SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLING?

Fill each of gaps with ONE word. You may refer to your notes. Make sure the word you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable.?

The Press Conference?

The press conference has certain advantages. The first advantage lies with the?

(1)___ nature of the event itself; public officials are supposed to  1.___?

submit to scrutiny by responding to various questions at a press conference.?

Secondly, statements previously made at a press conference can be used as a?

(2)___ in judging following statements or policies. Moreover, in case  2.___?

of important events, press conferences are an effective way to break the news to groups of reporters.?

However, from the point of view of (3)___, the press conference  3.___?

possesses some disadvantages, mainly in its(4)___ and news source.  4.___?

The provider virtually determines the manner in which a press conference proceeds. This, sometimes, puts news reporters at a(n)(5)___ , as can  5.___?

be seen on live broadcasts of news conferences.?

Factors in getting valuable information preparation: a need to keep up? to date on journalistic subject matter;?

—(6)___ of the news source:  6.___?

1 ) news source’ s (7)___ to  7.___?

provide information;?

2)news-gathering methods.?

Conditions under which news reporters cannot trust the information?

provided by a news source?

— not knowing the required information;?

— knowing and willing to share the information, but without(8)___ skills;  8.___?

— knowing the information, but unwilling to share;?

— willing to share, but unable to recall.?

(9)___ of questions asked  9.___?

Ways of improving the questions:?

no words with double meanings;?

no long questions;?

— specific time, place, etc.;?

— (10)___ questions;  10.___?

— clear alternatives, or no alternatives in answers.

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Part Ⅱ Proofreading and Error Correction  (15  min)

The following passage contains TEN errors. Each line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way.? For a wrong word,      underline the wrong word and wri te the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.? For a missing word,         mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.? For an unnecessary word      cross out the unnecessary word with a slash “/’ and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.

Example?

When∧art museum wants a new exhibit,          (1) an? it never／  buys things in finished form and hangs        (2) never? them on the wall. When a natural history museum      wants an exhibition, it must often build it.             (3) exhibit

During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as the?

very lifeblood of Western Canada. People on city streets watched?

the yields and the price of wheat in almost as much feeling as if  1.___?

they were growers. The marketing of wheat became an increasing  2.___?

favorite topic of conversation.

War set the stage for the most dramatic events in marketing?

the western crop. For years, farmers mistrusted speculative grain?

selling as carried on through the Winnipeg Grain Exchange.?

Wheat prices were generally low in the autumn, so farmers could  3.___?

not wait for markets to improve. It had happened too often that?

they sold their wheat soon shortly after harvest when farm debts  4.___?

were coming due, just to see prices rising and speculators getting rich.  5.___?

On various occasions, producer groups, asked firmer control,  6.___?

but the government had no wish to become involving, at  7.___?

least not until wartime when wheat prices threatened to run?

wild.

Anxious to check inflation and rising life costs, the federal  8.___?

government appointed a board of grain supervisors to deal with?

deliveries from the crops of 1917 and 1918. Grain Exchange?

trading was suspended, and farmers sold at prices fixed by the?

board. To handle with the crop of 1919, the government  9.___?

appointed the first Canadian Wheat Board, with total authority to  10.___?

buy, sell, and set prices.

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Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension  (40  min)

SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION   (30  min)?

In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of fifteen multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark answers on your Coloured Answer Sheet.?