SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLING

　　In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONLY ONCE. While listening to the lecture, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a 15-minute gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the mini lecture. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.

　　ANSWER SHEET ONE

　　Fill in each of the gaps with ONE suitable word. You may refer to your notes. Make sure the word you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable.

　　Sports In Britain

　　There are 3 major (16) sports in Great Britain. They are    football, Cricket, and Rugby. Football, or soccer, is the most popular. Football matches are shown on the BBC on (17) evenings around 10 oclock. Some football grounds will have crowds more than (18).

　　Professional teams are organized into four (19) in England    and 2 in Scotland. At the end of the season, some teams are (20), and some are (21) Recently, some clubs are always    in (22) trouble.

　　Rugby was first played at a famous public school called (23). Rugby is played all over Britain. It has been described as "a game designed for hooligans but played by gentlemen".

　　Cricket seems more peaceful and is played in (24).

　　Some of the countries of the (25) send national teams to play each other. This is called A Test Match, which can go on for 5 days.

　　PART II PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION

　　The following passage contains ten errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error. In each case only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:

　　For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.

　　For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a "^" sign    and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end    of the line.

　　For an unnecessary word,    cross the unnecessary word with a slash "/" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.

　　The telephone system is a circuit-switched network.

　　For much of the history of the system, when you placed

　　(26)

　　a call, you were renting a pair of copper wires that ran

　　continuously from your telephone to the other partys

　　phone. You had excluding use of those wires during the

　　(27)

　　call; when you hung up, they were rented to someone

　　else. Today the transaction is more complicated. (your call

　　may well possess a fiber-optic cable or a satellite with

　　hundreds of other calls), but more conceptually the system

　　(28)

　　still works the same way. When you dial the phone, you get

　　a private connection of one other party.

　　This is an alternative network architecture called

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