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Model Test 3 Part I Writing Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter. Suppose you are Wang Ling who is going to provide accommodation to Nancy, an exchange student from Australia. Write to her to show your welcome and give her a brief introduction of the lives in your community. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese: 1. 对她到这个城市学习表示欢迎。 2．简要介绍你为她准备的食宿安排。 3．提醒她来之前要注意的事项。 Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer sheet1. New Energy Sources to the Rescue As petrol prices rise, policy makers and venture capitalists are suddenly embracing alternatives. Will the trend last? Reasons for the change In his long career in country music, Willie Nelson has always been on the left side of all things. Now, at 73, he is in the vanguard. Mr. Nelson, who lives on a big farm outside Austin, powers his car with the help of vegetable oil. He has even created his own line of this cleaner-burning diesel blend (混合柴油). He called it BioWillie, which is distributed at several sites in Texas and is going national, too. Mr. Nelson argues that it will help Americas farmers, truckers and the environment while, at the same time, reducing dependence on foreign petroleum. With high petrol prices causing troubles in Washington, D.C., everyone is trying to find out alternatives. Soya beans, canola (rapeseed), switch grass, anything, is being investigated~ Even George Bush, a former oilman who supports loyally the industrial development, called last week for more research into ethanol (酒精) and bio-diesel-two key types of bio-fuels (生物燃料) and boldly predicted that ethanol will replace gasoline consumption. Jim Woolsey, a former head of the CIA notes that developing bio-fuels is in the national interest, since it is high time America stopped its reliance on petroleum from foreign countries