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Part B

Directions:

In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 4145, choose the most suitable one from the list AG to fit into each of numbered blanks. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the blanks. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)

From Southeast Asia to the Black Sea, fishing nets have become deathtraps for thousands of whales, dolphins and porpoises—species whose survival will be threatened unless fishing methods change. 

 

The World Wildlife Fund, a U.S.based environmental group, lists species threatened by accidental catch, and recommends lowcost steps to reduce their entanglement in fishing gear. (41) . Dolphins in the Philippines, India and Thailand are urgent priorities.

 

 

Threatened populations include Irrawaddy dolphins in Malampyaya Sound off the Philippines’ Palawan island, about 220 miles south of Manila. Only 77 remain.  Dolphins also face the threat of traders who sell them to aquariums, especially in Asia. 

(42) .

The WWF report said up to 3,000 Spinner dolphins may be caught each year in gillnets, which stretch from the sea floor to the surface and are hard for dolphins to see or detect with their sonar.

(43).

Dolphins are also under threat in Indonesia, Myanmar, India’s Chilka Lake and Thailand’s Songkhla Lake.

 

Fishing gear kills thousands of porpoises each year in the Black Sea. Atlantic humpback dolphins face the same fate off the coasts of Ghana and Togo in Africa, as do Franciscana dolphins in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.  IndoPacific humpback and bottlenose dolphins often die in nets off the south coast of Zanzibar.

(44) .U.S. fisheries in 19932003 introduced changes that reduced by a third the number of dolphins accidentally killed by fishing, or bycatch.  But few other countries have followed that example and in much of the rest of the world, progress on bycatch mitigation has been slow to nonexistent.
 

(45).  Slight modifications in fishing gear can mean the difference between life and death for dolphins.

[A] In the Pacific Ocean, bottlenose dolphins are found from northern Japan and California to Australia and Chile. They are also found offshore in the eastern tropical Pacific as far west as the Hawaiian islands. Off the California coast bottlenose dolphins have been observed as far north as Monterey, particularly during years of unusual warmth.

 

[B] Researchers estimate that fishing gear kills about 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises a year in the world’s oceans. 

 

[C] If the mammals are trapped underwater in nets and can’t get to the surface to breathe, they drown. 

 

[D] According to IWC reports, in the 2003/2004 season, Japan killed, under “special permit,” 443 minke whales in the Antarctic, and in the North Pacific, 151 minkes, 50 Bryde’s whales, 50 sei whales, and 10 sperm whales. Japanese media have reported that Japan plans to expand its annual whale hunt to take two new species—humpback whales and fin whales—as well as nearly doubling its planned catch of minke whales. Both humpback and fin whales are on the World Conservation Union’s Red List of Threatened Species.

 

[E] Other threatened populations include Spinner and Fraser’s dolphins in the Philippines’ Sulu Sea.

 

[F] Most of the animals are threatened by the widespread use of one type of fishing geargillnets. 

 

[G] These accidental deaths can be significantly reduced, often with very simple, lowcost solutions.
Part C

 

Directions:

 

Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)

Hollywood and the music industry can file piracy lawsuits against technology companies caught encouraging customers to steal music and movies over the Internet. (46) The justices, aiming to curtail what they called a “staggering” volume of piracy online, largely set aside concerns that new lawsuits would inhibit technology companies from developing the next iPod or other hightech gadgets or services.  The unanimous ruling is expected to have little immediate impact on consumers, though critics said it could lead companies to include digital locks to discourage illegal behavior.

 

The justices left in place legal protections for companies that merely learn customers might be using products for illegal purposes.  (47)Copying digital files such as movies, music or software programs “threatens copyright holders as never before” because it’s so easy and popular, especially among young people. Entertainment companies maintain that online thieves trade 2.6 billion songs, movies and other digital files each month.

(48)The ruling represents a significant victory for Hollywood and record labels, which have resorted to suing individually the thousands of computer users caught sharing music and movies online.  In a tweak at entertainment companiesand a demonstration of legal purposes for filesharingcomputer users circulated the court’s published opinion over Internet filesharing services. Governmentproduced documents generally are not protected by copyright.

(49)Grokster Ltd. and Streamcast Networks Inc., developers of leading Internet filesharing software, can be sued because they deliberately encouraged customers to download copyrighted files illegally so they could build a larger audience and sell more advertising. Writing for the court.

 

(50)But the court also said a technology company couldn’t be sued if it merely learns its customers are using its products for illegal purposes. That balancing test, the court said, is necessary so that it “does nothing to compromise legitimate commerce or discourage innovation having a lawful promise.”  The court said it wanted to protect an inventor who must predict how consumers months or years in the future might use new technology.

Section Ⅲ  Writing

Part A
51. Directions:
 

Your professor has given you a grade on a paper that is much lower than what you were expecting.  Write a letter of approximately 100 words including the following:

1)  your name, and class and the information about your paper;

2)  a request for the professor to provide you with an explanation; and

3)  a possible resolution.

Write your letter on ANSWER SHEET 2.  Do not sign your name at the end of the letter; use “Li Ming” instead. You do not need to write the address.  (10 points) 

Part B

52. Directions:

Write an essay ranging from 160200 words based on the picture provided.  Your essay should

1)    show your understanding of the symbolic meaning of the picture;

2)    state whether you agree or disagree with the idea; and

3)    give an example which illustrates your opinion.

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