In July, almost unnoticed by the
national press, a deadly bird virus arrived on a pheasant farm in Surrey.
Experts from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
identified Newcastle disease, a virus usually mortal to turkeys and geese but
not humans, in a flock of 9,000 pheasant chicks imported from France ahead of
the shooting season. Within hours of the diagnosis, veterinary
experts had swung into action, throwing up a 3km exclusion zone around the farm
near Cobham and culling 10,000 birds. The carcasses were burned and premises
cleaned to stop the virus escaping. It was four weeks before Defra’s Veterinary
Exotic Diseases Division felt it was safe for poultry move virus has reached
Turkey, similar emergency plans are being readied by officials from Defra and
other agencies. The scenario they are pre A. Anyone’s infection will trigger pandemic though it is probably one in ten thousand. B. That each time a person gets infected with the virus will cause an enormous pandemic bird-flu. C. The person infected with the virus will do great harm to people around him. D. It is impossible that the virus infection of a certain person will cause a national bird virus spreading.
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In July, almost unnoticed by the
national press, a deadly bird virus arrived on a pheasant farm in Surrey.
Experts from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
identified Newcastle disease, a virus usually mortal to turkeys and geese but
not humans, in a flock of 9,000 pheasant chicks imported from France ahead of
the shooting season. Within hours of the diagnosis, veterinary
experts had swung into action, throwing up a 3km exclusion zone around the farm
near Cobham and culling 10,000 birds. The carcasses were burned and premises
cleaned to stop the virus escaping. It was four weeks before Defra’s Veterinary
Exotic Diseases Division felt it was safe for poultry move virus has reached
Turkey, similar emergency plans are being readied by officials from Defra and
other agencies. The scenario they are pre A. Turkey will be exposed to the nationwide aggression of the deadly virus as the most severely attacked country on these shores. B. Turkey must kill billions of chicken and other kinds of poultry. C. Turkey has to be responsible for the arrival of HSN1 on these shores. D. All the veterinary experts in Turkey will soon swing into action.
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Passage Four
Not so long ago almost any student who successfully completed a university degree could, find a good career quite easily. Companies toured the academic institutions, competing with each other to select graduates. However, those days are gone, even in Hong Kong, and nowadays graduates often face strong competition in the search for jobs.
Most careers organizations highlight three stages for graduates to follow in the process of securing a suit- able career: recognizing abilities, matching these to available jobs and presenting them well to possible employers,
Job seekers have to make a careful assessment of their own abilities. One area of assessment should be of their academic qualifications, which would include special skills within their subject area. Graduates should also consider their own personal values and attitudes. An honest assessment of personal interests and abilities such as creative skills, or skills acquired from work exp A. finding a good career used to be easier in Hong Kong than elsewhere B. now everyone in Hong Kong has an equal chance of finding a good job C. graduates now face stronger competition in Hong Kong than elsewhere D. even in Hong Kong companies tour universities trying to select graduates
[单项选择]Your suitcase is almost ______ mine. A. four times as heavy as B. as four times as heavy C. four times heavier as D. as heavy as four times
[单项选择]Passage Four
A man from flew York is suing four big fast-food companies. Caesar Barber is going to court because he says that high-fat foods at McDonald’s. Burger King. Wendy’s, and KFC’ Corporation destroyed his health. Barber says that he ate at these restaurants four or five times a week for many years. He claims that this diet made him very overweight. According to Mr. Barber. obesity gave him diabetes . high blood pressure. and two heart attacks. When a reporter asked him why he ate there so often, he said. "I was single, it was quick. and I’m not a very good cook "
Barber’s lawyer, Samuel Hirsch. says that the suit has two different purposes. The first is to make fast-food restaurants offer healthier foods in smaller amounts. The suit also asks that fast foods have warning labels similar to labels on cigarettes. Mr. Hirsch says that these labels are necessary because the effects of fast foods are similar to the effects of cigarettes, alcohol, and illegal drugs such as heroin.
A. Attacking B. Mentioning. C. Complaining about. D. Taking a legal action against,
[单项选择] In this section there are four passages followed by
questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked [A],
[B], [C] and [D]. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your
answers on your answer sheet.{{B}}TEXT A{{/B}}
A century ago in the United States,
when an individual brought suit against a company, public opinion tended to
protect that company. But perhaps this phenomenon was most striking in the case
of the railroads. Nearly half of all negligence cases decided through 1896
involved railroads. And the railroads usually won. Most of the
cases were decided in state courts, when the railroads had the climate of the
times on their sides. Government supported the railroad industry; the progress
railroads represented was not to be slowed down by requiring them often to A. Railroad oppressing individuals in the U. S. B. History of the U.S. railroads. C. Railroad workers’ working rights. D. Law cases concerning the railroads.
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