Despite all these problems though, unemployment can be a chance for a fresh start. You can discover that it provides an opportunity to sort out or rethink what you want from life and how best you can get it. You can use the time to plan how to find a new job, learn a new skill, develop your hobbies or see if you can run your own business.

     Passage three

     First read the following question.ª¤

     52.Which is NOT true according to the passage?ª¤

   A. Generation gap is a result of different attitudes.ª¤

   B. People become far more conservative as they grow older.ª¤

   C. Attitudes formed in the early twenties do not change easily.ª¤

   D.Attitudes of the younger generation are different from those of their elders.

      Now read the passage below quickly and mark your answer on your ANSWER SHEET. ª¥

   The gap in attitudes between the older and younger generations is well known. But why does the gap exist? Is it, as some believe, because people become more conservative as they age?

   Or is it simply that today¡¯s younger generation has adopted attitudes that differ from those of their elders? One researcher found that people¡¯s ideas do change somewhat as they grow older, but they don¡¯t change much. Attitudes formed in the late teens and early twenties are pretty stable. Thus the generation gap seems to result from each generation¡¯s entering adulthood with different attitudes.ª¤ª¤

    Passage four

   First read the following question.ª¤

   53.The author states that no modern newspaper ª©____ªª.ª¤

   A. is free of propaganda

   B. is controlled by big business interestsª¤

   C. separates fact and opinion

   D. operates according to a code of ethics                  

    Now read the passage below quickly and mark your answer on your ANSWER SHEET.
                  

    Daily newspaper has an editorial page. Here opinion is expressed on events and personalities in the news. But editorial judgement is so persuasively presented that many people accept these opinions as facts. Good journalists uphold a code of ethics which distinguishes between news and editorial opinion. This code holds that in an editorial column the publisher is entitled to advocate any cause he chooses. It is understood that there he is speaking as a partisan and may express any view he desires. Because a modern newspaper is so expensive to produce and so costly to establish, newspapers have increasingly become big business organizations. Although there are exceptions, these large newspapers tend to reflect the views of their owners in their editorials on economic and political matters.

    In the news columns, however, the complete and unbiased facts should be reported. The better metropolitan newspapers and the great press associations usually can be relied on to keep their news impartial. But the less ethical publications often deliberately ¡°color¡± the news to favor or oppose certain group or movements.ª¤
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       PART ¢ó  THE USE OF ENGLISH (Õ¼×Ü·ÖµÄ15%)ª¤

   Section A   Cloze (Õ¼×Ü·ÖµÄ10%)ª¤

Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage.For each blank there are four choices marked A ,B ,C and D .You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage.Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.ª¥

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