北京大学2010年考博英语真题

　　Part Five Proofreading (10%)

　　Directions: In the fallowing passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, ONE in each numbered and underlined part. You may have to change a word, add a word, or just delete a word. If you change a word, cross it with a slash (/) and write the correct word beside it. If you add a word，write the missing word between the words ( in brackets ) immediately before and after it. If you delete a word, cross it out with a slash (/). Put your answer on the ANSWER SHEET (2).

　　Examples:

　　eg. 1 (59) The meeting begun 2 hours ago.

　　Correction put on the ANSWER SHEET (2): (59) begun began

　　eg. 2 (60) Scarcely they settled themselves in their seats in the theatre when the curtain went up.

　　Correction put on the ANSWER SHEET (2): (60) (Scarcely) had (they)

　　eg. 3 (61) Never will I not do it again.

　　Correction put on the ANSWER SHEET (2): (61)^to^

　　(59) Three Google executives were convicted Wednesday of violating Italian privacy laws in a ruling that the company denounced as an “astonishing” attack at freedom of expression on the Internet.

　　(60) The case involves online videos showing an autistic boy being bullied with classmates in Turin，which were posted in 2006 on Google Video, an online video-sharing service that Google ran before its acquisition of You Tube.

　　(61) Prosecutors charged that the videos violated Italian personal private protections.

　　(62) They said the clips were moved only after complaints from Vivi Down, an Italian organization representing people with Down syndrome，whose name was mentioned in the videos.

　　(63) “We are definitely satisfied that someone has to take responsibility for this violating of privacy，，’ said Fuido Camera, a lawyer for Vivi Down.

　　(64) Google said it planned to appeal，warned that the verdicts raised serious questions about the viability of user-generated content platforms like You Tube in Italy and potentially elsewhere in Europe.

　　(65) “If company employee like me can be held criminally liable for any video on a hosting platform，

　　(66) when they had absolute nothing to do with the video in question，

　　(67) then our liability is limited，"said one of the three executives. Peter Fleischer，Google’s chief privacy counsel.

　　(68) “The decision today therefore raises broader questions as the continued operation of many Internet platforms that are the essential foundations of freedom of expression in the digital age，"he said in a statement. Video-sharing services like Google Video and YouTube generally rely on users to notify them of potentially problematic content, which is then taken down if it violates the terms of service.

　　Part Six Writing (15%)

　　Directions: Read the following paragraph and then write a response paper of about 250 to 300 words. Write it nearly on the ANSWER SHEET (2).

　　High-speed rail (HSR) develops at a high speed in China. Many people, however, prefer slow trains to HSR because of the high ticket price of the latter. In many cases, even airfare is not much higher than HSR fares. As the construction of HSR is still gathering momentum in China, where do you think lies its competitiveness?

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