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4.填空题
·Read the article below about Newtown.
·For each question 31-40,write one word on your Answer Sheet.
"Slugging It Out In Japan" by Warren Cromartie with Robert Whiting
Rodansha International Press, Tokyo and New York, Y 3,000 (US $ 22,50) This book is the story of how Warren Cromartie, a 29-year-old African-American major league baseball-player from Mia- mi, made good in Japan. It is also a tale of how this good-natured, plain-spoken player came to eventually understand and like the Japanese and their way of life, of which "Cro" learned the meaning of being a team player in Japan, "a group person."
Someone once wrote that if white Americans wanted to understand the black experience in the US, they should try living in Japan," writes Cro, summing up the problem he faced, being non-Japanese first and foremost, and black second. He knew what he was writing (31)
Cro is a child of Liberty City, the tough ghetto of Miami, He (32) up in a broken home, with a stepbrother who (33) time in jail for armed robbery. Following in the footsteps of his neighbour Cassius Clay, Cro used his athletic skill as a ticket to a better world. Rising steadily in the baseball circuit, he had a success full seven years with the Montreal Expo team (34) there were a number of personality clashes with his coaches and some of the other players. Then in 1984, the Giants, Japan’s premier team, offered Cro more money. (35) any American team would to join them. He went.
Soon Cro was stuck in a cramped apartment in Tokyo, photographers ever ready outside his door, his days composed of endless, exhausting practices and long, slow games where he would be (36) to taunts from the terraces.
More than any other Japanese team, the Giants put a premium (37) team harmony and mental training as well as the physical side of play. Young pitchers would be forced to throw fast- bells for hours before a big game. The same training films would be shown day-in, day-out. Coaches would repeat identical speeches before every game. (38) Cro and other foreigners were allowed some leniencey, their tolerance for that kind of treatment was much lower, and their attitudes were quite different. "If you smiled, someone would criticize you for not being serious enough," Cro says of Japan’s sports press. "If you scowled, some writer would attack you for disrupting team harmony. God forbid fooling around."
Cro’s six-season stint gradually taught him in the end to become a team player, winning praise not only for helping to boost the Giants standing in the league, but for becoming well attuned to Japanese mores and attitudes. Much to his own surprise, he felt the he had learned to .fit in , and the Japanese had learned to respect him. "I got the impression (39) now I has endured six years in Japan, taking everything that had been thrown my way, the Japanese has finally decided to adopt me." he writes.
"People back home have told me that I have a different attitude than I used to. Mind you, I’m still not the type of person to hold everything in. I express emotions. I moan, I’ll still curse, which is something the Japanese never do but , living in Japan, I’ve tried to tone it down," say Cro. "Slugging It Out" nicely combines a treatise on personal growth and international understanding with amusing stories about a bevy of colourful characters. It (40) a keen insight into both the way the Japanese play baseball and the way they outsiders.
6.单项选择题
·Read the article below about banking.
·Choose the best word from the opposite page to fill each gap.
·For each question 21-30 mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet.
A CHALLENGE TO TRADITIONAL BANKING
Traditional methods of banking are under threat from a new type of account which is actually meant to be almost perpetually in debit. This account, to be (21) in a few months’ time, is in- tended to (22) a range of personal banking services, such as current sc. counts, mortgages, per- sop, al loans and credit cards. Customers, who must (23) that they are at least five years from retirement, will be required to (24) a mortgage of at least £ 50,000 on their homes and have their salaries paid directly into the account. They will then have an agreed credit (25) of up to three times their annual salary, to use as they wish-as well as the usual (26) such as debit, credit and cash cards and a cheque book. Accounts in debit will be charged interest at a rate of 8.2 per cent. This (27) favourably with the standard mortgage rate of 8.45 per cent, personal loan rates of around 13 per cent and credit card (28) of about 22 per cent. When the debt is cleared- as it must be by the time the customer retires-and the account goes into credit, it will attract interest at about 5 Her cent. Some experts say that it will revolutionise personal banking in the UK. But the (29) has been dismissed as a gimmick by rival banks and criticized by consumer groups, which are voicing fears that many customers on average incomes could be (30) into serious debt.

