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y performance is in part due to its restrictive planning system. That was the thesis of a hefty report published by McKinsey\'s consultants three years ago which argued that every British household could be 2,500 pounds a year better off if Britain was able to match American levels of productivity. (43) .

　　(44) . Even much smaller projects are subject to lengthy delay. Terry Leahy, chief executive of Tesco, complained to a Confederation of British Industry conference recently, "I know Rome wasn\'t built in a day, but why does it take four years to get a positive decision on one moderately-sized inner city store?"

　　A project to build a new freight railway, financed solely by private investment, from Liverpool via Manchester, Sheffield and London to the Channel Tunnel has been mired in planning problems for more than a decade. Andrew Gritten, chairman of Central Railway, says this scheme would take 3m lorry journeys a year off the roads. But without the government\'s backing, it has little chance of getting through Parliament, let alone surviving a public inquiry.

　　(45) . Ministers believe that delays could be cut if the government were to set out its views in advance of a public inquiry. These would then be subject to parliamentary debate and approval. The planning system could thus deal with local issues rather than issues of principle.

　　Environmental and other lobby groups say they will resist such a change, which they see as short-circuiting democratic accountability. Certainly, the faster things happen, the worse it will be for them. It took more than a quarter of a century and three public inquiries before the bulldozers could start ploughing through beautiful Twyford Down to build a bitterly-fought extension to the M3 motorway near Winchester. In future, Swampy and his friends will have a much harder task opposing big new developments.

　　[A] For large projects, planning sometimes borders on the absurd. The inquiry into Heathrow\'s Terminal Five inquiry spent two days discussing whether some fish displaced by the proposed terminal would or would not be able to swim up a culvert. No wonder the inquiry occupied 33 barristers, cost pounds 100m and took four years to complete. [B]The Government\'s Planning Green Paper, Planning: delivering a fundamental change, was published on 12 December 2001. Related \'daughter documents\' - on major infrastructure projects, planning obligations, the Use Classes Order and compulsory purchase powers - were published soon afterwards. [C]The Green Paper seeks a planning system which addresses economic, social, cultural and environmental objectives, in which people have confidence and which is efficient. [ D] The government is to publish a document next week advocating new parliamentary procedures for major projects. [E] A report which recently emerged from the Department of Environment Transport and the Regions estimated that the cost of planning delays to business was at least pounds 600m a year. Currently more than half of all commercial planning applications take longer than two months to be decided. [F] This week the government unveiled its proposals for reform claiming that they represented the biggest shake-up in the planning system for half a century. [G] A report which recently emerged from the Department of Environment Transport and the Regions estimated that the cost of planning delays to business was at least pounds 600m a year. Currently more than half of all commercial planning applications take longer than two months to be decided.

　　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)

　　DESPITE the world economic downturn, South Korea\'s stockmarket has this year outperformed those of all other countries bar Russia. Its composite stock price index (Kospi) has risen by more than 25% since January 1st. (46)The rally, which has been driven by foreign buying, is expected to continue next year, for two reasons: encouraging economic fundamentals, and the introduction of derivatives so beloved of the world\'s hedge funds.

　　On January 28th next year the Korea Stock Exchange is due to introduce option contracts on the shares of seven listed companies: SK Telecom, Korea Electric Power, Korea Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor, Pohang Iron & Steel and Kookmin Bank. (47)And as early as July, the Financial Supervisory Commission is expected to allow investment banks to sell over-the-counter derivatives, such as equity or interest-rate swaps.

　　Trading volume on the exchange will increase accordingly, says Lee Wonki at Merrill Lynch. Foreigners hold nearly 90 trillion won ($70 billion) of Korean shares, 37% of the market. Their slice of the trading of Kospi 200 index futures and options rose to 10% this year, from about 5% a year ago. But the Kospi index, covering 200 companies, is not the best way to hedge foreign portfolios, which are invested mainly in the seven blue-chip shares. Yet derivatives alone will not sustain Korean equities unless the economy turns around. There are signs that it has reached bottom, with real GDP estimated to have grown by at least 2.8% this year (slower than last year but higher than earlier forecasts of 2% or less). (48)Jin Nyum, the finance minister, predicts that, although exports may suffer next year if the Japanese yen continues to fall, domestic demand and public spending will help real GDP to grow near to the country\'s full potential of 5%.

　　Some analysts argue that the recent market rise has been caused by investors\' blind faith in bank and technology shares. (49)The latter rallied last month, but then hesitated as Micron, an American memory- chip maker, blew hot and cold on taking a stake in or allying with Hynix, Korea\'s debt-laden maker of memory chips.

　　Nevertheless, the rally is likely to continue, says Koh Wonjong, of SG Securities in Seoul. (50)That is because South Korea\'s industries are more diversified--into information technology, cars, shipbuilding, steel and services--than those of other Asian countries. In Taiwan, telecoms, media and technology shares account for 80% of the market.

　　The restructuring of some big companies, such as Hynix and Daewoo Motor, remains incomplete, as does bank reform. But the past four years of financial and corporate change may soon pay off. For many companies, balance-sheet problems have turned into the need to measure profits, a far more welcome task.

　　Section Ⅲ Writing

　　Part A

　　51. Directions:

　　The Students’ Union of your department is planning an English Evening. You are asked to invite one of your foreign teachers to join it. Write a letter to him which should cover the following points: (1)express the purpose of writing this letter;(2)state the time and place of the English Evening;(3)ask him to prepare a performance;(4)express your sincere appreciation.

