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　　A. savage

　　B. polite

　　C. gengerous

　　D. cautious

　　40. Ferguson’s thesis is

　　A exciting

　　B convincing

　　C satisfying

　　D just passable

　　Part B

　　Directions:

　　You are going to read a list of heading and a text about plagiarism in the academic community. Choose the most suitable heading from the list A-F for each numbered paragraph (41-45). The first and last paragraph of the text are not numbered. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET1. (10 points)

　　［A］Separation of Hollinger

　　［B］Profits of newspaper

　　［C］The ideal business model

　　［D］Hollinger denies the rumor

　　［E］Difficult to share in the international market

　　［F］Lord Black sells his remaining local newspapers in Canada

　　HE HAS been selling newspaper titles in Canada, backing a new one in New York and trying to quash rumours that he is selling them in Britain. What exactly is Conrad Black, chairman of Hollinger, ex- Canadian, newly ennobled Briton, up to?

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　　Last month, Lord Black of Crossharbour, as he is now known, sold his remaining local newspapers in Canada.This came shortly after he had offloaded his residual 50% stake in the National Post, the Canadian daily paper he founded only in 1998, to CanWest Global Communications. This Canadian media group had already picked up the other half last year, along with most of Lord Black\'s other local newspapers in the country, for $1.8 billion.

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　　Shorn of its Canadian operations, and apart from the tiny Jerusalem Post, Hollinger has now been pared down to two chief assets: the Chicago Sun-Times, plus a bagful of local papers in that area, and the Daily Telegraph, Britain\'s most popular broadsheet paper. After the group recently reported a net loss of $9m for the nine months to September, excluding exceptional items, rumours swirled that even the Telegraph might be for sale.

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　　Not so, says Hollinger. Although earnings at the Telegraph and its Sunday sister are well down on last year, and the papers plan to sack up to 40 editorial staff, they still provide most of the group\'s profits. "There is no substance at all to the story that the Telegraph is for sale," says Daniel Colson, Hollinger\'s vice- chairman. Indeed, having stemmed the National Post\'s losses and booked a good price for the sale of most of its Canadian assets last year, the group has cut its heavy debt burden and is well-placed to look for new projects.

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　　But what? Economies of scale in the newspaper market are best achieved with the local and regional press. The ideal business model, says Peter Kreisky of Mercer Management Consulting, is a geographical cluster of regional titles. With local monopoly power, this can bring down the cost of paper and ink, of printing and distribution, and of marketing. Hollinger enjoys many of these benefits in the Chicago area, where it has 97 papers.

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　　But it is far harder to achieve cost-sharing across international borders. Most national papers are still run from and owned in their home country. Those that belong to an international owner, such as Hollinger, Tony O\'Reilly\'s Independent News and Media and Rupert Murdoch\'s NewsCorp, concentrate on English-speaking markets.

　　Yet owning newspapers is as much to do with kudos and influence as it is about profits. Although he would not rule out opportunities even in non-English-speaking parts of Europe, Lord Black\'s sights now seem to be set on the United States. He has just made a small bet on a new quality paper, the New York Sun, by putting in $2m, or about 13% of the total investment.Although Hollinger stresses that it is only loosely involved, the project is nevertheless intriguing. There has long been a view that New York, a city of 8m people, ought to be able to support more than one all-round quality newspaper; yet the New York Times, with a circulation of 1.1m, has no direct cross-town rival.Lord Black\'s experience of launching a new title, the National Post, in Canada may be salutary. He managed to create a franchise from nothing in a competitive market, and in doing so stirred up political controversy in consensus-minded Canada. But it never made him any money, which may be why his bet on the New York Sun is so modest. Buying established but faltering papers would make more sense. "There will be investment opportunities arising from this economic downturn that Hollinger\'s increased financial strength will enable us to take advantage of," says Mr Colson, "not only in New York, but elsewhere in the US."

　　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)

　　IT SOUNDED like an ordinary sort of attempted coup. On the radio, a minister denounced "a conspiracy to destroy our democracy and kill the head of state". Reports were heard of nocturnal troop movements, as the coup\'s ringleaders were outflanked and arrested. (46)The government promised swift action to neutralise hostile elements, and appealed to MPs to stand by their president, Kumba Yalla, in his hour of peril.

　　But none of it rang true. (47)When the interior minister briefed the people of Guinea-Bissau on the disaster they had narrowly escaped early this month, opposition leaders demanded proof. Human-rights groups asked for the names of those detained. The government supplied few details. Cynics muttered that it had all been staged to distract attention from Mr Yalla\'s increasingly wayward presidency.

