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only enhance the value of his family\'s remaining 50% stake in SLEC, the holding company for the group of companies that runs the commercial side of F1. Third, the timing of the dispute is very interesting.

Why? Because the other 50% stake in SLEC, owned by EM. TV, a debt- ridden German media company, is up for sale. EM. TV badly needs to sell this stake in the near future to keep its bankers at bay. The uncertainty created by the dispute between Mr. Ecclestone and Mr. Mosley might depress the value of EM. TV\'s holding. Could that work to Mr. Ecclestone\'s advantage? Quite possibly. The lower the value of EM. TV\'s stake, the higher the relative value of an option Mr. Ecclestone holds to sell a further 25% of SLEC to EM. TV for around $1 billion--and the better the deal Mr. Ecclestone might be able to extract for surrendering the option. Whoever buys EM. TV\'s stake in SLEC will have to negotiate with Mr. Ecclestone over this instrument. The Economist understands that Mr. Ecclestone has the right to veto a plan proposed last December by Kirch, a privately owned German media group, to buy half of EM. TV\'s holding for $550m.

In the coming weeks, Mr. Ecclestone will doubtless be deploying his formidable negotiating skills to best advantage. It would be rash to bet against his securing a good deal out of EM. TV\'s difficulties. His dispute with the FIA may then be easily resolved. As usual, he holds all the cards.

36. FIA would give its partner the right to stage the racing till

AMr. Ecclestone gave all the money.

BThe contract time is reached.

CThe 100th year after 2010.

DMr. Ecclestone gave it 60m$.

37. The word “extortion”(last line, para 2 ) means

Aabjection

Bnegotiation

Ccheating

Dracketeering

38. Which statement is probably true?

AMr. Ecclestone just wanted to get more benefits through the EM.TV sale.

BMr. Ecclestone wanted to give up the benefits from the contract.

CThe timing of the dispute is very improper.

DMr. Ecclestone cannot afford the money.

39. The last sentence of the passage implies

AMr. Ecclestone can win at cards.

BMr. Ecclestone will achieve great success in the negotiation.

CMr. Ecclestone cheated all his partners.

DMr. Eccestone will lose the whole contract with FIA.

40. According to the last paragraph, “he holds all the cards” as

A. he deploys to best advantage

B. he wins all the cards

C. he never fails himself

D. he takes the cards in hand

Part B

Directions:

In the following text, some sentences have removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into of the numbered blank there are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET1. (10 points)

AFTER its misadventures in 1993, when American marines were driven out of Somalia by skinny gunmen, America has used a long spoon in supping with Somalia\'s warlords. This, like so much else, changed on September 11th.(41) .

Clandestine, up to a point: within hours of the arrival in Baidoa of nine closely cropped Americans sporting matching satellite phones and shades, their activities were broadcast. After meeting various warlords, the group inspected a compound that had apparently been offered to them as their future base. They also saw an old military depot. Neither can have been encouraging: the compound has been taken over by war-displaced families, and the depot by thorn-scrub.

America was already convinced of al-Qaeda\'s presence in Somalia. It had listed a Somali Islamic group, al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (Islamic Unity), as a terrorist organisation. (42) . It fears that lawless Somalia could become a haven for escapes from Afghanistan. The American navy is currently patrolling the country\'s long coastline, while spy planes are said to be criss-crossing the heavens.

(43) . With a little bit of help, he told his American visitors, he would be ready "to liberate the country from these evil forces". America had already heard as much through its embassies in Nairobi and Addis Ababa, which maintain contact with the warlords, and from Ethiopia.

The warlords are supported by Ethiopia, which has a historical fear of a strong Somalia, in a bid to oppose the government. But their differing views on where to strike at the "terrorists" reveal that their individual ambitions are even sharper than their dislike of the government.

Mr Ismail says that Merca, which is claimed by his Rahanwein clan, is the capital of terror. (44) . The UN says there is only an orphanage there now. But the island is close to Mr Morgan\'s home town of Kismaayo, which he failed to capture from a pro-government militia in July, and he is determined not to fail again.

None of this looks good for Somalia\'s official president, Abdiquassim Salad Hassan, whose government is in control of about half the capital, Mogadishu. He has formed his own anti-terrorism unit, and invited America to send investigators, or even troops. America, armed with stories about the presence of al-Itihaad members held back, but on December 18th sent an envoy to Mogadishu.

Both Mr Hassan and the UN say that al-Itihaad is not a terrorist organisation. It emerged as an armed force in 1991, battling for power in the aftermath of Siad Barre\'s fall. It had some early successes, briefly taking Kismaayo. But it was always dependent on the blessing of its members\' clan elders. When the elders eventually called their fighters back, a hard core of Islamists fled to the Gedo border region where, in 1997, they were crushed by Ethiopian troops(45) .

The Baidoa alliance plainly hopes to be supported as proxies in a fight against "terrorism" and the Mogadishu regime. But the latest intelligence leaks suggest that the first reports may have overestimated al-Qaeda\'s presence in Somalia. Nor would Mr bin Laden and his henchmen find it easy to lie low in an oral culture that considers rumour-mongering to be a form of manners. Even so, the warlords seem to believe that they have won some promise of help. Soon after the arrival of the American group, they pulled out of the peace talks they had been holding with their government in Nairobi.

[A] Al-Itihaad subsequently infiltrated Somalia\'s business class, and now runs Islamic schools, courts and clinics with the money it has accumulated.

[B] According to Abdullahi Sheikh Ismail, the acting chairman of the loose alliance of warlords who control most of Somalia and are based in Baidoa, there are "approximately 20,480 armed extremists" in Somalia and "85% of the government is al-Itihaad".

[C] Muhammad Hersi Morgan, known as the "butcher of Hargeisa" because he once razed that town to the ground, says an al-Itihaad camp on Ras Kamboni island is still active.

[D] But since September 11th 2001, western governments, anxious to prevent al-Qaeda from using Somalia as a base, have pressed the warlords to make peace.

[E] American intelligence officers are working with two warlords to gather information about suspected al-Qaeda people in Somalia.

[F] On December 9th America sent a clandestine mission to talk to a collection of Somali warlords, who like to claim that their country, in particular their UN-sponsored government, is overrun with terrorists.

[G] It had also forced the closure of Barakaat, Somalia\'s biggest banking and telecoms company, which handles most of the remittances that Somalis working abroad send back to their families.

Part C

Directions:

Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET2. (10points)

"My Early Life", by Winston Churchill. Eland, pounds 9.99

Winston Churchill on peacekeeping among the Pathans

Winston Churchill, who fought on the Afghan border in 1897, warned of the dangers of peacekeeping among the Pathans, and of mixing politics and war

(46)"EXCEPT at harvest-time, when self-preservation enjoins a temporary truce, the Pathan tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian. Every large house is a real feudal fortress...with battlements, turrets [and] drawbridges. Every village has its defence. Every family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud.