共用题干 Riches and Romance From France's Wine HarvestSeptember is harvest time. And with bunches of grapes swinging（摇摆）in the wind, the vineyards of southern France are getting ready to celebrate it.The yearly wine festival is held in honour of Bacchus,the R

Exercice 6Le tourisme en France　　Avec 75 millions de touristes étrangers en 2003, la France est le pays le plus visité au monde. Elle arrive au troisième rang mondial des recettes du tourisme après les États-Unis et l’Espagne avec un montant de 34,5 milliards d’euros. Première destination touristique du monde, l’île-de-France séduit les étrangers par ses paysages boisés, qui ont inspiré les impressionnistes, ses églises et châteaux, témoins de l’histoire de France, mais aussi ses brocantes traditionnelles et ses bals populaires.　　Mais, l’éclat de Paris a souvent tendance à cacher l’extraordinaire potentiel touristique de la région-capitale. L’île-de-France est à la fois le berceau historique et le foyer intellectuel de la France. La richesse de son passé explique comment la région n’a cessé de s’enrichir de nouveaux sites et de nouveaux monuments.

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Passage 7Questions 8 - 12　　● Read this advertisement for a set of training videos and instructional material.　　● Choose the best sentence from the opposite page to fill each of the gaps.　　● For each gap 8 - 12 mark one letter A -G.　　● Do not mark any letter twice.　　● One answer has been given as an example.　　54 Jermyn Street　　London SW1Y6LX　　3rd January 1993　　Mr. James Levine　　Sales Manager　　Lincoln Mondary Winery　　30 St. James’s Street　　London SWIA 1HG　　Dear Mr. Levine:　　(0)______. I believe I could do a good job for the Lincoln Mondaly Wintery because of both my related work experience with Pawn Wine Incorporation and my marketing courses at London University. The courses in marketing management and retailing listed on the enclosed resume have given me a sound background in marketing(8)______.　　Working as an assistant to the Sales Manager of Pawn Wine Incorporation, one of the two distributors for Lincoln Mondaly Wine in Southern England, gave me experience in dealing with people and increased my understanding of the business (9)______. For example, I organized Wine seminars for many of the larger wine factories in England. My responsibilities included finding accommodations for the seminars, working closely with specific wineries, contacting the prospective audience, preparing charts and speeches and giving presentations (10)______.I also arranged wine tasting for charitable and other organizations (11)______..　　During my teenage years my stepfather worked as a sales manager for a wine import company, so I have been exposed to the business end of wine from a young age (12)______.I would really like to be a part of your company since it has the reputation of producing superior wines and for having a progressive attitude toward business methods.　　Please telephone me at 213-555-6897 to arrange a mutually convenient time when I can further discuss with you my qualifications for your position of marketing assistant.　　Yours faithfully,　　James Woolsey　　Example: D　　A. This gave me additional experience in dealing with people and a chance to use some of the knowledge acquired in class and on the job.　　B. For this kind of work, I have found my teaching background to be a valuable help.　　C. Sometimes I feel that I have wine, not blood, running through my veins.　　D. Thank you for contacting me about the position of marketing assistant that you have available at this time.　　E. This specialized training, together with the knowledge obtained in working for my bachelor’s degree of Business Administration, should enable me to carry out your marketing procedures.　　F. However, I believe I am qualified for this position of Marketing Assistant.　　G. Mr. Edmund, the Sales Manager of Pawn Wine Incorporation, gave me varied assignments with appropriate responsibilities.

Directions:In this part, there is one passage followed by a summary. Read the passage carefully and complete the summary with the appropriate words from the passage. Remember to write the answers on the Answer Sheet.　　Questions 1-5 are based on the following passage.　　Wine can be made with red grapes or white grapes, and, especially in the case of red wines, a number of medical researchers have reported that a moderate amount of wine has certain health benefits. This may be one of the reasons why the number of people drinking wine has risen over the past years. As new wine shoppers browse the shelves of their local markets, they face a tough decision. Should they buy a wine with a cork or a screw top? And shoppers are not alone in their dilemma. Wineries are also facing tough choices in the best way to seal their products.　　The root of the problem lies in “cork taint.” Cork taint refers to a problem with wine that has been sealed with a bad cork. Traditionally, all corks are made from a special oak tree that grows around the Mediterranean. In the process of making the corks and sealing wine bottles, a certain type of mold may start to grow on some corks. Over time, this mold can produce a chemical that makes the wine inside the bottle taste musty. In fact, the human tongue is so sensitive to this particular compound that people can taste it even diluted up to six parts per trillion!　　How big is the problem of cork taint? Some experts from the wine industry claim cork taint affects one out of every ten bottles of wine. And as one spokesperson for an American winery says, “No other packaging industry in the world would put up with that kind of failure rate.”　　Some wine makers see a possible solution to the problem of cork taint through adopting the tried and true method of sealing bottles with screw tops. However, many wineries are still playing it safe and sticking to corks for two reasons. First, there is the old belief among cork users that small amounts of oxygen are able to penetrate corks. This oxygen, they say, is necessary for the proper aging of fine wines, especially those aged 10 years or more. Screw tops do not allow for any oxygen to get into the bottles after they are sealed.　　Another problem arises from the image screw tops have with the public. In most people’s minds, screw tops are only found on cheap, low-quality wines. It will take a lot of effort from wineries to re-educate the public if they want to change the image of screw tops. In addition, there is the problem of losing the romantic, elegant mood produced by the ceremonial popping of the cork. Consumers don’t seem to feel the same thrill when unscrewing a top.　　Summary:　　The wine industry is facing a dilemma. What is the best way to 　1　wine bottles? Many people think that it is only 　2　for wine bottles to be sealed with corks. They think that oxygen needs to be able to penetrate the cork. Other experts, however, suggest that wineries change to 　3　. Using corks can lead to cork taint, a bad taste in the wine caused by 　4　. However, it is unlikely that the public will accept this solution. They will most likely 　5　buying wine with corks for the romantic image.

