Questions 63 to 65 are based on the following passage:

　　Many stray dogs and cats wander the streets of cities. Usually they end up in animal shelters, where staffs must find ways to dispose of them. One legitimate disposal route has been the research laboratory. But in California, animal rights groups recently have been leaning hard on animal shelters, effectively cutting off much of the supply.

　　About 30 years ago, Los Angeles voters soundly defeated a proposal to prohibit the release of animals for laboratory use. But today, with new proposals being submitted to city councils and county boards, the results could well be different. And the new proposals are much more sweeping. They would create review boards for all animal experimentation. A group of California investigators even have organized a committee for animal research in medicine.

　　“Most scientists don’t realize the danger,” says Caltech neurobiologist John M. Allman, who uses monkeys to study the organization of the brain. “Such movements in the past—in this country, at least—have largely been the efforts of small, fragmented and relatively ineffective groups. But this new movement is carefully orchestrated, well organized, and well financed. It is easy to look at the history of animal experimentation and compile a catalog of horrors. But the day is long past when a researcher can take any animal and do anything he pleases to it with a total disregard for its welfare and comfort. People don’t realize,” says Allman, “that we are already extensively reviewed. In my work I must follow the ethical codes laid down by the National Institutes of Health and the American Physiological Society, among others. And we might have a surprise visit at any time from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s inspectors. It’s the USDA field veterinarians who do the enforcing. Believe me, these inspections are anything, but routine, and these fellows have a great deal of power. Because their reports can adversely affect federal funding, their recommendations are, in reality, orders.”

　　It is important that the animal rights advocates do not impose their solutions on society. It would be tragic indeed—when medical science is close to learning so much more that is very useful to our health and welfare—if already regulation-burdened and budget-restrained researchers were further hampered?

　　I wonder about those purists who seek to halt all animal experimentation on moral grounds: Do they also refuse, for themselves and others, to accept any remedy—or information—that gained through animal experimentation? And do they have the right to make such decisions on behalf of all the patients in cancer wards?

63. According to Para. 2, which of the following statements is TRUE?

　　A. People in Los Angeles voted against sending animals to laboratory 30 years ago.

　　B. People in Los Angeles voted for sending animals to animal shelters 30 years ago.

　　C. Now people in Los Angeles hold the same attitudes toward the laboratory use of animals as 30 years ago.

　　D. The attitude of people in Los Angeles toward the laboratory use of animals has changed in the past 30 years.

　　64. If animal rights advocates realize their ideas on the experimentation, what will happen?

　　A. The scientists are sure to gain more research results.

　　B. It may help the scientists to gain more financial aid.

　　C. The development of medical science may slow down.

　　D. The government may loosen their regulation of the experimentation.

　　65. What is the author’s attitude towards people who oppose animal experimentation?

　　A. Supportive. B. Opponent. C. Indifferent. D. Unclear.

　　Part B

　　Directions: Read the following passage carefully and then give short answers to the five questions. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET 2.

　　Life on earth depends on water, and there is no substitute for it. The current assumption is that our basic needs for water—whether for drinking, agriculture, industry or the raising of fish will always have to be met. Given that premise, there are two basic routes we can go: more equitable access to water or more drastic engineering solutions (more dams, for instance, or massive shifts of water form Canada to the southwestern United States using pipelines from one river basin to another.)

　　66. According to the author, the solutions to water crisis may be ______.

　　67. What will happen when dams are built in river basins in Africa?

　　68. Why are companies not willing to develop locally appropriate crops for Third World?

　　69. The word “intractable” (Para. 5) can be best replaced by ______.

　　70. The tone of the passage is ______.

　　Section V: Translation (10points)

　　Directions: In this section there is a passage in English. Translate the five sentences underlined into Chinese and write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET 2.

　　How many really suffer as a result of labor market problems? This is one of the most critical yet contentious social policy questions. In many ways, our social statistics exaggerate the degree of hardship. 71. Unemployment does not have the same dire (可怕的) consequences today as it did in the 1930’s when most of the unemployed were primary breadwinners, when income and earnings were usually much closer to the margin of subsistence; and when there were no countervailing social programs for those failing in the labor market. Increasing affluence, the rise of families with more than one wage earner, the growing predominance of secondary earners among the unemployed, and improved social welfare protection have unquestionably mitigated the consequences of joblessness. Earnings and income data also overstate the dimensions of hardship. Among the millions with hourly earnings at or below the minimum wage level, the overwhelming majority are from multiple-earner, relatively affluent families. 72. Most of those counted by the poverty statistics are elderly or handicapped or have family responsibilities which keep them out of the labor force, so the poverty statistics are by no means an accurate indicator of labor market pathologies
　　Yet there are also many ways our social statistics underestimate the degree of labor-market-related hardship. The unemployment counts exclude the millions of fully employed workers whose wages are so low that their families remain in poverty. Low wages and repeated or prolonged unemployment frequently interact to undermine the capacity for self-support. 73. Since the number experiencing joblessness at some time during the year is several times the number unemployed in any month, those who suffer as a result of forced idleness can equal or exceed average annual unemployment, even though only a minority of the jobless in any month really suffer. For every person counted in the monthly unemployment tallies, there is another working part-time because of the inability to find full-time work, or else outside the labor force but wanting a job. 74. Finally, income transfers in our country have always focused on the elderly, disabled and dependent, neglecting the needs of the working poor, so that the dramatic expansion of cash and in-kind transfers does not necessarily mean that those failing in the labor market are adequately protected.

　　75. As a result of such contradictory evidence, it is uncertain whether high levels of joblessness can be tolerated or must be countered by job creation and economic stimulus. There is only one area of agreement in this debate—that the existing poverty, employment, and earnings statistics are inadequate for their primary applications, measuring the consequences of labor market problems.

　　Section VI: Writing (15 points)

　　76. Directions: For this part, you are asked to write a composition. You should write at least 120 words and your composition should be based on the situation given below:

当前，人们认为MBA陷入到一场“寒流”中，许多人对MBA产生了怀疑——有人认为MBA名不副实；有人认为考MBA得不偿失。请你根据这种现象发表自己的观点。