Medicina

( B ) In paragraph 2, "scholarship" means a grant or
payment made to support student's education, awarded on
the basis of academic or other achievement.
( C ) In paragraph 2, "uncalled~for" means useful,
essential.
( D ) The book is destined to both academic and the
general, though more educated, public.
2 4 .In paragraph 1, the word ”cursorily” means:
( A ) formally
( B ) completely
( C ) superficially
( D ) seriously
2 5 .ln paragraph Z, the word "Hence" can be best replaced
by:
( A ) Although
( B ) Since
( C ) Albeit
( D ) Therefore
Text II
No word for –ing
1 The internet is replete with funny Chinese signs in
English, but a friend currently in Kunming, in southwester
China, sends in a doozy of an unusual one. He translates
it as "fall fashions, selling fast." (The characters are
autumn, style, hot and sell in that order.) What's unusual
is the á ofjust a single bit of English: that "-ing" . Chinese
doesn't have a progressive aspect that closely mirrors the
English "running" and such. So this seems to be nothing
more than to add a little foreign glamour to a bi shoe›sale
sign.
2 Normally when foreign words and sounds are imported
a language, they are rendered that language's writing
system. France is called Faguo in Chinese. The "Fa"
comes from "France", but it's rendered with the Chinese
character Hifi means something like "law", but ever since
the Chinese bolted it to "~guo" for France, the "law"
meaning is lost, maybe a bit like most
people don't think of "Argentina" as particularly silvery.
3 Here, though, none of the many characters pronounced
"ying" were used. Though one might have been, it
probably would have been confusing, siri the characters
also have meanings, and none of them has (yet?) been
conventionalised as representing the English "- ing".
4 Also weird is that Ê borrowing from one language to
another is common, borrowing grammar is not nearly as
common. It does happen: Romanian, a Romance
language, is influenced by Slavic grammar, for example.
But borrowing a suffi× like this isn't common. I wonder if
it'II become more so as English penetrates further China.
(Or if Chinese authorities will react against it, as they have
done with Roman-letter acronyms.)
The Economist - Sep 7th 2011, 21:26 by R.L.G. I NEW YORK
2 6 .In the 15' paragraph, the terms that best fill the
blanks are:
( A ) Borrow and ending.
( B ) borrowing and end.
( C ) borrow and end.
( D ) borrowing and ending.
2 7 .In the 15' paragraph, the words "progressive" and
”bland" can be best replaced, with no change in the
original meaning ofthe sentence, by:
( A ) modern and dull.
( B ) continuous and mundane.
( C ) innovative and tedious.
( D ) continual and tasteless.
2 8 .The prepositions that best fill in the blanks in
paragraphs 2 and 4 are, respectively:
( A ) from,in,in.
( B ) in, on, in.
( C ) into, into, into.
( D ) to, in, into.
2 9 .The words ”Though”, "since", in paragraph 2, and
"while", in paragraph 4, are:
( A ) conjunctions.
( B ) adverbs.
165