　　Part B

　　52. Directions:

　　3. Study the picture above carefully and write an essay entitled “The Adaptation of the Classical Literature”. In the essay, you should (1) describe the picture (2) interpret its meaning (3) give your opinion about the phenomenon

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

　　2006考研英语模拟题三参考答案

　　Section Ⅰ Use of English

　　1.答案A

　　句意：我们数一数在《纽约时报》和《华盛顿邮报》中有多少叙述包括了“衰退”这个词

　　解析； 本题测试点为动词词义和用法辨析。 这四个词都有“计算”的意思，但有不同。B侧重“通过计算来确认”；A侧重“计数”；C是不及物动词，意为“总计为”；D侧重“推算”；因为文中提到how many stories，count有一个个数的意味，所以比较适当。

　　2.答案：B

　　句意：本年第一季度R计数大幅上升已经敲响了警钟。

　　解析：本题测试点为固定搭配。警钟在英语中固定用alarm bell表示，因此选B。

　　3.答案：C

　　句意：见2

　　解析：本题测试点为动词短语与介词固定搭配。A set up意为“建立”； C set off意为“触发、引起”； B set out 意为“开始”；D set about意为“开始、着手”，由句意可知是由指数上升触发了警钟，所以选C。

　　4.答案D

　　句意：该速度要在过去已经标志着衰退的开始

　　解析：本题测试点为动词词义辨析。A 意为“暗示”； D意为“表示”，有“以信号警告”的含义 ；C意为“用手势表示”； B意为“以手势表示”；根据句意，D是正确答案。

　　5.答案：C

　　句意：但是在第二季度，商品数量降低了三分之一还多

　　解析：本题测试点为转折连词用法。ABCD 都表示转折，但用法不同。C可插入转折部分中间，用逗号左右分开表转折；B可用于转折部分开始或结尾，须和句子相连；A可用于转折部分开始；D表示让步转折。因此，C是正确答案。

　　6.答案：B

　　句意：见5

　　解析：本题测试点为动词词义辨析。ABCD都有“下降”的意思，但是表示数字较少一般只用fall,所以答案为B。

　　7.答案：D

　　句意：担心广告收入减少

　　解析： 本题测试点为动词习惯用法。这四个动词都有“受……困扰”的意思，但在这里后面的介词为about，所以应该用worried ，其他几个动词应用by

　　8.答案：C

　　句意：本应当禁止用这个词

　　解析：本题测试点为动词词义辨析，这四个词都有“禁止”的含义，但有所不同。A意为“禁止”，一般表示禁止某项活动； B. 意为“放逐”；D意为“阻断、闭锁”； C意为“取缔、禁止<书刊>” ;由上面辨析可知,C最合适。

　　9.答案：A

　　句意：《经济学家》发现过去的二十年中，R指数可以较好地标志美国经济的转折点来。

　　解析：本题测试点为介词辨析。这几个介词后面都可以跟时间，但表示的意思不同。B意为“在……之内”；A意为“从头到尾”，强调覆盖全部时间；C意为“到……为止”；D意为“到……为止”。AB在意思上都适合，但是根据后面has been good可知应是个延续的时间，强调的是全部时间里，因此A更好一些。）

　　10.答案：D

　　句意：见9

　　解析：本题测试点为动词的词义辨析。A意为“指出”；D 意为“精确地标识”；C意为“放置”；B意为“放置”；AD在这里都说得通，但D多了一层“精确”的意味，更使用于描写经济，所以选D。

　　11.答案：A

　　句意：不象GDP指数只在经济出现停滞后才显示出来

　　解析：本题测试点为上下文理解和介词用法。根据上下文，R指数和GDP指数不同，所以意思应是“不象”，而as后面应该是句子，unlike 后是名词，所以选A。

　　12.答案：D

　　句意：见11

　　解析：本题测试点为上下文理解。由上下文可知，R指数可随时获取，而GDP却相反，只有发生经济停滞后才出现，所以应选D。

　　13.答案：B

　　句意：在那里对经济衰退的恐惧日益增加

　　解析：本题测试点为关系代词用法。关系代词引导的句子是一个完整的句子，所以应选B。

　　14.答案：D

　　句意：见13

　　解析：本题测试点为动词用法。根据句意要表达的是“日益增加的”，应该用现在分词形式，所以选D。

　　15.答案：C

　　句意：HypoVereins银行为德国建构了一个R指数

　　解析：本题测试点为动词词义辨析。A意为“杜撰”；C意为“构建、创立”；B意为“建造”；D意为“树立、建立”；A意义不符合，BD一般只建构具体的事物，因此C比较合适。

　　16.答案：D

　　句意：用来计算在Handelsblatt上R这个词出现的次数

　　解析：本题测试点为动词用法。the word rezession appears in Handelsblatt是numbers的一个定语从句，所以应选D。)

　　17.答案：B

　　句意：德国2001年第一季度R统计表明，这是过去20年来第二次大的上升

　　解析：本题测试点为名词词义辨析。B意为“上升”；A意为“增长”；C意为“起立”；D意为“爬升”，B最为恰当。

　　18.答案：A

　　句意：正如美国情形一般

　　解析：本题测试点为连词用法