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ENGLISH LANGUAGE

LESSON TWO

1970

(3) E -(7)

(4) C (8) T

Answers to Passage Exercise No.

(2) C

Suggested

·(1) D (5) D

(6) R

PASSAGE EXERCISE No

Study this passage and answer the questions which follow it,

The New Territories is a favourite subject for proposals by en thusiasts who believe in the beauties of nature and the virtue of the farmer's way of life. About five years ago, those in favour of saving the countryside charms of Hong Kong felt that the Government should commit itself to the protection of the New Territories. Experts were brought to the Colony to make recommendations on nature con- servation, and the government was persuaded to establish a Provision- al Council on the Use and Conservation of the Countryside.

The land in the rural areas represents the Colony's only signifi- cant natural resource except for its population. If the Government decides on a policy of preserving the countryside, the economy will, be denied free use of the space it urgently requires for new land for industry and housing. Conservation would be expensive. Developers will have to be forced to draw up their plans to make use not of the most commercially attractive sites but those which will do least to

spoil the maenities of the New Territories. To ensure that the char acter of the rural areas is preserved, the inefficient agricultural in dustry will have to be propped up, and the spread of industrial acti- vities to the New Territories will have to be curbed. Conservation to some people is a luxury which Hong Kong can hardly afford since It means that the urban manufacturing industries will not be able to get land for expansion at the lowest possible cost,

Different peolpe have advanced different ressons for the preser- vation of the rural nature of the New Territories. The Tourist Asso- ciation is in favour of conservation because it sees the New Territories and its natural beauties as a potential lure for increased visitors to Hongkong. At the moment, the bulk of tourists who arrive.seem

♥ mainly concerned with making the most of Hongkong's cheap

shopping facilities, with a quick tour of the habour and a drive-round the island to capture some of the romance of the city. Experience in other parts of the world suggests that if the tourist industry gets a real foothold in the niral area, the conservationists will soon start shouting, Holiday camps, tourist shops and restaurants and litter can quickly take all the charm out of the rural scene

The other proponents of preserving the rural areas of the Colony base their argument on amenity or recreation. They argue that the New Territories represents the playground of the urban areas, country- - side to be used by young people for camping and picnicking. With a

growing consciousness of the need to cater for young people and the tendency towards shorter working hours in industry, demand for re- creational areas can be expected to grow

If these aims could be achieved at little or no cost to the rest of the community, they ought to be promptly endorsed. Some of them might be attained relatively cheaply. Much of the rural areas (62.1% of the Colony land area) consists of barren, remote or eroded land which is likely to remain useless either for farming or urban expan- sion. Such land will be available for amenity use, However, if the entire New Territories should be dedicated more or less in perpetuity to recreational use, the argument could hardly hold water, Recrea- tional facilities for young people and open space for industrial workers may be desirable ends, but should they not be located in or close to the districts in which these people live? The New Territories is still relatively inaccessible for recreational purposes except on holi- days.

What are required are parks, playgrounds and social facilities in the existing urban areas; and these cannot be provided except by shifting population and tearing down existing buildings to free space. Moving large numbers out of their present accommodatoin to achieve these ends is not possible unless they can be rehoused on currently - undeveloped land - which means the New Territories.

Perhpas the conflict between the present rural nature of the New Territories and the demands of the urban economy could be avoided. by a compromise under which the urban population reduces its demands * for land to the minimum. The possibility of such of a compromise is

worth examining. The conflict of interest between the rural character of the New Territories and the needs of the city is basically simple, more land will be needed for building, and this can only be found in sufficient quantity in what is now rural in character. With the present population density, it is not feasible to envisage urban development to be confined to the south of the Kowloon Hills..

Since these is so much over-crowdedness in the urban areas, the case for improvement by the provision of new housing in the New Territories would hardly,seem to call for elaboration. It is true that the Colony is long accustomed to poor housing standards and that the need for improvements might therefore be postponed. However, the tide in favour of better housing has already begun to flow; where individuals are able to make a choice, as they are in private rented accommodation, they opt for bigger space...

There is yet a further problem for consideration. A new problem which will also require more land is transport. The demand on trans- port is rising at a very fast rate in Hongkong. As living standards rise, the public will become more prepared to spend money, on travelling and to live further away from work, school and entertainment. This will create increasing demand for more roads and parking areas. To solve transport problems, new urban development should be ex- panded into the New Territories. At the moment, northeast Kowloon suffers from virtually insoluble traffic bottlenecks - a major cause of

which is said to be the failure to ensure balanced industrial and re sidential defelopment in this area.

Questions

10:

The wnter suggests that conservation of nature is not practical. because

A.

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the people in the New Territories would object to their land being frozen for development

we should not favour the tourists as a specially privileged class

this takes away the only land available for the expansion of our economy

we would need to employ a lot of people for the work of preserving the countryside.

the New Territories as an area is too big to look after Based on experience elsewhere in the world, the tourist industry, in the preservation of the countryside, will

A.

cause much trouble because they do not buy up all the land;

B.be helpful because this will stop industries from intruding C. become destructive because the countryside will be spoiled

by the building of tourist facilities

D.

E.

contribute much because it will attract more tounsis only bring harm because the tourists are so unruly

In the opinion of the writer, recreational facilities for Hongkong's millions should be provided by.

i

subsidising cinemas so that people can get cheap entertain- ment

B._moving the people into the useless outlying islands

C.

