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Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)
It seemed so promising—mirrors sprawled across desert land in the scorching southwest delivering clean electricity and helping Americans out of the increasing fuel crisis. Some scientists and industry developers claim that Nevada's empty and sun-drenched expanses alone could supply enough electricity to power the entire country.
Now even the optimists fear this wonderful prospect may be a mirage. Congress cannot make up their mind to extend the tax-reducing bill for solar-energy projects, which solar advocates say is critical to the future of their industry but which is due to expire at the end of the year. The latest attempt failed in the Senate earlier this month, prospects for a deal before November's presidential and congressional elections now look dim. Uncertainty has led some investors to delay or abandon projects in the past few months. Rhone Resch, the president of the Solar Energy Industries Association, said if the tax-reducing bill is allowed to expire at the end of the year, "it will result in the loss of billions of dollars in new investments in solar. "
Further dampening hopes for a big solar-energy boom, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has abruptly suspended new applications to put solar collectors on federal land. The agency says it has received more than 130 applications and needs to conduct a region-wide environmental impact study on the industry before it will accept any more. The study will take 22 months to complete, however. Few argue against trying to preserve precious water sources and protect desert tortoises and other creatures that might not enjoy cohabiting with sprawling fields of mirrors. But many solar advocates wonder why the government is not acting as cautiously when it comes to drilling for oil and gas.
Senator Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from Washington State, wants a congressional probe into the proposed suspension. "The fact that the BLM pops this out without people even knowing about it, especially when solar thermal looks extremely promising as a power source, is not right," she says. Harry Reid of Nevada, who is the majority leader in the Senate, also condemns the BLM's freeze, saying that it could "slow new development to a crawl".
The BLM is not without its supporters, however. At a public meeting on June 23rd in Golden, Colorado, Alex Daue, of the Wilderness Society, said that his organization supports renewable energy development as long as it doesn't damage other important resources. The message is clear: no rubber stamps, even for renewable energy.
"mirrors sprawled across desert land" is mentioned to______.
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SECTION A CONVERSATIONS
Directions: In this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文：Sally: Now, specifically in that seng, you mention "Lisa". Is there actually a "Lisa" out there？
Elliot: Yes, there really is. She was somebody I went out with for two years actually.
Sally: What happened later？
Elliot: Her dad Just didn't want it to happen so bad that she just couldn't take the pressure.
Sally: You must have felt bitter about the whole split up and everything？
Elliot: It's really tough, she wants to do something with her life and her dad's threatening to out off her college tuition if she continues to see me, so it's like she had a serious decision to make.
Sally: Were you hitter about her？
Elliot: Like I said, at first, I was somewhat bitter but I understand, I guess. I don't know. I know I probably wouldn't have done the same thins. Who knows, people are different, so I couldn't really hold that against her.
Sally: What has she said to you since she heard it on the radio？
Elliot: Oh, I haven't heard from her.
Sally: You haven't？
Elliot: I dropped some notes for her to call me some time but she hasn't, I guess at this point, I don't expect her to. That's my call out to her, because I have no idea.
Who is true of Lisa？
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
Directions: In this section, you will hear several news items. Listen to them carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文： A truck bomb exploded Thursday at the Karni crossing between Israel and Gaza. Then gunmen killed six Israeli civilians and seriously wounded five others. Three groups took responsibility: Hamas, the A1-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Popular Resistance Committees.
How many Israeli civilians were killed and how many seriously wounded？
【C7】______ , what struck me about the Tolstoy I was reading were Austenesque details of 【C8】______ relationships couched in Austenesque language. The question 【C9】______ is whether this stylistic feature is 【C10】______ in Tolstoy in Russian, or whether it has been introduced through the 【C11】______ .A second question, 【C12】______ I shall probably never find an answer is how could I ever discover what was or was not added during the translation 【C13】______
We have to 【C14】______ translators. They undertake to transpose texts written in a 【C15】______ that we do not know and bring them into a language that we can read easily. We all like to talk 【C16】______ we had direct access to other literatures, so that when I say 1 have just read War and Peace, everyone 【C17】______ me to be saying I have read Tolstoy. But of course I have not read 【C18】______ , because I have no Russian. I have read a translation. I have read the Tolstoy 【C19】______ by a translator, and the echoes of Jane Austen I 【C20】______ in my English Tolstoy were put there, consciously or unconsciously, by that translator.
【C1】
According to the author, Argentina's financial recovery has been blocked because______.
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