SECTION B SKIMMING AND SCANNING［5 MIN.］
In this section there are five passages with a total of ten multiple-choice questions. Skim or scan them as required and then mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.
TEXT E
First read the following questions.
81. The passage is chiefly about ____.
A. the debut of mayors
B. the introduction of Brazil’s new mayors
C. the comparison among different cities in Brazil
D. the religious behavior of Brazil’s new mayors
82. What is the number of population in the city of Rio de Janeiro?
A. 5.6 million.B. 10.4 million.C. 1.4 million.D. 175,000.
Now read Text E quickly and mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.
In their first days in office, Brazil’s new mayors have raised more than a few eyebrows with their less-than-conventional politics. The new mayor of Sao Carlos,a town of 175,000 in Brazil’s wealthiest state of Sao Paulo, had the government palace exercised by a priest before he moved in. In Recife， acoastal city of 1.4 million in Brazil’s impoverished northeast, Joao Paulo, a politician famous for his Zen ways, had all of the furniture shifted to face the East before he sat down at the mayor’s desk. And in neighboring Olinda, a tourist town of 350,000, the new mayor spent her first day on the job collecting garbage because the city’s sanitation workers have been on strike for a month. The mayor of Juscimeira in the sparsely populated state of Mato Grosso started the job of working out of a jail cell after confessing to killing a local farmer. In Sao Paulo, South America’s biggest city with 10.4 million people and Brazil’s financial capital, the new mayor held her first official lunch and invited 60 homeless people. Meanwhile, in the tourist mecca of Rio de Janeiro, a city of 5.6 million, the government ordered the police to empty the city’s streets of its 1,500 homeless.
TEXT F
First read the following questions.
83. The main idea of the passage is that ____.
A. nine people were being held by an armed man on a plane
B. Pretoria Press Club chairman Yusuf Abramjee blamed the police for the hostage
C. hostage training exercise fools media
D. lots of time and money was wasted in the hostage training exercise
84. What was Jackie Selebi?
A. A CNN reporter.
B. The Pretoria Press Club chairman.
C. The South African Police Commissioner.
D. One of the hostage held by an armed man.
Now read Text F quickly and mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.
An apparent hostage drama at a small international airport near Pretoria was only training exercise, South African Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi told reporters at the scene. Reporters had rushed to the airport after the television network CNN reported that nine people were being held by and armed man on a plane.
“I don’t know how you found out about it. You have been led on a wild goose chase,” Selebi told reporters. Local police and emergency service workers were not aware that it was an exercise and briefed reporters on the assumption that the incident was real. Pretoria Press Club chairman Yusuf Abramjee criticized the police for allowing the media to deploy outside broadcast units and other expensive equipment before telling them it was an exercise.“This is a waste of time and money and millions of South Africans have been fooled into believing there was a dangerous situation”, he said.
