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题目部分， (卷面共有 3 题 ,21.0 分,各大题标有题量和总分 ) 一、 Fill in the Blanks with the Right Word （实词填空） (1 小题 ,共 1.0 分 ) 1．(0.5 分 ) These charges and interest rates are va_______ and the Bank reserves the right to change them from time to time. 二、 Reading Comprehension 阅读理解 (2 小题 ,共 20.0 分) 1．(10 分 )Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage. In the United States a university professor is given a few months of freedom from his duties about every seventh year for travel or advanced study. This period of freedom from teaching is called a “study or research leave ” . Its purpose is to give the professor experiences which will make him a wiser person and a better teacher when he returns to his university. Few study leaves are interesting enough to be described in national newspapers and magazines. Recently, however, there was an exception. The public learned how Dr. John R. Coleman, president of Haverford College, had spent his study leave. At the age of 51, Dr. Coleman was determined to escape from university life for a few months and to get a variety of experiences in the world of work. He especially wanted to learn about people. People who do hard physical labor were especially interesting to him. “I wanted to get away from the world of words and political matters and parties – the things a president does, ” Dr. Coleman later explained to news writers. “ president you begin to take yourself very seriously and to think you have power you dont. You forget things about people. I wanted to relearn things I ’d forgotten.e of his plans, Dr.” Telling no on Coleman started his study leave on a farm in Canada, hundreds of miles from his college. Getting up at 4:30 each morning, working thirteen hours a day i