07级-4级期A卷1205新视野.docVIP

College English Band IV (新视野 快班) 2007级级期末考试 0/2009 Part I Fast Reading (Skimming and Scanning) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet. For questions 1-7, mark Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. The port provides a fascinating and rich understanding of the movement of people and goods around the world. We understand a port as a center of land-sea exchange, and as a major source of livelihood and a major force for cultural mixing. But do ports all produce a range of common urban characteristics which justify classifying port cities together under a single generic label? Do they have enough in common to warrant distinguishing them from other kinds of cities? A port must be distinguished from a harbor. They are two very different things. Most ports have poor harbors, and many fine harbor see few ships. Harbors is a physical concept, a shelter for ships; port is an economic concept, a center of land-sea exchange which requires good access to hinterland(内地) even more than a sea-linked foreland前陆(与内地相对而言). It is landward access, which is productive of goods for export and which demands imports, that is critical. Poor harbors can be improved with breakwaters(防浪堤), and dredging(挖泥)if there is a demand for port. Madras and Colombo are examples of harbors expensively improved by enlarging, dredging and building breakwaters. Port cities become industrial, financial and service centers and political capitals because of their water connections and the urban concentration which arises there and later draws to its railways, highways and air routes. Water transport means ch