela is a patron to sign【C16】______ as well. Other charitable causes must get the foundation's【C17】______ before using Mandela's name. In the business of protecting【C18】______ , however, the choice of whether to block or【C19】______ a project is often subjective or a matter of taste, and therefore brings【C20】______ criticism.
【C1】
A．as
B．for
C．after
D．in
第9题
The immediate problem is poverty. Most of Africa is urbanising at a lower level of income than other regions of the world did. That means there's little money around for investment that would make cities liveable and more productive. Without upgrades and new capacity, bridges, roads and power systems are unable to cope with expanding populations. With the exception of South Africa, the only light rail metro system in sub-Saharan Africa is in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Traffic jam leads to expense and unpredictability, things that keep investors away.
In other parts of the world, increasing agricultural productivity and industrialisation went together. More productive farmers meant there was a surplus that could feed cities; in turn, that created a pool of labour for factories. But African cities are different. They are too often built around consuming natural resources. Government is concentrated in capitals, so is the money. Most urban Africans work for a small minority of the rich, who tend to be involved in either cronyish (有裙带关系的) businesses or politics. Since African agriculture is still broadly unproductive, food is imported, consuming a portion of revenue.
So what can be done？ Though African countries are poor, not all African cities are. In Lagos, foreign oil workers can pay as much as 65,000 dollars per year in rent for a modest apartment in a safe part of town. If that income were better taxed, it might provide the revenue for better infrastructure. If city leaders were more accountable to their residents, they might favour projects designed to help them more. Yet even as new roads are built, new people arrive. When a city's population grows by 5% a year, it is difficult to keep up.
76.What do we learn from the passage about cities in sub-Saharan Africa____
A.They have more slums than other cities in the world.
B.They are growing fast without becoming richer.
C.They are as modernised as many cities elsewhere.
D.They attract migrants who want to be better off.
77.What does the author imply about urbanisation in other parts of the world____
A.It benefited from the contribution of immigrants.
B.It started when people's income was relatively high.
C.It benefited from the accelerated rise in productivity.
D.It started with the improvement of peopled livelihood.
78.Why is sub-Saharan Africa unappealing to investors____
A.It lacks adequate transport facilities.
B.The living expenses there are too high.
C.It is on the whole too densely populated.
D.The local governments are corrupted.
79.In what way does the author say African cities are different____
A.They have attracted huge numbers of farm labourers.
B.They still rely heavily on agricultural productivity.
C.They have developed at the expense of nature.
D.They depend far more on foreign investment.
80.What might be a solution to the problems facing African cities____
A.Lowering of apartment rent.
B.Better education for residents.
C.More rational overall planning.
D.A more responsible government.
第10题
A.Applying small pumps and simple technology.
B.Launching large-scale irrigation projects.
C.Increase the local household revenues
D.Investing in a new expensive irrigation project.