En 1959, le gouvemement français a décidé que _____.

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Practice 1　　France today is no superpower, but French influence in some spheres is significant. Nothing has cemented French influence in the world like the decision made by the victorious World War II powers in 1945 to include France as one of the five permanent, veto-wielding members of the Security Council. Until the end of the Cold War, France rarely found itself in disagreement with Britain or the U.S. on major issues. But the U. N. veto today takes on larger significance as France struggles to decide whether it wants to lead the European Union in defiance of American power or in partnership with it.　　As America’s great media outlets have begun preparing for coverage of the D-Day celebrations, the question of a “grand gesture” by the French toward the American war in Iraq, has been raised. Administration officials hint that. perhaps，just perhaps，the French President wm use the occasion of France's rescue as an opportunity to square the accounts—to issue a blanket endorsement of America 78 plan for Iraq’s future and throw its support behind the transfer of power looming at the end of the month. France certainly wants the United States-to be successful in Iraq at this point. But France seems unlikely to see D-Day as an opportunity to make good on a 60-year-old debt. Beyond nice speeches and some truly fine cuisine, don't expect France to liberate America from Iraq.

I can’t say which wine is better—it’s a(n) ______ of personal taste.

Practice 1　　The forger’s greatest advantage is that many buyers wait years before opening their fraudulent bottles, if they open them at all. Bill Koch told me that he owns wine that he has no intention of ever drinking. He collects bottles from certain vineyards almost as if they were baseball cards, aiming to complete a set. “I just want a hundred and fifty years of Lafitte on the wall,” he said. He would hesitate before consuming the harder-to-come-by vintages, because to do so would render the set incomplete, and also because the rarest old wines often come not from the best vintages but from the worst. Historically, when good vintages were produced, collectors would lay them down to see how they would age, Koch explained. But when renowned vineyards produced mediocre vintages, people would drink them soon after they were bottled, making the vintage scarce.　　The second great advantage for wine forgers is that when collectors do open fraudulent bottles, they often lack the experience and acute sense of taste to know that they have been defrauded. To begin with, even genuine old wines vary enormously from bottle to bottle. “It’s a living organism,” Sotheby’s Serena Sutcliffe told me. “It moves, it changes, it evolves-and once you’re into wines that are 40, 50, 60 years old, even if the bottles are stored side by side in similar conditions, you will get big differences between bottles.”　　Studies suggest that the experience of smelling and tasting wine is extremely susceptible to interference from the cognitive parts of the brain. Several years ago, Frédéric Brochet, a Ph. D. student in oenology at the University of Bordeaux, did a study in which he served 57 participants amid range red Bordeaux from a bottle with a label indicating that it was a modest vendee table. A week later, he served the same wine to the same subjects, but this time poured from a bottle indicating that the wine was a grand cru. Whereas the tasters found the wine from the first bottle “simple”, “unbalanced” and “weak”, they found the wine from the second “complex”, “balanced” and “full”. Brochet argues that our “perceptive expectation” arising from the label often governs our experience of a wine, overriding our actual, sensory response to whatever is in the bottle.　　Thus there is a bolder kind of forger who actually substitutes one type of wine for another. He often works with genuine bottles bearing genuine labels, obtaining empties from restaurants or antique shops, filling them with another type-or types-of wine, and replacing the cork and the capsule, assuming that the status-conscious buyer will never taste the difference. And, in many cases, this assumption is right. Sutcliffe believes that the vast majority of fake wines are happily enjoyed. Rajat Parr, a prominent wine director who oversees restaurants in Las Vegas, told me that several years ago, some of his customers ordered a bottle of 1982 Pttrus, which can sell in restaurants for as much as 6,000 dollars.