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PART 4
Read the text and questions below. For each question, mark the letter next to the correct answer —A, B, C or D —on your answer sheet.
The shoemaker
Bill Bird is a shoemaker who cannot make shoes fast enough for his growing number of customers — and he charges more than ￡300 for a pair! Customers travel hundreds of kilometres to his London shoe clinic or to his workshop in the countryside to have their feet measured. He makes shoes for people with feet of unusual sizes: very large, very small, very broad or very narrow. The shoes are at least as fashionable as those found in ordinary shops.
Mr Bird says: 'My problem is that I cannot find skilled workers. Young people all seem to prefer to work with computers these days. We will lose the necessary skills soon because there are fewer and fewer shoemakers nowadays. I am 45, and now I want to teach young people everything I know about making shoes. It's a good job, and a lot of people want to buy beautiful shoes specially made for them.'
He started in the business 19 years ago and now he employs three other people. His customers pay about ￡500 for their first pair of shoes. He says: 'Our customers come because they want comfortable shoes which are exactly the right size.' Extra pairs of shoes cost between￡320 and ￡450, as it takes one employee a whole week to make just one shoe.
What is the writer trying to de in the text？
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AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a fatal disease that destroys the immune system. More than four out of five AIDS cases in the United States so far have been homosexual or bisexual men or drug users. Not all those who are infected with the AIDS virus, now 【C1】______one and a half million Americans, will 【C2】______ the disease, but scientists assume that 【C3】______ of the virus can spread it to others through sexual 【C4】______or exchange of blood or other bodily fluids. 【C5】______ about the spread of the disease has brought demands for testing to 【C6】______ evidence of infection. But proposals for testing have been 【C7】______ with a storm of questions and counterproposals from health officials, advocates of civil rights, and 【C8】______ fight activists. Should testing of people at special risk be 【C9】______ or mandatory(强制性的) ？ How wide should testing be？ What uses will be 【C10】______ of the results？ If the secret is disclosed, is there a danger 【C11】______ people discovered be carriers will lose their jobs, housing, and access 【C12】______ public places？
At a meeting in Feburary 1987, participants in a 【C13】______ sponsored conference on the control of AIDS 【C14】______ that testing should be voluntary and accompanied by safeguards to protect the 【C15】______ of those who are tested. The consensus,【C16】______ , was ruined by disagreements about definition of terms. One participant pointed 【C17】______ that "mandatory" , " routine"."standard""required""and"confidential"were being used in different ways.
As AIDS 【C18】______ more victims--by 1991health officials estimate that more than 50,000 Americans will die 【C19】______ AIDS each year public anxiety will mount and the demand for 【C20】______ testing and control may grow. State Laws written in the 1920s and 1930s to limit the spread of sexually transmitted diseases may not be adequate to protect against AIDS. But it remains unclear whether new laws requiting mandatory testing would produce sufficient health benefits to justify possible violations of civil rights.
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A．Baby - the Parrot Detective.B．An Amazon Parrot.C．Rising Crime Rates in American Soci
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
Auctions(拍卖) are public sales of goods, conducted by an officially approved auctioneer. He asked the crowd to gather in the auction room to bid for various items on sale. He encourages buyers to bid high er figures and finally names the highest bidder as the buyer of the goods. This is called "knocking down" the goods, for the bidding ends when the auctioneer bangs a small hammer on a raised platform.
The ancient Romans probably invented sales by auction and the English word comes from the Latin "antic", meaning "increase". The Romans usually sold in this way the spoils taken in war; these sales were called "sub hasta", meaning "under the spear", a spear being stuck in the ground as a signal for a crowd to gather. In England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries goods were often sold "by the can die" ; a short candle was lit by the auctioneer and bids could be made while it was burning.
Practically all goods can be sold by auction. Among these are coffee, skins, wool, tea, cocoa, furs, fruit, vegetables and wines. Auction sales are also usual for land and property, antique furniture, pictures, rare books, old china and works of art. The auction rooms at Chritie's and Sotheby's in London and New York are world-famous.
An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of the articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by the buyers. If the advertisement cannot give full details, catalogues are printed, and each group of goods to be sold together, called a "lot", is usually given a number. The auctioneer need not begin with lot one and continue the numerical order; he may wait until he notices the fact that certain buyers are in the room and then produce the lots they are likely to be interested in. The auctioneer's services are paid for in the form. of a percentage of the price the goods are sold for. The auctioneer therefore has a direct interest in pushing up the bidding.
Auctioned goods are sold ______.
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