69．According to the author, the badly interconnected national system results from　　　　　 .

　　　 A．serious conflicts between countries　　　　　　　 B．language barriers

　　　 C．the bad manners of crew　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．separate tracks

68．We can infer that the major reason for road danger is that　　　　　　　 .

　　　 A．the GPS us used everywhere

　　　 B．freight traffic on the roads in too heavy

　　　 C．the bigger truckers are not so flexible and efficient

　　　 D．the trucks and tunnels are too heavily loaded

67．This text is mainly about　　　　　　 .

　　　 A．asking the public to support the freight traffic

　　　 B．criticizing the European commission and passenger traffic

　　　 C．praising European expansion for improving the freight traffic

　　　 D．appealing to more money to be invested in freight traffic

66．What can we infer from the last paragraph?

　　　 A．The novel was splendid before the appearance of the new commercial classes.

　　　 B．Literature and film could change the world.

　　　 C．Literature and film do good to the world or damage to capitalist societies.

　　　 D．The modern world is connected with consumer.

E

By 2012 transcontinental freight traffic will have risen 50 percent as a result of European expansion, and much of that will have to cross the enormous obstacle of the Alps. Right now the only practical way for most heavy traffic to get through is by truck and tunnel. And while that could change if safer and cleaner rail lines were opened, the chances are that they won’t happen anytime soon.

Several private trucking companies have adapted quickly and creatively to the demands of European unification(一体化). Some of the bigger truckers trace cargoes with the computers. And if trucks also bring more road danger and pollution, at present there is no alternative. Right now only 8 percent of European merchandise moves by rail, compared with more than 40 percent in the United States. Delays are so common that the average speed for freight is about 18 km an hour.

The railways have had trouble passing a heritage of national resistance and open competition between Europe’s countries. The result is what another European Commission report calls “a mosaic of badly interconnected national systems”. Language barriers remain a problem, requiring crew changes at some borders. Switching systems and signals differ.

And efficiency is more of a dream than a goal. Europe’s railroads still have to deal with “phantom(幽灵)trains” that run so late that they combine with others and disappear form the railroad’s records. In an era when many companies depend on a “just-in time” inventories(盘点)to make a profit, railroads are rarely on time at all.

Yet there is little official enthusiasm for changing the system, the reality is that governments have helped create the imbalance between road and rail in Europe-and government action will likely be needed to fix it. The French emphasis on using rail to move people instead of goods, for instance, has helped cripple freight(贷运)service. “All the investments went to passenger traffic”, says Denis Doute, director of freight services for the French rail company SNCF. Freight trains have had to find “windows” to run in between passenger trains, unlike those in the United States, which often travel on separate tracks. The further development of the freight network requires massive investments to modernize existing infrastructure (基础设施)and open new ones. However, the political will to fund that kind of investment is lacking, which means the citizens will have to hold their noses for a while longer.

65．American academic Martin Wiener’s argument 　　　　　.

　　　 A．supports the liberal heroes

　　　 B．is neutral about the virtue of business and enterprise

　　　 C．is hostile to the industrial sprit

　　　 D．tends towards the revival of the entrepreneurial culture

64．What does “sordid” in para. 1 most probably mean?

　　　 A．Profitable.　　　　　　　 B．Dirty.　　　　　　　　　　 C．Greedy.　　　　　　　　　 D．Generous.

63．First paragraph introduces the topic mainly by 　　　　.

　　　 A．forming a contrast　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．explaining a phenomenon

　　　 C．making a comparison　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．talking about a conclusion

62．The author writes this article to 　　　　.

　　　 A．point out the urgency of drafting international ocean law concerned

　　　 B．warn people of the cause of a new age of colonial war

　　　 C．criticize the coastal countries

　　　 D．encourage the crowded countries to exploit the oceans

D

　　　 “Making money is a dirty game”, sums up the attitude of British novelist towards business. The IEA has just published a collection of essays (“The Representation of Business in English Literature”) by five academics describing the hostility of the country’s men and women to the sordid business of making money. The implication is that Britain’s economic performance is delayed by an anti – industrial culture.

　　　 Rather than blaming workers and unable managers for Britain’s economic worries, then, we can put George Orwell and Martin Amis in the trial instead. From Dickens’s Scrooge to Amis’s John Self in his 1980s novel “Money”, novelists have described a group of mean, greedy money　 - men that have not supported t heir readers from the noble pursuit of capitalism.

　　　 The argument has been well made before, most famously in 1981 by Martin Wiener, an American academic, in his “English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit”. Lady Thatcher was a devotee of Mr. Wiener’s, and she led a reform to improve the “entrepreneurial euhure” which the liberal elite had looked down upon. Gordon Brown sounds as though he agrees with her. At a recent speech to the Confederation of British Industry, he declared that it should be the duty of every teacher in the country to “Communicate the virtues of business and enterprise”.

　　　 Certainly, most novelists are hostile to capitalism, but this repetition risks seapegoating (替罪羊) writers for failings for which they are not to blame. Britain’s culture is no more anti – business than that of other countries. The Romantic Movement was born and flourished in Germany, but has not stopped the Germans from being Europe’s most successful entrepreneurs and industrialists.

　　 Even the Americans are guilty of blackening business’s name. Smersh and Specter went out with the cold war. James Bond now takes on international media stars rather than Rosa Kleb. His films have sown downtrodden (压迫) moral heroes against the evil of faceless corporatism. Yet none of this seems to have reduced America’s eager for free enterprise.

　　 The irony is that novels flourished as an art form only after, and as result of, the creation of the new commercial classes of Victorian England, just as the modem Hollywood film can exist only in an era of mass consumerism. Perhaps the moral is that capitalist societies consume literature and film to let off seam rather than to change the word.

61．It can be inferred from the second paragraph that 　　　　.

　　　 A．building cities off the coast is a good idea for crowded cities to make full use of space

　　　 B．coastal cities can build offshore airports to solve the demand for large space

　　　 C．the legal confusion that reigns beyond coastal waters might cause a lot of trouble

　　　 D．the international law is against the exploitation of the ocean

60．The word “prosaic” (Para. 2) probably means 　　　　.

　　　 A．splendid　　　　　　　　 B．serious　　　　　　　　　　 C．unromantic　　　　　　 D．terrible