26. C) the globalization of economy

27. B) Information technology has removed the restrictions of time and space in business transactions

28. A) it should not overlook the importance of information, services, support, and distribution

29. B) can eliminate an entire business segment

30. D) businesses have to meet individual customers’ specific needs in order to succeed

Passage Three

31．A) To discourage people from insisting on having grandchildren.

32. B) draw attention to the troubles and difficulties grandchildren may cause

33. D) they find it hard to resist the carrot-and-stick approach of their parents

34. B) her parents kept pressuring her to have a child

35. C) It is troublesome but rewarding.

Passage four

36. D) The reduction of public expenditure.

37. B) obtain funding from the government

38. C) They think they work in an environment hostile to the free pursuit of knowledge.

39. D) they could be influenced by their association with the project concerned

40. C) People would not believe scientists even when they tell the truth.

Part III Vocabulary (20 minutes)

41. A) defy

42. D) decent

43. B) scrutiny

44. A) impose

45. C) obscure

46. B) hinged upon

47. B) abnormal

48. A) drowned

49. D) flushed

50. C) out of stock

51. D) absurd

52. A) cherish

53. C) stimulus

54. B) by analogy with

55. C) handicap

56. A) recession

57. D) ambiguous

58. C) designated

59. B) luminous

60. D) erase

61. B) suppress

62. C) in relation to

63. A) abolished

64. A) comply

65. D) finite

66. B) irritated

67. B) blank

68. D) rectify

69. A) ascribed

70. B) tucked