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北京外国语大学2004年基础英语试题 I. Reading Comprehension This section contains two passages. Read each passage and then answer the questions given at the end of each passage. Passage One Some powerful organizations are headed by a cabinet, others by a supreme council or board of management. The 20 commissioners who run the European Commission, however, are called “the college”. This title, with its academic and ecclesiastical flavor, captures the outfit’s self-image. The commission, part executive and part civil service, sees itself as far more than a mere branch of government. It is the embodiment of th