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7.填空题
·Read this text about information-oriented society.
·Choose the best sentence from the opposite page to fill each of the gaps.
·For each gap g- 14, mark one fetter (A- H) on your Answer Sheet.
·De not use any letter more than once.
New Developments for an Information-Oriented Society
The astounding technological progress that is being achieved recently with electronics as the centerpiece is providing our society with sophisticated means for information processing and distribution. Information channeling technology is undergoing rapid progress and has, in reality, become a decisive factor determining the very future of our society and economy. in our society, "information" is gaining relatively greater significance compared with material resources.
Backed by civilian factors such as diversification of philosophies of value and sophistication of needs and preferences in concert with the nation’s rising living standard, Japanese society is presently undergoing changes in the extension of economic services and in the industrial structure. Meanwhile, newly coined words such as "information channeling, " "software-based operations" and "de-industrialization" have come into use to make these changes tangible, and whet can be said commonly in connection with these words in that. (9) .
The trend toward and information-oriented society is becoming apparent even in industry, with personnel engaged in information channeling professions increasing at a fast pace recently in all sectors of industry. These trends in both society and industry have been made possible primarily through poplar acceptance of the computer, communications equipment and data processing equipment, but further reliance on sophisticated computerized systems can be seen not only in the sector of industry but also in our daily lives. (10) .
Information channeling is undergoing remarkable progress an various sectors of society-in industrial activities, public services and, more recently, in daily living.
In the sector of industrial activities, automations is continuing with the aim of increasing productivity-introduction of computers for process control by the manufacturing industry, end introduction of NC machine tools, industrial robots, CAD/CAM systems and, more recently, FMS by the processing and assembling industries.
Meanwhile, in offices, rapid office automation is presently in progress, stimulated by the popular acceptance of computerized systems, expansion of communications networks and the remarkable technological progress achieved in related equipment such as Japanese word processors. (11) Information channeling is being utilized actively in the field of public services. For example, large-capacity computers were introduced from an early stage for the control of railway trains and for extending seat reservation services, and more recently diagnostic systems utilizing computers have become commonplace in medical care to cope with the steady an aging society, research is in progress to develop technologies related to medical information systems with the aim of improving efficiency in medical services. (12) .
In the sector of administration, efficiency of clerical work is being improved through the introduction of computers, and huge volumes of administrative data are more recently being stored in data base systems. "In the wore of these, computers have become indispensable for advancing large-scale R&D projects as in connection with space development and atomic power development, and also in the field of basic research in life sciences. (13) .
To cope with civilian needs for more convenience in home living and in order to meet the needs raised by growing diversification of lifestyles, active research is presently in progress to develop and commercialize new media incorporating sophisticated data processing functions for use in addition to existing media involving the television, radio and telephone. In concert, research is being directed at developing technologies related to automation in the home.
Progress of Science and Technology Supporting Information Channeling
Electronic element technology, the foundation for progress of the computer as well as communications equipment, has undergone a steady transition form the vacuum tube, followed with the transistor and IC, to the current LSI. Progress has been so dramatic in integration rates that, today, super LSIs integrating more than 100. 00 elements on a single circuit are being developed one after another elements on a single circuit are being developed one after another. (14) .
A The Current State of Information Channeling in Japan.
B In our society, "information" is gaining relatively greater significance compared with material re- sources.
C Rapid automation and efficiency improvement are also being achieved in the sector of commodity distribution through the introduction of advanced POS systems.
D Dally living is also a sector in which information channeling is taking firm root.
E This progress has led to remarkable improvements in system economy and reliability, leading to the successive development of microcomputers and elements designed for the widest range of applications.
F Introduction of Information Systems in Various Sectors Sectors of Society.
G This has resulted in computers today that feature performances that were unimaginable in the early days of the computer.
H Regarding education, computerized systems including the CAI system and CMI system are presently being put to trial operation.