　　A former schoolteacher and opposition firebrand, Mr Yalla was elected to heal the wounds of this small West African country, scorched by civil war in 1998 and 1999. He won an impressive 72% of the vote early last year, after promising a new beginning and an end to corruption. (48)The public had grown sick of graft under the PAIGC, the party that had led the struggle against the Portuguese colonists and then stayed in power for 25 years, first trying to build a socialist state, then trying half-heartedly to reform it. Mr Yalla seemed different. He portrayed himself as a tribal elder in a red bobble hat who was going to clean up politics and improve people\'s lives.

　　(490But a recent series of public rows and gaffes has sapped Mr Yalla\'s prestige and raised serious questions about the country\'s future. When MPs thwarted him, Mr Yalla threatened to suspend parliament for ten years. As part of a vigorous but diffuse anti- corruption drive, he promised to sack 60% of the civil service. After an impromptu visit to the foreign ministry, Mr Yalla dismissed his foreign minister, Antonieta Rosa Gomes. Two newspapers have been suspended, and two radio stations have received cautions. Senior judges are in detention, accused of misappropriating funds. Charitable diplomats call the president\'s behaviour "erratic". Mr Yalla\'s enemies put it more strongly than that.

　　Guinea-Bissau can ill afford all this. (50)Even before the civil war, it was one of the poorest countries in Africa, whose fortunes fluctuated with groundnut prices. The government is desperate to woo back investors, and has drawn up a list of state-owned firms to privatise.

　　But the short-term prognosis is bleak. Guinea-Bissau\'s main industrial belt is a wasteland of derelict factories and broken machinery. Diplomatic representation is limited to a handful of embassies. America and others say they will return only when there is political and military stability, something that Mr Yalla now looks unlikely to deliver.

　Section Ⅲ Writing

　　Part A

　　51. Directions:

　　Suppose you are a member of staff at the library in your university. Your library plans to purchase some new books. Write a letter to the publishing house which include (1) the purpose of writing the letter; (2) an enquiry about detailed information on the new books; (3) an enquiry about a possible discount. You should write about 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use “Li Ming” instead. You do not need to write the address.

　　Part B

　　52. Directions:

　　 Study the two pictures above carefully and write an essay entitled “On the Relationship between Environment and Economy” In the essay, you should (1) describe the pictures and interpret their meaning (2) give your opinion with some proof (3) give your conclusion.

　　You should write about 200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points)

　　2006考研英语模拟题四参考答案

　　Section Ⅰ Use of English

　　1.答案：B

　　句意：但这正是他在华尔街表现出的商业天赋的恰当的形容

　　解析：本题测试点为名词词义辨析。 A意思为“封面”；B意思为“包装”；C意思为“外套”；D意思为“外壳”。在这里，意思是最恰当的修饰、包装，B最为切合。

　　2.答案：D

　　句意：这位73岁的老人退下来了，他是贝尔史登公司的董事长

　　解析：本题测试点为动词短语搭配。 Step down 意为“辞职、下台”，而其他的动词短语搭配只有“下来”的意思，所以选D。

　　3.答案：C

　　句意：见2

　　解析：本题测试点为介词用法，根据句意，希望表达的是ACE下台时的身份，是身居董事长之位，用as当“作为”之意。

　　4.答案：A

　　句意：记载了一次税后利率增长

　　解析：本题测试点为名词词义辨析。A意思为“记载”，B意思为“将……载入航海史”；C意思为“将……记入编年史”；D意为“记下”。根据句意，应选C。

　　5.答案：B

　　句意：在这个时候华尔街的许多对手翻了跟头

　　解析：本题测试点为介词用法。Aduring a time意为“在一段时间之内”；D, in a time与A意义相似；Ｃ的搭配情况较少；B意为“在那个时候”；根据句意强调的是点时间，所以选B。

　　6.答案A

　　句意:见5

　　解析:本题测试点为动词词义辨析。B意为”滑落、跌落”；A意为“绊倒、跌跌撞撞”；C意为“犯大错”；D为“爬，蹑足前进”；A意思最为恰当，所以是正确答案。

　　7.答案：D

　　句意：美林证券发出一项警告，其利润会降低一半

　　解析：本题测试点为动词词义辨析。A一般指“发表（演讲）”；B意为“散布”；D意为“发表”；C意为“传播”；D符合句意，是正确答案―

　　8.答案：D

　　句意：大大低于预期设想

　　解析：本题测试点为上下文理解和固定搭配。根据上文，利润低于预期设想，而be short of是固定搭配，意为“达不到”；因此D是正确答案。

　　9.答案：C

　　句意：因为Alan Greenspan大幅降低利率

　　解析：这四个选项都有“因为”的含义，但由于是导致了好的结果，所以C是最佳答案。