D.

moving the people into the New Territories building an indoor gymnasium

E.

turning the New Territories into a huge playground

to re

"If the entire New Territories should be dedicated

creational use, the argument could hardly hold water" because

the New Territories should only be reserved for tourists this proposal will be ruled out by the people in the New Territories

the people simply think that, they do not need recreation

D. for the people, the New Territories is too far away and they

want recreation near their homes

E the government does not have enough money to buy up

all the land in the New Territories.

In recent years, the transport problem has asked for more land because

we have more and more policemen patrolling on motor- cycles

people simple want to copy other modern cities we want to build more car parks to earn money.

we want to have much wider roads so that the roads will be safer for cars

E. people use modern forms of transport much more and this.

in turn means more roads and more parking spaces

"The land in the rural areas represents the Colony's only signifi- cant natural resource except for its population." Another way of expressing this idea is

P. the Colony has a large population but the land in the New

Territories is the only important natural resource

the land in the New Territories, which, is not occupied by a lot of people, represents our only important natural re-

source

the Colony has its large population as an important natural resources, and the land in the New Territories as another the people in the Colony depend greatly on the New Terri tones for the supply of agricultural product,

the people in the Colony depend greatly on the New Ten tories for the supply of land

"Conservation to some people is a luxury which Hong Kong can hardly afforda

In other words, conservation to some people is a luxury which

is a high-class one for Hong Kong

Q. we cannot say that we may not have

R.q we can boldly afford to have

S.

we cannot afford to have at all

T. we can have but with difficulty

"Holiday camps, toruist shops and restaurants and litter can quickly take all the charm out of the rural scene. In other words, these tourist facilities can soon.

P. enable the people to enjoy much of the beauty of the

countryside

revive the forgotten attraction of the countryside destroy the beauty of the countryside

S.detract the attraction to the countryside since the people.

will spend a lot of time in these facilities. add a lot of attraction to the countryside

T

"Perhaps, the conflict between the present rural nature of the New Territories and the demands of the urban economy could

be avoided by a compromise ....... A compromise is

a multilateral solution

a bilateral solution[

a mid-way solution for both sides

an intelligent solution

a comprehensive plan

the case for improvement by the provision of new housing.

in the New Territories would hardly seem to call for elaboration." In other words,

the case is sometimes made out to be

Q. the case os one which we would feel about but could not

reason out

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11. 1793 › EN (A )2( B )BERNIZE?

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183348 (C)BEWNUTE, NEED 英貿易。再於1836年,英廢除其在商務監督之市場

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10564年,陳州大師在黃附近截掛有寒能之CE)船 抗集由英堡廣川(F)以英旗被感,是 饿。

(B)

1857年,英法梛軍攻廣州,當時兩滿督(GÌ 兇無防傥,引致签订CHO张箱。

英訂之試合約 息由當時英國驻

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17.1875年,日本命令琉球與中國斷絕來往,並於CM)年

正式併器,比爲S(N)綠。

(M)

(N)

8.1894年,阿祥有(O)之亂,中國應明郵之邀育:

峦兵平健,而(P)恢抵達,

(P.)

中日馬關涤約是由中國全閣大臣(Q). ZEF(R)IT

(Q)

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請庭派李鴻章往賀,结果錼中俄密約

21,自中俄密約後,列紛紛向中國租沿海港,結果

膠州灣僑(u)的所租及貴州灣爲CV)國所群。

百日维新失敗蔹,蔬果(W)往日本而 CX)則起香

(W)

23.公八國聯軍的北京推進時,落騶太后舞下詔各省殺洋人 及焚较堂,但兩江MG(Y)山東巡撫(Z)等皆不 **

(Y).

24,1915年,日駐華公供(A)向發凱提出“二

要求•锅氏派過(B),外交次與日判。

(A)

(B).

1979年第一次世界大戦約束 並於1919年於 (C)開 【和會辦事,美國細統(D)會提出十四點和平理。

(0)

・1921年製(F) 紙谷開(1) 食器於集

與會者共有九國。

(E)

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、1932年,滿洲國傀儡政府成立,其數政者篇(

而年號則爲(L)

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1932年ってエウ派遣一調査 妮士爲團長,以調查日本的属相。

以英人(I

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30,日本的「箍府]個基於CM)年開創,由

CN)ITÉ..

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31.日本的「鎮國政府」雜持了二百三十多年,終於在CO2

年,被英國提普CP)所學組的艦除術戰。

CO)

(P)

32.1854年,日本與美國在(Q)簽訂神奈川你約

(艾維CR>螺約],爲日本與西方國家統約之始。

(R)

1331856年,英亜日期領事(S)上午,方陳源商之征, 薪果於1858年的立日通商系約,又名(T)條線。

34.1867年日本(U)天皇即位 不久便賴佈CV)宜假。

35: 186945 #SIF (W)

·將細都平安的鸟(x),又名京都。

unnecessarily elaborate

(W)

(x)

36,18894年,日本張術法,談(Y),並於1890年

ALBACZ ·SIIKAF·

(2)

it would be auticult to elaborate on teh case,

the case should be difficult to make out

it should not be necessary to say any more since the case. ∙so obvious" 'Z'

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