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The discovery that language can be a barrier to communication
is quickly made by all who travel, study, govern or sell. Whether the activity
is tourism, research, government, policing, business or data dissemination, the
lack of a common language can severely impede progress or can halt it
altogether.
Although communication problems of this kind must
happen thousands of times each day, very few become public knowledge. Publicity
comes only when a failure to communicate has major consequences, such as
strikes, lost orders, legal problems or fatal accidents--even, at times, war.
One reported instance of communication failure took place in 1970, when several
Americans ate a species of poisonous mushroom. No remedy was known, and two of
the people died within days. A radio report of the case was heard by a chemist
who knew of a treatment that had been successfully used in 1959 and published in
1963. Why had the American do
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SECTION B
In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet.
Questions 1 to 5 are bused on a conversation. At the end of the conversation you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the conversation. |
Mary doesn’t seem to favour the idea of a new airport because（）
A. the existing airports are to be wasted.
B. more people will be encouraged to travel.
C. more oil will be consumed.
D. more airplanes will be purchased.
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In this section, there is one passage
followed by a summary. Read the passage carefully and complete the summary below
by choosing no more than three words from the passage. Remember to write the
answers on the answer sheet.
The Totara Language Institute is part of the University of
Waikato in the city of Hamilton, in New Zealand’ s North Island. Intensive
English classes are taught in blocks of four weeks throughout the year and
students may enrol for as many blocks as they wish. Classes are for 5 hours each
day, Monday to Friday, and include preparation for several international English
language examinations. All the courses are taught by highly qualified teachers,
many of whom also teach on Language Institute graduate programmes in second
language teaching and applied linguistics. Classes are small, usually from
10-12 students with a maximum number of 15, and normally contain a mix of
students from a wide ran
