SECTION B SKIMMING AND SCANNING [5 min.]
Direction: In this section there are eight passages followed by ten questions or unfinished statements. Skim or scan the passages as required and then mark your answers on your answer sheet.

TEXT E

First read the following question.

81. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A. Australia's film industry hasn't been brilliant before.
B. Originally, the awards held by Australian Film Institute were not important indeed.
C. Australians are film fans.
D. You can always find the film you want in Australia.
正确答案是

Now skim the passage below and answer the question.
Australia's film industry is booming once again. It hasn't been in such a healthy state since the beginning of this century. Funding has been increased dramatically and film and television students are turning out superb films. Since 1958, the Australian Film Institute has held it awards annually. From a comparatively low key event, the awards have evolved into a major celebration of the films made during the year. Australians generally are great film goers and there are plenty of cinemas to attest to this fact. Each city has many commercial theatres showing the latest releases from local sources and from around the world. There are also cinemas that survive by showing nothing but the classics, movies we'll never forget. Still others specialize in foreign films. Nothing has been left out. If there's a film you particularly want to see, chances are you'll find it on somewhere.

TEXT F

First read the following questions.

82. Which of the following is NOT true about Bill Gates?
A. Bill Gates is the richest man in the world.
B. Bill Gates has many original ideas.
C. Bill Gates is creative.
D. Bill Gates founded Microsoft with another man.
正确答案是

83. From the first sentence of the second paragraph, we can infer that ______
A. Bing Crosby was also a technological genius.
B. Bing Crosby was good at mixing many kinds of music.
C. Bing Crosby was only known to the computer business.
D. Bing Crosby was a very successful businessman.
正确答案是

Now skim the passage and answer the questions.
If we are talking creativity and ideas, Bill Gates is an American unoriginal. He is Microsoft's chief and cofounder, he is the world's richest man, and his career delivers this message: It can be wiser to follow than to lead. Let the innovators hit the beaches and take the losses; if you hold back and follow, you can clean up in peace and quiet.


Gates is the Bing Crosby of American technology, borrowing a tune here and a tune there and turning them all into great buffo hits -- by dint of heroic feats of repackaging and sheer Herculean blandness. Granted he is (to put it delicately) an unusually hard-driving and successful businessman, but the Bill Gates of our imagination is absurdly overblown.