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Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices m
to split the INS into two agencies - a good cop that would tend to service functions like processing citizenship papers and a bad cop that would concentrate on border inspections, deportation and other functions. One reason for the division, supporters say, is that the&nb
sp;INS has in recent years become too focused on serving tourists and immigrants. After the Sept. l 1 tragedy, the INS should pay more attention to serving the millions of ordinary Americans who rely on the nation’s border security to protect them from terrorist attacks.
26. Terrorists have obviously taken advantage of .
A) the irresponsibility of the officials at border checkpoints
B) the legal privileges granted to foreigners
C) the excessive hospitality of the American people
D) the low efficiency of the Immigration and Naturalization Service
27. We learn from the passage that coordinated efforts will be made by various U.S. government agencies to .
A) limit the number Of immigrants to the U.S.
B) prevent the forgery of immigration papers
C) ward off terrorist suspects at the border
D). refuse the renewing of expired visas
28. It can be inferred from the passage that before Sept. 11, aliens with expired visas .
A) might stay on for as long as [hey wished
B) would be closely watched by FBI agents
C) would live in constant fear of deportation
D) might have them extended without trouble
29. It is believed by many that all these years the INS .
A) has been serving two contradictory functions ’
B) has ignored the pleas of the two powerful lobbies
C) has over-emphasized its service functions at the expense of the nation’s security
D) has been too liberal in granting visas to tourists and immigrants indiscriminately
30. Before Sept. 11, the U.S. Congress had been unable to pass stricter immigration laws because .
A) education and business circles cared little about national security
B) resources were not available for their enforcement
C) it was difficult to coordinate the efforts of the congressmen
D) they might have kept away foreign students and cheap labor
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
It was the worst tragedy in maritime (航海的) history, six times more deadly than the Titanic.
When the German cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff was hit by torpedoes (鱼雷) fired
from a Russian submarine in the final winter of World War II, more than 10,000 people - mostly women, children and old people fleeing the final Red Army push into Nazi Germany - were packed aboard. An ice storm had turned the decks into frozen sheets that sent hundreds of families sliding into the sea as the ship tilted and began to go down. Others desperately tried to put lifeboats down. Some who succeeded fought off those in the water who had the strength to try to claw their way aboard. Most people froze immediately. I’ll never forget the screams," says Christa Ntitzmann, 87, one of the 1,200 survivors. She recalls watching the ship, brightly lit, slipping into its dark grave - and into seeming nothingness, rarely mentioned for more than half a century.
Now Germany’s Nobel Prize-winning author Gtinter Grass has revived the memory of the 9,000 dead, including more than 4,000 children - with his latest novel Crab Walk, published last month. The book, which will be out in English next year, doesn’t dwell on the sinking; its heroine is a pregnant you
ng woman who survives the catastrophe only to say later: "Nobody wanted to hear about it, not here in the West (of Germany) and not at all in the East." The reason was obvious. As Grass put it in a recent interview with the weekly Die Woche: "Because the crimes we Germans are responsible for were and are so dominant, we didn’t have the energy left to tell of our own sufferings.’’
The long silence about the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was probably unavoidable - and necessary. By unreservedly owning up to their country’s monstrous crimes in the Second World War, Germans have managed to win acceptance abroad, marginalize ( 使...不得势 ) the neo- Nazis at home and make peace with their neighbors. Today’s 上一页 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] 下一页 |
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